Summary: Xinjiang is focusing on developing a modern industrial system with regional characteristics by emphasizing intelligent upgrades of traditional industries, promoting green energy use, and fostering integrated development in emerging sectors. The region aims to become a national strategic base for energy resources, with plans to increase renewable energy usage to meet future electricity demands, including the establishment of large-scale "sand, Gobi, and desert" (沙戈荒) new energy bases. Xinjiang's efforts include constructing intelligent coal mines and increasing the proportion of green electricity transmitted to other regions, such as the 36 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity transmitted annually to the Sichuan and Chongqing areas. The region is also developing green computing power, hydrogen energy, and artificial intelligence industries, leveraging its climatic advantages and abundant electricity supply, particularly in areas like the Karamay Cloud Computing Industrial Park. According to Xinjiang Party Secretary Chen Xiaojiang, the efforts are in line with Xi Jinping's instructions to transform resource advantages into high-quality development.
Summary: An ecological official named Yang Li discussed the "Millennium Forest" project in Xiong'an New Area, emphasizing the importance of ecological conservation and sustainable development through afforestation efforts. The project, initiated in 2017, prioritizes native species and innovative planting techniques to create a resilient and diverse ecosystem. Individuals like Yang and Zhang Xu from Saihanba are involved in this project. The forest coverage rate has increased from 11% to 35.1%. The project aims to create a model for harmonious coexistence between humans and nature in the developing city.
Summary: Since the launch of the education campaign on establishing and practicing correct performance evaluation, various regions and departments have focused on studying Xi Jinping's important discourses on the topic. Entities such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Bank of China, the State Administration of Market Supervision, China Southern Power Grid, China Communications Construction Group, and China National Petroleum Corporation are deeply involved in the study. They are using various methods to promote the correct view of performance evaluation and connect it with practical work, such as monetary policy regulation, financial risk prevention, serving the real economy, and promoting high-quality development. Local governments such as Lijiang City, Jixi City, Huaian District, Qushui County, Yuzhong District and Jin City are also actively implementing learning and education through various innovative carriers and forms. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Council issued a plan to establish a comprehensive enterprise credit evaluation system. The initiative aims to integrate public and market-based credit evaluations to form a unified system. The plan emphasizes standardizing public credit evaluation rules, promoting collaboration between industry credit evaluations, and regulating market-based credit assessments. It seeks to improve financial support for SMEs through credit evaluation and establish mechanisms for credit repair and dispute resolution. The plan calls for local governments and relevant departments to implement the scheme, focusing on data sharing, process optimization, and the establishment of related legal and regulatory systems to foster a fair market environment.
Summary: The Longdong-Shandong ±800 kV UHV DC power transmission project, originating in Gansu and terminating in Shandong, has resumed operation after its first annual maintenance check since commencing operations last May. The project, designed to transmit electricity from a large-scale "wind-solar-hydro-storage" energy base, achieved a peak daily transmission volume of 163 million kilowatt-hours prior to the maintenance. The maintenance aimed to comprehensively assess the construction quality and equipment stability of the 915-kilometer power line. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The construction of a unified national market in China is being promoted to break down barriers, connect infrastructure, and open platforms, aiming for efficient regulation, fair competition, and full openness. This initiative focuses on "five unifications and one opening," including unified market basic systems, infrastructure, government behavior, market supervision, and factor resource markets, alongside expanded domestic and international opening. The goal is to facilitate the free flow and efficient allocation of resources across provinces and sectors, shifting from isolated markets to a unified, large market. By reducing barriers and optimizing resource allocation, the project aims to improve the business environment, promote high-quality development, and enhance China's international competitiveness. The effort involves addressing issues such as disorderly competition, overcapacity in key industries, and irregular local investment promotion practices.
Summary: Amidst global economic volatility, the China-Laos Railway's cargo volume exceeding 80 million tons and the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) reaching 1000 trains 19 days earlier than last year highlight the stability provided by China's strategic planning. This stability is attributed to a proactive approach in shaping the new development pattern and ensuring food and energy security, reflected in forward-looking policies and economic adjustments. China emphasizes mutually beneficial cooperation and a growing network of international partners. The article frames this as China providing stability and certainty to the world.
Summary: This article contains two sections. The first discusses promoting whole-process people's democracy through good laws and governance. The second describes visiting a martyrs' cemetery and tracing the Long March, emphasizing remembrance of history. Neither section mentions specific officials, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Politburo member and Beijing Party Secretary Yin Li and Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Shengmin joined PLA troops in a tree-planting activity in Beijing's Haidian district. They planted over 1,000 trees with other military and local leaders. This marks the 44th consecutive year that CMC leaders have participated in the capital's voluntary tree planting, with the PLA contributing significantly to national afforestation efforts. Military leaders from various departments and Beijing officials also participated in the event. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Vice Premier Liu Guozhong, during inspections in Zhejiang and Jiangxi from March 30 to April 2, emphasized the importance of implementing Xi Jinping's water management policies and the 20th Central Committee's plenary session's and the Two Sessions' deployments to ensure water security for the "15th Five-Year Plan." He stressed the need to accelerate the construction of a modern national water network, improve river and lake protection, and enhance flood control measures, including digital twin technology and disaster preparedness, especially with the arrival of the flood season in southern China. Liu also called for improved water management and conservation practices, as well as the strengthening of rural water infrastructure. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a research visit to Liaoning, Chen Wenqing stressed the importance of local political and legal organs implementing Xi Jinping's directives with a focus on serving the people and maintaining social stability through practical action. Chen emphasized the need for comprehensive understanding and resolution of conflicts at all levels, from local governance centers to the courts and procuratorates. Chen also underscored the importance of addressing public concerns and promoting fair and just legal processes while ensuring comprehensive risk assessment and management to prevent extreme cases. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Several Chinese insurance companies are launching specialized insurance products for "embodied intelligence" (具身智能) robots, covering risks throughout the industry chain, from R&D and manufacturing to application scenarios like elderly care and factory automation. These insurance policies aim to mitigate risks such as damage caused by robots, R&D failures, and network security breaches, thereby increasing market acceptance and shortening procurement cycles. Experts suggest that these policies are crucial for the industry's growth, especially as it expands into international markets, and highlight the need for data sharing and flexible pricing to address the challenges of insuring this rapidly evolving field. The expansion of technology insurance reflects China's broader efforts to support technological self-reliance and the development of new productive forces. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) issued a notice to implement the Anti-Unfair Competition Law, targeting "involutionary" competition in key sectors like platform economy, photovoltaics, lithium batteries, and new energy vehicles. The notice aims to prevent platforms from forcing merchants to sell below cost and to address data-related unfair competition, including misuse of algorithms and data, while balancing data protection and utilization. SAMR will also focus on regulating practices such as traffic hijacking, malicious interference, and abuse of platform rules, and the notice stresses the importance of platforms establishing fair competition rules and handling complaints. The move signals increased regulatory scrutiny of the digital economy and emerging industries like AI.
Summary: China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, along with other state organs including the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC), issued administrative guidance to several online platforms, including Zhaopin, BOSS Zhipin, 58.com, and Douyin, regarding recruitment information. The guidance emphasizes platforms' responsibility for content management, requiring thorough qualification verification, clear information disclosure, content review, risk prevention, and control. The move aims to enhance compliance, technical safeguards, rights protection, and overall governance of online recruitment spaces to protect job seekers' legal rights. The guidance does not appear to mention any US companies or issues relating to US-China relations.
Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has released a list of 100 exemplary "5G factories" for 2025, spanning key sectors like raw materials, equipment, consumer goods, electronics, energy, and transportation. This follows MIIT's "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Million" 5G factory initiative launched in 2022, which has spurred the construction of over 23,000 dedicated industrial 5G networks. The program aims to expand the integration of 5G and the industrial internet beyond isolated applications to core production processes. MIIT is urging local governments to provide policy support to accelerate the incorporation of 5G into all stages of manufacturing. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A Chinese-built, dual-fuel vehicle carrier, capable of transporting 10,800 vehicles, including electric and hydrogen cars, has begun sea trials in Guangzhou. The vessel, constructed by China Shipbuilding Guangzhou International, features a dual-fuel propulsion system and an axial generator for energy efficiency. This ship is designed with 14-layer garage decks. The ship is 230 meters in length and 40 meters in width.
Summary: Nearly 8,200 domestic and international internet platform companies have reported tax-related information to Chinese tax authorities, as required by the "Regulations on Reporting Tax-Related Information by Internet Platform Enterprises." Starting in October 2025, platforms will report identity and income data of merchants and employees quarterly. The regulations have resulted in more standardized tax declarations by platform merchants, with a 28% year-on-year increase in invoice amounts for small-scale taxpayers within the platforms. According to Lian Qifeng, Director of the Collection, Administration, Science and Technology Development Department of the State Taxation Administration, the information reporting has reduced opportunities for illegal operations and unfair competition within platform economies. Tax authorities will continue to monitor the quality of reported data and identify tax risks.
Summary: In February, China's trade promotion system saw a 72.38% year-on-year increase in issued certificates, totaling 744,500. Non-preferential origin certificates reached $32.35 billion (up 54.23%) and 410,700 certificates (up 71.34%). Preferential origin certificates reached $9.59 billion (up 72.48%) and 282,100 certificates (up 100.32%). RCEP origin certificates saw $911 million (up 72.73%) and 29,985 certificates (up 94.81%). CCPIT spokesperson Wang Guannan attributed this growth to beneficial foreign trade policies, diversified market strategies, and the strength of new business models.
Summary: China's agricultural innovations and products were showcased at the 62nd French International Agricultural Show in Paris, highlighting the country's status as both an agricultural and culinary powerhouse. The Chinese national agricultural delegation, organized by the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs, made its debut at the event, aiming to foster Sino-French agricultural cooperation by promoting the two-way flow of high-quality agricultural products and deepening industry exchanges. Chinese agricultural machinery, particularly in AI and drone applications, garnered significant attention from European farmers, with potential to improve production efficiency and lower costs. Experts noted opportunities for Sino-French collaboration in areas like high-quality food, sustainable production, genetic breeding and addressing consumer demands for healthy, quality products. The exhibition also showcased collaborations in genetic breeding and biotechnology, with a focus on long-term capacity building.
