Summary: Xi Jinping's upcoming article in *Qiushi* journal emphasizes the importance of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance (政绩观), essential for the Party's legitimacy and serving the people. The article stresses that cadres must prioritize the people's well-being and long-term development over personal gain and short-sighted projects. It highlights the need for high-quality development and a comprehensive understanding of the new development concept, avoiding numerical target obsession in performance evaluations. The article also mentions the importance of studying and addressing problems with a focus on the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan" and local leadership changes.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of widespread social participation in afforestation to enhance China's modernization during his participation in a capital voluntary tree planting activity on March 30th. Officials from the National Forestry and Grassland Administration stated they would strictly implement land management and water conservation, and focus on improving the quality and stability of ecosystems. The piece also discussed how to turn ecological resources into economic value for local people, and the construction of "micro-gardens" in Beijing. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee Zhao Leji met with Austrian Federal Council President Stotter in Beijing. Zhao stated China is willing to work with Austria to implement the consensus reached by both countries' leaders, safeguard each other's core interests, and promote cooperation in green transition and the digital economy, while highlighting the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations. He also expressed the NPC's desire to strengthen exchanges with the Austrian parliament, sharing experiences in legislation and oversight, and introduced details regarding the "15th Five-Year Plan." Stotter affirmed Austria's high regard for its relationship with China and its willingness to expand cooperation in various fields. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was made in the report.
Summary: Cai Qi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, addressed the seventh plenary session of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee, emphasizing the importance of implementing Xi Jinping's directives for Beijing's development, focusing on strengthening the "four centers" functions and improving the "four services." The meeting stressed optimizing the layout of central government functions and improving the central government environment. It called for furthering the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, supporting the construction of Xiong'an New Area, and implementing urban renewal. The meeting also underscored the need to strengthen comprehensive protection and build a resilient city to safeguard Beijing's security and stability.
Summary: The National Forestry and Grassland Administration is promoting "under-forest economy" (林下经济), a strategy to boost rural incomes by utilizing forest space for activities like planting, animal husbandry, and tourism. The Administration emphasizes the importance of balancing economic development with ecological protection, ensuring that under-forest activities are compatible with forest ecosystem functions. They encourage innovative models like "state-owned forest farm +" and "forestry standard land" to improve efficiency and resource allocation. The government will also offer financial and technological support to forestry businesses, cooperatives, and farmers involved in under-forest economic activities, focusing on integrating production, processing, and sales. The official in charge mentioned that the related measures, the "Several Measures on Promoting the Development of Under-forest Economy," were issued in December of last year.
Summary: The article reports on Suqian city in Jiangsu province improving its sports and fitness infrastructure by building and renovating sports parks and public stadiums to create a "15-minute fitness circle" for residents. A photo shows citizens exercising and relaxing in the Su-Su Industrial Park Sports and Fitness Park in Suqian on March 29. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In March 2024, China's Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) rose to 50.4%, exceeding expectations and indicating expansion. The non-manufacturing business activity index also saw an increase to 50.1%, alongside a rise in the composite PMI output index to 50.5%, suggesting improved economic conditions. Notably, the new orders index for manufacturing climbed to 51.6%, with strong expansion in equipment, high-tech, and consumer goods manufacturing. Production indexes for equipment and high-tech manufacturing have remained above 50% for 20 consecutive months.
Summary: Since its opening, the China-Laos Railway has transported over 70 million passengers, including 780,000 international travelers from over 120 countries and regions. Monthly passenger volume has increased from 600,000 to 2.25 million. Over 3,100 international passenger trains have run, with daily border crossings rising from 300 to over 1,600 people. Train frequency has increased significantly on both the Chinese and Lao sections of the railway to meet growing demand.
Summary: Three Chinese cities, Suzhou, Hangzhou, and Sanya, were selected as part of a global list of "20 cities moving towards zero waste" at the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan. The article emphasizes the importance of innovation and tailored approaches to achieve low-carbon development within existing urban environments. It highlights specific strategies employed by each city, such as Suzhou's circular economy model, Hangzhou's digital waste management, and Sanya's focus on plastic reduction and integrated land-sea management. The article underscores the need for systemic policies and public participation to promote green transformation and sustainable development. The article aims to project an image of a vibrant and green China.
Summary: The article highlights the theoretical understanding of Chinese-style modernization as a progressive and continuously evolving process. It also discusses the initiation of China's 15th Five-Year Plan. The article suggests that China provides stability to the world, while the article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A meeting was held in Beijing on county and township-level People's Congress election work, with speeches from Li Hongzhong and Shi Taifeng. Shi emphasized upholding Xi Jinping Thought, strengthening party leadership throughout the election process, and prioritizing political standards in candidate selection. Li stressed the importance of understanding the "Two Establishments" and "Two Safeguards", adhering to Party leadership, and ensuring the correct political direction of the elections. The meeting included officials from the Central Organization Department, the Central Propaganda Department, the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and other relevant departments. No mention was made of the United States.
Summary: Li Ganjie, a member of the Politburo and head of the United Front Work Department, addressed the launch of a thematic education campaign for non-CPC parties and individuals on "participating in politics for the public good and working practically for the people." Li emphasized the importance of this campaign for upholding CPC leadership, implementing a people-centered approach to development, serving the high-quality start of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and strengthening the system of multiparty cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the CPC. He urged participants to study Xi Jinping's important discourses and contribute to a strong start to the "15th Five-Year Plan". Leaders from the central committees of the non-CPC parties, representatives of non-party figures, and relevant officials from the United Front Work Department attended the meeting.
Summary: Politburo member Li Shulei attended a reception at the North Korean embassy in Beijing celebrating the 9th Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea. Li conveyed congratulations from Xi Jinping and the CCP Central Committee, expressing China's willingness to implement the consensus reached between Xi and Kim Jong-un, strengthen strategic communication, and deepen pragmatic cooperation. He stated that these efforts would contribute to regional peace, stability, and prosperity. North Korean Ambassador Ri Ryong-nam reciprocated, stating North Korea's willingness to strengthen cooperation with China. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Politburo Member and Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing inspected the construction of the National North China Regional Emergency Rescue Center in Hebei, emphasizing the need to strengthen capabilities and improve real combat readiness in accordance with Xi Jinping's directives. He stressed rapid response, specialized rescue capabilities including flood control, earthquake rescue, and forest fire fighting, as well as coordinated action with local governments and other departments. Zhang called for better coordination between emergency forces at all levels, and emphasized the importance of information sharing and collaborative command, and the importance of fire prevention during the upcoming Qingming holiday. The National Disaster Reduction Committee Office and the Ministry of Emergency Management were directed to strengthen guidance to the regional emergency rescue centers.
Summary: China's Manufacturing Purchasing Manager Index (PMI) rose to 50.4% in March, according to the National Bureau of Statistics and the China Federation of Logistics & Purchasing, exceeding the 50% threshold for the first time in two months. Analysts attribute the rebound to seasonal factors and increased confidence in the Chinese economy, noting improvements in production, orders, and prices. Wang Yuan from the National Development and Reform Commission's Social Development Research Institute highlighted the impact of volatile international energy prices on upstream raw material costs. While new energy sectors and consumption showed strong growth, some industries like textiles and those related to residential consumption remained weak. The article also alludes to China's measures to mitigate the impact of international oil price shocks.
Summary: In Minhe County, Qinghai Province, a new "film-side planting" technique is being promoted to increase wheat yields in the region's arid conditions. This method involves planting seeds in furrows next to plastic film, allowing rainwater to be concentrated and improving ventilation and sunlight exposure. The adoption of new machinery, such as combined mulching and seeding machines, has significantly increased efficiency and reduced labor costs. In 2025, this planting method led to a significant increase in wheat yield, with an average of 365.5 kg per mu, which is 129.2 kg more than wheat planted using a traditional method. The Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has allocated 2.3 million yuan to support the initiative.
Summary: In the first two months of the year, China's software industry saw revenues of 2.1534 trillion yuan, an 11.7% year-on-year increase, according to data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology. The sector's total profits reached 269.3 billion yuan, a 7.3% increase, while software exports grew by 12.7% to $10.38 billion. Information technology services led the growth with a 13.1% increase in revenue. The report makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's first 100-kilometer CO2 pipeline, part of the Sinopec Shengli Oilfield's million-ton CCUS project, has been operating stably for over 1,000 days, injecting over 1.3 billion cubic meters of CO2. This marks a shift from technology validation to industrial application for Shengli Oilfield's CCUS technology. The project has increased oil recovery rates and CO2 storage rates, while decreasing energy usage and cost. Shengli Oilfield aims to further integrate technological and industrial innovation and develop "four million-ton" demonstration projects, including capturing and utilizing low-concentration CO2 from coal-fired power plants.
Summary: The Chinese Association of Automation has released two new standard series focusing on intelligent and connected vehicles, filling gaps in areas like collaborative driving testing and complex road decision-making. Developed in conjunction with universities and research institutions, these standards address "vehicle-road-cloud integration" and aim to break down information barriers between vehicles, roads, and the cloud. One series focuses on connected collaborative driving, while the other tackles autonomous driving in complex road conditions. The standards seek to support the safe and controlled development of intelligent connected vehicle technology and its applications, projecting significant market penetration of L2 and higher autonomous driving by 2025.
Summary: The 14th World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference in Yaounde, Cameroon, concluded with agreements on investment facilitation, e-commerce, and fisheries subsidies. China actively participated, coordinating member positions and contributing to the meeting's outcomes, with its constructive role widely praised. China emphasized support for developing countries, particularly Least Developed Countries, in integrating into the multilateral trading system, referencing the "China Project" and hosting a high-level meeting on Chinese investment in African industrialization. African representatives lauded China's role in promoting a rules-based multilateral system and providing crucial support for African industrialization through investments and market access, especially mentioning the zero-tariff policy for African countries. China pledged to work with other members to implement the conference results and promote the WTO's role in global economic governance.
Summary: A Pakistani scholar and media personality reflects on witnessing improvements in Chinese people's livelihoods over the past decade, citing infrastructure development, social security, and poverty alleviation efforts as key achievements. The author observed these improvements through visits to various Chinese cities and rural areas, noting specifically the vibrancy of community life and the increased incomes of locals due to tourism. He emphasizes the importance of China's system for prioritizing and implementing policies focused on people's well-being. The author suggests that Pakistan can learn from China's approach to improving livelihoods, particularly in poverty reduction and infrastructure development, to promote its own modernization.
Summary: The article highlights the international community's interest in China's upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), viewing it as a blueprint for China's modernization and an invitation for global cooperation. It emphasizes China's commitment to high-quality development, technological self-reliance, expanded opening-up, and green transformation, while also promoting global initiatives and contributing to a community of common destiny for mankind. China's economic resilience, innovation, and infrastructure development are seen as key factors contributing to global stability. The article also notes that China's shift towards institutional opening-up enhances the predictability and stability of its environment for foreign investment, and that it is an anchor of global stability in an era of uncertainty.
Summary: The article criticizes Western media outlets for their negative portrayal of the Chinese economy, accusing them of using outdated frameworks, ideological biases, and selective information to paint a bleak picture. It argues these outlets exaggerate challenges, ignore positive developments like technological innovation, and misinterpret economic issues through a political lens, alternating between warnings of decline and "China threat" narratives. The author emphasizes China's long-term development plans outlined in the "15th Five-Year Plan" and recent positive economic indicators to counter these narratives. It portrays China as a stable and dynamic force in the global economy, inviting more objective analysis.
Summary: Wang Yi met with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar in Beijing. Wang expressed China's support for Pakistan's role in de-escalating regional conflicts and facilitating peace talks. He noted the difficulty of the process but affirmed China's willingness to work with Pakistan to end conflicts and promote dialogue. Dar thanked China for supporting Pakistan's mediation efforts regarding Iran, highlighting the disruption of international energy supplies caused by conflicts.
Summary: On March 31, 2026, Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar in Beijing. The two exchanged views on the Gulf and Middle East situation, proposing a five-point initiative for peace. The initiative includes calls for an immediate cessation of hostilities, the swift commencement of peace talks, ensuring the safety of non-military targets and waterways, and upholding the primacy of the UN Charter. The statement did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liu Haixing, head of the International Department of the CCP Central Committee, met with a delegation of senior cadres from Senegal's PASTEF party, led by Secretary General Daffé. They discussed implementing agreements reached by the leaders of both countries, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of China-Senegal and China-Africa relations.
Summary: The "Qimen Fragrance, Global Style" 2026 Qimen Black Tea Aesthetics Season has commenced in Qimen County, Anhui Province. The event aims to attract both Chinese and foreign tourists to experience Qimen tea culture. The event includes activities like watching the hand-making of Qimen black tea.
Summary: Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Mohammad Ishaq Dar is visiting China on March 31st at the invitation of Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The two are scheduled to discuss current international and regional conflicts, as well as bilateral relations. The announcement was made by a spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Summary: The "China-Kazakhstan Year of Cultural Exchange" officially launched on March 31st in Beijing, featuring a joint performance by artists from both countries. The event, co-organized by the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Tourism and the Kazakh Ministry of Culture and Information, showcased diverse artistic forms and celebrated the cultural achievements of both nations. Planned activities for the year include performances, exhibitions, joint archaeological endeavors, and art seminars. The event signals a strengthening of cultural ties between China and Kazakhstan. There were no references to the United States in the article.
Summary: The article discusses the revitalization of springs in the North China Plain through measures like water conservation, replenishment, and optimized water allocation, as demonstrated by the resurgence of springs in Taiyuan, Jinan, and Xingtai. The Ministry of Water Resources completed its first national spring survey, identifying 463 springs for detailed investigation and plans to initiate a new round of comprehensive groundwater over-extraction control in North China and other key regions. Optimized water usage includes replacing groundwater with Yellow River water and promoting water-saving technologies. The revival of these springs has also spurred local economies through tourism and cultural preservation, integrating "spring culture" with tourism industries. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call to enhance urban and rural green spaces during a recent tree planting activity, aiming to increase citizens' "green satisfaction." It highlights China's progress in ecological civilization, transforming environmental challenges into improved living standards through initiatives like afforestation and pollution control. The article contrasts past criticisms about China's ability to manage pollution with present-day improvements in air and water quality. It advocates for green and low-carbon development to foster high-quality, sustainable growth, turning ecological advantages into economic gains. There is no mention of the United States or US-China relations in the article.
Summary: The People's Daily Editorial Board has released a report on its progress in rectifying issues identified in a Central Committee inspection conducted between November 2024 and January 2025. The report details the board's responsibility in addressing the inspection's findings, focusing on adhering to the principle of running the newspaper with a political perspective and strengthening the Party's leadership. Key areas of rectification include promoting Party innovation theory, deepening systemic reform of mainstream media, strengthening Party building, and implementing stricter governance within the organization. The Editorial Board welcomes public oversight of the rectification efforts. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned in the article.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping, during a tree planting activity in Beijing, emphasized the importance of mobilizing society to participate in afforestation for ecological improvement and a more vibrant Chinese-style modernization. Officials and citizens are encouraged to focus on improving quality, developing industries, and benefiting the people through afforestation. The piece highlights efforts across China to combine planting with maintenance, promote ecology with industry, and foster harmony between people and nature. The article also mentioned strengthening the legal basis for ecological protection and promoting market-based mechanisms for natural resource rights.
Summary: China's first 7-ton fixed-wing cargo drone, the "Changying-8," successfully completed its maiden flight in Zhengzhou, Henan province, marking a key technological advancement in high-end intelligent aviation logistics. Dubbed the "air heavy truck," the "Changying-8" boasts a maximum range exceeding 3,000 kilometers. It is intended for use in long-distance logistics, emergency rescue, border resupply, and complex terrain operations, providing equipment support for the development of the low-altitude economy and the construction of an emergency support system. The article does not mention the United States.
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Summary: The article highlights Hainan's progress in becoming a leading portal for China's opening up, particularly since the full island's independent customs operation (封关运作) was launched in December 2023. It discusses streamlined processes for international ships registering in Hainan, increased international flights and cargo transportation, and the ease of cross-border financial transactions through EF accounts. The expansion of the free trade port has reduced costs for international companies operating in the region, as well as connected the domestic and international markets. The article does not mention any information on the United States or U.S.-China relations. Hainan is transforming its geographic position into a hub of institutional openness.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of a positive mindset and proactive action in overcoming challenges, particularly during the critical "15th Five-Year Plan" period. It advocates for facing difficulties head-on, maintaining strategic focus, and fostering a spirit of entrepreneurship and dedication. The piece stresses the need for cadres to develop strong capabilities, understand objective realities, and adhere to principles to achieve high-quality development. It also highlights that the development breakthroughs require bold innovation and reform wisdom. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: China's first domestically developed quantum computer operating system, "Origin Siyuan," was released for online download in February, and deployed on the "Origin Wukong" quantum computers. "Origin Siyuan" aims to lower the development threshold and accelerate the construction of an independent quantum computing ecosystem in China by enabling integration between quantum processing units and traditional supercomputers. The system can be used to perform more accurate weather forecasting and is also helpful for developing the low-altitude economy. The operating system allows researchers, developers, and users to leverage quantum computing capabilities more easily. The development of "Origin Siyuan" is part of China's broader push in emerging industries like quantum technology.
Summary: The article describes a surge in outdoor recreational activities across China, fueled by warmer weather. Marathons are oversubscribed, and topics like family camping and hiking are trending on social media. This boom has led to increased sales of outdoor gear and apparel, with companies ramping up production to meet demand. The piece frames this as a positive trend of people enjoying the spring season and finding leisure activities. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "Wenxiu" rose, named in honor of the late Huang Wenxiu, who dedicated her life to poverty alleviation, was delivered from Yunnan to her hometown of Baise, Guangxi. Named through an online campaign, the rose symbolizes dedication and selfless contribution, fulfilling her wish to create a "sea of flowers" in her village. The rose is intended to inspire others and serve as a reminder of the importance of serving the people. It will be planted in a memorial garden, encouraging visitors to reflect on her dedication and the power of staying true to one's original aspirations. The rose represents a tribute to those who dedicate themselves to the people, and serves as inspiration for further advancement.
Summary: This article from People's Daily discusses the importance of pragmatism and achieving tangible results for CCP members, cautioning against prioritizing superficial displays of achievement. It criticizes practices such as constructing elaborate displays for inspections, neglecting public feedback after soliciting it, and prioritizing perceived effort over actual results. The article emphasizes the need for officials to focus on practical problem-solving, respect objective reality, and deliver tangible benefits to the people rather than seeking quick wins. The three articles selected call for better evaluation methods for cadres. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the text.
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Summary: An article reports on Shenyang's efforts to uphold the spirit of Lei Feng through various initiatives. These include providing free meals to elderly and impoverished citizens, establishing support funds, and incorporating Lei Feng's values into government services and community governance. The city promotes volunteerism through diverse programs and encourages citizens to embody Lei Feng's spirit in their daily lives. The article highlights examples of individuals and organizations dedicated to serving the community. These efforts seek to make Lei Feng's spirit a lasting characteristic of Shenyang.
Summary: A research team led by Fu Congbin and Ge Quansheng studied the relationship between ancient Chinese architecture and climate change, focusing on roof slope adjustments from the Tang to Ming-Qing dynasties. They found a correlation between roof steepness and colder temperatures due to the need to manage snowfall. The team established a database of roof pitch measurements and historical climate data, concluding that roof design was significantly influenced by snowfall patterns. They also discovered that earlier architectures before 940 AD had systemically smaller roof slope than later ones because the builders were in the process of seeking technical adjustment to cope with the increasing snow. The research suggests that ancient builders adapted to climate change through architectural form and technical adjustments.
Summary: This article recounts the emergency treatment of a 36-year-old man, Li Cheng, who suffered a sudden cardiac arrest upon arriving at a hospital in Tianjin. Doctors and a passerby performed immediate CPR, followed by further interventions including defibrillation and a stent procedure to address a blocked artery. Hospital staff emphasized the importance of rapid response in such cases to maximize the chances of survival. Li Cheng expressed gratitude for the medical workers for saving his life. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: 荣cheng city in Shandong province is upgrading its marine equipment industry, focusing on high-end, green, and intelligent manufacturing in shipbuilding. The city aims to move beyond traditional manufacturing practices. A shipbuilding base in the Shidao management district showcases the construction of various large vessels.
Summary: The Ministry of Education issued "Ten Musts" for campus food safety and "Ten Prohibitions" for school cafeteria staff to strengthen food safety management in schools. The "Ten Musts" cover areas such as licensing, non-profit operations, food safety responsibilities, personnel management, ingredient procurement, and accident handling. The "Ten Prohibitions" address issues such as health certifications, hygiene practices, and proper handling of utensils and food safety incidents for cafeteria workers. These new regulations are designed to solidify previous food safety initiatives and safeguard the health of students. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A research team led by Professor Zhang Zhi at the University of Science and Technology of China has discovered a neural mechanism explaining the circadian rhythm of pain sensitivity. The study, published in *Science*, found that the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) in the hypothalamus, the body's "master biological clock," regulates a neural circuit connecting to the spinal cord, thus modulating pain perception. The activity of neurons in this circuit varies between day and night due to the SCN's rhythmic activity, causing differing levels of pain sensitivity. The researchers found that the body weakens pain during activity and amplifies it during rest. The research did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The World Data Organization (WDO), a non-governmental, non-profit international group, was established in Beijing on March 30th to promote data development, bridge the data gap, and foster the digital economy. WDO aims to address the challenges of insufficient global economic recovery by releasing data potential and driving digital economic development through a globally recognized platform, according to WDO President Tan Tieniu. The organization intends to facilitate global data development and governance cooperation by uniting diverse stakeholders and promoting data resource utilization. The WDO, with over 200 members from 40+ countries, will focus on harmonizing data policies, promoting industry consensus, and aiding developing nations in enhancing data capabilities. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The China Soong Ching Ling Foundation held lectures in Hunan province featuring experts in aerospace, transportation, art, and food science. Beidou-3 chief designer Xie Jun and Tianyi Space deputy chief engineer Chen Xianfeng spoke at Central South University about China's achievements in aerospace, emphasizing indigenous innovation. Experts from CRRC discussed high-speed rail development and design. Sculptor Wu Weishan and Director Zhang Yongxin discussed the Long March. Academics also discussed health and nutrition, focusing on pork and tea.
Summary: Du Zhenyang, a 30-year-old entrepreneur in Zhengzhou, developed AI drones with government support. Overcoming initial challenges in finding workspace and talent, Du's drone company was assisted by local government organizations. These organizations helped him secure facilities, connect with experts, and access recruitment platforms. Government subsidies and housing policies also aided in attracting talent. With this assistance, Du successfully launched two generations of drones, now used in various sectors.
Summary: A "literary cruise ship," the Hongshufang, has opened in Shanghai, offering a diverse cultural space for reading, cultural exchange, and performances. It features a collection of 500 books and 2,000 quality readings, including a special collection of Nobel Prize winners and a "matrix" of other international literature prizes. The library also has a section on local writers of Shanghai. The space will also feature a music series and a special exhibition on world-famous intellectuals who visited Shanghai between 1919 and 1937.
Summary: A white paper released on March 31st indicates that China's new energy storage capacity is projected to exceed 100 GW by the end of 2025, accounting for over half of the global market share. Lithium-ion batteries remain dominant, but other technologies like solid-state and hydrogen storage are gaining traction. New energy storage projects are concentrating in resource-rich regions like Northwest and North China. Chen Haisheng of the China Energy Storage Alliance notes that China, the U.S. and Europe remain the largest markets, with China leading in new installations. The National Energy Administration plans to improve market mechanisms for new energy storage, but challenges related to maturity of technologies remain.
Summary: The "Implementation Rules for the Regulations on the Supervision and Management of the Use of Medical Insurance Funds" will take effect on April 1st, providing clearer legal basis for combating medical insurance fraud. The rules focus on cracking down on fraud, strengthening intelligent supervision, and linking payment reforms with improving the credit system. National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) Deputy Director Huang Huabo stated at a press conference that over 120 billion RMB in medical insurance funds have been recovered since May 2021. The new rules aim to improve the precision of medical insurance fund supervision by converting broad regulations into actionable standards and punish only a few while educating the majority.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) launched a campaign in Hangzhou to improve online food safety compliance. The campaign targets prominent issues such as irregularities in livestreaming sales, inadequate scrutiny of online vendors, and rampant false advertising. SAMR aims to create a collaborative governance mechanism involving regulators, platforms, associations, and tech institutions to ensure the effectiveness and longevity of the campaign. The initiative signals stricter regulation and enhanced compliance in the online food sector. The campaign seeks to safeguard consumers' food safety and foster a secure and convenient online food consumption environment.
Summary: The China Insurance Industry Association has released its first self-regulatory guidelines on product suitability management, covering the entire process from product classification to sales supervision. The guidelines require insurance institutions to assess policyholders' insurance needs and financial capacity before recommending suitable products. Insurers must advise against purchase if a product is deemed unsuitable, but if the customer insists, the risks must be fully explained, and the purchase confirmed as the customer's informed and voluntary decision. The aim is to reduce mis-selling and mismatched products. The guidelines aim to improve the professionalism and standardization of sales behavior, and promote the industry to accelerate the construction of a sound suitability management system.
Summary: China's Ministry of Education held a meeting on March 31st to deploy the 2026 National Education Digitalization Strategy, focusing on promoting "Artificial Intelligence + Education." A new version of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform was released, integrating basic, vocational, and higher education into a school education center. The platform now includes centers for technological innovation, lifelong learning, and Chinese education to support education, science, technology, and talent integration. The National Education Big Data Center will also be fully utilized to improve educational decision-making and governance with AI.
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Summary: Ningbo Zhoushan Port's cargo throughput has ranked first globally for 17 consecutive years, exceeding 1.4 billion tons in 2025, while its container throughput ranks third, exceeding 43 million TEUs. The port's sea-rail transport now reaches 67 cities in 16 provinces, facilitated by intelligent dispatch systems and the "dual-core brain" system for optimized operations. A new China-Europe Arctic container express route, taking only 18 days, was launched from the port, significantly reducing shipping time compared to traditional routes via the Suez Canal. This route is particularly beneficial for the export of "new three" products (photovoltaic components, energy storage equipment and new energy vehicles) to Europe. The port has established 309 container routes, connecting over 700 ports in more than 200 countries and regions.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of port development for China's maritime economy, particularly in the face of increased global shipping uncertainties. It advocates for enhanced port collaboration through infrastructure, regulatory harmonization, and cooperative mechanisms to avoid competition and strengthen international partnerships. The article also proposes a three-pronged approach to empower ports through digitalization, standardization (including green initiatives), and financial services like shipping finance. The United States and U.S.-China relations are not discussed in this article.
Summary: China is aggressively pursuing hydrogen energy, as highlighted at the 2026 China Hydrogen Energy Exhibition. The government's focus, as emphasized in the Government Work Report, is on fostering new growth points like hydrogen energy. Experts like Yu Zhuoping note China has achieved a breakthrough from "0 to 1" in hydrogen energy and is entering a stage of rapid, large-scale development. However, challenges remain, including high costs and technological bottlenecks. The government is actively promoting hydrogen energy through pilot programs and financial incentives to encourage broader applications beyond fuel cell vehicles.
Summary: The domestically built "Fenjiao Hao," a 14-meter-class super-large diameter shield tunneling machine manufactured by China Railway Construction, successfully rolled off the production line in Nantong, Jiangsu. It will be used for the Yanyi High-Speed Railway Yangtze River Tunnel project, which will utilize an innovative socket-type segment structure. The "Fenjiao Hao" shield machine is 145 meters long, weighs approximately 3,800 tons, and has a cutter head excavation diameter of 14.33 meters, equipped with intelligent devices to improve assembly efficiency and structural accuracy. After disassembly and transport, it will be reassembled and commissioned before beginning its journey under the Yangtze River. The Yanyi High-Speed Railway will be approximately 311 kilometers long and include 10 stations.
Summary: This article discusses how villager Chen Cuicui in a rural area of Shandong province started a freeze-drying business for local products like hawthorn and honeysuckle. Due to power supply issues during peak production, the local State Grid power company upgraded the electrical infrastructure, installing a new transformer and smart monitoring. This infrastructure improvement significantly boosted Chen's business, increasing profits and creating local employment opportunities. The success of Chen's business illustrates how improvements to rural infrastructure can boost local economies. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: China's six major state-owned commercial banks (ICBC, Agricultural Bank, Bank of China, Construction Bank, Bank of Communications, and Postal Savings Bank) all reported revenue and net profit growth for 2025. These banks will collectively distribute over 420 billion yuan in dividends, with payout ratios generally around 30% of net profit. Several banks highlighted plans to expand wealth management services and provide diverse investment options for residents. Bank of China injected over 2 trillion yuan into key consumption areas and provided over 10 billion yuan in subsidies and fee reductions, benefiting over 100 million people. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: China launched a national traceability information platform for new energy vehicle (NEV) power batteries on March 31st. The platform will monitor the entire lifecycle and track the flow of power batteries, integrating data from the industry chain. It is designed to support lifecycle management of power batteries, providing technical support for improved regulation of recycling and utilization of used NEV power batteries. The platform enables information tracing, evaluation of corporate responsibility, analysis of tracing information, and special industrial investigations.
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Summary: This article discusses the theoretical and practical significance of China's "step-by-step progress" (阶梯式递进) approach to socialist modernization, particularly in the context of the upcoming "15th Five-Year Plan." It frames this approach within a Marxist understanding of societal development as a process of both gradual change and qualitative leaps, emphasizing the importance of both strategic planning and addressing existing challenges. The author argues that this approach demonstrates China's historical consciousness and proactive efforts to achieve modernization. It highlights the need for strategic focus combined with problem-solving, and emphasizes that both long-term visions and short-term targets are needed in the country's socialist modernization process. It stresses the importance of both comprehensive advancement and key breakthroughs, ensuring coordinated progress across all sectors.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of cultivating a selfless spirit ("wuwo") among Chinese officials to advance "Chinese-style modernization," as stressed by Xi Jinping. It argues that officials should prioritize the people's interests and adhere to a pragmatic approach rooted in thorough research, avoiding subjectivism and focusing on the bigger picture. Officials should balance individual responsibility ("youwo") with a selfless dedication to the collective good. It criticizes officials who prioritize personal or local interests over the broader national goals, hindering overall progress.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of museums in preserving and promoting Chinese culture, highlighting Xi Jinping's call to enhance their role. It advocates for a more balanced and accessible museum system, particularly focusing on improving resources in local and rural areas. The piece stresses the need to protect and interpret collections effectively through technological advancements and interdisciplinary research. Furthermore, it encourages innovative approaches to museum displays, education, and outreach, including digitalization and integration with tourism. Finally, the article positions museums as vital platforms for international cultural exchange, promoting both the export of Chinese culture and the import of global perspectives.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court (SPC) has released a set of typical cases to clarify the definition of domestic violence, including mental abuse like constant insults, economic control, and restrictions on social interaction. The SPC emphasizes that domestic violence is characterized by control and harm, distinct from typical family disputes, and that victims of domestic abuse should be granted divorce if the abuse is verified. Courts are also exploring preliminary judgments to protect victims and are strengthening the enforcement of personal safety protection orders, including detention for violations. The SPC is also focusing on protecting vulnerable groups by helping them achieve economic independence.
Summary: The head of Shandong's social work department emphasized the importance of studying and implementing the revised "two laws" on grassroots autonomy to strengthen the Party's leadership and modernize governance. The province plans to enhance training for cadres and the public, improve supporting regulations, and promote practical application of the laws in areas like village rules and resident covenants. Shandong aims to innovate governance through initiatives like "Friendly Neighborhood Governance" and "Red Property Management," while also reducing burdens on grassroots cadres. The province will also focus on financial support and promoting community participation to solve problems. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A China-France notarial exchange conference in Shanghai reported that China has nearly 3,000 notary offices, over 15,000 notaries, and handles over 14 million cases annually, with documents used in over 180 countries. The Chinese notarial system has developed to align with domestic conditions, socio-economic progress, and international rules. During the conference, the China Notary Association and the French High Council of Notaries signed a cooperation agreement and discussed notarial systems and dispute resolution. The conference highlighted the role of notaries in international civil and commercial exchanges.
Summary: The article discusses Hongjiang Town in Pengxi County, Suining City, Sichuan Province, where the "Courtyard Discussion Hall" initiative encourages residents to participate in grassroots governance. Citizens are involved in discussing, deciding, and evaluating solutions to issues like street lighting and garbage disposal. A photograph shows villagers voting on street light placements at a meeting in Hongjiang Community on March 30th. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A deputy general manager at Nanjing Haobo Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. noted the difficulties in manufacturing innovation and expressed hope for faster production line launches. To address this, Lishui District has been implementing reforms such as "pre-acceptance debugging" to allow companies to begin operations earlier. Other reforms include streamlining administrative approvals, such as the "five certificates issued simultaneously" and the "five-office" integrated reform mechanism. The district has also been actively supporting local companies through measures such as connecting them with other domestic manufacturers. The government is creating industrial ecosystems to support businesses.
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Summary: The village of Tianbei in Jiangxi Province has transformed itself into a thriving cultural and tourist destination centered around farmer paintings. Local government initiatives have supported the development of farmer painting as a unique cultural product, attracting artists, students, and tourists. The village has become a national 4A-level tourist attraction, featuring art creation, exhibitions, study programs, and tourism. Farmer paintings depict rural life, agricultural culture, and local customs, contributing to increased income and a richer spiritual life for the villagers. Wan'an County has promoted these paintings both nationally and internationally.
Summary: The article profiles a farmer from Wan'an, Jiangxi province, who became a celebrated local folk artist and curator of the Baijia Old Street Farmer Painting Gallery. The artist emphasizes the importance of rural development and local government support in providing platforms for farmers to showcase their art. In 2024, Wan'an farmer paintings were exhibited in New Zealand, and in 2025, the artist and his daughter together created a piece that was displayed overseas. The artist views his paintings as a window to showcase Wan'an's rural life to the world.
Summary: The first National Village Painting Cultural Exchange Activity was held in Binzhou, Shandong Province, featuring a village painting exhibition of nearly 500 works from 23 provinces. According to Cao Zhongxin, Vice President of the Binzhou Farmers' Fine Arts Research Association, over 80% of the artists are ordinary farmers. In addition to the exhibition, specialized training workshops were conducted, emphasizing the importance of retaining the "earthy" and unique characteristics of the art. The goal is to integrate village painting with rural aesthetic education, tourism development, and industrial revitalization. The event promoted farmers as the main creators and beneficiaries of this art form.
Summary: The 17th "Mountain Flowers Award," China's highest award for folk art, was held in Suzhou, Jiangsu, showcasing diverse folk arts and awarding 20 outstanding works. The award's permanent establishment in Suzhou (2025-2031) includes a 1 billion RMB "Mountain Flowers Industrial Development Fund," with a local jade carving project being the first to receive funding. Suzhou is building a comprehensive "incubation system" consisting of awards, exhibitions, a research platform, industrial parks, and a development fund to transform folk art into a thriving cultural industry. The "Mountain Flowers Fair" market in Suzhou's Taohuawu historical district showcases various folk art products, attracting artisans and inspiring local brands. The award aims to empower folk artisans, promote innovation, and boost the local cultural industry.
Summary: The newly implemented "Beijing Municipal Great Wall Protection Regulations" expand the protected area beyond the Great Wall itself to include related cultural heritage and its environment. The regulations establish a collaborative protection mechanism between Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, fostering cooperation in areas like restoration and joint law enforcement. To address issues like unauthorized climbing, the regulations allow for the use of technology like electronic fences for risk alerts. A dedicated chapter focuses on "utilization and inheritance," promoting the orderly opening of qualified sections of the Great Wall, exemplified by the development of the Badaling Great Wall scenic area.
Summary: Based on data from China's Zhurong rover, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions have identified evidence of short-lived, brine-driven salt weathering on Mars. The study suggests that even in the current cold, arid Martian environment, a weak form of salt weathering, similar to that found in Earth's arid regions, may occur near the surface. This discovery offers a new perspective on Martian surface modification and provides insights into the planet's climate evolution. The lead researcher, Liu Yang, noted that the specific conditions and extent of salt weathering on Mars require further investigation. The research was published in the journal *Science Bulletin*.
Summary: A spring tea livestreaming competition began on March 30th in Hubei Province, where over one hundred local livestreamers are promoting Enshi selenium-rich tea. The event, which utilizes tea plantations as live broadcasting studios, will continue until April 25th. The article focuses on the event's promotion of local agricultural products through livestreaming, with participants wearing traditional clothing. There is no indication of any discussion on the United States.
Summary: Liaoning province has released measures to promote the high-quality development of its micro-drama industry, focusing on content creation, talent, technology, and the business environment. The measures include the "Micro-drama+" creation plan to produce industry-specific works and subsidies for filming locations within Liaoning. Subsidies will also be given to productions employing AI technology, covering 10% of computing power costs. The province will also support micro-drama platforms and popular filming locations.
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Summary: The article discusses the replacement of an old ferry, "Yu Zhong Ke 2180," with a new, government-subsidized vessel serving farmers traveling between Chongqing's Zhong County and surrounding towns. Qin Da Yi, the boat's captain, reminisced about the old boat before transitioning to the new one. The new ferry offers improved safety, comfort, and capacity for transporting agricultural goods, while upgraded docks and volunteer services further aid the farmers. The ferry's popularity on social media led to increased support and recognition for the vital service it provides. The local maritime authority also provides support for the ferry, using a smart monitoring platform to track the boat's progress.
Summary: This article discusses the increasing emphasis on "child-friendly" urban development in China, advocating for a "one-meter perspective" in urban planning. It highlights examples across China where cities are adapting infrastructure and public spaces to better suit children's needs, such as building lower sinks and colorful crosswalks. The piece also emphasizes the importance of incorporating children's perspectives in the planning process, citing instances where children's ideas have been implemented in community projects. Ultimately, the article argues that creating child-friendly environments benefits both children and families, contributing to a more nurturing and supportive society, and requires the cooperation of the government, society, and families.
Summary: The Huajiang Yiwei Community in Tianjin has implemented a "digital blocking system" to prevent electric bikes from entering residential buildings, addressing fire hazards caused by indoor charging. According to Donghai Street Party Committee Secretary Zang Dawei, the system, developed in collaboration with Beijing Yaoshibao Technology, has issued over 30,000 warnings and prevented electric bike-related fires in the community. Zhong Hui from Beijing Yaoshibao Technology showcased a "smart screen" in the community management office, displaying data on electric bike alerts, public area monitoring, and smart parking management. The community's Party Secretary, Wu Yanjing, noted that the enhanced services had increased property fee collection rates from 40% to over 90%. The system aims to create a sustainable, digitally-driven model for managing older residential areas.
Summary: According to Yunnan Province First People's Hospital nutritionist Zhang Xiaoli, Agriculture Minister Han Jun's suggestion to "reduce oil, increase beans, and add milk" during the "Two Sessions" is a shift towards a more scientific and balanced diet for Chinese citizens. Zhang notes that current diets are characterized by excessive oil consumption and insufficient intake of milk and soy products. She recommends reducing cooking oil, particularly animal fats, in favor of plant-based oils and alternative cooking methods. Increasing bean intake can provide plant-based protein, while dairy products are a good source of animal protein and calcium. The nutritionist advocates for a diverse diet that emphasizes nutrient balance.
Summary: A student at the Chinese People's Public Security University, Geng Feitong, intervened in a subway altercation in Beijing, subduing a man who was physically assaulting a female passenger. Geng identified himself as a student of the police university to de-escalate the situation and reassure the public, utilizing skills learned at school. The Beijing Public Transport Security Corps commended Geng's actions, and the university awarded him a third-class merit, holding him up as an example of student police service. Geng stated that his actions were motivated by a sense of duty instilled in him by the university and a commitment to serving the people.
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Summary: A handwritten letter from students at Shenzhen Baoan Middle School requesting the removal of noisy Koel birds' nests prompted a lesson in life education. Principal Yuan Weixing responded with a public letter emphasizing coexistence with nature, instead of prioritizing exam preparation. The school then invited experts to conduct noise measurements and nature education, and took measures to mitigate the noise, like giving earplugs and constructing new habitat for the birds. This event also highlights Shenzhen's broader efforts to protect its biodiversity, including measures at Shenzhen Bay Park, and a monitoring program throughout the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. The author of the article is Liu Yang, professor at Sun Yat-sen University.
Summary: A high school student in Shenzhen requested the school to remove a bird's nest due to noise disrupting exam preparation. The school principal declined the request in a thoughtful letter, promoting coexistence with nature. The school provided earplugs and attempted to relocate the birds without harming them. The incident sparked discussion on the nature of good education, emphasizing values and character development beyond test scores. The principal's response served as a lesson in respecting life and nature, a more valuable lesson than a test.
Summary: According to a statement from an official at a Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) on March 31, the ten-year fishing ban on the Yangtze River has achieved significant results, with the aquatic life integrity index improving significantly from 2021-2025 compared to pre-ban levels (2017-2020). The official stated that 351 native fish species were monitored in the Yangtze River Basin from 2021 to 2025, an increase of 43 species compared to before the ban, and that the resource quantity of the Yangtze River trunk stream monitoring unit in 2025 has recovered to twice that before the ban. The official also noted the improvement of local fishery law enforcement capabilities and the effective curbing of illegal "fishing, transportation, and sales," leading to a nearly 40% year-on-year decrease in the number of criminal cases involving fishing in 2025. They also spoke to effective measures to guarantee the livelihoods of fishermen who have retired from fishing, including insurance and employment assistance. The MARA official emphasized the long-term, arduous, and complex nature of the ban, calling for strategic resolve and historical patience to continue the work.
Summary: Wang Shanqing, head of the Qingliangfeng Natural Reserve management station in Anhui, has dedicated his life to protecting the local ecosystem, following in his father's footsteps as a forest ranger. He patrols the mountains, combats poaching, and cultivates rare plant species such as the *Ulmus elongata*, contributing to an increase in protected animal and plant species within the reserve. Under Wang's leadership, the reserve has seen significant growth in biodiversity. He also oversaw the opening of a biodiversity museum to educate the public. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Yunnan Province's green electricity trading volume for the first quarter of 2026 exceeded 626 million kWh, a 219% increase compared to the same period in 2025. The province has been cultivating its green electricity market since 2022, accumulating over 3.1 billion kWh in green electricity transactions. Yunnan is promoting "green electricity+" initiatives in manufacturing, intelligent computing, and tourism, enabling key industries to increase green energy consumption. Since May 2025, Yunnan has pioneered the free transfer of green certificates for existing conventional hydropower, benefiting over 71,800 electricity-using enterprises. The province expects to transfer over 100 million green certificates annually, equivalent to over 100 billion kWh of electricity, to domestic electricity consumers.
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Summary: A growing number of Americans are moving abroad and renouncing their citizenship, leading to a net emigration in 2025 for the first time since the Great Depression. This "reverse migration" is driven by rising living and healthcare costs, financial insecurity, and political/social divisions. Some studies found that nearly half of Americans living abroad are considering renouncing their citizenship. The trend is fueled by disillusionment with the "American Dream," gun violence, and political polarization, with potential negative impacts on the U.S. economy and international reputation. The article does not mention the United States' relationship with China.
Summary: The article reports that the U.S. experienced negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in half a century, attributing this "reverse migration" to growing wealth inequality, class solidification, and xenophobia. It claims that the wealth gap in the U.S. is widening, with the richest 1% holding wealth equivalent to the bottom 90%, while the middle class shrinks and faces rising costs. The article also accuses the U.S. government of exacerbating the marginalization of low-income people through tax cuts and reduced social welfare. Finally, it suggests that rising xenophobia and structural racism contribute to immigrants choosing to leave the U.S.
Summary: Over 20,000 Japanese citizens protested near the Diet building in Tokyo, chanting against war and constitutional revision, particularly targeting Article 9, which renounces war. The protests, driven by concerns over the ruling Liberal Democratic Party's push to amend the pacifist constitution, reflect a broader anti-war sentiment in Japanese society. Demonstrators, including families and long-time activists, voiced their opposition to altering the constitution and moving away from the country's "exclusively defense-oriented" principle. The article highlights concerns that amending the "Peace Constitution" could lead to a strategic shift with potential risks for regional stability. The author urges Japan to heed historical lessons and public demand for peace.
Summary: The EU has released a new counter-terrorism agenda focusing on preventative measures and a more comprehensive approach due to the evolving nature of terrorist threats, including the rise of youth radicalization and the exploitation of digital spaces. The agenda emphasizes collaboration across society, integrating communities, schools, and businesses into the security framework. It aims to shift from reactive enforcement to proactive prevention and shared governance, addressing online radicalization through content monitoring and industry-law enforcement cooperation. Despite these efforts, the article highlights concerns about balancing security with individual privacy and the challenges of implementing the agenda uniformly across EU member states due to differing national priorities. The EU believes this is a critical step for European security and could offer lessons for addressing complex security challenges globally.
Summary: Thailand is actively developing its data center industry, driven by policy support and market demand, aiming to become a regional digital hub. Recent developments include Thai DC One launching a new data center project in Chonburi and substantial investment pledges from companies like TikTok. Then-Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Arkhom Termpittayapaisith promoted digital economic opportunities at the World Economic Forum, attracting investments. Thailand faces challenges like power supply and talent development as the industry expands, prompting new regulations and a focus on green data centers. The Thai government encourages collaboration between domestic and international companies to further digital infrastructure development.
Summary: Here's a summary of the provided articles: * Japanese opposition leader Yuichiro Tamaki stated the Japanese government should apologize to China after a member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces trespassed into the Chinese embassy in Japan. * European Council President Costa described the situation in the Middle East as "extremely dangerous", urging de-escalation and diplomatic solutions in a call with the Iranian President, emphasizing compliance with international law and freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. * The African Development Bank reported that Africa's economic growth is projected to reach 4.2% in 2025, with 12 of the world's 20 fastest-growing economies located on the continent. * The report also noted that this growth is expected to be impacted by ongoing conflicts in the Middle East.
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Summary: China's newly released 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030) emphasizes innovation, a unified domestic market, and expanded opening up. International observers note the plan signals China's shift towards innovation-driven growth, offering stability amid global economic fragmentation. Experts highlight China's commitment to high-standard opening up and its potential to enhance global supply chain resilience, while also promoting global cooperation on climate change. The plan also expresses commitment to global initiatives and improving global governance, which some observers see as beneficial to the global south. An American researcher notes the plan is a systematic plan and will open new space for global technology cooperation.
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Summary: Foreign representatives from international organizations and Fortune 500 companies gathered in Beijing for the China Development Forum, focusing on "stability," with many emphasizing China's role as a stable force in a turbulent world. New Development Bank President Dilma Rousseff highlighted China as a stable force and core engine for global growth, trade and technological change. Attendees noted China's economic stability compared to Europe and the U.S. The article highlights China's independent development path and its contribution to global growth, with some foreign media observing European leaders' desire to board the "China train" for economic opportunities. It also mentioned that The New York Times inquired why China was less impacted by rising oil prices.
Summary: During an inspection in Beijing's Dongcheng District, Xi Jinping visited the bustling Longfusi street market ahead of the Spring Festival. He fondly recalled his childhood memories of Longfusi while observing the festive atmosphere and purchasing local food and cultural products, including Yili bread. The article highlights Yili's century-long history of adapting to changing times while maintaining its traditional flavors, serving as a model for established brands. Yili is committed to integrating itself into Beijing's cultural, commercial, and tourism development, evolving from selling products to promoting culture and experience. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the unique characteristics of Fujian merchants (闽商), shaped by the province's mountainous terrain and long coastline. It emphasizes the "love to fight" (爱拼) spirit of these merchants, forged through overcoming geographical challenges and engaging in maritime trade since ancient times. The article highlights the historical prosperity of ports like Quanzhou,漳州 and Fuzhou, and the establishment of global trade networks facilitated by kinship and regional ties. It also mentions the cultural values and traditions upheld by the Fujian merchants, including the worship of Mazu, contributing to their positive image. Finally, it asserts that Fujian's geographical and historical advantages have transformed into new opportunities in the contemporary era, supporting high-quality economic development and participation in the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Summary: This article discusses the rise of the "spring economy" and the broader trend of "experience economy" in China, where consumers are increasingly seeking personalized and immersive experiences rather than simply purchasing goods or services. This shift reflects a move towards valuing emotional and experiential satisfaction, driving demand for unique cultural and recreational activities. The article notes that this trend is reshaping consumer demand and encouraging innovation in the supply of goods and services, as businesses strive to create memorable and engaging experiences. It also highlights the potential of the experience economy to revitalize cultural heritage and boost domestic consumption, aligning with the goals outlined in the 15th Five-Year Plan.
Summary: The article discusses the surge in China's "spring economy," driven by activities like flower viewing, outdoor sports, and market consumption. It highlights how local governments are promoting consumption through measures such as issuing vouchers and subsidies for trade-ins, particularly in sectors like catering, home furnishings, and digital products. The integration of tourism with local culture, like traditional medicine and handicrafts, is also boosting regional economies. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An article details the history of "shao kao" (barbecue) in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, tracing its origins back to the Han Dynasty through unearthed artifacts like cooking stones and small heating stoves used for sauces. Modern Xuzhou barbecue emphasizes fresh, unmarinated meat cooked over charcoal, with diverse seasoning options and a wide variety of foods that can be grilled. The modern popularity of Xuzhou barbecue has created a robust consumption chain with over 6,000 barbecue restaurants, employing over 100,000 people. The article emphasizes how modern shao kao culture has become a social method for younger generations to gather and eat. The article does not contain any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article introduces a series about the burgeoning city of Xiong'an, highlighting its potential and attracting widespread attention. It promises to explore the city's stories and atmosphere through the eyes of writers. The piece aims to convey a sense of vitality and hope associated with Xiong'an's development. The series will capture the essence of this land and its ongoing growth during the spring season. The introduction suggests the narratives will offer a glimpse into the dreams and aspirations tied to this future city.
Summary: An author visited Xiong'an New Area in the spring of 2025 to gather material for a novel, and observed the rapid construction and development in the area, including residential areas in Rongdong, the Xiong'an branch of Peking University People's Hospital, and the China Chemical Building (中化大厦) and China Huaneng headquarters building (华能总部大楼) in the startup area. The author noted the speed of construction and the transformation of construction sites into functional urban spaces. The author mentioned the design inspiration of the China Chemical Building comes from the reeds of Baiyangdian Lake (白洋淀). The author mentioned not wanting to leave this rapidly developing city.
Summary: This article profiles a 53-year-old woman, "Ju," living near Baiyang Lake, whose life was revitalized by the establishment of the Xiong'an New Area in 2017. Initially saddened by the prospect of relocation, she began documenting the changes through photography and writing, eventually finding an audience and reigniting her passion for creative expression. She now enthusiastically embraces the opportunities presented by Xiong'an, highlighting improvements in local infrastructure, healthcare with hospitals from Beijing, and environmental conditions that have attracted new bird species. She encourages others to adapt and learn, emphasizing the positive impact of Xiong'an on the region and expressing hope for the future. She also toured the Xiong'an start-up area, relocation area, and Xiong'an high-speed rail station with her daughter and friends from Beijing.
Summary: Since April 2017, Xiong'an has become a popular place for many Chinese citizens. The author recently visited the area, and was impressed by the city's parks, high forest coverage, and especially the Xiong'an Library. The library offers services such as "one-stop intelligent borrowing and returning," robot "smart librarians," and book delivery services throughout the New Area. The library serves not only as a reading space but also as a city cultural center, hosting exhibitions, activities, and forums. The author notes the library's real-time data display, showing daily and cumulative visitor numbers, book circulation, and event registrations.
Summary: The article discusses the Chinese painting "Visitable and Habitable: Four Scenes of Xiong'an" by Zhang Ping. The painting depicts the landscape of the Xiong'an New Area.
Summary: During the 2024 Spring Festival gathering, the author was overshadowed by a middle school classmate who invested in a shop in Xiong'an New Area, prompting widespread praise for his foresight. Inspired, the author visited Xiong'an in the autumn of 2025 upon invitation, impressed by its modern urban planning and ecological restoration of Baiyangdian Lake. He was particularly struck by the "15-minute living circle" concept and its focus on high-quality urban life, as well as the integration of technology and infrastructure. The author then encouraged his daughter, a new college student, to consider working in Xiong'an after seeing the relocation of central enterprises and the establishment of schools affiliated with prestigious Beijing institutions. The author also mentioned the upcoming Xiongxin high-speed rail, which would connect the area closer to Beijing.
Summary: This poem celebrates the burgeoning growth and future aspirations of Xiong'an New Area. It uses imagery of spring, seeds, and fertile land to depict the area's development from rural origins ("wheat fields," "reed marshes") to a modern urban center. The poem emphasizes the optimism and forward-looking perspective of the people working and living in Xiong'an. The "water droplet" of Xiong'an Station is presented as a symbol of progress. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this poem.
Summary: This article is a call for submissions from readers. The *People's Daily* encourages original, unpublished content to be sent to the provided email address. Multiple submissions of the same article are discouraged. The article does not mention specific political events, officials, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. The 7th issue of the "Seeking Truth" magazine, to be published on April 1st, will feature an important article by Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the People's Republic of China (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), titled "Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance." This is an excerpt of important discourses by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) from December 2012 to February 2026.
The article emphasizes that the view of performance is a fundamental issue, concerning the Party's commitment to serving the public and governing for the people. Only by continuously promoting the development of the Party and the country and benefiting the people with good performance can we practice the Party's mission and fulfill the Party's historical mission. We must adhere to starting from reality and acting according to the laws, and through scientific decision-making and hard work, create achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and be recognized by the masses.
The article points out that the decisive factor in establishing and practicing a correct view of performance is Party spirit. The fundamental measure of the strength of Party spirit is the distinction between public and private interests. Only with a strong Party spirit and the abandonment of selfish thoughts can we ensure that the view of performance does not deviate. Leading cadres at all levels must start from the realization of the Party's mission and tasks, establish and practice a correct view of performance, and see whether their thoughts and actions have deviated from the lofty ideal of communism and the common ideal of socialism with Chinese characteristics, whether they have deviated from the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, whether they have deviated from the Party's line, principles, policies, and the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments, and whether they have deviated from the national conditions and the actual situation of their regions and departments, with the spiritual realm of **功成不必在我、功成必定有我** (gōng chéng bù bì zài wǒ, gōng chéng bì dìng yǒu wǒ - "achieving success does not necessarily require me, but success will definitely have me," emphasizing long-term contributions over immediate personal gain), and wholeheartedly promote Chinese-style modernization.
