Summary: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) has launched the construction of a "Far Sea Floating Island," a national major science and technology infrastructure, intended to provide a research base for deep-sea exploration. SJTU emphasizes nurturing talent with both academic excellence and strong moral character, integrating this principle throughout its education. The university is actively reforming its education and research systems to promote innovation, including easing restrictions on students changing majors and establishing interdisciplinary research institutes. SJTU is also strengthening its international collaborations, aiming to cultivate talent with a global perspective, exemplified by initiatives like the Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Paris Elite Institute of Technology. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses Xi'an Jiaotong University's (XJTU) efforts to serve national strategic needs by focusing on research and talent cultivation. XJTU emphasizes integrating education, technology, and talent development through collaborations with enterprises, exemplified by the "Air and Space Return Advanced Propulsion Innovation Center" jointly built with the Aerospace Science and Technology Group. The university aims to contribute to China's technological self-reliance and has achieved advancements in areas like aerospace, marine technology, and materials science. XJTU also promotes the "Westward Relocation Spirit" (西迁精神) to encourage graduates to work in the western regions of China. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the development of the Xiong'an New Area, highlighting its role as a hub for Beijing's non-capital functions and a model for high-quality development. Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an on March 23rd, emphasizing its function as a location for Beijing's non-capital functions. The area is focused on innovation, digital urban management, and attracting businesses in sectors like telecommunications, new energy, and robotics, facilitating collaboration between Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei. Xiong'an aims to create a business-friendly environment and promote coordinated regional development. No mention of the United States or U.S. - China relations were made.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang, during a Sichuan visit, emphasized the importance of implementing Xi Jinping's vision for green development and energy security, focusing on expanding green energy supply and constructing new power grids to support high-quality economic development. He visited renewable energy and equipment manufacturing companies, including those involved in solar technology and hydropower, urging them to innovate and break through key technological bottlenecks. Li also inspected water conservancy projects and agricultural areas, stressing the need for modernizing water infrastructure and promoting smart agriculture to enhance grain security. Wu Zhenglong accompanied Li on the tour.
Summary: Since the start of the education campaign to promote a correct view of political achievements, regions and departments have focused on studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thought. Cadres in Jiangxi province were instructed with local revolutionary history. Local governments are implementing measures tailored to different levels and fields, such as those for economic departments to prevent short-sightedness. Some regions have also combined the study with resolving practical problems, such as streamlining business processes in Guangdong Province.
Summary: China is shifting its focus from the quantity of patents to the quality and implementation of patents, aiming to transform them into industrial benefits. A recent inventory of patents across Chinese universities and research institutions has led to targeted connections between inventions and companies. Reforms are underway to facilitate the commercialization of patents, including empowering researchers and fostering technology transfer professionals. Some regions are focusing on key technologies like batteries to promote the new energy vehicle industry and develop patent-intensive products.
Summary: According to Chinese tax data from January 1 to March 25, China's economic development is showing a good start with a solid foundation. Manufacturing sales revenue increased by 5.4%, with equipment manufacturing rising by 6.3%. High-tech industry sales revenue increased by 14.6%, specifically integrated circuit design and manufacturing increasing by 48.9% and 40.7% respectively. Sales revenue from ecological protection and environmental management increased by 9.6%, and clean energy power generation accounted for 36.3% of electricity sales.
Summary: Several provinces in China, including Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, and Guizhou, have begun implementing spring breaks for primary and secondary school students starting April 1st. Students are using the vacation for leisure, recreation, study tours, and relaxation. A photograph depicts children playing in Guizhou province's Jin Hai Amusement Park on April 1st. Further reporting on this topic can be found on page 10.
Summary: This article presents theoretical perspectives on the Chinese economy. One section explores "Big Data Observations" related to new forms of intelligent economics. Another section reports on the establishment of an intelligent computing center ("智算中心") within a hydroelectric power station tunnel.
Summary: China's Ministry of Transportation and other departments recently released the "Intelligent Shipping 2030 Action Plan," aiming to achieve internationally advanced levels in intelligent shipping by 2030. The plan focuses on developing autonomous ships, intelligent infrastructure, and optimized systems, including advancements in AI and big data to drive the evolution of the shipping industry. The plan outlines specific goals, including establishing intelligent shipping pilot zones, routes, and operating over a hundred intelligent ships. The action plan emphasizes technological innovation and industrial advancements to address structural and systemic challenges facing China's shipping industry.
Summary: A new intelligent inspection system is being used in Hefei's subway system to monitor and prevent unauthorized construction near subway lines. The system, comprised of underground sensors and aerial drones, was developed through collaboration between local tech companies and the Hefei Metro, facilitated by the city's "All-Area Scenario Innovation City" initiative. The system has significantly reduced the need for manual inspections and has been expanded to other sectors such as water and gas. Engineer Luo Lei of the Hefei Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd. stated that they will promote the verification of more cutting-edge technologies in rail transit scenarios in the future. There is no mention of the United States in this article.
Summary: The article details Hefei's innovative approach to promoting new technologies and their application through institutional mechanisms. Hefei combines "government guidance," "platform promotion," and "market participation" by establishing specialized offices and teams to facilitate cross-departmental collaboration on key projects. A city-level company and "scene laboratories" are also used to provide services to tech companies and foster partnerships. By the end of 2025, Hefei had launched over 1400 scene opportunities, with over 4100 tech companies served. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Lijian-2 Y1 rocket, developed by commercial aerospace company CAS Space, successfully launched from the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation Test Zone, carrying the Qingzhou prototype test spacecraft and two satellites into their designated orbits. The Lijian-2 utilizes a "common booster core" configuration for simplified manufacturing and aims for a "bundled" overall recovery scheme for cost reduction. The Qingzhou prototype test spacecraft will conduct in-orbit experiments to pave the way for future cargo transport to China's space station. CAS Space aims to provide cheaper, more reliable launch services and will test recovery technology this year.
Summary: The article discusses the progress of Xiong'an New Area as a hub for relocated functions from Beijing and a model for high-quality development. Xi Jinping visited Xiong'an on March 23rd, emphasizing its role as a central location for non-capital functions of Beijing and a high ground for innovation. The area is focused on high-standard planning and management, utilizing digital technology for urban management, and attracting industries like telecommunications and green energy. The Xiong'an New Area is fostering collaboration between Beijing, Tianjin, and Hebei, particularly in technology and innovation, including cooperation with Beijing universities and research institutions.
Summary: The 35th National Tax Awareness Month commenced on April 1st, focusing on "Taxation, Rule of Law, Fairness." According to State Taxation Administration Deputy Director Wang Daoshu, the month-long campaign aims to promote compliance and integrity among businesses through tax law education. Activities include showcasing compliant taxpayers and cracking down on tax-related offenses. New measures facilitating tax payment services will also be promoted.
Summary: The China Automotive Technology and Research Center has launched a comprehensive durability verification system for the entire hydrogen energy product chain, addressing a gap in the industry. According to Chief Expert Hao Dong, this system moves beyond short-term testing to include core systems, components, materials, and end products like fuel cell vehicles and drones, extending even to hydrogen production via water electrolysis. The system aims to provide data for research and development through long-term, high-load, and extreme condition testing. The system will test the reliability and technical maturity of hydrogen energy products. The release of the system fills a significant void in the industry standards for hydrogen energy product testing.
Summary: According to the article, the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park, highlighted in a signed article by Xi Jinping during his April 2025 state visit to Malaysia, has become a key project in the Belt and Road Initiative, generating over 100 billion RMB in industrial output and 5,000 jobs. The park is focusing on green development, particularly in the aluminum industry, aligning with Malaysia's national industrial plans and offering opportunities for U.S. competitors in the production of wheels, aluminum alloy plates, and construction aluminum profiles. Kuantan Port is being upgraded with green technologies and logistics improvements to support the industrial park and connect to other ports, like China's Qinzhou Port. The East Coast Rail Link project will further integrate the region, boosting connectivity and economic development. Increased investment and job opportunities are encouraging local talent to stay and contribute to the region's growth.
Summary: According to a local office specialist at Kuantan Port, Malaysia, recent frequent high-level visits between Malaysia and China, cited by Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar, have fostered closer bilateral relations and tangible changes at the local level. More Malaysian employees are participating in training programs and industry visits in China, broadening their perspectives and leading to increased collaboration and communication with their Chinese counterparts at the port. This has translated to more proactive communication and smoother workflow, solidifying professional trust and strengthening the China-Malaysia partnership through daily interactions. The port serves as a hub for not only goods but also for nurturing bilateral friendship and understanding.
Summary: Politburo member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the Research Center for the Community of Shared Future for Mankind on April 1st, emphasizing the center's crucial political mission to study and promote Xi Jinping's concept. Wang urged the center to defend the "Two Establishments" and achieve the "Two Safeguards," ensuring the theoretical research remains politically grounded. He highlighted the concept's strategic importance in a changing world and its foundation in Marxism, urging the center to build a Chinese narrative. Wang called for closer unity around the Party Central Committee with Xi Jinping at its core to further develop Xi Jinping Thought on Diplomacy. The United States or U.S.-China relations were not mentioned in the report.
Summary: A Spanish scholar and regional politician, after visiting China at the invitation of the "China Wisdom Lecture Hall", observed that China's development model is characterized by regional differentiation, with each area leveraging its unique strengths. Cities like Chengdu, Zigong, and Hefei exemplify this by integrating regional advantages such as technology, cultural heritage, and strategic infrastructure to drive growth and address regional disparities. China's efforts to reduce regional inequality through initiatives like rural revitalization are also highlighted, emphasizing the integration of rural areas into regional development. The author suggests Europe can learn from China's approach to turn regional diversity into a development advantage.
Summary: United Seychelles party Secretary-General Ernest, leading a delegation of party cadres, recently visited China to study rural revitalization, technological innovation, and green development. Ernest stated China's long-term stability and development stem from the CPC's leadership and a people-centered approach, highlighting the success of Five-Year Plans. Ernest emphasized that Seychelles is willing to exchange governance experience with China, to promote Seychellois-Chinese relations within the framework of the "Belt and Road" Initiative. Ernest noted China's advancements in technology and innovation, praising its contributions to global stability and economic development. He observed that China is protecting its rural environment and developing tourism projects, which has inspired him for the future development of Seychelles.
Summary: Changan Automobile's Brazilian factory, built in partnership with CAOA Group, has begun production in Anápolis, Goiás state. Brazilian President Lula toured the factory, praising Changan's strength and commitment to localization, stating that China is Brazil's best partner and the investment will create jobs and improve livelihoods. The new models are specifically designed for the Brazilian market with dual-fuel engines. Changan Chairman Zhu Huarong stated that the Brazilian factory is a key step in Changan's global strategy, serving as a strategic base for the Latin American market.
Summary: On March 31st, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee Liu Haixing met with a delegation led by Sri Lanka's Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development, Nalin Fernando, in Beijing. Discussions focused on implementing the consensus reached by the leaders of China and Sri Lanka, strengthening party-to-party exchanges, and promoting the development of China-Sri Lanka relations.
Summary: Chinese Ambassador to North Korea Wang Yajun led a delegation of over 70 individuals, including embassy staff, representatives from veteran affairs, overseas Chinese, Chinese companies, media, and students, to cemeteries in North Pyongan Province to commemorate Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs ahead of the Qingming Festival. Wang expressed gratitude to the North Korean government for the maintenance of the martyrs' memorial facilities. He stated that the China-North Korea friendship forged in blood is a valuable shared asset. He also stated China is willing to work with North Korea to implement the consensus reached by the top leaders of both parties and countries.
Summary: A Chinese-built social housing project in Hulhumalé, Maldives, held a groundbreaking ceremony on March 30th, attended by Maldivian President Muizzu and Chinese Ambassador to the Maldives, Kong Xuianhua. The project, undertaken by a Chinese enterprise, is slated for completion in 2028. The project is intended to relieve the growing housing crisis in the Maldives.
Summary: The article discusses urban renewal projects in China, focusing on "micro-renovation" (微改造) that aims to improve quality of life and drive urban transformation without large-scale demolition. Examples include Hangzhou's waterfront revitalization with "sponge city" initiatives,襄阳’s preservation and revitalization of its ancient city center, and Guangzhou's conversion of a former brewery into a cultural and commercial district. These projects focus on ecological improvements, cultural preservation, and integrating modern functions with existing structures. The success of these projects are measured by tourist visits and improved quality of life.
Summary: State Councilor and All-China Women's Federation President Shen Yiqin attended the opening ceremony of the "Hong Kong Family and Women Development Summit" in Hong Kong, conveying Xi Jinping's concern for Hong Kong's development. She praised Hong Kong women for their contributions to "patriots administering Hong Kong" and family civilization, emphasizing the SAR government's efforts to promote women's development and family construction. Shen expressed hope for Hong Kong to better integrate into national development and promote international exchange, while the All-China Women's Federation will continue to support the development of Hong Kong women and families. During her visit, Shen also attended the opening ceremony of the 4th "Heroines Building New Strengths Forum" organized by the Hong Kong Women's Association and inspected the development of women and culture in the SAR.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of "serial" and "parallel" thinking in governance and development, using examples from Hubei and elsewhere in China. It advocates for connecting isolated elements and coordinating efforts to solve complex problems and improve efficiency. The piece highlights examples such as streamlining administrative approvals and integrating consumption scenarios to stimulate economic growth. It emphasizes the need to avoid isolated approaches and instead foster collaboration to achieve comprehensive and effective development. The article ultimately connects these methodologies to the broader context of advancing Chinese-style modernization.
Summary: The 27th China (Shouguang) International Vegetable Science and Technology Expo is in its final preparations, with over 2600 vegetable varieties growing well in greenhouses. The expo, held in Shouguang, Weifang, Shandong Province, will run from April 20th to May 30th at the Vegetable High-Tech Demonstration Park. The Xinhua News Agency reported on the expo preparations, showcasing the vegetables being prepared for display. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: An ongoing campaign to instill a "correct view of achievement" among cadres is being carried out through various methods, including studying Xi Jinping's related thought, visiting revolutionary sites, and soliciting public feedback. Local governments and state-owned enterprises are tailoring their approaches to different levels and sectors, focusing on practical application and problem-solving. Examples cited include improving traffic in Chengdu, streamlining business services in Dongguan, and addressing public concerns in Fushun. The effort emphasizes serving the people and aligning actions with the Party's goals.
Summary: The Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Anhui People's Congresses jointly announced regulations promoting integrated online government services ("一网通办") across the Yangtze River Delta region, effective May 1, 2026. The regulations aim to streamline cross-provincial administrative processes by implementing a unified service framework, expanding the list of online accessible services, and standardizing procedures. The platform currently offers over 300 services, with over 15.32 million online transactions completed. The initiative emphasizes online platform operation, offline service window construction, and remote virtual window opening.
Summary: During China's 14th Five-Year Plan, the Ministry of Water Resources reports significant progress in water-related legislation, with 17 laws, regulations, and departmental rules enacted. These efforts include strengthening soil and water conservation laws, preventing significant soil erosion from construction projects, and implementing the Yangtze and Yellow River Protection Laws to support China's "River Strategy." The revisions to the Water Law and Flood Control Law have been incorporated into the national legislative plan, and the draft revisions of the Water Law have been adopted at an executive meeting of the State Council, and are about to be submitted to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress for deliberation. Furthermore, water resources management has been enhanced through improved law enforcement, judicial coordination, and optimized administrative approvals, including a mobile app for handling 97% of water-related services.
Summary: He Guanghui, former Party Secretary and Vice-Chairman of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System, passed away on March 22, 2026, at the age of 97. Central leaders expressed condolences to his family. He Guanghui's career included positions as secretary to Li Fuchun and Bo Yibo, and leadership roles within the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System. He also served in roles related to economic reform research and company rectification. He was a representative to the 8th National People's Congress and a member of the 9th National Committee of the CPPCC.
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Summary: According to 余江, humanoid robots are poised to become the next generation of super-terminal devices, but challenges remain in mass production, including unified algorithms, power system limitations, reliance on imported components, and the need for standardized safety regulations. 余江 highlights China's advantages in both technological ecosystem and application scenarios, fostering a "general core competence + vertical scene cultivation" approach. He also emphasized the need to aggregate government, market, and social forces to drive industrial innovation, citing Beijing's establishment of the first provincial-level humanoid robot innovation center as an example. 余江 believes humanoid robots will significantly impact economic operations and reshape production and lifestyle by reducing marginal production costs and enabling new production models. Finally, 余江 acknowledges concerns about job displacement but suggests that humanoid robot deployment will create new employment opportunities, requiring strengthened lifelong learning and skills retraining.
Summary: The article discusses the economic benefits stemming from the Hainan Free Trade Port, particularly after the initial implementation of its independent customs operations. It highlights increased duty-free shopping access for local residents, driving sales growth. The piece also details the modernization of local industries like "Zao Po Vinegar" through technology and improved production standards, as well as innovations in pharmaceutical imports via the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone. Furthermore, the article touches on policies aimed at attracting talent and streamlining business operations. The article did not include discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of financial regulators supporting small and micro enterprises (SMEs) in China's counties, which are crucial for employment and economic dynamism. The author, a local financial regulator, highlights the challenges SMEs face in accessing financing due to information asymmetry and their inherent uncertainties. The author emphasizes the need for proactive and tailored financial services to address SMEs' specific needs, citing examples of helping companies improve their credit ratings and secure loans for exports amidst international trade frictions. They also describe efforts to map industrial clusters to better target financial support. The author argues that supporting SMEs is crucial for driving high-quality development in China.
Summary: The "National Land Geochemical Monitoring Report 2025" indicates that in 2023, 92.6% of national land geochemical quality monitoring points were rated medium or above, a 0.4 percentage point increase from 1995. This suggests a stable improvement in overall land productivity and ecological function. Soil nutrient supply capacity has generally improved. The functions of soil in water and fertilizer conservation and climate change mitigation have generally improved. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses newly revised, stricter environmental air quality standards in China, focusing on particulate matter and precursor limits. These tightened standards, along with advancements in housing and food safety standards, are presented as markers of high-quality development. The author argues that raising standards, exemplified by initiatives like the "15-minute living circle," drives economic growth by stimulating investment, consumption, and improved quality of life. These elevated standards are presented as a catalyst for progress and improved living for the people. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article emphasizes the cultural significance of tree planting in China, linking it to traditional philosophies and the pursuit of ecological civilization. It highlights the idea that planting trees is deeply ingrained in Chinese culture, reflecting respect for nature and a commitment to sustainable development. The piece connects ecological efforts with economic benefits, illustrating how "green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains." It also references historical figures and events to demonstrate the long-standing tradition of environmental stewardship and its embodiment in the actions of Communist Party members.
Summary: This article is a call for submissions to various opinion and commentary columns in the People's Daily, including "Everyone's Talk," "Heartwarming News and Hot Reviews," "The Chinese Road and the Chinese Dream," and "Comments." It specifies the email address for submissions and requests that authors not submit the same manuscript to multiple publications simultaneously. There is no direct mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Wei Jiangchun, a lichen mycologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, pioneered lichen research in China. After being sent to the Soviet Union to study, Wei returned to China to establish the field, eventually creating Asia's largest lichen specimen room. He proposed the "desert biological carpet project," combining vegetation restoration with microbial crusts to combat desertification. Wei emphasized the importance of connecting biological systems with resource development.
Summary: The Xiong'an National Climate Observatory was officially approved by the China Meteorological Administration on April 1st, with basic meteorological observation data now being uploaded to the "Tianqing" platform. The observatory, the 27th national climate observatory and the only newly constructed one, utilizes a "one main station, eight auxiliary stations" layout. These stations are strategically located across various terrains like forests, wetlands, and farmland to ensure representative data collection. The observatory conducts a multitude of observation activities, including ground-based climate observation, flux observation, radiation observation and remote sensing.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security's Traffic Management Bureau has issued a traffic safety warning for the upcoming Qingming holiday, based on analysis of past accident trends. The Bureau anticipates increased traffic congestion near cemeteries and tourist areas, raising the risk of accidents due to speeding, fatigue, and overloading. Rural areas are also expected to see a rise in unsafe transport practices. The warning also notes that widespread rain is expected to raise the risk of collisions.
Summary: The Ministry of Education has issued a notice to implement the "Protecting Life First Lesson" public service project, aiming to improve youth health through popularizing first aid knowledge and providing related equipment. The project will equip schools in underserved areas with automated external defibrillators (AEDs) and establish first aid education studios in each district, furnished with training equipment. These studios will train teachers in first aid education, who will then train the students in first aid. The initiative encourages participation through incentives and seeks to build a network of experts and volunteers.
Summary: The fifth National Reading Conference will be held in Nanchang, Jiangxi from April 20-22, with the theme "Promoting National Reading and Building a Book-Fragrant Society." The conference will coincide with the launch of the first National "National Reading Activity Week" and promote the implementation of the *Regulations on the Promotion of National Reading*. Forums and activities will commemorate the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party and the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March. The event aims to promote the *Regulations* through forums, exhibitions and activities, with the goal of promoting red culture through reading.
Summary: Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) has launched the construction of the "Offshore Floating Island," a national major science and technology infrastructure, designed to provide a world-class research base for deep-sea exploration. Yang Zhenbin, the Party Secretary of SJTU, emphasized the university's commitment to nurturing talent and integrating value guidance with knowledge and skills development. The university is also promoting international collaboration through initiatives like the Shanghai Jiao Tong University - ParisTech Elite Institute of Technology, which aims to cultivate engineers proficient in Chinese, English, and French. SJTU is also strategically aligning its research with national priorities, including participation in key projects like "Hualong One" and "Tianwen One." The article makes no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A spring job fair targeting the Class of 2026 was held at Jiangsu Nursing Vocational College in Huaian, Jiangsu province. Over 80 companies and institutions from Shanghai, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang participated, offering over 2,000 positions in healthcare-related fields. The event aimed to promote employment opportunities for graduates in the region. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A "green electricity + computing power" project in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, has constructed a high-altitude, cavern-style intelligent computing center at the Lianghekou Hydropower Station on the Yalong River. This project utilizes the hydropower station's excess tunnels to house 2,000 domestically produced computing chips, creating a zero-carbon computing power supply with a low PUE value due to the natural cooling environment. The project is a partnership between Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. and China Telecom Sichuan, exploring a mechanism for coordinated computing power and electricity operation. The center supports scientific research with high-altitude cosmic ray observation stations. Sichuan aims to integrate renewable energy with intelligent computing clusters, aligning with the national "Eastern Data, Western Computing" strategy.
Summary: China's "new infrastructure" (新基建) development, including 5G and the industrial internet, has seen rapid growth since 2018, with over 4.8 million 5G base stations expected by the end of 2025. Despite advancements and the emergence of new industries like smart energy and transportation, challenges remain in industrial layout, investment, and core technologies, necessitating a shift from expansion to improved quality. Issues such as redundant construction, low utilization rates, and lack of standardized technology hinder connectivity and scale. The focus is now on enhanced planning, coordinated development, standardized technologies, and tailored strategies to ensure new infrastructure can drive economic and social progress. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses "算电协同" (computational power and electricity coordination) as a means to balance the expansion of China's computational power industry, a key driver of the digital economy, with its green transition. It highlights the energy demands of the rapidly growing computational power sector and how various regions are leveraging their unique resources (terrain, climate, energy sources) to build efficient and energy-saving data centers. The article emphasizes the need to strategically combine "green electricity + intelligent computing" to further expand "AI+" and foster new economic growth points. As the intelligent economy evolves, the demand for electricity from computational power will exponentially increase, and "算电协同" provides a path forward. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: In the first two months of 2024, RMB 50.44 billion in Panda Bonds were issued in China, with four new foreign institutions entering the interbank bond market, according to a report from the People's Bank of China. By the end of February, foreign institutions held RMB 3.4 trillion in Chinese bonds, representing 1.7% of the total. The Panda bond market is intended to facilitate RMB internationalization. China's money market and bond repurchase market has also seen increased activity.
Summary: This article discusses Xi'an Jiaotong University's (XJTU) efforts to serve national strategic needs and promote high-level technological self-reliance, highlighting its historical roots in supporting national development. The university emphasizes integrating education, technology, and talent cultivation through collaborations with enterprises, as exemplified by the joint innovation center with Aerospace Science and Technology Group. XJTU continues to promote the "Westward Relocation Spirit" (西迁精神) of patriotism and dedication to national goals, encouraging graduates to contribute to the development of western China. The university's president, Zhang Liqun, stated that XJTU is strengthening basic research to serve high-level technological self-reliance. Lu Jianjun, the Party Secretary of XJTU, stated that the university will integrate into national strategy and local development.
Summary: During the breeding season, the city of Yangxian in Shaanxi province, known as the "crested ibis hometown," has witnessed a surge in wild crested ibis activity. Through habitat restoration, artificial breeding, and public participation over the past 45 years, the crested ibis population has recovered significantly. The local ecological environment has also continuously improved, creating a harmonious coexistence between humans and birds. In 1981, Chinese scientists discovered the only remaining seven wild crested ibis in Yangxian. The crested ibis is an endangered species also known as the "Oriental Gem".
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Summary: China's robot industry is rapidly accelerating due to technological breakthroughs and policy support, as evidenced by the inclusion of "embodied intelligence" in the government work report. Robots are increasingly integrated into various sectors, including manufacturing, agriculture, public services, education, and commercial spaces. This integration encompasses tasks ranging from factory automation to agricultural assistance and customer service. The advancement of "embodied intelligence" is bringing the future of industry closer to reality, promising high-quality economic development and improved living standards. Seizing opportunities and continuing to tackle key problems are necessary to maintain a leading advantage.
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Summary: A new book, "Questions and Answers for Studying Xi Jinping's Economic Thought," has been published by the Central Propaganda Department and the National Development and Reform Commission to promote the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's economic thought. The book is structured into 14 sections with 50 questions addressing key issues in China's economic development, emphasizing the Party's leadership and the importance of addressing problems. It elucidates concepts like the "new development stage," "new development philosophy," and "new development pattern," and also highlights the need to expand domestic demand and promote high-quality manufacturing. The book reinforces Xi Jinping's economic thought as a guide for high-quality economic development and for navigating challenges, emphasizing innovation and reform while also drawing lessons from other countries' economic experiences and also referencing the positive economic impact of cooperation between state-owned and private enterprises. The book is intended to promote a deeper understanding of Xi Jinping's economic thought and its practical application.
Summary: This article discusses Xi Jinping's "holistic national security concept" as a major contribution to Marxist security theory, offering guidance for nations seeking to maintain independence, security, and stability. It emphasizes balancing internal and external security, promoting international cooperation, and rejecting zero-sum mentalities, contrasting this approach with that of some nations, especially in the West, that prioritize their own security above all else and engage in zero-sum behavior. The article highlights China's pursuit of peaceful development and its role in promoting global security initiatives. It posits that China's approach offers a new model for global security governance, distinct from Western paradigms, and contributes to a shared and brighter future.
Summary: This article, authored by the President of Sun Yat-sen University, discusses the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent (教育科技人才) as a strategic imperative for China. It emphasizes that high-level research universities play a crucial role in fostering this integration, particularly in serving the development of new quality productive forces (新质生产力) and enhancing independent innovation. The author stresses the importance of cultivating talent through moral education, promoting original research and technological breakthroughs, and strengthening the teacher workforce. The piece advocates for institutional reforms and leadership to facilitate a conducive environment for this integrated development.
Summary: Several provinces in China, including Jiangsu, Anhui, and Sichuan, have initiated spring breaks for primary and secondary schools starting April 1st. These breaks emphasize education, public welfare, and consumer spending through practical activities. Schools are limiting homework and encouraging students to explore nature and society with resources such as growth guides. Local governments are offering childcare services for working parents and vulnerable children. Experts believe spring breaks can promote a more open and diverse educational environment by engaging schools, parents, and communities.
Summary: The article discusses the emerging trend among young Chinese people of finding "搭子" (dāzi), or companions for specific activities, as a new way to build social connections. These "dāzi" range from skill-learning partners for activities like coffee making and paper cutting, to travel companions in places like Dunhuang, Gansu. Local Communist Youth League organizations are promoting "skill-learning + social interaction" models to help young people expand their social circles. Travelers found that having a "搭子" allowed for both independent exploration and shared experiences. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Ahead of the Qingming holiday, many Chinese highway service areas have been upgraded to offer diverse experiences like movies, cafes, markets, and banquets, moving beyond basic refueling and restroom stops. The upgraded Yiban service area in Fujian province serves as a model, becoming a "regional micro-hub" with shopping, dining, and entertainment. A small, low-cost exit/entrance near the service area now benefits 100,000 residents by providing convenient access to the highway and commercial complex. This infrastructure development emphasizes a people-centered approach, aiming to boost domestic demand by combining investments in infrastructure with investments in serving people's needs, ultimately benefiting the population.
Summary: Shanghai has initiated the construction of a 6G future industry cultivation zone, accompanied by support policies and a 6G future industry fund matrix. Tianjin will complete "micro-updates" of 100 alleys this year, focusing on environmental improvements. Zhuhai, Guangdong, has completed the first cross-border mangrove carbon sink development project in collaboration with Macau, potentially yielding over 90,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. New standards for Pu'er coffee barista training have been released in Yunnan. Guizhou Province has updated its bird species list, recording 571 wild bird species as of early 2025.
Summary: The article reports on the economic transformation of Bigang Village in Huainan, Anhui Province, after the closure of its small coal mines in 2014. The village collective invested 1 million yuan to establish a chocolate factory in partnership with a company, creating Anhui Jingchuang Food Co., Ltd. This "village collective + leading enterprise + farmers" model allows villagers to become both workers and shareholders, earning monthly salaries and year-end dividends. Villager Wu Xiulong is highlighted as an example of this new economic opportunity. Village Party Secretary Ha Chuanpeng said the village took out 1 million yuan of collective funds for the transformation.
Summary: In Deqing County, Huzhou, Zhejiang, a shared vegetable garden at Yuan Farm in Longsheng Village is attracting families to experience planting. The first phase of the farm, consisting of 88 plots spread across 12 acres, has been fully leased. The farm intends to expand the vegetable-planting experience into a consumer setting that integrates nature education, parent-child recreation, and community socialization.
Summary: A mobile library operated by the Taiyuan City Library is now visiting residential communities, offering convenient book lending and return services to residents. The library on wheels contains various books. According to Zhang Fengtao, Director of the Extramural Circulation Department of the Taiyuan City Library, the mobile library visits communities on weekends every two weeks. The new service, launched in 2022, aims to improve the utilization rate of the library's collection. The mobile library is integrated with the Taiyuan City Library, allowing residents to access public library services locally.
Summary: A company in Putian, Fujian province is using Tesla valve technology in its shoe soles to improve ventilation by controlling airflow without moving parts. This technology allows the company to focus on selling its technology, not just shoes. Another factory in Licheng district utilizes 3D foot scanning and interconnected machinery to produce custom shoes in as little as two hours, even enabling different designs for each foot. The shoe and apparel industry has become Putian's first industry to exceed 100 billion yuan in annual output.
Summary: A rural area in Liyang is addressing agricultural distribution bottlenecks by establishing an e-commerce training program focused on practical application and ongoing support for farmers. The program, a collaboration between the Liyang Trade Union and the Tianmu Lake Town government, provides training in live streaming and e-commerce skills to local farmers, resulting in increased sales of agricultural products. A pilot program in Dalin Village saw a significant increase in revenue for the village collective. The success of the program has led to high demand and has attracted participants from outside the area.
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Summary: The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum, themed "Deep Integration of Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation," was held in Beijing from March 25th to 29th, focusing on promoting the integration of technology and industry. Experts like Liu Dongmei, Zhai Tianrui, Zhang Xiaoyan and Liu Hui highlighted the forum's role in facilitating collaboration between researchers, businesses, and policymakers, and in promoting the creation of new value through technology-scenario integration. Speakers also noted that China's overall technology is now at a "leading and running" stage in areas such as AI and quantum information. Participants suggested further integration of technology and financial institutions, increased enterprise involvement in R&D, and improved resource allocation.
Summary: The city of Donggang, a major strawberry production and export base in China, boasts a complete industrial chain encompassing production, processing, and sales, with over 100,000 farmers engaged in strawberry cultivation. Donggang has been actively promoting e-commerce for agricultural products and implemented policies to support the development of e-commerce infrastructure. The city has also implemented a "homing action" for university students, recruiting them to serve in villages. Gu Xin, Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Donggang Municipal Party Committee, stated these students are guiding the scale, standardization, and branding of rural characteristic industries. Real-time monitoring systems and integrated water and fertilizer systems are employed in greenhouses to optimize strawberry growth.
Summary: The Jimunai Port in Xinjiang is facilitating the import of live king crabs from Russia, with Xinjiang Xinpu Yuan Import and Export Trading Co. signing a long-term contract for 500 tons annually. The port's geographical location and streamlined customs services, including "immediate inspection upon arrival," are credited with boosting trade. Holding tanks at the port mimic the crabs' natural Arctic habitat to maintain freshness. The port is a key node in the Silk Road Economic Belt's northern corridor, facilitating the transport of goods like sunflower oil and frozen fish. In 2023, Jimunai Port imported and exported 138,000 tons of cargo.
Summary: The article reports on a pilot project in Panzhihua, Sichuan, utilizing strontium titanate photocatalysis for hydrogen production via concentrated solar energy. The facility uses 144 heliostats to focus sunlight onto 24 hydrogen reactors, splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is then stored for use in a hydrogen refueling station. Panzhihua's abundant sunlight (approximately 2700 hours annually) makes it ideal for this solar-powered hydrogen production method. The article includes a photograph of staff inspecting the heliostats at the base.
Summary: In 2025, China's domestic natural rubber production reached a record high of 973,000 tons due to supportive policies and technological advancements in cultivation and processing. High adoption rates of superior rubber tree varieties and breakthroughs in mechanized tapping contributed to increased production. Simultaneously, China's natural rubber imports also hit a record high of 6.492 million tons, accounting for approximately half of the global total, to ensure domestic supply. Domestic advancements have also led to breakthroughs in the use of domestically produced rubber in high-end applications such as aerospace. Larger rubber companies such as Guangken Rubber, Haijiao Group and Yungao Group have grown in prominence.
Summary: In 2025, China's insurance industry covered 43.58 million new energy vehicles, a 40.1% increase, providing 159 trillion yuan in risk coverage. While new energy vehicle insurance saw a 5.6 billion yuan underwriting loss in the past year, it represented a reduction in losses compared to the previous year. There were 143 high-loss vehicle models, and these findings will be relayed to manufacturers to improve vehicle safety and reduce lifecycle costs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, China's internet and related services sector experienced growth in the first two months of the year. Revenue for large-scale internet companies increased by 9% to 317.9 billion yuan. Profits saw a rapid increase of 23.1% to 30.8 billion yuan. Investment in research and development also rose by 12.2%, reaching 16.72 billion yuan.
Summary: The Zhuhai border checkpoint at the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge reported record high passenger and vehicle traffic in the first quarter, exceeding 8 million and 1.73 million respectively. A surge in Hong Kong and Macau residents driving north for cultural tourism, sports, and ancestral activities drove the increase. Over 1 million Hong Kong and Macau vehicles entered the mainland, a 17% year-on-year increase. Simultaneously, mainland tourism to Hong Kong and Macau is also up, with 1.46 million mainland tourists using the bridge.
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Summary: The Taiwan Affairs Office (TAO) spokesperson Zhang Han stated that the mainland is willing to provide energy and resource security for Taiwan, addressing concerns about potential shortages fueled by Middle East tensions. Zhang also criticized the DPP authorities for downplaying these issues and obstructing cross-strait relations. Separately, the ashes of several individuals who sacrificed themselves on Taiwan's "hidden front" in 1949 were returned to the mainland for burial. The article also reported on one Taiwanese man's efforts, assisted by mainland authorities, to fulfill his father's wish to be buried in his ancestral village. The article asserts that promoting cross-strait ties and unification benefits Taiwanese people.
Summary: An investigation by Shanghai's procuratorate, prompted by citizen complaints, revealed that excessively thick and slippery road markings posed safety hazards, especially for the elderly. A subsequent hearing involving officials, citizens, and experts identified maintenance mechanism flaws as the underlying issue. The Shanghai procuratorate issued recommendations for city-wide road marking inspection and standardization, leading to a three-year action plan for rectification. This initiative exemplifies the increasing role of public interest litigation in addressing citizen concerns and improving urban development in Shanghai, focusing on seemingly minor details to enhance public well-being.
Summary: The 京雄快线 (Beijing-Xiong'an Express Line), a key transportation artery connecting Beijing and Xiong'an, is nearing completion, aiming to provide rapid transit with 30-minute access to Beijing Daxing International Airport and 60-minute access to Beijing's Lize business district. The Hebei Province is reviewing draft regulations to ensure the safe and efficient operation of the express line, which includes branches to 徐水, 霸州, and 白沟, passing through 雄安, 保定, 廊坊, and Beijing. The express line is considered crucial for integrating Xiong'an into a one-hour metropolitan area and facilitating the non-capital functions of Beijing. The line's dual characteristics as both a trunk railway and urban rail transit necessitate specific legal frameworks for cross-regional management and emergency response. Once operational, the line will facilitate a "morning departure from Beijing, half-hour arrival in Xiong'an" travel model.
Summary: The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, along with the Ministries of Housing and Urban-Rural Development and the National Healthcare Security Administration, jointly issued an "Implementation Opinion" to streamline employee recruitment procedures. The new measures aim to reduce bureaucratic hurdles by integrating seven individual processes—including employment registration, personnel file transfer, social security enrollment, and housing fund account establishment—into a single, unified application. This initiative seeks to achieve "one-time notification, one-form application, one set of materials, one-window (terminal) acceptance, and one-stop online completion," enhancing the business environment. The plan includes online and offline channels and inter-departmental data sharing.
Summary: The Chengdu Municipal Party Committee Organization Department is focused on strengthening Party education for the city's over 1.28 million "new employment group" workers, including delivery drivers and online streamers, of whom nearly 10,000 are Party members. Li Long, Director of the Party Member Education Center of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, emphasized the need for "embedded" online and offline learning to address the challenges of mobile workers with limited time, and that they were doing so in connection with the interests of the new employment group. The city is innovating educational methods, such as using infographics and comics to explain Party theory, and providing accessible resources through platforms like the "Branch Small Backpack." Chengdu aims to integrate Party education with the needs and interests of these groups, offering services like legal aid and health check-ups to address their concerns and encourage greater participation in governance. By 2025, the city plans to hold over 100 special training sessions for new employment group party members at the municipal and county levels and in industry systems to promote full coverage training for new employment group party members.
Summary: A core member of the Chen Zhi criminal organization, Li Xiong, was successfully extradited from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to China on April 1 with the support of Cambodian authorities. Li Xiong, former chairman of Prince Group's Huiwang Group, is suspected of multiple crimes, including operating casinos, fraud, illegal business practices, and concealing criminal proceeds. This extradition is considered a significant achievement in law enforcement cooperation between China and Cambodia. The Ministry of Public Security states that several core members of the Chen Zhi criminal group have been apprehended and that they will continue their efforts to bring fugitives to justice. Authorities urged remaining suspects to surrender and seek lenient treatment.
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Summary: The National Cultural Heritage Administration (NCHA) has initiated a year-long campaign to enhance the security management of cultural relics in national museums. The initiative involves a comprehensive inventory of state-owned museum collections to verify their condition and identify potential safety risks, piloting the second national survey of movable cultural relics. The NCHA emphasizes establishing a standardized inventory mechanism and improving emergency response capabilities. It also calls for improvements to museum management systems and adherence to procedures for donated collections. The NCHA issued related regulations in the preceding period, strengthening basic management of collections in the process.
Summary: The village of Su Xin in Chongqing is leveraging its renowned wax plum industry to boost the local economy and enrich cultural life. Through e-commerce and innovative floral arrangements taught by "wax plum fairy" Deng Jihui, farmers have significantly increased their income. The town is trying to extend the lifespan of its local tourism by developing wax-plum based products, such as wax plum oil. The town has successfully integrated its wax plum industry with tourism, creating a wax plum-themed park and cultural events that attract over one million visitors annually. The effort is spearheaded by local Party Secretary Zhang Ruguo.
Summary: This article discusses the revitalization of a rural village in Chongqing through the cultivation and artistic use of wax plum blossoms. A returned villager initiated flower arrangement competitions and workshops, fostering an appreciation for local flora and boosting the wax plum industry. The initiative has enhanced the village's aesthetic appeal, increased tourism, and improved villagers' livelihoods. The author emphasizes that the pursuit of beauty is universal, and that art can awaken cultural heritage and intuition. The goal is to further develop the wax plum industry, increase farmers' income, and improve the aesthetics of the village.
Summary: A national conference on rural cultural construction and changing customs was recently held by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs in Lingchuan County, Guangxi. The conference emphasized the importance of preserving agricultural cultural heritage, promoting healthy mass cultural and sports activities, and strengthening rural cultural talent. It also called for addressing issues like extravagant celebrations through a combination of guidance and regulation, while respecting local customs and farmer's wishes. Guangxi has been promoting cultural activities and integrating custom changes into its rural governance strategy to improve living conditions and incomes.
Summary: Ningbo's Jiangbei district in Zhejiang province is revitalizing public cultural spaces through socialized operation, attracting private sector involvement to enrich cultural offerings. According to Wang Zhiye, head of the Jiangbei District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau, the district assesses the operational effectiveness of these spaces, encouraging greater success. Bailu Bay New Cultural Space, for example, has hosted over 20 cultural events in three months due to these policies. Jiangbei currently has 37 socialized public cultural spaces, with an average of 10.1 service visits per resident annually. This initiative aims to better integrate culture into citizens' daily lives by embedding these spaces throughout the city.
Summary: The fifth "Tiangong Art Exhibition" opened on April 1st at the Chinese Space Station, featuring the Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew as "space narrators." The exhibition, themed "Pioneer Models in My Heart," showcases 80 winning artworks selected from over 15,000 submissions. Astronaut Zhang Hongzhang highlighted the young artists' dedication to national strength in a video commentary. A concurrent offline exhibition, featuring works from past "Tiangong Art Exhibitions," is being held at the Capital Museum, running until May 24. The "Tiangong Art Exhibition" is a brand that involves the participation of national adolescents and leverages the Chinese Space Station to create a space-themed cultural brand.
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Summary: On World Autism Awareness Day, a report highlights China's efforts to promote early screening and intervention for autism, as outlined in the "15th Five-Year Plan." Experts emphasize the importance of early detection before age six and intervention through systematic rehabilitation training, which can improve symptoms and abilities, potentially allowing some children to integrate into mainstream society. They also caution against unproven treatments and stress the need for qualified institutions. Experts also call for increased social understanding and support for families of autistic children.
Summary: The article profiles Li Ziwei, a teacher at a special education school in Liaoyang, Liaoning Province, who pioneered a rehabilitation program for autistic children. Since 2009, Li has dedicated herself to educating and caring for these children, incorporating unique methods like roller skating and快板 (a traditional Chinese comedic monologue) into her teaching. Li has also submitted proposals as a National People's Congress representative, advocating for policy support for adults with autism. Li emphasizes the importance of patience and understanding towards vulnerable groups, aiming to help them flourish.
Summary: The article highlights the dedication of special education teachers in China who are working to support children with autism. It emphasizes the importance of early screening, diagnosis, and intervention using scientific methods. The piece advocates for increased societal understanding and acceptance of individuals with autism and their families. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Fujian's People's Congress approved the "Quanzhou Autism Children Care Service Promotion Regulations," set to take effect on April 2nd. The regulations aim to improve care services for autistic children through legal frameworks and coordinated supervision, establishing Quanzhou as a pilot city for autism care initiatives. The six-chapter regulations define responsibilities for the government, families, and society, creating a comprehensive service mechanism encompassing screening, diagnosis, rehabilitation, education, and social participation. The regulations also pioneer funding for mainstream schools supporting autistic students. Quanzhou has established a special fund for autism, raising over 120 million yuan through a combination of government funding and social donations, and has screened 1.23 million children from 2023-2024.
Summary: A resident of Shanghai's Jing'an district, Mr. Shi, signed contracts to "sell" his old apartment to the Jing'an District public housing company and purchase a new apartment, marking Shanghai's first case of a government-led, state-owned enterprise acquiring existing residential housing for public rental housing. Mr. Shi received a "housing ticket" for the appraised value of his old apartment, which is earmarked to offset the cost of his new apartment. Jing'an district plans to add approximately 13,000 units of public rental housing during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The "housing acquisition and exchange" model aims to provide affordable housing for new urban residents and young people.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation, in conjunction with the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has issued new regulations on price transparency in the funeral industry, set to take effect May 31st. The regulations aim to standardize pricing across all aspects of funeral services, from death to interment and mourning. The guidelines provide specific requirements for different types of businesses involved, including funeral homes, cemeteries, and intermediaries. The regulations seek to prevent arbitrary and exorbitant fees by requiring clear and comprehensive price displays, promoting service contracts, and establishing internal oversight mechanisms. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Macau and Hong Kong have expanded their cross-border ambulance transfer services, effective March 27th, now allowing ambulances to pick up patients in Hong Kong for transport back to Macau. This marks a new phase in the "Hong Kong-Macau Cross-border Ambulance Pilot Program," which began in November 2024 and will continue until November 2026. The program previously focused on transporting patients from Macau to Hong Kong hospitals; the new arrangement facilitates more convenient patient transfers. Macau already has cross-border ambulance services with Zhuhai and Hengqin, operating effectively with several ambulances licensed for cross-border travel. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Over 400 teachers and students from Hengjie Bilingual School in Wuhu, Anhui, undertook a 12-kilometer walk to a martyrs' cemetery on April 1st. The activity, framed as a "walking ideological and political class," was intended to commemorate revolutionary martyrs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Zhang Xue, founder of Chongqing Zhangxue Motorcycle, celebrated his company's victory at the World Superbike Championship (WSBK) in Portugal, marking the first time a Chinese motorcycle brand has won a top-tier international race. The winning motorcycle, the 820RR-RS, is based on the company's commercially available 820RR model. Zhang Xue started as a repair apprentice 20 years ago with the dream of creating a high-performance motorcycle in China, eventually building a factory in Chongqing and exporting his motorcycles to countries including Italy, Spain, the UK, the UAE, and Russia, with plans to expand into European and American markets. An expert noted that key technologies previously reliant on foreign firms are now internationally competitive in China. Zhang Xue hopes to see more Chinese motorcycles represented worldwide.
Summary: The article reports on the World Superbike Championship (WSBK), a top-tier motorcycle racing series founded in 1988. The 2026 season will feature 12 races across four classes, including the premier World SBK and the World SSP, where Zhang Xue secured a championship. New for 2026 is the World SPB class, replacing SSP300. WSBK distinguishes itself by requiring参赛vehicles to be based on commercially available motorcycles with limited modifications, showcasing the performance of production models.
Summary: Bai Yulu, a 22-year-old Chinese snooker player, is preparing for the upcoming 2026 World Snooker Championship qualifiers. In January, she became the world's number one ranked female snooker player after winning the World Women's Snooker Championship in Bulgaria. This victory opened doors for her to compete in the World Snooker Tour, where she trains with top male players in the UK. Despite facing initial challenges and a string of losses, Bai achieved a historic three consecutive wins on the tour. She aims to break into the top 64 of the World Snooker Tour rankings, a feat yet to be achieved by any female player.
Summary: In 2025, Postal Savings Bank of China's (PSBC) Shanxi branch focused on supporting Shanxi's economic development through financial services, increasing entity loan balances to 203.5 billion yuan. The bank supported projects in clean energy, key industrial chains, and low-carbon transitions, including issuing 300 million yuan in transition finance loans. PSBC also expanded its support for small and micro enterprises and technology companies, with a focus on industrial parks and key industry chains. Furthermore, the bank increased financial support for rural areas, including loans to new agricultural entities and the launch of specialized agricultural loan products.
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Summary: The 24th Bangkok International Book Fair featured a Chinese delegation showcasing over 700 books and hosting exchange activities to promote Sino-Thai publishing cooperation. The delegation highlighted works by Xi Jinping, including "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China," which drew interest from Thai readers seeking to understand China's development. Thai publishers expressed interest in importing more Chinese books, especially Chinese language learning resources tailored to local needs, to cater to the increasing demand for Chinese language education in Thailand. During the book fair, China and Thailand also organized multiple cultural exchange events, such as the "Fifth China-Thailand Culture, Translation, and Publication Seminar", to promote mutual understanding.
Summary: This article commemorates the 80th anniversary of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Tokyo Tribunal), highlighting its significance in establishing principles of international law regarding wars of aggression. It notes the Tribunal's condemnation of Japanese war crimes and the systematic exposure of atrocities like the Nanjing Massacre. The article criticizes Japan's right-wing forces for their persistent denial of the Tribunal's verdicts and attempts to revise history, fueled by historical issues such as the exemption of the Emperor's war responsibility and the exoneration of war criminals. It warns against the resurgence of militarism in Japan, citing actions like visits to the Yasukuni Shrine and the distortion of history in textbooks. Finally, the article stresses the importance of safeguarding historical truth and international justice to prevent the recurrence of war.
Summary: The U.S. is reportedly seeking to expand its military presence in Greenland by negotiating with Denmark for access to three additional locations, according to the *New York Times*. The head of U.S. Northern Command, General Gyllot, cited rising threats and Greenland's strategic importance as justifications. Meanwhile, local residents expressed unease over the potential expansion. Despite sanctions, Russia plans to continue cooperation with the U.S. on manned spaceflight and the joint operation of the International Space Station, according to Roscosmos head Bakanov.
Summary: Kazakhstan's automotive industry reached a record high in 2025, producing approximately 171,000 vehicles, a 17.8% year-on-year increase, driven by government policies and foreign investment. The country aims to become a central Asian hub for automotive manufacturing, attracting foreign companies with incentives like local manufacturing status and tax breaks. Chinese brands dominated Kazakhstan's new car market in 2024 and 2025, holding nearly 40% of the market share and six of the top ten selling models. Kazakhstan aims to leverage Chinese technology to advance its automotive sector towards green, low-carbon, high-end intelligent manufacturing, while strengthening the bilateral strategic partnership.
Summary: U.S. airports are facing disruptions due to staff shortages caused by funding disagreements between the Republican and Democratic parties impacting the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has seen increased employee absences and resignations, leading to long security lines, flight delays, and even a fatal accident at LaGuardia Airport. The White House deployed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to 14 airports to assist with security. The *New York Times* characterized the situation as a failure of governance, with political infighting harming ordinary citizens and impacting how foreign visitors perceive the U.S. While some staff have received delayed pay, the DHS "shutdown" continues.
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Summary: The article reports on discussions with National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) members Wang Guilin, Liu Qingquan, and Nuo Min, regarding the "Healthy China 2035" initiative. Wang emphasized the need to translate technological breakthroughs into practical applications in healthcare, advocating for a collaborative ecosystem involving medical institutions, research bodies, and businesses. Liu highlighted the role of new productive forces in promoting the innovative development of traditional Chinese medicine, including the use of big data and AI. Nuo Min focused on improving primary-level healthcare by enhancing the skills of local doctors and implementing coordinated medical and preventative measures through data sharing.
Summary: This article argues that developing the "silver economy" (economy geared toward senior citizens) is crucial for addressing China's aging population and driving high-quality development under the 15th Five-Year Plan. The author emphasizes talent development as key, advocating for prioritizing "investment in people" through policy support and resource allocation. The piece identifies structural imbalances in the current talent pool, calling for categorized cultivation of service-oriented, R&D, management, and cross-disciplinary professionals. It proposes deepening integration between industry and education to build a collaborative ecosystem for nurturing skilled personnel.
Summary: The All-China Youth Federation proposes strengthening protections for "new employment groups" (flexible and gig economy workers) in the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. Their suggestions include establishing a social security system tailored to these workers, evaluating policy effectiveness through third-party assessments, and providing legal aid and training to enhance their awareness of rights. The proposal also emphasizes integrating these workers into urban public services, establishing service centers, and promoting positive images of these workers to enhance professional recognition. Furthermore, it calls for platform companies to take greater responsibility for worker rights, optimize income distribution, and explore innovative mechanisms like risk-sharing funds.
Summary: CPPCC member and reproductive medicine expert Lu Weiying brought proposals from the Lianghui back to Hainan, focusing on improving reproductive health services and reducing the financial burden of infertility treatment. Lu advocates for including infertility treatments and fertility preservation costs in national health insurance, aiming to alleviate financial burdens on families. Based on the issues she encountered in Hainan, Lu proposed strengthening health education in schools and improving the construction of maternal and child health service organizations. Her work focuses on issues related to women's and children's health and national population strategy.
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Summary: China's Supreme People's Court and 20 other units have jointly issued an "Opinion" to deepen the "Overall-to-Overall" diversified dispute resolution mechanism, expanding its application to resolve conflicts at the grassroots level. This mechanism, established in 2019, integrates resources to facilitate mediation before litigation, exemplified by cases involving property disputes, copyright infringement of animation works, and labor payment disputes. The "Overall-to-Overall" mechanism has facilitated the resolution of numerous common disputes before they escalate into formal lawsuits, by allowing "insiders" to solve "specialty issues". The mechanism utilizes online platforms and involves various departments to reduce costs and improve efficiency, with a rapid increase in participating organizations and mediators.
Summary: A recent surge in popularity surrounds the "unsuccessful affairs" window in Zhejiang's political service centers, a novel initiative aimed at resolving complex issues that citizens face when dealing with bureaucratic processes. This window serves as a last resort for problems that are "unmanageable," "difficult to handle," or "unclear who should handle," identifying policy loopholes and management shortcomings. The success of this window relies on officials demonstrating accountability and a commitment to public service, rather than avoiding difficult issues. The article emphasizes the importance of continuous improvement in government services, driven by citizen satisfaction and tangible results.
Summary: A Guangzhou resident, Ms. Lu, sued a hotel in Beijing after it refused to refund her booking when she couldn't secure transportation to the city. The hotel cited a policy stating reservations are non-refundable after 30 minutes, while Lu argued the hotel would not incur losses as her stay was still two weeks away. The court ruled in favor of a partial refund, citing the hotel's responsibility to mitigate losses when aware of the consumer's inability to fulfill the booking. The court also noted that blanket "non-refundable" policies should not be considered automatically valid and must be weighed against factors such as fairness and actual losses. The case highlights concerns about restrictive booking policies on online platforms.
Summary: Local governments in China are partnering with insurance companies to improve road safety, particularly in rural areas, by funding and implementing road improvements and safety education programs. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, a dangerous intersection was upgraded with new traffic lights and safety features through this collaboration, significantly reducing accidents. Similar initiatives in Ningxia and Hunan have also demonstrated positive results in reducing accidents and fatalities. Hangzhou has developed a joint program between police and insurance companies using educational videos to educate drivers. This "government + insurance + technology" model aims to address funding shortages and improve road safety through preventative measures and collaborative efforts.
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Summary: The article discusses the need for new and high-quality Yue Opera productions to celebrate its 120th anniversary in 2026. It emphasizes that innovation should stem from a deep understanding of the art form's traditions and resonate with contemporary audiences, highlighting successful past productions like "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "Five Daughters Celebrating Birthday." The author argues that creators should focus on stories and styles suited to Yue Opera's strengths, reflecting regional cultural nuances. The piece also references a "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026-2028)" promoting authentic and relevant creative expression, and further emphasizes the importance of audience engagement and market viability for the opera's continued success.
Summary: The article discusses the 10th anniversary of the play "Silver Ingot Bridge," focusing on actors Ni Dahong and Shi Ke's portrayals of the characters "Fifth Brother" and "Fifth Sister," inspired by a real couple who run a small restaurant in Beijing. The play depicts the lives and reflections of ordinary Beijing residents since the reform and opening up. The play has been invited to perform in Hong Kong as part of a cultural season, with the actors expressing confidence in the play's universal appeal and ability to bring a taste of Beijing life to the audience. The play has been updated over the years to reflect modern life, such as the use of mobile payment systems.
Summary: The author, the chief producer and director of the television program *Bense Huanian* (本色华年), discusses their work creating original songs and documentaries to honor the spirit of retired veterans. The program aims to highlight the contributions of veterans in various fields, from desert afforestation in Xinjiang to entrepreneurship on small islands, and to reflect the spirit of the times through their stories. The author emphasizes the importance of cultural products in supporting veterans and encouraging military service. The program aims to strengthen national unity by celebrating the diverse experiences of veterans across China. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A joint study by the Chinese Association of Radio and Television Social Organizations and Xi'an Jiaotong University found that over 90% of users enjoy micro-dramas, with particularly high praise from those aged 55 and above. The study highlighted the potential of micro-dramas as a new form of popular art that blends digital platforms and social creativity. It also found that "patriotism," "traditional culture," and "regional customs" are consistently the top three most anticipated content elements for users, surpassing themes like "revenge" and "reversal." The report suggests that micro-dramas should focus on reflecting mainstream values and traditional culture to meet audience expectations.
Summary: The ballet "The Model," a work dedicated to Lei Feng's spirit, has been performed across China, including at Peking University and Fudan University, and recently won an award at the 15th National Dance Exhibition. The ballet, notable for being performed by young dancers, aims to aesthetically express Lei Feng's spirit through dance, drawing from his diary entries. Choreographer Dai Hu emphasizes the ballet's progression from abstract to concrete representations of Lei Feng's values. Zhao Yifei, Party Secretary and head of the Liaoning Ballet, stated that the children internalize Lei Feng's spirit and transmit it to the audience through dance. The continuous cycle of students performing the ballet represents the enduring legacy of Lei Feng's spirit.
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By: 本报记者 吴 焰 姜泓冰 季觉苏
On March 28th, on the coast of the East China Sea, the "Far Sea Floating Island" (远海浮动岛), a national major science and technology infrastructure independently developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), officially started construction. This world's first "offshore mobile science city" will provide a world-class scientific research base for the exploration of 10,000-meter full-sea depths and the real-sea testing of 100-ton deep-sea equipment.
This is a special gift from Jiao Tong University (交通大学) to its alma mater for its 130th birthday.
In 1896, the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) – Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) – was born in a time of national crisis, sowing the seeds of "strengthening the country through education" (兴学强国). Over the past 130 years, generations of Jiao Tong University (交通大学) people have set out from the campus and gone to the places where the country and the people need them most. From the starting point of "born for the sake of strengthening the country" (因图强而生), to the courage of "prospering through reform" (因改革而兴), to the prosperity of "flourishing because of talent" (因人才而盛) today, this university, spanning three centuries, has witnessed the historical journey of a nation from seeking survival to achieving great rejuvenation, and has also written a new era of striving towards building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.
As the "Far Sea Floating Island" (远海浮动岛) is about to "take root" in the depths of the ocean, and as major achievements move from the laboratory to the main battlefield of building a strong country, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) is answering the call of the times with the vivid practice of promoting education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner.
Establishing Aspirations with the Ambition to Strengthen the Country
——Adhering to the direction of running the school, cultivating people for the Party and talents for the country
Erhai Lake (洱海) in Yunnan (云南), sampling, recording, and retesting, the Kong Hainan (孔海南) team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) has been rooted in Dali (大理) for more than 10 years, guarding a lake of clear water, and focusing scientific research on the people's expectations for a better life.
Jinping Mountain (锦屏山) in Sichuan (四川), 2,400 meters underground, the Liu Jianglai (刘江来) team of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) guards the detector, waiting for almost invisible signals in the depths of the rock. Seventeen years of searching for dark matter seems far from people's lives, but it is closely related to the country's original innovation capabilities.
Cultivating people for the Party and talents for the country. Around the fundamental task of "what kind of people to cultivate, how to cultivate people, and for whom to cultivate people," Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) runs the concept of "cultivating people with soul" (铸魂育人) through the entire process of high-quality school management and strengthening the school.
Strolling through the campus, from "Taofen Road" (韬奋路) to "Xuhua Road" (旭华路) and "Xuesen Road" (学森路), spiritual coordinates that inherit the red gene nourish the hearts of teachers and students.
Walking into the classroom, the students of the "Voice into the Hearts" (声入人心) student theory preaching group are preparing lessons. This young team, which has been awarded the title of "National Advanced Collective for Grassroots Theory Preaching," uses the language of young people to tell the party's innovative theories, from classrooms to communities, from campuses to the cloud.
"Grasping the socialist direction of running the school and implementing the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, we will implement the value concept of undertaking the great task of national rejuvenation into the education of all staff, the whole process, and all aspects, so that value leadership, knowledge exploration, ability building, and personality development are integrated," said Yang Zhenbin (杨振斌), Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), deeply feeling the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
High-quality construction of the "Overview of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" course group; jointly opening characteristic courses such as "Qian Xuesen (钱学森) and China's Science and Technology Undertaking"; linking with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞) and the Eighth Academy of Aerospace Science and Technology (航天八院) to jointly build a "Great Ideological and Political Course" teaching base; introducing excellent teachers, so that "excellent people teach more excellent students"...
"Drinking water, thinking of the source, loving the country and honoring the school" (饮水思源、爱国荣校) is the school motto; "Cultivating first-class talents and cultivating first-class character" (培养第一等人才，砥砺第一等品行) is the pursuit; "Choosing Jiao Tong University (交通大学) means choosing responsibility" has long been internalized into the spiritual consciousness of teachers and students, and has the latest second half of the sentence – "Leaving Jiao Tong University (交通大学) means undertaking a mission."
Breaking the Situation with the Blade of Reform
——Using systematic thinking to promote the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner
"The rise of Jiao Tong University (交通大学) has never been guarded. It was created in one active adjustment and self-reshaping after another," said President Ding Kuiling (丁奎岭), expressing the character of this university.
