Summary: According to the article, over 70% of Jiangxi's major industrial enterprises have implemented digital and intelligent upgrades, leading to Jiangxi entering the top ten nationally in manufacturing development quality in 2025. Companies like Jiangxi Xinjiayi New Materials and Jiangxi Jingdong Industrial have seen significant improvements in efficiency and production after embracing these upgrades. Jiangxi has established mechanisms, including 26 provincial digital transformation promotion centers and over 1370 service providers, to address challenges in enterprise transformation. Jiangxi aims to further accelerate digital and intelligent upgrades to cover all major industrial clusters, increasing the digital economy's contribution to the regional GDP. Jiangxi Party Secretary Yin Hong stated that they will promote the application of intelligent manufacturing equipment and software to enhance the industrial development level.
Summary: According to the article, Inner Mongolia is prioritizing improving the lives of its citizens, especially regarding elder care, assistance to vulnerable populations, and basic medical services. The region focuses on improving rural elder care by building elderly dining halls and service centers. For vulnerable populations, Inner Mongolia is shifting from direct cash assistance to providing social services like job training. To improve healthcare, Inner Mongolia is constructing a remote healthcare system with mobile medical teams and ensuring medicine availability. The article alludes to Xi Jinping's emphasis on prioritizing the people's well-being.
Summary: The article reports on a nationwide campaign within the CCP to promote a "correct view of achievement" (正确政绩观) among party members. Various government organs and party organizations, including the 退役军人事务部, 国家体育总局, 国家信访局, 共青团中央, 中国航天科技集团, 中国工商银行, 全国妇联, 中国移动, 中国建设银行, 国家开发银行, 中国进出口银行, 中国银行, and 中国人寿集团 are implementing study sessions and educational programs using Xi Jinping's directives on the matter. These initiatives emphasize studying original texts, holding discussions, and learning from both positive and negative examples to ensure officials align their work with the Party's goals and serve the people. The initiatives also often encourage local level cadres to incorporate study of model CCP members such as Jiao Yulu, who are held up as examples of proper conduct for CCP members. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development's "National Innovation Index Report 2025" indicates China's innovation index ranking rose to ninth globally, an increase of one position from the previous year. The report highlights China's significant progress in innovation over the past decade, with its overall ranking improving by 11 places since 2012. China's innovation capabilities are approaching those of developed countries with a per capita GDP of around $50,000, driven by strengths in innovation resources, knowledge creation, and enterprise innovation. The report suggests China is steadily advancing toward its goal of becoming a leading science and technology power.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of China's unique path to modernization under the leadership of the Communist Party, highlighting the "Four News" to better grasp the theory of Chinese-style modernization. It discusses the implementation of the "New Development Concept" and the development of new productive forces tailored to local conditions. The article also touts the strengths of China's system in achieving technological advancements, specifically in AI, and the importance of domestic circulation and self-reliance. It frames these developments as essential for navigating global uncertainties and contributing to a more just global governance system, while highlighting U.S. media coverage commenting that "in China they saw the future."
Summary: The article discusses promoting the mutual empowerment and common development of "new productive forces" and cultural soft power. It also references efforts to jointly protect the Jiuzhaigou Valley in China and the Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia, framing them as "sapphires" at either end of the Eurasian continent.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing use of domestically produced high-horsepower tractors in China, highlighting three representative models and their technological advancements. These include a 300-horsepower power shift tractor, a parallel 300-horsepower hybrid tractor with over 95% domestic component localization, and a series 350-horsepower hybrid tractor already exported to eight countries. While domestic tractors are rapidly replacing imports, especially in the high-horsepower category, experts note that control precision and reliability still need improvement compared to international standards. Hybrid tractors are gaining traction due to subsidies and lower overall costs, presenting an opportunity to surpass traditional mechanical systems. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 China Internet Media Forum, co-hosted by the Cyberspace Administration of China and other entities, was held in Zhengzhou, Henan, focusing on creating a thriving online content ecosystem. Attendees reviewed the achievements in online content construction since Xi Jinping's 2016 speech on cybersecurity and informatization, while also discussing the new direction for the "15th Five-Year Plan." Participants emphasized the importance of mainstream media in guiding public opinion and promoting core socialist values. The forum also launched several major online campaigns and announced the results of the 2025 China Positive Energy Online Excellence Collection and Exhibition. The event brought together officials from various government departments, news organizations, internet companies, and experts.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved and released the first industry standard for embodied intelligence, "YD/T 6770-2026 Artificial Intelligence Key Basic Technology Embodied Intelligence Benchmark Testing Method," effective June 1. This standard establishes a unified benchmark testing framework for embodied intelligence in both simulated and real-world environments, standardizing environmental settings, task library construction, testing processes, and metric calculation methods. Experts from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) stated that the standard will provide a unified technical framework and facilitate the engineering and industrial application of embodied intelligence. The standard is also being promoted as an international standard.
Summary: The State Post Bureau and China Post Group Co., Ltd. have announced a special pilot program to extend postal services, namely "express delivery to villages," in rural areas of central and western China. The pilot, involving 17 provinces, aims to provide universal postal services, focusing on standards for network access, service, and security. The initiative encourages the use of automation, unmanned vehicles, and shared passenger transport to reduce costs and increase coverage. By 2025, the initiative hopes to achieve over 95% coverage of administrative villages with express delivery service.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of "Chinese-style modernization" as a path to national rejuvenation and global influence, highlighting the need to adhere to the "New Development Concept" to achieve sustainable growth. It notes that China's economic growth has outpaced the global average, and international observers believe that China is a key driver of global stability. The article also highlights the development of "new productive forces" and the "new national system" to overcome bottlenecks in technology. It further argues that China's internal strength, built through domestic circulation and technological independence, allows it to navigate international challenges, including those related to the U.S.
Summary: Former UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova recalls Xi Jinping's 2014 visit to UNESCO headquarters as particularly memorable, emphasizing his advocacy for dialogue and cooperation to resolve differences between nations. Bokova highlighted Xi's speech, which promoted mutual respect and harmony among civilizations, aligning with UNESCO's mission. She also noted Xi Jinping's support for youth exchanges between China and the U.S. and China and Europe as crucial for fostering civilizational dialogue. Furthermore, Bokova praised Xi's commitment to high-level opening-up and his support for multilateralism and the UN. Finally, she emphasized China's role as a staunch supporter of multilateralism.
Summary: China's technological innovation is characterized by its "cool" factor, driven by original innovation, rapid industrial transformation, and active international cooperation. The article highlights China's advancements in areas like new energy vehicles and AI, moving from being perceived as an "imitator" to a leader in innovation. It emphasizes the rapid application and iteration of technologies within China's vast manufacturing ecosystem and diverse market. China is committed to open cooperation, offering its technological advancements to the world, contrasting with some countries' attempts at technological containment. China aims to build an open global technological environment.
Summary: Abid Qaiyum Suleri, Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute in Pakistan, stated that China's 15th Five-Year Plan emphasizes high-quality development and technological self-reliance, presenting cooperation opportunities for developing nations. Suleri highlighted China's manufacturing transformation and advancements in sectors like robotics and new energy, anticipating benefits for countries like Pakistan through the Belt and Road Initiative. He emphasized the potential for Pakistani agricultural products and handicrafts to find a larger market in China. Suleri noted the importance of China as a global development engine and the value of cooperation with China for future development. There is no discussion of the United States in this article.
Summary: The article highlights the China-Laos Railway and the training of Lao staff by Chinese railway professionals. Li Shanshan, a Lao train conductor, recounts her journey from a student struggling with Chinese railway terminology to becoming a train conductor, thanks to the help of her Chinese trainer, Han Jialing. She also recalls an incident where she provided assistance to a Chinese passenger. The China-Laos Railway has trained over 700 Lao employees through mentorship programs.
Summary: Seven sets of domestically produced Chinese wind power equipment were shipped from Yantai Port in Shandong to Austria on March 28th. Chinese wind power companies are expanding into the European market, and Yantai Port now ships wind power equipment to Europe twice a month. The provided image shows the wind power equipment bound for Austria being loaded onto a ship. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the ongoing challenge to historical justice posed by the Japanese right-wing regarding World War II, particularly on the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Tribunal. It argues that Japanese right-wing actors, including current Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, are attempting to revise history by denying atrocities like the Nanjing Massacre and downplaying Japan's role as an aggressor, instead promoting a "victim" narrative. The article contends that this historical revisionism undermines the post-war international order. The article expresses concern that this reconstruction of history will impact peace and stability in Asia. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: The "China-Zimbabwe Friendship Well" project, initiated by the Zimbabwe-China Exchange Center, has provided clean drinking water to over 30,000 people in Zimbabwe, including students at Marimba Park Primary School in Harare. The project has thus far drilled eight wells. Walter Chanaka, the project leader and a graduate of China's Jiangsu University, was inspired by China's development model to improve the lives of Zimbabweans through access to clean water. Nganndini, Director of Secondary Schools in the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education of Zimbabwe, stated that the project is a testament to the deep friendship between China and Zimbabwe. Over the past decade, China has drilled over 1,000 wells in Zimbabwe, helping more than 400,000 Zimbabweans gain easier access to safe and clean drinking water.
Summary: The article profiles Chen Lanxiang, formerly known as "Third Daughter," a fisherman who transitioned to a business owner in Ma'anshan, Anhui, after the city implemented a fishing ban to protect the Yangtze River. Spurred by Xi Jinping's call to prioritize ecological conservation, Chen led the way for other fishermen to resettle and find new employment, eventually starting a labor service company. Her company has been successful, even leading to Chen being recognized as a representative to a national women's congress. The article highlights the transformation of Xuejiawa from a polluted industrial area to an ecological park, emphasizing the positive impact of the fishing ban and environmental protection efforts on the Yangtze River's ecosystem and the lives of the resettled fishermen. The region has invested heavily in ecological transformation, and has even been recognized by the United Nations for its efforts.
Summary: The article critiques officials who prioritize superficial "bonsai" achievements, designed to impress superiors, over long-term development that benefits the populace. It contrasts this with cultivating a "seedling plot" approach, which focuses on sustainable growth and tangible improvements in people's lives, citing examples like Fujian's science and technology commissioner system. The article argues that genuine achievements stem from grassroots efforts and serving the people, not from creating short-sighted displays. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on the "depth space" of development rather than the "surface space" of visual appeal. The piece advocates for a shift from a "clock-time" mentality focused on immediate visibility to a "life-time" perspective rooted in long-term satisfaction of the masses.
Summary: China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs launched its 2026 "Million Farmers Scientific and Safe Pesticide Use Training" program in Haikou, Hainan. The program aims to improve farmers' ability to use pesticides safely and scientifically, focusing on increasing yields of grain and oil crops, ensuring stable production and supply of important agricultural products, and guaranteeing the quality and safety of those products. During the "14th Five-Year Plan", the program trained an annual average of over 7 million people, increasing the proportion of farmers using pesticides according to label instructions by 30 percentage points since the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan". This year's training will combine online and offline methods, targeting new agricultural business entities, large planters, and socialization prevention and control service organizations. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The Xiong'an New Area's Xiongdong Comprehensive Culture and Sports Center officially opened on March 28th. This group-level public culture and sports facility, the first to debut in Xiong'an New Area in 2026, signifies an enhanced public cultural service network and improved urban functions. The center integrates cultural performance, fitness, and art experiences, forming a "15-minute cultural and sports life circle" with other facilities. It will offer various public-benefit activities, including performances, sports events, and immersive art experiences. The center aims to be an attractive and frequently visited "city living room" for the public.
Summary: A nationwide campaign is underway within the CCP to promote the correct view of performance (政绩观). Various ministries and organizations, including the 退役军人事务部, 国家体育总局, 国家信访局, 共青团中央, 中国航天科技集团, and 中国工商银行, are holding study sessions and discussions focusing on Xi Jinping's thought on this topic. These sessions aim to strengthen the ideological foundation for cadres to serve the people effectively. Entities such as 全国妇联 and local governments like 长春市 and 扬州市 are implementing diverse methods, including online resources and case studies, to ensure effective learning. Organizations like 中国进出口银行 and 中国银行 are using both positive and negative examples to guide cadres in aligning their work with national strategies and public service.
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Summary: During the "Two Sessions," CPPCC member Du Mingyan showcased cultural products featuring horses, a shift from her previous focus on reindeer, reflecting changes in Inner Mongolia. This transition from prioritizing species protection to promoting development emphasizes ecological preservation while leveraging cultural assets for economic growth. The region aims to balance ecological advantages with economic opportunities by developing eco-tourism, forestry carbon projects, and transforming from resource extraction to value creation. This shift involves technological empowerment and cultural enrichment, with a focus on sustainable development and resource revitalization. The improved ecological environment in Inner Mongolia offers potential for industrial transformation, cultural innovation, and enhanced development momentum.
Summary: A national-level overseas comprehensive service platform has been launched in China to provide enterprises with one-stop public services, integrating resources in law, finance, and taxation, and linking 37 sub-platforms. This platform aims to address the challenges faced by Chinese enterprises expanding overseas, including supply chain management, intellectual property protection, and legal compliance. By integrating government and market services, the platform seeks to support enterprises in navigating international markets and promoting trade and investment integration. The initiative aligns with the government's goal of optimizing the global market layout and facilitating domestic and international dual circulation. The platform aims to consolidate resources and break down information barriers to build a unified national overseas service network.
Summary: The article discusses "intelligent nativism" (智能原生), a new paradigm where AI serves as the core logic for system design, driving comprehensive transformation from technology to value creation. It highlights the potential of AI to foster new business models, reduce innovation barriers, and enable individual-led companies (OPC) to emerge. The rise of intelligent nativism is presented as a global race where participants are on a level playing field. The author argues that China should embrace innovation and shift from being a technology application country to becoming a builder of the underlying ecosystem.
Summary: Beijing's Yizhuang district has launched the world's first smart elderly care station featuring over 40 different types of robots designed to provide various services, including physical therapy and rehabilitation. The station utilizes advancements in embodied intelligence to integrate robots into elderly care. This initiative reflects a broader trend in multiple regions to explore the deep integration of robotics with elderly care services. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to an article in *Sichuan Daily*, Xi Jinping stressed the importance of translating original technologies from the laboratory to practical application, extending them "from 1 to infinity" to activate innovation. The article emphasizes that simply achieving a breakthrough "from 0 to 1" is insufficient; extending that "1" is crucial for building a strong and independent industrial system, particularly in areas where China faces technological bottlenecks. To achieve this, the article advocates for strengthening pilot platforms to facilitate technology transfer, focusing on critical national needs, and empowering enterprises to drive innovation through market demand. Extending "1" requires patience, understanding market demands, and dedication to serving the country, ultimately driving high-quality development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the recent "Two Sessions" press conference, many foreign journalists were observed not using translation headsets, as they fluently conversed in Chinese, even using well-known Chinese idioms. This reflects not only language acquisition but also a convergence of ideas, spurred by China's increasing international influence. The article emphasizes China's commitment to openness and providing global public goods, attracting international interest in Chinese culture, tourism, and investment opportunities. The article alludes to the fact that many countries are seeking cooperation with China. It posits that increased understanding and mutual trust between China and the world can be achieved through dialogue and openness.
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Summary: Zheng Xueqin, a 97-year-old expert in natural rubber and tropical crops, dedicated his life to the development of China's rubber industry, starting in Hainan in 1952. He and his team focused on genetic breeding, even venturing into the Amazon rainforest to gather wild rubber germplasm, establishing China’s largest wild rubber living germplasm bank. Zheng encouraged his students to work hard and make contributions, and his students have carried out projects such as planting demonstration banana gardens in Cambodia. He also led his team to discover wild noni trees in Xisha, developing a series of products that have now become internationally available.
Summary: Professor Mei Shengwei of Tsinghua University is leading efforts to develop compressed air energy storage (CAES) technologies, including non-combustion methods to improve efficiency and eliminate emissions. Mei's team overcame challenges in developing key equipment through collaboration with manufacturers and design institutes, leading to the successful operation of a 60 MW CAES plant in Jiangsu. They are now focused on adapting CAES for cold regions, with a project underway in Inner Mongolia to address the challenges of sub-zero temperatures. The team emphasizes industry-academia collaboration to translate research into practical applications. The article also explores various methods of storing compressed air, including in salt caverns, artificial rock caverns and underwater.
Summary: China has successfully tested a megawatt-class liquid hydrogen-fueled turboprop engine, the AEP100, developed by the Aviation Engine Research Institute of China, marking a significant step toward decarbonizing the aviation industry. The engine and liquid hydrogen transport system operated stably during the test, achieving target performance and validating the feasibility of liquid hydrogen aviation engine technology. The technology is expected to be applied in unmanned aerial logistics and regional aviation initially, eventually extending to mainline aviation. This development is expected to spur a trillion-yuan industrial chain, including green hydrogen production and cryogenic storage.
Summary: Suzhou, Jiangsu province opened its third "metro cafeteria" (地铁大食堂) on March 29th, called the Humble Administrator's Garden Suzhou Museum Cafeteria. The cafeteria aims to seamlessly integrate subway access with dining and garden tourism. It seeks to attract both residents and tourists with affordable prices. The location follows the success of two previous metro cafeteria projects in Suzhou. The initiative makes no mention of the United States or US-China relations.
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Summary: A recent investigation reveals that some businesses are profiting by offering ways to fraudulently obtain volunteer hours, which are increasingly required for high school graduation and university evaluations in China. These methods include selling hand-painted bags with guaranteed service hours, offering customized certificates, and exploiting loopholes in online voting for environmental initiatives. This commodification of volunteerism is driven by pressure on students to meet mandatory service hour requirements and a lack of accessible, reliable volunteer opportunities. Experts suggest focusing on genuine student participation and emotional experience, and establishing a robust monitoring and verification system to combat fraudulent practices. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A "Reader's Letter" published in the People's Daily on February 17, 2025, criticized the incomplete construction of a 500-meter access road in Langzhong, Sichuan province, after five years of fundraising. Local Party and government officials responded rapidly to the publication, contacting the letter writer that same day. They then initiated road clearing, design, and bidding processes. The road construction has since been completed, improving access for local villagers.
Summary: A resident of Ming Mountain Village, Anqing, Anhui Province, reports that the exposed and aging electrical wires at the Wangba pumping station, which irrigates over 1,000 acres of farmland, pose a safety hazard. The resident previously reported the issue but the wires have not been replaced, and a pump broke down in December 2023 due to the electrical problem. With spring planting underway, the resident is urging relevant departments to replace the wires and repair the pump urgently. The complaint was posted on the "Leaders' Message Board" of People's Daily Online.
Summary: This article discusses the problem of outdated public signage in China, such as traffic and construction warnings that remain even after the situation has changed. The author argues that these "zombie" signs mislead citizens, reduce efficiency, and damage public trust in city management. To address this, the author suggests establishing a "closed-loop" management system that assigns responsibility for removing signs when they are no longer needed, as well as strengthening inspections and accountability. The author also proposes using technology like smart signs and electronic screens for timely updates and encouraging citizen participation through feedback channels.
Summary: Several developers in China are reportedly engaging in the practice of bundling unwanted items like parking spaces or renovations with home sales, forcing buyers to accept them to receive promised discounts or complete the purchase. Experts suggest developers do this to circumvent price controls, accelerate cash flow by selling slow-moving inventory, or manage inventory. Lawyers note this practice persists due to ambiguous legal boundaries between legitimate "package deals" and illegal forced bundling, and a lack of coordinated enforcement between housing, market regulation, and judicial departments. Experts recommend separating pricing, contracts, payments, and invoices for optional items like parking spaces and renovations.
Summary: The People's Daily and People's Daily Online are jointly soliciting public feedback on pressing issues and concerns via the "Reader's Letters" section and the "Leaders' Message Board" platform. Readers are encouraged to submit problem leads and suggestions through email or mobile applications.
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Summary: The article discusses the importance of the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan in China, emphasizing its focus on high-quality development. It outlines key areas of focus including integrating technological and industrial innovation, boosting domestic consumption, improving social security, and enhancing social governance. The plan aims to address existing challenges and foster new growth drivers, particularly through scientific and technological self-reliance and industrial upgrading. The analysis also highlights the need to rely on domestic demand given global economic shifts. Finally, the article touches on strengthening social safety nets and creating a stable environment for development.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the interconnectedness of "new productive forces" (新质生产力) and "cultural soft power" (文化软实力) in advancing China's modernization. It argues that new productive forces provide the material and technological foundation for cultural prosperity, while cultural soft power offers spiritual and ethical guidance for the development of new productive forces. The author argues that the integration of these two concepts will provide a unique Chinese solution for global challenges and human progress, promoting a more inclusive and sustainable model of civilization. The article also alludes to the contrast between China's approach and perceived shortcomings of Western models, notably the "materialistic predicament" driven by "capital logic." The author references Xi Jinping's thought throughout as guidance on how to develop the two concepts.
Summary: An article by a Tongji University professor argues that enhancing cultural originality is crucial for China's cultural soft power and constructing a strong cultural nation, particularly in the digital era. The author stresses integrating Chinese traditional culture with digital technologies, building a comprehensive digital cultural industry chain, and improving the data sovereignty protection mechanism to boost cultural innovation. It also highlights the importance of technological support, such as AI and virtual reality, for creating immersive cultural experiences and the necessity of institutional innovation to support cultural creation and talent cultivation. The article suggests that the United States may be a source of "algorithm hegemony," and China should develop its own digital sovereignty to counter it. The article also mentions the support of cultural original work in Fujian and Chengdu.
Summary: China is increasing the availability and accessibility of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces due to the short window of time available to rescue someone in cardiac arrest. Efforts include expanding AED deployment, training more people in CPR and AED use, and developing location services to make AEDs easier to find and use. Some regions are integrating AED locations into digital maps and emergency dispatch systems, and mobilizing trained volunteers and delivery drivers to provide rapid assistance. Some cities are exploring new mechanisms to integrate social resources into emergency response systems, connecting emergency resources via big data. The aim is to create a more efficient and responsive emergency medical network.
Summary: A recent joint directive from the CCP Central Committee and the State Council outlines plans to accelerate the establishment of a national long-term care insurance (LTCI) system in China, moving from pilot programs to full implementation. The plan aims to address the challenges of an aging population and strengthen the social security system by providing financial support for long-term care services and is intended to boost the "silver economy" by stimulating demand and related industries. The directive emphasizes unified national standards for policy, funding, and service provision, while allowing for regional flexibility in implementation and encourages integration with existing social security and commercial insurance programs. The long-term goal is to establish a comprehensive system within approximately three years. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xi'an-Shiyan High-Speed Railway (HSR) has entered the joint commissioning and testing phase across its entire line, with the Shaanxi section beginning on March 29th. This comprehensive testing process simulates operational conditions to optimize various railway systems and ensure technical readiness. The Xi'an-Shiyan HSR, a key component of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, will significantly reduce travel times between Xi'an and other major cities like Shiyan, Xiangyang and Wuhan. It will also improve connectivity between the Guanzhong Plain city cluster and the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The article mentions that the railway construction began in December 2021, and the static acceptance was initiated in January of this year.
Summary: 萍xiang city in Jiangxi province has resolved property registration issues for over 41,800 housing units since 2025. The city addressed the problem of residents being unable to obtain property certificates due to incomplete procedures, illegal construction, or broken financial chains. To address this, the city implemented tailored solutions for each project, streamlined approval processes, and separated certificate issuance from developer tax issues. They also established a color-coded tracking system to monitor progress and hold responsible parties accountable. Wu Ruiwen, the Party Secretary and Director of the Pingxiang Municipal Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, stated that they will continue to optimize procedures and refine implementation rules.
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Summary: An investigation by the Nanyang Discipline Inspection Commission and Supervision Commission revealed that Li Lin, the former Party Secretary of a state-owned hotel group in Nanyang, was found to have engaged in corrupt practices involving multiple companies. Li Lin used proxies to conceal her involvement in lucrative deals, including leasing arrangements and company shares, diverting state-owned assets into personal gains. She arranged for a relative to act as an intermediary, leasing property to a hospital at an inflated price and pocketing the difference. Investigators traced funds through various accounts, revealing a network of concealed assets and financial transactions. The illicit activities resulted in Li Lin's conviction on multiple charges, including corruption and abuse of power.
Summary: The article discusses the "business-style corruption" exemplified by the Li Lin case, a new form of corruption in state-owned enterprises (SOEs), characterized by legal packaging, chain operation, and concealed layout. Investigators traced the entire corruption chain by constructing relationship, capital flow, and equity change "maps" from fragmented data. The author advocates for a comprehensive "no corruption" strategy to prevent SOE corruption. It emphasizes strengthening institutional constraints in areas like SOE restructuring, equity management, and related transactions and also urges awareness education to eliminate the desire for rent-seeking.
Summary: This article discusses efforts in Siyang County, Jiangsu Province to improve rural livelihoods through promoting local industries. Local officials identified villagers' desires for increased income and focused on developing industries like *luhao* (芦蒿) and crab farming. The county cultivated a team of "wealth-leading pioneers" (*fumin xianfeng*) comprised of village cadres, experts, and entrepreneurs to lead the way, providing training and support. Through these efforts, the county developed numerous projects, increasing employment opportunities and improving livelihoods. The author, a cadre in the Siyang County Party Committee Organization Department, emphasizes the importance of grassroots officials understanding and responding to the needs of the people.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security announced a campaign to combat the production and sale of counterfeit agricultural materials to protect spring planting and grain production. The campaign will target "black workshops" producing fake seeds, pesticides, and fertilizers, as well as online and itinerant sales of such goods. Focus will be placed on seed industry criminal protections, cracking down on infringement and trade secret violations, and cracking down on production, sales, and usage of banned pesticides. The Ministry emphasized strengthening inter-departmental collaboration and utilizing information technology to improve the effectiveness of combating counterfeit agricultural materials.
Summary: China successfully launched its first "multimodal transport + TIR" international transport operation, marking a new cross-border logistics model. Goods departed from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport on March 16, traveled by rail to Kashgar North Station, and then exited China via the Irkeshtam port using TIR transport, ultimately destined for Uzbekistan. This new method reduces transport time by 3-5 days compared to traditional methods. Irkeshtam Customs established a special service window to optimize regulatory processes and ensure efficient cargo release. This initiative aims to provide flexible, efficient, and economical cross-border logistics solutions, while also improving China's multimodal transport network towards Central Asia and Europe.
Summary: A joint fire prevention awareness campaign was held in Dujiangyan by the Chengdu Fire and Rescue Mobile Detachment and the Dujiangyan Emergency Management Bureau to educate citizens and tourists on safe practices within forest and grassland fire prevention zones during the Qingming Festival. The campaign included activities like a fire prevention quiz at Qingcheng Mountain. The goal of the campaign was to prevent forest and grassland fires. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Chinese Occupational Safety and Health Association meeting was held in Beijing, focusing on using high-quality Party building to guide high-quality development. Over 300 experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs attended to share experiences in Party building and discuss innovations in grassroots Party construction. Participants emphasized leveraging the Party's political, organizational, and institutional advantages to promote development. The meeting aimed to strengthen the Party's leadership and transform Party building achievements into tangible results. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Shanghai Minhang District Court ruled in an inheritance dispute case where a widow, Wang, transferred 600,000 RMB from her terminally ill husband's account to a relative shortly before his death, prompting a lawsuit from his children. The court determined the funds were joint property, but Wang's unilateral transfer while her husband was incapacitated infringed on the children's inheritance rights. Wang's appeal was rejected, and the court emphasized the need for transparency and communication in handling marital assets, especially when a spouse is seriously ill, to avoid inheritance disputes. The judge, Nie Ping, also said that in the case of death, the couple's property will be divided into two, with half being returned to the spouse and the rest being divided between the spouse and children. The article does not reference the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A "Law-Popularization Carnival" was held in Macau to commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the promulgation of the Macau Basic Law, attracting over 10,000 participants. The event, co-organized by several Macau organizations and government departments, featured interactive activities designed to educate citizens on the constitution and the Basic Law. Secretary for Administration and Justice of the Macau Special Administrative Region Cheong Weng Chon stated that the government will use a collaborative mechanism to cultivate law popularization volunteers and conduct community-based activities. Further events in the series are scheduled from April to December. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: Three Chinese cities, Hangzhou, Sanya, and Suzhou, were selected for the UN's "20 Cities Moving Towards Zero Waste" initiative. Hangzhou is leveraging digital technology for waste management, Sanya is implementing plastic bans and beach cleanups, and Suzhou is focusing on comprehensive waste management systems for both urban and rural areas. Hangzhou's digital platform uses big data for waste management optimization and offers incentives for citizen participation. Sanya utilizes robots for beach cleaning and promotes plastic reduction in tourist areas. Suzhou is focused on industrial waste recycling and has created industrial parks to ensure that enterprises can work to minimize emissions.
Summary: The latest round of environmental inspections by the central government revealed shortcomings in ecological protection and pollution control in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, and eight provinces along the Grand Canal, as well as among five centrally-owned enterprises. Issues identified include the blind expansion of "high energy consumption, high emission" projects, illegal disposal of construction waste, violations in wildlife protection, and fraudulent environmental monitoring data. The inspections also found that SOEs are lagging behind in green transformation. The inspection teams will supervise the entities to develop rectification plans within 45 working days.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate jointly issued a decision modifying the interpretation of laws concerning criminal cases of environmental pollution, effective March 30, 2026. The revisions adjust the criminal subjects and pollutant scope regarding falsifying monitoring data, clarifying that both individuals and entities can be held liable. The decision also optimizes lenient treatment for pollution crimes by considering proactive ecological restoration as a mitigating factor. Finally, the revisions aim to strengthen the crackdown on the provision of false certifications in the environmental field, including software used to cheat vehicle emissions tests.
Summary: Liaoning province has surpassed its 2025 goal for desertification control in the Horqin Sandy Land, completing 4.34 million mu of treatment, 132% of the planned amount. The province signed a cooperation framework agreement with Inner Mongolia to establish a collaborative mechanism for information sharing and joint research to promote systematic governance. The average vegetation cover of sandy and desertified grassland in Liaoning Province has increased by 7% and 20% year-on-year, respectively. In the coming year, Liaoning will focus on constructing a sand barrier and implement measures to control desertification, aiming to treat another 2.9 million mu.
Summary: On March 28th, China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs organized the release of approximately 550,000 Chinese sturgeon into the Yangtze River at sites in Hubei and Shanghai. Experts from sturgeon conservation and breeding units exchanged insights on protection and artificial breeding technologies. This release is part of an effort to restore the sturgeon population, and the Ministry plans to continue large-scale releases following a "preserve-expand-release-establish" strategy. The releases are part of annual million-scale efforts since 2024 to replenish the wild population. The Chinese sturgeon is a first-class protected species and a flagship species of the Yangtze River ecosystem.
Summary: China's National Meteorological Center issued a blue alert for heavy rain and a yellow alert for severe convective weather on March 29th. Guangxi, Guangdong, and Guizhou experienced thunderstorms, gales, and heavy rainfall. From the night of March 29th to March 31st, heavy rainfall is expected in areas including eastern Southwest China, southern Jianghan, Jianghuai, Jiangnan, and northern South China. Some areas may experience thunderstorms, gales, hail, and intense short-term precipitation. There is no mention of the United States in the article.
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Summary: The revised "Funeral Management Regulations" implemented in March aim to improve funeral services and management nationwide. The Ministry of Civil Affairs is promoting a "one-stop shop" for handling death-related matters, streamlining procedures across multiple departments, and reducing the burden on grieving families. Efforts are also focused on ensuring the public and charitable nature of funeral services by implementing standardized service lists, reducing costs, and expanding subsidies for disadvantaged groups. The Ministry promotes eco-friendly and civilized practices, such as online tributes and flower offerings, to shift away from traditional, environmentally harmful customs.
Summary: A national drone soccer competition was held in Chengdu, Sichuan, attracting over 1,000 teams to compete in this emerging sport that combines flight control and soccer. The sport relies on technologies like multi-rotor power systems and AI visual positioning, and Chengdu has incorporated it into its sports and education initiatives. The competition showcased Chengdu's achievements in intelligent sports construction and its low-altitude economy, involving over 30 local companies. Officials state that the sport is a nexus connecting youth, aviation technology, and the low-altitude economy, with potential applications in logistics and emergency response. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A recent mass running event in Liuzhou, Guangxi Province, drew approximately 18,000 participants from across China. The event took place amidst the city's blooming Bauhinia trees and the Liujiang River, creating a scenic backdrop. Runners enjoyed the spring scenery and the experience of the race. No mention was made in the article of the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Yangzhou Half Marathon and the 4th East Asia Half Marathon Championships were held in Jiangsu, with separate rankings for each event. In the East Asia Half Marathon Championship, Chinese athlete Liang Tiantian won the women's gold medal, while her teammate Li Meizhen secured silver; the men's gold went to Japan, with Chinese athletes Mao Jinhu and Ma Wenliang taking silver and bronze, respectively. Liang, a previous national champion, noted the opportunity to represent China motivated her. The Yangzhou Half Marathon, upgraded to a World Athletics Platinum Label Road Race, saw Kenyan athletes Alex Matata and Miriam Chebet win the men's and women's titles, respectively.
Summary: The 2026 National Xiangqi Championship (Team) opened on March 28th in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province, with 22 teams participating. On the first day, the Hebei, Heilongjiang, and Zhejiang men's teams, as well as the Hebei, Zhejiang, Hangzhou, and Guangdong women's teams, all achieved two consecutive victories. The tournament is hosted by the State Sports General Administration's Chess and Card Management Center and the Chinese Xiangqi Association. The competition is scheduled to conclude on April 2nd.
Summary: The article reports on the "ten-thousand-person rope-pulling contest" in Lintan County, Gansu Province, a national-level intangible cultural heritage event with over 600 years of history. The contest involves thousands of people pulling on a massive 1808-meter, 16-ton rope, divided into upper and lower sections. Participants emphasize teamwork and collective effort, with many expressing a sense of unity and shared purpose during the event. The tradition, originating from ancient water transport and military training, has become a popular folk custom. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The 2026 Hunan Provincial Urban Basketball League ("XiangBA") commenced on March 27th at the Helong Sports Center in Hunan, featuring an opening ceremony that blended local culture with Changsha elements. The opening game saw Changsha defeat Huaihua 83-65. The league, consisting of 112 matches, will continue through June across multiple cities in Hunan.
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Summary: A research team from the University of Miami and the University of Tours in France has published findings in *Nature Communications* detailing the successful isolation of a nanobody from llamas that provides rapid and lasting relief in a mouse model of stress-induced depression. Nanobodies, derived from camelids, are gaining traction in biomedicine due to their flexibility, ability to reach targets inaccessible to traditional antibodies, and potential to cross the blood-brain barrier for treating neurological disorders. AI is being used to design nanobodies with greater precision, potentially reducing drug development costs and timelines. Chinese researchers at Fudan University and Tencent AI Lab have developed an AI platform, TFDesign-sdAb, to address nanobody purification and industrialization challenges. While challenges remain in predicting nanobody structures and identifying effective targets for complex diseases, AI-driven development is paving the way for efficient nanobody discovery and new possibilities for treating complex diseases.
Summary: A research team from Harvard University published a study in "Nature" revealing the physical mechanism of sound generation at the friction interface of soft and hard materials. The study found that "detachment waves" generated at the friction interface determine the pitch of the sound. The team further explored the regulation of sound frequency by sample geometry and even replicated a melody from Star Wars using frictional sounds. This research has the potential for innovative applications such as developing intelligent materials that actively control friction and sound through surface microstructure, and could aid in understanding the triggering and propagation of earthquakes. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have developed a method to produce high-quality graphene from discarded peanut shells. The two-step process involves heating the peanut shells to remove impurities and then using flash Joule heating to rearrange carbon atoms into graphene. This new method is significantly cheaper and more sustainable than traditional graphene production, costing only $1.3 in energy to produce 1000 grams of graphene. The researchers aim to commercialize the technology within three to four years and explore using other waste materials like coffee grounds and banana peels. The article does not mention any statements or actions of an official, nor does it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A research team from the Technical University of Munich has developed an autonomous underwater robot, dubbed a "smart scavenger," capable of detecting and collecting marine litter. The system, comprised of a surface vessel, search robot, submersible robot, and automated transport vessel, utilizes computer vision, sonar imaging, AI object recognition, and flexible grasping technology. The robot can differentiate between waste and marine life, construct 3D models of debris, and use its robotic arms to gently collect waste without causing further damage. The project, funded by the EU's "Ocean Cleaning 2.0" program, aims to provide a scalable solution for marine environment management, though challenges remain in complex environments, long-term stability, and deployment costs.
Summary: Brazilian scientists have identified a new giant dinosaur species from fossils discovered in Maranhão state. The long-necked, herbivorous sauropod, named after the Tocantins River, measured approximately 20 meters long, making it one of the largest dinosaurs found in Brazil. Analysis revealed strong similarities to the *Galveosaurus* dinosaur found in Spain. Researchers suggest the dinosaur's ancestors migrated from Europe via North Africa to South America around 120 million years ago, before the Atlantic Ocean fully formed.
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Summary: Chinese and Croatian scientists have been collaborating for over a decade, focusing on the ecological conservation and biodiversity protection of the Jiuzhaigou and Plitvice Lakes National Parks, both UNESCO World Heritage sites with similar karst landscapes. This collaboration includes the establishment of the China-Croatia "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in 2019. Together, they've developed techniques for moss cultivation to restore vegetation in Jiuzhaigou after an earthquake and researched the cause of the lakes' blue color, aiding in water quality management. The cooperation extends to other natural reserves, such as Huanglong in China and Krka in Croatia, exploring sustainable development and environmental protection. Croatia sees itself becoming a key hub for biodiversity cooperation within the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to boost its digital economy, highlighting the role of financial services in enabling this transformation through initiatives like data intellectual property insurance in Zhejiang's wool industry. The piece stresses the need for financial institutions to support digital upgrades in traditional industries by helping small and medium-sized enterprises overcome technological and financial barriers. It also calls for increased investment in early-stage digital technologies and for promoting the value and trading of data as a key economic driver. Finally, the article argues that the digital economy presents opportunities for the financial sector, leading to shared progress and development. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the increasing role of food safety liability insurance (食责险) in China, highlighting its benefits for consumers, businesses, and regulators. It notes that several regions are actively promoting and innovating insurance products to improve coverage and address specific industry needs, such as online food delivery and fresh food sectors. Experts suggest that increased collaboration between regulators and insurance companies, as well as improved data sharing, will enhance risk assessment and promote sustainable development of food safety insurance. The article doesn't mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the state monopoly over salt and iron during the Han dynasty in China, known as *yantie guanying*, and its implications for modern state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Initially implemented to alleviate financial strain, the policy eventually faced criticism for inefficiency and hindering market activity. The author argues that the historical rise and fall of *yantie guanying* offers insights into balancing government intervention and market freedom, particularly in strategic sectors. The piece advocates for clarifying the functional positioning of SOEs, focusing on national security, key industries, and public welfare. It suggests concentrating state capital in sectors critical to national security and the economy while encouraging more flexible governance.
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Summary: China Construction Bank (CCB) aims to become a leader in technology finance by embedding financial services into the innovation and industrial chains. CCB has increased its technology loans and underwritten numerous science and innovation bonds. The bank supports technology talent through innovation competitions and provides financial services, including loans and equity investments, to tech companies. CCB has also partnered with Peking University to support the commercialization of research findings, and has launched knowledge-property backed financing. CCB collaborates with national social security funds to broaden capital supply, and has launched technology-related indices with the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
Summary: The *People's Daily* highlights the spirit of growth and perseverance through speeches from three individuals: Jiang Mengnan, Xu Mengtao, and Liu Jingkang. Jiang, who overcame hearing loss, emphasizes continuous self-improvement and hard work. Xu, a freestyle skiing champion, discusses overcoming setbacks to achieve her Olympic dream and encourages continued striving. Liu, founder of a tech company, focuses on Chinese innovation leading globally and encourages charting one's own course to overcome obstacles. The article frames these personal stories within the context of China's national development and the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan," promoting self-reliance and striving for excellence.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of reading and applying knowledge, drawing examples from the *Zizhi Tongjian*. It highlights figures like Sun Quan encouraging Lü Meng to study history for practical governance, and Emperor Tuoba Gui of Northern Wei collecting books to integrate into Chinese civilization. Conversely, it warns against rote learning without application, citing Zhao Kuo's disastrous military command and Emperor Xiao Yi of Liang blaming books for his downfall. The article concludes that true learning involves critical thinking, self-reflection, and practical application, enabling individuals and leaders to make informed decisions. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: The article discusses "Hudu," a traditional cuisine from Yangquan, Shanxi province, detailing its preparation and cultural significance. The dish, made by mixing flour with vegetables like potatoes and sour cabbage, is believed to have originated during the Tang Dynasty. A local anecdote recounts a tale of Zheng Banqiao, a poet who loved the dish, and the author's father used "Hudu" as the punchline in jokes. A family story recalls how the author's father treated a cold with "Hudu," highlighting its perceived medicinal properties. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: This article identifies "Spring Light is Good," a Chinese painting by Lu Shi, as being held in the National Art Museum of China. No accompanying officials, statements, or actions are mentioned. The article does not allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article describes a speaker's experience giving a lecture at a university with facilities designed for disabled students. The lecture was held in a "golden hall," a part of the library, and the speaker was struck by the accessibility features and the students' attentiveness. The speaker drew on their own experience overcoming illness through reading to connect with the students, including those in wheelchairs. After the lecture, the librarian, Mr. Liu, helped a student with cerebral palsy find his lost phone. The author was moved by a student who stayed behind to read.
Summary: This poem uses the mathematical equation "99 + 19" as a metaphor for springtime agricultural labor. It depicts farmers plowing fields after rainfall, searching for the "correct answer" to the equation. The answer is suggested to be the first seed sown and the bountiful harvest in autumn. The poem does not mention any government officials, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article is a personal reflection on springtime in Beijing's hutongs (alleys). It describes the sensory experience of spring's arrival, from the softening winds and emerging greenery to the sounds of early morning routines and the scent of blossoming trees. The author emphasizes the vibrant atmosphere as residents emerge after winter, engaging in social activities.
Summary: This short announcement from the *People's Daily* welcomes submissions from readers. It specifies that contributions should be original, unpublished works and that simultaneous submissions to multiple outlets are discouraged. The announcement provides an email address for submissions. There is no mention of specific political topics, official statements, or U.S.-China relations.
According to the report from the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangxi Province (江西省工业和信息化厅) on March 29th in Nanchang (南昌) (Reporters Yang Yi (杨义) and Zhou Huan (周欢)), over 70% of industrial enterprises above designated size in Jiangxi Province (江西省) have implemented digital and intelligent transformation. Through this transformation, the comprehensive quality and efficiency index of manufacturing development in the province ranked among the top ten in the country for the first time in 2025.
How can traditional industries seize the opportunities presented by the vigorous development of the digital economy?
"Accelerate the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries" and "Actively promote the integration of the digital economy and the real economy." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest instructions have pointed the direction for the industrial transformation and upgrading of Jiangxi (江西). In recent years, Jiangxi (江西) has actively built relevant mechanisms to effectively solve the problems of enterprises not wanting to transform, not daring to transform, and not knowing how to transform, thereby promoting the digital and intelligent transformation of enterprises.
Initially, Li Jiangqun (李江群), chairman of Jiangxi Xinjiayi New Materials Co., Ltd. (江西新嘉懿新材料有限公司), did not care about the opportunities for digital and intelligent transformation. Later, two things deeply touched him: visiting Jiangxi Dongfang Julong Chemical Co., Ltd. (江西东方巨龙化工有限公司), a benchmark enterprise for digital and intelligent transformation, and learning that the company's output value had increased by an average of 20% per year after the transformation in 2023; in 2024, Jiangxi Lanxing Xinghuo Silicones Co., Ltd. (江西蓝星星火有机硅有限公司), a leading enterprise in the chain, built a digital and intelligent industrial platform, and data from more than 170 upstream and downstream enterprises were shared in real time, but Xinjiayi (新嘉懿) was not among them.
Once the mindset changes, the world broadens. After unremitting efforts, Xinjiayi (新嘉懿) successfully transformed in 2025. Today, entering the intelligent control center of Xinjiayi (新嘉懿), 18 sets of automatic control systems operate in coordination, and various production information is clear at a glance. Compared with before the transformation, the company's production efficiency has increased by 25%, and the product qualification rate has increased from 96.1% to 99.6%.
Jiangxi Jingdong Industrial Co., Ltd. (江西京东实业有限公司) is another example of solving development problems through digital and intelligent transformation.
Before the transformation, General Manager Tao Xiaoliang (陶小亮) was worried as soon as he stepped into the workshop—the 182 dyeing machines had been in service for nearly 20 years and had to be repaired every month. "Replace the equipment with new ones? The cost is 60 million yuan, and the company's annual output value is only 150 million yuan. How easy is it!"
In response to the pain points of such small and medium-sized enterprises, such as insufficient transformation funds, weak technology, and many concerns, Jiangxi (江西) has built 26 provincial-level digital transformation promotion centers, introduced and cultivated a group of professional service providers who understand the attributes of the industrial chain, and basically achieved full coverage of key industries. At present, 1,370 service providers have cumulatively released more than 3,400 "small, fast, light, and accurate" solutions and products.
In the end, the service provider provided Jingdong Industrial (京东实业) with a solution—instead of large-scale demolition and construction, intelligent modules and a 5G management platform were added to upgrade the original equipment. Now, workers only need to touch a button, and all printing and dyeing processes are controlled by the system. "The total investment is only more than 6 million yuan, the operating cost is reduced by 30%, but the annual output value has exceeded 200 million yuan." Tao Xiaoliang (陶小亮) is very satisfied.
Benchmark leading, dispelling the mentality of not wanting to transform; classified diagnosis, clearing the obstacles of not daring to transform; tailoring policies to enterprises, solving the difficulties of not knowing how to transform... Jiangxi (江西) has cultivated 7 national-level "digital leading" enterprises and 300 provincial-level "digital and intelligent factories," and the "learning by example" activities have covered more than 10,000 enterprises. To consolidate the foundation for digital and intelligent transformation, Jiangxi (江西) has built "industrial brains" in 13 industries and equipped them with digital "clinics," serving more than 4,700 enterprises.
Adhering to the combination of an effective market and a promising government, Jiangxi (江西) tailors policies to enterprises and implements policies according to enterprises, promoting more traditional enterprises to activate their development potential through the conversion of old and new. In 2025, the average defective product rate of industrial enterprises above designated size in Jiangxi Province (江西省) that have implemented digital and intelligent transformation decreased by 16.5%, the operating cost decreased by 16.1%, the comprehensive energy consumption per 10,000 yuan of output value decreased by 18.1%, and the contribution rate of digital and intelligent transformation to the industrial growth of the transformed enterprises was 22.9%.
"The '15th Five-Year Plan' proposes to 'build a digital and intelligent transformation promotion network and improve the digital empowerment service system for small and medium-sized enterprises.'" Ying Jiong (应炯), Director of the Department of Industry and Information Technology of Jiangxi Province (江西省工业和信息化厅), introduced that Jiangxi (江西) will accelerate the pace of digital and intelligent transformation this year and strive to achieve full coverage of industrial enterprises above designated size in key industrial clusters. In addition, an industrial Internet innovation project will be implemented to strive for the proportion of the added value of the core digital economy industry to reach about 9.5% of the regional GDP.
"The digital and intelligent transformation of manufacturing is an important entry point for building a modern industrial system. Following the direction pointed out by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), we will adhere to chain and cluster co-transformation, strengthen digital empowerment, vigorously promote the application of intelligent manufacturing equipment and software, promote enterprises to leap from single-point transformation to digital and intelligent transformation in the entire process and all links, and continuously improve the intelligent, green, and integrated development level of the industry." Yin Hong (尹弘), Secretary of the Jiangxi Provincial Party Committee (江西省委书记), said.
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The drumbeats of the Yangge dance are powerful and rhythmic, and the colorful fans flutter up and down. Huang Fenghua (黄风花), 64 years old, dances with light steps. "I used to squat by the wall in the village and bask in the sun. Now I can dance Yangge and learn paper-cutting with my sisters, and I'm full of energy!"
This is the old camp village elderly care service station in Xinghe County (兴和县), Ulanqab City (乌兰察布市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区). While ensuring the basic living needs of the elderly, it also provides diversified services such as cultural entertainment and rehabilitation training, transforming "living alone" into "group fun," and realizing that the elderly are supported and enjoy their lives.
In June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古): "We must adhere to the people-centered approach, pay more attention to ensuring and improving people's livelihoods in development, make up for shortcomings in people's livelihoods, and enhance people's well-being." During this year's National People's Congress, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must accurately grasp the new expectations of the people for a better life and the new characteristics of people's livelihood work under the new situation, and focus on solving pain points and overcoming difficulties."
Chinese-style modernization prioritizes people's livelihood. Opening the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, people's well-being is placed in an important position. Among the 5 aspects and 20 main indicators, there are 7 people's livelihood indicators, accounting for more than 1/3. Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan," Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) thoroughly implements the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, deeply practices the people-centered development thought, and focuses on improving the quality of rural elderly care, caring for people in need, and consolidating basic medical care, strengthening inclusive, basic, and guaranteed people's livelihood construction, and increasing efforts to ensure and improve people's livelihoods.
Improving the quality and efficiency of rural elderly care, making the lives of the elderly more comfortable—
The canteen is bright and clean, the aroma of flaxseed oil is overflowing, and the food is steaming. The elderly sit around the table, chatting about their daily lives. "In the past, I was always worried about making a fire and cooking at home. It's cheap and convenient to eat here," Huang Fenghua (黄风花) said with a smile.
In response to the "difficulty in eating" for rural elderly, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) deploys standardized elderly canteens with villages as basic units, and forms volunteer service teams to provide door-to-door meal delivery services for the elderly with mobility difficulties. At present, 659 Sumu (苏木) township regional elderly care service centers and 6404 village-level elderly care service stations have been built, and 2231 elderly meal assistance points allow 1.27 million elderly people to eat hot meals at their doorsteps.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will further improve the three-level elderly care service network at the county, township, and village levels, promote the extension of elderly care service resources to rural and pastoral areas, support the construction of medical and health combined rural and pastoral elderly care institutions, and achieve the improvement of the quality and efficiency of elderly care services.
Focusing on solving the urgent and difficult problems of the masses, making the bottom line of people's livelihood more secure—
In Yongxing Community (永兴社区), Dongsheng District (东胜区), Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), 55-year-old Kang Yumei (康玉梅) took out her tools and wiped the glass of a widowed elderly person's home until it was sparkling.
Due to a disability in her left hand and her husband being bedridden due to a cerebral infarction, Kang Yumei's (康玉梅) family became a low-income household. Thanks to the "Warm City Co-assistance" social assistance brand pilot project created by the city, after enjoying free rehabilitation and health care services, she also chose employment skills improvement services. "After domestic service training, I go to the homes of widowed elderly people to wipe glass. Not only can I earn money, but I can also help others!"
From "sending money and goods" to providing service-type assistance such as care, skills training, and resource docking for people in need through the purchase of social services, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) continues to improve the effectiveness of social assistance. As of the end of February this year, the basic living of 1.7262 million people in need, such as urban and rural low-income households and people in extreme poverty, has been effectively guaranteed in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古); two subsidies for disabled people have benefited 714,000 disabled people.
"During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will use digital intelligence to enhance the accuracy and breadth of dynamic monitoring and assistance, promote the 'material + service' comprehensive assistance model, form a 'happy list' where the weak are supported by all, and make people's livelihood assistance more warm," said Kang Xuedong (亢学栋), Director of the Department of Civil Affairs of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区民政厅).
Consolidating basic medical services, making it easier for the masses to seek medical treatment—
In late March, the spring in Zhalute Banner (扎鲁特旗), Tongliao City (通辽市), was still cold, and the roads to remote pastoral areas were muddy and difficult to travel. Han Hexigebao Yin (韩贺喜格宝音), a 67-year-old herdsman, had run out of blood pressure medication for 2 days, and his blood pressure rose to a dangerous level.
The "Sarilang (萨日朗)" health management team formed by the banner medical staff went to provide services. Due to the difficulty of vehicle passage, the team members got out of the car and walked to his home, measured his blood pressure, adjusted his medication plan, and refilled the small medicine box. "With you guarding me and a small medicine box prepared, I feel so at ease!" Han Hexigebao Yin (韩贺喜格宝音) held the team member's hand and thanked him repeatedly.
"To build a healthy China, the shortcoming in remote areas must be made up for." Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has fully promoted the construction of close-knit county medical communities in 82 agricultural and pastoral banners and counties throughout the region. As of now, 74 banners and counties have met the standards, 2,888 county-level medical personnel have been serving at the grassroots level for more than 6 consecutive months, and 11,148 family doctor teams have been formed, with a signing rate of 81.62% for key populations.
"By 2030, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will strive to fully establish a mobile medical system in remote areas, and the service capacity of basic health and health will be deeply adapted to the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas and new urbanization," introduced Liu Yong (刘勇), Director of the Health Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区卫生健康委).
Wang Weizhong (王伟中), Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee (内蒙古自治区党委书记), said: "Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will do more practical things for people's livelihood with more care and effort, continuously improve the level of service refinement, and continuously enhance the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security."
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The study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance are being carried out throughout the Party. For some time, various regions, departments, and units have focused on the theme, earnestly grasped study and discussion, and the vast number of Party members and cadres have studied with a mission, with problems, and with thinking, continuously consolidating the ideological foundation for starting a business in in-depth study and understanding.
Focusing on the theme, studying deeply and thoroughly
The Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs has specially formulated a study class plan. Members of the Party Leadership Group took the lead in deeply studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and exchanged speeches one by one around "For whom, rely on whom, and how to do it"; Party organizations of various units established a mechanism of "leading cadres leading learning, lecturing, and promoting learning, and young cadres loving learning, studying diligently, and being good at learning," organized "Everyone Talks About Learning, Thinking, Understanding, and Doing," and enhanced the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
The Party Leadership Group of the State General Administration of Sport organized a special study class on study and education. Members of the Party Leadership Group took the lead in leading the study, studying the "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Exposition on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance" in its original form, organized special discussions, talked about understanding, found gaps, and clarified directions one by one, and educated and guided Party members and cadres to continuously consolidate the ideological foundation of sports for the people.
The theoretical study center group of the Party Leadership Group of the State Bureau of Letters and Calls held a special meeting to carry out centralized study and discussion, requiring efforts to be made in "deep study," consciously combining the carrying out of study and education with the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals on letters and calls work, and combining it with promoting the completion of key annual work, so as to promote learning to gain something and learning to achieve practical results.
The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League organized and carried out a study and education study class for directly affiliated organs, organized Party members and cadres to read the original works, learn the original texts, and understand the principles in their original form, deeply studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, issued work prompts, and promoted Party organizations at all levels to formulate relevant plans for study and education.