The article points out that communists must bear in mind that creating benefits for the people is the greatest achievement. Doing business and creating achievements are for the benefit of the people, not for personal promotion. When planning and promoting work, we must adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, adhere to the people-centered development thought, adhere to development for the people, development relying on the people, and development results shared by the people, and do good and practical things to the hearts of the masses. We must adhere to achieving performance for the people and achieving performance through practical work, and not engage in quick success and instant benefits, falsification, or blind and reckless actions in the pursuit of performance, and eliminate the phenomenon of new officials ignoring old accounts and "image projects" and "vanity projects."
The article emphasizes that high-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and adhering to high-quality development should become an important part of the performance view of leading cadres. It is impossible to implement the requirement of fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the new development concept and focusing on promoting high-quality development at all levels without a correct view of performance. We must handle the relationship between stability and progress, establishment and destruction, virtuality and reality, symptoms and root causes, and near and far, adhere to the bottom-line thinking, strengthen risk awareness, and consciously integrate the new development concept into the entire process of economic and social development. We must improve the performance evaluation methods for promoting high-quality development, give full play to the role of the "baton," promote leading groups at all levels to earnestly practice the correct view of performance, and effectively form the correct work orientation. We must improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, improve the pertinence and scientificity of assessments, and prevent the vicious cycle of "numbers producing officials and officials producing numbers."
The article points out that this year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and leading groups at all levels in various localities will be replaced one after another. It is very important and necessary to promote leading groups and leading cadres at all levels to establish and practice a correct view of performance through study and education. We must take study and education as an important task of Party building this year to ensure practical results. First, we must earnestly and practically improve our ideological understanding. All Party comrades, especially leading cadres at all levels, must deeply understand the importance of the view of performance to the development of the Party and the country from a theoretical and practical perspective, especially to compare the typical examples of both positive and negative aspects, deeply learn from the experience and lessons, improve Party spirit and awareness, and with a high degree of responsibility to the Party and the people, enhance the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Second, we must earnestly and practically rectify outstanding problems. We must closely focus on the general requirements of implementing "serving the public for the Party, creating benefits for the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," and promote learning, inspection, and rectification in an integrated manner, clarify and accurately identify problems, and grasp rectification in a precise and pragmatic manner. Third, we must earnestly and practically establish good systems and rules. We must discover institutional loopholes, shortcomings, and weaknesses from the problems investigated and rectified in this study and education, effectively make up for and establish good systems and rules, clarify what can be done, what cannot be done, for whom it is done, and how it should be done, and complete the accountability methods, so that the system becomes hard and fully plays the role of guiding and encouraging, regulating and restricting.
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The grass and trees are growing, and the spring mountains are promising.
"A good ecology is shared by everyone and requires joint construction. We must organize and mobilize the whole society to widely participate in afforestation, add splendor to the mountains and rivers, and make the background color of Chinese-style modernization more beautiful."
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech when participating in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity on March 30 triggered enthusiastic responses from the vast number of cadres and the masses. Everyone said that this year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the 45th anniversary of the launch of the National Voluntary Tree Planting Campaign. Standing at a new starting point, we must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, 咬定青山不放松 (yǎo dìng qīng shān bù fàng sōng - "bite the green hills and not relax," to persevere despite difficulties), and pay more attention to improving quality, promoting industry, and benefiting the people. From the Gobi Desert to the water towns of Jiangnan, from the towering mountains to the street corners of the city, the vast number of cadres and the masses are taking practical actions to solidly write a green article on "simultaneous planting and management, co-promotion of ecology and industry, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature."
Simultaneous planting and management -
Consolidate the cornerstone of the rule of law and draw a new picture of a beautiful China
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's forest area and stock volume have continued to "double increase," the area of desertification and land desertification has continued to "double decrease," and blue skies, green land, and clear water have become the norm. Not long ago, my country promulgated the Ecological Environment Code, which further consolidated the legal cornerstone for the construction of a beautiful China.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech provides fundamental guidelines for land greening and voluntary tree planting." Zhang Zhaohui, Director of the Voluntary Tree Planting and Department Greening Division of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration's (国家林草局) Ecological Protection and Restoration Department, said, "This year is the opening year of the '15th Five-Year Plan'. We will rely on the cornerstone of the rule of law and strictly implement the principle of determining green based on land and water. We must do a good job in increasing greening in accordance with local conditions, take the '15th Five-Year Plan' for forest and grass protection and utilization as the guideline, continue to carry out large-scale land greening actions, fight the tough battle of the 'Three-North' (三北) project, innovate and carry out voluntary tree planting, control the first pass of scientific afforestation, and continuously improve the diversity, stability, and sustainability of the ecosystem."
The "Three-North" (三北) region is the main battlefield for current land greening. Wushen Banner (乌审旗), Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), is located in the downwind of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地). Desertification control personnel are driving integrated equipment for planting degradable planting bags to plant seedlings of purple flowers and poplar firewood. Bao Longshan, a staff member of the Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市) "Three-North" (三北) Project Promotion Center, said with deep feeling: "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'determining green based on land and water'. Ordos (鄂尔多斯) is arid and water-scarce. We deeply realize that desertification control must understand the carrying capacity of water resources and give priority to drought-resistant native tree species to minimize ecological water use. The new equipment can increase the survival rate of afforestation by 20%-30%, fundamentally solving the problem of low seedling survival rate due to water shortage in the sandy land."
Li Xiaodong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Wushen Banner (乌审旗) Forestry and Grassland Bureau, introduced that in 2026, 52 key projects of the sixth phase of the "Three-North" (三北) project in Wushen Banner (乌审旗) have started, and the governance rate of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地) has increased to 85%. "While striving to expand greening, we must earnestly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech, put more effort into strengthening management and protection, carry out sustainable forest management by region and category, and continuously improve the quality and stability of the sandy land ecosystem."
Afforestation is not only about planting, but also about management. In the deep mountain forest farm of Jingang Town (金刚镇), Liuyang City (浏阳市), Hunan Province (湖南省), where the morning mist has not yet dissipated, Huang Weigu, the "Most Beautiful Natural Guardian" and full-time ecological forest ranger, and his colleagues are skillfully operating drones to take off and inspect fire hazards and the occurrence of pine wilt disease. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'to put more effort into strengthening management and protection'. Now, not only do we have to be diligent in our legs, but we also have to use 'long-range eyes' to prevent insects and fire. Watching the saplings grow thicker and stronger day by day, we are more confident and have more confidence to guard this green area."
In Xianjin Village (先进村), Fengqiao Town (枫桥镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), villagers are planting economic tree species such as cherries and torreya on the slopes. Near the UHV line, Hu Haifeng, the person in charge of the transmission line area of the State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Shaoxing Power Supply Company (国网浙江电力绍兴供电公司), is patrolling along the line.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'to achieve simultaneous planting and management'. Our power workers strengthen inspections and manage the lines well, which can better prevent fire and protect green, and also add splendor to the mountains and rivers." Hu Haifeng said that it is necessary to continue to fight the tough battle of "forest and electricity co-security," eliminate forest and electricity fire hazards with refined governance, and protect the hard-won green waters and green mountains.
Co-promotion of ecology and industry -
Unblock the transformation channels and broaden the road to green prosperity
In the hall of the Rural Property Rights Trading Center of Shaxian District (沙县区), Sanming City (三明市), Fujian Province (福建省), electronic screens are scrolling transaction information such as forest rights, forest tickets, and carbon tickets, and forest farmers are coming to handle business in an endless stream, "resources become assets, and forest farmers become shareholders."
Xu Zimeng, Deputy Director of the Natural Resource Owner Equity Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), said, "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'to unblock the transformation channels of ecological product value'. In recent years, we have continued to deepen the reform of the collective forest tenure system, support the listing and trading of forestry carbon sink projects, and sell real money. The next step is to continue to establish and improve the market-oriented trading mechanism for natural resource equity indicators, so that green waters and green mountains can truly become the golden mountains and silver mountains that the people can see and touch."
Han Fengze, Deputy Director of the Grassland Management Department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局), said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech pointed out the direction for doing a good job in grassland and grass industry in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. "We must grasp the main contradiction of 'governing while destroying' in grassland restoration, and adhere to the combination of grass and livestock governance and dredging and blocking. We will implement grass and livestock co-governance actions in the eastern part of the 'Three-North' (三北) project, pilot the construction of modern grass pastures, restore the beautiful scenery of lush water and grass, and achieve ecological beauty, industrial prosperity, and people's wealth."
On the front line of industry, the green economic value is accelerating its release. Chen Ruijue, Vice President of Mengcao Group (蒙草集团), introduced that in order to solve the problem of only planting but not raising, the company has laid out post-construction management and protection guarantee centers in the "Three-North" (三北) region, and at the same time integrates photovoltaic and sand grass industries to explore the "grass-light, animal husbandry-light, and medicine-light complementary" model to achieve a win-win situation for ecology and economy.
In the spring, the saplings are shaded and the flowers are dotted along the Yellow River (黄河) Old Course Ecological Prosperity Corridor in Sucheng District (宿城区), Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). Geng Xiaoyun, Secretary of the Sucheng District (宿城区) Party Committee, said: "We will thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech on 'co-promoting ecology and industry', vigorously promote the construction of key projects such as the Ecological Prosperity Corridor, and reflect the achievements of industrial development more in the high-quality and full employment and continuous income increase of the people."
"A good ecology is a 'golden rice bowl'." Ma Depai, a villager in Fangcun Village (方村村), Yongning District (邕宁区), Nanning City (南宁市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), obtained a mortgage loan of 200,000 yuan with a forest tenure certificate, built a standardized duck house to develop under-forest ecological breeding, and became a well-known duck breeding tycoon. "Relying on a good ecology and embarking on the road to prosperity, these green waters and green mountains are really supporting our people!"
Harmonious coexistence between man and nature -
Jointly build and share, making cities and villages more livable
A good ecology is shared by everyone and requires joint construction.
In Shiyu Garden Community (时雨园社区), Shuguang Street (曙光街道), Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市), under the guidance of horticulturists, residents are enthusiastically watering and pruning the various flowers and plants in the micro-garden. "General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized 'to increase the green space around the masses by taking advantage of every opportunity and let urban and rural residents have more green gains'. In recent years, Beijing (北京) has built 200 community micro-gardens, and this year it will mobilize citizens to jointly build 100." Chang Xiangzhen, Director of the Voluntary Tree Planting Office of the Capital Greening Committee (首都绿化委员会), said.
With a gentle breeze, at the "Internet + National Voluntary Tree Planting" base in Beigou Village (北沟村), Jinhe Town (金河镇), Xichuan County (淅川县), Henan Province (河南省), the head of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调中线工程), Li Ruchao, a staff member of the Xichuan County (淅川县) Forestry Bureau, is carrying a bucket to water the newly planted maple trees. "Now it is too convenient to participate in tree planting. Not only can I wave a shovel and shovel soil on the spot, but I can also scan the code to adopt it, and I also received a 'responsible electronic certificate'. Every tree we plant is building an ecological barrier for 'a reservoir of clear water to be sent to the north forever'."
"Teenagers are as full of vitality and hope as small saplings." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) asked about the children's study life, labor exercises, and participation in tree planting while planting trees, which made educators feel encouraged.
In the "Baicao Garden" of Chongwen Experimental School (崇文实验学校) in Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), young pioneers are carefully watering the newly planted saplings and hanging planting signs. Wang Dan, the instructor of the "Li Siguang (李四光) Squadron," smiled and recorded this scene: "'Love knowledge, love labor, love nature'. We will integrate General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment into campus practice, guide children to develop in an all-round way in the 'soil classroom', and strive to be young pioneers who protect nature."
It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to rear people. On the new journey, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, the vast number of cadres and the masses actively act as practitioners and promoters of ecological civilization construction, running one relay after another, and working one generation after another, adding splendor to the mountains and rivers with unremitting struggle, and making the background color of Chinese-style modernization more beautiful.
(Our reporter Pan Junqiang (潘俊强) participated in the writing)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met with a high-level delegation from the Austrian-Chinese Friendship Association led by Austrian Federal Council President Stöttinger (斯托特) in Beijing (北京) on the 31st.
Zhao Leji (赵乐际) stated that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Van der Bellen (范德贝伦), the connotation of Sino-Austrian relations has been continuously enriched, and cooperation in various fields has continued to advance. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Austria. China is willing to work with Austria to implement the important consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, take care of each other's core interests and major concerns, create new highlights in cooperation in areas such as green transformation and the digital economy, strengthen cultural exchanges, promote people-to-people connectivity, uphold multilateralism, and promote the in-depth development of the Sino-Austrian friendly strategic partnership. The National People's Congress of China is willing to strengthen exchanges with the Austrian Parliament, share experiences in legislation and supervision, and create a pragmatic and cooperative legal environment. Zhao Leji (赵乐际) also introduced the relevant situation of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline.
Stöttinger (斯托特) said that Austria attaches great importance to its relations with China and is willing to expand cooperation with China in areas such as economy, trade, culture, and legislation, and enhance the friendly feelings between the two peoples.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. The 7th Plenary Meeting of the 20th Capital Planning and Construction Committee was held in Beijing (北京) on March 31st. Cai Qi (蔡奇), a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee, attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
The meeting pointed out that this year is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Beijing (北京) and delivered an important speech, which is of great significance for promoting the development of the capital in the new era. It is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech on Beijing (北京), do a good job in the capital's planning and construction with high standards and high quality, strengthen the construction of the "four centers" functions, improve the level of "four services," and better serve the overall work of the Party and the country.
The meeting required implementing Beijing's (北京) urban strategic positioning, focusing on the capital's functions, establishing a high-quality development orientation, continuously optimizing the layout of the central government affairs functions, and improving the central government affairs environment. Further promote the coordinated development of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), orderly relieve Beijing's (北京) non-capital functions, grasp the implementation of the spatial coordination plan of the modern capital metropolitan area, coordinate the construction of the commuter circle, function circle, and industrial coordination circle, and support the construction of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) in Hebei (河北). Practice the concept of a people's city, improve the basic public service system, and effectively solve the urgent and difficult problems of the people. Improve the modernization level of mega-city governance, build a modern comprehensive transportation system, promote the relocation and opening up of cultural relics, and implement urban renewal. Thoroughly implement the overall national security concept, strengthen comprehensive protection, build a resilient city, effectively prevent and resolve various security risks, and maintain the capital's security and stability.
The meeting emphasized that members of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee should deeply carry out the study and education of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, with the spirit of "achieving success does not necessarily have to be me, but achieving success definitely requires me" to promote the capital's planning to draw a blueprint to the end, and create achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history with practical work.
The meeting reviewed and approved the "Key Work Points of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee in 2026" and other documents.
Yin Li (尹力), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee, presided over the meeting. Deputy Directors and members of the Capital Planning and Construction Committee attended the meeting.
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Reader Concerns
I am a forest farmer and want to increase my income by utilizing the under-forest space while protecting the ecology. I would like to know if the state has corresponding policy guarantees?
On March 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his participation in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity: "It is necessary to unblock the channels for the transformation of ecological product value, strengthen the forestry and grassland industry, and simultaneously enhance economic value and ecological benefits."
The under-forest economy is one of the key forestry and grassland industries. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes "developing the under-forest economy." Developing the under-forest economy is an important way to increase farmers' income and a "green engine" for promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas.
At present, the national under-forest economic forest land utilization area reaches more than 600 million mu, with an annual output value of more than one trillion yuan, and has explored and formed a variety of models such as under-forest planting, under-forest breeding, under-forest collection and processing, and forest landscape utilization.
"Maintaining forest ecology and developing the under-forest economy are two sides of the same coin. Without a good ecology, there will be no sustainable and high-quality development of the under-forest economy. We must develop the under-forest economy on the basis of consolidating the ecological foundation." The relevant person in charge of the Forestry and Grassland Reform and Development Department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) introduced that in December last year, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局) issued the "Several Measures on Promoting the Development of Under-Forest Economy" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which put forward two principles:
First, functional compatibility. The development of the under-forest economy should be adapted to the functions of the forest ecosystem and should be carried out on the premise of meeting soil and water conservation requirements and not affecting the overall function of the forest;
Second, composite utilization of space. The under-forest space and forest land edges can be fully utilized to develop composite business formats such as under-forest planting, breeding, collection and processing, and forest landscape utilization, expand the forest food production space, and improve the overall utilization efficiency of forest resources.
"Following the above prerequisites and principles, operators can give priority to the use of commercial forests and moderately use public welfare forests to carry out under-forest economic activities in a scientific and orderly manner. Localities can formulate relevant technical standards in combination with their actual conditions and go through relevant procedures in accordance with regulations to meet the needs of forest cultivation and under-forest economic development," the person in charge said.
Forestry enterprises, cooperatives, and the majority of forest farmers and other business entities are the endogenous driving force for promoting the development of the under-forest economy. The "Measures" support the cultivation of under-forest economic business entities with model innovation and mechanism innovation.
Innovate the "+ state-owned forest farm" model. Encourage the development of "farm-village cooperation" focusing on the under-forest economy, use the resources, talents, and technical advantages of state-owned forest farms, take the construction of high-standard under-forest economic bases as the starting point, drive the development of the village collective economy, and solve the problems of decentralized operation and low efficiency of forest farmers.
Promote the "forestry standard land" model. Encourage the creation of storage platforms on the premise of respecting the wishes of forest farmers, resolve the problems of fragmentation of forest land and single utilization in the production of the under-forest economy, efficiently allocate forest land and supporting resources, build forestry production and operation service engineering facilities, and create a good environment for business entities to settle in.
Innovate the investment mechanism of the under-forest economy. Adhere to market-led and government-guided approaches, and on the basis of making good use of existing fiscal policies, promote innovative financial support for the development of the under-forest economy, focus on the production, processing, sales, and transportation of under-forest economic products, and provide differentiated financial services for business entities.
The "Measures" also put forward a number of service guarantee measures -
Technological support covers the research and integration of under-forest economic application technologies, the promotion and application of scientific and technological achievements, and practical technical training, etc., sending technology, guidance, and services to the forest fields, and providing "one-on-one, point-to-point" technological support for under-forest economic projects.
Production and marketing services focus on promoting the integrated development of the three industries, guiding the layout and construction of primary and fine processing bases, creating a benefit linkage mechanism such as "leading enterprises + bases + farmers," helping to open up the entire chain of planting, processing, and marketing, and truly turning under-forest economic products into healthy food on people's tables and income in the hands of forest farmers.
Return to TopSuqian (宿迁), Jiangsu Province, continues to improve its sports and fitness infrastructure, building and renovating a number of sports parks and public sports venues, and striving to create a "15-minute fitness circle." The picture shows citizens exercising and relaxing in the Sports and Fitness Park of the Su-Su Industrial Park (苏宿工业园区) in Suqian (宿迁) on March 29.
Photo by Chen Shaoshuai (陈少帅) (Image China)
Return to TopBeijing, March 31st (Reported by Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) The Service Industry Survey Center of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing jointly released data showing that the China Manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) for March was 50.4%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points from the previous month, returning to the expansion range. The China Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index released at the same time was 50.1%, and the comprehensive PMI output index was 50.5%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points and 1 percentage point respectively from the previous month, indicating that the level of economic prosperity has increased.
In March, the manufacturing new order index was 51.6%, an increase of 3 percentage points from the previous month. Among them, the PMI of the three key industries of equipment manufacturing, high-tech manufacturing, and consumer goods all expanded rapidly. In March, the manufacturing production index was 51.4%, an increase of 1.8 percentage points from the previous month. Among them, the production index of the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 1.3 percentage points from the previous month, and has been running at 50% or above for 20 consecutive months; the production index of the high-tech manufacturing industry has also been running at 50% or above for 20 consecutive months. (Related reports are on the second page)
Return to TopKunming, March 31st (Reported by Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)) This reporter learned from China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (中国铁路昆明局集团有限公司) that since the opening and operation of the China-Laos Railway, the entire line has cumulatively transported more than 70 million passengers, and 780,000 passengers from more than 120 countries and regions have traveled on cross-border international passenger trains. The monthly passenger volume has increased from 600,000 at the beginning of operation to a maximum of 2.25 million. As of now, the China-Laos Railway has cumulatively operated more than 3,100 international passenger trains, and the number of inbound and outbound passengers has increased from 300 per day at the beginning to a maximum of more than 1,600.
In order to meet the travel needs of passengers, the railway department has increased its transportation capacity and optimized train operation plans. In the domestic section, the average daily number of passenger trains has increased from 8 at the beginning of operation to a maximum of 86, with a cumulative total of more than 57.1 million passengers transported. In the Laos section, the average daily number of passenger trains has increased from 4 at the beginning of operation to a maximum of 18, with a cumulative total of more than 12.9 million passengers transported.
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In the inaugural year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu, Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang, and Sanya (三亚), Hainan, were selected for the global list of "20 Cities Moving Towards Zero Waste." On the road to low-carbon development, China's steps are firm and powerful.
Making cities green and livable is not about demolishing the old and building the new, or starting from scratch, but about 螺蛳壳里做道场 (luó sī ké lǐ zuò dào chǎng - "performing rituals in a snail shell," making the most of limited space and resources), relying on innovative thinking and pathways.
Adapting to local conditions. Suzhou (苏州) is creating an efficient circular chain of "waste-resource-energy," Hangzhou (杭州) is empowering waste sorting and resource utilization with digitalization, and Sanya (三亚) is focusing on land-sea coordination and plastic restriction and control. Precisely addressing problems, innovating to increase efficiency, the path of development becomes wider and wider, the ecological foundation becomes thicker and thicker, and the quality of life becomes higher and higher.
Systematic implementation of policies. Taking Sanya (三亚) as an example, tourists participate in "plastic ban," garbage is recycled, and 676 "waste-free cells" are spread throughout the city... Low-carbon development runs through the entire governance process and is integrated into every day of life.
Green transformation is a crucial leap in development, dependent on the conscious actions of all people. From production to life, striving to fill every breath with greenery, we will see the rhythm of sustainable development, and also let the world see the vitality of green China.
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Deeply grasp the distinct characteristics of Chinese-style modernization as "ladder-style progression, continuous development and progress."
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International
Opening the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," China provides the world with valuable stability.
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Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Peng Bo (彭波)) The General Office of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, together with the Organization Department of the Central Committee and the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), convened a meeting in Beijing on March 31st to deploy the work for the election of new people's congresses at the county and township levels nationwide. Shi Taifeng (石泰峰), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the meeting and delivered speeches.
Shi Taifeng (石泰峰) stated that it is necessary to thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) series of important expositions on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses and doing a good job in the election of people's congresses, firmly support the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and earnestly enhance the sense of political responsibility and mission in doing a good job in the election of people's congresses at the county and township levels. It is necessary to implement the adherence to and strengthening of the Party's overall leadership, especially the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, throughout all aspects and the entire process of the election of people's congresses at the county and township levels; adhere to putting political standards first, improve and optimize investigation and review, and strictly control the political, quality, integrity, and structural aspects of representatives to the people's congresses at the county and township levels; adhere to the correct employment orientation, focus on the needs of career development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period to select and strengthen leading bodies, and enhance the overall function of the bodies; and vigorously create a disciplined and upright environment for the election.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) stated that it is necessary to fully implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important thought on upholding and improving the system of people's congresses from the political height of deeply understanding the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieving the "Two Safeguards," fully and accurately understand and implement the General Secretary's important expositions on the election of people's congress representatives, and improve the political, ideological, and action stance of doing a good job in the election. Firmly grasp the supreme political principle of adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee, adhere to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, and ensure the correct political direction of the election work. Practice whole-process people's democracy, base on the functions and responsibilities of the people's congresses, establish and practice a correct view of political achievements, do a good job in the organization of elections in accordance with the law, and ensure the complete success of the election of people's congresses at the county and township levels.
Responsible comrades from relevant parties such as the Organization Department of the Central Committee, the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), the General Office and Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and member units of the Joint Conference on the Election of People's Congresses at the County and Township Levels Nationwide attended. The persons in charge of the Standing Committees of the People's Congresses and the organization and propaganda departments of the Party committees of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, as well as the persons in charge of major central news organizations, participated.
Return to Top(Reported by Liu Botong (刘博通) from Beijing on March 31st) The launch meeting for the "Participating in Politics for the Public, Working Pragmatically for the People" theme education for various democratic parties and personages without party affiliation was held in Beijing (北京) on the 31st. Li Ganjie (李干杰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央统战部), attended the meeting and delivered a speech.
Li Ganjie (李干杰) stated that carrying out the "Participating in Politics for the Public, Working Pragmatically for the People" theme education by various democratic parties and personages without party affiliation is an inevitable requirement for adhering to the leadership of the Communist Party of China and consolidating the common ideological and political foundation for unity and struggle. It is an inevitable requirement for implementing the people-centered development philosophy and establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. It is an inevitable requirement for serving the high-quality start of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and contributing to Chinese-style modernization. It is an inevitable requirement for strengthening self-construction and giving play to the advantages of China's new type of party system. It will help democratic parties and personages without party affiliation maintain their political character of being of one heart and one mind and moving in the same direction with the Communist Party of China, and always be good advisors, good helpers, and good colleagues of the Communist Party of China.
Li Ganjie (李干杰) expressed his hope that various democratic parties and personages without party affiliation will deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, take "learning ideology, considering the overall situation, emphasizing practical work, and producing practical results" as the general requirement, take the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification as the starting point, consciously put in solid efforts in strengthening the soul and consolidating the foundation, be serious in benchmarking and finding shortcomings, take practical measures in being realistic and solving problems, achieve practical results in normalizing long-term effectiveness and improving systems, and achieve practical results in serving the overall situation and building consensus, so as to actively contribute to helping the "15th Five-Year Plan" have a good start and take a good step.
The main responsible comrades and relevant comrades of the central committees of various democratic parties, representatives of personages without party affiliation, and relevant responsible comrades of the United Front Work Department of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央统战部) attended the meeting.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), attended a reception held by the Embassy of North Korea in China in Beijing on March 31st to celebrate the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea.
Li Shulei (李书磊) extended warm congratulations on behalf of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the CPC Central Committee on the successful convening of the Ninth Congress of the Workers' Party of Korea, and stated that China is willing to work with North Korea to implement the important consensus reached by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and General Secretary Kim Jong-un (金正恩), strengthen strategic communication, deepen pragmatic cooperation, enhance the well-being and friendship of the two peoples, and make due contributions to regional peace, stability, development, and prosperity.
North Korean Ambassador to China, Li Ryong-nam (李龙男), stated that North Korea is willing to work with China to follow the noble will of the top leaders of the two parties and strengthen solidarity and cooperation in advancing the socialist cause.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shijiazhuang, March 31st. Zhang Guoqing (张国清), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Hebei (河北) on March 31st regarding the capacity building of the National North China Regional Emergency Rescue Center. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives, implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, strengthen the capacity building of the National Regional Emergency Rescue Center, improve actual combat capabilities, create a sharp and powerful force, and fully protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) visited the National North China Regional Emergency Rescue Center located in Zhangjiakou (张家口) City, Hebei (河北), and went into the actual combat simulation training ground, emergency equipment and material reserve warehouse, command hall and other places to learn in detail about the construction of the fire and rescue team, the operation and use of training facilities, the storage and transportation of equipment and materials, and the operation and management of the regional center. He emphasized that it is necessary to base oneself on performing urgent, difficult, dangerous and heavy tasks, focus on the regional major natural disaster rescue needs, strengthen emergency response and disposal, and play a key role at critical moments. It is necessary to highlight rapid response, strengthen the three-dimensional delivery of rescue forces and the modular storage of materials, ensure nearby deployment and rapid action, and arrive at the disaster site in the shortest possible time to carry out rescue work. It is necessary to highlight professional rescue, strengthen the construction of professional forces such as flood control and rescue, earthquake search and rescue, and forest fire fighting, accelerate the allocation of advanced equipment such as aviation rescue, and improve emergency rescue capabilities under extreme conditions and complex scenarios such as broken roads, broken networks, and power outages. It is necessary to highlight coordination and linkage, strengthen coordination and connection with local party committees and governments, improve cross-departmental comprehensive research and judgment and cross-regional joint consultation and force mobilization mechanisms, build a strong emergency command information system, and achieve resource information sharing, early warning response linkage, and emergency command coordination. The Office of the National Disaster Reduction Committee and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) should strengthen guidance to regional emergency rescue centers and make targeted preparations for major emergencies and disasters.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized that the national comprehensive fire and rescue team undertakes the management and operation tasks of the regional emergency rescue center platform base, and must faithfully practice the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important training instructions, always adhere to the combat effectiveness standard, temper courage and determination, and train hard in actual combat and training to develop excellent skills and strengthen attack capabilities, so as to better adapt to the needs of the "all-disaster type, major emergency" situation and tasks. It is necessary to strengthen joint training and rescue cooperation with local, central enterprises, social and other emergency forces to drive the overall improvement of regional emergency capabilities.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized that the Qingming (清明) holiday is approaching, and all localities should further refine and implement safety production and fire prevention work responsibilities and measures, strengthen safety precautions in densely populated places, strengthen point-to-point supervision and guidance in high-risk areas of forest and grassland fires, and fully protect the safety of people's lives and property.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 欧阳洁
On March 31st, the Service Industry Survey Center of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) and the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing jointly released data showing that the China Manufacturing Purchasing Manager's Index (PMI) for March was 50.4%, an increase of 1.4 percentage points from the previous month, returning to the expansion range above the 50% boom-bust line after two months.
Zhang Liqun (张立群), a specially invited analyst at the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, introduced that the rebound in the manufacturing PMI in March has both seasonal factors and indicates that all parties' confidence in the Chinese economy has significantly increased. The production index and purchase volume index have rebounded significantly, reflecting that corporate production activities are becoming more active; the order index and price index have rebounded significantly, reflecting that market transaction activities are becoming more active.
In March, the manufacturing new order index was 51.6%, an increase of 3 percentage points from the previous month. By industry, the new order index for the equipment manufacturing industry increased by more than 3 percentage points from the previous month to over 53%, and the new order index for the high-tech manufacturing industry increased by more than 2 percentage points from the previous month to over 54%. The new order indices for these two industries have been operating in the expansion range for 20 and 14 consecutive months, respectively, and the market demand for new kinetic energy is strong. This has also promoted the stabilization and rebound of employment in new kinetic energy, and the employment structure has tended to be optimized. The employment indices for the equipment manufacturing industry and the high-tech manufacturing industry increased by 1.7 and 1 percentage points from the previous month, respectively.
In March, the new order index for the consumer goods manufacturing industry increased by more than 3 percentage points from the previous month to over 52%, and the market demand for consumer goods has rebounded significantly. Companies' perception of insufficient market demand has been alleviated. The proportion of manufacturing companies reflecting insufficient market demand was 48.5%, a decrease of 6.6 percentage points from the previous month, and the first drop below 50% since July 2022.
The China Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index for March, also released at the same time, was 50.1%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, and a continuous month-on-month increase for two months. He Hui (何辉), Vice President of the China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing, introduced that in March, the business activity index of the transportation industry and the financial industry increased from the previous month. This shows that production-related service activities represented by transportation have started, and the supporting role of finance and new kinetic energy-related industries to the economy has become apparent, and the overall prosperity level of the non-manufacturing industry has tended to increase.
Wang Yuan (王元), Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Development of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展和改革委员会), summarized that the return of the manufacturing PMI to the expansion range in March reflects the current rebound in confidence and improvement in expectations across the entire society, coupled with the impact of seasonal factors, and the economy is showing a good trend of recovery. From the perspective of sub-indices, both supply and demand have rebounded. Affected by the expansion of demand, companies on the one hand continue to digest inventory of raw materials. The raw material inventory index in March was 47.7%, remaining in the contraction range; on the other hand, the willingness to purchase continues to recover, and the purchase volume index rebounded by 2.7 percentage points to 50.9%.
Wang Yuan (王元) reminded that affected by the volatility of energy resources prices such as crude oil caused by the turbulence of the international situation, the price increase of upstream raw materials is large and is transmitted downstream. In March, the price-related index increased significantly, with the purchase price index at 63.9%, an increase of 9.1 percentage points from the previous month, and the ex-factory price index at 55.4%, an increase of 4.8 percentage points from the previous month.
In addition, the market activity of some industries is still weak. The production index and new order index of industries such as textile, clothing, apparel, chemical fiber, and rubber and plastic products continue to be below the critical point; the business activity index of retail, accommodation, catering, and other industries related to residents' travel and consumption after the Spring Festival is below the critical point.
Wen Tao (文韬), an analyst at the China Logistics Information Center, said that it is expected that in the second quarter, China's manufacturing industry will continue to operate steadily and positively, and the optimization of the industrial structure will accelerate. However, there are still uncertainties in the current international situation, and crude oil imports may face pressure. Data shows that recently, in order to cope with the impact of international oil prices, China has taken temporary regulatory measures on refined oil prices in a timely manner, which has alleviated the impact on downstream industries and end consumers to a certain extent.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹继炜
In late March, on a hillside in Caiyuan Village (菜园村), Maying Town (马营镇), Minhe Hui and Tu Autonomous County (民和回族土族自治县), Qinghai Province (青海省), two film-side wheat planters skillfully shuttled back and forth, the fields covered with neat mulch ridges.
But strangely, there were no crops under the film; the seeds were sown in the furrows next to the film. Why is this?
It turns out that Minhe County (民和县) is located in a shallow mountainous dryland area with little rainfall, and grain production is very short of water. "By ridging the field and covering it with impermeable and non-absorbent plastic film, rainwater can flow along the film to the furrows on both sides, and the wheat in the furrows can get relatively sufficient moisture," introduced Ma Jinfang (马进芳), deputy director of the Minhe County Agricultural Technology Extension Center (民和县农业技术推广中心). In addition, wheat needs dense planting, and planting it in the film-side furrows provides good ventilation and sufficient sunlight. It is not restricted by the plastic film and has sufficient growing space for tillering, reducing the risk of lodging.
Minhe County (民和县) has been promoting this film-side strip planting technology since 2023. The popularization of new agricultural machinery makes planting management simpler, saving labor and costs.
"The year before last, I used a single-ridge double-row machine. Last year, I used a modified double-ridge four-row machine. This year, I am using a ridging, mulching, sowing, and fertilizing integrated machine. Each year is more efficient than the last!" Speaking of the new agricultural machinery, Bai Ruying (白如英), head of the Huiqiang Planting Professional Cooperative (辉强种植专业合作社) in Minhe County (民和县), praised it endlessly.
In 2026, Minhe County (民和县) purchased 50 double-width film-side wheat ridging, mulching, sowing, and fertilizing integrated machines, which became the main force in spring plowing. As the machine passes over the land, multiple sets of wheels work one after another, completing ridging, mulching, soil compaction, sowing, and fertilization in one go, without the need for a second entry.
Bai Ruying (白如英) did the math: a single-ridge double-row machine can sow six or seven mu per day, while an integrated machine can sow 15 mu per day, cutting the time in half and reducing labor by half. "The overall farming season has been advanced, and the planting time for the cooperative's corn and soybeans is not so tight."
"Film-side strip planting does not require breaking the film to release seedlings, and can be mechanized. The integrated machine is truly 身手不凡 (shēn shǒu bù fán - "extraordinary skill," remarkably skillful)." Ma Jinfang (马进芳) said, "Moreover, compared to mulched hole sowing, it is easier to topdress and irrigate, and the field management cost is lower."
Efficiency has been improved, and yields have also increased significantly. In 2025, the average yield of film-side wheat in Minhe County (民和县) reached 365.5 kilograms per mu, an increase of 129.2 kilograms per mu compared to ordinary open-field wheat, with an increase of up to 54.7%. "Even with the drought in the second half of last year, we could still achieve such yields." Bai Ruying (白如英), who is using the third-generation planter, has expanded the planting area of film-side wheat this year.
In 2026, the Qinghai Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (青海省农业农村厅) allocated 2.3028 million yuan in project funds to help Minhe County (民和县) strengthen film-side wheat production. "Each mu is subsidized to farmers with 17 kilograms of coated wheat improved varieties, 15 kilograms of special formula fertilizer, and 5 kilograms of supporting plastic film, basically achieving full coverage of farmers' production material costs," introduced Ma Jinfang (马进芳).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 31st (Reporters Wang Zheng (王政) and Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) -- Data from the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) shows that in the first two months, China's (中国) software business revenue was 2153.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.7%. The total profit of the software industry was 269.3 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.3%. Software business exports reached 10.38 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 12.7%.
Software product revenue grew steadily. In the first two months, software product revenue was 472.7 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 7.8%. Among them, basic software product revenue increased by 8.1% year-on-year, and industrial software product revenue increased by 9.4% year-on-year.
Information technology service revenue maintained double-digit growth. In the first two months, information technology service revenue was 1447.4 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 13.1%, accounting for 67.2% of the total industry revenue. Among them, cloud computing and big data services achieved a total revenue of 280.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 11.4%; integrated circuit design revenue increased by 15.7% year-on-year; and e-commerce platform technology service revenue increased by 10.5% year-on-year.
Information security revenue and embedded system software revenue grew steadily. In the first two months, information security product and service revenue increased by 6.2% year-on-year, and embedded system software revenue increased by 12.3% year-on-year.
Return to TopThis newspaper Jinan (济南) March 31st (Reporter Hou Linliang (侯琳良)) reported: This reporter recently learned from Sinopec Shengli Oilfield (中国石化胜利油田) that China's first hundred-kilometer carbon dioxide long-distance pipeline—the Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) million-ton CCUS (carbon capture, utilization and storage) carbon dioxide transmission pipeline—has been operating stably for over 1,000 days, and the total amount of carbon dioxide injected has exceeded 1.3 billion cubic meters. This indicates that Shengli Oilfield's (胜利油田) CCUS technology has completed the transformation from "technology verification" to "industrial implementation."
The pipeline connects Qilu Petrochemical (齐鲁石化) and Shengli Oilfield Gaoqing (高青) Oilfield, and is an important part of China's first million-ton CCUS full-chain demonstration project—the Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) million-ton CCUS project.
In the past, China's CCUS industry relied on imports for key equipment. Zhang Shiming (张世明), a CCUS expert at Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田), introduced that through continuous research, the team originally created the theoretical technology of high-pressure miscible flooding and storage of carbon dioxide in continental deep low-permeability reservoirs, increasing crude oil recovery by more than 15 percentage points and the primary carbon dioxide storage rate by 20 percentage points; overcame million-ton low-energy and low-cost carbon dioxide capture technology, achieving a reduction of more than 19% in unit energy consumption and more than 30% in cost; and developed key engineering equipment for the entire process, solving the problem of large-scale application of CCUS.
Currently, all the carbon dioxide injected by the Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) million-ton CCUS project is stored underground. The daily oil production of the project block has increased from 220 tons to 460 tons, doubling the output and continuing to grow. Yang Yong (杨勇), the main person in charge of Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田), said that Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) will focus on promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation in the future, and create "four million-ton" demonstration projects such as the Shengli Oilfield (胜利油田) coal-fired power plant low-concentration carbon dioxide capture and utilization project.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Li Junqi (李君强)) - The Chinese Association of Automation recently released two series of standards, "Collaborative Intelligent Connected Vehicles Based on Advanced Mobile Communication" and "Autonomous Driving on Complex Roads," filling the standard gap in key areas such as collaborative driving testing and complex road decision-making.
The two series of standards were jointly developed by the Chinese Association of Automation and 11 universities and research institutes, transforming the results of national key research and development programs such as "Vehicle-Road-Cloud Integration" into 12 group standards. The "Collaborative Intelligent Connected Vehicles Based on Advanced Mobile Communication" series of standards focuses on collaborative driving, including design operation condition construction procedures, networked collaborative driving information architecture interfaces, etc., aiming to break down information barriers between vehicles, roads, and the cloud, and lay a technical foundation for networked empowerment. The "Intelligent Driving on Complex Roads" series of standards directly addresses real-world scenario challenges, defining system composition and automation operation requirements, providing reliable compliance for the safe implementation of autonomous driving.
The evolution of technologies such as intelligent connectivity is accelerating the restructuring of the industrial landscape. As the most representative application field of intelligent connectivity, intelligent connected vehicles are moving from single-function innovation to complex system innovation of human-machine-thing integration and cross-domain collaboration. Facing the in-depth advancement of technology integration and the continuous expansion of application scenarios, standardization has become a key support for building a collaborative development technology ecosystem and ensuring a safe and controllable travel experience. Data shows that by 2025, China's automotive industry scale and intelligent connectivity level will increase simultaneously, with annual automobile production and sales exceeding 34 million units, of which the penetration rate of L2 and above assisted driving will exceed 60%, and the industry will steadily evolve towards L3 and higher levels of autonomous driving.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 戴楷然 郑 翔
From March 26th to 30th local time, the 14th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was held in Yaoundé (雅温得), the capital of Cameroon (喀麦隆). After intensive consultations among representatives from all parties, the conference achieved a number of practical results, demonstrating the resilience of the multilateral trading system and restoring the international community's confidence in it. During the conference, the Chinese delegation participated fully in consultations on various topics, actively coordinated the positions of relevant members, and worked to bridge differences, making important contributions to the achievement of the conference's results. The constructive role played by China (中国) was highly appreciated by all parties attending the meeting.
Making Developing Countries Benefit More Fully from Multilateral Trade
At present, the multilateral trading system is facing severe shocks due to the superposition of factors such as geopolitical conflicts and trade frictions. WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉) said in her address: "The global trading system is experiencing its most severe turbulence in 80 years. Holding this conference at this turbulent and uncertain moment is very timely." She called on the representatives to jointly explore issues such as governance, development, and fair competition in order to promote the WTO to better adapt to the new global economic landscape.
The WTO Ministerial Conference is the highest decision-making body of the WTO, held every two years, responsible for promoting progress in negotiations on key issues, reviewing the WTO's day-to-day work, and planning the future development direction of the multilateral trading system. More than 120 delegations and more than 80 ministers from the WTO's 166 members attended the conference.
This is the second time the WTO has held a Ministerial Conference in Africa (非洲) after the 10th Ministerial Conference held in Nairobi (内罗毕), Kenya (肯尼亚) in 2015. The conference agenda setting has a clear development orientation and African characteristics. The conference set up topics related to the garment industry chain, focusing on enhancing the added value of cotton in local textile and garment production links in China-Africa (中非) and West African countries, promoting industrial chain extension and creating employment opportunities.
The chairman of the conference and Cameroonian Minister of Commerce Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana (阿坦加纳) said that the conference is committed to promoting WTO reform so that developing countries, especially African countries, can benefit more fully from multilateral trade.
"Currently, Africa (非洲) is still at a disadvantage in the global trading system, with a large number of commodities exported in the form of primary products with low added value." Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉) said in an interview with this reporter that as Africa's (非洲) position in the multilateral trading system continues to rise, Africa (非洲) must enhance the added value and competitiveness of its products, integrate more deeply into the global trading system, and gradually enhance its position in the global value chain.
The conference released the Joint Ministerial Statement on the Investment Facilitation Agreement for Development, marking an important step towards the implementation of the world's first multilateral investment agreement; reached a temporary implementation arrangement for the E-commerce Agreement, which will strongly promote the development of global digital trade; and reached ministerial decisions on issues such as fisheries subsidies, small economies, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and special and differential treatment for technical regulations; and reached an important consensus on the issue of WTO reform.
Contributing Chinese Strength to Maintaining the Multilateral Trading System
China (中国) attaches great importance to the role of the WTO, practices true multilateralism, actively promotes the achievement of practical progress at this Ministerial Conference, and contributes Chinese strength to maintaining the multilateral trading system. Over the past period, China (中国) has actively promoted the negotiation process of the Investment Facilitation Agreement for Development, supported developing members in improving the transparency and facilitation level of investment policies; and continued to promote discussions on e-commerce, digital trade and other topics, and promoted the improvement of global digital trade rules.
As the largest developing member of the WTO, China (中国) actively supports developing countries, especially the least developed countries, in integrating into the multilateral trading system. During the conference, the WTO Secretariat held the 14th "China Programme" Roundtable. China (中国) held a high-level conference on "Helping Africa (非洲) Industrialization: Chinese Investment," and conducted in-depth exchanges on topics such as capacity building, investment cooperation and industrial development, building an important platform combining South-South cooperation and multilateral cooperation. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (伊维拉) believes that the "China Programme" continues to help relevant members advance the process of joining the WTO and better participate in the global trading system through technical assistance and experience sharing.
The "China Programme" was jointly established by China (中国) and the WTO Secretariat in 2011 and has become an important mechanism to support the integration of the least developed countries into the multilateral trading system. At this "China Programme" Roundtable, members such as Cambodia (柬埔寨), Comoros (科摩罗), and Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) shared cases of the WTO helping them accelerate market reforms, attract foreign investment, better enter the global market, and accelerate economic diversification. China (中国) stated that it will continue to do a solid job in the "China Programme" and provide support in terms of institutional construction, negotiation capabilities, and policy coordination to promote more developing members to share the dividends of multilateral trade.
Representatives of African (非洲) countries attending the meeting gave high praise to China's (中国) role. Luc Magloire Mbarga Atangana (阿坦加纳) said that China (中国) has long been committed to promoting a rules-based multilateral trading system, adhering to common development, and investments in infrastructure, energy and industrial fields provide key support for African (非洲) industrialization, which helps to change Africa's (非洲) marginal position in global trade.
Adhering to Unity and Cooperation to Jointly Address Global Challenges
The representatives attending the meeting believe that against the background of escalating geopolitical conflicts and the rise of unilateralism, this conference has demonstrated the value and resilience of the multilateral trading system. The conference achieved some results and clarified consultation arrangements on outstanding issues, reflecting the determination of WTO members to adhere to development priority and the responsibility to adhere to unity and cooperation to jointly address global challenges.
China (中国) stated that it will work with other members to earnestly implement the results of the conference, actively participate in consultations on outstanding issues, and promote the WTO to play a greater role in maintaining the stability of the international economic and trade order and improving global economic governance.
"China (中国) practices true multilateralism, supports developing countries in participating in global trade governance, and has played a key role, especially in promoting the accession of the least developed countries to the WTO, reflecting its firm support for inclusive economic globalization," said Kassahun Gofe (卡萨翁·戈非), Minister of Trade and Regional Integration of Ethiopia (埃塞俄比亚).
"China's (中国) comprehensive implementation of zero-tariff measures for all African (非洲) countries that have diplomatic relations with it has created important opportunities for Africa (非洲) to integrate into the global trading system." Elizabeth Afosu-Adjare (伊丽莎白·奥福苏—阿贾雷), Minister of Trade, Agriculture and Commerce and Industry of Ghana (加纳), said that this measure provides unprecedented convenience for Ghana's (加纳) cocoa, textiles and other processed manufactured goods to enter the Chinese market, which will strongly promote the African (非洲) industrialization process.
"China (中国) is an important partner in Africa's (非洲) development process and has played a positive role in infrastructure construction, industrial cooperation and market opening." Doris Nkiruka Uzoka-Anite (奥杜沃莱), Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment of Nigeria (尼日利亚), said that in the face of profound changes in the global trade landscape, African (非洲) countries and China (中国) should strengthen coordination, deepen cooperation in manufacturing, the digital economy and emerging industries, jointly maintain a rules-based multilateral trading system, and provide stable support for the normal operation of the global trading system.
(Reported from Yaoundé (雅温得) on March 31 by this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 哈立德·泰穆尔·阿克拉姆
In this year's "Government Work Report," China proposed greater efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods, emphasizing adherence to prioritizing people's well-being, strengthening inclusive, basic, and bottom-line livelihood construction, and striving to do practical things for the people. I have always believed that only a country that fully guarantees the people's welfare and prioritizes their interests can have hope for development.
Over the past 10 years, as a scholar and media professional, I have visited China dozens of times, traveled to many cities and villages, and witnessed the improvement of the Chinese people's lives and the progress of social development. Whenever I go to different places, my greatest hobby outside of work is to get close to the local people: taking walks in parks, experiencing the local subway and buses, or visiting community clinics and activity centers. These observations and explorations have allowed me to see the living conditions of the Chinese people more clearly and directly.
In July 2025, I went to Jiangxi (江西) to participate in an event, and the beautiful Mount Lu (庐山) left a deep impression on me. Every evening after dinner, many tourists and local residents would stroll, play chess, or dance in the square of Guling Town (牯岭镇) on the mountain. This scene deeply moved me. In a small alley, I met a local couple who ran a small restaurant. They told me that thanks to the popularity of tourism in Mount Lu (庐山), their small restaurant was becoming more and more prosperous, with an annual income of over 100,000 yuan. "People's lives are guaranteed, so they dare to spend money," they said. The word "guarantee" in their mouths made me think for a long time.
What is a guarantee? China's victory in the battle against poverty, with nearly 100 million rural poor people lifted out of poverty and the resolution of regional overall poverty, is a guarantee. China has built the world's largest social security network, with broad coverage of basic medical insurance and basic pension insurance, which is a guarantee. China's urban employment is generally stable, and governments at all levels have introduced policies to support flexible employment personnel and new employment forms, which is also a guarantee. Whether in cities or villages, the Chinese people enjoy convenient, efficient, and humanized infrastructure, transportation, medical care, education, and community services. Behind the Chinese people's beautiful life is an efficient government and a constantly improving system for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods.
The Chinese government, led by the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), not only has a clear and long-term blueprint for the development of people's livelihoods, but also pays great attention to implementing various policies and measures. It is this systematic and unified approach that makes China's livelihood security system increasingly perfect. I have personally witnessed the "safety net" of the Chinese people's happy life becoming denser and denser, and I have also personally felt the important role of China's sound system for guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods in promoting social stability and enhancing people's confidence.
Over the past 10 years, I have seen the living standards of the Chinese people greatly improved. Chinese society shows a sense of order and composure, and the constantly advancing Chinese-style modernization gives the people more confidence. This year is the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and China is comprehensively promoting Chinese-style modernization with high-quality development, and guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods in development is an important pursuit of Chinese-style modernization. History has proven countless times that China's development has always adhered to being people-oriented, always attached importance to improving people's livelihoods, and the fruits of development have always benefited all the people. With the continuous enhancement of China's comprehensive national strength, the lives of the Chinese people will surely become better and better.
As a developing country as well, Pakistan can draw many valuable experiences from China's path of livelihood development, such as improving infrastructure, expanding public services, concentrating efforts on poverty alleviation, and promoting science and technology education. The inspiration from China lies in the fact that guaranteeing and improving people's livelihoods requires not only promoting the overall modernization process of society, but also ensuring that people are not left behind on this path. The prosperity of the people and the strength of the country complement each other. Currently, nearly half of Pakistan's population still lives in relatively underdeveloped rural areas. Learning from China's poverty reduction experience can greatly improve the living conditions of the Pakistani people. Making it possible for more people to live a secure life will make the country's modernization more promising.
(The author is the Executive Director of the Pakistan Research Center for Human Destiny Community)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 远 屈 佩
Against the backdrop of accelerated evolution of global changes unseen in a century and uncertainty becoming the core characteristic of current global risks, the international community continues to focus on China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, hoping to understand China's governance and find certainty for future development. This blueprint of more than 70,000 words is not only a "construction map" for striving to create a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, but also an "invitation" for China to join hands with other countries to move towards modernization together.
"Accelerate high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology," "Accelerate the construction of a high-level socialist market economic system," "Expand high-level opening to the outside world," "Stimulate the innovative and creative vitality of the entire nation's culture," "Accelerate the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development," "Provide more international public goods," "Play the role of a responsible major country"... The lines of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline convey the firm determination to concentrate on managing our own affairs well, and also demonstrate the good intention of sharing opportunities and creating a future with all countries in the world. Dilma Rousseff, President of the New Development Bank, said that China is a stable force and core engine for global stability and growth, trade, and technological change. The Bangladesh "Daily Sun" website reported that China's stability is built on a broad foundation—economic resilience, technological innovation, infrastructure construction, and a governance system that maintains policy continuity.
Looking back, driven by successive five-year plans (programs), China's total economic volume has repeatedly broken through new thresholds, drawing a resilient and upward growth curve; new quality productive forces are accelerating cultivation, and embodied intelligent robots are frequently "breaking the circle" and entering daily life; green mountains and clear waters paint an ecological background, spreading out a magnificent picture; ancient civilizations are adhering to integrity and innovating, contributing wise solutions to global governance... The world admires China's unwavering efforts of "**一茬接着一茬干**" (yī chá jiē zhe yī chá gàn - "one crop after another," to work continuously and persistently), and appreciates China's important contributions to world peace and development.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China, with high-quality development and open development, will continue to provide the world with scarce stability.
The construction of a unified national market is advancing in depth, and the advantages of a super-large-scale market continue to appear... With a population of more than 1.4 billion and more than 400 million middle-income groups, the world's second-largest consumer market continues to grow, which will provide a broader market space for high-quality products from various countries.
Steadily expand institutional opening-up and build a new system for a higher-level open economy... International figures believe that: "The upgrade from the flow-based opening-up of goods and factors to institutional opening-up has enhanced the systematicness, stability, and predictability of opening-up, as well as foreign investment's confidence in China's institutional environment."
The overall efficiency of the national innovation system has been significantly improved, the driving role of innovation has been significantly enhanced, and the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development has been accelerated... China attaches importance to scientific and technological innovation and open cooperation, which will promote the formation of a more multipolar, more open, and collaborative global innovation ecosystem, and will also further promote global green transformation.
Implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, actively promote major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, and make Chinese contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind... China is committed to deepening exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations, firmly following the path of peaceful development, and assuming the role of a force of certainty in a turbulent world. Erastus Mwencha, former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, said that the world will benefit from China's peaceful and stable development.