Promoting the development of education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner is an inevitable requirement for creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and it is also the only way for universities to achieve their own leapfrog development. The school party committee plans and lays out with a focus on national strategy: grasping the political, people-oriented, and strategic attributes of education, and promoting the deep integration and synergistic efforts of the education chain, talent chain, and innovation chain with systematic thinking.
Focus on "breaking" and paving the way for talent cultivation through teaching reform——
Implement the Bole Program (伯乐计划), the Honors Program (荣誉计划), the Leap Program (跃升计划), and the Climbing Program (攀登计划) to teach students in accordance with their aptitude. Undergraduates from the first to third years are not restricted by the ranking of departments and departments, and are not affected by academic performance, and can apply for transfer out with zero threshold. If the transferred college agrees to accept it, the major can be successfully transferred, so that students' growth is no longer restricted by professional boundaries too early.
Open up the boundaries of disciplines, colleges, and schools, and re-layout a number of interdisciplinary characteristic colleges such as the Puyuan Future Technology Academy (溥渊未来技术学院), the Smart Energy Innovation Academy (智慧能源创新学院), and the School of Psychology (心理学院) with national strategy and interdisciplinary integration as the guidance.
Focus on "integration" and pave the way for scientific and technological innovation with institutional innovation——
The Artificial Intelligence Academy (人工智能学院), which was established not long ago, has diversified upstream and downstream talent cultivation: 1/3 from top overseas universities, 1/3 from top domestic universities, and 1/3 from leading global companies. In the global computer science academic ranking, the artificial intelligence sub-item of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (上海交通大学) computer science discipline will rank first in the world in 2025.
Zhangjiang Advanced Research Institute (张江高等研究院) has gathered 83 high-level scientific research teams, more than 60 national-level talents, and public scientific device platforms are open and shared to interdisciplinary teams. The Research Institute has established an interdisciplinary fund, requiring two teams from different disciplines to jointly apply and jointly invest; registered a "new type of R&D institution legal person" to smoothly connect local, industrial and policy resources.
Strengthen "change" and untie the original innovation with evaluation reform——
Original innovation requires long-term deep cultivation and free growth. The Siyuan Research Institute (思源研究院) came into being, and "allowing trial and error" was written into the system, which is not restricted by on-campus assessment indicators, and adopts annual academic reports, mid-term diagnostic evaluations, and 10-year full-term assessments. The "Jiao Tong University (交通大学) 2030 Plan" supports scientific and technological talents under the age of 35 to carry out high-risk, non-consensus, and disruptive research.
"In-depth exploration of fundamental scientific issues, China is launching an impact on the field of basic research," said Zhang Jie (张杰), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and director of the Li Zhengdao (李政道) Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). The institute has adjusted the evaluation method, not looking at "hats" and not counting papers, but looking at innovation ability, future potential and original contribution.
The country's strategic needs are the direction of independent innovation. The "offshore large cutter suction dredging equipment" has achieved technological independence and controllability, and behind major achievements such as "Hualong One" (华龙一号), "Tianwen One" (天问一号), "Chang'e Project" (嫦娥工程), and "Beidou Navigation" (北斗导航), there are Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) teams participating in tackling key problems.
The innovation chain, industry chain, and talent chain are interlocked. Relying on the "Greater Zero Bay" (大零号湾) Science and Technology Innovation Source Function Zone created by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), concept verification, incubation acceleration, industrial landing... The "first kilometer" of basic research and the "last kilometer" of achievement transformation are being drawn on a map. A new paradigm of industry-university-research integration in which enterprises "propose questions" and universities "answer questions" is accelerating its growth by jointly building the Smart Energy Innovation Academy (智慧能源创新学院) with State Power Investment Corporation (国家电投) and the Puyuan Future Technology Academy (溥渊未来技术学院) with CATL (宁德时代).
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the contract amount of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (上海交通大学) scientific and technological achievements transformation exceeded 7 billion yuan; in 2023, it won 8 National Science and Technology Awards; for 16 consecutive years, the total number of National Natural Science Foundation projects has ranked first among national universities.
Reaching Far with the Sincerity of Gathering Talents
——Striving for "World-Class with Chinese Characteristics" in a Global Perspective
On April 29, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Shanghai (上海) and came to "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) in Xuhui District (徐汇区) to exchange ideas with young innovative talents. The only "foreign face" on the scene was Bertrand Béghin, a foreign teacher from the Paris Elite Institute of Technology at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学巴黎卓越工程师学院).
"Internationalization" is an important feature of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). Implementing the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee to "accelerate the construction of universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics and world-class standards," Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) is even more determined: "Chinese characteristics" requires taking root in China to run schools, and "world-class" requires global competitiveness and influence.
To create a first-class university, gather talents from all over the world and use them.
In 2023, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) launched the "President's Direct Line" mechanism to set up a special channel for the identification and introduction of top talents. It takes as little as one month to complete the introduction of a key talent at the college level; the school level can make a decision within a week. Supporting measures such as medical security, housing support, and children's education have been incorporated into the talent work system.
The effect is obvious. The recent three sessions of the Excellent Young Scientists Fund Program (Overseas) have achieved full coverage of disciplines; among the selected candidates in 2025, nearly 60% are from the world's top universities ranked in the top 20 globally or the top 5 in disciplines.
To create a first-class university, promote the "Global Jiao Tong University (交通大学)" strategy system.
Taking the needs of national strategy as the guidance, integrating high-quality international resources, and strengthening openness and mutual learning. Promote the smooth transformation of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) - University of Michigan Joint Institute to Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) - Purdue International School, create the Paris Elite Institute of Technology (巴黎卓越工程师学院), and cultivate elite engineering talents proficient in Chinese, English and French; create projects such as the "Global Challenge Program" and carry out joint degree programs at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels with 43 top overseas universities.
"We hope to enable students to understand China in the world coordinates and respond to the world in Chinese practice, and build a 'reservoir' of sustainable international talent cultivation for the future," said Wang Hesheng (王贺升), Dean of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) - Purdue International School.
The story of a university and a country is converging into a great river of the times, surging forward and growing endlessly.
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On the banks of the Wei River, the plane trees stand tall; in this 130-year-old institution, the original aspiration remains steadfast.
Walking into the Western Relocation Museum of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学), the ten bold characters "Born for the Nation, Born for the Era" ("为民族而生，为时代而生") immediately catch the eye, silently narrating a resounding oath that spans a century.
In 1896, the predecessor of Jiaotong University, Nanyang Public School (南洋公学), was born on the banks of the Huangpu River (黄浦江) in Shanghai (上海), embarking on a journey of "strengthening the country through education" amidst national crisis. In 1956, in response to the call of the state, the main body of Jiaotong University moved west to Xi'an (西安), forging the Western Relocation Spirit of "bearing the overall situation in mind, selfless dedication, promoting tradition, and pioneering with arduous effort."
On April 22, 2020, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with 14 veteran professors of the Western Relocation here, he pointed out: "The core of the 'Western Relocation Spirit' is patriotism, and the essence is to listen to the Party's command and follow the Party, sharing the same breath and destiny with the Party and the country, with the nation and the people, which has profound practical and historical significance."
Marking the 130th anniversary of the university's founding and the 70th anniversary of the Western Relocation, from the original aspiration of strengthening the country through education to the commitment to taking root in the west, this century-old institution inherits and promotes the Western Relocation Spirit, its strong pulse always beating together with the country and the nation.
Cultivating Talents for the Country, Serving the Country's Major Strategic Needs
In the office of Wang Fei (王飞), a professor at the Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), various spacecraft models are displayed, with a pair of robotic arms particularly eye-catching.
In order to provide key technical support for China's manned space station, Chang'e-5 (嫦娥五号) and Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar missions, Wang Fei (王飞) led his team through 15 years and over 2 million data simulations, finally successfully equipping the "arms" of Chinese spacecraft with bright "eyes."
Serving the country's major strategic needs is Wang Fei's (王飞) research orientation, and even more so, it is the consistent patriotic gene of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大).
In 1896, the smoke from the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 had not yet dissipated when Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) was founded in Shanghai (上海); in 1956, the main body of Jiaotong University moved west, "marching towards science and building the Great Northwest." From Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) to Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), the orientation of running the school has always been clear: whatever the country needs, Jiaotong University will create.
Currently, as the world undergoes accelerating changes and the rejuvenation of the nation is unstoppable, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must place the cultivation of urgently needed talents for major national strategies in a more prominent position, focus on creating top-notch innovative talents, and promote the realization of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology."
Bearing in mind these instructions, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) takes technological development and the country's strategic needs as its driving force, continuously tackling key problems and forging swords for the country, enriching and extending its historical mission in the new era—
Looking out to the ocean, the Li Jie (李杰) team at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) participated in the development of the first coastal low-altitude intelligent supervision platform in the country, spending 90 days to create a new benchmark for technological protection of the sea.
Inquiring about the sky, the Chen Yu (陈玉) team at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), in collaboration with 10 other units, developed the first ultraviolet photoelectron spectrometer in China, helping the aerospace and semiconductor fields solve technical problems.
Serving the people's livelihood, Ren Xiaobing (任晓兵) and his team at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) created "super piezoelectric ceramics," which are expected to provide key material support for the next generation of miniature robots.
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Accumulating strength over time, eight disciplines at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have been selected as national "double first-class" construction disciplines, and 19 disciplines have entered the top 1% of global academic institutions; 265 provincial and ministerial-level bases, including 11 national key laboratories and 1 national major science and technology infrastructure, constitute a hard-core support platform for serving national strategies.
"In recent years, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has continued to strengthen strategic-oriented, frontier-oriented, and market-oriented basic research, improve the organizational level of basic research, and serve high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology," said Zhang Liqun (张立群), President of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Integration of Industry and Education, Laboratory Results Enter the Production Line
Ma Yuan (马元) is the director of the Turbine Combined Engine Research Office of the Eleventh Research Institute of the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团公司). However, his daily office is located in the new campus of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) in the China Western Science and Technology Innovation Harbor (中国西部科技创新港). Along with Ma Yuan (马元), nearly a hundred engineers from the Aerospace Science and Technology Group (航天科技集团), as well as more than 30 professors and more than 200 doctoral and master's students from disciplines such as machinery, power, and materials at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), are also stationed here.
This "national team" of liquid rocket engines is the "Advanced Propulsion Innovation Center for Aerospace Return" jointly built by the Sixth Academy of Aerospace (航天六院) and Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大)—an innovation consortium with deep integration between universities and enterprises. Here, professors and engineers sit side by side, paper data and production line reports interact in real time, and the "serial" R&D of universities and enterprises has become a "parallel" attack.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Strengthen the supporting role of education for science and technology and talent." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "deepen the integrated reform of education, science and technology, and talent, strengthen planning coherence, policy coordination, resource integration, and evaluation linkage, and promote the virtuous interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talent."
The innovation consortium reflects Xi'an Jiaotong University's (西安交大) continuous exploration in the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent.
"Early cooperation between universities and enterprises was mainly technology transfer, like 'blind dating'; later joint R&D was like 'dating'; now, co-building physical laboratories is like 'getting a marriage certificate'," Ma Yuan (马元) said, using an analogy to describe the integration of universities and enterprises.
"Students working with engineers improve their skills faster," said Liu Jinxin (刘金鑫), a professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and the chief engineer of the university-enterprise innovation consortium. More than 2,300 engineering master's and doctoral students at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have grown up in engineering environments and practical projects, and many of their graduation design topics come from technical problems in practice.
Today, the "smart town" of Innovation Harbor (创新港) is beginning to take shape—students are in the laboratory in the morning, exchange ideas with corporate engineers in the cafeteria at noon, and roadshow projects in venture capital cafes in the evening. The campus, park, and community are integrated, and education, science and technology, and talent are driving together as the "three carriages."
As of now, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has signed joint research platform agreements with 255 companies, including China Mobile (中国移动), General Technology Group (通用技术集团), and NARI Group (南瑞集团), and has established 100 deeply integrated university-enterprise innovation consortia. Universities and enterprises have joined hands to solve 3,124 key technical problems, the application and transformation rate of patent results has increased to 22%, and 281 science and technology innovation enterprises have been incubated locally.
Western Relocation Forges the Soul, the Spark of the Spirit Spreads in Youth
In the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), seeing the rows of saxaul and red willow trees he planted outside the oil wells, Ma Jinlong (马金龙), the station manager of the Manshen Joint Station of the Had Oil and Gas Management Area of Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田), always thinks of the plane trees planted on campus by the teachers and students who moved west from his alma mater.
In the 1950s, the Party Central Committee and the State Council made the decision to move Jiaotong University to Xi'an (西安). In 1956, professors took the lead on the road, and students enthusiastically followed, with more than 6,000 teachers and students setting off with their backpacks, "**党让我们去哪里，我们背上行囊就去哪里**" (dǎng ràng wǒmen qù nǎlǐ, wǒmen bèi shàng xíngnáng jiù qù nǎlǐ - "Wherever the Party tells us to go, we'll pack our bags and go," demonstrating absolute obedience to the Party's directives).
Three years later, Jiaotong University was divided into Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (上海交大), which have the same roots and origins. Of the 767 teachers registered at Jiaotong University at the end of 1956, 537 moved to Xi'an (西安). They closely linked their personal future with the destiny of the country, and used the Western Relocation Spirit to build a first-class university on the land of Shaanxi (陕西).
"I hope that the teachers and students of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学) will inherit the Western Relocation Spirit and contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the west and the construction of the country." In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions on the joint letter from veteran professors of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学).
Westward, further westward. In 2013, Ma Jinlong (马金龙) graduated from Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) with a major in process equipment and control engineering and came to the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠). As a core member of the project, he participated in the development and construction of China's largest ultra-deep oilfield, Fuman Oilfield (富满油田), and successively overcame problems such as the supporting process of normal temperature gathering and transportation and the long-cycle maintenance of high-sulfur devices.
"There are 30 Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) graduates working in Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田) like me," Ma Jinlong (马金龙) said. "We believe that there is only a desolate desert, not a desolate life."
On the Western Relocation Square (西迁广场) in the southwest corner of the Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) campus, many students often stop and ponder in front of the relocation relief sculpture. Every night, the footprints on the "Journey of Jiaotong University to the West" sculpture on the square light up in turn, like the footsteps of the westward journey that year, step by step to this day.
"Most of the older generation of Western Relocation people have long been sleeping in the loess land, but the spark of the Western Relocation Spirit has spread among generations of young people," said Jia Jianming (贾箭鸣), a historian at Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大).
Since the Western Relocation, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has cultivated nearly 400,000 talents of various types, more than half of whom have taken root in the central and western regions, and has cultivated or employed 96 academicians.
"I am willing to dedicate my knowledge and love to this land and contribute to the development of education in the west." For more than 20 years, 309 students from the graduate teaching group of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have gone to 22 schools in the west to carry out teaching work, serving more than 20,000 students in total; the "Xinqiao Wuzhi" (心桥无止) youth volunteer team, in conjunction with volunteers from universities across the country, has built 57 ecological and convenient bridges in 9 provinces, innovating models to help the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas; many graduates have served the economic and social development of the central and western regions through grassroots projects such as "Three Supports and One Assistance" and the "Western Program"... "Building achievements in the places where the motherland needs them most" is what Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大学) students keep in mind and act on.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, all teachers and students of the school will inherit and promote the Western Relocation Spirit, integrate into national strategies, integrate into local development, and integrate into industrial innovation, so as to better support the construction of a strong country," said Lu Jianjun (卢建军), Secretary of the Party Committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大).
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In the inaugural year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," new developments are constantly emerging in the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) of Hebei (河北):
The Beijing-Xiong'an commuter line for customized express buses in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region has been launched, facilitating smoother flow of factors; the first three-dimensional real estate ownership certificate for underground space has been issued, exploring new paths for refined management; the Xiong'an International Airport (雄安国际空港) has officially commenced operations, allowing residents to enjoy the convenience of an international aviation hub right at their doorstep...
Each and every event bears witness to the gathering of innovative elements and the growth of innovative forces.
On March 23rd, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) for inspection, conducting research and holding discussions; planning and guiding, emphasizing the need to "firmly grasp the primary functional positioning of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) as a centralized location for relieving Beijing's (北京) non-capital functions" and "strive to build a new highland for innovation in the new era and a model for promoting high-quality development."
Born for relocation and moving towards the future. Stepping into Xiong'an (雄安), a city of the future, a new wave is surging.
Bearing in mind the original intention of "relocation," creating a new model for modern cities.
How to build a future city without "urban diseases"?
Bearing in mind the original intention of "relocation," Xiong'an (雄安) is pioneering a new model of high-standard planning, high-quality construction, and high-level management.
Recently, the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) startup area has been connected to a meteorological large model, taking the lead in launching the "Four Seasons Twenty Types" environmental sanitation quality and efficiency assessment model, which automatically generates the daily mode based on weather conditions, scientifically arranging environmental sanitation operation measures and time periods. "City on the Cloud," digital symbiosis. The "Eye of Xiong'an" (雄安之眼) gathers over 40 billion pieces of urban operation data, realizing the synchronous construction of a digital city and a real city across the entire area, with each building, each road, and each streetlight corresponding one-to-one. Using digital technology to serve the refined management of the city.
Yin Huiliang (殷会良), Executive Vice President of the Xiong'an Research Institute of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (中国城市规划设计研究院雄安研究院), who participated in the preparation of the New Area's plan, witnessed the patience and determination to "plan every inch of land clearly before starting construction." One detail impressed him deeply: during the planning and design, space was specially reserved for children's "school routes," allowing children to safely reach home through parks and green spaces.
Looking at construction, while thousands of buildings are rising from the ground, "the construction of all buildings relies on digital modeling and intelligent construction platforms to achieve networked monitoring and traceability of the entire process from material entry to installation accuracy," introduced Yang Song (杨松), Director of the Construction and Transportation Administration Bureau of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区建设和交通管理局), "ensuring that 'Xiong'an Quality' runs through every brick, tile, beam, and pillar."
All 42 key "one-stop" matters deployed by the State Council have been implemented, and 8 new area-specific "one-stop" scenario applications have been launched simultaneously. 278 Beijing-Xiong'an (京雄) government services have achieved "same-city" processing... "Striving to make 'no need to seek help for handling affairs, zero obstacles in approval, and at most one trip' an important symbol of Xiong'an (雄安)," introduced Gao Lichun (高立春), Party Secretary and Director of the Business Environment Bureau of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区营商环境局). The Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) will continue to expand the service scope of "Beijing (北京) affairs can also be handled in Xiong'an (雄安)," significantly increase the number of cross-regional handling matters, and continuously improve the convenience of handling affairs for relocation targets and the public.
Seizing the "relocation" opportunity, building an innovative highland for industrial development.
China Telecom's (中国电信) Smart City Industrial Park, one of the first three market-oriented relocation projects in the New Area, is where Li Xihuan (李喜欢)'s China Telecom Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中电信数字城市科技有限公司) is located. Opening his mobile phone, he treasures two photos that reflect the rapid changes in Xiong'an's (雄安) development: one is from 2021, when the industrial park was laid, surrounded by construction sites; the other is from 2024, when the industrial park was put into use, with buildings standing tall.
Buildings are "growing taller," and opportunities are growing. China Telecom Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中电信数字城市科技有限公司) is participating in more and more scenario projects in the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), covering smart transportation, smart parks, and smart cities, and related construction achievements have also been promoted and applied to other cities. In March last year, Li Xihuan (李喜欢) applied for and received the "Xiongcai Card" (雄才卡) from the Xiong'an Talent Smart Platform service platform, "allowing me to ride public transportation for free in the New Area, and also providing green channels to designated hospitals and some transportation hubs."
"We are growing together with the New Area," Li Xihuan (李喜欢) said with emotion. The company had only 30 employees at its inception, but has now grown to over 500, with a total turnover of over 100 million yuan.
China Huaneng Group (中国华能集团) has continued to explore and innovate in the field of new energy in recent years. In October last year, more than 1,000 employees from the group's headquarters and related subsidiaries relocated to Xiong'an (雄安). Li Lailong (李来龙), Deputy Chief Economist of the group, said that their opportunity lies in the policy direction of "accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods" and the national strategy of "a millennium plan." Currently, energy central enterprises are gathering in Xiong'an (雄安), and the green energy industry is forming a chain, initially forming a development pattern of "central enterprise headquarters + research and development base + supporting enterprises."
In Xiong'an (雄安), emerging and future industries such as aerospace information, artificial intelligence, and digital technology are taking shape, gathering momentum, and rising. More than 2,000 technology companies are taking root, growing, and expanding...
Gathering the joint force of "relocation," stimulating new momentum for coordinated development.
"Xiaode, it's raining outside." Upon hearing the instruction and giving feedback, the robotic arm grabs an umbrella from among many objects. At Mech-Mind (Xiong'an) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (梅卡曼德（雄安）机器人科技股份有限公司), robotic arms also have "eyes," "brains," and "dexterous hands," capable of recognizing the environment, understanding instructions, and responding quickly.
In September 2024, Shao Tianlan (邵天兰), the founder of the company, moved the headquarters from Beijing (北京) to Xiong'an (雄安). This move "moved" the company from a single-point layout to a development change of multi-location collaboration. "Taking advantage of the relocation, the resources of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) are twisted into a joint force," said Shao Tianlan (邵天兰). They rely on Beijing (北京) university resources to carry out cutting-edge technology development, leverage Xiong'an (雄安) scenarios to promote data collection and application testing, and with the addition of complete advanced manufacturing support in the surrounding area, the company has opened up the entire chain from technology research and development, scenario verification to industrial landing.
Today, many of Mech-Mind's products have achieved large-scale scenario implementation, with an annual shipment of approximately 10,000 units.
The Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (雄安新区中关村科技园), where Mech-Mind is located, is committed to "being a good 'link' for industrial collaboration in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北)," and there are vivid stories of government-enterprise cooperation, enterprise collaboration, and regional coordination every day. In just over two years since its establishment, the park has attracted more than 200 science and technology innovation enterprises.
Xiong'an (雄安) is closely connected with various innovation entities such as enterprises, universities, and research institutes in Beijing (北京). Currently, more than 13,000 enterprises have entered Xiong'an (雄安), and the regional coordination of scientific and technological breakthroughs has continued to increase. As of February this year, the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has 10 national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises and nearly 700 national high-tech enterprises.
Walking in Xiong'an (雄安), we see new practices led by new concepts and new mechanisms behind new industries. "Relocation is not a simple 'change of location,' but a 'change of path' of systematic restructuring," said Yu Guoyi (于国义), member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区党工委委员、管委会副主任).
New currents are surging, thriving. New city construction, heading towards a new journey.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Chengdu, April 1st (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Sichuan from March 30th to April 1st. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the important expositions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) on green development and building a strong energy nation, to implement the new energy security strategy effectively, to adhere to innovation-led development, to leverage the advantages of resource endowments, to continuously expand the supply of green electricity, to focus on promoting the construction of new power grids, and to accelerate the adjustment and optimization of the energy structure, so as to provide strong support for high-quality economic and social development.
Li Qiang (李强) visited Chengdu (成都市) and Deyang (德阳市), successively, to investigate new energy development and related equipment manufacturing enterprises. At the Tongwei Global Innovation R&D Center (通威全球创新研发中心), Li Qiang (李强) listened to the introduction of photovoltaic technology research and entered the workshop to inspect the development of battery modules. He said that in recent years, the progress of photovoltaic technology has effectively improved the utilization level of solar energy. It is necessary to vigorously support enterprises to explore innovation, increase R&D investment, strive to break through key technological bottlenecks, open up various application scenarios, and accelerate the large-scale application of new technologies. At the Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. (雅砻江流域水电开发有限公司), Li Qiang (李强) learned about the development of the integrated hydro-wind-solar base and listened to the report on the construction of new power grids in Sichuan Province (四川省). He pointed out that the construction of new power grids is of great significance for ensuring energy security and promoting green development. It is necessary to actively explore new architectures, new technologies, and new services, improve network construction, enhance system coordination and regulation capabilities, strengthen the guarantee of diversified demands, and create a safe, reliable, green, low-carbon, strong, resilient, intelligent, and flexible new power grid. Sichuan (四川) is an important clean energy base in China. It is necessary to promote the complementary advantages of hydro, wind, solar, hydrogen, and natural gas, take the lead in the development and utilization of clean energy and the construction of new power grids, actively promote the construction of a new energy system, and at the same time, better drive the development of related industries. At Guoji Heavy Equipment Group Co., Ltd. (国机重型装备集团股份有限公司) and Dongfang Electric Corporation Dongfang Electric Machinery Co., Ltd. (东方电气集团东方电机有限公司), Li Qiang (李强) learned about the latest scientific research achievements of the enterprises and inspected equipment and core components for nuclear power and hydropower. He encouraged the enterprises to aim at the forefront of science and technology and market demand, promote the deep integration of artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies with manufacturing, and continuously achieve new breakthroughs in clean energy equipment manufacturing and other fields, so as to better serve China's new energy industry development and energy transition.
Li Qiang (李强) came to the Minjiang Zipingpu Water Conservancy Hub Project (岷江紫坪铺水利枢纽工程), inspected the Zipingpu Reservoir (紫坪铺水库) area, and learned about water conservancy construction in Sichuan Province (四川省). He then inspected the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (都江堰水利工程). Li Qiang (李强) said that water management is a cause that benefits future generations. It is necessary to inherit and develop water management wisdom, accelerate the modernization of water conservancy facilities, better exert the comprehensive functions of flood control, irrigation, water supply, power generation, and ecology, and benefit the people with new achievements in water management and water prosperity. In the "Tianfu Granary" (天府粮仓) 10,000-mu wheat yield improvement demonstration area in Guanghan (广汉市), Li Qiang (李强) walked into the fields to observe wheat growth, rice seedling cultivation, and drone operations, and exchanged views with agricultural technology experts and grain farmers. Li Qiang (李强) said that it is now the season of spring plowing and spring sowing. It is necessary to seize the agricultural season to do a good job in the supply of agricultural materials, technical services, and other work, increase the application of new technologies and new equipment such as intelligent agricultural machinery, and do a good job in field management with high standards. It is necessary to give play to the leading role of large grain growers, innovate agricultural management methods, implement pro-agricultural policies, and strengthen the guarantee of grain planting income. Efforts should be continuously made in land improvement and improved seed breeding, accelerate the digital transformation of agricultural production, and continuously improve the ability to guarantee food security.
Wu Zhenglong (吴政隆) accompanied the research.
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Since the launch of the learning and education campaign to establish and practice a correct view of performance, various regions, departments, and units have adhered to the integration of learning, thinking, and application, and the unity of knowing, believing, and acting. They have focused on learning and discussion, calibrating ideological coordinates, promoting a rigorous and practical work style, and promoting the learning and education campaign to go deeper and more solid, and to see practical results.
Upholding Righteousness and Innovation, Deep Learning and Careful Comprehension
"China will never perish, with me here"... In the Ganxi Anti-Japanese War Museum in Xinyu City (新余市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), looking at the yellowed diary "With Me" in the display cabinet, more than 30 leading cadres from the county and department-level cadre training class of the Xinyu Municipal Party School (新余市委党校) in the spring semester of 2026 were deeply touched. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Xinyu City (新余市) has been excavating local red cultural resources, moving classrooms into revolutionary traditional education venues, and organizing county and department-level cadres and above in the city to carry out immersive teaching in batches.
"The two words 'With Me' in the diary contain profound propositions about the individual and the country, the small self and the big self." A participating cadre said, "Faced with the arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability, we should have the historical responsibility of 'success must have me' and achieve performance with practical work."
Nankai District (南开区), Tianjin (天津), firmly grasps the general requirements of "ruling the party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," and learns and comprehends the original text carefully through holding reading classes, theoretical learning center group studies, and other forms; it focuses on making good use of resources such as the "Learn from Lei Feng (雷锋), Learn from Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄)" theme hall and warning education bases, and excavating and revitalizing cases such as the Jiuce City Plaza (九策城市广场) and the construction of the Nanyun River Cultural Park (南运河文化公园), to enhance the attractiveness, appeal, and penetration of learning through on-site training and case teaching.
China Rongtong Group (中国融通集团) focuses on building a closed-loop learning pattern with the Party Group coordinating, the Party Committee supervising, the Party Branch implementing, and full participation. The Party Group of the Group held two special reading classes for learning and education, taking the lead in studying "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance"; 77 Party Committees and 924 Party Branches fully followed up and organized in an orderly manner, adopting various methods such as special learning in "three meetings and one lesson," practical learning on theme Party days, collective learning led by Party members, and independent learning on online platforms. On this basis, it focuses on the characteristics of different groups to precisely exert efforts. For example, for newly appointed cadres, performance view education and integrity education are deployed simultaneously; for young cadres, special courses are offered and practical research is carried out to guide young cadres to grow and become talents in their work positions.
The Party Committees at all levels of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) held special reading classes to deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, closely focusing on the duties and missions of serving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" and the real economy, conducting in-depth exchanges and discussions, conscientiously implementing various requirements for learning and education, and continuously enhancing the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
The Party Group of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (中国航天科工集团) thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals on the aerospace industry, and organized the Party Committees of its own level and affiliated secondary units to carry out joint learning sessions of the theoretical learning center group; it opened a special column on the official website and new media platforms called "The View of Performance in the Stories of the Aerospace Spirit," using the stories of generations of aerospace personnel who have strived for their original aspirations, dedicated themselves to the country, and loyally contributed to guide Party members and cadres to learn from the virtuous and strive for excellence.
"Moving the learning classroom to the work site highlights the problem orientation." At the atmospheric monitoring point of the Dabeizhuang Community (大北庄小区) in Ma'anshan City (马鞍山市), Anhui Province (安徽省), a student said after the on-site teaching. Organizing on-site teaching, holding special guidance reports, and carrying out collective exchanges and discussions... Ma'anshan City (马鞍山市) thoroughly studies and implements General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on giving play to the leading, guiding, and promoting role of leading cadres, and promoting Party members and cadres at all levels to learn, think, practice, and act through "the same class online and offline."
Categorized by Level, Precise Policies
"We must lay a good foundation for long-cycle projects and truly bring in enterprises and projects that have strong traction and are beneficial in the long run." Recently, a student shared his learning experience at a special seminar for department-level leaders and county-level principal responsible comrades in Laibin City (来宾市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区).
Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Laibin City (来宾市) has combined the actual situations of different levels and fields, specially issued work prompts, formulated monthly learning plans, sorted out learning lists, and established a mechanism of "comparing grassroots reputation and comparing pioneering and striving for excellence." Among them, comprehensive departments focus on overall planning and preventing deviations, economic departments focus on effectiveness and preventing short-sightedness, people's livelihood departments focus on serving the people and preventing empty achievements, and state-owned enterprises focus on efficiency and preventing one-sidedness... Implementing policies by category to achieve "one key opens one lock."
The Party Group of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电科) is based on the trends of technological revolution and industrial transformation, and organized a special seminar on "Leading the Intelligent Transformation of Group Enterprises with a Correct View of Performance" to accelerate the high-quality development and high-level empowerment of artificial intelligence. At the same time, it has formulated education and training programs for leading cadres in different positions such as scientific research, management, and production to continuously improve the pertinence and effectiveness of learning and education.
The Party Committee of China Energy Construction Corporation (中国能建) combines learning and education with the responsibility and mission of "guiding construction central enterprises into the track of high-quality development." Through "four-level linkage" of leading learning by the Party Committee's theoretical learning center group, special discussions by branches, on-site research and learning at projects, and exchanges and learning by business backbones, it organizes Party members and cadres at all levels to study and discuss around abandoning extensive development thinking and improving project quality, and improve their political stance, ideological understanding, and Party spirit awareness.
Baotou City (包头市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), strengthened classified guidance, organized 104 participating units in the city to hold a learning and education work training meeting, systematically sorted out key tasks and specific measures, and clarified the operation paths and time nodes for each participating unit by level and category. Among them, for each banner, county, and district, it is clearly required that the grassroots Party organizations under their jurisdiction list simple, practical, and easy-to-operate learning and education plans, and prevent adding layers and increasing the burden on the grassroots.
Promoting Work Through Learning, Unity of Knowing and Doing
Carrying out special actions for urban traffic "scientific management of congestion, efficient management of congestion, and open management of congestion" to improve citizens' travel experience; exploring 12-year integrated cultivation in primary and secondary schools, "attending school upon arrival" for children of migrant workers, and "attending school together regardless of age" for multi-child families to run education that satisfies the masses... Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Chengdu City (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), has thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. Through channels such as citizen hotlines, online reflections, and solicitation of people's suggestions, it dynamically collects public opinion, accurately responds to demands, and implements a series of actions to improve the efficiency of urban governance, striving to achieve learning for application and combining learning with application.
Dongguan City (东莞市), Guangdong Province (广东省), focuses on giving play to the exemplary and leading role of positive examples and the warning and educational role of negative cases, deeply analyzes problems such as slow response to enterprise demands and complicated handling procedures, promotes the establishment of an enterprise service specialist team, actively connects with enterprises to listen to opinions, deeply investigates problems, calibrates deviations, and strives to build a "quick handling of enterprise affairs" closed loop, and implements "one-stop acceptance, one-stop follow-up" full-process tracking service, putting efforts into deep learning, true investigation, and practical rectification, and running the establishment and practice of a correct view of performance through the entire process of optimizing the business environment.
Baiyin City (白银市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), adheres to the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification, and coordinates the key tasks of learning and discussion, investigation of problems, rectification and implementation, establishment of systems, and open education. Among them, the Municipal Government Affairs Service Center implements a "red, yellow, and blue" three-color handling mechanism, handles mass appeals by level and category, handles simple matters on the spot, and promotes complex matters with special teams, and uses the satisfaction of the masses to test the quality of performance.
Longquan City (龙泉市), Lishui (丽水), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), held a special meeting to carry out centralized learning and discussion, and proposed to put efforts into "deep learning" and make articles on "determined action"; it continued to deepen the working mechanisms such as "Wednesday Down to the Village Day" and "Friday Open Reception Day," promoted the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and the Mayor to openly receive visits, listened to the suggestions of the masses, accepted the supervision of the masses, and firmly established a correct view of performance in the process of solving the urgent difficulties and worries of the masses.
"The market environment has improved, and doing business is more comfortable!" During a return visit to the 12345 government service hotline, merchants in the Henan Farmers' Market (河南农贸市场) in Xingjing Street (兴京街), Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County (新宾满族自治县), Fushun City (抚顺市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), gave a good evaluation of the relevant departments' rectification of random stalls and random parking. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, the County Party Committee and County Government have deeply studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on following the mass line of the Party in the new era through learning by the theoretical learning center group, holding reading classes, and other methods. At the same time, they have organized leading cadres to answer hotline return visits and lead the handling of people's livelihood topics, so as to learn from books, learn from practice, and learn from the masses.
(Reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Zhu Jun (朱隽), Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), He Linping (贺林平), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Liu Jiahua (刘佳华), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Li Linwei (李林蔚), Dou Hao (窦皓), Li Junjie (李俊杰), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), and Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋) participated in writing this article)
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Patents lying in the laboratory are just castles in the air. Recently, more than 2,700 universities and research institutions across the country completed the first inventory of 1.349 million existing patents, screening out 680,000 invention patents for precise matching with 460,000 enterprises. Evaluating achievements based on transformation effectiveness demonstrates the shift in patent development from emphasizing quantity to emphasizing quality and implementation.
What does it take to accelerate the transformation of patent assets into industrial dividends?
Reform unlocks the path. By promoting the reform of empowering researchers with the rights to their job-related technological achievements, some universities have established special institutions to help patent achievements become shares in enterprises; by cultivating a team of technology managers, some localities have strengthened on-site services, departmental coordination, and park undertaking to promote the on-site transformation of technological innovation. With reform efforts and precise policies, good patents can be "born" faster, and good technologies can be accelerated to "land."
Lengthening and advancing the "1." The innovative development of "Hangzhou Six Little Dragons" benefits from Zhejiang's "Golden Seed" program for the patent industrialization of small and medium-sized enterprises; some localities are laying out key technologies such as power batteries, cultivating and creating patent-intensive products, and promoting the renewal of the new energy vehicle industry... Unblocking the entire chain from patents to industries will continuously open up new fields and new tracks.
When more scientific and technological innovations target problems and research results are integrated into scenarios, the driving force for developing new quality productive forces will be even more surging.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on April 1st (日) (Reporter Wang Guan (王观)): A press conference held by the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) on the 1st (日) revealed that, as existing and incremental policies continue to take effect, China's economic development has shown a good start, solid foundation, and excellent quality since the beginning of this year, according to invoice data.
The development of the manufacturing industry is stable in quantity and improving in quality, further highlighting its role as a "ballast stone." From January 1st (日) to March 25th (日), the sales revenue of the manufacturing industry increased by 5.4% year-on-year, accounting for 29.2% of the national enterprise sales revenue. The sales revenue of the equipment manufacturing industry increased by 6.3% year-on-year, accounting for 46.5% of the sales revenue of the manufacturing industry, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with the same period last year.
New kinetic energy industries are developing steadily, and the momentum of scientific and technological innovation continues to strengthen. From January 1st (日) to March 25th (日), the sales revenue of high-tech industries increased by 14.6% year-on-year, of which the sales revenue of high-tech manufacturing and high-tech service industries increased by 12.7% and 15.8% year-on-year, respectively; driven by demand for artificial intelligence, computing power centers, and other factors, the sales revenue of integrated circuit design and integrated circuit manufacturing increased by 48.9% and 40.7% year-on-year, respectively.
The energy structure continues to be optimized. From January 1st (日) to March 25th (日), ecological and environmental protection-related industries have accelerated their development, and the sales revenue of ecological protection and environmental governance industries has increased by 9.6% year-on-year; the sales revenue of clean energy power generation has increased rapidly, accounting for 36.3% of the sales revenue of power production, an increase of 4.5 percentage points compared with the same period last year.
The vitality of service consumption is released. From January 1st (日) to March 25th (日), service consumption maintained rapid growth, and the sales revenue of homestay services and residential service industries increased by 15.3% and 7.3% year-on-year, respectively.
Return to TopFrom April 1st, primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu (江苏), Anhui (安徽), Sichuan (四川), Guizhou (贵州), and other places have successively started the spring break mode. Students use the spring break holiday to relax, entertain, study and travel, relax their body and mind, broaden their horizons, and enjoy the spring.
The picture shows children playing in Jinhai Amusement Park (金海乐园) in Guiding County (贵定县), Guizhou Province (贵州省) on April 1st.
Photo by Qu Honglun (瞿宏伦) (Image China)
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By: 本报记者 韩 鑫
Unmanned mega-ships can autonomously plan routes to avoid storms; port terminals operate without busy workers, and remotely controlled bridge cranes automatically load and unload containers... These technologically advanced scenarios have become a reality in smart shipping. The Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) and other four ministries recently jointly issued the "Smart Shipping 2030 Action Plan" (《智能航运2030行动计划》), proposing that by 2030, the development of smart shipping will be at an internationally advanced level. What is the current state of smart shipping development in China? How will we reach an internationally advanced level during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period? A reporter interviewed the Maritime Safety Administration (海事局) of the Ministry of Transport and related companies.
Smart Shipping Achieves a Series of New Breakthroughs
What is smart shipping?
In February of this year, at the automated terminal of Qingdao Port (青岛港) in Shandong (山东), a giant steel ship "returned home" on its own.
The "Zhifei" (智飞) smart navigation container ship, without the need for a pilot to board or tugboat assistance, accurately entered the berth area using autonomous navigation mode.
After the ship was in position, the terminal's vacuum automatic berthing system "took over," with more than 10 "vacuum suction cups" firmly holding the giant ship, completing automatic mooring in 30 seconds. Subsequently, remote-controlled quay cranes and automated guided vehicles seamlessly connected, and loading and unloading operations proceeded in an orderly manner.
The smart ship sailing into the smart port, with their exquisite coordination, is one of the epitomes of smart shipping development.
"Smart shipping is a waterway transportation system that focuses on ship autonomy, is supported by digital infrastructure, and is guaranteed by coordinated operation control," said a relevant person in charge of the Maritime Safety Administration (海事局) of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部). After years of development, China's smart shipping has achieved a series of new breakthroughs.
Ships are becoming new. The "Zhifei" (智飞) container ship, the "Zhuhai Yun" (珠海云) scientific research mother ship... a batch of domestically produced smart ships with autonomous navigation capabilities have been launched, and some ships have entered normalized commercial operation. Intelligent equipment with auxiliary decision-making capabilities has been applied on a certain scale in the three mainstream ship types: bulk carriers, oil tankers, and container ships.
Infrastructure is becoming smart. Sixty automated terminals have been built, the mileage of electronic nautical charts released nationwide has exceeded 10,000 kilometers, and the application scope of blockchain-based port electronic delivery orders and maritime electronic bills of lading is constantly expanding.
The system is becoming optimized. The "Five-Year Development Plan for Green and Intelligent Ship Technology Specifications" (《绿色智能船舶技术规范五年发展计划》) has been formulated, the "Interim Rules for Ship Autonomous Navigation Test Technology and Inspection" (《船舶自主航行试验技术与检验暂行规则》) has been implemented, and key chapters of the International Maritime Organization's (国际海事组织) "Rules for Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships" (《海上自主水面船舶规则》) have been drafted... China has become a major force in the formulation of international rules in the field of smart shipping.
"The new generation of information technology, represented by artificial intelligence and big data, is promoting the evolution of shipping from traditional experience-driven to data-intelligent-driven. In the next 10 years, smart shipping will reshape the competitive landscape of the global shipping industry," said Zhang Baochen (张宝晨), vice chairman of the China Institute of Navigation (中国航海学会). He believes that the action plan has drawn a "construction blueprint" for the development of smart shipping during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, which will promote the upgrading of China's smart shipping technology from single-point breakthroughs to system integration.
Focus on Technical Equipment Tackling Actions in Areas Such as Smart Ships
How to drive the shipping industry to climb "high" and move towards "intelligence" with technological innovation?
Greenery stretches along both sides of the Yangtze River (长江). Recently, the world's largest and China's first domestically-made 10,000-ton pure electric smart ship, the "Ningyuan Diankun" (宁远电鲲) , left the factory in Jiujiang (九江), Jiangxi (江西) for sea trials.
By carrying intelligent integrated platforms, intelligent engine rooms and other systems, the ship has the ability to autonomously navigate in open waters, and can realize all-weather navigation visual perception, unmanned driving and other functions. At the same time, the ship's operation is driven by 10 giant "box-type batteries," which are expected to reduce nearly 1,500 tons of carbon dioxide emissions per year.
"Although China's shipping industry is the world's leading in scale, it still faces multiple structural and systemic challenges such as continuously high operating costs and unprecedented pressure for green transformation, and urgently needs to achieve kinetic energy conversion through technological revolution," pointed out a relevant person in charge of the Maritime Safety Administration (海事局) of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部). The release and implementation of the action plan is to empower the entire shipping chain with innovative technologies and promote the shipping industry to leap from scale advantage to quality advantage.
Taking technological innovation and industrial innovation as the path, the action plan specifically proposes "Technical Equipment Tackling Actions" and deploys a number of key tasks.
Focusing on smart ships, it proposes to strengthen research on common technologies such as human-machine collaboration and multi-agent collaboration. With the continuous breakthroughs in complete sets of smart ship technology and equipment, future ships are expected to become more "intelligent" and can cope with more complex and vast waters.
For smart navigation, it clarifies the intelligent technology of port channels and the complete set of equipment systems for ship autonomous navigation and remote control driving. This means that more giant ships will learn to "go home by themselves" in the future.
"The implementation of the action plan can promote the deep integration of intelligent technology with all elements and processes of shipping, which not only realizes the innovative empowerment and transformation and upgrading of the shipping industry itself, but also drives the upgrading of upstream and downstream industrial chains, and cultivates new growth points for China's smart economic development," said Geng Xiongfei (耿雄飞), director of the Smart Shipping Technology Research Center of the China Academy of Water Transport Science (交通运输部水运科学研究院).
"Next, we will set up tackling projects according to the difficulty level of technical equipment, clarify the technical routes and time nodes, and comprehensively improve the independent controllability and intelligence level of China's smart shipping technology and equipment," said a relevant person in charge of the Maritime Safety Administration (海事局) of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部).
Create More Than 10 Promotable Typical Scenarios for Smart Shipping
According to the action plan, China will carry out smart shipping pilot project construction nationwide.
Where will these pilot projects be located?
On the "surface," in representative regions such as the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), the Bohai Rim (环渤海), the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (三峡库区), the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭运河), a number of smart shipping comprehensive pilot areas will be identified to promote the intelligent and coordinated development of multiple elements such as ships, ports, channels, and services.
On the "line," on representative typical routes such as coastal north-south routes and inland river network routes, a number of smart shipping pilot routes will be identified to strengthen the construction of infrastructure related to the routes and realize the integrated demonstration of smart shipping elements in key sections.
On the "point," according to the technical level and application effect of auxiliary navigation, remote control driving, and autonomous navigation, a number of smart shipping pilot ships (fleets) will be identified to form representative ship types and promote the commercial application of smart ships.
What does a smart shipping pilot area look like?
Jining (济宁), Shandong (山东), the northernmost city on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭运河) that is navigable all year round, with tens of thousands of ships passing through.
"Relying on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭运河) to lay out inland river smart shipping pilots, we are jointly tackling core technologies such as pure battery power and 'ship-shore cloud' applications with Jining Port and Shipping Group (济宁港航集团) and CATL Electric Ship Technology (宁德时代电船科技). It is expected that the installation and testing will be completed by the end of June, filling the gap in inland river smart shipping applications," introduced Zhang Dongyan (张东艳), director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Transportation Local Maritime Safety Administration (山东省交通运输厅地方海事局). Next, Shandong (山东) will promote the deep empowerment of smart technology in multimodal transport and build a complete industrial chain of smart shipping on the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭运河).
"Developing smart shipping, scenario traction is an important starting point," said a relevant person in charge of the Maritime Safety Administration (海事局) of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部). Through the construction of pilot ships, routes and regions, we will promote the formation of a batch of replicable and promotable experiences and models, which will provide a demonstration for the development of smart shipping nationwide.
The Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) is simultaneously formulating technical guidelines for smart shipping demonstration applications, taking the annual list of key projects as the starting point to promote the implementation of pilot projects. According to the action plan, in the next two years, China will establish more than 3 smart shipping pilot areas, open up more than 5 smart shipping pilot routes, create more than 10 promotable typical scenarios for smart shipping, and operate more than 100 smart ships.
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Two large display screens are arranged on both sides, with information such as event detection and equipment lists constantly updating and popping up. Several staff members are observing and recording background data in real-time through computers – this is the dispatch platform of the Hefei Rail Transit Full-Space Intelligent Sensing Inspection System (合肥轨道全空间智能感知巡检系统) in Anhui (安徽), and also the safeguarding center for local rail transit operation safety.
"The platform consists of two parts: the fiber optic intelligent early warning subsystem and the low-altitude intelligent inspection subsystem," said Luo Lei (罗磊), an engineer at the Science and Technology Innovation and Education Development Center of Hefei Rail Transit Group Co., Ltd. (合肥市轨道交通集团有限公司科技创新与教育发展中心). The former can monitor abnormal vibrations within the subway protection zone around the clock and issue early warning information; the latter can immediately dispatch drones for verification after receiving an early warning, intelligently identify ground construction safety hazards, shout to stop illegal construction behavior, and send back pictures and videos.
With "ears" underground and "eagle eyes" in the air, the two systems cooperate with each other to build a full-space intelligent prevention and control system.
"In the past, monitoring construction activities in the subway protection zone mainly relied on staff walking or cycling for inspection, which was time-consuming and laborious. With this inspection system, work efficiency has been greatly improved, and problems can be discovered more accurately and timely," said Luo Lei (罗磊).
This "sharp-eared and sharp-eyed" inspection system is the result of local efforts to accelerate scenario cultivation and opening up. In 2022, Hefei (合肥) launched the construction of a "City of Innovation in Full-Area Scenarios" (全域场景创新之城), systematically promoting urban scenario innovation work and building many platforms such as Hefei Market Scenario Application Innovation Promotion Center Co., Ltd. (合肥市场景应用创新促进中心有限公司) to find scenarios for products and products for scenarios.
The supplier of the early warning subsystem, Zhidi Perception (Hefei) Technology Co., Ltd. (智地感知（合肥）科技有限公司), is a high-tech enterprise established as a pilot project for empowering reform at the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学). The founding team has long been engaged in research in the fields of quantum precision measurement and fiber optic geophysics.
"We produce distributed fiber optic seismographs and other products, which are mostly sold to earthquake bureaus and university research institutes, mainly serving earthquake monitoring, scientific research, etc., with limited market share," said Chen Ming (陈铭), product manager of the company. The technology is very mature, but there is still a gap to be crossed from "technology leading" to "market leading" in order to land good technology in the most valuable large-scale scenarios.
The scenario company acted as a matchmaker, and Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道) and Zhidi Perception (智地感知) hit it off immediately. "How to improve the inspection efficiency of the subway protection zone has always been a pain point in our work. Knowing that the company's technology may solve the problem, we wanted to give it a try," said Luo Lei (罗磊).
Zhidi Perception (智地感知) is also happy to use the subway as a verification scenario. "Subway tunnels have rich and well-organized existing communication fiber resources. We only need to connect some redundant cores in a fiber to a subway-specific distributed fiber optic vibration meter to conduct experimental operations, reducing verification costs and technical barriers," said Chen Ming (陈铭). "Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道) also worked with us to refine the product, allowing the company to obtain the most realistic feedback in the first time and accelerate technology landing."
Initially, the artificial intelligence model had false positives for complex environmental noises on the ground, such as the sound of heavy trucks passing by. "We cooperated with Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道) to deeply analyze the time-frequency characteristics of vibration signals for each false positive case and 'feed' it to the model as a new sample," Chen Ming (陈铭) introduced. After several months of continuous research and algorithm upgrades, the system's recognition accuracy rate increased from 80% to over 95%.
A similar story also happened to Tonghao Low-Altitude Economy (Hefei) Technology Co., Ltd. (通号低空经济（合肥）科技有限公司), the supplier of the inspection subsystem. "The low-altitude economy has broad prospects, but we still need to explore slowly to get the market to recognize our drone equipment and services more," said Zhao Qianfan (赵千凡), R&D director of the company's research and development department.
With the intervention of the scenario company, Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道) provided a technical verification scenario. "They not only opened up relevant information such as subway operation lines and data to us, but also provided convenience for drone nest construction and flight route approval," said Zhao Qianfan (赵千凡). With the support of Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道), the company optimized flight routes for complex wind fields, obstructions, and other scenarios, and optimized algorithms for recognition false positives such as light and shadow.
After the independent verification stage, at the suggestion of Hefei Rail Transit (合肥轨道), the two companies cooperated to jointly tackle the challenges. Subsequently, the rail full-space intelligent sensing inspection system was officially put into operation at Taohuatan Station (桃花潭站) on Hefei Metro Line 4 (合肥地铁4号线), realizing a联动模式 of "underground sensing triggering, low-altitude visual confirmation."
Once, the system monitored excavator construction near Xiyou Road (习友路) and immediately issued an early warning. After verification, the construction project was not on the reported whitelist. Immediately, a drone took off to check the scene and the returned pictures showed that the excavator was operating on the edge of the subway protection zone. "We immediately organized staff to go to the scene for verification and promptly reminded the construction party to rectify," said Luo Lei (罗磊).
As of now, the system has achieved full coverage of Hefei (合肥) subway stations, with a cumulative total of dozens of effective early warnings and disposal of various illegal construction events, reducing the manual inspection load by more than 70%.
The machine nest facilities that have been built in the rail system have also become a resource base for cross-industry collaboration, and are routinely used in water affairs, gas and other fields, serving the inspection of various tasks.
"In the future, we will also promote the verification of more cutting-edge technologies in the scenarios of rail transit according to the industrial layout plan, accelerate the transformation of laboratory results to the market, and achieve large-scale application," said Luo Lei (罗磊).
This issue's coordination: Qi Jiarun (祁嘉润)
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How to promote new technologies? How to apply new scenarios? Hefei closely integrates "government guidance," "platform promotion," and "market participation" through institutional and mechanism innovation.
"Division + Special Team" optimizes the efficiency of scenario resource allocation. A Scenario Innovation Promotion Division is established to promote scenario innovation in key industries and important fields. Staff from relevant departments, municipal platform companies, and counties (cities, districts) are drawn to form a special team for scenario innovation, building a cross-departmental and cross-level collaboration system to promote the construction of key projects and the implementation of major tasks for scenario innovation in the whole region.
"Center + Company" creates an efficient scenario service platform. Introducing think tank power, focusing on prospective research, method innovation, and case summarization, and promoting the upgrading of scenario innovation concepts and methods. A city-level scenario company is established to provide technology companies with routine comprehensive services such as scenario mining, supply and demand docking, and project promotion, and to promote the implementation of scenario innovation work.
"Laboratory + Partner" gathers market professional service forces. Supporting leading enterprises in the industry to establish "scenario laboratories," carrying out scenario cooperation with technology companies, and helping small and medium-sized enterprises to enter the chain. At the same time, market-oriented service institutions are recruited to become "scenario partners" to provide professional services, supplement service forces, and expand the source channels of scenario opportunities.
By the end of 2025, Hefei has cumulatively released more than 1,400 scenario opportunities, about 1,500 scenario capabilities, served more than 4,100 technology companies, and promoted the implementation of more than 1,200 cooperation projects.
(The author is the brand leader of Hefei Market Scenario Application Innovation Promotion Center Co., Ltd. (合肥市场景应用创新促进中心有限公司). This report was compiled by Tian Xianjin (田先进), a reporter from this newspaper.)
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The Lijian-2 Y1 carrier rocket (hereinafter referred to as "Lijian-2") developed by the commercial aerospace company CAS Space (中科宇航) was recently successfully launched at the Dongfeng Commercial Aerospace Innovation and Experiment Zone (东风商业航天创新试验区), accurately sending the Light Craft prototype test spacecraft (New Journey-02 satellite) (轻舟初样试飞船(新征程02卫星)), New Journey-01 satellite (新征程01卫星), and TianShi Satellite 01 (天视卫星01星) into their predetermined orbits. This mission was the first flight of Lijian-2. With the ability to manufacture like building blocks and "package" for recovery in the future, the reporter interviewed relevant experts about the technological innovations surrounding Lijian-2.
Manufacturing: Key Components "Unified Size"
Upon closer inspection of Lijian-2, the rocket's core stage and two boosters look almost identical. This is not a coincidence but a deliberate universal design by the designers, a configuration known as the "universal booster core." This allows the main components to be mass-produced, building rockets like stacking blocks, simplifying the manufacturing process.
Lian Jie (廉洁), Deputy Chief Designer of Lijian-2, introduced that the key components are "unified in size." If a problem is found with a certain component during launch, it can be quickly replaced like a standard part and re-"assembled" onto the rocket, ensuring the launch node and facilitating high-frequency launch capabilities.
Specifically, the diameter of each stage of Lijian-2 is 3.35 meters, and the designs of the storage tank, inter-tank section, and other sections are similar, enabling interchangeability and mutual use in the case of rolling backups. 3.35 meters is also a typical size in the aerospace industry, suitable for large-scale production, significantly reducing the supply chain cycle, defect rate, and costs.
Rocket boosters and core stages typically use different models of engines, but Lijian-2 has also achieved "unification" in engines. The first stage is equipped with 9 liquid rocket engines, which are completely interchangeable; the second stage is equipped with 1, which is based on the first-stage engine but with a larger nozzle, making it more efficient at high altitudes. These 10 engines are essentially the same model, making engine maintenance and replacement efficient and convenient.
Lian Jie (廉洁) introduced that after using modular core stages and boosters, Lijian-2 can be presented in three bundled configurations in the form of building blocks: 0/2/4, which are rockets without boosters, with 2 boosters, or with 4 boosters. By flexibly configuring the boosters, the maximum thrust of the rocket can reach the kiloton level, covering a carrying capacity range of 2 tons to 20 tons in low Earth orbit, supporting various scientific experimental satellite launch missions such as low-cost cargo transportation and low-orbit satellite constellation deployment.
Recovery: Future "Packaging" for Return to Earth
Traditional rocket recovery methods are mostly staged recovery. The Lijian-2 series of rockets takes a different approach, planning to adopt an overall recovery scheme of "bundling and non-separation" of the booster and core stage, integrating multiple power modules together, and "packaging" them for return to Earth in the future.
Lian Jie (廉洁) introduced that this recovery method has better aerodynamic maneuverability, lower landing impact, stronger power redundancy capability, and less loss of carrying capacity.
"The cluster-type recovery design reduces complex separation mechanisms and interfaces, reduces the action of booster separation, and thus reduces the links where failures may occur. The combination of multiple engines provides a large power redundancy, and even if individual engines have certain deviations, the system can adjust in real-time to ensure safe landing," Lian Jie (廉洁) said. In addition, the design of recovering all bundled modules in the first stage makes the recovery part account for a higher proportion of the entire rocket, making the equipment used for return more streamlined and diluting the launch cost.
Subsequently, the Lijian-2 series of rockets will be replaced with the CAS Space (中科宇航) self-developed Liquing-2 reusable engine, and 2 boosters will be added to the first stage to form the Lijian-2 heavy rocket. Both types of rockets will adopt a cluster-type recovery scheme with bundled universal core stages.
New Launch: Carrying the Light Craft Prototype Test Spacecraft
Currently, the cargo spacecraft delivering goods to the China Space Station (中国空间站) are mainly the Tianzhou series. In order to further reduce the cost of transporting uplink cargo to the China Space Station (中国空间站) and enhance transportation flexibility, China has begun to explore a new type of space-ground transportation model of "national demand-driven, commercial capability-supported." In this context, the Light Craft cargo spacecraft emerged. It weighs only 4.2 tons and adopts a single-cabin integrated configuration, which can be flexibly adapted to multiple types of rockets.
The Light Craft prototype test spacecraft launched this time carries 27 projects, including technology reserves, in-orbit verification, scientific exploration, and popular science works, with a total payload of 1.02 tons, and will carry out a series of in-orbit technical experiments in orbits ranging from 200 kilometers to 600 kilometers above the ground.
Experts from the Innovation Academy for Microsatellites of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院微小卫星创新研究院) introduced that after the Light Craft prototype test spacecraft enters orbit, it will carry out key technology verification for in-orbit flight. Subsequently, the Light Craft formal cargo spacecraft will dock with the China Space Station (中国空间站) and provide uplink cargo transportation services.
Yang Haoliang (杨浩亮), General Commander of Lijian-2, said that the first flight of Lijian-2 carrying the Light Craft prototype test spacecraft into space indicates that China's space cargo transportation capability is evolving from "single capability accumulation" to "system capability superposition."
"Commercial rockets not only serve market demand but can also participate in major national aerospace missions with engineering standards in the future. We will provide lower-cost and more reliable flight-based launch services," Yang Haoliang (杨浩亮) said. CAS Space (中科宇航) will first verify recovery technology through the Lihong series of aircraft and then transfer the recovery technology to medium and large-sized carrier rockets. This year, it will conduct a 100-kilometer-level recovery test of Lihong-2.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan" has begun, and new things are constantly happening in the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) of Hebei (河北):
The Beijing-Xiong'an commuter line of customized express buses in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) region has been opened and put into operation, making the flow of factors more convenient; the first local three-dimensional real estate ownership certificate for underground space has been issued, exploring new paths for refined management; Xiong'an International Airport (雄安国际空港) has been officially put into use, allowing people to enjoy the convenience of an international aviation hub at their doorstep...
Each and every item witnesses the gathering of innovative elements and the growth of innovative forces.
On March 23, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) went to the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) for inspection, research, and discussion; planning and leading, "We must firmly grasp the primary functional positioning of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) as a centralized承载地 for relieving Beijing's (北京) non-capital functions" and "Strive to build a new highland of innovation in the new era and a model for promoting high-quality development."
Born for relocation and moving towards the future. Walking into Xiong'an (雄安), a city of the future, a new wave is surging.
Remembering the original intention of "relocation" and creating a new model of modern city.
How to build a future city without "urban diseases"?
Bearing in mind the original intention of "relocation," Xiong'an (雄安) is pioneering a new model of high-standard planning, high-quality construction, and high-level management.
Recently, the startup area of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区启动区) has been connected to a meteorological large model, and has taken the lead in launching the "Twenty Types of Four Seasons" environmental sanitation quality and efficiency assessment model, which automatically generates the daily model according to weather conditions, and scientifically arranges environmental sanitation operation measures and time periods. "City on the Cloud," digital symbiosis. The "Eye of Xiong'an (雄安之眼)" gathers more than 40 billion pieces of urban operation data, and the entire region realizes the synchronous construction of digital cities and real cities, with each building, each road, and each street lamp corresponding one by one. Use digital technology to serve the refined management of the city.
Yin Huiliang (殷会良), Executive Vice President of the Xiong'an Research Institute of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (中国城市规划设计研究院雄安研究院), who participated in the preparation of the New Area's plan, witnessed the patience and determination to "plan every inch of land clearly before starting construction." One detail impressed him deeply: during the planning and design, a "school path" space was specially reserved for children to go to and from school, so that children could safely go home through the park green space.
Looking at the construction, while thousands of buildings are rising from the ground, "the construction of all buildings relies on digital modeling and intelligent construction platforms to realize the whole process of networked monitoring and traceability from material entry to installation accuracy." Yang Song (杨松), Director of the Construction and Transportation Administration Bureau of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区建设和交通管理局), introduced, "Ensure that 'Xiong'an Quality' runs through every brick, tile, beam, and column."
All 42 key "one thing" tasks deployed by the State Council have been implemented, 8 new area characteristic "one thing" scenarios have been launched simultaneously, and 278 Beijing-Xiong'an (京雄) government services have achieved "city-wide" handling... "Strive to make 'no need to ask for help, zero obstacles in approval, and at most one trip' an important symbol of Xiong'an (雄安)." Gao Lichun (高立春), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Business Environment Bureau of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区营商环境局), introduced that Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) will continue to expand the service scope of "Beijing (北京) affairs can also be handled in Xiong'an (雄安)," significantly increase the number of cross-regional handling items, and continuously improve the convenience of handling affairs for relocation targets and the public.