Summary: The article criticizes Japan's deployment of long-range missiles in Kumamoto and Shizuoka prefectures, characterizing it as a violation of its pacifist constitution and post-WWII commitments. It argues that Japan is using a "crisis narrative" to justify military expansion and develop offensive capabilities under the guise of defense. The piece accuses Japan of undermining regional peace and security through its remilitarization efforts and warns of the dangers of its "new militarism." It claims Japan is acting against the interests of its own people, who are protesting the deployments, and the region. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article, authored by the Director of the China Studies Center in Nigeria, argues that China's successful development stems from its unique, domestically-rooted system, not a readily transferable "product." It highlights China's contributions to global economic growth and poverty reduction as evidence of effective governance. The author suggests that China's experience offers valuable lessons for African nations seeking to improve their own governance by understanding their own history, and solving problems in their governance systems. The piece also emphasizes the importance of China-Africa partnership, particularly in trade, investment, and infrastructure development, as a means to enhance Africa's development and governance capabilities. It warns against blindly following external models without considering local conditions.
Summary: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with Bahraini Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani, who holds the rotating GCC presidency, regarding the latest developments in the Middle East. Al Zayani expressed concern over challenges to Gulf security and navigation in the Strait of Hormuz, seeking enhanced coordination with China. Wang reiterated China's principles of opposing aggression and advocating for peace, referencing China and Pakistan's five-point initiative for regional stability, including ensuring the Strait of Hormuz security. Wang stated that the UN Security Council's actions should de-escalate the situation and facilitate peace talks, and China is willing to work with Bahrain to promote regional stability and safeguard the rights of developing countries.
Summary: In a phone call with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan Al Saud, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi expressed concern over the ongoing conflict in Iran and its impact on regional stability, including that of Saudi Arabia. Faisal highlighted the conflict's global impact and Saudi Arabia's desire for increased coordination with China, particularly within the UN. Wang emphasized the importance of an immediate ceasefire and cautioned against actions that could escalate the conflict or legitimize unauthorized military actions. He referenced a joint China-Pakistan initiative for regional peace and stability that included ensuring the security of Gulf states, and offered China's support for Saudi Arabia's efforts to achieve peace. The Ministers also discussed the disruptions to navigation in the Strait of Hormuz resulting from the conflict.
Summary: During a call with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi discussed the tense situation in Iran, with both sides agreeing on the need to end the conflict for global stability. Baerbock expressed support for the five-point initiative proposed by China and Pakistan on Middle East peace. Wang criticized the US and Israel for military action against Iran without UN authorization, deeming it a violation of international law. Both ministers also discussed strengthening Sino-German relations, emphasizing strategic communication and trust following the German Chancellor's visit to China.
Summary: Politburo Member and Foreign Minister Wang Yi spoke with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell via telephone on April 2nd, where Borrell shared his views on the Middle East situation and commended China's mediation efforts, including the China-Pakistan initiative. Wang Yi outlined China's position on the Middle East, emphasizing a ceasefire and the importance of the UN charter and further stated that the EU's challenges do not come from China and that decoupling from China means decoupling from opportunity. Borrell stated that the EU sees China as an important partner and does not seek to decouple. Both sides also exchanged views on China-EU relations.
Summary: Cuban scholar Luis Fernandez stated that China's "15th Five-Year Plan" offers development opportunities for developing countries, including Cuba. He highlighted China's achievements during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, particularly in technological innovation and the development of new productive forces. Fernandez emphasized China's commitment to expanding high-level opening-up, which he believes will counter unilateralism and protectionism while boosting global economic growth. He also lauded the stability and strategic foresight embodied in China's five-year planning process. Fernandez further noted that the Belt and Road Initiative promotes a more stable global economic system.
Summary: A digital economy cooperation and innovation forum was held in Geneva as a prelude to the 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference. Ambassador Shen Jian, China's Deputy Representative to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations, stated that the digital economy requires strengthened global governance. The forum, co-organized by the Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance and the organizing committee of the Global Digital Economy Conference, included a China-Switzerland enterprise symposium. The 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference will be held in Beijing in July.
Summary: The article discusses the "publicly built, privately operated" reform in Dianjiang County, Chongqing, aimed at improving public elder care services. Facing low occupancy rates and service deficiencies in its public nursing homes, the county government bundled 25 institutions into a single asset package and contracted their operation to a private company, Hongshan Group, for 20 years. Hongshan then upgraded facilities, trained staff, and customized services based on individual needs and preferences. This reform led to a significant increase in occupancy rates and an overall improvement in the quality of elder care services in the county.
Summary: The article argues that deepening elderly care reform requires a public value orientation, focusing on benefits for seniors, families, and society. It advocates for guiding professional institutions, including private enterprises, to enhance elderly care capacity through collaborative models. The author emphasizes that improving elderly care hinges on service integration, resource sharing, and elderly autonomy, rather than simply resource allocation, requiring a development model driven by a range of actors. The author suggests that during the 15th Five-Year Plan period, China should optimize basic elderly care services and develop the "silver economy." By expanding elderly care services and providing more elderly-focused products, the author argues, China can achieve high-quality economic growth.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of "correct performance evaluation" (政绩观) for Chinese Communist Party members, highlighting the dedication and selflessness of two veteran Party members: Lin Zhanxi, the "father of Juncao," and wheat expert Guo Tiancai. It argues that a correct view is rooted in loyalty to Marxism, socialism, and the people, exemplified by cadres who prioritize the people's interests and are deeply devoted to their work. The piece stresses the need for cadres to be selfless and dedicated to achieving long-term goals, even in the face of difficulties. It suggests that true achievement comes from a deep love for the land and its people, and a commitment to serving their needs above personal gain. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced that it, along with other departments, will intensify efforts to protect personal information following the Personal Information Protection Law's implementation. Specific actions will target illegal collection and use of personal information in apps, internet advertising, education, transportation, healthcare, and finance. The CAC aims to increase public satisfaction with personal data security. The announcement highlights a continued regulatory focus on data governance within China's digital ecosystem.
Summary: This article describes the transportation of grain from Heilongjiang province, a major grain production base, to meet the rising demand in southern China. Railway authorities are implementing customized transportation plans, including regular "point-to-point" grain trains, to ensure the efficient delivery of high-quality grain across the country. The article emphasizes the abundance and quality of grain in Heilongjiang. There is no mention of US-China relations or US involvement.
Summary: China's State Council has announced personnel changes, appointing Chang Junhong as Assistant Minister of Finance, Lei Xiaowu as Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, Wang Jianbo as Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration, and Yao Liying as Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. Yao Liying was previously Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration. Zhao Zenglian was removed from his position as Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs, Sheng Laiyun was removed from his position as Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics, and Zhang Jianmin was removed from his position as Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration. The announcement does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National Intellectual Property Administration released the "2025 China Patent Survey Report" on April 1st, revealing a 54% industrialization rate for Chinese enterprise invention patents, a 0.7 percentage point increase from 2024, demonstrating steady growth during the 14th Five-Year Plan period. The report indicates that 87.4% of enterprise invention patents are obtained through R&D, with over half having a research cycle exceeding one year. The average revenue from industrialized enterprise invention patents reached 8.72 million yuan per item in 2025, showing steady improvement during the 14th Five-Year Plan. Collaboration between enterprises and academic institutions reached 43.8%.
Summary: Since the launch of education on establishing and practicing correct views on performance, various regions and departments have focused on guiding cadres to deeply understand Xi Jinping's important discourses, seeking shortcomings from the perspective of Party spirit, and striving to achieve performance for the people through practical work. Entities such as the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Commerce, the People's Bank of China, the State Administration for Market Regulation, China Southern Power Grid, and China Communications Construction Group have organized study sessions and discussions, utilizing various methods to promote these views. Localities like Lijiang City, Jixi City, Huaian District, Quxu County, Yuzhong District and Jin City have also implemented innovative approaches to integrate the education with practical problem-solving and public service. These efforts aim to ensure that cadres align their actions with the Party's goals and serve the people effectively, with China Petroleum Group, and China Logistics Group also participating. The article does not mention the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Former Deputy Minister of Finance Chi Haibin passed away in Beijing on February 28, 2026, at the age of 94. Central leaders expressed their condolences and sympathies to his family after his death. Chi's career included roles such as Deputy Director of the Financial Affairs Division of Economic Construction under the Ministry of Finance, Vice Minister of Finance, and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group. He was a representative to the 13th and 14th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chen Tiedi, former Director of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee and former Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the CPPCC, passed away on March 7, 2026, at the age of 91. Central leaders expressed condolences to her family after her death. Chen held various positions at Tongji University and within the Shanghai Municipal government, including leadership roles in education and municipal committees. She was a representative to the 13th through 16th National Congresses of the CCP and a member of the National People's Congress and the CPPCC. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wang Jinshan, former Party Secretary of Anhui Province, passed away on March 9, 2026, at the age of 81. Central leaders expressed condolences to his family. Wang held various positions throughout his career, including Deputy Governor of Jilin Province, Party Secretary of Anhui Province, and member of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Central Committees of the CCP. He also served as Vice Chairman of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of incremental progress ("一步一步") in achieving China's goals, particularly in the context of the upcoming 15th Five-Year Plan. It highlights Xi Jinping's emphasis on this step-by-step approach in developing new productive forces and improving basic medical services. The article cites examples such as upgrading rural healthcare and the iterative development of robotics to illustrate how continuous, incremental improvements lead to significant advancements. It also mentions the importance of adapting to new problems and iterating on solutions, such as in government services and business environment policies. This methodology of steady, persistent effort is presented as a key aspect of the Party's governance philosophy.
Summary: A doctor with the China-Japan Friendship Hospital recounts their experience providing medical aid in Tibet as part of a central government initiative to improve healthcare in remote regions, referencing Xi Jinping's emphasis on addressing these shortcomings. The doctor describes being deeply moved by the dedication and resilience of the local people, including Tibetan herders, border patrol soldiers, and fellow medical professionals. They emphasize the mutual benefit of the experience, where they not only provided medical expertise but also gained personal growth and a renewed appreciation for their profession. The doctor's experience was that the people of Tibet inspired them through their dedication to their homeland and their profession. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Three wheat breeding experts from different provinces, Ru Zhengang, Guo Jinkao, and Yang Wuyun, exchanged wheat seeds at the National People's Congress, pledging to share resources and collaborate on core technologies in the seed industry to ensure food security. This exchange represents a commitment to breaking down regional barriers and fostering collaboration in agricultural research. The article highlights the importance of resource sharing and coordinated innovation to achieve technological self-reliance. Recent reforms, including the establishment of the Central Science and Technology Commission and revisions to the Law on Scientific and Technological Progress, aim to promote such collaboration. The experts hope to strengthen the agricultural sector.