"Humanity needs stability and an 'anchor' that can withstand the world's tsunamis more than ever before. Only a truly sovereign country with sufficient comprehensive national strength and governed by experienced leaders who are consciously responsible for the fate of the nation can become such an 'anchor'," said Yuri Tavrovsky, Vice Chairman of the Russian-Chinese Friendship Association, recently pointed out that China is such a country.
(Related reports on page seventeen)
Return to TopThe true picture of China's economy will not change because someone adds a "filter" to it. Only by basing ourselves on China's real development situation can we accurately grasp the direction of China's economic operation.
Recently, insightful people in the international community have stated that China has injected rare stability and certainty into a turbulent world; but at the same time, some Western media are still obsessed with the old script of badmouthing the Chinese economy.
China's economic development goals are said to be "growth peaking"; China's cultivation and expansion of new drivers of development are distorted as "prioritizing industrial autonomy rather than boosting household consumption"; the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline makes systematic arrangements for expanding domestic demand, but it is selectively ignored and criticized for "lacking specific details." Even more, some so-called Western "experts" directly assert: "China can hardly come up with creative ways to solve its own thorny problems."
Looking closely at these statements, it is not difficult to find their usual routine—using an outdated framework to understand a large economy that is undergoing economic transformation and deep structural adjustment. The gap between their judgment and reality is naturally huge.
Carefully dissecting this rhetoric of misreading and badmouthing the Chinese economy, there are only two sets of logic.
First, using "parts" to piece together the "whole," and talking about the "cycle" as the "long term." China's economy does face some challenges at the moment, such as the rapidly changing external environment transmitting to the domestic market through trade, investment, and other channels; the contradiction between strong supply and weak demand is still prominent, and the bottlenecks restricting the virtuous cycle of the national economy still exist. The question is, which economy does not have growing pains during the transition period?
Some Western media insist on generalizing from the particular. They can directly derive the false conclusion that "China's economic downturn has become the norm" based on a single indicator or local phenomenon, but turn a blind eye to the positive factors such as the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry, the continuous conversion of new and old drivers, and the accelerated improvement of technological innovation capabilities. This is like someone who is exercising to strengthen their muscles, and the muscles occasionally ache, but they are insisted upon being said to be suffering from a serious illness. It can only be said that there is a deviation in the observer's perspective.
Second, ideological bias is at play, forcibly making political interpretations of economic issues. Driven by old thinking such as great power game and ideological confrontation, some Westerners feel quite awkward about China's development: they constantly badmouth China, and continue to render "China threat." Whether China develops or not, it can be hyped as a "risk" to the world.
However, the true picture of China's economy will not change because someone adds a "filter" to it.
Looking at the long term, opening the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, 5 aspects and 20 major indicators, 16 major strategic tasks, 109 major projects... China's development roadmap for the next 5 years is clearly visible, showing the world a strong determination to unswervingly promote high-quality development.
Looking at the present, in the first two months of this year, China's total import and export value of goods trade was 7.73 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.3% year-on-year; the import and export of key products such as mechanical and electrical products have increased significantly, demonstrating strong resilience and innovation vitality in international turbulence.
Looking at actions, the China Development Forum 2026 Annual Meeting, the Boao Forum for Asia 2026 Annual Meeting, and the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting, a number of international forums held in China recently simultaneously released a clear signal to the world: no matter how turbulent the world is, a China with steady steps and surging vitality will always be a stability anchor and certainty harbor for global development.
Only by basing ourselves on China's real development situation can we accurately grasp the direction of China's economic operation. Those observers who are accustomed to wearing "filters" will sooner or later find embarrassingly that the "filters" can only obscure their own eyes, but cannot block China's progress, let alone stop the enthusiasm of all parties to embrace China's opportunities.
Instead of racking their brains to arrange outdated old scripts, it is better to calm down and deeply study the Chinese economy—this huge sample that is bursting with vitality in deep transformation.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Wang Xuchen (王旭琛)) Communist Party of China Central Political Bureau member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) held talks in Beijing on the 31st with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar, and exchanged in-depth views on current international and regional conflict issues.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that China supports and expects Pakistan to play a unique and important role in de-escalating the situation and restoring peace talks. This process is not easy, but Pakistan's mediation efforts are in the common interest of all parties. China is willing to work with Pakistan to end the war as soon as possible, create opportunities for peace, and open a window for peace talks.
Dar said that he appreciates China's support for Pakistan's mediation of the Iranian situation. The current conflict has disrupted international energy supplies and has hit developing countries even harder. A solution can only be found at the negotiating table. Pakistan is willing to strengthen communication and collaboration with China.
Return to TopOn March 31, 2026, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, held talks with Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar (达尔) in Beijing (北京). The two sides exchanged views on the situation in the Gulf and Middle East regions and put forward the following initiatives:
1. Immediately cease hostilities. China and Pakistan call for an immediate ceasefire to stop the war and make every effort to prevent the conflict from spreading. Allow humanitarian aid to enter all war-affected areas.
2. Start peace talks as soon as possible. The sovereignty, territorial integrity, national independence, and security of Iran and the Gulf countries should be maintained. Dialogue and diplomacy are the only viable way to resolve conflicts. China and Pakistan support the parties to start negotiations, and all parties should commit to resolving disputes peacefully. During the peace talks, all parties to the conflict should not use or threaten to use force.
3. Ensure the safety of non-military targets. The principle of protecting civilians in military conflicts cannot be violated. China and Pakistan call on all parties to the conflict to immediately stop attacks against civilians and non-military targets, fully comply with international humanitarian law, and stop attacks on important infrastructure such as energy, seawater desalination, and electricity, as well as peaceful nuclear facilities such as nuclear power plants.
4. Ensure the safety of waterways. The Strait of Hormuz and its nearby waters are important international channels for cargo and energy trade. China and Pakistan call on all parties to protect the safety of ships and crew stranded in the waters within the Strait of Hormuz, arrange for civil and commercial ships to pass safely as soon as possible, and restore normal navigation in the Strait as soon as possible.
5. Ensure the primacy of the UN Charter. China and Pakistan advocate practicing true multilateralism, jointly promoting the strengthening of the important role of the United Nations, and supporting agreements on establishing a comprehensive peace framework and achieving lasting peace based on the purposes and principles of the UN Charter and international law.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), March 31)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. On March 30th, Minister Liu Haixing (刘海星) of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部) met in Beijing (北京) with a delegation of senior cadres from the Senegalese Patriots Party (塞内加尔爱国党) led by Secretary-General Daffé (达菲). The two sides exchanged views on jointly implementing the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, strengthening inter-party exchanges and cooperation, and promoting the development of China-Senegal (中塞) and China-Africa (中非) relations.
Return to TopRecently, the 2026 Qimen Black Tea Aesthetics Season, themed "Qimen Fragrance, Global Style," opened in Pingli Town, Qimen County (祁门县), Huangshan City (黄山市), Anhui Province (安徽省), attracting many Chinese and foreign tourists to enjoy the spring scenery and seek tea, embarking on a spring tea fragrance appointment together. The picture shows foreign tourists watching the handmade production of Qimen black tea.
Cheng Qiqun (程启群) photo (Image China)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on March 31st: At the invitation of Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar (达尔) of Pakistan will visit China on March 31st to hold talks with Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) on current international and regional conflict issues and bilateral relations.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31 (Reporter Xu Zhuang (徐壮)) The opening ceremony of the "China-Kazakhstan Year of Cultural Exchange" was held at the Central Opera House in Beijing (北京) on the evening of the 31st.
The opening ceremony was jointly presented by actors from China and Kazakhstan, with programs covering various art forms such as ethnic and popular song and dance, instrumental performances, and fashion shows. The actors from both countries performed each other's national songs and jointly played classic pieces, fully demonstrating the traditional and contemporary cultural and artistic achievements of China and Kazakhstan, and vividly presenting the results of China-Kazakhstan cultural exchanges.
It is reported that the 2026 "China-Kazakhstan Year of Cultural Exchange" activities are co-sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of China (中国文化和旅游部) and the Ministry of Culture and Information of Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦文化和信息部). Special performances, thematic exhibitions, joint archeology, and art seminars will also be held throughout the year.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 浩
Springs are written into 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 stipulates: "Within the protection scope of spring areas and areas with strongly developed karst, numerous sinkholes, and karst funnels, no new construction, reconstruction, or expansion projects that may cause groundwater pollution shall be permitted."
Springs are a "barometer" for observing groundwater levels. Recently, many dried-up springs in North China have resurfaced. Reviving spring veins, unblocking water veins, and activating cultural veins, the comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction in many places has achieved remarkable results, injecting new vitality into economic and social development.
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Data from the Ministry of Water Resources show that the over-extraction of groundwater in North China has begun to improve, with shallow and deep groundwater in the North China groundwater over-extraction management area rising by 3.76 meters and 7.65 meters respectively compared to the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
In 2025, the Ministry of Water Resources completed the first national spring survey and monitoring work, conducting field surveys of 3,260 springs. Comprehensively considering various factors such as resources, ecology, and historical and cultural value, 463 springs were selected for detailed investigation, gaining information on the distribution, formation, dynamics, monitoring, and management status of the springs. Next, a new round of comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction in North China and other key areas will be launched, promoting deep groundwater recharge pilot projects in Hebei (河北) and other places, implementing a groundwater reserve system, and strengthening the protection and management of spring areas with sustained effort.
Reviving Spring Veins: Controlling Water, Replenishing Water, Conserving Water, Protecting Groundwater
Ancient springs resurface, a new scene at Jin祠 (晋祠). In front of the Nanlao Spring (难老泉), one of the "Three Wonders of Jin祠," tourists are flocking.
"Natural spring water, clear enough to see the stones, even the aquatic plants are nourished to be greener," said Zhang Xuemei (张雪梅), a member of the Party Leadership Group and head of the Water Resources Section of the Taiyuan (太原) Municipal Bureau of Water Resources in Shanxi Province (山西省), speaking of the changes.
"The groundwater level of Nanlao Spring has 'risen' another 0.22 meters since the beginning of the year." Seeing the new data from these days, Zhang Xuemei's joy is evident. The spring flowed for 133 days in 2023, 273 days in 2024, and has been flowing steadily throughout 2025.
From drying up to resurfacing, behind it is a tough battle. At one point, due to excessive exploitation of groundwater and unregulated mining of coal mines, the Nanlao Spring's water output "lost its strength," and the spring dried up in 1994. "When the spring stopped, I felt empty," said Zhang Xuemei, who grew up in Taiyuan (太原) and has a special affection for the spring water.
Beneath the spring lies complex rock layers and water systems. Tracing the roots and making systematic efforts to revive the spring veins.
Emerging on the surface, the merit lies underground. "Coal mining enterprises are large water consumers. The Jin祠 spring area used to be dotted with coal mines of all sizes. Mining requires drainage first, and a large amount of groundwater is extracted," Zhang Xuemei introduced. Over-extraction of groundwater disrupts the water cycle and deprives the spring area of fresh water.
From underground to above ground, the water use structure is adjusted and optimized. The water conservancy department launched the Jin祠 spring area water source replacement project, diverting Yellow River water to replace groundwater; strengthening the management of groundwater abstraction permits, tightening the "water tap." The change in water use forces a change in development. Taiyuan (太原) City closed and rectified coal mines, clarified the scope of key protection areas in the spring area, strictly controlled mining approvals in the spring area, and promoted industrial transformation and upgrading. The proportion of groundwater in the total water supply in Taiyuan (太原) City decreased from 83.5% in 2000 to 19.5% in 2025.
Exploring the rock layers for accurate protection. Zhang Xuemei introduced that through multi-party cooperation, the leakage section of the Jin祠 spring area was found, "We implemented source infiltration replenishment and protection and restoration, built a digital twin platform for the spring area, realized integrated perception and monitoring of the surface and underground, and unified dispatch and refined management."
Chiqiao Village (赤桥村) in Jin祠 Town (晋祠镇), Jinyuan District (晋源区), Taiyuan (太原), is located in the Jin祠 spring area, and gurgling spring water nourishes the fields. Liang Jinzhu (梁金柱), the secretary of the village Party branch, said with emotion: "When I was a child, our village was a place of small bridges, flowing water, and homes, and the Jin祠 rice irrigated by spring water had a rich aroma. The resurging spring water has brought back the nostalgia."
Ancient springs, ancient trees, and ancient houses, Chiqiao Village (赤桥村) has a long history. "The village is developing ecological agriculture, sightseeing tourism, and homestays, and the villagers are eating 'tourism meals'," said Liang Jinzhu (梁金柱).
The resurgence of spring water witnesses the effectiveness of comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction. The Ministry of Water Resources has established a dual-control indicator system for the total amount of groundwater extraction and water level, and has coordinated the implementation of water conservation and control, water source replacement, and ecological water replenishment measures.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Hydrology Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, in order to better grasp the dynamics of spring water, the national hydrological system continuously carries out routine dynamic monitoring of elements such as water level, water temperature, flow, and water quality of springs and spring areas. The next step will be to strengthen spring water monitoring, analysis, evaluation, and basic research, comprehensively use new technologies and methods, scientifically delineate the scope of spring areas, grasp the dynamic changes of groundwater, and provide a scientific basis for the sustainable protection and management of spring water.
Unblocking Water Veins: Interconnection of Water Networks, Achieving Abundance-Deficiency Regulation and Multi-Source Complementarity
Spring City in spring, the sound of spring water.
Baiquan Spring Group (白泉泉群), with its gentle ripples and fine sand chasing the waves, constitutes the landscape of "Spring Gushing White Sand."
"We have finally waited for the spring water to return, and we can smell the familiar 'spring taste' again," said Zhang Zengliang (张增良), a villager in Zhifang Village (纸坊村), Licheng District (历城区), Jinan (济南), Shandong Province (山东省), with emotion. Having lived by the spring water for most of his life, his nose can smell the sweetness of the spring water.
As one of the twelve major spring groups in Jinan (济南), the Baiquan Spring Group (白泉泉群) once disappeared. Jinan (济南) City carried out water source protection and waterway unblocking, and coordinated the management of surface water networks and groundwater systems to create a landscape of "Willow Banks and Flower Streams, Resting on Greenery and Listening to Springs," and cultivated a "Spring Water + Experience" business format, attracting more and more people to appreciate and listen to the springs.
Jinan (济南) has many springs, with unique geological conditions and water system characteristics. Understanding the situation is the first step. Pan Bingjiang (潘炳江), director of the Spring Water Protection Division of the Jinan (济南) Municipal Urban and Rural Water Affairs Bureau, said: "We organized a technical team to consult literature, visit the masses, and combine hydrological and geological surveys to determine that there are 1,209 existing springs, and carry out law-based spring protection, scientific spring protection, ecological spring protection, and precise spring protection."
Governing springs is connected to governing water, and water flow is necessary for spring gushing. Pan Bingjiang (潘炳江) introduced that from the closure of self-provided wells to the improvement of a multi-water source guarantee pattern, one reduction and one increase, maintaining the continuous gushing of spring water.
Where does the water come from? A detailed calculation of the "water account." "Taking the water diversion project as the main artery, building a municipal-level water network of 'three axes, four sources connected to multiple points, five horizontal and ten vertical lines connecting hundreds of rivers,' and coordinating the dispatch of local water, Yellow River water, and Yangtze River water, comprehensively implementing control of extraction, replenishment of sources, and water conservation," said Pan Bingjiang (潘炳江).
From resurgence to long-term flow, spring water tests the ability of multi-water source allocation. Modern water networks of "abundance-deficiency regulation and multi-source complementarity" have realized "increasing replenishment, restricting extraction, and exploring irrigation," allowing key spring areas such as Baifu Spring (白浮泉) in Beijing (北京市) and Yimu Spring (一亩泉) in Baoding (保定市), Hebei Province (河北省) to regain their vitality. According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources, with the continuous advancement of modern water network construction, the connection between the national water network and provincial, municipal, and county-level water networks has provided a more solid support for restoring the ecological environment of spring areas.
Activating Cultural Veins: Springs Contain History and Culture
Xingtai (邢台) City, Hebei Province (河北省), was historically known as "Springs Around Xing." In Baiquan Community (百泉社区), Wangkuai Town (王快镇), Xingtai Economic Development Zone (邢台经济开发区), spring groups gush together, forming Baiquan Lake (百泉湖). Zhang Gengtian (张更田), a resident in his 70s, said: "Even rare birds like black storks come here to settle down."
Baiquan Lake (百泉湖) was once called Baiquan Pit (百泉坑). "When I was a child, the spring water was very 'strong,' with people fishing and swimming, it was very lively," said Zhang Gengtian (张更田). Later, due to excessive exploitation of groundwater, the spring water disappeared, and the lake surface became a dirt pit.
Located in the North China groundwater over-extraction area, Xingtai (邢台) City adheres to the combination of conservation, management, and regulation, and makes efforts in diversion, storage, and replenishment to fully protect water and springs. More than 40,000 various water extraction wells have been closed and controlled, agricultural irrigation uses shallow buried drip irrigation and sprinkler irrigation equipment, and domestic water has been replaced from groundwater to South-to-North Water Diversion water. "Compared with the same period in 2018, at the end of January this year, the groundwater level in the shallow and deep over-extraction areas of Xingtai (邢台) has risen by 4.68 meters and 2.36 meters respectively," introduced Zhang Lei (张雷), a member of the Party Leadership Group and deputy director of the Xingtai (邢台) Municipal Bureau of Water Resources.
Spring veins connect to water veins. The successive resurgence of spring eyes along the coast has brought fresh water to the Qili River (七里河) in Xingtai (邢台). Building embankments, purifying water, and increasing greenery, the river has been revitalized. Greenways, walkways, parks, and training bases are built along the river. A river has become a scenic belt and industrial belt integrating waterfront sightseeing, sports events, and cultural experiences.
Water veins nourish cultural veins. The city thrives on springs, and the streets flourish because of water. Xingtai (邢台) is creating "one street, one river, five lakes, and sixteen springs," making springs an "invitation" to guests from all directions.
Xingzhou Old Street (邢州老街) hides the urban fireworks deep in history, carrying the fusion of simplicity and fashion. Feilong Spring (飞龙泉) and old factories, natural style and industrial style, collide to create new business formats such as treasure shops and creative markets. Baiquan Yuanshui Tourist Resort (百泉鸳水旅游度假区) is making the most of the "Spring Culture + Spring Leisure" theme.
Springs contain history and culture. The Ministry of Water Resources has proposed to coordinate the promotion of spring water ecological protection and management and historical and cultural inheritance, implement hierarchical and classified protection strategies according to the ecological function, historical and cultural value, and location conditions of spring water, formulate differentiated measures, achieve a balanced development of spring water in ecological maintenance, cultural inheritance, and sustainable utilization, and promote the deep integration of spring culture and cultural tourism industry.
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With the spring breeze gentle and the scenery bright, where should one go for a spring outing?
Romantic flower fields in the countryside, verdant shade in the city, even the pocket parks on street corners are full of vitality, allowing residents to step right into the spring scenery.
The scene of spring outings reflects the abundant achievements of China's (我国) ecological civilization construction, and also reflects the people's strong yearning for a good ecological environment.
Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his participation in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity: "We must coordinate the advancement of urban and rural greening and beautification, and add green spaces around the masses wherever possible, so that urban and rural residents can have a greater sense of green gain."
The sense of green gain is most directly felt through the changes around us.
In the past, ecological and environmental problems once seriously affected the quality of life of the masses. Some foreign observers believed that it would take "no less than thirty to fifty years to change" the governance of air pollution.
Today, the forest area and stock volume continue to "double increase," the desertification and desertification land area continues to "double decrease," and blue skies, green land, and clear waters have become the norm.
Not only can it be seen, but it can also be touched. When closing windows becomes opening windows for ventilation, passing by while covering one's nose becomes living close to the water, and dust in the sky is replaced by lush greenery, every improvement in the ecological environment is shared and benefited by everyone.
"We must make trade-offs, what exactly do we want? Starting from whether the people are satisfied or not, whether they agree or not, the ecological environment is very important; from the perspective of improving people's livelihoods, this is also the most important point." Finding the value coordinates of trade-offs, we have the answer to what to do and how to do it.
From deeply fighting the battles to defend blue skies, clear waters, and clean soil, to scientifically carrying out large-scale national land greening actions, to continuously promoting the improvement of rural living environments... always focusing on the problems that the people strongly reflect, and taking the responsibility of human effort to overcome difficulties, one by one ecological pain points are turned into highlights of people's livelihood.
Making a good ecological environment the most inclusive benefit for the people's livelihood demonstrates the people's livelihood temperature of green development in the new era.
More sense of green gain comes from unwavering transformation, reflecting the certainty of high-quality development.
While working in Fujian (福建), in response to the situation of the vast number of forestry farmers living in poverty while guarding "golden mountains and silver mountains," Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) promoted the reform of the collective forest tenure system. Forestry farmers have changed from "tree cutters" to "tree watchers," developing under-forest economies, and the "green content" and "gold content" of mountainous forest areas have been simultaneously improved.
Green waters and green mountains are both natural wealth and economic wealth. By continuously improving the realization mechanism of ecological product value, a good ecological environment can become a growth point for people's lives, making the sense of green gain more substantial and sustainable.
More sense of green gain comes from the vision of long-term development, which is both for the present and for the long term.
"It is not that we cannot go faster, but that we choose not to." Abandoning the sole pursuit of GDP growth rate as a measure of success, promoting the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development, 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, and the regional GDP has more than doubled; China (我国) has built the world's largest renewable energy system and new energy industry chain, and the average annual growth rate of the added value of the "three new" economies during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period exceeded 8.5%.
New quality productive forces are themselves green productive forces. Taking green and low-carbon development as the fundamental solution to ecological and environmental problems, promoting the industrial ecology and ecological industrialization, and continuously transforming ecological advantages into development advantages, we will win a higher quality, more sustainable, and more resilient development future in the co-promotion of ecology and industry, and the co-existence of people and nature.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st. According to the unified deployment of the Party Central Committee, from November 2, 2024, to January 5, 2025, the Ninth Central Inspection Team conducted a regular inspection of the People's Daily (人民日报) . On April 10, 2025, the Central Inspection Team provided feedback on the inspection to the People's Daily Editorial Board. According to the relevant requirements of the inspection work, recently, the People's Daily Editorial Board announced the progress of the inspection rectification to the public through the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission and People's Daily Online.
The progress of the inspection rectification is divided into four parts. First, the Editorial Board's fulfillment of its primary responsibility for inspection rectification. Second, the rectification and implementation of key issues fed back by the inspection, including adhering to running the newspaper as a politician, giving play to the guiding role, banner role, and leading role of the Party Central Committee's organ newspaper; strengthening reform awareness and deeply promoting the systematic reform of mainstream media; conscientiously fulfilling the "two responsibilities" and comprehensively and deeply promoting strict Party governance and strict management of the newspaper; strengthening the construction of the leading body, the cadre and talent team, and primary-level Party building; and solidly promoting inspection and rectification. Third, the progress of matters requiring long-term rectification, including vigorously promoting the publicity of the Party's innovative theories and deepening the systematic reform of mainstream media. Fourth, the next work arrangements.
The People's Daily (人民日报) Editorial Board welcomes the broad masses of cadres and the public to supervise the implementation of the inspection rectification and has announced the telephone number, postal mailbox, and email address.
The full text of the "People's Daily (人民日报) Editorial Board's Circular on the Progress of the Fourth Round of Inspection Rectification by the 20th Central Committee" can be found on the website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (www.ccdi.gov.cn) and People's Daily Online (www.people.com.cn).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 常 钦 顾仲阳 李晓晴
The grass and trees are sprouting, and the spring mountains are promising.
"A good ecology is shared by everyone and requires joint efforts to build. We must organize and mobilize the entire society to widely participate in afforestation, add splendor to the mountains and rivers, and make the background color of Chinese-style modernization more beautiful."
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech when participating in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity on March 30 triggered enthusiastic responses from the vast number of cadres and the masses. Everyone said that this year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and the 45th anniversary of the launch of the National Voluntary Tree Planting Campaign. Standing at a new starting point, we must thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, 咬定青山不放松 (yǎo dìng qīng shān bù fàng sōng - "bite the green hills and not relax," to persevere despite difficulties), and pay more attention to improving quality, promoting industry, and benefiting the people. From the Gobi Desert to the water towns of Jiangnan, from the majestic mountains to the street corners of cities, the vast number of cadres and the masses are taking practical actions to solidly write a green article of "grasping both planting and management, promoting both ecology and industry, and coexisting between humans and nature."
Grasping both planting and management—
Consolidating the cornerstone of the rule of law and drawing a new picture of a beautiful China
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, my country's forest area and stock volume have continued to "double increase," the area of desertification and sandy land has continued to "double decrease," and blue skies, green land, and clear water have become the norm. Not long ago, my country promulgated the Ecological Environment Code, which further consolidated the legal cornerstone for building a beautiful China.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech provided fundamental guidelines for land greening and voluntary tree planting." Zhang Zhaohui, Director of the Voluntary Tree Planting and Department Greening Division of the Ecological Protection and Restoration Department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (国家林草局), said, "This year is the opening year of the '15th Five-Year Plan.' We will rely on the cornerstone of the rule of law and strictly implement greening based on land and water conditions. We must do a good job in increasing greening in accordance with local conditions, take the '15th Five-Year Plan' for forest and grassland protection and utilization as the guideline, continue to carry out large-scale land greening actions, fight the tough battle of the 'Three-North' (三北) project, innovate and carry out voluntary tree planting, control the first pass of scientific afforestation, and continuously improve the diversity, stability, and sustainability of the ecosystem."
The Three-North region is the main battlefield for current land greening. Wushen Banner (乌审旗), Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), is located in the downwind of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地). Desertification control workers are driving integrated equipment for planting degradable planting bags to plant *Caragana korshinskii* and *Hedysarum mongolicum* seedlings. Bao Longshan, a staff member of the Ordos City Three-North Project Promotion Center, said with deep feeling: "General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized 'determining greening based on land and water conditions.' Ordos is arid and water-scarce. We deeply realize that desertification control must understand the carrying capacity of water resources and give priority to drought-resistant native tree species to minimize ecological water use. The new equipment can increase the survival rate of afforestation by 20%-30%, fundamentally solving the problem of low seedling survival rate caused by water shortage in sandy land."
Li Xiaodong, Secretary of the Party Group and Director of the Wushen Banner Forestry and Grassland Bureau (乌审旗林草局), introduced that in 2026, 52 key projects of the sixth phase of the "Three-North" project in Wushen Banner have started, and the governance rate of the Mu Us Desert has increased to 85%. "While striving to expand and increase greening, we must earnestly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech, put more effort into strengthening management and protection, carry out sustainable forest management by region and category, and continuously improve the quality and stability of the sandy land ecosystem."
Afforestation is not only about planting but also about management. In the deep mountain forest farm of Jingang Town (金刚镇), Liuyang City (浏阳市), Hunan Province (湖南省), where the morning mist has not yet cleared, Huang Weigu, the "most beautiful natural guardian" and full-time ecological forest ranger, and his colleagues are skillfully operating drones to take off and inspect fire hazards and the occurrence of pine wilt disease. "General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized 'the need to put more effort into strengthening management and protection.' Now, not only do we have to be diligent, but we also have to use 'long-range eyes' to prevent insects and fire. Watching the saplings grow thicker and stronger day by day, we are more confident and have more confidence to guard this green area."
In Xianjin Village (先进村), Fengqiao Town (枫桥镇), Zhuji City (诸暨市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), villagers are planting economic tree species such as cherries and *Torreya grandis* on slopes. Near the ultra-high voltage line, Hu Haifeng, the person in charge of the transmission line area of the State Grid Zhejiang Electric Power Shaoxing Power Supply Company (国网浙江电力绍兴供电公司), is patrolling along the line.
"General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized 'achieving the common grasp of planting and management.' Our power workers strengthen inspections and manage the lines well, which can better prevent fires and protect greening, and also add splendor to the mountains and rivers." Hu Haifeng said that it is necessary to continue to fight the tough battle of "forest and electricity co-security," eliminate forest and electricity fire hazards with refined governance, and protect the hard-won green waters and green mountains.
Promoting both ecology and industry—
Unblocking transformation channels and broadening the road to green prosperity
In the hall of the Rural Property Rights Trading Center in Shaxian District (沙县区), Sanming City (三明市), Fujian Province (福建省), electronic screens are scrolling with transaction information such as forest rights, forest tickets, and carbon tickets, and forest farmers come to handle business in an endless stream, "turning resources into assets and forest farmers into shareholders."
Xu Zimeng, Deputy Director of the Natural Resource Owner Equity Department of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), said, "General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized 'the need to unblock the channels for the transformation of ecological product value.' In recent years, we have continued to deepen the reform of the collective forest tenure system, support the listing and trading of forestry carbon sink projects, and sell real money. The next step is to continue to establish and improve the market-oriented trading mechanism for natural resource equity indicators, so that green waters and green mountains can truly become the gold and silver mountains that the people can see and touch."
Han Fengze, Deputy Director of the Grassland Management Department of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, said that General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech pointed out the direction for doing a good job in grassland and grass industry in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. "We must grasp the main contradiction of 'governing while destroying' in grassland restoration and adhere to the co-governance of grass and livestock and the combination of dredging and blocking. We will implement the co-governance of grass and livestock in the eastern part of the 'Three-North' project, pilot the construction of modern grassland pastures, restore the beautiful scenery of lush water and grass, and achieve ecological beauty, industrial prosperity, and people's wealth."
On the front line of industry, the green economic value is accelerating its release. Chen Ruijue, Vice President of Mengcao Group, introduced that in order to solve the problem of only planting but not raising, the company has laid out post-construction management and protection guarantee centers in the "Three-North" region, and at the same time integrates photovoltaic and sand grass industries to explore the "grass-light, animal husbandry-light, and medicine-light complementary" model to achieve a win-win situation for ecology and economy.
In the spring, the Yellow River (黄河) Old Course Ecological Prosperity Corridor in Suqian City (宿迁市), Sucheng District (宿城区), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), is shaded by seedlings and decorated with flowers. Geng Xiaoyun, Secretary of the Sucheng District Party Committee, said: "We will thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's important speech on 'promoting both ecology and industry,' vigorously promote the construction of key projects such as the Ecological Prosperity Corridor, and reflect the achievements of industrial development more in the high-quality and full employment and continuous income increase of the people."
"A good ecology is a 'golden rice bowl.'" Ma Depai, a villager in Fangcun Village (方村村), Yongning District (邕宁区), Nanning City (南宁市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), obtained a mortgage loan of 200,000 yuan with a forest tenure certificate, built a standardized duck house to develop under-forest ecological breeding, and became a well-known duck farming household. "Relying on a good ecology and embarking on the road to prosperity, these green waters and green mountains are really supporting our people!"
Coexistence between humans and nature—
Jointly build and share, making cities and villages more livable
A good ecology is shared by everyone and requires joint efforts to build.
In Shiyu Garden Community (时雨园社区), Shuguang Street (曙光街道), Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京市), under the guidance of horticulturists, residents are enthusiastically watering and pruning the various flowers and plants in the micro-garden. "General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized 'increasing green space around the masses by taking advantage of every available space, so that urban and rural residents can have more green gains.' In recent years, Beijing has built 200 community micro-gardens, and this year it will mobilize citizens to jointly build 100." Chang Xiangzhen, Director of the Voluntary Tree Planting Office of the Capital Greening Committee (首都绿化委员会), said.
With a gentle breeze, at the "Internet + National Voluntary Tree Planting" base in Beigou Village (北沟村), Jinhe Town (金河镇), Xichuan County (淅川县), Henan Province (河南省), the head of the central route of the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, Li Ruchao, a staff member of the Xichuan County Forestry Bureau (淅川县林业局), is carrying a bucket to water the newly planted Chinese maple. "Now it is too convenient to participate in tree planting. Not only can you wave a shovel and dig soil on the spot, but you can also scan the code to adopt it. I also received a 'responsible electronic certificate.' Every tree we plant is building a solid ecological barrier for 'the perpetual delivery of clear water to the north.'"
"Teenagers are full of vitality and hope like small saplings." General Secretary Xi Jinping asked about the children's study life, labor exercises, and participation in tree planting while planting trees, which made educators feel encouraged.
In the "Baicao Garden" of Chongwen Experimental School (崇文实验学校) in Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), young pioneers are carefully watering the newly planted seedlings and hanging planting signs. Wang Dan, the instructor of the "Li Siguang (李四光) Squadron," smiled and recorded this scene: "'Love knowledge, love labor, love nature.' We will integrate General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment into campus practice, guide children to develop in an all-round way in the 'soil classroom,' and strive to be young pioneers who protect nature."
It takes ten years to grow trees, but a hundred years to cultivate people. On the new journey, remembering General Secretary Xi Jinping's earnest entrustment, the vast number of cadres and the masses actively act as practitioners and promoters of ecological civilization construction, running one relay after another, working generation after generation, adding splendor to the mountains and rivers with unremitting struggle, and making the background color of Chinese-style modernization more beautiful.
(Our reporter Pan Junqiang participated in writing)
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) March 31st (Reporters Li Xinping (李心萍) and Zhang Wenhao (张文豪)) On March 31st, China's first 7-ton fixed-wing cargo-carrying unmanned aerial vehicle "Changying-8" (长鹰—8) successfully completed its maiden flight in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), marking a key independent technological leap in China's high-end intelligent aviation logistics equipment field. "Changying-8" (长鹰—8), known as the "air heavy truck," has a maximum range of over 3,000 kilometers and can be applied to scenarios such as long-distance logistics transportation, emergency rescue delivery, border material supply, and complex terrain operations, providing equipment support for low-altitude economic development and emergency support system construction.
Return to TopBy: 孙海天
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The strategic goal of building the Hainan Free Trade Port is to make it an important gateway leading China's opening up to the outside world in the new era." On December 18 last year, the Hainan Free Trade Port officially launched full island customs clearance operations. Starting today, this edition will launch a series of commentaries to showcase the vitality and potential of customs clearance operations.
——Editor
On the computer screen, a world map unfolds, with dense triangular cursors slowly moving in the deep blue.
Staff at the Hainan International Ship Registry lightly click the mouse, and information for one cursor pops up – the "Yu Neng Kunpeng" vessel. This behemoth, with a total length of 224.9 meters and a deadweight of nearly 65,000 tons, just obtained "Hainan residency" on February 25.
The shipowner's feelings are very direct: the registration procedures for such a large vessel are usually cumbersome and lengthy, but in China's Yangpu Port (洋浦港), "instant registration" is achieved. With the addition of this ship, the total carrying capacity of ships registered under "China Yangpu Port" exceeded 8 million deadweight tons.
Each moving cursor connects to routes leading to the world, and also outlines the open trajectory of the Hainan Free Trade Port's full island customs clearance operations.
How will this island transform its geographical "gateway" into an institutional open "hub"?
The smoothness of the gateway lies in expanding channels and gathering elements.
At the arrival hall of Terminal 2 of Haikou Meilan International Airport (海口美兰国际机场), border inspection police officer Liu Peilei (刘培磊) takes an American passport and greets the passenger in English. The next passenger is from South Korea, and he switches to Korean to greet them; the next holds a Russian passport, and he switches to Russian again. Liu Peilei, who is proficient in everyday conversation in multiple languages, has a deep impression of a late night after the launch of customs clearance operations – within 7 hours, 15 international flights landed in succession, and all the verification counters and self-service channels were opened. "I had never encountered such a scene before." At the Yangpu International Container Terminal (洋浦国际集装箱码头), the operating shoreline extends to 1970 meters, capable of accommodating the world's largest 24,000 TEU container ships, and allowing two-way navigation for 10,000-ton ships. Open ports, accessible routes, and high-quality services make opportunities readily available, allowing people to move in the same direction, and naturally allowing the vitality of all parties to flow.
The openness of the gateway lies in clearing joints and connecting industries.
As the flow of people increases, goods are also moving. The journey of a coffee bean holds the secret to the gateway's accessibility: green beans from South America travel across the ocean, are blended and roasted in Hainan factories, and then sold to Australia. The "zero tariff" combined with the processing and value-added duty-free policy makes "global buying and global selling" a daily occurrence. On another transportation line, more and more airplanes from Thailand, Vietnam, and Qatar are choosing to fly to the maintenance base in the Haikou Airport Comprehensive Bonded Zone (海口空港综保区) for "check-ups." A tailor-made policy package saves overseas airlines more than 10% of their overall costs, and the maintenance cycle is also shortened by half. A bean and an airplane point to the same fact – the wider the opening of the Free Trade Port's gateway, the better the connection between the international and domestic markets. Developing industries in the dual circulation and enabling industrial upgrading to help the dual circulation continuously expands the incremental space for development.
The vitality of the gateway lies in the free flow of funds, imperceptible and accessible.
Behind the trade flow is the flow of funds. At the Hainan Branch of the Bank of China (中国银行海南省分行), corporate financial personnel are operating multi-functional free trade accounts (EF accounts), making cross-border fund settlement as convenient as domestic transfers. As the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port advances in depth, EF accounts have achieved steady expansion and efficient operation, and have become the core financial infrastructure for cross-border fund flows in the Free Trade Port. On December 18 last year, Hainan Ausca International Grain and Oil Co., Ltd. (海南澳斯卡国际粮油有限公司) completed the first cross-"second line" transfer of funds with different names through the EF account after the launch of customs clearance operations, reducing transaction links and speeding up capital turnover. Invisible financial "living water" is nourishing the visible real economy, giving companies a more sensitive touch in global resource allocation. The faster and more orderly the flow of resource elements, the easier it is for the gathered "traffic" to bring about qualitative changes, and the stronger the momentum for development will be.
From the breadth of "first-line liberalization" to the precision of "second-line control," and then to the depth of "island freedom," full island customs clearance operations are a new breakthrough in institutional opening up. Foreign-funded enterprises are accelerating their presence, and domestic enterprises are borrowing ships to go to sea. Hainan is transforming its geographical advantages into open advantages with a more proactive stance.
Standing on the Yangpu Bridge (洋浦大桥) and looking into the distance, huge ships honk their horns and set sail fully loaded. This sea connects the past and the future, and also connects China and the world. As full island customs clearance operations continue to move forward, an important gateway leading the opening up to the outside world in the new era is being transformed from a blueprint into a reality on the coast of the South China Sea.
(The author is a reporter from the Hainan branch of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 李 斌
Facing difficulties with a positive attitude, resolving challenges with a clear understanding, and inspiring the spirit of entrepreneurship with practical actions that proactively shoulder responsibilities and difficulties.
The Incense Burner Peak (香炉峰) on Fragrant Hills (香山) in Beijing (北京), known as "Ghost's Sorrow" (鬼见愁) by locals due to its steep terrain. Not far to the north, a slope covered in rocks and even more difficult to climb is called "Hero's Slope" (好汉坡) by many outdoor enthusiasts. Crossing mountains and ridges always involves difficulties and risks, but different attitudes and understandings will lead to different perceptions and outcomes.
The confidence to climb mountains never comes from smooth mountain roads, but from a resilient will; the motivation for practical work never comes from favorable situations, but from the firmness and maturity of thought. Grasping reform, planning innovation, and promoting development are also like climbing mountains: on the road ahead, we will always face various difficulties and obstacles, but as long as we "face difficulties, contradictions, risks, and hidden dangers squarely, rise to the challenge, and overcome difficulties," we can always maintain strategic initiative.
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the ship of reform and development is sailing with high sails, but it also needs to cope with a more complex environment and solve more deep-seated contradictions. Changes contain opportunities, and challenges inspire fighting spirit. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes "daring to struggle, being good at struggling, and having the courage to face major tests of high winds and waves, and even stormy seas, overcoming difficulties, fighting risks, and meeting challenges with a spirit of historical initiative, and concentrating our efforts on doing our own things well." There is no success that comes from waiting, only brilliance won through hard work. Maintaining strategic focus, strengthening confidence in victory, and resolving deviations in understanding and action will lay a solid foundation for responding to various uncertainties with the certainty of high-quality development.
Although there are many rocks, they are a touchstone for tempering will; although the mountain is steep, it is a necessary path to reach the top and see far. The reason why those who are content with the status quo and those who are timid are easily eliminated is that they fear change and innovation, treat some small difficulties as insurmountable "moats," and easily miss opportunities in depression and slackness. On the other hand, those climbers who overcome dangers as if walking on flat ground and climb high as if it were normal do not ignore the difficulty of climbing, but face difficulties with a positive attitude, resolve challenges with a clear understanding, and inspire the spirit of entrepreneurship with practical actions that proactively shoulder responsibilities and difficulties.
There is clear evidence in practice. When the vision of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (绿水青山就是金山银山) replaces the short-sightedness of "pollute first, treat later," green development paints a beautiful picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature; when free trade pilot zones boldly explore new paths for institutional opening-up, high-level opening-up to the outside world creates a new situation of win-win cooperation... Every step of development often contains a bold breakthrough in the boundaries of inherent cognition and the clever application of reform wisdom.
Climbing high requires breaking through "mental obstacles," and traveling far requires correcting "mental thoughts." However, the reversal of mentality and the expansion of vision do not happen out of thin air, but are based on a clear understanding of the actual situation, a thorough understanding of the laws, and a deep understanding of the theory. For party members and cadres, to develop a hard backbone, iron shoulders, and real skills to take responsibility, they must strengthen their profound insight into objective reality, their accurate grasp of the laws of development, and their conscious adherence to their original mission. "Adhering to starting from reality and acting according to the laws" is not just empty talk. Following this principle, the lofty ambition of "I shall surmount the crest and survey the peaks" will not fail, and the expectation of "achieving political achievements for the people and achieving political achievements through practical work" can be realized.
Ability determines mentality, and level is related to state. The climbers who bravely climb the steep peaks and the pioneers who stand at the forefront of the tide share the commonality of having excellent professional qualities and the ability to solve complex problems. Only when their abilities are strong and their skills are high will they not feel timid or weak in the face of "Ghost's Sorrow" (鬼见愁)-like difficulties. From "to successfully complete the goals and tasks of the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we must focus on improving the Party's ability and level in leading economic and social development" to "leading cadres at all levels must strengthen their learning of cutting-edge scientific and technological knowledge and strive to know technology, understand industry, and be good at decision-making," the more party members and cadres become skilled workers and experts in their posts, the more powerful support the steady and long-term progress of the economic ship will receive.
In the face of opportunities and challenges, we call for action-takers and doers who do not bow their heads to sorrow, are not困by difficulties, and are not disturbed by fear. Let the willingness to take responsibility, dare to take responsibility, and be good at taking responsibility become a common practice, ensure that "the right things" are executed correctly, and ensure that "Loushan Pass" (娄山关) and "Lazikou" (腊子口) are overcome and conquered. We will surely write a more brilliant chapter on the new journey of the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Return to TopBy: 徐 靖
This February, the Anhui Provincial Quantum Computing Engineering Research Center (安徽省量子计算工程研究中心) announced that China's first independently developed quantum computer operating system, "Origin Siyuan" (本源司南), was officially available for online download and has been deployed on China's "Origin Wukong" (本源悟空) series of quantum computers. As the world's first quantum computer operating system available for open download, "Origin Siyuan" helps lower the development threshold and accelerate the independent construction of China's quantum computing ecosystem.
[Commentary]
How does a quantum computer operating system differ from a traditional computer?
Traditional computer bits can only be 0 or 1, while quantum bits can achieve "parallel computing" through superposition states, thus having the outstanding advantage of powerful computing capabilities. As the core system software of a quantum computer, "Origin Siyuan" is a bridge connecting users and quantum hardware, making complex quantum devices usable and easy to use.
After multiple iterations, "Origin Siyuan" has undergone rigorous verification through a large number of online services and real-world scenarios. Today, it is compatible with various mainstream technical routes such as superconducting, semiconductor, ion trap, optical quantum, and neutral atom.
At the bottom layer, "Origin Siyuan" possesses complete core capabilities, including precise hardware physical control, core quantum error correction and noise management, and efficient quantum circuit compilation and optimization. At the upper layer, its significant advantage lies in its ability to seamlessly integrate quantum processing units with traditional supercomputers and intelligent computing, achieving deep collaborative computing.
In simple terms, "Origin Siyuan" allows "experts" who are good at different things to work together as a team. Quantum computers are extremely fast at solving specific difficult problems, but everyday calculations still rely on classical computers. When the two work together, they can not only overcome ultra-complex problems such as drug research and development, but also be more efficient. Currently, Hefei (合肥) has taken the lead in deploying a complete four-computing collaborative system with the "Chaohu Mingyue" (巢湖明月) computing power cluster as its core. "Origin Wukong" operates stably here, realizing efficient collaboration between quantum and classical computing power through the "Origin Siyuan" quantum-classical fusion operating system.
What does open online download mean?
With a quantum operating system, the quantum chips on a quantum computer can truly run. After open download, research institutions can install "Origin Siyuan" and use the quantum computer. Ordinary users can submit tasks through the quantum computing cloud platform, and the "Origin Siyuan" system in the background is responsible for scheduling the real quantum computer to calculate, and then transmit the results back to the user. For developers, there is no need to understand the profound principles of quantum chips, etc. They can directly use familiar programming methods to write code and develop quantum applications, greatly reducing the threshold.
In summary, open download is essentially "tooling" the underlying capabilities of quantum computers, allowing hardware manufacturers to have systems available, developers to have platforms to rely on, and ordinary users to have computing power to adjust.
The value of technological innovation must ultimately be realized in serving real life.
In the field of weather forecasting, quantum computing can run complex models that traditional computing power cannot handle, making forecasts more accurate. In the field of low-altitude economy, it can quickly solve the problem of thousands of intertwined routes, allowing drones to fly efficiently and safely in the city sky. Powerful computing capabilities expand the boundaries of innovation. For example, in new drug development, AI (artificial intelligence) computing can screen out potential candidate molecules, but how molecules actually bind to targets must be accurately simulated using quantum computers. The relationship between different computing methods is not about who replaces whom, but more like a reasonable division of labor, "teaming up to fight monsters."
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed: "Cultivate and develop future industries such as future energy, quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, embodied intelligence, brain-computer interfaces, and 6G." From creating a quantum chip to successfully developing a complete machine, from quantum computing power export to open download of an independent quantum computer operating system, China's quantum computing is steadily advancing, accumulating strength, and moving forward with "two legs": hard breakthroughs in core technology and soft construction of the ecosystem. By unswervingly adhering to independent innovation, collaborative innovation, and open innovation, and continuously deepening the collaboration between industry, academia, research, and application, we will definitely be able to stand at the forefront in the competition for the commanding heights of future technology.
Return to TopMarathon events in many places are starting in quick succession, with slots for popular races being in short supply; on social media, topics such as parent-child camping and hiking are being hotly discussed; outdoor equipment, clothing, and other items are experiencing peak sales, and related companies are working at full capacity to fulfill orders... As temperatures gradually rise, people are going out and enjoying the spring, and the "spring economy" of outdoor leisure and sports is constantly heating up.
This is precisely:
Strolling invites the spring breeze,
Orioles sing amidst the emerald green.
Worries are completely washed away,
Inherent interest is boundless.
Cheng Senwen (成森文)
Return to TopBy: 覃蔚峰
Not long ago, a yellow rose named "Wenxiu" (文秀), set off from the colorful Yunnan (云南) and traveled across mountains and rivers to Baise (百色), Guangxi (广西). The breeding team of the Flower Research Institute of the Yunnan Academy of Agricultural Sciences (云南省农业科学院花卉研究所) formally handed this "Chinese core" rose, carrying thousands of respects, to representatives of Baise City (百色市) and relatives of Comrade Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀).
The naming of this rose originated from the deep resonance of tens of thousands of netizens—from the bright yellow flowers, people associated it with the praise of "in the battlefield of poverty alleviation, you are an eye-catching yellow flower," and the name "Wenxiu" (文秀) instantly dominated the screen. This is people's spontaneous pursuit of truth, goodness, and beauty, and a simple tribute to role models of the times. From soliciting names online to escorting it for thousands of miles, the "Wenxiu" (文秀) rose represents people's value recognition of staying true to their original aspirations and selfless dedication.
This is a deep and affectionate echo across the mountains. Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) gave up the prosperity of the city and returned to her hometown of Baise (百色), rooted herself in Baini Village (百坭村), and led 88 households with 418 people out of poverty, but her young life was forever fixed on the road to poverty alleviation. Now, the "Wenxiu" (文秀) rose has returned home, precisely to take root in the land she deeply loved and fulfill her wish to "plant a sea of flowers in Baini Village (百坭村)" before her death. This flower is rooted in the fertile scientific research soil of Yunnan (云南) and blooms in the old revolutionary base area of the motherland, turning the spirit of courage to take responsibility and willingness to dedicate into fragrance, nourishing the soul.
Flowers and trees wither and flourish, but the spirit will last forever. The return of the "Wenxiu" (文秀) rose is not the end, but the starting point of inheritance. It will bloom in the "Beautiful Sea of Flowers" in Baini Village (百坭村) and become a vivid carrier for red study tours and comprehensive rural revitalization, allowing everyone who comes to admire it to feel the power of the original intention from the story of Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀). As the opening work of a series of rose variety selections with the theme of "female heroes," it will inspire more people to take role models as examples and adhere to dedication in ordinary positions. It will also be transformed into a spiritual symbol, reminding us: whoever puts the people in their hearts, the people will always remember. This fragrance is a deep tribute to those who dedicate themselves, and it is also a spiritual force to encourage cadres and the masses to continue to struggle and forge ahead.
"Wenxiu" (文秀) returns home, and her beauty will last forever. This rose that travels thousands of miles symbolizes the perseverance of the original intention and the inheritance of dedication. This fragrance will settle in the years and sublimate in the inheritance, inspiring more people to bloom their youth, write their lives, and create achievements.
(Excerpted and edited from "Guangxi Daily" (《广西日报》), originally titled "Wenxiu Returns Home, Her Beauty Will Last Forever")
Return to TopPragmatism is an essential quality for communists. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must adhere to pragmatic work and implementation, and all work must be done practically and effectively." In this issue of "Everyone Talks," we have selected three submissions to jointly consider how to better do practical things and create real achievements.
——Editor
Beware of "Attention-Grabbing Achievements"
Wu Yu (吴余), Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan Province (河南省)
When preparing for work, building 4,000 meters of publicity columns on both sides of the road leading to the on-site meeting; obtaining special funds to build "image projects" without scientific demonstration. Not long ago, Xinjiang (新疆) reported two typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots. Both cases put effort into creating "attention-grabbing achievements," which is alarming.
"Attention-grabbing achievements" take various forms and often have a certain degree of concealment. In reality, some cadres are good at packaging, accustomed to "**活没干嘴先吹**" (huó méi gàn zuǐ xiān chuī - "the mouth blows before the work is done," boasting before accomplishing anything), and the experience materials are formed before the work has been implemented and effective; or they grasp whatever is easy to shine, and promote whatever can be quickly effective; or they are keen on showing performance to superiors, not being responsible to subordinates, and not considering actual effects, "**不怕群众不满意，就怕领导不注意**" (bù pà qúnzhòng bù mǎnyì, jiù pà lǐngdǎo bù zhùyì - "not afraid of the masses being dissatisfied, but afraid of the leaders not paying attention"). Like this, putting心思 (xīnsi - thought/effort) on gaining attention and pursuing superficial excitement looks like swift and decisive action, but it is easy to leave many hidden dangers.
The value of achievements lies in reality. It should be recognized that achievements are not shouted out, but should benefit the masses and improve the quality of development. At the same time, the methods and means of assessment should be improved, not looking at "bonsai" but at corners, not listening to statements but listening to actual effects, not focusing on packaging but focusing on implementation, to promote cadres to improve their skills. Doing practical work, handling practical matters, and producing practical results can make the development answer sheet more colorful and the people's livelihood answer sheet more warm.
Avoid "Only Opening the Door Without Listening to Opinions"
Chen Shu (陈书), Kunming (昆明市), Yunnan Province (云南省)
Opening the door to solicit opinions is a way to follow the mass line and an important means of gathering wisdom.
However, some places "only open the door without listening to opinions." For example, some do not pay attention to the opinions received and shelve them; some "mass-send" questionnaires indiscriminately, or "lightning-strike" to urge the reporting of opinions. "**征不征求是我的事，有没有意见是你的事，采不采纳不关你的事**" (zhēng bù zhēngqiú shì wǒ de shì, yǒu méiyǒu yìjiàn shì nǐ de shì, cǎi bù cǎinà bù guān nǐ de shì - "Whether to solicit opinions is my business, whether you have opinions is your business, whether to adopt them is not your business"), similar phenomena make soliciting opinions a mere formality and easily breed problems of formalism.
Opening the door requires truly opening the door and opening the big door. Soliciting opinions must seek practical results. Various forms should be adopted, sufficient time should be allowed, and the opinions must be thoroughly investigated and practically raised. We must also do a good job in the "second half of the article," classify and integrate the opinions solicited, and establish a full-process supervision mechanism to improve the efficiency of handling affairs according to the opinions of the masses, so as to benefit the masses with practical results.
Don't Let "Hard Work" Obscure Your Vision
Zha Dejin (查德金), Lu'an (六安市), Anhui Province (安徽省)
In grassroots research, it was found that some cadres often have a sentence on their lips - "Even if there is no merit, there is hard work."
Careful analysis reveals some bad ideological tendencies. One is that it is better to endure seniority than to strive for performance. Work requires perseverance, but perseverance is not equal to enduring years and muddling through. Taking "guarding" the post and "enduring" the night in the office as dedication, regardless of what has been accomplished, is taking the means as the end. That kind of "**做一天和尚撞一天钟**" (zuò yī tiān héshang zhuàng yī tiān zhōng - "be a monk for a day, strike the bell for a day," doing things in a perfunctory manner) coping mentality, the false busyness of "only flowering but not bearing fruit," is essentially formalism and does not help solve problems or develop the cause.
Another is to only look at "whether it is done" and not "whether it is done well." Some cadres seem diligent, but there are problems of not respecting the rules. For example, some blindly launch projects and spread stalls regardless of reality, calling it "active action," resulting in a pile of "half-finished" projects; some make decisions "**拍脑袋**" (pāi nǎo dài - "pat the head," make decisions impulsively) and work hard with enthusiasm, resulting in good intentions doing bad things. This kind of "hard work" that deviates from reality and violates the rules is actually a kind of blind action, which is equally harmful.