Seizing the "relocation" opportunity and building an innovative highland for industrial development.
China Telecom Smart City Industrial Park (中国电信智慧城市产业园), one of the first three market-oriented relocation projects in the New Area, is where Li Xi's (李喜欢) company, China Telecom Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中电信数字城市科技有限公司), is located. Opening his mobile phone, he treasures two photos that show the rapid development of Xiong'an (雄安): one is from 2021, when the industrial park was laid, and the surrounding area was full of construction sites; the other is from 2024, when the industrial park was put into use, and buildings stood tall.
Buildings are "growing taller," and opportunities are growing. China Telecom Digital City Technology Co., Ltd. (中电信数字城市科技有限公司) is participating in more and more scenario projects in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), covering smart transportation, smart parks, smart cities, and other fields, and related construction achievements have also been promoted and applied to other cities. In March last year, Li Xi (李喜欢) applied for the "Xiongcai Card" on the Xiong'an Talent Smart Platform Service Platform (雄安人才智慧平台服务平台), "I can take public transportation for free in the New Area, and there are green channels to designated hospitals and some transportation hubs."
"We are growing together with the New Area." Li Xi (李喜欢) said with emotion that the company had only more than 30 people at the beginning, but now it has developed to more than 500 people, with a total turnover of more than 100 million yuan.
China Huaneng Group (中国华能集团) has continued to explore and innovate in the field of new energy in recent years. In October last year, more than 1,000 employees from the group's headquarters and related subsidiaries moved to Xiong'an (雄安). Li Lailong (李来龙), Deputy Chief Economist of the group, said that their opportunities lie in the policy direction of "accelerating the green and low-carbon transformation of development methods" and the national strategy of "a millennium plan." At present, energy central enterprises are gathering in Xiong'an (雄安), and the green energy industry is gathering momentum, initially forming a development pattern of "central enterprise headquarters + R&D base + supporting enterprises."
In Xiong'an (雄安), emerging industries and future industries such as aerospace information, artificial intelligence, and digital technology are taking shape, accumulating strength, and gaining momentum, and more than 2,000 technology companies are taking root, growing, and growing stronger...
Gathering the joint force of "relocation" and stimulating new momentum for coordinated development.
"Xiao De (小德), it's raining outside." After hearing the instruction and giving feedback, the robotic arm grabbed an umbrella from many objects. At Mech-Mind (Xiong'an) Robotics Technology Co., Ltd. (梅卡曼德（雄安）机器人科技股份有限公司), the robotic arm also has "eyes," "brain," and "dexterous hands," which can recognize the environment, understand instructions, and respond quickly.
In September 2024, Shao Tianlan (邵天兰), the founder of the company, moved the headquarters from Beijing (北京) to Xiong'an (雄安). This move "moved" the company from a single-point layout to a development change of multi-location collaboration. "Taking advantage of the relocation, the resources of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) are twisted into a joint force." Shao Tianlan (邵天兰) said that they rely on Beijing (北京) university resources to carry out cutting-edge technology development, use Xiong'an (雄安) scenarios to promote data collection and application testing, and with the surrounding complete advanced manufacturing support, the company has opened up the entire chain from technology research and development, scenario verification to industrial landing.
Today, many products of Mech-Mind (梅卡曼德) have achieved large-scale scenario implementation, with an annual shipment of about 10,000 units.
Xiong'an New Area Zhongguancun Science and Technology Park (雄安新区中关村科技园), where Mech-Mind (梅卡曼德) is located, is committed to "being a 'link' for industrial coordination in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北)," and there are vivid stories of government-enterprise cooperation, enterprise collaboration, and regional coordination every day. In just over two years since its establishment, the park has attracted more than 200 science and technology innovation enterprises.
Xiong'an (雄安) is closely connected with various innovation entities such as enterprises, universities, and scientific research institutes in Beijing (北京). At present, more than 13,000 enterprises have entered Xiong'an (雄安), and the regional coordination of scientific and technological breakthroughs has continued to increase. As of February this year, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has 10 national-level specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises and nearly 700 national high-tech enterprises.
Walking in Xiong'an (雄安), looking at the new practices led by new concepts, and looking at the new mechanisms behind the new industries. "Relocation is not a simple 'change of location,' but a 'change of path' of systematic restructuring." Yu Guoyi (于国义), member of the Party Working Committee and Deputy Director of the Management Committee of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区党工委委员、管委会副主任), said.
New streams are surging, and everything is thriving. The construction of the new city is heading towards a new journey.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 1st dispatch (Reporter Wang Guan (王观)) On April 1st, the 35th National Tax Awareness Month kicked off.
Wang Daoshu (王道树), Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局), introduced that this year's awareness month will continue to focus on the theme of "Taxation, Rule of Law, Fairness," reflecting the tax authorities' guidance on maintaining the rule of law and fairness, and strengthening compliance management. It aims to more effectively guide and promote the majority of business entities to operate in compliance and pay taxes in good faith through a concentrated month-long tax law popularization campaign, promote a more optimized tax business environment, a more consolidated legal and fair tax ecology, and a greater sense of gain and satisfaction for taxpayers and payers.
This awareness month will focus on promoting typical examples of honest tax payment and fee payment, intensify investigations and exposure of tax-related illegal cases, and publicize new measures to facilitate tax payment and fee payment services. A series of activities, such as the online commentary brand event "Walking into Frontline Enterprises to See Tax Compliance" and "A Class on Tax Compliance for Online Anchors," will be held in April.
Return to TopThis newspaper Tianjin (天津) April 1st (Reporter Li Jiading (李家鼎)) To verify whether hydrogen energy products are reliable and durable, and to test the maturity of related technologies, China Automotive Technology & Research Center (中国汽车技术研究中心) recently released a durability verification system for testing the entire hydrogen energy product industry chain, filling a gap in the industry.
Hao Dong (郝冬), Chief Expert of China Automotive Technology & Research Center (中国汽车技术研究中心), introduced that, unlike the traditional short-cycle testing model, the verification scope of this system includes core systems and components such as fuel cell systems, vehicle hydrogen systems, fuel cell stacks, and air compressors, key materials such as membrane electrodes, bipolar plates, and proton exchange membranes, as well as terminal products such as fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen-powered two-wheeled vehicles, and hydrogen-powered drones, and extends to key links in the industrial chain such as water electrolysis hydrogen production. The project provides data references for the research and development and upgrading of hydrogen energy products through long-term, high-load, and extreme working condition continuous testing.
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Tightening the mooring ropes, securing the buckles, and hooking on the lifting hooks—with a short whistle, the bundle of steel bars slowly rises under the traction of the shore crane... At Kuantan Port (关丹港), the largest deep-water port on the east coast of Malaysia, Faisal, a cargo statistics assistant on the side of the berth, skillfully records the loading data on the report. Behind him, the work area is busy: gantry cranes stretch their giant arms, and forklifts shuttle back and forth. Not far from the dock, heavy trucks are connected end to end, heading in an orderly stream towards the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (马中关丹产业园), a flagship project jointly built by China and Malaysia with high quality under the "Belt and Road" initiative.
In April 2025, when President Xi Jinping (习近平) paid a state visit to Malaysia, he mentioned in a signed article published in the Malaysian media that the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park had completed a cumulative investment of more than 11 billion yuan, and that all projects in the park would create many long-term jobs after completion and reaching full production. As a model of high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between the two countries, the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park is driving the vigorous development of trade, infrastructure, and regional cooperation. "In the past year, the park has maintained a good momentum of development, and more and more investors have come to inspect and negotiate." Ye Jingtao (叶竟涛), Deputy General Manager of Beibu Gulf Holding (Malaysia) Co., Ltd. (北部湾控股（马来西亚）有限公司), which is responsible for the operation of the park, said that after 13 years of development, the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park has achieved a cumulative industrial output value of more than 100 billion yuan, directly creating about 5,000 jobs, and has become an important engine driving regional economic growth.
Industrial park coordinated development, the foundation is more stable.
Walking into the investment promotion center of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park, a huge sand table in the center of the hall comes into view. The blank areas on the sand table are constantly being filled with modern factories, and the "gold content" of the park is constantly increasing. "As of now, the park has signed 18 projects, with a total contracted investment of about 48.5 billion yuan." Ye Jingtao (叶竟涛) said.
On one side of the exhibition hall, from environmental protection metallurgy to silicon-based new materials and other cutting-edge fields, posters of new park enterprises and their main products are displayed in turn, and a clear line of development from traditional industries to high-end fields is visible.
Green development is a major highlight of the park's industrial layout. Malaysia has abundant bauxite resources, and China has mature experience in recycled aluminum utilization and advanced smelting. Relying on the advantages of both sides, the park promotes the coordinated advancement of resource development, intensive processing, and recycling through the systematic layout of green aluminum-related industries, promoting the "on-site conversion" of raw materials and the extension of products to the high-end.
This layout is highly consistent with Malaysia's national industrial planning. Currently, Malaysia has a strong demand for products such as wheel hubs, aluminum alloy plates, and architectural aluminum profiles. Ye Jingtao (叶竟涛) said that building a recyclable green aluminum system locally will not only help reduce the comprehensive costs of enterprises and enhance the ability to guarantee raw materials, but also inject impetus into the transformation of Malaysia's manufacturing industry towards high-end and green.
The trend of the park's industries "forming chains and clusters" is accelerating. Taking the automobile manufacturing industry as an example, upstream and downstream enterprises such as stamping parts, tires, shock absorbers, and batteries have successively settled in the park, gradually forming a manufacturing system with closely matched parts production. "Malaysia has a good foundation in automobile manufacturing, and China has complete supply chain advantages in the field of new energy vehicles." Ye Jingtao (叶竟涛) said that strengthening collaborative cooperation on the park platform will help enhance the supporting capabilities of the local new energy vehicle industry and enhance regional market competitiveness.
The "soft support" role of the park is gradually becoming prominent. With the completion of the coordination service center and the partner resource pool, 12 professional institutions from China and Malaysia have gathered here to provide enterprises with financial, legal, and human resources guarantees covering the entire cycle of investment, construction, and operation. With industries able to settle down and enterprises able to stay, the foundation for the development of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park is becoming more and more solid.
East Coast connectivity, stronger pulse.
Above the entrance of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park, a green closed pipe conveyor with a length of about 12 kilometers extends out, crossing the highway and reaching Kuantan Port (关丹港). This is a logistics "magic weapon" put into use by United Steel (Malaysia) Group Co., Ltd. (联合钢铁（大马）集团公司): raw materials such as iron ore circulate in the pipeline, allowing the formerly busy heavy trucks to "retire," fundamentally alleviating dust pollution and traffic pressure.
Kuantan Port (关丹港) is an important gateway to the East Coast Economic Region of Malaysia. In recent years, relying on the agglomeration effect of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (马中关丹产业园) and related policy support, the port's cargo structure has continued to optimize, the proportion of high-quality raw material imports and exports has steadily increased, and new materials and auto parts are becoming new growth points.
Faced with increasingly busy shipping demands, how can we maintain the green bottom line while expanding capacity? "The port area has built new dust suppression systems and car wash pools to clean outgoing vehicles, minimizing the impact of dust on the surrounding environment." Wang Chao (王超), General Manager of Operations of Kuantan Port Consortium Sdn Bhd (关丹港口（集团）有限公司), told reporters, "We are also exploring carbon capture and storage technology, planning to centrally collect carbon dioxide generated by the port and surrounding industries, transport it to offshore oil and gas wells via Kuantan Port (关丹港) for storage, and innovatively promote regional green transformation."
In the transportation of bauxite and other minerals, Kuantan Port (关丹港) took the lead in piloting the "bulk to container" model, integrating bulk cargo into containers, realizing the "smooth" transfer of mineral logistics. "This model not only opens up a cost-effective logistics channel for small and medium-sized customers, but also weaves a dense network for the deep linkage between Kuantan Port (关丹港) and international ports such as Qinzhou Port in China." said Johnson Sinnapan, Operations Manager of Kuantan Port (关丹港).
In early January this year, some locomotive heads of the Malaysia East Coast Rail Link project (hereinafter referred to as "ECRL") were completed loading and unloading at Kuantan Port (关丹港). On February 11, the first batch of EMUs officially debuted at the Sultan Ahmad Shah City Station (苏丹阿末沙城站), the state capital station of Pahang, Malaysia. "After the completion of the ECRL, it will take Kuantan as a hub, connect the east and west coasts of Malaysia and the northern extension line, and promote the accelerated linkage of 'park, port, and railway'." Wang Chao (王超) said that the level of interconnection on the east coast will be significantly improved in the future, driving the common development of agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing.
Practical cooperation between the two countries, the foundation is more solid.
The rapid development of the Malaysia-China Kuantan Industrial Park (马中关丹产业园) and Kuantan Port (关丹港) is powerfully narrowing the development gap between the east and west coasts of Malaysia. After 3 years, when the reporter walked along the Kuantan coastline again, he clearly felt that the pace of development of this seaside town was accelerating. Industries are landing, projects are put into production, and people are flowing in. A clerk at a local fast food restaurant told reporters that with the successive operation of park enterprises in recent years, more and more people have come here to work and live, and "business is much better than in the past."
When the industry prospers, talents gather. More and more local young people are choosing to take root in their hometown, and Kelly, a marketing specialist at Kuantan Port (关丹港), is one of them. After graduating from university, Kelly worked in Kuala Lumpur (吉隆坡), the capital. Seeing the strong development momentum in her hometown and the job matching her major, she chose to return to Kuantan and start a new stage in her career at her doorstep.
"President Xi Jinping's (习近平) state visit to Malaysia last April was a major event of national concern." Kelly said that although she was in Kuantan, she and her colleagues paid close attention to relevant news and were greatly encouraged. In the past year, the number of investors who came to the park for inspection has obviously increased, and her work has become more busy and fulfilling. Her experience of training in China many times has also allowed her to intuitively feel the increasingly sound industrial system and urban development vitality of China. "Closer cooperation provides me with a broader career platform, broadens my international horizons, and gives me more confidence in Malaysia's economic transformation." Kelly said.
This Spring Festival, as in previous years, Kelly and her Chinese colleagues made a New Year's Eve dumpling meal full of flavor together. "Here, I feel closeness and trust that transcends national borders."
From the prosperous development of the industrial park to the return and rooting of young talents, and then to the warm reunion during the festival, the fruits of China-Malaysia cooperation are being transformed into tangible gains, injecting new impetus into regional economic development, and also making the foundation of practical cooperation between the two countries more solid and the friendship across mountains and seas deeper.
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The sea breeze at Kuantan Port is humid and hot. More than the weather, the people working here can feel another kind of "heat" that is rising.
"Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar (安瓦尔) often says that China is a trustworthy friend and partner of Malaysia," said Ruby (露比), a local Chinese and commissioner of the Kuantan Port office. In recent years, frequent high-level visits between Malaysia and China have driven increasingly close bilateral relations. This interaction is not only a major event in the news, but is also quietly changing the people around her.
She told a detail she observed: more and more Malaysian employees are going to China to participate in training, observe exhibitions, and visit ports and enterprises. "They are very excited when they come back: their horizons have been broadened, and their hearts have been opened." Ruby (露比) said that now on the front line of the port, Malaysian employees are constantly paying attention to the latest developments in Chinese ports, and they consult with their Chinese colleagues when they encounter problems. There is less formality and more initiative in communication, the pace of work is smoother, and the distance between each other is closer. Tacit understanding grows in repeated exchanges and collaborations.
The port is a hub for the exchange of goods and a platform for the convergence of emotions. When more Malaysian employees approach and understand China, and when more Chinese builders integrate into the local area and respect each other, the abstract "partnership" is transformed into concrete "professional trust," becoming the most authentic annotation of the temperature of the relationship between the two countries. The friendship between China and Malaysia is becoming more stable and lasting in these bits and pieces.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 1st (Xinhua) April 1st, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, went to the Research Center for the Community of Human Destiny for investigation and research.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that the establishment and construction of the Research Center for the Community of Human Destiny is a significant political task entrusted to the diplomatic front by the Party Central Committee. The center must always bear in mind the glorious mission it undertakes, study and promote the major original concept of building a community of human destiny proposed by General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), serve the research, interpretation, publicity, and popularization of the Party's innovative theories, and solidly advance this theoretical construction project with distinct political attributes. It is imperative to always maintain a high degree of political consciousness, defend the "two establishments," achieve the "two safeguards," grasp the correct political direction, and ensure that theoretical research has a foundation, soul, and driving force. It is essential to profoundly grasp the strategic leading role of this major concept in the once-in-a-century changes, profoundly grasp the important guiding significance of this major concept as a scientific system, profoundly grasp the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods applied in this major concept, and profoundly grasp the profound connotation of this major concept that connects the past and the present, integrates China and foreign countries, so as to strengthen historical confidence, draw on the strength to forge ahead, adhere to the fundamental principles, and construct Chinese narratives.
Wang Yi (王毅) emphasized that this year marks the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." We must unite more closely around the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core, further study and practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Diplomacy, bravely scale the peak of theory, be determined to forge ahead, and make greater contributions to major-country diplomacy with Chinese characteristics in the new era!
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Diversity has never been a burden on development, but rather a source of efficiency and resilience. The reason China's development is so steady is not only because it has achieved overall growth, but also because it has allowed the fruits of development to benefit those regions that started later.
In European discussions about competitiveness, cohesion, and re-industrialization, China is often portrayed as a highly centralized entity driven by macro-planning and economies of scale. But when we really delve into it, we find a crucial feature that is easily overlooked: the development models across China are actually full of differences, and each region has found a development path that suits its own conditions.
In December last year, at the invitation of the Spanish China Forum (西班牙知华讲堂), I went to China to participate in a think tank dialogue and had the opportunity to witness this differentiated development in practice. When I visited inland Chinese cities, I intuitively felt that the development concept of "adapting to local conditions" (因地制宜) has taken root in reality—university science and technology parks, logistics platforms interconnected by high-speed rail, and modern agricultural belts serving surrounding large cities are all concrete examples.
Chengdu (成都), Sichuan Province, combines its rich university resources with its increasingly important role as a Eurasian logistics hub. With the help of the China-Europe Railway Express and regional innovation policies, it has attracted advanced electronic information industries and digital enterprises to settle down, creating its own technology network. Zigong (自贡), Sichuan Province, has transformed the historical heritage of the traditional salt industry into new momentum for the cultural and creative industries—lantern art, industrial heritage, and science and technology tourism have enabled the transformation of the traditional industrial city. Hefei (合肥), Anhui Province, has reshaped its development positioning by relying on public science investment. The concentration of research institutions and large-scale scientific and technological facilities has made Hefei an emerging innovation center in inland China.
Behind this differentiated development is China's continuous effort to narrow regional disparities. Since announcing the elimination of absolute poverty in 2021, China has shifted to promoting the comprehensive revitalization of rural areas, focusing on increasing the income of rural residents and avoiding large-scale return to poverty. From 2021 to 2025, the per capita disposable income growth rate of rural residents in China's poverty-stricken counties has been higher than the national average for farmers for five consecutive years; 832 poverty-stricken counties have cultivated 2 to 3 leading industries with prominent advantages and strong driving forces, involving smart agriculture, tourism, etc., with a total output value of over 1.7 trillion yuan; and the scale of employment of people lifted out of poverty has remained stable at over 30 million for five consecutive years.
In Sichuan, Chengdu (成都) and Zigong (自贡) and other places integrate rural and urban development into the same value chain, introducing intelligent production platforms to improve rural productivity. In Anhui, Hefei's (合肥) technological innovation capabilities radiate to surrounding rural areas, helping to achieve agricultural and rural modernization, while promoting urbanization. This shows that China's modernization not only focuses on the prosperity of large cities, but also truly integrates rural areas into the overall layout of regional development, allowing farmers to obtain opportunities to increase their income.
All of this reflects an institutional logic: each region accurately identifies its own advantages—whether it is natural resources, scientific and technological strength, cultural accumulation, or infrastructure—and creates a development path that fits its own reality. Diversity has never been a burden on development, but rather a source of efficiency and resilience. The reason China's development is so steady is not only because it has achieved overall growth, but also because it has allowed the fruits of development to benefit those regions that started later.
Whether for Europe or other parts of the world, this experience is very worthy of learning from. Europe also has the problem of regional development differences. China's experience shows that as long as an institutional framework that can take into account overall planning and adapt to local conditions is built, regional diversity can be transformed into a development advantage. We should realize that the driving force for development will not arise spontaneously; it requires investment, planning, and precise policies. For Europe, turning diversity into a driving force for development and ensuring that the modernization process benefits underdeveloped regions may be the opportunity for future growth.
(The author is a member of the Cantabria Regional Parliament (坎塔布里亚大区议员) in Spain and a cooperative scholar at the China Forum (知华讲堂).)
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"China has created the 'two miracles' of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, which are attributed to scientific and rigorous planning and unwavering execution." United Seychelles Party Secretary-General Ernest (埃内斯塔) said in a recent exclusive interview with this reporter that China, through the formulation and implementation of five-year plans, breaks down long-term goals into practical steps, advancing steadily and continuously.
A delegation of cadres from the ruling United Seychelles Party (联合塞舌尔党) of Seychelles recently visited China, gaining an in-depth understanding of China's comprehensive rural revitalization, technological innovation, green development, and other governance practices during a 10-day study and exchange program. As the head of the delegation, Ernest (埃内斯塔) stated that Seychelles is willing to exchange governance experiences with China and carry out more practical cooperation under the framework of the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative to promote the development of Seychelles-China relations.
In 2010, Ernest (埃内斯塔) first visited China. After a 16-year interval, he deeply felt the tremendous changes in China. "Sixteen years ago, China's manufacturing industry left a deep impression on me. Today, China has become an important engine of global innovation." He said that innovative technologies such as cashless payment and artificial intelligence have been integrated into China's economic and social development, and "China's development is changing with each passing day (日新月异 - rì xīn yuè yì - "daily new monthly different," changing rapidly)."
Wuxing Village (五星村) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), left a deep impression on Ernest (埃内斯塔). By establishing a land share cooperative to develop modern agriculture and rural tourism, the area has achieved a transformation from poverty to revitalization. "The story of this village is very touching." Ernest (埃内斯塔) said that policy empowerment allows local governments and people to work together to protect the rural environment, explore rural characteristics, and develop tourism projects, giving the village an endogenous driving force for development and improving the lives of villagers. This has significant implications for rural development in Seychelles.
Ernest (埃内斯塔) noted the content in China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline regarding accelerating high-level self-reliance in science and technology and leading the development of new quality productive forces. He believes that China's in-depth implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy, strengthening the training of young scientific and technological talents, and focusing on allowing innovation achievements to serve the real economy provide a continuous stream of new momentum for high-quality development. "In today's complex and volatile global situation, China has always maintained the stability of development and the continuity of policies, making important contributions to world peace, stability, and economic development."
In Ernest (埃内斯塔)'s view, the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the key to China's long-term stable development. Since its establishment, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always maintained a style of hard work and implemented a people-centered development concept. He said: "When I visited Chinese villages, I saw village Party branch secretaries going deep into the fields, leading the masses to develop industries and improve their lives. This is a vivid proof."
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Seychelles. "For half a century, China has always been a trustworthy friend and partner of Seychelles." Ernest (埃内斯塔) said that in recent years, practical cooperation between the two countries in jointly building the "Belt and Road" has continued to deepen. The "African Light Belt" project provides Seychelles with solar power equipment assistance, the Chinese medical team in Seychelles (中国援塞医疗队) has been rooted in Seychelles for more than 40 years, the Confucius Institute (孔子学院) actively promotes Chinese teaching and cultural exchanges, and the Chinese-aided Seychelles Radio and Television Center (中国援塞舌尔广电中心) promotes the development of local cultural undertakings. "One cooperation achievement after another shows that China has provided tangible assistance to Seychelles' economic and social development."
During the visit, young cadres from the United Seychelles Party (联合塞舌尔党) showed strong interest in China's development in areas such as technological innovation and ecological protection. "The younger generation's perception of China's development has far-reaching significance for deepening Seychelles-China and Africa-China relations. They are constantly deepening their understanding of China and will become messengers of friendship and promoters of cooperation." Ernest (埃内斯塔) hopes that in the future, Seychelles and China will further deepen cooperation in areas such as technological innovation, ecological and environmental protection, cultural tourism, youth training, and capacity building, so that the ties between the people of the two countries will be drawn closer.
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On the highly automated production line jointly built by Changan Auto (长安汽车) and its partner CAOA Group, robotic arms operate precisely, parts flow in an orderly manner, and the first batch of Changan Auto (长安汽车) vehicles manufactured in Brazil slowly drive off the line. Recently, Changan Auto's (长安汽车) Brazilian factory, located in Anápolis (阿纳波利斯), Goiás (戈亚斯州), Brazil (巴西), officially commenced production, marking a new milestone in China-Brazil industrial cooperation.
Brazilian President Lula (卢拉) walked into the general assembly workshop, inspected the operation of the production line, learned about the production process in detail in front of the automated welding station, and took a test drive, highly praising Changan Auto's (长安汽车) corporate strength and determination for localized development. He stated that China (中国) is Brazil's (巴西) best partner, and Changan Auto's (长安汽车) investment in building a factory in Brazil (巴西) will create local jobs, improve people's livelihoods, and play a positive role in promoting Brazil's (巴西) re-industrialization process.
According to reports, the new model launched this time was specifically developed for the Brazilian market, equipped with a dual-fuel engine that is compatible with gasoline, ethanol, and any proportion of mixed fuel, adapting to the local energy structure and usage habits. Brazilian automotive blogger João Lacerda (若昂·拉塞尔达) said after the test drive that the car has stable handling and outstanding adaptability.
The CAOA (CAOA) automotive factory, founded in 2007, has introduced a number of manufacturing processes, including laser welding, through cooperation with Changan Auto (长安汽车), significantly improving the level of automation, continuously releasing overall production capacity, and becoming an important automotive manufacturing base in Latin America. The establishment of Changan Auto's (长安汽车) Brazilian factory reflects the transformation of Chinese automotive companies' "going global" from single product exports to deep integration with local industries, helping to improve the quality and upgrade China-Brazil automotive industry cooperation.
Changan Auto (长安汽车) Chairman Zhu Huarong (朱华荣) stated that Brazil (巴西) is the largest economy in Latin America and one of the most promising automotive markets in the world. The Brazilian factory will be based in the Latin American market, making product combinations based on local energy structure, infrastructure, and consumer preferences. The first phase plans to put into production three models, covering fuel, hybrid, and plug-in hybrid power forms, to meet the diverse needs of the local market.
"We are bringing the world's most advanced automotive technology to Anápolis (阿纳波利斯)," said Carlos Felipe (卡洛斯·菲利佩), Co-President of CAOA Group (CAOA集团). "We are not only jointly manufacturing cars, but also jointly opening a new chapter in mobile travel."
Mario Estrella (马里奥·埃斯特雷拉), President of the Brazil-China Chamber of Commerce for Trade, Culture and Development Cooperation (巴西中国商贸文化发展合作协会), said that in recent years, Chinese automotive companies have continued to increase investment in Brazil (巴西), promoting the improvement of the industrial chain and technological upgrades, which not only promotes the development of the local automotive industry, but also enhances Brazil's (巴西) competitiveness in the global industrial chain.
It is reported that Changan Auto (长安汽车) products have currently entered 118 countries and regions around the world and have 76 overseas factories. Zhu Huarong (朱华荣) said that the Brazilian factory is a key step for Changan Auto (长安汽车) from product export to industrial overseas expansion, and will become a strategic fulcrum radiating the Latin American market, helping the company's globalization layout to accelerate development and promoting the construction of a green transportation system in the Latin American region.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 1st (Reporter). On March 31st, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, met in Beijing with a delegation of senior cadres led by Samarasinghe (萨马拉辛哈), Central Committee Member of the People's Liberation Front of Sri Lanka and Minister of Trade, Commerce, Food Security and Cooperative Development of the Government, to exchange views on implementing the consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthening inter-party exchanges, and promoting the development of China-Sri Lanka relations.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Pyongyang on April 1st (Reporter Liu Rong (刘融)): On March 31st, as the Qingming Festival approaches, Wang Yajun (王亚军), the Chinese Ambassador to North Korea, led more than 70 people, including embassy staff, representatives from the Office for Commending the Chinese People's Volunteer Army Martyrs in North Korea, overseas Chinese in North Korea, representatives from Chinese-funded institutions in North Korea, media, and students studying in North Korea, to Dingzhou (定州市) and Guicheng (龟城市) in North Pyongan Province to sweep the tombs of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army martyrs.
The entire group lined up neatly and sang the national anthem of the People's Republic of China in a solemn and dignified atmosphere. Wang Yajun (王亚军) and his delegation presented flower baskets to the tombs of the Volunteer Army martyrs, bowed in silence, offered flowers and wine, and deeply cherished the heroic achievements of the Volunteer Army martyrs.
Wang Yajun (王亚军) thanked the Workers' Party of Korea and the government of North Korea for their meticulous and thoughtful renovation and protection of the memorial facilities for the Volunteer Army martyrs, and said that the China-North Korea friendship forged with blood is a common and valuable asset of the two countries. The Chinese side is willing to work with the North Korean side to implement the important consensus reached by the top leaders of the two parties and countries, inherit and promote the traditional China-North Korea friendship, and promote the continuous development of China-North Korea relations.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Male, April 1st, the groundbreaking ceremony for the Maldives social housing project, undertaken by a Chinese enterprise, was held in Hulhumale on the evening of March 30th. Maldivian President Mohamed Muizzu (穆伊兹), Chinese Ambassador to the Maldives Kong Xianhua (孔宪华), and others attended the event. The project is expected to be completed in 2028 and will effectively alleviate the Maldives' growing housing pressure upon completion.
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Urban micro-renewal is an innovative practice that abandons the traditional model of "large-scale demolition and construction" and promotes urban renewal with the effort of "embroidery." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "promote urban renewal with high quality." Many places are promoting urban micro-renewal in accordance with local conditions, which not only meets the people's expectations for a better life, but also gathers deep momentum to promote urban transformation and upgrading and achieve high-quality development.
Optimizing the ecological environment along the river and paving a new green corridor for sponge cities
Early on a weekend morning, Yu Yangzhen, a resident of Liuhe Community, Puyan Street, Binjiang District, Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang (浙江) Province, prepared to run at the Puyan Fishing Wharf by the Qiantang River (钱塘江).
"In my memory, the wharf was chaotic and the environment was dirty and messy," said Yu Yangzhen. Now the wharf is well-organized, and the 10-kilometer running track is close to the river. Running here, you can have a panoramic view of the scenery on both sides of the river. Six natural landscape parks and citizen stations are connected in between, covering diverse functions such as culture and art, commercial facilities, and sports.
"Ordinary roads are prone to water accumulation, but the running track here can stay dry and clean, so you don't have to worry about getting your shoes wet." Yu Yangzhen, who runs slowly along the river and witnesses the subtle changes, is particularly impressed by this point. It turns out that the greenway uses a large amount of permeable concrete, as well as ceramic permeable bricks, permeable asphalt and other materials, so that the road is like a sponge, allowing rainwater to penetrate into the ground and keep the road surface free of water accumulation.
"In addition, at the initial stage of laying out the green space along the river, grass planting ditches were dug to facilitate drainage and construct a comprehensive rainwater absorption and retention system." According to relevant staff of the Binjiang District Housing and Construction Bureau, rainwater either flows to the road, or to the river, or to the park, and can be absorbed, stored and purified by one "sponge" after another.
The riverside area improvement and renovation project is a vivid microcosm of the systematic and comprehensive promotion of sponge city construction in Binjiang District. As of December 2025, the sponge city area in Binjiang District reached about 55% of the urban built-up area, forming several contiguous built-up areas of sponge cities along the river, along the Beitang River, and around Baima Lake.
"Urban construction should keep pace with the times. Places like Puyan Fishing Wharf, which were built earlier, have many facilities that are not perfect and need to be updated and renovated in accordance with the actual needs of the masses." The relevant person in charge of the Binjiang District Housing and Construction Bureau said that since 2022, Binjiang District has taken street "micro-renewal" as the starting point to promote urban renewal, and formulated the "Urban 'Micro-Renewal' Design Guidelines" to promote the standardization, replicability, and promotion of "micro-renewal" implementation.
Next to Liuhe Park, egrets fly over the Qiantang River, turning the river and the island into an ecological paradise. "The ecology is getting better and better. Not only can we watch birds, but the sense of happiness in living is also getting stronger and stronger." Yu Yangzhen wiped the sweat from his head after running and said with a smile.
Protecting the cultural context of the ancient city and creating new public cultural spaces
The warm spring sun brushed over the gray bricks and black tiles of the ancient city of Xiangyang (襄阳) in Hubei (湖北) Province, casting mottled shadows on the bluestone slabs of North Street. Yang Dong, a photography enthusiast from Xiangyang, comes here with his camera every week. In the past two years, what has impressed him the most is that those old buildings that have accumulated history have undergone many changes, and his viewfinder has therefore added many vivid pictures.
In his impression, the biggest change comes from the landmark of the ancient city - Zhaoming Terrace (昭明台).
In the intangible cultural heritage workshop on the first floor of Zhaoming Terrace, tourists follow the master craftsmen to learn how to weave Chinese knots. Between the flying fingers, the ancient skills are transformed into tangible joy; the "Zhaoming's Prosperity" exhibition hall on the second floor tells the story of Prince Zhaoming Xiao Tong (萧统) compiling "Selections of Refined Literature"; in the "Millennium City Chronicle" on the third floor, a precise model of the ancient city rotates slowly, with city walls, city gates, and streets vividly portrayed... All the way to the "Ancient City Living Room" on the sixth floor, overlooking the distance, you can have a panoramic view of the ancient city and the Han River (汉江).
"The purpose of the renovation is to invite people to come in, stop, and participate." This is how Yang Dong understands the scene in front of him. Today, the exterior of Zhaoming Terrace maintains its original simple appearance, with only necessary reinforcement and repairs, but the interior has been injected with multiple functions such as reading, viewing exhibitions, and experiencing through the three-dimensional design of "six floors and six realms."
"The renewal of the ancient city is not about overturning and rebuilding, but about carefully implanting the warmth of modern life under the premise of protecting traditional culture." Yang Zhi, the designer of the Xiangyang Ancient City Protection and Renewal Project, introduced, "The focus of the renovation is 'revitalization'. Our goal is to achieve a harmonious coexistence of new functions and ancient buildings."
This kind of renewal of "not moving the appearance and revitalizing the core" is permeating the surrounding streets and alleys with Zhaoming Terrace as the center. In the adjacent streets and alleys, the smoke of life rises between the gray bricks and black tiles, and the sound of engraving in the handicraft workshop is intertwined with the cheers of the live-action performances at night; historical buildings such as ancestral halls and former residences have been renovated and transformed into memorial halls and characteristic homestays... These seemingly scattered micro-renovations, like stitches, delicately weave and mend the texture of the ancient city.
During the Spring Festival holiday this year, Zhaoming Terrace received more than 200,000 tourists. Yang Dong's camera is full of smiling faces of tourists immersed in historical culture, and the increasingly magnificent outline of the ancient city lit up by lights under the night.
Upgrading the brewery and stimulating new vitality for cultural tourism integration
Accompanying the spring breeze, take the tram from Guangzhou Tower Station, pass through the green banyan trees and pink crape myrtle flowers along the river, and after two stops, you will arrive at the Zhujiang Party Pier Beer Culture and Creative Art Zone (珠江琶醍啤酒文化创意艺术区) located in Haizhu District, Guangzhou (广州) City, Guangdong (广东) Province.
Walking into the "Zhujiang Yunshou" commercial complex in the park, you can see many beer elements. This was originally the packaging workshop of the brewery. After renovation, it has become a vibrant social venue on the river bank. It has now completed the joint completion acceptance and is about to start comprehensive investment promotion.
"Through the renovation, the packaging workshop has been divided into several different buildings, which not only have beer industrial elements, but also highlight fashion and romance." Chen Zhuming, the person in charge of the Zhujiang Party Pier Beer Culture and Creative Art Zone renovation and upgrade packaging workshop building renovation project, introduced.
In 1985, Zhujiang Brewery (珠江啤酒厂) was built and put into operation. Later, following the development of urban renewal, Zhujiang Brewery moved its headquarters to Nansha (南沙) and retained 69,000 square meters of land along the river for independent renovation. This industrial relic standing on the banks of the Pearl River (珠江) has begun a gorgeous "transformation."
Initially, in order to welcome the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, Zhujiang Brewery focused on the city's "One River, Two Banks" project and renovated and upgraded the old factory site to create the Zhujiang Party Pier Beer Culture and Creative Art Zone. In 2021, seizing the opportunity of Guangzhou's cultivation and construction of an international consumer center city, the park was further improved and expanded.
"Our renovation and upgrade adopts the 'new construction + old renovation' model, which not only continues the city's industrial memory, but also provides new carriers for modern commercial and cultural activities." Li Quan, the engineer of the Zhujiang Party Pier Beer Culture and Creative Art Zone renovation and upgrade project, introduced that there are 15 uniquely shaped huge silos in the center of the park, which were originally the malt silos of the Zhujiang Brewery and have now been upgraded to art exhibition highlands; the coal shed with a height of 8 meters and an area of 1,420 square meters has been converted into a new performance space "Media Shed" and has become the venue for art festivals, fashion weeks and other activities; the brand-new Zhujiang Beer Building is under construction...
Walking through the park, the industrial style and commercial formats are cleverly integrated, such as a whole beer production line including malt silos, selection buildings, fermentation tanks, and packaging workshops. "The park has completely hidden the Guangzhou industrial relics of the 1980s in the trend - the retro industrial equipment, the vertical and horizontal pipeline corridors and various trendy shops collide with wonderful sparks, I especially like it!" Tourist Ms. Lin said.
After the renovation, the Zhujiang Party Pier Beer Culture and Creative Art Zone has an average annual passenger flow of more than 2 million people, was selected as a national 3A-level tourist attraction, and has become a new business card for Guangzhou's night economy.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Hong Kong, April 1st. The "2026 Hong Kong Family and Women Development Summit" was held in Hong Kong on the 31st. State Councilor and President of the All-China Women's Federation, Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴), attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) is concerned about Hong Kong's development and has high expectations for the work of the Special Administrative Region. The SAR government resolutely implements the spirit of President Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and the central government's decisions and deployments, taking new steps from governance to prosperity. Hong Kong (香港), this pearl, shines even brighter in the practice of "one country, two systems." Hong Kong women have written a brilliant chapter of "patriots governing Hong Kong" with their "her power," cultivated a good family ethos with their "family power," and held up "half the sky" for Hong Kong's (香港) prosperity and stability.
Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) pointed out that the SAR government's holding of this summit is not only an active response to the spirit of the Global Summit of Women, but also a pragmatic action to promote the development of women and family construction in Hong Kong (香港). It is hoped that Hong Kong (香港) will continuously enhance the well-being of women and families, better integrate into and serve the overall national development, actively promote Sino-foreign exchanges and cooperation, support Hong Kong (香港) women and families to accelerate the new process of comprehensive development, actively participate in the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, and deeply participate in the new agenda of global governance. The All-China Women's Federation will, as always, support the development of women and family construction in Hong Kong (香港) and promote the formation of a vivid situation of **美美与共** (měi měi yǔ gòng - "beauty and sharing," a harmonious and mutually beneficial coexistence).
During her stay in Hong Kong (香港), Chen Yiqin (谌贻琴) also attended the opening ceremony of the 4th "She Power Building New Strength Forum" held by the Hong Kong Women's Association (香港妇协), and inspected the development of women and cultural construction in the SAR.
Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区), Li Jiachao (李家超), heads of relevant departments of the central and state organs, people from all walks of life in Hong Kong (香港), representatives of women's organizations, representatives of relevant international organizations, and representatives of women's federations from the Greater Bay Area (大湾区) and the mainland, more than 1,000 people participated in the event.
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Recently, two "door-opening stories" that happened in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) are thought-provoking.
A university opened a new school gate, with the campus directly connected to an industrial park. Why? Opening a door breaks the physical isolation and connects the innovation chain and the industrial chain, in order to give more works the opportunity to become products.
How long does it take for a residential area built a few years ago to open a new driveway gate? The answer is "3 weeks." The community and street quickly researched and judged the demands, and functional departments such as the Administrative Approval Bureau, the Urban Management Bureau, and the Traffic Police Brigade responded in coordination. Parallel action is the key to solving problems efficiently.
One opening and one building contain such a "way": linking isolated elements with serial thinking, and gathering development synergy with parallel action. This is actually a reflection of analyzing and solving problems with a systematic concept, which has broad and profound enlightenment.
Today, the work we face is complicated and covers a wide range of areas. It is not enough to only know how to connect in series, and it is not enough to only know how to connect in parallel. Grasping the key to this will make work more rhythmic and efficient.
Serial thinking is valuable in communicating before and after, connecting left and right, and testing vision and determination.
Looking at promoting consumption, many places use a ticket stub to connect multiple consumption scenarios and stimulate the multiplier effect.
Looking at promoting development, Shanxi (山西) is based on coal but not trapped by coal. It establishes first and then breaks, safely reduces carbon, and the transformation of the resource-based economy is steady and solid.
Using serial thinking well can not only enhance the relevance of work and ensure the continuity of work, but also help to continuously push the cause to a deeper level. For example, the reason why Beijing's "Respond to every request" (北京“接诉即办”) has achieved remarkable results is that it connects the rapid response of "handling every case" with the deep reform of "active governance and handling before complaints," forming a long-term governance effect.
Serial connection is not a simple linear process, but more due to a deep understanding of the laws of things. Only by understanding the laws and connecting in an orderly manner can we ensure that the work is closely linked and progressively advanced.
Parallel action focuses on concerted efforts and overall consideration, demonstrating ability and responsibility.
Take "efficiently completing one thing" as an example. In some places, when hiring employees, enterprises need to run to 7 departments, submit more than 20 materials, and spend nearly 10 working days to handle employment registration, file reception, social security and medical insurance participation, and housing fund account opening. Shanghai (上海) broke the situation with "integrated services," integrating 7 items into "one declaration, multiple joint handling."
Why can many places promote the speed of government services? A key lies in changing "serial approval" to "parallel approval," which has saved time and improved efficiency.
Those that can advance simultaneously should be grasped as a whole, and those that should be promoted as a whole should be well balanced. This is not only an efficiency question, but also a coordination question. How can economic development and people's livelihood improvement be synchronized? How can new urbanization and comprehensive rural revitalization be coordinated? All test the wisdom of "playing the piano."
Serial connection and parallel connection are two kinds of thinking and two kinds of working methods. When combined and used properly, they can effectively improve the effectiveness of work.
In Pujiang County (蒲江县), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), both fresh citrus fruits and dried fruits, jams, drinks, and citrus-flavored rice popcorn are sold. It also relies on storage and cold chain facilities to provide turnover for fresh fruits in southwestern regions such as Yunnan (云南) Taiyang Snow Pear (太阳雪梨). While extending the chain and expanding the chain, it blooms in multiple places, reflecting this idea.
At the same time, we must also prevent serial connection from becoming a "solo show" and parallel connection from becoming 胡子眉毛一把抓 (hú zi méi mao yī bǎ zhuā - "grabbing beard and eyebrows together," to attend to big and small matters all at once without priorities), and strive to make the "solo show" of fighting each other become the "symphony" of collaborative efforts. This is the basic skill to cope with complex and changeable situations and constantly open up new horizons for the development of the cause.
Focusing on the overall situation of Chinese-style modernization construction, finding the right position in the "serial connection" of development sequence, being willing to do the groundwork, being willing to grasp unfinished things, and running one's own baton well in the relay; responding to each other in the "parallel connection" of development space, bearing in mind the "major affairs of the country" (国之大者), taking the initiative to serve the overall situation, and making a good move in the "national chess game." In this way, we can move forward step by step and go upward.
Return to TopRecently, the 27th China (Shouguang) International Vegetable Science and Technology Expo is entering the final stage of exhibition arrangement. All facilities in the greenhouses used for the exhibition have been debugged, and more than 2,600 kinds of vegetables to be exhibited are growing well. The Expo will be held from April 20 to May 30 at the Shouguang Vegetable High-tech Demonstration Park (寿光蔬菜高科技示范园) in Shouguang (寿光) City, Weifang (潍坊) City, Shandong (山东) Province. The picture shows staff maintaining vegetables to be displayed at the Expo.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Xu Suhui (徐速绘) photographed.
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Since the launch of the learning and education campaign to establish and practice a correct view of performance, all regions, departments, and units have adhered to the integration of learning, thinking, and application, and the unity of knowing, believing, and acting. They have focused on learning and discussion, aligning ideological coordinates, promoting a rigorous and practical work style, and promoting the learning and education campaign to go deeper, be more practical, and achieve tangible results.
Upholding Integrity and Innovation, In-depth Study and Profound Understanding
"China will never perish, I am here"... At the Ganxi Anti-Japanese War Museum in Xinyu City (新余市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), more than 30 leading cadres from the county and department-level cadre advanced study class of the Xinyu Municipal Party School (新余市委党校) in the spring semester of 2026 were deeply touched as they looked at the yellowed diary "I am here" in the display case. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Xinyu City (新余市) has explored local red culture resources, moved the classroom into revolutionary traditional education venues, and organized county and department-level cadres and above in the city to carry out immersive teaching in batches.
"The two words 'I am here' in the diary contain profound propositions about the individual and the country, the small self and the big self." A participating cadre said, "Faced with the arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability, we should have the historical responsibility of 'success must have me' and achieve performance with practical work."
Nankai District (南开区), Tianjin (天津市), firmly grasped the general requirements of "ruling the party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and doing practical work," and studied and understood the original text carefully through holding reading classes, theoretical learning center group studies, and other forms; it focused on making good use of resources such as the "Learn from Lei Feng (雷锋), Learn from Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄)" theme hall and warning education bases, and explored and revitalized cases such as the Jiuce City Plaza (九策城市广场) and the construction of the Nanyun River Cultural Park (南运河文化公园), to enhance the attractiveness, appeal, and penetration of learning through on-site training and case teaching.
China Reform Holdings Corporation Ltd. (中国融通集团) focused on building a closed-loop learning pattern with the Party Group coordinating, the Party Committee supervising, the Party Branch implementing, and full staff coverage. The Party Group of the Group held two special reading classes for learning and education, taking the lead in studying "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance"; 77 Party Committees and 924 Party Branches fully followed up and organized in an orderly manner, adopting various methods such as special learning in "three meetings and one lesson," practical learning on theme Party days, collective learning led by Party members, and independent learning on online platforms. On this basis, it focused on the characteristics of different groups and made precise efforts. For example, for newly appointed cadres, performance view education and integrity education were deployed simultaneously; for young cadres, special courses were offered and practical research was carried out to guide young cadres to grow and develop in their work positions.
The Party Committees at all levels of the Agricultural Bank of China (中国农业银行) held special reading classes, deeply studying and understanding General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, closely focusing on the duties and mission of serving "agriculture, rural areas, and farmers" and the real economy, conducting in-depth exchanges and discussions, conscientiously implementing various requirements for learning and education, and continuously enhancing the ideological consciousness and action consciousness of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
The Party Group of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (中国航天科工集团) thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and approvals on the aerospace industry, and organized the Party Committees of its own level and its subordinate second-level units to carry out joint learning sessions of the theoretical learning center group; it opened a special column on the official website and new media platforms called "The View of Performance in the Stories of the Aerospace Spirit," using the stories of generations of aerospace personnel who have honed their original aspirations, dedicated themselves to the country, and loyally contributed to guide Party members and cadres to learn from the virtuous and strive for excellence.
"Moving the learning classroom to the work site highlights the problem orientation." At the atmospheric monitoring point of the Dabeizhuang Community (大北庄小区) in Ma'anshan City (马鞍山市), Anhui Province (安徽省), one trainee said after the on-site teaching. Organizing on-site teaching, holding special counseling reports, carrying out collective exchanges and discussions... Ma'anshan City (马鞍山市) thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on giving play to the leading, guiding, and promoting role of leading cadres, and promoting Party members and cadres at all levels to learn, think, practice, and act through "the same class online and offline."
Layered Classification, Precise Policy Implementation
"We must lay a good foundation for long-cycle projects and truly bring in enterprises and projects that have strong traction and benefit the long term." Recently, a trainee shared his learning experience at a special seminar for department-level leaders and county-level principal responsible comrades in Laibin City (来宾市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区).
Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Laibin City (来宾市), in combination with the actual situation of different levels and fields, has specially issued work prompts, formulated monthly learning plans, sorted out learning lists, and established a mechanism of "comparing grassroots reputation and comparing pioneering and striving for excellence." Among them, comprehensive departments focus on overall planning and preventing deviations, economic departments focus on effectiveness and preventing short-sightedness, people's livelihood departments focus on serving the people and preventing empty achievements, and state-owned enterprises focus on efficiency and preventing one-sidedness... Implementing classified policies to achieve "one key opens one lock."
The Party Group of China Electronics Technology Group Corporation (中国电科) based itself on the trends of technological revolution and industrial transformation, organized a special seminar on "Leading the Intelligent Transformation of Group Enterprises with a Correct View of Performance," and accelerated the high-quality development and high-level empowerment of artificial intelligence. At the same time, it formulated education and training programs for leading cadres in different positions such as scientific research, management, and production, and continuously improved the pertinence and effectiveness of learning and education.
The Party Committee of China Energy Construction Corporation (中国能建) combined learning and education with the responsibility and mission of "guiding central construction enterprises onto the track of high-quality development," and organized Party members and cadres at all levels to learn and discuss around abandoning the extensive development thinking and improving project quality through "four-level linkage" of Party Committee theoretical learning center group leading learning, branch special discussions, project site research, and business backbone exchange learning, to improve political standing, ideological understanding, and Party spirit awareness.
Baotou City (包头市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), strengthened classified guidance, organized 104 participating units in the city to hold a learning and education work training meeting, systematically sorted out key tasks and specific measures, and clarified the operation paths and time nodes for each participating unit in a layered and classified manner. Among them, for each banner, county, and district, it was clearly required that the grassroots Party organizations under their jurisdiction list simple, practical, and operable learning and education plans and arrangements, and prevent adding layers and increasing the burden on the grassroots.
Promoting Work Through Learning, Integrating Knowledge and Action
Carrying out special actions for urban traffic "scientific management of congestion, efficient management of congestion, and open management of congestion" to improve citizens' travel experience; exploring 12-year through-train cultivation in primary and secondary schools, "attending school upon arrival" for children of migrant workers, and "attending school together regardless of age" for multi-child families to run education that satisfies the masses... Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Chengdu City (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), has thoroughly studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, dynamically collected public opinion and accurately responded to demands through channels such as citizen hotlines, online reflections, and collection of people's suggestions, implemented a series of actions to enhance the effectiveness of urban governance, and strived to achieve learning for application and the combination of learning and application.
Dongguan City (东莞市), Guangdong Province (广东省), focused on giving play to the exemplary and leading role of positive examples and the warning education role of negative cases, deeply analyzed problems such as slow response to enterprise demands and cumbersome handling procedures, promoted the establishment of an enterprise service specialist team, took the initiative to connect with enterprises to listen to opinions, deeply investigated problems, corrected deviations, and focused on building a "quick handling of enterprise affairs" closed loop, implemented "one-stop acceptance, one-stop follow-up" full-process tracking service, and made efforts in in-depth learning, genuine investigation, and practical rectification to run the establishment and practice of a correct view of performance through the entire process of optimizing the business environment.
Baiyin City (白银市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), adhered to the integrated promotion of learning, investigation, and rectification, and coordinated the key tasks of learning and discussion, investigating problems, implementing rectification, establishing systems, and open education. Among them, the Municipal Government Affairs Service Center implemented a "red, yellow, and blue" three-color handling mechanism, classified and handled the demands of the masses at different levels, handled simple matters on the spot, and promoted complex matters with special teams, to test the quality of performance with the satisfaction of the masses.
Longquan City (龙泉市), Lishui (丽水) Zhejiang Province (浙江省), held a special meeting to carry out centralized learning and discussion, and proposed to make efforts in "deep learning" and make articles in "determined action"; continued to deepen the working mechanisms such as "Wednesday Down to the Village Day" and "Friday Open Reception Day," promoted the Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee and the Mayor to openly receive visitors, listened to the suggestions of the masses, accepted the supervision of the masses, and firmly established a correct view of performance in the process of solving the urgent problems of the masses.
"The market environment has improved, and doing business is more comfortable!" When the 12345 government service hotline made a return visit, merchants in the Henan Farmers Market (河南农贸市场) in Xingjing Street (兴京街), Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County (新宾满族自治县), Fushun City (抚顺市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), gave a good evaluation of the relevant departments' rectification of random stalls and random parking. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, the County Party Committee and County Government have deeply studied General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on following the Party's mass line in the new era through methods such as learning from the theoretical learning center group and holding reading classes, and at the same time organized leading cadres to answer hotline return visits and lead people's livelihood projects, to learn from books, learn from practice, and learn from the masses.
(**Reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Zhu Jun (朱隽), Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), He Linping (贺林平), Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶), Liu Jiahua (刘佳华), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Li Linwei (李林蔚), Dou Hao (窦皓), Li Junjie (李俊杰), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), and Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋) participated in writing this article**)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shanghai (上海) April 1st dispatch (Reporters Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏) and Yin Xiaoyu (尹晓宇)) The Standing Committees of the People's Congresses of Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), and Anhui (安徽) held a joint press conference on March 31st to introduce the regulations on promoting the "One Network for All Services" of government services in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), which were recently approved by the four regions respectively. The regulations will be implemented simultaneously in the four regions starting May 1, 2026.
According to reports, the Yangtze River Delta "One Network for All Services" platform has now opened more than 300 government service items, with a cumulative total of over 15.32 million items processed online. A number of "cross-provincial" demonstration applications with high attention and large processing volumes from enterprises and the public have been implemented and achieved effective results.
This coordinated legislation focuses on building a service framework system for "One Network for All Services." It clarifies that the "One Network for All Services" items for government services in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) will be subject to list management. The provincial government service authorities of the three provinces and one city will jointly compile and publish the list, and gradually expand the scope of the list items based on the needs of enterprises operating across regions and individuals handling affairs in different places. It also aims to facilitate service channels, ensure the operation of the online platform for "One Network for All Services" for government services in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), strengthen the construction of offline service windows, open remote virtual windows, and promptly publicize online and offline service channels and service guides to the public. It will also innovate service models, promote the continued handling of matters in different places, the integrated handling of related matters, and the application-free handling of policy services. Furthermore, it will promote standard unification and business convergence, improve the service standards and norms for "One Network for All Services" for government services in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), clarify business flow procedures and specific collaborative divisions of labor, and improve the standardization level of government service item processing.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Beijing, April 1st) (Reporter Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) that historical achievements have been made in water conservancy legislation during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. At the national level, a total of 17 laws, administrative regulations, and departmental rules were promulgated, exceeding any previous period.
The legal framework for soil and water conservation is becoming increasingly complete, and man-made soil erosion has been effectively controlled. More than 480,000 production and construction projects have implemented soil and water conservation measures in accordance with the law, avoiding 140,000 square kilometers of increased man-made soil erosion. The Yangtze River Protection Law and the Yellow River Protection Law, and other river basin laws have been promulgated and implemented successively, providing a strong legal guarantee for the implementation of the national "River Strategy." At the same time, it participated in promoting the introduction of the Ecological Environment Code, with water resources, rivers and lakes, and soil and water conservation forming separate sections in the code. The revision of the Water Law and the Flood Control Law has been included in the national legislative plan, and the draft revision of the Water Law has been discussed and approved by the State Council (国务院) executive meeting and will soon be submitted to the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会) for deliberation.
In terms of water conservancy law enforcement, a mechanism for linking water administrative law enforcement with criminal justice and cooperation with procuratorial public interest litigation has been established. Law enforcement efforts have been intensified, routine law enforcement has been strengthened, and special law enforcement actions such as river and lake safety, flood control and security, and water resources protection have been carried out. A total of 107,200 water-related illegal cases have been investigated and dealt with nationwide, and the order of water affairs is stable and improving. Legal review has been comprehensively strengthened, and the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has cumulatively carried out legality reviews of 632 major decisions and documents of various types. Administrative examination and approval have been continuously optimized, a list of water conservancy administrative licensing items has been issued, and the "separation of permits and licenses" and electronic reforms have been fully implemented. The "Water Conservancy Office" mobile terminal has been built, and 97% of the business volume has been realized through "mobile handling."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, March 31st. Comrade He Guanghui (贺光辉), former Party Group Secretary and Vice-Minister of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System (国家经济体制改革委员会) (at the ministerial level), passed away in Beijing (北京) on March 22, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 97.
After the passing of Comrade He Guanghui (贺光辉), relevant central leaders expressed their condolences in various ways and extended their sympathies to his family.
He Guanghui (贺光辉) was born in January 1929 in Qingjian (清涧), Shaanxi (陕西) Province. He began revolutionary work in December 1942 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in November 1945. From 1947 to 1950, he successively served as a laboratory technician at the Fourth Factory of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia-Jin-Sui Northwest Ordnance Department (陕甘宁晋绥西北兵工部), and Deputy Secretary of the Communist Youth League Committee of the Northwest Ordnance Department (西北兵工部). From 1955, he successively served as Secretary to Comrade Li Fuchun (李富春), and Deputy Director of the Science and Technology Department of the Mechanical Research Institute of the First Ministry of Machine Building (第一机械工业部机械研究院). From 1979, he served as Secretary to Comrade Bo Yibo (薄一波), during which time he also served as Deputy Director of the General Office of the State Machine Building Industry Commission of the State Council (国务院机械工业委员会办公厅), and Member of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System (国家经济体制改革委员会). From 1983 to 1993, he successively served as Vice-Minister and Party Group Member of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System (国家经济体制改革委员会), and Deputy Minister and Deputy Party Group Secretary, during which time he also served as Deputy Director of the Central Research Office for Political Restructuring (中央政治体制改革研究室), Deputy Director of the State Council Office for Cleaning Up and Rectifying Companies (国务院清理整顿公司办公室), and Member of the Central Institutional Establishment Committee (中央机构编制委员会). From 1993 to 1995, he served as Party Group Secretary and Vice-Minister of the State Commission for Restructuring the Economic System (国家经济体制改革委员会). From 1995 to 2000, he served as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社). He retired in December 2003.
He Guanghui (贺光辉) was a representative of the Eighth National People's Congress (全国人大), a member of the Financial and Economic Committee, a Standing Committee member of the Ninth National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协全国委员会), and Deputy Director of the Social and Legal Affairs Committee. He also served as Vice President of the China Society for Research on Economic System Reform (中国经济体制改革研究会).
Return to TopLi Zheng (李拯), Commentator of this newspaper
Yu Jiang (余江), Executive Director and Researcher, Industrial Science and Technology Innovation Research Center, Institutes of Science and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Li Zheng (李拯): General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Promote new breakthroughs in the development of China's future industries." The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline lists embodied intelligence as one of the future industries. In 2025, China's humanoid robot industry is developing rapidly, with a market size accounting for about half of the global share. So, what problems need to be solved for humanoid robots to move towards large-scale application?
Yu Jiang (余江): Humanoid robots are expected to become a new generation of super terminal equipment after smartphones and new energy vehicles, creating huge industrial space.
Currently, humanoid robots are entering a critical period focusing on scenario implementation, and large-scale mass production and popularization still face many challenges. For example, the underlying algorithm model has not yet been unified, the power system is still difficult to meet the needs in terms of drive efficiency and battery life, a few core components still rely on imports, and relevant standards and safety guarantee systems also need to be established urgently... Only by taking a multi-pronged approach to technological innovation, scenario innovation, and safety specifications can we promote the large-scale application of embodied intelligence.
Li Zheng (李拯): What are China's advantages in solving the above problems?
Yu Jiang (余江): "Ecology" and "scenarios" are two keywords for understanding China's advantages. On the one hand, with the entry of large technology companies and the breakthrough of start-ups, China's humanoid robot industry chain is forming a collaborative evolution of the technology ecosystem. On the other hand, China has obvious advantages in application scenarios, which is conducive to the evolution of the humanoid robot industry in the direction of "general core capabilities + vertical scenario deep cultivation" in parallel. China's humanoid robots are constantly unblocking the blockages from technological innovation to industrial innovation, accelerating the formation of new industrial value, and further shortening the cycle of technological innovation transforming into new quality productive forces.
Li Zheng (李拯): How can we better leverage the advantages of the new type of national system to promote industrial innovation breakthroughs?
Yu Jiang (余江): Under the guidance of national strategy, effectively aggregating the power of the government, the market, and society can form a strong synergy to promote the development of future industries. At present, with a clear strategic layout, solid technological accumulation, and a unique industrial ecology, China's humanoid robot industry has made significant progress and occupied market opportunities.
Top-level design is systematic, application scenarios are scaled, and collaborative innovation is ecological, forming a synergy of policy support for innovation, application-driven innovation, and cross-border collaborative innovation. Taking Beijing (北京) as an example, Yizhuang Economic Development Zone (亦庄经开区) has established the first provincial-level humanoid robot innovation center in China, bringing together key enterprises in the industrial chain such as complete machines, core components, and large models, and building a complete industrial ecosystem.
Such an industrial ecosystem has a significant agglomeration effect, which can reduce product costs through industrial chain collaboration and accelerate the scale and commercial application of humanoid robots. At the same time, the more complete the industrial ecosystem, the more enterprises can obtain production factors at close range and at low cost, and the more they can improve the speed of innovation and iteration and gain competitive advantages.