The Party Leadership Group of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation highlighted systematic learning in its original form and precise learning by layer and category, emphasized giving play to the exemplary and leading role of Party organizations at all levels, and at the same time explored the establishment of an evaluation mechanism for the "top leader's" view of performance and an evaluation mechanism for learning effectiveness, so as to continuously consolidate the ideological foundation with theoretical arming.
The Party Committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行) paid attention to paving the way with learning. The theoretical study center group of the Party Committee of the head office carried out special study on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Members of the Party Committee leadership team combined with the actual situation of financial work and carried out in-depth exchanges and discussions. At the same time, it built a "online + offline" three-dimensional learning matrix to promote the formation of "one team, one arrangement, one branch, one plan" in institutions at all levels.
Enriching carriers and striving for practical results
The Party Leadership Group of the All-China Women's Federation strictly implemented the "First Topic" system, conscientiously studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and Party organizations at the grassroots level relied on the "Three Meetings and One Lesson" and theme party days to ensure deep study and thorough understanding through watching warning education films, conducting on-the-spot visits, and joint study and joint construction.
Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), took multiple measures to earnestly grasp centralized study, individual self-study, layered and classified training, and warning education, and incorporated relevant content of study and education into the main training classes such as the in-service advanced training class for city-administered cadres, and opened special teaching modules. At the same time, it made full use of provincial and municipal online special course resources to encourage Party members to carry out online learning.
"The spirit of Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) has never been a distant monument, but a mirror in front of us that illuminates our original intention..." A few days ago, at the study and education study class of the Party Leadership Group of China Mobile (中国移动), Party members and cadres immersively studied the deeds of Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) and Gu Wenchang (谷文昌). In study and education, the Party Leadership Group of China Mobile (中国移动) relied on its own red "Yunji" platform to educate and guide Party members and cadres to learn from the wise in a way that is popular and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Holding study classes and carrying out ideological discussions; opening "micro-classes on the view of performance" to enrich the forms of study and publicity... In recent days, the Party Committee of China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) has promoted Party organizations at all grassroots levels to enrich learning carriers, educate and guide Party members and cadres to unify the implementation of national strategic deployments with serving the people, and consolidate the ideological foundation for benefiting the people.
The Party Committee of the National Development Bank (国家开发银行) strengthened theoretical arming. Party organizations at all levels throughout the bank carried out study through various methods such as holding study classes, theoretical study center group learning, special discussions, "Three Meetings and One Lesson," and theme party days, guiding Party members and cadres to deeply understand the political and people-oriented nature of financial work.
Guangling District (广陵区) in Yangzhou City (扬州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), established a "five-study linkage" model of "leading learning by the 'key few'," "regular learning by the 'Three Meetings and One Lesson'," "following learning 'online and offline'," "research learning in 'real-world classrooms'," and "deep learning by 'case analysis'," to promote county-level and department-level cadres and township-level and section-level "top leaders" to take the lead in learning one step ahead and one layer deeper, demonstrating and driving Party organizations at the grassroots level to achieve full coverage and quality in theoretical learning.
Calibrating coordinates and grasping the direction
Baoding City (保定市), Hebei Province (河北省), focused on study and discussion, using positive and negative typical cases through methods such as theoretical study center group learning, expert lectures, and special discussions, to guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand and accurately grasp the scientific connotation, spiritual essence, and practical requirements of a correct view of performance, and promote the internalization and externalization of a correct view of performance.
"As a policy bank credit officer, we must guard the first line of defense of credit, and we must not be eager for quick success and instant benefits or ignore risks." Recently, the Party Committee of the Export-Import Bank of China (中国进出口银行) held a warning education conference for young cadres in the head office organs to guide young cadres to deeply understand the serious harm of deviations and misplacements in the view of performance. In study and education, the Export-Import Bank of China (中国进出口银行) highlighted the Party Committee's exemplary leading learning, education and training to assist learning, and warning education to promote learning, so as to promote study and education to go deep and be solid.
The Party Committee of the Bank of China (中国银行) held a study and education study class, using positive and negative typical "two mirrors," closely combined with the actual situation of financial work, listed special topics to carry out collective study and discussion in a solid manner, promoted Party members and cadres to put themselves in, put their work in, and put their responsibilities in, draw inferences about other cases from one instance, examine themselves, and deeply analyze the ideological roots.
The Party Committee of China Life Insurance Group (中国人寿集团) arranged for Party organizations at all levels to carry out "illustrative" study and discussion and case collection, promoted Party members and cadres to talk about understanding and experience in combination with the things around them and specific things that serve the real economy and people's livelihood, adhere to the principle of linking theory with practice, and strive to learn for application and combine learning with application.
"Performance projects and face-saving projects are, in the final analysis, blinded by selfishness..." A few days ago, a special study class on study and education was held in the Political and Legal Committee of the Alxa League Committee (阿拉善盟委政法委) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区). Party members and cadres conducted in-depth interpretations in light of the specific circumstances of the main problems of deviations in the view of performance. In study and education, Alxa League (阿拉善盟) promoted Party organizations at all levels to guide Party members and cadres to further establish a correct view of performance in the form of exchanges and discussions, special counseling, leading learning and self-study.
"True achievements are the perseverance that can stand the test of time." A few days ago, Yu Hang District (余杭区) in Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), organized on-site teaching on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and a young Party member was deeply touched. In study and education, Yu Hang District (余杭区) paid attention to giving play to the exemplary role of typical examples, using advanced typical examples rooted in the front line and silently dedicated as vivid teaching materials, organizing personal experiences and deeds to be publicized, and promoting Party members and cadres to deepen their ideological understanding under the guidance of role models.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余), Li Yanfei (厉衍飞), Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧), Wang Guan (王观), Yang Hao (杨昊), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Li Longyi (李龙伊), Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Jin Xin (金歆), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Qu Xinming (屈信明), Zhang Cheng (张枨), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文))
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Zhao Yongxin (赵永新)) The "National Innovation Index Report 2025" released by the Chinese Academy of Science and Technology for Development (中国科学技术发展战略研究院) on the 29th shows that China's national innovation index ranks ninth in the world, an increase of one place compared to the previous year, steadily moving towards the goal of becoming a strong country in science and technology.
The report shows that compared to 2012, China's comprehensive ranking has risen by 11 places, making it the fastest-improving country in the past decade. China's national innovation index score is 67.2 points, and the growth rate of major indicators is higher than the level of developed countries. China's innovation capability is close to that of developed countries with a per capita GDP of around $50,000, and it is still in a steady upward channel. China's "innovation resources," "knowledge creation," and "enterprise innovation" have outstanding performance, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a strong country in science and technology. From the overall performance of first-level indicators and basic indicators, China's scientific and technological innovation strength has increased significantly.
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"Taking firm steps forward one at a time, and steadily advancing stage by stage," Chinese-style modernization has entered a critical period of consolidating its foundation and comprehensively exerting its strength.
Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), a major achievement of our Party leading the people in long-term exploration and practice. It is a broad road to building a strong country and national rejuvenation, opening up a new path for mankind to modernization and creating a new form of human civilization. This is a historical conclusion and, even more so, a practical revelation.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Red Army, and the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
The Five-Year Plan is like a ladder for undertakings, "climbing up step by step."
"Formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan is a national institutional arrangement and an important experience in the governance of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). It is also necessary to promote implementation after making a good plan. A good plan and execution must be combined."
Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition at this year's National People's Congress (全国两会) profoundly reveals the historical, theoretical, and practical logic of why the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is capable, why Marxism works, and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good.
As the world's second-largest economy, China's economy grew at an average annual rate of 5.4% during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, significantly higher than the global average. This year's Government Work Report set the economic growth target at 4.5%-5%, while emphasizing "striving for better results in actual work."
"The Chinese economy has achieved resilient growth in the face of multiple challenges," said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, "and the whole world will be profoundly affected as China moves towards its new development goals."
"China's development not only provides an important reference for the Global South countries, but also contributes to promoting a more just and reasonable global governance system," said Marc Segura, former Executive Vice President of Électricité de France (EDF).
In today's world full of uncertainties, global investors' desire for certainty is unprecedented, and a new consensus has been formed on China becoming a "key driver" of global stability.
Grasping the "momentum of the market" and jointly seeking "future opportunities," more and more international people are looking for opportunities and hope from China, while also seeking to solve a deep-seated proposition - why can China always inject certainty and positive energy into the world?
The theory of Chinese-style modernization is the answer and the key.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.
Having gone through a century of struggle and achieved the first centenary goal, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country to embark on a new journey of building a modern socialist country in all respects and march towards the second centenary goal!
The new journey requires new theoretical guidance. Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized and elaborated on the theory of Chinese-style modernization in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), which is the latest achievement of scientific socialism and a major innovation in the theory and practice of world modernization, with milestone significance in the history of human civilization.
"To complete the economic and social development goals and tasks of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' we need to cope with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions." "We must make efforts to study new situations, solve new problems, and gain new experiences." At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made profound and long-term considerations from the strategic height of the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
The theory of Chinese-style modernization is systematic, complete, broad, and profound, and we need to deeply study and understand its power of truth and the great power it radiates in practice.
In-depth elaboration of the new development concept to solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development; creative proposal of the new quality productive forces theory to solve the problem of promoting high-quality and sustainable development; proposal of improving the new type of national system under the conditions of the socialist market economy to solve the "bottleneck" problem and better play the advantages of the system; making strategic decisions to build a new development pattern to solve the problem of development security and stability...
Understanding and grasping from the dimension of these "four news" can lead to a deeper understanding of why the theory of Chinese-style modernization works and a better understanding of why China will surely succeed.
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Implementing the new development concept, guiding and promoting quality change, efficiency change, and power change, is a major guiding principle for China's modernization construction.
"Implementing the new development concept is the only way for China to grow and strengthen in the new era." In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), Xi Jinping (习近平) highly summarized the "five musts" as "the most important regular understanding we have gained in long-term practice."
Shibadong Village (十八洞村) in Xiangxi (湘西), Hunan (湖南), the first place to advocate "targeted poverty alleviation," two folk songs portray the past and present.
In the past, "Remote mountains with three gullies and two forks, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn cakes; if you want to eat a meal of rice, unless you are sick or have a baby." Now, "The Miao (苗) people live in a golden and silver nest, with green waters and green mountains with abundant resources; water, electricity, and roads are connected, and everyone lives a good life."
A village reflects the value demands of the new development concept.
The new era is a new historical orientation for China's development. Xi Jinping (习近平) made a major judgment: "At present, the main social contradiction in our country has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development, and the contradictions and problems in development are concentrated in the quality of development."
The new development concept has become the key to solving the main social contradiction in our country.
"The understanding that is not adapted to, unsuitable, or even violates the new development concept must be adjusted immediately, the behavior that is not adapted to, unsuitable, or even violates the new development concept must be resolutely corrected, and the practices that are not adapted to, unsuitable, or even violate the new development concept must be completely abandoned."
The new development concept has become the command stick and traffic light for promoting high-quality economic and social development in the new era.
Emphasizing "sharing," poverty alleviation work teams are stationed in villages to provide assistance, and returning talents return to their hometowns to start businesses; promoting "coordination," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) and surrounding villages jointly plan, share opportunities, and work together to become rich... In this profound change of implementing the new development concept that "relates to the overall situation of China's development," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) has not only ushered in spring, but has also "grown up."
Antonio Segura, Vice President of the Spanish China Lecture Hall Foundation and human rights expert. After exploring Shibadong Village (十八洞村) on the ground, he came to a profound understanding: "China's poverty reduction cause is by no means a matter of overnight, but a continuation and deepening of the ruling philosophy that has always been people-centered."
Promoting the increase of per capita life expectancy to 80 years old, supporting the construction of 1,000 closely-knit county medical communities... Through the "15th Five-Year Plan," we can better feel the mutual promotion of the new development concept leading high-quality development and high-quality development empowering high-quality life.
Committed to "allowing the fruits of modernization to benefit all the people more and more fairly," Chinese-style modernization "has the most reliable, deepest, and most lasting source of power."
A river of clear water witnesses the transformative power of the new development concept.
Adhering to "jointly grasping major protection and not engaging in large-scale development" and "taking the road of ecological priority and green development," taking innovation as the lead, opening up space with openness, and strengthening policy coordination and work coordination, the proportion of excellent water quality in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) has increased from 67% to 96.5% in the past 10 years, the regional GDP has more than doubled, and the per capita disposable income of residents has increased by 91%.
From "seriously ill" to "clear water and leaping fish," from extensive development to high-quality development, protection and development resonate at the same frequency. The change in the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) in the new era is reshaping the concept and correcting the view of political achievements.
Xia Zexiang, Director of the UNESCO East Asia Regional Office, who has long been concerned about China's water management exploration, said: "China is like a thick book on 'Water and Civilization,' and every page has experience and wisdom worth learning from the world."
As early as during his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward the "Two Mountains" concept that "green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains," pointing out that "we cannot blindly develop, pollute the environment, and leave a heavy burden for future generations."
The "Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China," which was passed on March 12 and will be implemented on August 15, consolidates the legal foundation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and provides important guidance for global ecological governance.
From ideological leadership to legal escort, China has lit up a bright light of wisdom for global green development. International people believe that "China is becoming a leader on the road to promoting the transformation of global ecological civilization."
"Innovation has become the primary driving force, coordination has become an inherent characteristic, green has become a universal form, openness has become the only way, and sharing has become the fundamental purpose." Comprehensively, accurately, and fully implementing the new development concept, accelerating the transformation of development methods and optimizing the economic structure, China has embarked on a path of high-quality and sustainable development.
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Developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, guiding the mastery of the historical initiative of the development of the Party and the country's cause in moving towards the new and the superior, and providing a strong impetus for Chinese-style modernization.
Economics is generally developed in solving practical problems.
"The characteristics are innovation, the key is quality, and the essence is advanced productive forces." The theory of new quality productive forces is proposed for the first time in the history of human economic thought.
With a large economic volume, one journey after another, forward development requires new theoretical guidance and greater impetus. To "always maintain the role of a tide-setter in the tide of the modern economy," we must further enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of our country's development.
"Developing new quality productive forces is crucial to promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness." At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Xi Jinping (习近平) made new guidance on the development of new quality productive forces, and the strategic direction is very clear.
Let's observe from the construction of a modern industrial system.
Optimize and upgrade traditional industries to consolidate the foundation of the real economy. In Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), ten-thousand-ton container ships independently enter the berth; in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), the "digital twin market" grasps the dynamics of the global supply chain... "Developing new quality productive forces is not to ignore or abandon traditional industries." Using new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, intelligence, greening, and integration have unlimited potential.
Cultivate and strengthen emerging industries to activate strong momentum. In Beijing (北京), the commercial aerospace industry has exceeded 260 billion yuan; in Guangdong (广东), the annual output of industrial robots exceeds 330,000 units... From "upstairs and downstairs" is "upstream and downstream" to "off the shelf and on the shelf," "promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation," new quality productive forces are "accelerating."
Proactively lay out future industries and seize future development opportunities. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to promote quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications to become new economic growth points. These are typical representatives of future industries and key areas for reshaping the global economic landscape.
Wolfram Elsner, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Bremen, Germany, believes that for German industry and commerce, China is not only the largest trading partner, but also a "training ground" for production and research and development, and the future of technology lies.
From the country with the most complete industrial categories to "in recent years, our country's economy has overcome difficulties, maintained strong resilience and vitality, and the strategic reliance is a complete industrial system," practice has proved that "this road is right."
From this, we have a deeper understanding of why the "15th Five-Year Plan" puts the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions in a more prominent strategic position and puts the construction of a modern industrial system in the first place of various strategic tasks.
New quality productive forces are green productive forces themselves. Solving ecological and environmental problems, green and low-carbon development is the fundamental solution.
The proportion of non-fossil energy consumption increased from 16% in 2020 to more than 20% in 2025. China is not only one of the major economies with the fastest economic growth, but also one of the countries with the fastest decline in global energy consumption intensity.
During his first local inspection after this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北), emphasizing the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and cultivating a modern industrial system that meets the actual conditions of the new area.
Taking technological innovation as the lead and the real economy as the foundation, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods, and continuously enhancing the potential and stamina of development.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, especially the theory of new quality productive forces, new industries, new business forms, and new models are emerging in our country, the economic innovation and competitiveness are constantly enhanced, and Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily. Thomas Friedman, a well-known American media person, wrote that he "saw the future in China."
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The new type of national system is an important way to give play to the institutional advantages of concentrating efforts to do big things under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and it is crucial for our country to accelerate the construction of a strong country in science and technology.
"Our socialist system can concentrate efforts to do big things is an important magic weapon for us to achieve our cause. Many of our major scientific and technological achievements have been achieved by relying on this magic weapon, and we must never lose it!" Xi Jinping's (习近平) words are sonorous and powerful.
Artificial intelligence, the "key variable" in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, is an important window to observe the advantages of our country's new type of national system.
"Our country will become the largest market for robots, but can our technology and manufacturing capabilities cope with this competition? We must not only improve the level of robots in our country, but also occupy as much of the market as possible."
In June 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a preemptive move with a global perspective, "There are many such new technologies and new fields, and we must assess the situation, consider the overall situation, seize the time to plan, and promote it in a solid manner."
"Accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence is an important strategic grasp for us to win the initiative in global technological competition, and it is an important strategic resource for promoting the leapfrog development of science and technology, industrial optimization and upgrading, and the overall leap in productivity in our country."
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a forward-looking layout from the height of "strategic issues": "Promote its deep integration with economic and social development and promote the healthy development of a new generation of artificial intelligence in our country."
"The degree of technological breakthrough largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development."
In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "We must give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system, adhere to 'industry posing questions and technology answering questions,' increase efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements."
Along the thread of thought, "artificial intelligence" has entered the national top-level strategy, has been continuously written into three five-year plans, and has grown vigorously in practice, becoming the core engine driving the new type of industrialization.
Issuing and implementing the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" and the "Guiding Opinions on the Innovative Development of Humanoid Robots"... Top-level design has played a "combination punch," and policy implementation has run out of "acceleration."
From the innovation-driven development strategy of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to the acceleration of the construction of a strong country in science and technology in the "14th Five-Year Plan," and then to the acceleration of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in the "15th Five-Year Plan," China firmly grasps the lifeline of science and technology in its own hands.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" has many highlights in scientific and technological development, and China's computing power scale has grown at an average annual rate of 30%. In 2025, the scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry will exceed 1.2 trillion yuan.
Through the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" special action, fully releasing the "scenario dividend" of the world's most complete industrial system, China not only ranks firmly in the first echelon of global artificial intelligence development, but also has embarked on a new path in empowering new quality productive forces and promoting scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
The number of the world's top 100 innovative clusters has ranked first in the world for three consecutive years, and China is the first country in the world to have more than 5 million valid domestic invention patents. UN Under-Secretary-General Guy Ryder believes that "China, which has entered a 'period of innovation explosion,' is reshaping the world's technological landscape."
**实践证明** (shí jiàn zhèng míng - "practice proves," used to emphasize that something has been proven through practical experience) "Practice has proved that it is impossible to 'strangle' us."
From following to running alongside and leading, from missing the scientific and technological revolution to becoming a pioneer in the scientific and technological revolution, how did China turn "impossible" into "certainly possible"?
From following to running alongside, to leading; from missing the technological revolution to becoming a pioneer of it, how has China turned the "impossible" into "certainly possible"?
The Beidou system overcame more than 160 key technologies, broke through the domestic research and development of more than 500 core components, and originated from the passionate participation of more than 400 units and more than 300,000 scientific and technological personnel...
The advantages of the new type of national system lie in the guidance of the Party's innovative theories in the new era, and are excellent in that the thought is like a torch, illuminating the way forward;
The new feature lies in the Party Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership over science and technology work, and is excellent in giving full play to the Party's core leadership role;
The new feature lies in fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties, and is excellent in connecting the top and bottom, linking the left and right, and being coordinated and efficient;
The new feature lies in giving full play to the decisive role of the market in the allocation of science and technology resources and better playing the role of the government in all aspects, and is excellent in the synergy between an active government and an effective market.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines a series of major strategic tasks from 16 aspects and identifies 109 major projects. How can we promote decisive breakthroughs in tackling key core technologies?
Adhering to the concept of systems, consciously acting under the overall situation, improving the new type of national system, twisting the government, the market, and society into one rope, deeply integrating and efficiently allocating the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, carrying out cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborative research, and improving the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system will surely promote the production of more iconic original achievements.
A foreign political figure pointed out: "Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the Chinese (中国) government and people have established a political system that can guarantee stable development for all."
Institutional advantages are an important advantage for a country to win strategic initiative.
Making full use of the "four major advantages" such as the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and continuously transforming institutional advantages into governance effectiveness and development advantages, we will not only enhance the country's hard power but also continuously improve the country's soft power.
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Building a new development pattern is a strategic deployment to grasp the initiative in future development and has become the path choice for China's (中国) economic modernization.
"Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is to enhance our survival, competitiveness, development, and sustainability in all kinds of foreseeable and unforeseeable storms and waves, and ensure that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) is not delayed or even interrupted."
As the century-long changes accelerate, and geopolitical conflicts are prone to occur, hundreds of millions of people have more truly realized the insight and foresight of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s strategic concept of a new development pattern, which he made during his local inspection in early 2020.
Today's China (中国) has a "uniquely beautiful scenery here," bringing lasting confidence and hope to the world with the certainty and stability of high-quality development and with the determination and confidence of openness and inclusiveness. An important aspect lies in the fact that the Party Central Committee (党中央) has made good moves in advance and fought proactive battles, adhering to the principle of "strengthening internal skills and strengthening ourselves."
Let's start with the story of the automotive industry.
"Developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China (中国) to move from a big automobile country to a strong automobile country." Under the current international situation, the strategic significance of China's (中国) development of new energy vehicles is even more prominent.
In 2025, the production and sales of new energy vehicles will be 16.626 million and 16.49 million respectively, an increase of 29% and 28.2% year-on-year, ranking first in the world for 11 consecutive years.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China (中国) built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network, and the number of charging stations is already three times that of gas stations. It is estimated that by 2030, the number of electric vehicles in the country is expected to reach 80 million, saving more than 120 million tons of oil annually, which is three times the current annual oil and gas production of Daqing Oilfield (大庆油田).
Grasp that "the most essential feature of building a new development pattern is to achieve a high level of self-reliance and self-improvement," and promote continuous breakthroughs in core technologies such as batteries, motors, and electronic controls. In 2025, the six major Chinese (中国) companies together accounted for 70.4% of the global power battery installed capacity.
Grasp that "forming a strong domestic market is an important support for building a new development pattern," and adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus. From 2024 to 2025, China (中国) will achieve the replacement of 18.3 million old cars with new ones. The cumulative sales of new energy vehicles in rural areas have reached approximately 15 million units in 5 years.
Grasp that "the key to building a new development pattern lies in achieving smooth economic circulation," revise the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, abolish 4,218 policy measures that hinder the flow of factors, and rectify "involution-style" competition in the automotive field...
"Only by basing ourselves on our own country, smoothing out the domestic cycle, and striving to forge a body that is immune to all poisons and indestructible, can we remain full of vitality for survival and development no matter how the international situation changes, and no one can defeat us or stifle us!"
In the face of tariff wars and trade wars, the new development pattern has built "Chinese (中国) determination" and demonstrated "hard-core strength."
A strong domestic market is precisely the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. Domestic demand has become the main driving force and stabilizing anchor of China's (中国) economic growth, with an average contribution rate of 86.8% from 2021 to 2024.
An open China (中国) is more confident and composed.
"Taking the domestic cycle as the mainstay is by no means closing the door and running in isolation."
"Building it into an important gateway to lead China's (中国) opening up to the outside world in the new era," the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) is anchoring this strategic goal and standing on a new starting point of "high-standard construction."
Recently, Hainan (海南) released its "report card" for the first 100 days of sealing off customs: the number of newly added foreign-funded enterprises increased by 33.5%, foreign trade import and export increased by 32.9%, and people from 86 countries can enter Hainan (海南) visa-free, and the number of visa-free inbound tourists increased by 53.6%.
Not only deeply promoting the flow-type opening up of goods and factors, but also steadily expanding institutional opening up, the flow of people, logistics, and capital is accelerating, the stamina of internal smoothness and external connection is stronger, and new spaces for high-level opening up and high-quality development are continuously expanding.
Relying on the domestic super-large market and facing ASEAN (东盟) and global emerging markets, the strategic potential of the international economic and trade "super connector" is being released.
From the continuous shortening of the negative list for market access to the iterative brilliance of grand events such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China International Supply Chain Expo (链博会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the Canton Fair (广交会), to the 22 free trade pilot zones building a "goose array" covering the east, west, north, and south...
"The smoother the domestic cycle, the more it can form an attraction field for global resources and factors, the more conducive it is to building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the mainstay and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, and the more conducive it is to forming new advantages in participating in international competition and cooperation."
Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for China's (中国) modernization construction to continuously achieve new achievements.
Former World Bank economist Mwangi Wachira said: Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern enhances the resilience and security of China's (中国) economic system in a complex external environment and also creates new opportunities for South-South cooperation.
Today's China (中国) has a large population, a large market, a complete industry, and strong development momentum, and its position in the global industrial chain and supply chain is difficult to replace. This is the foundation for economic endogenous growth and independent development.
Consolidate security in development and seek development in security.
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Historical development has its laws. Following the right path and adapting to the trend can lead to better progress.
Creating world-renowned "two miracles" in the space-time compression of "completing hundreds of years in a few decades," Chinese-style modernization has become "the only correct path for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation."
From "the Chinese nation (中华民族) falling into the abyss of near national subjugation and extinction" to "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) showing unprecedented bright prospects," the Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) historically shouldered the heavy responsibility of exploring modernization, always grasped the laws of history, mastered the historical initiative, and became an important force in promoting the positive evolution and benign interaction of the "two overall situations."
From "irreversible" to "**势不可挡**" (shì bù kě dǎng - "the trend is unstoppable," describes an overwhelming force or trend that cannot be resisted), the "two establishments" fundamentally ensure that the historical trend of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) rolls forward, which is of decisive significance for us to cope with various risks and challenges and promote Chinese-style modernization on the new journey.
The world exclaims: "Today's China (中国) is tomorrow's world."
Chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party (匈牙利工人党) Thürmer believes: "A China (中国) with clear planning, clear goals, and continuous openness is a blessing for China (中国) and a blessing for the world."
"Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a long-term task, and there are still many things that we need to deepen our understanding of." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important conclusion profoundly demonstrates the strategic clarity, strategic confidence, and strategic initiative of the Chinese Communists (中国共产党人) --
"We must further strengthen theoretical research and practical exploration so that our understanding, policies, and measures are more in line with objective laws, so as to gradually enter the 'free kingdom' of Chinese-style modernization construction."
"The whole Party must realize that doing a good job in economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period is of great and far-reaching significance for realizing the grand blueprint outlined by the 20th National Congress of the Party, promoting Chinese-style modernization in stages and steps... and laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization."
The new journey is a new Long March (长征). Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee (党中央) with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), especially General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s theory of Chinese-style modernization, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) is unstoppable, and Chinese-style modernization will surely succeed.
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Promoting the mutual empowerment and common development of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power
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From Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) in China to Plitvice Lakes National Park in Croatia
Jointly safeguarding the "sapphires" at both ends of the Eurasian continent
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By: 本报记者 李心萍
Spring is the best time for plowing and planting. Spring plowing season is inseparable from the help of tractors. Among them, high-horsepower tractors are popular in the market due to their higher operating efficiency, operating quality, and economic benefits.
Recently, what new high-horsepower tractors have been put into use, what functions are equipped, and what difficulties need to be solved in innovative research and development? The reporter interviewed production enterprises and industry experts to see how domestically produced agricultural machinery can achieve new breakthroughs from three representative domestically produced high-horsepower tractors.
300 Horsepower Power Reversing Tractor
Achieves Mass Market Launch
"More than 40 units have been sold, and the estimated full-year shipment volume can reach hundreds of units." Wang Yuzhe (王裕喆), Minister of Product R&D Department of China Yituo (中国一拖) Big Tractor Company (大拖公司) of Sinomach Group (国机集团), was very proud when talking about the 300-horsepower power reversing tractor that was launched in batches this year.
High-horsepower tractors have obvious advantages in field operations. For example, a 100-horsepower tractor can generally only tow a rotary tiller that is 2-3 meters wide, while a 300-horsepower tractor can tow a combined tillage machine that is 8-12 meters wide. The wider width makes completing compound operations more efficient. For another example, under heavy loads, a 100-horsepower tractor has a speed of only 6-8 kilometers per hour, but a 300-horsepower tractor can maintain a speed of 9-12 kilometers per hour. "Under the same land conditions, the daily operating area of a 300-horsepower tractor is usually 3 to 4 times that of a 100-horsepower tractor," Wang Yuzhe (王裕喆) said. "For a 10,000-mu farm, this means that 3 days can complete 10 days of work." In addition, high-horsepower tractors also have advantages in terms of supporting compound machinery, operating quality, and continuity.
Because it involves more complex transmission designs, Chinese companies once felt that they could not reach the advanced level of foreign countries in developing high-horsepower tractors. Small-horsepower tractors have small power ranges and do not require multiple gears, so mechanical transmission is sufficient. High-horsepower tractors have large power ranges and complex operating conditions, so they need to be equipped with multi-gear heavy-duty transmissions, otherwise they will be difficult to operate. The most advanced power shift high-horsepower tractors have more than 50 gears.
Taking the wet multi-disc clutch, a core component of high-horsepower tractor transmissions, as an example, its electro-hydraulic control strategy, lubrication flow calculation and simulation, friction plate material and structural design all affect the smoothness of the whole machine's power reversing, the service life and reliability of the clutch, and related technologies are important trade secrets of each enterprise.
After years of tackling key problems, China Yituo (中国一拖) has overcome this difficult problem and developed a power shift transmission with independent intellectual property rights. After two years of field verification testing, the 300-horsepower power reversing tractor has achieved mass market launch. Power reversing and preliminary power shifting can be completed without stepping on the clutch to switch between forward and reverse and main gears. The operator only needs to press a button, making operation more convenient and comfortable.
"For a long time, my country imported thousands of tractors every year, mainly high-horsepower tractors." Wang Fengde (王锋德), a relevant person in charge of the China Agricultural Machinery Industry Association (中国农业机械工业协会), said that in 2025, my country imported less than 400 tractors, and domestic substitution is accelerating.
However, Wang Fengde (王锋德) also admitted that domestically produced high-horsepower tractors still need to be improved in terms of control accuracy and reliability. "For example, when the lifter is working with agricultural implements, the speed, accuracy, and static settling indicators are still different from international advanced levels." This involves both basic materials and manufacturing processes, and is also related to control strategies. "In particular, the accuracy of the assembly process largely depends on highly skilled talents, and it is necessary to accelerate the training of craftsman-type talents," Wang Yuzhe (王裕喆) said.
Parallel 300 Horsepower Hybrid Tractor
The Localization Rate of Key Components Exceeds 95%
Observing this year's agricultural machinery market, many large grain growers have begun to try hybrid tractors. The reasons for this are: first, policy guidance. So far, Jiangsu (江苏), Anhui (安徽), Xinjiang (新疆) and other places have issued relevant subsidy policies, and the subsidy amount in Jiangsu (江苏) can reach 175,000 yuan; second, comprehensive costs. Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Reclamation (农垦) testing shows that although the initial price is high, hybrid models have significant fuel savings and lower maintenance costs.
"Overall, domestic new energy agricultural machinery is in a period of rapid market introduction." Wang Fengde (王锋德) introduced that hybrid agricultural machinery can use electric motors to drive the walking system for stepless speed regulation, breaking away from the predicament of the immature stepless transmission system technology of high-horsepower agricultural machinery and achieving overtaking on a new track.
"Hybrid tractors mainly have two technical routes: series and parallel." Jiang Weijun (蒋伟俊), the technical person in charge of Jiangsu World Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (江苏沃得农业机械股份有限公司), introduced that the engine of the series type only operates as a "generator", burning fuel to generate electricity to drive the motor to work, and then drive the vehicle to walk and perform hydraulic operations; the engine and motor of the parallel type can drive the vehicle, and the system can intelligently switch the power source according to the working conditions.
This year, World Agricultural Machinery's (沃得农机) parallel 300-horsepower hybrid tractor achieved mass sales. Thanks to the spillover of new energy vehicle "three-electric" technology, the tractor has achieved independent control of core technology, and the domestic self-sufficiency rate of key components exceeds 95%. It is equipped with an electric drive stepless transmission hybrid system, which has high torque at low speeds and high transfer efficiency at high speeds, and can be competent for heavy-duty farmland operations such as plowing, deep loosening, sowing, and straw returning to the field.
"From generators, walking motors, high-voltage controllers, batteries to traveling reducers and front axles, there are mature and excellent suppliers in China," Jiang Weijun (蒋伟俊) said.
Series 350 Horsepower Hybrid Tractor
Sold to 8 Countries and Regions
In April last year, the Agricultural Mechanization General Station (农业机械化总站) of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) held a new energy tractor "field competition" in Xinjiang (新疆). In addition to traditional agricultural machinery companies, many construction machinery companies also participated.
How does construction machinery cross over to agricultural machinery?
The working conditions are very similar. Comparing tractors and loaders, the maximum driving speed is 40 kilometers per hour, the power range is almost the same, and the machine tool operations are controlled by hydraulics. This means that agricultural machinery can share manufacturing capabilities and use the same laboratories as construction machinery.
Technology can be transferred. Construction machinery has been developing new energy technology earlier, and hybrid and pure electric technologies have been at the forefront of the world. "From batteries and motors to electronic control, complete sets of technologies can be quickly transferred," said Jiang Renke (蒋仁科), general manager of Guangxi LiuGong Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. (广西柳工农业机械股份有限公司).
In that "field competition", LiuGong Agricultural Machinery's (柳工农机) series 350-horsepower hybrid tractor performed well.
One of the advantages is the high degree of intelligence. When a traditional tractor turns around, the operator needs to raise the agricultural implement, release the differential lock, brake, and shift gears, and then re-engage the gear, turn on the differential lock, lower the agricultural implement, and start the operation. The LiuGong (柳工) hybrid tractor is equipped with a headland assist management system. "The operator only needs to press the turning button, and the system automatically completes all actions," Jiang Renke (蒋仁科) introduced. Moreover, when braking, the tractor will automatically change from rear-wheel drive to four-wheel drive, and use the motor to reverse and recover electrical energy to improve braking comfort.
The second advantage is adapting to extreme working conditions. Relying on the R&D experience of construction machinery, before the product was launched, LiuGong (柳工) transported the hybrid tractor to Xinjiang (新疆), Qinghai (青海), Heilongjiang (黑龙江) and other provinces and even Indonesia (印度尼西亚) for verification, representing four typical working conditions: high temperature, high altitude, high cold, and high humidity. "The tractor must not be afraid of the high temperature of 40 degrees Celsius, but also resist the severe cold of minus 20 degrees Celsius, and also adapt to the oxygen-deficient environment and be corrosion-resistant," Jiang Renke (蒋仁科) said.
Relying on the relatively complete international sales and service network of construction machinery companies, LiuGong's (柳工) hybrid tractor has been targeting the international market since the project was established. In 2025, LiuGong Agricultural Machinery (柳工农机) has been sold to 8 countries and regions overseas.
"The development prospects of new energy agricultural machinery equipment are broad. It is estimated that a complete industrial chain will be formed in the next 5 years, and the overall pattern will be that medium and large agricultural machinery are mainly hybrid power, and small agricultural machinery are mainly pure electric," Wang Fengde (王锋德) said.
Return to TopThis newspaper Zhengzhou (郑州) March 29th (Reporter Cao Shulin (曹树林)) The 2026 China Internet Media Forum was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), from March 28th to 29th. This forum was jointly hosted by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), People's Daily (人民日报社), and the Cyberspace Administration of the Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委网信委), with the theme of "Leveraging the Guiding Force of Mainstream Media and Stimulating the Creativity of Diverse Entities - Jointly Creating a Prosperous Online Content Ecosystem."
On April 19, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) chaired a symposium on cybersecurity and informatization work and delivered an important speech. This forum systematically reviewed and summarized the extraordinary journey and fruitful achievements of online content construction over the past 10 years, exchanged and discussed the new situations and tasks currently facing us, and jointly planned new directions and paths for online content construction during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
The participating guests stated that 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and online media shoulders important responsibilities and missions. It is necessary to continuously strengthen mainstream public opinion, promote the strong voice of the times, build a concentric circle online and offline, and unite efforts to achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan." It is necessary to adhere to consolidating the foundation and cultivating vitality, leading the magnificent journey with ideological banners; adhere to striving for progress and goodness, cultivating the online space with mainstream values; adhere to upholding integrity and innovation, deeply cultivating digital intelligence technology with historical initiative; and adhere to the participation of all parties, prospering the online ecosystem with diverse entities.
The China Internet Media Forum is known as an "important window for observing the development trend of China's online media." At the opening ceremony of this forum, the annual major online theme publicity and major topic setting projects such as "Strong Military Moment," "Red Star Over China (红星照耀中国)," and "Writing the Chapter of Youth on the Land of the Motherland" were released. The online theme publicity activity "Looking at China in the Opening Year" was launched, and the results of the 2025 China Positive Energy Online Excellent Works Collection and Exhibition Activity were released.
From March 28th to 29th, the forum also held thematic activities such as "Positive Energy Creator Conference," "Digital Intelligence Empowering Positive Energy Production and Communication Conference," "The Road of Transformation: Innovative Practices of Online Media," "New Voices of Integrated Media: New Paths for Government and Enterprise New Media to Break Through and Win Hearts," "Telling Good Stories: From Empathetic Communication to Cultural Identity," and "Good Use and Good Governance: Standardized Development of AI Content."
Relevant departments from central and state organs, central news organizations, key central and local news websites, cyberspace administrations of provinces, autonomous regions, municipalities directly under the Central Government, and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团), heads of major commercial websites and internet companies, as well as industry experts, scholars, media reporters, and representatives from all walks of life attended the forum.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter: Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) recently approved and released "YD/T 6770—2026 Artificial Intelligence Key Basic Technology Embodied Intelligence Benchmark Testing Method," the first industry standard in the field of embodied intelligence. It will be officially implemented on June 1, marking a new stage in embodied intelligence evaluation with "standards to follow."
According to reports, the standard establishes a unified benchmark testing framework for the field of embodied intelligence, and standardizes the environmental settings, task library construction, testing process, and index calculation methods for conducting embodied intelligence benchmark tests in simulation and real environments. Currently, the standard is also simultaneously promoting the establishment of international standards.
Experts from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信通院) stated that a credible evaluation system is a bridge and yardstick connecting technological research and large-scale industrial applications. This standard will provide the industry with a unified technical specification framework and establish a foundation of mutual trust. At the technical research level, it will provide a unified measurement basis for the capability assessment of embodied intelligence, guide the direction of technology iteration, help the industry identify and converge on high-value technology routes early, and reduce ineffective investment of research and development resources. At the application implementation level, it will provide standard and normative support for industry users to carry out product selection and application verification, and avoid the market from experiencing the 劣币驱逐良币 (liè bì qū zhú liáng bì - "bad money drives out good," Gresham's Law, where bad money in circulation drives out good). At the industrial development level, it will accelerate the transition of embodied intelligence from the laboratory to real-world scenarios, and promote the engineering implementation and industrial application of embodied intelligence technology achievements.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)): Recently, the State Post Bureau (国家邮政局) and China Post Group Co., Ltd. (中国邮政集团有限公司) issued a notice to carry out a special pilot program of "Express Delivery to Villages" with postal universal service in the rural areas of central and western regions, laying the foundation for providing postal universal service on a regular basis nationwide.
The pilot program includes 17 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in the central and western regions, with one pilot county selected in each province. The notice clarifies the requirements for network access nodes, service standards, inquiry services, safety responsibilities, and application of laws and regulations. It supports the postal branches of relevant provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) to accelerate the efforts to make up for the shortcomings in rural service capabilities in the pilot counties, comprehensively improve the county's processing capabilities, introduce automated processing equipment, and promote the pilot application of unmanned vehicles, drones, and other technologies in rural areas; guide comprehensive postal and express logistics service stations at the village level to expand service functions and enhance the survival capabilities of village-level stations. The notice requires promoting the transportation of mail and express parcels by rural passenger vehicles, realizing resource sharing of "passenger transport routes + postal express delivery," building a three-level county-township-village integrated transportation service network for passenger, freight, and postal services, reducing rural last-mile delivery costs, and improving service coverage.
By 2025, the coverage rate of express delivery services in administrative villages will exceed 95%, the entry rate of directly-operated express delivery companies into villages will exceed 90%, the entry rate of franchised express delivery companies into villages will increase to 1/3, and the proportion of administrative villages with a mail delivery frequency of 5 times or more per week will reach 88.67%.
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"Taking steady steps forward, consolidating progress at each stage," Chinese-style modernization has entered a critical period of consolidating the foundation and fully exerting its strength.
Chinese-style modernization is socialist modernization led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), a major achievement of our Party leading the people in long-term exploration and practice. It is a broad road to building a strong country and national rejuvenation, opening up a new path for mankind towards modernization and creating a new form of human civilization. This is a historical conclusion and, even more so, a practical revelation.
This year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Red Army, and the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
The Five-Year Plan is like a ladder for undertakings, "climbing up step by step."
"Formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan is a national institutional arrangement and an important experience for the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in governing the country. It is also necessary to promote the implementation of the plan. A good plan and execution must be combined."
Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition at this year's National People's Congress (全国两会) profoundly reveals the historical, theoretical, and practical logic of why the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is capable, why Marxism works, and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good.
As the world's second-largest economy, China's economy grew at an average annual rate of 5.4% during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, significantly higher than the global average growth rate. This year's "Government Work Report" set the economic growth target at 4.5%-5%, while emphasizing "striving for better results in actual work."
"The Chinese economy has achieved resilient growth in the face of multiple challenges," said Robert Lawrence Kuhn, chairman of the Kuhn Foundation (库恩基金会) in the United States, "The entire world will be profoundly affected as China moves towards its new development goals."
"China's development not only provides an important reference for the Global South countries but also contributes to promoting a more just and reasonable global governance system," said Marc Segura, former Executive Vice President of Électricité de France (法国电力集团).
In today's world full of uncertainty, global investors' desire for certainty is unprecedented, forming a new consensus on China becoming a "key driver" of global stability.
Grasping the "momentum of the market" and jointly seeking "opportunities for the future," more and more international people are looking for opportunities and hope from China, while also solving a deeper proposition - why can China always inject certainty and positive energy into the world?
The theory of Chinese-style modernization is the answer and also the key.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大), socialism with Chinese characteristics has entered a new era.
Having gone through a century of struggle and achieved the first centenary goal, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has united and led the entire Party and the people of all ethnic groups across the country, embarked on a new journey of building a socialist modern country in all respects, and marched towards the second centenary goal!
The new journey requires new theoretical guidance. Xi Jinping (习近平) summarized and elaborated on the theory of Chinese-style modernization in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), which is the latest achievement of scientific socialism and a major innovation in the theory and practice of world modernization, with milestone significance in the history of human civilization.
"To complete the economic and social development goals and tasks of the '15th Five-Year Plan', we need to cope with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions." "We must make efforts to study new situations, solve new problems, and gain experience." At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) deliberated deeply and far-sightedly from the strategic height of the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization.
The theory of Chinese-style modernization is systematic, complete, and profound, requiring us to deeply study and understand its truth power and the great power it radiates in practice.
In-depth elaboration of the new development concept to solve the problem of unbalanced and inadequate development; creatively proposing the theory of new quality productive forces to solve the problem of promoting high-quality and sustainable development; proposing to improve the new national system under the conditions of the socialist market economy to solve the "bottleneck" problem and better play the advantages of the system; making the strategic decision to build a new development pattern to solve the problem of development security and stability...
Understanding and grasping from the dimension of these "four news" can lead to a deeper understanding of why the theory of Chinese-style modernization works and a better understanding of why China will surely succeed.
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Implementing the new development concept, guiding and promoting quality change, efficiency change, and power change, is a major guiding principle for China's modernization construction.
"Implementing the new development concept is the only way for China to grow and strengthen in the new era." In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的二十大), Xi Jinping (习近平) highly summarized the "five musts" as "the most important regular understanding we have gained in long-term practice."
Shibadong Village (十八洞村) in Xiangxi (湘西), Hunan (湖南), the first place to advocate "targeted poverty alleviation," two folk songs portray the past and present.
Once, "Three gullies and two forks in the remote mountains, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and corn cakes; if you want to eat a meal of rice, unless you are sick and have a baby." Now, "The Miao (苗) people live in a gold and silver nest, with abundant green mountains and clear waters; water and electricity are connected, and everyone lives a good life."
A village reflects the value demands of the new development concept.
The new era is a new historical orientation for China's development. Xi Jinping (习近平) made a major judgment: "At present, the main social contradiction in our country has been transformed into the contradiction between the people's growing needs for a better life and unbalanced and inadequate development, and the contradictions and problems in development are concentrated in the quality of development."
The new development concept has become the key to solving the main social contradictions in our country.
"The understanding that is not adapted, unsuitable, or even violates the new development concept should be adjusted immediately, the behavior that is not adapted, unsuitable, or even violates the new development concept should be resolutely corrected, and the practices that are not adapted, unsuitable, or even violate the new development concept should be completely abandoned."
The new development concept has become the command stick and traffic light for promoting high-quality economic and social development in the new era.
Emphasizing "sharing," poverty alleviation work teams are stationed in villages to help, and returning talents return to their hometowns to start businesses; promoting "coordination," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) and surrounding villages jointly plan, share opportunities, and work together to become rich... In this profound change of implementing the new development concept that "relates to the overall situation of China's development," Shibadong Village (十八洞村) has not only ushered in spring but has also "grown up."
Antonio Segura, Vice President of the Spanish Sinology Forum Foundation (西班牙知华讲堂基金会) and human rights expert. After exploring Shibadong Village (十八洞村) on the ground, he came to a profound understanding: "China's poverty reduction is by no means a matter of overnight success, but a continuation and deepening of the ruling philosophy that has always been people-centered."
Promoting the increase of per capita life expectancy to 80 years old, supporting the construction of 1,000 close-knit county medical communities... Through the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, we can better feel the mutual promotion of the new development concept leading high-quality development and high-quality development empowering high-quality life.
Committed to "allowing the fruits of modernization construction to benefit all the people more and more fairly," Chinese-style modernization "has the most reliable, deepest, and most lasting source of power."
A river of clear water witnesses the transformative power of the new development concept.
Adhering to "jointly grasping major protection and not engaging in large-scale development" and "taking the road of ecological priority and green development," taking innovation as the lead, opening up space with openness, and strengthening policy coordination and work coordination, the proportion of excellent water quality in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) has increased from 67% to 96.5% in the past 10 years, the regional GDP has more than doubled, and the per capita disposable income of residents has increased by 91%.
From "seriously ill" to "clear water and fish leaping," from extensive development to high-quality development, protection and development resonate at the same frequency. The change in the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) in the new era is reshaping the concept and correcting the view of political achievements.
Xia Zexiang, Director of the UNESCO (联合国教科文组织) East Asia Regional Office, who has long been concerned about China's water management exploration, said: "China is like a thick book on 'water and civilization,' and every page has experience and wisdom worth learning from the world."
As early as during his work in Zhejiang (浙江), Xi Jinping (习近平) clearly put forward the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" ("绿水青山就是金山银山") ("Two Mountains" theory), pointing out that "we cannot blindly develop, pollute the environment, and leave a heavy burden for future generations."
The "Ecological Environment Code of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国生态环境法典), which was passed on March 12 and implemented on August 15, has consolidated the legal foundation for the sustainable development of the Chinese nation and provided important guidance for global ecological governance.
From ideological leadership to legal escort, China has lit up a bright light of wisdom for global green development. International people believe that "China is becoming a leader on the road to promoting the transformation of global ecological civilization."
"Innovation has become the primary driving force, coordination has become an inherent characteristic, green has become a universal form, openness has become the only way, and sharing has become the fundamental purpose." Comprehensively and accurately implementing the new development concept and accelerating the transformation of development mode and the optimization of economic structure, China has embarked on a high-quality and sustainable development path.
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Developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions guides the mastery of the historical initiative of the development of the Party and the country's cause in moving towards the new and the superior, and provides a strong impetus for Chinese-style modernization.
Economics is generally developed in solving practical problems.
"The characteristic is innovation, the key is quality, and the essence is advanced productive forces." The theory of new quality productive forces is proposed for the first time in the history of human economic thought.
With a large economic volume, one journey after another, forward development requires new theoretical guidance and greater impetus. To "always maintain the role of a tide-setter in the tide of the modern economy," we must further enhance the competitiveness and sustainability of China's development.
"Developing new quality productive forces is crucial to promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness." At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Xi Jinping (习近平) made new guidance on the development of new quality productive forces, and the strategic direction is very clear.
We might as well observe from the construction of a modern industrial system.
Optimize and upgrade traditional industries to consolidate the foundation of the real economy. In Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), ten-thousand-ton container ships independently enter berths; in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), the "digital twin market" grasps the dynamics of the global supply chain... "Developing new quality productive forces is not ignoring or abandoning traditional industries." Using new technologies to transform and upgrade traditional industries, intelligentization, greening, and integration have unlimited potential.
Cultivate and strengthen emerging industries to activate strong momentum. In Beijing (北京), the commercial aerospace industry has exceeded 260 billion yuan; in Guangdong (广东), the annual output of industrial robots exceeds 330,000 units... From "upstairs and downstairs" is "upstream and downstream" to "off the bookshelf and onto the shelf," "promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation," new quality productive forces are "accelerating."
Advance layout of future industries to seize future development opportunities. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to promote quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communication to become new economic growth points. These are typical representatives of future industries and key areas for reshaping the global economic landscape.
Wolfram Elsner, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Bremen (不来梅大学) in Germany, believes that for German industry and commerce, China is not only the largest trading partner but also a "training ground" for production and research and development and the location of the future of technology.
From the country with the most complete industrial categories to "in recent years, China's economy has been weathering storms, maintaining strong resilience and vitality, and the strategic support is a complete industrial system," practice has proved that "this road is right."
From this, we more deeply understand why the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline places the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions in a more prominent strategic position and puts the construction of a modern industrial system in the first place of various strategic tasks.
New quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces. Solving ecological and environmental problems, green and low-carbon development is the fundamental solution.
The proportion of non-fossil energy consumption increased from 16% in 2020 to more than 20% in 2025. China is not only one of the major economies with the fastest economic growth but also one of the countries with the fastest decline in global energy consumption intensity.
During his first local inspection after this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北), emphasizing the development of new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions and cultivating a modern industrial system that meets the actual conditions of the new area.
Taking scientific and technological innovation as the lead and the real economy as the foundation, accelerating the construction of a modern industrial system, accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of the development mode, and continuously enhancing the potential and stamina for development.
Under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, especially the theory of new quality productive forces, China is developing new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, and new industries, new business forms, and new models are emerging, and the economic innovation and competitiveness are constantly enhanced. Chinese-style modernization is advancing steadily. Thomas Friedman, a well-known American media person, wrote that "he saw the future in China."
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The new national system is an important way to give play to the institutional advantages of concentrating efforts to do big things under the conditions of the socialist market economy, and it is crucial for China to accelerate the construction of a scientific and technological power.
"Our socialist system can concentrate efforts to do big things is an important magic weapon for us to achieve our cause. Many of our major scientific and technological achievements have been achieved by relying on this magic weapon, and we must not lose it!" Xi Jinping's (习近平) words are sonorous and powerful.
Artificial intelligence, the "key variable" in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation, is an important window to observe the advantages of China's new national system.
"China will become the largest market for robots, but can our technology and manufacturing capabilities cope with this competition? We must not only improve the level of our robots but also occupy as much of the market as possible."
In June 2014, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), focusing on the overall situation, made a preemptive move, "There are many such new technologies and new fields, and we must assess the situation, consider the overall situation, seize the time to plan, and promote it in a solid manner."
"Accelerating the development of a new generation of artificial intelligence is an important strategic grasp for us to win the initiative in global scientific and technological competition, and it is an important strategic resource for promoting the leapfrog development of science and technology, the optimization and upgrading of industries, and the overall leap in productivity in our country."
In October 2018, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a forward-looking layout from the height of "strategic issues": "Promote its deep integration with economic and social development and promote the healthy development of a new generation of artificial intelligence in our country."
"The degree of technological breakthrough largely determines the speed, breadth, and depth of future industrial development."
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "We must give full play to the advantages of the new national system, adhere to 'industry posing questions and technology answering questions,' increase the efforts to tackle key core technologies in key areas, strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and accelerate the transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements."
Along the thread of thought, "artificial intelligence" has entered the national top-level strategy, has been continuously written into 3 five-year plan outlines, and has grown vigorously in practice, becoming the core engine driving the new industrialization.
Promulgating and implementing the "New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Plan" ("新一代人工智能发展规划") and the "Guiding Opinions on Innovative Development of Humanoid Robots" ("人形机器人创新发展指导意见")... Top-level design has played a "combination punch," and policy implementation has accelerated.
From the innovation-driven development strategy of the "13th Five-Year Plan" to the acceleration of the construction of a scientific and technological power in the "14th Five-Year Plan," and then to the acceleration of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement in the "15th Five-Year Plan," China has firmly grasped the lifeline of science and technology in its own hands.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" has many highlights in scientific and technological development, and China's computing power scale has grown at an average annual rate of 30%. In 2025, the scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry will exceed 1.2 trillion yuan.
Through the "Artificial Intelligence + Manufacturing" special action, fully releasing the "scenario dividend" of the world's most complete industrial system, China is not only firmly in the first echelon of global artificial intelligence development but also has embarked on a new path in empowering new quality productive forces and promoting scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
The number of top 100 innovation clusters has been the first in the world for 3 consecutive years, and China is the first country in the world with more than 5 million valid domestic invention patents. UN Under-Secretary-General Guy Ryder believes that "China, which has entered a 'period of innovation explosion,' is reshaping the world's scientific and technological landscape."
"Practice has proved that 'strangling our necks' cannot be strangled."
From following to running side by side and leading, from missing the scientific and technological revolution to becoming a pioneer in the scientific and technological revolution, how did China turn the "impossible" into "certainly possible"?
From following, to running alongside, to leading; from missing the boat on the technological revolution to becoming a pioneer of it, how has China turned the "impossible" into "definitely possible"?
The BeiDou system overcame more than 160 key technologies and achieved domestic production of over 500 core components, thanks to the dedicated participation of more than 400 institutions and 300,000 scientific and technological personnel...