Achievements are not "endured" or forced out, but "done" with a scientific attitude and pragmatic spirit. Instead of enduring hardship and working blindly, it is better to work hard and scientifically. In this way, we can create a world of our own.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘成友 刘洪超
In early spring, Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁) province, a warm current flows through the city. Inside the "Lei Feng (雷锋) Canteen" in Tiexi District (铁西区), thin water vapor condenses on the glass windows, and the aroma of hot meals fills the room. Volunteers carefully wrap the meal boxes in insulated bags and hurry to the homes of elderly people living alone. "It's cold in early spring, eat it while it's hot." Under the enthusiastic instructions of the volunteers, 71-year-old Zhao Wanjun (赵万军) accepted the meal with both hands: "With you here, my heart is warm."
Providing free meals to elderly people living alone and families in need in the community, establishing a support fund to help people in difficulty... "Learning from Lei Feng (雷锋) is about warming people's hearts." Xu Gang (徐刚), the person in charge of the "Lei Feng (雷锋) Canteen" in Tiexi District (铁西区), said simply, expressing the original intention of Shenyang (沈阳) people to practice the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit, and also becoming the most vivid footnote of this heroic city.
As the hot land where Lei Feng (雷锋) once worked, lived, and struggled, more than sixty years have passed, and the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit has long been integrated into the streets and alleys of Shenyang (沈阳), permeating the city's cultural context, and becoming the city's most distinctive background color and most moving symbol.
Uphold the original intention, rely on hard work; pass on the spirit, need innovation. In order to make the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit tangible and accessible, Shenyang (沈阳) has embarked on a distinctive path of inheritance: the China (Shenyang) Industrial Museum (中国（沈阳）工业博物馆) has created the country's first "Digital Intelligence Worker Lei Feng (雷锋)" AI special exhibition, using the power of technology to restore Lei Feng's (雷锋) struggle footprint; Tiantan Community (天坛社区) in Nantajian Street (南塔街道), Shenhe District (沈河区), has carried out the "Continuing Lei Feng (雷锋) Diary" activity for 14 consecutive years, allowing the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit to take root at the grassroots level in normalized practice; Ma Chengliang (马成良), a passenger transport worker at Shenyang Station (沈阳站) of the China Railway Shenyang Bureau (中国铁路沈阳局) and "Wheelchair Brother," has been picking up and dropping off passengers with mobility difficulties for 23 years as one day... Heartwarming moments highlight the sincerity and perseverance of Shenyang (沈阳) people in the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit.
The Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit, rooted in the front line of government affairs, adds more warmth to the business environment. Walking into the Political Service Hall of Heping District (和平区), you can see a two-meter-high statue of Lei Feng (雷锋). The staff here integrate the "screw" spirit and the "nail-biting" spirit into every aspect of the approval service: the "Heping (和平) Warm Heart Dressing Table" in the entry-exit window provides disposable hair dyeing spray for the masses who take ID photos; the "Undifferentiated Comprehensive Acceptance Window" realizes "one-time handling of one matter"; the "Code on Bright Items" mechanism makes the approval completion rate of 156 key projects reach 100%. "Using efficient service to solve people's worries, and using sincere dedication to warm people's hearts, this is the 'Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit' of our government affairs people," said Xue Ruwen (薛茹文), leader of the comprehensive acceptance group of the comprehensive window.
In grassroots governance, the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit is even more of a "golden key" to resolving contradictions and uniting people's hearts. Shenyang (沈阳) relies on 2,685 new era civilization practice centers (institutes, stations) (新时代文明实践中心（所、站）), mobilizing veteran party members, police officers, and volunteers to form a screening team to resolve disputes in the bud. In Quanfu Community (泉富社区), Shenhe District (沈河区), the "threading the needle" work method solves governance problems, and the "one brick" service team takes root at the grassroots level. "Let the people around you serve the people around you, resolve contradictions at the grassroots level, and send warmth to your doorstep." Wang Hongmei (王红梅), secretary of the community party committee, introduced that, for example, "Convenience Master" Master Li (李师傅) helps neighbors repair water pipes, change light bulbs, and solve worries, which is the inheritance of the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit. Over the years, the service team has resolved more than 300 neighborhood conflicts, renovated more than 100 public facilities, and turned old and messy courtyards into "harmonious and beautiful courtyards."
"Five-Door Work Method" in Fengze Community (丰泽社区), Heping District (和平区), "Reasoning and Speaking" team in Shenhe District (沈河区), "Old Wu Mediation Room" in Shenbei New District (沈北新区), "Elderly Mediation Group" in Kangping County (康平县)... volunteer teams build a "bridge of hearts" for neighborhood unity with the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit.
Since being awarded the title of "Lei Feng (雷锋) Bank" in 2015, the Shenyang Branch (沈阳分行) of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) has always practiced the concept of "learning the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit, following the Lei Feng (雷锋) road, and creating Lei Feng (雷锋) achievements." There are "Lei Feng (雷锋) Windows," "Lei Feng (雷锋) Bookstores," and "Lei Feng (雷锋) Theme Exhibition Halls" here. Employees, based on their positions, provide considerate services such as sign language and minority languages, and also go deep into communities and schools to carry out financial anti-fraud publicity, using professionalism and warmth to write a new era of financial people's learning from Lei Feng (雷锋) stories.
Learning from Lei Feng (雷锋) is valuable in its normalcy; practicing the original intention is important in its long-term effectiveness. Shenyang (沈阳) adheres to the normalization of learning from Lei Feng (雷锋), carries out "one theme per month" volunteer service activities, promotes the transformation of volunteer services from centralized development to daily practice, from scattered activities to brand projects, and builds a volunteer service pattern that covers the entire region, involves the entire people, and is effective throughout the entire process.
The "Yuexing" Volunteer Service Station (樾行志愿服务站) in Hunnan District (浑南区) sends warmth to tourists at transportation hubs; the "New Storytelling" activity in Dadong District (大东区) allows people's livelihood policies to penetrate into people's hearts; the "Love Canteen" in Sujiatun District (苏家屯区) and the "No-Wall Nursing Home" in Shenbei New District (沈北新区) allow elderly care and assistance to the disabled to be integrated into daily life. Today, more than one million registered volunteers are active in the streets and alleys, covering different ages and different occupations. They use small acts of kindness to interpret that "Lei Feng (雷锋) is around us."
Role models are like lights, illuminating the road of volunteering; micro-lights converge, casting a warm current in the city. Retired old policeman Chu Shurong (侴淑荣), 86 years old, has adhered to public welfare for decades, accompanying disabled children to grow up: "I feel it's worth it to watch the children grow up well." Jing Yadong (景亚栋), who works in Shenyang (沈阳), has led a volunteer service team of migrant workers for 18 years, and his original intention has not changed: "Doing my best to help others is the most practical thing." Wang Xuechen (王学琛), an auxiliary police officer of the Tiexi Branch (铁西分局), quietly left after bravely saving an old man in a fire on his way home to visit relatives, and said afterwards: "Saving people is an instinct, just like Lei Feng (雷锋) did back then, reaching out when he sees others in difficulty."
Learning from Lei Feng (雷锋) is the perseverance engraved in the bones of Shenyang (沈阳) people, and it is the pursuit of generations of Shenyang (沈阳) people that never fades. Today's Shenyang (沈阳), the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit has been integrated into the streets and alleys of this heroic city, and Shenyang (沈阳) is continuing to write new era Lei Feng (雷锋) stories with small acts of kindness, so that the Lei Feng (雷锋) spirit will be passed on from generation to generation and will never cease.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇
From the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, ancient Chinese people continuously adjusted the slope of building roofs to better adapt to the local climate environment at the time, in order to cope with the century-scale changes in snowfall brought about by climate change, maintain building safety, and reduce maintenance costs.
What is the relationship between the design of ancient building roofs and climate change? This is a topic that Academician Fu Congbin (符淙斌) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University (南京大学), and Researcher Ge Quansheng (葛全胜) of the Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所) have been studying in recent years.
"The roof slope is negatively correlated with the average temperature in the winter half-year in eastern and central China. During cold periods, the roofs become noticeably steeper; during warm periods, the roof slope decreases significantly. However, the 'roof pitch ratio,' which reflects the roof slope, i.e., the ratio of the roof height to the distance between the front and rear purlins, reaches about 23%, and then never falls below this value," explained Li Siyang (李思洋), a tenure-track associate professor at the School of History at Nanjing University (南京大学) and a member of the research team.
Considering Architectural Functional Needs to Reveal the Reasons for Changes in Roof Slope
Tang Dynasty architecture is spacious and open, Song Dynasty architecture is exquisite and detailed, Ming and Qing Dynasty architecture is steep and complex... While Chinese architecture evolved in different styles across different eras, the team also noticed the changes in the roof slope, whether steep or gentle. "What factors drove the changes in roof slope?"
Previously, some senior scholars had discovered in their investigations and studies of ancient architecture that the roof slope generally showed a trend of becoming steeper from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, rising from about 20% in the 8th century to about 35% in the 18th century. Traditional architectural history research often explores the era differences in building roof slopes from the perspectives of architectural technology development and aesthetic style evolution.
"However, buildings have strong residential attributes, so we were curious whether there was an influence of the functional needs of the building itself behind the evolution of architectural styles with the times?" After raising this question, the team began its research.
During the research process, the team discovered an interesting phenomenon: Longmen Temple (龙门寺) in Pingshun, Shanxi (山西平顺) preserves architectural remains from the Five Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The Mahavira Hall (大雄宝殿) (1098) and the East Side Hall (东配殿) (1498-1504), built during cold periods, exhibit steeper roofs, with roof pitch ratios of 29.67% and 30.50%, respectively. The Hall of the Heavenly Kings (天王殿) (1271-1294), built during a warm period, is more gentle, at 26.92%.
"Ultimately, we tried to understand this phenomenon from a climate perspective," explained Ding Ke (丁可), a tenure-track assistant professor at the School of Atmospheric Sciences at Nanjing University (南京大学) and a member of the research team.
To prove this hypothesis on a millennial scale, there were no readily available ancient building slope change sequences or meteorological data. The team sorted out more than 200 official buildings in northern China with clear survey records from the Tang Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, established a database of ancient building roof pitch ratios, and collected and organized historical climate change data.
Statistical analysis revealed that the era changes in roof slope showed a century-scale fluctuating upward trend, with smaller roof slopes during warm periods and larger roof slopes during cold periods.
Sorting out the Relationship Between Slope and Historical Climate Change, Discovering the Snow Removal Motivation for Steeper Roofs
Among the many meteorological elements, the key was to consider which one or several to use as research directions.
"Is the change in house slope affected by wind, rainfall, or snowfall?" "Wind? As a closed building, only the roof slope changes, and the impact on indoor air temperature is relatively limited." "Rainfall? Then, with increased rainfall during warm periods, the roof should become steeper to increase drainage capacity, which is inconsistent with the observed trend."...
After several discussions, some hypotheses were ruled out, and ensuring the roof's snow removal capacity became the most likely possibility.
"Since the existing architectural remains are mostly located in the semi-arid and semi-humid regions of eastern and central China, where the winter weather is relatively cold and snowfall is high, we speculate that allowing the snow on the roof to slide off quickly, thereby preventing damage to the house, may be an important factor in roof design. To verify this hypothesis, we first need to find snowfall data in ancient books when the climate was cold and the roof slope was large, to see if these periods did indeed have more frequent and extreme snowfall records," Ding Ke (丁可) explained.
On this basis, the team further combined modern meteorological data, historical temperature reconstruction data, and historical archaeological data to reconstruct the changes in snowfall in eastern and central China over the past millennium, and simulated the roof slope changes required solely to cope with snowfall changes. The results showed that the ideal roof slope changes calculated based on snowfall were almost consistent with the roof slope changes of architectural remains over the past millennium.
"This means that snowfall weather may have a significant impact on the design of traditional Chinese buildings," Ding Ke (丁可) explained.
Consulting a Large Amount of Data to Study the Adaptation of Architectural Forms to Climate Change
During the research process, the team also discovered a strange problem: ancient buildings built before 940 AD systematically have smaller roof slopes than those of later generations. For example, the West Side Hall (西配殿) of Longmen Temple (龙门寺) was built in the third year of Tongguang (同光) of the Later Tang (后唐) during the Five Dynasties (925 AD). From a meteorological point of view, it belonged to a cold period like the Ming and Qing Dynasties, but the roof slope was not as large as that of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is worth noting that the roof slope at this stage was in a period of rapid growth, which may reflect the process by which builders at this time sought to increase the roof slope through technical adjustments under the influence of the increased demand for snow removal during cold periods.
An interesting example of this conjecture is that the roof pitch ratio developed from 19.24% in the Main Hall of Nanchan Temple (南禅寺大殿) on Mount Wutai (五台山) in 782 AD to 29.67% in the Main Hall of Longmen Temple (龙门寺大殿) in Pingshun (平顺) in 1098 AD. From a construction perspective, some components in the building roof and beam frame seem to have undergone certain relative positional changes. For example, the relative position of the lowest beam changed from being lower than the purlin to being at the same height as or higher than the purlin. Although the structural changes during this period were related to the systematic development of the ancient Chinese wooden structure, their objective effect did indeed facilitate the construction of steeper roofs.
In addition, from the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty during the Little Ice Age, a new roof curve design method – the "lifting frame method" – began to appear and was gradually widely used. The roof slope designed using this method was further increased, and in the 1730s, it was written into official building codes and became the design criterion for official building roofs thereafter.
"Through sorting and research, we can see that Chinese builders in various dynasties seem to have achieved adaptation to climate change in the process of architectural form and technical adjustment," said Li Siyang (李思洋).
Based on interdisciplinary research on climate and ancient buildings, the team published a new research result in 2025, pointing to the "mystery of the development of Dougong in the Six Dynasties": Why did the form of Dougong extending to support the eaves decrease during the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties? And why did this phenomenon only appear during this period?
Since there are no existing examples of wooden buildings in China before the Tang Dynasty, the research team sorted out about 250 architectural image materials, combined with temperature reconstruction data and related ideal experiments, and found that the deep eaves supported by Dougong extensions would significantly reduce the intensity and duration of solar radiation received by the building; and the Three Kingdoms, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were generally cold, and the residents' demand for solar radiation heating increased accordingly, resulting in a design orientation to shorten the building's eaves. Therefore, the team speculated that the climate background of this period could provide a possible explanation for the reduction of the Dougong extension supporting the eaves.
"There is still much wisdom in ancient buildings worth exploring, and climate change provides a new perspective for observation," the research team said, adding that they are extending this perspective to longer-term and more comprehensive research in the field of archaeology.
Further Reading
Interpreting the "Three-Dimensional Literature" of Climate Adaptation
As one of the most prominent external features of ancient Chinese architecture, the shape of the roof is inseparable from the natural environment. It is not only the crystallization of architectural technology and art, but also a "three-dimensional literature" recording the history of climate adaptation.
To interpret this "literature," it is necessary to combine the interdisciplinary perspectives of architectural history and climate science. This research path provides a new method for understanding the evolution of ancient architecture. The focus is on selecting key angles, quantifying the changes in the shape of building roofs in various dynasties, and comparing them with high-resolution paleoclimate reconstruction records, and then using mathematical models to test their internal connections, and finally tracing the wisdom of human beings in coping with climate change on a millennial scale.
(Organized by Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 龚相娟
"Thanks to the medical staff, it was thanks to their racing against time that they saved my life. After waking up and listening to the doctor's introduction of the situation at the time, I felt particularly scared." On March 30, after hospitalization and observation, Li Cheng (李成) (pseudonym) completed the discharge procedures.
Li Cheng (李成), 36 years old this year, works in Tianjin (天津). On the morning of March 23, he felt chest tightness and physical discomfort. Accompanied by his workmates, he came to the Ninghe District Hospital (宁河区医院) of Tianjin (天津) for treatment. Unexpectedly, he fell to the ground just after arriving at the hospital parking lot.
"Save people quickly! Someone fainted in the parking lot!" Hearing a burst of urgent cries for help, an emergency rescue began: Fan Chuanwu (樊传武), a doctor from the hospital's emergency department, and two emergency department nurses quickly pushed out a rescue cart and rushed to the parking lot. Fortunately, the emergency room was very close to the parking lot.
"Loss of consciousness, limb convulsions, disappearance of carotid artery pulsation, cardiac arrest!" After checking the patient's vital signs on the spot, Fan Chuanwu (樊传武) knelt down and leaned over, quickly carrying out cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Subsequently, a passing stranger also lent a helping hand, and everyone worked together to lift Li Cheng (李成) onto the rescue cart. Two nurses and Li Cheng's (李成) workmates pushed the rescue cart to the emergency room, and Fan Chuanwu (樊传武) knelt on the rescue cart, continuing to perform uninterrupted chest compressions on Li Cheng (李成), buying valuable time for subsequent treatment.
"This is a key factor in the patient's successful rescue." Yu Jianbao (于建宝), director of the Emergency Department of Ninghe District Hospital (宁河区医院), said that the purpose of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is to "replace the heart's pumping function." For patients with cardiac arrest, 4 minutes is the "golden time" to save lives, and the heart must be restored to blood supply and blood flow as soon as possible. Every minute of delay will reduce the success rate of rescue by 7% to 10%.
After arriving at the rescue room, the medical staff immediately carried out further examination and found that Li Cheng (李成) was in ventricular fibrillation and needed immediate electrical defibrillation.
In layman's terms, ventricular fibrillation is the complete failure of the "circuit system" of the ventricles, the myocardium trembles chaotically, unable to form effective contractility, unable to transport blood to the brain and the whole body. If there is no timely intervention, the patient will face life danger in just a few minutes.
The emergency department team members cooperated and coordinated. After a tense and orderly rescue, Li Cheng (李成) regained consciousness. Subsequently, the consultation further clarified that Li Cheng's (李成) cardiac arrest was caused by acute myocardial infarction, which required emergency interventional surgery.
The green channel was then opened, and Li Cheng (李成) was quickly transferred from the emergency department to the catheterization laboratory to prepare for surgery. Coronary angiography showed that the left circumflex branch of Li Cheng's (李成) heart was completely blocked. After coronary thrombus aspiration and implantation of a cardiac stent to open the blocked blood vessel, Li Cheng's (李成) vital signs finally gradually stabilized, winning this race against death.
"The out-of-hospital mortality rate of acute myocardial infarction is very high. The patient received timely treatment in the hospital, which avoided the tragedy." Sun Xiaoji (孙晓冀), deputy director of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine of Ninghe District Hospital (宁河区医院), reminded everyone that if you experience uncomfortable symptoms such as chest tightness, chest pain, and palpitations, you should seek medical attention in time. Do not delay. Early detection and early treatment are the key to saving lives.
Return to TopRecently, Rongcheng City (荣成市), Shandong Province (山东省), has continuously optimized the marine equipment industry ecosystem, promoting the transformation of the shipbuilding industry from traditional manufacturing to high-end, green, and intelligent development. The picture shows various large ships under construction berthed at the shipbuilding base in Shidao Management District (石岛管理区), Rongcheng City (荣成市) on March 31.
Photo by Wang Fudong (王福东) (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 31st (Reporter Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)) To consolidate and deepen the achievements of the "Campus Meal" special rectification, continuously strengthen campus food safety management, enhance the safety awareness of frontline staff in school canteens, and standardize the operating procedures of practitioners, the General Office of the Ministry of Education (教育部办公厅) recently issued the "Ten Musts" for Campus Food Safety and the "Ten Prohibitions" for School Canteen Staff, to further consolidate the campus food safety defense line and **保驾护航** (bǎo jià hù háng - "escort and protect," to safeguard or protect).
The "Ten Musts" for Campus Food Safety proposes ten requirements: must obtain a food business license in accordance with the law, must adhere to the principle of public welfare, must implement the food safety responsibility system, must strictly carry out health management and training assessments for canteen employees, must strictly purchase food raw materials in accordance with regulations, must implement the purchase inspection and recording system, must strictly prohibit the production and sale of high-risk foods, must strictly clean and disinfect tableware in accordance with regulations, must adhere to the meal accompaniment system without being perfunctory, and must handle food safety accidents in accordance with regulations.
The "Ten Prohibitions" for School Canteen Staff proposes that personnel who have not obtained a valid health certificate are not allowed to engage in work involving direct contact with food, personnel are not allowed to engage in food processing without wearing clean work clothes, hats, and masks and without cleaning their hands, raw and cooked foods are not allowed to be mixed, tools are not allowed to be used interchangeably, tableware and containers that have not been cleaned and disinfected or have not been thoroughly disinfected are not allowed to be used, and it is not allowed to conceal, falsely report, or delay reporting food safety accidents, or to hide, forge, destroy, or transfer unqualified food or related evidence.
Return to TopThis newspaper Hefei (合肥) March 31st (Reporter Xu Jing (徐靖)) Recently, Professor Zhang Zhi (张智) team from the University of Science and Technology of China revealed the neural code of pain fluctuating with day and night. The relevant results were published in the journal *Science* recently.
The research team first tested the changes in pain sensitivity of pain model mice. "Our body is like a 'pain regulator'. It quietly weakens the pain when we are active, but inadvertently amplifies it when we rest." The researchers said that the diurnal variation of pain is a universal law in the biological world.
The researchers further found that in the hypothalamus of the brain, a region called the suprachiasmatic nucleus is the body's "master biological clock." It is like a precise command center, uniformly scheduling the rhythms of sleep, body temperature changes, and hormone secretion. The team successfully tracked down a pain regulation neural circuit from this "master biological clock" to the spinal cord, revealing an important link in the body's production of pain perception. Due to the regulation of the diurnal rhythm activity of the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the neurons on this neural circuit are completely different in activity during the day and night, resulting in a large difference in the body's sensitivity to pain during the day and night.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
The World Data Organization was established in Beijing (北京) on March 30th. A reporter learned from the preparatory committee of the World Data Organization that the English name of the World Data Organization is World Data Organization, abbreviated as WDO. It is a professional, non-governmental, and non-profit international organization voluntarily formed by relevant units and individuals in the global data field, aiming to "bridge the data divide, release data value, and prosper the digital economy."
Why establish this international organization at this time?
Today's world is accelerating into a data-driven intelligent era. The development and utilization of data resources continue to promote profound changes in production methods, lifestyles, and governance methods, injecting new impetus into global technological innovation, economic growth, and the progress of human society.
Tan Tieniu (谭铁牛), Chairman of the World Data Organization, said that at present, the global economic recovery is still weak, and the momentum for growth is insufficient. Relying on traditional trade and investment to drive economic growth has diminishing marginal effects. "At the same time, the digital economy is rising, and artificial intelligence is booming. The most important feature of this is data-driven. How to fully release the potential of data and drive the faster development of the digital economy is a common problem facing all mankind, and it also requires a globally recognized international platform to promote the solution of these problems," said Tan Tieniu (谭铁牛).
Hu Jianbo (胡坚波), Dean of the National Data Development Research Institute, said that the establishment of the World Data Organization is significant in gathering the strength of diverse entities such as global enterprises, research institutions, industry organizations, technology communities, and social organizations to build a global cooperation platform for data development and governance. The organization will promote the development and utilization of data resources, serve the development of the global digital economy, and promote the benefits of digital intelligence technology to more countries and regions by promoting member services and industry self-discipline, carrying out policy research and compliance services, promoting the interconnection of key facilities, deepening industrial research and public welfare activities, and building a platform for exchange and cooperation.
Promote bridging the data divide. "Data contains huge productivity. China (中国) is the first country to regard data as a factor of production. The current development of the intelligent economy is confirming the key value of data. From a global perspective, a large number of people still do not have access to the Internet, and many low-income countries have not yet been covered by 5G networks." Zhang Xianghong (张向宏), a member of the National Data Expert Advisory Committee and a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学), said that the establishment of the World Data Organization, sharing the data development concepts and practical experience of various countries, can jointly focus on promoting joint technology research and development, sharing and utilization of results, interconnection of data infrastructure, and strengthening digital talent training, so that more countries can share digital dividends.
Release the value of data elements. "The more data flows, the more it can release value, but at the same time, data has characteristics such as high mobility and high sensitivity. Data flow still faces problems such as fragmentation of standards and rules, which restricts the release of data element value." Fang Yi (方毅), a member of the National Data Standardization Technical Committee and Chairman of MobTech (每日互动), told reporters that the establishment of the World Data Organization will help give play to the role of governments, enterprises, and social organizations, promote the formulation, docking, and mutual recognition of relevant standards, solve obstacles in cross-border data flow, especially in the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and can use standardized and institutionalized collaboration to solve the bottlenecks in data circulation and better support the high-quality development of the digital economy.
Currently, the World Data Organization has gathered more than 200 members, covering more than 40 countries around the world. Tan Tieniu (谭铁牛) said that the World Data Organization will focus on solving the difficult problem of inconsistent data policies in various countries, promote the formation of industry consensus, standard recommendations, and best practices, provide reference for governments and research institutions, and help multinational companies reduce data compliance costs. At the same time, it will deepen the development and utilization of data, apply data to practical scenarios such as medical care, education, and energy, promote project implementation and industrial innovation; and strengthen talent training, especially helping countries in the Global South and developing countries improve their data capabilities.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 迅
"How far exactly is space from us?" "What kind of skills do we need to acquire to explore the cosmos?" At the Aerospace Lecture Hall of Central South University (中南大学), after the sharing session by Xie Jun (谢军), the chief designer of the BeiDou-3 (北斗三号) satellite, students in the audience eagerly raised their hands to ask questions, igniting a passion for knowledge at the event.
Recently, the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation's (中国宋庆龄基金会) "Master's Lecture Hall for Children" entered Hunan (湖南), holding four events under the theme of "Youth Establish Aspirations: Hunan's Voice Dares to Lead the World." Academicians from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering, experts, scholars, and young people engaged in face-to-face exchanges, integrating scientific and technological innovation, humanistic care, and Hunan culture into lively classrooms.
In Zhuzhou (株洲), an important birthplace of China's rail transit equipment industry, Liu Haitao (刘海涛), Deputy General Manager and Chief Engineer of CRRC Zhuzhou Institute (中车株洲所), reviewed the development history of China's high-speed rail, from its initial stages and catching up to surpassing and leading, realizing the transformation of core technologies from import to independent research and development output, demonstrating the hard-core strength of Chinese manufacturing. Gao Nan (高楠), a senior expert from CRRC Group (中车集团), starting from human-centered design, proposed that rail transit design should go through three levels: usable, easy to use, and enjoyable. During the interaction, students enthusiastically raised questions about extreme cold temperature control and nighttime operation and maintenance, and experts provided detailed answers, making hard-core technology feel approachable and relatable.
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. At the Changsha (长沙) Malanshan Video Cultural and Creative Park (马栏山视频文创园), renowned sculptor Wu Weishan (吴为山) and director Zhang Yongxin (张永新) interpreted the spirit of the Long March from an artistic perspective, bringing a dialogue between red culture and artistic innovation. Wu Weishan led nearly 30 young sculptors over several years to create the "Long March Sculpture Group" (《长征组雕》), using bronze and granite to capture history. The Red Army hat left behind in "Bloody Battle of Xiangjiang" (《血战湘江》) and the upturned boat rowing hard in "Forcibly Crossing the Dadu River" (《强渡大渡河》) solidified the power of faith with artistic strokes. The two experts encouraged young people to root their creations in the motherland and its people, and to have warmth and strength only when they have love in their hearts.
Hunan (湖南) is an important source of BeiDou (北斗) technology and a demonstration zone for innovative applications. At Central South University (中南大学), Xie Jun (谢军) and Chen Xianfeng (陈险峰), Deputy Chief Engineer of Spacety (天仪空间), jointly recounted the journey of China's aerospace industry from catching up to leading. Xie Jun has spent half his life deeply involved in BeiDou, witnessing the transformation of key components from import dependence to complete independent control. Today, the BeiDou system has been integrated into national economy and people's livelihood fields such as precision agriculture and emergency rescue. Liu Yutan (刘雨檀), a student from the First Affiliated Primary School of Central South University (中南大学第一附属小学), brought a hand-drawn satellite picture of the "Long March Bugler," hoping to design a satellite that monitors farmland and protects the Xiangjiang River (湘江). Xie Jun encouraged young people to learn their skills well and hone their resilience, "Your dreams are tomorrow's aerospace industry."
At Yali Middle School (雅礼中学) in Changsha (长沙), Academician Yin Yulong (印遇龙) and Academician Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华) from the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) brought a "Science Class on the Tip of the Tongue," unlocking the health secrets of every meal and drink. Yin Yulong, who has been deeply involved in pig farming for more than 40 years, introduced popular science topics such as meat being a high-quality protein source for young people and that it is healthier to eat lard in combination with vegetable oil. Liu Zhonghua interpreted the health secrets from a piece of tea, explaining the benefits of drinking tea scientifically. Middle school students shared their catering matching ideas on the spot, and the academicians commented on them one by one, allowing health concepts to take root in people's hearts through interaction.
From space exploration to rail transit, from red art to everyday food and drink, in four lectures, experts spoke eloquently, guiding young people to broaden their horizons and draw strength in exchanges.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 方 敏
In the research and development laboratory of a company in Zhengzhou High-tech Industrial Development Zone (郑州高新技术产业开发区), Henan (河南), 30-year-old Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) talked about the latest AI drone research and development plan, speaking eloquently with a sparkle in his eyes. Currently, his team is tackling AI automation technology, and the heavy-lift drones developed by the team directly serve more than 500 customers.
As early as when he was studying at Zhengzhou University (郑州大学), Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) became fascinated with drones. After graduation, the idea of starting a business kept "pricking" at him. After working in Beijing (北京) for two years, he finally decided to return to his hometown to start a business. "Where to find a venue? Who will work with you? Where will the money come from? Can the products be sold?" People around him poured cold water, which was also what he was worried about. Talent shortage, financing difficulties, narrow market... These "stumbling blocks" have made many young entrepreneurs think of giving up.
Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) was prepared to 碰壁 (pèng bì - "bump into a wall," to meet with setbacks), but he didn't expect his entrepreneurial path to be quite smooth.
The first step in starting a business was to solve the problem of office space and scientific research venues. With the help of relevant departments of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) and the Organization and Personnel Department of Zhengzhou High-tech Zone (郑州高新区组织人事部), the Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) laboratory provided Du Zhenyang's (杜振洋) team with two years of free research and development workstations, and the government incubation carrier of the High-tech Zone (高新区) also provided fully equipped preferential office space.
Drone test flights require specific airspace. Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) submitted an application, and the High-tech Zone (高新区) linked up with local schools to delineate idle areas on campus. Extreme test flights require high-altitude airspace, and the High-tech Zone (高新区) connected with Zhengzhou Shangjie Airport (郑州上街机场) to help "unlock" new venues.
"I thought I would have to run around until my legs broke, but I didn't expect the government to help sort things out," said Du Zhenyang (杜振洋). With the venue problem solved, research and development proceeded smoothly, and the talent shortage problem emerged again.
Drone research and development involves multiple fields. Du Zhenyang's (杜振洋) specialty is software flight control, and he is not good at structural design and other aspects, and the team also lacks relevant talents. Seeing that it was about to "stall," the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (郑州市委组织部) found during routine visits that many entrepreneurial teams were facing this kind of problem, and then linked up with Zhengzhou University (郑州大学) and Zhengzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (郑州市人社局) to "solve the problem." Six experts in different fields came to the door to guide, breaking the bottlenecks in structural design and flight control optimization. Through the recruitment platform built by the Zhengzhou Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (郑州市人社局), more practical talents arrived one after another.
"Talents are willing to join, thanks to Zhengzhou's (郑州) subsidies and housing policies," said Du Zhenyang (杜振洋). Young talents with a college degree or above can directly apply for talent apartments, as well as internship subsidies and social security subsidies, which greatly reduces the company's labor costs.
In 2022, the company successfully launched the first generation of independently developed drones; in 2023, heavy-lift drones were successfully developed. However, when it came to market, Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) encountered difficulties again.
The Organization and Personnel Department of the High-tech Zone (高新区组织人事部) once again extended a helping hand: introducing mature enterprises, connecting with industry resources, and assisting in building a sales system. "The company's scientific research results have truly achieved industrialization, thanks to the government's support," Du Zhenyang (杜振洋) said with emotion. Today, the drones he developed have been widely used in photovoltaic facility cleaning, mountain material transportation, industrial inspection and other fields, and have become a benchmark in the drone field in Zhengzhou High-tech Zone (郑州高新区).
In order to support youth innovation and entrepreneurship, in recent years, the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (郑州市委组织部) has taken the lead in overall planning, coordinating municipal departments to make up for shortcomings and optimize services, and helping young people and the city to "run in both directions."
——Build a fine entrepreneurial platform, and build 292 incubation carriers; establish 374 designated vocational training institutions, and order-based training has benefited 1.189 million people;
——Establish 5 entrepreneurship work stations, and raise 201,000 sets (rooms) of talent apartments; 96 entrepreneurship mentors provide routine "consultations";
——Create the "Zheng Hao Rong (郑好融)" financial platform, with a cumulative issuance of 667 million yuan of technology loans and 3.09 billion yuan of entrepreneurial guarantee loans...
According to the relevant person in charge of the Zhengzhou Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (郑州市委组织部), since 2022, Zhengzhou (郑州) has added 992,000 young talents and incubated 15,000 enterprises. "In the future, we will continue to promote the implementation of policies, provide refined supporting services, further optimize the market environment, and attract more talents to gather in the Central Plains."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹玲娟
Recently, a "literary cruise ship" located between Waibaidu Bridge (外白渡桥) and Zha Pu Road Bridge (乍浦路桥) in Shanghai (上海), adjacent to the Suzhou Creek (苏州河), officially opened and "set sail." This ship, the North Bund Rainbow Bookery (北外滩虹书舫), is jointly created by the Hongkou District Culture and Tourism Bureau (虹口区文旅局), the North Bund Group (北外滩集团), and Dayin Bookmall (大隐书局).
The North Bund Rainbow Bookery is a diverse cultural space integrating reading experience, cultural exchange, immersive consumption, artistic performance, and themed exhibitions. The project takes a super cruise ship as its core concept, showcasing 500 kinds of selected books, periodicals, and 2,000 high-quality reading materials, building a professional collection system that can be called "a readable world literary history," becoming the first themed reading space in Shanghai (上海) with world literature as its theme.
The collection system of the North Bund Rainbow Bookery has both professionalism and richness. Among them, the "Nobel Prize in Literature Special" contains 218 kinds of works, from the lyrical poems of Sully Prudhomme, the first Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 1901, to the latest work "The World Goes On" by László Krasznahorkai, the newly awarded Nobel Prize in Literature winner in 2025, covering 115 Nobel Prize in Literature winners.
In addition, the North Bund Rainbow Bookery has also built a global "International Literary Award Matrix" - 62 Kafka Prize works, 39 Hugo Award science fiction classics, 35 Cervantes Prize works, etc., bringing together literary masterpieces from different regions and styles, forming a "兼容并蓄" (jiān róng bìng xù - "inclusive," to accept different things). literary ecology.
In the local literature section, 31 Mao Dun Literature Prize works, 14 Lu Xun Literature Prize masterpieces, and 12 Lao She Literature Prize works completely present the development context of contemporary Chinese literature. The specially set "Shanghai School Literature Special" includes 32 hardcover collector's editions of works by 16 Shanghai School writers such as Chen Danyan (陈丹燕) and Wang Anyi (王安忆).
The North Bund Rainbow Bookery also cooperates deeply with 64 domestic publishing houses. Shanghai Translation Publishing House (上海译文出版社) and People's Literature Publishing House (人民文学出版社) contribute more than 40% of the collection, and the addition of Nanhai Publishing Company (南海出版公司), Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House (浙江文艺出版社) and other publishing houses further enriches the collection level. 36 kinds of boutique periodicals build a "book + periodical" three-dimensional reading scene, and literature, science, and lifestyle periodicals bring a diversified reading experience.
In order to further enrich the cultural experience dimension, the North Bund Rainbow Bookery has created a music unit brand "Bund Music Collection" and launched an immersive performance of "The Flowing Seasons Poetry," using a cultural, commercial, tourism, sports, and exhibition linkage model to unlock a new immersive leisure experience of "book fragrance + music" for citizens and tourists.
In the themed exhibition section, the North Bund Rainbow Bookery launched the special exhibition "Stars Shine in Shanghai - Shanghai Footprints of World Celebrities," focusing on 10 masters in various fields who visited Shanghai (上海) between 1919 and 1937, such as John Dewey (杜威), Albert Einstein (爱因斯坦), and Rabindranath Tagore (泰戈尔). Through the exhibition of precious historical materials, the first-person story interpretation, immersive scene restoration and other diverse forms, it reproduces the century-old elegance of Shanghai (上海) as an international cultural exchange hub.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Ding Yiting (丁怡婷)): The "Energy Storage Industry Research White Paper 2026" released on March 31st shows that by the end of 2025, the total installed capacity of new energy storage in China will exceed 100 gigawatts, accounting for more than 2/3 of the total domestic power energy storage scale, an increase of more than 40 times compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. Its share in the global new energy storage market exceeded half for the first time, reaching 51.9%.
In terms of technology structure, lithium-ion batteries still dominate, accounting for more than 96% of installed capacity. However, with the successive commissioning of multiple hundred-megawatt-level long-duration energy storage projects, the technology structure is gradually showing a diversified trend. A number of cutting-edge new energy storage technologies such as solid-state batteries and hydrogen energy storage are accelerating their development, providing support for the future new power system's demand for multi-time scale and high-security energy storage. In terms of regional distribution, since the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, new energy storage projects have accelerated their concentration in regions rich in wind and solar resources such as Northwest and North China, with Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and Xinjiang (新疆) becoming the fastest-growing regions.
Chen Haisheng (陈海生), Chairman of the Zhongguancun Energy Storage Industry Technology Alliance (中关村储能产业技术联盟), introduced that China (中国), the United States (美国), and Europe (欧洲) are still the three largest regions in the global energy storage market, and China's new energy storage additions have ranked first in the world for four consecutive years. However, with the rapid rise of energy storage markets in the Middle East (中东), Latin America (拉美) and other regions, the global energy storage market is gradually expanding to a wider range of regions.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, new energy storage will become the main carrier of new flexible adjustment capabilities in the power system. At the same time, the new energy storage industry still faces some challenges in the process of rapid development, such as the market mechanism and project management specifications need to be improved, and the maturity of some energy storage technologies needs to be further improved.
Relevant officials from the Energy Conservation and Technology Equipment Department of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局能源节约和科技装备司) stated that it is necessary to accelerate the improvement of the new energy storage market mechanism. Encourage all regions to explore auxiliary service varieties in accordance with local conditions, and gradually expand the scale of new energy storage participation in auxiliary services. Improve the new energy storage capacity electricity price mechanism, orderly establish a reliable capacity compensation mechanism, and guide the rational development of new energy storage.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Sun Xiuyan (孙秀艳)) The "Implementation Rules for the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of the Use of Medical Insurance Funds" will come into effect on April 1st, providing a clearer legal basis for accurately cracking down on fraud and insurance scams.
The detailed rules consist of five chapters and 46 articles, focusing on cracking down on fraud and insurance scams, strengthening intelligent supervision, connecting payment reforms, and improving the credit system. In terms of accurately cracking down on fraud and insurance scams, it clearly defines behaviors such as inducing insurance fraud, reselling returned drugs, and individual insurance fraud. It clarifies which behaviors constitute other illegal acts that cause fund losses under DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups)/DIP (Diagnosis-Intervention Packet) payment, provides a calculation method for fund losses, and clarifies the timing of fund losses. At the same time, the detailed rules promote the principle of combining leniency and strictness in law enforcement, clarify the standards for not punishing minor violations and cautiously punishing first-time violations, emphasize punishing a very small number and educating the majority, encourage self-examination and self-correction, and avoid substituting punishment for management.
At the press conference held by the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) on March 31st, Huang Huabo (黄华波), Deputy Director of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), stated that since the implementation of the "Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of the Use of Medical Insurance Funds" in May 2021, medical insurance departments at all levels have recovered more than 120 billion yuan of medical insurance funds through agreement processing, administrative penalties, and other methods. The supervision of medical insurance funds has achieved significant results, but in practice, there are still problems such as inconsistent standards for determining illegal acts. The detailed rules will transform the principled provisions of the regulations into executable and accountable operational standards, which will help improve the refined level of medical insurance fund supervision, better crack down on illegal and irregular use of medical insurance funds and other insurance fraud behaviors, and smooth the "last mile" of fund supervision.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Hangzhou on March 31st (Reporters Dou Hao (窦皓) and Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) On March 31st, the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监管总局) convened representatives from e-commerce companies, associations and academic societies, regulatory departments, news media, consumers, and other parties in Hangzhou (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) to launch a series of actions to promote compliance and quality improvement in online food safety.
This action focuses on prominent issues in the online food sector. By carrying out policy promotion, issuing compliance guidelines, organizing expert reviews, platform enterprises exchanging experiences, and jointly signing self-discipline conventions, the action further releases the signal of "strict supervision and strong compliance."
The action takes solving three prominent problems—chaos in live-streamed sales, lax qualification review of entities entering the network, and the prevalence of false advertising—as its entry point. Through three measures—strictly cracking down on illegal and irregular online food business activities, strictly regulating platform enterprises' food safety management behavior, and continuously promoting platform enterprises to improve their food safety management level—the action is fully committed to safeguarding the people's "safety on the tip of the tongue" and creating a safe, secure, and convenient online food consumption environment.
The relevant person in charge of the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监管总局) stated that in order to ensure that the series of actions for compliance and quality improvement in online food safety achieve practical and long-term effects, a collaborative governance mechanism for online food safety will be established with the joint participation of regulatory departments, platform enterprises, associations and academic societies, and technical institutions. Efforts will be made to build a new pattern of high-quality development of the platform economy characterized by managing the internet through the internet and intelligent governance.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) March 31st (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)) The Insurance Association of China (中国保险行业协会) recently released the "Self-Discipline Standard for Suitability Management of Insurance Products." This is the first self-regulatory document in the insurance industry focusing on product suitability management, forming a full-process management system covering product classification, sales qualifications, customer assessment, matching sales, internal control management, and self-discipline supervision.
The standard clarifies that insurance institutions should, based on understanding the relevant information of the insured, and according to the insured's insurance protection needs, combined with the insured's financial payment level, and with reference to the priority of needs and the purchased protection status, assess the insured's insurance needs and financial payment level, and provide the insured with appropriate insurance products. Before the insurance contract is concluded, if the insurance institution assesses that the insured and the insurance product do not have product suitability, it should advise the insured to terminate the insurance. If the insured does not accept the termination of insurance advice and still requests to purchase insurance and conclude an insurance contract, the insurance institution should fully explain the relevant risks and confirm that the insurance behavior is the insured's true intention and independent choice based on a full understanding of the product information.
The relevant person in charge of the Insurance Association of China (中国保险行业协会) introduced that the standard takes "sellers fulfilling their responsibilities" as the starting point, and strives to resolve sales misguidance and product mismatch risks from the source by building a self-discipline framework covering the entire chain of insurance sales, improve the professionalism and standardization of sales behavior, and promote the industry to accelerate the construction of a sound suitability management system.
Return to TopThe newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Wu Dan (吴丹)) On March 31st, the Ministry of Education (教育部) convened the 2026 deployment meeting for the national education digitalization strategy, comprehensively and deeply promoting "Artificial Intelligence + Education," and released a new version of the National Smart Education Public Service Platform.
According to reports, this intelligent upgrade of the National Smart Education Platform focuses on serving the major strategic needs of a strong education nation. It integrates and upgrades basic education, vocational education, and higher education into a school education center, and newly launches the Science and Technology Innovation Center, the Lifelong Learning Center, and the Chinese Education Center, focusing on serving the integrated development of education, science, technology, and talent, building a ubiquitous and accessible lifelong education system, and serving the global demand for Chinese language teaching, striving to build a new pattern of high-quality digital education services.
In addition, the National Education Big Data Center will be fully applied to accelerate the convergence, sharing, and application of education data. It will use artificial intelligence technology to enhance education decision-making and governance capabilities, support the response to major tasks of a strong education nation, and promote the upgrading of digital and intelligent governance.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
In the Da Xie (大榭) Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), Zhejiang (浙江), colorful containers are neatly stacked on the coast, and ocean-going freighters come and go, drawing航迹 (hángjì) on the sea...
Facing the sea, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) continues to refresh its report card—in 2025, it completed a cargo throughput of over 1.4 billion tons, ranking first in the world for 17 consecutive years, and its container throughput exceeded 43 million TEUs,稳居 (wěn jū) third in the world. Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), which is internally connected and externally smooth, plays a "hardcore" role in jointly building the "Belt and Road" and developing the Yangtze River Economic Belt.
Circulation
Sea-rail intermodal transport business radiates to 16 provinces
How long does it take for a batch of new energy vehicle parts from Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), to go from shipment to export?
The answer given by Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) Railway Beilun Port (北仑港) Station is—no more than 8 hours.
On March 27, a freight train carrying a batch of new energy vehicle parts slowly departed from Yiwu (义乌) Railway Port. This is an international logistics hub where Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) extends its seaport functions to inland ports outside its five major container port areas, and is known as the "Sixth Port Area" of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港).
"Now there are an average of 3 trains departing from here every day, each with 100 TEUs," introduced Zhou Huawei (周华伟), Chief of the Second Supervision Section of Yiwu Customs (义乌海关). "The export cargo release information of the 'Sixth Port Area' is transmitted to Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) in real time, which facilitates enterprises to handle pre-release and other procedures in advance, saving two or three days compared with the ordinary sea export model, 'The cargo goes onto the freighter as soon as it gets off the train!'"
The "World Supermarket" joins hands with the port with the largest cargo throughput in the world, not only connecting the Yiwu-Ningbo-Zhoushan (义甬舟) Open Channel in the province, but also enabling hundreds of thousands of small and micro manufacturing enterprises across the country to have smooth cargo flow and efficient circulation. The cumulative transport volume of the sea-rail intermodal transport channel between Yiwu (义乌) and Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has exceeded 1 million TEUs.
Sea-rail intermodal transport has also allowed Ningbo Zhoushan Port's (宁波舟山港) port hinterland to expand to Chongqing (重庆), Shaanxi (陕西), and other places, and the sea-rail intermodal transport business radiates to 67 prefecture-level cities in 16 provinces.
At the Tuanjie Village (团结村) Station in Chongqing (重庆), the Chongqing-Ningbo (渝甬) train container yard is a busy scene. The Chongqing-Ningbo (渝甬) train has become an important logistics channel for Chongqing's (重庆) foreign trade and is also a vivid embodiment of the extension of Ningbo Zhoushan Port's (宁波舟山港) port services to the inland. "The Chongqing-Ningbo (渝甬) train provides more efficient logistics services for enterprises in Chongqing (重庆) and surrounding areas, opens up a convenient channel for the export of 'new three items' products, and realizes 'one-stop door-to-door' transportation," said Chen Denghua (陈登华), head of Chongqing-Ningbo (渝甬) Train International Logistics Co., Ltd.
Intelligence
"Dual-Core Brain" precisely and orderly dispatches
As the freight train travels to the fourth track of Beilun Port (北仑港) Station, the picture is immediately synchronized on the large screen of the dispatch center. After the staff issues operation instructions, 4 red rail cranes nearly 30 meters high automatically start to grab containers.
Xu Haifeng (徐海峰), Director of the Sea-Rail Logistics Department of Ningbo Beilun (宁波北仑) First Container Terminal Co., Ltd., introduced that in response to the problems of high empty truck rate, low dispatch efficiency, and long transfer waiting time in sea-rail intermodal transport operations, a new intelligent dispatch mode is providing a new solution at Beilun Port (北仑港) Station. "We have launched an intelligent truck dispatch system, relying on big data for accurate calculation and intelligent matching, so that each truck can 'have goods to pull and return efficiently'," said Xu Haifeng (徐海峰).
Empty trucks first go to the yard to pick up containers and transport them to the freight train on the second track. Then, these containers will be sent to Xiaoshan District (萧山区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江); then, the containers on the freight train on the fourth track will be transported to the designated yard at the terminal, waiting to be loaded onto ships for export. Trucks load and unload at the same time, greatly reducing the empty load rate.
Overlooking the Meishan (梅山) Port Area, among the layers of stacked containers, intelligent trucks shuttle through them, operating in an orderly manner. Building a perceptual Internet of Things network of "5G+Beidou+Big Data+Vehicle-Road Coordination", more than 130 intelligent trucks make the Meishan (梅山) Port Area container terminal the terminal with the largest number of intelligent trucks in the world.
Three or four kilometers away from the Meishan (梅山) Port Area Control Center, the digital twin system on the "Smart Port" large screen reproduces the busy operation scene of the port area; in the remote control room, the bridge crane driver operates the joystick in front of the monitor, and the bridge crane in the distance loads and unloads containers from all over the world from the ship to the intelligent trucks on the terminal.
One near and one far, behind them is the terminal "dual-core brain" independently developed by Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) with completely independent intellectual property rights—the "left brain" system is responsible for container business management and control and services, realizing intelligent functions and applications such as automatic ship allocation and intelligent truck dispatch; the "right brain" system is responsible for the precise and orderly dispatch of port area bridge cranes, gantry cranes, trucks, and other operating equipment, providing the optimal solution in time and space for port area operations.
Connectivity
The number of container routes has reached 309
In September last year, an ocean-going freighter steadily docked at Felixstowe Port (费利克斯托港) in the UK. Behind this seemingly ordinary freighter docking is an unusual new export channel—heading north from Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), directly to Europe via the Arctic Northeast Passage, which is the world's first China-Europe Arctic container express route.
Fast is the most intuitive attraction of this route. Zhong Desheng (钟德生), captain of the "Istanbul Bridge" container freighter, steered the first voyage of the China-Europe Arctic container express route. He said that compared with the traditional sea route between China and Europe in the past, it takes about 40 days to go through the Suez Canal and about 50 days to绕行好望角 (ráo xíng hǎo wàng jiǎo - "go around Cape of Good Hope," to take a longer route), "now it only takes 18 days one way."
"In the past, we have always lacked a fast sea channel for shipping 'new three items' goods and e-commerce goods to Europe," introduced Xing Jiahui (邢家晖), a business operator at the Logistics Center of Zhejiang Seaport Logistics Group (浙江海港物流集团). In order to ensure the smooth opening of the route, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has jointly worked with Haijie Shipping (海杰航运) and other parties, relying on a mature port mechanism, and coordinating the radiating power of the domestic trade and sea-rail intermodal transport network.
In the maiden voyage of this express route, photovoltaic modules, energy storage cabinets, and cross-border e-commerce goods worth 200 million US dollars were exported to Europe, and the "new three items" products accounted for as much as 40%. Electronic kitchenware, steam ironing machines, and other products from Yiwu Dansong Electric Appliance Co., Ltd. (义乌市丹松电器有限公司) were loaded onto the freighter. "The 'China-Europe Arctic Express Route' reduces costs by more than 30% compared with the China-Europe Railway Express, and the improvement in timeliness directly translates into new opportunities for market expansion," said Chen Hong (陈宏), head of the company.
In recent years, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has continued to expand its "circle of friends", signing green shipping corridor construction agreements with Hamburg Port (汉堡港), Wilhelmshaven Port (威廉港) in Germany, Valencia Port (瓦伦西亚港) in Spain, and others, and the route layout is constantly being densified and optimized. As of the end of 2025, Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) has 309 container routes, connecting more than 700 ports in more than 200 countries and regions, welcoming and sending nearly 300 freighters every day, and its port connectivity index ranks second in the world.
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Ports are important pillars for promoting the development of the marine economy and realizing land-sea linkage. In 2025, Ningbo-Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) became the world's first port with a throughput exceeding 1.4 billion tons, ranking first in the world for 17 consecutive years. It is an important microcosm of China's continuous improvement of port service capabilities and the continuous expansion and strengthening of the port economy.
To promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, we must pay more attention to efficient collaboration, adhere to land-sea coordination and mountain-sea linkage, and enhance the synergy of collaborative development. Among them, promoting the coordinated and efficient development of ports is a key starting point. At present, international geopolitical conflicts have triggered a sharp increase in the uncertainty of the global shipping industry, and the operational risks faced by ports have increased. In response, it is advisable to build a dual pillar of connectivity and empowerment to enhance the resilience and service capacity of port development.
On the one hand, to strengthen the coordinated development of ports, it is necessary to have both soft connectivity and hard connectivity. In terms of facility connectivity, China has formed world-class port clusters such as the Bohai Rim, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, but the problems of redundant construction and homogeneous competition still exist. We should accelerate the overall planning of port resources in the region and improve the river-sea combined transport and sea-rail combined transport networks. In terms of rule connectivity, we should deepen port and shipping cooperation between countries and sign bilateral agreements to achieve mutual visa exemptions for ships and customs clearance facilitation. In terms of cooperation connectivity, we should establish a normalized port coordination mechanism, deepen cooperation in route allocation, cargo organization, and emergency support, avoid disorderly competition, and expand, strengthen, and deepen international cooperation to continuously expand the "circle of friends" of international ports.
On the other hand, it is necessary to strengthen the construction of a three-in-one empowerment system. The first is digital empowerment, using full-chain digitalization to improve port operating efficiency, promote the upgrading of smart ports and fully automated terminals, open up cross-departmental data, promote the "Artificial Intelligence + Port" action, and further improve customs clearance efficiency and the ability to respond to extreme situations. The second is standard empowerment. China has led the formulation of a number of international standards for port machinery, but the port service standard system is insufficient and the international dominance of green and low-carbon standards is weak. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of a standard system for port full-process carbon emission accounting, shore power construction and use, and green operation evaluation, and rely on international organizations to actively participate in the formulation of shipping standards and promote the transformation of the Chinese model into international standards. The third is financial empowerment. Relying on the advantages of port hubs, develop supply chain financial services such as shipping finance, and explore and promote a two-way empowerment model of "port + finance."