Summary: The article reports that China's national elderly education system is expanding rapidly, with 82,000 grassroots learning centers established. A national online platform offers a vast library of free, age-appropriate courses, attracting over 12 million registered users. This expansion aims to create a comprehensive and accessible elderly education system, promoting lifelong learning opportunities. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article emphasizes shifting China's healthcare focus from treatment to prevention, highlighting the importance of personal responsibility for health and early intervention in chronic disease. It stresses the need for individuals to adopt healthier lifestyles, focusing on habits like sleep and diet, and the role of grassroots medical workers in preventative care. The piece also calls for broader societal support through accessible health services and initiatives promoting healthy living. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Following Hainan's island-wide customs operation, companies are benefiting from policies such as zero tariffs and value-added processing exemptions, leading to reduced costs and increased competitiveness. One chemical company estimates saving millions annually due to tariff reductions on imported polypropylene. The article highlights three key factors: collaboration between industries and regions, precise policy implementation and services for businesses, and a balanced approach to development with both rapid progress and careful consideration. These factors have led to increased foreign investment and trade, positioning Hainan as a launchpad for companies expanding overseas. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the explosive growth of token usage in China's AI sector, with daily usage exceeding 140 trillion in March, a thousandfold increase in two years. This surge is attributed to improved model capabilities and new applications like intelligent agents, which require more complex and frequent token usage. Industries with high information density and rapid iteration, such as software development, are driving token consumption. Experts suggest that tokens, as measurable units, could make AI a fundamental resource like electricity, and China's advantages in algorithms and infrastructure will support this development.
Summary: The article explains how AI processes language by breaking down input into "tokens" (词元), which are then converted into numerical codes for machine understanding. These tokens are processed in massive data centers, where AI learns relationships between them through a training process involving vast amounts of data and computational power. When a user poses a question, the AI again breaks it down into tokens and uses learned patterns to predict and generate a response. The author, Wang Yunsheng, is the vice president of the National Data Development Research Institute.
Summary: A recent conference in Wangjiang County highlighted the importance of bee pollination for increasing rapeseed yields, with the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences emphasizing bee pollination as a green technology for boosting production. Experts noted the mutual dependence between rapeseed and bees, with bee pollination potentially increasing yields by 10-30% and oil extraction rates by over 3%. The conference addressed strategies for balancing pesticide use during flowering with bee protection, advocating for communication between beekeepers and farmers. Researchers also discussed "bee-machine collaboration" techniques for efficient liquid pollination, particularly in areas with insufficient bee populations.
Summary: The 2026 "Centennial Lilac Poetry Festival" launched in Beijing, aiming to integrate poetry culture with ideological and political education and urban development. The festival, themed "Lilacs as Faith, Youth as Poetry," features various activities both online and offline, emphasizing public participation. Activities include poetry salons, writing workshops, recitations, and "City Walk + Flying Flowers" events. The festival has also established pop-up "Lilac Poetry Writing Rooms" in multiple locations across the country. The report does not discuss any statements or actions of an official, nor does it mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group's Office for International Pursuit of Fugitives and Recovery of Stolen Assets convened a meeting on April 2 to plan its 2026 efforts, launching "Operation Sky Net 2026." The meeting reviewed the achievements of 2025, including the elimination of "Red Notice" fugitives in Asia and progress in cross-border corruption governance. "Operation Sky Net 2026" will involve multiple agencies focusing on recovering assets related to duty-related crimes, targeting illegal transfers of assets via offshore companies, and managing officials with family members residing abroad. The meeting emphasized strengthening international cooperation and pursuing both fugitives and asset recovery.
Summary: As China's spring tea harvest season approaches, several tea-producing regions are adopting new technologies to improve logistics. In Guizhou's Meitan County, drones and unmanned vehicles are being used to transport tea leaves, shortening delivery times and reducing damage. Similarly, in Hangzhou's Longwu Tea Town, intelligent robotic dogs are helping tea farmers transport leaves down steep slopes, with unmanned vehicles then delivering the tea to express delivery stations for rapid nationwide distribution. These new methods have reportedly decreased delivery times and damages while increasing efficiency. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xuanwu Hospital of Capital Medical University announced the successful completion of the first GCP multi-center clinical trial implantation surgery for the "North Brain No. 1" intelligent brain-computer system. The "North Brain No. 1," independently developed by a Chinese research team, aims to restore hand motor function in patients and is entering a new phase of standardized, large-scale clinical trials. The system encompasses key elements, including electrodes, signal processing, decoding algorithms, and external control. The system seeks to minimize immune response and tissue damage post-implantation, while ensuring signal acquisition quality. The initial cohort of patients is planned to be 36 cases.
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Summary: This article discusses activities commemorating the 90th anniversary of the Red Army's Long March. It features stories of individuals and families dedicated to preserving the memory of Red Army soldiers, including Wen Yongdong's family searching for the grave of a relative in Jiangxi, Wang Jiangang's family in Sichuan, who have been tending a Red Army cemetery for three generations, and Guo Degang, a veteran in Guizhou who has been volunteering as a caretaker and speaker at a Red Army martyr's cemetery for 27 years. These individuals underscore the enduring importance of remembering the Long March and the sacrifices made by Red Army soldiers. Xi Jinping is quoted emphasizing the profound and lasting impact of the Long March. The article does not discuss the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: According to the Supreme People's Court, China has seen a significant decrease in human trafficking cases, with a 77.95% drop from the 2012 peak due to strict crackdowns and comprehensive governance. Courts are severely punishing traffickers and those who buy trafficked individuals, ensuring that all cases of buying are prosecuted, especially when accompanied by other crimes. The Supreme People's Court also noted an increase in online trafficking, where perpetrators use coded language and online platforms to facilitate transactions. People's Courts will continue to severely punish trafficking, improve trial quality, strengthen judicial protection, and increase assistance to victims.
Summary: As reported by the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, China has recognized over 178,000 individuals for acts of bravery, with 96 such heroes sacrificing their lives in 2025 alone. To honor these individuals and promote a culture of heroism, the China Righteous and Courageous Foundation is conducting an online memorial activity via China Changan Net and the "Chang'an Sword" WeChat account during the 2026 Qingming Festival. The activity aims to remember heroic deeds and express condolences. The article emphasizes the importance of these acts in building a safe and law-abiding China. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: Twenty-four central inspection teams, led by officials from the State Council's Safety Committee, will conduct announced and unannounced inspections of key regions starting in early April as part of the 2026 central work safety assessment plan. The inspections will focus on issues revealed by recent accidents, implementation of safety responsibilities, progress in the three-year work safety initiative, and the effectiveness of rectifying key tasks and "one-thing" whole-chain governance. The teams will investigate departments' performance by identifying problems, urging regions to study and implement the correct view of performance, balancing development and safety, and improving risk investigation. Typical cases discovered during the inspections will be investigated, held accountable, and publicly exposed.
Summary: Shaanxi courts have implemented an integrated "judicial trial + protection and restoration + cultural inheritance" model to strengthen the legal protection of cultural relics and heritage sites. Over the past three years, Shaanxi courts have concluded 249 cases related to the resale of cultural relics and the excavation of ancient cultural sites, sentencing 863 individuals. Courts are also promoting cross-departmental collaboration through public interest litigation, illustrated by a case involving the repair of damaged historical sites after inaction following prosecutorial recommendations. Shaanxi courts have established 119 circuit tribunals or trial points in key cultural areas and 20 judicial protection bases, integrating non-material cultural heritage into judicial practice. According to Han Deyang, Secretary of the Party Group and President of the Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court, the courts will further strengthen judicial protection to preserve cultural heritage.
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Summary: Many Chinese internet platforms, from social media to lifestyle apps, are increasingly offering lending services, often embedding them subtly within existing functions. This "embedded finance" trend, driven by platforms seeking to monetize user data and behavior, can lead to users accumulating debt without fully realizing the terms or costs involved, due to sophisticated algorithms and obscured fees. Regulators have begun to address these issues, including the State Administration of Financial Supervision, which has been holding talks with enterprises that may have been involved in unsavory lending practices. New regulations such as the "Provisions on Explicit Comprehensive Financing Costs for Personal Loan Business" aim to increase transparency by requiring clear disclosure of all fees and costs associated with loans. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the rising popularity of "Color Walks" among young people in China, where individuals choose a color and then wander through cities, documenting scenes that feature that color. This trend, similar to "City Walks," is framed as a way for people to find joy and relaxation in urban environments. Cities like Beijing and Nanning are incorporating "Color Walks" into tourism initiatives and cultural events. The article also highlights efforts to enhance urban spaces with greenery and amenities, creating more opportunities for residents to encounter beauty in their daily lives and fostering a sense of well-being and connection to their communities.
Summary: China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) released an "Implementation Opinion on 'Artificial Intelligence + Drug Supervision'" outlining seven key areas for promoting digital and intelligent drug regulation. The document aims to modernize drug supervision by 2030 through the integration of AI in various aspects, including review and approval processes, inspections, testing, and government services. The plan also highlights five key tasks to build a solid foundation for "AI + Drug Supervision." By 2035, the NMPA envisions a smart drug safety governance system driven by data intelligence and characterized by autonomy and collaboration.