Li Zheng (李拯): What profound impacts will humanoid robots have on economic operations as they move towards large-scale application, and how will they reshape production and lifestyles?
Yu Jiang (余江): Look at new things from the underlying logic, and capture the new changes with the unchanging way. As a highly flexible and intelligent "general labor tool," embodied intelligence can break through the physical and physiological limitations of traditional labor supply, not only reducing marginal production costs, but also changing the production function itself, making the distributed and reconfigurable new production organization model gradually become a reality, and significantly improving the efficiency of creative and service activities.
From the current point of view, industrial manufacturing, cultural and sports entertainment, and the silver economy are expected to become new growth points for the short- and medium-term development of humanoid robots. For example, household service humanoid robots can undertake housework and provide nursing services for the elderly; entertainment and tourism humanoid robots can serve as entertainment performers or tour guides, providing personalized services and enhancing the tourist viewing experience.
Li Zheng (李拯): Many people worry that the application of embodied intelligence will lead to problems such as taking away human "jobs." While promoting technological innovation, how can we better prevent and resolve various risks?
Yu Jiang (余江): Every technological revolution will create new employment forms while eliminating old jobs. When cars replaced horse-drawn carriages, coachmen became drivers. We couldn't have imagined new occupations such as "cross-border e-commerce operation managers" and "unmanned aerial vehicle swarm flight planners." The application of embodied intelligence will also spawn new employment forms.
At the same time, we need to strengthen the construction of lifelong learning and skills reshaping system, focusing on cultivating capabilities that robots cannot easily replace, combining human judgment, empathy, and creativity with the precision and endurance of robots to create new employment opportunities. We should also plan ahead to provide more adequate retraining time, income support, and career transition services for workers in industries that will be impacted in the future.
By: 孙海天
"Ding-dong," a photo popped up in the WeChat group: neatly stacked Musang King durians on the shelves, golden and tempting.
"@All Durians are here!" In a member group of a duty-free shop in Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南), the message was instantly flooded with dozens of replies: "Save me two!" "Please bring back some drip bag coffee." "When will you restock children's milk powder?"
A duty-free shop's "urge" group reflects the bustling atmosphere of the Hainan Free Trade Port.
New Zealand milk powder, Italian chocolate, Southeast Asian fruits... With the simultaneous opening of the first five duty-free shops for daily consumer goods in Hainan, "zero-tariff" goods are not only placed on the shelves at people's doorsteps for the first time, but also written into the daily shopping lists of residents on the island. The dividends of development are within reach, and people's lives are becoming more prosperous.
A small shopping cart is filled with the livelihood dividends brought by the independent customs operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port. In the past, tourists "exclusively enjoyed" offshore duty-free shopping, often accompanied by the urgency of catching a flight. Now, island residents who have an offshore record within a natural year can purchase "buy and take away" goods unlimited times throughout the year. The former "luxury shopping tour" is gradually becoming a "supermarket at the doorstep" that island residents can visit repeatedly. In the first month of independent customs operation, the island's offshore duty-free sales reached 4.86 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 46.8%. Dividends are falling from grand policies into people's lives.
The dividends of development first stem from industrial dividends. Without a thriving industry, there would be no "heat" for development and sustained improvement of people's livelihoods.
Recently, "Zao粕醋" (fermented grain vinegar) has been quite popular in the catering industry, and many restaurants similar to Zao粕醋 hot pot have long queues. In Puqian (铺前), Wenchang (文昌), Wenluo (陵水文罗), and other places, a bowl of Zao粕醋 has been passed down for a century. Today, the delicious taste follows the industrial chain and trickles down to the fields. Farmers growing raw materials such as chili peppers and garlic have stable sales channels, and factories have solved the employment problems of surrounding villagers. As local specialty snacks move towards a larger industrial scale, the construction achievements of the Free Trade Port are reflected in the real increase in farmers' bank cards.
Industrial upgrading and technological progress are important driving forces. The "efficiency" of high-quality development is inseparable from the "advancement" of technological empowerment. Whether looking at the present or the long term, technological dividends can benefit all walks of life.
Taking Zao粕醋 as an example, the past was the era of "master craftsmen relying on experience" in earthenware pots, but now it has entered the intelligent era of "engineers looking at data." In the fully transparent factory of Hainan Yixiaoxian Technology Co., Ltd., hundreds of fermentation tanks operate simultaneously, and sensors at the bottom of the tanks capture the dynamics of the flora in real time. "We no longer have to 'smell with our noses'." Facing the surge in orders, General Manager Huang Zhenhua (黄振华), although busy, feels very at ease. This Qiong-flavored (琼味) sour soup, which once only circulated under the arcade buildings, is now taking advantage of the east wind of the Free Trade Port, improved quality standards, and advanced production lines to not only achieve industrialized mass production and sell to the whole country, but also begin to plan to go abroad.
The advancement of technology and the prosperity of industry all rely on the advantages of the system. Policy optimization and system integration can often activate the industrial ecology and benefit one side of the land.
In the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone (博鳌乐城国际医疗旅游先行区), a system innovation called "real-world research" is accelerating the entry of global innovative drugs and medical devices into the Chinese market. Here, the efficacy of drugs can be evaluated through the actual data of a large number of patients in a real medical environment. Last year, Boao Lecheng introduced more than 100 kinds of international innovative drugs, medical devices, and special foods, and received 865,000 medical tourists, a year-on-year increase of 109.2%. 24 international innovative drug and medical device products have accelerated their launch with the help of this model.
The spillover effect of institutional dividends continues to expand. From "one million talents entering Hainan" to "one million talents revitalizing Hainan," a more open talent mechanism is being built through a diversified talent introduction system and optimized service guarantees; the promotion of "bright code inspection" for administrative inspections involving enterprises, the convergence of thousands of items in the government service supermarket, and a clearer business environment; and the realization of "exemption from application and immediate enjoyment, one-click direct access" to enterprise-benefit subsidies through the "Haiyidui" (海易兑) system, reducing the burden of enterprise affairs. A series of self-revolutions in the system and mechanism allow capital, talent, and technology to flow fully, and condense into a strong impetus for economic leap.
How can dividends be within reach? From industrial prosperity to technological iteration, and then to institutional guarantees, the Hainan Free Trade Port is releasing dividends systematically and at multiple levels, making the fruits of development visible and tangible. Since the independent customs operation, this warm current from the South China Sea is warming every heart that looks forward to a better future through concrete paths.
(The author is a reporter from this newspaper's Hainan branch.)
Return to TopBy: 田艺力
Small and micro enterprises are an important part of the county economy and an important support for absorbing employment and stimulating market vitality. Escorting them is an important focus of county financial supervision.
Where are the difficulties in the development of small and micro enterprises? Financing is an unavoidable hurdle. A veteran who returned to his hometown to start a business wanted to expand the scale of his chestnut cooperative, but was at a loss due to the delayed recovery of accounts receivable; a start-up technology company had patents and a market, but encountered financing problems due to a lack of collateral... Lacking start-up funds in the initial stage, lacking expansion capital in the growth stage, and lacking working capital in the stable stage, I have a real understanding of these difficulties after working at the grassroots level for more than 10 years.
Where is the crux of the financing difficulty? It is due to both the uncertainty of the development of small and micro enterprises themselves and the factors of information asymmetry. From the establishment of a coordination mechanism to support the financing of small and micro enterprises to the proposal of the Private Economy Promotion Law to improve the accessibility and convenience of financial services, the state's guidance to support the development of small and micro enterprises is clear and the measures are solid. The financing needs of small and micro enterprises have the characteristics of being short, small, frequent, and urgent. How to open up the "last mile" of policy implementation? As the "nerve endings," we should take the lead in serving and act as "outposts" to accurately exert efforts in small and micro areas.
In 2024, we formed a working group to carry out the "Thousands of Enterprises and Ten Thousands of Households Visit." I thought that the comprehensive problem list would encounter "acclimatization." Some family farm operators bluntly said, "I deal with fruit trees every day, I don't understand what you are saying." Putting aside preset questions and existing templates, we recorded financing problems and difficulties one by one. Non-standard financial statements, unfamiliarity with financial policies... The demands and suggestions from the perspective of enterprises have become the "golden key" to optimizing the visit list.
One hand holds the enterprise, and the other hand holds the bank, and the information gap between the two sides is gradually being bridged. I remember that a national-level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise engaged in the production of medical equipment was rated as D-level due to early financial pressure and failure to pay the urban land use tax in full on time. After learning about the situation, we launched a tax credit repair assistance mechanism, guided the enterprise to submit an application and pay taxes, and the enterprise's credit rating was improved accordingly, and the financing channels were also opened up. For grassroots financial service workers, the actual development of enterprises is different, so don't always struggle with "why not," and think more about "how to do it," which is a persistent practical subject.
Protecting "small and micro" in small and micro areas requires not only 锦上添花 (jǐn shàng tiān huā - "add flowers to brocade," to make something good even better) but also 雪中送炭 (xuě zhōng sòng tàn - "send charcoal in snowy weather," provide help in time of need). In 2025, international trade frictions intensified, raw material prices rose, and the costs of foreign trade companies increased, resulting in the phenomenon of "dare not accept orders and unprofitable exports." We visited 95 foreign trade companies in the county, communicated face-to-face to understand the order cycle and capital gap, and formulated accurate and personalized financing plans. A food company used daily cargo entry and exit orders and tax payment certificates as the basis to match the "order loan" right pledge loan product. Through the green channel, it received 5 million yuan of credit funds in less than 3 days, and more than 200 tons of dried fruit were successfully exported.
It not only solves the urgent needs but also helps the 骐骥一跃 (qí jì yī yuè - "a fine steed leaps," to make rapid progress), and the gurgling living water is accurately dripped, releasing the vitality of development and nourishing the seeds of confidence. Especially with the empowerment of technology and the breaking of data barriers, the tools for "portraying" small and micro enterprises are becoming more and more abundant, and our work is becoming more and more proactive. This year, we are focusing on the small and micro enterprises in the county's characteristic industrial clusters, drawing industrial chain maps and panoramic maps of industrial clusters to further improve the accuracy and adaptability of financial services.
Among the more than 190 million business entities in China, the vast majority are small and micro business entities. From this point of view, "small and micro" is by no means small. Going to the door and paying attention to actions, accurately escorting small and micro areas, and helping more small and micro enterprises to fight in the market tide, what is surging is the new driving force for high-quality development.
(The author is a staff member of the Lai'an Regulatory Sub-bureau (来安监管支局) of the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局). This article is selected from email submissions)
Return to TopThe newly released "National Land Geochemical Monitoring Report 2025" shows that in 2023, the proportion of national land geochemical comprehensive grade medium and above points was 92.6%, an increase of 0.4 percentage points compared with 1995. The overall production and ecological functions of the land are stable and improving, the potential for soil nutrient supply is generally improved, and the functions of soil water and fertilizer retention and climate change mitigation are generally improving.
This is precisely:
Good fields and abundant harvests bring prosperity to farmers,
Green waters and green mountains benefit all directions.
The vast and fertile land carries all things,
Production and ecology complement each other.
Jin Yuanwen (金圆文)
Return to TopBy: 王 浩
The newly revised ambient air quality standards were released recently, tightening the concentration limits for particulate matter and major precursors. Stricter "good weather" standards safeguard public health.
From building safe, comfortable, green, and intelligent "good houses" to "good food" under the 2026 edition of pesticide residue limits, and then to "good weather"... guided by standards, redefining "good" achieves a high-quality life.
The increasing number of "good" standards is precisely the value anchor of high-quality development. More pleasant breathing, healthier diets, more livable environments, and better protection for the elderly and children... in high standards, one can hear the happy echoes of economic development.
Higher standards can nurture more room for development leaps. Taking the construction of a 15-minute community life circle as an example, carrying out graded and classified construction according to "basic, improved, and quality" types not only optimizes the layout of community commerce and enriches residents' consumption formats, but also promotes the development of the smart service industry. Better combining stabilizing investment, promoting consumption, and benefiting people's livelihoods makes the grasp of expanding domestic demand more solid.
From this perspective, the high standard of "good" is pressure, but also motivation, and even more so, vitality. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities).
Return to TopBy: 李 斌
The "green assets" are becoming more and more substantial, and future generations will share this greenery and vitality. Isn't this a warm and romantic aspect of Chinese-style modernization?
The spring breeze paints rivers and mountains, and new swallows tailor ten thousand miles of waves. From the windbreak and sand-fixing forests in the northern border to the carbon sink reserve forests in the south, from the crowded voluntary tree planting activities to the "cloud planting" on mobile phone screens, Chinese people have a persistence and love for planting trees.
Why is this so? Ecological barriers, economic development, ideological guidance, and legal responsibilities are all angles of explanation. From a cultural perspective, we can also find another answer: planting trees is a cultural gene engraved in the bones of Chinese people.
Confucianism advocates "exhausting the nature of things" and "praising the creation and nurturing of heaven and earth," Taoism advocates "assisting the naturalness of all things," and Mohism opposes indiscriminate deforestation... The ancients realized the harmonious coexistence of man and nature very early on. What is reflected in planting trees is respect for the laws of nature, "In the three months of spring, axes should not be used to enter the mountains and forests, so as to allow the growth of vegetation"; it is the optimization of the human living environment, "Elm and willow shade the back eaves, peach and plum are arranged in front of the hall"; it is also the planning for safe development, "Plant thorns to strengthen the land, and mix them with cypress and poplar to prepare for flood control." Today, when we roll up our sleeves, carry our shovels, and head to the barren mountains, we are practicing the idea that "man and nature are a community of life" and laying a green foundation for high-quality development.
《Guanzi》 says, "When grass and trees are planted and grown, the country becomes rich." However, handling the relationship between development and protection has always been a difficult problem. The concept that green mountains and clear waters are golden mountains and silver mountains points the way to solving the dilemma of the dichotomy between development and protection. In the Gobi Desert of Northwest China, Shi Guangyin (石光银), a hero in desert control, led his fellow villagers to plant millions of trees; in the Taihang Mountains (太行山), Li Baoguo (李保国) used technology to turn barren mountains into gold. Relying on planting and protecting trees can improve the environment and create wealth. "Increasing green is increasing advantages, and planting trees is planting the future." The "green assets" are becoming more and more substantial, and future generations will share this greenery and vitality. Isn't this a warm and romantic aspect of Chinese-style modernization?
《Instructions for Practical Living》 writes: "Those who plant trees must cultivate their roots, and those who cultivate virtue must nourish their hearts." The ancestors realized very early on that trees and the way of a gentleman's life coincide. The roots of trees are deeply rooted in the earth, corresponding to the gentleman's firm foundation; the lush branches and leaves of trees shelter all living beings, corresponding to the benevolence of those who have the world in their hearts and benefit all directions; the pine's pride in the snow, the cypress's vigor, the willow's tenacity, and the poplar's uprightness all imply praise for a beautiful personality... Throughout the ages, people have placed their ideals of personality, national feelings, and moral integrity in plants and trees, and constructed a unique moral outlook and self-cultivation outlook in awe of nature. Taking trees as a mirror, we can see perseverance, responsibility, and broad-mindedness, containing an indomitable spirit.
Where people's hearts are, justice lies; where branches and leaves become shade, a monument is built for the people. "Sweet pear trees provide shade, do not cut them down, Duke Zhao (召伯) rested there." The story of "leaving love for the sweet pear tree" in the 《Classic of Poetry》 has become a portrayal of diligence and love for the people. From the "Gushu (谷树)" on Dongshan Island (东山岛) in Fujian (福建), to the "Jiaotong (焦桐)" in Lankao (兰考), Henan (河南), circles of annual rings record the glorious achievements of the Communists in "serving as officials and benefiting one party." From the artificial forest sea in Saihanba (塞罕坝), Hebei (河北), to the green advance and sand retreat in Babusha (八步沙), Gansu (甘肃), pieces of green interpret the lofty pursuit of "achieving political achievements for the people and achieving political achievements through hard work." Planting trees one by one plants vegetation, protects homes, passes on the spirit, and builds the future.
"In the first month of spring, great virtue lies in trees," the 《Book of Rites》 says. The green spring is a gift from nature, and it is also a cultural fruit cultivated and passed down by generations with both hands and hearts. Today, "promoting ecological culture" is written into the ecological environment code, consolidating the cultural foundation and social consensus for building a beautiful China. When greenery fills the mountains and rivers, the cultural consciousness engraved in the national genes will be passed on forever.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李君强
Biography
Wei Jiangchun (魏江春), born in 1931 in Xianyang (咸阳), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and a lichen mycologist. He mainly engages in the research of lichenized fungal biodiversity and its systematic and evolutionary biology. He has won the Special Prize for Science and Technology Progress of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院科技进步奖特等奖) and presided over the compilation and research of "Flora Sporarum Sinica (中国孢子植物志)". He is the founder of lichenology in China and a major founder of Chinese lichenology.
In the winter of 1958, the young Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) set foot on Moscow (莫斯科) for the first time. At that time, he did not realize that his long life would be closely connected with a tiny, often overlooked organism. Lichen, a discipline that was almost blank in China at that time, would become the direction of his scientific research for the rest of his life.
Improving morphological classification, establishing molecular biology laboratories, and proposing the "biological carpet project"... From filling gaps to catching up with the world and then to innovative leadership, he has discovered the great potential of lichens to benefit mankind.
Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) always remembers that Zhang Jingfu (张劲夫), then Vice President and Party Secretary of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), encouraged everyone to "focus on scientific research to the point of fascination" when marching towards science, that is, "**安钻迷**" (ān zuān mí - "peacefully, deeply, obsessively," to be dedicated and engrossed in research), in order to make discoveries and innovations and contribute to the country. Looking back on decades of scientific research experience, he said with a smile: "A niche field is only niche because you haven't delved deep enough."
Devoting his life to lichen research, Wei Jiangchun's (魏江春) path of serving the country through scientific research is the best interpretation of "**安钻迷**" (ān zuān mí - "peacefully, deeply, obsessively," to be dedicated and engrossed in research).
"Not only fill the gaps, but also rush to the forefront"
Lichenized fungi are microorganisms formed by the symbiosis of fungi and algae or cyanobacteria, accounting for 20% of the fungal kingdom. 70 years ago, lichen research in China was almost "blank."
In 1956, the Institute of Applied Mycology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院应用真菌学研究所) was established. In the view of Dai Fanglan (戴芳澜), then director of the institute, lichen is an important part of fungi, and mycology research should also cover lichen research.
"At that time, there were no experts in China studying lichens, so I was sent to the Soviet Union to study relevant knowledge, the purpose of which was to fill the gap in the field of lichens in China," said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
What is the use of lichen, such a niche discipline? At that time, no one gave an answer. Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) also had doubts and even suspicions about this during his study abroad. "I once thought about changing my major, but niche disciplines also need someone to study. It can be said that the path of lichen research was not chosen by myself, but because the country needed someone to do it, so I persisted."
After returning to China, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) was the only person in the country engaged in lichen research, so he began to build the lichen discipline.
In 1972, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) held a meeting to study the restoration of the compilation and research of "Flora Republicae Popularis Sinicae (中国植物志)" and "Fauna Sinica (中国动物志)". As a representative of the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院微生物研究所), Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) put forward an idea: in addition to the flora and fauna plans, compile a spore plant flora covering algae, fungi, lichens and mosses. After having the idea, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) communicated with expert representatives from various institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) during the meeting to seek their support.
Thanks to his efforts, the "Editorial Committee of Flora Sporarum Sinica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院中国孢子植物志编辑委员会)" was officially established, and the compilation and research of "Flora Sporarum Sinica (中国孢子植物志)", consisting of five volumes: "Flora Algarum Sinicarum (中国海藻志)", "Flora Algarum Aquae Dulcis Sinicae (中国淡水藻志)", "Flora Fungorum Sinicorum (中国真菌志)", "Flora Lichenum Sinicorum (中国地衣志)" and "Flora Bryophytarum Sinicorum (中国苔藓志)", was officially launched. Taking the compilation and research of Flora Sporarum Sinica as an opportunity, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) invited scholars from the Northwest Institute of Botany of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院西北植物所) and other units to join the compilation and research of "Flora Lichenum Sinicorum (中国地衣志)", thereby driving the research of lichen discipline in China.
"Establishing a herbarium is the basis for filling the gap in China's lichen discipline." Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) said that at that time, there was only a fungal herbarium in China, and no lichen herbarium. Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) went to various places to collect specimens and created a lichen herbarium starting from two or three wooden cabinets. China's lichen herbarium has grown from scratch and now preserves more than 160,000 lichen specimens, and is currently the largest lichen herbarium in Asia.
"Not only fill the gaps, but also rush to the forefront." At that time, molecular biology had already sprouted internationally. Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) keenly realized that lichen research should not be limited to morphological classification research, but should open up new ideas from the gene level. So, he tried to extract DNA from living specimens preserved in the laboratory and explored new paths little by little. With the introduction of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) into China, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) invited foreign professors to China to hold training courses. In the continuous collision and exchange, China's first fungal lichen molecular biology laboratory was established, and lichen research was truly brought to the gene level.
On this basis, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) proposed "homologous biological systematics", using biological systematics works, herbaria, and living cultures of fungi and algae as the three major storage and retrieval systems, connecting biological systematics with resource development, and pushing China's lichen discipline to the forefront of the world.
"Record as you see, this is a process of accumulation"
Studying lichens is inseparable from field investigation. When he first returned to China, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) did not understand the lichen flora in China's natural world, so he went to various parts of the country to conduct lichen investigations and collect specimens.
In 1966, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) took his students to Mount Everest (珠峰) with the expedition team. "There is very little life on the plateau, but lichens may still survive, so the organization arranged for me to participate. I was wondering, how high can lichens survive?" said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
Climbing Mount Everest (珠峰), altitude sickness is the first hurdle. When climbing to an altitude of 5,400 meters, the expedition team decided to camp for 7 days. On the first night, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) slept with his mouth closed. When he woke up in the morning, he couldn't open his mouth. He tried to force his mouth open, and a layer of skin fell off. The exposed lip flesh was like lipstick. "This happened almost every day for a week, and the skin on my lips almost fell off. It took more than a month to return to normal after going down the mountain," said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春). After many difficulties, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) found the answer: Umbilicaria esculenta var. pruinosa tenaciously survives on the surface of rocks at an altitude of 6,100 meters.
Field expeditions are full of many unknowns and risks, but for scientific researchers, there are also some extra "rewards." "When I took a plane to King George Island (乔治王岛) in Antarctica (南极), I looked down and saw many 'oases' among the ice blocks. After the plane landed, I realized that they were not grass and trees, but green Antarctic Usnea lichens, etc.!" said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
In Wei Jiangchun's (魏江春) view, field investigations can bring great gains to young scientists. "Record as you see, this is a process of accumulation. After returning from the investigation, you must also conduct in-depth research in the laboratory," said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
"As long as you study it in depth, you can find its unique role"
How to combine natural biodiversity with resource development and utilization, and let lichen research play a better role, has always been a matter of concern for Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
In 1989, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) received a letter from the director of the Shapotou Desert Research and Experiment Station (沙坡头沙漠研究试验站) of the Cold and Arid Regions Environmental and Engineering Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院寒区旱区环境与工程研究所), asking about the reasons for the withering and shrinking of trees and the appearance of crust on the sand surface after afforestation in the Shapotou Desert (沙坡头沙漠) in Ningxia (宁夏). After he went to Shapotou (沙坡头) in Ningxia (宁夏) for investigation, he found that the local vegetation coverage had dropped from the initial 25% to about 6%, and the crust on the sand surface was formed by microorganisms mainly composed of Acarospora lichen.
"Terrestrial plants absorb water from the sand, and the water lost by transpiration is relatively large. If afforestation is carried out in arid and semi-arid desert areas with less precipitation, it is equivalent to inserting a water pump into the desert, which will dry up the limited water accumulated in the soil for many years, exacerbating the drought. Over time, the covered artificial vegetation will also decline," Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) explained that microbial crusts mainly composed of lichens can protect the sand and soil water sources while playing a role in fixing sand, and the effect of sand control is better when combined with afforestation.
Why can Acarospora form a crust in the desert? Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) led the team to study and conduct a comprehensive sequencing analysis of the Acarospora genome, and found that it contains a large number of drought-resistant and salt-alkali-resistant genes. Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) said, "We collected the Acarospora lichen crust from Shapotou (沙坡头), crushed it in the laboratory for research, and explored ways to artificially accelerate the growth of the crust, in order to better play its role in sand control."
As the ideas gradually became clear, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) proposed the concept of "desert biological carpet project", combining vegetation restoration with microbial crusts, which can stabilize the surface and retain moisture. He carried out experiments: selecting key stress-resistant genes from desert lichens such as Acarospora, and introducing them into pasture and alfalfa, which significantly improved the drought resistance and salt-alkali resistance of plants, and continued to carry out experiments on crops such as wheat, corn, and rice.
Subsequently, he led the team to explore ways to accelerate the formation of crusts through artificial inoculation and other methods, shortening the original natural process that took decades to a few years, and promoting it in coordination with vegetation restoration. Today, the Shapotou (沙坡头) sand fixation area has formed a sand fixation system combining sparse artificial vegetation, annual herbs, and micro-biological crusts mainly composed of lichens.
When conducting whole-genome sequencing analysis of Acarospora, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) and his team had a new discovery: Acarospora, which does not contain any secondary metabolites, not only has a large number of stress-resistant genes, but also has multiple "silent genes", which can produce more than 17 kinds of secondary metabolites after being activated, providing new ways for related research and resource development and utilization.
This discovery was soon confirmed in other lichens. The team conducted similar experiments on another type of lichen and also obtained more than 10 kinds of secondary metabolites. Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) said that the activation of "silent genes" and the discovery of a large number of stress-resistant genes not only expanded the space for lichen resource development and utilization, but also pushed China's lichen research to a new height.
Small lichens dare to turn deserts into fertile fields. In Wei Jiangchun's (魏江春) view, the significance of any basic discipline will naturally become apparent as long as it is "studied to the end." "The lichen discipline seems to be a niche, but as long as you study it in depth, you can find its unique role," said Wei Jiangchun (魏江春).
Reporter's Notes
Be an "**安钻迷**" (ān zuān mí - "peacefully, deeply, obsessively," to be dedicated and engrossed in research) for serving the country through science
After the interview, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) went back to the laboratory to study specimens and discuss scientific research projects with students.
Shortly after the September 18th Incident (九一八事变) broke out, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) was born. His schooling years were initially spent in the rumbling of Japanese bombers. Later, he experienced the Liberation War and witnessed the founding of New China. The storms of the times made him realize that the personal destiny of scientists has always been closely related to the country.
From foreign laboratories to the ice walls of Mount Everest (珠峰) and the wind and snow of Antarctica (南极); from one person studying lichens to catching up with the world and leading innovation... With a spirit of "**安钻迷**" (ān zuān mí - "peacefully, deeply, obsessively," to be dedicated and engrossed in research), he allowed a discipline that was almost unattended to take root, sprout, and flourish in China, and also closely linked his personal scientific pursuit with national development.
Looking back on his more than ninety years of life, Wei Jiangchun (魏江春) has written a chapter of serving the country through science with determination and focus, and also told later generations with a peaceful and tenacious figure: no matter how niche or popular the discipline is, no matter how famous or unknown, as long as it is useful to the country and needed by the country, it is worth the lifelong research of scientific researchers.
Return to TopThis newspaper, Xiong'an (雄安), April 1st (Reporter Shao Yuzi (邵玉姿)) The Hebei Xiong'an National Climate Observatory (河北雄安国家气候观象台) was approved by the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) on April 1st. Basic meteorological observation data has begun to be uploaded in real time to the China Meteorological Administration's (中国气象局) "Tianqing (天擎)" platform and included in business assessments. This marks the official launch of the Xiong'an National Climate Observatory (雄安国家气候观象台), and the quality of basic meteorological observation data has been authoritatively recognized.
The National Climate Observatory is a national-level ground comprehensive observation station that conducts long-term, continuous, three-dimensional, and comprehensive observations of multiple spheres of the climate system and their interactions. It is also a platform for conducting scientific research, open cooperation, and talent cultivation in related fields. The Xiong'an National Climate Observatory (雄安国家气候观象台) adopts a "one main station and eight auxiliary stations" layout. Each station is located on different types of underlying surfaces such as forests, wetlands, and farmland, and the distribution is relatively uniform, with strong representativeness. The main station is located within the "Millennium Forest (千年秀林)" on the east side of the Baigou Diversion River (白沟引河) and the north side of Yanzhao Street (燕赵大街). Currently, it has carried out multiple observation operations, including ground reference climate observation, basic meteorological observation, near-surface flux observation, reference radiation observation, ground-based water vapor remote sensing observation, ecological observation, atmospheric composition observation, and satellite remote sensing-ground comprehensive observation.
On January 7, 2023, the Xiong'an National Climate Observatory (雄安国家气候观象台) was approved for establishment by the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局), becoming the twenty-seventh national climate observatory in the country and the only observatory built on a completely new site.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 1st dispatch (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部交管局), combining the characteristics of traffic accidents during the Qingming holiday in recent years, analyzed and judged the traffic safety situation during the Qingming holiday and issued traffic safety tips.
According to the analysis, the main outstanding risks to national road traffic safety during the Qingming holiday are as follows: First, travel around cemeteries and tomb areas is concentrated. Roads around cemeteries and tomb areas in the suburbs of towns and cities are prone to concentrated traffic flow, congestion, and slow traffic, which can easily lead to minor accidents. Second, tourism and leisure travel in scenic and mountainous areas is increasing, increasing the probability of accidents caused by speeding, fatigue driving, overloading, and illegal operations. Third, collective agricultural and labor travel in rural areas is frequent, and illegal behaviors such as illegal passenger transport by tractors and overloading of passenger vans are prone to occur frequently. Fourth, continuous rainy weather brings greater adverse effects. In the next 10 days, there will be more rainy weather in Jiangnan, northern and eastern South China, as well as the Sichuan Basin (四川盆地), eastern Guizhou (贵州), and southeastern Tibet (西藏), which can easily lead to rear-end collisions, rollovers, and skidding accidents.
The Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部交管局) reminds that when driving during the holidays, you should fasten your seat belts throughout the entire journey, and eliminate illegal behaviors such as speeding, distracted driving, and overloading. When driving on the highway, you should maintain a safe following distance and speed. When driving in rainy weather, you should reduce your speed and reduce lane changes and overtaking. For collective agricultural and labor travel, do not take non-passenger vehicles such as trucks, tricycles, and tractors, as well as overloaded vans.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), April 1st (Reporter Ding Yasong (丁雅诵)) The General Office of the Ministry of Education (教育部) recently issued the "Notice on Carrying out the 'First Class of Life Guardian' Public Welfare Project," supporting various regions in carrying out popularization of first aid knowledge, equipping of first aid facilities, and training of rescue skills through public welfare donations and other means, to effectively protect the life and health of young people.
The notice requires that automatic external defibrillators be equipped for primary and secondary schools in areas with weak first aid education foundations and a lack of first aid equipment, according to the school size and the configuration of automatic external defibrillators; establish first aid education studios in each district and county (2 in each district and county, giving priority to youth activity centers or schools with larger scale and capable of undertaking training tasks), and equip each studio with 3 sets of automatic external defibrillator simulation trainers and simulation mannequins to consolidate the hardware foundation of campus first aid.
The notice clarifies that first aid education teachers will be trained for first aid education studios, with 4 teachers trained for each studio, to build a professional first aid education teaching force; students will be organized to carry out first aid knowledge learning and skills training in different school sections; curriculum resources suitable for different school sections will be developed, and an expert first aid volunteer database and campus "first aid circle" will be built, encouraging teachers and students to participate in first aid through incentive mechanisms.
Return to TopBeijing, April 1st (Reporter Geng Lei (耿磊)) It was recently learned that the 5th National Reading Conference will be held in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西) from April 20th to 22nd. With the theme of "Promoting National Reading Together and Building a Book-Loving Society Together," the conference will combine the launch of the first national "National Reading Activity Week" and the publicity and implementation of the "National Reading Promotion Regulations," focusing on celebrating the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China and commemorating the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Long March of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, and holding a series of forums and thematic activities.
This conference takes publicizing and implementing the "National Reading Promotion Regulations" as an important topic, and will organize and plan forums, exhibitions, and activities to promote the implementation and effectiveness of the regulations. The conference will hold the launch ceremony and main forum for the 2026 "National Reading Activity Week," hold a series of forums focusing on the construction of "book-loving campuses," family parent-child reading, and rural reading, and carry out a series of reading activities for the masses. The conference will also explore and utilize local red culture resources, organize and carry out a number of red reading theme activities, and inherit the red gene and continue the red bloodline through reading.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 焰 姜泓冰 季觉苏
On March 28th, on the coast of the East China Sea, the "Offshore Floating Island" (远海浮动岛), a national major science and technology infrastructure independently developed by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), officially commenced construction. This world's first "offshore mobile science city" will provide a world-class scientific research base for the exploration of the entire 10,000-meter ocean depth and the sea trials of 100-ton deep-sea equipment.
This is a special gift from the Jiao Tong University (交通大学) people to their alma mater on its 130th birthday.
In 1896, the predecessor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) – Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) – was born amidst national crisis, sowing the seeds of "strengthening the country through education" (兴学强国). Over the past 130 years, generations of Jiao Tong University (交通大学) people have set off from the campus and gone to the places where the country and the people need them most. From the starting point of "born for the sake of strengthening" (因图强而生), to the courage of "thriving because of reform" (因改革而兴), and then to today's "flourishing because of talent" (因人才而盛), this university spanning three centuries has witnessed the historical journey of a nation from seeking survival to achieving great rejuvenation, and has also written a new era of striving towards building a world-class university with Chinese characteristics.
As the "Offshore Floating Island" (远海浮动岛) is about to "take root" in the depths of the ocean, and as major achievements move from the laboratory to the main battlefield of building a strong country, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) is answering the call of the times with the vivid practice of promoting education, technology, and talent in an integrated manner.
Establishing Aspirations with the Ambition to Strengthen the Country
——Adhering to the direction of running the school, cultivating people for the Party and training talents for the country
Erhai Lake (洱海) in Yunnan (云南), sampling, recording, and retesting. For more than 10 years, the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) Kong Hainan (孔海南) team has been rooted in Dali (大理), guarding a lake of clear water, and focusing their research on the people's expectations for a better life.
Jinping Mountain (锦屏山) in Sichuan (四川), 2,400 meters underground. The Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) Liu Jianglai (刘江来) team guards the detector, waiting for almost invisible signals in the depths of the rock. Searching for dark matter for 17 years seems far from people's lives, but it is closely related to the country's original innovation capabilities.
Cultivating people for the Party and training talents for the country. Around the fundamental task of "who to cultivate, how to cultivate, and for whom to cultivate," Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) integrates "soul-casting and nurturing people" (铸魂育人) throughout the entire process of high-quality school management and strengthening.
Strolling through the campus, from "Taofen Road" (韬奋路) to "Xuhua Road" (旭华路) and "Xuesen Road" (学森路), spiritual coordinates that inherit the red gene nourish the minds of teachers and students.
Entering the classroom, the students of the "Voice Reaches the Heart" (声入人心) student theory publicity group are preparing lessons. This young team, which has been awarded the "National Advanced Collective for Grassroots Theory Publicity," uses the language of young people to tell the Party's innovative theories, from classrooms to communities, from campuses to the cloud.
"Grasping the socialist direction of running the school and implementing the fundamental task of establishing morality and cultivating people, we will implement the value concept of undertaking the great task of national rejuvenation into the entire staff, the entire process, and the entire aspect of education, so that value guidance, knowledge exploration, ability building, and personality development are integrated into one." Yang Zhenbin (杨振斌), Secretary of the Party Committee of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), deeply feels the heavy responsibility on his shoulders.
High-quality construction of the "Overview of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era" (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想概论) course group; jointly opening characteristic courses such as "Qian Xuesen (钱学森) and China's Science and Technology Undertaking" (钱学森与中国科技事业); linking with Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (中国商飞) and the Eighth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (航天八院) to jointly build a "Great Ideological and Political Course" (大思政课) teaching base; introducing excellent teachers, so that "excellent people teach more excellent students"...
"Drinking water, think of the source, love the country and honor the school" (饮水思源、爱国荣校) is the school motto; "Cultivating first-class talents and cultivating first-class character" (培养第一等人才，砥砺第一等品行) is the pursuit; "Choosing Jiao Tong University (交通大学) means choosing responsibility" has long been internalized into the spiritual consciousness of teachers and students, and has the latest second half of the sentence - "Leaving Jiao Tong University (交通大学) means undertaking a mission."
Breaking the Situation with the Blade of Reform
——Using systematic thinking to promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent
"The prosperity of Jiao Tong University (交通大学) has never been maintained. It has been created in one active adjustment and self-reshaping after another." President Ding Kuiling's (丁奎岭) words reveal the character of this university.
Promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent is an inevitable requirement for creating a new situation in the construction of Chinese-style modernization, and it is also the only way for universities to achieve their own leapfrog development. The school party committee focuses on the national strategy to plan and deploy: grasping the political, people-oriented, and strategic attributes of education, and using systematic thinking to promote the deep integration and synergistic efforts of the education chain, talent chain, and innovation chain.
Focusing on "breaking," paving the way for talent cultivation through teaching reform——
Implementing the Bole Program (伯乐计划), the Honor Program (荣誉计划), the Leap Program (跃升计划), and the Climbing Program (攀登计划), teaching students according to their aptitude. Undergraduates from the first to third year are not restricted by the ranking of departments and are not affected by academic performance. They can apply for transfer without any threshold. If the receiving college agrees to accept the transfer, the student can successfully change their major, so that the student's growth is no longer restricted by professional boundaries too early.
Opening up the boundaries of disciplines, colleges, and schools, and re-arranging a number of interdisciplinary characteristic colleges such as the Puyuan Future Technology Academy (溥渊未来技术学院), the Smart Energy Innovation Academy (智慧能源创新学院), and the School of Psychology (心理学院), guided by national strategies and interdisciplinary integration.
Focusing on "integration," paving the way for scientific and technological innovation with institutional innovation——
The newly established School of Artificial Intelligence (人工智能学院) has diversified upstream and downstream talent cultivation: 1/3 from top overseas universities, 1/3 from top domestic universities, and 1/3 from leading global companies. In the global computer science academic ranking, the artificial intelligence sub-item of Shanghai Jiao Tong University's (上海交通大学) computer science discipline ranked first in the world in 2025.
Zhangjiang Advanced Research Institute (张江高等研究院) has gathered 83 high-level scientific research teams, with more than 60 national-level talents. The public scientific device platform is open and shared to interdisciplinary teams. The Research Institute has established an interdisciplinary fund, requiring two teams from different disciplines to jointly apply and invest together; it has registered a "new type of R&D institution legal person" to smoothly connect local, industrial, and policy resources.
Strengthening "change," unbinding original innovation with evaluation reform——
Original innovation requires long-term cultivation and free growth. The Siyuan Institute (思源研究院) came into being, and "allowing trial and error" was written into the system. It is not restricted by on-campus assessment indicators, and adopts annual academic reports, mid-term diagnostic assessments, and 10-year full-term assessments. The "Jiao Tong University (交通大学) 2030 Plan" supports scientific and technological talents under the age of 35 to carry out high-risk, non-consensus, and disruptive research.
"In-depth exploration of fundamental scientific issues, China is launching an impact on the field of basic research." Zhang Jie (张杰), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and Director of the Li Zhengdao (李政道) Institute of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), introduced that the institute has adjusted the evaluation method, not looking at "hats" and not counting papers, but looking at innovation ability, future potential, and original contribution.
What the national strategy needs is the direction of independent innovation. The "offshore large-scale cutter suction dredging equipment" has achieved technological independence and controllability. Behind major achievements such as "Hualong One" (华龙一号), "Tianwen-1" (天问一号), the "Chang'e Project" (嫦娥工程), and "Beidou Navigation" (北斗导航) are the efforts of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) team.
The innovation chain, the industrial chain, and the talent chain are linked together. Relying on the "Greater Zero Bay" (大零号湾) science and technology innovation source function area created by Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), concept verification, incubation acceleration, and industrial landing... The "first kilometer" of basic research and the "last kilometer" of achievement transformation are being drawn on a map. A new paradigm of industry-university-research integration, in which enterprises "propose questions" and universities "answer questions," is accelerating its growth by jointly building the Smart Energy Innovation Academy (智慧能源创新学院) with State Power Investment Corporation (国家电投) and the Puyuan Future Technology Academy (溥渊未来技术学院) with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (宁德时代).
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the contract amount for the transformation of scientific and technological achievements of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) exceeded 7 billion yuan; in 2023, it won 8 National Science and Technology Awards (国家科学技术奖); for 16 consecutive years, the total number of National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金) projects has ranked first among national universities.
Achieving Distant Goals with Sincerity in Gathering Talents
——Striving for "World-Class with Chinese Characteristics" in a Global Perspective
On April 29, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Shanghai (上海) and came to "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) in Xuhui District (徐汇区) to communicate with young innovative talents. The only "foreign face" on the scene was Bertrand de Lesquen, a foreign teacher from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) Paris Elite Institute of Technology (巴黎卓越工程师学院).
"Internationalization" is an important characteristic of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学). Implementing the strategic deployment of the Party Central Committee to "accelerate the construction of universities and advantageous disciplines with Chinese characteristics and world-class standards," Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) is more determined: "Chinese characteristics" require taking root in China to run schools, and "world-class" requires global competitiveness and influence.
To create a first-class university, gather talents from all over the world and use them.
In 2023, Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) launched the "President's Direct Line" (校长直通车) mechanism to establish a special channel for the identification and introduction of top talents. It takes as little as one month to complete the introduction of a key talent at the college level; decisions can be made at the school level within a week. Supporting measures such as medical security, housing support, and children's education have been incorporated into the talent work system.
The effect is obvious. The recent three outstanding youth science fund projects (overseas) have achieved full coverage of disciplines; among the selected candidates in 2025, nearly 60% come from the world's top universities ranked in the top 20 globally or in the top 5 in their disciplines.
To create a first-class university, promote the "Global Jiao Tong University (交通大学)" strategy system.
Guided by national strategic needs, integrate high-quality international resources and strengthen opening-up and mutual learning. Promote the smooth transformation of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学) - University of Michigan Joint Institute (密西根学院) to the Pujiang International College (浦江国际学院), create the Paris Elite Institute of Technology (巴黎卓越工程师学院), and cultivate elite engineering talents proficient in Chinese, English, and French; create projects such as the "Global Challenge Program" and carry out joint degree programs at the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral levels with 43 top overseas universities.
"We hope to enable students to understand China in the world coordinates and respond to the world in Chinese practice, and build a 'reservoir' of sustainable international talent cultivation for the future." said Wang Hesheng (王贺升), Dean of the Pujiang International College (浦江国际学院) of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学).
The story of a university and a country is converging into a great river of the times, surging forward and growing endlessly.
Return to TopOn April 1st, the Spring Employment Promotion Campaign and the Jiangsu Nursing Vocational College (江苏护理职业学院) 2026 graduate spring campus recruitment fair was held in Huaian (淮安), Jiangsu (江苏). More than 80 enterprises and institutions from Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江) and other places participated, covering hospitals, rehabilitation institutions, pharmaceutical companies, health management institutions, etc., providing more than 2,000 job opportunities for graduates. The picture shows students discussing at the recruitment fair on that day.
Photo by Zhao Qirui (赵启瑞) (People's Vision)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 游 仪
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This year's "Government Work Report" proposed the implementation of new infrastructure projects such as ultra-large-scale intelligent computing clusters and computing-electricity coordination, which has aroused social attention.
In Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省), the Lianghekou Hydropower Station (两河口水电站) on the Yalong River (雅砻江) has built a high-altitude cavern-style intelligent computing center, creating a "green electricity + computing power" integration project to achieve zero-carbon computing power supply.
At the foot of the mountain, the Yalong River (雅砻江) flows continuously, and in the tunnel, white computing power cabins are neatly arranged.
Located at an altitude of 2,800 meters on the western Sichuan Plateau (川西高原), is China's (中国) first high-altitude cavern-style intelligent computing center. The six computing power cabins are hidden in the mountains beside the dam, deploying a total of 2,000 domestically produced computing power chips, with a computing capacity equivalent to 240 million desktop computers for daily office use.
In December 2025, relying on the Lianghekou Hydropower Station (两河口水电站), the computing-electricity integration demonstration project was officially put into operation in Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省). The construction tunnel group left over from the construction period of the hydropower station was "turned waste into treasure," and the computer room "drilled" into the "belly" of the hydropower station to explore the empowerment of green electricity to zero-carbon computing power.
Natural "Refrigerator" Provides Constant Temperature and Humidity Environment
The tunnel group of Lianghekou Hydropower Station (两河口水电站) was originally to be buried, but now it has become a natural "constant temperature computer room." Passing through the entrance of the cave and entering the computer room, a burst of coolness hits the face.
"The temperature here is only 5 degrees Celsius all year round, with constant temperature and humidity, which greatly reduces energy consumption." Pointing to the flashing server indicator lights, Wang Wensong (王文松), executive deputy director of the Lianghekou Hydropower Plant (两河口水力发电厂) of Yalong River Company (雅砻江公司), said.
Computing power, as the "highway network of the digital age," is an important new infrastructure. In March 2025, the Lianghekou computing-electricity integration demonstration project was launched. Guotou Group Yalong River Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. (国投集团雅砻江流域水电开发有限公司) and China Telecom Co., Ltd. Sichuan Branch (中国电信股份有限公司四川分公司) jointly built the project to explore the coordinated operation mechanism of computing power and electricity.
Why was the project selected here due to its remote location and high altitude?
"To build a computing center, not only must the transportation and communication conditions be good, but it must also be safe and stable." Wang Wensong (王文松) said that the computing power cabin tunnel is buried hundreds of meters deep, and the Lianghekou Dam (两河口大坝) originally had strong earthquake resistance. In addition, the constant low temperature brought by the high-altitude tunnel and the sufficient and low-cost power supply, "the project can also share the high-level security configuration of the Lianghekou Hydropower Station (两河口水电站). It is a win-win situation to deploy here."
Strong computing power means high energy consumption. The six computing power cabins consume 1,400 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour, which is equivalent to the power consumption of 1,400 air conditioners operating simultaneously in one hour.
"We often use the PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) value to measure the greenness of an intelligent computing center, which refers to the ratio of the total energy consumption of all equipment in the intelligent computing center to the energy consumption of IT equipment. The closer the PUE value is to 1, the higher the energy utilization efficiency." Liu Yuanshou (刘元收), director of the Operations Department of the Lianghekou Hydropower Plant (两河口水力发电厂) of Yalong River Company (雅砻江公司), introduced that the ventilation in the cave is good and the temperature is low, and the PUE value is controlled below 1.2, reaching the leading level in China (中国).
With the accelerated construction of computing power infrastructure, computing-electricity coordination will also usher in accelerated development. "Under the national strategic deployment and policy support, a large amount of green electricity resources in Sichuan (四川) can be transformed into computing power advantages." Wang Wensong (王文松) said.
Sufficient Green Electricity Guarantees Stable Supply of Computing Power
Liu Yuanshou (刘元收) has been working and living in Lianghekou (两河口) for nearly 7 years, where the air is thin, it is difficult to fall asleep, and the mountains are often blocked by heavy snow, and he is already used to it. However, building a computing center in a high-altitude area is still a considerable challenge for him.
"During construction, high altitude leads to problems such as high insulation and arc risk of electrical equipment, and reduced equipment capacity." Liu Yuanshou (刘元收) said that the team did its best to overcome the problems. In response to the low air pressure caused by the high altitude, they designed a combined solution of "sealed plateau cabin + airtight pressurization automatic control system" to use technology to restore the operating environment of the plain; in order to accurately deploy water supply and power supply lines, team members transformed into "spidermen," wearing safety ropes, climbing slopes and going down wells over and over again.
"The construction tunnel has a stable cavern geological structure, but to build a computer room, it must be further tested." Liu Yuanshou (刘元收) said that during that time, he and his colleagues put on headlamps, carried oxygen tanks, and went into the tunnel with instruments. Walking to the middle section for about 3 kilometers, they tested every two hours and recorded the humidity and temperature stability in the cave. A group of three or four people had to test more than 10 times a day.
While building the intelligent computing center, at the end of 2025, the Suorong Photovoltaic Power Station (索绒光伏电站) of the Yalong River (雅砻江) project group was put into operation. Together with the Kela Phase I Photovoltaic Power Station (柯拉一期光伏电站), the Kela Phase II Photovoltaic Power Station (柯拉二期光伏电站), and the Lianghekou Hydropower Station (两河口水电站), it constitutes the world's largest hydro-solar complementary project of "3 million kilowatts of hydropower + 3 million kilowatts of photovoltaics."
From hydropower to photovoltaic power generation, and then to pumped storage power generation, water and solar resources allow the Lianghekou computing-electricity integration demonstration project to obtain sufficient green electricity throughout the year, ensuring a stable supply of computing power. At present, Yalong River Company (雅砻江公司) is also building a ten-million-kilowatt-level "hydro-wind-solar-storage-hydrogen-computing" full-factor integrated demonstration zone in Lianghekou (两河口).
Green Computing Power Supports Cutting-Edge Scientific Exploration
The green computing power output from the Lianghekou Intelligent Computing Center (两河口智算中心) reaches Haizi Mountain (海子山) in Daocheng County (稻城县), hundreds of kilometers away, through optical fibers, crossing mountains and ridges. Here, the national major science and technology infrastructure - the High Altitude Cosmic Ray Observatory (LHAASO) (高海拔宇宙线观测站 (拉索)) - receives signals from the depths of the universe.
"As soon as the project was completed, we cooperated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) to provide computing power support for LHAASO (拉索) on Haizi Mountain (海子山), using artificial intelligence to efficiently carry out particle physics data analysis." Wang Wensong (王文松) said that the green electricity generated by the hydropower station has been transformed into computing power to solve the mystery of the origin of cosmic rays, providing support for cutting-edge scientific exploration.
With the stable operation of the project, Yalong River Company (雅砻江公司) also used part of its computing power to build an artificial intelligence innovation platform to develop professional large models such as weather forecasting and production operation and maintenance. For China Telecom (中国电信), self-developed computing power can not only meet the intelligent computing needs of its own system, but also provide computing power services to the outside world through the intelligent computing scheduling platform "Xirang" (息壤). The Lianghekou Intelligent Computing Center (两河口智算中心) can also provide computing power support for major scientific research projects of universities and the construction of digital cities by local governments.
Facing the major strategic needs of the country, in order to strengthen the top-level coordination and element aggregation of data resources in the Chengdu-Chongqing region, Sichuan (四川) has formulated a construction plan for the Chengdu-Chongqing National Hub Node (Sichuan) of the National Integrated Computing Power Network.
In 2024, the Sichuan Province (四川省) Action Plan for High-Quality Development of Computing Power Infrastructure was issued, coordinating the construction of the energy system and the development of computing power - encouraging the strengthening of the connection between the construction planning of data center clusters and the planning of new energy development and power grid construction, and supporting the layout of green computing power centers in areas with limited power transmission sections in the "Three Prefectures" (三州) of the province and with stable regulation capabilities, in accordance with the green electricity direct supply and source-grid-load-storage integration model, promoting the local and nearby consumption of renewable energy, and promoting the integrated development of Sichuan's (四川) green electricity advantages and intelligent computing power clusters.
The surging Yalong River (雅砻江) is being transformed into green computing power, empowering thousands of industries. "Next, relying on the abundant tunnel resources of the Lianghekou (两河口) project group, we plan to replicate and promote this model." Wang Wensong (王文松) said that in the future, they will continue to deepen the exploration of integrated green electricity direct supply of source-grid-load-storage, and actively integrate into the national "Eastern Data and Western Computing" (东数西算) strategic layout.
Return to TopBy: 汤庆园
New infrastructure is an important carrier for China to cultivate new quality productive forces and a key support for building a modern infrastructure system. In December 2018, the Central Economic Work Conference (中央经济工作会议) proposed strengthening the construction of new infrastructure such as artificial intelligence, the industrial internet, and the Internet of Things. Over the past seven years, China's new infrastructure has achieved leapfrog development and disruptive breakthroughs.
Data reflects development achievements. By the end of 2025, China had built 4.838 million 5G base stations, and 5G has been integrated into 91 of the 97 major categories of the national economy, with more than 8,000 5G factories nationwide. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China strengthened the construction of new information infrastructure, and its digital infrastructure is now in a world-leading position in terms of scale and technology. New business forms such as the industrial internet, vehicle networking, smart energy, smart transportation, and smart healthcare are accelerating.
At the same time, new infrastructure still faces multiple challenges in terms of industrial layout, capital investment, and core technologies, and is in a critical transition stage from "spreading the stall" to "climbing to a new level." For example, some provinces have not fully considered the long-term benefits of new infrastructure projects and the overall national layout, resulting in duplicate construction and waste of resources, leading to low facility utilization rates and difficulty in forming economies of scale and synergistic effects. There are gaps in the coverage of smart infrastructure between regions and between urban and rural areas, and technical standards are not uniform in some fields, hindering interconnection.
Laying out new infrastructure requires strengthening scientific planning and overall coordination. Optimize the industrial structure of new infrastructure, promote clustered and integrated development, unify and standardize technical standards, and break down compatibility barriers.
By adhering to adapting to local conditions and implementing precise policies, and strengthening systematic and coordinated layout, China's new infrastructure will usher in new development and reach new heights, consolidate the foundation for innovation, and empower economic and social development.
(The author is a lecturer at the School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学), and this article was compiled and edited by You Yi (游仪), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 鲜 敢
Computing power, a new quality productive force in the digital economy era, lays the foundation for intelligent and convenient production and life, and is also a new engine for promoting high-quality economic development. As a high energy-consuming industry, the rapid growth of the computing power industry is backed by a huge demand for energy, especially electricity.
How to achieve a balance between industrial scale expansion and green transformation? Computing-electricity synergy provides a feasible path. Based on the country's forward-looking layout and relying on advantages such as terrain, climate, and energy, various regions are exploring the construction of computing-electricity synergy projects in accordance with local conditions, building data centers on the seabed, plateaus, and next to hydropower stations to improve efficiency and reduce energy consumption. This not only provides computing power guarantees for the development of the digital economy and the intelligent economy, but also empowers green development through energy conservation and carbon reduction.
With the continuous development of new forms of the intelligent economy, the demand for electricity from computing power will continue to usher in explosive growth. Through the two paths of "computing follows electricity, and electricity follows computing," and the scientific layout of "green electricity + intelligent computing," the "Artificial Intelligence +" will be further deepened and expanded, and new economic growth points will continue to be cultivated.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), April 1st (Reporter Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余)) - The People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) released the financial market operation in February this year, showing that from January to February this year, Panda bonds (熊猫债券) issued a total of 50.44 billion yuan, and 4 new overseas institutions entered the interbank bond market. As of the end of February 2026, the托管余额 of overseas institutions in China's (中国) bond market was 3.4 trillion yuan, accounting for 1.7% of the托管余额 of China's (中国) bond market.
Panda bonds (熊猫债券) are bonds issued in China (境内) by overseas institutions and denominated in RMB. It is not only an important measure to promote the opening of China's (我国) bond market, but also an important tool to broaden RMB cross-border financing channels and help the internationalization of the RMB. With the continuous deepening of China's (我国) high-level financial opening, the innovation of the Panda bond (熊猫债券) market is becoming increasingly active, the institutional arrangements are becoming more internationalized, and the use of funds is becoming more convenient.
The data shows that in February this year, the average daily turnover of interbank lending in China's (我国) money market was 429.32 billion yuan, an increase of 87.1% year-on-year; the average daily turnover of bond repurchase in the interbank market was 7.4 trillion yuan, an increase of 52.9% year-on-year. At the end of February 2026, the outstanding balance of interbank lending was 1.0 trillion yuan, and the outstanding balance of bond repurchase in the interbank market was 11.6 trillion yuan.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 铁 张丹华
On the banks of the Wei River, the phoenix trees stand tall and straight; in this university with a history of 130 years, the original aspiration remains as firm as a rock.
Walking into the Western Relocation Museum of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学), the ten large characters "Born for the Nation, Born for the Era" are strikingly visible, silently narrating the sonorous vows that span a century.
In 1896, the predecessor of Jiaotong University, Nanyang Public School (南洋公学), was born on the banks of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, embarking on a journey of "strengthening the country through education" amidst national crisis. In 1956, in response to the call of the state, the main body of Jiaotong University moved westward to Xi'an, forging the Western Relocation Spirit of "Bearing the overall situation in mind, selfless dedication, promoting tradition, and pioneering with arduous effort."
On April 22, 2020, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) met with 14 veteran professors of the Western Relocation here and pointed out: "The core of the 'Western Relocation Spirit' is patriotism, and the essence is to listen to the Party's command and follow the Party, sharing the same breath and destiny with the Party and the country, with the nation and the people, which has profound practical and historical significance."
Celebrating the 130th anniversary of the founding of the school and the 70th anniversary of the Western Relocation, from the original aspiration of strengthening the country through education to the steadfast commitment to rooting in the west, this century-old university inherits and promotes the Western Relocation Spirit, and its powerful pulse always beats together with the country and the nation.
Cultivating Talents for the Country, Serving the Country's Major Strategic Needs
In the office of Professor Wang Fei of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), various spacecraft models are displayed, and a pair of robotic arms is particularly eye-catching.
In order to provide key technical support for China's manned space station, Chang'e 5 (嫦娥五号) and Chang'e 6 (嫦娥六号), Wang Fei led his team through 15 years and more than 2 million data simulations, and finally successfully installed bright "eyes" on the "arms" of Chinese spacecraft.
Serving the country's major strategic needs is Wang Fei's research orientation, and it is also Xi'an Jiaotong University's consistent patriotic gene.
In 1896, the smoke of the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895 had not yet dissipated, and Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) was founded in Shanghai; in 1956, the main body of Jiaotong University moved westward, "marching towards science and building the Great Northwest." From Nanyang Public School (南洋公学) to Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), the school's orientation has always been clear: whatever the country needs, Jiaotong University will create.
Currently, the world is undergoing accelerated changes, and the rejuvenation of the nation is unstoppable. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "We must place the cultivation of talents urgently needed for major national strategies in a more prominent position, focus on creating top-notch innovative talents, and promote the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement."
Bearing in mind the entrustment, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) takes scientific and technological development and national strategic needs as its driving force, continues to tackle key problems, and forges swords for the country. The historical mission has been enriched and expanded in the new era:
Looking out to the ocean, the Li Jie team of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) participated in the research and development of the first coastal low-altitude intelligent supervision platform in the country, and after 90 days of tackling key problems, created a new benchmark for technology to protect the sea.
Asking the sky, the Chen Yu team of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) joined 10 units to develop the first ultraviolet photoelectron spectrometer in China, helping the aerospace and semiconductor fields to solve technical problems.
Serving people's livelihood, Ren Xiaobing of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and his team created "super piezoelectric ceramics," which are expected to provide key material support for the next generation of miniature robots.
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With a wealth of experience, eight disciplines of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have been selected as national "double first-class" construction disciplines, and 19 disciplines have entered the top 1% of world academic institutions; 265 provincial and ministerial-level bases, including 11 national (national) key laboratories and 1 national major scientific and technological infrastructure, constitute a hard-core support platform for serving national strategies.
"In recent years, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has continued to strengthen strategic-oriented, frontier-oriented, and market-oriented basic research, improve the organizational level of basic research, and serve high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement," said Zhang Liqun (张立群), President of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.
Integration of Production and Education, Laboratory Achievements Enter the Production Line
Ma Yuan (马元) is the director of the Turbine Combination Engine Research Office of the Eleventh Research Institute of the Sixth Academy of China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (中国航天科技集团公司), but his daily office is located in the new campus of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) in the China Western Science and Technology Innovation Harbor (中国西部科技创新港). Along with Ma Yuan (马元), nearly 100 engineers from the Aerospace Science and Technology Group, as well as more than 30 professors and more than 200 doctoral and master students from mechanics, power, and materials disciplines of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), are stationed here.
This "national team" of liquid rocket engines is the "Aerospace Return Advanced Propulsion Innovation Center" jointly built by the Sixth Academy of Aerospace and Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) - an innovative joint body with deep integration of schools and enterprises. Here, professors and engineers sit next to each other, and thesis data and production line reports interact in real time, and the "series" R&D of schools and enterprises has become a "parallel" tackling of key problems.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Strengthen the supporting role of education for science and technology and talents." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "deepen the integrated reform of education, science and technology, and talent, strengthen planning coordination, policy coordination, resource integration, and evaluation linkage, and promote the virtuous interaction between independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talents."
The innovative joint body reflects Xi'an Jiaotong University's (西安交大) continuous exploration in the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent.
"Early cooperation between schools and enterprises was mainly based on technology transfer, like 'blind dates'; later joint research and development was like 'falling in love'; now, co-building physical laboratories is like 'getting a marriage certificate'," Ma Yuan (马元) said, comparing the integration of schools and enterprises.
"Students work with engineers, and their skills improve faster," said Liu Jinxin (刘金鑫), professor of the School of Mechanical Engineering of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and chief engineer of the school-enterprise innovation joint body. More than 2,300 engineering master's and doctoral students of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have grown up in engineering environments and practical projects, and many of their graduation design topics come from technical problems in practice.
Today's Innovation Harbor (创新港) has the prototype of a "smart town" - students are in the laboratory in the morning, exchange ideas with enterprise engineers in the cafeteria at noon, and roadshow projects in the venture capital coffee shop in the evening. The campus, park, and community are integrated, and education, science and technology, and talent are driving side by side.