(The author is the director of the Private Economy Research Center of Zhejiang University (浙江大学), compiled by Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁怡婷
30-second hydrogen cylinder replacement, 200 kilometers of single-charge range, startup at a low temperature of minus 30 degrees Celsius... At the 2026 China Hydrogen Energy Exhibition and International Hydrogen Energy Conference held recently, a solid-state hydrogen storage delivery e-bike attracted many visitors.
"Zero carbon emissions during operation, only producing water. Compared with traditional high-pressure gas cylinders, solid-state hydrogen storage cylinders store hydrogen at normal temperature and pressure, reducing the risk of explosion and leakage," said Liu Bo, Chairman of Huawang (Qingdao) Hydrogen Energy Technology Group Co., Ltd. (华旺（青岛）氢能科技集团有限公司). He added that the delivery e-bike is scheduled to be launched on the market in April.
In addition to the transportation sector, hydrogen energy is also making great strides in the industrial sector. On the booth of Shanghai Electric Group Co., Ltd. (上海电气集团股份有限公司), there was a sand table model of converting field straw into green fuel. "On one side is wind power to produce green hydrogen, and on the other side is biomass gasification. The two are coupled to jointly produce green methanol," the staff introduced.
This year's "Government Work Report" proposed, "Cultivate new growth points such as hydrogen energy and green fuels." The hydrogen energy industry has high scientific and technological content, a long industrial chain, and involves many links, playing an important role in the construction of a new energy system. According to data from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局), in 2025, the hydrogen energy and new energy storage industries will burst forth with new growth vitality, and the total investment in key projects throughout the year will double compared with the previous year.
Yu Zhuoping, director of the expert committee of the China Hydrogen Energy Alliance (中国氢能联盟), introduced that the annual production capacity of renewable energy hydrogen production reaches 250,000 tons, accounting for more than half of the world; as of the end of 2025, the cumulative sales of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are nearly 40,000. China's hydrogen energy industry has achieved a breakthrough "from 0 to 1" and has entered a critical stage of crossing the technological and economic inflection point and rapid large-scale development.
Key hydrogen energy technologies and equipment are also continuously breaking through, providing support for expanding industrial applications. The hydrogen energy scene artificial intelligence multi-axis collaborative inspection robot developed by the National Energy Group (国家能源集团) is equipped with visible light, infrared thermal imaging, and integrates sound and multi-gas sensors, which can detect gas leaks, temperature abnormalities, and other conditions in real time; the anion exchange membrane (AEM) electrolyzer of Shanghai Electric Group (上海电气集团) adopts a 100% domestically produced non-precious metal system, which greatly reduces equipment costs... As of the end of 2025, China's hydrogen-related patent applications exceeded 100,000, ranking first in the world; a total of 5 batches of 27 hydrogen energy field first (set) technology equipment lists have been released; and the development of water electrolysis hydrogen production equipment has been rapid, with electrolyzer production capacity approaching 60% of the world.
It should also be noted that the development of the hydrogen energy industry still faces challenges such as high application costs, high project operating pressure, shortcomings in technological innovation, and the need to improve the management system and mechanism.
"Achieving a continuous decline in the cost of the entire supply chain, so that hydrogen energy has cost competitiveness compared with traditional energy in terminal scenarios, is a key prerequisite for large-scale development," Yu Zhuoping believes. "During the 15th Five-Year Plan" period, the cost of renewable energy hydrogen production needs to be reduced from 25 to 35 yuan per kilogram to less than 15 yuan per kilogram; in the storage and transportation link, the cost of storage and transportation per 100 kilometers should be reduced to 3 to 5 yuan per kilogram; in the hydrogen use link, the cost of hydrogen use at transportation terminals should be reduced to less than 25 yuan per kilogram.
Yu Zhuoping believes that to break through technical and supply chain bottlenecks, it is necessary to achieve full-chain technology maturity, independent control, and ensure supply chain stability, and solve the shortcoming of "**示范可用、规模化不可用**" (shì fàn kě yòng, guī mó huà bù kě yòng - "demonstration available, large-scale unavailable," the technology works in demonstration projects but cannot be scaled up). To break through infrastructure and mechanism bottlenecks, it is necessary to achieve a tiered connection of the storage and transportation network, solve the problems of disconnection between production and use, mismatch of scenarios, and blockage of storage and transportation, and organically connect the production end and the application end.
Relevant departments are actively taking actions to drive down costs through multi-scenario large-scale applications and promote the high-quality development of the hydrogen energy industry. In March of this year, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and other departments issued the "Notice on Carrying out Pilot Work on Comprehensive Application of Hydrogen Energy," proposing to expand hydrogen energy application scenarios from fuel cell vehicles to transportation, industry, and other qualified diversified fields through urban agglomeration pilots, and improve the supply capacity of clean and low-carbon hydrogen. The central government will adopt an "award instead of subsidy" approach to provide reward funds to urban agglomerations.
The relevant person in charge of the Energy Conservation and Technology Equipment Department of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局能源节约和科技装备司) introduced that, next, they will strengthen industrial planning guidance, guide the linkage of hydrogen energy with wind and solar power bases, electricity, coal, and other scenarios, and plan the development of hydrogen energy in a coordinated manner under the new energy system.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on March 31st (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)): The domestically produced 14-meter-class super-large diameter shield tunneling machine "Fen Ji Hao (奋楫号)," built by China Railway Construction Corporation (中国铁建), successfully rolled off the production line in Nantong (南通), Jiangsu (江苏) on March 31st and will be used for the Yangtze River (长江) Tunnel project of the Yancheng-Yixing High-Speed Railway (盐宜高铁).
This tunnel is the first in China's (中国) high-speed rail shield tunnel construction to innovatively adopt a socket-type segment structure. This structure draws on ancient mortise and tenon craftsmanship, combined with movable quick-connect joints, and adopts a longitudinal staggered joint assembly method, allowing the segment assembly to be pushed into place in one go, eliminating the hand-hole sealing, bolt re-tightening, and other processes in traditional construction methods. It has more prominent advantages in structural performance and waterproof performance. The "Fen Ji Hao (奋楫号)" shield tunneling machine has a total length of 145 meters, a total weight of approximately 3,800 tons, and a cutter head excavation diameter of 14.33 meters. It is equipped with a number of intelligent devices, which will achieve a dual improvement in assembly efficiency and structural accuracy.
After the "Fen Ji Hao (奋楫号)" shield tunneling machine rolls off the production line, it will be disassembled and transported to the construction site, and after reassembly and commissioning, it will begin its journey across the Yangtze River (长江). The Yancheng-Yixing High-Speed Railway (盐宜高铁) passes through Yancheng (盐城), Taizhou (泰州), Wuxi (无锡), Changzhou (常州), and Yixing (宜兴) in Jiangsu (江苏) Province. The newly built main line is approximately 311 kilometers long, with 10 stations along the entire line.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
As night falls, a light mist rises in the mountains. In Sihe Village (四合村), Zhengcheng Town (郑城镇), Pingyi County (平邑县), Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东省), the lights come on in villager Chen Cuicui's (陈翠翠) freeze-drying factory. "This batch of goods will be ready tomorrow and is already pre-ordered by customers," Chen Cuicui said, pointing to the operating freeze-drying equipment.
In the spring of 2020, Chen Cuicui and her husband, Fan Detian (范德田), learned about freeze-drying technology—a process that sublimates moisture at low temperatures, preserving the original flavor of ingredients to the greatest extent. Looking at the hawthorn trees on the mountain, the couple planned to "freeze" the hawthorns and sell them. They took out their savings, built a factory in the village, and introduced freeze-drying equipment. The freeze-dried hawthorns were bright red and had a fragrant, sour aroma, which attracted many orders, selling nearly 100,000 catties in one season.
Having tasted the sweetness, Chen Cuicui turned her attention to the local honeysuckle. Traditional drying methods result in high losses and poor appearance. If it could be made into a freeze-dried product, the value should be greatly increased. After repeated experiments, in 2023, the first batch of freeze-dried honeysuckle was successfully produced: the petals were stretched, golden and translucent, with a refreshing fragrance.
As the equipment operated, problems arose. During the peak season for honeysuckle picking, the equipment tripped and lost power shortly after starting. "The flowers can't be left for more than two days after they are picked. If it stops for one more day, tens of thousands of yuan could be 打了水漂 (dǎ le shuǐ piāo - "hit the water drift," to be all for naught; to go down the drain)," Chen Cuicui said.
Upon receiving the call for help, the service team from the Zhengcheng Power Supply Station (郑城供电所) of the State Grid Pingyi County Power Supply Company (国网平邑县供电公司) immediately rushed to the scene. They inspected the lines, checked for hidden dangers, retrieved data, analyzed the load, and decided to initiate a capacity increase procedure. In less than a week, the newly added transformer was installed. The factory area was re-planned with distribution lines, and intelligent monitoring terminals were added to achieve real-time early warning of power load.
With the improvement of rural infrastructure, production has become smoother, and the momentum for comprehensive rural revitalization is stronger. The village's freeze-dried honeysuckle, hawthorn, etc., are sold to tea companies and supermarkets, with annual profits quadrupling, driving the employment of 27 local women and elderly people, with an average monthly income increase of more than 3,000 yuan per person.
"In the past, flowers and fruits had to be sold quickly after they were picked. Now, after freeze-drying, their 'value' has doubled, and villagers can earn money at their doorsteps. Life in the mountains is getting more and more prosperous," Chen Cuicui said.
Return to TopPeople's Daily Beijing (北京) March 31st (Reporter Zhao Zhanhui (赵展慧)) As of March 31st, the six major state-owned commercial banks—Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行), Agricultural Bank of China (农业银行), Bank of China (中国银行), China Construction Bank (建设银行), Bank of Communications (交通银行), and Postal Savings Bank of China (邮储银行)—have all released their 2025 annual performance reports, all achieving double-digit growth in revenue and net profit. Dividends, wealth management, and consumer loans, which are hot topics of concern for investors and consumers, have also become highlights of the annual reports.
Dividends from listed companies are an important source of property income for residents, and the solid performance of the six major banks has created favorable conditions for dividends. The six major banks distributed a total of over 420 billion yuan in cash dividends throughout the year, continuing to maintain a high dividend payout ratio. Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (工商银行) expects to distribute a total of 110.6 billion yuan in cash dividends; Bank of Communications (交通银行) has a dividend payout ratio of 32.3%, while the remaining five major banks have dividend payout ratios that are stable at around 30% of net profit attributable to the parent company.
Asset allocation is also a key focus of social attention. Several banks have stated that they will continue to innovate wealth management services and broaden channels for increasing residents' income. This year, China Construction Bank (建设银行) will continue to enrich its wealth management product shelf, providing differentiated financial management solutions tailored to different customer risk preferences. Agricultural Bank of China (农业银行) stated that it will give full play to the advantages of integrated operation, build a range of financial products covering diversified strategies, and introduce high-quality institutions, high-quality resources, and high-quality products from the entire market to meet customers' diversified and customized needs.
In terms of serving consumers, several banks have actively responded to financial revitalization and expanded consumption policies to better meet the diverse and multi-level consumer financial needs of the people. In 2025, Bank of China (中国银行) injected more than 2 trillion yuan of credit funds into key consumption areas, and consumer subsidies and fee reductions exceeded 10 billion yuan, benefiting hundreds of millions of people.
Return to TopAccording to the People's Daily Beijing (北京) March 31st report (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)), the National New Energy Vehicle Power Battery溯源 Information Platform was launched on March 31st, which will monitor the flow and information traceability of power batteries throughout their entire life cycle.
The platform integrates power battery flow data information for relevant entities in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain. It has functions such as information traceability, enterprise responsibility evaluation, traceability information analysis, and special industrial research. It supports the full life cycle traceability management of power batteries and provides strong technical support for improving the supervision level of recycling and utilization of waste power batteries for new energy vehicles.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines the goals for China's economic and social development over the next five years. The implementation of the plan will lay a more solid foundation for basically achieving socialist modernization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the second plenary session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会): "Achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step advancement and continuous development and progress, requiring unremitting efforts and successive struggles." This profoundly reveals the objective laws of socialist modernization development, vividly interprets the distinctive characteristics and significant advantages of Chinese-style modernization, and has important theoretical and practical value for us to deeply understand the process of socialist modernization construction in our country and scientifically grasp the basic positioning and development requirements of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Contains the profound philosophy of Marxist social development theory.
According to the viewpoint of historical materialism, social development is a historical process, and the transformation from quantitative change to qualitative change, spiral rise, and wave-like advancement are the basic manifestations of its evolutionary laws. The construction of socialist modernization also follows this historical law and moves forward.
"Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" reflects the Marxist law of mutual transformation of quality and quantity. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The primary stage of socialism is not a static, immutable, or stagnant stage, nor is it a spontaneous, passive stage that can be crossed naturally without much effort, but a dynamic, proactive, and always vibrant process, a process of step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress, and the accumulation and development of quantity that increasingly approaches qualitative leaps." The law of mutual transformation of quality and quantity contained therein also reflects the significant characteristics and objective laws of the socialist modernization process. Among them, quantitative change is the starting point, and the accumulation of quantity to a certain extent will inevitably lead to qualitative change, promoting things to enter a new stage of development; and qualitative change will open up roads for new quantitative change, promoting things to accumulate quantity on the basis of new quality. The cycle of quantitative change and qualitative change promotes the continuous development of socialist modernization construction and determines that socialist modernization construction is composed of a series of interconnected different stages. Each stage is not a simple time division, but a qualitative leap in the stage of development. Socialist modernization's advancement from one stage to a higher stage inevitably takes gradual quantitative accumulation as a prerequisite. This accumulation is reflected in the continuous development of social productive forces, the continuous breakthroughs in scientific and technological innovation, the continuous improvement of the institutional system, and the steady improvement of people's living standards. "Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" completely presents the dialectical movement process of socialist modernization development from quantitative change to qualitative change, and then to new quantitative change. China's Five-Year Plan always runs through the clear theme of realizing socialist modernization, and each stage of goals and development plans constitutes the development base point for China's socialist modernization construction to advance step by step and continuously progress.
"Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" innovatively develops Marx's idea that social development has the characteristics of spiral rise and wave-like advancement. Spiral rise is a vivid metaphor for the upward development form of things, and wave-like advancement is a vivid metaphor for the undulating characteristics of the development of things. Spiral rise and wave-like advancement both contain the law of negation of negation, and jointly reveal that the development process of things is a unity of progressiveness and tortuosity. "Achieving socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step advancement and continuous development and progress" further reveals the stage-by-stage law of socialist modernization process - it recognizes the tortuosity of development, and emphasizes the clarity of goals and the progressive nature of achievements in each stage of the development process, reflecting the organic unity of wave-like advancement "quantitative change accumulation" and step-by-step advancement "qualitative change breakthrough." This important argument is based on the practice of Chinese-style modernization, which avoids simply regarding development as a linear rise and transcends the dogmatic understanding of the division of development stages. It emphasizes the realization of the decomposition and transcendence of historical tasks through proactive action and scientific planning, maintaining strategic focus and paying attention to tactical flexibility, reflecting both historical necessity and demonstrating subjective initiative, embodying and sublimating the clear character of Marxist modernization theory's goal orientation and dynamic optimization, and demonstrating the distinct characteristics and unique advantages of the Chinese-style modernization path.
"Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" demonstrates the distinct characteristics of Chinese-style modernization's continuous development and progress in responding to challenges and solving problems. Entering the new era, this feature is clearly reflected in all fields and aspects of economic and social development. For example, effectively solving new and old problems and new and old contradictions in development, and promoting economic and social development to achieve a higher level of step-by-step leap; by vigorously promoting supply-side structural reform, gradually eliminating backward production capacity, while accelerating the development of strategic emerging industries, so that traditional industries can be revitalized in transformation and upgrading, and emerging industries can flourish under innovation-driven, to achieve the step-by-step advancement and continuous development and progress of industrial development; and so on. It can be said that every leap in China's economic and social development in the new era is not a simple repetition of the past, but a move towards higher quality, greater efficiency, greater fairness, greater sustainability, and greater security on the basis of existing development.
As a pioneering undertaking, the development process of socialist modernization will inevitably encounter various predictable and unpredictable contradictions, difficulties, and challenges. "Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" reflects the dialectical unity of the tortuosity and progressiveness of the socialist modernization process. In the construction of socialist modernization, we have encountered external blockades and containment, experienced twists and turns and mistakes due to insufficient experience, and also faced various problems that have emerged after development. It is precisely in the process of overcoming difficulties, responding to challenges, and correcting mistakes that the socialist system with Chinese characteristics has been improved, the national governance capacity has been enhanced, and the resilience and vitality of social development have been strengthened. Entering a new stage of development, we still face many problems and challenges. For example, the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes that the problem of unbalanced and insufficient development is still prominent, and cyclical, structural, and institutional problems are intertwined; insufficient effective demand, prominent contradictions between strong supply and weak demand, and bottlenecks in the domestic circulation; the task of converting new and old driving forces is arduous; and so on. How to effectively solve these problems is a must-answer question for us to promote the continuous development and progress of Chinese-style modernization in step-by-step advancement.
Reflects a strong historical consciousness and historical initiative.
"Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" profoundly reveals the inherent laws of socialist modernization construction. Laws are different from social appearances and cannot automatically appear in front of people. Only by continuously enhancing historical consciousness and historical initiative can we better understand and grasp the laws and promote the in-depth development of social practice. "Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" is a vivid manifestation of strong historical consciousness and historical initiative in the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Strong historical consciousness provides an epistemological basis for realizing "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress." Historical consciousness is mainly reflected in the continuous deepening of the understanding of the laws of social development and the internalization of the exploration of laws into a conscious awareness. Strong historical consciousness guides our party to deeply summarize the experience of Chinese-style modernization construction and continuously promote theoretical innovation, so as to more accurately and profoundly grasp the inherent laws of socialist modernization construction. Entering the new era, our party's understanding of the laws of socialist modernization construction is more comprehensive and profound. The historical consciousness contained therein is centrally embodied in General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on Chinese-style modernization: "Adhering to the Party's leadership is the essential requirement and fundamental guarantee of Chinese-style modernization," "The essence of modernization is the modernization of people," "The coordination of material civilization and spiritual civilization is an important feature of Chinese-style modernization," "High-quality development is the inevitable requirement of Chinese-style modernization," "The harmonious coexistence of man and nature is a distinct feature of Chinese-style modernization," "Modernization is not a 'patent' of a few countries, nor is it a 'single choice' of either/or"... These regular understandings full of historical consciousness point out the direction and provide scientific guidance for promoting Chinese-style modernization in "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress."
Strong historical initiative provides a strong impetus for realizing "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress." Historical initiative is mainly reflected in fully exerting subjective initiative and mastering the initiative to promote social development on the premise of understanding and grasping the laws of social development. In different historical stages of Chinese-style modernization construction, our party, with a high degree of historical initiative, has transformed regular understanding into practical actions, and continuously promoted Chinese-style modernization forward. For example, adhering to the centralized and unified leadership of the Party Central Committee to ensure the effective implementation of major decisions and deployments of the Party and the state; adhering to starting from reality and scientifically formulating national development strategies and development plans; adhering to putting the people first and safeguarding and protecting the various rights and interests of the people; adhering to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people to promote the mutual promotion of economic and social development and the all-round development of people; adhering to the whole country as one game and correctly handling the relationship between the overall situation and the local situation, and the relationship between immediate interests and long-term interests; adhering to the overall planning of development and security, and running safe development through all fields and the entire process of national development; adhering to self-confidence and self-reliance, and firmly grasping the destiny of national development and progress in our own hands; and so on. These measures support each other and form a joint force, becoming a concrete manifestation of strong historical initiative, and jointly constituting the practical path of "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress."
Realizing "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" is a dynamic unity of strong historical consciousness and historical initiative. "Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" is not a static goal description, but a dynamic promotion process. In this process, historical consciousness and historical initiative promote each other and complement each other. Historical consciousness provides direction guidance and theoretical support for historical initiative, enabling our party to accurately grasp the pulse of the times and effectively respond to historical challenges in different historical stages of Chinese-style modernization; historical initiative promotes the continuous deepening and expansion of historical consciousness, enabling our party to continuously test and develop theories and form new regular understandings in different historical stages of Chinese-style modernization. Entering the new era, our party's regular understanding of Chinese-style modernization construction is more comprehensive and profound, which not only reflects the improvement of historical consciousness, but also demonstrates the achievements of historical initiative. These new regular understandings guide our party to promote Chinese-style modernization to continuously achieve new breakthroughs and create new situations in "step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" with more active and effective practical measures.
Runs through important practical principles and scientific methodology.
"Step-by-step advancement, continuous development and progress" profoundly clarifies the non-linear, cumulative, and leap-forward characteristics of the modernization process, marking that our party's understanding of the laws of socialist construction has reached a new height. This important argument contains important practical principles and scientific methodology for promoting Chinese-style modernization in the new era.
Maintain both strategic focus and historical patience. To promote socialist modernization, we must maintain strategic focus and historical patience. If the strategic focus is not strong, it is easy to lose the direction of action and miss development opportunities; if there is a lack of historical patience, it is easy to produce impetuous advancement that deviates from reality, or blind and reckless actions that violate the laws. Strategic focus stems from a deep grasp of historical laws and a firm confidence in our own path. Maintaining strategic focus requires us to always unswervingly follow the path of Chinese-style modernization, unswervingly anchor the grand goal of socialist modernization, make calm judgments on the opportunities and challenges of development and various unpredictable factors, not be afraid of any risks, not be confused by any interference, not make subversive mistakes, and ensure that the modernization process always moves forward in the correct direction. Historical patience stems from a full understanding of the long-term, complex, and arduous nature of development. Maintaining historical patience requires us to recognize the development process of socialist modernization with a scientific attitude, grasp the phased goals and requirements of development, adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability, and do our own thing steadily and single-mindedly.
Adhere to the combination of goal orientation and problem orientation. Each stage of the socialist modernization process has its clear goals, and each stage is a process of continuously discovering problems and solving problems. Goal orientation marks the direction of step-by-step development and leads the cause of the Party and the state to strive towards the established goals. For example, the main goals of economic and social development clearly defined by the "15th Five-Year Plan" in many aspects are a clear guide for China's development in the next five years. Problem orientation marks the key issues of step-by-step development, and by solving problems and resolving contradictions, we can create conditions for moving to a higher level. For example, the various problems facing economic and social development proposed in the "15th Five-Year Plan" are the key issues that need to be focused on in China's development in the next five years. Adhering to goal orientation and problem orientation is unified in the entire process of step-by-step development. Among them, the goal indicates the direction of solving problems, and solving problems is the path to achieving the goal. To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must not only clarify development goals, but also solve problems based on reality; we must not only pay attention to the long term, but also be down-to-earth; we must not only have the overall situation in mind, but also focus on key points. Only by organically unifying goal leadership and problem solving can we promote Chinese-style modernization to go steady and far.
Adhere to the combination of long-term planning and phased development. Long-term planning is a grand blueprint and top-level design that leads step-by-step development, providing forward coordinates for phased development and stable expectations for long-term development. Formulating scientific long-term plans helps to overcome short-term behavior and prevent quick success and instant benefits. To do a good job in long-term planning, we need profound historical insight and scientific foresight, and carry out forward-looking thinking, overall planning, strategic layout, and overall promotion. The realization of a grand blueprint is never achieved overnight, but requires a multi-stage development process, which requires refining the long-term plan into phased goals. Phased development is the actual step to implement step-by-step development, transforming the grand blueprint into concrete and operable realistic tasks. To grasp phased development well, we need to make scientific judgments on the main contradictions of each stage, and use this to clarify the central tasks and work priorities, and promote development with practical and feasible measures. Long-term planning and phased development are an organic whole. Without scientific long-term planning, phased development will lose its direction and become piecemeal, making it difficult to form a cumulative effect and overall advantages, and step-by-step development will be out of the question. Without interconnected phased development, long-term planning will lack a gradually rising ladder and become castles in the air. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, we must not only focus on the long-term development of the 2035 long-term goals, but also base ourselves on the key tasks of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and organically combine long-term planning with recent deployments to ensure that various undertakings of Chinese-style modernization continue to advance in the relay.
Adhere to the combination of overall advancement and key breakthroughs. Overall advancement emphasizes the systematicness and coordination of development, aiming to build a solid foundation for development and form an overall effect that promotes common development. Adhering to overall advancement focuses on the overall promotion of the "five-in-one" overall layout and the coordinated promotion of the "four comprehensives" strategic layout, promoting the mutual promotion and coordinated development of various fields, aspects, and links of Chinese-style modernization construction. Overall advancement is not parallel advancement, but is focused. Key breakthroughs are to solve the difficulties, blockages, and weak links in development, and provide traction and impetus for overall development. On the basis of overall advancement, grasping the main contradictions and the main aspects of the contradictions, and achieving key breakthroughs, can drive the overall development. In fact, the leap in step-by-step development is often driven by breakthroughs in key areas. The "15th Five-Year Plan" makes strategic deployments for China's economic and social development, clearly reflecting the organic combination of overall advancement and key breakthroughs. To promote the implementation of the "15th Five-Year Plan," we must not only systematically grasp the various deployments as an organic whole, but also focus on key areas and key links that are related to the overall situation. Grasping the practical logic of overall advancement and key breakthroughs can make the overall and local aspects of Chinese-style modernization match each other, and the gradual and breakthrough aspects are connected, gradually realizing the level-by-level leap of the overall level, and gradually turning the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization into reality.
(The author is a researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院）).)
By: 尉承栋
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection: "With the spiritual realm of 'achieving success does not necessarily require me, but achieving success definitely requires me,' we must single-mindedly advance Chinese-style modernization." Leading cadres must establish a correct view of performance, grasp the dialectic of "selflessness" and "self," and have both the spiritual realm of "achieving success does not necessarily require me" and the historical responsibility of "achieving success definitely requires me," using "selflessness" to achieve "greater self."
Adhere to putting the people first and pursue the realm of "selflessness." The people are the creators of history. Without the people, we will accomplish nothing. "Those who are selfless can be entrusted with governance." As the ruling party, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has no special interests of its own and always puts the interests of the people first, pursuing a realm of "selflessness." Whether leading cadres have the masses in their hearts and wholeheartedly work for the people will lead to different results and effects. How to handle the relationship between public and private, the individual and the collective, and better benefit the people, tests the political stance and Party spirit of leading cadres. The realm of "selflessness" is for the sake of the greater good, upholding righteousness, and seeking the greater self. At any time and under any circumstances, leading cadres must not forget the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, must not abandon the historical materialist viewpoint that the masses are the real heroes, and in their daily work, they must always put the interests of the people first, consider the well-being of the people more, emphasize personal hard work less, and earnestly solve the urgent needs and anxieties of the people, always sharing the same breath and fate with the people, standing and working together.
In "Reform Our Study," Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) profoundly criticized the subjective style of study and attitude, namely, "not paying attention to studying the status quo, not paying attention to studying history, and not paying attention to the application of Marxism-Leninism." Subjectivism reflected in the view of performance is often an excessive "self" consciousness, starting from the interests of individuals or small groups, to the extent that it ignores objective laws and deviates from development goals. This is the root cause of some leading cadres suffering from the "performance impulse syndrome" of being eager for quick success and blindly advancing. The style of "selflessness" is an adherence to the ideological line of seeking truth from facts, requiring overcoming the position and interests of the small self, starting from objective reality, making subjective wishes conform to objective reality, and promoting the development of the cause on the basis of following objective laws. Strengthen investigation and research, go to the grassroots level more, go deep into the masses more, truly understand the situation, and accurately identify the problems, so that the countermeasures and plans conform to the actual situation, conform to objective laws, and conform to the scientific spirit.
Whether one can jump out of the limitations of the "small self" and look at problems from the height of the overall situation and think about problems from the perspective of the whole reflects the political awareness and ideological pattern of Party members and cadres. We often say "the whole country is a chessboard" (全国一盘棋 - quán guó yī pán qí - "the whole country is a single chessboard," the idea that the entire nation should act in a coordinated and unified manner). Since it is a "chessboard," leading cadres should not only be good "chess players" in their respective positions, but also be good at making moves from the perspective of playing the whole game well. Sometimes, the reason why work is done at the expense of one thing or another may not be a matter of ability, but a matter of vision and pattern. Of course, different regions and different fields have different goals and tasks, and also have different policy priorities, but if thinking about problems and making decisions only starts from the interests of the region or department, the result often does not reach the optimal solution. The way to govern is to grasp the big picture and take care of the small. Leading cadres should not only base themselves on the responsibilities and positioning of their region and department and achieve "self," but also be good at placing themselves in the overall situation and achieving "selflessness," both planning for one area and planning for the overall situation, both striving for the glory of one area and adding color to the overall situation, and creatively implementing the major decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee (党中央).
Pursuing "selflessness" also requires a correct view of "self." Objectively speaking, "self" is the need to perform duties and responsibilities. Each leading cadre has different professional strengths in their respective responsible positions, and they should pay attention to using their own advantages, give full play to subjective initiative, and dare to be good at taking responsibility. When urgent, difficult, and dangerous tasks come, have more "self"; in the face of personal fame and gain, have more "selflessness," unify "self" and "selflessness" in the practical actions of performing duties and responsibilities for the Party and the people, and strive to create outstanding achievements recognized by the people.
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Museums are important places for protecting and inheriting human civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must give full play to the important role of museums in protecting, inheriting, researching, and displaying human civilization, safeguard the Chinese cultural lineage, and revitalize cultural relics to expand the influence of Chinese culture." This year's "Government Work Report" proposed, "Implement actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services, and do a good job in opening public libraries, museums, cultural centers, science and technology museums, etc., to benefit the people." Museums are important carriers of public cultural services. Optimizing the supply of public culture through high-quality museum development is essentially achieving a dual improvement in cultural value and service effectiveness. We must continue to work hard in areas such as exhibitions, social education, open services, cultural and creative development, and dissemination and promotion to promote the high-quality development of museums, enhance the supply of high-quality culture, and improve the level of public cultural services.
Building a balanced and inclusive museum system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must do a good job in museum undertakings" and "Museum construction should be more complete and systematic." At present, China's museum undertaking is booming, the number of museums is steadily increasing, and a museum system with rich types, diverse subjects, and universal equality has basically formed. However, there is still an imbalance in the distribution of museum resources. It is necessary to strengthen overall planning and orderly promote museum construction based on the actual conditions of cultural relic resources, focusing on tilting towards the grassroots and expanding the coverage of public cultural products and services. First, it is necessary to improve the standardization, standardization, and modernization level of museum construction. Combining regional cultural characteristics, compile special plans for museum development and clarify the functional positioning of museums at different levels. National museums can focus on civilization inheritance, provincial museums can focus on strengthening regional cultural leadership, municipal and county museums can focus on local cultural display, and rural museums can highlight nostalgia and grassroots services. For example, in 2022, Jilin Province launched the "Lighting Up the Light of Cultural Heritage" action plan to improve the quality and upgrade small and medium-sized museums by "introducing technical equipment + professional capabilities" to empower the development of small and medium-sized museums; by 2025, Zhejiang Province has completed the construction of 1,000 rural (type) museums, promoting high-quality cultural resources directly to the grassroots. Second, build a collaborative system to promote the balanced development of museums. Through the eastern region leading the western region, large museums leading small museums, and general museums leading branch museums, promote the quality improvement and upgrading of small and medium-sized museums. For example, the Palace Museum (故宫博物院) has established "Palace Museum Halls" in the Zhijiang Pavilion Area of the Zhejiang Provincial Museum, the Jiangxi Provincial Museum, and the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Museum; the Anhui Museum has established branches in many counties and established a province-wide exhibition resource sharing mechanism, giving full play to the demonstration and driving role of national first-class museums and provincial museums, breaking the development bottlenecks of grassroots museums, and improving the equalization, convenience, and diversification of museum public services.
Strengthen the protection and interpretation of collections. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must strengthen the protection and utilization of cultural relics, strengthen historical research and inheritance, and continuously carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture." Collections are the core resources of museums and the foundation of museums. We must put the standardized and safe management of collections in an important position in museum work. Scientific and effective protection is the basis and premise for revitalizing and utilizing cultural relics, and in-depth research and interpretation are the only way to reveal the historical and cultural value of cultural relics and better understand Chinese civilization. Strengthening the protection and interpretation capabilities of collections helps to improve the level and quality of museum open services and better meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. We must adhere to the principle of protection first and strengthen the empowerment of science and technology in cultural relic protection. Using modern technologies such as big data, artificial intelligence, and non-destructive testing, establish a cultural relic protection monitoring system, implement preventive protection and restoration of precious cultural relics, and extend the life cycle of cultural relics. For example, the Dunhuang Research Academy (敦煌研究院) introduced artificial intelligence disease identification technology and immersive remote consultation technology to "treat" murals, realizing "more data running and less damage to cultural relics," guarding the bottom line of cultural relic safety, and providing sustainable guarantees for subsequent research and exhibitions. Form interdisciplinary research teams to deepen the interpretation of collection connotations. Conduct multi-dimensional research on collections around history, art, science and technology, and other dimensions, and explore the cultural connotations, contemporary values, and spiritual power behind the collections. For example, the Sanxingdui Museum (三星堆博物馆) signed cooperation agreements with Sichuan University (四川大学) and other units to systematically carry out research on ancient Shu civilization and other work, and established the Sanxingdui Culture and Bronze Civilization Research Center. Through in-depth interpretation of the connotations, the collections are transformed from "silent objects" into "speaking history," making the supply of public culture more profound in thought and emotional temperature.
Innovate display, education, and communication methods. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "A museum is a university." Display, education, and communication are the bridges connecting museums and the public, and innovative methods are the key to improving service attractiveness. We must make full use of immersive, interactive, and digital means to make cultural communication more infectious. Restore historical scenes through technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and holographic projection, allowing the audience to "immerse themselves" in the charm of culture. Accelerate digital transformation, build online museums, digital cultural relic databases, and "cloud exhibition" platforms to create "museums that never close." Innovate the communication discourse system and integrate museum culture into daily life in forms that young people like, such as short videos and live broadcasts. Accelerate cross-border integration, enrich the forms of public cultural supply, and cultivate new growth points in cultural consumption. Museum displays should not be limited to venues, but should actively integrate into social life and create more cultural consumption scenarios through in-depth integration with fields such as culture and tourism. Museums can be included in regional tourism routes, and products such as "museum study tours" and "cultural experience tours" can be developed to create a development model of "bringing scenery with museums and promoting museums with scenery."
Build an important window for civilization dialogue. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Museums are important halls for protecting and inheriting human civilization, and they are bridges connecting the past, present, and future. They play a special role in promoting exchanges and mutual learning among world civilizations." In the context of cultural diversity, museums have become an important window for civilization dialogue. The practice of "going out" of Chinese museum exhibitions allows Chinese culture to be integrated into the world civilization map. At the same time, in civilization exchanges, we must absorb and learn from the outstanding achievements of world civilizations, so that the supply of public culture has both national characteristics and a global perspective. For example, the Yin Ruins Museum (殷墟博物馆) has established a "global vision + national collaboration" resource integration mechanism, and has established cooperative relationships with more than 40 cultural and museum institutions in more than 10 countries. The basic display is set up with the "World's Shang Civilization" section, realizing the global integration and panoramic and systematic display of Shang civilization resources. For another example, in recent years, cultural relics from countries such as Egypt, Greece, and India have been exhibited in China, allowing domestic audiences to appreciate the style of different national civilizations without going abroad. This two-way exchange helps to break down cultural barriers, enrich cultural supply, cultivate the public's cross-cultural understanding ability, demonstrate the concept of civilization of 各美其美、美美与共 (gè měi qí měi, měi měi yǔ gòng - "each admires its own beauty; together admire all beauty," each civilization is beautiful in its own way, and all civilizations together create a beautiful world), and contribute museum power to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
(Author's unit: School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Shanghai University (上海大学))
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Opposing all forms of domestic violence is an important symbol of social progress. In March 2016, China's first special and comprehensive law against domestic violence, the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, was implemented. Since then, opposing domestic violence has risen from a "family matter" to a "national affair." Since the implementation of the law, "zero tolerance" for domestic violence has become a social consensus.
What are the manifestations of domestic violence? How to distinguish between family disputes and domestic violence? How to make personal safety protection orders "grow teeth"? On the 10th anniversary of the implementation of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) released typical cases of domestic violence, including long-term verbal abuse and defamation of family members, economic control, and restriction of normal social interactions, clarifying the standards for determining domestic violence and responding to hot issues of social concern.
Expanding the Scope of Domestic Violence Identification
Mental abuse, such as frequent verbal abuse and intimidation, is also considered domestic violence.
Is long-term insult, verbal abuse, or restriction of a spouse's normal social interactions considered domestic violence? How should it be identified legally?
In reality, many people lack a clear understanding of the manifestations of domestic violence. "According to Article 2 of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, the forms of domestic violence mainly include physical and mental harm. Compared with physical harm, mental harm is more concealed, takes various forms, and the consequences of harm are difficult to assess directly," said Chen Yifang (陈宜芳), member of the Adjudication Committee of the Supreme People's Court and Director of the First Civil Division. The people's courts, by hearing relevant cases in accordance with the law, break the hidden prison built by perpetrators of domestic violence with "soft violence" and protect the legitimate rights and interests of victims.
In a typical case, Zhang (张) often verbally abused, insulted, and defamed his wife, Zhao (赵), after drinking or losing money playing mahjong. Zhao could not bear it and filed for divorce, requesting that Zhang be ordered to pay divorce damages. During the court hearing, Zhang made many erroneous statements, admitting that he verbally abused his wife almost every day. The WeChat chat records and videos submitted by Zhao also proved that Zhang had been verbally abusing and intimidating her for a long time.
The court of trial held that mental abuse, such as frequent verbal abuse and intimidation, constitutes domestic violence, and ruled to grant the divorce and order Zhang to pay Zhao the corresponding divorce damages.
The Supreme People's Court (最高法) pointed out that "speaking nicely" is the cornerstone of family happiness, and long-term "verbal violence" is not only a matter of family internal interaction, but also crosses the boundary of personal dignity and rights protection, and the perpetrator should bear corresponding legal responsibility.
Some people equate domestic violence with family disputes. In response to this situation, Ran Keping (冉克平), Deputy Director of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高法), responded that the core characteristics of domestic violence are control and harm, which are long-term, repetitive, and cyclical, and not simply emotional loss of control or occasional conflict. The two parties in a family dispute are generally in an equal state and can freely express their demands. From a judicial practice perspective, it is mostly two-way communication conflict, which is essentially different from domestic violence.
In addition to traditional physical harm, non-physical violence such as mental harm and economic control also constitute domestic violence. For example, if the perpetrator repeatedly threatens the victim by jumping off a building or drinking pesticides, although he does not directly inflict violence on the victim, such self-harming behavior is sufficient to cause the victim to feel nervous, fearful, and mentally unfree, thereby forcing them to act according to the perpetrator's will, which constitutes domestic violence.
Protecting Victims Through Preliminary Judgments
In divorce proceedings, if domestic violence is verified, the victim's claim for divorce should be supported.
The personal safety protection order system is the core and highlight of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law. Since the implementation of the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, people's courts have issued 33,000 personal safety protection orders.
In a typical case, Wang's (王) husband had long forcibly prohibited and restricted her from talking to other men and from participating in any activities outside with men by means of beatings, verbal abuse, and insults. In the absence of any evidence, whether it was Wang giving mooncakes to the workers who were renovating the house during the Mid-Autumn Festival to express her gratitude, or Wang chatting with bank staff when the couple were applying for a loan at the bank, her husband, Zhao (赵), believed that she had an improper relationship with the other party. Wang was therefore afraid of contacting men and unable to socialize normally, so she applied to the people's court for a personal safety protection order.
"Long-term restriction of a spouse's normal social interactions, although not directly causing harm to their body, still causes the restricted party to be mentally and physically unfree, forming psychological suppression and causing them to lose social support. This behavior constitutes domestic violence," the court of trial held. Zhao's behavior not only infringed on Wang's right to physical integrity, health, and reputation, but also interfered with her personal freedom. Ultimately, the court issued a personal safety protection order in accordance with the law.
Strictly enforcing legal documents to ensure the rigid constraint of personal safety protection orders is the key to protecting victims of domestic violence from secondary violence. So, how to ensure that personal safety protection orders "grow teeth"?
The Anti-Domestic Violence Law clearly stipulates that if the applicant violates the personal safety protection order and constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated in accordance with the law; if it does not constitute a crime, the people's court shall give a reprimand and may impose a fine of not more than 1,000 yuan or detention of not more than 15 days, depending on the circumstances.
Wang (王) filed a divorce lawsuit after being subjected to domestic violence by Zhang (张) multiple times, and also applied for a personal safety protection order. The people's court issued a personal safety protection order in accordance with the law, and simultaneously sent a notice of assistance in execution to the local public security bureau, women's federation, and villagers' committee. Subsequently, the two parties divorced through court mediation. However, the month after the personal safety protection order was issued, Zhang went to Wang's residence again to beat Wang and her close relatives, and also harassed and threatened Wang and her close relatives by means of text messages.
"In view of the fact that Zhang violated the personal safety protection order and the circumstances were serious, but did not constitute a crime, it was decided to detain him for 15 days," the court of trial stated. Making the perpetrator bear the legal responsibility for violating the personal safety protection order reflects the rigidity of the law and plays a warning and educational role.
In addition, according to the Civil Code, domestic violence is a statutory reason for divorce. In divorce proceedings, if domestic violence is verified, the victim's claim for divorce shall be granted. The people's courts adhere to the principle of ruling when it should be ruled, and protect the personal and property rights and interests of victims of domestic violence in a timely and lawful manner.
"In recent years, the people's courts have also been exploring ways to better protect the legitimate rights and interests of victims of domestic violence through preliminary judgments," said Wang Dan (王丹), a judge of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高法). For example, in the "Xie v. He Divorce Dispute Case," which has been included in the people's court case library, considering that the facts related to the division of joint property of the couple and divorce damages had not yet been clarified, in order to free Xie (谢) from domestic violence as soon as possible and resolve the issue of the custody of minor children in a timely and proper manner, the people's court made a preliminary judgment, granting Xie a divorce from He (贺), and ordering that the minor children be directly raised by Xie, and that He pay living expenses. The issues of dividing the joint property of the couple and divorce damages will be judged after the relevant facts are clarified.
Strengthening the Protection of Special Groups
Helping victims achieve economic independence and fundamentally enhance their self-protection ability
Domestic violence is concealed. If the victim is a disabled person with weak economic independence, and their food, clothing, shelter, and economic foundation are highly dependent on the perpetrator, they will have more concerns about seeking help. Simply issuing a personal safety protection order cannot produce a good intervention effect, and it is necessary to fundamentally enhance the victim's self-protection ability.
Chen (陈) faces such a situation. Chen is a disabled person with no source of income, and the family's living expenses are entirely dependent on her spouse, Liu (刘). During an argument, Liu beat Chen, causing damage to Chen's hearing and vision. Knowing that Chen would suffer irreversible consequences if she did not receive systematic treatment, Liu still refused to go through the admission procedures for Chen and refused to pay medical expenses after Chen was admitted to the hospital on her own, forcing her to be discharged.
After that, Chen's sister paid the relevant expenses. Fearing that Liu would refuse to bear the subsequent medical expenses for follow-up examinations and might commit more serious domestic violence, Chen applied to the people's court for a personal safety protection order.
Economic control is also a form of domestic violence. "After committing the beating, Liu used his dominant position in the family economy to implement economic control, forming continuous mental suppression and forcing Chen to obey his will. The beating and economic control constitute overlapping domestic violence," the court of trial issued a personal safety protection order in accordance with the law.
After the ruling was served, the people's court, in accordance with the "one-stop" linkage closed-loop intervention mechanism, sent a notice of assistance in execution to the辖区派出所 (xiá qū pài chū suǒ - "local police station," police station within its jurisdiction), residents' committee, requiring them to supervise Liu's performance of the ruling. Under the multi-party linkage, Liu took the initiative to repay the money paid by Chen's sister and accompanied Chen for follow-up examinations as instructed by the doctor.
The court did not stop there. In order to completely solve the fundamental problem of unequal economic strength, the people's court, in conjunction with the public security organs, the women's federation, the disabled persons' federation, and the local community, conducted a comprehensive risk assessment and formulated a long-term training plan for Chen based on the employment policy for disabled persons and Chen's physical condition to help her achieve economic independence. "It not only treats the 'existing disease' of domestic violence, but also prevents the 'unborn disease' of domestic violence again, forming a three-dimensional protection for special groups," said Chen Yifang (陈宜芳).
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Law is an important instrument for governing a country, and good law is a prerequisite for good governance. The system of grassroots mass autonomy is a basic political system in China, and the "Organic Law of the Villagers Committees of the People's Republic of China" and the "Organic Law of the Urban Residents Committees of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Two Laws") are important legislative manifestations of the system of grassroots mass autonomy. The revision and implementation of the "Two Laws" are of great significance for adhering to and strengthening the Party's comprehensive leadership over grassroots governance, improving the dynamic system of grassroots mass autonomy, and promoting the modernization of the grassroots governance system and governance capacity. We must adhere to Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law as a guide, integrate the study and implementation of the "Two Laws" with the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on grassroots governance, and combine them with the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments on grassroots governance. We must focus on learning and publicity, improving supporting facilities, and transforming and applying them to promote the comprehensive and effective implementation of the "Two Laws" in Shandong (山东), and promote the modernization of grassroots governance with the rule of law at the grassroots level.
To improve literacy through in-depth study, we must continuously strengthen the publicity, education, and training of the "Two Laws."
Taking the comprehensive implementation of the "Two Laws" as a favorable opportunity, we should highlight the effectiveness and penetration of learning and publicity, and focus on improving the awareness and ability of cadres and the masses to handle affairs according to law, seek legal assistance in case of trouble, use the law to solve problems, and resolve conflicts by relying on the law. Focus on the "key minority" to grasp theoretical learning. We will promote the inclusion of the "Two Laws" into the teaching system of Party schools (administrative colleges) at all levels and into the learning content of the theoretical learning center groups of Party committees (Party groups) at all levels, so as to promote leading cadres to better use the thinking of the rule of law to carry out grassroots governance. Focus on "key objects" to grasp systematic training. Through organizing special seminars and holding "Social Work Grand Lecture Hall" and other methods, we will widely carry out centralized training on the "Two Laws" in the social work system of the whole province, so as to promote social work cadres to accurately grasp the legal provisions and practical requirements, and perform their statutory functions of guiding and supervising the effective implementation of the grassroots mass autonomy system. Implement the theme training action plan for grassroots cadres in the new era in the province, increase the training efforts of the "Two Laws" for cadres in townships (streets), village affairs workers, and community workers, incorporate relevant knowledge into the recruitment examination and professional ability competition for community workers, and temper the excellent skills to promote grassroots mass autonomy and do a good job in Party building to lead grassroots governance and grassroots political power construction. Focus on the "vast majority" to grasp publicity and popularization. Give full play to the resources of the first secretary and working team stationed in the village, village (community) legal advisers, "legal明白人," volunteers, etc., rely on various information platforms and publicity positions, adopt methods that the masses like to see and hear, and promote the "Two Laws" to enter villages, communities, buildings, and families, so as to improve the awareness and influence of the "Two Laws."
To consolidate the foundation with firm application, we must systematically improve the supporting system of the "Two Laws."
Based on the new situation and new tasks, aiming at the intersection points and blank spaces, we will make overall plans, adapt to local conditions, and continuously improve supporting policies and regulations to form a system that is connected from top to bottom, systematic, complete, scientific, and standardized. Promote the revision and implementation of measures. On the basis of strictly implementing the spirit of the "Two Laws," based on the actual situation in Shandong (山东), highlighting the problem orientation, widely soliciting opinions and suggestions from relevant departments, experts and scholars, and the public, paying attention to absorbing and using information technology to carry out consultations and other grassroots experiences and practices that have been tested in practice and can be replicated and promoted, so as to ensure that the implementation measures of the "Two Laws" fully reflect pertinence, applicability, and operability. Improve supporting policies. Implement the provisions of the "Two Laws" on villagers (residents) self-management, self-service, self-education, and self-supervision, and focus on villagers (residents) meetings and villagers (residents) representative meetings, village rules and regulations and residents' conventions, the construction of village (residents) committee subordinate committees, and grassroots deliberation and consultation, and formulate (revise) a series of supporting systems that are practical, effective, and operational to ensure that villagers (residents) autonomy practices are both vibrant and orderly. Actively promote institutional innovation. Issue the "Good Neighbor Governance" work plan and implement the "Good Neighbor," "Warm Neighbor," and "Gathering Neighbor" actions. Explore a new model of coordinated operation of neighborhood committees, owners committees, and property service enterprises under the leadership of community Party organizations, deepen the construction of "Qilu Red Property," and study specific measures for residents committees to play a guiding and supervisory role. Study and formulate work guidelines to guide all parties to participate in community governance services, and focus on using legal means to standardize participation mechanisms and broaden participation channels. Promote the experience and practice of "Party Building Leading Acceptance and Immediate Handling," and focus on formulating practical guidelines for village (community) work for high-frequency common problems.
To optimize governance with vigorous action, we must comprehensively improve the effectiveness of the transformation and application of the "Two Laws."
Give full play to the important role of the "Two Laws" in guiding the direction and standardizing behavior in grassroots governance, carry out work innovatively, and ensure that a new chapter of grassroots governance in Shandong (山东) is written on the track of the rule of law. Strengthen the Party's leadership in all aspects. Deepen and expand the "Laixi Experience" (莱西经验) and strengthen the unified leadership of township (street) and village (community) Party organizations over various grassroots organizations and work. Deepen and expand the "cross-village joint construction" of village Party organizations to drive joint governance, industrial linkage, and service sharing through organizational integration. Promote burden reduction and efficiency enhancement at a deeper level. Compile the guiding catalog of work items for villages (communities) in Shandong Province (山东省) and improve the access system for work items in villages (communities) with clear powers and responsibilities, standardized management, and orderly operation. Consolidate and expand the effectiveness of the rectification of the problem of "small horses pulling big carts" in grassroots governance, deeply rectify the hidden burdens at the grassroots level, and allow grassroots cadres to have more time and energy to serve the masses and promote development. Enrich governance paths in multiple dimensions. At the provincial level, implement the grassroots governance project led by the member units of the coordination mechanism for Party building to lead grassroots governance, and carry out the "leading the tackling of key tasks" action for grassroots governance at the municipal level, explore the use of legal thinking and legal methods to solve the blockages and difficulties in grassroots governance, and promote the innovation of grassroots governance systems and mechanisms. Systematically strengthen work guarantees. Establish a provincial-level social work innovation guidance fund to leverage the participation of social resources and forces with financial investment. Promote the experience and practice of "Party Building Leading, Public Discussion and Crowdfunding" in Huantai County (桓台县), Zibo City (淄博市), and guide the masses to jointly participate in solving people's livelihood problems and governance problems through fundraising, labor, and intelligence. Promote the construction of an integrated platform for social work services in the province, improve the grassroots data sharing mechanism, and enrich and expand the application scenarios of "artificial intelligence + grassroots governance." Optimize the functions of the village (community) comprehensive service facilities with the Party-mass service center as the main position, explore a sustainable operation model for community public spaces, and further strengthen resource integration, expand effective supply, and improve service quality.
(The author is the Minister of the Social Work Department of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the "Two New" Working Committee of the Provincial Party Committee)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shanghai on March 31st (Reporters Zhang Cong (张璁) and Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏)) - Reporters learned from the Sino-French Notarial Business Exchange Conference held in Shanghai on the 30th that: To date, China has established nearly 3,000 notary offices, with more than 15,000 practicing notaries, handling an average of over 14 million notarization cases annually. Notarized documents are sent to more than 180 countries and regions for use, becoming an indispensable "rule of law bridge" in international civil and commercial exchanges.
In recent years, in order to adapt to the needs of high-quality development and high-level opening up to the outside world, the notary industry has actively cultivated new types of notarial services such as the digital economy and foreign-related rule of law. After decades of development, Chinese notarization has formed an institutional system and working mechanism that conforms to its own national conditions, adapts to economic and social development, and connects with international notarial service rules.
The exchange and cooperation between the Chinese and French notary circles has a long history. During the Sino-French Notarial Business Exchange Conference, the China Notary Association (中国公证协会) and the French High Council of Notaries (法国公证人高等理事会) signed a cooperation agreement and conducted discussions on topics such as the notarial systems and latest developments in China and France, and alternative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Return to TopHongjiang Town (红江镇) in Pengxi County (蓬溪县), Suining City (遂宁市), Sichuan Province (四川省) has been stimulating public enthusiasm for participating in grassroots governance through "Courtyard Discussion Halls." Focusing on urgent issues of public concern such as the layout of streetlights and garbage removal, the town encourages the public to participate in the discussion, decision-making, and evaluation of livelihood issues throughout the entire process. The picture shows villagers voting on the streetlight layout issue at a discussion meeting held in Hongjiang Community (红江社区), Hongjiang Town (红江镇) on March 30.
Photo by Liu Changsong (刘昌松) (Image China)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇
"Innovation is not easy. Our manufacturing industry has long cycles and requires large investments. What we hope for most is that new production lines can be put into operation as soon as possible." Recently, in the new factory building in Lishui District (溧水区), Nanjing (南京) City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省), Zhang Li (张丽), Deputy General Manager of Nanjing Haobo Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (南京皓博智能装备有限公司), said with emotion.
Whether the business environment is good or not is most directly felt by enterprises. In recent years, Lishui District (溧水区) has taken optimizing the business environment as its "top project," carrying out "five things to serve enterprises," simultaneous issuance of "five certificates" for major projects, and an integrated "five-office" mechanism, not only helping enterprises run approvals but also helping them expand their markets.