Summary: The Xing Shun Night Market in Shenyang's Huanggu district, Liaoning province, officially opened on April 1st, drawing many visitors. The night market features over a hundred kinds of snacks and barbecue and offers performances. The event aims to boost night-time consumption. The article makes no mention of U.S. policy or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The district of Nanxun is attracting young entrepreneurs to rural areas with integrated policy packages, financial support, and opportunities in sectors like agriculture, traditional crafts (like the *hubi* brush), and modern fisheries. These initiatives aim to revitalize rural economies and create jobs. One official stated that Nanxun plans to focus on attracting and retaining young people in the countryside through 2026. The integration of youth and industry has spurred new forms of rural development, as exemplified by livestreaming, cultural and creative product development, and "AI+" projects. No mention of U.S. or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: A Chinese doctor from the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China is advising the public on the risks of foraging for wild vegetables and how to safely consume them. The doctor warns that poisonous plants often resemble edible ones, recommends buying from reputable sources, and emphasizes thorough washing, blanching, and cooking. They also advise moderation due to the potential for gastrointestinal issues and caution specific groups like pregnant women and those with sensitivities. If poisoning is suspected, the doctor suggests inducing vomiting, saving samples, and seeking immediate medical attention.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of integrating people's democracy with the rule of law in China's socialist system, highlighting Xi Jinping's contributions to this integration through the concept of "whole-process people's democracy." It argues that this unified approach ensures both the dynamism and stability necessary for socialist modernization, with the 15th Five-Year Plan aiming to further institutionalize and standardize this system. The article stresses that adhering to the constitution is crucial for providing institutional guarantees for people's democracy, in areas such as AI, the digital economy, and the protection of intellectual property. The author argues that China's approach avoids the pitfalls of separating democracy and the rule of law, providing a strong political guarantee for Chinese-style modernization. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of practical and effective governance, urging cadres to embody diligence and competence in their work. It stresses continuous learning and the application of Xi Jinping Thought to enhance capabilities in navigating complex situations and resolving challenges. The piece argues that true competence is developed through actively confronting difficulties and risks, rather than avoiding them. By embracing challenges, cadres can cultivate resilience and contribute to the nation's progress, even in the face of external pressures. It highlights the need to stand strong against any external interference while focusing on domestic development.
Summary: According to the article, China is focusing on improving its healthcare system to meet the diverse health needs of its population, emphasizing equitable access and continuous care. Key areas of focus include strengthening primary care at the grassroots level, promoting collaboration between medical, insurance, and pharmaceutical sectors, and developing comprehensive health support systems for the elderly and infants. The plan involves improving the quality of generic drugs and training western doctors in Chinese medicine. The government aims to shift the focus from disease treatment to comprehensive health management, supported by institutional guarantees and social support systems. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 China Online Media Forum in Zhengzhou, Henan, focused on strengthening mainstream media's leadership in creating a thriving online content ecosystem. Attendees emphasized the importance of studying Xi Jinping's Thought to guide online discourse and build consensus for the "15th Five-Year Plan." Officials from the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) and major state media outlets like People's Daily and Xinhua highlighted efforts to promote positive narratives and leverage new technologies, including AI, to enhance content creation and dissemination. The forum also showcased examples of popular online content and discussed the role of platforms in fostering responsible online behavior. Speakers stressed the need to govern new technologies responsibly to ensure they contribute to a positive online environment, and the value of telling good stories that carry Chinese culture and values to the world.
Summary: The 2026 China Internet Media Forum in Zhengzhou, Henan, highlighted the province's efforts to leverage its cultural resources and innovation to gain prominence in the digital era. The forum emphasized the importance of embracing new technologies like "digital smell" to enhance content creation and dissemination, while also stressing the enduring value of genuine emotion and cultural heritage in resonating with audiences. Speakers underscored the need for content creators to uphold mainstream values, maintain ethical standards, and deeply cultivate their work. Participants noted that China's internet user base has reached 1.125 billion people and generative AI users have reached 602 million. They also quoted Xi Jinping's instruction to use the Internet as an important base for ideological guidance, moral education, and cultural inheritance.
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Summary: The "2026 Digital Intelligence Empowering Positive Energy Production and Communication Conference" was held in Zhengzhou, Henan, showcasing the latest applications of AI and other technologies in online communication. The conference highlighted how AI can revitalize cultural heritage and promote positive content creation, featuring examples such as AI-powered artistic recreations and accessible content creation tools. A report analyzing the development trends of digital intelligence empowering positive energy production and communication was released. The event emphasized the importance of integrating technology with quality content to strengthen the spiritual foundation in the digital age. No U.S.-related topics were mentioned.
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Summary: A forum on AI content regulation was recently held in Zhengzhou, focusing on the governance and development of AI-generated content. Speakers at the forum highlighted both the benefits and risks of AI in content creation, with concerns raised about the potential for misuse, bias in training data, and the spread of misinformation. They emphasized the need for ethical guidelines and technological solutions for content verification and risk management. China has been developing governance practices and policies to regulate the sector. One of the solutions proposed was using technologies like blockchain to trace and verify AI-generated content, as well as strengthening industry self-regulation to promote a healthy AI ecosystem.
Summary: At the 2026 China Online Media Forum in Zhengzhou, representatives from central and local media outlets discussed integrating AI into media while maintaining ideological correctness. Speakers, including People's Daily New Media Director Xue Yuan and Xinhua News Agency New Media Center Director Qian Tong, emphasized the importance of human insight and judgment alongside AI's capabilities in news production. Representatives highlighted organizational restructuring and empowering younger generations to foster innovation, citing examples from the Shanghai Press Group and Hunan Television. The forum underscored the need for media to leverage technology and innovation to strengthen China's position as a cyber power.
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Summary: A forum on "new media integration" was held in Zhengzhou, focusing on innovative practices in government and enterprise new media, and exploring how to connect government and public opinion. Representatives from government and enterprise new media accounts, including the National Development and Reform Commission, shared their experiences in guiding public opinion through integrated communication. Platform representatives from Tencent, Douyin, and Kuaishou discussed development trends, content creation, platform operations, and user interaction for government and enterprise new media. The forum also launched a joint positive energy creation campaign and a "Yangtze River Ten-Year Journey" online publicity event.
Summary: During the 2026 China Online Media Forum in Zhengzhou, a thematic forum on "storytelling" highlighted the increasing overseas interest in China, reflected in the trending topic of "Becoming Chinese" on social media. Participants from various countries shared their experiences in China and discussed strategies for conveying an authentic and comprehensive image of the country through online platforms. Discussions centered on the desire for a better life as a shared aspiration, moving from experiences like traveling, shopping, and studying in China to a sense of cultural identity. Experts noted a growing trend of foreigners actively seeking to understand China firsthand, aiming to bridge cultural gaps.
Summary: The "Positive Energy Creators Conference" was held in Zhengzhou as part of the 2026 China Online Media Forum, focusing on promoting positive content creation. Speakers highlighted the power of small, sincere stories and the responsibility of platforms to use technology ethically, emphasizing the importance of "positive energy." Examples were given of artists who used Douyin to reach a wider audience and traditional artisans who utilized the internet to rejuvenate interest in their craft. The conference launched the "2026 Positive Energy Action Plan" and the "2026 Positive Energy Creator Support Plan" to further support such creators. Attendees also released an initiative vowing to safeguard the online sphere and cultivate a positive online ecosystem.
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Summary: The Chinese steel industry is undergoing a transformation towards high-quality, intelligent, and green production, with examples including Baoshan Iron & Steel's AI-driven cost reductions and Anshan Iron and Steel's use of green energy. The industry is focusing on high-end materials, such as electrical steel for new energy vehicles, leading to a shift in steel consumption from construction to manufacturing. AI is being integrated throughout the steel production process, from smelting to quality control and supply chain management. The industry has also reduced crude steel production to improve profitability and reduce internal competition. The industry is also expecting increase in demand from areas like the new energy sector, while also acknowledging the increased focus on "quality" in the property sector.
Summary: The article discusses the revitalization of China's steel industry through technological upgrades and a shift towards high-quality development. Steel enterprises are adopting intelligent manufacturing processes, such as using AI models for real-time analysis and control. The industry is also adapting to new trends by focusing on specialized products like electrical steel for humanoid robots. The article frames this transformation as developing new productive forces (新质生产力) within a traditional sector, leading to enhanced product performance and competitiveness. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice to promote affordable computing power for SMEs, aiming to establish a comprehensive service system by the end of 2028. The plan includes covering at least 10 of the 15 SME industry categories and lowering barriers to accessing and using computing power. Innovative service models like "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets" are being explored to facilitate resource sharing. The initiative also involves creating dedicated zones on national platforms for SMEs to access computing resources and promoting flexible payment models. Local governments are encouraged to subsidize SMEs with computing power, storage, and transmission vouchers.
Summary: The State Taxation Administration and the National Financial Regulatory Administration jointly issued a notice to further deepen and standardize "tax-banking interaction" to support the financing and development of private and small businesses. Since 2015, financial institutions have issued 45.17 million loans totaling 15.7 trillion yuan to small and micro enterprises through this mechanism. The initiative aims to reduce information asymmetry between banks, tax authorities, and enterprises by deepening the application of tax-related data. The notice also emphasizes protecting the legitimate rights and data security of enterprises involved in the program.
Summary: China's tax authorities are launching a campaign to rectify tax issues related to "invoice-based economy" practices, a form of irregular investment attraction and "involution" competition prevalent in some regions. Data shows a decline in invoice amounts for six industries heavily involved in such practices, particularly in central China. The campaign also aims to address "circular invoicing," with preliminary results showing a decrease in invoice amounts in the wholesale sector. The State Taxation Administration is focusing on these issues to ensure compliance and fair competition. The announcement was made at a press conference by the State Taxation Administration.
Summary: The People's Bank of China (PBOC) announced the addition of twelve new banks, including China CITIC Bank and China Everbright Bank, as digital RMB operating institutions, granting them access to the central bank's digital currency system. These institutions will commence digital RMB operations after completing necessary business and technical preparations. The PBOC stated it will continue to expand operating institutions in an orderly manner, adhering to market and legal principles. The move aims to foster an open, inclusive, and competitive environment for the development of the digital RMB. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: This article reports on the development of rural tourism in Xiangshui Village, E'qiao Town, Yijiang District, Wuhu, Anhui. The village is leveraging its rapeseed flower fields and upgrading infrastructure to promote tourism. These efforts are aimed at increasing the income of local villagers. The article does not mention any political figures, US-China relations or the United States.
Summary: According to the article, Midea Group is leveraging AI to enhance manufacturing efficiency and improve smart home experiences, with 13,000 "intelligent agents" operating daily across various sectors. Midea is integrating AI into its factories, enabling autonomous decision-making in assembly, quality control, and supply chain management, illustrated by its washing machine factory in Jingzhou. The company is also focusing on "human-vehicle-home" connectivity, collaborating with automotive companies like Changan and BYD, and smartphone manufacturers like Huawei, OPPO and vivo to create seamless cross-scenario experiences for consumers. Midea aims to transition into a global "AI+" technology group, as stated by Chairman Fang Hongbo.