The advantages of the new type of national system lie in the guidance of the Party's innovative theories in the new era, excelling in the illuminating power of thought;
The advantages lie in the Party Central Committee's centralized and unified leadership over scientific and technological work, excelling in fully leveraging the Party's core leadership role;
The advantages lie in fully mobilizing the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of all parties, excelling in top-down coherence, lateral coordination, and synergistic efficiency;
The advantages lie in fully leveraging the decisive role of the market in the allocation of scientific and technological resources and better leveraging the role of the government in all aspects, excelling in the synergistic efforts of an enabling government and an effective market.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines a series of major strategic tasks in 16 aspects and identifies 109 major projects. How can we promote decisive breakthroughs in tackling key core technologies?
Adhering to a systematic approach, consciously acting under the overall situation, improving the new type of national system, uniting the government, the market, and society into one rope, deeply integrating and efficiently allocating the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, collaboratively tackling challenges across fields and disciplines, and enhancing the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system will surely promote the production of more iconic original achievements.
A foreign political figure pointed out: "Under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the Chinese (中国) government and people have established a political system that can guarantee stable development for all."
Institutional advantages are an important advantage for a country to gain strategic initiative.
By fully utilizing the "four major advantages" such as the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, and continuously transforming institutional advantages into governance effectiveness and development advantages, we will not only enhance the country's hard power but also continuously improve the country's soft power.
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Building a new development pattern is a strategic deployment to grasp the initiative in future development and has become the path choice for China's (中国) economic modernization.
"Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern is to enhance our survival, competitiveness, development, and sustainability in the face of all kinds of foreseeable and unforeseeable storms and waves, and to ensure that the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) is not delayed or even interrupted."
As the century-long changes accelerate and geopolitical conflicts occur frequently, hundreds of millions of people have more truly realized the insight and foresight of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) in making the strategic concept of a new development pattern during his local inspection in early 2020.
Today's China (中国) has a "uniquely beautiful scenery here," bringing lasting confidence and hope to the world with the certainty and stability of high-quality development and with the determination and confidence of openness and inclusiveness. An important aspect lies in the Party Central Committee's good start and proactive efforts, adhering to "strengthening internal skills and making ourselves stronger."
Let's start with the story of the automotive industry.
"Developing new energy vehicles is the only way for China (中国) to move from a big automobile country to a strong automobile country." Under the current international situation, the strategic significance of China's (中国) development of new energy vehicles is even more prominent.
In 2025, the production and sales of new energy vehicles will reach 16.626 million and 16.49 million respectively, an increase of 29% and 28.2% year-on-year, ranking first in the world for 11 consecutive years.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China (中国) built the world's largest electric vehicle charging network, with the number of charging stations already three times that of gas stations. It is estimated that by 2030, the number of electric vehicles in the country is expected to reach 80 million, saving more than 120 million tons of oil annually, which is three times the current annual oil and gas production of Daqing Oilfield (大庆油田).
Grasping that "the most essential feature of building a new development pattern is to achieve a high level of self-reliance and self-improvement," we will promote continuous breakthroughs in core technologies such as batteries, motors, and electronic controls. In 2025, the six major Chinese (中国) companies will account for 70.4% of the global power battery installed capacity.
Grasping that "forming a strong domestic market is an important support for building a new development pattern," we will adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus. From 2024 to 2025, China (中国) will achieve the replacement of 18.3 million old cars with new ones. The cumulative sales of new energy vehicles in rural areas have reached approximately 15 million in 5 years.
Grasping that "the key to building a new development pattern lies in achieving smooth economic circulation," we will revise the Anti-Monopoly Law and the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, abolish 4,218 policy measures that hinder the flow of factors, and rectify the "involutionary" competition in the automotive field...
"Only by basing ourselves on our own efforts, smoothing out the domestic cycle, and striving to forge a body that is immune to all poisons and indestructible, can we survive and develop with vitality regardless of international changes, and no one can defeat us or stifle us!"
In the face of tariff wars and trade wars, the new development pattern has built "China's (中国) determination" and demonstrated "hardcore strength."
A strong domestic market is the strategic support for Chinese-style modernization. Domestic demand has become the main driving force and stabilizing anchor of China's (中国) economic growth, with an average contribution rate of 86.8% from 2021 to 2024.
An open China (中国) is more confident and composed.
"Taking the domestic cycle as the main body is by no means closing the door and operating in isolation."
"Building it into an important gateway leading China's (中国) new era of opening up to the outside world," the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自贸港) is anchoring this strategic goal and standing on a new starting point of "high-standard construction."
Recently, Hainan (海南) released its "report card" for the first 100 days of the customs closure: the number of newly added foreign-funded enterprises increased by 33.5%, foreign trade import and export increased by 32.9%, and people from 86 countries can enter Hainan (海南) visa-free, with the number of visa-free inbound tourists increasing by 53.6%.
By both deepening the opening up of commodity and factor flows and steadily expanding institutional opening up, the flow of people, logistics, and capital is accelerating, the potential for internal and external connections is stronger, and new spaces for high-level opening up and high-quality development are continuously expanding.
Relying on the domestic super-large market and facing ASEAN and global emerging markets, the strategic potential of the international economic and trade "super connector" is being released.
From the continuous shortening of the negative list for market access to the iterative brilliance of grand events such as the China International Import Expo (进博会), the China International Supply Chain Expo (链博会), the China International Fair for Trade in Services (服贸会), and the Canton Fair (广交会), and then to the 22 free trade pilot zones building a "goose array" covering the east, west, north, and south...
"The smoother the domestic cycle, the more it can form an attraction field for global resource factors, the more conducive it is to building a new development pattern with the domestic cycle as the main body and the domestic and international dual cycles promoting each other, and the more conducive it is to forming new advantages in participating in international competition and cooperation."
Promoting reform and development through opening up is an important magic weapon for China's (中国) modernization construction to continuously achieve new achievements.
Former World Bank economist Mwangi Wachira said: Accelerating the construction of a new development pattern enhances the resilience and security of China's (中国) economic system in a complex external environment and also creates new opportunities for South-South cooperation.
Today's China (中国) has a large population, a large market, a complete industry, and strong development momentum. Its position in the global industrial chain and supply chain is irreplaceable. This is the foundation for economic endogenous growth and independent development.
Consolidate security in development and seek development in security.
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Historical development has its laws. Following the path and conforming to the trend can lead to better progress.
Creating world-renowned "two miracles" in the space-time compression of "completing hundreds of years in a few decades," Chinese-style modernization has become "the only correct path for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation."
From "the Chinese nation (中华民族) falling into the abyss of near national subjugation and extinction" to "the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) showing unprecedented bright prospects," Chinese (中国) Communists have historically shouldered the heavy responsibility of exploring modernization, always grasping historical laws and mastering historical initiative, and have become an important force in promoting the positive evolution and benign interaction of the "two overall situations."
From "irreversible" to "**势不可挡** (shì bù kě dǎng - "the trend is unstoppable," an irresistible force or trend)," the "Two Establishments" (两个确立) fundamentally ensure that the historical trend of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) rolls forward, which is of decisive significance for us to cope with various risks and challenges and promote Chinese-style modernization on the new journey.
The world exclaims: "Today's China (中国) is tomorrow's world."
Chairman of the Hungarian Workers' Party, Thürmer Gyula (蒂尔默), believes: "A China (中国) with clear planning, clear goals, and continuous openness is a blessing for China (中国) and a blessing for the world."
"Promoting Chinese-style modernization is a long-term task, and there are still many things that we need to deepen our understanding of." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition profoundly demonstrates the strategic clarity, strategic confidence, and strategic initiative of Chinese (中国) Communists—
"We must further strengthen theoretical research and practical exploration so that our understanding, policies, and measures are more in line with objective laws, so as to gradually enter the 'free kingdom' of Chinese-style modernization construction."
"The whole Party must realize that doing a good job in economic and social development during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period is of great and far-reaching significance for realizing the grand blueprint outlined by the 20th National Congress of the Party, promoting Chinese-style modernization in stages and steps... and laying a more solid foundation for basically realizing socialist modernization."
The new journey is a new Long March. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, and under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) theory of Chinese-style modernization, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation (中华民族) is unstoppable, and Chinese-style modernization will surely succeed.
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"Countries should not isolate themselves from each other because of differences. Open dialogue and open cooperation, sitting down to resolve differences, this is what President Xi Jinping (习近平) has always firmly advocated." Irina Bokova, former Director-General of UNESCO, reviewing her career, believes that President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to UNESCO headquarters in 2014 was the most memorable. "President Xi Jinping (习近平) is not only a visionary leader guiding China's development, but also a visionary who is drawing a blueprint for world development."
Bokova served as Director-General of UNESCO from 2009 to 2017, and was the first female Director-General of the organization. On March 27, 2014, President Xi Jinping (习近平) delivered an important speech at UNESCO headquarters in Paris. "That was a moment of great pride for UNESCO, because we were the first UN specialized agency that President Xi Jinping (习近平) visited and delivered an important speech." Recalling the scene at the time, Bokova is still excited, "The lecture hall was full that day, and everyone was eagerly awaiting the arrival of President Xi Jinping (习近平)."
Accompanied by Bokova, President Xi Jinping (习近平) entered the lecture hall, and the audience stood up to welcome him. In his speech, President Xi Jinping (习近平) comprehensively and profoundly elaborated on his views and propositions on civilization exchange and mutual learning, emphasizing that different civilizations should respect each other and coexist harmoniously, so that civilization exchange and mutual learning can become a bridge to enhance the friendship between people of all countries, a driving force to promote the progress of human society, and a bond to maintain world peace.
"UNESCO has made unremitting efforts to enhance mutual understanding and trust among the people of the world and promote exchanges and mutual learning among different civilizations. The content of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) speech is highly consistent with UNESCO's mission." Bokova said, "I think the core message conveyed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is to let people seek wisdom and draw nourishment from different civilizations, provide people with spiritual support and spiritual comfort, and work together to solve the various challenges facing humanity."
On the same day, President Xi Jinping (习近平) met with Bokova. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) profound knowledge of Chinese history and civilization, as well as his broad attention to issues such as cultural heritage and intercultural dialogue, left a deep impression on Bokova. Bokova said: "This stems from China's firm inheritance of ancient civilization. As Director-General of UNESCO, I was deeply touched."
Subsequent meetings and exchanges allowed Bokova to have a deeper understanding of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) philosophy of governing the country. "China's achievement in eliminating absolute poverty is shocking. In recent years, the well-being of the Chinese people in many fields such as education, medical care, and housing has been significantly improved. President Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the people, which is of great exemplary significance to the world."
Civilization dialogue is an important driving force for the progress of human civilization. "The Global Civilization Initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is the closest to my work." Bokova said that the Global Civilization Initiative emphasizes the role of culture in promoting sustainable development, encourages dialogue between different civilizations, and promotes a deeper understanding and appreciation between civilizations. "Without culture, we would lose the power to unite people and respect each other. Culture is identity, history, our pride, and an important bridge to enhance mutual understanding." In Bokova's view, it is not surprising that countries have competition and differences in the economic and other fields. The key is to resolve them through dialogue and consultation. Promoting dialogue and exchange between different civilizations requires more open platforms, and promoting youth exchanges is particularly critical. "President Xi Jinping's (习近平) advocacy of youth exchanges between China and the United States and between China and Europe is a concrete measure to promote civilization dialogue, which is of great significance." Bokova said.
Today's world faces multiple risks and challenges, and global protectionism is constantly rising. Bokova saw President Xi Jinping's (习近平) responsibility in leading China's high-level opening up to the outside world. "I still remember that at the opening ceremony of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in 2017, President Xi Jinping (习近平) said in his keynote speech that if China's economy is to develop, it must dare to swim in the vast ocean of the world market. If it never dares to experience wind and rain and see the world in the sea, it will one day drown in the sea." In Bokova's view, this metaphor vividly demonstrated to the world China's attitude of adhering to openness and cooperation.
Bokova said that at present, multilateralism and the work of the United Nations are facing unprecedented challenges, and she deeply agrees with the global governance initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). "The global governance initiative proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平) is not a call for people to start all over again, but to firmly support the United Nations and think about how to promote the reform and development of the United Nations and related institutions." Bokova said, "We need to actively respond to challenges, promote reforms, and implement agendas, but reform does not mean overthrowing the existing system. We need more active and constructive solutions, and we need true multilateralism."
Bokova firmly believes that the cooperation between the United Nations and China will become closer under the leadership of President Xi Jinping (习近平). "China is a firm supporter of multilateralism. I hope the world can usher in a brighter future, and the close cooperation between China and the United Nations will provide a solid guarantee for this." She said, "I also look forward to seeing more international cooperation in the fields of culture and education, because this will create conditions for deepening cooperation in other fields. Without these, we cannot achieve economic development, social inclusion, and it will be even more difficult to deal with the current complex international situation."
Return to TopA China that continues to exert effort in original innovation, constantly accelerates industrial transformation, and actively acts in open cooperation will bring the world "cooler" technologies and broader opportunities.
At the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (2026中关村论坛) Annual Meeting held recently, Kevin Kelly, founding editor-in-chief of the international science and technology magazine *Wired*, said that China is at the forefront of the development of many technologies such as artificial intelligence and is expected to become a benchmark that the world yearns for and is truly "cool." This observation from the industry expresses the sincere feelings of all parties about the new atmosphere of China's development—China's scientific and technological innovation is injecting new impetus into global scientific and technological innovation with a "cool" and leading attitude.
The "coolness" lies in the innovative spirit of "daring to be the first in the world." Some time ago, when some people in the international community talked about Chinese innovation, they habitually labeled it as an "imitator." In recent years, from new energy vehicles leading the world to artificial intelligence large models stunning the world; from Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) bringing back lunar samples to refresh human understanding of the moon, to the "world's strongest" carbon fiber breaking through the technological barriers of high-end materials, more and more "Chinese creations" are filling the gaps in global scientific and technological innovation. The continuous emergence of innovative achievements stems from the long-term accumulation of knowledge. Continuous increase in R&D investment, steady expansion of the talent pool, and persistent efforts to tackle key core technologies have made one breakthrough after another from "0 to 1" a natural result. A British media outlet observed that the right to define "originality" is quietly shifting eastward, and Western companies now need to catch up with China's pace in innovation, production, and standard application.
The "coolness" lies in the accessible application and popularization. At the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum (2026中关村论坛) Annual Meeting, "swarm intelligence" showed its unique abilities: robots "grouping" to open a bar, robotic arms plucking strings to play the piano and threading needles, AR (augmented reality) translation glasses real-time translating more than 100 languages and dialects... The participating guests exclaimed that "the technology is very mature and has entered a stage of widespread application." China has the world's largest, most complete, and most comprehensive manufacturing system, coupled with massive and diverse application scenarios nurtured by a super-large market, which means that once a technology is verified as feasible, it can often quickly complete iterative optimization, scenario adaptation, and scale manufacturing. Rapidly transforming "1" in the laboratory into "100" in daily life, and deeply integrating "high-precision" scientific and technological achievements with "down-to-earth" application scenarios, is a distinct characteristic of China's scientific and technological innovation.
The "coolness" lies in the inclusive mind of promoting sharing through openness. Scientific and technological progress is a global and epochal issue, and only open cooperation is the right path. When individual countries build "small yards and high walls" and try to monopolize competitive advantages through technological blockade, China has always adhered to its original intention of open cooperation and has embarked on a new path of eliminating gaps through open source and achieving win-win results through sharing. Chinese photovoltaic products have entered Pakistan (巴基斯坦) to meet the rigid demand for household electricity for local people, help agricultural production, and empower small business operations; Beidou (北斗) applications have been implemented in Sri Lanka (斯里兰卡) to accurately monitor weather changes and greatly improve the efficiency of fishermen's operations; ten major scientific research infrastructures have been opened to the world for sharing, turning independently developed "national heavyweights" into public products that benefit the world... Chinese practice shows that the true value of scientific and technological innovation lies not in allowing a few countries to monopolize advantages, but in allowing more people to enjoy the benefits of technological progress and promoting global common development through technological benefits.
Looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China's scientific and technological innovation blueprint is clearly laid out: accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, and lead the development of new quality productive forces; strengthen original innovation and key core technology breakthroughs, and strengthen the scientific and technological layout in strategic frontier areas; deepen and expand "Artificial Intelligence +," and improve the level of digital and intelligent development; build a new pattern of high-level scientific and technological open cooperation... A China that continues to exert effort in original innovation, constantly accelerates industrial transformation, and actively acts in open cooperation will bring the world "cooler" technologies and broader opportunities.
Working together to build an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory global scientific and technological development environment, and transforming the "coolness" of scientific and technological innovation into the common well-being of all mankind, is China's firm choice and the only way for all countries to achieve common prosperity.
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"The '15th Five-Year Plan' outlines a grand blueprint for China's development in the next five years, and also brings new opportunities for cooperation to countries around the world." Abid Suleri (阿比德·苏莱里), Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (可持续发展政策研究所) of Pakistan, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter a few days ago that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will pay more attention to high-quality development, and the level of self-reliance in science and technology will be greatly improved. The vast number of developing countries, including Pakistan (巴基斯坦), look forward to further achieving win-win cooperation with China.
"I often read books about China and pay close attention to news related to China." Suleri (苏莱里) said that the "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines the main goals and major tasks of China's development in the next five years. He learned about the relevant content through the Internet as soon as possible, and "high-quality development" is one of the keywords he is concerned about. "As a major manufacturing country, many Chinese companies are transforming and upgrading from 'Made in China' to 'Intelligent Manufacturing in China,' and the level of intelligence in manufacturing and supply chains is constantly improving, injecting a continuous endogenous impetus into high-quality development." Suleri (苏莱里) said that China's robotics and health industries will usher in profound changes, and the spillover effects will benefit more countries and people. In addition, China has achieved rapid development in new energy vehicles, solar cells and other fields, and its technologies and products continue to go to overseas markets, empowering many countries in the world to transform their energy and achieve sustainable development.
"The 'Belt and Road' Initiative (一带一路) and the four global initiatives will be further deepened and implemented during the '15th Five-Year Plan' period." Suleri (苏莱里) said that Pakistan (巴基斯坦) and China (中国) have a brotherly and profound friendship, and China's implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" will bring more development opportunities to Pakistan (巴基斯坦). "Pakistan (巴方) is willing to learn from China's advanced production technologies and concepts. There are many industrial parks invested by Chinese companies in Punjab Province (旁遮普省) of Pakistan (巴基斯坦), covering automobiles, electrical appliance manufacturing and other fields. China (中国) is the world's second largest consumer market, and Pakistan's soybeans, beef and other agricultural products, as well as salt lamps, carpets and other handicrafts, can attract more consumers with the help of the Chinese market."
Since serving as the Executive Director of the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (可持续发展政策研究所) in 2007, Suleri (苏莱里) has visited China (中国) many times to participate in conferences and conduct research, leading the institute to carry out exchanges and cooperation with Chinese counterparts in agriculture, green development, and high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路). "I go to China (中国) almost every year to feel China's development achievements and learn from China's development experience." Suleri (苏莱里) said that the Five-Year Plan keeps China's development stable. This idea of guiding economic and social development with medium- and long-term plans can ensure the effective mobilization of various resources and the gathering of all forces in the process of plan implementation.
"With the start of the '15th Five-Year Plan,' I believe that China's development goals and visions will gradually become a reality and create greater and more development opportunities for the world." Suleri (苏莱里) said, "China (中国) is an important engine of global development, and seizing the opportunity to cooperate with China (中国) means seizing the future."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
Whenever the train pulls into Luang Prabang station, Li Shanshan (李姗姗), the train conductor of the Vientiane Center Station of Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (老中铁路有限公司), always checks her watch. From Vientiane (万象), Laos, to Luang Prabang (琅勃拉邦), the journey only takes 1 hour and 45 minutes.
"In the past, it took us five or six hours to drive from Vientiane to Luang Prabang, and the road was not good. After the opening of the railway from Vientiane to Kunming (昆明), there is no need to worry about being 人在囧途 (rén zài jiǒng tú - "people in awkward journey," a difficult or embarrassing situation during travel)," Li Shanshan said with a smile.
On December 3, 2021, the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) was opened for operation. In order to operate and maintain the China-Laos Railway well, China Railway Kunming Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路昆明局集团有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "CR Kunming Group (国铁昆明局)") has sent more than 700 professionals to Laos (老挝) and trained hundreds of Lao railway employees and professional and technical personnel. Li Shanshan is one of them.
In June 2021, after graduating from Guangxi Normal University for Nationalities (广西民族师范学院), Li Shanshan returned to Laos. She happened to catch up with Laos-China Railway Co., Ltd. (老中铁路有限公司), which is responsible for the railway operation in Laos, recruiting Lao attendants. Li Shanshan was deeply impressed by the fast and safe bullet trains during her study in China, so she immediately signed up. "This is the first bullet train line in Laos, and it is a proud thing to be able to join it." With her experience of studying in China, she was successfully selected, but soon encountered difficulties. "The railway professional training is conducted in Chinese, and many professional terms are my first contact. I can't read them, and I don't know what they mean." In the first few business exams, her results were not ideal.
As the Chinese train conductor sent to Laos by CR Kunming Group (国铁昆明局), Han Jialing (韩家玲) is responsible for the training of Li Shanshan and other 5 Lao flight attendant trainees. In order to enable Lao attendants to quickly master professional knowledge, Han Jialing patiently guided them to learn Chinese, while actively learning Lao language, and strived to explain the obscure professional terms clearly.
"Emergency brake valve, you can brake in time in case of emergency. Window breaker, can only be used in case of emergency..." Li Shanshan's notebook is densely filled with Han Jialing's teaching content, in addition to railway operation procedures, there are etiquette services and so on.
With Han Jialing's careful guidance, Li Shanshan made rapid progress. After work, the master and apprentice of similar age became good friends.
Half a year of training passed in a flash. On December 4, 2021, the second day of the opening of the China-Laos Railway, Li Shanshan participated in the duty mission for the first time as a flight attendant, "I was very nervous at the time, and my mind was blank when I saw the bustling passengers." Li Shanshan recalled that Han Jialing came over at this time and said softly: "Don't be nervous, follow me, I will show you." "Check the luggage rack, the suitcase should be placed horizontally, and the wheels should not be exposed" "The water heater is at the connection of the carriage, remember to tell the Lao passengers how to use it"... Li Shanshan's nervous mood was gradually relieved by Han Jialing's guidance, and those learned operation procedures gradually became clear in her mind.
Time flies, and Li Shanshan's business ability is becoming more and more mature. In September 2024, Li Shanshan was promoted to train conductor, completing the transformation from a railway newcomer to a business backbone. Soon, she ushered in a test. On November 24 of the same year, a Chinese passenger suddenly felt unwell on the train with a body temperature of 39 degrees Celsius. Li Shanshan followed the emergency plan, took the antipyretic medicine commonly available on the train, assisted the passenger in taking the medicine, and looked for medical personnel on the train through broadcasting. After doing all this, she immediately contacted the ambulance to go to the nearest station to send the passenger to the doctor. After the passenger recovered, he specially sent a pennant. The pennant read "Caring for passengers to extend a helping hand, dedicated and responsible with high moral character". Li Shanshan was very moved: "The China-Laos Railway is a road of friendship between the two peoples, and serving the passengers of the two countries well is the value of my work."
As the first batch of Lao train conductors, Li Shanshan is now also responsible for taking apprentices. Every time she is on duty, she patiently guides the attendants to fill in passenger transport records, use ticket machines and train broadcasts. Whenever Lao attendants are not fluent in Chinese, Li Shanshan will also become a "Chinese teacher" and teach by example. The inheritance of responsibility is like an invisible bond, which closely connects the hearts of railway people in China and Laos.
On September 20, 2025, Han Jialing ended her foreign training mission and returned to China. On the platform of parting, she and her apprentice Li Shanshan tearfully agreed, "No need to say goodbye, because we will see you again."
Since the opening of the China-Laos Railway, more than 700 Lao students have been trained through the "pairing" teaching model of Chinese masters and Lao apprentices, of which 14 students have obtained locomotive driver's licenses and 10 students have served as train conductors. They use excellent professional skills to ensure the smooth operation of the China-Laos Railway.
Return to TopOn March 28th, seven sets of domestically produced wind power equipment were loaded onto a ship at Yantai Port (烟台港) in the Penglai Port Area (蓬莱港区) of Shandong Port (山东港口) and shipped to Austria. As Chinese wind power companies continue to expand into the European market, Yantai Port (烟台港) has now established a frequency of two shipments per month, on average, of wind power equipment to Europe. The picture shows the wind power equipment being exported to Austria being loaded onto the ship on that day.
Zhang Chao (张超) photographed it (via Xinhua News Agency (新华社)).
Return to TopBy: 周永生
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Tokyo Trials, a historic trial that was a just reckoning of the Japanese militarists' crimes of aggression. However, for a long time, the actions of the Japanese right wing challenging historical justice have never ceased.
The Japanese right wing continues to create "ambiguous space" in historical cognition: politicians offer sacrifices called "Masakaki" to the Yasukuni Shrine year after year, history textbooks downplay or even beautify the history of aggression, and important government officials openly deny the forced recruitment of "comfort women." This series of practices essentially constitutes a challenge to the post-war international order, causing the post-war international legal norms to be constantly eroded. In Japan, historical revisionism is rampant, leading to serious problems in the historical cognition of the younger generation. A poll released by Japan Broadcasting Corporation (日本广播协会) shows that the degree of ambiguity in the cognition of World War II history among Japanese people under the age of 30 is significantly higher than that of the older generation.
Unlike Germany, which has established the public denial or defense of Nazi Holocaust behavior as a serious criminal offense through legislation, Japanese historical revisionism attempts to subvert the consensus historical events through selective use of historical materials and reconstruction of causal relationships. For example, regarding the Tokyo Trials, they emphasize that it was "one-sided justice of the victors"; regarding the Nanjing Massacre, they question the "death toll." What the Japanese right wing deliberately emphasizes is also the "misery" of Japan in the U.S. military's bombing of Tokyo, the "wronged souls" under the atomic bombs in Hiroshima (广岛) and Nagasaki (长崎), the "abuse suffered" by the Kwantung Army (关东军) prisoners of war in the cold lands of Siberia, and the soldiers who endured hunger in the tropical jungles of the Pacific islands. By creating this "victim" narrative, the Japanese right wing downplays the guilt of Japanese militarism as the "aggressor" of the war.
This method of "partial negation and overall deconstruction" dilutes the truth of history into a "dispute of views," a "dispute of opinions," and a "dispute of specific issues" in endless debates and controversies. In this way, the purpose of the historical revisionists is achieved: there is no macro, correct attitude and reflection on the historical facts of World War II, only disputes over trivial and minor issues concerning some specific historical events, thereby creating the impression that the international community's constraints on Japan after World War II seem to be "wronging" Japan, and are "unreasonable shackles" imposed on the defeated by the victors.
The current Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) is a holder of the right-wing historical view in Japan. She has publicly denied historical facts such as the Nanjing Massacre, the forced recruitment of "comfort women" and laborers, expressed dissatisfaction with the "Kono Statement" (河野谈话) in which Japan apologized for the "comfort women" issue and the "Murayama Statement" (村山谈话) in which Japan apologized for the history of aggression, and even described Japan's invasion of China after the September 18th Incident (九一八事变) as a "war of self-defense." Since 2014, she has visited the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社), which enshrines Class A war criminals, more than 10 times. Earlier this year, after winning the House of Representatives election, Sanae Takaichi could not wait to throw out absurd remarks about visiting the Yasukuni Shrine, saying, "We are working hard to improve such an environment." This shows that the Japanese right wing is eager to create momentum for breaking through the restrictions of the post-war system and seeking "re-militarization."
The Japanese right wing's reconstruction of history is very dangerous. If it is not blocked, this dangerous practice will inevitably deeply intervene in the real world and impact peace and stability in Asia. History cannot be falsely reconstructed. Japan can only create the future by correctly viewing history.
(The author is a professor at the Institute of International Organizations, Jilin Foreign Studies University (吉林外国语大学))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑 翔
Inside the Marimba Park Municipal Primary School in Harare (哈拉雷), the capital of Zimbabwe (津巴布韦), students who had just finished their physical education class rushed to the faucets to get water. Tafadzwa, a fifth-grade student, filled a bottle with clean water and couldn't wait to drink it. "Before, we had to go far outside the school to get water. Now that the school has its own well, we can finally drink clean water," he said with a smile.
The well in Marimba Park Municipal Primary School is the latest achievement of the "China-Zimbabwe Friendship Well" project in Harare (哈拉雷), allowing more than 1,500 teachers and students in the school to say goodbye to the problem of drinking water. In 2023, the Zimbabwe-China Exchange Center launched the project to provide stable and safe drinking water to remote and water-scarce areas of Zimbabwe (津巴布韦).
"The completion of this well has brought many changes," Pascal Zata, the principal of Marimba Park Municipal Primary School, told reporters. After solving the drinking water problem, the school also reclaimed open space on campus and planted spinach, tomatoes, and onions, which are provided to the school cafeteria.
According to Walter Chanaka, the head of the "China-Zimbabwe Friendship Well" project, the project has so far drilled a total of 8 wells, directly benefiting 30,000 people.
Chanaka told reporters that he had studied at Jiangsu University (江苏大学) in China (中国) for several years. In China (中国), he came into contact with mature integrated water supply and purification technologies and equipment, and he was determined to return to his country to change the lives of his compatriots. "I have been working in water resources-related work since I graduated. I have a wish to allow more Zimbabwean (津巴布韦) people to drink clean water," he said.
"My research experience in many villages in Jiangsu (江苏) showed me that China's (中国) development focuses on systematically transforming advanced technologies into the ability to improve people's livelihoods. Development must be based on long-term goals, activate people's power, and form a sustainable 'blood-generating' function," Chanaka said. "I hope that the 'China-Zimbabwe Friendship Well' project will take clean water as a starting point, gradually improve the sanitary conditions of the Zimbabwean (津巴布韦) people, support campus agricultural practices, and cultivate water conservation awareness."
Over the past 10 years, China (中国) has drilled more than 1,000 wells in Zimbabwe (津巴布韦), helping more than 400,000 Zimbabwean (津巴布韦) people to more easily access safe and clean drinking water. Ngandini, Director of Secondary Education of the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education of Zimbabwe (津巴布韦基础教育部中学司司长), said that the latest "China-Zimbabwe Friendship Well" project aided by China (中国) has solved the drinking water problem for local teachers and students and is a testimony to the deep friendship between the two countries.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张志锋 唐露薇 田先进
"Three Sisters, I was 'tricked' ashore by you back then!"
The dark-red-faced man chuckled, took a stack of new bills, and counted them one by one.
"President Chen, he's being ungrateful," interjected the elder sister next to him. "Helping to find work and even giving dividends, is that what you call 'tricking people'?"
In the conference room of Three Sisters Labor Service Co., Ltd. (三姑娘劳务服务有限公司) in Ma'anshan (马鞍山), Anhui (安徽), 22 stacks of brand-new RMB were placed on the table. The nine fisherman shareholders received their dividends, joking with each other, and the flowers blooming on the desk reflected their smiling faces.
Who is Three Sisters? And who is President Chen?
"The fisherman shareholders know me well and call me Three Sisters; the company has taken in more than 70 new people in recent years, and they call me President Chen. This time the dividend has increased to 220,000 yuan, everyone is happy, so they make jokes..."
The former Three Sisters, now the general manager, Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) looked out the window—
Tianmen Mountain (天门山) is interrupted by Ma'anshan (马鞍山), and the mighty Yangtze River (长江) flows north from here. Xuejiawa (薛家洼) on the riverside was once the home of Three Sisters. She drifted on the water for more than 20 years, the river became increasingly muddy, and the fish became smaller and smaller.
The turning point came in January 2016. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) convened a symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, calling for "joint efforts to protect the environment and avoid large-scale development," which spread throughout the Yangtze River.
Pollution control, shoreline management, and fishing regulation. Going ashore, moving into apartments, and striving for progress.
In May 2019, Three Sisters and more than 50 other fisherman households in Xuejiawa (薛家洼) retired from fishing and went ashore. In just a few years, they have new names, moved into new buildings, started companies, joined the Party, were elected as municipal people's representatives, and attended the National Women's Congress...
On August 19, 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Xuejiawa (薛家洼) in Ma'anshan (马鞍山), he emphasized, "We must enhance the awareness of cherishing and protecting the Yangtze River, and achieve a virtuous cycle of 'the people protecting the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River benefiting the people,' and reproduce the beautiful scenery of 'a river of clear water flowing eastward' as soon as possible."
From January 1, 2021, a ten-year fishing ban on the Yangtze River was fully implemented. 231,000 fishermen across the country have successively gone ashore and integrated into a new landscape of ecological priority and green development.
In the past five years, a total of 351 species of fish have been monitored in the Yangtze River Basin, an increase of 43 species compared to before the fishing ban. The Yangtze finless porpoise has recovered to more than 1,400, becoming an important ecological symbol of the Yangtze River's major protection.
Today's Xuejiawa (薛家洼) has clear water, green banks, and harmonious people. "The people protect the Yangtze River, and the Yangtze River benefits the people," two lines of large characters in the riverside ecological park are engraved in the heart.
Going Ashore
"Following the trend of the times is always right"
Arriving at the company at 8 o'clock sharp, opening the computer to check the project progress. Work information in the mobile phone poured out like small fish snatching food.
"From paddling oars to opening a company, following the trend of the times is always right," said Three Sisters Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香).
The eight-hundred-mile Wanjiang River flows out of Anhui (安徽) from Ma'anshan (马鞍山). Xuejiawa (薛家洼), a harbor on the east bank of the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) section, once gathered more than 50 fisherman households and more than 200 fishing boats.
At the age of 21, she married into Xuejiawa (薛家洼). Her husband, Zhang Zhouhua's (张周华), family had been fishermen for generations. Braving the wind and waves, they could initially catch more than 100 kilograms of fish a day, but slowly only dozens of kilograms, then a dozen kilograms. "Everyone felt that they couldn't stay in this water anymore, but they didn't know where to go..."
The Yangtze River was sick, and it was quite sick.
"We must put the restoration of the Yangtze River's ecological environment in an overwhelming position, make joint efforts to protect the environment, and avoid large-scale development." "The fishing ban on the Yangtze River is an important decision for the overall situation and for future generations."
Ideological guidance, historical leap.
Starting in 2017, Ma'anshan (马鞍山) successively experienced central ecological and environmental protection inspections and "look-backs," and was named in the Yangtze River Economic Belt ecological and environmental warning film. In March 2019, the main responsible comrade of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee pointed out during an unannounced visit that the ecological and environmental problems in the Xuejiawa (薛家洼) area "must be treated."
From point to surface, addressing both symptoms and root causes, in May 2019, Ma'anshan (马鞍山) took the lead in launching the fishermen's going ashore.
The resistance was conceivable. Wu Jifei (吴继飞), then director of the Yushan District (雨山区) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Water Conservancy Bureau, mobilized the fishermen, but they wouldn't even let him on the boats.
"The district and streets held large meetings, and the fishermen went back to hold small meetings, resisting as a group."
Nine fisherman households in Yushan District (雨山区) were in Xuejiawa (薛家洼). Three Sisters, a junior high school graduate, was capable and straightforward, and had "face" among the fishermen. Wu Jifei (吴继飞) decided to "break through" her first.
"We only know how to fish, are we going to wait to die ashore?" Unexpectedly, Three Sisters "confronted" him first.
After running around more, he learned the inside story. Three Sisters had a major operation for a serious illness, and Zhang Zhouhua (张周华) also had heart disease. According to the policy, the district handled urban and rural critical illness medical assistance for them, first solving the urgent need.
"The fish will always be caught one day. Have you ever thought about it, where is your home? What will you eat in the future?"
Time after time, they confided in each other, and even a stone would be warmed up. Calming down and talking about the long-term, Three Sisters listened and took the lead in signing the contract.
"This matter, in the end, is for the good of us fishermen!"
On May 20, 2019, Three Sisters and more than 50 fisherman households in Xuejiawa (薛家洼) went ashore together.
Accustomed to swaying on the boat, everything was flat on land, but their legs and feet were disobedient.
"Land sickness" was reflected everywhere.
The district organized special recruitment fairs for fishermen who went ashore. "The words on the electronic screen rolled so fast, even if you opened your eyes wide, they were gone before you could recognize them. Those who are illiterate, even if they stare their eyes out, it's useless." Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) ran three times, but it was all in vain.
"General Secretary instructed that we must make the majority of fishermen willing to go ashore, be able to go ashore, and be able to stabilize and become rich after going ashore. If the fishermen have ideas, we must have solutions," said Shen Chunxia (沈春霞), Secretary of the Yushan District (雨山区) Party Committee.
Of all the difficulties, employment is the most difficult. The finance department paid 15 years of basic pension insurance for the fishermen, eliminating their worries. A district leader took the lead, with the participation of 3 departments, a "1+3" package guarantee, one key to open one lock.
When it came to Three Sisters, the assistance started with "rectification of her name."
"When I registered my household, my mother casually said 'a third daughter was born in the family,' and it's been called that for decades." In the past, drifting on the water, it didn't feel inconvenient. Now that the world is wide on land, I want to have my own "real name."
On October 28, 2020, Three Sisters received her new ID card, with the real name Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香).
What about the nickname? It also has great use—on the same day, Ma'anshan Three Sisters Labor Service Co., Ltd. (马鞍山市三姑娘劳务服务有限公司) was registered, and "Three Sisters" became the brand!
When the company officially opened, Three Sisters began to feel "land sickness" again.
"You are educated and willing to work hard. In the new era, if you don't understand, learn, you can definitely be a good leader," Xu Zhaozhong (许照中), a cadre from the Animal Husbandry and Aquatic Products Station of the Yushan District (雨山区) Agriculture and Rural Affairs Water Conservancy Bureau, who was responsible for counterpart assistance, encouraged her.
Three fisherman neighbors, each invested 5,000 yuan, "We believe in you even more than the policy!"
What about Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香)? Starting from scratch, she studied reports, made bids, and took on work.
As the river water receded, fish and shrimp were stranded in the pits and ponds near Xuejiawa (薛家洼), and urgently needed to be transferred to the Yangtze River. Relevant departments found Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香), and without saying a word, she organized the fishermen who had gone ashore overnight. They did a great job and earned a solid wage.
Seeing that Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) was energetic in doing things and had a promising future in working together, the remaining 5 fisherman households also became "partners." In 2022, the first dividend was 140,000 yuan, "Boat owners become shareholders, it's good to increase income by sticking together!"
From blood transfusion to blood creation, slowly throwing away the "crutches." Cleaning, landscaping, housekeeping, not afraid of getting dirty or tired, with light in their eyes and skill in their hands. The "Three Sisters" brand became a brand, and in 2025, revenue increased to more than 3 million yuan, driving more than 70 people to employment.
Individual destiny is the vane of the times.
More than 10,000 fishermen went ashore, and Ma'anshan (马鞍山) took the lead in achieving the fishing ban on the Yangtze River and the retirement of fishermen. Having a house to live in, a job, social security, and education, and also being in a good mood, the "four haves and one smoothness" working method was promoted nationwide.
Wu Jifei (吴继飞) was once transferred to the position of town mayor of Xiangshan Town (向山镇) in Yushan District (雨山区). Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) contacted him from time to time, "In the past, I looked for Director Wu (吴局长) to ask for more compensation, but now I look for Mayor Wu (吴镇长) to find more work!"
Moving into Apartments
"Living and working in peace and contentment is happiness"
The morning light awakens the day. In Yanghu Park (阳湖公园) across from the community, groups of people are doing morning exercises and dancing. When the music starts, Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) follows the rhythm.
"Moving into a new apartment, with all kinds of subsidies, I basically didn't spend any more money myself." The new home has two bedrooms and one living room, 100 square meters, a world of difference from the past.
"At that time, the whole family squeezed into a boat, and we used a cloth to surround ourselves when we took a bath." Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) looked through old photos. The houseboat was actually a floating cement house, which was hot and stuffy in the summer. We would put our feet in the water to cool off, and mosquitoes would bite us densely...
It was upsetting on the boat, and worrying on the shore.
In the past, there was a cement factory near Xuejiawa (薛家洼) that emitted dust every day, and they would ring a gong to remind us in advance. Hearing the gong, we would worry and hurry up to collect our clothes.
There was no peace at night either. The factory rumbled, and the wharf was noisy, making it impossible to sleep.
Saying goodbye to fishing boats and settling down in apartments. The room was equipped with air conditioning, and we fell asleep as soon as our heads hit the pillow at night, "We're not afraid of wind, rain, thunder, or lightning." Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) smiled.
From fishermen to citizens, life is more civilized.
"On the boat, we couldn't buy two new clothes all year round, and we were reluctant to wear them even if we bought them." Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) gently stroked the coat on her body, "Opening a company requires going out to meet people, and I bought three or four coats just to change them!"
The changes are silent.
Her son, Zhang Chengwei (张成伟), was born on the boat, "Before he was six years old, he was always tied to the oar with a rope, and I would panic if I couldn't see him..." After going ashore, Chengwei (成伟) joined the company and was responsible for driving the sprinkler truck. He married a wife and had children.
The little grandson runs around as soon as he can walk. When he goes to the park, he buys his own tickets to take a cruise. The stories in the mouths of his grandparents are very new to him.
Will such a life be a little dull?
"Living and working in peace and contentment is happiness!" Chen Lanxiang's (陈兰香) family has its own understanding.
In previous years, the city comforted disadvantaged groups and specifically included fishermen who had gone ashore. "In recent years, the situation of fishermen who have gone ashore has become stronger year by year, and they have gradually withdrawn from the list of condolences," said Liu Wei (刘炜), Deputy Director of the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs.
Taking to Heart
"After going ashore, we feel even closer to the Yangtze River"
At 6 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Zhouhua (张周华) is on duty on time. On the banks of the Yangtze River, fishermen have become fish protectors.
To jointly protect the environment, the local government developed public welfare positions for fish protectors. Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) learned about it and encouraged her husband to sign up.
In his new position, Lao Zhang (老张) is particularly attentive. "Relatives at home set up a wedding banquet, but they couldn't invite him no matter what, because he was afraid of delaying his business!" Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) joked.
"After fishing for a lifetime, I finally saw the Yangtze River water so clear again. I can't let people muddy the water and catch the fish again..." said Zhang Zhouhua (张周华).
Patrolling the shore to protect fish every day, he has the most say.
Xuejiawa (薛家洼) used to have 7 "scattered, disorderly, and polluting" enterprises and 3 illegal docks, eroding the shoreline and causing sewage to flow everywhere.
"The ecological environment protection and restoration of the Yangtze River includes pollution control, shoreline management, and fishing regulation." Earnest instructions point the way.
In May 2019, at the same time as retiring from fishing and going ashore, the Xuejiawa (薛家洼) renovation sounded the horn.
The land along the river was once planned for commercial development. Chen Yonghong (陈永红), then the head of Yushan District (雨山区), was the "last" commander of the Binjiang New Area Construction Headquarters. When the renovation started, he turned around and joined the on-site command, "Still in the same office by the river, but the responsibilities and tasks have changed."
Taking the Xuejiawa (薛家洼) renovation as an opportunity, the comprehensive management plan for the east bank of the Yangtze River's Ma'anshan (马鞍山) section was introduced, and 23 kilometers of shoreline were systematically managed. 895 "scattered, disorderly, and polluting" enterprises were rectified, 153 illegal docks were demolished, and 497 livestock and poultry farms were closed and relocated.
After fighting the tough battle, we will fight a protracted war. "No large-scale demolition and construction, natural restoration is the main focus, and artificial restoration is the auxiliary." Chen Lühu (陈吕虎), Deputy Director of the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment, introduced.
A private contractor had a poplar forest, with trees as thick as bowls and reaching the sky. The "forest owner" planned to cut down the trees and sell them for money. Yushan District (雨山区) invested in repurchasing them, and the forest path became a leisure greenway.
The "scattered, disorderly, and polluting" enterprises under Wangfu Mountain (望夫山) were closed, freeing up 340 acres of open space. The city refused real estate developers and built Caishiji Fangcaodi (采石矶芳草地), where a music festival brought together tens of thousands of people.
In October 2022, the "Decision on Strengthening the Protection of the Yangtze Finless Porpoise" jointly formulated by Ma'anshan (马鞍山) and Nanjing (南京) and Zhenjiang (镇江) in Jiangsu (江苏) was implemented. This is the first cross-regional collaborative protection legislation for a single species. In December 2023, Ma'anshan (马鞍山) took the lead in establishing "Yangtze River Protection Day" nationwide, which was set on August 19 every year.
Today, the water quality of the main stream of the Yangtze River in the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) section remains stable at Class II, and the scale and resource density of fish have increased by 1.5 times and 2 times respectively compared to before the fishing ban. The Yangtze finless porpoise, which had disappeared for many years, has returned, and Ranxi Pavilion (燃犀亭) on Caishiji (采石矶) has become a "porpoise-watching pavilion" for tourists.
The Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) couple may not be clear about these figures.
It's just that illegal docks have become clear water and green banks, and they can enjoy the view of the river, listen to the waves, and watch the fish every day. "How do I feel that after going ashore, we are even closer to the Yangtze River..."
Striving for Progress
"We have caught up with a good time"
The clear water flows eastward, the river has changed, and the people have also changed.
In September 2022, Yushan District (雨山区) organized literacy classes for fishermen who had gone ashore, and the classroom was set up in the conference room of the Three Sisters Company. Being close to the water tower, Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) led her employees to sign up at the first time to recognize characters, learn about policies.
Learning more, seeing more, and thinking gradually deeper.
"In the past, I only wanted the people around me to have work and earn money. Now? I also want to pull more people to develop together and make progress together."
In February 2023, Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) was elected as a representative of the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) Municipal People's Congress; on November 22 of the same year, she joined the Communist Party of China. The company established a Party branch and also has a "Fishermen's Home" to take out reserve funds to solve problems for fishermen who have gone ashore.
The most unforgettable day was October 23, 2023. For the first time, she went to Beijing, entered the Great Hall of the People, and walked in the team of the Thirteenth National Women's Congress of China.
At the opening of the conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) smiled and waved to everyone. Thinking of the General Secretary's earnest instructions in Xuejiawa (薛家洼), thinking of the new chapter in her life after going ashore, tears welled up in her eyes.
The river water is deep, knowing the Party's grace.
In January of this year, the Ma'anshan (马鞍山) Municipal People's Congress was held. As a representative of the Municipal People's Congress, Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) is most concerned about the major protection of the Yangtze River. During the representatives' discussion, "ecological priority and green development" was also an important topic.
At and after the meeting, I heard a lot of news—
The city invested 3.5 billion yuan to implement rain and sewage diversion, and all 2,770 sewage outlets into the river in the main and tributaries of the Yangtze River were renovated;
Magang (马钢), a former major emitter, was rated as the first batch of "green factories" by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology through ultra-low emission transformation and treatment;
Aoshan (凹山) mining field, an open-pit mine, has been transformed into a geological and cultural park and has become a national 3A-level tourist attraction;
In November 2025, Ma'anshan (马鞍山) will appear on the United Nations forum and make a keynote speech at the first thematic side event of the 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, "Ecological Civilization and Beautiful China Practice"...
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is a must-answer question and still a tough question.
"Adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought, jointly build a beautiful China pioneer area in the Yangtze River Delta, and continue to write a new chapter in the virtuous cycle of 'the people protecting the Yangtze River and the Yangtze River benefiting the people.'" The words of Yuan Fang (袁方), Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, made everyone nod in agreement.
In the exhibition cabinet of the Three Sisters Labor Company, there is an embroidery: clear water and blue sky, reeds swaying, and Yangtze finless porpoises chasing the waves.
A single reed is difficult to resist wind and rain, but integrating into the reed sea is infinitely beautiful. "We have caught up with a good time!"
The Huangmei Opera "Clear Water Flows Eastward" based on Chen Lanxiang (陈兰香) is being staged in Anhui (安徽), and the story of Three Sisters is spreading in the eight-hundred-mile Wanjiang River.
By: 李洪兴
Under the warm spring sun, tender green vines grow in the Grape Valley on the southern slope of the Tianshan Mountains (天山). Years ago, on the same land, a 4,000-meter-long "propaganda board" stood, becoming a "vanity project" undertaken by a cadre. The wind rustled the "propaganda board," sounding like a sigh.
This "landscape" was regarded as a "bonsai": it existed, but did not belong to the land. Piling up bonsai is a symptom of an illusion in the view of achievements. Some cadres treat achievements as transportable decorations, and simplify the mass line into a movable track, distorting and deforming it, which is truly undesirable.
In seeking development and undertaking endeavors, one must reject utilitarianism that ignores soil moisture and the depth of roots. A "bonsai" like the 4,000-meter-long "propaganda board" reflects a dangerous misalignment—taking "letting the leaders see" as the starting point and pushing "benefiting the masses" to the end; regarding "short-term visibility" as the criterion and shelving "long-term perception." Conversely, the reputation of development never comes from bonsai, but grows on the ridges of fields; achievements are never on the wall, but in the hearts of the people.
Building a reputation is a positive calibration of the view of achievements.
Reputation is not built by "creating momentum," but by "accumulating momentum." The figures in the dialogues during night visits to the masses, the call records coordinating agricultural machinery scheduling during cultivation, and the tire tracks of delivering hot meals to elderly people on weekdays are concrete manifestations of being pragmatic and not showy, and being practical and not opportunistic.
Consider Yucun (余村) in Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江). Facing the pain of transformation and development, it was once confused about where to go. By changing the development concept and adhering to green mountains and clear waters, until the bamboo sea "bloomed," the stones "generated gold," and the homestays "formed chains," the reputation flowed like streams converging into rivers, naturally surging. The generation logic of a good reputation is precisely to reduce vanity and short-sightedness, add happiness index, and win the praise of the masses.
Planting a nursery is a "latent poetics" of the view of achievements.
"Piling up bonsai" pursues immediate blooming, while "planting a nursery" is willing to cultivate silently. The nursery does not compete for the beauty of the moment, but adheres to the rhythm of "ten years to grow trees." Nanping (南平), Fujian (福建), pioneered the science and technology commissioner system. For more than 20 years, batches of scientific and technological personnel have left tea-making techniques and experience to farmers, and promoted the planting model of ecological tea gardens. Today, a green leaf has become a "golden leaf" to promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and the fragrant Min tea (闽茶) in the world allows more people to taste the charm of Chinese tea culture. The "tangible achievements" originate from the saplings of that year, quietly extending their roots when no one noticed.
Although bonsai can be moved, the nursery remains evergreen. The real wisdom of governance lies in distinguishing between "demonstrative existence" and "generative practice." Some places, regardless of protection planning and safety requirements, spend heavily to create giant statues, but as a result, they do not drive tourism and spend money to demolish them. "Building and demolishing" causes waste; while some places are committed to improving services and optimizing governance, winning a large flow of traffic with a good reputation. The real gold of achievements lies not in flashy displays, but in the warmth of details and the precision of governance.
From this perspective, piling up bonsai and building a reputation are two opposing views of time. The former lives in the "clock time" of letting superiors see, while the latter is rooted in the "life time" of satisfying the masses. Similarly, piling up bonsai and planting a nursery are two divisions of the view of space. The former manages the "surface space" within the visual radius, while the latter cultivates the "depth space" inside the development.
I can't help but think of a saying by "grass shoes secretary" Yang Shanzhou (杨善洲), "Communist Party members should not hide in organs to be bonsai, but should go to the masses to be cedars." Reputation is not a display in the propaganda column, but a measure of people's lives; the nursery is not in the spread of propaganda charts, but under a pair of muddy feet.
Showing new actions with new responsibilities, the nursery will eventually become a forest, and the cedars will be connected into mountains—that is the achievements of the Communist Party members written on the earth and never fading.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)): The Planting Management Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) and the National Agricultural Technology Extension and Service Center (全国农业技术推广服务中心) recently launched the 2026 Million Farmers' Scientific and Safe Pesticide Use Training in Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南). It is reported that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, an average of more than 70,000 training sessions were held nationwide each year, with more than 7 million participants. The proportion of farmers using pesticides according to pesticide labels increased by 30 percentage points compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan." The training activities have achieved remarkable results, and farmers' ability to use pesticides scientifically and safely has been significantly improved.
The training requires that this year's training activities should focus on three main lines: large-scale yield increase of grain and oil crops, stable production and supply of important agricultural products, and quality and safety of agricultural products. It should highlight accuracy, practicality, and operability, popularize pesticide application knowledge, strengthen practical guidance, and ensure that technology is implemented effectively and benefits the majority of farmers. This training is conducted in a combination of online and offline methods, with approximately 20,000 people from new agricultural business entities, large planters, and socialized prevention and control service organizations watching the training live online.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xiong'an (雄安) March 29th dispatch (Reporter Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) On March 28th, the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) Xiongdong (雄东) Comprehensive Cultural and Sports Center officially opened. As the first group-level public cultural and sports facility in the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to debut in 2026, the center's opening marks a further densification of the Xiong'an New Area's (雄安新区) public cultural service network and a continuous improvement of urban functions.
The Xiongdong (雄东) Comprehensive Cultural and Sports Center integrates cultural performances, national fitness, and artistic experience functions. It is linked with the New Area's (新区) already-built Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), Xiong'an Sports Center (雄安体育中心), and a series of community-level cultural and sports facilities to jointly build a convenient and beneficial "15-minute cultural and sports life circle," allowing the public to enjoy high-quality cultural and sports services at their doorstep.
The Xiongdong (雄东) Comprehensive Cultural and Sports Center will launch a series of activities such as benefit performances for the people, national competitive events, and immersive art experiences, covering various forms such as cross-talk, opera, stage plays, and mass sports events, highlighting participation and public welfare, and striving to create a "city living room" that the masses are willing to come to and visit often.
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The study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance are being carried out throughout the Party. For some time, various regions, departments, and units have adhered to focusing on the theme, earnestly grasping study and discussion, and the vast number of Party members and cadres have been studying with a mission, with problems, and with thinking, continuously consolidating the ideological foundation for starting a business in in-depth study and understanding.
Focusing on the Theme, Studying Deeply and Thoroughly
The Party Group of the Ministry of Veterans Affairs specially formulated a study class plan, and members of the Party Group took the lead in deeply studying General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and exchanged speeches one by one around "For whom, rely on whom, and how to do it"; Party organizations of various units established a mechanism of "leading cadres leading learning, lecturing, and promoting learning, and young cadres loving learning, studying diligently, and being good at learning," organized "Everyone Talks About Learning, Thinking, Understanding, and Practicing," and enhanced the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
The Party Group of the State General Administration of Sport organized a special study class on study and education, with members of the Party Group taking the lead in leading the study, studying the "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Exposition on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance" in its original form, organizing special discussions, talking about understanding, finding gaps, and clarifying directions one by one, and educating and guiding Party members and cadres to continuously consolidate the ideological foundation of serving the people through sports.
The Theoretical Study Center Group of the Party Group of the State Bureau of Letters and Calls held a special meeting to carry out centralized study and discussion, requiring efforts to be made in "deep learning," consciously combining the carrying out of study and education with the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals on letters and calls work, and combining it with promoting the completion of annual key tasks, so as to promote learning to be effective and to achieve practical results.