On a truss more than 7 meters high, an AI-controlled robotic arm neatly places scattered goods. In recent years, Nanjing Haobo Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. (南京皓博智能装备有限公司) has developed an embodied intelligent robot focused on bag unloading. Such large equipment uses visual recognition algorithms, which not only occupies a large area but is also sensitive to lighting and other conditions of the site, requiring a lot of debugging before delivery. Originally, the equipment could not enter the site until the factory building passed acceptance. Yang Xuewen (杨学文), Deputy Director of the Lishui District Development and Reform Commission (溧水区发展和改革委员会), introduced that the local government used the gap period before completion acceptance, with multiple departments jointly providing guidance, and implemented a "pre-acceptance and debugging" plan, allowing large equipment to enter the site in advance, enabling enterprises to put into production three months ahead of schedule.
Administrative approval reform is accelerating, and Zhao Huichao (赵慧超), Chief Financial Officer of Nanjing Weidun New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (南京威盾新能源科技有限公司), also feels the same way. In 2024, when they were building a dichloromethane recovery plant, the street staff directly sent the reporting and approval flow chart and customized plan, and provided full tracking and guidance. "It only took 3 days to complete all the approvals required for construction," said Zhao Huichao (赵慧超).
In recent years, Lishui District (溧水区) has actively explored the "five certificates issued simultaneously" model, and promoted the integrated reform of the Investment Promotion Office (投促办), Project Office (项目办), Government Affairs Office (政务办), Special Consulting Office (专咨办), and Performance Office (绩效办) "five offices" to ensure that within five working days after the project signs the land transfer contract, the Construction Land Planning Permit, Real Estate Title Certificate, Construction Project Planning Permit, Construction Drawing Review Qualification Certificate, and Construction Project Construction Permit are issued simultaneously, helping the project to "start construction upon land acquisition." By 2025, the average time for project approval in Lishui District (溧水区) has been shortened by nearly half, ensuring the on-schedule commencement and operation of major projects.
Nanjing Baize Precision Technology Co., Ltd. (南京百泽精工科技有限公司) used to produce traditional machine tool cutters. After settling in Lishui District (溧水区), it found that local power battery manufacturers had a demand for cutter-type machine tool parts in their production lines. Therefore, with the support of the government, it transformed to produce slitting knife holders for lithium battery production lines. Today, their developed lithium battery slitting knife holders have a market share of more than 30% in the national market, and the output value has increased from 28 million yuan to 150 million yuan. Recently, the government has also connected the company with upstream local machine tool manufacturers to further control production costs and explore the localization of the industrial chain.
In Lishui District (溧水区), through channels such as "Entrepreneur Service Day," the industrial chain party building alliance, and the "Lishui Instant Meeting" online platform, the government proactively helps enterprises strengthen, extend, and supplement the chain, promoting more than 530 million yuan of intended orders, and the industrial ecology of "government building the stage, enterprise collaboration, and resource sharing" is booming.
At the end of last year, the sound of machines rang again in the workshop of Nanjing Unlimited Power Technology Co., Ltd. (南京无限动力科技有限公司). Who would have thought that this high-tech enterprise, which has the first qualification for the recycling of waste power lithium batteries in Jiangsu (江苏), had once faced operational difficulties due to market fluctuations in raw materials and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
"This company's qualifications and experience have a high degree of market scarcity, and it has good prospects and value in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) new energy industrial chain, and has the conditions for reorganization." Qin Qihui (秦启辉), a member of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Dean of the Lishui District People's Court (溧水区人民法院), introduced that in accordance with the Enterprise Bankruptcy Law, they decided to adopt a "market-based recruitment + classified disposal" plan through comprehensive audit evaluation, market-based value testing, etc. After bankruptcy reorganization, new investors were introduced, and the company quickly restored upstream and downstream channels. At the beginning of January this year, it received orders of more than 4 million yuan, finding new development opportunities.
"We will continue to use the perseverance of 滴水穿石 (dī shuǐ chuān shí - "dripping water pierces stone," constant effort brings success) to cultivate this fertile business soil." Relevant负责人 of Lishui District (溧水区) said that this year, Lishui District (溧水区) will launch more corporate benefit policies and service measures with greater penetration and a greater sense of gain, continuously optimize the business environment, and promote a new leap in the district's industrial strength.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨颜菲
The morning in Tianbei Village (田北村), Gaobei Town (高陂镇), Wan'an County (万安县), Ji'an City (吉安市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) is peaceful and beautiful. The soft sunlight covers Danqing Lake (丹青湖), also gilding the farmhouses on the shore with a layer of gold. At a glance, the colorful peasant paintings on the walls add a unique vibrancy to the village.
On the lakeside, a group of students are sketching. "I'm painting the village's peasant painting boutique exhibition hall," said Xu Yuman (徐钰蔓), a student at Gaobei Central Elementary School (高陂中心小学), pointing to the building across the lake.
Qiu Huiling (邱慧灵), an art teacher at Gaobei Central Elementary School (高陂中心小学), introduced that Tianbei Village (田北村) is not only a famous peasant painting village but also the school's fixed practice base. Students come to the village every week to participate in study tours, and peasant painters also regularly come to the school to teach. Art with the "flavor of the soil" thus takes root and sprouts in the hearts of children.
Wan'an County (万安县) uses peasant paintings as a link to depict the beauty of the countryside, the diligence of the farmers, and the fiery passion of farming.
Once, Tianbei Village (田北村) faced development difficulties due to its remote location and lack of distinctive industries. To make a living, many villagers developed lacquer skills, going from village to village during the slack season to paint solid wood furniture and walls of houses. This lacquer painting skill, full of the atmosphere of daily life, planted the seeds of art.
"Peasant paintings generally revolve around rural life, farming culture, folk customs, and natural scenery," said Kang Nianying (康念迎), curator of the Wan'an County Cultural Center (万安县文化馆). The characteristics of peasant paintings are bright and intense colors, full composition, and mostly auspicious meanings.
In 2013, in the process of building a beautiful countryside, Wan'an County (万安县) adapted to local conditions and established a development path of "government guidance, market operation, and cultural tourism integration" around Wan'an peasant paintings, transforming Tianbei Village (田北村) into a peasant painting inheritance and exhibition base, making the colors of local art more brilliant and bright.
In order to gather talented painters, the county introduced special support policies, built more than 10 creation rooms, and invited peasant painters from all over to settle down and develop. "The paintings 'grown' in the village are changing with the development of the countryside." Peasant painter Xiao Xiaoyin (肖小银), along with his apprentice Wang Zhongneng (王仲能) and his colleague Kuang Xiaobing (匡小兵), took the lead in settling in the village. Former lacquer craftsmen began to record the new atmosphere of the countryside with peasant paintings.
In recent years, nine peasant painters have settled in Tianbei Village (田北村), farming during the day and painting at night, condensing the fishing songs of the Gan River (赣江), rice planting in the fields, weddings, and other everyday events into their brushstrokes and paintings. The works are down-to-earth, warm, and full of heritage, becoming windows to understand rural life.
Rural art, sprouting from the fields, is moving towards a broader world. Wan'an County (万安县) has hosted national-level peasant painting exhibitions for many years, promoting Wan'an peasant paintings to be exhibited overseas, showcasing a unique "cultural calling card" to the world.
Tianbei Village (田北村) has developed into a national 4A-level tourist attraction integrating creation, exhibition, study tours, health preservation, and tourism, and has become a sketching base for many schools. The texture of rural life and the richness of rural culture thus permeate more young hearts.
In 2025, the village received more than 20,000 study tour groups. In addition to students, many tourists come to find paintings. The life atmosphere of peasant paintings makes many tourists feel very kind. Peasant paintings have boosted cultural and creative products, homestays, and farmhouses, allowing villagers to increase their income at their doorsteps. Villager Guo Hongmei (郭红梅) opened a farmhouse and undertook study tour receptions, and her life is as prosperous as a painting. "Peasant paintings have also illuminated our lives."
Art has changed the face of the countryside and enriched the spiritual world of the villagers. Today, in Tianbei Village (田北村), it is common for painters to exchange skills and villagers to learn to paint during the slack season. Children feel the excellent traditional Chinese culture in the atmosphere of brush and ink, and love their hometown even more. Tourists and villagers sit together to paint and talk about their hometown feelings, making rural life more colorful and flavorful. 有声有色 (yǒu shēng yǒu sè - "with sound and color," vivid and lively) and 有滋有味 (yǒu zī yǒu wèi - "with flavor and taste," interesting and enjoyable).
Return to TopBy: 肖小银
I am a genuine farmer from Wan'an (万安) in Jiangxi (江西), but now I have a new identity—the curator of the Baijia Old Street Peasant Painting Gallery (百嘉老街农民画馆). Recently, I've been busy creating dustpan peasant paintings in the gallery, both to contribute to the county's bamboo industry development and to let more people see the beauty of Wan'an peasant paintings.
When I was a child, there was an old gentleman in the village who was good at Lantern Festival paintings. I squatted at his doorstep every day to watch him paint, and when I got home, I would hold a fire stick and imitate him on the mud floor. I still remember the old gentleman saying that I had "spiritual energy in my hands and was a natural painter." This sentence planted the seeds of art in my heart.
When I was young, I farmed during busy seasons and worked as a painter during slack seasons to supplement my family's income. I never thought that painting could become the main theme of my life. It wasn't until recent years that the county paid more and more attention to the inheritance of local culture and found us peasant painters "hidden in the fields," building peasant painting villages together and even providing us with studios. On the day I settled in the village, the leader of the County Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau (县文化广电旅游局) held my hand and said, "Master Xiao (肖师傅), the local customs and practices under your pen are art, the treasure of Wan'an!"
These words made me both excited and uneasy—could a painter from a farming background really paint "art" that represents his hometown?
Unexpectedly, the staff of the County Cultural Center (县文化馆) often came to the village to help us organize creative exchanges and register for competitions. My works have won many awards in national competitions, and I have even earned the nickname "Silver Award Specialist." The pile of certificates at home, almost as tall as a person, witnesses my growth and hides the development of peasant paintings along the way.
I remember the first time I returned with an award, the County Cultural Center (县文化馆) held a symposium for us. The curator said, "Xiao Yin (小银), the value of your paintings lies in their life and vitality, which is the most precious artistic foundation. Wan'an (万安) wants to create a peasant painting brand, and you are the main force!" At that moment, I truly felt that I was a person who could contribute to the cultural development of my hometown.
In recent years, our paintings have become more and more well-known, and the village has become more and more beautiful and vibrant, with a constant stream of people coming for research and tourism.
Local art has been seen by more people and has also reached a broader stage. In 2024, Wan'an (万安) peasant paintings went abroad, and 27 works were exhibited in New Zealand; in 2025, the work I co-created with my daughter was exhibited overseas, and the local atmosphere of Wan'an (万安) and the daily life of the villagers were presented to the world through the "window" of peasant paintings.
In 2025, the Baijia Old Street Peasant Painting Gallery (百嘉老街农民画馆) in the county asked me to be the curator. The gallery displays the works of dozens of Wan'an (万安) peasant painters. Many tourists come to see them, and I explain next to them: "This one is spring plowing and rice planting, and that one is villagers making glutinous rice cakes..."
In the past, the paintbrush was a tool for making a living; now, the paintbrush is a bridge to promote my hometown. At over 60 years old, I can still do what I love in my beloved hometown. What a blessing!
My granddaughter, who lives far away, likes to watch me paint. Every time we have a video call, I prop up my phone in front of the easel, and while sketching rice fields, the Gan River (赣江), and ancient villages, I tell her, "This is the green water and green mountains of Wan'an (万安), the land where our ancestors lived, and the happy days of the countryside..."
I often feel grateful that the mountains and rivers of my hometown have nourished my creation and that rural development has created a platform. In the future, I will continue to take root in the countryside with my paintbrush, recording the customs and practices of Wan'an (万安) and the happy lives of the people, so that more people will fall in love with peasant paintings and this land full of hope.
(The author is a peasant painter, interviewed and compiled by Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 蕊
The first National Village Painting Culture Exchange Activity themed "Colorful Land, Beautiful and Trustworthy Villages" was recently held in Binzhou (滨州), Shandong Province (山东省), encompassing thematic activities such as a Village Art Night, a Village Painting Exhibition, an Agricultural Culture Fair, and exchanges on literary and artistic empowerment of villages. Among them, the Village Painting Exhibition brought together nearly 500 peasant paintings from 23 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) (省（区、市）), showcasing the colorful faces and ardent emotions of rural China.
"The painting exhibition collected nearly 2,000 works, and nearly 500 works were carefully selected for exhibition based on the principles of artistry, regional characteristics, and the main body of farmers. More than 80% of the authors are ordinary farmers or rural art enthusiasts who have been rooted in the grassroots for a long time," said Cao Zhongxin (曹忠新), vice president of the Binzhou (滨州) Farmers' Fine Arts Research Association, adding that the works are rich in themes, outlining a colorful and poetic scene.
In addition to static exhibitions, Binzhou (滨州) also organized special training courses on peasant paintings. In the classroom of the Shizi Liu Village (狮子刘村) Rural Art Museum, peasant painting enthusiasts from all over Shandong (山东) collectively created under the guidance of Tian Sheng (田胜), an inheritor of Jiaonan (胶南) New Year paintings. The students not only learned composition, color application, and techniques, but also learned to capture the beauty and poetry in life, so as to better express their love for the countryside.
"The teacher told us not to be afraid of painting 'rustic' things, our 'rustic' is precisely a precious feature," said student Wei Shiyuan (魏士源) at the training sharing session.
"Behind these sincere insights is the endogenous driving force of peasant painting creation," Cao Zhongxin (曹忠新) introduced, "We hope to make farmers the main body and beneficiaries of creation. On the one hand, while respecting the original ecology of folk art, we introduce professional aesthetic resources; on the other hand, we promote the integration of 'art +', and closely connect village painting creation with rural aesthetic education, tourism development, and industrial revitalization."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健
On the evening of March 30th, the Grand Theater of the Suzhou Culture and Arts Center (江苏苏州文化艺术中心) in Jiangsu (江苏) was brightly lit, as the 17th China Folk Literature and Art Mountain Flower Awards (中国民间文艺山花奖) (hereinafter referred to as the "Mountain Flower Awards") ceremony was held here. This year's Mountain Flower Awards include four sub-categories: Outstanding Folk Art Performance Works, Outstanding Folk Literature Works, Outstanding Folk Arts and Crafts Works, and Outstanding Folk Literature and Art Academic Works, showcasing the diverse charm of folk literature and art. Twenty outstanding folk literature and art works were awarded.
Under the spotlight, Tang Shuai (唐帅), a Xiuyan jade carving master from Anshan (鞍山), Liaoning (辽宁), who had traveled a long way, held up the trophy. His meticulously crafted work "Aquatic World," which took 3 years and 6 months to complete, amazed the audience and won applause.
Tang Shuai (唐帅), 48 years old this year, has been deeply involved in Xiuyan jade carving for many years. Although he embarked on the path of industrialization relatively early, in recent years, he has also encountered difficulties such as declining income and obstacles in developing new markets.
This trip to Suzhou (苏州) has been very rewarding for Tang Shuai (唐帅). Along with the Mountain Flower Award (山花奖) came a generous development gift prepared for him by Suzhou (苏州). As early as a month and a half ago, Ji Xiang (吉祥), Investment Management Department Manager of the Suzhou Cultural Industry Investment Promotion Center (苏州文化产业招商中心), visited him. Ji Xiang (吉祥) said that with the Mountain Flower Awards (山花奖) officially settling in Suzhou (苏州), Suzhou (苏州) has established a Mountain Flower Industry Development Fund (山花产业发展基金) with a total scale of 1 billion yuan and an initial phase of 300 million yuan. Tang Shuai's (唐帅) Xiuyan jade carving project is the first project "favored" by the fund.
Soon, millions of yuan of investment funds and cultural resources will be precisely connected to help artisans find new development opportunities. "I really didn't expect that the folk literature and art industry would receive so much attention," Tang Shuai (唐帅) said with emotion.
Tang Shuai's (唐帅) story is the prelude to the flourishing of "Mountain Flowers" on the land of Gusu (姑苏). The Mountain Flower Awards (山花奖) was founded in 1999 and is hosted by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文学艺术界联合会) and the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association (中国民间文艺家协会). It is the highest award for national folk literature and art. In 2025, the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association (中国民间文艺家协会) and the Suzhou Municipal Government (苏州市政府) signed a strategic cooperation agreement, clarifying that the Mountain Flower Awards (山花奖) series of events will be held in Suzhou (苏州) from 2025 to 2031. This two-way journey between the national-level folk literature and art event and the "Capital of Handicraft and Folk Art" has begun.
To nurture "Mountain Flowers," Suzhou (苏州) has built a complete "incubation and growth system." In order to allow the "Mountain Flowers" of folk literature and art to gather into a colorful and prosperous cultural industry garden, the Chinese Folk Literature and Art Association (中国民间文艺家协会) and Suzhou (苏州) have built a system of "one major award, a series of exhibition activities, a folk literature and art research platform, a batch of industrial transformation parks, and a development fund," comprehensively leveraging dimensions such as creative design, financial support, and market landing, to provide each "Mountain Flower" with full-process services from works to products, from skills to industries.
Walking into the Taohuawu Historical and Cultural Block (桃花坞历史文化片区) in Suzhou (苏州), white walls and black tiles reflect a clear spring water, and flying eaves and upturned corners hide the ancient charm of Jiangnan (江南) for thousands of years. Building No. 7 in the block is the location of the Mountain Flower Award (山花奖) industrial transformation pilot start-up area.
Sun Kai (孙楷), Investment Promotion and Operation Department Manager of Suzhou Taohuawu Development and Construction Co., Ltd. (苏州桃花坞发展建设有限公司), introduced that this place has more than 5,600 square meters and will be built into a national "incubator" and "distribution center" for intangible cultural heritage and folk art projects. "Intangible cultural heritage artisans can come here and focus on creation. As for site support, operation management, etc., we provide full-process services," said Sun Kai (孙楷).
Gengdeng Cairang (更登才让), this year's Mountain Flower Award (山花奖) winner and Thangka artist from Qinghai (青海), has had multiple collaborations with Su embroidery artisans. Watching the Mountain Flower Award (山花奖) supporting incubation system take root step by step, he said, "With such a good platform, I would also like to rent a workstation in the start-up area if I have the opportunity."
In Suzhou (苏州), "Mountain Flowers" bloom not only on the stage but also enter people's lives. The "Mountain Flower Fair" (山花集) market, which opened on March 28 in the Taohuawu Historical and Cultural Block (桃花坞历史文化片区), continues to rise in popularity. The splendor of Song brocade (宋锦), the exquisiteness of Kesi (缂丝), the fun of handmade prints, and the agility of fish lanterns and flower lanterns... more than 60 characteristic projects have come together to form a cultural feast that is visible, tangible, and purchasable.
In front of the intangible cultural heritage old wood carving handmade booth, Mou Na (牟娜), a post-90s stall owner from Shanghai (上海), is patiently explaining to tourists. The old wooden parts disassembled from old furniture have been re-created under her ingenious hands and turned into exquisite ornaments and coasters that combine ancient charm and new ideas. This time, she was attracted by the "Mountain Flowers."
The blooming "Mountain Flowers" not only open up a new world of inheritance and innovation for folk art artisans but also bring new opportunities to the local cultural industry. Suzhou's (苏州) local silk brand, Longquan Xili (龙泉禧里), showcased its featured products at the "Mountain Flower Fair" (山花集). "On the grand stage of the Mountain Flower Awards (山花奖), we can come into contact with folk art boutiques from all over the world and different categories. Many creative concepts and craftsmanship techniques are of great reference value, bringing a constant stream of inspiration to product design," said Gao Yixi (高苡晞), a staff member of Longquan Xili (龙泉禧里).
Deeply cultivating a city and empowering a city with one award. From ingenuity creation to industrial development, the Mountain Flower Awards (山花奖) ceremony has come to a temporary end, but in the streets and alleys, the story of "Mountain Flowers" and Suzhou (苏州) has just begun.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Shi Fang (施芳)) The "Beijing Municipal Great Wall Protection Regulations" (《北京市长城保护条例》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations") recently came into effect. As a local regulation specifically for the protection of the Great Wall, the "Regulations" achieve breakthroughs in protection scope, cross-regional collaborative protection, and revitalization and utilization.
Compared to the "Beijing Municipal Great Wall Protection and Management Measures" promulgated in 2003, the "Regulations" establish the concept of "comprehensive protection" at the regulatory level, extending the scope of protection to the Great Wall itself, related cultural heritage, and the environment in which it exists. Not only are the Great Wall walls, castles, passes, and beacon towers protected objects, but also ancient roads, fort villages, intangible cultural heritage, etc., which are closely related to the Great Wall defense system, as well as various elements that constitute the Great Wall's existing environment, such as surrounding mountains, rivers, landforms, and vegetation landscapes, are all included in the statutory protection scope.
The "Regulations" establish a coordinated protection mechanism for Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), promoting consultation and cooperation among the three regions on matters such as Great Wall protection and restoration, and joint law enforcement.
In order to solve problems such as tourists climbing "wild Great Wall" sections, the "Regulations" innovate regulatory methods, allowing district cultural relics departments, Great Wall protection institutions, etc., to use technological means such as electronic fences to provide risk warnings and dissuade behavior.
The "Regulations" establish a special chapter on "Utilization and Inheritance" to promote the orderly opening of eligible Great Wall sections. Currently, Yanqing District (延庆区) in Beijing (北京市) is integrating Great Wall resources within the district to create the Badaling Great Wall (八达岭长城) scenic area, and a 16.5-kilometer Great Wall tourist route is about to be opened.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on March 31st (Reporter Wu Yuehui (吴月辉)): It was learned from the National Space Science Center (国家空间科学中心) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) that, based on the observation data from China's "Zhurong" Mars rover (祝融号火星车), Researcher Liu Yang (刘洋) team of the center, jointly with researchers from China University of Geosciences (Wuhan) (中国地质大学（武汉）), University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), the University of Hong Kong (香港大学) and Chengdu University of Technology (成都理工大学), revealed a short-term brine-driven salt weathering phenomenon on Mars.
The study found that even under the current extremely cold and dry environmental conditions, "salt weathering" similar to that in arid regions on Earth may still occur near the surface of Mars, but it is short-lived and weak. The relevant research results were published in the journal *Chinese Science Bulletin*.
"Salt weathering is the process by which soluble salts repeatedly dissolve and crystallize in rocks, leading to rock fragmentation. However, under the current cold and dry environment on Mars, the specific conditions under which it occurs and the extent of its effect remain to be studied," said Liu Yang (刘洋), the corresponding author of the paper. "This study provides a new perspective for understanding the surface modification of Mars. It is not only an important discovery in Martian geological research, but also provides a reference for further exploration of the climate evolution of Mars in the future."
Return to TopOn March 30th, Huazhishan Village (花枝山村), Tunbao Township (屯堡乡), Enshi City (恩施市), Hubei Province (湖北省) launched a spring tea live-streaming competition. Over a hundred local anchors, using the tea mountains as their live-streaming studios, promoted Enshi selenium-rich tea. The event will last until April 25th. The picture shows anchors wearing traditional costumes live-streaming in the tea garden.
Photo by Xie Shun (谢顺) (People's Vision)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shenyang (沈阳) March 31st dispatch (Reporter Liu Jiahua (刘佳华)) Recently, the Liaoning Provincial Party Committee Propaganda Department (辽宁省委宣传部) and the Liaoning Provincial Radio and Television Bureau (辽宁省广播电视局) jointly released "Several Measures to Promote the High-Quality Development of the Micro-Drama Industry in Liaoning Province (辽宁省)", focusing on high-quality micro-drama creation, talent, technology, and the business environment, and proposing a series of support policies and service measures.
Supporting the source innovation of scripts, Liaoning (辽宁) has launched the "Micro-Drama +" creation plan, linking multiple departments to create high-quality products with industry characteristics in a targeted manner; encouraging micro-dramas to be produced and filmed in Liaoning (辽宁), and providing corresponding subsidies for supporting costs such as venue rentals incurred during the filming process; promoting the integration and application of technology, and providing subsidies of 10% of the actual investment in computing power for high-quality micro-dramas and comic dramas produced using artificial intelligence technology; optimizing the business environment, and providing support and rewards to micro-drama dissemination platforms and institutions with significant driving effects, as well as location operators recognized and favored by film crews.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王欣悦
At 6:00 AM on March 31st, a light rain veiled the Yangdu Wharf (洋渡码头) in Yangdu Town (洋渡镇), Zhong County (忠县), Chongqing (重庆), where the old and new "Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (渝忠客2180) vessels were docked side by side.
Captain Qin Dayi (秦大益) boarded the ship early. He didn't go into the new red and white ship, but lingered in the old yellow one for a long time, inspecting it inside and out, and carefully wiping the benches with a rag. These benches had accompanied him, his partner Cao Lifang (曹利芳), and the vegetable farmers for 14 years.
After wiping the benches, Qin Dayi went to the bow of the ship and straightened the flag with "Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (渝忠客2180) written on it again and again. Today, this old ship would complete its mission, and the spacious and bright new ship next to it would take over the baton.
"Captain Qin, don't be reluctant. It will be much easier for you when you sail the new ship." Carrying a basket of broad beans, bok choy, and goose eggs, vegetable farmer He Yumei (何玉梅) stepped onto the gangplank and greeted Qin Dayi to board the new ship. Several villagers followed behind her.
"That's right, it's much more comfortable for you to take the ship, it's clean and warm." Qin Dayi smiled as he boarded the new ship, took the vegetable farmer's heavy basket, and carefully placed it on the deck.
The story of "Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (渝忠客2180) began in 2012. That year, Qin Dayi (秦大益) and his fellow villager Cao Lifang (曹利芳) jointly purchased a passenger ship to ferry passengers between Yangdu Town (洋渡镇) in Zhong County (忠县), Chongqing (重庆), and the county seat, serving vegetable farmers in the riverside towns. Every morning, it set sail from Yangdu Town (洋渡镇), passing through 9 riverside wharves including Linjiang (临江), Yudong Village (渔洞村), Santiaoling (三条岭), and Yanjia (晏家), and finally arriving at Xishan Wharf (西山码头) in Zhong County (忠县).
In recent years, the riverside road network in Zhong County (忠县) has been continuously improved, and it only takes 40 minutes for a passenger bus to go directly from Yangdu Town (洋渡镇) to the county seat. However, for riverside vegetable farmers, passenger buses are more expensive and cannot accommodate dozens of kilograms of bulk agricultural products and live poultry. This "basket ferry" is still an important means of transportation for them.
The waterway cannot be cut off, but the ship's survival is becoming increasingly difficult. In the past 10 years, fares have never increased, with a minimum of 5 yuan for a one-way trip and 12 yuan for the entire journey, while the one-way fuel cost is 600 yuan, resulting in perennial losses.
In 2022, Qin Dayi (秦大益) once had the idea of selling the ship. Before selling the ship, he picked up his mobile phone and wanted to leave a souvenir of this time. "Take some photos and videos, so I can look at them when I'm old," Qin Dayi (秦大益) said.
Unexpectedly, these videos unexpectedly became popular online. "It reminds me of my parents," "It evokes my homesickness"... netizens left messages one after another. Vegetable farmers who didn't know how to use the Internet entered the vision of 6 million people through the lenses of Qin Dayi (秦大益) and Cao Lifang (曹利芳).
Qin Dayi (秦大益) and Cao Lifang (曹利芳) became popular because of short videos, and the rewards from netizens solved their immediate needs, but the reality of aging ship hardware and prominent safety hazards still lay before them.
Since 2025, the Chongqing Municipal Port and Shipping Maritime Affairs Center (重庆市港航海事事务中心) has been promoting the improvement of safety conditions for rural passenger (ferry) ships, establishing a financial subsidy mechanism covering the entire chain of "retirement and dismantling, demolition and renewal, and maintenance," and striving to solve the dilemma of shipowners "not wanting to change, not having money to change, and not having money to maintain."
"'Yu Zhong Ke 2180' (渝忠客2180) has been operating since 2012. It is ventilated on both sides, has no air conditioning, and has aging main engines, insufficient power, and poor wind resistance. It is difficult to meet the travel needs of the masses. We have included it in the category of 'demolition and renewal'," said Huang Bo (黄波), deputy director of the Zhong County Port and Shipping Business Management Center (忠县港航事业管理中心). "Of the cost of replacing the new ship, about 80%, a total of 1.99 million yuan, comes from the Ministry of Transport's (交通运输部) rural waterway passenger transport development subsidy policy and the special arrangements of the Municipal Port and Shipping Maritime Affairs Center (市港航海事中心), and the remaining 530,000 yuan is raised by the shipowner."
"It's really a timely rain!" Qin Dayi (秦大益) said, "Government subsidies have solved our practical difficulties. Taking this opportunity, I sailed a new ship for the first time in my life, and now it is safe and reliable to sail."
The "New Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (新渝忠客2180) is a new type of standardized passenger ferry with a total length of 38.5 meters and a width of 6.4 meters. The lengthened deck widens the agricultural product storage area, giving vegetable farmers more space to place their baskets. The ship is designed to travel at a speed of 17.5 kilometers per hour, and its wind resistance has been increased to level 8. Air conditioning, solar systems, and pollutant storage cabinets are all available.
The whistle cut through the mist on the river, and the "New Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (新渝忠客2180) slowly left the shore.
"It's really good now. Not only can we take the new ship, but the government also paid for the construction of a new wharf, with cement roads and waiting pavilions. We are not afraid of the sun or rain while waiting for the ship." On the new ship, passenger Luo Tianshu (罗天树) took the free breakfast distributed by volunteers—steamed buns, eggs, and mung bean porridge—and said with a smile while eating.
The new wharf that Luo Tianshu (罗天树) mentioned is not an exclusive benefit for the people of Yangdu Town (洋渡镇). In 2025, the wharves along the towns from "Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (渝忠客2180) to Zhong County (忠县) were upgraded, and brand-new boarding paths and standardized waiting pavilions were built one after another. Volunteers routinely serve the elderly who take the ship at the wharf, and the history of vegetable farmers "stepping on mud and climbing steep slopes" has been completely turned over.
While upgrading the ships, daily supervision is not lagging behind. Ma Fei (马飞), director of the Zhong County Maritime Affairs Office (忠县海事处), said: "We rely on the intelligent monitoring platform to conduct intelligent tracking and real-time maintenance tracking of this passenger ship through 36 cameras." The maritime department has also established an exclusive WeChat group to synchronize river weather warnings with the captain in real time; offline, in addition to weekly routine inspections and maritime patrol escorts, more than 2 law enforcement officers are dispatched every day to follow the ship for inspection and maintain navigation safety.
At about 9:00 AM, the "New Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (新渝忠客2180) steadily berthed at Xishan Wharf (西山码头) in Zhong County (忠县), and the on-duty urban management team members were already waiting on the long steps.
Seeing He Yumei (何玉梅) carrying a heavy load, urban management team member Wu Tao (吴涛) rushed down and took the carrying pole: "Take your time, the steps are slippery, I'll help you carry it up!" The two are old acquaintances, and He Yumei (何玉梅) was not polite, and said with a smile: "It's really good to sell vegetables in the city now. Someone sends you on the ship at that end, and someone picks you up when you get off the ship at this end."
After the story of "Yu Zhong Ke 2180" (渝忠客2180) became a household name, millions of netizens poured into the live broadcast room to charter ships and purchase vegetables; people from all over the world rushed to Zhong County (忠县) to help vegetable farmers move goods and sell vegetables for free... This small ship carries not only vegetables, but also the purest kindness between people.
Now, the new ship has smoothly taken over the route and passengers of the old ship. In the cockpit, the live broadcast mobile phone is still recording the daily life of this ferry.
With policy support and kindness escorting, this water "basket special line" is running more steadily.
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May this relay race run a vibrant trajectory and a future full of hope.
The term "1-meter perspective" is often associated with child-friendly construction, referring to public space planning and urban construction from the height and cognition of children. The recent release of the "Opinions on Promoting Child-Friendly Construction in the Whole Society" further makes the "1-meter perspective" a clear requirement for local compilation and implementation of territorial space planning and urban renewal special planning.
What's in the "1-meter perspective"?
There is warmth engraved in the details. The attitude towards children reflects the level of social civilization. Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南) has created colored zebra crossings around primary and secondary schools and kindergartens, effectively improving the surrounding traffic conditions; Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) has transformed idle space under elevated bridges into children's "treasure playgrounds," adding childlike fun to urban life; Xiangyang (襄阳), Hubei (湖北) has built 30 community early education service stations, exploring solutions to the difficulties of young parents bringing their babies. More details reflect that "child-friendly" is gradually moving from concept to practice: the washstands in parks have become "shorter," the ground of community playgrounds has "grown" soft cushions, and the children's clinic areas in hospitals are covered with cartoon paintings... "Child-friendly" is not only a bonus for the city, but also a compulsory question in development.
There is also respect for bending down. How to better integrate the "1-meter perspective" into urban planning and construction? We must listen more to the voices of children. Their seemingly whimsical ideas may hide many "blind spots" that adults cannot discover. In Xianxi Community (贤溪社区), Rongxi Area (容西片区), Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北), kindergarten children designed a playground for themselves, and with the help of the Rongxi Management Committee (容西管理委员会), this small dream became a reality; in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江), the "Yi Tong Observation Group" (义童观察团) actively puts forward suggestions for urban public services, "the bus handrails are too high" and "the glass door of the fire hydrant is a bit loose." In the past three years, more than 50 suggestions have been adopted. Fully respecting children's right to participate can more carefully see their needs and improve the refinement of child-friendly construction. And when children learn to actively discover problems and make suggestions, they not only enhance their observation and expression skills, but also cultivate a sense of social responsibility from an early age.
Gradually optimizing the children's growth environment and improving the quality of public services from the "1-meter perspective" not only protects the pure and happy childhood of children, but also reduces the cost of raising children for small families and helps build a fertility-friendly society. Child-friendly construction is not a 100-meter sprint, but a relay race that requires patience and gentleness. To let the concept of caring for children and respecting growth permeate people's hearts, governments, society, and families need to fulfill their responsibilities, and continuous investment in policies, funds, and technologies is needed, as well as continuous improvement of measures and refinement of services in practice. May this relay race run a vibrant trajectory and a future full of hope.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李家鼎
Xiao Zhou (小周), who rents an apartment in Huajiang Yiwei Community (华江一委社区), Donghai Subdistrict (东海街道), Hexi District (河西区), Tianjin (天津市), was riding his electric bike back to the residential area when it started to drizzle. "My home is on the first floor, the corridor can shelter from the rain, and it's easy to run a line, so I thought I'd charge the bike for a while," Xiao Zhou (小周) said. But as soon as he pushed the electric bike to the entrance of the unit, a clear alarm sounded. Almost at the same time, the access control locked, and after a while, the grid member who received the early warning information called him: "Electric bikes must not be brought into the building. The community has a special charging area for electric bikes, and there are also rain shelters..."
Xiao Zhou (小周), who had just moved in, was a little confused: "How could such a big commotion occur just by pushing the bike close, without even entering the building door?" Ning Peizhu (宁培竹), a 69-year-old resident, happened to be passing by and pointed Xiao Zhou (小周) in the direction of the charging area, saying with a smile, "This is a digital anti-bike access control system. The camera on the unit door frame can identify electric bikes. With this, we can live much more peacefully!"
"In 2021, a resident of the community took an electric bike battery home to charge, and who knew that a fire broke out in the early morning, causing heavy losses to the family." Wu Yanjing (武燕静), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of the community, recalled that fire with lingering fear. Huajiang Yiwei Community (华江一委社区) was built in 1990. The infrastructure is old, and like many old communities, it has been plagued by many problems: the charging of electric bikes "entering buildings and households" has been repeatedly prohibited, and fire hazards are always present; parking relies entirely on "grabbing," and passages are often blocked; property services cannot keep up, residents are unwilling to pay fees, and the vicious cycle is difficult to break.
Is there a solution that can effectively solve the problems encountered in the governance of old residential areas? After detailed research, Donghai Subdistrict (东海街道) and Beijing Yaoshibao Technology Co., Ltd. (北京钥匙宝科技有限公司) "hit it off".
"In 2024, the subdistrict jointly developed the 'Electric Bicycle Corridor Blocking System' with the company, which has been well received by community residents and has also provided us with a powerful tool to further improve the management level of old communities." Zang Dawei (臧大伟), Secretary of the Party Working Committee of Donghai Subdistrict (东海街道), introduced that since all 137 building doors in Huajiang Yiwei Community (华江一委社区) were equipped with the system, the system has issued more than 30,000 warnings to prevent electric bikes from entering buildings, and no fires caused by electric bikes have occurred in the community.
"We want to explore a sustainable, digitally empowered governance model for old residential areas." Zhong Hui (钟辉), head of Beijing Yaoshibao Technology Co., Ltd. (北京钥匙宝科技有限公司), showed reporters a "smart screen" set up in the community property office: electric bike early warning, public area monitoring, smart parking management, abnormal water and electricity monitoring for elderly people living alone... "In response to the data characteristics of the community, we have formulated differentiated classification standards. After these data are collected and connected, they are integrated into the district-level platform to form data assets that can feed back into community management," Zang Dawei (臧大伟) introduced.
Changes are visible and tangible. Liu Xueqin (刘学勤), a 59-year-old resident, has vivid memories of the snow last winter: "When I went out at 6 a.m., the road was already clean." It turned out that according to real-time weather conditions, the property company introduced smart sweepers to clear the snow.
The changes have enabled residents, property companies, and the community to achieve a 三赢 (sān yíng - "triple win," a situation where all parties involved benefit). "In the past, property services were not in place, and the average annual collection rate of property fees was only about 40%. The community often acted as a 'fire brigade'; this year, the property fee collection rate has exceeded 90%, and we also collect public opinion information through applications, giving our work more focus," Wu Yanjing (武燕静) said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Minister of Agriculture and Rural Affairs Han Jun (韩俊) proposed a healthy eating suggestion of "appropriately reducing oil, increasing beans, and adding milk." How should this suggestion be viewed from a nutritional perspective? How can it be put into practice in daily life?
Zhang Xiaoli (张晓丽), attending physician of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province (云南省第一人民医院), explained: "The suggestion of reducing oil, increasing beans, and adding milk essentially promotes a shift in dietary concepts from eating enough to eating well, and building a more scientific and reasonable dietary structure." Currently, the unreasonable dietary structure of Chinese residents is mainly manifested in excessive oil intake and insufficient intake of milk, soybeans, and soy products.
The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" (《中国居民膳食指南（2022）》) recommends that adults control their daily cooking oil consumption to 25-30 grams. If too much meat and fried food are consumed, overall fat intake is likely to exceed the standard.
"Animal fats have a high content of saturated fatty acids, and high-temperature frying cooking methods will also produce more trans fatty acids. Long-term intake will increase the risk of cardiovascular diseases," Zhang Xiaoli (张晓丽) introduced. The focus of "reducing oil" is to reduce the amount of oil in the cooking process and reduce the intake of animal fats, preferring vegetable oils. "You can use oil-limiting pots or oil sprayers when cooking, and advocate the use of steaming, boiling, stewing, or quick stir-frying cooking methods to reduce frying."
"Increasing beans" refers to increasing the intake of soybeans and their products. Soybeans are a treasure trove of high-quality plant protein, B vitamins, and dietary fiber, which can prevent obesity and muscle loss and maintain bone health. The "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" (《中国居民膳食指南（2022）》) recommends a daily intake equivalent to 25-35 grams of dry soybeans. If soybeans are converted into common soy products, the intake should be converted according to the soybean content. For example, 75-120 grams of fresh edamame (with pods) are needed, 50-75 grams of white tofu are needed, and 300-500 ml of soy milk are needed.
"Increasing beans" can supplement high-quality plant protein, while "adding milk" can supplement high-quality animal protein. Dairy products are rich in calcium and have a high absorption rate, which is crucial for the growth and development of children and adolescents and the prevention of osteoporosis in middle-aged and elderly people.
How to choose dairy products?
Zhang Xiaoli (张晓丽) suggests that healthy people should give priority to pure milk. Patients with chronic diseases such as obesity and hyperlipidemia are advised to choose low-fat or skim milk. People with lactose intolerance can choose hydrolyzed milk or sugar-free, low-sugar yogurt. When purchasing, a strict distinction should be made between milk, yogurt, and "milk-containing beverage" products, the latter usually having a low protein content and a high sugar content.
"Reducing oil, increasing beans, and adding milk" does not mean not eating other foods, but rather advocating the establishment of a diversified dietary pattern. While controlling total calories and total fat, increase the proportion of beans and milk to achieve nutrient complementarity and balance. Zhang Xiaoli (张晓丽) said that healthy eating starts with the choice of each meal, and optimizing the dietary structure from daily details is an effective and direct investment in health.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 闫伊乔
At Dongguantou South Station on the Fangshan Line of the Beijing Subway (北京地铁房山线), the platform was crowded with people. Suddenly, a man, due to a verbal dispute, lost control of his emotions and punched a female passenger in the head. The sudden act of violence plunged the scene into chaos, and surrounding passengers stepped aside, leaving the assaulted woman in danger.
"Stop! I am from the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学)!" Geng Feitong (耿飞桐), a 2024 student of the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学) who was waiting for the train, quickly stepped forward and stood between the violent man and the female passenger. He used the police prevention and control skills he had learned at the school to quickly subdue the man, preventing more serious harm from occurring. The handling process was clean and efficient, and order was restored to the scene in just 3 minutes.
"As a prospective police officer, I have no law enforcement power yet, so I made it clear that I was a student of the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学), which both created a deterrent and reassured the public," Geng Feitong (耿飞桐) said. At the time, he had only one thought in his mind: to protect the people and stop illegal behavior. In his opinion, this courage to stand up was not a momentary impulse, but a responsibility engraved in the bones of students at the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学).
"Professional and decisive, this is what a 'prospective police officer' looks like!" Geng Feitong's (耿飞桐) heroic actions drew praise from netizens. The Wanzi Station Police Station (湾子站派出所) of the Public Transport Security Corps of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau (北京市公安局公共交通安全保卫总队) sent a letter of commendation to the People's Public Security University of China (中国人民公安大学), highly praising Geng Feitong's (耿飞桐) fearlessness and courageous act; the school also awarded Geng Feitong (耿飞桐) a third-class personal merit, calling on all students to take him as an example and practice the mission of a police student.
The few minutes on the subway platform made this young man even more determined in his choice: "I want to become a good police officer who fights for the people, for justice, and for the law." "A person's life is limited, but serving the people is unlimited." Geng Feitong (耿飞桐) always keeps Lei Feng's (雷锋) famous saying in mind, "This sentence is equally appropriate in police work - the environment of on-site law enforcement is ever-changing, but the heart of serving the people is unchanging, and guarding the people is my mission."
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"Ooh..." A series of extremely penetrating and high-pitched bird calls pierced through the treetops, and the numbers on the sound level meter screen quickly jumped past "70".
"Koel! It's that again!" the students said loudly.
On the afternoon of March 31, experts from the Shenzhen Municipal Ecology Environment Bureau (深圳市生态环境局) in Guangdong Province (广东省) came to the campus of Shenzhen Bao'an Middle School (深圳宝安中学) to lead students in conducting on-site noise measurements and natural science popularization.
"The 'noisy koel' you mentioned is scientifically known as the Asian koel. March and April are the breeding and courtship season for koels. Male koels use their calls to attract females and generally do not call from a fixed location..." Listening to the expert's explanation, the students' initial annoyance with the bird calls gradually turned into curiosity and exploration of nature.
A Reply Letter Rejecting "Nest Removal"
A few days ago, it was precisely the calls of the koel that triggered a widely discussed life education discussion at Bao'an Middle School. The cause of the matter was a handwritten anonymous letter delivered to the desk of Yuan Weixing (袁卫星), Party Secretary and Principal of Bao'an Middle School (Group) (宝安中学（集团）党委书记、校长).
"The noisy koels on the treetops outside the window have been full of energy and passionately singing recently... Please send someone to remove the bird nests!" In the letter, the student frankly stated that the continuous calls of the koels were particularly clear in the quiet environment of exam preparation, making it difficult for everyone to concentrate. Therefore, they earnestly requested the school to remove the bird nests, "so that these free creatures can fly to the green hills and clear waters."
The principal's office, located on the third floor, is almost always unlocked and connected to the high school teaching building via a corridor. Students who push the door open on weekdays come to chat about their feelings during breaks or to offer suggestions. Leaving a letter on the desk when the principal is not in is also a common way for students to communicate with Yuan Weixing (袁卫星).
"When I saw this letter, my first feeling was the rationality and sincerity of the child. There were no complaints, only a description of the problem. The request for a quiet learning environment was also reasonable." Upon receiving the letter, Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) did not simply refuse or give a perfunctory response. Instead, he immediately wrote a serious open letter and shared it on his video account, which he uses to communicate with teachers, students, and parents.
In the reply letter, Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) first empathized with the students' hard work and then explained in detail: "Birds chirping at dusk is their nature. It is courtship, declaring territory, and responding to companions. They will not change their rhythm because humans have college entrance exams." He suggested that students could try to regard the bird calls as natural "white noise" and view the evening bird calls as a "dusk concert" presented by the birds.
In the letter, Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) wrote: "This world was not created for any one person. Learning to coexist with all things is a compulsory course for growth." "The ultimate goal of education is not to make the world adapt to us, but to teach us to get along with the world."
This warm reply letter quickly "went viral," and netizens praised it: "This is what education should look like." The student who wrote the letter, Le Zongyan (乐宗彦), also actively responded: "The principal's reply letter was a very good life education lesson. Learning to live in harmony with others and all things in nature is a lesson we must learn."
An Educational Opportunity Brought About by a Chance Event
Turning a chance event into an educational opportunity, this life education lesson did not stop there.
"It is not appropriate to drive away the koels, but we cannot do nothing," said Yuan Weixing (袁卫星). The school invited experts in the field of ecology to the campus to carry out popular science activities, and also organized student representatives to hold a democratic suggestion meeting to discuss ways to deal with the koel calls together.
Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) introduced that the volume of koel calls can reach 60-80 decibels when they call nearby, which is indeed within the scope of noise, but their activity range is not fixed, and the impact time is limited. In the girls' dormitory building near the forest, the school distributed earplugs to everyone free of charge, and at the same time used artificial bird nests to attract birds to the "Life Garden" in the campus recreation area, away from the dormitory building and teaching area.
In addition, Bao'an Middle School planned and organized project-based joint learning activities involving multiple teaching and research groups, including ideological and political science, biology, geography, Chinese language, and fine arts, so that students could become the protagonists of exploration: the political group studied animal protection laws and regulations, the biology group studied the living habits of campus birds, the geography group investigated the ecological characteristics of the campus, the Chinese language group wrote natural science popularization essays, and the fine arts group drew campus bird atlases, improving students' ability to discover, think about, and solve problems in real situations.
Behind the principal's "viral" reply letter is the school's more than 20 years of in-depth work in life education. Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) introduced that the school has built a "3-dimensional (natural, social, spiritual life), 6-module, 144-topic" school-based curriculum system, and related teaching achievements have been rated as the first prize of the fourth National Teaching Achievement Award.
Under the promotion of Yuan Weixing (袁卫星), life education courses have been integrated into daily life - when the ducklings in the pond nibble on lotus flowers, the school mobilizes students to establish a "School Duck Management Committee," and teachers and students work together to find ways to solve this ecological contradiction; when typhoons strike, the principal writes letters to guide students to respect nature and see perseverance; there is also a special "School Cat Club" on campus, where students form groups to take care of stray cats...
"Scores are important, but not everything; exams are important, but not the end." In a discussion with student representatives, Yuan Weixing (袁卫星) said, "When you leave the campus, you may encounter more 'disturbances.' Learning to adapt, learning to be tolerant, and learning to get along with the world are lifelong assets."
An Ecological Protection Practice in a City
This life education lesson is also a vivid example of Shenzhen's construction of a national ecological civilization demonstration city.
In recent years, Shenzhen has frequently "gone viral" for protecting birds:
Shenzhen Bay Park (深圳湾公园) refuses to add high-brightness street lights in order to protect the more than 100,000 migratory birds that come here to overwinter every year from November to March of the following year, returning the darkness to nature;
Futian Mangrove Ecological Park (福田红树林生态公园) designs "bird nest street lights" to create safe "housing" for cavity-nesting birds;
Some super-high-rise buildings put polka dot stickers on glass curtain walls to prevent bird strikes;
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The biodiversity survey and monitoring organized by the Shenzhen Municipal Ecology Environment Bureau (深圳市生态环境局) shows that there are more than 450 species of wild birds in Shenzhen, accounting for about 1/3 of the total number of birds in the country. Among them, more than 100 species of birds breed in Shenzhen. According to the monitoring of Guangdong Neilingding Futian National Nature Reserve (广东内伶仃福田国家级自然保护区), from 2021 to 2025, the number of migratory birds recorded monthly in the entire Shenzhen area has basically remained at around 40,000.
Further Reading
The Asian koel is a typical nest parasite bird. It does not build its own nest, but lays its eggs in the nests of mynas, laughingthrushes, and other birds. Therefore, even if you want to tear down the nest, it is difficult to find the koel's own nest. The presence of koel calls indicates that Bao'an Middle School has a good campus ecological environment and rich biodiversity.
The koel's courtship calls, like a person snoring, are low-frequency noise with strong penetration and long transmission distance, but they only appear during the courtship period from March to April and will stop naturally after May.
How to deal with this "small disturbance" from nature tests the civilization of a city. Civilization has never been the "domestication" of nature by humans, but the balance between ecological protection in development and the survival of humans and wild animals. When we are willing to leave a space for bird calls and try to use scientific means to resolve ecological contradictions, this respect and tolerance for nature becomes a warm footnote to ecological civilization. This life education lesson at Bao'an Middle School allows the seeds of ecological civilization to take root and sprout in the hearts of students, making the beautiful scene of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature a moving landscape on campus.
In Guangdong (广东), complaints about koel calls are very common. Since 2023, we have deployed about 100 acoustic fingerprint monitoring devices in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), including 30 in Shenzhen (深圳). We use bird song AI recognition algorithms to monitor the songs of 500 species of birds, hoping to use scientific data to understand the distribution patterns of birds. Currently, we are drawing bird song maps and conducting ecological science popularization to the public, guiding the public to understand the ecological value behind bird songs, and striving to make urban governance more rational and inclusive.
(The author is Liu Yang (刘阳), Professor of the School of Ecology at Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学生态学院) and Deputy Secretary-General of the Ornithological Society of the Chinese Zoological Society (中国动物学会鸟类学分会). This article was compiled and edited by Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), a reporter from this newspaper.)
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Recently, a senior high school student at Baoan Middle School (宝安中学) in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) Province, disturbed by birdsong while preparing for the college entrance exam, wrote to the school requesting that "a specialist be sent to remove the bird's nest." Faced with this request, the principal did not simply reject it, but instead used a warm and wise reply to gently refuse the request to remove the nest, guiding the student to learn to coexist gently with all things amidst the sea of books and test papers.
"Remove the bird's nest" or "preserve life"? This is a demonstration of positive interaction and a meaningful exchange of hearts. The ending is heartwarming: after receiving the reply, the student was deeply touched and said: "The principal's reply was a very good life education and guidance lesson, which made me think more about life and nature. I very much agree with this intention, and I will study and prepare for the exam with peace of mind."
It is worth mentioning that "not removing" does not mean "doing nothing." The school purchased different types of earplugs online and distributed them to the students; at the same time, artificial bird nests were placed in places far away from the teaching area, and ways were found to attract the koel to "move" in response to its special habits.
This matter has come to an end, but the reflections it brings have not stopped.
This incident reminds us how to treat the college entrance examination with a normal heart. As the principal said in his reply: "Dear students, the college entrance examination is very important, but it is only a wave in the long river of life, and learning to respect life, understand all things, and coexist with discomfort is the wealth that will accompany you throughout your life." In the midst of birdsong and the sound of reading, children may learn far more than a test paper can hold.
From this perspective, the principal's reply itself is a "classroom without walls." This reply did not stay in the simple opposition of "remove or not remove," but showed a broader educational vision. While comforting students' anxiety about preparing for the exam, it took the opportunity to launch an in-depth education on life, nature, and growth. Integrating "how to deal with the relationship between people and nature" into the letter, letting education happen quietly in the dialogue, teaching students how to understand life, respect nature, and embrace growth. From the students' feedback, this letter not only answered the children's current questions, but also illuminated their long-term path.
This also leads to a deeper topic: what is good education?
Good education is by no means a simple indoctrination of knowledge, but should also include the cultivation of values; it not only serves the scores in front of us, but also focuses on the shaping of character for a lifetime. Truly powerful education is often not in grand lectures, but precisely hidden in these seemingly "non-standard answer" details. Good education is to sow kindness in the details, to nurture understanding in conflicts, and to let children learn to respect others and respect all things in the process of being respected and understood.
"Refusing to remove the bird's nest" is a "close-up" of Baoan Middle School (深圳宝安中学) and a mirror reflecting the educational ecology. May we all be able to understand the true meaning of education from it, and may every child have both the sharpness to pursue dreams and the flexibility to treat all things kindly on the road to the future.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Shanghai (上海), March 31st (Reporters Hu Lu (胡璐) and Zhang Mengjie (张梦洁)) - The latest monitoring by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) shows that from 2021 to 2025, the aquatic biological integrity index of key waters such as the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江) has increased by two levels compared to before the fishing ban (2017 to 2020), and the declining trend of aquatic biological resources has been reversed.
This information was learned by reporters at the on-site promotion meeting for the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔) held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) in Shanghai (上海) on March 31st.
Relevant officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) stated at the meeting that since the implementation of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔) in 2021, significant phased achievements have been made. From 2021 to 2025, a total of 351 species of native fish were monitored in the Yangtze River Basin (长江流域), an increase of 43 species compared to before the fishing ban. In 2025, the resource quantity of the monitoring units in the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江) recovered to twice that before the fishing ban.
The law enforcement capacity and conditions of fishery administrations at all levels have been effectively improved, the joint law enforcement efforts of multiple departments across regions have been continuously strengthened, and illegal "catching, transporting, and selling" have been effectively curbed. In 2025, the number of fishery-related criminal cases decreased by nearly 40% year-on-year.