Summary: The construction of the Sutong (Suzhou-Nantong) high-speed railway, a key part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, has made significant progress with the "Tongyong Yuanmeng" tunnel boring machine exceeding 10,000 meters in the Suzhou East Tunnel. This 15.57 km tunnel, a control project for the Sutong high-speed railway, is China's longest urban high-speed rail tunnel with a designed speed of 350 km/h. The "Tongyong Yuanmeng" shield tunneling machine is responsible for 11.544 kilometers of the tunnel construction. The new railway is 301 kilometers long and has a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
Summary: Beijing Capital International Airport's Terminal 3 has begun a comprehensive upgrade and renovation project, expected to be completed in the second half of 2028. The renovations will occur while the terminal remains operational. The airport plans to minimize disruptions to passengers through careful planning and information dissemination during the construction period. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses efforts to address "discretionary abuses" (乱作为), "inaction" (不作为), "hesitancy to act" (不敢为), and "inability to act" (不善为) among Chinese officials, focusing on targeted measures, standardized discretionary power, improved decision-making, and long-term mechanisms. One example is the case of Hua County, Henan, where the local fire department was found to be assigning quotas for fines, which were later cancelled. The article also discusses the importance of legal reviews, public input, and expert consultation in administrative decision-making. A case from Jiangsu province is presented, in which the local government had to reverse their decision on a demolition order after it was found to be illegal.
Summary: The article emphasizes the need to prevent and correct arbitrary actions ("乱作为") by cadres through establishing clear institutional boundaries and regulations for power. It advocates for regulating administrative discretion, promoting transparent decision-making processes, and establishing self-correction mechanisms for administrative errors. The piece underscores the importance of holding cadres accountable for their decisions and ensuring that power is exercised within legal and regulatory frameworks. By constraining arbitrary power, the article argues, cadres can be guided toward acting correctly and contributing to high-quality economic and social development.
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Summary: China officially entered its flood season on April 1st, with forecasts predicting significant regional and periodic droughts and floods, particularly in the northern regions. The Ministry of Water Resources is focusing on flood and drought disaster prevention, emphasizing the need to reinforce infrastructure like dams and riverbeds before the heavy rains. New technologies, such as "smart stones" equipped with sensors in the Yellow River, are being deployed for real-time monitoring and early warning systems. The Ministry is also strengthening the responsibility system for reservoir safety by assigning specific personnel for administrative, technical, and inspection duties. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Central Meteorological Observatory forecasts complex weather patterns across China from April 2nd to 4th, issuing multiple alerts for strong winds, sandstorms, heavy rain, and severe convective weather. Northern China will experience temperature drops, strong winds, and sandstorms, with some areas facing sandstorms. Meanwhile, southern China is expected to have heavy rainfall and severe convective weather. Agriculture departments have also released warnings for potential wind damage.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) held a press conference on April 1st to announce the "Safe Wilderness 2025" campaign targeting crimes against protected wildlife, particularly birds. Li Chunjie, Deputy Director of the MPS's Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau, highlighted the ongoing problem of illegal hunting and trade, including the use of drones, which threatens biodiversity and public safety. The campaign, running from August to December 2023, resulted in the filing of 9,705 criminal cases nationwide, with 3,562 specifically related to crimes against birds. The MPS aims to address these issues through coordinated action with relevant departments.
Summary: A January conference in Harbin outlined Heilongjiang province's drug regulation work plan for the start of the 15th Five-Year Plan in 2026. The plan emphasizes strict enforcement of regulations and focuses on improving regulation, ensuring safety, promoting development, and benefiting the people. Five special campaigns will be launched, including strengthening the entire chain of drug safety supervision and promoting high-quality development through optimized regulatory policies for the pharmaceutical industry. The province will also focus on law-based drug administration, enhancing regulatory capabilities through technology, and promoting discipline within the drug supervision system. The aim is to contribute to the high-quality revitalization and development of Heilongjiang.
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Summary: The article discusses the public health challenges of pollen allergies in Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Paris, highlighting different approaches to mitigation. Tokyo is trying to promote low-pollen tree species, while Washington D.C. has integrated pollen monitoring into its health information system and is grappling with climate change's impact on longer, more intense pollen seasons. Paris has established "pollen monitoring stations" to provide early warnings to citizens. The article notes that climate change exacerbates pollen issues in the United States, causing longer, more intense pollen seasons. The World Health Organization emphasizes the need for long-term, scientific measures to address pollen allergies, considering their link to ecological environment and climate change.
Summary: In late March 2026, China and Pakistan jointly proposed a five-point initiative aimed at restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East, emphasizing an immediate cessation of hostilities and the importance of dialogue. The initiative addresses the immediate humanitarian crisis, the need to ensure the safety of non-military targets, securing waterway safety, and establishing a comprehensive peace framework rooted in international law. The proposal is framed as a practical application of China's Global Security Initiative in the Middle East, offering a multilateral approach to counter unilateralism. Regular communication between China and Pakistan, exemplified by Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Dar's multiple visits to China, underpinned the joint initiative.
Summary: Chinese motorcycle brand Zhangxue (张雪) won a World Superbike Championship (WSBK) race, breaking the decades-long dominance of European, American, and Japanese brands in the middleweight category. Foreign media attribute Zhangxue's success to its independent research and development of core components like the engine, overcoming technological barriers previously held by established brands. The winning model, 820RR-RS, is noted for its performance and affordability compared to foreign competitors. Zhangxue's success is seen as a sign of a new era for the Chinese motorcycle industry, moving beyond low-end exports to high-quality products. According to a British netizen, the entry of Chinese motorcycles into the Western market is a good thing for the industry, and they are providing products that major companies are unwilling to give to fans.
Summary: The article reports on International Children's Book Day, observed on April 2nd, noting that various reading activities were held in multiple countries to promote literacy and learning among children. The events aimed to cultivate knowledge and encourage growth in young readers.
Summary: During a visit to South Korea, French President Macron stated that a military operation to "liberate" the Strait of Hormuz is "unrealistic". He reiterated that military action against Iran would be a "unilateral decision" by the United States and Israel, not France. Macron's comments came in response to criticism from U.S. President Trump, who accused France of not cooperating with military actions against Iran. Meanwhile, Russia's Foreign Ministry criticized Japan's deployment of long-range missiles, claiming it violates its constitution's peace clause. European energy prices have risen due to market concerns about energy supply disruptions influenced by remarks from U.S. President Trump regarding the situation in Iran.
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Summary: This article outlines the ceremony for commemorating the Yellow Emperor. The ceremony includes musical performances, the presentation of flower baskets, the reading of a eulogy, and bows before the Yellow Emperor's statue. Attendees will also visit the Xuanyuan Temple and the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, concluding with the planting of a cypress tree. The event is hosted by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Government, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council, and the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. The United States and U.S.-China relations are not mentioned in this article.
Summary: This article commemorates the 130th anniversary of Yu Dafu's birth, highlighting his contributions to Chinese literature and his patriotic activities during the Sino-Japanese War. It details his work in Singapore, where he edited newspapers to promote anti-Japanese sentiment among overseas Chinese and nurtured young writers. After the fall of Singapore, Yu Dafu continued his resistance in Sumatra, protecting fellow Chinese and gathering intelligence while posing as a businessman, until his eventual assassination by Japanese forces. The article emphasizes Yu Dafu's unwavering commitment to the anti-Japanese cause, even at great personal risk. It is noted that he helped protect Chen Jiageng from Japanese forces.
Summary: The article reports on the郁达夫 Memorial Hall in Medan, Indonesia, which commemorates the life and work of the Chinese writer and patriot Yu Dafu, who lived and died in Sumatra. Yu Dafu's activities in Southeast Asia included anti-Japanese propaganda work during the war. Curator Lin Lairong emphasized Yu's efforts to help local Chinese during his time in Indonesia, even while working as a translator for the Japanese. The memorial serves as a cultural bridge between China and Indonesia, fostering ongoing literary exchange and reminding visitors of the contributions of other Chinese intellectuals in the region during that era.
Summary: Following the global release of *Zootopia 2*, the design of Madrid's Atocha Station, the inspiration for the film's Zootopia Central Station, has garnered attention. The station was renovated in the 1990s and now contains a large indoor botanical garden that is home to thousands of plants from five continents. The garden also once housed abandoned turtles and is open to the public. The station is an example of how ecological spaces can be integrated into transportation hubs and promote sustainable development.
Summary: German journalist Frank Sieren, a long-time observer of China, has written extensively on China's rise, with a focus on innovation and development, particularly in Shenzhen, which he calls a "textbook case" of China's growth. Sieren highlights Shenzhen's embrace of technology, green initiatives, and its transformation from a "world factory" to a "world innovation hub." He argues that China's innovative spirit and rapid development require deeper study from Germany. The author notes that Sieren's work emphasizes the need for China and Germany to collaborate in the face of global changes. The article mentions German Chancellor Merz's visit to China.
Summary: This article provides contact information for the *People's Daily* global edition and its layout designer. It lists an email address for feedback and the name of the designer responsible for the page layout. There is no discussion of Chinese politics, specific officials, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the trend of young people returning to rural areas in China and their positive impact on revitalizing villages through various initiatives. These include developing rural e-commerce, promoting cultural activities, improving village infrastructure, and fostering new industries. The author emphasizes the importance of these young people in updating traditional mindsets and promoting cultural heritage. It argues that integrating industrial development and cultural advancement is vital for comprehensive rural revitalization. The piece advocates for guiding more young people to participate in rural construction to achieve both economic prosperity and cultural enrichment.
Summary: To combat seasonal limitations, the city of Xuyi in Jiangsu province, known as "China's Crayfish Capital," is collaborating with Haikou in Hainan province to achieve year-round crayfish production through "north-south collaboration." Xuyi is providing expertise and the new "Xuyi No. 1" crayfish breed, which is more resilient for transportation, to Hainan, where the warmer climate allows for winter farming. This collaboration involves shipping young crayfish from Xuyi to Hainan for cultivation, and then shipping the mature crayfish back to Xuyi for consumption. The effort aims to boost incomes for farmers in both regions and reduce reliance on frozen or greenhouse-raised crayfish during the off-season. A batch of crayfish has also been exported to Canada from the city.