The Central Committee of the Communist Youth League organized and carried out a study and education study class for directly affiliated organs, organized Party members and cadres to read the original works, study the original texts, and understand the principles in their original form, deeply studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, issued work prompts, and promoted Party organizations at all levels to formulate relevant plans for study and education.
The Party Group of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation highlighted systematic learning in its original form and precise learning by classification and category, emphasized giving play to the exemplary and driving role of Party organizations at all levels, and at the same time explored the establishment of an evaluation mechanism for the "top leader's" view of performance and an evaluation mechanism for learning effectiveness, so as to continuously consolidate the ideological foundation with theoretical arming.
The Party Committee of the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (中国工商银行) focused on paving the way with learning, and the Theoretical Study Center Group of the Party Committee of the Head Office carried out special study on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and members of the Party Committee team conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions in combination with the actual situation of financial work. At the same time, it built a "online + offline" three-dimensional learning matrix to promote the formation of "one team, one arrangement, one branch, one plan" in institutions at all levels.
Enriching Carriers and Seeking Practical Results
The Party Group of the All-China Women's Federation strictly implemented the "First Topic" system, conscientiously studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and each grass-roots Party organization relied on "Three Meetings and One Lesson" and theme Party days to ensure deep study and thorough understanding through watching warning education films, conducting on-the-spot visits, and joint study and joint construction.
Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), took multiple measures to earnestly grasp centralized study, individual self-study, hierarchical and classified training, and warning education, and incorporated relevant content of study and education into the main training classes such as the in-service advanced training class for city-administered cadres, and opened special teaching sections. At the same time, it made full use of provincial and municipal online special course resources to encourage Party members to carry out online learning.
"The spirit of Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) has never been a distant monument, but a mirror in front of us that illuminates our original intention..." A few days ago, at the study and education study class of the Party Group of China Mobile (中国移动), Party members and cadres immersed themselves in the study of the deeds of Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) and Gu Wenchang (谷文昌). In the study and education, the Party Group of China Mobile (中国移动) relied on its own red "Yunji" platform to educate and guide Party members and cadres to learn from the wise in a way that is popular and penetrates the mind.
Holding study classes and carrying out ideological discussions; opening "micro-classes on the view of performance" to enrich the forms of study and publicity... In recent days, the Party Committee of China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) has promoted Party organizations at all levels to enrich learning carriers, educate and guide Party members and cadres to unify the implementation of national strategic deployments with serving the people, and consolidate the ideological foundation of benefiting the people.
The Party Committee of the National Development Bank (国家开发银行) strengthened theoretical arming, and Party organizations at all levels throughout the bank carried out study through various methods such as holding study classes, theoretical study center group studies, special discussions, "Three Meetings and One Lesson," and theme Party days, guiding Party members and cadres to deeply understand the political nature and the people-oriented nature of financial work.
Guangling District (广陵区) in Yangzhou City (扬州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), established a "five-study linkage" model of "leading learning by the 'key few,' regular learning by 'Three Meetings and One Lesson,' following learning 'online and offline,' researching learning in 'real-world classrooms,' and deeply studying 'case analysis,'" to promote county and department-level cadres and township and section-level "top leaders" to take the lead in learning one step ahead and one level deeper, demonstrating and driving grass-roots Party organizations to achieve full coverage and quality in theoretical learning.
Calibrating Coordinates and Grasping the Orientation
Baoding City (保定市), Hebei Province (河北省), focused on study and discussion, using positive and negative typical cases through methods such as theoretical study center group studies, expert lectures, and special discussions, to guide Party members and cadres to deeply understand and accurately grasp the scientific connotation, spiritual essence, and practical requirements of a correct view of performance, and promote the internalization and externalization of a correct view of performance.
"As a policy bank credit officer, we must guard the first line of defense of credit, and we must not be eager for quick success and instant benefits or ignore risks." Recently, the Party Committee of the Export-Import Bank of China (中国进出口银行) held a warning education conference for young cadres of the head office organs, guiding young cadres to deeply understand the serious harm of deviations and dislocations in the view of performance. In the study and education, the Export-Import Bank of China (中国进出口银行) highlighted the Party Committee's exemplary leadership in learning, educational training to assist learning, and warning education to promote learning, so as to promote the deepening and solid implementation of study and education.
The Party Committee of the Bank of China (中国银行) held a study and education study class, using positive and negative typical "two mirrors," closely combined with the actual situation of financial work, listed special topics to carry out collective study and discussion in a solid manner, promoted Party members and cadres to put themselves in, put their work in, and put their responsibilities in, draw inferences from one instance, examine themselves, and deeply analyze the ideological roots.
The Party Committee of China Life Insurance Group (中国人寿集团) arranged for Party organizations at all levels to carry out "illustrative" study and discussion and case collection, promoting Party members and cadres to talk about understanding and experiences in combination with the things around them and specific things that serve the real economy and the people's livelihood, adhere to the principle of linking theory with practice, and strive to achieve learning for application and combining learning with application.
"Performance projects and face-saving projects are, in the final analysis, blinded by selfishness..." A few days ago, a special study class on study and education was held in the Political and Legal Committee of the Alxa League (阿拉善盟) Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), and Party members and cadres conducted in-depth interpretations of the specific situations of the main problems of deviations in the view of performance. In the study and education, the Alxa League (阿拉善盟) promoted Party organizations at all levels to guide Party members and cadres to further establish a correct view of performance in the form of exchanges and discussions, special counseling, leading learning and self-study.
"True achievements are the perseverance that can stand the test of time." A few days ago, Yu Hang District (余杭区) in Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), organized on-site teaching on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and a young Party member was deeply touched. In the study and education, Yu Hang District (余杭区) focused on giving play to the exemplary role of typical examples, using advanced typical examples who have taken root in the front line and silently dedicated themselves as vivid teaching materials, organizing personal experiences and deeds to be publicized, and promoting Party members and cadres to deepen their ideological understanding under the guidance of role models.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余), Li Yanfei (厉衍飞), Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧), Wang Guan (王观), Yang Hao (杨昊), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Li Longyi (李龙伊), Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), Jin Xin (金歆), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Qu Xinming (屈信明), Zhang Cheng (张枨), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文))
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This year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), many representatives and members brought local specialty products to the event, which not only vividly demonstrated the achievements of high-quality local development, but also allowed us to see the prosperous and thriving atmosphere of China. Starting today, this edition will launch a series of commentaries to understand the great potential of development from local good products.
——Editor
"This horse is so spirited." Du Mingyan (杜明燕), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), opened her suitcase, and cultural and creative products such as felt ponies and Pegasus dolls caught the eye. At this time, someone asked: In the past, you brought reindeer, but this year you brought ponies, have you "changed careers"?
At the National People's Congress and CPPCC two years ago, Du Mingyan (杜明燕) impressed people by displaying cultural and creative products based on reindeer. From reindeer to ponies, Du Mingyan (杜明燕) replied with a smile: "It's not that I've changed careers, it's that the land of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) is changing."
In the past, the protection of reindeer populations and the production and living problems of hunters after their transformation have received much attention. At that time, the focus was on protecting the survival of species, allowing the fragile ecology to "catch its breath," and giving the transitioning masses "a helping hand." Today, with the continuous strengthening of ecological protection, Inner Mongolia's (内蒙古) industrial development has ushered in new opportunities, creating more possibilities for grassland culture and horse culture to move towards the market and get closer to young people. Shifting from "protecting survival" to "promoting development" still requires adhering to ecological priority, and starting again on the basis of improved ecology.
To start again, we must find the right positioning and follow the rules.
Ecology is an important advantage of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), and green is the bright background color of Inner Mongolia (内蒙古). Let the vast grasslands "take a paid vacation," "hang axes and stop saws" in the Xing'an (兴安) forest, and use spaces such as slopes, wasteland, and abandoned mines to "plant green wherever possible"... Coordinating the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grasslands, and deserts, the northern border of the motherland reappears with the beautiful scenery of "wind blowing green grass and flowers everywhere." This is the "major task of the country" that Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) must keep in mind.
To start again, we must also stimulate advantages and make good use of strengths.
How to connect green waters and green mountains with golden mountains and silver mountains? Some places in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) are building forest ecological tourism areas, developing forest food, and exploring pilot forestry carbon sink projects on the basis of conserving ecology... As the ecological value continues to be released, the road to green prosperity is getting wider and wider. The past "sheep, coal, soil, and gas" is turning into "unlimited scenery," the desert has also become an ocean of energy, and a new chapter of transformation from resource output to value creation is being written between the grassland and the Gobi Desert.
To start again, we must empower technology and increase cultural flavor.
Today's Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has a better ecology, a thicker foundation, and a more solid foundation for development. As a result, the development topic is no longer just "protecting the grassland," but also thinking about how to make development "flavorful." Why can the cultural and creative "pony" become a popular item from the collection of the Zhalainuoer Museum (扎赉诺尔博物馆)? An important reason is that more and more young people come to the grasslands and museums because of their affinity for culture. This shows that a good ecology and a good environment can nourish the land, but also nurture creativity and activate consumption.
Looking further, the confidence to start again lies in doing a good job in the articles of "transformation" and "vitality."
Transformation is the transformation of the mode of development. In the past, we relied on resource consumption and extensive development, but now we emphasize utilization in protection and value-added in utilization, and transform various resources into more sustainable development momentum. This "transformation" is a change of concept and a new path.
Vitality is the vitality of resource value. To develop in a new direction, an important aspect is to make natural resources more "vital" and cultural resources more "alive." This is both a manifestation of green productivity and a surge of cultural vitality.
From this perspective, the high quality of development and the good new momentum have laid a solid foundation for re-departure. For example, solid results have been achieved in ecological protection, and the cultural heritage is more profound, which is strength; national culture, characteristic resources, and new consumption scenarios have opened up incremental space, which is potential; green development, cultural innovation, and talent growth empower each other, which is motivation. With stronger strength, greater potential, and more sufficient motivation, better development is yet to come.
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the blueprint has been drawn and the strategy has been deployed. Du Mingyan (杜明燕) has a clearer understanding: the improvement of ecology brings not only the recuperation of the environment, but also the continuous enhancement of industrial transformation, cultural renewal, and development momentum. Looking at the whole country from one region, with a firm sense of mission, strengthening execution, and taking practical work as the priority, the future is promising.
(The author is a reporter from the Inner Mongolia Branch (内蒙古分社) of this newspaper)
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"Previously, it required navigating multiple channels to find information, but now one platform can handle it, significantly saving time costs and reducing investment risks," said Liu Qing (刘青), the head of a cross-border equipment enterprise in Cangzhou (沧州), Hebei Province (河北省).
The platform Liu Qing (刘青) mentioned refers to the national-level overseas comprehensive service platform that was recently officially launched. It integrates resources from multiple fields such as law, finance, and taxation, and links 37 sub-platforms to provide enterprises with "one-stop" public services.
Currently, the global economic and trade landscape is undergoing profound changes, presenting a new pattern of integrated trade and investment. Under the new trend, the overseas expansion of Chinese enterprises is no longer limited to "expanding markets, finding customers, and securing orders," but involves the full-chain layout of production, research and development, sales, after-sales, and other supply chain networks overseas. Factors such as intellectual property protection, legal compliance, and cultural adaptation are intertwined, and the challenges they face have become a "comprehensive problem."
As Chinese enterprises deeply integrate into the global industrial chain, overseas service guarantees must keep up with the pace of development. Building a national-level comprehensive service platform that integrates government public services and market professional services, as well as the resources and experience of leading enterprises, undoubtedly identifies the key to solving the problem.
After the launch of the national-level overseas comprehensive service platform, enterprises can quickly obtain policy documents and guidelines on local market access policies, tax planning, and other aspects through the "Professional Services" section. From policy consultation to investment guidance, from compliance guidance to rights protection and assistance, the support needed for enterprises to go global is incorporated into a more integrated and systematic service framework, making the path to overseas expansion traceable and giving overseas enterprises more confidence.
From a more macro perspective, the significance of improving the overseas service system for enterprises is not only to help individual enterprises solve practical problems, but also to expand new development space for the Chinese economy.
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed: "Guide enterprises to optimize their global market layout and promote the integrated development of trade and investment, and the integrated development of domestic and foreign trade." From the perspective of unblocking the domestic and international dual circulation, the scope of overseas service guarantees is no longer limited to market expansion, tariff rates, customs clearance procedures, etc., but also includes all aspects of the political, economic, cultural, social, and security aspects of the destination country. Its boundaries largely depend on the needs and potential of Chinese enterprises to expand into international markets.
Previously, Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Zhejiang (浙江), Shandong (山东), Guangdong (广东) and other places, combined with regional characteristics and enterprise needs, have been actively exploring the creation of overseas comprehensive service ports to provide enterprises with comprehensive support and "practical training." For example, "Xianfeng Qihang" in Zhongguancun Fengtai Park (中关村丰台园) in Beijing (北京) relies on the construction advantages of the Beijing International Legal and Commercial Integration Demonstration Zone and Fengtai Legal Affairs Zone, and links with judicial and other departments to build a comprehensive guarantee system for foreign-related legal services, rights protection, risk early warning, and employee safety; Shenzhen (深圳) has developed "Overseas e Station Pass" to help enterprises go overseas in an orderly, effective, and safe manner around the three scenarios of products, investment, and services.
To build a solid barrier for Chinese enterprises to go overseas to resist wind and waves and traverse cycles, these resources should be integrated, information barriers should be further broken down, and the construction of a national integrated overseas service network should be accelerated. Specifically, a closed-loop handling mechanism for enterprise demands should be established, integrating various service channels and mechanisms into accessible, applicable, and assessable service products, and achieving "one platform, one-window acceptance, and comprehensive service" as soon as possible. The international market is changing rapidly, the rules are complex, and policy adjustments are unpredictable. Forming a clearer service entry point and a smoother response chain will enable enterprises to find and use them at critical moments.
Enterprises sailing overseas need market momentum and, more importantly, institutional protection. The more consistent and deeply coupled overseas guarantee services are with the market expansion of enterprises, the deeper the roots of Chinese products "going overseas" will be, and the more motivated they will be to climb in the global value chain. Based on a new starting point, taking the creation of a national-level overseas comprehensive service platform as an opportunity, and building a continuously updated and dynamically responsive "navigation system," more Chinese enterprises will gain a firm foothold and grow in the wind and waves of the global market, making Chinese products and services more famous in the world.
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This year's "Government Work Report" proposed: "Cultivate new intelligent native industries and models." What is "intelligent native"? Why is this strategic deployment forward-looking?
As a research and development personnel at a Beijing (北京) biomedical technology service company, Zhao Jian's (赵健) work style has undergone tremendous changes in the past two years. He and his colleagues have begun to use AI directly for protein prediction and virtual screening. Developing new drugs, bidding farewell to the traditional "shaking bottles" trial-and-error model, without presuppositions, screening potential targets in all possibilities. In this innovation process, the role of AI is not only to improve efficiency and reduce costs, but to play a leading role.
This AI application is called "intelligent native."
Traditional artificial intelligence is mostly "patching" or "hanging" AI functions on existing systems, and its main role is to optimize and improve efficiency. "Intelligent native" uses AI as the underlying logic and capability hub of system design, driving an all-round reshaping from technology architecture, business processes, organizational roles to value creation methods.
It can be said that AI is not only a new tool, but also breeding new business forms. For example, the AI large models, autonomous driving, and embodied intelligence industries that have emerged in recent years have largely reconstructed technology research and development paths, industrial application scenarios, and commercial service models. The recently popular AI comic dramas have even subverted the industry's production logic. Relying on increasingly powerful AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology, a person can create a hit product at a very low cost with just the ideas in their head, which was almost unimaginable in the past.
The rise of intelligent native technology is triggering a paradigm shift in innovation. Innovation boundaries are constantly being broken. Under the interaction of a large number of parameters, AI can generate many new solutions and new programs that humans cannot think of. The threshold for innovation has also been lowered. Creativity has become the most important resource, and non-professionals and small institutions can also rely on AI to explore cutting-edge fields that were previously inaccessible.
For example, OPC (One-Person Company), a new innovation entity, is emerging in batches. Cities such as Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Suzhou (苏州), and Shenzhen (深圳) have even formed OPC entrepreneurship parks and innovation ports with a preliminary scale. With the increasing maturity of AI technology, "one-person companies" have every opportunity to grow into "unicorn" companies leading niche tracks.
When innovation opportunities are fully open to everyone in society and all nodes in the organization, the growth of new industries and models and the cultivation of new quality productivity will have a more suitable environment and richer soil.
Currently, the "new world" opened by intelligent native technology has only lifted a corner of the map. In this new track, global participants are standing on the same starting line.
Adapting to trends and embracing innovation is the most powerful way to respond to change. It remains to be seen what kind of competitive advantages can be forged by developing intelligent native and maximizing the innovative value of AI. But what is certain is that it is changing the underlying logic of innovation. At this moment, the best posture is not to wait and see, but to learn to swim while swimming.
The impact of intelligent native covers the entire process from creative inspiration to application implementation. Faced with such a change, our vision must go beyond the comfort zone of "scenario advantages" and bravely enter the "no man's land" of technological change and basic research, transforming from users of innovative technologies to builders of underlying ecosystems. What is particularly important is to provide value anchors for innovation in the process of human-machine collaboration, so that the unlimited creativity driven by AI always serves people's needs for a better life.
The curtain has been raised, and the future has arrived. This Spring Festival, Zhao Jian (赵健) received a New Year video from his mother, which was automatically generated by AI after she said a simple command. Intelligent native technology, which is accelerating its entry into daily life, is reshaping the innovative fabric of society, allowing the sparks of creativity to shine on everyone's face, and making curiosity, imagination, and insight powerful strokes for writing the future.
Return to TopMoxibustion robots provide professional physiotherapy, and exoskeleton robots assist in rehabilitation training... Not long ago, the world's first smart elderly care robot community center officially started operation in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京). This community center has more than 40 smart robots that can provide various services. With the rapid iterative progress of embodied intelligence, many places are actively exploring the deep integration of robots and elderly care services.
This is precisely:
Smart elderly care protects health and well-being,
Services are diligent and comprehensive.
Technology cleverly plans for the people,
A beautiful scene of sunset glows in old age.
By Ge Wen (歌文)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国两会): "Original technology must go from '0' to '1,' from experimental realization to transformation, rather than staying at the paper stage. In the future, we must also lengthen and advance '1'." Breaking through "from zero to one" is the foundation, and achieving "from good to excellent, from excellent to strong" is the key. Only by lengthening "1" can we activate the multiplier effect of innovation.
"From 0 to 1" is the seed breaking ground. Allowing this "1" sprout to take root in the fertile soil of scientific and technological innovation, absorb the rain and dew of the market, and grow into a towering tree still faces many tests. From a "flash of inspiration" to a "patch of green shade," there are still thousands of mountains and rivers to cross.
Why must we lengthen this "1"? An unlengthened "1" is just a seedling, vulnerable to wind and rain; lengthened, it becomes a forest, which can serve as a barrier to resist wind and frost. The carbon fiber industry in Weihai (威海), Shandong (山东) is a clear example. Back then, they made fishing rods and were held back by foreign merchants, so they embarked on the path of independent research and development. What is valuable is that they did not stop at fishing rods, but also continued to extend the industrial chain, widely applying carbon fiber to high-speed rail, airplanes, spacecraft, and other fields.
More profoundly, lengthening "1" paves the way to becoming strong. For those key core technologies that "cannot be obtained, bought, or begged for," theoretical breakthroughs only provide a "ticket to the game." What truly determines victory is whether they can be mass-produced, iterated, and support an independent and controllable industrial system. Lengthening "1" means turning technological innovation into industrial advantage.
Lengthening "1" is not 拔苗助长 (bá miáo zhù zhǎng - "pulling up seedlings to help them grow," spoiling things by excessive enthusiasm), but a gradual systematic project that requires precise efforts in three dimensions.
First, build strong pilot platforms to clear conversion bottlenecks. A single success in the laboratory may not be replicated in batches in the workshop. Chengdu (成都) will build 25 pilot platforms this year, and Mianyang (绵阳) will create a public pilot service platform to connect resources. Only by allowing achievements to go from "gram-level" to "ton-level" and from "samples" to "products" can the seeds of innovation truly grow and thrive.
Second, focus on core needs and precisely target efforts. Lengthening "1" should aim at what the country urgently needs, what the industry is troubled by, and what the people hope for. The "choke points" are precisely the points of attack where resources converge. Rather than spreading efforts evenly like scattering pepper, it is better to clench fingers into a fist, using strength where it is needed and when it is critical, so that limited resources can leverage the greatest benefits.
Third, strengthen innovation entities and ignite market ignition points. Last year, China's (中国) integrated circuit exports exceeded 200 billion US dollars, which is the result of enterprises focusing on pain points and repeatedly tempering themselves in the crucible of the market. To make innovation resonate with the market, enterprises must taste the sweetness of transformation and become the main force charging forward.
"From 0 to 1" is a crucial leap, testing the determination to "sit on a cold bench for ten years"; lengthening "1" is a marathon, testing the endurance to take root. Lengthening "1" requires both the "craftsmanship" of grasping the rules, the "vision" of understanding needs, and, more importantly, the "original intention" of serving the country and society. Only in this way can we achieve more breakthroughs "from 0 to 1" and provide an inexhaustible driving force for promoting high-quality development.
(Excerpted and compiled from *Sichuan Daily* (《四川日报》))
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[Commentary]
Golden quotes such as "No investigation, no right to speak" and "Chinese people never cause trouble, but they are not afraid of trouble" are blurted out by foreign journalists, reflecting not only the breaking down of language barriers but also the convergence of ideas. The "Chinese craze" is an inevitable product of getting close to China and understanding China, and it is also a vivid footnote to China's growing international influence.
Learning and using Chinese is just a wave in the tide of world friends understanding and getting closer to China. Some time ago, the topic of "becoming Chinese" became popular on overseas social media, and "Chinese lifestyle" habits such as drinking hot water, cooking health-preserving porridge, and practicing Baduanjin (八段锦) exercises have attracted people to experience them. In 2025, the number of inbound and outbound foreigners at national ports increased by 26.4% year-on-year, and the sales of goods for tax refunds upon departure increased by 95.9% year-on-year. "China tours" and "China shopping" continue to heat up. From online cultural resonance to offline cultural tourism experiences, exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations are becoming more in-depth.
As a foreign friend said, "Falling in love with China is an easy thing." Why is China credible, lovable, and respectable?
What attracts people is the profound civilization. Thousands of years of historical accumulation of poetry, traditional skills, folk customs, etc., are the root of the unique charm of the oriental power. From technological innovation to industrial upgrading, from the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside to the transformation of urban development, China has created a miracle in the history of human development in just a few decades, making the ancient civilization more vibrant. With deep roots, lush leaves, and fragrant flowers, this old country with a new destiny has attracted worldwide attention.
What attracts people is the responsibility of a major country. In a world of intertwined changes and increasing uncertainty, even if unilateralism and protectionism are on the rise, and hegemonism and power politics still exist, China always adheres to the concept of openness, inclusiveness, and peaceful development, provides the world with rich and inclusive public goods, and injects positive energy into peace and development. This is the mind and responsibility of an "empowering major country."
What attracts people is also unlimited opportunities. Exchange is a two-way street, and sincere treatment is the only way to work together. More and more international friends are taking the initiative to approach China, and China has always embraced the world with an open attitude. Continuously optimizing the unilateral visa-free and transit visa-free policies allows more foreigners to "go whenever they want" and experience the charm of China in an "immersive" way; reasonably adjusting import tariff rates and revising the catalog of technologies, products, and services encouraged for import, China's large market is also a great opportunity for the world... The door to opening up is opening wider and wider, inviting friends from all over the world to develop together, share prosperity, and jointly undertake great undertakings. China uses practical actions to interpret "taking the benefit of the world as its own benefit."
Since the end of last year, leaders of many countries have visited China intensively to seek cooperation and win-win results. The British Prime Minister quoted the fable of "blind men touching an elephant" - many places in the world still do not fully understand China, and broader and deeper contact with China is "a way to see the whole picture and thus establish a more mature and era-appropriate relationship."
The key to friendship between people and countries lies in seeking common ground while reserving differences, replacing confrontation with dialogue, and replacing either/or with harmony and coexistence. In this sense, from a small Chinese greeting to innovative measures of institutional opening up, they are all bridges that allow China and the world to understand each other and move towards win-win results. As the psychological distance narrows, prejudice will be eliminated and mutual trust will be enhanced.
"To go with China is to go with opportunity, to believe in China is to believe in tomorrow, and to invest in China is to invest in the future." An open, inclusive, and confident China is always a stable force, a hope for development, and a rich mine of opportunities. We look forward to every foreign friend who approaches China and enters China becoming an ambassador of friendship, and we look forward to China and the world jointly writing more era chapters of "The moon is never two places." (明月何曾是两乡 (míng yuè hé céng shì liǎng xiāng - "The moon has never been two places," the moon looks the same no matter where you are, implying a shared sense of belonging and connection despite geographical distance)).
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Biography
Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤), born in July 1929 in She County, Anhui Province (安徽歙县), is a natural rubber research expert and tropical crop scientist. He is primarily engaged in the genetic breeding and biotechnology of natural rubber and other tropical crops. He has received the first and second prizes of the National Science and Technology Progress Award, as well as the Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Award. He previously served as the director of the State Key Laboratory of Tropical Crop Biotechnology.
With the sunlight just right, an elderly man with sparse gray hair, dressed in a neat black suit, walks slowly into his office at the Mission Hills campus of Hainan University (海南大学观澜湖校区). On his desk, stacks of books and materials are like loyal old friends, accompanying him day after day.
This 97-year-old gentleman is Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤), a retired professor at Hainan University (海南大学), former vice president of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院), and former vice president of the South China University of Tropical Agriculture (华南热带农业大学). As a natural rubber research expert and tropical crop scientist, Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) life has been deeply "glued" together with rubber and tropical crops.
Since coming to Hainan (海南) in 1952, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) has been rooted here, participating in the construction of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院) and the South China University of Tropical Agriculture (华南热带农业大学). From youth to old age, he has dedicated himself to the scientific research and teaching of rubber and tropical crop genetic breeding, witnessing and participating in the development process of China's (中国) natural rubber industry from scratch and from weak to strong.
Building thatched huts and climbing tall trees, "reclaiming wasteland" on Hainan Island (海南岛)
In 1948, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) was admitted to the Department of Botany at Peking University (北京大学). At that time, he changed his father's given name "Xueqin (学琴)" to "Xueqin (学勤)" – "**书山有路勤为径** (shū shān yǒu lù qín wéi jìng - "the path to the mountain of books lies in diligence," diligence is the path to knowledge)," which, for him, is the life motto he adheres to.
During his four years of university, he carried his books to the duty room in the dormitory corridor almost every night, studying hard until late at night by the dim light. Heaven rewards diligence. He excelled in every subject, and achieved a high score of 96 in his favorite plant taxonomy. Recalling his youth, what impressed him most was that on the eve of graduation, he and his classmates walked more than 100 kilometers along the railway tracks to the Guanting Reservoir (官厅水库), the first large-scale reservoir built in the new China (新中国). They walked for 3 days, wearing out their shoes and swelling their heels, singing songs non-stop. "The school was to temper our will," Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) said. "At that time, we sang 'Go to the place where the motherland needs us most,' full of enthusiasm!"
Going to the place where the motherland needs him most has become his lifelong scientific pursuit.
In 1952, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤), only 23 years old, and a group of researchers, university students, and hundreds of thousands of workers came to Dan County (儋县), Hainan Administrative Region (海南行政公署) (now Danzhou City (儋州市), Hainan Province (海南省)), to participate in the construction of the rubber industry on Hainan Island (海南岛).
Stepping on the land of Dan County (儋县), Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) truly experienced the weight of "reclaiming wasteland": at that time, the average annual yield of dry rubber per mu (亩) from the scattered planting of rubber seedling trees was only 25 kilograms, and the rubber production level was extremely low. "We hadn't specifically studied rubber trees, and the primary task was to investigate and research, that is, to go all out!" Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) said.
Rubber trees mostly grow in hilly and mountainous areas. In order to do a good job in research, he and his teammates carried luggage everywhere. Without a place to live, they cut wood to make frames and thatch to make roofs, building thatched huts. At night, bedbugs "lined up" to bite people. Without a laboratory, they set up iron pots in the rubber forest to boil clean water to disinfect test tubes. Without elevators, they climbed trees by hand to complete pollination again and again...
Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) went deep into the rubber forest time and again, searching for mother trees with high single-plant yields and genetic traits from seedling trees. However, because the product required by the rubber industry is latex, the secondary metabolite of rubber trees, rather than the flowers, fruits, and seeds of the reproductive system, its high-yield traits are often not inherited. At the local Lianchang Farm (联昌农场), they found a rubber mother tree planted by overseas Chinese in 1907. After years of re-seed collection and reproduction, it did not grow into the high-yield tree they had originally expected.
"I'm never afraid of failure, at worst, I'll start all over again! I believe I can definitely succeed!" Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) recalled. From then on, he and his team turned to the difficult road of large-scale cross-breeding.
Chasing typhoons and entering rainforests to investigate rubber tree germplasm resources
In the second phase of the genetic improvement research task, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) and his team members adopted a strategy of using excellent rubber clones as parents for large-scale cross-breeding, measuring the specific combining ability of clonal parents, and bringing the selected excellent clonal parent germplasm and introduced germplasm to 20 test sites across the country for planting to further identify their rubber production, wind resistance, and cold resistance.
In order to cultivate wind-resistant varieties suitable for planting in Hainan (海南), as soon as they received a typhoon weather forecast, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) and his teammates became "typhoon chasers." In the midst of strong winds and heavy rain, they put on raincoats and rain boots, moved small benches, and drilled into the dense rubber forest test planting base to observe the wind resistance performance of rubber trees. Seeing some rubber trees being broken in the middle, and some trees falling down completely, but the PR107 variety standing firm, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) saw a glimmer of light in the darkness.
Subsequently, the PR107 variety, after multiple pilot tests across the country, not only became the most widely promoted excellent variety at that time, but also served as an important wind-resistant parent, leaving valuable germplasm resources for the Hainan (海南) rubber industry. Today, many of the "main forces" in Hainan (海南) rubber plantations carry the "excellent genes" of the PR107 variety, such as Reyan 7-33-97, which has at least 30% higher yield than traditional varieties, and the promotion area has exceeded 3.3 million mu (亩).
In order to supplement new genetic genes and create new varieties with higher yields and greater disease resistance, in 1981, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) participated in the International Wild Rubber Exploration Team organized by the International Rubber Research and Development Board, and went deep into the Amazon rainforest (亚马孙热带雨林). During the two months, each member of the exploration team carried 20 kilograms of luggage every day.
"Although it was difficult and dangerous, the harvest was not small," Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) said. This survey clarified the status of wild rubber tree germplasm resources, and ultimately brought back more than 6,000 wild rubber germplasm resources, establishing China's (中国) largest wild rubber living germplasm bank. This batch of precious germplasm resources provided new genetic resources for rubber breeding and bioengineering, and promoted increased production and income in the rubber industry.
Finding breakthroughs and leading students to do things that others haven't done
Daring to do things that others haven't done has always been Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) pursuit.
For a long time, Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) has continuously carried out molecular biology and genetic engineering technology research on rubber and other tropical crops in China (中国), promoting the overall integration of genetics, cytogenetics, and molecular genetics of tropical agriculture in China (中国). Through the research on new varieties and new technologies of tropical crops such as bananas, pineapples, and seedless lychees, he has achieved a large number of results on the diversity and specificity of Hainan (海南) tropical biological resources.
"Teacher Zheng (郑老师) can often foresee the direction of agricultural breakthroughs, paving the way for us later generations," said Zhang Xiyan (张锡炎), the former chief scientist of the National Banana Industry Technology System (国家香蕉产业技术体系) and Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) first doctoral student. "In the 1990s, Teacher Zheng (郑老师) planted 40 mu (亩) of bananas next to the Shahe Reservoir (沙河水库) in Danzhou (儋州), using advanced foreign 'cableway harvesting and grading packaging technology,' which changed the traditional domestic tractor harvesting model and gave me great inspiration. My team and I have continuously improved this technology and promoted it to banana producing areas across the country, achieving good results."
Under the inspiration of Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤), Zhang Xiyan (张锡炎) has continuously made breakthroughs in the research and development of disease-resistant banana varieties. Today, in the Cambodian planting demonstration park, the new banana planting system, new technologies, and new standards brought by him and his team are helping the development of the local banana industry.
"In 2003, Teacher Zheng (郑老师) led the team to discover wild noni trees in Xisha (西沙), and successfully introduced and developed a series of products, filling the market gap for such products in China (中国). Xisha (西沙) noni fruit is now moving towards a broader international market," said Wang Xiangshe (王向社), Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) doctoral student and a researcher at the Tropical Biotechnology Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院热带生物技术研究所). "Teacher Zheng (郑老师) can keenly perceive potential scientific research directions. He guided me to carry out research on the cultivation of cold-resistant noni varieties, and successfully cultivated the cold-resistant Noni No. 4 variety, providing variety guarantee for the widespread planting of noni fruit in Hainan (海南)."
In Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) view, in recent decades, in addition to research results, his other "achievement" is his students. "I often encourage young people who are struggling on the road of scientific research to have a spirit of going all out, working hard, and enduring hardship, and they will definitely achieve results!" Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤) said.
(Fu Renyi (傅人意) and Zhang Mengting (张梦婷) participated in the writing)
Reporter's Notes
Facing seemingly impossible challenges
Interviewing Zheng Xueqin (郑学勤), the word he said most often was "**豁出去** (huō chū qù - "go all out," to be willing to risk everything; to spare no effort)."
It is the "going all out" of the pioneers, taking the land as a laboratory, using their hands as instruments, and concentrating on cultivating rubber seedlings for the country; it is the "going all out" of the guardians, willingly sitting on the "cold bench" for decades, "starting all over again" time and again, screening valuable germplasm resources. Zheng Xueqin's (郑学勤) story tells us that scientific breakthroughs often stem from this "going all out" spirit of patriotism - integrating personal interests into national development, and facing seemingly impossible challenges with unwavering perseverance.
The times are changing, and the frontiers of scientific research are expanding, but this spirit of "going all out" will never be outdated.
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In Zhuozi County (卓资县), Ulanqab (乌兰察布市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), three 350-megawatt non-reheat compressed air energy storage units are under construction. As the chief scientist of the project, I am very excited to see the continuous progress of the project. Behind this is the arduous work of our team for more than 10 years around compressed air energy storage technology.
Wind is intermittent, and sunlight has day and night. Energy storage systems are a key support for building a new power system, just like giant "power banks" equipped for wind power and photovoltaics, which can store electrical energy and stably output it when needed. The compressed air energy storage technology that our team focuses on is like an "air power bank": during energy storage, wind power, photovoltaics, etc. are used to drive the compressor to compress the air to a high-pressure state and store it in the air storage device; during energy release, the high-pressure air is released, driving the turbine expander to do work and driving the generator to output stable electrical energy.
I led the team to propose a non-reheat technology route, which stores the heat of compression generated during the air compression process and uses it during power generation, greatly improving efficiency, and the entire process is combustion-free and emission-free. After forming a multidisciplinary team, building a pilot power station, and completing the full-process verification of the technology route, we encountered a problem: the pilot power station still has a gap from industrialization development. How to build a real industrial power station? To this end, I led the team to find partners everywhere.
Since 2017, I have served as the chief scientist of the Jintan (金坛) Salt Cavern Compressed Air Energy Storage Project in Jiangsu (江苏), and I am fully responsible for the design, research and development, construction, commissioning, and operation and maintenance of the power station. Although I was fully prepared, the difficulties were far beyond imagination. The research and development of key core equipment is a major difficulty—at that time, many companies did not understand compressed air energy storage technology. We repeatedly communicated with equipment manufacturers, design institutes, and construction units to improve the plan and innovate the process. Taking the development of the "high-load wide-condition high-temperature centrifugal compressor" as an example, we successively proposed more than 100 calculation models and implementation plans, went to the manufacturer dozens of times to coordinate and discuss, and continuously analyzed, optimized, improved, and re-tested, and finally overcame the problem.
With the joint efforts of the participating units, the Jintan (金坛) 60 MW/300 MWh salt cavern compressed air energy storage power station in Jiangsu (江苏) was officially put into operation in May 2022. As of the end of last year, the power station has successfully stored and released energy 1,690 times, with a total peak shaving power of 607 million kWh and a power conversion efficiency of 62.38%, reaching the international leading level.
In recent years, we have begun to pay attention to new research fields. The "Three North" (三北) regions of China are rich in wind and solar resources, but the severe winter in the north is a test for the stable operation of energy storage equipment. How to promote compressed air energy storage on a large scale in high-cold regions? This has become our new topic.
In 2025, in Huade County (化德县), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), we built a 60 MW/240 MWh artificial cavern compressed air energy storage power station with wide sliding pressure in high-cold regions, and achieved a number of technological breakthroughs. Here, the winter temperature often drops to below minus 25 degrees Celsius, and some key equipment is prone to freezing damage, so we developed special equipment to meet the operating needs of extreme environments. The success of this project will provide a new solution for large-scale energy storage in high-cold regions.
Looking back on the past, every step of the leap is backed by a firm original intention: in-depth cooperation between industry, academia, and research, writing papers on the land of the motherland. Looking forward to the future, our team will continue to cultivate deeply, continue to promote technological innovation, and develop more and larger "air power banks" to contribute wisdom and strength to ensuring national energy security and promoting green and low-carbon transformation.
(The author is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Tsinghua University (清华大学). This report was compiled and edited by Wu Yue (吴月), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Reporter's Notes
Dare to Turn Ideas into Practice
On days without classes, Mei Shengwei (梅生伟) often runs to the construction site to provide technical support. Today, as the chief scientist, he has participated in the construction of 9 compressed air energy storage power stations and 12 under construction.
Strengthening the in-depth integration of industry, academia, and research and promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements is the team's consistent adherence. Since proposing the technology route in 2011, Mei Shengwei (梅生伟) and his team have been exploring the field of non-reheat compressed air energy storage for 15 years. The results are not only left in papers and bookshelves, but also written on the land of the motherland.
The topic selection comes from industrial needs. Mei Shengwei's (梅生伟) scientific research topics often aim at national needs and engineering frontline needs, and are committed to solving key technical problems. For example, focusing on compressed air energy storage technology is precisely to serve the construction of a new power system, support the transformation and upgrading of the energy structure, and help achieve the "dual carbon" goal. Choosing the right problem can make scientific and technological innovation achievements closely linked to the needs of national development.
Apply papers to engineering practice. Equipment research and development is difficult, power station construction and operation and maintenance are difficult... Facing various difficulties, Mei Shengwei (梅生伟) led the team to collaborate and innovate with enterprises, so that scientific and technological innovation achievements from universities are more vital and play a greater role in practice.
First-class universities are the main force of basic research and the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs. We must vigorously promote the transfer and transformation of scientific and technological achievements of universities, so that more achievements can go from bookshelves to shelves, from laboratories to the engineering front line, and from innovative ideas to pioneering practices.
Further Reading
Where Can "Air Power Banks" Be Built?
Cui Sen (崔森), associate researcher of the National Key Laboratory of New Power System Operation and Control of Tsinghua University (清华大学新型电力系统运行与控制全国重点实验室), introduced that the gas storage system is an important part of the compressed air energy storage system, and the gas storage methods include salt cavern gas storage, artificial cavern gas storage, etc.
Why can salt caverns become an ideal "gas storage warehouse" for "air power banks"? Cui Sen (崔森) introduced that the key to storing high-pressure air is not leaking water or gas, and salt caverns happen to have "self-healing ability": if there are tiny cracks in the cavern wall, the surrounding salt will melt when exposed to water and penetrate into the cracks, solidifying like cement and firmly locking the high-pressure air. Salt cavern compressed air energy storage also has the advantages of low cost and high economy. Most salt caverns are transformed from abandoned salt mines, realizing the reuse of idle resources and reducing the initial construction cost.
Artificial caverns are also one of the development directions of compressed air energy storage "gas storage warehouses". They have the characteristics of strong adaptability and can be excavated into caverns of different volumes according to needs to match suitable gas storage space, and maintenance is convenient.
The abandoned branch tunnels formed during the construction of pumped storage power stations can also be transformed into gas-water co-capacity warehouses, thereby constructing a combined cycle system of pumped storage coupled with compressed air energy storage. In addition, "air power banks" can also be built underwater, using underwater flexible gas storage airbags to store high-pressure air. With the progress of marine engineering and material technology, its application prospects are receiving more and more attention.
(This report was compiled by Wu Yue (吴月), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)): A reporter recently learned from Aero Engine Corporation of China (中国航空发动机集团有限公司) that the AEP100 liquid hydrogen fuel turboprop engine, independently developed by the Hydrogen Energy Aviation Power Team of the China Aero Engine Research Institute (中国航发动研所), has completed ignition and performance debugging tests based on the ground test environment. During the test, all indicators of the engine and liquid hydrogen transportation system were normal, and the engine operated stably in full condition, achieving the first domestic megawatt-level liquid hydrogen fuel aero-engine performance standard.
Liquid hydrogen, with its extremely high energy density and zero-carbon emission characteristics, is considered an ideal path to achieve deep decarbonization of the aviation industry. This test verified the technical feasibility of liquid hydrogen aero-engines, marking that China has overcome the key technology of liquid hydrogen fuel aviation turbine power, and laid a solid foundation for the transition of liquid hydrogen turbine power from the experimental stage to the engineering application stage.
According to reports, liquid hydrogen aero-engine technology is expected to be applied in unmanned aerial logistics, regional aviation and other scenarios in the early stage, and gradually extended to trunk aviation in the later stage, activating a trillion-yuan-level industrial chain from green hydrogen production, hydrogen liquefaction, cryogenic storage and transportation to refueling infrastructure, driving the collaborative innovation of high-end equipment manufacturing and new material industries, and forming a strong trend of leading the development of strategic emerging industries with breakthroughs in advanced aviation technology.
Return to TopOn March 29th, the Humble Administrator's Garden Suzhou Museum (拙政园苏博) Grand Cafeteria of Suzhou Metro Line 6 in Jiangsu Province opened. This is the third "Metro Grand Cafeteria" in Suzhou (苏州), following the Grand Cafeteria of Guangjinan (广济南) and the Grand Cafeteria of Nanmen (南门). The Humble Administrator's Garden Suzhou Museum (拙政园苏博) Grand Cafeteria achieves a seamless connection between the subway, catering, and garden tourism, attracting citizens and tourists to dine with its affordable prices. The picture shows citizens and tourists dining at the Humble Administrator's Garden Suzhou Museum (拙政园苏博) Grand Cafeteria.
Photo by Wang Jiankang (王建康) (Image China (影像中国))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史一棋
The original intention was to cultivate young people's sense of social responsibility through volunteer service activities, but some businesses have 念歪了经 (niàn wāi le jīng - "recite the scriptures incorrectly," to misinterpret or misuse something for personal gain), taking the opportunity to seek profits. Recently, some readers have reported that volunteer service time can actually be "farmed" on some platforms, even with explicit price tags. After searching for keywords, advertisements such as "help with farming volunteer hours" and "quickly accumulate volunteer hours at home" can be seen. Some merchants even provide membership customization services, charging as much as thousands of yuan. In response to the above phenomenon, the reporter recently conducted an interview and investigation.
Volunteer service hours are explicitly priced, and online platforms use subtle expressions to evade supervision.
The reporter searched for "student volunteer hours" as keywords on a social platform and found various volunteer services that claimed to be "completed online." The reporter contacted a seller, and a research and study salesperson recommended an activity called "Donating Hand-Painted Canvas Bags to Children in Mountainous Areas."
For only 19.9 yuan, you can receive a blank canvas bag and also register for 2 hours of volunteer time in the volunteer system through a project called "Starting with Me for Community Environment." As for the donation link, the seller clearly stated: "It's all up to you voluntarily, if you don't donate, just take a photo."
To increase credibility, the seller further introduced, "Each person can buy up to 10 canvas bags, which means that you can get up to 20 hours of time through this activity," and these hours will be recorded under 3 to 4 different project names to prevent the school from identifying them as "farming points."
In addition to explicitly priced "volunteer hours," there are also some implicit transactions. Recently, the All-China Environment Federation (中华环保联合会) jointly held a "Environmental Volunteers Around Me" (我身边的环保志愿者) work collection activity with many universities, encouraging college students to share environmental stories around them. Some universities, in order to encourage students to participate, used a voting ticket called "Green Leaf" (绿叶) to vote online for the collected stories, and those with higher voting rankings could receive volunteer time rewards. Unexpectedly, shortly after the event went online, several merchants selling "Green Leaves" (绿叶) appeared simultaneously on a second-hand platform.
Some merchants have also set their sights on students' needs for evaluating awards and merits through volunteer services. A merchant providing so-called customized certificate services clearly wrote on the product page: "It is the best choice for enriching resumes, adding points to comprehensive evaluations, quality credits, and evaluating outstanding students, advanced students, and scholarships."
After paying 20 yuan, the reporter obtained an electronic version of the certificate that could be customized according to requirements on the same day. When asked about the effectiveness of the certificate, the merchant frankly said: "We are only responsible for making it, and whether it is recognized depends on the school." This type of business mainly targets the display scenarios where written proof materials are required in various evaluations.
The reporter found that, unlike college student volunteer services, primary and secondary school volunteer services are packaged into various forms for trading. Since directly claiming to sell community volunteer service hours is subject to stricter supervision on online platforms, this type of seller usually does not directly promote it on the main page, but appears in the comment area of related posts, promoting it in more subtle ways such as "can record on behalf" and "have channels."
A merchant claimed to the reporter in the consultation that he has community resources all over the country, and the projects provided are "formal" and can specify the service type and location, with a unit price ranging from 7 to 10 yuan per hour.
The merchant seemed very experienced: "If you are only using it for graduation, anywhere is fine, the school is not that strict." In order to increase credibility, the merchant also promised to split 20 to 30 hours into different community project entries. The merchant said that as long as the volunteer number is provided, "there is a project at hand, and 5 hours of time can be reached in the afternoon."
Volunteer hours become a course requirement, with few opportunities and energy consumption, and some students and parents choose to "take shortcuts."
In order to strengthen the cultivation of students' sense of social responsibility, the Ministry of Education's "General High School Curriculum Plan and Curriculum Standards for Chinese and Other Subjects (2017 Edition Revised in 2020)" (教育部《普通高中课程方案和语文等学科课程标准（2017年版2020年修订）》) includes volunteer service as a compulsory content, aiming to guide students to form values of enthusiasm for public welfare and dedication to society through practical education. Volunteer service accounts for 2 credits out of the 6 credits of the compulsory labor course, requiring students to carry out it in extracurricular time, with a cumulative total of no less than 40 hours in 3 years. This means that completing a certain number of volunteer service hours has become a necessary condition for high school students to graduate.
Although university education does not have similar course requirements, in order to implement the educational purpose of cultivating morality and cultivating people, some universities have put forward requirements for the volunteer service hours required for graduation, generally ranging from 20 hours to 50 hours.
These guiding policies and measures have achieved significant social results. In recent years, student participation in volunteer services has become a trend. Many major events and important competitions have volunteers. Volunteer nicknames such as "Little Dolphins" (小海豚), "Little Leaves" (小叶子), and "Little Orange Lamps" (小橘灯) have become synonymous with warmth and dedication.
However, some students are quite troubled by this. Ms. Ding (丁) from Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, who just graduated from university, found that there are relatively limited formal channels for primary and secondary school students to obtain volunteer services when helping her high school-age sister find volunteer opportunities. "There are more volunteer service opportunities in universities. But for primary and secondary school students' families, most volunteer service opportunities come from the community where they are located. However, there are fewer community volunteer service activities, and each time only five or six places are released for volunteer activities, and you can't get them if you are a little slow," said Ms. Ding (丁).
Some parents are also worried that participating in volunteer services usually takes up too much of their children's study time. Mr. Huang (黄) from Fuzhou (福州市), Fujian (福建) Province, told reporters that his child is in the second year of high school and has limited rest time. In order to grab suitable volunteer projects during the winter and summer vacations, he sometimes even has to postpone the original arrangements. Therefore, Mr. Huang (黄) admitted: "It's easier to complete by spending some money."
"Community work is already overwhelming, and we can't spare too much manpower and time to organize volunteer service activities. Even if we have time, limited funding is stuck here," said Zhang Chao (张超) (pseudonym), a community cadre from Xin'an Street (新安街道), Bao'an District (宝安区), Shenzhen (深圳市), Guangdong (广东) Province, who has his own difficulties.
In order to increase volunteer service projects, some streets and communities often receive project co-construction invitations from social organizations or companies, "Generally, they are under the name of the community, and we provide time certification, and they are responsible for the specific activity organization, and they also provide the funding." Zhang Chao (张超) said that the community generally only checks the theme and plan of such activities, "We can't take care of the specific form of implementation, who participates, and the effect of the activity, after all, the organizers are responsible."
Some merchants have set their sights on the demand for participating in volunteer services and have intensified their efforts in the operation process. During the winter and summer vacations, there are even models that bundle volunteer hours with research and study tours. One of the core "benefits" of these research and study activities is that they come with 20 to 30 hours of volunteer time. Of course, the price is also high, the price of a single-day activity is usually 300 to 400 yuan, while the price of a multi-day theme camp is 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. "The semi-managed nature of these activities is very suitable for primary and secondary school students' families," said a research and study salesperson, adding that such activities "some are just tourism, with volunteer hours along the way."
Experts suggest that we should pay attention to students' real participation and emotional experience, so that students can gain a sense of accomplishment in service.
"It is a good intention to include volunteer service in the comprehensive quality evaluation, and we want children to go out of their small homes and cultivate a sense of social responsibility. However, in reality, some parents do not understand the important significance of volunteer service for children's growth and feel that spending money is more convenient; individual places disregard the improvement of students' comprehensive quality and regard volunteer service hours as the only indicator," said Xu Haijiao (徐海娇), associate professor at the School of Political Science and Law of Northeast Normal University (东北师范大学).
Xu Haijiao (徐海娇) attributed the cause of the problem to two aspects: first, some places directly link volunteer service with evaluation of awards and merits, graduation and further education, allowing some illegal institutions to smell "business opportunities"; second, the distribution of volunteer service resources inside and outside the school is uneven, and the participation channels are not smooth, especially for primary and secondary school students, there is a lack of sufficient, convenient and reliable participation channels, and under the pressure of tasks, spending money to "take shortcuts" has become a helpless choice.
To change this chaos, on the one hand, parents should deeply understand the important significance of volunteer service for cultivating children's sense of social responsibility and public welfare spirit, rather than treating it as a kind of homework burden. Ye Fei (叶飞), professor at the School of Educational Science of Nanjing Normal University (南京师范大学), said that the vast majority of students, parents and teachers agree with the positive significance of volunteer service, but the reality is that once volunteer service conflicts with exams and further education, many parents will think that the latter is more important.
On the other hand, relevant departments should rectify the gray industries such as volunteer time trading and return volunteer service to true public welfare. Xu Haijiao (徐海娇) proposed that it is necessary to clarify the punishment mechanism for fraudulent behavior, and strict warnings must be given to institutions and platforms that sell volunteer time and parents and students who purchase services. With the help of big data, artificial intelligence and other technical means, a traceable and verifiable volunteer service record system should be established and improved. At the same time, we should promote the establishment of a cooperation mechanism involving families, schools and communities to create more suitable volunteer service opportunities for children.
"Schools should take the initiative to become the first platform for volunteer service, rather than throwing the problem to students and parents all at once," said a parent of a junior high school student from Shanghai (上海). The school itself is a rich mine of volunteer service, such as library management, sports meeting service, and campus culture organization, which can provide students with volunteer service opportunities. More importantly, the school can "break down the walls" and establish long-term cooperative relationships with surrounding venues and communities to form a volunteer service network linking families, schools and communities. In this way, students' safety can be guaranteed, and rich and reliable participation channels can be provided, so that students and parents do not have to go far away, or even spend money to get stamps and certifications.
From a long-term perspective, Ye Fei (叶飞) suggested that the existing volunteer service evaluation mechanism should be further improved to promote the transition from "rigid linking" to "flexible guidance." "The focus of the evaluation should return to students' real participation, emotional experience and quality improvement, and the indicators can cover multiple dimensions such as concept shaping, ability improvement, and habit cultivation, weakening utilitarian linking," Ye Fei (叶飞) pointed out.
The person in charge of a volunteer service project in a university also believes that schools should focus on exploring more meaningful and interesting volunteer service projects, so that students can feel a sense of accomplishment and gain in participation. When volunteer projects are attractive enough, and when students are truly invested out of interest and responsibility, the idea of "farming hours" will naturally slowly disappear.
(Written by Xue Siyuan (薛思远) and Lu Di (陆地))
Return to TopOn February 17, 2025, the "Reader's Letters" section of the People's Daily (人民日报) published an article titled "Langzhong City, Sichuan Province (四川阆中市) - 500-meter Access Road Still Unfinished After 5 Years of Fundraising," reflecting the situation of an access road that had not been completed for many years. The local Party committee and government attached great importance to this and immediately contacted me on the same day to explain the progress of the project and the work plan. Subsequently, machinery was arranged to clear and widen the originally overgrown road. After completing project design and bidding procedures, the construction team entered the site, and the road is now completed and open to traffic (see picture).
The brand-new cement road reaches the doorstep, and the villagers along the route are very happy. They no longer have to worry about muddy roads on rainy days, and travel is more convenient.
Yang Fei (杨飞), Langzhong City, Sichuan Province (四川阆中市)
Return to TopI am a villager from Mingshan Village, Xincang Town, Taihu County, Anqing City, Anhui Province (安徽省安庆市太湖县新仓镇鸣山村). The Wangba Pumping Station (王坝泵站) in the village irrigates more than 1,000 mu of cultivated land, but the outdoor wires of the pumping station are severely aged due to long-term exposure, and the insulation layer is cracked in many places (see picture). In addition, people often wash clothes near the pumping station, and the aging wires pose a safety hazard.
I reported this problem to the relevant departments last year. At that time, they said that they would replace the wires, but they have not been replaced until now. In December 2025, the water pump was burned out again due to wire problems. It is now the spring plowing season, and irrigation is urgently needed. I hope that the relevant departments will replace the wires and repair the water pump as soon as possible to help us solve our 燃眉之急 (rán méi zhī jí - "burning eyebrows urgent," a matter of extreme urgency).
A netizen from the People's Daily "Leaders' Message Board" (人民网“领导留言板”).
Return to TopAs a travel enthusiast who enjoys road trips, I am often disappointed by "expired" public signs along the way. For example, recently on a suburban highway in a certain place, I saw a warning sign by the road that read "Construction Ahead, Speed Limit 20 km/h." I carefully passed through, only to find that the construction had long been completed.