The livelihoods of fishermen who have withdrawn from fishing have been effectively guaranteed. All 231,000 fishermen who have withdrawn from fishing have completely transitioned to other industries, 141,000 fishermen who have the ability and willingness to work have basically achieved employment, 220,000 eligible fishermen who have withdrawn from fishing have fully implemented pension insurance, and all 12,000 fishermen with difficult living conditions have been included in minimum living security, temporary assistance, etc.
"While affirming the achievements, we must also soberly recognize that the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔) is long-term, arduous, and complex. We must maintain the strategic focus and historical patience of a ten-year ban, and take greater determination, stronger efforts, and more practical measures to grasp and refine all aspects of the fishing ban," said relevant officials from the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部).
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In the deep mountains of southern Anhui, just as dawn breaks, patrol members from the Qingliangfeng National Nature Reserve Management Station (清凉峰自然保护区管理站) in She County (歙县), Anhui Province (安徽省), have already donned knee pads, shouldered their patrol packs, and plunged into the vast forest. Leading the team is Wang Shanqing (王山青), the head of the management station.
The Qingliangfeng National Nature Reserve (清凉峰自然保护区) is located at the junction of Anhui and Zhejiang (皖浙) provinces, with 41,418 mu of mountain forest within She County (歙县). It harbors seven species of national first-class protected plants, including ginkgo, Chinese yew, and silver linden, as well as twelve species of national first-class protected animals, such as South China sika deer, black muntjac, and clouded leopard, earning it the reputation of the "species gene bank" of eastern China.
Wang Shanqing's (王山青) father was a member of the older generation of forest rangers. From childhood, Wang Shanqing (王山青) followed his father across mountains and ridges, patrolling and protecting the forests. Every tree and blade of grass in the mountains became part of his childhood memories. His father named him "Shanqing" (山青), hoping for beautiful mountains and clear waters, and implicitly expecting him to protect the mountains and forests. In 1988, at the age of 18, Wang Shanqing (王山青) became a forest ranger in Qingliangfeng (清凉峰).
"When I first arrived at the management station, the harsh conditions were beyond imagination," Wang Shanqing (王山青) recalled. There was no electricity or running water, and no roads. They lived in low, earthen houses in the mountains, and patrolling the forests relied entirely on their own two feet. But every morning, when he opened the door, he was greeted by lush greenery and thriving vegetation, and he became convinced: "Such a good mountain, someone has to guard it. If we guard this mountain, this green will not be lost."
Forest fire prevention, wildlife and plant protection, ecological monitoring, and forest protection publicity – each and every task seems trivial, but they are all connected to the ecological security of the entire reserve.
Qingliangfeng (清凉峰) has lush forests and thick layers of fallen leaves. Every fire prevention season, Wang Shanqing (王山青) and his colleagues live at the management station, going up the mountain before dawn to check for hazards, and visiting villages in the evening to spread fire prevention knowledge.
Guarding the mountains and forests from fire hazards also means protecting the safety of living creatures and vegetation.
In earlier years, poaching and illegal digging of rare and endangered wild animals and plants occurred from time to time. Wang Shanqing (王山青) saw this and was anxious. He led his team across mountains and ridges, keeping watch late into the night. When hungry, they would eat some dry rations; when cold, they would wrap themselves tightly in their coats. Through continuous patrols and joint prevention and control, the reserve has not had a single case of poaching or illegal digging for 20 consecutive years.
With the mountains and forests safe, Wang Shanqing (王山青) turned his attention to the protection and continuation of biodiversity. On one occasion, he learned that Qingliangfeng (清凉峰) was one of the few natural distribution areas of Ulmus elongata, a national second-class protected plant, in Anhui (安徽), and he quietly kept it in mind. During the day, he plunged into the deep mountains, braving thorns and climbing steep slopes in the dense forest; at night, he turned over materials and compared illustrations, searching for several days in a row. 功夫不负有心人 (gōng fū bù fù yǒu xīn rén - "efforts will not fail those who put their heart into it," perseverance leads to success). He first found six old and vigorous wild Ulmus elongata trees, and soon after discovered a wild population of fifty or sixty trees a kilometer away.
Through long-term monitoring, he discovered that natural propagation of Ulmus elongata was extremely difficult, and seedlings were rarely seen under the forest. From 2016 onwards, every year from March to May, during the seed maturation season, Wang Shanqing (王山青) led his team up the mountain to collect seeds and bring them back to the base for careful cultivation. After years of exploration, the base has successfully cultivated more than 500 Ulmus elongata seedlings.
In recent years, under the protection of Wang Shanqing (王山青) and all the team members, since 2016, 68 species of national key protected wild animals have been monitored in the reserve, and three small groups of wild ginkgo and one population of wild Chinese yew, both national first-class protected plants, have been newly discovered. The number of wild plant species in the reserve has also increased from the initial 1,570 to 1,987.
To allow more people to recognize the beauty of ecology, in 2018, under the leadership of Wang Shanqing (王山青), the largest biodiversity comprehensive science and technology museum in Huangshan City (黄山市) was built and opened to the public. 641 specimens of wild animals and plants and more than 60 patrol logs silently tell the story of Qingliangfeng (清凉峰) and the dedication of the forest rangers.
Wang Shanqing (王山青) has devoted the best years of his life to this green mountain. When asked if he had ever thought about leaving, he looked at the continuous green mountains with unwavering eyes: "There have been many opportunities, but I can't bear to leave. This is my home, and I just want to do a good job of protecting these green mountains in my life."
Under Wang Shanqing's (王山青) exemplary influence, batches of young forest rangers have taken root in the deep mountains, taking over the relay of protection. The youngest member of the management station is just 28 years old and has already been working in the mountains for 5 years. Wang Shanqing (王山青) cares about their lives and unreservedly imparts his experience in patrolling, monitoring, seedling cultivation, and rescue, so that the spirit of protecting green mountains and clear waters is steadily passed on from one generation to the next.
Today, Qingliangfeng (清凉峰) has a sea of forests with rolling waves and clear streams. South China sika deer leisurely stroll through the forest, silver pheasants fly over the green branches, silver lindens sprout new buds, and Ulmus elongata seedlings grow towards the sun. This "species gene bank" is radiating unprecedented vitality.
"Shanqing" (山青) has turned gray, but the green mountains remain evergreen.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Kunming (昆明) report on March 31st (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)) - As of March 31st, Yunnan Province's (云南省) green electricity transaction volume for the first quarter of 2026 exceeded 600 million kilowatt-hours, reaching 626 million kilowatt-hours, a 219% increase compared to the same period in 2025.
Continuously cultivating the green electricity market, the Kunming Power Trading Center (昆明电力交易中心) is committed to optimizing green electricity transaction services. Since officially launching green electricity transactions in 2022, the cumulative green electricity transaction volume in Yunnan Province (云南省) has exceeded 3.1 billion kilowatt-hours.
Yunnan Province's (云南省) characteristic industrial ecosystems such as "green electricity + advanced manufacturing," "green electricity + intelligent computing," and "green electricity + cultural tourism" are accelerating their rise and developing vigorously. Key energy-consuming industries and enterprises in the province, such as electrolytic aluminum and data centers, are gradually achieving a high proportion of green electricity consumption, promoting new breakthroughs in the empowerment of the "green electricity +" industry.
In May 2025, Yunnan (云南) took the lead in the country to realize the free transfer of green certificates for existing conventional hydropower. As of now, the cumulative number of "free" green certificates transferred has exceeded 243 million, directly benefiting 71,800 electricity-consuming enterprises. Recently, the "Yunnan Province (云南省) Existing Conventional Hydropower Green Certificate Transfer Plan (Trial)" was officially issued. Through this transfer mechanism, Yunnan (云南) is expected to transfer more than 100 million green certificates to electricity-consuming enterprises in the province free of charge each year, equivalent to more than 100 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity.
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In recent years, the number of Americans moving abroad and renouncing their U.S. citizenship has continued to rise, and the phenomenon of "reverse migration" has attracted media attention. Especially in 2025, the United States experienced its first net outflow of immigrants in more than half a century. American media analysis believes that the ever-increasing cost of living and medical costs, the insecurity under the "cut-off line," and the political and social divisions are all important reasons for promoting the American people to "vote with their feet." This phenomenon not only punctures the illusion of the "American Dream" but also has a profound impact on the political and social levels in the United States.
The number of people who give up U.S. citizenship every year is between 5,000 and 6,000.
In January of this year, a report released by the Brookings Institution showed that due to multiple factors such as strengthened law enforcement, expanded repatriation, and voluntary departure of the people, the net outflow of immigrants in the United States in 2025 was between 10,000 and 295,000, and it is expected that this trend will continue in 2026. The Wall Street Journal combined this data and systematically analyzed it, believing that the net outflow of immigrants in the United States in 2025 was about 150,000, the first net outflow of immigrants since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
At the same time, the scale of American people moving abroad continues to expand. The Wall Street Journal reported that as of 2022, the total number of Americans living overseas has reached 4.4 million, an increase of 42% compared with 2010. It is worth noting that those who choose to settle overseas are not mainly wealthy people holding "golden passports," but mostly middle-class people such as ordinary professionals - they seek lower tax burdens and higher purchasing power by applying for long-term residence permits overseas to improve their quality of life.
The number of people who give up U.S. citizenship is also on the rise. According to statistics from the U.S. Federal Register, 1,285 people gave up U.S. citizenship in the first quarter of 2025, an increase of more than double from the previous quarter. "In recent years, political factors have become increasingly important in the consideration of renunciation." An article in The Washington Post stated that the number of people who give up U.S. citizenship every year has stabilized at 5,000 to 6,000. More and more American people feel desperate about domestic political divisions, gun violence, and other issues, and seek to live overseas to escape the deteriorating political and social environment.
Relevant survey data further confirms this trend. A survey by American Greenback in July 2025 showed that among Americans who have lived overseas for a long time, 49% plan or seriously consider giving up U.S. citizenship, a sharp increase from 30% in the previous year. A Gallup poll last November showed that about 1/5 of Americans said they would move permanently to another country if they had the opportunity, of which 40% of female respondents aged 15 to 44 had this idea, which is 4 times that of 2014.
Jennifer Stevens, executive editor of the American "International Living" website, believes that the popularity of remote work has reduced geographical restrictions, coupled with the increasing concern of the people about the turbulent situation in the United States, "living overseas is becoming an alternative for more Americans." She bluntly said: "The soaring cost of living (especially medical and housing costs) and the intensification of socio-cultural opposition are the core factors that prompt Americans to move overseas, and everyone is **未雨绸缪** (wèi yǔ chóu móu - "prepare for rain before it comes," to plan ahead; to take precautions)."
67% of Americans are "moonlight clan" (spend all their monthly salary)
The United States has long regarded itself as a "beacon of democracy" and is a traditional immigrant country. More and more people choose to leave the United States, which is a powerful negation of this illusory narrative. As American well-known media person Atossa Abrahamian said in an article published in The New Yorker magazine, "The growing tendency of Americans to move overseas is a historical anomaly, but the reasons for moving overseas are highly similar to the original intention of global immigrants to go to the United States: both are to seek a more dignified and safer life."
Although the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) of the United States in 2025 is close to 90,000 US dollars, the unfair economic system makes the distribution of wealth seriously unbalanced. "The United States is no longer a dream place for everyone, but a paradise for the rich and a hell for the poor." An Oxfam official bluntly said that the report released by the organization last November showed that the richest 1% of people in the United States own nearly 50% of the stock market value, the top 10% of people hold more than 87% of the stock market value, while the bottom 50% of people only hold slightly more than 1% of the stock market value, and the wealth of the top ten richest people has soared by 698 billion US dollars in the past year, and the gap between the rich and the poor continues to widen.
The "cut-off line" has become a metaphor for depicting the financial vulnerability of the American people: a disease or an unexpected bill is very easy to become a fatal blow to financial collapse, causing them to fall into debt default or even displacement. "As soon as the monthly salary arrives, the rent, medical insurance, and living expenses are used up, and I dare not have unexpected expenses at all." An American ordinary people's sigh reveals the plight of countless people. A report released by the American non-profit organization ALICE Alliance in 2025 showed that in 2023, 42% of families in the United States did not reach the "ALICE threshold" (although they have jobs but have limited assets and tight income), while the proportion of families below the "federal poverty line" was 13%. High medical expenses, heavy tax burdens, and credit risks that may break out at any time have become the "Sword of Damocles" hanging over many people's heads. In the third quarter of 2025, the total debt of American families climbed to a record high of 18.6 trillion US dollars, 67% of Americans became "moonlight clan," nearly 40% of adults cannot pay 400 US dollars in unexpected expenses in cash, and 44% of the people said they cannot afford medical expenses.
The Washington Post's article discussing the phenomenon of renunciation directly titled "No longer proud to be an American - fed up overseas expatriates give up U.S. citizenship," revealing the disappointment and alienation of some American people from the country. An American writer living in Australia wrote in an anonymous contribution to the British The Guardian: "America, there are still many things to love about you, but we must break up."
Multiple impacts on the American economy and society
The classic "push-pull theory" in immigration research points out that population migration is the result of the joint action of the "push" of the place of emigration and the "pull" of the place of immigration. This theory can just explain the "reverse migration" wave in the United States, which is essentially the strong "push" formed by the failure of the domestic system in the United States and the aggravation of development difficulties, superimposed on the "pull" formed by the stable social environment and perfect welfare security of some overseas countries. This phenomenon not only reflects the profound changes in the American political and social ecology, but also will have an irreversible impact on its long-term development.
At present, American overseas immigrants are mainly concentrated in Canada, Latin America and Europe. A survey shows that among Americans who move overseas, 85% believe that the overall quality of life has improved, 79% feel safer, and 72% believe that physical and mental health has improved. The experience of African American Skye is quite representative. He grew up in Chicago (芝加哥) and later moved to Amsterdam (阿姆斯特丹), Netherlands (荷兰). He bluntly said on social media: "After leaving the United States, I no longer have to worry about the safety of my children. There are no mass shootings here, and I will not be harassed by the police for no reason."
Skye's concerns are not an isolated case. "Every day I open the news and see reports of shootings, and I am worried about sending my children to school." An American people's words reveal the general panic caused by gun violence. Data shows that in 2025, an average of at least 110 people in the United States are injured or killed by gun violence every day, and shootings occur frequently in public places such as campuses and shopping malls. At the same time, police violence and judicial injustice incidents against African Americans are common. Recently, the scene of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (移民与海关执法局) intercepting passers-by for questioning based solely on skin color and accent has been exposed by the media. These have become important "push" to promote people to escape the United States.
Disappointment with the political status quo also prompts people to outflow. Texas (得克萨斯州) photographer Bain (贝恩) is dissatisfied with the American political ecology and settled in Europe. He bluntly said in an interview: "At first, we still had hope, thinking that things would always get better, but reality has repeatedly disappointed people. The 'American Dream' is just an illusion deliberately instilled, and what I want is a place that really cares about the people."
American media generally predict that as economic pressure and political differences intensify, more and more Americans will turn their attention to overseas. Wendy Edelberg, a senior researcher at the Brookings Institution, analyzed that "reverse migration" has had a direct impact on the American economy, not only leading to a slowdown in labor supply growth and a reduction in consumer spending, but also causing a decrease of 40 billion to 60 billion US dollars in GDP in 2025. She emphasized that the more far-reaching impact is the damage to the international reputation of the United States, which has led to further loss of global talent. This will directly weaken its technological competitiveness and economic vitality, and restrict the long-term development of the United States.
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In 2025, the number of net immigrants to the United States was negative, marking the first "reverse migration" in half a century. This data once again exposes the increasingly prominent contradictions in American society, such as the widening gap between rich and poor, class solidification, and exclusionary antagonism.
The wealth gap in the United States has further widened, with a small number of wealthy individuals occupying most of the society's wealth. In the third quarter of 2025, the wealthiest 1% of American families held as much as 31.7% of the wealth, roughly equivalent to the total wealth of the bottom 90% of families; the middle class continues to shrink, trapped in a "hollowing out" quagmire brought about by the surge in key living costs such as housing, healthcare, and childcare, and its share of wealth has shrunk to less than 30%; the cost of living for low- and middle-income people continues to rise, and policies such as tax cuts and cuts in social welfare programs by the US government are exacerbating the social marginalization of this group. The realistic pressures and challenges of the economy and people's livelihoods are driving many people to work and live in other countries.
"Winner-take-all" is increasingly becoming the rule of operation of the American economy and society. Capital gains are significantly higher than labor income, wage growth continues to lag behind inflation, and the share of labor income has fallen to its lowest level in nearly 80 years. The purchasing power of American wage earners continues to decline. "Affordability" has evolved from a livelihood issue into a highly politicized issue, with both parties **甩锅** (shuǎi guō - "pass the buck," to evade responsibility) and shirking responsibility, deliberately avoiding structural roots. The "Golden Card" visa introduced by the US government has alienated visa and immigration rights into "privileges for the rich," making the economic upward mobility channel for ordinary immigrants narrower.
Xenophobia has shifted from implicit to explicit, community segregation has intensified, and it has become increasingly difficult for immigrants to integrate into the American mainland. Structural racism and xenophobic politics are intertwined, and immigrant groups are seen as "heterogeneous threats" by white racists. Green card re-examination, birthright citizenship disputes, and other issues have reduced "permanent residence" to a temporary status that can be revoked at any time, and the normalization of law enforcement violence has caused ethnic minorities to face the existential fear of "identity as original sin." Under pressure, immigrants "vote with their feet" and choose to leave the United States.
(The author is the Deputy Director and Researcher of the Bureau of International Cooperation of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院).)
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"Don't touch Article 9 of the Constitution!" "Oppose war!"
The shouts pierced the night and echoed in front of the main gate of the National Diet Building in Tokyo (東京). Following the sound, Japanese people participating in the protest rally in the heavy rain held signs and glow sticks, and slogans rose and fell in the rain. Although the rain soaked their clothes, no one retreated.
The gathering, undeterred by wind and rain, further demonstrated the firmness of their belief in peace. Before setting off for the interview, the author had doubts: Would people still show up as scheduled in such a torrential rain? When I arrived at the National Diet Building Station (国会議事堂駅), this doubt instantly dissipated—before even passing through the ticket gate, the station was already crowded with people holding banners, signs, and glow sticks. The flow of people continued to pour in, and the narrow passage was packed 水泄不通 (shuǐ xiè bù tōng - "not even water can trickle through," extremely crowded; impenetrable). Stepping out of the subway station, a large number of people had already gathered in front of the Diet Building.
Among the crowd at the rally, a small figure was particularly noticeable. A boy still in elementary school shouted loudly, accompanied by his parents. He held a small sign and his voice was already a little hoarse, but he still repeated the shouts over and over again. Rainwater streamed down his cheeks, but he had no time to care. The father next to him gently patted his shoulder, encouraging his son to continue speaking out. This scene was frozen into a touching picture in the rainy night, and also reflected the inheritance of the concept of peace among the Japanese people.
A familiar face—Mr. Hoshino (星野先生)—nodded to the author. As early as more than 10 years ago, his name had appeared in reports by People's Daily reporters stationed in Japan. Hoshino told the author: "For more than 10 years, unless I was sick, I have almost never missed anti-war and anti-constitutional revision rallies, sometimes even persisting until the early hours of the next morning." When everyone on the scene recited the Japanese "Peace Constitution," Hoshino's eyes turned to the Diet Building, his expression focused.
That night, more than 20,000 Japanese people participated in the rally. Because I needed to shoot and interview, I couldn't hold an umbrella, and my clothes were quickly soaked through by the cold rain. But on the scene, the determined faces and loud shouts made a warm current surge in my heart. The shouts may be temporarily drowned out by the sound of the rain, but the general trend of historical progress will not change, and the people's expectations for peace will not change. These ordinary Japanese people express their positions through actions, continuously conveying their belief in opposing war and safeguarding the constitution, becoming an undeniable force in Japanese society today.
Recently, anti-war demonstrations have broken out in many parts of Japan. Since Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) came to power, the movement to revise the constitution in Japan has continued to ferment, triggering widespread social concern and controversy. Right-wing political forces, represented by the Liberal Democratic Party (自民党) and the Japan Innovation Party (日本維新会), have repeatedly proposed constitutional amendment plans, intending to make substantial amendments to Article 9 of the Constitution and promote the abandonment of the "exclusively defense-oriented" principle. Recently, the Liberal Democratic Party has even positioned constitutional revision as an urgent requirement concerning Japan's national security for the next 30 years, a matter of "life and death," vowing that the goal of constitutional revision "will be achieved," adopting an unprecedentedly tough stance.
The Japanese Constitution, which came into effect in 1947, is called the "Peace Constitution" because its Article 9 stipulates that Japan forever renounces war initiated by the sovereign right of the state, the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes, and has long been regarded as an important legal foundation for Japan's post-war peaceful development path. Whether the "Peace Constitution" can be maintained not only concerns the direction of Japan's own security policy, but will also have a profound impact on regional peace and stability. The current attempt by Japanese right-wing forces to revise the "Peace Constitution" into a "constitution that can launch wars" runs counter to the voices of many Japanese people who insist on peace and oppose war, and the strategic shifts and spillover risks it may bring are worthy of high vigilance.
Looking back at history, pre-war Japan was running wild on the road of military expansion and continuous strengthening of state control. What did the Japanese government do at that time? What kind of ending did it ultimately lead to? What did the people get from it? History has already given a clear answer. The Japanese authorities should face up to history, learn profound lessons, pay attention to the people's demands for peace, and avoid 重蹈覆辙 (chóng dǎo fù zhé - "retread the overturned cart," to repeat the same mistake; to follow the same disastrous path).
The light of the glow sticks swayed in the night rain, reflecting determined faces. The calls for peace are like sparks, converging into an undeniable force. History will not forget these steadfast guardians of the rainy night. The future belongs to those who defend peace and are determined to move forward.
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The current European security situation is complex and severe. Geopolitical conflicts continue to spill over, the risk of abusing digital technology is prominent, and extremist ideologies are intertwined and spreading. The shortcomings of the traditional counter-terrorism governance model are becoming increasingly prominent. In response to the new changes in the counter-terrorism situation, the European Commission recently officially released the "Agenda on Preventing and Combating Terrorism" (hereinafter referred to as the "New Counter-Terrorism Agenda"). Based on the needs of comprehensive security, it systematically optimizes the existing counter-terrorism system, strives to enhance the EU's overall counter-terrorism and prevention of violent extremism capabilities, and builds a solid European common security defense line.
In recent years, the number of large-scale and organized terrorist attacks within the EU has declined significantly, but the overall regional security risk has not been eliminated, and the terrorist threat presents new trends. Europol stated in its "EU Terrorism Situation and Trend Report 2025" that the terrorism and violent extremism threats facing the EU have the characteristics of persistence, diversification, decentralization, and concealment, which greatly increases the difficulty of early warning and prevention and control. At the same time, hot issues such as the US-Israel-Iran war, the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and the Gaza conflict continue to ferment, and related extremist remarks are rapidly spreading through the Internet. The spillover effect intensifies the opposition of ethnic groups within the EU and gives rise to radicalization tendencies in some groups. What is particularly prominent is that young people have become a weak link in counter-terrorism prevention and control. In 2024, nearly one-third of the terrorist suspects monitored by the EU are under the age of 20. Mental health problems, poor social integration, and bad online guidance are the main reasons for inducing them to become radicalized.
The EU's original counter-terrorism model focuses on post-event strikes and neglects source prevention, emphasizes rigid law enforcement and neglects comprehensive governance, making it difficult to effectively respond to the new type of hidden and decentralized threats. The new counter-terrorism agenda abandons the old idea of passive response, establishes the concept of full-process and systematic governance, and builds a governance system of "precise identification and early warning before the event, efficient intervention and blocking during the event, and consolidation and improvement of long-term prevention and control after the event," in order to achieve a shift from passive handling to active prevention and from single law enforcement to diversified co-governance. Thomas Renard, a senior researcher at the Egmont Royal Institute for International Relations in Belgium (比利时埃格蒙皇家国际关系学院), said that the new counter-terrorism agenda continues the traditional advantages of EU cross-border counter-terrorism cooperation, strengthens the application of digital technology in preventing extremism, and can provide technical support to member states and bridge the governance gaps between countries.
"Collaborative participation of the whole society" is a distinct feature of the new counter-terrorism agenda. The EU promotes the concept of "security-embedded design," comprehensively incorporates multiple entities such as communities, schools, and enterprises into the governance system, establishes a "protection commitment" mechanism for public place operators, focuses on strengthening the safety protection of densely populated areas such as sports venues and religious sites, and promotes the extension of the counter-terrorism defense line from border control to grassroots communities and various public places. In response to the situation that extremist forces package extremist ideas into short videos and entertainment content and covertly infiltrate online scenarios where young people gather, such as online games, the new counter-terrorism agenda strengthens online and offline collaborative management and control and the main responsibility of online platforms, urging them to clean up terrorist-related illegal content in a timely manner; at the same time, it establishes a normalized linkage mechanism between the game industry and law enforcement departments to achieve full-process monitoring and precise strikes against online terrorist-related behavior.
European media also pointed out that national security belongs to the internal affairs of EU member states. The policy design at the EU level ultimately needs to rely on member states to implement it. The objective differences between countries in counter-terrorism resource allocation, law enforcement standards, and promotion pace can easily affect the overall governance effectiveness. At the same time, in the process of strengthening online supervision and increasing counter-terrorism law enforcement efforts, how to balance the relationship between security guarantees and personal privacy protection has always been a difficult problem that tests the EU's governance capabilities. Margaritis Schinas (希纳斯), Vice-President of the European Commission (欧盟委员会), said that the threat of terrorism has long existed, European security is still vulnerable, and the new counter-terrorism agenda is a targeted measure to address the current security dilemma, which is directly related to the EU's internal security and stability, and is also expected to provide a reference for the global response to complex security challenges.
(Reported by the newspaper from Brussels (布鲁塞尔) on March 31)
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Recently, Thai DC One, a local Thai data company, announced the official start of construction of its new data center in Chonburi Province (春武里府). The project, with an investment of approximately 5 billion Thai Baht (1 RMB is approximately 4.75 Thai Baht), will focus on building green and low-carbon computing power facilities to meet the growing computing power demands in the fields of artificial intelligence and cloud computing in the region. Driven by both policy guidance and market demand, Thailand is taking multiple measures to gather capital and improve its layout to promote the development of the data center industry, striving to build a sustainable regional digital center.
In recent years, the Thai government has accelerated the development of the digital economy. It proposed the concept of "Digital Thailand" in 2015 and launched the "Thailand 4.0" strategy in 2016. The growth rate of the digital economy has continued to be about twice the growth rate of the country's GDP. As the "computing power base," data centers have become a pillar driving the rapid development of the digital economy. Data shows that between 2024 and 2025, the total amount of investment promotion applications for data center and cloud service projects in Thailand exceeded 160 billion Thai Baht. In 2025, the registered capital of related projects increased by 39.34% year-on-year, and the total revenue of the industry in 2024 increased by 51.43% year-on-year. Currently, Thailand has built 42 data centers, ranking fourth in ASEAN, with thousands of legal entities involved in related fields.
In order to support the data center industry, the Thai government has introduced measures such as tax and fee reductions and land concessions to attract global capital layout. In 2025, a total of 36 data center projects applied for investment, mainly located in economic zones in Rayong Province (罗勇府), Chonburi Province (春武里府) and other regions. Investors include companies from Thailand, China, the United Kingdom, Singapore and other countries. In January 2026, Anudit Nakhonthap (艾尼迪), the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Thailand, focused on promoting Thailand's opportunities in digital economy, artificial intelligence and other fields at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting. Companies such as Microsoft and TikTok have reaffirmed or proposed large-scale investment plans in Thailand, including TikTok's long-term investment of more than 270 billion Thai Baht, to help Thailand build a regional digital activity base.
Analysts pointed out that Thailand has become a global hotspot for data center investment due to its regional hub potential, domestic market growth and improved digital infrastructure. The Thailand Data Center Association predicts that the country's data center capacity will double in the next three years, driving approximately $6.5 billion in investment. Krungsri Bank (大城银行) predicts that the annual revenue growth rate of related industries in Thailand will reach 7.5% to 8.5% from 2025 to 2027, and the industry has great development potential.
However, with the rapid expansion of data center construction, Thailand is also facing challenges such as power supply, land security, and talent cultivation. To this end, the Thai government is planning to introduce new regulations requiring investors in high-energy-consuming projects such as data centers to provide bank guarantees or asset mortgages to ensure stable power supply; at the same time, it is focusing on developing green data centers, accelerating the cultivation of digital talents, and encouraging local companies to cooperate with international companies to steadily promote the construction of a sustainable regional digital center and consolidate the foundation for digital economic development.
(Reported by the People's Daily in Bangkok (曼谷) on March 31)
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Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, March 31 (Reporters Chen Zean (陈泽安) and Li Ziyue (李子越)) Regarding the incident of Japanese Self-Defense Force members carrying knives and forcibly breaking into the Chinese Embassy in Japan, Yuichiro Tamaki (玉木雄一郎), leader of the Japanese opposition party, the Democratic Party for the People, said on March 31 that the Japanese government should apologize to China for the incident.
Tamaki (玉木) stated at a press conference that this was a serious incident that should not have occurred, and Japan should handle it seriously. The Japanese government failed to fulfill its duty to protect the safety of the Chinese Embassy and should apologize for this.
On March 24, Murata Akihiro (村田晃大), a third lieutenant in the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, carried a knife, climbed over the wall, and forcibly broke into the Chinese Embassy in Japan. This incident was shocking and extremely bad in nature and impact, but the Japanese government has only responded with "deep regret," which has aroused dissatisfaction from all walks of life.
President of the European Council says the Middle East situation is "extremely dangerous" and calls for space for diplomatic efforts.
Xinhua News Agency, Brussels, March 31 (Reporters Zhang Zhaoqing (张兆卿) and Ding Yinghua (丁英华)) Charles Michel, President of the European Council, posted on social media on March 31 that the current situation in the Middle East is "extremely dangerous" and all parties must promote de-escalation and leave space for diplomatic efforts.
Michel (米歇尔) said that in a telephone conversation with Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi (佩泽希齐扬), he called for de-escalation and restraint, protection of civilians and civilian infrastructure, and emphasized that all parties should fully comply with international law. He also urged Iran to actively resolve issues through diplomatic channels, especially in cooperation with the United Nations, to ensure freedom of navigation in the Strait of Hormuz.
Michel (米歇尔) said that space must be left for diplomatic efforts. The EU is willing to provide support for all diplomatic efforts aimed at easing tensions and ending conflicts.
African Development Bank: Africa accounts for the majority of the world's fastest-growing economies.
Xinhua News Agency, Abidjan, March 31 (Reporter Zhang Jian (张健)) The "African Macroeconomic Performance and Outlook 2026" report released by the African Development Bank in Abidjan on March 30 shows that Africa's economic growth rate is expected to be 4.2% in 2025, higher than 3.5% in 2024. Africa accounts for 12 of the world's 20 fastest-growing economies.
African Development Bank President Sidi Ould Tah (西迪·乌尔德·塔赫) said that growth is widely distributed throughout Africa. "It is a matter of pride that Africa accounts for 12 of the world's 20 fastest-growing economies in 2025."
According to forecasts, the African economy will grow by 4.3% and 4.5% respectively this year and next year. Tah (塔赫) also pointed out that these forecasts were made before the outbreak of the US-Israel-Iran war, and the situation in the Middle East may affect Africa's economic growth path. He called for stronger policy measures to support economic activity and reduce related risks.
Kevin Chika Urama (凯文·希卡·乌拉马), Chief Economist and Vice President of the African Development Bank, said that the recovery of the African economy faces challenges from the situation in the Middle East. If the war lasts for more than 3 months, Africa's economic growth expectations will be lowered by about 0.2 percentage points.
China has released the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, outlining a grand blueprint for development in the next 5 years and providing valuable stability to the world. From the continuous release of domestic demand potential from the super-large-scale market, "which can become a 'safe haven' for many large economies," to mature green technologies that "help developing countries accelerate energy transition," and to maintaining world peace and stability, China is "a predictable partner committed to maintaining the stability of the international order and opposing destructive policies"... The stability of a major country lies in the consistent strategic planning, in the continuous efforts for long-term success, and even more in the global vision and responsibility.
Innovation Development
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Seize the historic opportunities of the new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, coordinate the construction of a strong country in education, science and technology, and talent, enhance the overall effectiveness of the national innovation system, comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities, seize the commanding heights of technological development, promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, and continuously foster new quality productive forces.
International Echo:
China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline releases a clear signal: China is moving from a major manufacturing country to an innovative power with technological innovation as its core competitiveness. In the past few decades, China has been known for its large-scale production and cost control in the global industrial chain and supply chain. Today, China's development focus is accelerating towards cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, advanced manufacturing, and green technology, driving the growth logic to shift from cost-driven to innovation-driven.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline's emphasis on technological innovation and open cooperation means that China will better integrate into the global technological innovation network, promoting the formation of a more multipolar and more open and collaborative innovation ecosystem. As China climbs up the value chain, the global supply chain network will become more innovation-centric, with more R&D, design, and application development carried out in China, which will also update the global innovation and industrial division of labor.
The Chinese market has massive and diverse real economy application scenarios, as well as a complete and well-equipped industrial base. These two advantages enable innovative achievements to be quickly tested, implemented, and iterated in real environments, achieving cost control and performance optimization through continuous feedback. China has become an important "testing ground" for the accelerated maturation of new technologies globally, significantly shortening the cycle from laboratory to commercial application and enhancing the feasibility and popularity of innovative achievements. At the same time, China's technological achievements in renewable energy equipment, electric vehicles, and battery manufacturing are injecting momentum into the global industrial chain's upgrade towards high value-added, digitalization, and greening.
China's layout for technological innovation goes far beyond simple industrial adjustments; it is a systematic plan for technological development, industrial application, and market implementation, which will open up new and broad space for global technological cooperation.
——Dennis Simon, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft (昆西治国方略研究所)
Huge Market
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Give full play to the decisive role of the market in resource allocation, give better play to the role of the government, build a unified, open, competitive, and orderly market system, build a rule-of-law economy and a credit economy, create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, rule-of-law-based, and internationalized, and form an economic order that is both "vibrant" and "well-managed."
International Echo:
Against the backdrop of increasing global economic fragmentation, intensifying industrial competition, and the resurgence of protectionism, the policy signals released by China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline are particularly noteworthy. This is a reform deployment facing China domestically, and it is also conveying to the world the expectation of China's stable economic development and the firm willingness to promote cooperation in the long term.
In the past, people mostly evaluated China's development based on growth rate and economic volume. As China enters a new stage of development, people should understand China's development from the dimensions of structural optimization and quality improvement. The construction of a unified national market in China is advancing in depth, breaking down regional barriers, unifying technical and regulatory standards, and improving the efficiency of factor flow, which is expected to release new institutional dividends. For multinational companies, a Chinese market with clearer rules, more consistent law enforcement, and more transparent access will significantly reduce transaction costs, making more investment in China a rational business judgment.
More importantly, in the face of a significant increase in international instability and uncertainty, the certainty and predictability of policies are of great significance. A more integrated Chinese market can enhance the resilience of the global industrial chain by optimizing logistics coordination and clearing supply chain bottlenecks, and it will also be an important engine for driving global growth.
For many export-oriented economies in Europe, a China with stronger consumption potential and a more stable regulatory environment means broad cooperation space. European countries' strategic engagement with China in areas such as sustainable finance and industrial digitalization will not only help safeguard their own interests but also help stabilize the global economic order.
——Michael Schumann, Chairman of the German Federal Association for Economic Development and Foreign Trade (德国联邦经济发展和对外贸易协会)
Open Cooperation
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Adhere to open cooperation, mutual benefit, and win-win results, steadily expand institutional opening-up, build a new system for a higher-level open economy, promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, expand international circulation, promote reform and development through opening-up, advocate an equal and orderly world multipolarization and inclusive economic globalization, and share opportunities and develop together with all countries in the world.
International Echo:
China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline clearly proposes the goal of a more sound high-level opening-up system and mechanism, marking the steady advancement of institutional opening-up focusing on rules, regulations, management, and standards. The upgrade from commodity and factor flow-based opening-up to institutional opening-up enhances the systematicness, stability, and predictability of opening-up, as well as foreign investment's confidence in China's institutional environment. Through higher-level rule alignment and mechanism innovation, China improves its own quality of opening-up and also provides more institutional public goods for the region and even the world, promoting economic globalization towards a more open, inclusive, and balanced direction.
Relying on the China-ASEAN Free Trade Area and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), China continues to compress the negative list, expand access to the service industry and the digital economy, releasing a clear signal: the super-large-scale market continues to release demand dividends, the institutional environment is more transparent and stable, and regional cooperation adheres to mutual benefit and win-win results. This not only helps ASEAN countries stabilize export and investment expectations but also provides an important "anchor of certainty" for small and medium-sized economies in a complex and volatile international environment.
China actively promotes the upgrade of cooperation from commodity exchanges to rule recognition and standard embedding, reducing regional rule fragmentation, consolidating the institutional foundation for building a higher-level regional unified market, and also exploring a realistic path for Southern countries to participate in high-standard economic and trade systems.
——Thong Mengdavid, Deputy Director of the China-ASEAN Research Center at the Cambodia University of Technology and Science (柬华理工大学)
Peaceful Development
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Implement the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, actively promote major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics, and make Chinese contributions to building a community with a shared future for mankind.
International Echo:
Currently, the global geopolitical situation is complex and volatile, with frequent local conflicts. China's development is in a period where strategic opportunities and risks and challenges coexist, and uncertain and unpredictable factors are increasing. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline has become China's strategic guide for coordinating development and security and responding to challenges and changes. Economically, China is accelerating high-level self-reliance in science and technology, forward-looking layout of future industries, and full cultivation of new quality productive forces, with innovative achievements attracting global attention. Diplomatically, China firmly adheres to the path of peaceful development, implements the four global initiatives, deepens solidarity and cooperation with developing countries, and promotes the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
China's peaceful and stable development will also benefit the world. The current global political and economic landscape is undergoing profound adjustments. China, together with the vast number of developing countries, is promoting the enhancement of the representation and voice of the Global South in international affairs. While developing itself well, China is committed to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and continuously deepening international cooperation within the framework of the "Belt and Road" initiative. For the vast number of developing countries, China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline means more stable cooperation expectations, broader market space, and more powerful support and cooperation in global governance. It is believed that this will provide new impetus for China-Africa friendly cooperation and global development.
——Erastus Mwencha, Former Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (非洲联盟委员会)
Cultural Exchange
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Extensively carry out international cultural and people-to-people exchanges and cooperation, strengthen multi-level dialogue among civilizations, and promote Chinese culture to better reach the world.
International Echo:
In recent years, the influence of Chinese cultural products in the Arab world has continued to rise. Realistic-themed TV dramas represented by "Minning Town" (《山海情》) have been popular in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other countries, and the poverty alleviation struggle shown in the works has resonated with the people of Arab countries. Animated films such as "Ne Zha" (《哪吒之魔童闹海》) have successfully crossed cultural differences and won the love of a large number of young Arab audiences with their mature industrial standards and infectious narrative methods. These all reflect the attractiveness of Chinese stories and Chinese cultural products to the Arab people.
I have been paying attention to new developments in the Chinese cultural field. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to vigorously promote cultural undertakings and puts forward comprehensive and detailed plans for the development of the cultural industry, involving cultural heritage protection, the development of the cultural tourism industry, and foreign cultural exchanges, which also brings new inspiration and new directions for the development and cooperation of the global cultural industry. In the future, relying on China's leading advantages in the digital economy and artificial intelligence, new technologies empowering the cultural industry will become a new trend of cooperation; the content production of cultural products will be upgraded from simple mutual translation of works to in-depth joint creation; visa-free and other facilitation policies will promote larger-scale cultural and people-to-people exchanges, further deepening the mutual understanding between the Chinese and Arab peoples.
——Ahmed El-Sayed, President of Hikmat Cultural Group (希克迈特文化集团) in Egypt
Green Development
"15th Five-Year Plan" Outline:
Firmly establish and practice the concept that **绿水青山就是金山银山** (lǜ shuǐ qīng shān jiù shì jīn shān yín shān - "green waters and lush mountains are gold and silver mountains," environmental protection is essential for economic prosperity), take carbon peaking and carbon neutrality as the traction, take the sound ecological civilization system as the guarantee, coordinate the promotion of carbon reduction, pollution reduction, green expansion, and growth, improve the quality of the ecological environment, consolidate the ecological security barrier, and enhance the driving force for green development.
International Echo:
China's inclusion of ensuring the realization of the carbon peaking goal on schedule in the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline provides positive expectations for the implementation of the Paris Agreement. Against the backdrop of policy fluctuations in some major economies, China, as a responsible promoter of green transition, injects continuity and certainty into global climate governance.
China's contribution to the global green transition is first reflected in promoting the systematic decline in the cost of green technologies. With its large-scale manufacturing capacity, China has significantly reduced the prices of solar and wind power equipment, making renewable energy a realistic and affordable option for developing countries. Secondly, in terms of the supply chain, China occupies an important position in fields such as photovoltaic modules and wind power equipment, providing the necessary industrial support for the global energy transition. In addition, relying on the Green Silk Road, China's overseas energy investment structure continues to be optimized, the proportion of renewable energy projects continues to increase, and global infrastructure cooperation is promoted towards a low-carbon direction.
Future international green cooperation will be more diverse and in-depth. Chinese companies are accelerating their overseas localization layout, driving employment and technology transfer through joint ventures; China's technological advantages in ultra-high-voltage power transmission and large-scale energy storage systems help countries integrate intermittent energy and improve grid stability; in regions such as Africa and Latin America, Chinese engineering technology provides high-standard and affordable solutions for local energy transition.
——Daniele Giovanni, Director of IREN (IREN能源环保集团), an Italian energy and environmental group
(Reported and compiled by Qu Pei (屈佩), Li Zhiwei (李志伟), Bai Yuanqi (白元琪), Huang Peizhao (黄培昭), Huang Weixin (黄炜鑫) of this newspaper and Li Aixing (李艾鑫) of the Global Times, with Long Chen (龙臣) participating in the writing)
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Recently, foreign representatives from international organizations, Fortune 500 companies, and the business community gathered in Beijing (北京) to participate in the China Development Forum, with the discussion focusing on one word: stability.
Dilma Rousseff, President of the New Development Bank, stated directly that China is a stable force and core engine for global stability and growth, trade, and technological change. Bill Winters, CEO of Standard Chartered Group, remarked that China is a stable platform in an unstable world. Denis Depoux, Global Managing Director of Roland Berger, compared Europe and the United States, saying, "In comparison, the Chinese economy has stronger stability."
The more the world is intertwined with change and chaos, the more prominent and valuable "China's stability" becomes. At the forum, foreign representatives actively discussed cooperation and expanded investment, reflecting that stability has become an important international competitive advantage.
How does "China's stability" come about? Behind this question lies the secret to China's development success.
"China's stability" contains the determination to "follow its own path."
The New York Times recently asked a question: "Why is China less affected by soaring oil prices?"
For a long time, China has been poor in oil and gas resources, and energy stability has not been achieved overnight. As early as the "Seventh Five-Year Plan" period, we proposed actively developing and utilizing new energy sources. Since then, from the implementation of the Brightness Project to the promotion of a new energy security strategy in the new era, and then to the construction of a strong energy nation, after decades, China has built the world's most complete energy system. The installed capacity of wind power and solar power ranks first in the world, and more than 90% of the increase in energy consumption is guaranteed independently.
If practice is consistent, fragrance will naturally come over time. Firmly following our own path, concentrating on managing our own affairs well, and working on a blueprint from start to finish, one term after another, we accumulate small victories into big victories, and thus build a world-renowned and irreplaceable market advantage, industrial advantage, innovation advantage, and security advantage.
"China's stability" contains the spirit of "establishing oneself to benefit others, appreciating each other's beauty, and living in harmony."
Some foreign media have observed a phenomenon: European leaders are visiting China intensively, vying to board the "China train," "They worry that missing this train means facing long-term economic stagnation and strategic marginalization."
What is on the "China train"? It is a steady development opportunity. For example, visibly, reports point out that China is increasingly becoming a "factory of factories." Last year, exports of intermediate products increased against the trend, helping emerging economies build manufacturing centers. Speaking of the "invisible," in March of this year, China's daily average word token invocation volume exceeded 140 trillion, with callers from all over the world.
In the past five years, China's economic contribution to global growth has exceeded the total of the Group of Seven. At this forum, many foreign companies announced "increased investment" in China. Whenever change and chaos are intertwined, people see that China insists on "opening up" rather than "closing down," and constantly uses its own development stability to bridge the world's uncertainties.
In recent years, China has achieved progress while maintaining stability under multiple shocks. Regarding China's economic growth target for this year, some foreign media said, "This growth target is quite pragmatic, marking a further shift from a 'numbers first' to a 'quality first' mentality."
The key to stability lies in practicality. Seeking quality and seeking truth, step by step, building a more solid core, accumulating a more profound momentum, and achieving high-quality and sustainable development.
Pursuing real and unexaggerated growth contains the operating law of "insisting on proceeding from reality," embodies the strategic determination of 风物长宜放眼量 (fēng wù cháng yí fàng yǎn liàng - "the scenery is best appreciated from afar," take a long-term perspective), and reflects the view of political achievements of "achieving success does not necessarily require me, but achieving success definitely requires me."
When flowers bloom, butterflies will naturally come. In the first two months of this year, China newly established 8,631 foreign-invested enterprises, an increase of 14% year-on-year, and the actual use of foreign capital was 161.45 billion yuan. This is a "vote of confidence" cast by foreign-funded enterprises with real money.
Pragmatism, confidence, and composure. China's development cake will continue to grow, and the stability dividend will be released for a long time.
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On February 10, 2026, the Longfusi (隆福寺) Street area in Dongcheng District (东城区), Beijing (北京), was bustling with people at the Spring Festival market, creating a lively and extraordinary scene.
On that day, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) conducted an inspection in Beijing (北京). In front of the Longfu Building (隆福大厦), the Spring Festival market attracted a large number of citizens and tourists. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平总书记) observed various New Year's goods stalls with great interest and had cordial exchanges with the people on the scene. He happily told everyone about his experiences of visiting Longfusi (隆福寺) many times when he was young, and also bought several special foods and cultural and creative products, including Yili (义利) bread.
From its initial establishment on Nanjing Road (南京路) in Shanghai (上海) in 1906 to its establishment on Guang'anmen Avenue (广安门大街) in Beijing (北京) in 1950, and then to its popularity in the Longfusi (隆福寺) Street area in 2026, Yili (义利) bread's century-old wheat fragrance has wafted into the new era.
Today, from fruit bread to vitamin bread, Yili (义利) bread retains the old flavors of its early days while also incorporating the new demands of the new era, reflecting the century-old Yili's (义利) "preservation" of product quality and "change" to meet market demands. The century-old Yili (义利) shines with new era brilliance, providing a vivid and practical example of how time-honored enterprises can adapt to the times and revitalize themselves.
Inheritance –
A Century of Craftsmanship, Preserving the Original Flavor
Walking into the Beijing Yili Food Co., Ltd. (北京义利食品有限公司) factory area in Daxing District (大兴区), Beijing (北京), the century-old history gallery is eye-catching. At Yili (义利), the first thing every new employee does after joining the factory is to come here to learn about the "path" of this century-old brand.
The story of Yili (义利) began in 1906.
At that time, a Western-style pastry stall quietly opened on Nanjing Road (南京路) in Shanghai (上海). James Neil, a Scotsman, rented a stall and sold bread, candy, and biscuits. This was the starting point of Yili (义利).
After accumulating capital, Yili's (义利) early operators established Yili Foreign Firm (义利洋行) on Yuyuan Road (愚园路) in Shanghai (上海). "Yili" (义利), as a business name, takes the meaning of "righteousness first, profit second; small profits, great righteousness," which is in line with the "view of righteousness and profit" in traditional Chinese culture, demonstrating the business wisdom of honest operation and long-term development. In 1946, Yili (义利) ushered in a turning point concerning its fate. Industrial operators represented by Ni Jiaxi (倪家玺) promoted Yili's (义利) transition from a foreign firm to a national capital enterprise, renaming it "Yili Food Company" (义利食品公司). Through perseverance and adaptation in turbulent years, Yili (义利) used bread and candy to record the collision of Chinese and Western tastes.
Yili (义利) ushered in development opportunities after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In 1950, Ni Jiaxi (倪家玺) responded to the state's call and moved the entire Yili (义利) to the capital, Beijing (北京). The train heading north carried production equipment, raw materials, and technical backbones who were committed to serving the country through industry. Rooted on Guang'anmen Avenue (广安门大街), the bread produced by Yili Food Company (义利食品公司) became the taste memory of several generations of Beijingers.
The Yili (义利) bread production workshop is filled with a strong bread aroma. "It's the same as when I was a baker here, the wheat aroma is strong," said Zhang Xusheng (张旭升), general manager of Beijing Yili Food Co., Ltd. (北京义利食品有限公司), while inspecting. After graduating from university and joining the factory, he, who studied computer science, was assigned to the workshop as a baker. The half-year training allowed him to see Yili's (义利) persistence in adhering to traditional craftsmanship and preserving the classic original flavor.
As one of the first "China Time-honored Brands," Yili (义利) has always attached great importance to the inheritance of baking skills and the cultivation of young successors from the very beginning. Sorting out recipe archives and recording process flows allow the century-old skills to be passed on in an orderly manner.
Fruit bread and vitamin bread are the core carriers of Yili's (义利) century-old inheritance and are also "national flavors" well-known to every household in Beijing (北京). "The recipe has hardly changed. It's not that we don't want to change it, it's that 'old customers won't allow it'," Zhang Xusheng (张旭升) said when conducting market research recently. An old man frankly said that his young grandson also eats Yili (义利) bread, which tastes the same as when the old man was a child. "This is called inheritance."
In order to preserve the essence of the taste, Yili (义利) always insists on secondary fermentation, which is far longer than the ordinary fermentation time in the industry, to release the wheat aroma with a slow process and improve the softness of the bread. No matter how the market trends change, Yili (义利) never simplifies the process, lowers the standards, or replaces the raw materials, using craftsmanship to protect the taste passed down from generation to generation, allowing these two breads to transcend the years and still occupy people's tables.
In Zhang Xusheng's (张旭升) view, the reason why Yili (义利) bread is so popular is not only because it preserves the "old flavor," but also because of its affordable pricing and mass consumption. It does not blindly pursue high-end positioning, but always makes affordable and trustworthy food for the common people, consolidating the mass base of the time-honored brand.
Innovation –
Keeping Pace with the Times, Breaking Through with Renewal
Speaking of the innovation of Yili (义利) food, Cao Bingjian (曹炳剑) opened the conversation. He is the director of the R&D department of Beijing Yili Food Co., Ltd. (北京义利食品有限公司). He said that innovation is written into Yili's (义利) genes. In every period, old products will change, and new products will emerge one after another.
Take fruit bread as an example, it has three innovations.
The first change was when it first entered Beijing (北京). In Shanghai (上海), the fruit bread was filled with fresh fruit, but at that time, there were few fresh seasonal fruits in Beijing (北京) except for apricots and peaches, so the R&D personnel replaced the fruit with Beijing (北京) candied fruit. The new fruit bread was widely welcomed as soon as it was launched.
The second change was in the new century. Fruit bread had always been manually wrapped in wax paper. As market demand increased, manual packaging could not keep up with production capacity. Li Qi (李奇), the person in charge at the time, proposed that wax paper packaging was suitable for counter sales but not for self-service supermarkets. Customers would flip through the bread, and the wax paper would easily break. Later, plastic packaging entered supermarkets, and sales increased by 50% that year.
The third change was in the new era. Faced with the people's demand for improved bread quality, Yili (义利) optimized the ingredient list and increased the amount of candied fruit and nuts. In particular, since last year, it has launched freshly baked fruit bread, focusing on baking and selling on the same day. "My stall has become the 'queue king' of the market," said Zhang Liguo (张立国), a baker at the Spring Festival market in the Longfusi (隆福寺) Street area, who bakes and sells more than 4,000 fruit breads and vitamin breads every day.
Let's talk about vitamin bread. "In the 1960s and 1970s, many people lacked vitamins, so Yili (义利) developed and launched vitamin bread. Today, it is still one of the choices for many Beijing (北京) citizens to supplement vitamins," said Cao Bingjian (曹炳剑). Yili's (义利) research and development of bread products has been ongoing. Since its development in Beijing (北京), it has launched nearly a thousand new products.
Cao Bingjian (曹炳剑) frankly said that in recent years, the food industry has paid more and more attention to health. Taking bread as an example, people's, especially young people's, needs have gone from "having it or not" to "good or not" to "healthy or not."
On the one hand, Yili (义利) uses classic bread as a base for iterative upgrades. One fruit bread now has many "versions," including low-sugar, low-fat, and whole-wheat versions, which are in line with modern healthy eating concepts. On the other hand, it launches healthy and delicious new products. Since this spring, the "stomach-friendly" and "spleen-boosting" breads have been loved by consumers as soon as they were launched. These are the transformation products of Yili's (义利) research results with the Xiyuan Hospital (西苑医院) of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (中国中医科学院). "In response to modern people's health needs for the spleen and stomach, we cooperated with Xiyuan Hospital (西苑医院). The scientific research expert team innovatively integrated medicinal and edible ingredients into the bread, allowing people to enjoy delicious food while embracing a healthy life," said Cao Bingjian (曹炳剑).
At Yili (义利), innovation in bread is not only reflected in daily life but also in ensuring major national events. "We will produce bread that meets the standards according to the requirements of major event guarantees. We have the confidence to innovate and the responsibility as a state-owned enterprise," said Zhang Xusheng (张旭升).
After the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会) ended, Yili (义利) received a letter of thanks. On January 31, 2022, Yili (义利) received an urgent request from the International Olympic Committee (国际奥委会): to provide gluten-free bread for people with gluten allergies. At this time, there were only 4 days left before the opening of the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会). The R&D team took immediate action, but the amount of yeast added, the kneading technique, the proofing time, and the baking temperature, every parameter adjustment would affect the taste. There were hundreds of combinations of key process parameters alone. The team worked day and night, experimented in groups, and conducted hundreds of rounds of experiments. After success, they immediately carried out trial production, testing, and certification. After a full 61 hours, the good news came: the International Olympic Committee (国际奥委会) officially agreed to Yili's (义利) gluten-free bread for athletes to eat. During the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), Yili (义利) supplied more than 8,000 gluten-free breads alone.