Summary: The village of Sidan in Jiangxi province has transformed from a poverty-stricken area to a model for rural revitalization through industrial transformation, focusing on specialized agricultural production such as salted duck eggs. Entrepreneur He Naigen returned to the village to establish an automated duck egg production facility on the site of abandoned kilns, overcoming initial local skepticism through open communication and securing financial support via government-backed loans. The "leading enterprise + cooperative + village collective + poverty alleviation household" model allows the company to employ over 80 villagers and formerly impoverished people, increasing the village's collective income. Sidan village has also established ten characteristic industry bases, and its collective economic income in 2025 is expected to be 960,000 yuan.
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Summary: China is focusing on diversifying and personalizing elderly care services to meet the varied needs of its aging population, which is projected to reach 323 million people over 60 by the end of 2025. Current efforts involve expanding the supply of services through community-based and home-based care, encouraging private sector participation, and utilizing long-term care insurance. A key aspect involves accurately assessing the differing needs of elderly individuals through community surveys and technology, such as platforms that coordinate in-home, community, and institutional care. Emphasis is also placed on improving the skills and professionalism of care providers through training and partnerships.
Summary: A new initiative aims to establish a comprehensive long-term care insurance system in China within three years, building on pilot programs in cities like Qingdao and Nantong. These pilot cities are focusing on resource allocation, talent development, and comprehensive supervision to ensure quality services for those requiring long-term care. Qingdao is directing resources to rural areas and has implemented a three-year plan for nursing service resource allocation. Nantong has established a grid-based service system and classifies institutions for management.
Summary: This article discusses the prevention and management of allergic asthma caused by pollen, particularly prevalent in spring. It recommends short-term measures like physical barriers (masks), washing, medication, and avoiding peak pollen times. Long-term strategies emphasize exercise, specifically swimming for lung capacity, and smoking cessation to prevent irreversible lung damage. Early diagnosis, treatment, and managing triggers are crucial for controlling symptoms and preventing complications.
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Summary: The article reflects on the legacy of Wang Wei, a Chinese pilot who died in 2001 after a collision with a U.S. surveillance plane. His wife, Ruan Guoqin, discusses the continued resonance of Wang's story, particularly among young people, and his dream of serving on a Chinese aircraft carrier. She notes that his spirit lives on, inspiring patriotism and a commitment to national defense, particularly as China's military capabilities grow. Ruan also mentions attending a military parade and holding up Wang's photo as the carrier-based aircraft flew over, feeling that his unfulfilled wishes had been carried out by his comrades. She states that April 1, the day of Wang's death, has become a day of patriotism and national awakening.
Summary: A reverse-order edition of the *Modern Chinese Dictionary* (7th edition) has been published, organizing entries by the final character of multi-character words. Unlike the standard edition which groups words by the initial character, this version clusters words with the same ending, facilitating vocabulary expansion and aiding in tasks like writing poetry and studying classical allusions. The reverse-order format allows for the comprehensive presentation of different categories of knowledge, grouping related terms together. This edition is seen as a continuation of the tradition of reverse-order dictionaries in China. It enriches the variety of modern Chinese dictionaries and compilation practices.
Summary: The article discusses the "Wang Mi Tribe" (汪迷部落), a popular online community dedicated to the works of writer Wang Zengqi, which has grown to over 50,000 followers through daily original content and fostered a vibrant culture of reader-generated commentary. This grassroots initiative has garnered local government support, including the establishment of a Wang Zengqi memorial hall. The success of "Wang Mi Tribe" highlights the importance of interactive reading ecosystems and empowering readers to become active participants in literary discourse. This model, rooted in reader feedback and accessible language, promotes widespread engagement with literature and encourages new creative expression. The community demonstrates a sustainable model for promoting reading in China.
Summary: The author outlines five key strategic directions for China's 15th Five-Year Plan (2026-2030), emphasizing a shift towards self-reliance and domestic-driven growth to counter external uncertainties. These include achieving technological self-sufficiency by building a robust innovation ecosystem, constructing a modern industrial system rooted in advanced manufacturing, establishing a unified national market to overcome internal barriers, promoting high-level opening-up to contribute to global standards, and developing a comprehensive social security system for shared prosperity. The author argues that high-level opening-up is needed to combat trade protectionism and technological "decoupling." The author also mentions a book he edited, featuring contributions from prominent scholars, that aims to provide a framework for understanding China's strategic choices in the coming five years.
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Summary: This article argues that literature, broadly defined, is essential for shaping the national spirit and cultivating empathy and self-reflection. The author contends that classical works like the *Book of Poetry*, *Analects*, and *Zhuangzi*, as well as modern works like those of Lu Xun, remain relevant and useful in contemporary society. The author criticizes the notion of "useless literature," arguing that it applies only to inferior works and that strong literature continues to thrive. The article suggests that re-evaluating our understanding of literature can lead to a resurgence in its creation and appreciation. The author cites popular interest in figures like Tao Yuanming, Li Bai, Du Fu, Su Shi, and *Dream of the Red Chamber* as evidence of literature's enduring appeal.
Summary: This article provides contact information for submissions to the "Reading" section of the *People's Daily*, specifically the email address (dushu@peopledaily.cn). It also credits Zhang Danfeng for the page layout design. The article does not contain information on Chinese politics, official statements or actions, or U.S.-China relations.
By: 本报记者 贺 勇 蒋云龙
Without seeing chimneys emitting smoke or hearing the roar of machines, only the silent hum of electricity – on the Gobi Desert in Karamay (克拉玛依), Xinjiang (新疆), a massive "boiler room" stands quietly. This is the world's first 110 kV solid heat storage electric steam injection boiler that has been put into operation, enabling the green transformation of heavy oil development.
"We used to burn gas, now we consume electricity," said Fan Yuxin (樊玉新), chief expert of Xinjiang Oilfield Company (新疆油田公司), proudly. "We overcame difficulties and successfully replaced natural gas with green electricity. We can reduce carbon emissions by 25,000 tons per year, which is equivalent to planting 1.38 million trees in the Gobi Desert."
During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "We should create new prospects in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and proactively planning for future industries." In September 2025, when listening to the work report of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Party Committee and Government, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must base ourselves on resource endowments and industrial foundations, and actively explore a path of high-quality development that conforms to Xinjiang's characteristics."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Xinjiang (新疆) focuses on what the country needs and what it can do, adheres to the direction of intelligentization, greening, and integration, and accelerates the construction of a modern industrial system with distinctive characteristics and advantages. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang (新疆) will continue to focus on building a national strategic resource guarantee base, accelerate the construction of "sand, Gobi, and desert" new energy mega-bases, coal-to-oil and gas strategic bases, and other projects, and enhance the capacity of transporting Xinjiang (疆) coal to other regions, transmitting West-to-East gas, and transmitting Xinjiang (疆) electricity to other regions, striving to ensure that the incremental electricity demand by 2030 is mainly met by new energy power generation.
Upgrading traditional industries, "intelligentization" has become an important focus –
In Kuqa (库车), Xinjiang (新疆), with a light click of the mouse by an operator, 400 meters underground, the coal mining machine automatically cuts coal following computer instructions, and black gold rolls in.
"We invested 500 million yuan to promote intelligent construction in 10 aspects, such as intelligent coal mining, intelligent tunneling, and intelligent transportation," said Chen Guoqiang (陈国强), deputy general manager of Ehuobulake Coal Mine (俄霍布拉克煤矿) of Xuzhou Mining (Group) Xinjiang Tianshan Mining Co., Ltd. (徐州矿务（集团）新疆天山矿业有限责任公司). "Now the number of people working underground has decreased, safety has improved, and the benefits have also steadily increased."
Currently, Xinjiang (新疆) has built 42 intelligent coal mines and 43 intelligent fully mechanized mining faces. Using intelligent sensors, drone inspections, big data analysis, and other technologies, the Internet of Things coverage of Xinjiang Oilfield Company (新疆油田公司) well sites has reached 97%. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang (新疆) will focus on the direction of intelligentization to promote the quality and upgrading of high energy-consuming industries such as chemical, textile, metallurgy, and materials.
Making good use of wind and solar power, "greening" paves a distinctive background –
In Hami (哈密), Xinjiang (新疆), China's first "sand, Gobi, and desert" new energy transmission base. The blades of 109 hundred-meter wind turbines rotate, and the strong winds of the Gobi Desert are transformed into green electricity, which can transmit 36 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity to the Sichuan (四川) and Chongqing (重庆) areas every year.
The "Electricity Silk Road" spreads in all directions. In 2025, Xinjiang's (新疆) external electricity transmission volume was 141.299 billion kilowatt-hours, and the proportion of green electricity reached 31.41%. As of March 11, this year, Xinjiang's (新疆) external electricity transmission volume has reached 30.8 billion kilowatt-hours, breaking through 30 billion kilowatt-hours 14 days earlier than last year.
Barren lands are transformed into energy oases. The green content of the energy structure is continuously increasing, and the green content of Xinjiang's (新疆) new industrialization has also increased significantly. Xinjiang (新疆) has cultivated a total of 111 national-level green factories, 9 national-level green industrial parks, and 7 national-level green supply chain management enterprises. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang (新疆) will rely on its energy advantages to accelerate the development of green computing power, artificial intelligence, and other industries.
Focusing on new tracks, "integration" expands development space –
Black and white lines are transformed into colorful pictures, and animated characters become vivid and three-dimensional... In the Karamay (克拉玛依) Cloud Computing Industrial Park (云计算产业园区), information from Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Sichuan (四川), and other places travels thousands of kilometers through optical fibers to undergo deep computing here.
"Karamay (克拉玛依) has a suitable climate and abundant electricity, and its advantages in developing computing power are obvious," said Gao Bo (高波), member of the Party Working Committee and deputy director of the Management Committee of Karamay (克拉玛依) Cloud Computing Industrial Park (云计算产业园区). Karamay (克拉玛依) has built 6 intelligent computing centers, which can provide more than 20,000 PFLOPS (peta floating point operations per second) of computing power support.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang (新疆) has invested nearly 30 billion yuan in science and technology, and the number of high-tech enterprises has increased by 3.2 times compared with the end of 2020. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Xinjiang (新疆) will continue to increase investment in science and technology, deeply cultivate new tracks such as green computing power, hydrogen energy industry, and artificial intelligence, and promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, Xinjiang (新疆) will further optimize and upgrade traditional industries, develop strategic emerging industries and plan future industries in accordance with local conditions, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system that reflects Xinjiang's (新疆) characteristics and advantages, and effectively transform resource advantages into high-quality development advantages," said Chen Xiaojiang (陈小江), Secretary of the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) Party Committee.