These types of "over-serving" signs are not uncommon in life. Some traffic signs are marked with parking lot information that has long been closed; some scenic spot intersections still have arrows hanging from a few years ago indicating "temporary road changes for activities." If the sign is "expired" but not dealt with, it not only misleads citizens and affects travel efficiency, but also affects the credibility of urban management.
Public signs cannot only be "set up" but not "removed." The key to governance is to break down the barriers between "setting up" and "managing." On the one hand, a "closed-loop" management mechanism should be established, clarifying the removal time limit and responsible person when setting up signs, to ensure that there is management after setting up and responsibility is assigned to individuals. On the other hand, inspection and assessment should be strengthened, and the subsequent management of signs should be included in daily inspections. For "zombie" signs that have not been removed for a long time, not only should the responsible unit be notified, but the work style problems behind them should also be investigated, and accountability should be seriously pursued. In addition, technical means can also be used to promote smart signs and electronic screens to update road information in a timely manner. Unblock complaint and feedback channels so that citizens can also participate in the management of public signs.
Xie Jianjun (谢建军), Yichang City (宜昌市), Hubei Province (湖北省)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵 兵
Currently, offering parking spaces and storage rooms as incentives for buying a house is a promotional strategy employed by some developers. This can increase sales for developers and provide benefits for homebuyers, making it a potentially win-win marketing model. However, some developers engage in forced bundling after consumers have paid a deposit, infringing upon consumer rights.
In July 2025, Mr. Yang from Tongxin County (同心县), Ningxia (宁夏), subscribed to a residential unit at the sales office of a new development. He paid a pre-sale deposit of 160,000 yuan as required and completed the funds freeze procedure. However, when Mr. Yang went to complete the formal purchase procedures as notified, the relevant person in charge of the sales office suddenly proposed that he also needed to purchase a parking space. "A parking space costs 50,000 yuan and has no property rights. The other party stated that if I didn't buy a parking space, they wouldn't process the procedures or acknowledge the previous subscription agreement," Mr. Yang said.
Similarly, in February of this year, when Mr. Yu from Shen County (莘县), Shandong (山东), purchased a house, the sales staff stated that he could enjoy corresponding preferential policies. After Mr. Yu paid a deposit of 20,000 yuan, he was informed that the prerequisite for enjoying the preferential treatment was to purchase a parking space at the same time. "A parking space costs 100,000 yuan, far higher than the market price of 40,000 to 50,000 yuan," Mr. Yu said. The other party stated that if he did not purchase a parking space, the preferential treatment would be canceled. Mr. Yu did not accept this and complained through various channels, but the problem remains unresolved.
In addition to bundling parking spaces, Ms. Peng from Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), after prepaying a 50,000 yuan housing deposit, was told by the sales staff that she had to purchase a 149,000 yuan renovation package designated by the developer to enjoy the preferential treatment. Ms. Peng reluctantly agreed, and the developer provided a private account, asking her to transfer 29,000 yuan as the initial renovation payment. There was no third-party supervision throughout the process, and no renovation contract was signed. Afterward, Ms. Peng felt increasingly uneasy and submitted a refund application to the developer, "But the developer only agreed to refund the initial renovation payment and would not return the housing deposit." Ms. Peng complained multiple times over two years, but she did not receive support from relevant departments on the issue of whether the developer was in violation of regulations.
Many netizens have also left messages on the "People's Complaint" section of People's Daily Online (人民网), stating that they encountered the problem of bundled sales of storage rooms or basements when buying a house. So, is it reasonable for developers to add new conditions after a housing deposit has been paid? Is bundled sales compliant and legal?
Cui Xibin (崔西彬), a lawyer at Beijing Lantai Law Firm (北京市兰台律师事务所), said, "Being required to add new conditions such as purchasing ancillary buildings or renovation services after paying a deposit is both an act of adding unreasonable conditions and a forced transaction, infringing on consumers' right to choose independently and their right to fair trade. Consumers have the right to refuse such unilateral addition of transaction conditions by developers and have the right to demand the return of the deposit."
Regarding developers refusing to return deposits and other behaviors, Cui Xibin (崔西彬) suggested that homebuyers can file a lawsuit in accordance with the law, requesting the termination of the contract and the return of the deposit, "Homebuyers should pay attention to preserving evidence such as call records, WeChat chat records, contract agreements, and receipts in order to protect their legitimate rights and interests."
"The issue of bundled sales in the real estate sector is a recurring and typical pain point in market complaints. This type of phenomenon is mainly concentrated in links such as parking spaces, underground ancillary spaces, storage rooms, fine decoration packages, and renovation upgrade packages," said Xia Fangzhou (夏方舟), a professor at the School of Public Administration at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学公共管理学院). As early as 2016, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) listed "forcing homebuyers to accept commodity or service prices through restrictive methods such as bundled sales or additional conditions" as an unfair business practice that should be strictly investigated in accordance with the law. In 2021, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) and eight other departments jointly issued a document explicitly listing "bundled sales of parking spaces and storage rooms" as a key area for rectification in the field of housing sales. In 2023, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) and the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) jointly issued the "Opinions on Regulating Real Estate Brokerage Services," once again clarifying that real estate brokerage agencies "must not mix pricing and bundled fees" and strengthening the supervision of clearly marked prices.
Since it is a clearly prohibited behavior, why do developers repeatedly "cross the line"? Experts analyze that developers usually have three motivations for adopting this approach. First, in areas with record prices, guidance prices, or price-sensitive constraints, some developers transfer part of the house price to projects such as parking spaces, renovations, and home appliances. Second, selling parking spaces, storage rooms, and renovation packages with longer sales cycles together with the main residential product can accelerate the return of funds. Third, this approach is both a means of indirectly increasing prices and a management tool for destocking and increasing cash flow in some places.
Some opinions believe that the pre-sale system in real estate is an important reason for causing bundled sales. In response, Xia Fangzhou (夏方舟) said that the pre-sale system is not the legal root of bundled sales, but it will objectively amplify this type of problem, "In pre-sales, it is difficult for homebuyers to verify the ownership of parking spaces, the standards for renovation delivery, whether model rooms are consistent with the actual objects, and whether additional projects are truly necessary. At the same time, developers pay more attention to the return of funds during the pre-sale stage, making it easy to bundle pre-subscription of parking spaces, renovation packages, upgrade packages, and house subscriptions."
Cui Xibin (崔西彬) believes that there are ambiguous areas in actual law enforcement that lead to the repeated prohibition of such phenomena. On the one hand, the boundaries between legal "simultaneous sales," "package discounts," and illegal "forced bundling" are sometimes blurred, especially when developers package mandatory conditions as "preferential prerequisites," making it more difficult to obtain evidence. On the other hand, the housing and construction departments are responsible for supervising the real estate market order, the market supervision departments are responsible for supervising prices, standard clauses, and consumer rights, and the courts then handle contract validity, refunds, and compensation. The same behavior often needs to be handled separately. "In addition, many bundled sales behaviors are not written into the main contract but occur during the subscription, queuing, and preferential negotiation stages. There are many verbal promises and few written evidences. When entering the formal contract text, the traces of coercion have been weakened," Cui Xibin (崔西彬) said.
Regarding how to regulate this issue, experts have given corresponding suggestions. "To fundamentally solve this problem, the house itself should be priced, contracted, paid, and invoiced separately from parking spaces, storage rooms, and renovation packages," Xia Fangzhou (夏方舟) believes that any optional item should not be a prerequisite for obtaining housing qualifications, enjoying housing discounts, or signing the main contract. For fine decoration projects, the renovation standards should also be written to a verifiable level, including brands, models, grades, delivery lists, and clarifying whether the model room is consistent with the actual delivery.
Cui Xibin (崔西彬) said: "Bundled sales may also involve unfair competition, which often occurs in areas where the responsibilities of the housing and construction departments and the market supervision departments intersect, leading to consumers' complaints being easily shirked. Therefore, it is recommended that relevant departments establish a collaborative mechanism, jointly enforce the law, and investigate and deal with similar problems."
The lawyer also suggested that consumers should carefully read each clause before signing a subscription agreement or a housing contract. "During the home buying process, retain WeChat chat records, call recordings, etc. of communications with sales staff throughout the process, resolutely refuse to sign any forced 'voluntary letters' or 'commitment letters' that acknowledge bundling, be sure to clearly exclude bundling conditions before paying the deposit, and do not be coerced by hunger marketing tactics such as tight housing supply and limited-time discounts, and maintain rational home buying. If you encounter bundled sales, you can first negotiate with the developer. If the negotiation fails, you can file a civil lawsuit in accordance with the law if necessary," Cui Xibin (崔西彬) said.
(Wu Jiawei (吴嘉玮) participated in the writing)
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By: 本期主讲人：习近平经济思想研究中心副主任 盛朝迅
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan is an important experience in our party's governance and an important political advantage of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics." The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically achieve socialist modernization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline adheres to the theme of promoting high-quality development, and proposes to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, vigorously boost consumption, improve the social security system, and improve the social governance system. It not only focuses on solving current development problems, but also focuses on cultivating endogenous power in the long term, which is conducive to transforming institutional advantages into development momentum. It is of great significance for leading China's economic high-quality development and continuing to write a new chapter in Chinese-style modernization.
Promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, leading the development of new quality productive forces.
Scientific and technological innovation is the core element for developing new quality productive forces, and industrial innovation is the key carrier for transforming scientific and technological innovation into real productive forces. At present, China has achieved remarkable results in the integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, but there are still problems such as relatively weak original innovation capabilities, the industrial chain as a whole being at the mid-to-low end, and the close integration of cutting-edge technologies and industrial scenarios. It is urgent to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and apply scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner, enhance scientific and technological hard power, enhance industrial competitiveness, and master the initiative in scientific and technological competition and the dominant power in industrial transformation.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline makes systematic arrangements for promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, providing a clear guide for cultivating and developing new quality productive forces. The planning outline proposes to strengthen original innovation and tackle key core technologies, which will help promote the output of more iconic original achievements and provide a source of supply for industrial innovation. The planning outline proposes to adhere to the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, which will help promote the deep empowerment of digital intelligence technology, green technology, and integration technology to the entire industrial chain, promote the quality and upgrading of key industries, and improve the modernization level of the industrial chain and supply chain. The planning outline proposes to cultivate and strengthen emerging industries and future industries, which will help build strategic emerging industrial clusters with distinctive characteristics and complementary advantages in accordance with local conditions, and promote future industries to become new economic growth points. The planning outline proposes to strengthen the main position of enterprises in scientific and technological innovation, which will help promote the concentration of innovation resources to enterprises, implement the main position of enterprises in technological innovation decision-making, R&D investment, scientific research organization, and achievement transformation and application, and promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain.
The deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline accurately responds to the outstanding problems currently facing the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, which will help break down the barriers between technology and industry, realize the full-chain, all-round, and all-factor integration of technology and industry, and better coordinate the "renewal" of traditional industries, the "expansion" of emerging industries, and the "cultivation" of future industries, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system, and transform innovation achievements into industrial advantages and economic advantages faster, cultivate and form new quality productive forces, enhance new momentum for development, and achieve a virtuous interaction between scientific and technological self-reliance and industrial upgrading, which will powerfully promote China's economy to develop towards new and better directions.
Vigorously boost consumption and build an endogenous growth model dominated by domestic demand.
Against the background of profound adjustments in the global economic landscape and intensified fluctuations in external demand, leveraging the unique advantages of being dominated by domestic demand and internal circulation has become a strategic choice for China's high-quality economic development. At present, China's domestic demand system still faces structural shortcomings and circulation bottlenecks, mainly manifested in the coexistence of insufficient release of demand potential and insufficient supply adaptability. China's residents' consumption rate is still 10-30 percentage points lower than that of developed countries, the proportion of service consumption is low, the effectiveness of investment needs to be further improved, and there are many blockages in the construction of a unified national market. It is urgent to organically combine the implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand with deepening supply-side structural reform, forming a higher level of dynamic balance in which demand drives supply and supply creates demand, and laying a solid foundation for the steady and long-term development of the economy.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline places "adhering to expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point" in a prominent position, and clearly proposes to "vigorously boost consumption," "deeply implement special actions to boost consumption," "coordinate efforts to promote employment, increase income, and stabilize expectations," "reasonably increase the proportion of public service expenditure in fiscal expenditure," and "enhance residents' consumption capacity." It proposes to "lead new supply with new demand, create new demand with new supply, and promote the virtuous interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand," and takes "significantly improving the residents' consumption rate" as one of the main development goals, focusing on building a complete domestic demand system. On the one hand, it uses the upgrading of the consumption structure to lead the innovation of the supply system, and promotes the quality and quantity of new types of consumption such as digital consumption, green consumption, health consumption, and cultural tourism consumption. On the other hand, it expands service consumption with a focus on relaxing access and integrating business formats, strengthens brand leadership, standard upgrades, and new technology applications, promotes the expansion and upgrading of commodity consumption, and creates a number of new consumption scenarios with a wide driving range and high visibility. The planning outline also makes arrangements for deepening the construction of a unified national market, requiring the elimination of local protectionism and market segmentation, and promoting the smooth flow of commodity factor resources in a wider range.
Domestic demand is the "stabilizing anchor" of a major country's economy, and consumption is the "main engine" of economic growth. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline adheres to the close combination of benefiting the people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people, and elevates expanding domestic demand from policy measures to a strategic base point, drawing a roadmap and timetable for promoting the formation of a more economic development model dominated by domestic demand, driven by consumption, and driven by endogenous growth.
Improve the social security system and build a solid foundation for people's livelihood and development.
Social security is a major issue in governing the country and stabilizing the country. It is a safety net for people's livelihood security, a regulator of income distribution, and a shock absorber for economic operation. Building a multi-level social security system that covers the entire population, integrates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, safe and standardized, and sustainable is a basic institutional arrangement for realizing the universal sharing of development results and promoting social fairness and justice. It is also a key measure to build a solid foundation for people's livelihood and consolidate the foundation for development. At present, China has made historic achievements in the construction of the social security system, but it still faces many realistic challenges such as prominent structural employment contradictions, the failure to fully achieve "ensuring that everyone is covered," the pressure on the long-term balance of medical insurance funds, and the increasingly severe aging of the population. It is urgent to solve problems with top-level design and systematic reform, and promote the high-quality development of social security.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline makes systematic arrangements for improving the social security system, providing a clear path for building a solid foundation for people's livelihood and consolidating the foundation for development. It clearly defines high-quality and full employment as a priority goal for economic and social development, and builds an employment-friendly development model. The proposal to improve the policy on the transfer and continuation of social security relations will help solve the problem of participation in insurance for flexible employees and new employment forms, and promote the upgrading of social security coverage from "full system coverage" to "full population coverage." The proposal to improve the multi-level medical security system will help solve the problems of difficulty and expensiveness in seeing a doctor.
The deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline accurately responds to the outstanding problems of the current social security system, adheres to doing what we can and acting according to our capabilities, improves the basic public service system, and implements more fair, inclusive, precise, and powerful social policies, which will not only help weave a tight and solid social security network, allowing the people to share the fruits of reform and development, but also stabilize social expectations, stimulate consumption vitality, and promote the rational flow of labor, injecting lasting impetus into high-quality economic development and realizing the virtuous interaction between people's livelihood security and economic development.
Improve the social governance system and create a stable and orderly development environment.
Social governance is an important part of national governance, and a safe and stable social environment can safeguard the high-quality development of the economy and society. At present, China's social governance system is constantly improving, but it still faces many challenges. Especially in the face of complex and volatile international and domestic situations, China's economic and social development has many risk contact points, low ignition points, and fast transmission speeds. The cross-border, relevance, and penetration of various risks have been significantly enhanced, bringing new and severe challenges to social governance. It is urgent to promote the transformation of governance paradigms with conceptual innovation, institutional innovation, and technological empowerment, and build a safe and stable barrier for economic and social development.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline makes systematic arrangements for improving the social governance system, providing a clear guide for creating a stable and orderly development environment. It clearly defines adhering to systematic governance, governance according to law, comprehensive governance, and source governance, and improving the social governance system of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, which will help promote the modernization of social governance. The proposal to consolidate the foundation of grassroots social governance will help give play to the main role of the people and guide all parties to participate in social governance in an orderly manner. The proposal to strengthen the party building of new economic organizations, new social organizations, and new employment groups will further expand the party's organizational coverage and work coverage. It clearly defines unblocking and standardizing channels for expressing mass demands, coordinating interests, and safeguarding rights, and deeply promoting the source resolution, diversified resolution, and orderly resolution of contradictions and disputes.
The deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline accurately responds to the outstanding problems of current social governance, accelerates the promotion of the paradigm shift from "management" to "governance," which will not only help weave a tight social governance safety net, but also stabilize social expectations, stimulate market vitality, and promote social fairness, accelerate the formation of a social governance pattern of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing, and create a stable, orderly, and vibrant environment for high-quality economic development.
Formulating and implementing the Five-Year Plan is conducive to strengthening the Party's comprehensive leadership over economic work, concentrating efforts to accomplish major tasks, proactively grasping strategic issues, and maintaining the continuity of undertakings. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline adheres to the people-centered development thought, makes a series of strategic deployments, will promote the continuous enhancement of the leading role of scientific and technological innovation in industrial upgrading, the continuous improvement of the economic development model dominated by domestic demand, the more solid foundation of people's livelihood in the social security system, and the more mature modern social governance system, leading China's economy to maintain a stable and progressive, stable and improving, and upward trend, and continuously consolidate the economic foundation for basically achieving socialist modernization, promote common prosperity for all the people, and continue to write a new chapter in the Chinese miracle.
(Compiled by Li Qiaochu (栗翘楚) and Ren Yan (任妍), reporters from People's Daily Online)
Case 1
Let long-termism bear technological fruits
Speaker: Wang Fukang (王富康), Executive President of Eft Intelligent Robot Co., Ltd.
My biggest feeling about developing in Wuhu (芜湖), Anhui (安徽) is that the government is very supportive of industrial development, with strong support and warm service.
Wuhu City regards robots as a strategic industry for systematic cultivation, has built a national-level robot industry cluster area, attracting more than 300 robot industry chain companies to gather here, with an annual industrial scale exceeding 40 billion yuan.
Thanks to this robot industry chain, we have fully opened up the demand from core components to system integration.
In recent years, Wuhu City has also launched the Ziyunying (紫云英) Talent Program in terms of science and technology innovation, industry, talent, and supporting facilities, established an innovation and entrepreneurship fund, and built the Jiuzi (鸠兹) Science and Technology Innovation Bay platform, providing strong support for enterprise empowerment and innovation.
The Jiuzi Science and Technology Innovation Bay where we are located is the key support and layout construction of Wuhu City.
As the chain owner enterprise of the national robot industry chain, the strong support of the government makes our innovation layout more directional. In September last year, our super factory (Phase I) officially started construction, and an intelligent factory of "robots making robots" will rise from the ground, and more "technological flowers" will bear "industrial fruits."
The fertile soil of the policy allows us to dare to adhere to "long-termism," to gnaw at the "hard bones" in technological innovation, and to achieve 100% autonomy of key core components. Building an innovation ecosystem is also the government's "long-termism," planting the best resources in the best soil, so that the big tree of innovation can take root and bear more and sweeter technological fruits.
(Compiled by Wang Ruihua (汪瑞华), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 2
High-quality specialties enter the big market
Speaker: Zheng Huaihai (郑怀海), Director of the Quality Development Department of the Liaoning (辽宁) Provincial Market Supervision Administration
At 41 degrees north latitude, there are several important ice wine producing areas, most of which are internationally renowned brands. Huanren (桓仁) Manchu Autonomous County (桓仁满族自治县) in Benxi (本溪), Liaoning (辽宁) used to be an exception.
Every year in early January, in Huanren's thousands of acres of vineyards, strings of ice grapes hang on the branches with frost, and the brewed ice wine tastes first-class. However, for a long time, the domestic ice wine market was basically occupied by imported brands.
"Good wine is also afraid of deep alleys" reveals the reality faced by many high-quality products when they enter the market. Not only Huanren ice wine, but also Panjin (盘锦) rice field crabs, Chaoyang (朝阳) millet, Liaonan (辽南) sea cucumbers... These Liaoning's characteristic products have not been able to get out of the countryside and enter the big market due to information barriers and brand absence.
How to let Liaoning's high-quality specialties be seen and recognized by more consumers? "Setting standards, building platforms, and strengthening promotion," we took the "Liaoning Excellent Products" public brand as the starting point, and launched a set of "combined punches" to open up the connection channel between high-quality supply and consumption upgrading, and pave the way for good things to go out of the circle - the government takes the lead in setting standards and establishing credibility, and enterprises focus on improving quality innovation and opening up the market, so that good specialties have both substance and face. Taking Cai Longlin (蔡龙麟) ice wine in Huanren as an example, after obtaining the "Liaoning Excellent Products" certification, sales doubled in 2025, and farmers' income increased from break-even five years ago to more than 7,000 yuan per mu.
High-quality products make consumers willing to consume and dare to consume, and then enter thousands of households and sell well in overseas markets. The positive cycle of "high-quality supply - consumer recognition - industrial upgrading" is getting stronger and stronger.
(Compiled by Wang Siwen (王斯文), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 3
Mobile forces become the city's "governance partners"
Speaker: Zhang Jianci (张健慈), Minister of the Social Work Department of the Xuhui (徐汇) District Committee of Shanghai (上海)
In July last year, rider Chen Zhifan (陈治帆), who was picking up a meal at a breakfast shop, saw a child bleeding from the head and in urgent need of medical treatment. He took the mother and child to a nearby hospital in 3 minutes, saving critical time for treatment.
In Xuhui, Shanghai, there are more than 8,000 food delivery riders, courier brothers, and online car-hailing drivers like Chen Zhifan. They shuttle through the streets and alleys every day, familiar with every alley and every building, and are often the first witnesses to emergencies. How to truly integrate this force into and participate in urban governance? We often think about it.
After careful consideration, we took three measures - strengthening the foundation with Party building leadership, empowering services to increase vitality, and promoting integration through two-way co-governance - to build a warm harbor and a stage for these busy workers to work.
We strengthened the Party building work of new employment groups, built Party organizations at courier stations and distribution platforms, so that mobile Party members no longer have to travel back and forth for organizational life. More and more Party member riders took the initiative to show their identity and shoulder their responsibilities, becoming the "backbone" for uniting their peers.
In response to the difficulties of "difficulty in eating, difficulty in drinking water, difficulty in resting, and difficulty in going to the toilet" faced by new employment groups, we built "driver homes" and "knight energy stations." Let them "run" safely on the road, and also "stop" safely in the city.
Many new employment groups took the initiative to participate in social governance, giving play to their professional advantages of being mobile and flexible and familiar with the city, taking photos of damaged manhole covers and faulty facilities; striving to be "community partners" and becoming emergency contacts for elderly people living alone.
Xuhui's mobile forces are transforming from urban service providers to "governance partners," and while they gain a sense of belonging, they are also injecting a steady stream of new momentum into the modernization of urban governance.
(Compiled by Tang Xiaoli (唐小丽), reporter from People's Daily Online)
Case 4
From "one enterprise rich" to "rich together"
Speaker: Fu Cunjun (付存军), Secretary of the Party Branch of Shilipu (十里铺) Village, Luanfeng (鸾凤) Town, Guangze (光泽) County, Nanping (南平) City, Fujian (福建) Province
Our village is located in the western foothills of the Wuyi (武夷) Mountains in Fujian. In 2018, I returned to the village to serve as the village Party secretary. The village had almost no industrial base. On the one hand, the village collective had no resources and no funds, and was worried about where the road to prosperity was; on the other hand, the Shengnong (圣农) Group, a leading white-feathered broiler enterprise that came out of the village, after years of continuously providing a large number of jobs for the villagers, was thinking about how to help the village achieve self-"blood production."
How to make the "cake" of common prosperity bigger and turn "one enterprise rich" into "rich together"?
How to enlarge the "cake" of common prosperity and turn "one enterprise rich" into "everyone rich"?
With the help of Sunner Group (圣农集团), we founded a logistics company and took over the group's transportation business. The following year, the village's collective income exceeded 2 million yuan, becoming a model village benchmark in the province. Last year, our village Party branch joined hands with Sunner Group (圣农集团) again to establish and put into operation a meat and poultry processing plant through village-enterprise co-construction. Villagers work in the factory and can achieve a monthly income of more than 4,000 yuan at their doorstep. Their lives are guaranteed, and their days are getting better and better.
Now, every township in Guangze County (光泽县) has a "common prosperity factory" like our village. The government provides factory buildings, the village collective is responsible for investment and production, and the enterprise is responsible for providing equipment, training personnel, and building sales channels... Rural areas and enterprises coordinate and interact, integrating and promoting each other in mutual needs. From "one enterprise rich" to "everyone rich," from "ten thousand enterprises helping" to "ten thousand villages prospering," more and more private enterprises with feelings and responsibility are rooted in the countryside, and on the road to comprehensive rural revitalization, they are "running to prosperity" with the villagers.
(People's Daily Online reporters Lin Xiaoli (林晓丽) and Li Weiyi (李唯一) compiled)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国两会) that "developing new quality productive forces is crucial for promoting high-quality development and enhancing economic competitiveness." During the 2023 National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国两会), he proposed "humanistic economics," stating that "places with highly developed cultures also have economies that are at the forefront. We can study the humanistic economics within this." To comprehensively advance the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization, both strong material strength and strong spiritual strength are needed. New quality productive forces, as one of the original and iconic concepts in Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought, are a scientific understanding of the laws of productive force development formed on the basis of focusing on the "two overall situations" and scientifically grasping the development trend of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. Cultural soft power, as an important part of Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, provides deep support for enhancing the cohesion and creativity of the Chinese nation and demonstrates important value in the historical process of accelerating the evolution of the century-long changes. New quality productive forces and cultural soft power are unified in the great practice of comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development and in the grand process of creating a new form of human civilization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" will incorporate "accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and leading the development of new quality productive forces" and "stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the whole nation and promoting the prosperity and development of socialist culture" into the strategic tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and make important deployments. We must deeply grasp the inherent logic of their mutual empowerment and common development, and continuously consolidate the material foundation of Chinese-style modernization and enhance the spiritual strength to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
There is a close connection between new quality productive forces and cultural soft power.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "National prosperity and national rejuvenation require the accumulation of material civilization and the sublimation of spiritual civilization." Marxism believes that material production is the basis of historical development, and spiritual production reacts to material production. The two interact to promote social development. New quality productive forces, as a concentrated reflection of the revolutionary leap in the field of material production, promote the movement of the basic contradictions of society and embody the development direction of intelligence, greening, and integration. It can not only promote technological progress and improve production efficiency, but also promote the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society. Cultural soft power is rooted in advanced relations of production and provides inexhaustible cultural impetus for the continuous and healthy development of new quality productive forces with its powerful spiritual driving force. The two embody the dialectical relationship of mutual dependence and mutual promotion between material strength and spiritual strength, and between the economic base and the superstructure, and are the embodiment of humanistic economic development.
From the perspective of the main position of people, the development of new quality productive forces requires development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people. This is the era interpretation of Marx's ultimate value of promoting the free and all-round development of people in the field of productive forces. New quality productive forces liberate workers from programmed and repetitive labor through new technologies, which is not only the liberation and development of productive forces, but also a profound "labor liberation," opening up new scenarios and spaces for the free and all-round development of people. In the process of developing new quality productive forces, knowledge, skills, innovative thinking, etc. play an important role, transforming laborers from passive "factors of production" in the past into "leaders" and "dynamic actors" of value creation, promoting the leap in people's abilities. At the same time, new quality productive forces led by digital technology and information technology present the characteristics of precision, inclusiveness, and efficiency, which can better meet the growing personalized, diversified, and high-quality material and cultural needs of the people, and realize the dialectical unity of development value and people's needs. Therefore, the development of new quality productive forces not only improves material production capacity, but also strengthens the main position of people in the historical process. It is a vivid practice of the people-centered development thought at the productive force level, and profoundly reflects the development philosophy of "seeing people more than things."
From the perspective of the dialectical relationship between social existence and social consciousness, the development of new quality productive forces lays the foundation for the prosperity and development of socialist culture, confirming the basic principles of Marxism that social existence determines social consciousness and social consciousness actively reacts to social existence. On the one hand, as an advanced social existence, new quality productive forces greatly improve the efficiency, quality, and sustainability of material wealth creation, providing a solid material foundation and innovation impetus for the prosperity and development of socialist culture. On the other hand, the development of new quality productive forces and the wide application of digital technology not only revolutionize the creative forms, communication channels, and acceptance methods of spiritual civilization forms such as culture and art, but also greatly stimulate the cultural creativity of the whole society, optimize the supply structure of spiritual products, and break down the barriers of time and space, promoting the wide sharing of high-quality cultural resources. Furthermore, the development of new quality productive forces is not only related to material abundance, but also to people's spiritual wealth and value realization, thereby promoting the overall society from material affluence to spiritual affluence, and can promote the new landscape of coordinated growth of material strength and spiritual strength.
From the perspective of the law of contradiction movement between productive forces and relations of production, the development of new quality productive forces inevitably requires the formation of new relations of production that are adapted to it, and gives rise to new cultural forms. This will promote the deep integration of "cultural soft power" from the category of superstructure into the core of productive forces, forming a powerful "cultural productive force." This is specifically reflected in the following aspects. First, cultural elements such as creativity, design, intellectual property rights, and brand value will gradually become new factors of production and be embedded in the entire process from research and development to service, becoming an important source of value creation. Second, the integrated development model characterized by "culture +" injects new connotations and new vitality into the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, which helps to spawn new business forms and new scenarios, demonstrating the power of cultural and economic integration. Third, the new era of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics provides indispensable ethical norms and value guidance for scientific and technological innovation and the development of new quality productive forces, ensuring that its development always serves to promote the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society.
In general, new quality productive forces provide a material foundation and technological carrier for cultural prosperity and development, and cultural soft power injects a spiritual core and value soul into the development of new quality productive forces. The two adapt to each other, empower each other, and prosper together in the movement of contradictions, jointly promoting the evolution of production methods and lifestyles, social forms and civilization forms.
The ideological guidance of mutual empowerment and common development of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "New quality productive forces are dominated by innovation, get rid of the traditional economic growth mode and productive force development path, have the characteristics of high technology, high efficiency, and high quality, and are advanced productive forces that meet the new development concept." "Cultural soft power and influence are important components of comprehensive national strength." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition places the coordinated development of the two at the strategic height of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, providing fundamental guidance and action guidelines for developing new quality productive forces and enhancing cultural soft power.
Elevate the development of new quality productive forces to the strategic height of building new national competitive advantages. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) firmly grasped the historic opportunity of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and proposed that new quality productive forces "take the substantial increase of total factor productivity as the core symbol, the characteristic is innovation, the key is quality, and the essence is advanced productive forces," "developing new quality productive forces is the inherent requirement and important focus of promoting high-quality development," "adhere to leading industrial upgrading with scientific and technological innovation, and constantly spawn new quality productive forces," and so on. These important expositions profoundly answer the questions of what new quality productive forces are and how to develop new quality productive forces. Developing new quality productive forces requires strengthening scientific and technological innovation, especially original and disruptive scientific and technological innovation, and applying scientific and technological innovation achievements to specific industries and industrial chains in a timely manner, transforming and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, deploying and building future industries, and improving the modern industrial system; unblocking the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent, improving the basic system supporting comprehensive innovation, and deepening economic system reform and scientific and technological system reform. These strategic deployments clearly outline the grand blueprint of leading industrial upgrading with scientific and technological innovation and shaping new momentum and new advantages for development.
Take cultural soft power as an important manifestation of national comprehensive strength. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) stood at the era height of firmly establishing cultural confidence and undertaking cultural missions, emphasizing that "without a high degree of cultural confidence and without the prosperity and prosperity of culture, there would be no great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation"; creatively proposed the important thought of "two combinations," revealing the inevitable path to open up and develop socialism with Chinese characteristics on the basis of the profound foundation of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and also revealing the inevitable path for the Party to promote theoretical innovation and cultural prosperity; requiring continuous improvement of national cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture, and more actively promoting Chinese propositions, disseminating Chinese culture, and demonstrating the Chinese image. At present, the world's century-long changes are accelerating, and the competition for national cultural influence is also becoming increasingly fierce. General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition profoundly reveals the irreplaceable role of cultural soft power in condensing national spirit, leading social trends, shaping national image, and creating new forms of human civilization.
Propose the major proposition of humanistic economics. Humanistic economics is the theoretical crystallization of the organic unity of Xi Jinping's (习近平) economic thought and Xi Jinping's (习近平) cultural thought, which transcends the theoretical defects of Western mainstream economics that simplify people into "rational economic people" and "see things but not people," and effectively solves the "humanistic paradox" of the coexistence of economic development and spiritual poverty. Promoting the development of humanistic economics requires adhering to the people-centered development thought, promoting the coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization, emphasizing that culture is a "booster" for economic development, economic development requires humanistic value empowerment, and cultural prosperity requires economic foundation support. Humanistic economics provides value guidance and methodological guidance for coordinating the development of new quality productive forces and enhancing cultural soft power from the philosophical height of economic and cultural integration and mutual promotion, which is not only an important innovation in the theory of Chinese-style modernization, but also contributes Chinese wisdom with deep humanistic care to the world in response to challenges such as development imbalance and spiritual poverty.
Clarify the inherent mechanism of mutual empowerment between new quality productive forces and cultural soft power. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "the soul of a country is cultivated and cast by culture," emphasizing that "scientific achievements cannot be separated from spiritual support," and need to "cultivate a good academic style and create an innovative atmosphere," and "vigorously promote the spirit of scientists." These important expositions profoundly reveal that new quality productive forces have given cultural soft power the wings of science and technology, making its dissemination wider, its influence deeper, and its forms newer; cultural soft power has provided a spiritual engine for new quality productive forces, injecting value soul, stimulating innovation vitality, and creating a good ecology for it. The two interact and achieve each other in the "two combinations," jointly serving the great goal of building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation, requiring further enhancement of the ability to coordinate development and security, coordinate material civilization and spiritual civilization, and coordinate scientific and technological innovation and cultural development, and be good at using dialectical thinking to deal with the relationship between the two, and avoid "one hand hard and one hand soft" (一手硬、一手软 - (yī shǒu yìng, yī shǒu ruǎn - "one hand hard, one hand soft," to be strong in one aspect but weak in another, indicating an imbalance or lack of coordination). This systematic top-level design and practical requirements ensure that the development of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power resonate at the same frequency and converge in the same direction, forming a powerful synergy to promote Chinese-style modernization.
Mutual promotion and co-construction of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power in the practice of Chinese-style modernization construction.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "After five years of hard work, the '14th Five-Year Plan' has come to a successful conclusion. China's economic strength, scientific and technological strength, national defense strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached a new level, and Chinese-style modernization has taken new solid steps. In our hard work, we have further enhanced our ambition, backbone, and confidence, and we are more determined and confident in promoting the construction of a strong country and realizing the rejuvenation of the nation." Under the guidance of the Party's innovative theory, in the magnificent practice of Chinese-style modernization, new quality productive forces and cultural soft power resonate at the same frequency and complement each other. The tide of scientific and technological innovation is surging, and the vitality of cultural creation is bursting forth. The two promote each other and release huge energy, which is reshaping the development pattern, improving the quality of development, and enhancing the confidence of development with unprecedented strength, fully demonstrating the unique advantages and strong vitality of the Chinese path.
Forge institutional advantages to build a solid guarantee for the coordinated development of the two. The socialist system with Chinese characteristics is the fundamental institutional guarantee for the development and progress of contemporary China, and has extraordinary organizational mobilization capabilities, coordination capabilities, and implementation capabilities, providing an important guarantee for developing new quality productive forces and enhancing cultural soft power. For example, in the face of the "bottleneck" problem of key core technologies, the Party Central Committee takes overall responsibility and coordinates all parties, gives play to the advantages of the socialist system in concentrating efforts to do big things, efficiently integrates scientific research forces and resources, and vigorously tackles key problems in major scientific and technological projects. This advantage provides a fundamental support for the historical breakthrough of new quality productive forces from scratch and from weak to strong in key areas; this great practice of overcoming difficulties has also forged great spirits such as the manned spaceflight spirit of being particularly able to endure hardship, particularly able to fight, particularly able to tackle key problems, and particularly able to dedicate, becoming a vivid symbol of national will and national strength in cultural soft power. For another example, the socialist market economy system can promote a better combination of an effective market and a promising government. For the development of new quality productive forces, this can promote the accelerated flow, efficient allocation, and optimized combination of factors of production such as capital, talent, and data in an efficient, standardized, fair, competitive, and fully open national unified market under new technological conditions; for cultural creation, the market mechanism can promote the bursting of cultural creation vitality, the diversification and personalization of cultural consumption demand, and force the continuous innovation and quality improvement of cultural product supply. The government's "visible hand" can play an important guiding and regulating role, and provide solid policy support and a good market environment for consolidating the industrial foundation of cultural soft power by improving cultural economic policies and improving the modern cultural industry system and market system.
Innovation-driven development opens up broad space for the deep integration of the two. Chinese-style modernization abandons the Western modernization centered on capital, materialism expansion, and polarization, and takes the high-quality development that better meets the people's needs for a better life as its essential requirement. For example, in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, cutting-edge technologies have developed rapidly and have been widely used in the entire chain of cultural product creation, production, dissemination, and consumption, becoming a powerful engine for cultural innovation, a new carrier for cultural dissemination, and a new driving force for cultural consumption, making Chinese civilization radiate unprecedented attractiveness, appeal, and influence in the information age, and significantly enhancing China's cultural soft power. For another example, promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development is not only an inherent requirement and important direction for the development of new quality productive forces, but also profoundly reshaping the value concepts and behavior patterns of the entire society, and is breeding a new view of ecological civilization and a culture of sustainable development. The magnificent practice of green development not only spawns green productive forces, but also cultivates an ecological ethics of respecting nature, conforming to nature, and protecting nature in the entire society, becoming one of the most distinctive spiritual symbols of contemporary China, and becoming a vivid practice of China's cultural soft power playing an important role in responding to the global ecological crisis and creating new forms of human civilization.
Sublimating value pursuits injects spiritual power into the convergence of the two in the same direction. While creating tremendous material achievements, Chinese-style modernization also profoundly tempers, condenses, and sublimates the value pursuits and spiritual character of the entire nation, providing a lasting source of power for the convergence and mutual empowerment of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power. For example, Chinese-style modernization adheres to the principle that development is for the people, relies on the people, and its fruits are shared by the people. This value orientation profoundly affects the development direction of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power, promoting the development of new quality productive forces to genuinely enhance the people's well-being, and the improvement of cultural soft power to focus on providing richer and higher-quality spiritual food. For example, Chinese-style modernization is a pioneering undertaking unprecedented in history, and it will inevitably face various risks, challenges, and difficulties. The Chinese Communists have forged a spiritual lineage with the great spirit of party building as its source in the extraordinary journey of more than 100 years. These valuable spiritual assets provide spiritual motivation for the development of new quality productive forces, inspiring generations of scientific researchers to be indifferent to fame and fortune, concentrate on research, and bravely climb to new heights; these great spirits are also an important part of China's cultural soft power, and are widely praised and promoted through various forms such as literary and artistic works, news reports, theoretical interpretations, and model publicity, becoming the most basic, deepest, and most lasting force for uniting people's hearts, inspiring fighting spirit, and shaping the image of the country and the nation.
Providing Chinese Solutions for the Leap in Productivity and Cultural Prosperity in Creating New Forms of Human Civilization
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization provides a brand-new choice for the vast number of developing countries." The mutual empowerment and coordinated development of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power far exceed the scope of a single country or region in their impact and significance. They are important driving forces for shaping a new picture of future human development, responding to common global challenges, and promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. They will inevitably provide Chinese solutions for the leap in productivity and cultural prosperity while promoting the building of a more just and reasonable global governance system and creating new forms of human civilization.
Transcending the Materialistic Dilemma Dominated by Capital Logic and Pursuing the Unity of Material and Spiritual Civilization. New quality productive forces are advanced productive forces that conform to the new development concept. Relying on digital technology empowerment, they can not only create more dignified and creative forms of labor, but also promote fairer, more inclusive, and shared development results, avoiding falling into the growth trap at the expense of workers' well-being and the environment. Enhancing cultural soft power and focusing on deepening cultural system reform and stimulating cultural innovation and creativity are conducive to building a common spiritual home for the Chinese nation and promoting the common values of all mankind. The coordinated progress of the two promotes the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society, transcending the dilemma in Western modernization in which the unlimited expansion of capital leads to the supremacy of technical rationality and the squeezing of humanistic care, and contributing Chinese solutions for mankind to explore a more humane development path.
Abandoning the Old Thinking of Zero-Sum Games and Advocating Civilized Dialogue of Exchange and Mutual Learning. Chinese-style modernization is a modernization that follows the path of peaceful development. In the process of promoting and expanding Chinese-style modernization, the coordinated development of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power contains the civilized view of "harmony in diversity" and "**美美与共**" (měi měi yǔ gòng - "appreciate each other's beauty," a world in which all civilizations coexist harmoniously and appreciate each other's unique qualities). For example, in the field of science and technology, we adhere to open innovation, cooperation, and win-win results, promote the building of a global science and technology governance system centered on the United Nations and with the equal participation of all countries, and create an open, fair, just, and non-discriminatory science and technology development environment; in the field of culture, we firmly advocate transcending civilization barriers with civilization exchanges, transcending civilization conflicts with civilization mutual learning, and transcending civilization superiority with civilization coexistence, respecting the diversity of world civilizations, and advocating enhancing understanding and eliminating prejudice through equal dialogue. For example, new quality productive forces have built a convenient bridge for exchanges and mutual learning between different civilizations, making cross-temporal and spatial cultural sharing and dialogue a norm; the wisdom of " **天下大同**" (tiān xià dà tóng - "the world is one community," an ideal world of universal harmony and equality) and "**协和万邦**" (xié hé wàn bāng - "harmonious relations among all nations," all nations living in peace and harmony) in the outstanding traditional Chinese culture carried by cultural soft power provides valuable ideological resources for resolving international disputes and promoting the reform of the global governance system. The two cooperate with each other to promote dialogue instead of conflict, consultation instead of coercion, and win-win instead of zero-sum, combining the interests of one's own country with the common interests of all countries, and striving to expand the convergence point of the common interests of all countries, realizing a fundamental transcendence of the old logic of "national strength must lead to hegemony," and injecting powerful positive energy into the building of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Creating a New Paradigm for Human Civilizational Progress and Contributing Chinese Answers for Harmonious Coexistence. The mutual empowerment of new quality productive forces and cultural soft power reflects a more inclusive and sustainable model of civilizational development that is different from the Western modernization path. This paradigm adheres to the combination of innovation-driven and humanistic leadership, promoting scientific and technological development to serve the all-round development of people and the all-round progress of society; pursuing the coordination of material abundance and spiritual enrichment, avoiding one-way material expansion; paying attention to the harmony between scientific and technological progress and ecological civilization, and following the path of civilized development of production development, affluent life, and good ecology; emphasizing the integration of national characteristics and a global perspective, both rooted in the land of China and with a global vision, contributing Chinese wisdom to the practice of the common values of all mankind; and committing to the balance between development efficiency and social fairness, and steadily promoting common prosperity in high-quality development, outlining the distinct characteristics of new forms of human civilization, which is a powerful response to the "end of history theory" and the "clash of civilizations theory," and indicates the bright prospects for the diversified development of human civilization.
(The author is the Party Secretary of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学))
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Cultural originality is an important component of cultural soft power and a crucial lever for enhancing cultural confidence and steadily advancing the construction of a strong cultural nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must strive to improve cultural originality and produce more high-quality works." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "enhance cultural originality" and "promote the digital and intelligent empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction." Currently, China's economic and social development is accelerating towards intelligence, and the construction of cultural originality has developed from digital transformation using computer and internet technology to a new stage of technology cluster empowerment dominated by artificial intelligence. We must start from strengthening content creation, technological support, developing industrial systems, and improving institutional innovation to focus on enhancing cultural originality in the digital and intelligent era, so as to prevent algorithmic hegemony, enhance digital sovereignty, improve the national cultural security coefficient, stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation, and promote the prosperity and development of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era.
Enhancing cultural originality in the digital and intelligent era allows the production side to launch a series of cultural masterpieces with profound thoughts, exquisite art, and excellent production, and promote the deep integration of cultural original IP with related industries, realizing a virtuous cycle of cross-border integration and value increment of the industrial chain; the consumption side can develop high-quality cultural consumption formats, especially based on digital and intelligent empowerment, to create new cultural consumption scenarios that are perceptible, immersive, interactive, widely driven, and highly visible. Through the combination of new elements and new technologies, we can create cultural products that reflect the lives of the masses, express the emotions of the masses, and serve the spiritual needs of the masses, enhancing the people's sense of cultural gain and happiness. Specifically, we can focus on the following aspects.
Consolidate the foundation of cultural content. The vitality of culture lies in innovation and creation. Strengthening content production is the key to enriching the supply of high-quality culture. We must accelerate the creation of a national creative ecosystem and release the value fission ability of cultural originality. Taking high-quality content as the core, we will fully integrate outstanding traditional Chinese culture with digital and intelligent technologies, and continuously improve cultural originality through diversified expression and cross-border linkage. Combining technological embedding with value leadership, based on outstanding traditional Chinese culture, we will realize the three-dimensional linkage of digital and intelligent empowerment, value orientation, and cultural aesthetics, and promote Chinese culture and condense the Chinese spirit in innovation and creation. Outstanding traditional Chinese culture is a high-quality resource for digital cultural creation. Currently, more and more digital cultural products incorporate outstanding traditional Chinese cultural elements in their plots, themes, and other content. For example, the "Genesis Classic of Mountains and Seas" immersive digital art exhibition decodes and reconstructs the *Classic of Mountains and Seas* (《山海经》) with digital technology, allowing the audience to experience the mythical world in an immersive way; the re-creation of the *Ten Scenes of West Lake* (《西湖十景图》) with generative artificial intelligence technology, and the immersive experience display project *Light and Shadow Danqing* (《光影丹青》) based on naked-eye 3D and somatosensory interaction technology, etc., use various means to show the beauty of Chinese culture, reflecting the deep co-creation of cultural connotation, content mining, and contemporary narrative. The cultural originality of the digital and intelligent era originates from the collective intelligence of data-driven, human-machine collaboration, and interactive narrative collaboration. We must accelerate the development of new mass literature and art under the conditions of the internet, make good use of new technologies and new carriers to do a good job in innovative transformation, fully release the value and vitality of high-quality cultural resources, and realize the mass participation, mass co-creation, and mass dissemination of cultural creation.
Strengthen the support of cutting-edge technology. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Culture and technology promote each other. We must explore effective mechanisms for the integration of culture and technology, and use internet thinking and information technology to improve the cultural creation and production process." The development of digital and intelligent technology has greatly enriched the tools and platforms for cultural creation and has become a key support for enhancing cultural originality. The cultural originality of the digital and intelligent era is essentially a systemic innovation capability. We must continuously enhance the independent technological innovation capability in the field of cultural creativity, accelerate the breakthrough of key technological bottlenecks restricting the development of cultural originality, build a support framework for cutting-edge digital and intelligent technology, and encourage cultural enterprises to carry out pioneering explorations in cutting-edge technology fields such as real-time rendering technology, physical simulation engines, and advanced artificial intelligence algorithms. For example, the multi-level and multi-dimensional immersive experience created by the first domestic 3A game *Black Myth: Wukong* (《黑神话：悟空》) relies on the "Unreal Engine 5" development engine and spatial computing technology, dynamic lighting technology, and environmental rendering technology. We must use digital and intelligent technology as a new type of cultural labor tool and a supporting element for the innovative allocation of elements, promote the deep coupling of mass originality and algorithmic originality, accelerate the construction of a corpus mainly based on the Chinese knowledge ontology, strengthen the formulation of cultural technology standards, and promote cultural innovation into a new stage of "leading".
Strengthen the cultural industry system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must promote the high-quality development of the cultural industry, improve the modern cultural industry system and market system, promote the development and growth of various cultural market entities, and cultivate new cultural formats and cultural consumption models." Strengthening the cultural industry system helps to cultivate new cultural formats and cultural consumption models, creating a good ecology for the continuous release of cultural originality. We must build a high-quality cultural original industrial system, construct a digital and intelligent cultural industrial system covering the entire chain of "cultural resources - content creation - derivative creativity - technology adaptation - scene transformation - cluster leap", and realize the high efficiency and intelligence of cultural resource allocation and cultural element flow. Accelerate the exploration of digital, experiential, and interactive new cultural formats, expand the source of cultural creativity and enhance the cultural experience based on technological empowerment and cultural institution linkage, promote the formation of cultural products with economic, social, cultural, and other multi-dimensional values, and transform cultural originality into cultural consumption power. For example, the "Western Xia Mausoleum · National Treasure Restoration" digital cultural and creative blind box launched by the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region Museum (宁夏回族自治区博物馆) reproduces the charm of cultural relics with digital art, allowing the audience to feel the charm of outstanding traditional Chinese culture in a refreshing way, while forming an emerging cultural and creative brand and releasing new cultural consumption energy.
Give play to the advantages of institutional innovation. Giving play to the role of institutional innovation as a "source accelerator" helps to reduce the transaction costs and rights risks of originality, and supports and guides the continuous emergence of cultural original products. The *Several Economic Policies on Promoting High-Quality Cultural Development* (《关于推动文化高质量发展的若干经济政策》) issued in January 2025 proposed to "improve cultural originality, focusing on supporting the creation of high-quality works in the fields of literature, art, news, publishing, film and television, animation, etc.", reflecting the promotion of institutional innovation to the improvement of cultural originality. We must accelerate integrated institutional innovation, establish and improve the data sovereignty protection mechanism, accelerate the construction of a new type of intellectual property benign circulation and benefit sharing mechanism in the digital and intelligent era, and realize the institutional innovation that combines incentives and predictability to empower the improvement of cultural originality. Increase support for the premiere, first exhibition, and first sale of cultural original products. For example, Fujian Province (福建省) supports the creation of the "Fupin First Release" platform, and Chengdu (成都) in Sichuan (四川) cultivates the first release economic circle, providing full-chain support for cultural original products and creating new cultural consumption scenarios. Improve the institutional design for cultivating cultural original talents, accelerate the creation of an innovative talent gathering ecology that protects original innovation and integrates human-machine collaboration, better respond to the challenges brought by the human-machine collaborative reshaping of the traditional cultural labor structure, and create a good atmosphere that encourages creators to co-create.
(The author is a professor at the School of Humanities, Tongji University (同济大学).)
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In recent years, automated external defibrillators (AEDs) have become increasingly popular in public places, winning valuable treatment time for some patients with sudden cardiac arrest and accumulating valuable experience for pre-hospital emergency services. However, some netizens have also reported that AED supply is still insufficient, and they do not know where the equipment is when they urgently need to use it, nor how to use it.
How can AEDs gradually achieve "easy to find and use"? Some places have made explorations.
Extensive training to enable more people to have first aid skills
Next to the football field in the Hanjiang Bay Sports Park (汉江湾体育公园) in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), an elderly man in his sixties who was watching the game suddenly suffered a myocardial infarction and fell to the ground. The rescuers found the AED in the football field as soon as possible for rescue, and the elderly man was out of danger. According to reports, the park covers an area of 1.2 million square meters and is equipped with 7 AEDs. The football field where the elderly man fell happened to have one.
At an intersection in Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), a person suddenly fell ill and fainted in the traffic. At a critical moment, a passing online car-hailing driver decisively stopped the car and, with his first aid skills and the AED in the car, performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation on him before the ambulance arrived, and the person was finally out of danger.
Such scenarios happen almost every day. Chen Zhi (陈志), chief physician of the Beijing Emergency Medical Center (北京急救中心), introduced that the "golden time" for emergency treatment during sudden cardiac arrest is only 4 minutes. For every minute of delay, the patient's survival rate will decrease by 10%; after more than 10 minutes, the success rate of rescue is almost zero.
According to statistics from the Red Cross Society of China (中国红十字会), as of December 2025, more than 86,000 AEDs have been equipped in public places across the country.
First aid skills training is also constantly being carried out, and more and more people understand and can perform first aid.
"AEDs should be valued like fire extinguishers and widely configured and used," said Lü Chuanzhu (吕传柱), chairman of the Emergency Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association (中华医学会急诊医学分会). He said that 80% of sudden cardiac arrest patients have ventricular fibrillation, which is a fatal arrhythmia in which ventricular electrical activity is disordered, leading to the loss of effective contraction function of the heart, and is the main cause of sudden cardiac death. Ventricular fibrillation must be corrected by electrical defibrillation. The main function of AED is cardiac electrical defibrillation. Electrical defibrillation temporarily interrupts the abnormal electrical activity of the heart through current, allowing the heart's pacemaker to re-dominate the heart's rhythm, thereby restoring a normal heartbeat. In addition to ventricular fibrillation, sudden cardiac arrest also includes bradyarrhythmia and pauses. The emergency treatment for these situations is high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation. When these situations occur, the AED will judge and prompt that electric shock is not recommended, and through auxiliary prompts, help rescuers continue to perform high-quality cardiopulmonary resuscitation operations.
In addition, many people are confused as to whether myocardial infarction is equal to sudden cardiac death. What is the relationship between the two? Lü Chuanzhu (吕传柱) introduced that myocardial infarction is the blockage of the coronary artery and the interruption of myocardial blood supply, which belongs to the "blood vessel problem." Sudden cardiac death is a disorder of the heart's electrical activity, which belongs to the "circuit problem." Myocardial infarction can lead to myocardial ischemia, which in turn causes electrical signal disorders, induces ventricular fibrillation, and ultimately leads to sudden cardiac death.
According to statistics from the National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (国家心血管病中心), more than 550,000 people in China die from sudden cardiac death every year, which means that an average of about 1,500 patients die from sudden cardiac arrest every day.
Jia Dacheng (贾大成), a senior emergency expert at the Beijing Emergency Medical Center (北京急救中心), suggested that local governments should configure 100-200 AEDs per 100,000 people based on the local population. The number of AEDs should be increased in densely populated areas where out-of-hospital cardiac arrest is more likely to occur.
At present, China's unified AED information system has not yet been established, and the public does not know where to find AEDs in an emergency. In addition, the accuracy of AED location in intelligent positioning programs is low, and it is impossible to accurately navigate in office buildings to help rescuers quickly find the equipment.
Having hardware equipment in place is only the first step in "emergency civilization." Only by enabling more people to have emergency knowledge, be able to use it, and dare to use it can the "life-saving artifact" truly play its role.