Yili (义利) adheres to the right path without being old-fashioned, and innovates to renew. "We have upgraded our products, channels, brands, and models in all aspects, jumped out of the nostalgic circle, and actively embraced the market," said Zhang Xusheng (张旭升).
Integration –
Linking Culture, Commerce, and Tourism to Stimulate New Vitality
Recently, the Spring Festival market in the Longfusi (隆福寺) Street area has shifted to normalized operation, and Yili (义利) has also entered the market and street business, becoming a vivid symbol of displaying Beijing's (北京) everyday life and cultural heritage.
Culture as the soul, commerce as the body, and tourism as the bridge. "In recent years, Yili (义利) has deeply integrated into the overall situation of cultural, commercial, and tourism integration and development in the capital, Beijing (北京)," said Zhang Xusheng (张旭升). "We combine Yili's (义利) development with urban cultural tourism, commercial consumption, and people's livelihood services, shifting from selling products to selling culture and selling experience, to achieve mutual integration and symbiosis with urban development."
From the popular bread at the Spring Festival market in the Longfusi (隆福寺) Street area to the industrial tourism of the Beibingyang Yili Park (北冰洋义利园区)... Yili (义利) has turned products into cultural carriers and stores into cultural, commercial, and tourism landmarks.
Last summer, Wanping City (宛平城) in Fengtai District (丰台区), Beijing (北京), which had been renovated, opened to welcome guests. On the main street, "Yili Bread" has become one of the popular check-in points. Here, there is not only freshly baked bread, but also Lugou Bridge (卢沟桥) lions made of chocolate... Coming to Wanping City (宛平城), eating freshly baked Yili (义利) bread has become the choice of many citizens and tourists. "Our products are combined with the historical culture of the scenic spot, which is not only delicious but also has characteristics," said Zhang Xusheng (张旭升). In some historical and cultural blocks in Beijing (北京), you will see more and more Yili (义利) bread specialty stores.
Walking into the Beibingyang Yili Park (北冰洋义利园区), people can participate in the production of bread and soda, visit the brand culture exhibition hall, and learn about the century-old craftsmanship and the brand spirit of "righteousness first, profit second" at close range. Industrial tourism transforms food production into a cultural tourism experience, which not only enhances brand trust and drives diversified consumption such as catering, cultural creation, and retail, but also makes time-honored brands a cultural tourism destination. Data shows that the park receives more than 150,000 tourists every year.
In urban renewal, Yili (义利) has laid out more than 100 community convenience stores to ensure the supply of people's livelihood. Among the goods on the shelves in these convenience stores, there are not only Yili (义利) bread, but also Yili (义利) produced candies, biscuits, chocolates, and other products, as well as brother enterprise brands belonging to Beijing Yiqing Holding Co., Ltd. (北京一轻控股有限责任公司), such as Beibingyang (北冰洋) soda and Hongxing Erguotou (红星二锅头) liquor. Near Beixinqiao Station (北新桥站) on Beijing (北京) Subway Line 5, a convenience store named "Century-old Yili" (百年义利) has a constant flow of customers. There are not only more than 30 varieties of Yili (义利) bread but also "fresh milk on tap." "Since cooperating with Sanyuan (三元) and launching fresh milk, we can sell hundreds of breads every day," said Wang Li (王莉), the store manager. Yili (义利) fully studies the needs of community residents and launches "bread +" packages to enhance the convenience of residents' one-stop shopping.
Yili (义利) bread, fragrant for a century, preserves its original intention, creates the future, and integrates culture. From 1906 to 2026, Yili (义利) has gone through 120 years. It is not an antique, nor is it an internet celebrity. It is still that bread that "can taste the wheat aroma," that time-honored brand that "can enter life," and that cultural symbol that "can represent Beijing (北京)."
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The "Classic of Mountains and Seas·South Classic of Regions Within the Seas" says: "Min is in the sea, with mountains to its northwest. One says that the Minzhong Mountain (闽中山) is in the sea."
Mountains and the sea are two distinct geographical features of Fujian, with the saying "eight parts mountains, one part water, and one part farmland" reflecting Fujian's geographical pattern of being backed by mountains, facing the sea, and having narrow land.
Looking at Fujian's topography, the Xianxia Mountains (仙霞岭) lie to the north bordering Zhejiang, the Wuyi Mountains (武夷山) to the west bordering Jiangxi, the Lianhua Mountains (莲花山) to the south bordering Guangdong, and the Jiufeng Mountains (鹫峰山), Daiyun Mountains (戴云山), and Boping Ridge (博平岭) in the central region. Even along the 3,752-kilometer coastline, one can see continuous mountain ranges.
The barren mountains and unruly sea have nurtured the pragmatic, resilient, and adventurous character of Fujian merchants. Only by promoting the spirit of "three parts destiny, seven parts hard work" can they carve out a world between the mountains and the sea.
Fujian has a winding and long coastline, which has created the historical tradition of Fujian people being good at boating, and also provides unique and favorable conditions for Fujian merchants to develop maritime trade. Since ancient times, coastal groups in southeastern China, including the Fujian people, have established connections with various parts of the world through sea routes.
Mountains are a feature of Fujian. In addition to the wood from the mountains being used for shipbuilding, the mushrooms, indigo, fruits, and other products from the mountains have also brought income to the Fujian people. People also built dragon kilns, tens of meters long from the foot of the mountain to the middle of the mountain, in response to the mountain's terrain. The kiln opening at the foot of the mountain is the fire pit, and the heat of combustion can be naturally transmitted to the kiln body and kiln tail on the mountain. The produced porcelain is transported to the seaside through the mountain waterways, and then loaded onto sea boats, sailing to Nanyang, Europe and the United States. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Kraak porcelain produced by Zhangzhou Kiln (漳州窑) was popular in European upper-class society. The tea produced in the mountains of Fujian is one of the driving forces attracting Europeans to the east. Wuyi Rock Tea (武夷岩茶), Fuding White Tea (福鼎白茶), and Anxi Tieguanyin (安溪铁观音) have become excellent drinks for European royalty and nobles.
Fujian merchants have also established close ties with the Jiangnan region (江南), which was the economic center at that time. Silk and cotton textiles from Jiangnan were popular products. Fujian merchants either transported finished products from Jiangnan for overseas trade, or transported semi-finished products and even raw materials to open factories in Fujian for production. For example, Zhangzhou (漳州)-produced velvet was widely popular due to its excellent quality.
In the hundreds of years of foreign trade activities of Fujian merchants, due to changes in the natural conditions of ports, continuous adjustments in government policies, and the opening of trade routes, there have been changes in the prosperity of Quanzhou (泉州) in the Song and Yuan dynasties, and Zhangzhou and Fuzhou (福州) in the Ming and Qing dynasties. During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Quanzhou presented a prosperous scene of "merchants from all over the world in the sound of rising tides," forming a society of diverse cultural integration. In order to facilitate the transportation of goods, local people also built cross-sea stone bridges such as Anping Bridge (安平桥) and Luoyang Bridge (洛阳桥), whose craftsmanship reached the highest level in the world at the same time.
Fujian merchants "take boats as vehicles and the sea as fields," accumulating navigation technology and trade experience in the wind and waves, forming an open and inclusive marine business ethics that values promises and keeps faith. Their footprints go to the sea, so-called "where there is sea water, there are Fujian people." Most countries in the world have Fujian merchants, and many also go to the domestic coast and inland. We can see Fujian Guildhalls in Henan, Shandong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan and other places.
In the long-term migration, Fujian merchants take clans and fellow villagers as ties to establish chambers of commerce and guildhalls around the world, forming a cross-regional and cross-national business community. This network based on blood and geography helps reduce trust costs, integrate resources, and share risks, becoming the core advantage for Fujian merchants to gain a foothold in various places.
Fujian merchants uphold the purpose of inheriting and innovating traditional culture, and enshrine local patron saints such as Mazu (妈祖), providing spiritual support for fellow merchants, and also pay attention to coordinating harmonious relations with local people and sojourners from other regions, and are committed to the development of local public services, winning a good image of honest merchants.
Geography and history have jointly shaped the unique spirit of Fujian merchants. The Fujian merchants' spirit of daring to fight and win comes from the survival challenges between the mountains and the sea. Fujian merchants have developed the courage to dare to try and not be afraid of risks in the wind and waves. Entering the contemporary era, Fujian's geographical and historical advantages have been revitalized. The barriers between mountains and seas have been transformed into ecological barriers and tourism resources, port clusters have become gateways to the outside world, and overseas Chinese resources have been transformed into advantages for attracting investment and talent. From the high-quality development of the private economy to the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," Fujian's mountains and seas are no longer restrictions, but the foundation for Fujian merchants to go to the world.
(The author is the director of the Minshang Research Center of Xiamen University (厦门大学), and this article was compiled by Wang Yunshan (王云杉), a reporter from this newspaper)
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The spring scenery is beautiful, and the tenderness of the wind and flowers spills over the branches and lands on the shoulders. Take a flower-themed special train to see the flowers in the flower-viewing resorts along the way, and then experience the intangible cultural heritage of flower-wearing; step into a sea of ten thousand acres of flowers, stroll through the flower market, and then listen to an exciting flower field concert; meet in the mountains and forests to feel the recovery of all things, and then participate in a hearty cross-country race... In the vibrant spring, flowers are used as a medium, and cultural and tourism experiences, shopping, and sports competitions have more fun and experience, outlining a vivid picture of the "spring economy."
Under the "spring economy" boom, it is not difficult to see that people are no longer just satisfied with stopping to admire the flowers, but enjoy the pleasing environment among the flowers and look forward to having a unique consumption experience. From focusing on the functions of products and services to creating personalized and immersive experiences, with the "spring economy" as the representative, the experience economy is becoming a new engine for releasing consumption potential and vitality.
The experience economy is in line with the trend of consumption upgrades. At present, the supply of consumption is becoming increasingly abundant, meeting people's needs for the basic functions of goods and services. Consumers' desire for "what to own" is gradually giving way to the pursuit of "how to feel," and they are turning to pay more attention to the value experience and emotional appeal that consumption brings to them. Spending a lot of effort to make a piece of jewelry by yourself is far more meaningful than buying a standardized product; sipping a cup of coffee in a cave coffee shop, the exquisite scenery makes ordinary coffee exude a different flavor; playing different characters when visiting an ancient city and experiencing different life experiences... Different from traditional consumption, the experience economy reflects people's higher pursuit of the connotation of goods and services under the trend of consumption upgrades, and consumption becomes a process of realizing value identity, emotional connection, and emotional projection. Consumers not only enjoy goods and services, but also participate in creating personalized and interactive consumption experiences.
The experience economy releases cultural vitality. The experience economy focuses on consumers' immersive participation. Whether it is wearing ancient costumes to experience ancient life or participating in cultural relic restoration and cultural and creative design, consumers are no longer bystanders, but participants and disseminators of cultural heritage. Kneading pottery blanks by hand in an intangible cultural heritage workshop and dyeing a piece of plain silk in an ancient dyeing workshop, the sleeping intangible cultural heritage skills slowly awaken in the consumer experience, triggering cultural identity and emotional resonance. Tourism is no longer just about seeing the scenery. Consumers enter local life, experience unique cultures, and are more willing to pay for performances and rush to a city to check in. Culture becomes a tangible and participatory commodity in the consumer experience, and it is also an interactive and experiential life scene, releasing new vitality and momentum.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" (十五五) outline proposes to "lead new supply with new demand, create new demand with new supply, promote the virtuous interaction between consumption and investment, supply and demand, achieve a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand, and enhance the endogenous power and reliability of the domestic cycle." The experience economy is becoming the mainstream of new consumption, reshaping consumption demand, and stimulating innovation in consumption supply. During the 9-day Spring Festival holiday this year, the growth rate of physical retail exceeded online retail by 3.9 percentage points for the first time, and offline consumption that focuses on experience has considerable potential.
The experience economy spawns personalized and diversified consumption supply. Nowadays, consumers no longer only pay for ownership, but pay more attention to "the experience of being remembered." It is difficult for goods with only basic functions to attract consumers, and more emotional value needs to be added to the goods; cultural scenic spots are the same in thousands of cities, and it is difficult to make people stop. It is necessary to trace the historical context and create more scenes with unique cultural heritage. The rise of the experience economy puts higher demands on the supply side of consumption. Only by adapting to local conditions and digging in a refined manner can more consumption scenarios be innovated and more high-quality goods and services with characteristics and warmth be provided.
A cup of tea is not just for quenching thirst, but also a good time to share with friends; a trip is not just for sightseeing, but also for exploring a mysterious history. In the bright spring, the experience economy is becoming a new growth point for consumption, presenting broad prospects for new consumption, and is also reshaping consumption supply and activating market potential. In the future, with the continuous upgrading of consumption demand and the continuous improvement of supply capacity, the experience economy will create more new value and better meet the needs of consumers.
By: 本报记者 齐志明 窦 皓 王永战
This spring, from spring outings and flower viewing to savoring fresh delicacies, from hiking and cycling to mountain climbing and camping, from business district markets to ancient city streets and alleys, the surging spring atmosphere and vigorous popularity are intertwined, and have been transformed into eye-catching market data and consumption performance.
Taking flowers as a "medium" and integrating multiple business formats, today's "spring economy" is no longer a simple spring outing consumption, but a complex economic form connecting the entire industrial chain of "eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment" under the empowerment of new scenarios, new products, and new services, which is a vivid presentation of the experience economy. The spring scenery is infinitely good, and the "spring economy" continues to heat up, which not only adds more bright colors to a better life, but also injects new impetus into economic and social development.
Spring Appreciation——
"Flower Appreciation +" business formats are updated, and "appearance" becomes "output value"
"I was amazed by this sea of flowers as soon as I entered the park! The tulips are blooming in layers, and the cherry blossoms are also full of branches. The air is full of the taste of spring. It is very pleasant to bring my family to the park for a spring outing, flower viewing, and farm fun." Li Siyun (李思韵), a tourist taking pictures in front of the sea of flowers at Xianfeng Sanbao Garden (仙凤三宝园) in Luxi County (芦溪县), Jiangxi Province (江西省), shared with a smile.
Walking into Xianfeng Sanbao Garden, the 4.6-mu tulip flower sea is ushering in its blooming season, attracting citizens and tourists to come and enjoy the spring scenery. Six varieties of tulips, including Apollo, Red Chang'an, Happiness Generation, and Crystal Star, are blooming in patches. Looking around, from fiery orange-red to gentle pink-white to bright goose-yellow, each flower is full and compact, and layers of colors are intertwined to create a fairy-tale-like "macaron garden", which is intoxicating. The colorful arch woven from flowers echoes the layers of flowers in different shades, like a flowing picture scroll, extending to the sky. People stop in it, and every angle becomes a picture.
As the core scenic spot of Fengqi Town (宣风镇), Xianfeng Sanbao Garden relies on the advantages of the "Hometown of Chinese Flowers and Trees" to create a new cultural tourism model of "characteristic industry + culture + rural tourism". The open area is about 1,500 mu, with dozens of projects such as a sea of flowers in all seasons, wetland beaches, and a cute pet park. "Today, I specially brought my children to take a small train through the sea of flowers. The scenery is as beautiful as a painting. The park also has parent-child interactive projects such as 'Piggy Run' and 'Happy Duck Catching'. We had a great time," exclaimed tourist Shen Ziya (沈子雅). At present, the park has received 11,800 tourists, with ticket revenue reaching 850,000 yuan.
In Dongyang Village (东阳村), Luxi Town (芦溪镇), hundreds of acres of rapeseed flower sea collide with the ancient village with a history of thousands of years to create a different kind of spark. The ancient camphor tree group "Big Dipper" in the village is over a thousand years old, and Tang-style B&Bs and pavilions are scattered. The village deeply integrates "flower appreciation + cultural creation", and integrates traditional handicraft experiences such as Luxi paper-cutting and Nuo mask making into trendy spaces such as Tangzhang Coffee Shop and Tianxia Tea Room. At the same time, the village actively cultivates new business formats such as "flower appreciation + B&B". When tourists lean on the rooftop terrace of the "Duomeihao" B&B, the rapeseed flower sea spread across the entire field like a golden brocade is fully visible. When the spring breeze blows, the flower waves roll, and the air is filled with the sweet fragrance of flowers, forming a dynamic and static pastoral picture with the Tang-style eaves and thousand-year-old camphor trees of the ancient village. With the unique experience of "seeing flowers when you open the window and entering the painting when you go out", the rooms of "Duomeihao" and other B&Bs are booked out a week in advance, and the ancient village has been revitalized and has become a popular online celebrity check-in place for young people.
From single flower appreciation to diversified business formats such as "flower appreciation + travel photography", "flower appreciation + cultural creation", and "flower appreciation + B&B", Luxi County's "beauty economy" is constantly extending the industrial chain, forming a pattern of agricultural, cultural, and tourism integration development, transforming the "appearance" of the countryside into "output value", and injecting lasting vitality into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
[Further Reading]
As the spring scenery gradually improves, people's enthusiasm for flower appreciation is high, and new demands give rise to new supplies. The flower appreciation economy is also upgraded accordingly, and integrated business formats such as "flower appreciation + food", "flower appreciation + technology", and "flower appreciation + cultural creation" are booming, helping consumers move from "cursory observation" to "immersive experience".
Driven by the flower appreciation travel scene, ethnic costume travel photography has exploded, becoming a new highlight of spring consumption. Cities such as Suzhou (苏州), Hangzhou (杭州), Nanjing (南京), Xi'an (西安), and Yangzhou (扬州) have been affected by the spring travel scene and have become popular cities for travel photography searches. Flower hairpin and Hanfu (汉服) and other characteristic costume makeup experiences have become standard for young people to check in at destinations.
Spring Competition——
Outdoor sports are becoming popular, and equipment sales are growing
In the spring of the southern Zhejiang mountains, the sun is shining and the warm wind is gentle. At the Qiji Park (骑纪公园) in Jinyun County (缙云县), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), bursts of engine "roars" came from the riverside greenway - many brands of motorcycles were neatly lined up, and more than a thousand motorcyclists from all over the country participated in the annual Motorcycle Carnival.
With a loud whistle, the convoy slowly started. The convoy, several kilometers long, was like a swimming dragon. The 60-kilometer cruise route crossed green mountains, clear waters, and ancient villages. Looking up, there were rapeseed flower fields and dark green mountains.
"In addition to motorcycle riding, there are also camping and music festivals. Every year, I have to come to Jinyun for this spring 'appointment'," said Xie Shengrong (谢胜荣), a senior motorcycle enthusiast from Taizhou City (台州市), Zhejiang Province, who changed into a vest full of riding badges and straddled a yellow Harley motorcycle, speeding all the way.
The Jinyun Naxiang riding line is one of the most popular outdoor camping motorcycle travel routes, with typical rural scenery along the way. Arriving at the BIG M Dasen Camp Nature Camp, gravel stepping stones and ground-planted green plants are dotted among them, and a row of motorcycles are parked in an orderly manner in the planned area.
Xie Shengrong also unloaded his equipment and walked to the camping area built along the arc-shaped glass curtain wall. After setting up the frame and fixing the wind rope, this tent, purchased from the market, weighed only 6 bottles of mineral water, but stood firmly in the wind. Not far away, egg roll tables, folding chairs, and camping lights were arranged in order. Accompanied by melodious music, an outdoor barbecue was in progress, and the distant mountains could be faintly seen.
The tents used in the camping area mostly come from the local area. In the experience store of Beishanlang Outdoor Products Co., Ltd. (北山狼户外用品有限公司) in Huzhen Town (壶镇镇), Jinyun County, outdoor enthusiasts immersed themselves in experiencing new equipment and placed orders for purchase; in the loading area, there was another scene of bustling activity - workers were quickly packing colorful camping awnings, and logistics trucks parked at the door were waiting to send the newly produced egg roll tables and folding picnic trolleys to all parts of the country.
"Since the beginning of the year, orders have been non-stop, especially since entering March, the number of inquiries has nearly doubled month-on-month," said Lu Zhenhong (吕振鸿), the head of the company, showing the order system in the background. "This batch of tents is prepared by customers for the Qingming holiday, and they specify that they must be rainstorm-proof. We have to deliver 3,000 tents before the end of the month."
Since the beginning of this year, the number of tourists received by local mountain camping bases has continued to increase, and young people who are keen on camping have continued to upgrade their equipment, directly driving the upstream production enterprises to have both production and sales booming. The entire outdoor leisure products industry in Huzhen Town is operating at full speed in the spring.
"The tents and awnings support not only the leisure time of urban tourists, but also a brand new world for the transformation and upgrading of the industry in a mountainous county," said Wang Jin (王晋), deputy director of the Jinyun County Economic and Commercial Bureau. From family workshops to modern enterprises, Jinyun's outdoor products industry is riding the east wind of the "spring economy" and heading towards a broader market.
[Further Reading]
Around the spring equinox, it has always been an active period for people to get close to nature and participate in outdoor sports, driving sales growth of outdoor wear and camping equipment. Taobao Tmall data shows that since entering spring, the sales increase of outdoor categories has been obvious, and products that intersect "professional outdoor" and "urban commuting" are favored by consumers. Since March, with the increase in replacement demand and travel frequency, softshell jackets have ushered in a sales peak; the sales growth rate of cross-country running shoes is 60% higher than the overall outdoor footwear, leading the explosive growth of outdoor footwear.
More and more consumers value the matching degree between equipment and sports, activity intensity, and user experience. The consumption of protective gear such as sports hip pads and fitness gloves has increased significantly, and footwear categories such as camp shoes and cross-country running shoes are very popular. This shows that spring outdoor consumption is shifting from "entry-level, try-it-out" purchases to more professional, refined, and experience-oriented quality consumption.
Spring Enjoyment——
Markets attract traffic, and subsidies promote consumption
In front of the booth, specially blended traditional Chinese medicine tea drinks are placed on the table in a row; in the smart traditional Chinese medicine experience area, citizens stand in front of smart experience equipment, and personalized conditioning plans are automatically generated; in the core area of the market, a fun traditional Chinese medicine game kicks off, attracting many consumers to participate...
At the Longquanyi District (龙泉驿区) Shanshan Outlets Plaza (杉杉奥特莱斯广场) in Chengdu City (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), the "Longquanyi Trendy Market" traditional Chinese medicine market was bustling, attracting citizens who came to shop to experience it. Chen Xuewen (陈学文), a citizen who came from the old city of Chengdu, walked into the free clinic area with his family and had an acupuncture experience, which felt very good.
Entering March, a series of cultural and tourism market activities were held in Longquanyi District, attracting a surge of traffic and driving the spring "pleasure consumption". After experiencing acupuncture, Chen Xuewen walked into a store and selected newly launched sports shoes for his family. "Outlets have a wide variety of goods, many of which are the first stores in Southwest China, and there are also discount activities."
Holding events to create a spring consumption feast. "Since March, we have continued to adjust and improve our products, launched new spring consumption popular products such as clothing, shoes, and hats, and held traditional Chinese medicine markets and cultural and creative markets to attract citizens to shop and play," said Zhang Li (张利), general manager of the Shanshan Outlets Plaza project. The plaza has attracted citizens from Chengdu, Ziyang (资阳) and other regions to shop, and the turnover in the first quarter of this year will increase by more than 30%.
After selecting the goods, Chen Xuewen came to a restaurant and clicked to enter the UnionPay Meituan group purchase applet and showed the verification code. After the merchant scanned the code, the family began to eat. Previously, Chen Xuewen had grabbed the "Yi Shi Guang" catering consumption coupon. "With the consumption coupon, we can get a discount of 50 yuan for a consumption of 200 yuan," Chen Xuewen said.
Since this spring, the local area has launched promotional activities such as "Yi Qi Gou" and "Yi Shi Guang", and has promoted consumption in catering, home furnishing, and digital products through the issuance of consumption coupons and the implementation of "trade-in" subsidy policies. "Since March 20, we have launched 1 million yuan of catering consumption coupons, which are issued daily through the UnionPay platform, benefiting citizens and tourists," said Li Dongying (李东营), a relevant person in charge of the Longquanyi District Bureau of Commerce.
Walking into the Xiaomi Home Longquanyi District Wanda Plaza (万达广场) store, citizen Li Xiaoxia (李晓霞) took a fancy to a Xiaomi mobile phone. After communicating with the salesperson, she learned that new mobile phones within 6,000 yuan can get a national subsidy of 85% off and a store subsidy of 95% off. Plus the additional subsidy converted from the old mobile phone, Li Xiaoxia finally got the new mobile phone for more than 4,000 yuan.
Policy support to boost spring consumption. "It is expected that in the first quarter of this year, the store's sales will increase by nearly 20% compared with the fourth quarter of last year," said Wang Zhou (王洲), the store manager. Through policy discounts such as national subsidies and store subsidies, the store's sales in March are expected to exceed 1 million yuan, and mobile phones, air conditioners, refrigerators and other products have become popular categories.
[Further Reading]
In the spring, the weather is fine and the consumption is good. Various regions and departments, together with business entities, improve consumption policies, improve consumption conditions, innovate consumption scenarios, and launch various activities such as issuing consumption coupons, shopping mall promotions, and cultural and creative markets to release spring consumption potential.
Policy dividends, industrial innovation, and consumption upgrades resonate at the same frequency, driving the outbreak of spring renewal and pleasure needs, and promoting the vitality of related consumer markets. Douyin Life Service data shows that since March, Douyin's clothing, shoes and hats group purchase sales have increased by nearly 90% year-on-year; the number of group purchase orders for beauty and personal care has increased by 131% year-on-year, and sales have increased by 176%; the number of group purchase orders for jewelry has increased by 282% year-on-year; the number of orders and sales of supermarket shopping coupons mainly for life consumption have increased by more than 70% year-on-year.
(Su Yongxiao (苏咏潇) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 白光迪
As night falls, the barbecue restaurants on the streets of Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) gradually become lively. Charcoal fires rise, iron skewers turn, and grease drips onto the fire, making a "sizzling" sound. Three or five friends sit around a table, order a few skewers of mutton, and pair them with grilled chives, gluten, mushrooms, or grilled fish, open a few bottles of beer, and eat and chat. This is a familiar nightlife scene for many young people. This seemingly fashionable "lu chuan" (撸串, skewered barbecue) has actually been going on in Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu (江苏) for more than 2,000 years.
Walking into the Xuzhou Museum (徐州博物馆), a Han Dynasty (汉代) stone carving, an iron barbecue pan, and a small stove for heating dipping sauce quietly tell the story of the ancients' barbecue life.
Chen Zhao (陈钊), Associate Research Librarian of the Xuzhou Museum (徐州博物馆), introduced that among the many Han Dynasty (汉代) stone carvings unearthed in Xuzhou (徐州), the scenes of kitchen banquets are very rich, including barbecue scenes: one person holds a meat skewer and roasts it by the stove, another person holds a fan to fan the fire, and wine vessels and food utensils are placed next to them, and guests sit around the banquet. "These pictures show that as early as the Eastern Han Dynasty (东汉时期), barbecue had entered the daily diet of Xuzhou (徐州) people."
A Han Dynasty (汉代) iron barbecue pan in the exhibition cabinet is also quite eye-catching. Researchers speculate that this kind of appliance may be used for heating, and may also have the function of grilling food. Another small appliance is called "dyeing stove" (染炉). It is not large in size, and utensils can be placed on the upper part, and charcoal fire slowly heats it below. Chen Zhao (陈钊) introduced that this kind of appliance is mainly used for warming dipping sauce. People in the Han Dynasty (汉代) often ate meat with dipping sauce, and the sauce was easy to solidify when the weather was cold, so they used a dyeing stove to heat it to keep the sauce warm and smooth. Grilled meat, drinking, dipping sauce - this combination is quite similar to today's barbecue supper.
From a longer historical perspective, barbecue is almost one of the oldest cooking methods of mankind. Qian Feng (钱峰), a senior lecturer at Xuzhou Technician College (徐州技师学院) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省) and vice president of the Xuzhou Diet Culture Research Association (徐州市饮食文化研究会), introduced that in ancient China, barbecue was called "zhi" (炙) or "fan zhi" (燔炙), which means skewering pieces of meat on skewers and roasting them on fire. It is a common form of delicacy in banquets. "The barbecue pictures in the Han Dynasty (汉代) stone carvings provide important physical evidence for the study of ancient Chinese food culture."
If barbecue in the Han Dynasty (汉代) was a delicacy in banquets, then in today's Xuzhou (徐州), it has developed into a vibrant consumption chain. Ma He (马贺), secretary general of the Xuzhou Cooking Association (徐州市烹饪协会), introduced that the Xuzhou (徐州) barbecue industry has developed rapidly in recent years. At present, there are nearly 6,000 barbecue restaurants in the city, with more than 100,000 employees, and it has also driven many related industries such as breeding, slaughtering, and logistics.
Ma He (马贺) introduced that Xuzhou (徐州) barbecue emphasizes "fresh meat skewers, charcoal fire slow roasting". The mutton is mostly fresh meat, without marinating, highlighting the fresh and tender taste of the ingredients themselves; the seasoning is often combined with cumin, chili, and sweet vinegar. Unlike some local barbecues that mainly focus on meat, Xuzhou (徐州) barbecue has also formed a style of "everything can be grilled", and vegetables and bean products can be used as barbecue ingredients.
The diverse ingredients and seasonings also allow a barbecue to have a rich combination of methods. Different combinations of meat, vegetables, and seasonings can often form hundreds of flavor choices, and such flexible matching is in line with the current consumption psychology of young people.
In many barbecue restaurants, customers can freely choose seasonings according to their tastes: heavy spicy, slightly spicy, garlic flavor, sweet vinegar, each with its own flavor; some can also bake for a few more minutes to make the food reach their favorite level of doneness. Ingredients, heat, and dipping sauce can be freely combined, making a barbecue full of participation. Young people regard eating barbecue as a social way - chatting while slowly grilling food, and the gathering rhythm becomes more relaxed.
From the barbecue scene in the Han Dynasty (汉代) stone carvings to the brightly lit night market streets today, the change in barbecue is not only the development of cooking skills, but also the continuation of a food culture. "In different historical periods, ingredients, seasonings, and production methods have been constantly changing, but the scene of people sitting together and sharing food has never changed," said Qian Feng (钱峰).
Above the charcoal fire, skewers of food turn in the light. Spanning more than 2,000 years, what has changed is the ingredients and seasonings, and what remains unchanged is the taste of life that grows in the human fireworks.
Return to TopXiong'an (雄安), the city of the future, attracts the attention of countless people and embodies the dreams of countless people.
It is now spring, and today, we invite readers to step into this city that is growing vigorously. Through the delicate writing of writers, we can appreciate the stories of the local customs and feel the vitality and hope of this hot land.
-- Editor
Return to TopBy: 刘建东
In the late spring of 2025, I came to Xiong'an alone to experience life, in order to create a novel. At this time, spring was like a thick oil painting brush, painting Xiong'an into a picturesque scene. The flowers, plants, and trees on both sides of the road were colorful and full of green. Outside the car window, the streets were straight and the rows of neat buildings extended into the distance with a refreshing spirit.
The driver who picked me up was surnamed Wang, in his 30s. Xiao Wang (小王) told me contentedly that his home was in Rongcheng (容城), his village had been demolished, and his family had been allocated 4 apartments, all in Rongxi (容西), 2 for their own use and 2 for rent. He works for a car rental company and has a stable income.
I rented an apartment in Hexieyuan (和谐园). Hexieyuan is located in the Rongdong (容东) area, near the Xiong'an International Hotel (雄安国际酒店) and Yuerong Park (悦容公园). The night was deep, and when I was tired of writing, I came out of the west gate of Hexieyuan and walked not far before I saw a construction site. The construction site was a trapezoidal courtyard. Walking to the gate of the construction site, the sign read "Peking University People's Hospital Xiong'an Hospital Construction Project (北京大学人民医院雄安院区建设工程项目)". Inside the green enclosure, I couldn't see the shadow of the building, only a few tower cranes. The boom hanging in the air moved slowly, making a sonorous and deep sound, floating in the night. The long boom was dotted with sapphire blue light strips. As the boom moved, the dazzling sapphire blue, thin and long, was like the Milky Way, illuminating the night sky. Approaching the gate of the construction site, looking past the brightly lit International Hotel on the side, I could see the Anhe Tower (安和塔) in Yuerong Park, glittering with gold and majestic. The spring breeze was mighty, and the night scene in Xiong'an was hazy and intoxicating.
Walking back, standing in front of the study window, the sound of the tower crane working at the Peking University People's Hospital construction site could still be heard in wisps. Looking out the window, the view was blocked by the attic-style brick-red spire opposite, I could hear the sound, but I couldn't see the shadow, only a trace of sapphire blue halo floating in the night sky not far away.
As an unfamiliar experiencer, I was eager to understand this city. During the day, I rode my bicycle all over the Rongdong area. The Rongdong area already has the prototype of a modern city, with buildings standing tall and roads extending in all directions. There are many parks, a lot of green space, and many rivers. Business service centers, outlet malls, Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (中关村科技园)... I observed these brand-new urban buildings. For this land, although they are new faces and still have a hint of shyness from just arriving, they are adapting, slowly learning to be mature and steady, and striving to become the old faces of this new city.
I rode farther and farther, and the bicycle slowly drove out of Rongdong and entered the starting area along Baiyangdian Road (白洋淀路). Unlike the already formed urban appearance of Rongdong, this is still a huge construction site. The most eye-catching are the two high-rise buildings under construction—China National Chemical Corporation Tower (中化大厦) and China Huaneng Group Headquarters Building (华能总部大楼), which already have towering and upright figures. The landmark building, China National Chemical Corporation Tower, looks like a bunch of steel golden reeds against the blue sky, advancing towards the sky. Its design inspiration comes from the Baiyangdian (白洋淀) shining with quicksilver-like light, and from the golden reeds in the lake. However, this bunch of reeds is still waiting to be covered with golden brilliance, embracing the joy of harvest with the sun.
Continuing eastward, north of Yanzhao Avenue (燕赵大街), the University Town (大学城) construction site extends from west to east, dotted with large and small tower cranes. Dozens of tower cranes of varying heights are like an unparalleled forest, noisy and enthusiastic, breathing the air facing the future.
Coming back from the starting area, I was panting with exhaustion, but I felt more confident and felt that I was slowly becoming familiar with this rapidly growing city. This is the beginning of my becoming a member of this city.
Almost every day, I have to pass by the construction site of Peking University People's Hospital (北大人民医院). The sound of the boom moving and lifting objects, the sound of metal colliding with each other, the sound of electric welding, all kinds of sounds come one after another, becoming more and more dense. Under the urging of the hot weather and the enthusiastic sunshine, spring finally said goodbye completely, and summer came in a vigorous manner. One day, I accidentally discovered that I don't know when, the enclosure has quietly become shorter, and several buildings have poked out their bodies, looking outward. Obviously, they can't wait to surpass the enclosure and demand more space and vision from the sky.
One night, I was standing in front of the window, shaking my stiff neck from writing, stretching my arms, and suddenly saw that on the roof of the building opposite, there was a sapphire blue light strip moving slowly. The color was calm and cheerful, rendering the sky above the roof particularly charming. Isn't this the familiar color of the Peking University People's Hospital construction site? When did this sapphire blue light rise to the roof? It can be foreseen that it won't be long before, in my field of vision, in addition to that charming sapphire blue, there will also be tall buildings looking at me.
The weather gradually turned cooler, and what changed faster than the seasons was the height of the buildings on the construction site. They are still stretching into the air, and several high-rise buildings have filled the courtyard of Peking University People's Hospital. The tower crane is still working tirelessly, and at night, the sapphire blue light strip still illuminates the night sky, making the roof opposite colorful and magnificent.
This day, I was riding in Xiao Wang's car passing by Peking University People's Hospital. He said with emotion: "I'm just wondering, how are these buildings being built so fast?" It seems that I am not the only one who has noticed this construction site and these rapidly growing buildings. Isn't this Xiong'an? Almost every month, every day, it makes you amazed and surprised.
The car drove all the way, and the scenery changed all the way. University Town is no longer just a forest of tower cranes, but a forest of high-rise buildings. In front of the dense high-rise buildings, the tower cranes interspersed among them appear lonely. The car passed by China National Chemical Corporation Tower, and I asked Xiao Wang to stop the car. I saw that people were constantly coming in and out, and China National Chemical Corporation Tower has been put into use. Under the sunlight, the towering building shone with golden light. It is more solid and more dazzling than the reeds in the lake.
When I finished my experience and was about to say goodbye to this city, I was really reluctant to leave, as if I was about to leave my passionately loved homeland.
Return to TopBy: 王淑彦
The water waves of Baiyang Lake (白洋淀) ripple across the banks of Quantou Village (圈头村), also washing over a woman's life of half a lifetime.
Her online name is "Ju" (菊), and she is 53 years old this year. Her real name has three characters, taking one "Ju" (菊) character, which is a portrayal of her image and destiny: thin and frail, short in stature, and curved in shape, yet blooming stubbornly like a chrysanthemum in the wind.
She suffers from congenital scoliosis, her spine twisted into an S-curve, and one leg is also shorter, causing her to walk with a limp. Her height was fixed at less than 1.5 meters when she was eleven or twelve years old, and she never grew taller.
She went to a vocational high school from Anxin (安新) to Rongcheng (容城), majoring in clothing. Originally, she wanted to be a tailor and live a stable life back in her hometown. But after graduation, her father shook his head and said: With your physique, you can't measure sizes, cut cloth, or be a tailor. You should just marry someone and find someone to support you; that is your true blessing.
Unable to go against her father, she married reluctantly. Fortunately, she could still weave mats and earn some money working in a factory, so life wouldn't be too bad.
She also tried to be a tailor. Although measuring and cutting clothes was a bit difficult, she did a good job, no worse than buying ready-made clothes, and had many customers. But one day, the reed stack in her house caught fire, affecting the main house, and several machines such as the TV and sewing machine were destroyed in the fire.
The dream of being a tailor was completely shattered, and the pursuit in her heart was also burned away. When she was in school, her compositions were good and often read to her classmates as model essays. After getting married, she still occasionally wrote essays and took photos to please herself. But the fire caused the little light hidden in her heart to be dimmed by rebuilding the new house, finding a new livelihood, and the trivialities of daily life, and she gave up. Not good at visiting and chatting, she didn't communicate with people, couldn't talk to herself with words, and could only spend day after day in depression.
In the spring of 2017, a turning point appeared in her destiny.
Xiongan New Area (雄安新区) was established.
Having been born and raised here for generations, she was going to move and live a new life that she had never experienced before. When the news came, she didn't sleep all night, and her pillow was wet with tears. She yearned for it and looked forward to it. But if she moved, she would really be a little reluctant.
The next day, she put on the new clothes she only wore during the New Year, held up her mobile phone, and took pictures of her small courtyard, the small boat on the shore, the vegetable garden on the riverbank, the reeds in the lake, the village stage, and the farmers' market... She wanted to keep the roots of the village and town, and lock the time in the lens.
A university professor teaching architecture passed by and saw her: "Help me take pictures of ancient buildings. I want to compile an illustrated book about Xiongan (雄安)."
She took pictures, recorded, and wrote. After sending the photos and descriptions to the professor, she posted short articles suitable for publication, along with some photos, on her WeChat Moments. Gradually, people watched, forwarded, and gave pointers. "The Last Shoemaker in the Village" was about her father, "'Fish King' and His 'All-Fish Feast'" was about local folk customs, and "Mother's Cotton-padded Jacket" was about family affection and the inheritance of traditional culture. The number of clicks reached thousands. The fire of dreams that was about to go out was rekindled.
Spreading out the dictionary and manuscript paper on the dining table, she wrote eagerly. She became addicted to writing, forgetting to cook and messing up the housework. Her husband came home from work, feeling unhappy: Is writing these things useful? Can it be eaten? The words came to his lips but he swallowed them back. This woman had given birth to a pair of good children for him, his son went to college, and his daughter's academic performance was among the best in the class. These were all her credit.
She went to work in a shoe factory, and when she had time after work, she also wove mats. Although she was small, her movements were very nimble. And when she was happy, she set up the table, sorted out photos, wrote a short essay, and the smile on her face returned. She was still her, but her heart was different.
On the way to work, she began to pay attention to the scenery of the village, the lake water on the shore, and the birds in the reeds. She observed the changes in the town and the people around her. Some people said, Xiongan (雄安) is bustling, but Baiyang Lake (白洋淀) doesn't seem to have changed much? She stepped forward to refute: That's because you didn't feel it with your heart. How could there be no change? Haven't you seen that the roads in the village are wider and the lights are brighter? Parents also pay more attention to education and are more concerned about their children's schooling.
Haven't you seen that young people are taking exams and pursuing postgraduate studies? Haven't you seen that the elderly in our town can go to Xiongan Xuanwu Hospital (雄安宣武医院) for treatment? Isn't that the same as going to a major hospital in the capital at your doorstep? Peking University People's Hospital (北大人民医院) here is also about to open, and the campus of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院) has also broken ground. Those are all major hospitals in the capital.
Xiongan (雄安) has already arrived, haven't you seen it? Not to mention people, even the birds know. The water in Baiyang Lake (白洋淀) is clearer, and so many precious birds have flown in. Have you ever seen so many Eurasian coots before? Have you seen the Oriental white stork? She took out her mobile phone to show people the birds she had photographed.
She continued: The reports say that we used to have 206 species of birds here, and now 90 new species have been added.
People can't stay the same. No matter who it is, they must learn comprehensively. If you don't learn, how can you communicate with the newly arrived talents?
Finally, she said emphatically: Xiongan (雄安) has really arrived! The wind is clear and the air is fresh, the water is wide and the sky is far, and there is more hope for the future.
She persistently encouraged her son to continue studying for a postgraduate degree. After her son obtained a master's degree, he became a physical education teacher at a private university in Baoding (保定). Her daughter scored more than 450 points in science in last year's college entrance examination, and they decided to repeat the year and strive for another year.
At the invitation of classmates, she and her daughter, along with friends from Beijing (北京), took a car to the starting area of Xiongan (雄安), the relocation and resettlement area, and Xiongan High-speed Railway Station (雄安高铁站). She praised everyone she met, saying that the city of Xiongan (雄安) is really magnificent!
She lamented that Xiongan (雄安) is accessible in all directions, and next time she must take the Beijing-Xiongan Express Line (京雄快线) to Beijing (北京) and take a look at the Daxing International Airport (大兴国际机场). There are too many things to write about this time, and she must start writing more articles when she gets back.
She doesn't easily open her WeChat Moments anymore. She said, wait until she writes better articles, wait until people recognize her efforts, and then show them to others.
As Xiongan (雄安) rises, she wants to follow the times and live again.
By: 陈文东
I believe that since April 2017, Xiong'an has become a concern for many Chinese people and a place where many Chinese people yearn for. A few months ago, at the invitation of a friend, I had the opportunity to go to Xiong'an (雄安) and finally saw its beauty.
We passed by Yuerong Park (悦容公园). Yuerong Park (悦容公园) is located on the north-south historical and cultural axis of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), divided into the North Garden, Central Garden, and South Garden, with nine gardens within the park, including Songfeng Garden (松风园), Taohua Garden (桃花园), Huancui Garden (环翠园), Anhe Garden (安和园), and Shixi Garden (拾溪园). The park is planned according to local conditions, with "one river, two lakes, three courtyards, and nine gardens showing a thousand-year-old green vein." The garden design incorporates the essence of both the North and South. Strolling through the park, the ginkgo leaves are yellow, the maple leaves are red, the sky is transparently blue, and the fresh air is refreshing. It is understood that the forest coverage rate of Xiong'an (雄安) has increased from 11% before the establishment of the New Area to more than 35%, and the residents' daily life is "3 kilometers into the forest, 1 kilometer into the forest belt, and 300 meters into the park."
After these years of construction, Xiong'an (雄安) has transformed from a blueprint into a hardcover book, and every page is worth savoring. Speaking of books, what impressed me most on this trip was the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) and the city's fragrance of books.
Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) is unique. The inspiration for its architectural facade comes from the ancient Chinese bamboo slips. From a distance, the four walls look like bookshelves filled with books. The bottom layer of the building is like an open book page, or like outstretched arms, warmly welcoming every reader. In Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), there are various new things that are dazzling, such as "one-stop intelligent borrowing and returning," robot "smart librarian" consultation, and companion-style guided tours. It even provides precise book delivery services covering the New Area, allowing Xiong'an (雄安) residents to enjoy a la carte borrowing experience without leaving their homes.
Speaking of libraries, what usually comes to mind is rows of bookshelves and figures buried in reading. Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) breaks this traditional perception. It is not only a reading space but also a multi-faceted urban cultural reception hall. Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) has set up functional areas such as exhibition areas, activity rooms, and seminar rooms to build a platform for learning and exchange for citizens of different ages and needs. It is worth mentioning that Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) not only regularly holds academic lectures but also regularly holds "Xiong Cai Says" (雄才说) salon events, inviting those who participated in the construction of Xiong'an (雄安) and strivers to come to the stage to share their stories of struggle and profound insights on this hot land. These real and vivid narratives allow citizens to touch the pulse of Xiong'an's (雄安) construction at close range, and further stimulate everyone's sense of identity and responsibility for urban development, making everyone a participant and disseminator of the Xiong'an (雄安) story.
Standing on the seventh floor of Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), you can not only see the "Baiyangdian (白洋淀) Bird Collection" theme exhibition, experience the achievements of Baiyangdian's (白洋淀) ecological construction through photographic works and immersive installations, but also overlook the urban landscape of Xiong'an's (雄安) starting area from the sky garden. A friend from Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) said that because of work, he often comes here, and almost every time he has new discoveries and can personally feel the rapid development and changes in the starting area.
When I returned to the lobby on the first floor and walked outside, I couldn't help but look back. The large screen of the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) Big Data Comprehensive Display Platform embedded on the wall above the elevator attracted my attention. It recorded in real-time the number of visitors to the library that day and cumulatively, the number of books borrowed and returned, the number of certificates issued, and the number of event registrations, as well as the proportion of various book borrowings, popular book rankings, and event previews. I saw: 5970 visitors today, 212276 cumulative visitors; 2658 books borrowed today, 66551 cumulative books borrowed; 472 certificates issued today, 29771 cumulative certificates issued. That day was November 1, 2025, just over a month after the opening on September 27.
Books are the carrier of human knowledge, the crystallization of human wisdom, and the ladder of human progress. The fragrance of books in Xiong'an (雄安) is clearly getting stronger and stronger! The people of Xiong'an (雄安) who like to walk into the library are the hope of this future city.
The fragrance of books achieves the future. The fragrance of books will surely make the future of the future city of Xiong'an (雄安) even more exciting.
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Every year during the Spring Festival holiday, I take my family back to my hometown in southern Shanxi (晋南), visit relatives, and gather with friends from my childhood. After a long separation, when we chat, everyone inevitably talks about their achievements of the year. I usually give everyone a copy of my new book, adhering to the principle of "writers speaking through their works," which often makes me the one who receives the most praise. However, at the gathering during the Spring Festival of 2024, a junior high school classmate who started his own business stole my "thunder" with just one sentence. He cracked sunflower seeds and said slowly, "I invested in a shop in Xiong'an (雄安)." His voice wasn't loud, but it instantly "muted" the entire room. Then everyone started praising him for his vision, asking if the shop was two or three stories, and how much he had invested. This classmate of mine is known for his steady character, and I guessed that he must have visited the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) before investing. Sure enough, he said with a smile that he went with his wife and children and made the decision on the spot. "I quickly signed the contract, afraid of missing this good opportunity!" he said happily, and then asked me what I thought, wanting to hear the opinion of the only classmate present who worked in the provincial capital.
Regarding Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), my expectations and his were similar but not the same. I hadn't been to Xiong'an (雄安) at the time, but I had been concerned about one thing: the construction progress of the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-Speed Railway (雄忻高铁). Currently, it takes two to three hours to travel from Taiyuan (太原), Shanxi (山西), where I live, to Beijing (北京) by high-speed train. But after the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-Speed Railway (雄忻高铁) is completed, according to the designed speed, it will only take 1 hour from Xinzhou (忻州), Shanxi (山西), to Xiong'an (雄安), and the journey from Taiyuan (太原) to Beijing (北京) will also be shortened to 1.5 hours. What a happy thing this is for the people of Shanxi (山西)! My childhood friends from the county town all asked me if the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-Speed Railway (雄忻高铁) had started construction and when it would be completed. I told them, "Construction started in 2022 and is expected to be completed in 2027." Then they all congratulated the classmate who had invested in a shop in Xiong'an (雄安), ignoring me, who hadn't even been to Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区).
What truly made me understand Xiong'an (雄安) and be moved by this city of the future was in 2025. In the autumn of that year, I received a call from Peng Xueming (彭学明), the author of the long prose "Mother" (娘), inviting me to visit Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区). Before I could respond, he said excitedly in his southern accent, "Junhu (骏虎)啊, you must come to Xiong'an (雄安), and you must let your child come to work in Xiong'an (雄安) in the future! This place is creating a 15-minute modern living circle. From the workplace to home, as well as leisure and shopping areas, including transportation hubs, it only takes 15 minutes or less. You must come and see what a modern urban concept is!" Coincidentally, my daughter had just been admitted to university in 2025, and her mother and I were discussing her future career direction. Coupled with my childhood friend's investment in Xiong'an (雄安), I immediately decided: Let's go! To Xiong'an (雄安)!
When I arrived, I realized that I was actually revisiting an old place. As early as 2007, when I was studying at the Lu Xun Academy of Literature (鲁迅文学院), I had come to Baiyangdian (白洋淀) with my classmates for social practice and wrote a prose piece called "Baiyangdian in Backlight" (逆光里的白洋淀). And Baiyangdian (白洋淀) is no longer just a reed marsh. After ecological management, the water volume is abundant and the water quality is clear. A stretch of blue water surrounds the seven-story, eight-cornered Anhe Pagoda (安和塔), which was designed and built according to the "Eight Ancient Scenes of Rongcheng (容城)" - the White Pagoda. I couldn't wait to climb the pagoda and overlook the scenery of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区). Before my eyes were the lake and autumn colors, lotus leaves, and lush vegetation, with the solemn library, exhibition hall, and conference center nestled among them. In the distance, under the long sky, were the modern high-tech industrial areas with towering buildings, as well as the peaceful and harmonious colorful residential communities, where natural ecology, historical culture, and human living environment were harmoniously integrated. The ancients said, "Water is not about depth, but spirit if there is a dragon," and also said, "The wise find joy in water." The new era's Baiyangdian (白洋淀) endows Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) with wisdom and spirituality, gathering "talents" from all walks of life. It is truly "spiritual if there is a dragon."
When I arrived in Xiong'an (雄安), I realized why Xiong'an (雄安) is positioned as a "millennial grand plan" and a "city of the future." This new area relieves the pressure of the large city of Beijing (北京), gathers a modern industrial system of new quality productive forces and cutting-edge technology, and is also a template for modern high-quality urban life. When I was a child, I loved to watch a comic book called "Sly Little Rascal Roams the Future" (小灵通漫游未来), fascinated by the imagination of the future world. And being in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) is like traveling to a city in interstellar space: the design concept of this new city is advanced, and it is people-oriented everywhere. The entire city's underground three floors are a transportation network. Whether you want to take city public transportation or catch a high-speed train or plane, you can reach it all in one stop. The underground second floor can be used for parking or transfers. The underground first floor has leisure and shopping areas. The shopping mall buildings that are common in other cities are designed underground in Xiong'an (雄安) so as not to take up ground space. And on the ground are rows of office buildings and exquisite and intelligent living areas. In fact, in addition to the physical space, Xiong'an (雄安) also has a cloud city, which cares for and protects the work, life, and spiritual needs of every citizen. This is a smart city, a city that has entered the future ahead of time.
After the event, I couldn't wait to go back to my room, so I sent a WeChat message to my daughter, sending her the information I had learned and the photos I had taken, telling her how many central enterprise headquarters had moved to Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), how beautiful Baiyangdian (白洋淀) is now, and how convenient and livable the 15-minute living circle is. I hoped that she would come to Xiong'an (雄安) with her mother during the holidays, study hard in the future, and strive to be able to apply for a job in Xiong'an (雄安) to experience a different life here. My daughter replied, "Okay, Dad, I showed it to my friends, and they want to go with me. Let's go together first, and then go with Mom." I called my child's mother and told her about this beautiful wish, especially mentioning the Xiong'an (雄安) branches of Beijing No. 4 High School (北京四中) and the High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China (人大附中). Sure enough, my child's mother said, "By then, the Xiong'an-Xinzhou High-Speed Railway (雄忻高铁) will also be open. If we miss our child, we can go to Xiong'an (雄安) to see her in just over an hour."
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When the spring breeze rises, a person's arm
Points to the soil before it does.
The initial gaze solidifies into a seed,
Repeatedly confirming the solar terms,
Before entrusting it to the earth.
A thousand years is not rhetoric,
It is the cyclical length of spring news,
It is the vast gaze
That opens a green sea,
Allowing the underground roots to connect the pathways,
Allowing the buds on the ground, the fruits in the clouds,
To come ashore one after another.
From the wheat fields of Dawang Town (大王镇) to the reed marshes of Baiyang Lake (白洋淀),
From the branches of Xiulin (秀林) to the "water droplets" of Xiong'an Station (雄安站),
Birdsong brews into the smiles of the villagers,
Passing through one spring, and then another,
Arriving at all the flourishing places.
Those brand-new aspirations
Reflect the sprouting wilderness.
The names on the employee ID cards have just changed addresses.
They speak of the future as if speaking of tomorrow's sunshine.
Those azure growths
Surge wave upon wave in the sound of reading, towards the grass.
The distant white clouds carry the greetings of time
And fall into the eyes of the children.
Once youth begins to write,
It takes on the appearance of flight.
Xiong'an (雄安) is redefining the meaning of a city
With the speed of jointing.
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