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"Most of the saplings in this forest come from Saihanba (塞罕坝), so we named it 'Saihanba Forest'." In the bright spring scenery, in the northern green belt of the starting area of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), a spruce forest has grown to four or five meters high. Yang Li (杨丽), a cadre of the Ecological Division of Xiong'an Group Ecological Company (雄安集团生态公司), gently touches the trunk of a tree, her eyes full of cherish, "They are like my old friends, I always like to come here for a walk."
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out, "Planting greenery before building the city is a new concept for the construction of Xiong'an New Area," "'A project of millennia' should start with 'Millennium Forest'," and "Build a beautiful Xiong'an with blue skies, green land, and clear water."
In November 2017, the "Millennium Forest" (千年秀林) project was launched on the banks of the Daqing River (大清河). Half a year later, Yang Li came here from the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场) and became a "entrepreneur" planting greenery in Xiong'an.
"When I first arrived in Xiong'an, I often worked from the early hours of one day to the early hours of the next, thinking every day about how to make the trees take root here for a long time," Yang Li said.
To do a good job in increasing greenery, it is necessary to adhere to adapting to local conditions and "take the road of scientific, ecological, and economical greening development."
"We give priority to using native tree species from the North China Plain, such as poplar, willow, and locust trees, as well as food and nectar plants such as crabapple, mountain apricot, and flowering peach, to increase the biodiversity of Xiong'an New Area," Yang Li said.
After determining the appropriate tree species, how to plant them became another problem. Traditional afforestation often adopts uniform row planting, which is convenient for mechanized operations, but difficult to form a stable ecosystem.
"Combined with Xiong'an's natural endowments, we innovatively promoted the 'natural random curve planting' model, using native crown seedlings and adopting a near-natural afforestation model of different ages, multiple layers, and mixed planting." Following Yang Li's stroll through the "Millennium Forest," various trees have a variety of postures and staggered growth, building a stable and healthy forest community.
"'Millennium Forest' does not mean that every tree can live for a thousand years, but rather that this forest can self-renew, continuously update, and thrive, building a solid ecological foundation for the future city," Yang Li said.
To promote land greening under the new situation, it is necessary to "achieve simultaneous planting and management." As the phased afforestation task of the "Millennium Forest" is basically completed, the focus of work has also shifted from "expanding green" to "protecting green."
"Relying on 105 high-altitude cameras and 60 ground bayonet monitoring points, we have created a 24-hour intelligent monitoring system network to achieve precise and intelligent management and maintenance, striving to plant one tree and keep it alive," Yang Li said.
"Planting trees for the people and creating benefits for the masses." The "Millennium Forest" has been transformed into an ecological barrier, and urban and rural residents have more green gains, and the vision of "harmony between man and nature" is gradually becoming a reality.
"Now the people of Xiong'an can achieve '3 kilometers into the forest, 1 kilometer into the forest belt, and 300 meters into the park'," Yang Li said. Since 2023, they have also begun to explore the development of under-forest economies such as forest medicine, forest flowers, and forest fungi, so that forest land can generate wealth and achieve "ecological and industrial co-promotion."
In Xiong'an, there is a group of afforestation workers from Saihanba like Yang Li. They inherit and carry forward the Saihanba spirit of "keeping the mission in mind, starting a business with hard work, and developing green," and bring the technology and experience accumulated in the past to the promising new area.
Zhang Xu (张旭), deputy director of the Design Management Department of Xiong'an Group Ecological Company (雄安集团生态公司), also comes from the Saihanba Mechanical Forest Farm (塞罕坝机械林场). In February 2018, he came to Xiong'an and joined the 100,000-mu seedling and landscape-compatible forest project.
"At that time, the greening rate of the project area was not high, and dust was flying when the wind blew in spring. We would joke before going out, 'We are going to eat dirt again'," Zhang Xu said, but when he thought of the Saihanba predecessors eating black oat noodles, drinking ice and snow water, and sleeping in underground cellars, creating the green miracle of "turning wasteland into forest sea," he felt that the suffering he was suffering was nothing at all.
According to incomplete statistics, since the launch of the "Millennium Forest" project, nearly 10 afforestation workers from the Saihanba area have come to the new area to participate in construction.
In 9 years, green space has been extended in Xiong'an, the forest coverage rate has increased from 11% to 35.1%, and the forest stock volume of the "Millennium Forest" has reached 550,000 cubic meters. According to the plan, the proportion of blue-green space in Xiong'an's future will be stabilized at 70%.
"I believe that more and more afforestation workers will come here in the future to jointly build a beautiful Xiong'an with blue skies, green land, and clear water," Yang Li said.
Adding splendor to mountains and rivers, and accumulating green wealth for future generations. Looking at the whole country from Xiong'an, the forest area and stock volume have increased for 40 consecutive years, the forest coverage rate has reached 25.09%, and the forest and grass coverage rate has exceeded 56%. China has become the country with the most and fastest green growth in the world, and the "green foundation" is getting thicker and thicker.
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Since the launch of the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions, departments, and units have focused on the theme, meticulously organized, and educated and guided the vast number of party members and cadres to deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. They have consciously sought shortcomings from the perspective of Party spirit, investigated the root causes, strengthened self-cultivation, and strived to achieve performance for the people and through practical work.
Deep Study and Comprehension, Entering the Mind and Heart
On March 20th, the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Finance (财政部) held the first study class and collective learning discussion of the theoretical learning center group on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on studying "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance," giving full play to the role of demonstration and leadership.
The Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) guided party members and cadres to deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, taking the Party Leadership Group's study class as a demonstration, using "three meetings and one lesson" and "Youth Pioneer Classrooms" as carriers, taking typical examples as guides and warning education as a grasp, and promoting the correct view of performance to enter the mind, heart, and action through the effectiveness of theoretical arming.
The Party Committee of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) deeply studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on financial work, consolidated the ideological foundation and calibrated the value coordinates in in-depth discussions and exchanges; combined learning and education with central work, closely focusing on the responsibilities of monetary policy regulation, financial risk prevention and control, and financial services to the real economy, conscientiously studied and implemented the deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, and created a good monetary and financial environment for stable economic growth, high-quality development, and stable operation of the financial market.
The Party Leadership Group of the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) proposed "four-learning linkage" measures, adhering to the general administration's Party Leadership Group's theoretical learning center group leading learning, the market supervision grand lecture hall promoting learning, the market supervision learning forum researching learning, and the market supervision youth forum practicing learning, guiding party members and cadres to make efforts in deep learning and thorough understanding, and to see results in going deep and being practical. Various grassroots party organizations promoted the correct view of performance to be internalized in the heart and externalized in action through various forms such as centralized learning and discussion, individual self-study, and youth micro-party classes, and effectively consolidated the ideological foundation and calibrated the value coordinates with the results of theoretical learning.
The Party Leadership Group of China Southern Power Grid Company (南方电网公司) used a four-level learning system of "Party Leadership Group leading learning, leadership team leading learning, branch researching learning, and party members self-learning," and opened special columns for learning and education on the company's internal online platforms such as the "Knowing and Acting Southern Grid" new-type position. The company's Party Leadership Group consolidated the foundation of faith through holding study classes and theoretical learning center group learning; clarified the practical path through inviting experts to give lectures; and tempered a pragmatic style through carrying out self-examination and discussion with the blade inward.
The Party Committee of China Communications Construction Group (中交集团) held a special study class for learning and education, studying "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance" word by word and sentence by sentence, with members of the leadership team taking the lead in exchanging discussions and demonstrating leading learning; party committees at all levels carried out discussions simultaneously, organizing party members and cadres to compare the list of major problems with deviations in the view of performance, deeply excavating ideological lesions and calibrating the direction of action.
Enriching Carriers, Innovating Forms
"Before the meeting, we collected corporate demands through online platforms, offline 'clinic visits,' and other channels; at the meeting, we conducted policy publicity, corporate speeches, and immediate responses from departments; after the meeting, we completed classified assignments within 2 working days." A comrade from the Lijiang City (丽江市) Development and Reform Commission in Yunnan (云南) introduced. Lijiang City (丽江市) took the political-business symposium as a carrier for carrying out learning and education, promoting party members and cadres to learn while doing and do while learning, and implementing the correct view of performance in the practice of solving problems.
Jixi City (鸡西市) in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) gave full play to the exemplary leading and warning education role of typical cases. Party committees (party groups) at all levels combined with the actual situation to select positive and negative typical cases in the view of performance in their respective regions, systems, and units, and carried out learning in the form of learning and discussion meetings, case analysis meetings, etc.; they made full use of resources such as warning records of illegal cadres, confession records, warning education films, and warning education bases to carry out warning education.
Huai'an District (淮安区) in Huai'an City (淮安市), Jiangsu (江苏), took General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance as the first lesson of the Party School's main class, organized district-level leading groups, towns and streets, and main responsible comrades of district-level departments to carry out centralized learning and discussion, and at the same time took the lead in carrying out research visits, investigating problems and shortcomings, and promoting leading groups to learn one step ahead and one layer deeper.
The Party Leadership Group of China National Petroleum Corporation (中国石油集团) deeply studied and comprehended General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on the strategic mission of "building a strong energy country and empowering a better life," closely focusing on the work deployment in 2026 and the starting goals of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and carried out special discussions, demonstrating and driving party organizations at all levels to make good use of carriers such as "three meetings and one lesson" and theme party days, moving the learning classroom to the front lines of exploration and development, refining and chemical sales, new energy construction, and engineering technical services, and testing the effectiveness of learning with practical work and practical results.
The Party Committee of the Head Office of Bank of Communications (交通银行) established a monthly centralized learning and discussion mechanism, focusing on various topics in "Excerpts from Xi Jinping's (习近平) Discourses on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance," combined with learning and thinking and practical work, to conduct exchanges and discussions; members of the leadership team combined with grassroots research, etc., to go deep into the front line to share learning experiences. Party committees of various directly affiliated institutions planned in advance, focused on problems, and conducted in-depth discussions and centralized exchanges through the theoretical learning center group learning of the party committee, etc., deeply studying and thoroughly understanding chapter by chapter and section by section.