As of now, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has signed agreements with 255 companies such as China Mobile (中国移动), General Technology Group (通用技术集团), and NARI Group (南瑞集团) to jointly build joint research platforms, and established 100 school-enterprise deep integration innovation joint bodies. Schools and enterprises have joined hands to solve 3,124 key technical problems, the application and transformation rate of patent achievements has increased to 22%, and 281 scientific and technological innovation enterprises have been incubated locally.
Western Relocation Casts the Soul, the Spirit's Spark Spreads in Youth
In the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), seeing the rows of saxaul and red willow planted outside the oil well, Ma Jinlong (马金龙), the station manager of the Manshen Joint Station of the Had Oil and Gas Management Area of Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田), always remembers the phoenix trees planted by the teachers and students of the Western Relocation on the campus of his alma mater.
In the 1950s, the Party Central Committee and the State Council made the decision to move Jiaotong University to Xi'an. In 1956, professors took the lead on the road, and students actively followed, and more than 6,000 teachers and students set off with their backpacks, "Wherever the Party tells us to go, we will go with our bags on our backs."
Three years later, Jiaotong University was divided into Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and Shanghai Jiaotong University (上海交大) with the same roots and origins. Of the 767 teachers registered at Jiaotong University at the end of 1956, 537 moved to Xi'an. They closely linked their personal future with the destiny of the country, and used the spirit of Western Relocation to build a first-class university on the land of Sanqin (三秦).
"I hope that the teachers and students of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学) will inherit the spirit of Western Relocation and contribute wisdom and strength to the development of the west and the construction of the country." In December 2017, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made important instructions on the joint letter from the old professors of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学).
Westward, further westward. In 2013, Ma Jinlong (马金龙) graduated from the Process Equipment and Control Engineering major of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) and came to the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠). As a core member of the project, he participated in the development and construction of China's largest ultra-deep oilfield, Fuman Oilfield (富满油田), and successively overcame problems such as the supporting process of normal temperature gathering and transportation and the long-term maintenance of high-sulfur devices.
"There are 30 Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) graduates working in Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田) like me," said Ma Jinlong (马金龙). "We believe that there is only a desolate desert, not a desolate life."
On the Western Relocation Square (西迁广场) in the southwest corner of the campus of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大), many students often stop and ponder in front of the relocation relief. Every night, the footprints on the "Journey of Jiaotong University to the West" sculpture on the square light up in turn, like the footsteps of the westward journey that year, step by step to today.
"Most of the older generation of Western Relocation people have long been sleeping in the loess land, but the spark of the Western Relocation Spirit has spread in generations of young people," said Jia Jianming (贾箭鸣), an expert in the history of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大).
Since the Western Relocation, Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) has trained nearly 400,000 talents of various types, more than half of whom have taken root in the central and western regions, and has trained or employed 96 academicians.
"I am willing to dedicate my knowledge and love to this land and contribute to the development of education in the west." For more than 20 years, 309 students from the graduate student teaching group of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大) have gone to 22 schools in the west to carry out teaching work, serving more than 20,000 students; the "Xinqiao Wuzhi" youth volunteer team has jointly built 57 ecological and convenient bridges in 9 provinces with volunteers from universities across the country, innovating models to help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside; many graduates have served the economic and social development of the central and western regions through grass-roots projects such as "Three Supports and One Assistance" and "Western Plan"... "Make contributions to the place where the motherland needs it most," Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大学) students keep in mind and act diligently.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, all teachers and students of the school will inherit and promote the spirit of Western Relocation, integrate into national strategies, integrate into local development, and integrate into industrial innovation, so as to better support the construction of a strong country," said Lu Jianjun (卢建军), Secretary of the Party Committee of Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交大).
Return to TopEvery April 1st is International Bird Day. Yang County (洋县), Hanzhong City (汉中市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), known as the "Crested Ibis Hometown," recently welcomed the crested ibis breeding season. In the rapeseed flower fields and forests around the Hanzhong Crested Ibis National Nature Reserve (汉中朱鹮国家级自然保护区) Crested Ibis Artificial Breeding Center, wild crested ibises can be seen everywhere, carrying branches to build nests, foraging for food, and playing.
The crested ibis is one of the world's endangered birds and is known as the "Oriental Gem." In 1981, Chinese scientists discovered the only remaining seven wild crested ibises in Yang County (洋县). Over the past 45 years, through a combination of habitat restoration, artificial breeding, and public participation, Yang County's (洋县) crested ibis protection and population development have been remarkably effective. The local ecological environment has continued to improve, forming a poetic picture of people and birds living together in harmony, a truly 人鸟相伴 (rén niǎo xiāng bàn - "people birds together accompany," people and birds living together) and 和谐共生 (hé xié gòng shēng - "harmonious together live," harmonious coexistence).
Xinhua News Agency reporter Zou Jingyi (邹竞一) photographed and reported.
Return to TopFrom multiple humanoid robots competing on the Spring Festival Gala stage, showcasing "skills" such as "backflips" and intelligent interaction, to "embodied intelligence" being written into the "Government Work Report" again, becoming a popular term at this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国两会), the dual forces of technological breakthroughs and policy support are accelerating the development of China's robotics industry.
In some factory workshops, robots have routinely entered production lines, undertaking a variety of tasks; in the fields, robots have transformed into new agricultural tools and machinery, and "relying on intelligence to farm" is moving from vision to reality.
In government service halls, they have become good helpers for the public, improving efficiency; in classrooms, they interact with students, igniting imagination for future technology; in business districts, they dance and deliver coffee, adding new consumption scenarios. Security patrols, supermarket shopping guides, scenic spot services, medical assistance, home-based elderly care... robots are gradually entering people's lives.
When artificial intelligence becomes "embodied," and when robots have intelligent brains, the landscape of future industries becomes more tangible. Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan (十五五)," only by seizing opportunities, continuing to tackle key problems, and constantly shaping leading advantages can we better win the future of industrial development, contribute to high-quality economic development, and add color to people's beautiful lives.
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Return to TopBy: 李玉举
Not long ago, the "Study Q&A on Xi Jinping's Economic Thought" (习近平经济思想学习问答) (hereinafter referred to as "Q&A"), compiled by the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) and the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), was officially published. This, following the first volume of "Selected Works on Xi Jinping's Economy" (习近平经济文选), "Study Outline of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought" (习近平经济思想学习纲要), "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's Discourses on Socialist Economic Construction" (习近平关于社会主义经济建设论述摘编), and "Introduction to Xi Jinping's Economic Thought" (习近平经济思想概论), is another authoritative reading material for the broad masses of Party members, cadres, and the public to deeply study and implement Xi Jinping's Economic Thought. The "Q&A" closely adheres to the basic framework of the "Study Outline of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought," dividing it into 14 sections and 50 questions, systematically and comprehensively answering a series of hot and focal issues in China's economic development in a question-and-answer format. Studying and utilizing the "Q&A" well will play a significant role in continuously deepening the study and implementation of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought.
A distinct characteristic of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought is its strong problem awareness.
Problems are the voice of the times. Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, China's economic development has faced multiple shocks, including a deep recession in the world economy, individual countries launching trade wars and tariff wars one after another, the global pandemic of COVID-19, and the escalating and prolonged geopolitical conflicts. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) made a series of major judgments, stating that China's economic development is in a stage of "three-period superposition" and that China's economic development has entered a "new normal," facing triple pressures of demand contraction, supply shocks, and weakening expectations. He scientifically analyzed the main contradictions and problems facing China's economic development. The complex and intricate domestic and international economic situation has presented many situations that have not been encountered since the reform and opening up, requiring timely new answers based on changes in the situation. The "Q&A" fully reflects the scientific connotation and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, focusing on the fundamental guarantee, fundamental position, historical orientation, guiding principles, path selection, distinct themes, institutional foundation, and important safeguards of China's economic development. It raises questions and provides answers from perspectives of why, what, and how.
For example, regarding "why," the "Q&A" answers why it is necessary to adhere to and strengthen the Party's overall leadership over economic work, pointing out that from the establishment of an independent and relatively complete industrial system and national economic system during the period of socialist revolution and construction, to the gradual establishment of a socialist market economic system during the new period of reform and opening up and socialist modernization, and then to leading high-quality development in the new era, every economic leap cannot be separated from the Party's overall leadership. This clearly explains from a historical perspective that adhering to and strengthening the Party's overall leadership over economic work is the fundamental prerequisite for ensuring that China's economy develops in the correct direction. As another example, regarding "what," the "Q&A" provides profound explanations of iconic concepts in Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, such as the new development stage, the new development concept, the new development pattern, high-quality development, and common prosperity, which not only point out the correct direction but also prevent misunderstandings. Furthermore, regarding "how," the "Q&A" provides detailed explanations and instructions on a series of key tasks in economic work. Focusing on expanding domestic demand as a strategic base point, it proposes policy measures from multiple aspects, such as vigorously boosting consumption, expanding effective investment, accelerating the construction of a modern circulation system, and coordinating the expansion of domestic demand strategy with deepening supply-side structural reform. Aiming at promoting high-quality development of the manufacturing industry, it proposes six key areas of work: grasping transformation and upgrading, grasping innovation leadership, grasping security guarantees, grasping main body cultivation, grasping environmental shaping, and grasping mutually beneficial win-win situations. This fully reflects that economic operation is a multi-dimensional, multi-level, and dynamically changing large system. To do a good job, it is necessary to both "**操其要于上**" (cāo qí yào yú shàng - "grasp the essentials at the top," to focus on strategic planning and top-level design) and "**分其详于下**" (fēn qí xiáng yú xià - "divide the details below," to grasp the key points of work).
Xi Jinping's Economic Thought has the distinct theoretical quality of keeping pace with the times.
The "Q&A" comprehensively elaborates on the formation background, rich connotation, theoretical system, and practical requirements of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, systematically revealing that Xi Jinping's Economic Thought is the latest theoretical achievement of Marxist political economy in contemporary China.
It clarifies that Xi Jinping's Economic Thought has formed a scientific, complete, and logically rigorous theoretical system. Since the new era, standing at a new historical starting point, where will China's economy go, how to firmly grasp the "bull nose" of economic construction, promote the stable and healthy development of the economy, maintain strong determination in the face of unpredictable situations, and win strategic initiative in the journey of building on past achievements and opening up the future? A series of major issues urgently need new theories to answer and solve. Xi Jinping's Economic Thought responds to the changes of the times, stands at the forefront of the times, and speaks out for the times, grasping the general trend of human development, the overall pattern of world changes, and the grand history of China's development. It has been formed, continuously enriched, and developed in the process of scientifically answering a series of major theoretical and practical issues in economic development in the new era, elevating our Party's understanding of the laws of socialist economic construction to a new height. This theoretical system is rich in connotation, systematic and complete, adheres to principles and innovates, including a series of iconic concepts, original ideas, and principled theoretical achievements, which powerfully support the "magnificent building" of the entire ideological system.
It clarifies that Xi Jinping's Economic Thought contains rich principles, theories, and philosophies. Currently, the internal and external environment facing China's economic development has many new characteristics, including the accelerated evolution of the world's century-old changes, the domestic economy entering a stage of high-quality development, historical changes in the main social contradictions, the accelerated transformation of new and old driving forces, and the entry of reform into a critical period and deep-water zone. Many situations have not been encountered before. Profound changes in the development environment, situation, conditions, and paths urgently require new ideological guidance. The "Q&A" fully clarifies that Xi Jinping's Economic Thought profoundly answers a series of major theoretical and practical issues in China's economic development in the new era. For example, the "Q&A" mentions that since the new era, China's economy has remained stable and developed despite winds and waves and through cycles, thanks to four sets of "governance codes," which explains the profound principles behind "China's governance." As another example, how to understand the important position of the real economy in the national economy? The "Q&A" mentions that developed countries all started with the real economy, and also mentions that some former powers have declined and some countries have fallen into the "middle-income trap," and a very important lesson is "the decline of the real economy" and "the hollowing out of industry." This explains from both positive and negative experiences and lessons the profound reason why we must focus on developing the economy on the real economy. Xi Jinping's Economic Thought makes new scientific answers to a series of major theoretical issues such as the relationship between economy and politics, the principles of economic development, the stage of economic development, and the relationship between production and needs; it requires adhering to the general tone of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and promoting the effective improvement of quality and the reasonable growth of quantity in the economy, which fully reflects the profound philosophy of the unity of opposites and the mutual transformation of quality in materialist dialectics. At the same time, Xi Jinping's Economic Thought adheres to Marxism as the soul and the excellent traditional Chinese culture as the root, demonstrating strong theoretical innovation vitality and practical power.
Xi Jinping's Economic Thought is a scientific action guide for promoting high-quality economic development in China.
Xi Jinping's Economic Thought has both the innovation power of keeping pace with the times and the inspiring appeal, and it is a powerful ideological weapon for guiding the entire Party and the people of the whole country to promote high-quality economic development, scientifically cope with major risks and challenges, and comprehensively build a modern socialist country. The "Q&A" fully demonstrates the truth power of this important thought in solving practical problems through a large number of practical cases and detailed data, and also reveals the bright prospects of the Chinese economy. For example, it points out that the domestically produced large aircraft C919 is a landmark achievement of "**国企民企协作，合力办成大事**" (guó qǐ mín qǐ xié zuò, hé lì bàn chéng dà shì - "state-owned and private enterprises cooperating to accomplish great things together," emphasizing the power of collaboration), the stunning appearance of "Cyber Wushu" on the Spring Festival Gala stage is an epitome of promoting quality change, efficiency change, and power change, and the rejuvenation of bearing enterprises through reform and innovation is a vivid example of China's implementation of supply-side structural reform and shaping new development momentum and new advantages.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xi Jinping's Economic Thought will continue to guide the direction, reveal the laws, and unify actions with a systematic and scientific theoretical system, leading the giant ship of the Chinese economy to ride the waves and move forward steadily and far. We must deeply grasp the principles, theories, and philosophies contained in Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, and continuously deepen the systematic and theoretical research and interpretation of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought; consciously be loyal practitioners of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, continuously use the Party's innovative theories to study new situations and solve new problems, continuously deepen the regularity understanding of doing a good job in economic work in the new era, and improve the Party's ability and level of leading economic and social development; consciously be active disseminators of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought, combine the rich practices of China's economic development in the new era, tell the vivid story of China's economic development, and further demonstrate the truth power and practical power of Xi Jinping's Economic Thought.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Xi Jinping Economic Thought Research Center (习近平经济思想研究中心))
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General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) creatively proposed holistic national security concept has made significant original contributions to Marxist national security theory, providing important lessons for countries that hope to maintain national security and social stability on the basis of independence and self-reliance, guiding the direction for promoting international common security, and vividly embodying the broad international vision and great global perspective of Chinese Communists. The holistic national security concept systematically answers the world's question of "what kind of security concept does the world need and how to achieve common security," and its far-reaching value and global significance are constantly highlighted. We must deeply understand and fully appreciate it, further enhance our theoretical confidence and conscious action in implementing the holistic national security concept and safeguarding and shaping the national security of a major country in the new era, inject more valuable stability and certainty into a turbulent world, and promote the world towards a better and brighter future.
The Theoretical Trait of Having the World in Mind
The holistic national security concept integrates Marxist national security theory with contemporary Chinese security practice and outstanding traditional Chinese strategic culture, profoundly summarizes historical experiences and lessons from ancient and modern China and abroad, and accurately grasps the inherent contradictions of the world's century-long changes. It has the inherent character and theoretical traits of being broad in vision and open and inclusive.
Adhering to the fundamental position of Marxism, it contains the lofty spirit of internationalism. The Marxist worldview and methodology are the ideological weapons for communists to understand and transform the world. As the latest achievement in the Sinicization and modernization of Marxist national security theory, the holistic national security concept adheres to the overall perspective, systematic thinking, and developmental vision, creatively applies the scientific method of dialectical materialism, profoundly reveals the dialectical relationship between coordinating development and security, emphasizes coordinating its own security and common security, adheres to the path of peaceful development, and promotes the building of a community with a shared future for mankind. This series of theoretical innovations marks a new leap in our Party's understanding of the laws of governing the country and human social development, a major development of Marxist world history theory, and an innovative enrichment of Marxist community thought.
Inheriting the outstanding traditional Chinese culture, it upholds the grand pattern of harmonious coexistence of all nations. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Being close to benevolence and being kind to neighbors, and harmonious coexistence of all nations are the consistent ways of the world in Chinese civilization." The holistic national security concept adheres to the roots of Chinese culture, fully absorbs the essence of the Chinese civilization's way of dealing with the world, examines it with modern consciousness, historical consciousness, and developmental consciousness, and carries out creative transformation and innovative development. It adheres to grasping and handling relations with the external world with a broad mind, adhering to cooperation, innovation, the rule of law, and win-win results, analyzing the major trends in world history, handling the relationship between righteousness and benefit in the world, and responding to common human challenges. With the dialectical wisdom of internal and external cultivation, and the combination of firmness and flexibility, it abandons old concepts such as zero-sum games and alliance confrontation, transcends the Western security concepts of "absolute security" and "national strength must lead to hegemony," and radiates the wisdom of traversing ancient and modern times.
Summarizing the historical experience of rise and fall, governance and chaos, it possesses a thorough vision that spans China and foreign countries. The holistic national security concept takes an overview of the rise and fall of major powers, sees through the governance and chaos of the world, critically absorbs the theoretical achievements and practical experience of national security governance in various countries around the world, and is based on the historical position of China's "becoming strong" in the new era. Internally, it seeks development, stability, and change; externally, it seeks peace, cooperation, and win-win results. It has not only created a favorable situation for China to achieve a virtuous cycle of development and security, but also provided useful lessons for the vast number of developing countries to dynamically maintain national security in an environment of reform and opening up, and has opened up a new path that effectively achieves national security and social stability and powerfully ensures national independence and autonomy.
The Ideological Core of Overall Consideration
The holistic national security concept has developed into a complete, logically rigorous, and interconnected scientific theoretical system, with consistent positions, viewpoints, and methods. As an organic component of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想), its ideological core has far-reaching global significance.
It profoundly elucidates the dialectical relationship between national security and international security. The holistic national security concept adheres to the use of overall thinking and systematic thinking, always comprehensively examines national security in the grand context of world history, unifies Chinese national security with international security and the common security of all mankind, and creatively proposes to rely on promoting international security, emphasizing the coordination of internal and external security, its own security and common security, and profoundly reveals the dual internal and external attributes of national security, as well as the dialectical relationship between national security and international security. In stark contrast, there are still individual countries in the world that only care about their own security and disregard the security of other countries, unilaterally treat relations between countries with a zero-sum game mentality, and attempt to shape and maintain the international security pattern with their own absolute security. In essence, this is building its own security on the insecurity of other countries, which is inevitably unjust and unsustainable, creating an unsolvable security dilemma.
It systematically analyzes the basic principles and methods of safeguarding national security. The holistic national security concept adheres to viewing national security with the perspective of universal connection and eternal development, takes coordinating development and security as the fundamental guideline, adheres to taking people's security as its purpose, political security as its foundation, economic security as its basis, military, technological, cultural, and social security as its guarantee, promoting international security as its reliance, and coordinating external and internal security, homeland security and national security, traditional and non-traditional security, its own security and common security, as well as coordinating the maintenance and shaping of national security. Currently, the reason why the international security situation continues to deteriorate and many countries face various security risks and challenges is either because they have failed to handle the relationship between development and security, their own security and common security, or because they adhere to "national priority," deliberately ignore the overall and systematic nature of security, and even maliciously undermine international security, constantly exacerbating the international security dilemma.
It comprehensively provides action guidelines for promoting international common security. The holistic national security concept emphasizes both internal and external cultivation, advocating not only strengthening all aspects of "internal skills" to forge the ability to safeguard national security, but also fully exerting subjective initiative to shape the national security environment with international common security as the goal. The Global Security Initiative proposes "six persistences" that are interconnected, mutually responsive, and dialectically unified, namely, adhering to a common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept, adhering to respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, adhering to abiding by the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, adhering to attaching importance to the reasonable security concerns of all countries, adhering to resolving differences and disputes between countries peacefully through dialogue and consultation, and adhering to coordinating the maintenance of security in traditional and non-traditional fields. It positively responds to the urgent need to reform and improve global security governance, actively conforms to the universal desire of people of all countries to create a better world, powerfully promotes international common security, and writes the "international chapter" of the holistic national security concept.
Chinese Practice of Taking Action
Under the guidance of the holistic national security concept, we adhere to the path of national security with Chinese characteristics, national security has been comprehensively and powerfully safeguarded, and participation in and leadership of global security governance has become more confident and proactive, continuously demonstrating the capabilities and responsibilities of a major country.
Building a Safe China and Continuing to Write a New Chapter in the "Two Miracles." Promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities and building a higher-level Safe China are important deployments for coordinating development and security. Since the new era, under the great attention of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, the construction of Safe China has achieved major achievements, continuing to write a new chapter in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability. The practice of Chinese-style modernization shows that the modernization process does not necessarily accompany turmoil as some Western scholars believe. Powerfully safeguarding national security and social stability and building a Safe China have consolidated the material foundation for China's participation in international security cooperation and leading the transformation of global security governance, injected strong stability and positive energy into a turbulent and changing world, and provided important lessons for those countries that hope to maintain social security and stability while promoting economic and social transformation and development.
Following the path of peaceful development and always being a builder of world peace. Taking the path of peaceful development is a strategic choice made by our Party based on the trend of the times and our country's fundamental interests. This is a path that makes China's opportunities and the world's opportunities interdependent and mutually reinforcing. Looking at major countries around the world, only China has written peaceful development into the Constitution and the ruling party's constitution and elevated it to the national will. As a major developing country and a permanent member of the UN Security Council, China adheres to the path of peaceful development, does not implement security coercion, and does not accept threats and pressure, placing the solution of security problems on the basis of its own strength. This is not only a behavioral model and value leadership for the world, but also demonstrates political leadership at the level of international norms.
Practicing the Global Security Initiative and injecting new impetus into global security governance. The Global Security Initiative provides Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions that are both targeted and operable for eliminating the root causes of international conflicts, responding to various global security challenges, and improving the global security governance system. On international conflicts and hotspot issues, China has always adhered to promoting peace and talks and played a constructive role, striving to promote the proper resolution of hotspot issues such as the Ukraine crisis and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, facilitating multiple rounds of peace talks between the parties involved in the Myanmar conflict, and promoting a ceasefire and the restoration of peace between Cambodia and Thailand. China, together with 32 countries, established the International Mediation Institute, opening up a new way to resolve international disputes. In responding to non-traditional security areas such as terrorism, outer space security, artificial intelligence, public health, and transnational crime, China continues to deepen cooperation with relevant parties. Under China's example and leadership, more than 130 countries and international and regional organizations have expressed support and appreciation for the Global Security Initiative.
A New Path of Security Built and Shared Together
The holistic national security concept originates in China and benefits the world. Looking to the future, under the guidance of the holistic national security concept, building a higher-level Safe China and promoting Chinese-style modernization will be more conducive to achieving a world modernization of peaceful development, mutually beneficial cooperation, and common prosperity, and more conducive to building a universally secure community with a shared future for mankind.
Powerfully coordinating development and security and opening up a new realm of governance. A major principle followed by our Party in governing the country is to coordinate development and security. Promoting the modernization of the national security system and capabilities and building a higher-level Safe China are among the goals of further comprehensively deepening reforms in various fields set by the Third Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee, and one of the major strategic deployments made by the "15th Five-Year Plan" for China's economic and social development in the next five years. Around improving the national security system, strengthening the national security capabilities in key areas, and improving the level of public security governance, we will further implement major reform deployments, effectively build a new security pattern, and effectively guarantee a new development pattern. The Chinese Communist Party's practical exploration, summary of experience, and even sublimation at the level of ideological theory in governing the country provide useful lessons for many countries in the world that want stability, seek development, and seek change, and is a profound ideological public product contributed by China to all mankind.
Actively leading international cooperation and creating a new paradigm of global security governance. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee made major deployments for improving the foreign-related national security mechanism, building an overseas security guarantee system, and deepening international law enforcement and security cooperation, which will more powerfully promote security cooperation between China and other countries in the world, especially neighboring countries and countries participating in the "Belt and Road" initiative. The Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative have built an action framework with interconnected connotations, mutual support, and mutual promotion. China will not only more powerfully respond to international security concerns, but also more effectively take comprehensive measures to help more countries in the world reduce poverty and instability factors and enhance their independent development capabilities, thereby narrowing the North-South gap and the development gap, and systematically making up for the global security deficit.
Working together to promote Chinese-style modernization and create a new form of human civilization. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "The unique worldview, values, historical view, civilization view, democracy view, and ecological view contained in Chinese-style modernization, as well as its great practice, are major innovations in the theory and practice of world modernization." The people-centered development thought and the holistic national security concept with people's security as its purpose are two sides of the same coin, highlighting the people-oriented characteristics of Chinese-style modernization, which is fundamentally different from Western modernization centered on capital. Chinese-style modernization has broken the myth of "modernization = Westernization," demonstrated another picture of modernization, expanded the path choices for developing countries to move towards modernization, and provided a Chinese solution for mankind's exploration of a better social system. The holistic national security concept transcends the Western security concept, clarifies many pairs of dialectical relationships such as development and security, local security and overall security, relative security and absolute security on the road to modernization, and with a theoretical pattern and atmosphere of inclusiveness and drawing on the strengths of others, it demonstrates a profound cultural heritage and will surely write a rich and colorful chapter in the new form of human civilization.
(The author is the President of the China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (中国现代国际关系研究院院长))
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Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, pointed out during his participation in the Jiangsu (江苏) delegation's deliberation at this year's National People's Congress (全国两会) that "we must promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent." The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) incorporates "the basic formation of an integrated development pattern of education, science and technology, and talent" into the main goals of economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and makes specific arrangements for "promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent." To implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decision-making arrangements of the Party Central Committee (党中央), it is necessary to deeply understand the relationship between education, science and technology, and talent, and grasp the theoretical connotation and practical requirements of "integrated promotion" from a strategic perspective.
Promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent is a systematic project that includes value guidance, strategic layout, structural optimization, and institutional reform. From the perspective of adhering to and developing Marxist political economy, people are the most active and decisive factor in productivity, and also an important link connecting education and science and technology. Promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent can promote the optimal combination of productivity factors at a higher level, so that knowledge innovation, technological change, and talent growth can work together in the same direction. From the perspective of modernizing national governance, education, science and technology, and talent are the basic and strategic support for building a modern socialist country in all respects. Integrated promotion is conducive to strengthening top-level design and system integration, breaking down the divisions and barriers that may be caused by promoting in separate fields and departments, and achieving effective coordination of policy objectives, institutional design, and resource allocation. From the perspective of Chinese-style modernization, scientific and technological innovation is an important engine for the development of human society, and Chinese-style modernization must be supported by scientific and technological modernization. Scientific and technological innovation relies on talent, and talent cultivation relies on education. Integrated promotion can create a virtuous cycle of technological breakthroughs, industrial cultivation, and full-scenario applications, providing solid support for promoting and expanding Chinese-style modernization.
High-level research universities are the main force of basic research and the source of major scientific and technological breakthroughs, and play an important role in promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. Adhering to "integrated promotion" means not only playing an important hub and node role in the national innovation system, but also organically unifying value shaping, knowledge production, and talent cultivation to better serve the promotion and expansion of Chinese-style modernization. To this end, we must focus on creating a good ecology for promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent.
Adhere to fostering virtue through education, so that the source of education is more abundant. Fostering virtue through education is an important part of promoting the formation of good social customs. It concerns the continuation of the Party's cause and the future destiny of the country. We must adhere to student growth as the center, guide students to establish correct worldviews, outlooks on life, and values, teach students to be capable, responsible, and loving, and develop in an all-round way and excel in their studies. Adhere to the integration of general education and professional education, build a diverse, open, and sustainable talent training system, and cultivate creative talents with excellent learning ability, thinking ability, and action ability who can lead the future. Coordinate education around scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, and national strategic needs, dynamically adjust and optimize the setting of disciplines and majors, and cultivate national strategic talents and urgently needed talents in a targeted manner. Deeply promote the integration of science and education, and the integration of industry and education, so that students can enter scientific research teams, laboratories, and engineering front lines as early as possible, and improve their ability to discover, propose, and solve problems in basic research and key technology research, and cultivate creative talents by participating in scientific research and innovation.
Be determined to lead innovation, so that the driving energy of science and technology is stronger. Universities need to focus on serving the development of new quality productive forces and comprehensively enhance independent innovation capabilities to promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. On the one hand, strengthen original innovation and key core technology research, strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, strengthen organized interdisciplinary research, aim at major national strategic needs, and promote the formation of major leading innovation achievements; and encourage researchers to explore freely, increase stable support, and encourage them to carry out cutting-edge interdisciplinary research and make outstanding achievements in original scientific discoveries and underlying technologies. On the other hand, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, actively integrate into the regional innovation system, strengthen cooperation with local governments, scientific research institutes, leading enterprises, etc., explore various models for the construction of joint research platforms, promote the transformation of achievements in the entire chain, and better lead the development of new quality productive forces. In this process, we must encourage and guide researchers to combine personal interests with goal orientation, extract important scientific problems from major national strategic needs and transform them into the research interests of teachers and students, and strive to build high-level scientific research platforms into important incubators of new quality productive forces, and build major scientific and technological tasks into "sharpening stones" for the accelerated growth of talents.
Strengthen the first resource, so that the core support of talent is more solid. To strengthen education, we must first strengthen teachers. Strengthening the construction of the teaching staff is an important focus for universities to promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent. We must take the spirit of educators as the guide, cultivate "great teachers" who have the **国之大者** (guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important things for the country," refers to matters of national importance and strategic significance) in mind, shape students' character, conduct, and taste, and constantly improve teachers' ability to cultivate morality and educate people. Strengthen the construction of the teaching staff and improve the quality of talent introduction and cultivation. Support young scholars with academic potential to independently and attentively devote themselves to new disciplines and research directions. Give play to the talent gathering and training function of major scientific and technological tasks, strengthen the construction of talent echelons, promote the growth of outstanding young talents with effective support, and encourage them to seize the commanding heights of scientific and technological development. At the same time, innovate joint employment mechanisms for talents inside and outside the school and enterprises, build a diversified model for attracting and using talents, and unblock channels for cross-border flow of talents.
The integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent cannot be separated from institutional mechanism reform and innovation. We must adhere to and strengthen the Party's comprehensive leadership over education, science and technology, and talent work, and make overall plans and promote the integrated development of moral education, discipline planning, platform construction, project layout, and team building. Deepen the reform of the academic governance system, give play to the function of the faculty system in coordinating discipline development and promoting cross-integration, promote the construction of cutting-edge interdisciplinary scientific research institutions in multiple modes, and improve the collaborative innovation mechanism across departments and disciplines. At the same time, unify institutional construction and cultural shaping, strengthen the awareness of facing major national needs and running education rooted in China, and truly form a good atmosphere of "teaching with peace of mind, concentrating on scientific research, and educating people with peace of mind," so that integrated promotion can be transformed from "work deployment" into "development normality."
(The author is the President of Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学)).
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Starting April 1st, primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu, Anhui, Sichuan, and other regions have successively begun their spring break. A reporter's visit revealed that this year's spring break is not simply a holiday, but a systematic practice that takes into account education, people's livelihoods, and consumption, turning the promotion of spring break at the policy level into tangible joy for children.
On the first day of spring break, the Shuxi Lake Pavilion of the Anhui Hefei Science and Technology Museum (安徽合肥科技馆) had just opened when 8-year-old Wang Siyuan (王思远) dragged his parents inside, his little face flushed with excitement. "Mom, look, it's like we're walking in space!" Wang Siyuan's (王思远) father, Mr. Wang (王先生), told reporters, "My child has been wanting to come for a long time, and today, on spring break, his wish has finally come true."
Either combined with the Qingming Festival holiday, or setting up 2 to 5 days of special holidays... "We don't assign written homework to first and second graders, and strictly control the total amount for other grades, so that children can fully experience this beautiful season." Hou Xiaolei (侯晓蕾), principal of Jiangbin Experimental Primary School (江滨实验小学) in Zhenjiang City (镇江市), Jiangsu (江苏), said that the school sends the "Spring Break Growth Guide" to parents and students, guiding students to independently plan their holidays, and encouraging parents to take their children into nature, integrate into society, and broaden their horizons.
Sichuan (四川) has compiled 116 high-quality study tour routes, and the Jianmen Shudao Jianmenguan Tourist Area (剑门蜀道剑门关旅游区) has developed courses such as "Little Tour Guide"; Nanjing City (南京市) in Jiangsu (江苏) launched more than 100 study tour activities during the spring break, covering themes such as nature exploration, industrial technology, and intangible cultural heritage inheritance...
In order to solve the dilemma of "children on vacation, parents at work," various places have introduced heartwarming measures.
In Anhui (安徽), the Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (省人社厅), the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce (省工商联), and other four departments jointly issued a document guiding employers to prioritize the approval of spring break leave applications for employees with minor children, encouraging enterprises to establish children's information ledgers and promote flexible leave; in Suining City (遂宁市), Panzhihua City (攀枝花市), and other places in Sichuan (四川), the local governments require schools to provide basic care services for dual-income families, left-behind children, migrant children, and children in difficult circumstances, so as to achieve "full care"...
"Spring break should guide families and schools to pay attention to students' growth outside the classroom." Jiao Pu (焦蒲), vice president of the Sichuan Provincial Academy of Educational Sciences (四川省教育科学研究院), believes that, in the long run, the implementation of the spring and autumn break system is expected to promote the formation of a more open and diverse new pattern of education. This requires schools to actively guide, parents to actively accompany, and social resources to effectively coordinate, so as to jointly transform these two valuable "educational gaps" into "development windows" that nourish students' growth.
(According to Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopFinding "Buddies" is Becoming a New Way for Young People to Build Social Relationships. From skill "buddies" to travel "buddies," finding a "buddy" allows young people to enjoy the freedom of being alone without being too closed off. In this issue, we get close to several young people and record their social ways.
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Skill "Buddies":
Learn Rich and Interesting Knowledge, Make Like-Minded Friends
Huanggang Daily Reporter Li Hao (李好)
Learning latte art in coffee shops, practicing paper cutting in community classrooms... A series of "skill learning + social networking" activities are quietly changing the social ways of many young people in Huanggang (黄冈), Hubei (湖北).
On the evening of March 23, the aroma of coffee wafted from a coffee fusion restaurant by the Yiai Lake (遗爱湖) in Huangzhou District (黄州区), Huanggang City (黄冈市). A special youth night school coffee handcraft class was in progress, with nearly 10 young people learning various skills from grinding and tamping to frothing milk and latte art under the careful guidance of a barista.
Tang Baizhou (唐柏舟), a 26-year-old from Shaanxi (陕西), is one of the students. After graduating from university, he came to work in Huangzhou District (黄州区). "I saw the opening notice of the youth night school in my WeChat Moments. I have always been interested in coffee latte art, so I immediately signed up," said Tang Baizhou (唐柏舟). "The caramel macchiato I made myself tastes better than the one I bought outside, full of a sense of accomplishment."
After a class, Tang Baizhou's (唐柏舟) gains far exceeded expectations: he not only learned coffee making skills, but also met several new like-minded friends. Everyone chatted about coffee, and the sense of unfamiliarity quietly dissipated in the laughter. Starting with a cup of coffee, Tang Baizhou (唐柏舟) found his skill "buddy".
This kind of "skill social" scene is quietly becoming popular in Huangzhou (黄州). Li Jiahao (李佳豪), a fourth-level staff member of the Huangzhou District (黄州区) Committee of the Communist Youth League, said that the District Committee of the Communist Youth League deeply integrates skill learning and social networking, allowing young people to make friends naturally in the common exploration of interests. "We want to let young people change from passively coping with social interaction to actively communicating and interacting, opening their hearts and meeting people of the same frequency in a relaxed and natural interaction," said Li Jiahao (李佳豪). The "skill learning + social networking" model can help young people improve their skills and abilities, and also build a relaxed and comfortable communication platform for them, making learning and making friends natural.
Fang Xia (方霞), the owner of this coffee fusion restaurant, is one of the enthusiastic partners of the youth night school. She found that the young people who came to class for the first time were inevitably restrained when they got along, but as the course progressed, the sense of unfamiliarity slowly disappeared. The scene of everyone sitting together and chatting after the coffee class made her feel particularly warm.
From coffee handcrafting to reading gatherings, from intangible cultural heritage paper cutting to e-commerce training, the teaching points of Huangzhou (黄州) Youth Night School are constantly expanding, moving out of the agency compound, into restaurants, bookstores, communities, and integrating into the daily life of the city.
For the young people of Huangzhou (黄州), there are many other gains from the youth night school. Zhou Chunshui (周春水), a young man who returned to his hometown, skillfully mastered professional skills through the e-commerce operation and short video editing courses of the night school, and successfully transformed into a part-time lecturer at the youth night school. Many local young people have achieved flexible employment or part-time jobs in the local area through the recommendation of the youth night school, combined with the skills they have learned such as moxibustion therapy, coffee making, and short video operation.
In Huangzhou (黄州), young people are meeting beauty and gaining growth in this city in a brand-new way of "skill social"; and this city is also becoming younger and warmer because of these warm encounters.
Travel "Buddies":
Less Regret of No One to Take Pictures, More Companionship Along the Way
Jiuquan Daily Reporter Bai Xue (白雪)
Dunhuang (敦煌), the Great Desert, the Silk Road winds. For tourists who come to Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肃) alone, an active greeting and a kind accent can turn strangers into companions on the journey. The new social way of young tourists - finding a "buddy" - is telling a new travel story here.
In a night market in Dunhuang (敦煌), Lu Yinjie (吕印杰), a young tourist from Liaoning (辽宁), met three tourists from Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu (甘肃). Lu Yinjie (吕印杰) said: "They told me that Gansu (甘肃) not only has the Gobi Desert, but also snow-capped mountains and grasslands, and you can see rich landform types." In conversation with them, Lu Yinjie (吕印杰) learned more about the Great Northwest.
For Tang Kaijie (唐开捷), a young tourist from Guangxi (广西), the relationship with his "buddy" began with the sentence "Old friend, I am from Guangxi (广西)" at the entrance of the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) scenic spot. The two instantly narrowed the distance and then traveled together.
Yang Meifang (杨玫芳), a tourist from Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), experienced the value of "buddy" during the trip. Enjoying the sunset on Mingsha Mountain (鸣沙山) together, tourists helped each other take pictures, reducing the regret of no one to take pictures. She said: "I like to meet different people on the journey and listen to their stories."
Of course, "buddies" can also come from precise matching online. On social media platforms, many tourists are looking for "meal buddies", and the heartwarming appointments in the comment area are quietly connecting strangers.
Yang Hao (杨皓), a young man from Chongqing (重庆), found a like-minded strategy "buddy" who came from Hunan (湖南) through this method. The two gathered in Xining (西宁), Qinghai (青海), and went all the way west, checking in at Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) and Mingsha Mountain (鸣沙山), retaining independent space and having the security of companionship. They planned the route together and faced unexpected situations during the journey together, making this journey particularly interesting. Xu Haiyan (徐海艳) and Liu Hairong (刘海容), tourists from Shanghai (上海), mentioned that compared with traveling with familiar friends, it is more comfortable to be with "buddies". Everyone shares the most authentic thoughts on the journey. This social model helps young people find a comfortable sense of relaxation.
The "buddy" who knows and accompanies each other also doubles the happiness of the journey. Wang Yuting (王雨婷), a tourist from Heilongjiang (黑龙江), and Li Qian (李倩), a tourist from Shandong (山东), are college classmates. They set off from two places and went to Dunhuang (敦煌) together, checking in and sharing food together. In their opinion, "It is rare to be able to eat together, and it is even rarer to have someone to accompany you to eat. It is more interesting to have a suitable personality and play together." Along the way, they also felt the simplicity and enthusiasm of the local people in Dunhuang (敦煌): the driver took the initiative to recommend special performances, and the photographer enthusiastically guided them to authentic restaurants. This unexpected warmth intertwined with the beauty of being accompanied by "buddies" has become a precious memory of the journey.
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High-speed service areas now offer movies, coffee, markets, and even banquet facilities... As the Qingming Festival holiday approaches, frequent travelers will notice that many highway service areas have evolved from simple refueling stations for "gas, restrooms, and water" into diverse experience spaces for rest, shopping, and cultural tourism interaction, adding more novelty to holiday travel.
The Yiban Service Area on the Shenhai Expressway (沈海高速) in Quanzhou (泉州市), Fujian (福建) Province, became an internet sensation after its renovation and upgrade at the end of 2023. The Yiban Service Area is very large, one of the largest highway service areas in Fujian Province, containing rich business formats such as shopping, movies, and catering, and has become a "regional micro-hub." However, one of the Tuling (涂岭) entrances and exits of the service area is very small, with a total of four lanes for entry and exit, and no large overpass, with a transformation cost of less than 5% of the traditional new highway interchange project. Fewer lanes, lower cost, but significant effect - once, the surrounding villagers guarded the highway at their doorstep, but had to detour several kilometers. Now, the highway entrance is less than 100 meters from their homes, and they can directly enter the service area's commercial complex for consumption, enabling the service area to benefit more than 100,000 people in surrounding towns.
Behind the linkage of one "large" and one "small" lies a clear people-centered orientation. The rich business formats of the "large" service area demonstrate infrastructure strength, effectively meeting the development-oriented consumption needs of drivers and passengers and surrounding people, and cultivating new consumption growth points; the convenient transformation of the "small" entrance and exit conveys the temperature of people's livelihood, allowing people to easily access the highway, and also forming a new urban-rural living circle.
Expanding domestic demand requires adhering to the close combination of benefiting people's livelihood and promoting consumption, investing in things and investing in people. Whether it is the traditional "iron, public, base" (railways, highways, infrastructure) and other fields, or the booming "new infrastructure," the ultimate goal should be to serve the people and benefit the people. Only by closely integrating infrastructure with the actual needs of the people and improving the decision-making mechanism of asking the people for their needs can the connection of physical space be transformed into tangible benefits for the people's livelihood, better create new supply, cultivate new demand, and inject lasting impetus into high-quality development. 守株待兔 (shǒu zhū dài tù - "guard stump wait rabbit," to rely on luck or wait idly for opportunities).
Return to TopShanghai 6G Future Industry Cultivation Zone Launched
Jiefang Daily, Shanghai, April 1st (Reporter Li Chengdong (李成东)) The 2026 Shanghai Sixth Generation Mobile Communication Future Industry Innovation and Development Promotion Conference was held recently in the 6G Information and Communication Innovation Valley in Songjiang District (松江区), Shanghai. At the meeting, the construction of the Shanghai 6G Future Industry Cultivation Zone was launched, and a package of full-chain industrial support policies, application scenarios, and a 6G future industry fund matrix were released. The Shanghai 6G Concept Verification Platform and the Shanghai 6G Industrialization Verification Pilot Platform were also launched simultaneously, which will build a bridge for 6G cutting-edge technologies to go from the laboratory to the market.
Tianjin to Complete "Micro-Renewal" of 100 Alleys This Year
Tianjin Daily, Tianjin, April 1st (Reporter Lei Fengyu (雷风雨)) This year, Tianjin (天津市) will complete the renovation of 100 back streets and alleys. This renovation is divided into three categories: basic category focusing on environmental sanitation, urban appearance order, and public space governance; improvement category further improving the road environment and improving sanitation facilities on the basis of meeting standards; and characteristic category focusing on the six districts of the city and the four districts around the city, focusing on creating characteristic back streets and alleys that are both beautiful and have connotation.
Guangdong Zhuhai Completes Cross-border Development of Mangrove Carbon Sink
Southern Daily, Zhuhai (珠海), Guangdong (广东), April 1st (Reporter Dong Qianjun (董谦君)) On March 28, the first cross-border development cooperation project of mangrove carbon sink in the country was signed in Zhuhai City (珠海市), Guangdong.
In Jinwan District (金湾区) of Zhuhai City, Guangdong and Macau are jointly "planting" mangroves into cross-border ecological products. The signed project relies on the 236 hectares of mangroves in the Pingsha New City Wetland Park (平沙新城湿地公园) in Jinwan District. Preliminary assessment shows that it can develop more than 90,000 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent carbon sinks on a regular basis, with an economic value potential of 20 million yuan.
《Pu'er Barista》Series of Group Standards Released
Yunnan Daily, Pu'er (普洱), April 1st (Reporter Gao Yue (高玥)) Recently, the National Group Standard Information Platform released five group standards in the 《Pu'er Barista》 series, marking that the cultivation and evaluation of skilled personnel in the entire Pu'er coffee industry chain has a unified and standardized standard. This series of standards clarifies the basic requirements, basic knowledge, job level and skill requirements of each position, as well as training, assessment, certificate issuance, and examiner requirements.
《Guizhou Bird List (2025 Edition)》Released
This newspaper, Guiyang (贵阳), April 1st (Correspondent Huang Baohua (黄宝华)) 《Guizhou Bird List (2025 Edition)》 was released recently, which is the first comprehensive and systematic update since the publication of 《Guizhou Bird Records》 in 1986.
Data shows that as of the beginning of 2025, Guizhou (贵州) has recorded a total of 571 species of wild birds, an increase of 103 species compared with 1986. The birds recorded in Guizhou belong to 20 orders, 85 families and 292 genera, accounting for 37.94% of the number of bird species in the country.
"Northeast Super" Logo and Mascot Released
This newspaper, Shenyang (沈阳), April 1st (Correspondent Dong Hanbo (董翰博)) Recently, the visual image of the "Northeast Super" logo and mascot was released. Among them, the event logo takes the shape of a football as the main body, highlighting the sports attributes of the event. The design reflects the concept of coordinated development of the four northeastern provinces, and the colorful color scheme implies the diverse culture and rich resources of the Northeast.
The mascot "Tiger Brother" is a cartoon tiger image based on the Siberian tiger, striving to create an approachable, brave, and down-to-earth "Northeast old iron" image, conveying the league temperament of "Northeast Super" which is full of hard work, progress, openness and inclusiveness.
By: 安徽日报记者 柏 松
In a dust-free workshop with constant temperature and humidity, the air is filled with the sweet aroma of chocolate. On March 30th, Wu Xiulong (吴修龙), a villager from Bigang Village (毕岗村), Bagongshan District (八公山区), Huainan City (淮南市), Anhui Province (安徽省), was operating equipment. On the fully enclosed production line, robotic arms injected chocolate paste into molds with millimeter-level precision.
Bigang Village (毕岗村) once relied on small coal mines, 靠矿吃矿 (kào kuàng chī kuàng - "rely on the mine to eat from the mine," to live off the resources of the mine). Starting in 2014, the small coal mines were successively shut down. Ha Chuanpeng (哈传鹏), the Party Branch Secretary of Bigang Village (毕岗村), introduced that Bigang Village (毕岗村) contributed 1 million yuan of collective funds, holding a 30% stake, and introduced a company to jointly establish Anhui Jingchuang Food Co., Ltd. (安徽京创食品有限公司) to produce chocolate decorations and chocolate foods.
With the establishment of the "chocolate factory," a closer cooperative model of "village collective + leading enterprise + farmers" has emerged: villagers invest with funds or labor, transforming from onlookers into participants and beneficiaries. "We are both workers and 'shareholders'. In addition to our monthly salary, we also receive dividends at the end of the year!" said Wu Xiulong (吴修龙).
Return to TopIn Yuan Farm's shared vegetable garden in Longsheng Village (龙胜村), Fuxi Street (阜溪街道), Deqing County (德清县), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), many parents are bringing their children to experience planting melons and vegetables.
On March 28th, the first phase of the farm, with 88 vegetable gardens divided from 12 acres of land, had already been fully claimed by "tenants," expanding the vegetable planting experience into a new consumption scenario integrating nature education, parent-child leisure, and community socializing.
All of the above pictures are taken by Xie Shangguo (谢尚国) (Image China).
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Recently, a mobile library vehicle from the Taiyuan City Library (太原市图书馆) in Taiyuan (太原), Shanxi (山西) Province, slowly drove into a residential community in Taiyuan (太原). As soon as the doors opened, it attracted many residents.
Zhu Jin (祝谨), a 57-year-old resident of the community, saw the notice in the property management group and came early in the morning to understand the borrowing process. "It's so convenient to borrow and return books in the community!"
Inside the mobile library vehicle, various books such as literature, history, health care, and children's picture books were neatly arranged on the shelves. Zhang Fengtao (张峰涛), director of the External Circulation Department of the Taiyuan City Library (太原市图书馆), introduced, "The mobile library vehicle drives into the community on Saturdays and Sundays to serve residents, coming once every two weeks to facilitate residents' borrowing and returning of books."
"These are the two books I borrowed today, I'll take them back and have a good look," Zhu Jin (祝谨) said happily as she completed the borrowing procedures and left.
The Taiyuan City Library (太原市图书馆) innovated its services, and since the mobile library vehicle was put into use in 2022, it has greatly improved the utilization rate of the library's collection. Zhang Fengtao (张峰涛) introduced that the mobile library vehicle has realized mutual borrowing and returning with the Taiyuan City Library (太原市图书馆), allowing everyone to enjoy the services of the public library nearby.
Return to TopBy: 福建日报记者 陈阳阳
A silver, dragon-like automated production line operates at high speed, with shoe soles and uppers flowing on the conveyor belt, and robotic arms dancing up and down, deftly grabbing, splicing, and polishing... After a series of precise processes, pairs of high-quality shoes are gradually formed.
At a company located in Xindu Town (新度镇), Licheng District (荔城区), Putian City (莆田市), Fujian (福建) Province, "The soles hide our core technology," said Zheng Mingyi (郑明燚), the e-commerce sales director of the company. "These soles use a biomimetic Tesla valve fresh air system. There are no moving parts inside, but it can precisely control the gas flow like a smart valve, allowing the humid and hot gas inside the shoe to be discharged faster."
Different from the industry's focus on the breathability of shoe uppers, this company integrates Tesla valve technology and a biomimetic respiratory system to achieve a dynamic breathing effect. Relying on patent accumulation and technological breakthroughs, the company has achieved a transformation from "selling shoes" to "selling technology and selling patents."
How long does it take for a custom-made shoe to take shape? In a custom factory store in Licheng District (荔城区), an integrated foot shape and foot pressure acquisition and analysis instrument comes into view. After the reporter stood on the acquisition and analysis instrument for 15 seconds, data such as 3D foot shape, dynamic pressure when standing, and body center of gravity were clear at a glance. "From the time the order enters the production system to the time the shoes 'walk' off the production line, it only takes 2 hours at the fastest," said Gu Weiming (古玮明), the person in charge of the project. The intelligent factory has achieved networked linkage of 95% of the machine equipment, and can produce hundreds of different styles of shoes at the same time, "Even the left and right feet of a pair of shoes can be designed and made differently according to the consumer's foot differences."
The footwear and apparel industry has become Putian's (莆田) first key industrial cluster with an annual output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, with more than 4,000 related enterprises, more than 500,000 employees, and 75 independent brands cultivated.
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"Behind me is our family's lotus pond. Today, I'm taking everyone to see how these lotus roots get from the pond to your hands." Recently, at the Tianmu Lake E-commerce Live Streaming Academy in Guilin Village (桂林村), Tianmu Lake Town (天目湖镇), Liyang City (溧阳市), Jiangsu (江苏), Zhang Xia (章霞), a 50-year-old lotus root farmer, was practicing her live streaming in front of her mobile phone, over and over again. For the past week, she has been driving 20 minutes across towns to study, gradually growing from an e-commerce "novice" to a sales anchor.
In response to the bottlenecks in "agricultural products leaving the village and entering the city," in November of last year, the Liyang City Federation of Trade Unions (溧阳市总工会) and the Tianmu Lake Town Government (天目湖镇政府) joined hands with a professional team to take root in Guilin Village (桂林村) and set up the E-commerce Live Streaming Academy. The academy focuses on practical exercises with "real accounts, real products, and real sales," and provides a year of "accompaniment service" after the course.
The market response has validated the vitality of this model. Before the Spring Festival this year, the academy team conducted a public welfare live broadcast in Dalin Village (大林村), Licheng Town (溧城镇), Liyang City (溧阳市). "Dalin White Celery (大林白芹)" made its debut online and was immediately a 爆单 (bào dān - "exploding orders," a sudden surge in orders), driving an increase of over 300,000 yuan in collective village income during the Spring Festival. To date, the academy has accumulated more than 900 live broadcasts, helping to sell agricultural products worth more than 6 million yuan.
Now, the academy is not only fully booked with courses, but also attracts many villagers from other places who come in groups to "learn from experience." With the spring tea season now in full swing, more and more "Zhang Xias (章霞)" are using a single internet cable to convert the beautiful spring scenery into tangible income.
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The 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, held in Beijing (北京) from March 25th to 29th with the theme of "Deep Integration of Scientific and Technological Innovation and Industrial Innovation," served as an important window for observing China's development at the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period and injected new impetus into global scientific and technological innovation exchange and cooperation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and he also cares very much about the Zhongguancun Forum, having sent congratulatory messages to the forum three times in recent years.
On April 1st, Xinhua News Agency (新华社) launched the 29th episode of the "China Economic Roundtable" (中国经济圆桌会) large-scale all-media interview program, inviting Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅), Party Secretary of the China Institute for Science and Technology Policy, Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞), Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Science & Technology Commission and Administrative Commission of Zhongguancun, Zhang Xiaoyan (张小燕), Vice President of the CCID Institute, and Liu Hui (刘晖), President of the JD Consumption and Industrial Development Research Institute, to discuss new breakthroughs in future technologies and new opportunities for industrial development through the Zhongguancun Forum, a grand event for science and technology.
Using the Wisdom of Integration to Unfold a New Blueprint for High-Quality Development
The National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委) released the "Top Ten Scientific Advances in China for 2025," and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) released the "Global Engineering Frontiers 2025" report. More than 60 forums delved into cutting-edge fields such as 6G, brain-computer interfaces, and cell and gene therapy. More than 500 science and technology projects came to seek opportunities for transformation and implementation.
In the spring of Zhongguancun (中关村), innovation is surging and vitality is bursting forth. This innovative hotbed, bearing the national mission, is relying on the Zhongguancun Forum, a national-level platform, to explore the path towards high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, to empower the cultivation and growth of new quality productive forces, and to contribute Chinese wisdom and solutions to global open innovation and cooperation.
When mentioning the new highlights of the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, the guests participating in this episode of the "China Economic Roundtable" unanimously mentioned the word "integration."
Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅) said that the "15th Five-Year Plan"纲要 proposes to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation. The special feature of this year's Zhongguancun Forum lies in fully implementing this requirement of the plan, promoting the two-way rush between science and technology and industry.
"Industry leaders from all over the world are focusing on the Zhongguancun Forum to discuss the frontiers of science and technology and industry hotspots," said Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞). "The forum itself is a manifestation of integration. Many scholars, entrepreneurs, and policymakers gather together to jointly solve the problems they face, which is the significance of the forum."
With integration as the link, China and the world are jointly embarking on a "science and technology appointment," exploring the path of innovation from "one village" and observing the trend of development from "one region."
In Zhang Xiaoyan's (张小燕) view, the "integration" promoted by the Zhongguancun Forum is not only in the field of science and technology. "I saw financial institutions such as the Bank of Beijing (北京银行) at the Zhongguancun Forum, which also reflects the integration of science and technology, industry, and finance." She said that representatives from all over the world actively shared their experiences in science and technology and industrial development, reflecting a strong atmosphere of open cooperation.
"At this Zhongguancun Forum, we saw a large number of technologies and scenarios creating value through integration," said Liu Hui (刘晖). "We should pay attention to the value creation ability brought about by the integration of technology and scenarios, pay attention to how it reduces costs and increases efficiency for the industry, and point out the path for future industrial development."
New technologies such as smart glasses and 3D displays are concentratedly unveiled, the perception ability of robots continues to evolve, and products such as smart plantar equipment and flexible electronic skin solve the problem of "seeing but not touching." The various "black technologies" displayed at this year's forum annual conference have attracted attention.
Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅) said that in the main frontier technology fields such as artificial intelligence, quantum information, and biomanufacturing, China's comprehensive technical level has reached a situation of "leading and running in parallel," forming a relatively mature development pattern in which basic research has breakthroughs, core technologies have accumulation, industrial implementation has scale, and international competition has a voice, becoming an important engine for China to cultivate and develop new quality productive forces.
"Currently, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is accelerating, and global scientific and technological innovation is entering a period of intensive activity, and the industrialization process is accelerating. China has formed first-mover advantages in some fields, providing favorable conditions for winning the first opportunity for future development," said Zhang Xiaoyan (张小燕).
Zhongguancun (中关村) is accelerating its progress towards the goal of becoming a world-class source of scientific and technological innovation.
"Zhongguancun (中关村) is China's first national high-tech zone and national independent innovation demonstration zone, and it is a banner of innovative development," said Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞). Zhongguancun (中关村) will continue to play the role of a reform "experimental field," increase institutional innovation and mechanism innovation, and continue to conduct pilot projects and bold explorations around new fields and new tracks.
Using Synergistic Power to Open Up the Road of Science and Technology Industry Integration
Cutting-edge technologies such as brain-computer interfaces and embodied intelligence are coming out of the laboratory and showing application scenarios; hundreds of domestic and foreign science and technology projects are participating in roadshows, and universities, research institutes, science and technology enterprises, and investment institutions are seeking cooperation opportunities in exchanges; technology managers wearing "blue vests" are shuttling busily, providing accurate services for the implementation of achievements.
From the release of achievements to technology docking, the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference has built a bridge for the deep docking and two-way rush between the innovation chain and the industrial chain, promoting the accelerated movement of innovation achievements towards the broad market.
Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅) said that promoting the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation is to provide endogenous动力 for industrial innovation with scientific and technological innovation, and at the same time, to provide value realization for scientific and technological development with industrial innovation.
Inside and outside the forum, a deeper proposition is repeatedly mentioned: From the "first kilometer" of scientific research to the "last kilometer" of industrial application, barriers and blockages still exist. How can we smooth the links and break through the stuck points?
To achieve accurate docking of "two new things," scientific and technological innovation must aim at industrial needs.
"The problem of mismatch between technology supply and market pain points and mismatch between supply and demand is relatively prominent," Zhang Xiaoyan (张小燕) pointed out in conjunction with her previous research experience. "In particular, the technological transformation needs of small and medium-sized enterprises are often ignored because of their small size and lack of cutting-edge technology, resulting in the fact that many scientific research achievements stay in papers and laboratories, while the real problems and hard needs of enterprises cannot be solved."
To solve the problem of supply-demand mismatch, it is crucial to enhance the ability of enterprises to act as "question setters" and "answerers."
Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅) suggested that in science and technology programs, the leading and organizational role of enterprises, especially leading science and technology enterprises, should be further strengthened; the past method of simply measuring scientific and technological achievements by papers and patents should be abandoned, and an evaluation system with market demand and industrial value as the core should be constructed.
Taking JD.com's practice in the field of artificial intelligence as an example, Liu Hui (刘晖) emphasized the traction role of scenario applications in scientific and technological innovation. "Developing a technology is like making a hammer. If you initially have a hammer driven by technology, you will look around for opportunities to use it, which is 'looking for nails with a hammer'." He believes that technological innovation should be carried out around scenario needs and characteristics, so that innovative achievements have clear scenario application value from the very beginning.
In addition, the guests said that in terms of achievement transformation, the resource allocation of key links such as process optimization in the process of transforming laboratory samples into production line products is not sufficient, which to a certain extent also affects the efficiency of transforming scientific research achievements into real productive forces.
In recent years, Beijing (北京市) has explored ways to solve the above problems.
——Let enterprises "play the leading role" in innovation. Beijing (北京) continues to strengthen the main position of enterprises in innovation and has achieved remarkable results by encouraging enterprises to carry out "revealing the list and taking command" to tackle key problems and by leading enterprises to form innovation centers. Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞) said that Beijing (北京) has supported leading enterprises in the industry to lead the construction of 36 innovation consortia, driving industrial upgrading and iteration.
——Promote the transformation of achievements to open up the "middle obstruction." Around the entire chain of scientific and technological achievement transformation, Beijing (北京) has established a docking cooperation and relay incubation mechanism covering incubators, university science parks, and characteristic industrial parks. On March 16, the Zhongguancun International Technology Exchange Center (中关村国际技术交易中心) was officially unveiled and put into operation, building a one-stop comprehensive service system for technology transactions.
——Capital empowers innovation to "accelerate running." Beijing (北京) has established the Zhongguancun Independent Innovation Special Fund (中关村自主创新专项基金) to guide financial capital to "invest early, invest small, invest long-term, and invest in hard technology." At present, the special fund has made decisions on an amount of more than 3 billion yuan, driving a total social investment of more than 24 billion yuan, and has provided long-term financial support for science and technology innovation enterprises in the fields of artificial intelligence and medical health.
Issuing policies, building platforms, and building ecosystems, scientific and technological achievements are accelerating their landing in Beijing (北京). From 2021 to 2025, the transaction volume of Beijing (北京) technology contracts increased from more than 700 billion yuan to more than 980 billion yuan, an increase of 40.8%.
"'From 1 to 10', we must work hard," said Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞). In the next step, Beijing (北京) will deepen the reform of the achievement transformation mechanism, further strengthen the main position of enterprises in innovation, improve public service capabilities, and stimulate the vitality of market factors.
Building a Vigorous Ecosystem for Innovative Development with an Expanded Scope
At this year's Zhongguancun Forum Annual Conference, the vision of innovation jumped out of "one village and one city" and aimed at broader regional coordination.
Various departments have centrally released 40 supporting policies for the Beijing (京津冀) International Science and Technology Innovation Center; at the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) Collaborative Innovation and High-Quality Development Forum, domestic and foreign guests discussed new opportunities for regional collaborative development.