In the past 5 years, the national Red Cross system has carried out more than 22.27 million emergency rescue certification training sessions. The Red Cross Society of China (中国红十字会), in close cooperation with relevant departments, organizes a large number of Red Cross rescue teachers and volunteers to go deep into campuses, communities, enterprises, etc. to carry out training and drills, and open "first aid stalls" to popularize emergency rescue knowledge and skills such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation to the public.
At present, the Red Cross Society of China (中国红十字会) offers courses for the public such as 16-hour rescuer courses, 8-hour junior rescuer courses, and 4-hour cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) + AED training courses, all of which include training content on the use of AEDs.
Equipping mobile AEDs and continuously expanding social rescue teams
In Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北), deliveryman Zhang Baojian's (张宝剑) electric car is equipped with a box containing AEDs, hemostatic kits and other first aid supplies. "It will always come in handy," Zhang Baojian (张宝剑) often says.
One day at noon in March 2025, Zhang Baojian (张宝剑) saw an elderly man lying on the ground on his way to deliver food. He immediately stopped delivering food and took out the first aid kit and AED he carried with him to carry out rescue, winning valuable treatment time for the injured.
Since then, Zhang Baojian (张宝剑) initiated the establishment of the "Jiangcheng Rider" (江城骑侠) volunteer service team to carry out dozens of fire emergency, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and AED use training sessions. Now there are more than 1,000 riders who have mastered first aid skills. As of the end of 2025, the volunteer service team has rescued people more than 100 times.
In addition to Wuhan (武汉), many places such as Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), and Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) have seen the emergence of "emergency rescue rider" teams. Delivery riders have obtained Red Cross rescuer certificates after training and have transformed into urban "emergency light cavalry."
"With AED inside, emergency can break the window," some private cars, taxis, and buses in Shanghai (上海), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), and Putian (莆田), Fujian (福建) have also joined the "mobile AED" team. Many drivers have undergone first aid skills training. The "mobile + fixed" model makes AEDs highly complementary, allowing the equipment to cover a wider area and making rescue more efficient.
In 2025, Shanghai (上海) piloted the "road rescue" action. Thirty medical personnel from Ruijin Hospital (瑞金医院) affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (上海交通大学医学院), Xinhua Hospital (新华医院) affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (上海交通大学医学院), and Shanghai Sixth People's Hospital (上海市第六人民医院) were equipped with AEDs in their private cars. Ma Junjun (马君俊), director of general surgery at Ruijin Hospital (瑞金医院), equipped his private car with an AED, and an AED logo was also affixed to the rear window of the car. When he sees someone suffering from sudden cardiac arrest, even if he is not near the car, people with first aid skills can contact him through the phone number on the logo.
Multiple places explore "AED maps" to make emergency equipment easier to find
When you really need to use it, how can you quickly find an AED?
This tests the convenience and accessibility of AED information network construction. At present, Beijing (北京), Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), Zibo (淄博), Shandong (山东) and other places are exploring new mechanisms and models for social emergency rescue, and have accumulated a lot of experience that can be used for reference in weaving a "life-saving network."
Since 2017, Shenzhen (深圳) has successively put in a large number of AEDs. According to Shenzhen's (深圳) permanent population of 17 million in 2024, the AED deployment ratio is 258 units/100,000 people. As of March 15 this year, these devices have successfully saved 198 lives. With the empowerment of big data and information technology, the "5-minute social rescue circle" has become a reality.
Shenzhen (深圳) has established a three-level emergency response model to allow citizens to quickly find AEDs. Open WeChat and search for the "AED Navigation" mini program to find the nearest AED, and follow the navigation prompts to retrieve it for rescue.
In the "5-minute social rescue circle" demonstration area in Shenzhen (深圳), each building in the residential area is set with a QR code. In an emergency, residents can scan the code to call for help with one click in the system. The property monitoring room in the community can accurately locate the incident point. The system also dispatches ambulances and automatically matches 2-3 nearby certified first aid volunteers. Some communities can even assign a volunteer to obtain the nearest AED to achieve the simultaneous arrival of "people + equipment." Through the online emergency rescue system, it is possible to achieve visual communication with professional emergency doctors and improve the efficiency of on-site emergency rescue before the ambulance arrives at the scene.
"By integrating and connecting emergency resources through big data, we are turning the original 'occasional' emergency rescue into 'online appointment' emergency rescue," said Hu Hanhan (胡晗翰), deputy general manager of Tencent SSV Social Emergency Laboratory (腾讯SSV社会应急实验室). "**打通信息壁垒** (dǎ tōng xìn xī bì lěi - "break down information barriers," to remove obstacles to information flow), let emergency resources flow and optimize according to actual needs."
Zibo (淄博), Shandong (山东) has configured more than 2,200 AEDs in the past 5 years, covering densely populated places such as schools, scenic spots, and parks, with a deployment density of 47 units per 100,000 people. In order to make AEDs more accessible, the local 120 command and dispatch platform launched the "Emergency Volunteer Map" WeChat mini program, which connects AED points, the 120 platform, and surrounding volunteers to the map. He Jiaben (何家本), director of the Disaster Relief and Rescue Department of the Zibo Red Cross Society (淄博市红十字会赈灾救护部), introduced that by integrating information such as volunteers' home addresses and activity radius with AED point data, after the 120 command center receives a call for help, the dispatcher can quickly and synchronously match the emergency rescue volunteers and AEDs closest to the incident site, making the "golden 4-minute" emergency rescue circle possible.
In Beijing (北京), the AED electronic map is connected to the 120 dispatch and command system, and citizens can know where the nearby AEDs are in the Gaode Map (高德地图) APP.
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In recent days, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Long-Term Care Insurance System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"). From the central level, the document clarifies the institutional positioning and policy design of long-term care insurance, marking a new stage in which the long-term care insurance system shifts from pilot exploration to comprehensive establishment.
Deeply Understand the Strategic and Practical Significance of Accelerating the Establishment of a Long-Term Care Insurance System
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to establish a statistical survey and release system for the elderly, a long-term care security system that connects relevant insurance, welfare, and assistance, an elderly guardianship system, a classified management system for elderly care institutions, formulate family elderly care support policies, care service policies for rural left-behind elderly, charitable support policies for assisting the elderly, and incentive policies for elderly service talents, promote the connection of various policies and systems, and enhance policy synergy. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council have made a series of deployments for the construction of a long-term care insurance system based on a deep understanding of the development trend of population aging. The Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China clearly stated "accelerating the establishment of a long-term care insurance system," and the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee required "promoting long-term care insurance," which pointed out the direction for accelerating the establishment of the system and promoting its implementation. In accordance with the method of piloting first and then promoting, the state organized a total of 49 cities to carry out pilot projects in 2016 and 2020. Based on summarizing the practical experience of the pilot projects, the "Opinions" were issued to clarify the top-level design of the system and promote the comprehensive implementation of the system, which is of great significance for actively responding to population aging and contributing to Chinese-style modernization.
Accelerating the establishment of a long-term care insurance system is an inherent requirement for actively responding to population aging and improving the social security system. China's population aging is intertwined with the miniaturization and empty-nesting of family structures. The contradiction of "**一人失能、全家失衡**" (yī rén shī néng, quán jiā shī héng - "one person disabled, the whole family unbalanced," when one family member loses the ability to care for themselves, the whole family is thrown into disarray) is relatively prominent, and there is an urgent need to build an effective institutional arrangement to deal with it. On the basis of the existing five major social insurance systems of old-age, medical, work-related injury, unemployment, and maternity, establishing a special social insurance system arrangement for the long-term care needs of disabled people is a key measure for China to build an all-round and integrated strategic layout to respond to population aging. It is also an important guarantee for weaving a tight social security safety net and solving the urgent problems of the masses.
Accelerating the establishment of a long-term care insurance system is an important support for releasing domestic demand potential and helping the development of the silver economy. The long-term care insurance system closely combines investment in things and investment in people. It not only exerts the economic compensation function of the social insurance system, reducing concerns about consumption to a certain extent, but also exerts the strategic purchasing and payment guidance role of the social insurance fund, attracting social capital to enter the long-term care service market, driving the development of related industries in the fields of medicine, elderly care, rehabilitation, and nursing, and encouraging and supporting the innovation and development of digital and intelligent products and technologies in the long-term care field.
Accelerating the establishment of a long-term care insurance system is a key measure to promote employment and enhance social vitality. The implementation of the long-term care insurance system broadens employment channels and increases employment opportunities. The pilot areas provide services for long-term care insurance to approximately 370,000 people. The new occupation of long-term care worker has been established to promote the professionalization and vocationalization of long-term care. Through intensive, socialized, and professional care service supply, more productivity can be liberated from family care and devoted to economic and social construction, enhancing the vitality of social development.
Accurately Grasp the Overall Requirements and Core Policies for Accelerating the Establishment of a Long-Term Care Insurance System
The "Opinions" is a programmatic document for the long-term care insurance system. It proposes the work goal of basically establishing a long-term care insurance system that adapts to China's basic national conditions in about three years, and clarifies the core policies and measures in terms of system arrangement, fund raising, benefit security, and management and operation. It is necessary to deeply understand and accurately grasp these aspects.
Establish a policy system that integrates urban and rural areas. In line with the strategy of urban-rural integration and adapting to the evolving trend of new urban-rural relations, the "Opinions" proposes that the state should unify and standardize policies and systems, and coordinate the design of urban and rural systems. The system no longer distinguishes between employees and residents, but establishes a unified system arrangement, unified fund accounting, and unified use of funds to achieve the joint use of funds on a larger scale. Localities can start by covering groups such as employees of units, retirees, and flexible employees, and gradually achieve full coverage. The level of coordination starts from the city level, and provinces with conditions can explore provincial-level coordination.
Establish a stable and sustainable financing mechanism. Following the principles of mutual assistance and shared responsibility of social insurance, the "Opinions" clarifies policies such as financing channels, financing standards, and sharing mechanisms. Establish diversified financing channels, establish and improve diversified financing channels such as units, individuals, governments, and society, and form an independent, stable, and sustainable source of funds. Establish a benchmark rate system. The state establishes a long-term care insurance benchmark rate system, comprehensively considering the level of economic development, the affordability of all parties, and the sustainable development of the system. The current rate is uniformly controlled at around 0.3%. Determine the contribution base according to capacity. The contribution base is linked to income level. Employees of units, retirees, and unemployed urban and rural residents determine the contribution base based on wage income, pension, and per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents, respectively. People under the age of 18 participate in the insurance with their parents or other legal guardians and do not raise funds separately, which better reflects the fairness of the system. Reasonably divide the responsibilities of all parties. Employees of units are paid by employers and individual employees in the same proportion. Retirees only pay the individual payment part, and the original employer does not pay. Unemployed urban and rural residents are paid by a combination of individual payments and government subsidies. The government provides classified assistance to the personal payment part of eligible people in need to ensure that everyone who should participate is able to participate.
Implement fair and moderate benefit security. Adhering to the principle of ensuring the basics and doing what is possible, the "Opinions" clarifies the provisions on security objects, service items, and benefit standards. Focusing on security objects, starting from solving the security needs of the most urgent groups, the system guarantees severely disabled people in the initial stage. With economic development and system improvement, the state will uniformly study and gradually expand the scope of security objects. Unify security items. The state uniformly formulates a service item catalog for the payment of long-term care insurance funds and dynamically adjusts it. At the current stage, it guarantees 36 basic living care and closely related medical care services. Establish a benefit benchmark. The state establishes a benchmark benefit standard. The long-term care service expenses that meet the regulations are paid by the fund at a ratio of about 70% and 50% for employees of units and unemployed urban and rural residents, respectively. The maximum annual payment limit of the fund does not exceed 50% of the per capita disposable income of urban and rural residents in the coordinated area in the previous year. Implement differentiated benefit security policies according to different disability levels and service provision methods, and encourage the use of home and community care services. Adhere to service payment. The fund mainly purchases services and, in principle, does not directly distribute cash. In addition, the "Opinions" proposes to explore the establishment of a participation incentive and restraint mechanism and to coordinate with other security systems in related fields.
Establish a scientific and standardized management and operation mechanism. Covering the entire chain of management and operation, the "Opinions" proposes to improve the nationally unified disability level assessment standards, establish a payment mechanism that meets the service characteristics of long-term care insurance, strengthen fund management and supervision, improve management and service, and jointly pay long-term care insurance and basic medical insurance, so as to achieve policy and management synergy.
Accelerate the Implementation of the Long-Term Care Insurance System
It is necessary to make every effort to implement the "Opinions," promote the implementation of the long-term care insurance system in a powerful and orderly manner, and gradually expand the scope of system implementation.
Strengthen organization and implementation. Effectively strengthen organizational leadership, consolidate responsibilities at all levels, and adhere to the working mechanism of central coordination, provincial responsibility, and municipal implementation. Strengthen departmental coordination, form a joint working force, fully mobilize the strength of all sectors of society, jointly participate in reform work, and accelerate the establishment of a long-term care insurance system with Chinese characteristics.
Strengthen element support. Promote the timely transformation of relevant institutional requirements of long-term care insurance into legal norms to provide legal support for the implementation of the system. Establish and improve the supporting policies and measures necessary for the implementation of the system around payment management, service management, management, fund supervision, and information construction to ensure the stable implementation of the system and the timely realization of benefits.
Adhere to unified standards. Strengthen the national top-level design and achieve a nationwide approach. Localities should refine and implement the system framework and policy standards clearly defined by the state to achieve unified core policy norms in terms of system model, fund raising, benefit security, assessment standards, payment catalogs, designated management, fund management, and management.
Promote system integration. Give full play to the platform resource aggregation role of the long-term care insurance system and coordinate and promote the construction and development of the nursing service system. Coordinate the planning and utilization of existing elderly care, medical service, and other resources to optimize the allocation of service resources. Encourage the development of commercial insurance, explore the establishment of a multi-level long-term care security system, and promote the formation of a diversified security pattern.
(The author is the Party Secretary and Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Xi'an (西安) dispatch on March 29th (Reporter Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰)) On March 29th, the No. 55002 professional testing train slowly departed from Xi'an East Station (西安东站), heading towards Yunxi Station (郧西站) along the Xishi High-Speed Railway (西十高铁) through the Qinling Mountains (秦岭山脉), marking the official commencement of integrated testing and commissioning for the Shaanxi section of the Xi'an-Shiyan High-Speed Railway. The Hubei section of the Xishi High-Speed Railway initiated integrated testing and commissioning on March 24th. Thus far, the entire Xishi High-Speed Railway has entered the integrated testing and commissioning phase.
The railway authorities, by simulating the operational state of train services, conduct comprehensive testing, verification, and optimization of various systems and interface matching relationships, including tracks, roadbeds, bridges and tunnels, power supply, signaling, communications, and customer service. This process aims to promptly identify and rectify issues in equipment operation, providing crucial technical support for the line's opening and operation.
Construction of the Xishi High-Speed Railway commenced in December 2021 and initiated static acceptance in January of this year. The Xishi High-Speed Railway is an important component of the national "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway network and also a crucial "捺" (捺, the falling stroke of the Chinese character 米) in Shaanxi's "米"-shaped high-speed railway network. The high-speed railway passes through the three cities of Xi'an (西安), Shangluo (商洛), and Shiyan (十堰), connecting to the existing Wuhan-Shiyan High-Speed Railway. The newly built main line is 256.938 kilometers long, with seven stations along the route: Xi'an East (西安东), Lantian (蓝田), Shangluo West (商洛西), Shanyang (山阳), Manchengguan (漫川关), Yunxi (郧西), and Shiyan East (十堰东), among which Shiyan East Station (十堰东站) is an existing station.
Upon the opening of the Xishi High-Speed Railway, travel time from Xi'an (西安) to Shiyan (十堰) will be approximately 1 hour, Xi'an (西安) to Xiangyang (襄阳) is expected to take 2 hours, and Xi'an (西安) to Wuhan (武汉) will be reachable in 3 hours. This will shorten the spatial distance between Shaanxi and the Yangtze River Delta, Pearl River Delta, and other regions, strengthening the connection between the Guanzhong Plain city cluster and the Middle Reaches of Yangtze River city cluster.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 丹
"Today, I finally got the property certificate, and the stone in my heart has finally fallen to the ground..." Not long ago, in Jiangwan Community of Anyuan District, Pingxiang City (萍乡市安源区), Jiangxi Province (江西省), owner Li Lihua (李丽华) received the "big red book" that was 18 years late, unable to hide her excitement. This real estate ownership certificate carries the family's expectations for many years.
In the past, due to problems such as incomplete procedures, illegal construction, or broken chains of funds in some real estate projects, some completed houses in Pingxiang City (萍乡市) lacked the necessary legal elements and could not be registered for property rights. The problem of "having a house without a certificate" directly affected some people's settlement, enrollment, financing, etc.
The pain points of people's livelihood are the targets of governance. Since 2025, Pingxiang City (萍乡市) has been determined to solve the legacy problems, actively soliciting more than 300 clues to the problems, and compiling a general ledger of "registration difficulties" covering 122 projects in the city, building a closed loop of work that includes concept improvement, mechanism innovation, process optimization, and responsibility division. It is understood that since 2025, Pingxiang City (萍乡市) has successfully resolved 122 historical legacy "registration difficulty" projects, unlocking the property rights "shackles" for more than 41,800 houses.
Faced with "registration difficulty" projects with different causes, Pingxiang (萍乡) promotes a customized solution of one policy per building and one discussion per matter. Targeting the blockages and difficulties of each project, it organizes joint consultations with multiple departments such as the Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning, the Bureau of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the Taxation Bureau, tailoring solutions to ensure that policies can be implemented and problems can be truly solved. Pingxiang City (萍乡市) takes problems as the guidance, breaks down the administrative barriers between departments, and establishes a multi-department joint review mechanism. It initiates parallel approval for projects that meet the conditions, changing "people running errands" to "data sharing and internal circulation." This reform has compressed the original approval process, which could take several months, to as fast as 1 working day, realizing the completion of the first registration with complete materials on the same day, and greatly improving the approval efficiency.
Innovate mechanisms, break the deadlock, and ensure priority handling. Some projects are in a deadlock because the developer is out of contact, bankrupt, or unable to pay relevant taxes and fees, resulting in the failure to implement key procedures such as planning acceptance and completion acceptance. To this end, Pingxiang City (萍乡市) boldly explores and implements a dual-track system of "certificate payment separation" and "acceptance of missing documents." On the one hand, under the strict premise of ensuring the quality and safety of houses and fire safety, the problem of home buyers obtaining certificates is separated from the problem of developers' tax recovery, and real estate registration is carried out first, and relevant taxes and fees are continued to be recovered from the responsible entity through judicial channels. On the other hand, for projects that meet the basic registration conditions but temporarily lack non-critical materials, after clarifying the scope of missing documents, the time limit for re-application, and the responsible entity, they will be accepted first and registration will be promoted.
Consolidate responsibilities, and the three-color ledger promotes effectiveness. In order to ensure that the resolution work is implemented, Pingxiang City (萍乡市) has established a three-color ledger dynamic management mechanism. According to the complexity and resolution progress of the problem projects, they are marked in three colors: red (difficult, slow progress), yellow (in progress), and blue (resolved), and graded and classified supervision is implemented. The Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision intervenes in the whole process and carries out embedded supervision, promptly reminding and seriously holding accountable those who fail to fulfill their responsibilities and fail to promote their work, so as to ensure the implementation process with strong supervision.
"Break the shackles of the process, with clear division of labor and efficient collaboration to solve problems." Wu Ruiwen (吴瑞文), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Bureau of Natural Resources and Planning of Pingxiang City (萍乡市自然资源和规划局), said, "In the next step, we will continue to optimize the operation process of policies such as 'certificate payment separation', further refine the implementation rules for the remaining projects, and strive to upgrade the successful exploration in practice to a long-term system, and integrate it into the whole-cycle management of future real estate registration, so as to ensure the efficiency and peace of mind of the masses in obtaining certificates."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 方 敏
Why did a state-owned enterprise executive's son receive millions of yuan from an unknown person when buying a house in Beijing (北京)?
Why was a profitable 10-year hotel lease contract suddenly terminated after only one year?
Why was a bank card, whose holder lived in Hebei (河北), frequently used in Zhengzhou (郑州)?
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Some time ago, a case compiled from this information was sent to the Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision in Henan (河南) Province. The clues all pointed to Li Lin (李林), the head and former Party Secretary of a state-owned hotel group in Nanyang (南阳). The case handlers from the Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision began to unravel the case.
The Li Lin (李林) case involved multiple companies. To evade investigation, Li Lin (李林) deliberately muddled the equity dispute accounts, increasing the difficulty of the investigation. The case handlers from the Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision spent nearly three weeks verifying equity transfers, capital lending, interest settlements, and other data item by item to clarify the ins and outs of her violations of discipline and law.
The breakthrough in the case came from a seemingly ordinary home purchase payment: a person named Chen Rui (陈锐) transferred millions of yuan to Li Lin's (李林) son for the purchase of a house. Following the clues, the investigation team conducted an in-depth investigation and discovered financial funds in the accounts of Li Lin (李林) herself and her relatives, multiple properties under her name and related personnel, and other data. The truth quickly surfaced.
The case handlers found frequent capital exchanges between several unfamiliar companies and Li Lin's (李林) relatives, with particularly dense transfer records between two of the companies. "These companies have nothing to do with Li Lin (李林), but the funds ultimately flowed to the accounts held by her relatives on her behalf," said Pang Ke (庞克), Deputy Director of the Eighth Review and Investigation Office of the Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision.
The source of the suspicious funds pointed to a hospital's rent payment. Following the clues, the case handlers discovered a "strange" property.
This property was located in Zhengzhou (郑州). In 2014, the hotel managed by Li Lin (李林) signed a 10-year lease contract with the property owner, agreeing to lease it annually to open a hotel branch. The branch had a good location and complete facilities, recovering its investment in just 10 months and becoming an important profitable store for the group. However, after only one year, the branch closed.
Why was this? It turned out that Li Lin (李林) had found a new "business opportunity" – a hospital was also interested in the site and was willing to pay higher rent.
Faced with huge profits, Li Lin (李林) had crooked thoughts. She first had her brother-in-law, Chen Rui (陈锐), establish a company, which was actually held on her behalf. First, she terminated the lease contract with the property owner; then, she falsely claimed that her brother-in-law's company was the successor to the original hotel after restructuring, allowing it to renew the lease at the original rent standard; then, she subleased it to the hospital at a price exceeding the original lease price, with an annual increase of 4%.
Through this operation, Li Lin (李林) became a "subleasing intermediary." The income that should have belonged to the state-owned hotel flowed continuously into her personal pocket.
During the investigation, Pang Ke (庞克) also discovered that Li Lin (李林) did not directly collect these rents, but rather withdrew cash through the bank card under Chen Rui's (陈锐) name.
Case handler Ding Ying (丁颖) introduced that Chen Rui's (陈锐) bank card was frequently used to withdraw cash in Zhengzhou (郑州) all year round, but Chen Rui (陈锐) himself rarely left Hebei (河北); Li Lin's (李林) niece's bank card was frequently used to withdraw cash at a bank ATM, which was only one street away from Li Lin's (李林) residential area. "All the evidence shows that Li Lin (李林) herself was using these bank cards," said Ding Ying (丁颖).
In addition to asking others to hold the company on her behalf, Li Lin (李林) also controlled the company's shares as a "shadow." A hotel managed by Li Lin (李林) successfully won the management service project of a school. As long as the service was provided diligently, the project could stably obtain good income every year. Therefore, this also became a "sweet pastry" in her eyes, and she began to plan to profit from it.
In order to achieve private control, Li Lin (李林) proposed that the hotel she managed establish a new company to specifically operate the project. Subsequently, Li Lin (李林) also designated an ordinary employee, Du Yi (杜一), who had no ability to contribute capital, to hold 90% of the shares of this company on her behalf, while the hotel managed by Li Lin (李林) only symbolically held 10% of the shares. Most of the income from the 90% of the shares held by Du Yi (杜一) was pocketed by Li Lin (李林). After packaging, Li Lin (李林) put this high-quality project won by the state-owned enterprise into her personal pocket.
"In the eyes of those who don't know the truth, this company is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the state-owned hotel. In fact, it has become Li Lin's (李林) personal ATM," a member of the investigation team introduced. After that, Li Lin (李林) successively arranged for staff to falsely issue invoices in the name of "consumables" and "salaries," and then withdraw cash through the accounts of some financial personnel and take it for herself, embezzling more than one million yuan.
"Bank cards held on behalf," "shadow shares"... Whether it was receiving money, buying a house, or holding shares, Li Lin (李林) hid behind the scenes and asked others to hold them on her behalf, designing many "firewalls" for her corrupt behavior, trying to 瞒天过海 (mán tiān guò hǎi - "hide from the sky cross the sea," to deceive or hoodwink). However, the Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision successfully penetrated the layers of disguise of Li Lin's (李林) equity holding and nested investment, revealing the truth of this new type of corruption and hidden corruption case. In the end, Li Lin (李林) was sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined by the Wolong (卧龙) District People's Court of Nanyang (南阳) for violating organizational discipline and integrity discipline, and for the crimes of corruption, bribery, and abuse of power by personnel of state-owned enterprises. At the same time, her illegal and criminal funds were recovered.
"These corrupt behaviors occurred in different periods and spread across many places. It used to be like 大海捞针 (dà hǎi lāo zhēn - "search needle in the sea," to find a needle in a haystack) to check manually. Now we use new technologies to improve the effectiveness of handling cases, and we can quickly connect them into a complete chain of evidence, so that hidden 'business-style corruption' has nowhere to hide," a member of the investigation team introduced.
Although the case has been investigated and concluded, the work has not stopped there. The Nanyang (南阳) Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision has deeply promoted reform through cases, promoted the group to improve the regulatory system for state-owned assets, the non-competition restrictions for senior executives of state-owned enterprises, and other institutional mechanisms, to achieve the goal of "investigating and handling a case, improving a set of systems, and solving a type of problem."
(The persons involved in the article are all pseudonyms)
Return to TopBy: 宋卫国
The "business-style corruption" in the Li Lin case is a typical example of a new type of corruption in the state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector. In terms of design, it exhibits three characteristics: "legal packaging, chain operation, and concealed layout."
During the investigation of this case, facing a massive amount of fragmented data, we constructed "three maps" of personal relationships, capital flow, and equity changes, achieving full-chain traceability of the corruption chain. The handling of cases should not only recover illegal and disciplinary funds but also focus on the institutional loopholes exposed by corruption. Through measures such as issuing disciplinary inspection and supervision recommendations and promoting institutional improvements, we strive to achieve the effect of "**查办一案、警示一片、治理一域**" (chá bàn yī àn, jǐng shì yī piàn, zhì lǐ yī yù - "investigate one case, warn a sector, govern an area," to address systemic issues by investigating individual cases).
To prevent new types of corruption in SOEs, we must base ourselves on the strategic goal of advancing the "three no's" (不敢腐、不能腐、不想腐) in an integrated manner, construct a systematic prevention and control system, build a solid "cannot corrupt" defense line, improve the "dare not corrupt" mechanism, and consolidate the foundation of "do not want to corrupt." We must strengthen institutional constraints, focus on key areas such as SOE restructuring, equity management, and related-party transactions, establish systems such as equity penetration verification, related-party transaction filing, and full-process record-keeping of major decisions, and compress the space for rent-seeking. We must also use typical cases as materials to carry out warning education, expose the disguised masks of new types of corruption, and guide SOE leading cadres to establish correct views on power and performance, and cut off the idea of rent-seeking from the ideological level.
(The author is a member of the Standing Committee of the Discipline Inspection Commission and a member of the Supervisory Commission of Nanyang City (南阳市), Henan Province (河南省). This article was compiled by Fang Min (方敏), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 周 帆
Taking "what the people desire" as "the direction of governance," working diligently and practically generation after generation, those seemingly insignificant "latent achievements" will eventually become "visible achievements" praised by the masses.
After a spring rain, the fields are lush green. Zhang Jun, a farmer from Dongheping Community (东和平社区), Laian Street (来安街道), was harvesting artemisia in the greenhouse with a few people. Seeing us arrive, he greeted us warmly and eagerly shared the good news: the price of artemisia has more than doubled since before the Chinese New Year. During the Spring Festival, he successfully transferred 30 mu of land and renewed his contract for 46 mu of land.
A few years ago, when I followed the leaders to conduct research here, Old Zhang grabbed us and poured out his grievances: "Everyone wants to increase their income, but there are no good ways to make money. It would be great if someone could take the lead." The voices of the villagers are the direction of our actions. We sat down with Tang Xing (唐星), the Party Branch Secretary of Dongheping Community (东和平社区), to study new ways to enrich the people. In the end, we focused our hopes for increasing income on the artemisia industry and listed the Party member households who grow artemisia as "wealth-leading vanguards," adopting methods such as "one leading one, one helping many" to encourage "blank households" to plant artemisia.
One good man needs the help of three others. With the help of the "wealth-leading vanguards," the scale of artemisia planting in Dongheping Community (东和平社区) has expanded to 2,600 mu, solving the problem of increasing income for the villagers.
Strengthening the village and enriching the people is the main task of grassroots cadres, and the deciding factor lies in people. The experience of Dongheping Community (东和平社区) was soon replicated, promoted, improved, and enhanced throughout the county. We selected and cultivated 921 "wealth-leading vanguards" composed of village-level cadres, first secretaries stationed in villages, new village cadres returning to their hometowns to revitalize the countryside, and "local experts" and "field talents," who set examples and led the team to work together. Ge Yijin (葛以金), a villager from Xisha Village (西沙村) on the shore of Hongze Lake (洪泽湖), saw others making money by raising crabs and was eager to try it himself, wandering around the crab ponds every day. Jiang Tao (姜涛), the Party Branch Secretary of the village, guessed what he was thinking and said, "Old Ge, why don't you try a few ponds?" Encouraged by Jiang Tao (姜涛), Ge Yijin (葛以金) raised 40 mu of crabs that year. Jiang Tao (姜涛) came every few days to guide him on techniques such as pond cleaning and disinfection, crab seedling selection, feed formulation, and water quality control. The crabs raised by Old Ge grew fat and strong, with a yield of more than 300 jin per mu.
Increasing income for the people is a long-term and arduous task. Relying on individual efforts alone makes it difficult to achieve industrial revitalization. How to integrate existing talents and technologies to develop characteristic industries and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside has become a new issue we have been constantly thinking about. The Organization Department of the County Party Committee organizes experts in agriculture, marketing, finance, and other fields to conduct regular training to enhance the ability of the "wealth-leading vanguards" to lead the people to become rich. With the joint efforts of all parties, the county has cumulatively developed 330 wealth-generating projects in vegetables, peaches, fruits, breeding, and processing, adding more than 8,600 jobs at people's doorsteps.
Strengthening the village, enriching the people, and warming the hearts of the people. This makes us realize that grassroots organization cadres still have great potential in serving to increase income for the people. We should go to the fields more often and listen carefully to the demands of the villagers. Taking "what the people desire" as "the direction of governance," working diligently and practically generation after generation, those seemingly insignificant "latent achievements" will eventually become "visible achievements" praised by the masses.
(The author is a cadre of the Siyang County (泗阳县) Party Committee Organization Department of Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省).)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): In order to fully guarantee spring plowing and preparation for planting and grain production, and in accordance with the unified arrangement for cracking down on counterfeit agricultural materials during spring plowing and preparation for planting, the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部环境资源和食品药品犯罪侦查局) recently issued a notice, deploying a strict crackdown on crimes involving the manufacture and sale of fake and inferior seeds, pesticides, and other agricultural materials in accordance with the law, and effectively safeguarding the order of agricultural production and the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of farmers.
According to reports, the public security organs will seize the peak period of demand for seeds, medicines, and fertilizers during spring plowing and preparation for planting, as well as the time nodes when agricultural materials are produced and stored in large quantities, and carry out precise and in-depth strikes against "black dens" and "black workshops" that manufacture and sell fake and inferior agricultural materials, the production of fake and inferior agricultural materials, online sales of fake products, mobile sales of fake products, agricultural material "忽悠团" (hū you tuán - "deceptive groups," groups that deceive farmers into buying fake or substandard agricultural materials) and crimes such as manufacturing and selling fake and inferior agricultural materials in the name of "order agriculture"; strengthen criminal protection of the seed industry, extensively investigate clues, and severely crack down on crimes of counterfeiting, infringement, counterfeiting, and infringement of trade secrets in accordance with the law, and accurately serve and protect seed industry enterprises; severely crack down on crimes of illegally manufacturing, selling, and using prohibited and restricted pesticides in accordance with the law, and implement a full-chain crackdown on "production, sales, and use" crimes, and effectively build a food safety defense line "from farmland to table."
In their work, the public security organs will improve systems and mechanisms, strengthen joint strikes, and enhance collaborative strike capabilities; closely cooperate with departments to promote the effective connection between daily supervision and law enforcement, and help improve the quality and safety guarantee level of agricultural materials products; strengthen professional support, strengthen the application of information technology, and continuously improve the quality and efficiency of cracking down on counterfeit agricultural materials.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper on March 29th in Beijing (北京) (reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)), the Urumqi Customs (乌鲁木齐海关) announced that on March 27th, a container truck bearing the TIR (International Road Transport System) logo slowly drove out of the Irkeshtam Port (伊尔克什坦口岸) after completing customs clearance procedures. This marks the successful implementation and smooth departure of the first "multimodal transport + TIR" international transport business in the country, opening up a new multimodal transport model for China's cross-border logistics.
The goods transported this time departed from Xi'an Xianyang International Airport (西安咸阳国际机场) on March 16th, gathered at Kashgar North Station (喀什北站) via railway transportation through Xi'an International Port Station (西安国际港站), and then exited the country via the Xinjiang Irkeshtam Port (新疆伊尔克什坦口岸) in TIR transport mode, eventually arriving in Uzbekistan, shortening the transportation time by 3-5 days compared to traditional transportation.
To ensure the smooth development of this business, Irkeshtam Customs (伊尔克什坦海关) has set up a special service window, proactively connecting with enterprise needs, optimizing supervision processes, and achieving efficient inspection and release of goods. The implementation of this business not only provides enterprises with more flexible, efficient, and economical cross-border logistics solutions, reduces comprehensive logistics costs, but also further improves China's multimodal transport network system to the west, south Asia, and Europe.
Return to TopOn March 29th, the Chengdu Mobile Detachment of the Chengdu Fire and Rescue Detachment, in conjunction with the Dujiangyan City Emergency Management Bureau of Sichuan Province (四川省), held a Qingming fire prevention publicity campaign in Dujiangyan (都江堰) to guide citizens and tourists to regulate their behavior in forest and grassland fire prevention zones and prevent forest and grassland fires. The picture shows tourists participating in the fire prevention quiz challenge at the Qingcheng Mountain (青城山) scenic area.
Photo by Cheng Xueli (程雪力) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫)) The Party Building Work Exchange Conference for member units of the China Occupational Safety and Health Association (中国职业安全健康协会) and the Association's Party Building Work Conference were recently held in Beijing (北京). The theme of the conference was "Using high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development of the cause." More than 300 experts, scholars, and entrepreneurs from relevant enterprises, research institutes, and universities participated in the conference to share successful experiences and innovative practices in Party building work, exchange innovative cases of grassroots Party building, and conduct in-depth discussions and exchanges on grassroots Party building work in the new era.
Participants believed that it is necessary to always adhere to using high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development, continuously enhance the depth, breadth, and precision of the integration of Party building and business, fully leverage the leading core and fighting fortress role of Party organizations and the exemplary vanguard role of Party members, continuously enhance the Party's creativity, cohesion, and combat effectiveness, transform the Party's political advantages, organizational advantages, and institutional advantages into development advantages, and transform Party building achievements into development results, demonstrating new responsibilities and new actions in using high-quality Party building to lead high-quality development of the cause.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 巨云鹏
Recently, the Minhang District People's Court (闵行区人民法院) of Shanghai (上海) concluded a case involving an inheritance dispute.
In 2022, Zhang Moubing (张某丙) passed away. The night before his death, his remarried wife, Wang Mou (王某), transferred over 600,000 yuan from his bank account to her relative, Li Mou (李某). This aroused suspicion from Zhang Moubing's children from his previous marriage, Zhang Moujia (张某甲) and Zhang Mouyi (张某乙). They believed that Wang Mou's action was to transfer their father's property, intending to reduce the share of the inheritance they could receive as children. After repeated unsuccessful communication, the two siblings sued Wang Mou and Li Mou together in court.
Regarding the nature of this 600,000 yuan deposit, the court clearly stated that the deposit was generated during the marriage between Wang Mou and Zhang Moubing and legally belonged to the joint property of the couple. According to the relevant medical records of the hospital, Zhang Moubing was in a state of "impaired consciousness" when he was admitted to the hospital two days before his death. Under the circumstances of his critical illness and unconsciousness, Wang Mou unilaterally transferred a large amount of joint property of the couple, which could not be identified as based on Zhang Moubing's true will. As for Wang Mou's claim that it was to repay a housing loan, it was also difficult to prove.
In summary, the Minhang District Court (闵行区法院) held that the defendant Wang Mou transferred a large amount of joint property of the couple when her husband, Zhang Moubing, was critically ill and unconscious, and failed to provide a reasonable explanation. This behavior was essentially a unilateral disposition of the joint property of the couple, infringing on the legitimate rights and interests of other heirs to Zhang Moubing's inheritance. Therefore, the court ruled that Wang Mou should return the portion of the money that Zhang Moujia and Zhang Mouyi could inherit.
The defendant Wang Mou appealed. After the second instance trial by the Shanghai First Intermediate People's Court (上海市第一中级人民法院), the judgment rejected the appeal and upheld the original judgment. The case is now in effect.
Nie Ping (聂平), Deputy Presiding Judge of the Zhuanqiao People's Court (颛桥人民法庭) of the Minhang District Court (闵行区法院), believes that according to the relevant provisions of the Civil Code, after one of the spouses dies, the joint property of the couple must first be divided into two. Half of the joint property of the couple first belongs to the surviving spouse, and the remaining half is regarded as the inheritance, which is jointly inherited by the legal heirs (the spouse, parents, children, etc. of the deceased). In this case, half of the 600,000 yuan deposit (over 300,000 yuan) originally belonged to Wang Mou, and the other half constituted the inheritance that should belong to Zhang Moubing. In the absence of a will, it should be jointly inherited by Wang Mou, Zhang Moujia, and Zhang Mouyi. Wang Mou's behavior directly infringed on the rights and interests of Zhang Moujia and Zhang Mouyi in this part of the inheritance.
Nie Ping said that spouses have equal rights to dispose of joint property, but it is by no means without restrictions. Especially when one party is seriously ill and may have lost consciousness before death, the other party's unilateral disposal of a large amount of joint property will be strictly scrutinized. If the money is used for the common life of the couple, joint production and operation, or for the treatment and life care of the deceased, it is justified. However, if it far exceeds this scope and a reasonable use cannot be explained, it is likely to be identified as an act that infringes on the legitimate rights and interests of other heirs.
In order to avoid relatives going to court due to inheritance disputes, Nie Ping suggested that before major economic exchanges between relatives, they should communicate with relevant family members as much as possible, and maintain the transparency of property changes. Relevant family members should fully communicate to reduce unnecessary suspicion. For large amounts of funds, they should try to use bank transfers and keep written evidence such as IOUs and agreements. This is not a defense against relatives, but a clearer guarantee of family relationships and the rights and interests of members.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Macau on March 29th (Reporter: Fu Zimei (富子梅)) To commemorate the 33rd anniversary of the promulgation of the Basic Law of the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, the "Law-Abiding Action - Popularizing Legal Knowledge Carnival" was held on the Tap Seac Square (塔石广场) in Macau on the 28th. The event attracted more than 10,000 citizens to participate.
The series of activities were jointly organized by the Macau Basic Law Promotion Association (澳门基本法推广协会), the Macau SAR Government Legal Affairs Bureau (澳门特区政府法务局), the Municipal Affairs Bureau (市政署), and the Education and Youth Development Bureau (教育及青年发展局). Huang Shaoze (黄少泽), Secretary for Administration and Justice of the Macau SAR Government, said that the SAR Government will cooperate deeply with schools and community organizations through the "Government-School-Community Organization" three-party linkage cooperation mechanism, systematically cultivate a team of volunteers to popularize legal knowledge, and carry out activities to popularize legal knowledge in communities that are close to the public's sentiments and needs.
This event used interactive methods that combine education with recreation, such as popular legal knowledge booths, parent-child games, and stage programs, to allow citizens to learn about the Constitution and the Macau Basic Law (澳门基本法). Other series of activities will be held successively from April to December.
Return to TopMarch 30th is "International Day of Zero Waste." On March 27th, the United Nations Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Zero Waste released the first list of global "20 Cities Moving Towards Zero Waste" initiative. Three cities in China, Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province, Sanya (三亚), Hainan Province, and Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu Province, were selected.
Hangzhou (杭州) utilizes digital technology to improve the classification and resource utilization of urban solid waste; Sanya (三亚) promotes "plastic ban," garbage classification, and large-scale beach cleaning activities; Suzhou (苏州市) has achieved full coverage of urban solid waste collection, transportation, and treatment systems in its urban and rural areas... Reporters went deep into these three cities to see how the exploration of "waste-free city" construction unfolds.
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Hangzhou (杭州): Digital Empowerment, Governing Domestic Waste
Our reporter Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋) Dou Hao (窦皓)
Hu Yueying (胡月英), a resident of Wenzhou Road Community (温州路社区) in Gongshu District (拱墅区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang Province, sorted out several weeks' worth of express delivery cardboard boxes, plastic bottles, etc., searched for a recycling mini-program on WeChat, and then made a one-click appointment in the "door-to-door recycling" section, waiting for the recycler to arrive on time.
After weighing, settlement, and other operating procedures, the "environmental protection gold" was immediately credited to her account. "In the past, I had to call waste collectors to come to my door, but now I can make an appointment with one click, and the 'environmental protection gold' can be exchanged for daily necessities in the mall, which is very convenient," Hu Yueying (胡月英) showed her mobile phone page, which had accumulated a lot of "environmental protection gold."
In Dongxin Community (东信社区) in Binjiang District (滨江区), Hangzhou (杭州), Wang (王) Auntie, a 67-year-old resident, carried a bag of kitchen waste and walked to the smart recycling bin downstairs. She took out her mobile phone and gently scanned the QR code, and the disposal opening automatically popped open. Relying on smart recycling facilities and a points exchange mechanism, the participation rate of garbage classification by residents of Dongxin Community (东信社区) has been continuously improved. In addition to promoting smart recycling equipment in multiple residential areas, Binjiang District (滨江区) has also introduced "carbon credit" incentives - accurate disposal can earn points, which can be used to exchange for daily necessities and offset community service fees. After these recyclables are loaded onto collection vehicles equipped with positioning systems, they will go to the recyclable sorting center, waiting to be further turned into treasure.
Behind these routine smart recycling and treatment of garbage is a new exploration of comprehensive domestic waste management in Hangzhou (杭州) - by building a city-wide digital intelligence governance platform for domestic waste, it realizes closed-loop supervision of the entire chain of classification, collection, transportation, and disposal. Digital empowerment has become a new path for Hangzhou (杭州) to explore "zero waste."
Yang Min (杨敏), Deputy Director of the Hangzhou (杭州) Municipal Comprehensive Administrative Law Enforcement Bureau, introduced that with the help of big data analysis, the platform can dynamically predict and intelligently dispatch, providing decision support for optimizing garbage disposal points, planning collection routes, and allocating disposal facilities; through online appointment, offline recycling, and other models, it provides convenience for citizens to participate in garbage classification and recycling.
Especially for the problem of difficult recycling and utilization of low-value recyclables, Hangzhou (杭州) is exploring the "1+3" management model for recyclable domestic waste, based on the "blue bucket blue truck" recycling model, supplemented by three recycling models: "box recycling, door-to-door recycling, and low-value special lines." In 2025, the city's total recycled resources reached 2.46 million tons, a year-on-year increase of 5.13%, of which the amount of recycled domestic resources increased by 18.26%.
Currently, a clear digital garbage recycling and treatment path is clear at a glance: 7,361 domestic waste collection points in the city are connected to the platform, and garbage classification data from each collection point is uploaded in real time; garbage collection vehicles equipped with on-board metering equipment weigh garbage synchronously when collecting garbage at each collection point; 1,780 collection vehicles in the city equipped with GPS modules have their departure time, operation trajectory, and task duration accurately recorded on the platform; when it comes to the end disposal stage of garbage classification, the platform has connected the data links of 9 incineration disposal sites, 11 perishable waste disposal sites, and 6 reduction complexes, monitoring the operation of each facility 24 hours a day. "In Hangzhou (杭州), garbage management is transforming into a digital intelligence integration paradigm," Yang Min (杨敏) said.
Sanya (三亚): Robots Sweep Beaches, Scenic Spots Promote "Plastic Ban"
Our reporters Dong Zeyang (董泽扬) Cao Wenxuan (曹文轩)
"Kacha Kacha..." On the beach of Yalong Bay (亚龙湾) in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南), a shoreline cleaning robot is "eating sand" - the spiral comb-shaped teeth at the front are constantly turning, "picking out" waste such as bamboo sticks buried deep in the sand layer one by one, and then using a vibrating screen to accurately separate garbage from sand particles.
"The whole process is like 'shoveling cat litter'. Tourists can rest assured to set foot where it has passed," Zhao Guocheng (赵国成), assistant researcher at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) Hainan Research Institute, introduced that the robot can "eat" garbage on more than 3,000 square meters of beach in one hour, and "cooperate" with sanitation workers to take away the garbage sent by sea waves and tides.
Robots "helping" and the application of new technologies are just a microcosm of Sanya's (三亚) efforts to build a "waste-free city." As a tourist city, how does Sanya (三亚) coordinate and deal with the "garbage tide"?
Collecting, classifying, and transporting, following the garbage collection truck, the reporter came to the Sanya (三亚) Municipal Domestic Waste Incineration Power Plant. The plant has a daily processing capacity of 2,850 tons of domestic waste and an annual power generation of approximately 450 million kilowatt-hours.
In the control room above the garbage bin, through the glass window, what you see is a mountain of garbage, and at your feet you can see garbage collection trucks unloading. Tian Yulan (田玉兰), manager of the Comprehensive Management Department of Guangda Environmental Energy (Sanya) Co., Ltd. (光大环保能源（三亚）有限公司), which is responsible for operating the domestic waste incineration power plant, introduced that in order to cope with the seasonal fluctuations of solid waste, the garbage incineration power plant is equipped with a digitally managed garbage bin to store and regulate garbage, and cooperation and scheduling are also carried out between garbage incineration power plants, which can not only cope with the situation of a lot of garbage, but also improve the utilization rate of facilities when the amount of garbage generated is low.
Will the incineration of domestic waste generate new pollution? On the big screen, the temperature and various emission data are jumping in real time, and the smoke emission indicators such as dust, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides are all better than national standards.
"The scenic spot issued a 'plastic ban' in November 2020, replacing disposable plastic bags, tableware, and other products with reusable or biodegradable products; before tourists go to the island every day, the garbage near the sea and coastline is cleaned up; the island's disposal plant and cold storage routinely carry out garbage recycling and classification operations, sort out recyclables for packaging and external sales, kitchen waste for resource utilization, and garden waste is crushed and composted on the island to reduce the amount of garbage that needs to be incinerated and disposed of off the island," said Jiang Xiangyu (蒋祥玉), manager of the Greening Department of Wuzhizhou Island Tourist Area (蜈支洲岛旅游区).
As of now, Sanya (三亚) has built a total of 676 "waste-free cells" and 218 regular plastic ban inspection points, reducing the use of disposable plastics by approximately 8,000 tons per year and recycling nearly 30,000 tons of waste plastics.
Suzhou (苏州): Industrial Waste, Circulating
Our reporter Bai Guangdi (白光迪)
In the early morning in Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区), Jiangsu (江苏), the factory buildings have not yet fully "awakened," and forklifts are already shuttling back and forth between the workshops and warehouses. Several barrels of emulsified waste liquid were loaded onto a transport vehicle, with QR codes and destination labels attached to the barrels. "These waste liquids will soon be sent for reuse," said Guo Jun (郭君), a waste liquid transporter. Following the destination of this batch of waste materials, a "flow path" for industrial waste gradually became clear.
Suzhou (苏州) has a complete industrial system. In 2025, the total industrial output value above designated size will be nearly 5 trillion yuan, accompanied by a huge and complex amount of industrial waste. How to dispose of industrial waste has become an unavoidable problem in urban governance.
Suzhou (苏州) is moving the governance gate forward. Walking into the SEW-Motor (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (SEW—电机（苏州）有限公司) factory building, metal pipes extend and converge from above the equipment, connecting to a centralized liquid supply system. "In the past, the emulsified liquid had to be replaced every six months, but now it can be used for 5 years," said Xu Qinfei (徐勤飞), director of the company's administrative affairs department. Through process transformation, the company can reduce more than 800 tons of emulsified liquid hazardous waste per year.
Even so, some waste materials cannot be digested within the factory, so they leave the enterprise and enter a larger treatment system. Walking into the Suzhou Industrial Park Circular Economy Industrial Park (苏州工业园区循环经济产业园), pipelines crisscross between the factory buildings, and various facilities are connected through a transportation system. Every day, industrial sludge, catering waste, and municipal sewage from enterprises and urban operations gather here and are diverted to different devices.
In the sludge disposal workshop, pre-treated sludge is sent to drying equipment, using steam provided by a nearby thermal power plant to complete the drying treatment. "The dried sludge will be sent to the power plant for co-firing and power generation, and the generated steam can return to the system for continued use," introduced Wu Jiang (吴疆), president of China-Singapore Suzhou Industrial Park Green Development Co., Ltd. (中新苏州工业园区绿色发展有限公司). Not far away, the catering waste treatment device is in operation. The biogas produced by anaerobic fermentation is purified and connected to the city's gas pipeline network; the remaining biogas residue enters the sludge treatment system to continue to complete the subsequent disposal; the treated water enters the sewage treatment plant and is regenerated into reclaimed water for production cooling and flushing.
This collaborative operation method also gradually transforms industrial waste into usable resources. In the Circular Economy Industrial Park (循环经济产业园), waste materials from different enterprises and links are reorganized, diverted, and utilized to form a stable operating cycle system.
"We connect source reduction, resource utilization, and bottom-line disposal into a complete chain," said Wang Zhibin (王志斌), Deputy Director of the Suzhou (苏州) Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment. Under this system, Suzhou (苏州) promotes the construction of "waste-free factories" and "waste-free parks," refining the governance unit to the enterprise end, and then realizing collaborative treatment and resource recycling through the park. Data shows that the comprehensive utilization rate of bulk industrial solid waste in Suzhou (苏州) has reached 98.1%. At the same time, 64 industrial parks (agglomeration areas) and a number of key enterprises have carried out "waste-free" governance practices, and related governance is gradually moving from "**单点突破** (dān diǎn tū pò - "single point breakthrough," to achieve progress by focusing on one specific area)" to "**系统协同** (xì tǒng xié tóng - "system collaboration," coordinated effort across the entire system)."
From a barrel of waste liquid in the factory area to a series of circular links in the park, and then to a governance system covering enterprises and cities, these wastes that were once regarded as "burdens" are being re-circulated in the operation of Suzhou (苏州).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 29th (Reporter Kou Jiangze (寇江泽)) that recently, the fifth batch of the third round of central ecological and environmental protection inspection teams have respectively provided feedback on routine inspections to Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北) Province, as well as China Huadian Corporation (中国华电集团有限公司), China Energy Investment Corporation (国家能源投资集团有限责任公司), Ansteel Group Co., Ltd. (鞍钢集团有限公司), China Baowu Steel Group Corporation Limited (中国宝武钢铁集团有限公司), and China Coal Energy Group Co., Ltd. (中国中煤能源集团有限公司). At the same time, written feedback was provided to eight provinces (cities), including Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南), Anhui (安徽), Jiangsu (江苏), and Zhejiang (浙江), regarding the special inspection on the ecological and environmental protection of the Grand Canal.
Each inspection team coordinated routine and special inspections. Overall, the provinces, cities, and central enterprises inspected this time attached great importance to ecological civilization construction and ecological and environmental protection, actively carried out the protection of the Grand Canal's cultural heritage, and deeply promoted green development and the battle against pollution, achieving new results in their work.
At the same time, the inspection also found some prominent problems: some provinces and cities have gaps in implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization, and there are still problems such as blindly launching "two high" (high energy consumption, high emissions) projects, illegal and irregular disposal of construction waste, and illegal hunting and selling of wild birds. There are shortcomings in air pollution prevention and control, some places have illegally launched steel projects, the promotion of key governance work is lagging behind, and illegal sewage discharge is frequent. There are shortcomings in ecological protection and restoration, and some sensitive areas such as wetlands, rivers, and nature reserves have been occupied and damaged. There are obvious gaps in water pollution prevention and control, inadequate rural living environment improvement, and prominent problems with aquaculture pollution. Some central enterprises do not firmly shoulder their political responsibilities for ecological and environmental protection, the quality of green and low-carbon transformation is not high, the elimination of a large number of outdated mechanical and electrical equipment is lagging behind, new steel production capacity is illegally added, environmental compliance awareness is weak, and monitoring data is falsified. Provinces and cities along the Grand Canal still have gaps in the protection, inheritance, utilization of the Grand Canal culture and ecological and environmental protection, cultural heritage protection is weak, and there is a large gap in ecological space protection and restoration.
In the next step, the inspection team will guide and urge the inspected objects to formulate rectification plans within 45 working days in accordance with the requirements of the "Regulations on Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work" and the "Measures for Rectification Work of Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection," continuously strengthen scheduling and supervision, closely monitor the discovered problems to the end, and promote the inspected objects to effectively rectify and achieve practical results.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 29th (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) recently released the "Decision on Amending the Interpretation of Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Criminal Cases of Environmental Pollution by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate" (hereinafter referred to as the "Amendment Decision"), which will take effect on March 30, 2026.
The "Amendment Decision" contains four articles, which adjust the criminal subjects and pollutant scope of environmental pollution behaviors such as tampering with or forging automatic monitoring data or interfering with automatic monitoring facilities. Starting from severely punishing environmental pollution crimes in accordance with the law, the "Amendment Decision" clarifies that the criminal subjects constituting the crime include both units and natural persons, and adds total phosphorus, total nitrogen, particulate matter, volatile organic compounds, etc. as new types of pollutants discharged under this criminal circumstance according to practical needs. At the same time, the expression "key polluting units" is deleted to be consistent with the Ecological Environment Code.
At the same time, the "Amendment Decision" further optimizes the relevant provisions for lenient handling of the crime of polluting the environment, and takes actively fulfilling the responsibility of ecological environment restoration as a separate factor for discretionary lenient punishment, so as to better guide actors to actively restore the damaged ecological environment, minimize the harm caused by environmental pollution behaviors, and achieve the dual goals of "punishing crimes and restoring ecology."