These active explorations are a vivid portrayal of China's accelerated efforts to promote high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, focus on building international science and technology innovation centers, and build an important strategic pillar for a strong science and technology country during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
At last year's Central Economic Work Conference, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) announced the expansion of the Beijing International Science and Technology Innovation Center (北京国际科技创新中心) to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) and the expansion of the Shanghai International Science and Technology Innovation Center (上海国际科技创新中心) to the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and made major deployments for the construction of the three major international science and technology innovation centers in Beijing (Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei), Shanghai (Yangtze River Delta), and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
"Global innovation competition is intensifying, and improving the regional innovation system has become an important support for breaking through growth bottlenecks and cultivating new growth points," said Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅).
The construction of international science and technology innovation centers is moving from single-city breakthroughs to regional integrated development.
Taking the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) as an example, Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞) said that the three places jointly established a cooperative special project for the Natural Science Foundation, which has deployed 270 projects and promoted close cooperation among more than 700 scientific research teams. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the transaction volume of technology contracts exported from Beijing (北京) to Tianjin (天津) and Hebei (河北) exceeded 320 billion yuan, an increase of about 1.7 times compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period.
Liu Hui (刘晖) introduced that since last year, JD.com has provided advanced digital and intelligent supply chain systems to enterprises in Tianjin (天津) and Hebei (河北) in the fields of automobile manufacturing, metallurgy, and consumption, and the production and operation efficiency of relevant enterprises has been greatly improved. "The implementation of coordinated innovation in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) is really bringing changes to the production and operation of enterprises and promoting the efficient allocation of resources," he said.
Looking at the whole country, each region is exploring differentiated collaborative innovation paths in accordance with local conditions.
The Yangtze River Delta (长三角) gives full play to its advantages in capital and talent, and the transaction volume of cross-provincial technology contracts has increased by nearly 3 times in the past 5 years, and the intensity of R&D expenditure is about 1/3 of the country; the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳) is in line with international standards. A report released by the World Intellectual Property Organization shows that in the 2025 ranking of the world's top 100 innovation clusters, the Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Guangzhou (深圳—香港—广州) cluster has jumped to the top of the world.
The vitality of the innovation system lies in the flow of factors, and breaking down the barriers between regions is the key.
Liu Dongmei (刘冬梅) believes that it is necessary to give play to the advantages of the three major international science and technology innovation centers in gathering innovation resources, promote the sharing and co-use of R&D resources within the region; build key industrial science and technology innovation belts, accelerate the cultivation and development of world-class industrial clusters, and strengthen the integrated construction of infrastructure and public services; innovate the market-oriented allocation of factors across administrative regions, and continuously improve the system and mechanism of collaborative innovation.
Based on the actual situation of coordinated development in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Zhai Tianrui (翟天瑞) proposed to establish a normalized docking mechanism for achievement transformation to promote accurate docking between national laboratories, universities, research institutes, and key regional enterprises; in terms of industrial development, jointly break through the technical bottlenecks in industries such as integrated circuits and medical health, and strengthen emerging industrial clusters; in terms of science and technology finance, give play to the advantages of venture capital guidance funds in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) and inject financial impetus into enterprise development.
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the foundation of scientific and technological innovation is more solid, and the pace towards a strong science and technology country is more sonorous.
Zhang Xiaoyan (张小燕) used three "transformations" to summarize her expectations for China's innovative future. "China's scientific and technological research and development will further realize the transformation from 'high-end' to 'down-to-earth', small and medium-sized enterprises will realize the transformation from supporting suppliers of large enterprises to collaborative innovation partners, and our country can also realize the transformation from its own innovation application test field to a global source of innovation."
With innovation as the sail and integration as the oar, China's scientific and technological innovation is moving forward courageously towards the goal of accelerating the realization of high-level self-reliance and self-strengthening in science and technology, and writing a more exciting era chapter on the new journey of cultivating and growing new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社), Beijing (北京), April 1st, Xinhua News Agency (新华社) reporter)
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Walking into a strawberry greenhouse in Lijia Village (李家店村), Yiquan Town (椅圈镇), Donggang City (东港市), Liaoning Province (辽宁省), the lush green vines are adorned with red and plump strawberries, filling the air with their fragrant aroma.
At the entrance of the greenhouse, a table and a few simple racks form a "live broadcast room," where Xia Guangwen (夏广文), a post-90s new farmer, enthusiastically interacts with online viewers: "Family, look, this is our Donggang (东港) strawberry, with a soft and glutinous texture and a rich, sweet flavor..."
Behind Xia Guangwen (夏广文), boxes of fresh strawberries are being sorted and packaged, ready to be loaded onto refrigerated trucks waiting outside the greenhouse. "After graduating from university, I returned to the village to help my parents manage these 4 mu of strawberry greenhouses. The market has been good in recent years, which motivates me even more," said Xia Guangwen (夏广文).
As one of the largest strawberry production and export bases in China, Donggang City (东港市) has more than 100,000 farmers engaged in strawberry production. The strawberry planting area is stable at around 200,000 mu, with an annual fresh fruit output value exceeding 6 billion yuan, forming a complete industrial chain integrating production, processing, and sales.
"Donggang (东港)'s strawberry cultivation has a history of over a hundred years, and facility-based production has developed rapidly in recent years," said a relevant负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge," responsible person) from the Donggang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (东港市农业农村局). In recent years, Donggang (东港) has been working hard on introducing new varieties, applying new technologies, and standardizing production to continuously optimize the strawberry industry.
Shengye Berry Professional Cooperative (圣野浆果专业合作社) in Chiyu Village (赤榆村), Shizijie Town (十字街镇), is constantly iterating and upgrading its planting technology model. "In the past, field management was extensive, and watering and fertilization relied entirely on experience. Now, through intelligent temperature control systems and integrated water and fertilizer systems, we can remotely monitor the strawberries on our mobile phones, ensuring they are always in the best growing environment," said Ma Tingdong (马廷东), head of the cooperative and president of the Donggang Strawberry Association (东港市草莓协会), who has witnessed the changes in the strawberry industry.
Full-process supervision. Donggang City (东港市) has built a four-level county-township-village-team joint supervision and testing grid management system to achieve traceability of agricultural product quality.
From the field to the workshop. At the Shengye Berry Professional Cooperative (圣野浆果专业合作社) base, the 5,000-square-meter factory is fully equipped with cold storage, sorting workshops, and rapid testing rooms. Here, strawberries are sorted and packaged before entering the market. "We receive orders in the morning, complete picking and packaging before noon, and ship them out in the afternoon," said Ma Tingdong (马廷东).
Riding on the fast train of e-commerce development, Donggang (东港) strawberries are reaching the tables of more consumers. Donggang City (东港市) is actively laying out an e-commerce industrial ecosystem, issuing a number of support policies, strengthening the construction of rural e-commerce infrastructure, vigorously cultivating e-commerce talents, and providing convenience for the registration of agricultural e-commerce enterprises. As of the end of 2025, Donggang City (东港市) has registered more than 6,600 e-commerce enterprises and individual businesses, with more than 15,000 various e-commerce online stores. E-commerce sales of fresh strawberries account for more than 60%.
From the field to the tip of the tongue, logistics and distribution are critical. "Strawberries have the weaknesses of a short shelf life, difficulty in storage, and susceptibility to bumps and damage. From the moment they are picked, they begin a race against time," said Xia Guangwen (夏广文).
At the Shunfeng (顺丰) business station in Yiquan Town (椅圈镇), staff members put the strawberries into vacuum-sealed bags, stuff them into foam boxes, then cover them with insulation bags, and finally air freight them to various places. Donggang City (东港市) has partnered with companies such as China Post (中国邮政), SF Express (顺丰), and JD.com (京东) to develop an integrated "business flow + logistics" transportation solution, ensuring that strawberries can be delivered to consumers within 48 hours.
The strawberry industry is also attracting young people to return to their hometowns to start businesses. In Xiaodianzi Village (小甸子村), Xiaodianzi Town (小甸子镇), Guo Jingwen (国竞文) returned to the village after graduating with a master's degree and contracted three strawberry greenhouses. In Beijingzi Village (北井子村), Beijingzi Town (北井子镇), college graduate Liu Xinghao (柳兴浩) took the lead in establishing a fruit and vegetable cooperative and also built a sorting and packaging workshop and a constant-temperature cold storage.
"We have innovatively implemented the 'Returning Nest Action' for college students, selecting and employing 469 college students to return to the village to work, of which 65 are engaged in characteristic industries such as strawberries. They leverage their professional advantages and Internet thinking to guide and promote the large-scale, standardized, and branded development of rural characteristic industries, allowing small strawberries to grow into a large industry that enriches the people and revitalizes the village," said Gu Xin (谷鑫), Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Donggang Municipal Party Committee (东港市委组织部副部长).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺 勇 李亚楠
At the Jeminay Port (吉木乃口岸) in Xinjiang (新疆), a batch of live king crabs smoothly completed customs clearance procedures at the designated supervision site for imported edible aquatic animals.
"Most of the goods have already been pre-ordered by customers, who can directly transport them away in refrigerated trucks. The remaining goods will enter the professional temporary holding tanks in the regulatory area," said Xing Pan (邢攀), Deputy General Manager of Xinjiang Xinpu Yuan Import and Export Trading Co., Ltd. (新疆新浦元进出口贸易有限公司). The temporary holding tanks simulate the native Arctic Ocean waters, with the water temperature controlled at 0-1 degrees Celsius. Subsequently, they will be shipped to the market according to order demand. The port's locational advantages and service guarantees give the company full confidence to expand its business. It has signed a long-term contract with a Russian fishing company to purchase 500 tons of king crab annually, while also driving the import of frozen aquatic products such as zander and bream.
Jeminay Port (吉木乃口岸) is located in Jeminay County (吉木乃县), Altay Prefecture (阿勒泰地区), Xinjiang (新疆), at the intersection of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. As an important node of the Silk Road Economic Belt's northern corridor, Jeminay Port (吉木乃口岸) optimizes customs clearance services and policy support to achieve "immediate inspection upon arrival." In 2025, the import and export cargo volume of Jeminay Port (吉木乃口岸) was 138,000 tons. Virgin sunflower seed oil, frozen cold-water fish, and other delicacies are quickly transported along the Silk Road to domestic markets, becoming delicacies on the tables of ordinary people across the country.
Return to TopThe pilot plant base for the polyhedron strontium titanate concentrating solar hydrogen production (hydrogenation) integrated station in Xiqu District, Panzhihua City, Sichuan Province, is equipped with 144 heliostats that reflect sunlight from different directions onto 24 hydrogen production reactors on the central concentrating reflector tower. After the concentrating photocatalytic reaction, water is decomposed into hydrogen and oxygen, and the hydrogen is cooled, dehydrated, and stored in the storage tank of the hydrogen refueling station. Panzhihua has an average of about 2,700 hours of sunshine per year, providing sufficient solar energy for photoelectrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production.
The picture shows staff inspecting the polygonal heliostats at the base recently.
Photo by Li Xiangyu (李向雨) (Image China)
Return to TopBeijing, April 1st (Reporter Yu Jingxian (郁静娴)) - The reporter learned from the Bureau of State Farms of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部农垦局) that in 2025, China's natural rubber production reached 973,000 tons, setting a new historical record. In recent years, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) has worked with relevant departments to implement support policies such as comprehensive natural rubber insurance, production capacity construction, and subsidies for improved varieties and cultivation methods, promoting the stability of China's natural rubber production capacity.
The support of scientific and technological innovation has been continuously strengthened. In terms of production, the cultivation technology of rubber trees in the northern edge of the tropics has been continuously improved, the application rate of excellent varieties in newly planted rubber plantations has exceeded 80%, and breakthroughs have been made in mechanized tapping technology. In terms of application, the domestic substitution technology path for rubber used in high-end fields such as aerospace has been connected, and domestic high-end rubber has achieved commercial procurement.
International cooperation in natural rubber has been continuously deepened. Large rubber companies represented by Guangken Rubber (广垦橡胶), Hainan Rubber Group (海胶集团), and Yunnan Rubber Group (云胶集团) are growing stronger. In 2025, China imported 6.492 million tons of natural rubber (converted to dry weight), accounting for about half of the world's total and setting a new historical record, effectively ensuring the supply of domestic resources.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) April 1st (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)) - The reporter learned from the China Association of Actuaries (中国精算师协会): In 2025, China's insurance industry underwrote 43.58 million new energy vehicles (of which 41.81 million were passenger vehicles and 1.77 million were trucks), an increase of 12.48 million vehicles over the previous year, a growth of 40.1%, providing risk protection of 159 trillion yuan. The new energy vehicle insurance protection network is further strengthened.
Last year, the premium income of new energy vehicle insurance was 190 billion yuan, with an underwriting loss of 5.6 billion yuan, a year-on-year reduction in loss of 100 million yuan; the comprehensive cost ratio decreased by 1.3 percentage points year-on-year. Industry insiders said that in order to improve the coverage of new energy vehicle insurance and better serve new energy vehicle owners, the insurance industry has included many high-claim risk models in the scope of protection. Achieving a year-on-year reduction in losses under these circumstances shows that the operating capacity of new energy vehicle insurance has been further improved.
In 2025, there will be 143 high-claim vehicle series with a loss ratio exceeding 100% (not considering the daily operation and management costs of property insurance companies), an increase of 6 over the previous year, including 106 passenger vehicles and 37 trucks. The specific situation of the relevant high-claim ratio vehicle series will be fed back to the relevant automobile manufacturers through appropriate means to promote the improvement of vehicle safety and maintenance economy design, and jointly reduce the vehicle's full life cycle usage cost.
Return to TopPeople's Daily, Beijing, April 1st (Reporter 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 of this year, China's (我国) internet and related service enterprises above designated size completed internet business revenue of 317.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 9%. The total profit achieved rapid growth. In the first two months, China's (我国) internet enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 30.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 23.1%. Investment in research and development (R&D) funds maintained a rapid growth momentum. In the first two months, China's (我国) internet enterprises above designated size invested a total of 16.72 billion yuan in R&D funds, a year-on-year increase of 12.2%.
Return to TopThis Zhuhai (珠海) April 1st dispatch (Reporter He Linping (贺林平)) - According to statistics from the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) Border Inspection Station of the Zhuhai (珠海) Border Inspection General Station, in the first quarter, the cumulative number of passenger trips and vehicle trips entering and exiting through the Zhuhai (珠海) highway port of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) exceeded 8 million and 1.73 million respectively, both of which set new highs for the same period since the official opening of the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥).
Distinctive cultural tourism, leisure and health preservation, folk custom experiences... the cultural tourism consumption scenarios in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) are constantly being "updated," especially the 2026 Guangdong Provincial City Basketball League, which has added new playable, tourable, livable, and enjoyable scenarios, attracting more and more Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) residents to drive "northward" to experience. In the first quarter, the number of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) single-license vehicles entering and exiting through the port reached 1.03 million, an increase of 17% year-on-year.
"This is the fourth time I've come back in a month. I just brought my children back last weekend to watch a basketball game. This time I'm back for a spring outing and to pay respects to ancestors," said Chen Zhijian (陈志坚), a driver of "Hong Kong Vehicles Going North."
Going "southward" is equally lively. The number of mainland cities for individual tourism to Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) continues to expand, and the "one bridge connecting three places" tourism route built around the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) is favored. In the first quarter, the number of mainland tourists holding Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) travel endorsements through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) reached 1.46 million. Since the implementation of the "Guangdong Vehicles Going South" policy, as of March 31, the number of "Guangdong Vehicles Going South" vehicles registered with the border inspection department has exceeded 5,500, and more than 7,500 Guangdong (广东) private cars have traveled back and forth between Guangdong (粤港) and Hong Kong (香港) through the port, experiencing the convenience of passage.
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Adhering to the concept of "Both Sides of the Strait are One Family" (两岸一家亲) to Deepen Integrated Development Across the Taiwan Strait
Beijing, April 1st (Reporter Zhang Shuo) - According to reports, after years of joint efforts by both sides of the Taiwan Strait, before this year's Qingming Festival, the remains of several individuals who sacrificed on the hidden front in Taiwan have returned to the mainland, their souls returning to their homeland. Zhang Han, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office (国台办) of the State Council, stated at a regular press conference on the 1st that the Qingming Festival is a traditional Chinese festival for honoring ancestors. We remember history, commemorate the martyrs, and inspire the future. The heroic deeds of people with lofty ideals will not be forgotten by the people, nor will they be forgotten by history. Their ideals, beliefs, will, and character will surely inspire compatriots on both sides of the strait to unremittingly strive for the early completion of the great cause of national reunification and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Taiwanese media reported that, affected by the Middle East war, Taiwan's oil supply is strained, which has impacted the plastic raw material market, leading to a "plastic rush" on the island recently, and there may be a "medicine shortage" in the future. Public opinion on the island pointed out that, facing these difficulties, the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities only say that "oil and gas supplies are secure," and their response to crises is always slow. Zhang Han responded that, after peaceful reunification, the two sides of the strait will achieve interconnection and full connectivity. The mainland's complete industrial system and stable market supply capacity will become the most solid reliance for Taiwan compatriots, which can completely make up for Taiwan's shortage of crude oil, natural gas, industrial raw materials, and other aspects. No matter how turbulent the external situation is, we can provide timely guarantees for Taiwan's energy and resource security, industrial production, and material supply, so that Taiwan compatriots no longer need to worry about various energy and material shortages. Zhang Han said that the DPP authorities' so-called "oil and gas supply is secure" is just self-consolation for "inability to supply oil and gas," and even more so, it is deceiving the public. The DPP authorities are unwilling and unable to respond to the people's livelihood crisis on the island, and only know how to evade it. All sectors of Taiwanese society have long been strongly dissatisfied with this.
Zhang Han said in response to relevant questions that all the efforts we have made to promote the development of cross-strait relations are to enhance the kinship and well-being of compatriots on both sides of the strait and to realize the yearning of compatriots on both sides of the strait for a better life. National reunification is an irresistible historical trend, and peaceful reunification will create huge opportunities for Taiwan's economic and social development and bring tangible benefits to the vast number of Taiwan compatriots. This is the greatest attraction.
She pointed out that the sooner reunification is achieved, the more conducive it will be to Taiwan's development and the more conducive it will be to Taiwan compatriots to live a better life. The DPP authorities stubbornly seek "independence" and reject reunification for the sake of their own party, which will only deprive the people of Taiwan of their right to pursue a better life. It is hoped that the vast number of Taiwan compatriots will actively participate in the just cause of promoting national reunification and build our common homeland even better.
In response to the Mainland Affairs Council (陆委会) of Taiwan's slander and smear of cross-strait integrated development, Zhang Han said that the vast number of Taiwan people are our flesh and blood compatriots. For a long time, we have adhered to the concept of "Both Sides of the Strait are One Family" (两岸一家亲), actively promoted cross-strait economic and cultural exchanges and cooperation, deepened the integrated development of various fields across the strait, implemented policies of equal treatment for Taiwan compatriots, and constantly achieved new progress and new results, fully demonstrating our goodwill in seeking benefits and well-being for Taiwan compatriots and our sincerity in promoting the peaceful development and integrated development of cross-strait relations, which has been highly supported and widely praised by Taiwan compatriots.
She said that the DPP authorities, out of their "Taiwan independence" nature, are afraid of compatriots on both sides of the strait getting closer and more intimate, deliberately inciting cross-strait confrontation, and slandering, smearing, obstructing, and undermining everything that is conducive to developing cross-strait relations and benefiting compatriots on both sides of the strait. This is unpopular and will not succeed.
After Going to Taiwan in 1949 to Devote Himself to the Hidden Front, He Died Heroically the Following Year
76 Years Later, the Martyr Returns Home
Reporter Tian Xianjin
On the morning of March 31, a solemn burial ceremony was held at the Qingshan Central Cemetery for Martyrs in Yu'an District, Lu'an City, Anhui Province. Amidst the mournful music, the urn of Chen Lin, a martyr from Lu'an who sacrificed on the hidden front, covered with a bright national flag, was slowly placed into the tomb. After 76 years, this hero who sacrificed in Taiwan finally returned to his hometown.
"Brother, you are finally back!" Chen Peifang, the 81-year-old younger sister of martyr Chen Lin, trembled her lips, "We are 5 brothers and sisters, he is the eldest son. Since returning to his hometown in 1946 to visit relatives, there has been no news. We have been looking for him for decades, waiting for him for decades..."
Lu'an, located at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains (大别山), is a red hot land. Chen Lin was born in Lu'an in 1920. He went to the front line of the War of Resistance Against Japan in 1938. In 1949, he was ordered to go to Taiwan to engage in hidden front work. In 1950, his identity was exposed during intelligence transmission, and he was unfortunately arrested. On September 1, 1950, he died heroically at Machangding (马场町) in Taipei at the age of 30 and was later buried in Liuzhangli Cemetery (六张犁公墓) in Taipei.
Due to his special identity, his family knew nothing about Chen Lin's whereabouts. For decades, "searching" has become the deepest concern of this family. It was not until April 2020 that the higher authorities reissued a martyr's certificate for Chen Lin that his identity was made public.
"Letting heroes 'go home' is our common expectation with the martyrs' relatives." Li Shijie, head of the Military Support and Commendation Section of the Lu'an City Veterans Affairs Bureau, said, "The return of martyr Chen Lin is not only a 'reunion' of a family, but also a commemoration and comfort to the heroes of the hidden front."
The opportunity for Chen Lin's return home appeared in 2025. The Lu'an City Veterans Affairs Bureau learned that Lin Chen (林晨) (pseudonym), a warm-hearted person from Lu'an living in Taiwan, has been engaged in the work of finding relatives of martyrs. In order to help the martyrs' relatives fulfill their wishes, they, together with the Luyang General Branch of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (民革) in Hefei, Anhui, contacted Lin Chen and started a "bone-seeking" journey across the strait.
The process of welcoming back the ashes was extremely difficult, and the process was rigorous and complicated. Before the Spring Festival this year, with the efficient collaboration of multiple departments and special handling, all the documents required for the relocation of martyr Chen Lin were successfully completed through relevant channels after verification. On March 17, Lin Chen completed all the procedures for retrieving the remains of martyr Chen Lin at Liuzhangli Cemetery (六张犁公墓) in Taipei. On March 25, after the exhumation of the remains was completed, they were sent to the funeral home for cremation. On March 27, Chen Lin's ashes arrived at Hefei Xinqiao Airport (合肥新桥机场) on a civil airliner.
After the news spread, it aroused widespread attention on the Internet. The vast number of netizens left messages saying: "Salute to the nameless heroes of the hidden front," "Welcome the heroes home," "This prosperous world is as you wished"...
At the burial ceremony, people from all walks of life who came to bid farewell to the hero were in an endless stream. Representatives of the Young Pioneers stepped forward to offer bouquets of yellow chrysanthemums, and representatives of the militia stood in silence... Lin Chen, who participated in the burial ceremony with tears in his eyes, said: "With the continuous deepening of cross-strait folk exchanges, there will definitely be more heroes like martyr Chen Lin who 'return to the team'."
"Welcoming back the martyrs is only the first step. We must continue to work hard in the excavation of Chen Lin's deeds and the inheritance of his spirit." Liu Jie, director of the Lu'an City Veterans Affairs Bureau, said that next, they will sort out Chen Lin's life deeds and include them in the local red education materials, so that more people can understand this hero of the hidden front. At the same time, they will continue to improve the martyr-seeking mechanism, establish a normalized information verification and collaborative linkage system, and promote the deep integration of the protection and inheritance of the spirit of the martyrs and red education.
The green hills bury the loyal bones, and the history books record the merits. After the ceremony, looking at the tomb of martyr Chen Lin among the green pines and cypresses, Chen Peifang said softly: "The mountains and rivers are good here, we are relieved that my brother is here."
(Tang Wei participated in the writing)
Extended Reading
Three Generations of a Family Relay to Find a Martyr Missing for Many Years in Taiwan
Reporter Shi Yu
On March 28, the memorial event "Heroes are Silent, Righteousness Lasts Forever - Remembering Martyr Lin Xiangxi (林祥熹), a Student of Fujian Revolutionary University" was held at the Fujian People's Revolutionary University History Museum.
Martyr Lin Xiangxi was born in August 1928 in Hongtang Village (洪塘村), Jianxin Town (建新镇), Cangshan District (仓山区), Fuzhou City (福州市), Fujian Province (福建省). In March 1950, Lin Xiangxi was assigned by the Taiwan Working Committee (台湾工委会) of Fujian Province to secretly go to Taiwan to carry out hidden front missions. In 1951, Lin Xiangxi was unfortunately arrested. On November 26, 1952, he died heroically at Machangding (马场町) in Taipei at the age of 24. On October 6, 1988, Lin Xiangxi was approved as a revolutionary martyr.
"My maternal grandfather, my mother, and I, three generations of our family have been looking for my uncle." Lin Hong (林红), the niece of Lin Xiangxi, after learning about her uncle's deeds from her family since she was a student, made up her mind to continue the search. On New Year's Day in 2012, she found Lin Xiangxi's burial place in Taiwan. "When I saw my uncle's name in the cemetery, my tears fell all of a sudden. I told myself that no matter how hard it is, I must take him home."
In October 2025, Lin Hong contacted Liu Dewen (刘德文), a Taiwanese compatriot, after many twists and turns. After completing the notarization procedures for the entrustment, with the help of Liu Dewen, Lin Xiangxi's ashes successfully arrived in Fuzhou on February 7 this year.
On March 10, the Veterans Affairs Departments of Fujian Province and Fuzhou City, the Cangshan District Government and other units held a burial ceremony for the ashes of martyr Lin Xiangxi at the Fuzhou Wenlinshan Revolutionary Martyrs Cemetery (福州市文林山革命烈士陵园). "My brother is finally home." Lin Xiangyi (林祥仪), Lin Xiangxi's sister, 92 years old, said emotionally at the ceremony.
Jiangxi Police Help Taiwanese Compatriots Return Home and Reunite with Their Families
Reporter Yang Yanfei
On March 28, in Shanxia Village (山下村), Shanggao County (上高县), Yichun City (宜春市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), Kuang Kailong (况凯栊), a 36-year-old Taiwanese compatriot, took his 80-year-old mother, sister, and nephew in front of the village's ancestral hall and took a family photo with a large family.
"My impression of my father is only a photo. My father's last wish was to return to his hometown for burial after his death. So last year, I searched for 'Shanggao Public Security' on the short video platform, hoping they could help me find out the family's household registration information." Kuang Kailong said.
After investigation, the police from the Shanggao County Public Security Bureau found a villager named "Kuang Hugou (况糊苟)" after many twists and turns. After contacting him, he said that there were indeed relatives in his family who had gone to Taiwan and had not been in contact for many years. After contacting him for more than half a year, Kuang Kailong took his family to his homeland in March this year.
"When I arrived at the high-speed rail station that day, my family came to pick me up in the rain. A nephew in his 50s grabbed my backpack with overweight photography equipment and carried it on his shoulder." Kuang Kailong said. More than 100 relatives who had never met before, from the elderly in their 70s to the children who had just learned to walk, all treated him as "family."
What moved Kuang Kailong the most about this roots-seeking journey was his cousin Kuang Hugou's 34 years of waiting.
34 years ago, Kuang Kailong's father returned to his hometown and handed a family photo to Kuang Hugou, and then lost contact. Later, when the village built an ancestral hall, Kuang Hugou donated money to the ancestral hall in the name of Kuang Kailong's elder brother. He believed that one day, this family would return.
"My mother has never been here in 60 years of marriage." Kuang Kailong said, "Walking on the road my father walked, eating the home-cooked dishes he ate when he was a child, I fulfilled his wish to return home after waiting for decades."
After returning to Taiwan, Kuang Kailong made a short film about his experience of finding relatives and posted it on the Internet. In the short film, he said: "Some roads take 60 years to reach, but it's good to arrive."
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To continuously exert effort on minor details, and to continuously apply effort in daily life, such social governance will achieve a silently nourishing effect, and such a city will make people's lives better.
Last July, volunteers reported to the Shanghai (上海) procuratorate that "some road markings were too slippery after rain, making it easy for citizens to fall," which attracted the attention of the procuratorate. After on-site visits, Xue Liping (薛莉萍), a prosecutor from the Fifth Procuratorial Department of the Third Branch of the Shanghai Municipal People's Procuratorate (上海市人民检察院第三分院), and her colleagues found that the problem reported by the public did exist, and it posed a safety hazard, especially for the elderly. Since then, this group of prosecutors has been "competing" with the markings on the road.
Concerning the safety of public travel, the Shanghai (上海) procuratorate fulfilled its public interest litigation function and launched a survey on the thickness and smoothness of road traffic markings. After on-site surveys, it was found that in some places, in order to facilitate construction, the original markings were not removed, but were directly sprayed on top of them. This resulted in layers upon layers, making the markings thicker and thicker, exceeding the upper limit requirement of 2.5 millimeters of the national standard. In addition, the anti-skid properties of the markings were also insufficient, and the friction decreased significantly, especially after being exposed to water.
Continuing to exert effort in depth, a hearing was subsequently held. Procuratorial officers, citizens, relevant departments, and related experts gathered together to analyze the reasons—on the surface, it was caused by material performance, construction quality, and natural wear and tear, but in reality, the maintenance mechanism needed to be improved.
In response, the Shanghai (上海) procuratorate drafted a procuratorial recommendation, clearly proposing to conduct a comprehensive inspection of road traffic markings throughout the city, to rectify those that do not meet the standards in a timely manner, and to strengthen the inspection and guidance of daily maintenance of road traffic markings and other facilities. The administrative organs responded quickly: rectifying 66 high-risk locations in the urban area, formulating a three-year action plan, prioritizing the rectification of accident-prone road sections, and planning to complete the comprehensive upgrade of markings such as pedestrian crosswalks by the end of this year.
"Handling one case and governing an area, this is the effect that procuratorial public interest litigation hopes to achieve," said Xue Liping (薛莉萍). Going to the scene late at night to investigate light pollution disturbing residents, sending procuratorial recommendations to relevant functional departments to urge rectification; opening medicine boxes to check the font size of drug instructions to assess whether they are suitable for the elderly; picking up a decibel meter and coming to a square where people gather at night to monitor whether the noise intensity violates regulations... In Shanghai (上海), public interest litigation is playing an increasingly important role in solving the urgent needs and concerns of the masses and serving urban development.
Urban governance is a systematic project, which requires both bold and decisive actions and meticulous and refined craftsmanship. Seemingly insignificant zebra crossings and drug instructions often concern the public's sense of gain, happiness, and security. To continuously exert effort on minor details, and to continuously apply effort in daily life, such social governance will achieve a 润物无声 (rùn wù wú shēng - "moisten things silently," to exert a subtle influence) effect, and such a city will make people's lives better.
(The author is a reporter from the Shanghai (上海) branch of this newspaper)
Column submission email: rmrzzb@peopledaily.cn
Return to Top(People's Daily, Shijiazhuang, April 1st) (Reporter Ma Chen (马晨)) Reaching Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场) in 30 minutes and the Beijing Lize Business District (北京丽泽商务区) in 60 minutes, the Beijing-Xiong'an Express Line, as a transportation "artery" connecting Beijing (北京) and Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), is entering its final sprint stage of construction.
On March 26th, the "Hebei Xiong'an New Area Rail Express Line Operation Safety Regulations (Draft)" was submitted to the 20th meeting of the 14th Hebei Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee for deliberation, providing important legal guarantees for ensuring the safe and convenient operation of the express line, enhancing the impetus and attraction for relieving Beijing's non-capital functions, and building a "Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei on Rails."
The Hebei Xiong'an New Area Rail Express Line includes the Xiong'an New Area to Beijing Daxing International Airport Express Line, as well as three branch lines to Xushui (徐水), Bazhou (霸州), and Baigou (白沟), passing through Xiong'an (雄安), Baoding (保定), Langfang (廊坊), and Beijing (北京). It is a landmark project for constructing Xiong'an New Area's comprehensive three-dimensional transportation network and promoting the integration of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei transportation. It is also a core intercity transportation carrier for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei urban agglomeration and a key transportation facility for Xiong'an New Area to integrate into the one-hour metropolitan area and connect with Daxing Airport, providing important support for promoting the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei and serving the relief of Beijing's non-capital functions.
"This express line has the dual characteristics of a trunk railway and urban rail transit, with high speed, long station spacing, and high traffic density. Legislation is needed to regulate aspects such as cross-regional management and collaboration, safety protection zone management, and emergency response to sudden incidents, so that operational control has a legal basis," said Chen Jie (陈杰), Director of the Third Division of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the Hebei Provincial People's Congress.
It is understood that the main structure of the entire Beijing-Xiong'an Express Line has been completed, and station decoration, electromechanical debugging, and other work are being carried out with full effort. After this line is opened, it will realize a new travel mode of "departing from Beijing in the morning and arriving in Xiong'an in half an hour."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 1st (Reporter Qiu Chao Yi (邱超奕)): The reporter learned from the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) that in order to further optimize government services, the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部办公厅), the General Office of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部办公厅), and the General Office of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局办公室) jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Efficiently Handling 'One Thing' for Employee Recruitment" recently.
The opinion clarifies that efficiently handling "One Thing" for employee recruitment should be taken as an important measure to continuously optimize the business environment and improve the effectiveness of public services, reducing procedures, materials, time limits, and the number of trips required. It promotes the realization of "one-time notification, one-form application, one set of materials, one window (terminal) acceptance, and one-stop online completion" for cross-departmental related matters.
The opinion proposes that efficiently handling "One Thing" for employee recruitment requires the completion of five tasks: First, clarify the jointly handled matters. Integrate seven "single items" such as employment registration, personnel file reception for mobile personnel, labor employment record filing, employee social insurance participation registration, social security card application, housing provident fund individual account establishment, and employee medical insurance participation registration into "One Thing," constructing a "self-application, parallel processing" mechanism, allowing employers to freely choose the matters to be handled. Second, optimize business processes. Through data sharing and process reengineering, streamline unnecessary supporting materials, eliminate unnecessary intermediate steps, and shorten processing times. Support local exploration of systems such as acceptance with missing documents and notification commitment. Third, expand processing channels. Provide multiple online and offline processing options. Online, rely on government service platforms and other platforms to open a special acceptance area for "One Thing" business for employee recruitment; offline, promote "One Thing" for employee recruitment to enter government service halls and public service institutions at all levels. Fourth, strengthen digital and intelligent empowerment. Establish a cross-departmental data sharing and exchange mechanism to promote "one-time collection, multi-party sharing" of data. Fifth, establish a collaborative mechanism. Clarify the responsibilities of departments such as the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部), the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部), and the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局), and improve the joint handling mechanism.
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Spring is in full bloom, and in the "Little Ox Brother · Step on the Brakes" (小牛哥·刹一脚) Caring and Intelligent Station in Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), couriers and delivery drivers gather during their free time to participate in a theme day for Party members. "This theme day involved learning about the online behavior norms for Party members, and experts gave lectures on the occupational risks and injuries that we should be aware of in our delivery work," said Zhao Mingyang (赵明阳), a delivery driver. The learning activities of the "Little Ox Brother · Pioneer Rider" (小牛哥·先锋车手) volunteer service team's Party branch are becoming more and more diverse. "While we are 埋头接单 (mái tóu jiē dān - "bury head accept order," focusing on taking orders), we are also proactively 'recharging.'"
The number of new employment groups such as online ride-hailing drivers, couriers, and online streamers in Chengdu (成都) has exceeded 1.28 million, including more than 9,700 Party members, becoming an important force in social governance. "Doing a good job in the education of Party members in emerging fields, and demonstrating and driving more practitioners in emerging fields to listen to the Party and follow the Party, is also a new question that must be answered well," said Li Long (李龙), director of the Party Member Education Center of the Chengdu (成都市) Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (市委组织部).
"Party members in new employment groups have high mobility and prominent conflicts between work and study, and it is difficult to independently screen the key points from the massive amount of online learning resources," Li Long (李龙) told reporters. Grasping fragmented time and carrying out "embedded" learning online and offline can achieve practical results.
What is the significance of participating in learning? Can theoretical knowledge be understood? After participating in collective learning, Zhao Mingyang (赵明阳) discovered: "Learning has enriched myself and enriched my life. Innovative theories and industry policy materials are mostly presented in easy-to-understand forms such as diagrams and comics, so it is not difficult to achieve what you should know and be able to do." In his spare time, he followed the "Branch Small Backpack" (支部小书包) created by the Chengdu (成都市) Municipal Party Committee Organization Department (市委组织部), a column that regularly pushes important meeting spirits and other content online in the form of "a learning summary + original link." Now, more and more delivery drivers are actively participating in learning.
Learning has gradually become the norm, and the "Three Meetings and One Class" (三会一课) system and theme day activities are implemented among Party members in new employment groups in Chengdu (成都). Innovative theme day demonstration models are constantly being introduced, and skill competitions and other activities have enriched the learning forms.
"We combine Party member education with the interests and needs of emerging field groups," Li Long (李龙) introduced. As of now, grassroots Party organizations in Chengdu (成都市) have combined with reality to carry out more than 2,000 special Party lectures for grassroots Party organizations in emerging fields, and maintain no less than 500 online courseware related to emerging fields every year. Taking basic training to promote the expansion and quality improvement of Party member education, a three-level training system of "municipal key, county-level universal, and grassroots Party committee bottom line" has been established. In 2025, the city and county levels and industry systems will hold more than 100 special training courses for Party members in emerging fields to promote the full coverage of training for Party members in emerging fields.
More and more caring stations are being established, and legal services, free health clinics, and other projects are being delivered to them. Problems such as the "difficulty in entering" for food delivery and express delivery are gradually being alleviated. "The organization has solved our worries, and everyone is more motivated to work," Zhao Mingyang (赵明阳) said with a smile.
Li Long (李龙) told reporters that Chengdu (成都) will continue to update content, innovate carriers, focus on the education of Party members in emerging fields, give full play to their exemplary leading role, and gather more positive energy for the modernization of super-large city governance.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), April 1st (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): On April 1st, with the strong support of relevant departments in Cambodia, the working group dispatched by the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) successfully escorted Li Xiong (李雄), a core member of the Chen Zhi (陈志) criminal group, from Phnom Penh (金边), Cambodia, back to China. This is another significant achievement in law enforcement cooperation between China and Cambodia.
An investigation revealed that Li Xiong (李雄) once served as the chairman of Huiwang Group (汇旺集团) under Prince Group (太子集团), and is suspected of multiple crimes, including opening casinos, fraud, illegal business operations, and concealing criminal proceeds. Currently, Li Xiong (李雄) has been subjected to mandatory measures in accordance with the law, and the relevant case is under further investigation.
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) stated that several core members of the Chen Zhi (陈志) criminal group have been successively brought to justice. Public security organs will continue to increase their efforts and resolutely bring fugitives to justice. At the same time, we once again warn criminals to recognize the situation, 悬崖勒马 (xuán yá lè mǎ - "rein in the horse at the edge of the cliff," to come to a sudden realization before it's too late; to turn back from a dangerous path), surrender themselves to the authorities as soon as possible, and strive for lenient treatment.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 1st (Reporter Wang Jue (王珏)) Recently, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) issued a notice and convened a video conference to deploy and promote a special campaign for the safety management of cultural relics in national museums across the country, and to comprehensively carry out inventory counts and safety hazard investigation and rectification of national museum collections.
This special campaign, through a one-year concentrated action, organizes national museums across the country to count cultural relics in their collections item by item, comprehensively verify the consistency between accounts and objects, promote the formation of a normalized and standardized inventory mechanism for museum collections, and simultaneously launch the pilot work of the second national census of movable cultural relics; it focuses on investigating and rectifying safety hazards of cultural relics in museum collections, further strengthens preventive measures, improves safety management and emergency response capabilities, and ensures the safety of cultural relics in museum collections.
The National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) requires all regions and museums to establish and practice a correct view of performance, take this special campaign as an opportunity to improve the management system of museum collections, and build a solid safety defense line for museum collections with solid work results, and promote the overall improvement of the safety management level of museum collections.
The National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) coordinates and promotes and continuously deepens the safety management of museum collections. The National Museum Work Conference held in December 2025 emphasized that the management of collections should always be placed in the primary position of museum work, and systematic collection, protection, research, and interpretation should be carried out. Since then, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) has deeply verified and dealt with museum collection management issues involving relevant public opinions, and issued the "Notice on Strengthening Museum Safety Work" and the "Notice on Further Regulating the Management of Donated Collections Accepted by National Museums," urging and guiding cultural heritage administrative departments and museums at all levels to strengthen the basic work of collection management, and standardize the operation procedures such as collection grading, registration, filing, and warehousing; strictly implement the procedures for accepting donated collections into the collection, and earnestly assume the responsibility for the protection and utilization of donated collections.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王欣悦
As Qingming Festival approaches, Suxin Village (素心村) in Jingguan Town (静观镇), Beibei District (北碚区), Chongqing (重庆) is a hive of activity. "We haven't finished the wintersweet-themed cultural and creative product orders, and the guests who booked homestays for spring outings are arriving soon," said one villager.
Jingguan Town (静观镇) is famous for its wintersweet. Hundreds of varieties and over ten thousand acres of planting have made wintersweet a unique symbol here.
In the afternoon, villagers hurried to the cooperative by Jinzi Lake (金子湖) in Suxin Village (素心村). They were there to take a class—to learn how to bundle flowers from "Wintersweet Fairy" Deng Jihui (邓纪会). Deng Jihui's (邓纪会) fingers flew as she demonstrated and explained, "Both the front and back must look good. Only if it looks good will it sell well."
Returning new farmer, florist... Deng Jihui (邓纪会) has many titles, but she loves "Wintersweet Fairy" the most. This title was given to her by the flower farmers. Through e-commerce live broadcasts, Deng Jihui (邓纪会) helped everyone sell wintersweet from baskets to the cloud, with online sales increasing by more than 40% annually, and the average income per mu for flower farmers reaching 15,000 to 30,000 yuan.
How to let wintersweet exude a new fragrance in a small mountain village? In 2018, Deng Jihui (邓纪会) returned to her hometown and used floral art to illuminate the beauty of Jingguan (静观) wintersweet. With many years of floral experience, she used different bundling techniques to showcase the rich posture of wintersweet.
"In the past, it was just 'one bundle, one tie,' and those of different sizes and thicknesses were thrown away," said flower farmer Xu Changzhi (徐昌直). Now, the small ones are made into potted plants, the large ones are supplied to hotels, and the neat ones go to the market, with no more "waste branches." After the artistic creation of the flower farmers, the wintersweet, which used to sell for 5 yuan a bunch, can now sell for dozens of yuan.
Flower arrangement makes wintersweet full of interest, and the lives of flower farmers are also full of vitality. In the village, flower farmers are learning flower arrangement and e-commerce live broadcasting, and their works are amazing. Because they are extremely familiar with the flower materials, the works of flower farmers are more wild and beautiful.
Casually cutting a radish as a base, picking wildflowers by the fence, picking up reed bamboo leaves, and then inserting a wintersweet branch diagonally—simple and elegant flower arrangement works gradually appear under the eaves and by the stove, decorating the village and changing the appearance of life.
The village scenery blends with floral art, and there is ingenuity everywhere. Huge wintersweet flower branches are painted on the exterior walls of village houses, plum blossom poems are carved on bridge railings, and plum blossoms are printed on the ring lake road. "Going out is a wintersweet theme park, and everyone seems to live in a garden," villager Huang Xiankui (黄先奎) sighed, the fragrance of wintersweet not only permeates the village appearance, but also nourishes cultural life, "There are also wintersweet festivals and flower arrangement competitions, and everyone is very enthusiastic about learning flower arrangement skills."
"Your new work is beautiful." Pointing to the ingenuity of his neighbor Pi Guangying (皮光英) in front of his house, using wintersweet bonsai branches with peach blossoms and rapeseed flowers, Huang Xiankui (黄先奎) praised. Pi Guangying (皮光英) responded with a smile: "Our flower farmers are good at growing flowers, and even better at arranging flowers."
At the beginning of this year, the 23rd "China Wintersweet Town" Cultural and Art Festival specially set up a flower arrangement competition for flower farmers. The competition only lasted for two days, but the enthusiasm of flower farmers for creating flower arrangement works continued. "I hope to let flower farmers use the flowers they grow to show the happy life of a harmonious village," said Zhang Ruguo (张汝国), Secretary of the Party Committee of Jingguan Town (静观镇). In recent years, cultural and tourism activities related to flowers have become more and more abundant, and Jingguan Town (静观镇) receives more than 1 million tourists annually.
It is easy to appreciate the fragrance, but difficult to keep it, but the flower farmers have ingeniously "kept" the fragrance.
In 2015, Li Wei (李伟), a flower farmer in the village, solved the problem of "wintersweet cannot be made into essential oil." After repeated attempts, he extracted wintersweet essential oil using traditional distillation methods. Since then, pure dew, balm, fragrance, and even masks and lipsticks with wintersweet plant extracts have been produced successively.
Wintersweet is like clouds, and the fragrance flows. The village has opened a fragrance experience workshop, which, together with the wintersweet theme park and rural homestays, attracts tourists from all directions. Li Wei (李伟) said that his daughter, born after 2000, is also engaged in a career related to wintersweet—creating wintersweet theme scenes, providing new experiences that can be photographed, played, and immersed in, allowing a tree of goose yellow to bloom in the hearts of young people.
Now, the Jingguan (静观) wintersweet industry has moved from "flowering season" to "four seasons of fragrance," with an annual sales value of about 20 million yuan for fresh-cut flowers, about 7 million yuan for wintersweet essential oil, and nearly 100 million yuan for driving rural leisure tourism income. The wintersweet industry is also deeply integrated with Jingguan Town's (静观镇) flower and tree coiling, mine pit homestays, and high-quality agricultural and sideline product planting, giving the countryside a new look.
This wisp of plum fragrance floating from the mountains is telling more people the story of the local area using flowers as a medium to empower the beauty of the countryside.
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In traditional Chinese flower arranging, the "kenzan" is crucial—it is used to fix flower branches and support floral art works as the "earth." In Suxin Village (素心村), Jingguan Town (静观镇), Beibei District (北碚区), Chongqing (重庆), villagers carefully carve radishes and sweet potatoes from their homes, turning them into kenzans full of earthy flavor. This wisdom, sprouting from the fields, steadily supports the myriad flowers and leaves of the mountains and wilderness.
How fragrant are ten thousand acres of wintersweet?
Every year, tens of millions of fresh-cut flowers go from the farmers' baskets, fragrant to the cities; a wintersweet festival brings abundant tourism resources to Suxin Village (素心村), turning the fragrance on the branches into sweetness in the heart; wintersweet essential oil and various derivatives have an annual output value of over ten million yuan, allowing the floral charm to linger throughout the seasons.
This is the tangible change that wintersweet has brought to the hometown in the past 8 years.
Every day I walk along the shimmering Jinzi Lake (金子湖), with wide village roads under my feet, houses painted with plum blossoms in front of me, and the fragrance of wintersweet lingering around me. I often marvel that such an elegant and beautiful life is commonplace in my hometown.
When I first returned to the village, my workshop was still a dilapidated house piled with rubble and overgrown with weeds. Now, it is a scenic spot in the artistic countryside. I create here, and also offer handicraft classes, teaching villagers flower arranging.
The seeds of beauty have long taken root in this land with the wintersweet, waiting for an opportunity to sprout. Flower arranging is a "spring rain," carrying wintersweet, fragrant willow, camellia leaves, and nandina, falling in every household's courtyard. Ordinary plants have become art, and even an industry driving rural development. Plum shadows sway in front of and behind houses; potted plants are everywhere, with subtle fragrance floating. More and more tourists are coming, and the villagers' conversations have also become more refined—whether it is the elegant affairs of Song people wearing flowers and appreciating incense, or the plum blossom poems on the bridgehead walls, they can say a few words. If you ask about the varieties of Jingguan (静观) wintersweet, their voices are full of pride: "More than 100 varieties, they are very different, let me take you to the Wintersweet Expo Park (蜡梅博览园) to see!"
Wintersweet, fragrant days, and beautiful villages.
In the first year of returning to my hometown, I launched the "Jingguan Cup (静观杯)" Wintersweet Flower Arranging Competition, which became more and more lively. At this year's competition, I met many old friends—former student Wei Dengrong (魏登荣) became a florist, teaching flower arranging while shooting videos, leading villagers to decorate B&Bs and houses with wintersweet; an aunt who attended every class is now used to cutting two branches and placing them at home; a big sister even put on wintersweet lipstick before the competition... Imperceptibly, art is permeating the countryside and the villagers' lives.
I have been a florist and flower arranging teacher for more than 20 years. In the process of planting wintersweet and teaching flower farmers in recent years, I have found that beauty has nothing to do with urban or rural areas, and everyone's pursuit of a better life is the same.
Many times, when I teach on rural paths, I find that everyone's eyes are always drawn to the plants and trees beside the road, "Look at this Milan leaf, how round and lovely." "There are several colors of banana leaves." "I used to think it was just grass, but now it seems to be a treasure." From discovering beauty, to understanding beauty, and then to creating beauty, flower arranging brings more than just pleasure. It awakens the common cultural genes and the artistic intuition in the countryside that is soaked in floral fragrance.
Now, my goal is clearer: to make the wintersweet industry more prosperous, to make flower farmers' income higher, and to make the village's aesthetics even better. May the plum fragrance spread farther and the village become more beautiful.
The materials nurtured by the earth provide the foundation for art and literature; art and literature are deeply rooted in the mountains and fields, settling in front of the windows and under the eaves of every household. The pride of generations of villagers comes from the artistic beauty sprouting from the soil, solid and lasting.
(The author is a new farmer returning to his hometown in Jingguan Town (静观镇), Chongqing (重庆). This report was compiled and edited by Wang Xin Yue (王欣悦), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Guilin (桂林) April 1st dispatch (Reporter Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺)) "Don't compete on extravagance when holding banquets." In Shankou Village (山口村), Tanxia Town (潭下镇), Lingchuan County (灵川县), Guilin (桂林) City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), the sound of erhu and drums rises as amateur actors use newly composed Cai Diao opera to perform stories of villagers, gently narrating the new trend of simplifying weddings and funerals. "Filial piety and love for elders," "Frugality in the family"... Walking into Liantang Village (莲塘村), Rongjiang Town (溶江镇), Xing'an County (兴安县), the village appearance is neat and elegant, and the family motto plaques hanging in every household have become a unique landscape.
Recently, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs held a national on-site meeting on rural cultural construction and changing customs in Lingchuan County (灵川县) to summarize and exchange experiences and practices from various regions, and to study and deploy key tasks for rural culture and changing customs. The meeting required that agricultural and rural departments at all levels should strengthen the protection and inheritance of agricultural cultural heritage, promote the healthy development of mass rural cultural and sports activities, expand the ranks of local cultural talents, and deeply promote the action of empowering villages with art. Holding mass rural cultural and sports activities should adhere to the principle of farmers as the main body and the attribute of public welfare, adapting to local conditions, being thrifty and pragmatic. The work of changing customs in rural areas should respect local customs and the wishes of the masses, adhere to a combination of guidance and restriction, address both symptoms and root causes, continue to promote the rectification of outstanding problems such as extravagant spending, and explore effective governance methods.
Guangxi (广西) regards changing customs in rural areas as a continuous, long-term, and comprehensive systematic project, implementing comprehensive governance measures, improving rural governance effectiveness, promoting stable income for farmers, and improving rural living conditions. In recent years, Guangxi (广西) has made remarkable achievements in promoting cultural benefits for the people, holding various cultural and sports activities such as "Village BA," "Village Songs," and "Village Runs."
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Riverside concerts, public welfare painting and calligraphy exhibitions... On the banks of the Yao River (姚江) in Jiangbei District (江北区), Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), a two-story building has hosted more than 20 cultural events in three months.
The small building is the Egret Bay New Cultural Space (白鹭湾新型文化空间). Bao Panchao (包泮超), the person in charge, is coordinating activities over the phone while guiding staff to debug equipment. A performance is about to begin. Now, there are different types of cultural activities here every week. Compared with the lack of interest a few years ago, art and culture have gathered popularity.
The change stems from Jiangbei District (江北区) breaking the traditional operation system and mechanism, allowing social forces to participate in the construction of public cultural spaces.
As everyone's demand for high-quality public cultural services increases, existing libraries, cultural centers, etc. are difficult to meet new expectations. How to better implement high-quality public cultural services? Jiangbei District (江北区) began to explore the socialized operation of public cultural spaces.
"We hope that under the guidance of policies, more social forces will participate in it and enrich the content of public cultural spaces," said Wang Zhiye (王之野), Director of the Jiangbei District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau (江北区文化广电旅游局).
Space operation requires higher standards. Opening hours, number of events, attracting traffic... The District Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau (区文化广电旅游局) will assess the operation of the space every year. "This encourages public cultural spaces to achieve better results," said Wang Zhiye (王之野).
More than a year ago, Bao Panchao (包泮超) was attracted by the natural environment and location advantages of Yao River (姚江), especially the policy of waiving rent for the first five years, which reduced his financial pressure at the beginning of the operation. In the end, Bao Panchao (包泮超) chose this place.
A steady stream of living water flows into the public cultural space. Now, the Graduate Practice Base of the School of Music of Ningbo University (宁波大学音乐学院研究生实践基地), the "Perceive China" International Education Base of Ningbo University (宁波大学“感知中国”国际教育基地), and other projects have been successively established in the Egret Bay New Cultural Space (白鹭湾新型文化空间).
"To make the cultural space 'live', we must constantly add content to it," said Bao Panchao (包泮超). This year, the Egret Bay New Cultural Space (白鹭湾新型文化空间) will plan dozens of activities, including music performances, painting and calligraphy art exhibitions, etc.
Public cultural spaces are embedded in urban spaces, and culture is also integrated into the lives of citizens. In Cicheng Town (慈城镇), an urban study room transformed from park supporting rooms has become a daily cultural living room for community residents; in Jiangbei Wanda Plaza (江北万达广场), an art space transformed from a 200-square-meter idle passage allows citizens to encounter art inadvertently. At present, 37 public cultural spaces in Jiangbei District (江北区) have achieved socialized operation, and the average number of services received per capita (resident population) per year is 10.1 times.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 1st (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) The 5th "Tiangong (天宫) Art Exhibition" opened on April 1st at the China Space Station (中国空间站). The Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) astronaut crew, currently on a "business trip" in space, served as "space narrators," providing an on-orbit display and introduction to the national audience.
The exhibition, themed "Pioneering Role Models in My Heart," began collecting submissions in July 2025. Ultimately, 80 exhibited paintings stood out from more than 15,000 entries and entered the China Space Station (中国空间站) aboard the Shenzhou-21 (神舟二十一号) manned spacecraft. The offline exhibition "Painting Together in Space and on Earth: Role Models Leading the Way" is being held simultaneously at the Capital Museum (首都博物馆), open to the public.
"The young artists meticulously outlined the pioneering figures in their hearts. Every color is filled with the firm belief of strengthening the country with me, and every painting expresses the lofty aspirations of the new era's youth," astronaut Zhang Hongzhang (张洪章) introduced in the explanatory video.
As a space-themed cultural brand widely participated in by national youth and built on the "window" of the China Space Station (中国空间站), the "Tiangong (天宫) Art Exhibition" has been successfully held for five sessions and has generated a good response in society, especially among young people. This offline exhibition brings together works from previous "Tiangong (天宫) Art Exhibitions" and will continue until May 24th.
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April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to promote early screening and intervention for childhood myopia, overweight obesity, and autism. What are the early symptoms of autism? What are the currently identified high-risk factors for autism? What are the effective intervention methods for autism?
"The full name of autism is Autism Spectrum Disorder, which is a type of neurodevelopmental disorder that begins in early childhood, characterized primarily by impairments in social interaction and social communication, as well as narrow interests and repetitive, stereotyped behaviors," said Liu Jing (刘靖), director of the Child Mental Health Center at Peking University Sixth Hospital (北京大学第六医院). The optimal treatment period for autism is before the age of 6, and the earlier the intervention, the better the effect. Early detection, early diagnosis, and early intervention can improve the symptoms and prognosis of children with autism to varying degrees.
Initial screening at 0-6 years old, beware of the concept of "late talkers are wise" and "they'll be fine when they grow up"
Liu Jing (刘靖) introduced that China has established a three-level network for autism screening and treatment. Primary healthcare institutions such as township health centers and community health service centers provide initial screening services for abnormal psychological and behavioral development for children aged 0-6 years. Initial screening is conducted at 3, 6, 8, 12, 18, 24, and 30 months of age, as well as at 3, 4, 5, and 6 years of age. The "Child Psychological and Behavioral Development Problem Early Warning Sign Screening Table" is used to understand whether children have behavioral manifestations suggestive of autism, and through inquiry, to understand whether children have impairments or regression in language function and social communication skills. Relevant impairments or regression include the inability to express themselves verbally, no eye contact, etc., or the ability to express themselves verbally and have eye contact in the past, but now they cannot express themselves verbally and have no eye contact, etc.
Children with abnormal initial screening results should be referred to county-level or district-level maternal and child health care institutions for re-screening as soon as possible. If the re-screening results are abnormal, they should be referred to professional medical institutions with the ability to diagnose childhood autism for further diagnosis as soon as possible.
In addition to screening by professional institutions, parents should also be mindful and master the methods of identifying autism. Once abnormalities are found, they should actively accept autism screening, diagnosis, and intervention services in a timely manner. "For example, if a child does not respond to loud noises at 3 months of age, does not make sounds or smile when teased, does not look at faces, or does not track moving people or objects; if they make few sounds and do not laugh out loud at 6 months of age, parents should be alert," said Liu Jing (刘靖). "Parents should understand the autism warning signs for children of all ages, be wary of concepts such as 'late talkers are wise' and 'they'll be fine when they grow up,' and detect any suspected autism symptoms in their children early, seek medical attention and intervention in a timely manner, so as not to miss the valuable opportunity for early intervention. Screening and diagnosis should be carried out in regular medical institutions."
Symptoms can be improved and abilities enhanced through scientific and standardized rehabilitation training
Autism seriously affects children's social function and quality of life, and the causes are very complex. "Genetic factors play an important role, and environmental factors increase the risk of disease in offspring, including older parental age at birth, maternal viral infections during pregnancy, taking certain medications, and exposure to toxic chemicals. Genetic factors and environmental factors interact through very complex pathological mechanisms, ultimately leading to the occurrence of the disease," Liu Jing (刘靖) introduced.
After being diagnosed with autism, how to intervene scientifically? This is a common concern for parents. "In reality, some parents are 病急乱投医 (bìng jí luàn tóu yī - "ill rush random doctor," to clutch at straws when ill; to seek help indiscriminately when in distress), believing that the 'more expensive the intervention method, the better the effect,' and listening to the one-sided exaggerated publicity of some institutions, resulting in a lot of money spent, but the effect is not satisfactory. Some parents listen to folk remedies and adopt various dietary therapies, but there is no improvement in the core symptoms of autism." Jia Meixiang (贾美香), director of the Department of Child Psychiatry at Peking University Sixth Hospital (北京大学第六医院), said that parents are advised to carefully identify and select qualified institutions. Specifically, regular institutions should have a systematic evaluation system, training guidance for parents, and timely adjustment of training plans at different stages of the child's training.
Currently, autism cannot be completely cured, but children with autism can improve their symptoms and enhance their abilities through scientific and standardized rehabilitation training. Domestically recognized autism intervention methods with certain evidence-based evidence include systematic intervention methods based on applied behavior analysis and intervention models combining applied behavior analysis and developmental psychology.
"After diagnosis, children should receive specialized training according to their level of growth and development. For children under 1 year old, family intervention is recommended; for children of other ages, in addition to receiving professional rehabilitation in institutions, parents should carry out family intervention according to the rehabilitation plan, forming a joint force from all parties to strive for the best results," Jia Meixiang (贾美香) introduced. From a practical point of view, through early intervention, children with mild autism can gradually return to normal life and study and live like ordinary children. Children with moderate autism can attend special education schools, and can engage in repetitive simple labor after adulthood, basically achieving self-reliance. Children with severe autism can master basic living skills, effectively reducing the burden on caregivers.
Early screening and early intervention for autism test the diagnostic and treatment skills of professional doctors. "For some children with mild symptoms, we do not easily draw conclusions, but instead advise parents to have regular follow-ups to ensure that children do not miss the opportunity for early intervention," Jia Meixiang (贾美香) admitted. Through continuous training, the diagnostic and treatment level of primary doctors has been greatly improved. At the same time, with the help of online platforms, online training for parents also helps children in remote areas receive scientific and systematic intervention at home.
Society should have more understanding and tolerance for families with children with autism
Support for parents of children with autism cannot be ignored. "In the long-term treatment process, parents face enormous psychological pressure. Many people will blame themselves, complaining 'why am I so unlucky.' In the face of difficulties, parents should adjust their mentality, and family members should reasonably divide the work to create a warm growing environment for their children. At the same time, encourage society to provide parents with various forms of assistance. For example, provide psychological counseling to parents to release their stress; have volunteers accompany children to participate in group activities, so that parents can get a chance to breathe," Jia Meixiang (贾美香) suggested.
Due to the disease, children with autism are prone to emotional dysregulation in public places, shouting and even hitting people. Jia Meixiang (贾美香) called for more understanding and tolerance for children and parents, and do not make physical contact with children without permission, so as not to cause stress reactions in children. Do not criticize or surround the behavior of children, and provide necessary help when needed.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郝迎灿
At 10 a.m., sunlight streamed onto the playground of the Special Education School in Liaoyang (辽阳) City, Liaoning (辽宁) Province. The morning exercise was about to begin, and Li Ziwei (李紫微), the head teacher of Rehabilitation Class One, was busy organizing the formation. Ten-year-old Xiaoyang (小洋) suddenly threw himself at her, muttering, "Draw a circle, draw a circle!" Li Ziwei (李紫微) skillfully hugged Xiaoyang (小洋) and spun him around in place. Xiaoyang (小洋) giggled with joy, and finally, at Li Ziwei's (李紫微) urging, obediently returned to the line.