In addition, the "Amendment Decision" modifies and improves the criminal subject, the criteria for conviction, and the issue of full-chain crackdown on the crime of providing false certification documents in the environmental field. The "Amendment Decision" adds the content of "providing programs and tools specifically used for cheating in motor vehicle emission testing, which meet the provisions of the third paragraph of Article 285 of the Criminal Law, shall be convicted and punished for the crime of providing programs and tools for intruding into and illegally controlling computer information systems" as the provisions of the fourth paragraph of Article 10 of the Interpretation, in order to further increase the full-chain crackdown on criminal activities of providing false certification documents in the environmental field.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shenyang (沈阳) March 29th dispatch (Reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)): The reporter learned from the Liaoning Provincial Forestry and Grassland Bureau (辽宁省林业和草原局) that Liaoning Province has completed the comprehensive governance task for the Horqin Sandy Land (科尔沁沙地) in 2025, totaling 4.3404 million mu, which is 132% of the annual plan.
In order to strengthen joint prevention and control, Liaoning Province (辽宁省) and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) jointly signed a cooperation framework agreement to establish a collaborative mechanism of information sharing, joint technology research, and shared responsibility, jointly promoting the systematic governance of "windward" and "leeward" areas, and the ecological reversal trend of "greening advances, desert retreats" is continuously consolidated. The average comprehensive vegetation coverage of sandy and desertified forest and grassland in Liaoning Province (辽宁省) has increased by 7% and 20% year-on-year, respectively, and the area of sandy and desertified land has decreased by 326,500 mu and 45,200 mu, respectively. The implementation width of the Liaoning (辽宁) Thousand-Li Sand Barrier has expanded from 11 kilometers to 34 kilometers.
This year, Liaoning Province (辽宁省) will focus on the construction of the Liaoning (辽宁) Thousand-Li Sand Barrier as a key project, take the "Three-North" key projects as a key starting point, improve the collaborative linkage mechanism across levels, regions, and departments, continue to implement the "blocking wind gaps, blocking sand paths, and sealing sand sources" actions, and resolutely complete the annual governance task of 2.9 million mu.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) March 29th dispatch (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)): On March 28th, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) organized a Chinese sturgeon restocking activity in Jingzhou (荆州) and Yichang (宜昌), Hubei (湖北), and Chongming (崇明), Shanghai (上海) simultaneously, with approximately 550,000 Chinese sturgeon released into the Yangtze River (长江). During the activity, relevant experts and Chinese sturgeon germplasm protection and breeding units conducted in-depth exchanges and discussions on Chinese sturgeon protection and artificial breeding-related technologies.
The Chinese sturgeon is a national first-class key protected aquatic wild animal and a flagship species of the Yangtze River (长江) ecosystem. Expanding the scale of Chinese sturgeon restocking is an important protection measure to restore the natural reproduction of Chinese sturgeon and rebuild the wild population of Chinese sturgeon. Since 2024, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has continuously carried out annual million-scale restocking, effectively supplementing wild populations. The next step will be to follow the protection strategy of "conservation—expansion—multiple releases—population establishment," improve the quantity and quality of artificial conservation populations, continue to carry out large-scale releases, and strive to restore wild populations.
Return to TopBeijing, March 29th (Reported by Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿) of this newspaper) Meteorological monitoring shows that on the daytime of March 29th, Guangxi (广西), Guangdong (广东), Guizhou (贵州) and other places experienced thunderstorm gales of level 8 or above and short-term heavy precipitation. The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that there will be heavy rainfall and severe convective weather in Jiangnan (江南) and South China (华南). Specifically, from the night of the 29th to the 31st, there will be heavy rainfall in the eastern part of Southwest China (西南地区), southern Jianghan (江汉), Jianghuai (江淮), Jiangnan (江南), and northern South China (华南), among which, parts of southeastern Guizhou (贵州), central and northern Hunan (湖南), Jiangxi (江西), northern Guangxi (广西), northern Guangdong (广东), and central and northern Fujian (福建) will experience heavy rain or torrential rain, with localized heavy torrential rain; some areas in Guizhou (贵州), central and western Jiangnan (江南), and northern South China (华南) will be accompanied by severe convective weather such as thunderstorm gales or hail, and short-term heavy precipitation.
At 18:00 on the 29th, the Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) continued to issue a blue rainstorm warning and a yellow warning for severe convective weather. It is expected that from 20:00 on the 29th to 20:00 on the 30th, parts of central and northern Hunan (湖南), central and northern Jiangxi (江西), eastern Hubei (湖北), southern Anhui (安徽), southern Jiangsu (江苏), western Zhejiang (浙江), as well as northeastern Guangxi (广西) and central and northern Guangdong (广东) will experience heavy rain to torrential rain, among which, parts of northeastern Hunan (湖南) and northeastern Jiangxi (江西) will experience heavy torrential rain. The aforementioned areas will be accompanied by short-term heavy precipitation, and localized areas will experience severe convective weather such as thunderstorm gales.
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The dignity and tranquility of the final journey of life are tied to the joys and sorrows of every family, and measure the warmth of livelihood security. Funeral services are the "last mile" in safeguarding the entire life cycle of the people, carrying the living's remembrance and respect for the deceased, and further testing the original intention and warmth of government services.
On March 30 this year, the newly revised "Funeral Management Regulations" officially came into effect, laying a solid legal foundation for doing a good job in funeral service management in the new era. In recent years, the civil affairs departments have always taken the satisfaction of the people as the yardstick, focusing on the urgent needs and concerns of the people regarding "post-mortem affairs," and with a firm sense of reform, promoted funeral services towards a direction that is warmer, more widely covered, and more deeply reached, so that the effectiveness of the reform can truly be transformed into warmth and peace of mind that the people can feel and access.
Handling Post-Mortem Affairs in One Go, Reducing the Burden of Grief
"I didn't expect that handling post-mortem affairs would be so convenient now." Ms. Wang, a citizen of Rizhao (日照), Shandong (山东) Province, was filled with emotion after completing all the funeral procedures for her father.
Previously, handling matters such as household registration cancellation, social security settlement, and housing fund withdrawal for the deceased required running to 11 departments, submitting 41 materials, and taking more than 10 days. Complex matters even had to wait for a month. But now, she only filled out 1 form and uploaded 1 set of materials, and completed all the procedures within 3 days.
Ms. Liang, a citizen of Qingdao (青岛), Shandong Province, unexpectedly discovered 6.33 million yuan in securities assets that her father had not mentioned during his lifetime through the local "Post-Mortem Affairs" joint handling platform when handling cremation procedures for her father, avoiding the loss of family property.
In order to solve the problems of too many materials, too many runs, too many procedures, and too much time-consuming for the people to handle "post-mortem affairs," the Shandong Provincial Department of Civil Affairs took the lead in building a unified joint handling platform for the entire province, and took the lead in realizing the integrated handling of 37 items in the province. The people can handle the entire process online through the "Ai Shandong (爱山东)" APP and the government service website, and have now handled a total of 410,000 items for the people.
For families who have experienced the pain of bereavement, the sudden departure is already overwhelming. Having to face cumbersome procedures and running to windows time and time again is undoubtedly adding salt to the wound. From the past "running around" to multiple departments to the current "finger-tip handling" of one-stop completion, this visible convenience is a systematic reform of the handling service that focuses on the pain points of the people and reshapes the entire process.
What the people expect is what the government is directed towards. The Ministry of Civil Affairs is vigorously promoting the "One-Stop Handling of Post-Mortem Affairs" reform nationwide, actively linking multiple departments such as public security, human resources and social security, health, and finance, breaking down data barriers, and promoting the realization of "one-click access, one-certificate sharing, one-stop service, and one-network joint handling."
In recent years, various funeral service institutions across the country have cumulatively simplified 2,725 handling steps, launched 28,300 convenient service projects, and optimized 4,709 service measures. Today, the average number of jointly handled items in each province has reached 20, and 88% of the handling projects of the people can be completed through the "one-stop" multi-department joint handling, allowing the grieving people to run less and worry less.
"The starting point and foothold of all our work is to serve the people and make the people satisfied. The practical effect of promoting 'One-Stop Handling of Post-Mortem Affairs' directly tests the effectiveness of our work," said the person in charge of the Department of Social Affairs of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
Public Welfare as the Foundation, Reducing the Burden of Farewell
"I thought it would cost a lot of money to handle funerals, but I didn't expect to be able to reduce so much, and the process is so worry-free!" In the Yichang (宜昌) Funeral Management Office in Hubei (湖北) Province, Mr. Zhang, a citizen, shook hands with the staff and thanked them repeatedly after handling his mother's funeral affairs.
His mother was registered in Yuan'an County (远安县), Yichang, not in the urban area of Yichang. After his mother passed away, he was worried that he would have to bear high funeral expenses due to inconsistent household registration, and he borrowed money from relatives in advance. Unexpectedly, the staff took the initiative to explain the preferential policies and told him that the deceased who were not registered in the urban area could also enjoy the reduction and exemption if they were cremated in the urban area.
On-site review, immediate reduction and exemption, no need to run extra errands. At the time of settlement, the basic service fees for body transportation, storage, cremation, and ash storage were all waived, and the simple farewell hall and master of ceremonies service were also used free of charge, with a total reduction of 1,250 yuan. "I didn't expect that even the farewell ceremony was free. I wouldn't have dared to think about it before," said Mr. Zhang. Since the implementation of the preferential policies in October 2023, Yichang City has taken the lead in Hubei Province in including simple farewell etiquette services in the scope of reduction and exemption, so that the deceased can have dignity and the living can have less burden.
From the banks of the Yangtze River (长江) to the northeastern border, such warm intentions for the benefit of the people are being passed on everywhere.
"My mother left with dignity, and it only cost 200 yuan for the whole process." In the Jixi (鸡西) Funeral Affairs Service Center in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province, Li, a recipient of subsistence allowances, had tears in his eyes after completing the funeral procedures. The staff took the initiative to handle the preferential reduction and exemption for him, and the basic service fees for body transportation, storage, cremation, and ash storage were all waived. He only purchased a small amount of funeral supplies at his own expense.
In the Jixi Funeral Affairs Service Center, more than 20 models of urns under 1,000 yuan are neatly arranged, the most basic model is only sold for 80 yuan, and a solid wood urn has been adjusted in price for many rounds, and now it is only sold for 110 yuan. "Since November 2024, the city has canceled 72 unreasonable service items and reduced 248 fee-charging items," introduced Zhang Lei (张蕾), director of the Jixi Civil Affairs Bureau. The local area has included 6 types of groups in the scope of basic service reduction and exemption, and 9 types of special groups in the scope of extended service reduction and exemption, with a cumulative reduction and exemption of 27.83 million yuan, benefiting 43,800 people.
The continuously decreasing funeral costs and the continuously expanding scope of protection are the civil affairs departments' firm adherence to the public welfare attribute of funeral services.
In recent years, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has comprehensively promoted the list-based management of funeral service projects, established "two lists" of basic projects and non-basic projects on a provincial basis, and clarified the rigid requirements that basic projects should be guaranteed to be cost-effective, non-basic projects should be reasonably charged, and no projects outside the list should be charged. At present, 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团) have established "two lists," and the average number of service projects with government pricing or guidance prices is 12, accounting for more than 40%.
The activities of reducing items, reducing fees, and optimizing services in funeral service institutions have been widely carried out across the country, and the prices of funeral services and supplies have continued to return to a reasonable range. The average cost of funeral arrangements in funeral homes across the country has decreased by 33%, the average selling price of urns in funeral homes has decreased by 38%, and the average price of cemetery plots in commercial cemeteries has decreased by 20%.
As of now, 31 provinces and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have issued basic funeral service reduction and subsidy policies for urban and rural people in need, and the number of counties and districts that cover all residents in their jurisdictions with preferential policies has increased to 2,631; 7,836 urban public welfare cemeteries (columbariums) have been built, and more than 85,000 rural public welfare cemeteries have been built and standardized. Solid public welfare guarantees ensure that "the deceased can rest in peace" is no longer a difficult task.
New Customs Sweep Through Qingming, Allowing Remembrance to Move Forward Lightly
"It turns out that ancestor worship can also be done without smoke and fire, just bring your thoughts." On March 22, Li Yutong (李雨桐), a college student from Zhangjiakou (张家口), Hebei (河北) Province, changed her view of ancestor worship after participating in the "Remembering the Deceased, Passing on the Family Tradition" theme activity in the city's People's Cemetery.
Previously, in her eyes, Qingming (清明) ancestor worship was the old rule of burning paper and setting off firecrackers, and she had to squint and cough in the choking smoke every year. Her grandfather passed away 5 years ago, and she even had some resistance to ancestor worship.
Until she walked into the antique-style long corridor of the cemetery, the wind chimes under the eaves rang softly in the wind, old objects carrying memories of life were displayed in the corridor, and there were no incense candles or paper money in the memorial hall, only white chrysanthemums and clear tea on the plain cloth tables. The family sat together and shared the bits and pieces of her grandfather's life. At the moment when Li Yutong wrote her name next to the family motto that her grandfather often recited and put it into the "Family Tradition Letterbox," she also understood the meaning of ancestor worship: it is not a perfunctory act in the smoke and fire, but the inheritance of family tradition and the continuation of remembrance.
In recent years, the Zhangjiakou Civil Affairs Bureau has vigorously promoted the reform of funeral customs, innovatively creating humanistic services such as "family memorial meetings" and "family tradition imprinting," allowing traditional ancestor worship to say goodbye to smoke and fire and return to the true meaning of remembrance.
Such a new trend of civilization is quietly growing all over the country.
In Zhangzhou (漳州), Fujian (福建) Province, the life park transformed from low-yield orchards and barren hillsides not only satisfies the villagers' wish to return to their roots for burial, but also takes into account ecological and environmental protection, and also drives the development of rural leisure agriculture, quietly reshaping the local people's understanding of "post-mortem affairs."
Under the overall guidance of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the reform of funeral customs is being steadily and orderly promoted, and the concepts of civilized funeral arrangements, ecological burial, and low-carbon ancestor worship are gradually taking root in the hearts of the people. At present, 28 provinces have introduced ecological burial reward and subsidy policies. During the Qingming Festival holiday last year, the proportion of people across the country who chose green and low-carbon ancestor worship methods reached 66%, and more than 1,500 online ancestor worship platforms served a total of 927,500 people.
This year's Qingming Festival, various places will widely carry out civilized ancestor worship theme activities, advocating that the people use low-carbon methods such as flower sacrifices and online remembrance to cherish the memory of the deceased, and jointly create a safe, civilized, and peaceful ancestor worship atmosphere. The civil affairs departments will continue to deepen the reform of funeral services, continuously improve the funeral service system, safeguard the last journey of the people's lives, let every remembrance be placed warmly, and let the final journey of life be accompanied by warmth.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
With a gentle flick of the remote control, spherical drones dart through the net cage, swiftly switching between offense and defense, their flight paths tracing agile arcs. Beside the arena, the audience is captivated, their exclamations of amazement intermingling with the drones' buzzing to create an exhilarating symphony. Recently, the National Drone Soccer Competition's final was held in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), attracting 1,116 teams from home and abroad to compete on the same stage.
Drone soccer is an emerging sport that integrates flight control and soccer. Holding a remote control, players manipulate the drone's ascent and descent with their left hand and control its forward, backward, left, and right movements with their right hand, as if playing "aerial soccer." The competition adopts a 5V5 confrontation mode, with a valid score awarded when a spherical drone fully enters the opponent's ring-shaped goal. After multiple rounds of group matches, cross-elimination matches, ranking matches, semi-finals, and finals, the winning team is determined. On the field, the spherical drones fly at high speeds, offering a strong visual impact and entertainment value.
"This sport relies on technical support such as multi-rotor power systems, AI visual positioning, and anti-interference communication algorithms. The multi-machine collaborative positioning error is less than 2 centimeters, allowing hardcore technology to be transformed into a mass sport that can be participated in," said Yang Xuefan (杨学范), the competition director.
"It's so exciting! It's like playing chess on a three-dimensional board, requiring both fast hands and tactical understanding," exclaimed a contestant from the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China. From control coordination to on-the-spot adaptability, from individual operation to team collaboration, the players hone their focus, judgment, and collaboration skills in high-speed confrontations. Many contestants said that participating in the drone soccer project not only improves their knowledge of flight but also allows them to immerse themselves in the unique charm of the combination of technology and sports.
In the stands, cheers and exclamations from the audience rose one after another. "I thought it was just simple drone flying, but I didn't expect the confrontation to be so intense and the sense of technology to be so strong," said Ms. Dai (戴女士) from Chongqing (重庆), who watched the drone soccer match up close for the first time and saw the appearance of "future sports." Many citizens brought their children to experience interactive projects and feel the charm of low-altitude technology.
Empowering sports with technology and activating the industry with competitions, the holding of the event also wrote a vivid footnote for Chengdu's (成都) development of the low-altitude economy. Outside the arena, the Chengdu (成都) Smart Sports Construction Achievement Exhibition and the Shuangliu District (双流区) Low-Altitude Economic Industry Exhibition Area were launched simultaneously, focusing on showcasing the development achievements of more than 30 local low-altitude economic enterprises.
In recent years, drone soccer has rapidly become popular in Chengdu (成都). The city has included it in key projects for the integration of sports and education, conducting teacher training for primary and secondary schools, making the sport an important carrier for technological enlightenment. "Drone soccer is not only a trendy sport but also an important link connecting teenagers, aviation technology, and the low-altitude economy. Related technologies, standards, and talents can be extended to logistics, inspection, emergency rescue, and other scenarios in the future," said the relevant person in charge of the Chengdu (成都) Municipal Bureau of Sports.
Return to TopRecently, Liuzhou (柳州) City, Guangxi (广西) held a mass running event, with approximately 18,000 runners from all over the country participating.
In recent days, the Bauhinia flowers in Liuzhou (柳州) have been blooming in succession, with the clear waters of the Liujiang River (柳江) reflecting the blooming flowers on both banks, resembling a spring scroll. People run on the tracks full of blooming flowers, feeling the beautiful spring sunshine and enjoying the fun of sports.
Photo by Li Han Chi (黎寒池) (People's Vision)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Yangzhou (扬州) March 29th dispatch (Reporter Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳)) On the morning of the 29th, the 2026 Yangzhou Half Marathon (2026扬州半程马拉松) and the 4th East Asia Half Marathon Championships were held in Yangzhou (扬州), Jiangsu (江苏), with each event ranked separately. In the East Asia Half Marathon Championships, Chinese athlete Liang Tiantian (梁田田) won the women's title with a time of 1 hour, 10 minutes, and 03 seconds, while her teammate Li Meizhen (李美珍) won the silver medal, 34 seconds behind. The men's title was won by a Japanese athlete, while Chinese athletes Mao Jinhu (毛金虎) and Ma Wenliang (马文良) finished second and third, respectively.
21-year-old Liang Tiantian (梁田田) previously won gold medals in the women's 10,000-meter and women's 5,000-meter events at the 15th National Games. This was her first time representing the Chinese team in an international competition. After the race, she said that her condition was somewhat different from what she had expected, and she felt a little tired in the later stages of the race. However, the opportunity to represent the Chinese team was hard-earned, and she ultimately 咬牙坚持 (yǎo yá jiān chí - "grit teeth persist," to persevere despite difficulties).
On the same course, the 2026 Yangzhou Half Marathon (2026扬州半程马拉松) was equally intense. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Yangzhou Half Marathon (扬州半程马拉松) and its first upgrade to a World Athletics Platinum Label Road Race, with more than 23,000 runners participating in the competition. Ultimately, Alex Matata from Kenya and Miriam Chebet won the men's and women's titles with times of 59 minutes 11 seconds and 1 hour 06 minutes 27 seconds, respectively.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 29th (Reporter Zheng Yi (郑轶)): The 2026 National Xiangqi Championship (Team) opened on the 28th in Zhangjiakou (张家口市), Hebei Province (河北省), with a total of 22 representative teams participating. On the first day of competition, the Hebei (河北) men's team, the Heilongjiang (黑龙江) men's team, and the Zhejiang (浙江) men's team all achieved two consecutive victories. The Hebei (河北) women's team, the Zhejiang (浙江) women's team, the Hangzhou (杭州) women's team, and the Guangdong (广东) women's team also won two consecutive matches.
The competition is hosted by the Chess and Card Management Center of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局棋牌运动管理中心) and the Chinese Xiangqi Association (中国象棋协会), and organized by the Chess and Card Management Center of Hebei Provincial Sports Bureau (河北省体育局棋牌运动中心), the Hebei Xiangqi Association (河北省象棋协会), and the Zhangjiakou Municipal Sports Bureau (张家口市体育局). All competitions will end on April 2.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
Not long ago, in the West Street of Chengguan Town, Lintan County (临潭县), Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州), Gansu Province (甘肃省), a crisp whistle pierced the night. The thick rope, made of two main ropes connected together, was 1808 meters long and weighed 16 tons. As the whistle blew, nearly ten thousand hands simultaneously gripped and exerted force, and a massive tug-of-war began - this is the national intangible cultural heritage Lintan "Ten Thousand People Tug-of-War".
Peng Xiqing (彭希庆) from Chengnai Village (城内村) is one of the "lever men" recommended by the masses this year, mainly responsible for completing the docking of the two main ropes. He held a special wooden lever about 60 centimeters long, thin at both ends and thick in the middle, and steadily inserted it into the large ring at the front end of the two ropes to secure it. After the two rope loops were accurately engaged, Peng Xiqing swung a sledgehammer and quickly wedged the wooden wedge into the fixed small ring. With the sound of hammering, the two main ropes were united, and this folk tug-of-war activity was about to begin.
Lintan's "Ten Thousand People Tug-of-War" has a long history, passed down from the Ming Dynasty (明代) to the present, with more than 600 years of history. According to records, this activity originated from the practice of boat trackers in ancient water towns, and was later introduced into military camps to train soldiers' teamwork ability. After years of precipitation, it gradually moved to the folk, becoming a traditional sports folk activity popular among the masses.
"I also made a special trip to participate last year, but the scene was too lively, and I couldn't squeeze into the tug-of-war team at all. I could only cheer on the sidelines. This year, in order to touch the main rope, I came early, wanting to grab a good position and contribute to the tug-of-war," said Jin Xiaolong (金小龙), a tourist from Zhuoni County (卓尼县), Gannan Prefecture (甘南州).
According to the old custom, the "Ten Thousand People Tug-of-War" is centered on the West Gate Bridge (西门桥头) on West Street (西大街) in Lintan County (临潭县), divided into upper and lower sides. People living on the upper side pull the upper rope, and those living on the lower side pull the lower rope. The tails of the two main ropes extend into two thin ropes, like a swallowtail fork. Wu Yonghong (武永红), president of the Taozhou Farmers' Culture Palace Folk Culture Association (洮州农民文化宫民俗文化协会) in Lintan County (临潭县), introduced that this unique design allows more people to participate in the activity.
"Feet on the ground, waist low, shout together and use force..." A song "The Big Rope Song" sings the secret of the tug-of-war activity: momentum and strength are indispensable. At the event site, the shouts of "Hey yo! Hey yo!" rose and fell, resounding through the streets. As the competition progressed, the participants got closer and closer, borrowing strength from each other and working together. "The sisters who hugged my waist and helped me pull the rope just now, we didn't know each other before, but now we shout slogans together and work hard together. Everyone's hearts are tightly tied to this rope!" Zhao Yanli (赵艳丽), a local resident of Lintan (临潭), was very moved.
The average altitude of Lintan County (临潭县) is nearly 3,000 meters, and the chill gradually intensifies after nightfall. However, the masses participating in the tug-of-war were all full of energy, and many people simply took off their coats and let go of their hands and feet to compete with all their strength. When the "dragon head" of the entire rope successfully passed through the south side colored gate, a game ended, and dazzling cold fireworks then took off and bloomed, lighting up the night sky. "We won this game!" Zhao Yanli (赵艳丽) cheered excitedly, "Actually, we don't care so much about winning or losing. The spirit of unity among the villagers is the most attractive."
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha (长沙), March 29th (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)) The 2026 Hunan Provincial Urban Basketball League (hereinafter referred to as "XiangBA (湘BA)") kicked off on the 27th at the Helong Sports Center (贺龙体育馆) in Hunan Province. The opening ceremony integrated Hunan culture and Changsha elements to create an immersive basketball party. The opening game was played between the Changsha Team (长沙队) and the Huaihua Team (怀化队). The Changsha Team quickly opened the game and established a lead, ending the first half with a score of 47:40. In the second half, although the Huaihua Team tried its best to catch up, the Changsha Team, with its more tacit understanding and hotter touch, did not give the opponent a chance, and finally won with a score of 83:65, achieving a **开门红** (kāi mén hóng - "open door red," a good start; auspicious beginning). With the conclusion of the opening game, home games in other cities and prefectures in Hunan will also begin one after another.
From now until June, "XiangBA (湘BA)" will unfold in multiple cities and prefectures in Hunan every weekend and holiday, staging 112 matches.
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In recent news, a research team from the University of Miami in the United States and the University of Tours in France published a groundbreaking achievement in the journal *Nature Communications*: Scientists successfully isolated a special nanobody from llamas, achieving rapid and lasting therapeutic effects in a stress-induced depression mouse model, providing new ideas for the treatment of depression. In recent years, nanobodies, tiny proteins derived from camelid animals, have been leveraging their unique biological characteristics and the wings of AI (Artificial Intelligence) to spark a "small size, big energy" revolution in the global biopharmaceutical field.
Redefining Antibodies: From "Heavily Armored Cavalry" to "Special Forces"
Possessing higher flexibility and penetration, targeting targets that traditional antibodies struggle to reach.
Antibodies can also be understood as "patrolling guards" in the body. They are special proteins produced by the human immune system, whose main task is to identify and neutralize foreign invaders (such as bacteria, viruses, toxins, etc., i.e., antigens). To understand the significant meaning of nanobodies, one must first step into the microscopic world of the human immune system.
For the human immune system, traditional antibodies are like heavily armored "cavalry." They have huge molecular weights, complex structures, and strong combat capabilities, but when facing narrow grooves or dense tissue gaps on the surface of disease targets (the "specific targets" or "key locks" that drugs need to attack when treating diseases), they are often helpless due to their "large size." At this time, in this microscopic world's battle of offense and defense, nanobodies are more like agile "special forces." They originate from animals such as camels and llamas, and are very "small" in size, with a diameter of only 2.5 nanometers (1 nanometer equals one billionth of a meter), a length of 4 nanometers, and a molecular weight of only 1/10 of traditional antibodies. It is this "smallness" that gives them extremely high flexibility and penetration.
The story of nanobodies began in 1993. When Belgian scientists were studying llama blood, they first discovered a class of antibodies composed only of "heavy chains" (one of the two main polypeptide chains that make up antibody molecules, with a larger molecular weight than light chains). This broke the traditional understanding that "antibodies must be composed of light chains and heavy chains together." Compared with traditional antibodies, nanobodies have three unique advantages:
First, they can reach – the ability to penetrate dead corners. Traditional antibodies have multiple binding sites and a wide structure; nanobodies have only one binding site, but their key areas are usually longer and more convex. This is like a slender probe that can penetrate deep into the active pockets of enzymes or the hidden grooves of viral proteins, directly reaching pathogenic targets that traditional antibodies cannot reach. The minimalist structure gives it unique survival wisdom.
Second, they can be stored – extremely strong stability. Traditional antibodies have complex structures and are sensitive to the environment, usually requiring cold chain transportation and low-temperature storage. Nanobodies, on the other hand, have compact structures and can maintain structural integrity even after being treated with high temperatures and extreme acid-base environments. This means that they can be developed into oral tablets or inhaled sprays in the future, greatly improving the convenience of medication for patients.
Third, they can enter – the potential to penetrate barriers. Research predicts that nanobodies are also expected to cross the famous "brain protection wall" (i.e., the blood-brain barrier). This "copper wall and iron wall" composed of tightly connected cells blocks 98% of small-molecule drugs and almost all large-molecule biologics, and is one of the biggest obstacles to treating brain diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. With their small size and combined with specific molecular engineering modifications, nanobodies can use special channels to enter brain tissue, opening up new ideas for the treatment of nervous system diseases.
Global R&D Accelerates: Demonstrating Application Potential in Multiple Fields
Can address tumor immunity, nervous system diseases, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, etc.
From scientific discovery to therapeutic drugs, the transformation path of nanobody drugs is becoming increasingly mature. Separating antigen-specific nanobodies from animals such as llamas, and gradually shaping them into candidate drug molecules suitable for the human body through humanization, structural optimization, and other engineering methods, followed by preclinical safety evaluation, large-scale production, and clinical trial verification, can they become true drugs. Today, major global pharmaceutical companies are investing heavily in the development of nanobody drugs, with application areas covering tumor immunity, nervous system diseases, infectious diseases, autoimmune diseases, etc., especially showing considerable potential in fields such as gene therapy and cell therapy.
In 2018, the first nanobody drug was approved for marketing by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), for the treatment of a rare blood disease – acquired thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. This disease causes abnormal aggregation of platelets in patients, leading to severe bleeding. Traditional treatment methods require multiple plasma exchanges. This new drug is like a precise interceptor, specifically blocking the specific links that lead to the deterioration of the disease, significantly reducing the difficulty of treatment and mortality.
What made nanobodies famous was their performance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Viruses are constantly mutating, and the targets recognized by traditional antibodies are also changing, which may cause many antibody drugs to become ineffective due to virus mutations as soon as they are developed. Scientists have therefore turned their attention to the most conserved and hidden areas of the virus, so that even if certain parts of the virus mutate, nanobodies can still play a role. The research team at Fudan University (复旦大学) used the characteristics of nanobodies being "small and able to drill deep" to design broadly neutralizing antibodies that can recognize the conserved domains of the virus. It can penetrate deep into the narrow and hidden grooves of the virus to achieve strong neutralization, thereby effectively blocking the virus from invading human cells. The immune system can accelerate the clearance of invading viruses, thereby significantly reducing tissue damage and alleviating disease symptoms. At the same time, scientists can also connect nanobodies that recognize different sites like building blocks to construct "multivalent molecules," thereby simultaneously locking multiple parts of the virus and effectively responding to variant strains.
Turning the target from variable regions to more conserved hidden parts of the virus structure can better respond to multiple highly variable virus infections. Currently, broadly neutralizing candidate nanobodies have been developed globally for coronaviruses, influenza viruses, HIV viruses, etc., and some candidate antibodies have entered clinical trials.
The latest collaboration between American and French scientists has further expanded the application territory of nanobodies. For stress-induced depression, traditional drugs often have slow onset and large side effects. The research team used nanobodies to activate key receptors in the brain related to mood regulation, showing rapid onset and lasting therapeutic effects in mouse models. Previously, the French team developed nanobodies targeting key brain receptors related to schizophrenia. After peripheral injection, the nanobodies were able to cross the blood-brain barrier and enter the brain, improving behavioral deficits in mouse models, with therapeutic effects lasting at least one week. These findings not only verified the feasibility of nanobodies for treating brain diseases, but also provided solutions for treating complex mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and depression. It proves that genetically engineered natural proteins can become precise tools for regulating brain function, bringing new hope to patients.
AI Empowerment: When "Natural Gift" Meets "Intelligent Design"
Antibody design is more precise, and it is expected to greatly reduce the cost and cycle of new drug development.
If nanobodies are "uncut jade" gifted by nature, then AI is the skillful hand that "turns stone into gold." The research and development paradigm of antibody drugs is undergoing a profound transformation driven by AI. Traditional antibody screening relies on immune animals or the construction of huge libraries, and then obtains candidate molecules through repeated screening. The process is like finding a needle in a haystack, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Now, AI is starting to directly design corresponding antibody sequences based on the structure of specific targets.
In 2025, the team of David Baker, Nobel Prize winner in Chemistry and scientist at the University of Washington (华盛顿大学) in the United States, developed a generative AI model that can generate nanobody sequences from scratch for specific sites of specific antigens, and some nanobodies have achieved atomic-level precision in binding conformation. This new process of "computational generation - experimental verification - rapid iteration" makes antibody design more targeted and precise, and is expected to significantly shorten the new drug development cycle.
China has entered the industrialization verification stage in the research and development of nanobody drugs. Fudan University (复旦大学) and Tencent AI Lab (腾讯AI实验室) jointly developed a dedicated design platform – TFDesign—sdAb, achieving breakthroughs in solving difficult problems such as nanobody purification and industrialization. For example, traditionally, nanobodies cannot directly bind to purification media commonly used in the industry, resulting in high production costs. The Chinese research team adopted an AI strategy of "generate first, then sort" to allow the algorithm to design tens of thousands of nanobody modification schemes, and then screen out schemes that both retain the ability to treat diseases and perfectly adapt to traditional industrial production processes, just like "sewing" an "interface" on the nanobody that can adapt to industrial production lines. The research results show that the design success rate reached 100%. This means that nanobody drugs can seamlessly connect to existing large-scale production lines, greatly reducing production costs.
Despite the broad development prospects, the full popularization of nanobodies still faces many challenges. The prediction accuracy of AI models for the unique structure of nanobodies still needs to be improved, and it is highly dependent on scarce experimental data; in the face of complex diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, how to find more effective targets is still a problem; how to more efficiently overcome physiological barriers and achieve multi-target synergistic regulation is also a key focus of future research.
Overall, with the rapid breakthroughs in AI technology and the leap in the level of the biopharmaceutical industry, nanobody research and development is ushering in a golden age. Through the deep integration of multi-agent systems, AI large models, and automated high-throughput experimental platforms, nanobody research and development is forming an efficient path of "computation-guided discovery," which will not only greatly reduce the cost and cycle of new drug development, but also provide new possibilities for the treatment of complex diseases.
(The author is a distinguished professor at Fudan University (复旦大学) and Shanghai Chuangzhi College (上海创智学院), and director of the Shanghai Synthetic Immunology Engineering Technology Research Center (上海合成免疫工程技术研究中心).)
Return to TopBy: 宋恒旭
The instant chalk scrapes across the blackboard, the occasional sounds of sneakers on the basketball court – these seemingly ordinary frictional phenomena in life conceal puzzles that the physics community has long been unable to fully solve. Recently, a research team at Harvard University in the United States published research results in the journal "Nature," revealing for the first time the physical mechanism by which sound is produced at the friction interface between soft and hard materials. This research not only explores the microscopic principles of friction-induced sound but also, through ingenious experimental design, allows "friction sounds" to play a segment of the soundtrack from the science fiction film "Star Wars," opening up ideas for better control of friction between materials.
Friction is one of the most common phenomena in nature. From ancient humans using friction to make fire and ignite the first ray of civilization, to ancient Egyptian craftsmen sprinkling water on the sand to lubricate and reduce friction in order to transport giant stones, its application and research have almost run through the entire history of human social development. However, precise quantitative experiments in tribology are very difficult, and the laws of friction have not yet been fully explained. For a long time, scientists have attributed friction sounds to "stick-slip" oscillations: when two hard surfaces rub against each other, they do not move smoothly but rather engage in a tug-of-war – sometimes tightly meshing (static friction) and sometimes suddenly breaking free and sliding (kinetic friction). This "stick-slide-re-stick" cycle generates self-excited vibrations, which produce sound. However, this classical theory struggles to explain why friction between different materials produces different tones.
To solve this mystery, the research team built an experimental "stage." They allowed the sole of a basketball shoe to slide on a glass surface at a speed of about 1 meter per second, while using high-speed imaging and acoustic analysis technology to capture the microscopic dynamics of the friction interface in real time. The experiment found that the contact interface was not calm but rather stirred up rapid "detachment waves." These waves, like seawater sweeping over sand ripples on the beach at low tide, quickly swept across the tiny textures of the shoe sole. Each time they swept across, the tiny contact points completed a rapid cycle from "closed" to "open" and back to "closed." Measurements showed that these "detachment waves" propagated at a speed of 80±4 meters per second – far higher than the sliding speed of the shoe sole itself. Even more astonishing was that the corresponding repetition frequency was about 4830 Hertz, almost exactly the same as the main frequency of the sound heard by the human ear, 4800 Hertz. It turns out that the rhythm of the "detachment waves" is the pitch of the friction sound; the "melodies" produced by friction between different materials are actually the "chorus" of countless "waves" lapping against the shore in the microscopic world.
The research team further explored the regulation of sound frequency by the geometry of the samples, testing silicone rubber samples with parallel ridges on the surface and heights between 5 and 20 millimeters. The results showed that the height of the sample itself was in precise inverse proportion to the fundamental frequency of the specific tone emitted. The higher the sample, the lower the tone; the shorter the sample, the higher the tone. This means that scientists can, like tuners, actively "create" the desired sound by designing samples of different heights. The research team precisely tuned the rubber samples to six different pitches, and when these samples were slid in sequence, it was as if they were playing an invisible instrument, using friction sounds to replicate the melody of the "Star Wars" soundtrack.
In the most ordinary phenomena often lie the most extraordinary truths. This seemingly **小题大做** (xiǎo tí dà zuò - "make a fuss about nothing," to make a mountain out of a molehill) research has enormous potential for innovative applications. For example, through interdisciplinary collaboration between physics, materials science, and engineering, researchers can develop smart materials that actively control friction and sound through surface microstructures, which are expected to achieve breakthroughs in areas such as low-noise transportation and intelligent robot tactile perception.
At the same time, the "detachment wave" phenomenon observed in the experiment helps to study and understand the scientific problem of the triggering and propagation of earthquakes. The essence of an earthquake is that under enormous pressure, crustal plates experience a long process of "sticking" (stress accumulation) to sudden "sliding" (energy release). Those rapidly sweeping tiny "detachment waves" are a microscopic microcosm of the macroscopic process of earthquakes. Perhaps one day, we can better predict the "roar" of the Earth by studying the "song" of the shoe sole.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院力学研究所).)
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Sydney (Reporters Xue Yanwen (薛艳雯) and Li Huizi (李惠子)) - Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have recently developed a method for producing high-quality graphene from discarded peanut shells. This opens the door to manufacturing cheaper and more sustainable electronic products and energy storage devices, and helps to reuse agricultural waste.
The new method uses peanut shell powder to produce graphene in two steps. The first step is to heat it to 500 degrees Celsius for 5 minutes to remove impurities and generate carbon-rich material; then the carbon material is subjected to flash Joule heating, which heats the material to 3000 degrees Celsius in a few milliseconds by means of an instantaneous current. This huge amount of thermal energy instantly rearranges the carbon atoms into a single layer of graphene. The researchers said that the first step of pretreatment is crucial, as it removes impurities and provides the best carbon-rich material to ensure that the final graphene product has minimal defects.
The researchers introduced that traditional graphene production is costly and energy-intensive; the new method uses agricultural waste and does not require the use of industrial chemicals, which can greatly reduce costs and carbon emissions. Manufacturing 1000 grams of graphene only requires an energy cost of $1.30. They plan to commercialize it within three to four years and test the production of graphene from other waste materials such as coffee grounds and banana peels.
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In recent news, a "smart gripper" autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) developed by the Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学) in Germany has completed field tests in the Port of Marseille (马赛港) in France and the Port of Hamburg (汉堡港) in Germany. This equipment, hailed as an ocean "smart cleaner," integrates cutting-edge technologies such as computer vision, sonar imaging, AI target recognition, and flexible grasping control, achieving full automation of seabed waste from detection to recovery. "Compared with traditional manual salvage, this equipment can significantly reduce costs and risks, providing a new path for using robots to carry out marine environmental governance," said Stefan Sosnowski, the project's main person in charge and a researcher at the Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学), to this reporter.
According to reports, the system consists of a surface service vessel, a small search robot, a diving robot, and an automatic waste transport boat (see picture, provided by the Technical University of Munich (慕尼黑工业大学)), like an "underwater special forces" team. During operation, the service vessel first emits sonar to draw a "rough map" of the seabed; then, the small search robot quickly dives like a scout, using high-precision scanning to lock the specific location of the waste. After receiving "intelligence," the diving robot starts eight miniature thrusters and swims flexibly towards the target. It extends a pair of special "mechanical hands," steadily grabs the waste, and then hoists it to the automatic transport boat next to it, without the need for manual intervention underwater.
"This is like equipping the robot with 'smart eyes' and 'dexterous hands'," Sosnowski explained, the underwater environment is complex, the light is dim and the water is turbid, identifying waste is the main technical challenge. The research team equipped the robot with a visual system that integrates cameras and sonar, and "fed" it more than 7,500 labeled seabed photos for training. Now, this robot, like an experienced old fisherman, can accurately distinguish which are waste plastics and which are marine organisms, and can also build a three-dimensional model of the waste in real time and calculate the best grasping angle.
Even more ingenious is its grasping technology. The robot's four mechanical arms have a grasping space of about 1 cubic meter, and the maximum grip can reach 4000 Newtons, enough to lift a weight of 250 kilograms. "At the same time, the sensors densely distributed on its fingertips can sense the force in real time. For example, when picking up a plastic bucket, it can hold it firmly without crushing it; when picking up a glass bottle, it can treat it gently to avoid breaking and prevent secondary pollution," Sosnowski said.
This robot is equipped with a "lifeline" - a multi-functional cable. It can not only extend the battery life of the airborne battery, but also provide a high-speed data channel, allowing powerful computing capabilities to be transmitted in real time. At the same time, it also serves as an "underwater crane" to help lift heavy objects back to the surface. In addition, the robot is wrapped in special buoyancy material, which allows it to remain suspended and stable in the water, making its movements more accurate.
Qian Peng, a researcher at the Ocean College of Zhejiang University (浙江大学海洋学院), believes that the core innovation of this research lies in the construction of an integrated system that integrates cross-domain collaboration and underwater intelligent operation, opening up the entire process of automated operation from seabed search, target recognition to grasping and recovery, "providing a replicable and scalable technical path for the intelligent transformation of marine environmental governance."
Currently, the project has received funding from the EU's "Ocean Cleanup 2.0" program, bringing together 13 top European research institutions and companies to jointly develop it. How to solve the identification accuracy in complex sea areas, the long-term stability of the system, and deployment costs are still difficult problems that the project needs to overcome. Bart De Schutter, the project coordinator, said that in the next few years, this intelligent robot is expected to achieve large-scale application and significantly expand the scope of marine waste cleanup.
Wang Gang, a professor at the College of Shipbuilding Engineering of Harbin Engineering University (哈尔滨工程大学船舶工程学院), believes that replacing divers with robots for seabed waste cleanup is an important direction for the development of the industry. At present, the operational capabilities of conventional underwater robots are affected by factors such as the type and weight of waste, and the depth of burial; surface ships are also far from the seabed, and there is still a large gap in the accurate identification and positioning of seabed waste. The German team's research program uses AI technology to improve the system's autonomous decision-making ability in complex seabed environments. Although accurate identification and intelligent grasping in complex seabeds are still difficulties to be overcome, this technology will have great development potential in promoting large-scale, normalized, and all-weather seabed cleaning operations.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Rio de Janeiro (Reporter Zhao Yan (赵焱)) - Brazilian scientists recently identified a new species of giant dinosaur from fossils discovered in the northeastern part of the country. This dinosaur is similar to a dinosaur previously discovered in Spain, providing new clues for understanding the evolution and migration of dinosaurs between continents in the early Cretaceous period.
These dinosaur fossils were discovered in 2021 during infrastructure construction in Maranhão State (马拉尼昂州) in northern Brazil, including a femur about 1.5 meters long, as well as other limb bones, parts of the pelvis, caudal vertebrae, and rib fragments.
After analyzing the fossils, scientists believe that this is a long-necked herbivorous sauropod dinosaur, which can reach about 20 meters in length and is one of the largest dinosaurs discovered in Brazil to date. Scientists named it after the Tocantins River (托坎廷斯河), where the fossils were found.
The scientists involved in the research also found that the newly identified dinosaur has a very high degree of similarity to the Galveosaurus discovered in Spain. This suggests that this dinosaur may have originated in what is now Europe, and its ancestors migrated to what is now South America via North Africa about 120 million years ago, before the Atlantic Ocean was fully formed.
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The unique karst landforms, ancient and secluded forests, and colorful lakes of China's Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) have earned it a place on UNESCO's World Natural Heritage List for its magnificent natural landscapes and rich biodiversity. Thousands of miles away in Europe, there is a World Natural Heritage site with an overall landscape very similar to Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟): Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) (hereinafter referred to as "Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园)").
Like Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) is known for its rare cold-water tufa landscapes, which are of great scientific research and conservation value. The clear, azure lakes are like "sapphires" inlaid at both ends of the Eurasian continent. Over the past decade, the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学) in Croatia have collaborated extensively, focusing on these two natural heritage sites as their main research objects, and conducting joint research in areas such as ecological conservation and biodiversity protection, achieving a series of results.
Establishing a Joint Laboratory
Protecting "Sister" World Natural Heritage Sites
Early morning, after a snowfall, Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) in Sichuan (四川) is so quiet that you can almost hear the sound of ice crystals solidifying. The turquoise waters and colorful forests reflecting the white snow amazed Professor Natasha (娜塔莎) from the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学). She came from Croatia specifically to investigate the tufa landscape conservation project, and to conduct research with Lei Yanbao (类延宝), associate researcher at the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所).
Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) also has karst cold-water tufa landforms, with the lake water exhibiting a transparent blue-green luster under the sunlight, and milky white deposits shimmering in the water. These constantly "growing" landforms are the object of research for scientists from both countries.
"This type of natural landscape formed by tufa and its lake system is widely distributed in Croatia, and is also very typical in the karst areas of Sichuan (四川), China," said Mladen Juracic (姆拉登·尤拉西奇), academician of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts. For more than 10 years, scientists from China and Croatia have continuously carried out cooperative research on the tufa landscapes widely existing in karst rivers.
In 2009, Wu Ning (吴宁), then director of the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所), visited Croatia and met Professor Andjelka Plenkovic-Moraj (安杰尔卡·普伦科维奇—莫拉伊) of the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学). Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) and Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) were successively listed as World Natural Heritage Sites by UNESCO in 1979 and 1992, respectively, and became "sister" World Natural Heritage Sites in 2006. Wu Ning (吴宁) realized that both belong to the world's most unique karst cold-water tufa landscapes and face ecological protection and scientific management issues, making exchanges and cooperation between the two sides a natural fit.
"In the field of biodiversity protection, China and Croatia have complementary advantages," said Kazimir Mikulic (卡齐米尔·米库利尼奇), director of the Department of Protection and Sustainable Use of Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园), to this reporter. "As a Mediterranean country, Croatia has advantages in aquatic ecosystem research and is experienced in wetland restoration, marine protection, and endangered species protection; China excels in large-scale ecological restoration, degraded forest and grassland restoration, and terrestrial ecosystem protection such as endangered species protection."
In 2019, the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) and the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学) jointly established the China-Croatia Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory, which is the only "Belt and Road" joint laboratory in China and Europe with biodiversity protection as its theme. Croatian Ambassador to China Dario Mihelin (达里欧·米海林) said that the joint laboratory has significantly strengthened cooperation between the two countries' scientific research institutions and achieved a series of internationally influential results, becoming a model for different countries to work together to protect World Natural Heritage.
Artificial Moss Propagation
Greening More Than 100 Acres of Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) After the Earthquake
On August 8, 2017, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake caused nearly 30 geological disaster "scars" to Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), and post-earthquake ecological restoration became a protracted "technical battle." As the leader of the Croatian team, Andjelka (安杰尔卡) contacted Sun Geng (孙庚), deputy director of the Ecological Environment Restoration Center of the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所), in November and rushed to the Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) scenic area to carry out reconstruction and restoration work.
The earthquake caused large bare rock slopes to form on the mountains in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), covering an area of more than 5,000 acres. With exposed rocks and missing vegetation, sediment was easily washed into the lakes during rainstorms. "If organic matter enters the water in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), it is prone to eutrophication, and algae will reproduce in large quantities, affecting the transparency of the water," Sun Geng (孙庚) explained, "Vegetation restoration is imminent."
Greening bare rocks can only be achieved by transplanting moss. After repeated demonstrations, the team at the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) decided to collect and carry out rapid artificial moss propagation. "We are very grateful for the help of the Croatian team in the screening and propagation of moss species," said Sun Geng (孙庚). Andjelka's (安杰尔卡) team developed chlorophyll fluorescence non-destructive micro-measurement technology and established anti-stress screening indicators, which were crucial for screening out moss suitable for restoring bare rocks in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟).
It took nearly half a year just to collect suitable moss in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟). Then came the artificial propagation. During that time, the Chinese and Croatian teams communicated frequently across mountains and seas. When the Chinese side encountered the problem of difficult disinfection of moss fungal contamination, a video conference was held immediately. With the help of the Croatian team, the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) established an indoor tissue culture sterile system. The two sides repeatedly communicated via email on the ratio of nutrients. Finally, the two sides jointly screened out 5 kinds of moss that adapted to the local environment, forming a green, low-cost, near-natural restoration technology system for bare rock slopes.
Now, standing on the Jianzhu (Arrow Bamboo) Coast (箭竹海) of Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) and looking into the distance, the lake water is clear and turquoise, and the dead trees are clearly visible, making it a beautiful sight. On the cliffs not far upstream, green moss tightly covers the surface of the rocks, which is one of the points where Sun Geng's (孙庚) team is carrying out moss restoration.
"The greening methods are different for bare rocks in different locations. You see, this is a cliff, so we have to use hydroseeding technology to carry out vertical moss ecological compensation; where there is soil, we can combine grass seeds for greening," Sun Geng (孙庚) said, pointing to the green spots on the mountain. In order to carry out moss restoration, he and his team members often have to be stationed in the valley for two or three months at a time.
Chinese and Croatian researchers overcame multiple difficulties such as insufficient funds, unstable geological conditions, and construction on steep mountains to complete the restoration work. As of now, more than 100 acres of bare rock caused by the earthquake in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) have been greened. The near-natural restoration technology system for bare rock slopes jointly developed by China and Croatia is not only applied in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), but also in other ecological restoration projects, including vegetation on matrix-free engineering surfaces of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway (川藏铁路).
Unlocking the "Mystery of the Blue Lake"
Scientific Coordinates for the Protection of Beautiful Scenery
The busy figures of Chinese and Croatian researchers also appear on the wooden boardwalks and beside the streams in Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园). They jointly repair tufa dams with minor cracks and cooperate to measure changes in the concentration of suspended particulate matter and calcium carbonate particles in the lake water. "Tufa is not a static rock, but a 'growing' living system," said Lei Yanbao (类延宝), who participated in the project. "Our goal is to help it self-recover."
This restoration concept originates from the original technology formed by the post-earthquake restoration of the Nuorilang Waterfall (诺日朗瀑布) and the Spark Lake (火花海) tufa landscape in Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) - combining micro-environment regulation and biological promotion of deposition to enable natural tufa regrowth. Today, this "near-natural restoration" method has been introduced to Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) through the joint laboratory and has become an important means of protecting the tufa landscape in the park.
Mihelin (米海林) said: "The joint Chinese-Croatian research team systematically clarified the biological mechanism of cold-water tufa formation for the first time, jointly established a unified water quality evaluation system, and promoted the development of hyperspectral drone ecological monitoring technology, fully demonstrating the exemplary value of joint research between the two countries at the practical level."
Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) consists of 16 main lakes, covering an area of nearly 300 square kilometers. In the past, lake water quality monitoring relied on manual sampling, taking water samples to the lakeside and taking them back to the laboratory for analysis, which took several hours or even longer for one test. Today, using the Chinese team's drone image acquisition and hyperspectral monitoring technology for lake water quality parameters, it only takes ten minutes to complete the scanning of the entire lake area, realizing rapid, non-disruptive monitoring of lake water quality, effectively solving the problems of time-consuming and labor-intensive manual sampling and limited accuracy.
Mikulic (米库利尼奇) explained that tufa landscapes are geologically very young geological structures and form very quickly. Tufa landforms are often damaged by human activities and may suddenly stop growing or disappear due to erosion. Balancing tourism and protection is very necessary, and scientific management can ensure the sustainable preservation of World Natural Heritage.
Visiting Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) and Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园), the most attractive thing for tourists is the blue lake water. A joint study by the Chinese and Croatian teams confirmed that calcium carbonate tufa particles of 0.1-0.45 microns in the water are the reason why the lakes appear blue, successfully unlocking the "mystery of the blue lake." This discovery reveals the physical and chemical mechanism of the blue lake water, enabling the transformation of water quality monitoring, tourist carrying capacity control, and landscape restoration from empirical judgment to data-driven refined management, providing a replicable paradigm for the sustainable tourism of World Heritage sites.
Jointly Cultivating Scientific Research Achievements
Scientific Research Cooperation Promotes People-to-People Connectivity
In the past two years, the mutual exchange of scientific researchers between China and Croatia has been increasing, with Croatian scientists visiting China 17 times, totaling 334 person-days, and Chinese researchers visiting Croatia 20 times, totaling 102 person-days. The joint laboratory has also jointly trained a group of international scientific research talents, including two Croatian doctoral students who came to Chengdu (成都) for study and advanced training.
"The significance of scientific research cooperation lies not only in solving specific problems, but also in promoting people-to-people connectivity." Speaking of the cooperation with the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学) and Professor Andjelka (安杰尔卡), Sun Geng (孙庚), who also serves as the executive deputy director of the joint laboratory, said with deep feeling, "International scientific research cooperation is an important force in the development of today's world. It can not only promote economic development between countries and regions, but also deepen multicultural exchanges. We hope to strengthen cooperation with Croatia in biodiversity protection, and take this opportunity to further deepen people-to-people connectivity and mutual learning between civilizations."
From protected area ecological protection to biodiversity formation and conservation, from crop gene improvement to the development of characteristic biological resources, the joint laboratory brings together the strength of scientists from both countries. Radovan Fuchs (拉多万·富奇斯), Croatian Minister of Science, Education and Youth, believes that Croatia's experience in biodiversity protection complements China's advantages in environmental monitoring and innovative technologies, helping both sides jointly address global challenges such as climate change and environmental pollution, and providing practical examples for promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature.
The Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) and the University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学) and other institutions jointly promoted the establishment of the World Tufa Natural Heritage Research and Protection Alliance, published more than 20 joint academic papers, and jointly compiled the "Diatom Atlas of Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟) Nature Reserve," which was published in 2023. As of 2024, more than 10 invention patents have been approved for relevant cooperative research of the joint laboratory.
"These achievements fully demonstrate the Chinese and Croatian sides' pursuit of excellence in scientific attitude and continuous support for each other. I am full of confidence in the future of Chinese-Croatian biodiversity cooperation," said Mihelin (米海林), who is very pleased with the scientific research achievements of Chinese-Croatian cooperation, and believes that Croatia has the potential to become an important hub for scientific and technological cooperation on biodiversity under the "Belt and Road" Initiative, contributing to global sustainable development.
The scientific research fields of Chinese-Croatian biodiversity cooperation are constantly expanding, and the scientific research objects are becoming increasingly rich. China's Huanglong National Nature Reserve (黄龙国家自然保护区) and Croatia's Krka National Park (克尔卡国家公园) have similar karst natural landscapes and rich biodiversity resources. The two sides signed a "Memorandum of Understanding on Ecological Protection and Sustainable Management" to cooperate on issues such as sustainable development, sustainable tourism, and environmental protection.