"When Xiaoyang (小洋) first came to the school, he was very resistant to contact with others. Now he's the teacher's little shadow, and he'll even greet strangers," said Li Ziwei (李紫微). "With the joint efforts of the teachers, Xiaoyang (小洋) has become much more outgoing."
In 2009, on Li Ziwei's (李紫微) suggestion, the school opened the city's first rehabilitation training class for children with autism. To date, it has admitted more than 300 children. For more than a decade, Li Ziwei (李紫微) and her colleagues have used extraordinary patience, care, love, and responsibility to illuminate the path of growth for these special children.
"These children also have the right to receive an education."
Born in 1986, Li Ziwei (李紫微) came to work at the Liaoyang (辽阳) City Special Education School in 2007 after graduating from junior college. At that time, the school mainly enrolled deaf and mute children. Seeing parents of children with autism coming to register their children full of hope, only to leave with disappointment, she had an idea.
Children with autism often have difficulty establishing or maintaining emotional relationships with others, maintaining a distance from the world like stars, and are therefore also known as "children of the stars."
"These children also have the right to receive an education." Two years later, Li Ziwei (李紫微) approached the principal and suggested enrolling children with autism. "But the school lacks experience, and there are too many unknowns and risks in admitting children with autism," the principal said, full of concerns.
"Let's try it. What if it works?" Unable to resist Li Ziwei's (李紫微) repeated requests, and after much deliberation, the principal finally nodded. In September of that year, the city's first rehabilitation training class for children with autism was officially established, with Li Ziwei (李紫微) as the head teacher.
But when she actually started doing it, Li Ziwei (李紫微) felt that she had underestimated the actual difficulties.
Once during recess, a child suddenly picked up a chair and smashed it on Li Ziwei's (李紫微) head, and her left eye socket immediately bled profusely. "Most of the children lack basic self-care skills, and they need to be carefully taken care of for eating, drinking, and going to the toilet. Some children also have self-harming and violent tendencies, and things can go wrong if you're not careful," said Li Ziwei (李紫微).
In the classroom, it's day after day of monotonous repetition. She has to repeat the simplest instructions, such as "sit down" and "look at the blackboard," countless times to the children every day, hoping that persistent reinforcement can bring about the desired response. The most basic identification of "up, down, left, and right" takes at least half a year to teach. Simple Chinese characters and Arabic numerals may not show any obvious progress after a semester...
"Did you ever think about giving up?" the reporter asked.
"How could I not?" said Li Ziwei (李紫微). "Sometimes when a child hits me, I feel very wronged at that moment. I feed you every day, wipe your butt, and wash your clothes. Why are you hitting me? But after a while, the child comes over and says 'Hello, Teacher Li (李老师),' and I still feel that everything is worth it."
Li Ziwei (李紫微) rolled up a sleeve, and her hand and forearm were covered with small white scars. She had carefully counted them, and there were more than 100 scars of all sizes on her body. "These are the special 'medals' that the children have awarded me."
"Medals are not important, as long as the children are happy."
Li Ziwei (李紫微) is a roller skating expert. When she was in elementary school, she won the speed skating championship in the city's amateur competition. Not long after the rehabilitation class was established, she made a bold decision to introduce roller skating into the classroom.
"Most of these children have poor balance, and some have difficulty even walking, let alone stepping on wheels?" The campus was in an uproar.
Li Ziwei (李紫微) had her own reasons: "In addition to physical fitness and endurance, roller skating can also enhance the body's coordination and flexibility, and is an effective sensory integration training method." Children with autism resist trying unknown things and are prone to shrinking back when they encounter difficulties, and what Li Ziwei (李紫微) has to do is to take their hands, repeat it over and over again, and persevere day after day.
The difficulty can be imagined. "In the beginning, the children couldn't even understand simple instructions such as squatting and bending over, so we could only 'break' their physical movements into place with our hands," said Li Ziwei (李紫微).
Xiaoyi (小义), who is now 20 years old, has athletic talent, but when he first started practicing, he was in a bad mood and started crying as soon as he put on his roller skates. Li Ziwei (李紫微) encouraged Xiaoyi (小义) to persevere and took him for extra practice after school. It took a full five years for Xiaoyi (小义) to finally be able to skate independently.
In 2018, the first Special Olympics Games of Liaoning (辽宁) Province were held in Shenyang (沈阳). Li Ziwei (李紫微) took four children to participate and won 16 medals, including five gold medals won by Xiaoyi (小义) alone. Returning with honors, Li Ziwei (李紫微) said, "Medals are not important, as long as the children are happy."
In order to improve the children's basic language skills, Li Ziwei (李紫微) thought of many ways. "Why not try teaching children to recite poetry in the form of a clapper talk?" Playing the clapper is also Li Ziwei's (李紫微) hobby, and she even specially apprenticed to Li Yanping (李延平), the representative inheritor of Liaoyang (辽阳) Li-style clapper talk, a Liaoyang (辽阳) City intangible cultural heritage. The master thought that this was an almost impossible task, but Li Ziwei (李紫微) had plenty of patience.
Unexpectedly, the rhythmic and fast-paced clapper talk quickly attracted the children's attention. "Tiananmen (天安门) Square is so magnificent, Chang'an (长安) Avenue runs through east and west..." Eleven-year-old Xiaowen (小文) performed a passage from "Watching the Raising of the Flag" for the reporter on the spot, reciting more than 100 clapper talk lines without any mistakes, and with clear pronunciation and intonation.
Roller skating, clapper talk, African drums... Li Ziwei's (李紫微) classroom is always full of surprises. "Our children may grow up a little slower, but I hope they have the courage to face the world fearlessly and a full enthusiasm for life."
"Show more care and understanding to vulnerable groups, so that their lives can also blossom."
In her 19 years of special education, Li Ziwei (李紫微) has devoted most of her time and energy to the children, and has therefore won many honors such as National Excellent Teacher and Liaoning (辽宁) Province Moral Model.
Kangning (康宁), who is now 24 years old, lost his parents in an accident in 2016. Li Ziwei (李紫微) took him to her home, where he lived for more than two years until he entered the welfare home at the age of 17. Li Ziwei's (李紫微) home only had one bed, so she let Kangning (康宁) sleep in the bed while she slept on the floor, so that she could take care of the child at night. "The parents of several other students in the class also participated, vying to buy Kangning (康宁) living and learning supplies, and taking him to their homes to play every now and then," said Li Ziwei (李紫微).
"From entering school at the age of 7 to graduating at the age of 18, Teacher Li (李老师) has simply 'changed' a son for me!" Dada's (达达) mother said, with endless gratitude in her heart for her child's progress. When he first entered school, Dada's (达达) emotions were unstable and he needed 24-hour care. But now, Dada (达达) can not only take the bus by himself and cook simple meals such as scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but also has learned to use WeChat Pay.
However, Dada's (达达) situation is not common. "Most children with autism still cannot live without special care after graduating from special education schools at the age of 18, which puts a heavy burden on their families." Since being elected as a deputy to the 14th National People's Congress, Li Ziwei (李紫微) has submitted relevant suggestions for four consecutive years, calling for policy support for older patients with autism, "I hope everyone will show more care and understanding to vulnerable groups, so that their lives can also blossom."
In addition to teaching at school, Li Ziwei (李紫微) uses weekends and holidays to regularly deliver education to the homes of several severely autistic children who cannot attend school. "Teacher Li (李老师) comes to give the child a lesson once every half a month, without fail, and this is the tenth year," said Xiaopeng's (小鹏) mother, her eyes red. Her home is located in the mountainous area of Liaoyang (辽阳) County, and it takes more than an hour to drive from the city.
"I always say that these children are like little snails, and my task is to lead these little snails for a walk. At first, I may be laughed at, but because I walk slowly, I can also appreciate the scenery of life that others cannot appreciate when they pass by in a hurry," said Li Ziwei (李紫微).
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The path to growth for "children of the stars" needs someone to illuminate it. It is gratifying that there is a group of special education teachers like Li Ziwei (李紫微) who use their professional strength to protect the slightest progress of children with autism. In Shijingshan (石景山), Beijing (北京), special education teacher Zhao Xing (赵星) has led a team for more than 10 years to accompany children with autism to grow together, serving a total of more than 20,000 people with disabilities and their families. In Mishan (密山), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Yu Shanshan (于姗姗), a post-90s special education teacher, gave up a high-paying job in the provincial capital and returned to her hometown to establish a rehabilitation center, helping more than 630 special children in 10 years. It is these ordinary and great people who, with their day-to-day perseverance and love, pave a bridge to society for the "children of the stars."
Autism should be prevented and treated scientifically. From establishing an early screening system to standardizing rehabilitation treatment technologies and strengthening the training of professional talents, we must respond with a scientific attitude. Early detection, early diagnosis, and early intervention, using scientific methods to eliminate cognitive blind spots, can win valuable rehabilitation opportunities for children.
Society should also have more understanding and tolerance for "children of the stars" and their families. The living conditions of the autistic community test the civilization of society. Every life deserves to be treated with gentleness. Let us use love to dispel their loneliness and jointly light up the way forward for the "children of the stars."
Return to TopThis newspaper Fuzhou April 1st (Reporter Fu Wen (付文)) The "Quanzhou Autism Children Care Service Promotion Regulations" was recently approved by the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial People's Congress and will officially come into effect on April 2 this year.
In recent years, Quanzhou has insisted on using the power of the rule of law and joint supervision to improve the level of care services for autistic children, taking the lead in carrying out local legislation to promote the care of autistic children, and promoting Quanzhou (泉州) to become the only city in the province selected as a "National Autism Children Care Promotion Action Pioneer Pilot Area".
The "Regulations" has 6 chapters and 35 articles, clarifying the responsibilities of the government, families, and society, systematically summarizing the city's effective experience in screening and diagnosis network construction, medical-rehabilitation-education integration, etc., and constructing a full-chain service mechanism for screening, diagnosis, rehabilitation, education, security, and social participation, promoting the care of autistic children from "having rules to follow" to fully "having laws to abide by." Among them, it is creatively stipulated that ordinary schools can apply for per capita funding for students attending classes with autism diagnosis certificates, providing personalized support for autistic students.
Quanzhou (泉州) established a special fund for autism, innovating the "financial guidance + social fundraising" model, raising more than 120 million yuan in donations. Since 2023, the screening of autism in children aged 0 to 6 has been included in the practical projects for the people for four consecutive years. At present, a total of 1.23 million screenings have been completed, with an investment of 29.66 million yuan.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shanghai on April 1st (Reporter Huang Xiaohui (黄晓慧)) On March 31st, Mr. Shi, a resident of Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海), signed two contracts. One was to "sell" his 40-square-meter old house to the Jing'an District Guarantee Housing Company (静安区保障房公司), and the other was to purchase a 112-square-meter new commercial house from a development enterprise in Jing'an District (静安区). With one sale and one purchase, Mr. Shi completed his housing "upgrade." This signing marks a breakthrough in Shanghai (上海) in the field of market-oriented revitalization of existing housing stock and efficient fundraising for guaranteed rental housing, becoming the city's first case of government-guided, state-owned enterprises acquiring and storing old residential housing as guaranteed housing.
After signing with the Jing'an District Guarantee Housing Company (静安区保障房公司), Mr. Shi will receive a "housing ticket" of 2.2 million yuan based on the assessed value of the old house. This "housing ticket" is specifically used to offset the purchase price of the new house selected by Mr. Shi, and the purchased house is expected to be delivered in two years.
According to reports, the source of guaranteed rental housing in Jing'an District (静安区) is mainly new construction and renovation. As the central urban area of Shanghai (上海), Jing'an District (静安区) has tight land resources, and the traditional model can no longer fully meet the incremental demand for guaranteed rental housing. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Jing'an District (静安区) plans to add approximately 13,000 sets (rooms) of guaranteed rental housing. To further broaden the channels for fundraising, Jing'an District (静安区), as a pilot in Shanghai (上海), has pioneered the "housing acquisition and replacement" model.
According to the model design, the Jing'an District Guarantee Housing Company (静安区保障房公司) acts as the implementing entity, following market-oriented principles, acquiring complete small-sized existing housing with clear property rights and suitable total prices within the district. After unified standardized renovation, the housing is incorporated into the district-level guaranteed rental housing management system, providing targeted housing for new citizens, young people, and other groups at standards lower than the market rent in the same area. At the same time, this model opens up new channels for residents with housing improvement needs: residents can first lock in their intended new commercial housing and purchase conditions within Jing'an District (静安区), and then submit an old housing acquisition application to the Jing'an District Guarantee Housing Company (静安区保障房公司); the Jing'an District Guarantee Housing Company (静安区保障房公司) gives residents a "housing ticket" specifically for replacement, realizing a closed loop of "standardized disposal of old housing and smooth purchase of new housing."
"This policy solves our need to improve living conditions. The process is transparent, the operation is convenient, and it is even more reassuring and worry-free," said Mr. Shi. 安心、省心 (ān xīn, shěng xīn - "peace of mind, save worry," describes a situation where one feels secure and doesn't have to exert much effort).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 1st (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), together with the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), recently issued the "Regulations on Clearly Marked Prices in the Funeral Industry (Trial Implementation)," providing classified guidance for various operators to clearly mark prices.
The "Regulations" will be implemented on a trial basis from May 31st, including funeral homes, public cemeteries, columbariums and other funeral service institutions, business entities selling funeral supplies, and other organizations and individuals engaged in funeral-related service activities, covering all aspects of "death, funeral, burial, and memorial."
The "Regulations" further refine the requirements for clearly marked prices. There are both general provisions and special provisions, aiming to specifically eliminate the information gap between bereaved families and operators. Among them, the general provisions are to be jointly observed by all operators in the funeral industry, and the special provisions apply separately to different types of operators such as funeral homes, public cemeteries, columbariums, and funeral intermediaries, as well as specific commodities and services such as urns, shrouds, tomb (niche) burials, and memorial venue rentals.
The "Regulations" further consolidate the main responsibility of operators, preventing arbitrary charges and "**天价**" (tiān jià - "sky-high price," exorbitant prices) at the source. For example, operators are required to comprehensively, completely, clearly, and standardizedly mark the price information of funeral supplies and services, actively publicize service supervision and complaint reporting telephone numbers, promote the use of model texts for funeral service contracts, carry out centralized online publicity of charges, establish an internal price supervision system, and must not use pricing methods to implement price fraud, etc.
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Macao on April 1st (Reporter Fu Zimei (富子梅)) Following coordination between the Macao Special Administrative Region (澳门特区) Government and relevant departments of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) Government, the two sides have expanded the cross-border ambulance transfer service between Hong Kong and Macao since March 27th. A new arrangement has been added for transporting patients from Macao to Hong Kong for return to Macao for medical treatment, marking a new stage in the Hong Kong-Macao cross-border ambulance service.
The "Hong Kong-Macao Cross-border Ambulance Pilot Program" was launched on November 30, 2024, and will continue until November 29, 2026. In the past, it mainly used direct ambulances to transport patients from designated hospitals in Macao to designated public hospitals in Hong Kong. The above-mentioned adjustment makes the transfer of patients more convenient.
At present, Macao and Zhuhai City (珠海市) and the Hengqin Guangdong-Macao In-Depth Cooperation Zone (横琴粤澳深度合作区) have launched cross-border ambulance services on March 17, 2025, and August 27, respectively, and have realized two-way ambulance transfer. At this stage, the Macao Fire Department (澳门消防局) has a total of 5 ambulances with licenses for both locations, and another 3 ambulances with Hong Kong licenses. The overall operation of the three-way cross-border ambulance service has been good since its launch.
Return to TopOn April 1st, more than 400 teachers and students from Hengjie Bilingual School in Fanchang District (繁昌区), Wuhu City (芜湖市), Anhui Province (安徽省) walked 12 kilometers to the Martyrs' Cemetery to commemorate revolutionary martyrs with a "walking ideological and political class."
Photo by Xiao Benxiang (肖本祥) (Image China)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王欣悦 刘温馨
"I've waited 20 years for this moment," said Zhang Xue (张雪), head and brand founder of Chongqing Zhangxue Motorcycle Industry Co., Ltd. (重庆张雪机车工业有限公司).
On March 28th and 29th, local time, in the World SSP category of the WSBK (World Superbike Championship) Portuguese round, Zhangxue Motorcycles consecutively won the championship in both main races. The winning vehicle, the 820RR-RS, was modified based on the 820RR model launched on March 21st. In the first round of the race, the driver won with a nearly 4-second overwhelming advantage. This is not only the first time that a domestic motorcycle has won a championship in a top-level event, but it also breaks the decades-long dominance of European, American, and Japanese motorcycle brands in this category of WSBK events.
For many, this is a stunning victory; but for Zhang Xue (张雪), it is also the difficult arrival of a 20-year dream pursuit.
Zhang Xue's (张雪) starting point is not legendary. Twenty years ago, he was an apprentice in a repair shop in a rural village in Xiangxi (湘西), Hunan (湖南), his hands full of oil, spending his days with parts. At that time, domestic motorcycles were not favored, but in Zhang Xue's (张雪) heart, there was a deeply hidden idea: to build a high-performance motorcycle that truly belongs to the Chinese people.
Many people remember Zhang Xue's (张雪) "highlight moment." In order to win an opportunity to appear on television and be "seen" by professional racing teams, the 19-year-old rode a second-hand motorcycle older than himself, chasing an interview vehicle for more than 100 kilometers in the cold rain, facing wind and rain, on winding mountain roads. In the end, his persistence moved the reporting team and also seized the "straw" that changed his fate. "That was the most important motorcycle in my life, the starting point of my dream," Zhang Xue (张雪) recalled. It was this stubbornness that brought him into the world of professional racing. With hard work and research, he went from a repair apprentice to step by step climbing onto the podium of the national motorcycle repair competition.
However, Zhang Xue (张雪) was not satisfied with repairing cars well. "Why are there only foreign brands on the track? Can the Chinese people really build their own high-performance motorcycles?" The question in his heart pushed him to move forward. In 2013, Zhang Xue (张雪) came to Chongqing (重庆) with 20,000 yuan. Why Chongqing (重庆)? "What I value is the industrial foundation of Chongqing (重庆) as the 'Motorcycle Capital'," Zhang Xue (张雪) said.
"The Zhang Xue (张雪) team is able to achieve the rapid implementation of high-performance models at a relatively controllable cost, essentially because the industrial chain has the supporting capabilities for high-performance products," said Zhang Lipeng (张立鹏), Deputy Director of Tianjin Internal Combustion Engine Research Institute (Tianjin Motorcycle Technology Center) (天津内燃机研究所（天津摩托车技术中心）).
Chongqing (重庆) has 51 motorcycle vehicle enterprises above designated size and more than 410 parts enterprises. From engines and frames to electronic control systems, the local matching rate exceeds 80%. A high-performance motorcycle can obtain solid industrial support here from research and development, mass production to iterative upgrades.
"Although I didn't know anyone in Chongqing (重庆) at the time, I could basically buy all the accessories for motorcycles when I walked into the motorcycle parts market," Zhang Xue (张雪) said. From starting with modification, to starting a business, forming a team, and then creating a brand and independent research and development, he has put his time, energy, and even all his wealth into the road of car manufacturing over the years.
"WSBK requires participating vehicles to only undergo limited modifications based on mass-produced civilian vehicles, so the main test is the basic performance and technical level of civilian vehicles," Zhang Lipeng (张立鹏) said.
Speaking of the modification of racing cars, lightweighting is one of the keys. "Our car is about 10% lighter than similar racing cars," Zhang Xue (张雪) introduced. The curb weight of its mass-produced model 820RR is 193 kg, while the track version is reduced to 175 kg. Carefully polished, Zhangxue Motorcycles is growing steadily. In 2025, the company's sales exceeded 25,000 units, with a total output value of 745 million yuan, and R&D investment of nearly 70 million yuan. At present, its products have been exported to Italy (意大利), Spain (西班牙), the United Kingdom (英国), the United Arab Emirates (阿联酋), Russia (俄罗斯) and other countries and regions. "In the future, to expand overseas markets, Europe and the United States are our primary goals," Zhang Xue (张雪) said.
"High-performance motorcycles are a comprehensive embodiment of power systems, frame rigidity, suspension geometry, aerodynamics, and electronic control systems. A motorcycle has thousands of parts and requires very high precision machining and casting capabilities. Electronic injection systems, etc., were highly dependent on foreign companies before 2015, and domestic companies have gradually made breakthroughs in recent years," said Zhang Lipeng (张立鹏). The success of Zhangxue Motorcycles is inseparable from Zhang Xue's (张雪) focus and professionalism. At the same time, it shows that after more than 40 years of development, the R&D system and supply chain system of domestic motorcycles have continued to mature, and technologies such as electronic control and calibration systems that were previously restricted by others have now entered the international upper-middle level.
"I hope that Chinese motorcycle manufacturers can work together to allow domestic motorcycles to occupy a real place in the world motorcycle brand map," Zhang Xue (张雪) said.
From repairing cars, modifying cars to building cars, from a car-chasing teenager who was not favored, to leading Chinese motorcycle brands to win championships in the world's top competitions - over the past 20 years, Zhang Xue (张雪) has relied on a stubbornness to blaze a trail in the midst of doubts and incomprehension. 20 years is a victory and also an arrival.
Return to TopThe World Superbike Championship (WSBK) is a world-class motorcycle race founded in 1988 by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (国际摩托车联合会).
The event adopts a stage-by-stage format, with 12 races in the 2026 season. The event is divided into 4 categories: World SBK liter-class category, which is the main level of the event; World SSP middleweight category, in which Zhang Xue (张雪) motorcycle won the championship; World SPB made its debut in 2026, replacing the original SSP300 category; World WCR women's category, which held its first event in 2024, and will use the unified Yamaha (雅马哈) R7 racing car in the 2026 season.
The biggest feature of the WSBK event is that all participating vehicles must be based on commercially available production motorcycles with limited modifications, and the event results directly reflect product strength. This also makes the event an important stage for motorcycle manufacturers to showcase the technical performance of their production vehicles, hence it is known as the "motor show on the track."
(By Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 硕
The 2026 Snooker World Championship qualifiers are approaching, and Bai Yulu (白雨露) (pictured, photo by Huang Guobao (黄国保), Xinhua News Agency) has returned to Dongguan (东莞), Guangdong (广东), to make her final sprint in the billiard room where her dreams began. Hitting the ball, picking up the ball, setting up the balls... repeating basic exercises, this 22-year-old girl maintains the same focus she had when she first started playing billiards at the age of 10.
In January of this year, in Sofia (索菲亚), Bulgaria (保加利亚), Bai Yulu (白雨露) won the World Snooker Federation Women's Championship without losing a single frame, becoming the world's number one ranked female player. She is the thirteenth globally, the third in Asia, and the first in China to achieve this since the women's snooker ranking system was established in 1983.
"Winning the final was certainly very happy, but overall I was quite calm." This victory brought her winning streak on the women's tour to 39 matches. She also achieved a "highest break" record of 131 points in the semi-finals. Bai Yulu (白雨露) has already scored 7 century breaks this season, surpassing the previous record for century breaks in a single season in women's snooker.
This season, Bai Yulu (白雨露) has already won 4 women's ranking tournament titles, the first 3 being the British Championship, the Thailand Open, and the Northern Ireland Open.
This "calmness" comes from the polishing of multiple competitions and adaptation to "big scenes." Recalling her first Women's World Championship title in 2024, she admitted that "my hands were shaking at the time," but she tried to restrain herself, so that others could not see it, pretending to be very calm.
The title of Women's World Champion opened the door to the World Snooker Tour for her. In June 2024, accompanied by her father, she went to the UK and stood on the same stage as the world's top male snooker players. At Ding Junhui (丁俊晖) Snooker Academy in Sheffield (谢菲尔德), she trained with male players, saw the gap, broadened her horizons, and raised her goals, "wanting to gain a firm foothold here."
"**笨鸟先飞**" (bèn niǎo xiān fēi - "clumsy birds fly early," meaning to compensate for one's lack of talent by working harder) is how she defines herself. "When I was a child, I trained with my fellow apprentices. Although I progressed slowly, I practiced a lot, spending 8 to 10 hours a day at the table," said Bai Yulu (白雨露). Even though she is now the world's number one female player, she still maintains a high-intensity training rhythm, "If you lack talent, you have to practice more than others."
The cruelty of the professional arena exceeded her expectations. When she first entered the professional arena, Bai Yulu (白雨露) lost 9 consecutive matches. "Will I still be able to play?" She began to doubt herself. But it was precisely in the trough that she realized her father's teaching: "**耐得住寂寞才能守得住繁华**" (nài dé zhù jìmò cáinéng shǒu dé zhù fánhuá - "endure loneliness to keep prosperity," meaning one must be able to withstand loneliness and hardship in order to achieve success).
Coming to the British Championship qualifiers, she was determined to risk everything, "Losing 10 matches is no different from losing 9 matches, don't be afraid." In the end, she won 3 consecutive matches, becoming the first female player in this century to achieve three consecutive victories on the World Snooker Tour.
The ultimate experience of victory and defeat has tempered Bai Yulu's (白雨露) mentality. Opponents have discovered that this Chinese girl "is not so easy to deal with." In 2025, she successfully defended her title at the Women's Snooker World Championship, and then won the women's snooker gold medal at the Chengdu (成都) World Games. In a post-match interview, Bai Yulu (白雨露) couldn't help but shed tears - tears of relief, but also a true expression of growth. Bai Yulu (白雨露) said that she is now participating in more and more major competitions, and her experience is becoming more and more abundant, "I am no longer so easily nervous, and I am more confident, and I have found true composure."
As her results improve, Bai Yulu (白雨露) feels new pressure - external expectations. "I am personally better at resolving this pressure, and I don't particularly care about other people's evaluations." Bai Yulu (白雨露) has a rare clarity, "I am still in a growth period."
After becoming the world's number one female player, Bai Yulu (白雨露) has a more ambitious goal, hoping to enter the top sixty-four of the World Snooker Tour. "No female player has been able to do it yet, which is a big challenge, but I like challenges." She is certainly clear about how difficult this road is. "Female players do have a gap in strength, but they have an advantage in mental adjustment." Bai Yulu (白雨露) improves her strength through physical training, talks to herself before the game, shields distractions during the game, and focuses on every shot. She hopes that her experience will allow more people to see the charm of snooker, especially to encourage more girls to pick up a cue.
(Reporters Shang Dan (尚丹), Sun Xi (孙溪), and Zuo Xiao (左潇) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
Return to TopIn 2025, the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行) adhered to the fundamental purpose of financial services serving the real economy. Based on the resource endowments and industrial characteristics of Shanxi (山西), it employed measures such as service optimization, product innovation, government-enterprise collaboration, and technological empowerment to accurately channel financial "living water" to key areas such as transformation and comprehensive reform, comprehensive rural revitalization, inclusive small and micro businesses, technological innovation, and people's livelihood services. It demonstrated the responsibility and commitment of a large state-owned bank in serving the real economy with solid work measures and significant work results.
By the end of 2025, the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行) had an outstanding balance of RMB 203.5 billion in entity loans, an increase of nearly 13% year-on-year, comprehensively supporting key engineering projects, small and micro enterprises, and individual businesses in the region, becoming an important financial engine for high-quality development in Shanxi Province (山西省).
Assisting in transformation and comprehensive reform and energy revolution. In 2025, the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行) issued nearly RMB 33 billion in corporate loans, with the outstanding loan balance exceeding RMB 100 billion for the first time, actively supporting the province's transformation and development and the construction of key engineering projects. First, it increased support for clean energy industry projects such as wind power, photovoltaic, pumped storage, and biomass power generation, promoting the transformation of energy supply towards diversification and greening. By the end of 2025, it had cumulatively issued over RMB 23.5 billion in related loans to 71 green entities, actively contributing to optimizing the energy structure and reducing environmental pollution. Second, it strengthened support for key industrial chains. In 2025, the bank issued a total of RMB 7.3 billion in loans to key industrial chains, an increase of 12% year-on-year. As of the end of December, the outstanding balance of loans to key industrial chain enterprises was RMB 15.8 billion, an increase of 10% year-on-year. Third, innovative breakthroughs were achieved in transformation finance business. It successfully issued the branch's first transformation finance loan in the coking industry to Jin Ding Coal Coking (金鼎煤焦化), achieving a business breakthrough in this field. Taking this as an opportunity, in 2025, it cumulatively issued RMB 300 million in transformation finance loans to enterprises such as Jin Ding Coal Coking (金鼎煤焦化), effectively supporting the low-carbon transformation of enterprises.
Solidly doing a great job in inclusive finance. Actively implementing the work deployment of doing a good job in the "five major articles" of finance, and promoting various work tasks of inclusive finance and technology finance with high quality. First, deepen and optimize micro and small finance. Implement the coordination mechanism for supporting the financing of micro and small enterprises, and comprehensively carry out the outreach and connection of micro and small enterprises relying on the "thousands of enterprises and ten thousands of households visit" activity. By the end of 2025, the balance of inclusive micro and small loans was RMB 29.53 billion, an increase of 15.2% compared with the beginning of the year, and there were 56,600 loan customers, an increase of 3,246 compared with the beginning of the year. Second, vigorously develop technology finance. Routinely visit technology departments at all levels, and comprehensively reach out to and connect with enterprises according to the obtained list of technology enterprises. Actively connect with technology enterprises using Science and Technology Innovation Loans and Science and Technology Innovation E-Loans, serving 1,913 technology enterprise customers, an increase of 199 compared with the beginning of the year, and the balance of technology loans was RMB 9.25 billion, an increase of RMB 480 million compared with the beginning of the year. Third, new progress has been made in focusing on the expansion of parks, clusters, and chains. Focusing on 93 industrial parks, 30 provincial-level specialized towns, and 16 provincial-level key industrial chains in the province as key points for customer expansion, continuously increase the expansion of park, cluster, and chain customer groups. In 2025, a total of approximately RMB 6 billion in loans were issued to park customers, specialized town customers, and industrial chain customers. Fourth, the "1+N" operation and service new system has achieved new results. Continuously improve the comprehensive financial level for customers around customers, settlement, funds, products and other aspects.
Helping to achieve comprehensive rural revitalization. In 2025, the Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行) continued to increase financial support for agriculture-related fields, with the scale of agriculture-related loans increasing by more than 20% year-on-year. First, deeply cultivate key industries to promote industrial development. Focus on key regional agricultural industries to increase support, and strengthen the development of key industries such as grain acquisition, livestock breeding, walnut fruit and traditional Chinese medicine and other agricultural product acquisition, and professional markets. In 2025, industrial loan credit loans achieved nearly RMB 9 billion in loans, an increase of more than 30% year-on-year. By promoting industrial development and realizing the deep cultivation of county markets, in 2025, the net increase in the branch's small loans accounted for 91.2% in counties, an increase of 6.7 percentage points compared with 2024. Second, loan support for new agricultural business entities such as family farms, farmers' cooperatives, and agricultural enterprises promotes rural economic development, improves agricultural production efficiency, and increases farmers' income. In 2025, RMB 3.73 billion was invested in new agricultural entities, with a net increase of RMB 421 million. Third, exclusive agricultural and animal husbandry loan products were launched for the agricultural and animal husbandry fields. Provide unsecured and uncollateralized pure credit online loans for production and operation for planting and breeding households, online application, rapid loan disbursement, borrowing and repayment at any time, and the maximum amount is RMB 600,000, and certain interest rate concessions can be given to high-quality customers. Since the launch of the product, it has cumulatively granted credit to 2,349 households, with a credit amount of RMB 970 million, creating a benchmark demonstration of agricultural and animal husbandry financial services with "Postal Savings Shanxi Speed (邮储山西速度)".
**百舸争流** (bǎi gě zhēng liú - "hundreds of boats race," a scene of intense competition); **破浪者领航** (pò làng zhě lǐng háng - "wave-breakers lead the way," those who overcome challenges lead); **千帆共进** (qiān fān gòng jìn - "thousands of sails advance together," everyone progressing together), **奋勇者当先** (fèn yǒng zhě dāng xiān - "the brave are the first," those who strive bravely come out on top). The Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行) will anchor the mission of "serving national strategies, empowering the real economy, and safeguarding the wealth of the people," closely focus on the main line of "stabilizing growth, adjusting structure, promoting reform, preventing risks, and strengthening party building," and inject continuous financial impetus into the high-quality development of Shanxi Province (山西省).
Data source: Postal Savings Bank of China (PSBC) Shanxi Branch (邮储银行山西省分行)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张矜若
The 24th Bangkok International Book Fair, themed "Reading Legends," opened on March 26 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center in Bangkok (曼谷), Thailand (泰国), and is expected to last until April 6. The Chinese publishing delegation showcased over 500 titles and 700 copies of high-quality books, and held a number of exchange activities such as new book releases, copyright negotiations, and academic seminars. These activities not only demonstrated the fruitful achievements of China's (中国) publishing industry in the new era, but also built a bridge to promote Sino-Thai publishing cooperation and cultural exchange, injecting new vitality into the traditional friendship of "China and Thailand are as close as one family" (中泰一家亲).
"Reading excellent Chinese works allows me to understand China (中国) more comprehensively and deeply."
On the morning of the book fair's opening day, the area around the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (诗丽吉王后国家会议中心) subway station in Bangkok (曼谷) was already crowded with people. Long queues formed at the exit, as book lovers from all over waited eagerly to enter. At 10 a.m., the book fair officially opened. The Chinese booth attracted many readers to stop and browse, exchange whispers, and take photos, with a strong aroma of books filled with longing for Chinese culture.
The Chinese publishing delegation was led by China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (中国科技资料进出口有限责任公司), and the exhibited books brought together high-quality works from well-known institutions such as Foreign Languages Press (外文出版社), Renmin University of China Press (中国人民大学出版社), Higher Education Press (高等教育出版社), and China Children's Press & Publication Group (中国少年儿童新闻出版总社). Among them, "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (习近平谈治国理政) Volumes I to V, "Selected Works of Xi Jinping" (习近平著作选读) Volumes I and II, and "Xi Jinping's Visits to Ordinary People" (习近平走进百姓家) (Second Series) became highlights of the booth, attracting many readers who came to inquire and purchase.
Klao (克劳), 32, is a manager at a Thai (泰国) state-owned technology company. As soon as he entered the exhibition hall, he went straight to the Chinese booth and purchased the Chinese version of "Xi Jinping: The Governance of China" (习近平谈治国理政) Volumes I to V in one go. "I have read the Thai version of the first volume of this book before and was deeply inspired. This time, I want to systematically study the Chinese version to understand how China's (中国) innovative theories guide practice and promote development." Klao (克劳) said that China's (中国) achievements in the economic, scientific, and technological fields are world-renowned, and its international influence continues to increase. "Reading excellent Chinese works allows me to understand China (中国) more comprehensively and deeply, and it also strengthens my determination to learn Chinese well."
During the book fair, Renmin University of China Press (中国人民大学出版社) focused on exhibiting the "Research Series on Chinese-style Modernization" (中国式现代化研究丛书) and the "Understanding China" (认识中国·了解中国) book series. It also presented Princess Sirindhorn (诗琳通公主) of Thailand (泰国) with two representative works from the "Research Library on China's Independent Knowledge System" (中国自主知识体系研究文库): "An Economic History of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国经济史) and "Introduction to Dunhuang Studies" (敦煌学概论). "We hope to use carefully selected books as a medium to allow Thai (泰国) readers to get closer to China (中国) and understand China (中国), and further promote the deep integration of Sino-Thai cultural exchanges," said Wang Lei (王磊), Deputy General Manager of Renmin University of China Press (中国人民大学出版社).
Li Yan (李燕), Deputy General Manager of China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (中国科技资料进出口有限责任公司), introduced that in addition to thematic books, the Chinese booth also carefully selected books covering Chinese traditional culture, humanities and social sciences, language learning, academic technology, traditional Chinese medicine and health, children's books, and literary works. This fully demonstrates the high-quality development achievements of China's (中国) publishing in the new era, and also closely meets the needs of the local Thai (泰国) market and the direction of copyright output, opening more windows for readers in Thailand (泰国) and Southeast Asian countries to understand contemporary China (中国) and perceive Chinese culture.
"We look forward to further expanding cooperation with Chinese publishing institutions and introducing more books that meet local needs."
As an important platform for exchange and cooperation between the Chinese and Thai publishing industries, the Bangkok International Book Fair has continued to promote deeper connections between publishing institutions of the two countries for many years, becoming an important link to promote Sino-Thai cultural exchange and enhance people-to-people connectivity. At this year's book fair, representatives from Chinese and Thai publishing institutions gathered to conduct in-depth discussions on topics such as book introduction, copyright output, cooperative publishing, and localization distribution, building consensus on cooperation and exploring cooperation potential.
Only a few minutes after the opening of the book fair, Narita (娜丽塔), the head of Thailand's (泰国) Binwattana Book Distribution Company, went straight to the Chinese booth, focusing on various Chinese textbooks. "In recent years, the demand for learning Chinese in Thailand (泰国) has continued to rise. From primary and secondary school campuses to social training institutions, the enthusiasm for learning Chinese has continued to surge. We have been looking for high-quality Chinese textbooks and learning resources that meet the needs of local readers." Narita (娜丽塔) introduced that her company has been focusing on the import and localization publishing of Chinese textbooks since 2001, and has been deeply involved in the field of Chinese textbook distribution in Thailand (泰国) for many years. She observed that with the increasingly close Sino-Thai economic and trade exchanges and more frequent personnel exchanges, practical, graded, and digital Chinese learning resources are becoming more and more popular among local readers. "We look forward to further expanding cooperation with Chinese publishing institutions and introducing more books that meet local needs to help Thai-Chinese language and cultural exchanges."
Narita's (娜丽塔) wishes coincide with the efforts of Chinese publishing institutions. Ji Lin (姬琳), Director of the National Textbook Base Office of Higher Education Press (高等教育出版社), introduced several high-quality educational books to her in detail, and said that the press's "Experience Chinese" (体验汉语) and other series of textbooks have been included in the Thai (泰国) national education system. "Relying on the fruitful results of cultural going global and vocational education going global, our educational books have achieved large-scale application overseas, effectively meeting the learning needs of local readers and providing support for Sino-Thai education and cultural exchanges."
Going deep into the local market and listening to the voices of readers is the key to Chinese books "going out." China Children's Press & Publication Group (中国少年儿童新闻出版总社) has been deeply involved in the overseas children's book market, and more than 4,000 of its books have achieved copyright output. During this exhibition, the press not only reached preliminary cooperation intentions with more than 30 Thai (泰国) publishers, but also sent high-quality children's books to two international schools in Bangkok (曼谷) to understand local market feedback. "Only by truly going into the local area and getting close to readers can we launch more targeted works and promote Chinese children's books to better enter the Southeast Asian market," said Hu Yue (胡玥), Copyright Manager of the press.
Thailand's (泰国) Red Mountain Publishing Co., Ltd. (泰国红山出版有限公司) has published more than 1,000 Chinese literary works in Thailand (泰国) and has gradually shifted to the introduction and distribution of graphic books in recent years. The second edition of its Thai version of the book "Hand-painted Encyclopedia of China" (手绘中国百科), which introduces Chinese history, is about to sell out. "This fully shows that books that fit the reading habits of Thai (泰国) readers have a broad market. Presenting Chinese culture in the form of pictures, diagrams, and supplementary text is more easily accepted and loved by local readers," said Yu Chunhua (俞春华), the person in charge of the company's booth. He said that in the future, they will continue to deepen cooperation with Chinese publishing institutions and bring more high-quality Chinese books to Thai (泰国) readers.
"Let more excellent cultural achievements cross the language barrier and nourish the hearts of each other's readers."
During the book fair, the Chinese delegation also held a number of exchange activities to further bring Thai (泰国) readers closer to Chinese culture and consolidate the foundation of Sino-Thai friendship.
On one side of the Chinese booth, the theme exhibition "Green China: Ecological Narratives of Pandas, Plants, and Microscopic Creatures," hosted by Guangxi Normal University Press Group (广西师范大学出版社集团) and co-organized by China National Publications Import & Export (Group) Corporation (中国科技资料进出口有限责任公司), became a "网红打卡地" (wǎng hóng dǎ kǎ dì - "internet celebrity check-in spot," a popular spot for internet users to visit and share on social media) at the book fair. The exhibition is divided into three sections: "Panda Imprints," "Wild Plants," and "Microscopic Creatures." It not only allows Thai (泰国) readers to appreciate the ecological beauty of China (中国), but also conveys the concept of harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. Many young Thai (泰国) readers drew adorable pandas in the guestbook and wrote "Hello! China (中国)," "I love nature, I am learning Chinese," "I went to Chengdu (成都) last year and want to go again in the future" in Chinese, English, and Thai, filled with love and longing for China (中国).
At the "5th Sino-Thai Culture and Translation Publishing Seminar" and the "2nd 'Sino-Thai Book Fragrance, Friendship Lasts Forever - Sinology in Thailand' Academic Seminar" and other activities, Chinese and Thai experts and scholars gathered to focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of cultural communication and translation publishing, share practical experience, and spark ideas, and jointly explore accurate, beautiful, and creative translation paths to help the two-way dissemination of Sino-Thai cultural achievements.
"Language is the carrier of culture, translation is the bridge of communication, and publishing is the monument of mutual learning between civilizations," said Han Shenglong (韩圣龙), the Chinese Director of the Confucius Institute at Chulalongkorn University (朱拉隆功大学) in Thailand (泰国). Through face-to-face and sincere exchanges, scholars from the two countries have further deepened their understanding and recognition of each other's cultures, injecting new impetus into enhancing the friendship between the two peoples and promoting Sino-Thai mutual learning between civilizations. "The in-depth cooperation between the publishing industries of China (中国) and Thailand (泰国) will surely allow more excellent cultural achievements to cross the language barrier and nourish the hearts of each other's readers, so that Sino-Thai friendship will last forever in the mutual learning of civilizations."
(Reported from Bangkok (曼谷) on April 1 by this newspaper)
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The year 2026 marks the 80th anniversary of the opening of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. From 1946 to 1948, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East conducted a collective trial of Japanese Class A war criminals in Tokyo, Japan (东京) during World War II (also known as the Tokyo Tribunal), which was another large-scale, multinational cooperation in the trial of war crimes in human history after the Nuremberg Trials. After two and a half years of trial by judges from 11 countries, all 25 defendants were found guilty. Among them, Hideki Tojo (东条英机) and other 7 war criminals were sentenced to death by hanging, 16 war criminals were sentenced to life imprisonment, and 2 war criminals were sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment.
The Tokyo Tribunal can be described as an unprecedented trial of the century. With 818 court sessions, 419 witnesses appearing in court, 4,336 pieces of evidence, and more than 48,000 pages of trial records, the Tokyo Tribunal fixed the darkest memory of aggression in human history with irrefutable evidence. During the trial, the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀), the "Bataan Death March," and other unspeakable atrocities were made public, and the historical crimes of the Japanese fascist war of aggression were systematically exposed and liquidated.
The historical significance of the Tokyo Tribunal is profound and fundamental. Together with the Nuremberg Trials, the Tokyo Tribunal systematically established for the first time in human history through international judicial practice that wars of aggression are international crimes, and clarified that national leaders must bear personal criminal responsibility for launching wars of aggression, sending a signal to the world that "aggression will be punished and atrocities will be liquidated," making peace, justice, and humanity the core values pursued in the post-war order, and laying an important legal and political foundation for the post-war international order. After 80 years of historical changes, the Tokyo Tribunal has long surpassed its historical background and become a symbol of justice, an ironclad proof of history, a cornerstone of legal principles, and a warning bell for peace.
However, because the Tokyo Tribunal coincided with the beginning of the Cold War, a large number of Japanese war criminals did not receive due punishment, and the roots of Japanese militarism were not completely eradicated. The war responsibility of the Japanese Emperor was exempted, war criminals such as Nobusuke Kishi (岸信介) were released, and the crimes of Unit 731 (七三一部队) of the Japanese army in China in carrying out human vivisection experiments and germ warfare were also covered up. These historical legacy issues have allowed Japanese right-wing forces to survive and gradually grow stronger, leading to the breeding and spread of historical revisionism.
For 80 years, Japanese right-wing forces have never stopped denying and overturning the Tokyo Tribunal. From subtle doubts in the early post-war period to open debates after Japan's economic rise, and then to attempts to completely overturn the case against the backdrop of accelerated political right-wing shift in Japan after the end of the Cold War, Japanese right-wing forces have continued to blur war responsibility and break free from trial rulings, using fallacies such as the "victor's trial theory" and the "ex post facto legislation theory" to overturn the history of aggression and clear legal and public opinion obstacles for military expansion. They questioned that the Tokyo Tribunal was a ruling made by the victorious side, and even disguised themselves as "victims," falsely claiming that the Tokyo Tribunal ignored the "Japanese victim history" such as the Tokyo Bombing, the Hiroshima (广岛) and Nagasaki (长崎) atomic bombings, and claimed that Japan's launch of a war of aggression was an act of "self-defense" against the sanctions of the United States (美国) and the United Kingdom (英国), and continued to confuse the international community by beautifying the war of aggression and promoting fallacies that 颠倒黑白 (diān dǎo hēi bái - "invert black white," to distort facts).
In today's Japan, historical revisionism and new militarism are colluding with each other, posing a real threat to regional peace and stability. Successive Japanese prime ministers have visited the notorious Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社), which enshrines Class A war criminals, in an attempt to enshrine war criminals as "heroes"; right-wing forces systematically distort history by revising textbooks and producing film and television works; defense budgets have increased for 14 consecutive years, the "right of collective self-defense" has been lifted, and restrictions on arms exports have been relaxed, rendering the "Peace Constitution" a mere formality. All these actions are undoubtedly a blatant provocation to the just rulings of the Tokyo Tribunal and a wanton trampling on the consensus of human peace.
Mei Ru'ao (梅汝璈), the Chinese judge of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, once said, "Forgetting the suffering of the past may lead to future disasters." Today, 80 years later, this judgment is still thought-provoking. No matter how time passes, just rulings cannot be shaken, historical ironclad evidence cannot be tampered with, and the cornerstone of legal principles cannot be shaken. Only by safeguarding the truth of history and defending human conscience and justice with a common will can we make the ghost of militarism have nowhere to hide, let the flame of peace be passed down from generation to generation, and prevent human civilization from repeating the mistakes of war.
(The author is an international affairs observer)
Return to TopU.S. Media: United States Plans to Expand Military Presence in Greenland
According to Xinhua News Agency, Oslo, April 1 (Reporter Zhang Yuliang (张玉亮)) – U.S. media reported on April 1 that the U.S. Department of Defense is negotiating with Denmark to expand the U.S. military presence in Greenland, a Danish autonomous territory, planning to add military access rights to three locations on the island. Many local residents have expressed opposition to this plan.
According to The New York Times, General Gigliotti, Commander of the U.S. Northern Command, stated at a congressional hearing in mid-March that, given the "rising threat" and the increasing strategic importance of Greenland, the U.S. military hopes to gain access to more bases in Greenland and promote the development of more ports and airports to provide the U.S. government with more operational options in the Arctic region. The report said that local residents said the prospect of the United States expanding its military presence was "disturbing," and many do not want to see more military forces in Greenland, but if the United States and Denmark make a decision, ordinary people will be "powerless."
South Korea Further Raises Resource Security Crisis Alert Level
Xinhua News Agency, Seoul, April 1 (Reporters Zhang Can (张粲) and Sun Yiran (孙一然)) – According to Yonhap News Agency on April 1, due to the increasing risk of domestic oil supply disruptions, the South Korean government decided to raise the country's resource security crisis alert level from Level 2 "Attention" to Level 3 "Alert" starting at 00:00 on April 2, and also raise the natural gas crisis alert level from Level 1 "Concern" to Level 2 "Attention."
According to reports, the reason for this alert upgrade is that some obstacles have appeared in the international oil market procurement, and South Korea's domestic crude oil inventories have fallen by more than 20%, which has begun to have a substantial impact on the country's economy and industry.
South Korea is highly dependent on imports for energy, with about 70% of its oil and about 20% of its liquefied natural gas coming from the Middle East. Since the United States and Israel launched a military strike against Iran on February 28, international energy supplies have been impacted and energy prices have soared. The South Korean government issued a Level 1 resource security crisis alert on March 5 and announced on March 18 that it would raise the alert level to Level 2. The highest level of this alert mechanism is Level 4.
Russia Says It Will Continue to Advance Research on Rocket Nuclear Engines
Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, April 1 (Reporter Liu Kai (刘恺)) – Roscosmos Director-General Bakanov said on April 1 that Russia will continue to advance research on rocket nuclear engines in 2026 to lay the foundation for deep space exploration.
Bakanov said when introducing the development of spaceflight to the Federation Council (议会上院) (upper house of parliament) that Russia has completed the preliminary design of a space complex with a nuclear power unit. The application of rocket nuclear engines will shorten the flight time to distant planets.
He also revealed that Russian experts have launched the development of instruments for studying the structure of the moon this year. In the future, Russia will scan the moon and complete the model production of a lander that will collect lunar soil and transmit data back to Earth. Bakanov said that despite sanctions, Russia will continue to cooperate with the United States in manned spaceflight and the joint operation of the International Space Station.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 强
The latest statistics released by the government of Kazakhstan show that the country's automobile production in 2025 was approximately 171,000 vehicles, an increase of 17.8% year-on-year, reaching a record high. Currently, automobile manufacturing has become an important support and emerging growth point for Kazakhstan to promote diversified economic development and accelerate industrial transformation and upgrading. In 2025, fixed asset investment in the country's automobile manufacturing industry reached 113.6 billion tenge (1 RMB is approximately 71.12 tenge), focusing on production line upgrades, new factory construction, and the expansion of the local component supporting system, promoting the country to build a more complete automotive industrial system.
The government of Kazakhstan has incorporated the promotion of automobile manufacturing development into the country's long-term development strategic layout. In the "Kazakhstan 2050 Strategy" and the national "Third Modernization" plan, the modernization of the automobile industry is clearly identified as a key development goal. The Kazakh government has introduced a series of policies to support local automobile manufacturers, including providing special tax and fee reductions for local automobile assembly projects, government agencies prioritizing the purchase of locally assembled vehicles, and strictly controlling the purchase of imported complete vehicles. At the same time, Kazakhstan has also formulated the "Comprehensive Development Plan for the Machinery Manufacturing Industry for 2024-2028," supporting existing automobile production enterprises to carry out modernization transformations, promoting new projects to expand capacity and increase efficiency, and providing low-interest loans to small and medium-sized enterprises in the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain, comprehensively activating industrial development vitality.
Relying on its own geographical advantages and resource endowments, Kazakhstan strives to optimize its business environment and vigorously attract foreign investment in the country's automobile industry. According to the country's policies, foreign automobile companies can obtain "local manufacturing" qualifications after establishing assembly plants in Kazakhstan and completing local production registration, enjoying multiple benefits such as government procurement preferences and tariff concessions. In October 2025, the Kia Kazakhstan factory was officially completed and put into operation, with a designed annual production capacity of 70,000 vehicles. Kazakhstan is actively exploring a development model of "resource empowerment + hub linkage + gradual opening," with the goal of building a automobile manufacturing and export center in Central Asia and becoming a key automobile industry hub connecting the two major markets of Europe and Asia.
In terms of production capacity layout, the government of Kazakhstan promotes the clustered development of the automobile industry and improves the construction of supporting infrastructure. The Kostanay Region (库斯塔奈州) in the north of the country has been built into an important automobile industry base in the country, gathering leading automobile enterprises such as Allur (阿鲁尔), covering the entire range of complete vehicle manufacturing including passenger cars, trucks, and agricultural machinery. In Saran (萨兰市), a traditional industrial town in the Karaganda Region (卡拉干达州), the Kazakh enterprise Kaztekhna (卡兹特赫纳) has joined hands with China's Yutong Bus (宇通客车) to build the country's first body stamping parts factory, making up for the key supporting shortcomings of local automobile manufacturing. In Almaty (阿拉木图), the southern economic center, Astana Motors (阿斯塔纳汽车公司) invested approximately 200 billion tenge to build a complete vehicle manufacturing factory with an annual output of 120,000 vehicles, simultaneously driving the clustered development of local component supporting industries and promoting the coordinated upgrading of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain.
The pragmatic cooperation between China and Kazakhstan in the automobile field continues to deepen and become more solid. In 2024, Chinese brand automobiles led the Kazakhstan new car market with a market share of 39%; in 2025, Chinese brand automobiles accounted for nearly 40% of the Kazakhstan market share, occupying 6 of the top 10 best-selling models, fully demonstrating the quality competitiveness and market recognition of Chinese automobiles. Insiders in Kazakhstan generally believe that the introduction of China's advanced new energy automobile technology and complete vehicle production capacity will help Kazakhstan seize the dividends of the rapid development of the global new energy automobile industry, promote the transformation of its automobile industry towards green, low-carbon, high-end, and intelligent directions, and help achieve coordinated progress in industrial development and ecological protection.
Korzhumbayev (科尔茹姆巴耶夫), editor-in-chief of Kazakhstan's "Business Newspaper" ("实业报"), said that the popularity and market sales of Chinese brand automobiles in Kazakhstan continue to rise, and the cooperation space between the two countries' automobile industries is very broad. "The in-depth cooperation between Kazakhstan and China in the automobile field can not only help Kazakhstan cultivate the automobile industry into a new economic growth point, but also deepen the interconnected, mutually beneficial, and win-win cooperation relationship between the two countries, injecting more pragmatic connotations into the permanent comprehensive strategic partnership between Kazakhstan and China," said Korzhumbayev (科尔茹姆巴耶夫).
(Reported from Astana (阿斯塔纳) on April 1)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
Recently, several airports in the United States have experienced chaos due to staff shortages. At Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, security lines have reached up to 6 hours, causing many passengers to miss their flights and be forced to reschedule. At Houston Hobby Airport, security lines stretched outside the terminal to the parking lot, and disputes and even physical altercations over line-cutting have occurred frequently. At San Francisco International Airport, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers were seen arresting passengers in public... Recently, affected by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security "shutdown" incident, many airports across the United States have experienced security congestion and flight delays caused by staff shortages, impacting normal operations.
Since February of this year, due to disagreements between the U.S. Republican and Democratic parties on appropriation issues, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has not received regular appropriations, which has affected the attendance of employees of the Transportation Security Administration (运输安全管理局) under the department, and the number of leave requests and resignations has increased significantly. According to the department's spokesperson, more than 500 employees have resigned, and on March 27, more than 3,560 employees took leave, accounting for more than 12% of the total number of employees. Staff shortages have led to a decline in security efficiency at airports across the United States, longer wait times, and frequent flight delays. Previously, a collision occurred at New York LaGuardia Airport between a Canadian Airlines passenger plane and a fire truck due to airport staff shortages, resulting in the deaths of two pilots.
To alleviate airport chaos, the White House ordered on March 23 to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel to 14 key airports to assist in security work. Tom Homan (汤姆·霍曼), the U.S. government's border affairs director, said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel will continue to be stationed at various airports "until the security forces at each airport reach full capacity," and whether the chaos can be alleviated "depends on how many Transportation Security Administration (运输安全管理局) personnel return to work." Currently, major U.S. airports are still reminding passengers to arrive at the airport several hours in advance to cope with possible security congestion.
According to U.S. media reports, in January of this year, U.S. federal law enforcement officers successively shot and killed two U.S. citizens in Minneapolis (明尼阿波利斯), Minnesota (明尼苏达州), triggering protests in many parts of the United States. Democrats subsequently demanded reforms to the Department of Homeland Security and federal law enforcement actions, and insisted on this demand in related appropriation issues. In the early morning of March 27, the U.S. Senate passed a Department of Homeland Security appropriation bill, which provides funding support for most agencies of the Department of Homeland Security, but does not include Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Border Patrol in the scope of appropriations, and was subsequently rejected by House Republicans. Currently, the U.S. Congress has entered a two-week recess, and the differences between the two parties on related issues have not been resolved.
*The New York Times* article stated that the chaos at U.S. airports is a manifestation of government governance failure. As an important window for foreign tourists to understand the United States, the current airports generally have phenomena such as excessively long security lines and fully armed immigration officials patrolling in the terminals. The fatal accident at New York LaGuardia Airport also reflects problems in government governance. On April 1, some airport staff received late wages, and the airport chaos was somewhat alleviated, but because the Department of Homeland Security "shutdown" is still ongoing, airport employees do not know when they can receive wages again, and the root cause of the problem has not been resolved. The U.S. two parties use livelihood issues as bargaining chips, and ordinary people have become the direct victims of political infighting.
(Reported from Washington (华盛顿) on April 1 by this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 易舒冉 刘博通
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his visit to the members of the China National Democratic Construction Association (农工党), the Jiusan Society (九三学社), the medical and health community, and the social welfare and social security community attending the Fourth Session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协十四届四次会议), and when he participated in the joint group meeting to listen to opinions and suggestions, "Building a healthy China by 2035 is a strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee. The '15th Five-Year Plan' is a crucial period for achieving this goal, and we must plan and promote it in a coordinated manner, striving for decisive progress."
People's health is the foundation of a happy life and an important symbol of Chinese-style modernization. In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," how can we accelerate the construction of a healthy China and safeguard the happiness and well-being of thousands of families? Recently, reporters interviewed three members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员).
—Editor
Interview Guests:
Wang Guilin (王桂林), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Vice Chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (广州市政协副主席), and Chairman of the Guangzhou Municipal Committee of the Jiusan Society (九三学社广州市委会主委)
Liu Qingquan (刘清泉), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Beijing Chinese Medicine Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University (首都医科大学附属北京中医医院党委副书记、院长)
Nuo Min (诺敏), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Director of the General Practice Department of the Bajiao Community Health Service Center in Shijingshan District, Beijing (北京市石景山区八角社区卫生服务中心全科主任)
New Quality Productive Forces Empowering Medical Health Requires "From 0 to 1" Breakthroughs, but More Importantly, "From 1 to 100" Transformation and Application
Reporter: Artificial intelligence and other new technologies are developing rapidly. How can we promote the transformation and application of scientific and technological innovation achievements and enable new quality productive forces to empower medical health?
Wang Guilin (王桂林): Currently, there are many vivid practices of new quality productive forces empowering medical health, but cutting-edge technologies still face huge challenges in the transformation of achievements from the laboratory to clinical application. To solve this problem, we need to build a full-chain ecosystem driven by demand, supported by platforms, fueled by financial resources, and protected by policies.
Strengthen research project establishment and tackling key problems guided by demand. Scientific and technological innovation should closely focus on clinical pain points and major public health needs, establish a collaborative mechanism of "medical institutions raising demands, scientific research institutions conducting research and development, and enterprises being the main body for product development," to ensure that research and development directions are closely aligned with market applications. National major science and technology projects should pay more attention to the transformability of achievements, encourage joint applications from industry, academia, research, and medicine, and promote the integration of science and technology with industry from the source.
Vigorously build a number of concept verification centers and pilot test bases focusing on the medical and health field, provide one-stop services such as funding, technology, and regulatory consulting for early-stage projects, reduce entrepreneurial risks, and accelerate sample maturity. At the same time, build a unified scientific and technological achievement information platform to solve the information asymmetry problem of "technology looking for the market and the market looking for technology."
Optimize innovation policies and the regulatory environment. Implement the policy of distributing benefits from the transformation of scientific and technological achievements to fully stimulate the enthusiasm of scientific researchers. For emerging products such as AI (artificial intelligence) assisted diagnostic software and medical robots, regulatory authorities need to explore an inclusive and prudent model to accelerate the market launch of innovative products while ensuring safety.
Let scientific and technological innovation achievements serve as new quality productive forces in medical and health care, empowering people's health and the construction of a healthy China. This not only requires us to achieve "from 0 to 1" breakthroughs in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and biotechnology, but also calls on us to complete the "from 1 to 100" transformation and application.
Liu Qingquan (刘清泉): New quality productive forces can empower the inheritance, innovation, and development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The public's expectations for TCM are no longer satisfied with the traditional "observation, listening, questioning, and palpation" (望闻问切), but rather desire to obtain accurate diagnoses based on big data, scientifically based personalized plans, traceable efficacy evaluations, and health management that can truly integrate into daily life. This requires TCM development to complete a comprehensive transformation and upgrade from experience inheritance to data-driven, from syndrome differentiation and treatment to the combination of disease and syndrome, and from individual diagnosis and treatment to precision medicine. With the help of remote diagnosis and treatment and artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis technology, patients in remote areas can enjoy high-quality TCM diagnosis and treatment services, significantly improving the accessibility and fairness of TCM services.
Of course, the application of technology also needs to rely on authoritative platforms to build a trustworthy intelligent diagnosis and treatment ecosystem, effectively curb health rumors, lead scientific trends, and provide the public with trustworthy TCM health guidance.
Let the Masses Not Only "See a Doctor Well" at Their Doorstep, but Also "Prevent Diseases Well and Manage Chronic Diseases Well"
Reporter: How can we promote the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources so that the masses can better enjoy high-quality and efficient medical services at their doorstep?
Nuo Min (诺敏): In my research, I found that in some grassroots medical units, the sinking of experts is "more form than substance." Although some medical consortia have arranged for experts to see patients, there is a "蜻蜓点水" 蜻蜓点水 (qīng tíng diǎn shuǐ - "dragonfly skimming water," touching on something briefly) phenomenon, coming in the morning and leaving in the afternoon, with no time to teach or connect with the grassroots. The problem of "high workload and low recognition" for grassroots doctors is still prominent, and "hard constraints" such as salary, promotion, and development space make it difficult to "attract and retain" high-quality talents. To this end, I suggest:
Change "blood transfusion" to "blood creation" and promote the transformation of expert sinking from "seeing patients" to "teaching." In the evaluation of medical consortia, clarify that each sinking expert should teach 1 to 2 grassroots doctors and establish a "mentor-apprentice" support mechanism. At the same time, explore the "dual appointment system" to allow grassroots doctors to study in higher-level hospitals and experts to hold temporary positions at the grassroots level, achieving "true sinking and true improvement" in two-way exchanges.
Strengthen grassroots capacity building. Relying on close-knit medical consortia, establish grassroots doctor training bases, and arrange for a certain proportion of grassroots doctors to study in hospitals at all levels every year, focusing on strengthening capacity training in emergency and critical care, pediatrics, rehabilitation, and chronic disease management.
Unblock the connection of drug catalogs within medical consortia. The leading hospital of the medical consortium should uniformly formulate a drug catalog, and grassroots institutions should strengthen the connection with hospitals at all levels in terms of drug varieties, specifications, and dosage forms. Promote the application of remote consultation, remote imaging, and remote electrocardiogram to allow grassroots doctors to receive expert guidance as soon as possible when encountering difficult problems.
Wang Guilin (王桂林): We should combine the concept of proactive health with the expansion and sinking of high-quality medical resources so that the sinking resources can be upgraded from a single diagnosis and treatment capability to an integrated health management capability of prevention, screening, management, treatment, and rehabilitation, so that the masses can not only "see a doctor well" at their doorstep, but also "prevent diseases well and manage chronic diseases well," making grassroots medical institutions the "starting station" and "hub station" for residents' health management.
Therefore, we must build grassroots medical institutions into proactive health management centers, build a continuous care network with family doctors as the core, innovate service supply at the doorstep, promote "AI + medical care," popularize telemedicine, make health management accessible, and create a health culture at the doorstep to improve residents' proactive health literacy and participation.
Data "Runs" Up, and Medical Prevention Collaboration Can Be "Real"
Reporter: During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, how can we improve the public health system, strengthen public health capabilities, and promote social co-governance, medical prevention collaboration, and medical prevention integration?
Nuo Min (诺敏): The concept of medical prevention collaboration and medical prevention integration is in the same vein as the combination of prevention and treatment, and on this basis, it emphasizes the responsibility and role of medical institutions in disease prevention and control.
According to my understanding, the follow-up records of residents in community health service centers in many places cannot be seen by higher-level hospitals, and the diagnosis and treatment information in large hospitals cannot be transmitted back to the community in a timely manner. Clinical decision-making lacks complete data support, resulting in a discount on the collaboration between "medical" and "prevention." Most grassroots doctors are from clinical backgrounds, and their professional abilities in epidemiological investigation, health education, and handling of sudden public health events still have obvious shortcomings. To this end, I suggest:
Break down information barriers and establish a "fully shared and dynamically updated" health big data platform. Led by the health department, integrate the health data of medical institutions and public health institutions at all levels in the region to establish a unified resident electronic health record platform. Realize the interconnection and real-time sharing of diagnosis and treatment information, physical examination reports, vaccination, and other data. When data "runs" up, medical prevention collaboration can be "real" up.
Deepen talent training reform and build a composite team of medical prevention integration. Incorporate public health capabilities into the compulsory content of standardized training and continuing education for general practitioners, and regularly organize grassroots doctors to conduct rotational training in disease control centers and infectious disease hospitals. At the same time, incorporate "prevention" service projects such as health education, follow-up intervention, and risk assessment into the scope of medical insurance payment, so that disease prevention can also have benefits and dignity.
Liu Qingquan (刘清泉): Social co-governance means that the health cause is a systematic project that requires the joint efforts of the entire society. Whether it is infectious disease prevention and control or chronic disease management, it requires cross-departmental and cross-industry collaboration, and the joint participation of every department, every unit, and every family, so as to better implement the health-first development strategy.
Traditional Chinese medicine has the distinct characteristics of "simple, convenient, effective, and inexpensive," which can accurately meet the core needs of grassroots people in the diagnosis and treatment of common and frequently-occurring diseases, the whole-cycle management of chronic diseases, disease prevention, and health care. Social co-governance, medical prevention collaboration, and medical prevention integration require that traditional Chinese medicine services must extend to the grassroots and integrate into daily life. Strengthen the training of grassroots doctors, especially rural doctors, in traditional Chinese medicine service capabilities, so that they can master simple and effective traditional Chinese medicine appropriate technologies; promote traditional Chinese medicine health knowledge and mature traditional Chinese and Western medicine integrated diagnosis and treatment programs at the grassroots level, and integrate them into daily diagnosis and treatment such as chronic disease management, infectious disease prevention and control, and maternal and child health care.
Return to TopBy: 郑 军
The "15th Five-Year Plan" ( “十五五”规划纲要) places the silver economy alongside the digital and green economies as an important direction for expanding new employment opportunities, and proposes to "integrate a positive view of aging and healthy aging into the entire process of economic and social development." Developing the silver economy is not only an inevitable choice to cope with the aging population, but also an important engine for cultivating new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development. The key to achieving this goal lies in talent. Only by activating the "key variable" of talent can we leverage the "maximum increment" of high-quality development of the silver economy.
Adhering to the concept of "investing in people" and building a solid foundation for talent development in the silver economy. The silver economy involves multiple fields such as medical care, manufacturing, finance, culture and tourism, and digital technology, which places high demands on the comprehensiveness, professionalism, and innovation of talent. To this end, it is recommended to prioritize talent development and deeply understand the concept of "investing in people" proposed in the "15th Five-Year Plan" ( “十五五”规划纲要). It is recommended to treat the cultivation, training, and education of silver economy talent as a basic and strategic project, and to build a support system covering the entire industrial chain and running through the entire life cycle of talent through policy guidance, resource inclination, and model innovation, so that "investing in people" can take the lead in the silver economy field and inject solid and lasting impetus into industrial development.
Solving structural contradictions and building a talent system for the silver economy. At present, the prominent contradiction facing China's silver economy talent pool has shifted from a shortage in total quantity to a structural imbalance. On the one hand, the scale of the elderly population, especially the elderly with high age, disability, and semi-disability, continues to expand, and the demand for care, medical care, and other talents is showing a surge; on the other hand, industrial upgrading is placing increasingly urgent demands on high-end talents in technological innovation, refined management, and cross-border integration. It is recommended to scientifically classify and orient the training of silver economy talent to create a talent echelon with a reasonable structure and excellent quality. The first category is core service-oriented talent, such as composite caregivers, rehabilitation therapists, and elderly psychological counseling specialists. They are the foundation of the industry and need to improve their comprehensive skills through systematic training. The second category is technology research and development talent, such as intelligent assistive device engineers, age-appropriate product designers, and smart elderly care system architects. They are the engine of innovation and should rely on universities and research institutes to increase training efforts. The third category is operation and management talent, such as heads of elderly care institutions and community elderly care project leaders. They are the allocation hub and urgently need to cultivate composite management backbones who understand both market operation and professional services. The fourth category is cross-border integration talent, such as elderly financial planners, elderly cultural tourism planners, and experts in the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly. They are the new force in expanding boundaries. Filling the gaps in these four types of talent can effectively solve the structural contradiction of mismatched supply and demand and support the vast world of the silver economy.
Deepening the integration of industry and education to create a collaborative education ecosystem. The key to solving the problem of "where silver economy talent comes from and how to strengthen it" lies in building a diversified, open, and deeply integrated training system, with "cultivation, training, and education" working together. First of all, we must give play to the role of universities as the main battlefield for talent cultivation and encourage qualified universities to dynamically adjust their professional settings in accordance with the "15th Five-Year Plan" ( “十五五”规划纲要). On the one hand, expand the scale and improve the level on the basis of existing majors such as elderly care service management, geriatrics and health; on the other hand, add silver economy characteristic directions or course modules in related majors such as social work, product design, and psychology to achieve both stock upgrading and incremental innovation. Secondly, in the face of the growing demand for high-quality and personalized elderly care services, talent cultivation must take a holistic approach. Future silver economy talent should not only have a single skill, but should become all-rounders who master comprehensive qualities such as mental health, chronic disease management, nutritional diet, intelligent technology, and legal knowledge. This requires us to reconstruct the curriculum system and promote the transformation from knowledge imparting to ability cultivation. The last is to deepen the integration of industry and education, and encourage universities, vocational colleges, and leading enterprises in the elderly care industry to cooperate deeply. At the same time, rely on social training institutions to carry out on-the-job training and skills improvement for existing employees, and closely follow industry needs to dynamically adjust and deepen the vocational qualification certification management in the elderly care field. Through the organic connection of the source cultivation of universities, the precise training of vocational colleges, and the continuous training of social institutions, a solid bridge is built between the talent supply side and the industrial demand side, and high-quality talent is continuously delivered to the silver economy.
(The author is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and the President of Hubei Second Normal University (湖北第二师范学院).)
Return to TopProposer: All-China Youth Federation (全国青联)
Motion: The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to promote the healthy development of flexible employment and new forms of employment. At present, there are still some problems in the protection of the rights and interests of new employment groups, including an imperfect social security system, relatively low attention to rights and interests such as social security contributions, health protection, and rest and vacations, and imperfect management of platform enterprises, and the degree of labor protection for new employment groups needs to be improved.
Suggestions: Build a full-chain rights protection and empowerment support system. Formulate and issue detailed rules for the implementation of social security policies for new employment groups, establish a flexible employment social insurance system adapted to the characteristics of new employment groups, and gradually promote the reform of the insurance participation system in accordance with the principle of "classification and stratification." Entrust third-party institutions to regularly evaluate the implementation effect of relevant policies and measures and the sense of gain of new employment groups, and establish an early warning mechanism. Establish a special legal aid channel and online consultation platform for the protection of the rights and interests of new employment groups, strengthen education and training for new employment groups, help them enhance their awareness of rights protection, and improve their employment skills.
Provide supporting and friendly social services. Promote the inclusion of new employment groups into the urban basic public service system, and rely on Party and mass service centers and other positions to build a number of physical service outlets such as "Courier Stations (小哥驿站)" and "Driver Homes (司机之家)" to provide convenient services. Select outstanding models from new employment groups to showcase their positive image of hard work, innovation, and service to society, and enhance the group's professional identity and social recognition.
Consolidate the main responsibility of platform enterprises. Strengthen guidance and supervision, and promote platform enterprises to incorporate the protection of workers' rights and interests and the promotion of the development of new employment groups into the enterprise development strategy and evaluation system. Promote platforms to optimize the income distribution mechanism, establish an incentive and transparent salary system linked to labor contribution and service quality, support platform enterprises to explore the establishment of innovative mechanisms such as labor risk sharing funds and career development points, and encourage platform enterprises to establish special funds for skills training, assistance for the needy, and innovation incentives.
(Text organized by Yang (阳))
By: 本报记者 董泽扬
This year's National People's Congress (全国两会), "building a fertility-friendly society" was written into the "Government Work Report." Lu Weiying (卢伟英), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and chief expert of the Reproductive Medicine Center of Hainan Women and Children's Medical Center (海南省妇女儿童医学中心生殖医学中心), who brought several special "family portrait" photos to Beijing (北京), has brought the good voices from the National People's Congress back to Hainan (海南) again.
"The adults are holding children and taking photos with me, and they all call me 'Mama Lu'." Looking at the smiling faces on the "family portrait," Lu Weiying's lips curled up. Focusing on the field of reproductive medicine for more than 30 years, she and her team have helped countless patients realize their dreams of having children, brought the laughter of children, and also gained this gentle title.
On the diagnosis table with medical records, there are piles of materials from grassroots visits and research. In Lu Weiying's view, the accuracy and warmth of performing her duties come from down-to-earth and lively consultations and research. "This way, we can not only know what patients need, but also understand the situation of primary health care." Lu Weiying introduced that in recent years, she and her team have carried out many free clinic activities in various cities and counties of Hainan (海南), so that patients can receive high-quality diagnosis and treatment services at their doorsteps, reduce round-trip trips, and also understand the work status and needs of local cadres and doctors.
In the Hainan (海南) Province Dongfang (东方) City Maternal and Child Health Hospital (妇幼保健院), Lu Weiying sees patients and also trains doctors. She feels the anxiety of patients due to lack of understanding of the disease, and also understands the problem of grassroots doctors' fear of incompetence. A grassroots doctor told Lu Weiying that the diagnosis and treatment equipment and methods are becoming more and more advanced, and they are worried that they will not be able to use them or learn them.
How to truly sink high-quality medical resources to the grassroots level and implement them? Lu Weiying prescribed a "prescription": contact medical institutions in cities and counties in the province to establish a close-knit medical consortium, so that doctors can always learn and keep up with the times. Online broadcasts and cloud-based free clinics allow more patients to understand the common sense of diagnosis and treatment of infertility, and the degree of cooperation and treatment effect in the later stage will be better.
The more free clinics, the deeper the research. Combining with reality, Lu Weiying reflected the public opinion information of "including the cost of diagnosis and treatment of infertility in medical insurance," which received a positive response from the Hainan (海南) Provincial Medical Security Bureau (海南省医疗保障局). Now, many places across the country have included assisted reproduction in medical insurance, which makes her feel very gratified. "I also hope to include the cost of fertility protection and preservation in medical insurance to further reduce the medical expenses burden of the masses," Lu Weiying said.
As a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) from the All-China Women's Federation (妇联) sector, Lu Weiying's direction of performing her duties has always been closely linked to the health of women and children and the national population strategy. This year, she turned her attention to children with severe thalassemia, suggesting that attention be paid to the diagnosis and treatment and fertility preservation of these children. At the same time, Lu Weiying submitted a number of proposals focusing on issues such as "reducing the incidence of birth defects," "strengthening popular science education on reproductive health for primary and secondary school students," and "improving the construction of professional maternal and child health service institutions and further improving the quality of childbirth." In her eyes, this is a "prescription" that is more far-reaching and meaningful than curing a difficult disease.
In the clinic, the photo wall made up of "family portraits" is constantly updated, and the smiling faces are becoming more and more brilliant. "Putting the health of women and children in my heart, I want to promote the effective solution of more fertility issues closely related to people's livelihood, and contribute to building a fertility-friendly society," Lu Weiying said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
Recently, 20 units, including the Supreme People's Court, jointly issued the "Opinions on Deepening the Reform of the 'Overall-to-Overall' Diversified Dispute Resolution Mechanism." Based on "two-way" connection with various units, the application scenarios of the "Overall-to-Overall" mechanism are further expanded, the diversified dispute resolution pattern is improved, and the resolution of conflicts and disputes at the grassroots level is promoted as early and as small as possible.
Allowing "insiders" to better mediate "professional matters" in a rule-of-law manner is an important measure for the People's Court to work with diverse entities to substantively resolve conflicts. Since 2019, the Supreme People's Court has worked with relevant departments of the central and state organs and national industry associations to establish a coordination and information-sharing mechanism for the prevention and resolution of conflicts and disputes—the "Overall-to-Overall" diversified dispute resolution mechanism. It integrates and consolidates the dispute resolution resources of various departments and organizations to achieve litigation-mediation convergence, and jointly resolves conflicts and disputes on the track of the rule of law.
Recently, reporters interviewed three cases in which conflicts and disputes were successfully mediated through the "Overall-to-Overall" mechanism.
——Editor
A Property Dispute
Leveraging Professional Advantages to Eliminate Misunderstandings
Due to issues such as property fee standards and elevator maintenance fee sharing, the owners of a residential community in Hubei Province had an irreconcilable conflict with the property management company.
"The property fee standards are too high, the services have not fully met expectations, and the property management company has not disclosed the income from public parking spaces according to procedures..." The dissatisfaction of more than 1,700 owners in the community with the property management company continued to accumulate. The owners' committee, representing all the owners, sued the property management company in court, demanding the return of parking space income and the refund of property fees charged in excess of the standard, totaling approximately 7 million yuan.
The case involves a wide range of issues, deep entanglement of interests, and is directly related to the vital interests of thousands of owners. How can we better promote the resolution of disputes at the source and substantively?
After obtaining the consent of the parties, the Jian Shi County People's Court (建始县人民法院) of Hubei Province, relying on the "Overall-to-Overall" online litigation-mediation convergence mechanism established by the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部), jointly formed a "Court + Housing and Urban-Rural Development + N" mediation team with the housing and urban-rural development department, the town government, and the community neighborhood committee to carry out joint resolution work.
First, clarify the basic situation. Mediators rooted in the community understand the dynamics of the community and are familiar with the residents. Through multiple investigations and visits, they quickly identified the focus of the dispute between the two parties: Who should the parking income generated by the property management company using the shared areas belong to? Are the property fees charged in excess of the standard? Is the elevator maintenance fee within the scope of special maintenance funds?
Then, conduct "back-to-back" communication. The mediation team communicated with the owners' committee in steps and individually, guiding the owners to comprehensively and objectively view the property services. At the same time, they actively communicated with the property management company, pointing out that the property management company had behaviors that affected the rights and interests of the owners, such as not actively maintaining the community's equipment and environment, and not disclosing parking space income according to procedures. Through repeated communication, the differences between the two parties were gradually bridged, and consensus was built.
With the foundation of prior communication, the court, based on the crux of the problems of both parties, invited the housing and urban-rural development department, the town government, and the community neighborhood committee to jointly participate and jointly "solve the problem."
"In response to the multiple difficulties intertwined in this case, such as legal disputes, industry standards, community governance, and interest balance, the four-party linkage mechanism achieved precise dismantling and targeted efforts. Among them, the court took the lead in clarifying the legal relationship and the boundaries of rights and responsibilities, and consolidated the foundation for mediation in accordance with the law." Judge Liu Congyan (刘丛艳), the guiding judge, said that the mediation team fully leveraged the professional advantages of the housing and urban-rural development department, and eliminated misunderstandings caused by information asymmetry between the two parties by interpreting special maintenance fund policies and property service standards.
In addition, the town government coordinated public interests and community stability, and guided both parties to jointly negotiate a design optimization plan for unreasonable greening designs and parts that affect traffic; the community neighborhood committee focused on疏导情绪、引导双方解开“心结”.
Finally, after more than 10 hours of repeated negotiations, the two parties reached a mediation agreement: the property management company will hand over 90% of the income from public parking spaces to the owners' committee for management, hire a third party to optimize the greening design and bear the costs, and the owners' committee will apply for the special maintenance funds prepaid by the property management company according to the procedures.
"After accurately identifying the dispute situation, the court established a four-party linkage resolution mechanism with the court and the housing and urban-rural development department as the main bodies, maximizing the cohesion of efforts to relieve 8 years of accumulated grievances, and effectively breaking through the limitations of traditional single-department mediation." Zhang Yan (张钘), the relevant person in charge of the Jian Shi County People's Court, said.
"The 'Overall-to-Overall' mechanism continues to release the effectiveness of preventing and resolving disputes at the source, and the level of substantive dispute resolution is constantly enhanced." Qian Xiaochen (钱晓晨), Director of the Case Filing Division of the Supreme People's Court, introduced that through prior mediation, a large number of frequently occurring and easily occurring disputes have been resolved by industry-specific and professional mediation before litigation.
An Infringement of an Animation Work
Associated Disputes Resolved in One Go
At present, animation image art works are popular among many young people due to their vivid images and distinctive styles. A certain original animation IP series of art works has a high reputation on the Internet.
However, the right holder of the work, a certain cultural communication company, discovered that a certain beverage company used the art work on the outer packaging of its products and online platform advertisements such as its official website without its authorization or permission. Subsequently, the cultural communication company sent a notice to the other party, requesting them to stop the infringement and compensate for the losses. Since the two parties failed to reach an agreement through negotiation, the cultural communication company sued the court.
"The two parties have a basis for communication in the early stage, and they also have the willingness to negotiate and solve the problem." The relevant person in charge of the Chan Cheng District People's Court (禅城区人民法院) of Foshan City, Guangdong Province, introduced that after obtaining the consent of the parties, relying on the "Overall-to-Overall" online litigation-mediation convergence mechanism established by the Supreme People's Court and the Central Propaganda Department (State Copyright Bureau) (中宣部 (国家版权局)), the Foshan Copyright Dispute People's Mediation Committee was entrusted online to carry out prior mediation.
Did the beverage company infringe on the animation work?
After communication, the mediator found that this was the focus of the dispute between the two parties. "The beverage company proposed that the work was designed and created by a certain technology company commissioned by it, and the commission contract stipulated that the materials should not infringe, and it did not have any intention of infringement." Mediator Huang Wenjing (黄文静) said that under the guidance of the judge, the mediator explained the law in both directions: explaining to the beverage company the rules for determining the infringement liability of commissioned works, and guiding it to recognize the fault of infringement; and guiding the cultural communication company to rationally claim its rights in response to its claim for a higher amount of compensation.
"Through communication and mediation, the beverage company still had concerns and expressed that it would hold the technology company accountable." In order to resolve the dispute in one go, the mediator proposed to include the technology company in the scope of mediation. After explaining the law, the technology company admitted the infringement and expressed its willingness to bear the responsibility.
The "source of the disease" was found, and the responsibilities of the three parties were clarified. The copyright dispute was easily resolved: the beverage company and the technology company stopped the infringement, and the technology company paid compensation to the cultural communication company.
"The effect of diversified dispute resolution is not limited to the current dispute. By deeply digging into the root cause of the dispute and adopting a penetrating mediation method, the source infringer is introduced into the mediation, and two related disputes are resolved in one go." Guiding Judge Xu Hongqing (许红青) introduced that in order to prevent secondary problems, after the settlement agreement was signed, the mediator tracked and urged the performance to ensure that the agreement was fulfilled, the case was closed, and the people were reconciled.
At present, social conflicts and disputes continue to increase, and new types of disputes occur frequently. The traditional mediation mechanism has been difficult to meet the growing dispute resolution needs of the masses. "The 'Overall-to-Overall' diversified dispute resolution mechanism opens up the connection channels between the court and relevant units, which is more conducive to the court's performance of its statutory functions of guiding mediation, helping the cultivation of industry-specific and professional mediation organizations, allowing 'insiders' to mediate 'professional matters,' forming a dispute resolution effect of 1+1>2, and better meeting the diverse dispute resolution needs of the masses." Li Shengye (李盛烨), Deputy Director of the Case Filing Division of the Supreme People's Court, said that the industry's professional mediation team has become more substantial, and the number of "Overall-to-Overall" mediation organizations and mediators has grown rapidly, from the initial 566 and 2,350 to 38,000 and 96,000 by the end of 2025.
A Labor Remuneration Dispute
"Online + Offline" Mediation Reduces Costs
After completing the labor work in the community, Kou (寇) and other 205 migrant workers collectively sought help from the Chenggong District Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (呈贡区人力资源和社会保障局) of Kunming City, Yunnan Province, requesting them to urge the contractor to pay labor remuneration.
It turned out that a certain real estate company contracted a certain community construction project to a certain construction engineering group, and then the construction engineering group subcontracted the waterproofing, puttying, and other labor services to a certain engineering company. Subsequently, the engineering company organized 205 migrant workers through 15 team leaders including Kou to complete the work, but after paying part of the remuneration, the company has not paid the remaining part.
The real estate company proposed that the payment responsibility subject for the migrant workers' labor remuneration is the engineering company, and the relative payment cannot break the contract. The construction engineering group, on the other hand, was only willing to pay the labor remuneration after the entire project was settled, on the grounds that the overall project had not yet been accepted and settled. After accepting the case, the labor supervision brigade, considering that it involved a large number of migrant workers and there were multiple subjects such as the contractor and the general contractor, and the legal relationships were intertwined, relied on the "Overall-to-Overall" online litigation-mediation convergence mechanism established by the Supreme People's Court and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), invited the court to participate in guidance, and jointly mediated the dispute.
"The focus of the dispute is the determination of the subject of responsibility for the payment of labor remuneration and the determination of the specific amount." Guiding Judge Ma Kan (马侃) said that according to the law, the 15 team leaders should be identified as the actual construction workers, and the contractor should bear the responsibility to the actual construction workers within the scope of the construction project payment owed. Therefore, Kou and other team leaders have the right to claim rights from the contractor, the real estate company. At the same time, the settlement and payment of labor remuneration are not based on the acceptance and settlement of the overall project, and the construction engineering group should pay the remaining labor remuneration.
After clarifying the subject of responsibility, the labor supervision brigade communicated with the migrant workers face-to-face on the one hand to appease their emotions and guide them to rationally resolve the dispute; on the other hand, it conducted on-site investigations on the construction of the project involved in the case, clarified the responsibilities, verified the amount of unpaid wages, urged the wage-owing party to expedite the payment of remuneration, and explained the credit punishment risks that may be faced by evading responsibility.
Considering that hundreds of migrant workers are located in different regions, the court and the labor supervision brigade relied on the People's Court Mediation Platform to organize online video mediation, which greatly reduced the cost of dispute resolution for both parties.
For those who raised objections, the labor supervision brigade did a good job of explaining the situation "one-on-one." In addition, the labor supervision brigade urged the team leaders to prepare a "Salary Arrears Statistics Table for Labor Workers" including the list of migrant workers, types of work, amount of work done, amount paid, and amount owed, as the basis for payment. Through a combination of online and offline methods, all parties were finally able to reach a consensus on the payment of remuneration.
After that, the court and the labor supervision brigade did a good job of regular return visits, urging the full payment of more than 8.12 million yuan in labor remuneration, which effectively protected the legitimate rights and interests of migrant workers.
Resolving "legal knots" and dissolving "heart knots." In recent years, the Supreme People's Court has worked with multiple departments through the "Overall-to-Overall" diversified dispute resolution mechanism to provide high-quality, efficient, and low-cost dispute resolution services for various enterprises and the masses. "In the next step, in order to give full play to the effectiveness of the 'Overall-to-Overall' diversified dispute resolution mechanism and improve the dispute resolution capabilities of mediators, the Supreme People's Court will deeply cultivate the construction of a diversified dispute resolution case library, provide mediation options, enrich the dispute resolution toolbox, and allow more and better high-quality public legal service products to benefit the people." Qian Xiaochen introduced.
Return to TopBy: 张 璁
Recently, a photo taken by a netizen in Jiande (建德), Zhejiang (浙江) at the local government service center has once again made the "Unfinished Matters" window popular online, attracting praise from netizens.
Some netizens are also curious: What is an "Unfinished Matters" window? What kind of matters does it handle? What kind of view of achievement does this reflect?
In recent years, the innovative measure of the "Unfinished Matters" window has been promoted in government service centers in many parts of the country. The "Unfinished Matters" window does not mean that the business here "cannot be done," but rather that if the public encounters "cannot be done," "difficult to do," or "do not know who to do" and other "difficult and complicated cases" at other service windows, this window can provide a backstop.
The value of this window lies in solving "difficult and complicated cases" and, more importantly, in promoting the optimization of government services, so that "unfinished matters" become less and less. The problems reflected by the public at the window are a "rich mine" for improving the quality of government services. By refining commonalities and grasping patterns in the analysis of the urgent needs and expectations of the public, we can accurately identify policy loopholes, management shortcomings, and service blind spots, and then promote mechanism innovation, process reengineering, and style transformation, so that passive "end-of-line remedy" becomes proactive "source governance," and more and more "unfinished" matters are transformed into "completed" matters.
Through a small window, we can see the view of achievement. To accomplish "unfinished" matters, we must rely not on opening a window to accept them, but on taking responsibility and implementing them. In practice, the problems gathered at the "Unfinished Matters" window are often either new problems without procedures to follow in new situations or complex "historical debts" that have been around for many years. Whether to go around difficulties or to meet them head-on reflects whether there is a conscious effort to take serving the people as the greatest achievement. To "backstop" matters for the public, we must not avoid difficulties or shirk responsibilities, but dare to do it boldly and resolutely; for departments and cadres who dare to "backstop," we must also improve the fault-tolerance and exemption mechanism, so that those who take the initiative to take on work are "rewarded," and those who shirk responsibility are "deducted points."
This year's "Government Work Report" clearly proposed, "Taking 'efficiently completing one thing' as the traction, continuously optimize government services and accelerate the construction of digital government." There can also be great achievements in a small window, which shows that wherever there is a need for the public, good and practical things can be done, and where real achievements can be created that allow the public to see changes and obtain benefits. There is no best in government services, only better. We must always place the focus of reform on whether the public is comfortable and satisfied, do one thing after another, year after year, and create achievements for the people and with practical work.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
Ms. Lu (鲁女士), a resident of Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) Province, originally planned to travel to a certain city in Hunan (湖南) Province. She booked a hotel room in that city through a certain platform for a stay two weeks later, paying a total of 1281 yuan online for a two-night, three-day stay.
After booking the hotel, Ms. Lu checked for train tickets to the city and found that they were sold out. Since she couldn't go, Ms. Lu quickly applied to cancel the hotel booking, hoping for a full refund.
However, the hotel flatly refused her refund request. The reason was simple: the cancellation policy on the booking page stated, "Cancellations are not allowed 30 minutes after successful booking; cancellations will incur a full charge." At this point, two hours had passed since the booking was made.
Ms. Lu felt very aggrieved. With two weeks until the reservation date, she believed the hotel could easily re-book the room and would not suffer any loss. After multiple unsuccessful negotiations, Ms. Lu sued the hotel in the Haidian District People's Court (北京市海淀区人民法院) of Beijing (北京), demanding a full refund of the accommodation fee.
On one side, she felt, "Why not refund when no loss has been incurred?" On the other side, the hotel insisted on "following the rules." The unilaterally set "non-refundable" clause, would the court consider it valid?
The judge explained that the parties to a hotel service contract are the hotel service provider and the recipient. In this case, Ms. Lu booked the hotel room through an online platform, but the hotel is the direct contractual entity providing accommodation, and the accommodation service fee paid by Ms. Lu is actually collected by the hotel. Therefore, Ms. Lu should have a hotel service contract relationship with the hotel.
So, does Ms. Lu have the right to claim a refund? In this case, Ms. Lu requested a cancellation for reasons not attributable to the service provider, which objectively violated the agreement and would have a certain impact on the hotel. However, conversely, during the negotiation process, the hotel, knowing that the consumer could not fulfill the contract and that no actual loss had yet occurred, should actively coordinate to avoid further expansion of the loss, rather than directly claiming a breach of contract liability from the consumer that is inconsistent with the actual loss and is excessively heavy.
Therefore, the court comprehensively considered factors such as the degree of fault of the breaching party, the actual loss of the hotel, the cause of the loss, and whether the cancellation affected secondary sales, and ordered the hotel to refund 1,000 yuan at its discretion.
With the rapid development of the Internet, online booking has become an important mode of consumption. However, rules such as "absolutely non-cancellable" and "non-refundable after 30 minutes" set by many life service platforms also cause trouble for consumers.
Taking hotel booking as an example, such clauses are unilaterally formulated by the platform or the hotel, and consumers cannot negotiate to modify them, which are standard clauses under the Civil Code. Comprehensively considering the Civil Code, relevant judicial interpretations, and guiding cases, this type of "non-refundable" clause should not be deemed valid or invalid across the board, but should consider whether the allocation of rights and obligations between the parties at the time of contracting is balanced, the actual loss of the operator, whether the clause unreasonably exempts or reduces the operator's liability, and restricts the consumer's main rights, and make a comprehensive judgment.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
In Shanbian Village (山边村), Chao'an District (潮安区), Chaozhou City (潮州市), Guangdong (广东), there used to be an intersection that local authorities found difficult to manage. Located on a major transportation route connecting Chaozhou and Jieyang (揭阳), it also served as an important passage for expressways, with both a primary school and a kindergarten nearby. The local ceramics and tile industries were well-developed, with large trucks frequently traveling back and forth, roaring past.
"Previously, there wasn't even a formal traffic light. A few years ago, a small temporary traffic light was erected, but passing trucks easily created blind spots due to obstruction, making it difficult to notice the temporary traffic light, which was very dangerous," recalled Luo Peisong (罗沛松), a local villager, who felt lingering fear when thinking back to the scene.
This intersection had to be thoroughly renovated. But where would the money come from? How would the plan be determined? The local traffic management department discussed with relevant departments and decided to invite insurance companies to cooperate, one providing funds and the other providing a plan.
The Chao'an District (潮安区) traffic police conducted on-site surveys and specially formulated a renovation plan according to the principle of "one plan for each road": adding a set of standard traffic lights, four sets of monitoring equipment, and two flashing lights, painting red and white zebra crossings at the intersection, painting the visual blind spots with red paint, and adding guardrails in the middle of the road.
"Transforming this intersection, which had almost no traffic management facilities, into a complete standard intersection took more than a month of repeated discussions on the construction plan and investigation of risks such as underground water and high-voltage electricity at the intersection, and the construction was finally completed smoothly," said Wu Zehui (吴泽辉), a police officer from the Traffic Management Detachment of the Chaozhou City (潮州市) Public Security Bureau.
The changes at the intersection are clearly visible. "Traffic lights have been installed at the intersection, and children can cross the road by themselves. In the past, they had to wait for passing trucks to stop under the guidance of teachers or parents," said Ms. Li, a parent of a student at Shanbian Primary School (山边小学) in Shanbian Village (山边村).
From "customer claims payment" to "participating in road renovation," insurance companies have transformed from being the after-the-fact claims settlement party for road accidents to being guardians of traffic safety. "In the past, some road sections averaged one serious injury case every one to two days. After the renovation, the number of serious injury cases has been zero," said Wu Xiaokun (吴晓坤), manager of the Customer Claims Settlement Center of Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Chaozhou Branch (平安产险潮州中支公司), who said that what made him happy was not only the significant decrease in the amount of compensation, but also seeing the smiles on the faces of villagers and students, and feeling that his work had a special meaning.
Rural road renovation, intelligent intersection early warning, tidal flow diversion, launching a public welfare campaign to "light up the tails" of large trucks... In recent years, in order to alleviate the problems of insufficient funds for grassroots traffic road management and slow progress in hidden danger investigation and management, public security traffic management departments in many places have innovated mechanisms and methods, comprehensively integrated the resources of public security traffic management departments and insurance enterprises, further promoted the participation of social forces in road traffic management, and established a new road traffic safety co-governance model of "government + insurance + technology," working together to build a solid road traffic safety defense line.
In Yongning County (永宁县), Ningxia (宁夏), after the renovation of the hidden danger section of National Highway 307 (307国道), the number of deaths in the section in 2025 decreased by 56.05% year-on-year, the number of injuries decreased by 23% year-on-year, and property losses decreased by 13.05% year-on-year; in Yongzhou City (永州市), Hunan (湖南), after laying speed bumps, erecting publicity signs, and supplementing sign lines for two high-risk road sections, no serious accidents have occurred so far... The renovated traffic intersections and key road sections are safer and smoother, and the number of traffic accidents and the number of accident deaths have been greatly reduced.
Traffic safety lies in the renovation and upgrading of standard intersections, and even more in the safety awareness of pedestrians and drivers.
"Although the vehicle damage is not significant, a negligence when changing lanes may lead to a major accident." At an insurance claims settlement center in Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang (浙江), after handling a minor collision accident, the claims adjuster sent a traffic safety education video to the car owner.
In recent years, the Hangzhou (杭州) public security traffic management department has joined forces with insurance institutions to explore a new path of collaborative co-governance of traffic safety. Focusing on accident prevention, the two sides jointly created a series of traffic safety animation videos, using vivid animation characters to interpret the safety points in daily driving, and transforming rigid traffic regulations into easy-to-understand visual language. On the other hand, the two sides have opened up data and channel barriers, and precisely embedded the driver's special education materials produced by the traffic police department into the entire process of insurance services.
In the insurance application process, safety education videos are sent to new cars and existing customers to give novices a good "safety first lesson" from the source; in the service activation process, car owners can watch safety videos and receive service gift packages through the insurance company's client software to achieve incentive-based learning; in the event of an accident, claims adjusters use enterprise WeChat to send education content to the accident driver "one-on-one" to conduct warning education at the key time after the accident. In addition, during important festivals such as the Spring Festival, May Day, and National Day, the platform also uses splash screen promotion and message push to send safety tips directly to the majority of car owners.
"The traffic police are in charge of 'prevention', and the insurance is in charge of 'backstop'. Although the responsibilities are different, the goals are highly consistent - to reduce accidents and reduce injuries." The relevant person in charge of the Hangzhou (杭州) public security traffic management department said that this deeply integrated education model, which changes "post-event disposal" to "pre-event prevention," is gradually building a traffic safety protection network covering the entire cycle and all scenarios, injecting new co-governance power into the safety and smoothness of road traffic.
Return to TopBy: 崔 伟
In 2026, Yue Opera art will celebrate its 120th anniversary. Looking back, every significant advancement in Yue Opera has been embodied by renowned Yue Opera artists creating outstanding plays with distinct contemporary styles and rich unique qualities, propelling the development of the genre. Today, Yue Opera faces a new beginning, and the task of creating excellent plays is even more challenging and far-reaching.
Creating new, high-quality plays has never been an empty slogan. "New" should certainly distinguish itself from tradition in terms of artistic style and contemporary spirit, but it should not be simply new for the sake of being new. "New" should resonate with the creator's contemporary sensibilities, integrate with unique discoveries about life, and, in particular, be unified with the expressive qualities of the genre's art. Starting from the foundation of traditional accumulation, new play creation can maximize the expression of the genre's style, leverage its aesthetic value, provide a stage for performing arts, and allow audiences to appreciate it through identification.
"New" in Substance, "Creation" with Recognition
Predecessors devoted tremendous effort to creating Yue Opera plays, accumulating valuable experience. In the early days, the "Butterfly Lovers" theme came from the folk of Shengzhou (嵊州) with "small opera troupes." From the poignant "Lament of Liang Zhu" ("梁祝哀史") in "Women's Yue Opera" to the completely new "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" ("梁山伯与祝英台"), the genre's local flavor and the city's sense of the times were integrated into the artistic genes full of Yue Opera qualities, and the shifting cultural environment and contemporary atmosphere refined the genre's style. In 1942, Yuan Xuefen (袁雪芬) and others proposed and practiced Yue Opera reform, which enabled play creation and performance to break away from the previous simple conventions and have more complete direction and guidance.
After the founding of New China, the development of Yue Opera was inseparable from the support of classic plays. In 1958, the Shanghai Yue Opera Theatre's "Dream of the Red Chamber" ("红楼梦") was released, elevating Yue Opera art to a new height, marking Yue Opera as a well-deserved leader in Chinese opera. In the 1980s, the Zhejiang Xiaobaihua Yue Opera Troupe's "Five Daughters Celebrate Birthday" ("五女拜寿") also had epoch-making significance. The colorful actors and profound and vivid performances made Yue Opera shine brightly.
Through these development histories, we can see the law of mutual achievement between play innovation and genre development: excellent plays must have touching artistic expression, distinct stylistic features, be widely loved by audiences, allow actors to display their strengths, and promote the practical development of the genre.
Consciously establishing and pursuing themes and styles that conform to the aesthetic qualities of Yue Opera cannot be separated from the playwright's understanding of the spirit of the times and abundant artistic talent, and even more requires a clear understanding of the genre's artistic experience and the audience's aesthetic calls. Artistic expression has individuality, but it cannot be separated from opera rules and genre characteristics. Creators and performers, literature and stage, genre and audience are symbiotic relationships in artistic innovation and development.
In recent years, some less successful plays have precisely ignored this point. In the creation of new Yue Opera plays, the same problem exists. Good play creation is by no means the wishful thinking of the creator, but the joint effort of everyone. Only in this way can "new" be truly new, "creation" can gain recognition, and the development of the genre and art can be down-to-earth.
Tell Ancient and Modern Stories That Yue Opera Aesthetics Excel At
Telling ancient and modern stories that Yue Opera aesthetics excel at is the valuable experience of Yue Opera's sudden rise in the 120 years, especially after 1949. Senior playwrights Xu Jin (徐进), Gu Xidong (顾锡东), and others all carried out text innovation and creation on the basis of following the laws of Yue Opera art. From the perspective of themes, "Dream of the Red Chamber" ("红楼梦"), "Five Daughters Celebrate Birthday" ("五女拜寿"), and others have profound recognition value in literature, history, and life. The reason why they became an instant hit because of Yue Opera is that they excavated the literary discoveries and life expressions contained in the themes, and more importantly, they fully demonstrated the focal points and appeal that Yue Opera is good at and unique, and promoted Yue Opera's delicate and euphemistic storytelling style.
Writing historical vicissitudes and telling about human relationships and the world with the moving writing that belongs to the genre, and promoting the values of truth, goodness, and beauty, thus achieving classics. This is precisely a unique experience in the thematic expression of Chinese opera - the stories and characters may not coincide with the location of the genre, but different genres can always consciously stand on their respective cultures and audience positions, tell the unique stories that belong to the genre, promote the variety of opera themes, and activate the myriad of colors that belong to the genre.
Paying attention to the lyrical expression of Yue Opera's aesthetic characteristics is not a narrow self-binding, which also has broad space in the current theme selection. Yue Opera "Qiantang Lane" ("钱塘里") chooses real people and real events that happened in Hangzhou (杭州), focusing on expressing the dramatic story of the emotional integration between migrant workers and local Hangzhou people from the crisis creation. The play gives full play to Yue Opera's delicate and light storytelling style, focusing on the city, entering the heart, expressing the times, and reflecting on fate. Finally, through the artistic power of Yue Opera, it demonstrates the spirit of the times and the great theme of love, support, and trust between people. Its success makes people reflect on the crux of the current opera creation problem: the depth of art is never a cold conceptualization, the fullness of the sense of the times should reject unmoving preaching, and the contemporaneity of the genre is not equivalent to a simple relocation of real life that lacks touching people's hearts.
It can be seen that whether it is contemporary or ancient themes, Yue Opera has huge creative space.
"Write What You Want to Write, Perform What You Are Good At"
In Shanghai (上海), Zhejiang (浙江), and other places, due to differences in social and cultural environments, there are different qualities of Shanghai and Zhejiang Yue Opera aesthetic styles and play characteristics on the basis of genre commonalities. Shanghai Yue Opera is more urban and modern, with the support of many school inheritance, and the classicality based on urban aesthetics and the genre's mature aestheticization are particularly prominent. Zhejiang Yue Opera has a more simple and warm aesthetic style, which coincides with Zhejiang's integration of urban and rural areas, and the combination of lakes, seas, mountains, and rivers. Zhejiang Yue Opera's themes and temperament have more heroism and strength, and there are ancient and modern propositions that are closer to ordinary people and current life than love between men and women, and joys and sorrows.
Yue Opera's play creation cannot ignore the regional culture and social and economic development atmosphere, and should present different highlights in different regions. In terms of theme selection and style, strengthen the soil in which the main creators live, the characters they are familiar with, and the social spirit they feel, and develop their own creative world, so as to achieve what the "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026-2028)" advocates, "write what you want to write, perform what you are good at." In this way, creation can avoid homogeneity, emptiness, and conceptualization.
Winning audiences and the market is a shortcoming of current opera creation. Looking back at the development of Yue Opera, no work with important contemporary influence and artistic significance has been deserted. "Dream of the Red Chamber" ("红楼梦") has become the box office champion of Chinese opera films, "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai" ("梁山伯与祝英台") has been performed by different schools in combination to this day, and "Five Daughters Celebrate Birthday" ("五女拜寿") has been widely transplanted by almost all genres in the country... All this proves that the social influence and market competitiveness of excellent plays have always been what Yue Opera needs to have. At present, Zhejiang Yue Opera people have achieved an admirable miracle breakthrough in going to the market and winning young audiences through innovative plays and performance methods. This is not only due to the courage and perseverance of Zhejiang Yue Opera people, but also relies on the inheritance and development of Yue Opera's excellent traditions, and its experience is worth learning.
Coinciding with the great opportunities of the times and cultural development, Yue Opera should give play to the valuable experience of play creation and make new contributions that integrate the spirit of the times, artistic quality, genre style, and market recognition.
(The author is the director of the Theoretical Criticism Committee of the China Theatre Association (中国戏剧家协会))
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The curtain rises, and the familiar Fifth Brother and Fifth Sister are back——
In the drama "Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)," Yu's Two-Meat Restaurant (于家二荤铺) doesn't have a menu; the chef cooks whatever he wants, and the regulars eat whatever he makes. Yu Wu (于五) (Ni Dahong (倪大红) plays the role) wants to preserve "what the ancestors left behind," and Fifth Sister (五嫂) (Shi Ke (史可) plays the role) will "scoop out" any customers she doesn't like with a dustpan.
"This play has been around for 10 years, and the characters are becoming more and more solid." The "solid" quality that Ni Dahong (倪大红) mentions has the sedimentation of time and also stems from authentic charm.
In real life, Fifth Brother (五哥) and Fifth Sister (五嫂) live near the Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥) in Beijing (北京), running a small restaurant in their own home. When the playwright Cui Shiyun (崔释匀) was at her most confused, Fifth Sister (五嫂) gave her a new apron and told her to follow along and learn to cook. Fifth Brother (五哥) said to her, "No hurdle in life is insurmountable. Your Fifth Sister (五嫂) just bought some fresh lotus root; I'll make you a plate of stir-fried lotus root with vinegar!" This is how the script began to take shape.
In the past, whenever "Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)" was performed in Beijing (北京), Fifth Brother (五哥) and Fifth Sister (五嫂) would always come to see the play. "Come to my place, and I'll cook you something delicious!" Fifth Sister (五嫂) isn't good with words, but this is how she expresses her appreciation for Shi Ke (史可). "I asked him, 'What do you think I do worse than you?' Fifth Brother (五哥) said, 'You surpass me in everything; you're better than me!'" Ni Dahong (倪大红) still remembers his conversation with Fifth Brother (五哥) at the premiere of the play in 2015. After the performance, the cast and crew would go straight to the small restaurant. "Caramelized meatballs, dry-braised pork belly, braised beef in soy sauce, stir-fried zucchini with vinegar, and also that noodles with fried sauce..." Shi Ke (史可) can recite Fifth Brother's (五哥) signature dishes fluently.
Life and art are intertwined, and the Fifth Brother (五哥) in the play is even more persistent than the Fifth Brother (五哥) in real life. In the play, in order to save Yu's Two-Meat Restaurant (于家二荤铺), Fifth Brother (五哥) becomes embroiled in an absurd "scam." A "fake antique" that never appears on stage and a "consecutive trap" without any "victims" give rise to a tragicomedy. In the end, everyone gets what they want, except Fifth Brother (五哥), who feels that something is wrong. Those who don't understand him think he's both silly and stubborn; those who understand him feel a mix of emotions.
Just like a monologue in the play, "The flavor is something you taste for yourself," Ni Dahong (倪大红) and Shi Ke (史可) have also spent 10 years savoring the different flavors of their characters. Shi Ke (史可) has shaped Fifth Sister (五嫂) to be increasingly "stable," "Before, I designed Fifth Sister (五嫂) in the play to jump up a few times, jumping up when she got anxious, but now I want to go inward." Ni Dahong (倪大红), on the other hand, is the complete opposite, "Fifth Brother (五哥) speaks very loudly, and I deliberately imitate his rhythm, raising my voice, and I will also amplify my performance feelings according to the relationship between the characters." Between taking it in and letting it out, there is the tacit understanding of old partners.
Shi Ke (史可) often marvels at "Teacher Dahong's (大红) stage presence is too good." She recalls a small incident: Because the rehearsal venue was changed, the actors needed to redesign their stage positions and movements. Ni Dahong (倪大红) didn't go on stage at first, but sat under the stage pondering. The next day, he got a wicker basket, put garlic in it, got a small stool, and sat down at the stage entrance, and the character was "right"! The garlic is real, and peeling the garlic also has a rhythm, picking up two, pausing for a while, saying lines, and when angry, the hands speed up the picking. Shi Ke (史可) jokingly said, "It's all with acting!"
Indeed, the entire play is full of such lifelike, essay-style presentation, with some dramatic connections, but it is also faint. In the beginning, the director Lin Zhaohua (林兆华) personally rewrote a version of the script that "crosses between contemporary and modern times," combining modern stories with historical stories that took place in the location of this small restaurant. After the revision, the theme was more grand, the dramatic conflict was stronger, and everyone applauded. Two months later, Lin Zhaohua (林兆华) took out the playwright's original script—he didn't want to stage a "play that was too much like a play," he wanted to stage a play that flowed out of life.
There are often people from the play in the audience. What the audience sees in the play is not how these characters "solve" problems, but how they "present" themselves: So this is what kind of people we are, so this is how people get along with each other, so this is how life is lived... There is also human warmth in the unsatisfactory, and humor and optimism can also arise.
"The drama 'Teahouse (茶馆)' tells the story of old Beiping (北平), and 'Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)' depicts Beijing (北京) since the reform and opening up, realistically presenting the thinking of people at this stage." Shi Ke (史可) said that when rehearsing in 2015, the restaurant's checkout section did not yet have WeChat scanning, and the plot is constantly updated with changes in life. In 2023, the original musician Hao Yun (郝云) and his band joined, using songs as a connection to connect stories and emotions, and the two layers of stage space became part of the time and space in the play, like a "Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥) duet."
For 10 years, Ni Dahong (倪大红) and Shi Ke (史可) have achieved their roles and also "fulfilled" themselves. In their view, "Stage performance is a kind of encouragement, a kind of stimulation, and the feedback from the audience and the scene is fresh. Actors can find new plays from every word and find new feelings from every line."
The "Guofeng Guoyun Piaoxiangjiang (国风国韵飘香江)" cultural performance season invited the drama "Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)" to perform in Hong Kong (香港). Facing the Hong Kong (香港) audience who will soon see the drama "Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)," Ni Dahong (倪大红) is very confident: "This play has depth, humor, and the direction of character changes. Its core is attractive." What Shi Ke (史可) is thinking about is "bringing the Beijing (京) flavor of life to the audience."
At the end of the play, Fifth Brother (五哥) stands up, turns his back, and walks towards the depths of the stage. Then, Hao Yun (郝云) sings "Back to That Day (回到那一天)." "I want to go back to that day/The sky was so blue then/My smile was so bright/The farewell song is still in my ears..." "This section on the stage is only 10 meters, and I feel like I have spent 10 years walking into the heart of this character step by step..." Speaking of this, Ni Dahong (倪大红) choked up. I think he mostly thought of the Fifth Brother (五哥) in real life. In the 2024 Spring Festival, Fifth Brother (五哥) bid farewell to this world, and the story of Fifth Brother (五哥) is still being told.
"What will 'Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥)' be like in the next 10 years?" I asked.
"Little Fifth will grow up!" they laughed.
Life moves forward, and on the Silver Ingot Bridge (银锭桥), we can always meet.
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"On my command, salute Company Leader Tian!" I stood before the Qiemo Old Soldiers' Sand Control Forest (且末老兵治沙林) in the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), issuing the command towards the more than ten thousand acres of sandbreak forest. Each saxaul tree stood tall and proud, like rows of soldiers receiving inspection.
"Salute Company Leader Zhou!" Tian Ye (田野), the old soldier and leader of the sand control team, responded loudly, tears glistening in his eyes. They had persevered here for 8 years. As the desert receded inch by inch, and the oasis extended inch by inch, they heard for the first time a song written specifically for them, "You of the Taklamakan Desert (塔漠的你)."
"I heard it, I heard it, where there is love, there is home!" Sun Bin (孙斌), the post-90s homestay owner from Beiyu Island (北礵岛), sobbed in my arms. An original song tailored for him, "Love Will Arrive with the Sea Breeze (爱会和海风一起抵达)," made this former political instructor of the coastal defense company "break down" again. After retiring, he started a business on the small island where he was once stationed, guarding the second hometown of his comrades.
After retiring, I focused on creating works for my old comrades. In recent years, the journey of "wandering around to encounter true colors" has allowed me to meet, understand, and embrace dozens of old comrades, drawing infinite strength from each shining figure. Whether it's the documentary program "True Colors (本色)" or the Spring Festival special program "True Colors of Glorious Years (本色华年)" (see picture), the scarcity of old soldier themes, the public welfare nature of volunteer services, the diversity of online and television integration, and the creativity rooted in life have allowed me to grow together with "True Colors Culture."
This is a journey of following the light. The program's theme of "exploring green silhouettes and paying tribute to true colors in life" has become my spiritual sustenance. It seems that only when I am with those old comrades can I feel at peace and full of energy.
This year, "True Colors of Glorious Years (本色华年)" has once again upgraded its dual-track model of "documentary + tribute." We created an original song for each protagonist to pay tribute to their true spirit. Every lyric and every melody grows from the flesh and blood of the old soldiers' stories. We sing "Following the Light (循着光)" for the ordinary guardians on the central axis, "Dragon Horse (龙马)" for the old Xinjiang soldiers pursuing their dreams, and pay tribute to the old Quyi soldiers with "A Smile of Affection (一笑情长)"... The singing resounds on the edge of the desert, brushes the reefs of Beiyu Island (北礵岛) like the sea breeze, lights up the night sky of the old revolutionary base areas like starlight, and accompanies the galloping Xinjiang horses and ethnic dances, becoming a bridge across time and space, allowing those old soldiers who are not good at expressing themselves to see their youth and perseverance, and to see respect and reverence in the melody.
Having shed the collective glory of wearing military uniforms, many retired soldiers become "green silhouettes." Their emotions need comfort, their lives need to be paid attention to, their unchanging spirit needs to be vigorously promoted, and they need high-quality cultural products that match their historical status and spiritual height. Only by approaching them, experiencing their lives in depth, and understanding life from their perspective can creators discover their brilliance.
"True Colors of Glorious Years (本色华年)" not only tells the stories of old soldiers, but also uses old soldiers to reflect the spirit of the times. The Qiemo (且末) sand control team echoes the green journey of ecological civilization construction; the entrepreneurship of the island homestay owner reflects "happiness is achieved through struggle"; the old soldiers who are dedicated to their duties on the central axis are a warm footnote to history and modern civilization; the persistence of the old soldiers in the small theater is the confidence and responsibility of the new mass art; and the parallel narrative of the Xinjiang (新疆) herdsman old soldier and the Uyghur (维吾尔族) dancer plays a harmonious movement of national unity.
Using the power of culture to encourage young people to actively join the army, to allow active soldiers to serve well with peace of mind, and to ensure that retired soldiers do not regret having served, this is the "True Colors Culture" that we are striving to continue.
(The author is the chief producer and chief director of the television program "True Colors of Glorious Years (本色华年)")
By: 汪文斌
"Over 90% of users like micro-dramas, with middle-aged and elderly groups aged 55 and above giving even higher praise." This data is impressive in the "Starlight Index: Annual Insight Report on Micro-dramas Helping Economic and Social Development" jointly researched and formed by the China Alliance of Radio and Television Social Organizations and Xi'an Jiaotong University (西安交通大学).
In recent years, online micro-dramas have experienced explosive growth, from the initial chaotic state to the current trend towards high-quality development, demonstrating a very vigorous vitality. When they first emerged, the user group of micro-dramas was called "three baos and one ge" (保姆、保洁、保安、快递小哥) (nanny, cleaner, security guard, delivery guy). The latest survey shows that middle-aged and elderly audiences find genuine joy in micro-dramas. This cannot help but make people think about the weight of the word "public" in new popular art.
As a representative form of new popular art, micro-dramas are the result of deep integration between digital platforms and social creative forces. In recent years, micro-dramas have subverted business models, popular themes, and production formats several times, with problems and shortcomings, but also room for progress. As a popular art form widely accepted by the public, the long-term healthy development of micro-dramas requires encouragement from academia and industry, and even more so, guidance from pioneers and experienced individuals.
We should face up to the value of "micro" and "short," and even better, give full play to its advantages. The original intention of constructing the "Starlight Index" is to break away from the single dimension of "traffic" and further analyze what micro-dramas should do and how to do it, so as to guide creators to clear the fog of traffic and create "good works" that can stand the test of time.
Starting from the details can arouse empathy. The micro-drama "Inside and Outside the Home" (家里家外) has gained a large amount of traffic and good reputation with the slow and steady flow of a blended family. The details of the drama build an emotional bridge between various audiences and characters and stories. Older audiences can look back on the past from old objects, and younger audiences can also glimpse the vivid cut of time from the drama.
Popular micro-dramas always start from life. The short drama "A Family of Three in the Same Class" (一家三口在同班), which attracted attention not long ago, tells the story of a pair of parents returning to their son's 18th birthday and growing up with their son. This drama uses the fantasy setting of "growing up together" to resonate with audiences who have a "generation gap."
The index insight report shows that mainstream themes such as "patriotism," "traditional culture," and "regional customs" have consistently ranked among the top three content elements expected by users for two consecutive years, far exceeding themes such as "revenge" and "counterattack." This result seems to be contrary to intuition, but it also breaks the common cognitive misunderstandings in the market. What the public desires is by no means cheap pleasure, and the strong demand for mainstream values and traditional culture should enter the vision of more micro-drama creators.
Although micro-dramas are "micro," they cannot tolerate any perfunctoriness; although they are "short," they can carry the weight of culture. When micro-dramas capture and relieve the emotional flow of the public, this public choice inevitably means a deeper value responsibility.
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At the 2026 National "Learn from Lei Feng (雷锋) and Civilized Practice in My Actions" themed event, the wonderful dance segment of the ballet dance poem "Role Models" was reunited with the audience. This work, painstakingly crafted over ten years by the Liaoning Ballet (辽宁芭蕾舞团), premiered at the Liaoning Grand Theatre (辽宁大剧院) in 2023. Seeing the images on the screen, I recalled how, after the performance of "Role Models," nearly a thousand audience members applauded together, singing the familiar song "Learn from Comrade Lei Feng" in unison, reluctant to leave for a long time.
Starting from Liaoning (辽宁), "Role Models" was performed at Peking University's (北京大学) Centennial Memorial Hall, the Beijing Old Cadres Activity Center of the People's Liberation Army (解放军北京老干部活动中心), Beijing Dance Academy (北京舞蹈学院), and other institutions. It toured Fudan University (复旦大学), Tongji University (同济大学), and other universities, and went to Xinjiang (新疆), Ningxia (宁夏), Jiangxi (江西), Liaoning (辽宁), and other places, and recently won the Outstanding Drama Award at the 15th National Dance Exhibition.
Lei Feng's (雷锋) deeds, "Lei Feng's Diary (雷锋日记)," and the spirit of Lei Feng have long been familiar to generations of Chinese people. How can ballet art, from the fragmented and repetitive words in "Lei Feng's Diary," generate dance images that are logically related to the spirit of Lei Feng and achieve an aesthetic expression of the spirit of Lei Feng? "From actions, props, scheduling to the metaphors of sound, light, and electricity, and direct image depiction, we move from the virtual to the real, from the abstract to the concrete, using tangible youth dance images to establish a sensible aesthetic image, guiding the audience into a warm and powerful world of the spirit of Lei Feng," said Dai Hu (戴虎), professor at the School of Dance of Anhui University of the Arts (安徽艺术学院舞蹈学院) and playwright of "Role Models."
From classical ballet to neoclassical, modern ballet, and then to contemporary dance, each chapter of "Role Models" is only about 15 minutes long, with styles progressing in turn. General Director Jiang Yang (姜洋) excavates the motivation of each poem and discovers the theme action of each chapter from the literal rhetoric of "line," "grain," "drop," "block," and "particle," completing the entire play's dialogue between young people and "Uncle Lei Feng." "A Grain of Seed" uses the pointe language of classical ballet, with the actors constantly rising and falling on their toes, and their knees always maintaining a flexible undulation, showing the vitality of quiet growth and tenacious unyielding; "A Drop of Water" uses the vocabulary of modern ballet and modern dance, making the body more free and powerful; the creation of "A Brick" returns to emotion, with the children holding up "bricks," standing in two rows facing the audience, looking into the distance, expressing their inner feelings. Simple dance vocabulary drives their most sincere emotions.
The most special thing is that "Role Models" is not performed by professional adult actors, but by 60 young dancers. They are all from the affiliated dance school of the Liaoning Ballet (辽宁芭蕾舞团附属舞蹈学校), the youngest being 12 years old and the oldest being 17 years old. From the perspective of action difficulty and technical specifications, this play is completely benchmarked against professional stage standards, which is extremely challenging for this group of young dancers. Many children had only practiced in the classroom before, and "Role Models" is the first time they have truly stepped onto the big stage.
Through countless rehearsals, the children truly understood what it means to "**干一行、爱一行**" (gàn yī háng, ài yī háng - "do a job, love a job," be dedicated to one's work). Cao Shengru (曹盛茹), a student at the affiliated dance school of the Liaoning Ballet (辽宁芭蕾舞团附属舞蹈学校), used to be an audience member watching "Role Models," and now serves as the lead dancer of "A Nail," "This feeling is particularly wonderful, once a student watching 'Role Models,' now an actor performing 'Role Models.'" When performing the large group dance of the fifth act, "A Nail," Cao Shengru and her classmates rushed forward together, feeling a strong sense of striving. "Each of us cannot be wrong, every step, every arm, every dance posture must be neat and unified. Whenever I am about to give up, I think of Uncle Lei Feng's spirit of perseverance and silent dedication, and I feel particularly moved and even more powerful." For the children, growth never happens suddenly, but is the result of every repetition in the rehearsal hall, every word of advice from the teacher, and countless days and nights of mutual encouragement with partners.
"The children love 'Role Models,' the secret is not telling stories, but conveying the spirit," said Zhao Yifei (赵一飞), Party Secretary and Director of the Liaoning Ballet (辽宁芭蕾舞团党委书记、团长). This is a process of moving—internalizing—and then passing on. The children put themselves into the role and pass their inner emotions, beliefs, and strength to the audience through dance.
As one class of students graduates and leaves, new students join the rehearsal and continue to perform, which in itself is a kind of inheritance, just like the spirit of Lei Feng, generation after generation, **生生不息** (shēng shēng bù xī - "grow without cease," continuous growth and development).
(The author is the Deputy Dean of the School of Arts of Liaoning University (辽宁大学艺术学院))
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