"The research results on the tufa landscapes of Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), Huanglong (黄龙), and Croatia are universal and can be promoted to all tufa landscape areas around the world. Chinese-Croatian cooperation in conducting experiments, joint analysis, and publishing data will contribute to the protection of global biodiversity," said Mikulic (米库利尼奇), adding that the joint laboratory has become an important platform for scientific research cooperation between Central and Eastern Europe and China.
Looking to the future, Mikulic (米库利尼奇) hopes that the two countries will share environmental management experience, carry out more joint monitoring, scientific research cooperation, and paper writing, become leaders in the field of research and protection of global tufa landscape protected areas, and jointly promote global biodiversity protection and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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How does a cashmere sweater start its digital journey? In Tongxiang (桐乡), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, the largest cashmere sweater distribution center in China, the raw material procurement price, style design, knitting method, sales channels, and other information of each cashmere sweater are sorted and summarized into data, forming a unique best-selling "code."
Behind the continuous acceleration of digital transformation is the continuous improvement of financial services. In recent years, the Jiaxing (嘉兴) Banking and Insurance Regulatory Bureau (嘉兴金融监管分局) has guided the insurance industry in its jurisdiction to launch data intellectual property infringement loss insurance, which has accelerated the digital transformation of the cashmere sweater industry. This insurance, on the one hand, attracts more and more cashmere sweater companies to transform their own data into intellectual property, solving the industry's pain point of being infringed by imitations; on the other hand, data intellectual property also builds a protective barrier, allowing more companies to confidently put core business data on the cloud, and support the intelligent production and precise marketing of the entire industry chain through big data, accelerating the release of digital productivity.
Accelerating the development of the digital economy is a strategic choice to grasp the new opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation. From the digital transformation of the Tongxiang (桐乡) cashmere sweater industry, it can be seen that finance has a lot to offer in empowering the digital economy.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes that by 2030, the added value of the core industries of the digital economy will account for 12.5% of the gross domestic product. From 10.5% in 2024 to 12.5% in 2030, finance should go deeper into all fields and links of the digital economy, and accelerate the development of the digital economy by improving its own service quality.
Help industrial digitization, so that enterprises "dare to transform," "can transform," and "will transform." At present, China's digital economy has entered a period of comprehensive expansion, and digital transformation has become a compulsory course for traditional industry enterprises. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the growth rate of digital economy industrial loans in China was significantly higher than the average growth rate of various loans. However, for some small and medium-sized enterprises, digital transformation still has high technical barriers and risks. Financial institutions should work hard to solve the problems of these enterprises "not daring to transform," "not being able to transform," and "not knowing how to transform." For example, many places are now building digital transformation promotion platforms to gather various resource conditions and drive the digital transformation of traditional industries. Financial institutions should connect to these platforms more to provide credit support and risk protection for enterprise digital transformation.
Promote digital industrialization, adhere to investing early, investing in small businesses, investing for the long term, and investing in hard technology. The digital economy has the characteristics of technology-intensive, high growth, rapid iteration, and long-term realization, which is highly consistent with the positioning of patient capital to invest early, invest in small businesses, invest for the long term, and invest in hard technology. Many of the disruptive innovations in the digital economy come from small and medium-sized enterprises and start-up teams, rather than traditional giants. Only by intervening early and accompanying them for a long time can we share their exponential growth dividends. Therefore, financial institutions should focus on strategic frontier fields such as quantum information, artificial intelligence, and integrated circuits, and provide strong financial support for the continuous emergence of cutting-edge and revolutionary digital technologies by accelerating the layout of special funds, actively guiding the allocation of medium- and long-term funds such as insurance, and promoting investment-loan linkage, so as to help new technologies, new models, and new business forms of the digital economy accelerate the industrialization.
Promote digital valorization and promote the confirmability, circulation, and tradability of data elements. Data elements are the core engine for the in-depth development of the digital economy, and finance has become an important field for data elements to release value and accelerate market-oriented circulation and application. Integrating industrial and commercial, taxation, water and electricity and other data to build a corporate credit profile, supporting data asset pledge financing, standardizing data financial applications... In recent years, the rapid development of digital finance has effectively promoted data compliance confirmation, sharing and circulation, and mortgage financing. We must step up efforts to write a big article on digital finance, and while data promotes the improvement of the quality and efficiency of financial services, we must expand digital financial application scenarios, leverage and drive the supply and circulation of data elements, and transform more intangible data resources into tangible data assets.
It should also be noted that the vigorous development of the digital economy has created more favorable conditions for the high-quality development of finance. Focusing on accelerating the integration of digital technology and the real economy, and improving the inclusive level of digital convenience for people's lives, and finding more combined points for application and development, financial services and the digital economy will surely go in both directions and jointly open up new spaces for high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 屈信明
People regard food as their paramount concern, and safety as the top priority in food.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to "improve the whole-chain and whole-process supervision mechanism for food and drugs, and improve the food and drug safety responsibility system," and to "strengthen food safety supervision from farmland to table, strengthen risk source control, and improve the level of collaborative supervision and intelligent supervision."
As a professional and market-oriented risk management tool, food safety liability insurance can play a positive role in improving the prevention and rescue level of food safety accidents and resolving conflicts and disputes. Many places actively improve relevant insurance mechanisms, through government guidance, market operation, and social participation, to enhance the safety production awareness and ability of food sector business entities, and better protect the legitimate rights and interests of consumers.
Achieving a win-win situation for consumers, food industry enterprises, and relevant departments.
Tasting delicious seafood, enjoying the refreshing sea breeze, admiring various buildings, and watching water birds fly... Dalian (大连市), Liaoning (辽宁) Province, is a popular tourist city, attracting many tourists every summer. However, the high temperature and humidity in summer can easily increase food hygiene risks. How to better protect food safety and consumer rights? Ma Jun (马俊) from Shijiazhuang (石家庄市), Hebei (河北) Province, talked about a tourism experience last August.
"I had dinner at a resort in Wafangdian (瓦房店) and developed symptoms such as diarrhea, which seemed like food poisoning," Ma Jun (马俊) said. The person in charge of the restaurant immediately helped him contact medical treatment. After receiving an infusion at the hospital, his discomfort quickly subsided. "The person in charge of the restaurant also told me that they had insured 'Food Safety Insurance' (食安保), and had reported the case to the insurance company, and the medical expenses were guaranteed. I soon received more than 500 yuan in insurance compensation, which made me feel much relieved."
The "Food Safety Insurance" (食安保) that Ma Jun (马俊) received compensation for is a food safety liability insurance launched locally, mainly targeting offline physical stores providing catering services. If an insured enterprise has a food safety accident, such as food contaminated with bacteria, fungi, parasites, pesticides, or mixed with foreign objects, or maliciously poisoned by a third party, the economic compensation liability to consumers that should be borne will be compensated by the insurance company. In 2025, the product provided a cumulative risk guarantee of 5.308 billion yuan in Dalian (大连).
Food safety liability insurance is an insurance whose subject matter is the economic compensation liability that the insured should legally bear when the food produced and operated by the insured has defects, causing personal injury, death, and property damage to third parties. Experts said that introducing an insurance mechanism to help protect food safety is conducive to achieving a win-win situation for consumers, food industry enterprises, and relevant departments.
"Food safety liability insurance facilitates consumers who have been infringed upon to obtain economic compensation, and can effectively resolve conflicts and disputes," said Wang Xiangnan (王向楠), deputy director of the Insurance and Economic Development Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院). "Sometimes consumers get sick from eating bad food, and related companies insure food liability insurance, which is compensated by insurance. The claims settlement is more guaranteed and the process is smoother, which is conducive to improving consumers' rights protection efficiency and satisfaction."
For enterprises, insuring food liability insurance is conducive to stabilizing operations and reducing risks. Li Nan (李楠), the person in charge of a participating food city company in Ganjingzi District (甘井子区), Dalian (大连), believes that food safety liability insurance transforms the compensation risks faced by enterprises into predictable and controllable premium expenditures, disperses the potential pressure on enterprises to deal with unexpected events, and guarantees the continuity of enterprise production and operation.
"Usually, food liability insurance underwriting institutions will also move the risk management link forward, help enterprises eliminate potential safety production hazards in the bud, and reduce accident risks. Therefore, participating in food liability insurance is also a positive signal for enterprises to transmit to the market, which is conducive to enhancing their recognition," said Zheng Wei (郑伟), director of the China Insurance and Social Security Research Center of Peking University (北京大学).
More importantly, insurance can become an important means to improve the food safety supervision system.
"For example, 'Food Safety Insurance' (食安保), as an important supplement to government supervision, can effectively reduce the government's pressure on handling aftermaths in food safety accidents and optimize the allocation of regulatory resources," said the relevant person in charge of the Dalian Financial Regulatory Bureau (大连金融监管局). In addition, the "reward the good and punish the bad" through the floating rate mechanism guides enterprises to operate with integrity and self-discipline in compliance, which is conducive to forming a multi-party collaborative governance synergy of "government supervision, enterprise self-discipline, insurance guarantee, and public supervision."
Innovatively expand insurance responsibilities and expand the scope of protection.
China has a long history of developing food safety liability insurance. The "Food Safety Law of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国食品安全法), revised and adopted in 2015, clarifies that the state encourages food production and operation enterprises to participate in food safety liability insurance. In 2019, the "Opinions of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council on Deepening Reform and Strengthening Food Safety Work" (中共中央国务院关于深化改革加强食品安全工作的意见) proposed that meat, egg, milk, and liquor production enterprises, collective dining units, rural collective dining, large-scale food distribution units, central kitchens, and catering units should actively purchase food safety liability insurance, and small and medium-sized enterprises with conditions should actively insure food safety liability insurance to give play to the other-discipline role and risk-sharing mechanism of insurance.
From a practical point of view, some places actively promote the optimization of related services, innovate and expand insurance responsibilities, and expand the scope of protection in a targeted manner.
"The insurance provided compensation for the destruction of the problematic fruits found in the spot check, which avoided economic losses for us," said Wu Chang (吴昌), the owner of a fruit store in Suichang County (遂昌县), Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province. Last year, the local market supervision department found that the pesticide residues in the mangoes he sold exceeded the standard during food safety-related inspections. After investigation, he had fulfilled his obligation to check the goods upon purchase and was not subjectively intentional. While the market supervision department destroyed the unqualified products, the insurance company compensated the fruit store for its economic losses.
It is understood that Lishui (丽水) is focusing on deepening the innovation of the food safety liability insurance mechanism, including business entities in key areas such as agricultural wholesale and farmers' markets, school canteens, and elderly care institution canteens in the scope of insurance. When problematic food is found, merchants obtain compensation through the insurance mechanism, reduce the risk of economic losses, and enhance their awareness of standardized operation.
"'Insurance + spot check + traceability' risk-sharing mechanism continues to deepen, and the insurance function has shifted from single risk compensation to the participation of the entire chain of governance, which is conducive to building a social co-governance system for food safety and improving the level of food safety protection," said the relevant person in charge of the Food Coordination Office of the Lishui Municipal Market Supervision Bureau (丽水市市场监管局).
The "Opinions on the Property Insurance Industry Actively Carrying out Risk Reduction Services" (关于财产保险业积极开展风险减量服务的意见) issued by the former China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission (原中国银保监会) proposed that in liability insurance such as safety production liability insurance, food safety liability insurance, and environmental pollution liability insurance, as well as various property insurance businesses such as car insurance, agricultural insurance, enterprise property insurance, household property insurance, engineering insurance, and cargo transportation insurance, risk reduction services should be actively provided. In recent years, some places have established food liability insurance service centers, formed professional teams such as expert teams, co-management teams, and technical teams, and regularly or irregularly inspect catering and food units, put forward rectification opinions to unqualified units, and grasp the source risk management.
There are many types of food production and operation entities. How to further improve the coverage? Accurately identifying subdivided scenarios and innovating products according to local conditions is an important trick.
"We promote insurance companies to develop customized product systems for different industry pain points," said Liu Yong (刘咏), member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Chongqing Financial Regulatory Bureau (重庆金融监管局). For example, in the field of fresh food, the focus is on foodborne diseases caused by foreign matter mixing and packaging defects. Optimize insurance services suitable for online food ordering, deepen the integration of "insurance + technology," strengthen system docking, realize automatic underwriting, and operate the entire process online. For large production enterprises, insurance responsibilities cover inspection and testing, food recall, and other expenses. Timely intervention in claims settlement, rapid handling of small-amount cases, reducing the relevant pressure on consumers and small and micro catering enterprises, while resolving disputes and giving play to the "shock absorber" and "stabilizer" role of insurance.
Liu Yong (刘咏) said that by strengthening product innovation, the service objects of food liability insurance have been extended from traditional catering to the entire industry chain, covering key areas such as school canteens, catering industry, food production enterprises, agricultural cooperatives, online food ordering, and food distribution. In 2025, Chongqing (重庆) property insurance industry underwrote food liability insurance for 4,274 enterprises and institutions, with a risk guarantee amount of more than 250 billion yuan, an increase of 13.12% year-on-year.
Differentiated product innovation, and various places have come up with "eighteen kinds of martial arts" (十八般武艺 - shíbā bān wǔyì - "eighteen kinds of martial arts," all sorts of skills and talents). Shanghai (上海市) has expanded the scope of centralized insurance subjects, and chain food producers and operators, group companies, community management departments, etc. can be used as centralized insurance subjects; Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, has innovatively developed personalized products such as "Catering Insurance" (餐饮保), "Food Small Security" (食小安), and "Food Worry-Free" (食无忧) based on providing inclusive "South Taihu Food Safety Insurance" (南太湖食安保) for small and micro business entities, combined with the risk protection needs of the night economy and farmhouses.
"Innovating product design according to local conditions and further broadening the coverage of food liability insurance is conducive to weaving a tight food safety protection network," said Wang Xiangnan (王向楠).
With the improvement of food safety supervision level, the innovation and promotion of food liability insurance will usher in a better environment.
Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, and tea, three meals a day, and four seasons are the steaming "little days" of thousands of households, and also related to the "big ledger" of governing the country. The positive role of developing food safety liability insurance in strengthening food safety work and guaranteeing and improving people's livelihood is becoming increasingly apparent. However, although food liability insurance has experienced many years of development in China, its promotion and popularization are not high compared with mature insurance markets internationally.
Industry insiders said that this type of insurance has encouraging policies at the national level, but the management system for promoting the implementation and promotion of food liability insurance in some places still needs to be refined, and the linkage between food liability insurance and food enterprise supervision needs to be strengthened. Some regions explore government purchases or related institutions to give away and other methods to improve coverage. Judging from the situation in various places, insurance is still mainly based on enterprise voluntariness.
"Compared with some mature markets internationally, there are fewer punitive damages for enterprises in food safety liability accidents in China, and the pressure to transfer civil liability risks is low. Some business entities lack the motivation to disperse and transfer risks, and their willingness to insure is insufficient," said Zheng Wei (郑伟).
Some consumers are concerned about whether it is feasible to promote a mandatory liability insurance system in key areas of food safety.
It is understood that China's Insurance Law clearly stipulates that "insurance contracts are voluntarily concluded except for those that must be insured by laws and administrative regulations," indicating that the establishment of a mandatory insurance system needs to be clarified in terms of legislation. The Food Safety Law stipulates that "the state encourages food production and operation enterprises to participate in food safety liability insurance." If exploring mandatory insurance, it is necessary to further improve the relevant legal basis.
In addition, the supply of food liability insurance products should also be strengthened for innovation and optimization. Food industry enterprises in different links and of different types have different risk protection needs. Judging from market supply, there is still much room for improvement in the design of related insurance products.
"At present, food liability insurance products on the market focus more on guaranteeing direct personal injury compensation, and there are relatively few products that can cover indirect health costs, food recall costs, etc.," said Wang Xiangnan (王向楠). Insurance institutions can explore incorporating food recall costs, business interruption losses, etc. into insurance responsibilities. At the same time, they should continue to improve the "prevention and compensation combination" service system such as risk inspection, inspection and testing, and professional training to enhance product attractiveness.
Industry insiders said that looking forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," with the improvement of food safety supervision level, the innovation and promotion of food liability insurance will usher in a better environment.
"Improving the level of collaborative supervision and intelligent supervision is conducive to facilitating insurance institutions to obtain data such as the risk status of food enterprises through data sharing, improving the scientific pricing level of food liability insurance, and achieving long-term sustainable development. At the same time, insurance institutions can use relevant intelligent data for remote risk monitoring and carry out risk reduction services in real time," said Zheng Wei (郑伟). "Building a socialized governance system for food safety with food liability insurance as a link and the widespread participation of relevant institutions will better prevent and resolve food safety risks."
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The state monopoly on salt and iron was a far-reaching institutional exploration in ancient Chinese economic history. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han (汉武帝), in order to solve the increasing financial pressure, the imperial court brought salt and iron under the exclusive management of the government, setting up salt officials and iron officials to统管 (tǒng guǎn - "manage all") production, transportation, and sales, from which the state obtained monopoly profits. Salt is a daily necessity, and iron is an important raw material for production tools and daily necessities. The market has a huge and stable demand for these two products. Unified management by the state can not only increase fiscal revenue but also enhance the government's influence on the social economy.
"民不益赋而天下用饶" (mín bù yì fù ér tiān xià yòng ráo - "the people's taxes are not increased, yet the world is rich"), after the implementation of the state monopoly on salt and iron, the imperial court was able to meet financial needs without increasing agricultural taxes. At the same time, by controlling the management rights of important strategic materials such as salt and iron, the ancient state's market regulation capabilities and social mobilization capabilities were rapidly enhanced.
However, as time went on, the drawbacks of the state monopoly on salt and iron gradually became apparent. The quality of state-run ironware was uneven, but the price was expensive, and the many links in the salt business led to price increases at each level. At the same time, due to the inefficiency of the government's own operations, the output of salt and iron continued to decline, and the government had to spend a lot of money to support the salt and iron management agencies and redundant officials, which dragged down the imperial court's finances. More and more courtiers began to question whether the state monopoly on salt and iron was still necessary.
During the reign of Emperor Zhao of Han (汉昭帝), the imperial court held a discussion recorded in history on whether to continue the state monopoly on salt and iron. Some argued that the state should continue to control key resources to ensure financial needs, while others believed that the government's monopoly was 与民争利 (yǔ mín zhēng lì - "competing with the people for profit," to compete with the people for profit). In the end, the latter's voice prevailed. Although the state monopoly on salt and iron was not completely abolished, the government greatly relaxed its control over important strategic materials.
The rise and fall of the state monopoly on salt and iron touched on many important themes of economic governance. From an economic point of view, some industries are prone to natural monopolies due to concentrated resources and huge investments. Completely handing them over to the market may lead to private monopolies or disorderly competition. Especially in the fields of public services and strategic materials, pure market regulation may not be able to ensure universal supply and price stability. Therefore, government intervention is necessary.
Although the state monopoly on salt and iron was a policy established more than 2,000 years ago, the history of its rise and fall is also enlightening for us today to think about the relationship between the government and the market, especially the role of state-owned enterprises. In important areas related to the national economy and the people's livelihood and national security, it is necessary to ensure a certain degree of public governance, but the governance methods can be more flexible and diverse.
So how to grasp the degree of freedom and intervention? This requires the government to have clear boundaries and clear goals for market intervention. The state monopoly on salt and iron initially emerged in the Western Han government to solve financial difficulties, but in the implementation process, it gradually generalized into the government's universal control over the market. At present, it is necessary to further enhance the ability of state-owned assets and state-owned enterprises to serve national strategies. Focusing on strategic security, industrial leadership, national economy and people's livelihood, public services, and other functions, further clarify the functional positioning of various state-owned enterprises, strengthen the evaluation of strategic missions, improve the management of primary responsibilities and primary industries, and accelerate the concentration of state-owned capital in important industries and key areas related to national security and the lifeline of the national economy, in public services, emergency capabilities, and public welfare fields related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and in forward-looking strategic emerging industries.
Any institutional arrangement needs to adapt to changes in the times. The state monopoly on salt and iron has been adjusted many times in history, sometimes tight and sometimes loose, reflecting the ancients' pragmatic attitude towards policy effects. Today's reform of state-owned enterprises is also a continuous process, which needs to be continuously improved according to changes in the internal and external environment.
The history of the state monopoly on salt and iron tells us that good economic governance is not about choosing between "full intervention" and "complete laissez-faire," but about finding the right balance based on the characteristics of different fields. For state-owned enterprises, it is necessary to clarify their functional positioning in different historical stages and different industries, both to give play to the advantages of concentrating efforts to accomplish great things and to stimulate vitality by improving governance.
(The author is Zhou Bin (周斌), Associate Professor of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (北京大学光华管理学院), and a reporter for *National Humanities History* (《国家人文历史》), compiled)
Return to TopHigh-level technological self-reliance and self-strengthening are the strategic support for high-quality development. As a large state-owned commercial bank, China Construction Bank (中国建设银行) (hereinafter referred to as "Construction Bank") always adheres to the Party's leadership, firmly establishes a correct view of political achievements, uses financial services to help build a strong country, and uses practical measures to improve people's well-being. In recent years, Construction Bank has set its sights on the goal of becoming a "leading bank in science and technology finance," deeply embedding financial services into the entire chain of integrated development of technological innovation and industrial innovation, injecting strong impetus into the construction of a technologically strong country, and allowing the fine tradition of "born of construction and thriving on construction" to shine with new brilliance in the new era.
By the end of 2025, Construction Bank's science and technology loan balance was 5.25 trillion yuan, an increase of 834.168 billion yuan over the previous year. Throughout the year, it underwrote 182 issues of science and technology innovation bonds for 106 issuers, with an underwriting scale of 71.984 billion yuan, an increase of 282.43%. Continue to promote the pilot business of equity investment by Financial Asset Investment Companies (AIC). By the end of 2025, a total of 28 AIC equity investment pilot funds had been established.
Cultivating Scientific and Technological Talents: Cultivating Talents and Building a Foundation
Sowing the "Seeds" for Scientific and Technological Innovation
The stage of cultivating scientific and technological talents is the stage of forging "character." Construction Bank thoroughly implements the integrated development strategy of education, science and technology, and talent, and provides exclusive services for the cultivation of scientific and technological talents.
Supporting college student innovation competitions for 11 consecutive years. As a financial partner of the China International College Students' Innovation Competition, Construction Bank has exclusively sponsored the competition for 11 consecutive years, helping to solve the problem of landing the ideas of young scientific and technological talents. The competition has supported and cultivated high-quality projects such as Unitree Robotics, laying the foundation for the growth and development of high-quality technology companies in the future. In addition, Construction Bank actively deepens cooperation with the Ministry of Education, deeply participates in the entire process from competition organization and operation to project incubation, and injects financial power into the entrepreneurial dreams of young scientists and technologists.
Empowering enterprises in both directions and growing together with entrepreneurs. Yilearn Biopharmaceuticals (苏州宜联生物医药有限公司) is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focusing on the research and development of antibody-drug conjugates. Construction Bank provides it with one-stop services from business registration to bank account opening, realizing the pre-intervention of financial services. During the critical period of the company's growth, Construction Bank designed a fixed asset loan plan for it and provided a credit line of several hundred million yuan for "pipeline loans" to meet the company's long-term research and development investment needs.
"Kechuang E Jianhang" provides online full-process companionship. The Shanghai Branch of Construction Bank has created the "Kechuang E Jianhang" (科创E建行) WeChat mini-program, which serves the settlement and business of scientific and technological talents through five systems: "Lezhu Innovation," "Letuo Entrepreneurship," "Leju Anjia," "Lequ Life," and "Letou Wealth Management." A research team from the Bio-X Research Institute of a university in Shanghai filled the market gap in the field of objective testing of mental and psychological diseases in China with its independent research and development achievements, but faced a funding bottleneck in the process of achievement transformation. The research team used the "Kechuang E Jianhang" to increase credit through the pledge of intellectual property rights under the Construction Bank's science and technology innovation evaluation system, and successfully obtained a three-year revolving loan of nearly 3 million yuan. The team also signed up to participate in the "Jian·Hu Chain" Science and Technology Star Forum Shanghai Jiaotong University special roadshow through "Kechuang E Jianhang" and successfully obtained equity investment, which provided financial guarantee for the industrialization of its scientific and technological achievements.
Scientific and Technological Innovation: Giving Support and Overcoming Difficulties
Being the "Power Source" of Technology Research and Development
The stage of scientific and technological innovation is the stage of making "samples." Construction Bank uses financial innovation to serve scientific and technological innovation, and helps scientific and technological innovation entities produce more excellent scientific research results.
Deeply cultivate laboratories with foresight and help original innovation from the source. Scientific research laboratories and new R&D institutions have high R&D investment intensity and long achievement transformation chains, requiring long-term and stable financial support. The Xiamen Branch of Construction Bank, together with Jianxin Trust, a subsidiary of the Construction Bank Group, and the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory (嘉庚创新实验室) and other institutions, established the first science and technology innovation fund in the Construction Bank system specializing in "investing early and investing in small businesses" to help a number of hard technology projects achieve a breakthrough "from 0 to 1." In addition, the Xiamen Branch of Construction Bank actively applies Xiamen's "fiscal + financial" interest subsidy and risk compensation policies, innovates exclusive products, and provides credit support for a number of incubated enterprises of the Jiageng Innovation Laboratory.
"Loan + Insurance" linkage to solve the risk problems of scientific and technological research and development. Zhique Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (臻驱科技（上海）股份有限公司) is a specialized, special and new "little giant" enterprise and a manufacturing single champion enterprise focusing on the field of new energy vehicle power assembly. With the development of the industry, the company's R&D investment continues to climb, but it faces financing constraints and the risk of R&D expense losses. After learning about the company's needs, the Shanghai Branch of Construction Bank immediately linked up with Jianxin Property Insurance, a subsidiary of the Construction Bank Group, to form a special service team, focusing on risk pain points, optimizing service solutions, efficiently implementing the first technology project R&D expense loss insurance within the group, and building an integrated financing system of "insurance credit enhancement + credit support" to help companies solve financing problems and focus on technology research.
Transformation of Scientific Research Achievements: Opening Channels and Promoting Transformation
Accelerating the Marketization of Scientific Research Achievements
The stage of scientific research achievement transformation is the stage of making "products." Construction Bank uses comprehensive financial services to help technology companies improve the transformation rate of scientific research achievements.
Working with Peking University (北京大学) to create a new ecosystem of synergistic empowerment of "incubation + finance." In January 2026, Construction Bank and Peking University signed a strategic cooperation agreement to build a bank-university cooperation mechanism. With the support of the Science and Technology Development Department of Peking University, the Beijing Branch of Construction Bank deepened cooperation with Yanyuan Innovation (Beijing) Technology Incubator Co., Ltd. (燕缘创新（北京）科技孵化器有限公司) to introduce high-quality enterprises mainly based on the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of Peking University to settle in the science and technology innovation incubation base. By integrating multiple resources and exclusive financial solutions, it builds a full life cycle companionship system for enterprises and opens up the "last mile" of university science and technology innovation and industrial landing.
Innovate exclusive products to help technology companies operate in the market. Technology companies often face the pain points of low operating income and difficulty in financing in the stage of R&D achievement transformation. Construction Bank innovates technology transformation loans, and the loan amount calculation breaks through the traditional working capital demand restrictions, and the credit line can be comprehensively confirmed in combination with the actual situation of the borrower to meet the financing needs of the enterprise in the stage of scientific research achievement transformation. By the end of 2025, the balance of Construction Bank's technology transformation loans was nearly 10 billion yuan, which strongly promoted scientific research achievements from the laboratory to the market.
Innovate the evaluation method of intellectual property pledge financing to help enterprises turn "intellectual property" into "assets." In response to the difficulty of intellectual property value evaluation, under the guidance of the State Administration of Financial Supervision and the State Intellectual Property Office, Construction Bank innovatively launched an internal evaluation method for intellectual property pledge financing for commercial banks. While saving evaluation costs, it further promotes the transformation of intellectual property value evaluation to "internal evaluation," "standard evaluation," and "intelligent evaluation," helping to revitalize the intangible assets of technology companies and turn innovation achievements such as patents into "real money" that can be financed.
Development of Science and Technology Industries: Strengthening Industries and Expanding Scale
Promoting the Clustered Development of Science and Technology Industries
The stage of science and technology industry development is the stage of making good "commodities." Construction Bank supports the industry to become bigger, stronger and better with industrial financial services, and better plays its radiating function to small and micro science and technology innovation entities.
Deeply cultivate the semiconductor industry cluster, and the integrated business investment bank supports the high-quality development of the industry. The Anhui Branch of Construction Bank is based on regional industrial advantages, fully implements integrated business investment bank services, and helps to open up the financial bloodline of the industry. On the equity side, it adheres to "investing early, investing for the long term, and investing in key technologies," and jointly establishes equity investment funds with provincial and municipal platforms and social capital to invest in key links, lead equity financing for leading enterprises, and drive the coordinated development of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. By the end of 2025, the cumulative amount of equity support for semiconductor-related enterprises by the Anhui Branch of Construction Bank reached 6.2 billion yuan. On the debt side, it adheres to equity-debt coordination, innovatively launches characteristic products such as "Fund Jungle Loan" and "Industrial Chain Support Loan," and accurately empowers small and medium-sized technology enterprises that have obtained investment from leading institutions or orders from chain owners. By the end of 2025, the credit balance of the semiconductor industry of the Anhui Branch of Construction Bank was nearly 8 billion yuan, helping to accelerate the domestic substitution of the semiconductor industry.
Accompanying the growth of leading enterprises and escorting the development of leading technology enterprises. A semiconductor leading enterprise in Hefei has now become China's leading pure wafer foundry and is the "main force" in the domestic substitution of display driver chips and a key force in the "strengthening and supplementing the chain" of domestic semiconductors. Construction Bank accompanies it to achieve leapfrog development throughout its life cycle with full-cycle and integrated financial services. On the equity side, since 2021, the Construction Bank Group has continuously participated in its production line construction equity project as the lead investor, with a total amount of more than 3 billion yuan in equity landing. At the same time, it led the establishment of the first AIC blind pool fund in Anhui Province to inject patient capital into the company's mask capacity improvement. On the debt side, Construction Bank has provided loans of more than 2.5 billion yuan through equity-debt linkage to help enterprises continue to achieve technological breakthroughs.
Operation of Science and Technology Innovation Ecosystem: Optimizing Circulation and Moving Towards the Future
Building a Sustainable Science and Technology Innovation Ecosystem
The stage of science and technology innovation ecosystem operation is the stage of strengthening "standard products." Construction Bank helps science and technology innovation entities optimize the industry ecosystem.
Landing the social security science and technology innovation fund to broaden new channels for the supply of patient capital. By the end of 2025, Construction Bank, together with the National Social Security Fund Council and local governments, created a national-level patient capital platform, broadened direct financing channels through the landing of three 20 billion yuan social security science and technology innovation funds, supported the tackling of key core technologies with long-term capital, promoted the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and helped the construction of regional science and technology innovation highlands.
Scientific and technological indexes accurately empower and activate new impetus for scientific and technological innovation and development. Focusing on the capital market, Construction Bank, together with the Shanghai Stock Exchange (上海证券交易所) and China Securities Index Co., Ltd. (中证指数有限公司), released two scientific and technological indexes, "CCB Technology (Yangtze River Delta) (建行科技（长三角）) (code: 932046)" and "Wisdom Selection Innovation Value (智选创新价值) (code: 950333)," and successfully issued a number of fund wealth management products based on this, raising a total of more than 3.4 billion yuan, using index investment to improve the stock liquidity and refinancing capabilities of constituent stock technology companies, support the development of high-quality listed technology companies, and help optimize the science and technology innovation ecosystem.
Focusing on the construction of the scientific and technological innovation environment, Construction Bank and Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) jointly launched the China Science and Technology Finance Index. The index was selected as the achievement release of the 2025 Financial Street Forum Annual Meeting and is the first index to comprehensively evaluate the development level of science and technology finance at the city level from the perspective of multi-market products, evaluate the development level of science and technology finance in major central cities across the country, and guide more resources to gather in science and technology innovation highlands.
Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan," Construction Bank will continue to take comprehensive services such as "equity, loan, debt, insurance, and lease" of good construction technology as the starting point, fully serve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, help cultivate and strengthen new quality productive forces, and make greater contributions to comprehensively building a modern socialist country and comprehensively promoting the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with the responsibility and commitment of a large state-owned bank.
Data source: China Construction Bank (中国建设银行)
Return to TopPeach blossoms are red, willows are green, and all things are growing. At this moment, what do you want to say to spring the most?
Do you want to express the joy of breaking through the soil after experiencing the dormancy of winter? Do you want to express your most pious admiration for the sun when new leaves unfold? These sentences are not only a confession to spring, but also a confirmation of growth. Like seeds, root deeply downwards and grow upwards, not waiting for opportunities, but creating them. As long as you keep moving, you will always usher in your own spring.
"A Speech to Spring: Departure," launched by People's Daily New Media (人民日报新媒体), conveys the courage to break through the soil and the perseverance to grow towards the sun to every striver through the screen. At this new starting point, let us step into the narratives of Jiang Mengnan (江梦南), Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃), and Liu Jingkang (刘靖康) to feel the endless power of spring.
——Editor
Root Downwards, Break Through the Soil
Jiang Mengnan (江梦南)
I am Jiang Mengnan (江梦南). At half a year old, I lost my hearing. Later, I worked hard to learn lip reading. 15 years ago, I finally got into university and set off towards a new life.
For me, taking the first step was not easy. When I was a child, my parents let me touch their vocal cords and taught me to speak word by word. In the classroom, knowledge points that others could learn in one go always took me a lot of time to learn on my own because I was always "a few beats behind." When I couldn't persevere, I imagined myself as a plant—those times when I put in a lot of effort but couldn't see the results were when I was rooting. Some people say that my starting point is lower than most people, and I say that I can work harder than most people. As long as you keep rooting downwards, you will always break through the soil.
15 years ago, I changed my life; 15 years later, I hope to help more people as much as I can.
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," a new starting point. Each of us can build ourselves like building a new China, and plan ourselves like a series of five-year plans. Don't place your hopes on others, be self-reliant, and strive hard!
I can't do it? I can!
Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃)
I am Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃). 10 years ago, I had the worst fall of my life, and 3 steel nails were implanted in my leg. At that time, many people advised me to retire, but I chose to grit my teeth and continue on.
Winning an Olympic gold medal was once my obsession. But God always joked with me—Vancouver, sixth; Sochi, second; Pyeongchang, ninth. It seemed like I was always just a little short. Some people advised me that a silver medal was already great, and that I should retire gracefully, but I was not willing!
So, year after year, I fell and got up again and again, and set off again. Over the past 20 years, the height of the steps I have climbed in training has accumulated to the equivalent of 36 Mount Everest (珠穆朗玛峰). Perhaps I am not the most outstanding, but I must be the one who perseveres the longest.
The moment I won the gold medal, I draped the national flag over myself and ran wildly on the field. At this moment, not only was my dream realized, but it was also a cross-century breakthrough for the Chinese women's freestyle skiing aerials team—we can declare to the world that the Chinese team is number one in the world!
After winning my first Olympic gold medal, many people advised me again that I had achieved my goal and could leave. But I still chose to continue on. I believe that the process of striving is more important than the gold medal, because the real strong never stop at the top of the mountain, but choose to climb the next mountain.
10 years ago, I once fell into a trough. 10 years later, my scars have become medals, and I have decided to aim for the next Winter Olympics and set off again.
These are our five-year plans, one after another.
Looking around us, looking at our country, day after day, journey after journey, countless people continue to struggle and write new chapters.
This year is another new starting point. Don't say "I can't do it," but say "I can"!
Heading for Number One in the World, Let's Go
Liu Jingkang (刘靖康)
I am Liu Jingkang (刘靖康). 5 years ago, I, like many Chinese entrepreneurs, was trying to answer a question: Can Chinese intelligent manufacturing lead the world?
We decided to try, heading for number one in the world, let's go.
Our team often says a phrase: "Start with daring to think." We fly with eagles and dive with sharks; we can shoot blockbusters of the Earth and the Milky Way in the "same frame," and we can also satisfy the strange needs of "show-offs." Behind these cool shots are countless nights of research and development.
Today, our team has more than 1,000 patents, and 7 out of every 10 panoramic cameras sold worldwide come from us.
Life is never about waiting for others to make way for you, but about walking a path that belongs to you—obstacles under your feet are steps; barriers crossed are moats.
The question I asked 5 years ago has been answered after 5 years. Today's Chinese intelligent manufacturing is full of shining stars. In many fields, many companies, and many products have transformed from followers to leaders.
These are our five-year plans, one after another.
Don't blindly follow or imitate, walk a path that belongs to you.
This spring, standing at a new starting point, let's continue to set off together!
(Jiang Mengnan (江梦南) is a postdoctoral fellow at Tsinghua University (清华大学) and a person who moved China in the annual selection; Xu Mengtao (徐梦桃) is the Olympic champion in women's freestyle skiing aerials; Liu Jingkang (刘靖康) is the founder of Insta360 (影石创新).)
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"Zizhi Tongjian" (《资治通鉴》) has always focused on narrating governance and chaos, clarifying rise and fall, and providing a mirror for governance, but it also hides many thought-provoking reading stories between the lines. These stories reveal the true meaning of reading: reading is not about quantity, nor about being busy or idle, but about focusing on understanding and applying knowledge. Only those who read well can increase their wisdom through books, learn from history to guide their actions, and establish themselves and achieve success.
In the annals of thousands of years, those who achieved great things were all people who had reading engraved in their bones, and even if they held high positions and were burdened with military affairs, they never put down their books. The most well-known is the story of Sun Quan (孙权) urging Lü Meng (吕蒙) to read. It is said that during the Jian'an period, the smoke of the Battle of Guandu had not yet dissipated, and the 18-year-old Sun Quan took charge of Jiangdong (江东). After that, he relied on the old ministers Zhou Yu (周瑜) and Cheng Pu (程普) to consolidate his foundation internally, and promoted new talents Lü Meng and Lu Xun (陆逊) to guard the territory externally, deeply knowing that talent and knowledge are the foundation for the survival of a regime. Seeing that Lü Meng held an important position but shirked reading on the grounds of being busy with military affairs, he directly advised him: "You are now in charge of affairs, you must study." Facing Lü Meng's excuse, he further pointed out the key: "You say you are busy with many affairs, who is more so than me? I often read books, and I think I have benefited greatly from it." Sun Quan did not ask Lü Meng to study classics and become a great scholar, but only asked him to dabble in historical records, understand the past, and learn lessons.
After listening to the advice, Lü Meng devoted himself to studying hard, shedding the crudeness of a military general and gaining the composure of a strategist, so much so that the Confucian general Lu Su (鲁肃) was amazed when he passed through Xunyang (寻阳) and discussed matters with him, exclaiming "Your talent and strategy are no longer what they were when you were the Lü Meng of Wu (吴下阿蒙)," and even left behind the beautiful story of "A scholar who has been away for three days should be looked at with new eyes." It was this wisdom accumulated through reading that allowed Lü Meng to transform from a mere soldier into a pillar of Eastern Wu (东吴), successfully succeeding Lu Su in commanding military power.
Coincidentally, Emperor Tuoba Gui (拓跋珪), the founding emperor of the Northern Wei (北魏) Dynasty, ascended the throne at the age of 15, and expanded his territory through battles, becoming the first leader of a minority ethnic regime to establish a foothold in the Central Plains for a hundred years. Although he rose from humble beginnings, he deeply understood that wisdom is better than brute force. One day, he asked the scholar Li Xian (李先): "What is the best thing in the world that can benefit people's intelligence?" Li Xian bluntly said "Nothing is better than books." Tuoba Gui immediately ordered that classics be collected extensively within the counties and transported to the capital Pingcheng (平城). Tuoba Gui's reverence for knowledge allowed the Northern Wei to quickly integrate into the Central Plains civilization, laying the foundation for a century of prosperity. This precisely confirms that reading never distinguishes between background or ethnicity. Practice can make people aware of gains and losses, while books can broaden people's horizons and increase their wisdom.
However, "Zizhi Tongjian" also uses painful lessons to warn the world: reading without assimilation is worse than not reading; studying books without putting them into practice is ultimately empty talk, and can even harm the country and the people. Zhao Kuo (赵括) of the State of Zhao (赵国) during the Warring States period is the most typical negative example. He was familiar with military strategy from an early age, and even his father, the famous general Zhao She (赵奢), could not stump him when he talked about military affairs, and he thought he was invincible in the world. But he only knew how to study military books by rote, and did not understand how to adapt to changing circumstances. Lin Xiangru (蔺相如) bluntly said that he "can only read his father's books, but does not know how to adapt," but the King of Zhao (赵王) insisted on appointing him. In the Battle of Changping (长平), Zhao Kuo stubbornly adhered to the doctrines of military books and blindly attacked, which ultimately led to the defeat of the Zhao army, and 400,000 Zhao soldiers who surrendered were buried alive. The State of Zhao has since been in decline, and "talking about war on paper" (纸上谈兵 (zhǐ shàng tán bīng - "talking about war on paper," engaging in theoretical discussions without practical experience)) has become a laughing stock for thousands of years.
Emperor Xiao Yi (萧绎) of the Southern Liang (南朝梁) Dynasty even misled the country to the extreme due to misreading. He was well-read and knowledgeable, but he was stubborn and self-willed, and not good at managing the government. When a powerful enemy was at hand and the army was approaching the city, he was still lecturing his ministers on "Lao Tzu" (《老子》) in the court, ignoring military intelligence. When the city was broken and the country was destroyed, he not only did not reflect on his own incompetence, but instead blamed the books, ordering the burning of tens of thousands of volumes of books. Facing the questioning of the Wei (魏) army, he even said "Having read ten thousand volumes of books, I still have this day, so I burn them." Hu Sanxing (胡三省), a historian of the Song (宋) and Yuan (元) dynasties, directly refuted this kind of argument when he annotated "Zizhi Tongjian": "The emperor's destruction of the country was certainly not due to reading." Defeat and destruction are never the fault of reading, but of reading books to death, only learning the superficial, not putting it into practice, and treating books as a tool to decorate the facade.
Looking at these reading stories in "Zizhi Tongjian," the high and low are immediately apparent, and the good and evil are clearly distinguished. Lü Meng, Tuoba Gui and others were good at reading, turning the principles in books into wisdom for dealing with things and strategies for governing the country, increasing their wisdom through reading and cultivating themselves through self-reflection. Zhao Kuo, Xiao Yi and others were not good at reading, turning knowledge into capital for arrogance and excuses for escape, and ultimately suffered personal ruin and national destruction. There are never useless books in this world, only useless readers.
True reading is never a pastime stolen from busy schedules, nor is it a show of elegance, but rather a settling down to observe the past, understand principles, reflect on oneself, and put it into practice. Whether one is in a high position or living an ordinary life, one can learn the true meaning from these thousand-year-old stories: loving to read is an attitude, reading good books is a choice, and being good at reading is an ability. Only by possessing all three can one use books as a ladder to climb high and see far, and act steadily without confusion. This is the most precious reading wisdom that "Zizhi Tongjian" has left to future generations.
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My father is a lively person who often improvises and tells jokes to his friends. At a party, he became animated again: "Once upon a time, snowflakes covered the earth, and Zheng Banqiao (郑板桥), a poet visiting Yangquan (阳泉), was so cold that his lips turned purple. Suddenly, he saw a restaurant and immediately went in to ask if there was any food that could warm him up. Before long, the waiter brought a large bowl of 'hudu'. Zheng Banqiao (郑板桥) felt comfortable all over after eating it. Many years later, when he encountered another cold day, he suddenly remembered the 'hudu' he had eaten last time, but he searched all the nearby restaurants and couldn't find this kind of pasta. After returning home, he couldn't help but feel a lot of emotions and happily wrote four words - 难得‘糊嘟’ (hú tu) (difficult to find 'hudu' (muddled))." "Hahahaha..." The friends laughed, "Brother, you have linked our Yangquan's (阳泉) 'hudu' with celebrities and famous sayings. Maybe you can sell it for a good price in the future."
The "hudu" my father mentioned is a traditional delicacy in my hometown. In the past, when people from Yangquan (阳泉) entered a restaurant, they liked to order food with a riddle-like shout: "Boss, give me a big bowl of 'a smear and a dip, gulp and swallow'." Outsiders don't understand what this means, but only people from Yangquan (阳泉) know that the answer is "hudu". "A smear" refers to smearing the sticky "hudu" on the chopsticks, "a dip" refers to dipping it in chili sauce, and "gulp and swallow" of course refers to eating it into the stomach.
The method of making "hudu" is simple. Put about 3/4 of water in the pot, and add sauerkraut or vegetables such as potatoes and carrots to the water. After the water boils, add an appropriate amount of salt, and evenly sprinkle flour on the periphery of the pot, leaving a place in the middle for the water to boil. Simmer slowly for about half an hour, and then you can enter the next procedure. People from Yangquan (阳泉) call making "hudu" rice "tiaohudu" (调糊嘟) or "niaohudu" (袅糊嘟), which means to "mix" the noodles and vegetables together with a rolling pin.
Mixing "hudu" is a physical activity. Often, one person rolls up their sleeves, holds a rolling pin, and uses all their strength to stir the ingredients in one direction until you can't see the "raw dough pieces", and the various ingredients present a sticky state of "you in me, me in you". Then the "hudu" is completed. The most exquisite is "golden jade", which is the "hudu" made of cowpeas and corn flour. The visual effect of this "hudu" is very rich, with the corn flour being golden and the cowpeas being green. The mixed "hudu" is hot, combining the aroma of various grains, making you unable to put down the bowl, and you won't stop until you have a full stomach.
Speaking of the origin of this "hudu", Duan Chengshi's (段成式) notebook novel collection "Youyang Zazu (酉阳杂俎)" from the Tang Dynasty left the earliest text about "hudu": "Han Yue (韩约) can make cherry biro, and its color does not change; he can also make cold hutu..." "Biro" is a stuffed pasta pastry introduced from the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty, which was widely popular in the Tang Dynasty. From this, it can be inferred that "hutu (hudu)" evolved from pastries, and its "ancestor" may be similar to this "biro".
Once, my father had cold symptoms. After taking his pulse, a Chinese medicine doctor said: "You don't need to prescribe medicine. Go back and eat a bowl of 'hudu' and sweat a little, and you'll be fine." My father was dubious, but he loved to eat "hudu" anyway, so he bought some chili peppers on the way home. My mother made a pot of "hudu" with potatoes and naked oat flour, and half a pot of shredded potato chili sauce. Before my father had eaten half of it, he was sweating on his forehead and exclaimed: "My body feels much lighter, it really is good medicine."
The Chinese painting "Good Spring Scenery" (春光好), by Lu Shi (卢是), is housed in the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
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Before we even met, Director Liu (刘馆长) told me on the phone that the lecture would be held in the Golden Hall.
"School Library, Golden Hall," I thought to myself as I prepared the PPT presentation on my computer, imagining what the Golden Hall would look like.
In the afternoon, I arrived at the venue early. The school buildings were new, and the facilities were large. Entering the lobby on the first floor, my view opened up. The stepped seating area was filled with students, and there were two long rows of wheelchairs below the steps. Dozens of steps cascaded down from high to low, and the floor lights on each level shone densely, looking like golden rivers from a distance; the glass curtain wall design on all four sides at the top offered a clear view of each level. I noticed that each step had a recessed space underneath, neatly filled with books, just to make it easy for students in wheelchairs to pick them up and read.
I have given reading lectures at many universities, but this school is indeed special. In the elevators, corridors, and entrances, the space is spacious and self-contained. Everywhere you look, there are eye-catching blue accessibility signs and Braille dots, seemingly reminding visitors to slow down and wait a moment. Director Liu (刘馆长) told me that they have a complete electronic navigation system, so visually impaired students can move freely around the school, going to the cafeteria, picking up express deliveries, and finding classmates on their own.
During the lecture, no one looked down at their phones. Everyone listened quietly, their youthful faces like sunflowers looking up, passionate and fragrant. Seeing them, I thought of myself back then—when I suddenly suffered from a stubborn illness at the age of 16, which interrupted my studies. After being discharged from the Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine (省中医院), I lay in bed every day, staring at the ceiling. My father borrowed some literary books from the library for me, but I stubbornly ignored them. My parents ran around asking about folk remedies, often gone for a whole day. I was so bored that I picked up a book and couldn't put it down.
Time slipped away quickly between the yellowed pages, and I saw light in my days. The more I read, the more I wanted to write something. I started submitting articles, handwritten on lined stationery. My father would get off the night shift at the factory and ride his bicycle to the newspaper office in Ganshiqiao (杆石桥) to deliver my manuscripts...
For this lecture, I spoke entirely without notes, sharing my心得体会 (xīn dé tǐ huì - "understanding and experience," insights and reflections gained from personal experience) of reading. At the end, I finally understood Director Liu's (刘馆长) painstaking arrangement: "The lecture is arranged in the Golden Hall so that we are close to the students, and there is no distance in communication." During the Q&A session, two students in wheelchairs raised their arms to signal, and the female teacher hosting the event ran over to hand them the microphone. "How should I face it when I can't persevere?" "I can't get into reading now, how can I calm down?" "I want to improve my writing skills, is there any shortcut?" In fact, these questions were all the confusions they had in their growth process, and my answers were just to point the way, and ultimately they needed to explore the answers themselves.
When the event ended and people were leaving, the wheelchairs in the first two rows "whooshed" out, made a big circle, and leisurely exited the hall, their posture like a waltz, and the children's faces were full of happiness. At this time, a boy tilted his head and strode over, his words slurred, and it looked like he had sequelae from cerebral palsy. Director Liu (刘馆长) stepped forward and helped him, first settling him in his seat, patting him on the shoulder, like comforting his own child. "Don't worry, speak slowly, I'll help you!" he said kindly. It turned out that the boy's phone had fallen under the steps during the lecture and he couldn't find it. Director Liu (刘馆长) hurriedly ran to look for it, and when he came back, he was holding a blue phone in his hand. The boy tilted his head back, smiled, and left unsteadily.
As people dispersed, the hall quickly emptied. Looking up, a female student in a pink coat was sitting on the high steps, propping her chin on her hand and reading a book. The golden river had submerged her ankles, casting ripples in my heart.
By: 李光辉
Nine Nines Plus One Nine
What is the sum?
This is a math problem
Spring gives to us.
After a night of drizzle,
The plowing oxen take the stage first,
Wandering all over the field,
Searching for the correct answer.
The farmers follow behind,
Holding the plow,
Wielding the whip,
While also pondering secretly.
Because nine nines ultimately return to one,
Perhaps the answer is
The first grain of millet
That slips through the fingers of timely sowing.
Because a whirlwind rises ninety thousand *li*,
Perhaps the answer is
On the silver sickle of the golden autumn harvest,
The delightful ten thousand grains of seed.
By: 胡洪春
Having lived in Beijing (北京) for 15 years, I always feel like I can't get enough of Beijing's spring. Beijing's spring always carries a bit of briskness and haste. The moment you touch the tender buds of the trees, you have to put on summer clothes and turn on the air conditioner. The spring in Beijing is not like the lingering, drizzling spring in Jiangnan (江南), slowly spreading on the dark-tiled water surface. Instead, it grabs a burst of energy, smashes open the frozen hutongs, and unexpectedly spreads a vibrant scene on the red walls and glazed tiles.
Hutongs are the texture of Beijing, hiding the city's most simple soul. When spring arrives, this texture, which has been sleeping all winter, awakens, rubs its sleepy eyes, and puts on gentle new clothes. The early spring hutongs still carry some solemnity, with high walls and gray tiles, withered trees and gnarled branches, and even the wind is still as biting as winter, whistling through the old locust tree at the entrance of the hutong. But suddenly one day, the wind softens, losing the harshness of winter and gaining a bit of warmth, brushing against the face like being gently touched by willow catkins. The spring breeze blowing from beyond the Great Wall originally carries the intensity of the grassland, but when it reaches the winding and crisscrossing hutongs, it also sheathes its sharpness and turns into tenderness, gently awakening the withered grass in the corner of the wall. Glimmers of new green faintly appear in the cracks of the ground bricks, timidly supporting the traces of residual snow. They are the earliest messengers of spring, stubbornly announcing the retreat of the cold winter.
The peach trees in the hutongs, as well as the weeping willows along the roads, are the first to sense the breath of spring. On the bare branches, buds slowly swell, like tightly clenched small fists, accumulating full strength. Yu Dafu (郁达夫) said that this is the most memorable trace of Beijing's spring, "that layer of new green inside and outside the city, like a flood of new green." This new green is the first to spread from the treetops of the hutongs. At first, it is just a few scattered spots, but in a few days, when you open the car window again, there is green everywhere.
Suddenly, there are more tourists from all over the world in the hutongs, using their mobile phones to capture the vitality. At this time, the hutongs are dynamic in stillness. When the morning mist has not yet dissipated, the elderly who get up early to exercise push open the wooden doors, breaking the silence of the early morning with a creak. They carry birdcages, swing long whips, and dance with long swords, admiring the tender yellow flower buds sprouting from the forsythia branches in the park. Office workers shuttling through the hutongs leave behind the aroma of hot soy milk and fried dough sticks, and the sound of pigeon whistles echoes in the hutongs. This is the most vivid prelude to the fireworks of spring.
When the spring breeze warms up a bit more, the hutongs become completely lively. The courtyard walls of the siheyuan (四合院) cannot block the spring colors. Begonias, lilacs, and Chinese plum blossoms eagerly stretch out over the walls, with clusters of flowers adorning the gray walls with bright and moving colors. At this time, one cannot help but think of the courtyard described by Zhang Henshui (张恨水): "When the crabapple flowers in the house are in full bloom, the locust trees in the hutong are also covered with green leaves." Over the years, this scene is still quietly playing out in the hutongs of Beijing. When the locust flowers are in full bloom, it is the peak of spring in the hutongs. Strings of locust flowers fill the branches, like a tree piled with snow. When the wind blows, the sweet fragrance of locust flowers fills the entire long lane and floats into every courtyard. When the fine petals rustle down and spread on the asphalt road, it feels soft to step on. Strolling through it, one cannot help but slow down, for fear of disturbing this sweet time.
In the spring light, the human touch in the hutongs becomes even stronger. Shedding their heavy winter clothes, the neighbors are willing to go out of their homes, sit on small stools at the door to bask in the sun and chat about everyday life. Family matters and national affairs, in the thick Beijing accent, blend with the spring breeze and become the unique rhythm of the hutongs. And the pea flour cakes, donkey rolls, and ai窝窝 in the roadside shops arouse the appetite of the whole street. This worldly atmosphere, blending with the blooming flowers and new green, gives the spring in the hutongs both the elegance of an ancient capital and the warmth of the common people.
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