Promoting Work Through Learning, Striving for Practical Results
"When carrying out work, we must respect the long-term and systematic characteristics of forest and grassland ecology. The north-south mountain greening project we are promoting is a work that benefits future generations..." At the first "Secretary Forum" in Qushui County (曲水县), Lhasa City (拉萨市), Tibet (西藏) in 2026, a comrade from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau shared his experience and understanding. Since the launch of learning and education, Qushui County (曲水县) has made good use of platforms such as the "Secretary Forum" to educate and guide party members and cadres to carry out learning based on their own work and grassroots practice, to ensure effective results.
In Futuguan Community (浮图关社区), Daping Street (大坪街道), Yuzhong District (渝中区), Chongqing (重庆), street team members and residents sat around an "deliberation table" made up of several long tables in the courtyard, and launched a "courtyard discussion" on the follow-up maintenance of elevators installed in old residential areas. Since the launch of learning and education, Yuzhong District (渝中区) has adhered to open education, "moving" the learning classroom from the conference room to community courtyards and building enterprises, so that the results of learning and education can be truly transformed into practical actions to serve the masses.
Jincheng City (晋城市), Shanxi (山西), took the satisfaction of the masses as the standard for testing the effectiveness of learning and education, deepened the "four packages and four links" mechanism of municipal leaders contracting counties and linking townships, county-level leaders contracting townships and linking villages, township-level leaders contracting villages and linking households, and village-level cadres contracting households to people, carried out the "planning major events, doing practical things, and accomplishing things" mass opinion solicitation activities, widely listened to the opinions of party members, cadres, and the masses, understood urgent needs and difficulties, and solved outstanding problems.
The Party Committee of China Logistics held a "Gathering Strength to Promote Development" project competition, guiding party members and cadres to take serving national strategies, ensuring the national economy and people's livelihood, promoting modern circulation, and reducing logistics costs as the benchmark for measuring performance, and promoting the group to move from scale integration to quality improvement.
(Reporters Zhao Cheng (赵成), Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵), Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余), Lin Lili (林丽鹂), Wang Ke (王珂), Ding Yiting (丁怡婷), Han Xin (韩鑫), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Fang Yuan (方圆), Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧), Liu Xinwu (刘新吾), Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋) of this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) April 2nd - Recently, the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Implementation Plan on Establishing a Comprehensive Evaluation System for Enterprise Credit Status" (《关于建立企业信用状况综合评价体系的实施方案》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Implementation Plan").
The "Implementation Plan" points out that it is necessary to establish a comprehensive evaluation system framework for enterprise credit status, better leverage the fundamental role of public credit evaluation results in the comprehensive evaluation of enterprise credit status, promote the integration of public credit evaluation and market-oriented credit evaluation, and gradually form a unified comprehensive evaluation system for enterprise credit status.
The "Implementation Plan" requires improving the public credit evaluation system, unifying public credit evaluation rules, industry credit evaluation management, and public credit evaluation result publicity channels, improving the industry credit evaluation coordination mechanism, standardizing the development of market-oriented credit evaluation, accelerating the integration and application of public credit evaluation and market-oriented credit evaluation, better leveraging the supporting role of credit evaluation in the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises, improving the evaluation update and adjustment mechanism after credit repair, streamlining channels for handling objections and appeals, and implementing credit evaluation management responsibilities.
The "Implementation Plan" emphasizes that all localities and relevant departments should focus on implementing the plan, strengthen data sharing support, optimize the credit evaluation process, standardize credit evaluation applications, promote the establishment and improvement of relevant laws, regulations, and institutional systems for enterprise credit evaluation, do a good job in revising, amending, and repealing existing regulations, create a fair and competitive market environment, and help build a unified national market. 抓好贯彻落实 (zhuā hǎo guànchè luòshí - "grasp well, implement and put into practice," to diligently implement and ensure the effective execution of policies or plans).
Return to TopOn April 2nd, the "Wind-Solar-Hydro-Storage Integration" large-scale comprehensive energy base transmission project—the Longdong-Shandong ±800 kV UHV DC transmission project resumed operation, successfully completing its first "major physical examination."
The Longdong-to-Shandong power transmission project starts from the Qingyang Converter Station (庆阳换流站) in Qingyang City (庆阳市), Gansu Province, in the west, and ends at the Dongping Converter Station (东平换流站) in Tai'an City (泰安市), Shandong Province, with a total line length of 915 kilometers. The project was put into operation on May 8 last year, with a maximum daily power transmission of 163 million kilowatt-hours. This overhaul is the first annual overhaul since the project was put into operation, comprehensively testing the project's construction quality and equipment performance stability.
The picture shows the Qingyang Converter Station (庆阳换流站) undergoing maintenance operations.
Ding Yiting (丁怡婷) and Su Rong (苏容) reported with photographs.
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Recently, I've frequently seen media coverage about "the in-depth advancement of building a unified national market." I'm a bit unclear about how much this work relates to everyone's lives and who benefits from it.
— People's Daily Online User
Building a unified national market concerns the overall national development and is closely related to each of us.
Let's look at two examples first.
One is about electricity. Last year, China's total electricity consumption exceeded 10 trillion kilowatt-hours for the first time, a first among individual countries globally. Whether it's dealing with summer heatwaves, winter cold snaps, or developing industries like artificial intelligence, comfortable living and economic growth bring challenges to grid operations. However, power outages and restrictions are rare in various regions. Why? An important reason is that the continuously developing and improving unified national electricity market, covering more than 1.4 billion people, better achieves mutual assistance for electricity surpluses and shortages, effectively ensuring the safe supply of electricity.
One is about online shopping. WeChat Pay can now be used on Tmall and Taobao, making it more convenient, and platform interconnection is continuously advancing. For occasional minor ailments, some medicines purchased online can be "flash delivered" or arrive "within half a day." How is this done so quickly? Front warehouses improve delivery efficiency, artificial intelligence optimizes scheduling systems, and smooth instant delivery cannot be separated from the unification of market infrastructure.
Breaking down barriers, connecting facilities, and opening platforms. A better life benefits from the "in-depth advancement of building a unified national market," which is characterized by high efficiency, standardization, fair competition, and full openness. It is also written into the "15th Five-Year Plan" as a major goal for economic and social development in the next 5 years.
How to do it? The basic requirements are "five unifications and one opening": unify basic market systems, unify market infrastructure, unify government behavior standards, unify market supervision and law enforcement, unify factor resource markets, and continuously expand domestic and foreign opening.
The "five unifications" each have their own focus, but all help promote the flow of factor resources between various fields and regions.
"Unify basic market systems" and "unify market infrastructure." The former emphasizes setting up systems for property rights protection, fair competition, quality standards, etc. For example, the revision of the Anti-Unfair Competition Law sets red lines for competition between enterprises. The latter focuses on the soft and hard combination of facilities and mechanisms, accelerating the flow of logistics, capital flow, and information flow, and building a modern commercial and trade circulation system. The two address both the symptoms and the root causes, laying a solid foundation for the unified national market.
"Unify government behavior standards" and "unify market supervision and law enforcement." This mainly provides "standards and measures" for the government when conducting investment promotion and market supervision administrative penalties. When the government acts according to rules, and enterprises and the public have confidence, the construction and operation of the unified national market can be better guaranteed.
"Unify factor resource markets" means breaking down departmental divisions and connecting small markets into a unified large market. Transforming "each being beautiful in its own way" into "**美美与共**" (měi měi yǔ gòng - "beauty to each and beauty to all," everyone sharing the beauty and benefits), helping land, data and other factor resources flow freely and be efficiently allocated among provinces and systems.
"One opening" connects domestic and foreign. "Continuously expand domestic and foreign opening" means not engaging in closed operations. Domestically, find a position in the national chess game, promote advantages, open up to each other, share resources, and form synergy. Externally, increase opening and accelerate the pace of opening. The number of items on the market access negative list has been reduced by about 30% compared to 2018, and foreign investment access restrictions in the manufacturing sector have been "cleared." China's door to opening is opening wider and wider.
With fewer barriers and smoother allocation, on a small scale, the business environment is more friendly, market competition is fairer, and goods and services are of higher quality; on a large scale, it is the only way to build a new development pattern, promote high-quality development, and win the initiative in international competition.
Whether small or large, everyone benefits.
Establishing short-term plans and long-term strategies, and making grand blueprints, cannot be separated from focusing on details. The central government has proposed "governing disorderly competition among enterprises according to laws and regulations," "promoting capacity governance in key industries," and "standardizing local investment promotion behavior"... Multiple parties work together to promote enterprises to get out of the "price war" trap and improve profitability; guide local governments to change "preferential policies" to "optimized environment" and jump out of "involutionary" investment promotion. Facing stubborn problems, there are many ways to solve the problem by unifying understanding and being willing to put in effort.
It is a tough battle and also a long-term battle; it is an urgent task and also a strategic move. With the whole country as one chessboard, breaking down "self-care," the construction of a unified national market is advancing step by step towards depth. There is every reason to believe that in the next 5 years, the large market will become more and more active, the economy and society will achieve higher-quality development, and the "small happiness" of the masses will increase.
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The freight volume of the China-Laos Railway exceeded 80 million tons, and the China-Europe Railway Express (Xi'an) (中欧班列（西安）) crossed the 1,000-train mark 19 days earlier than last year in 2026—this spring, the news from the north-south corridors is particularly heartening against the backdrop of escalating geopolitical conflicts and global economic volatility.
Why are the corridors so smooth? Where does the warmth come from? "Stability" is crucial.
A steady strategic plan, to play the "first move" well and fight a "proactive battle." Building a new development pattern, firmly holding the "two rice bowls" of energy and food, scientifically formulating the "15th Five-Year Plan"... Proactively grasping the development and changes in the international situation, adjusting and optimizing the economic layout according to the situation, and firmly grasping the initiative in development.
A solid value core, to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results with "harmony and co-existence." High-frequency interaction of goods and technology, close coordination of industries and markets... In the current situation full of uncertainty, China continues to inject stability and certainty into the world, the "circle of friends" is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more "fellow travelers" on the road to modernization.
The stability of a major country lies in the consistent strategic planning, the continuous struggle for success 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent effort," continuous effort will lead to success), and even more in the global responsibility with the world in mind.
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Walking into the Martyrs' Cemetery, tracing the Long March footprints.
The mountains and rivers remember, we remember.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd (Reporter Mei Changwei) On the morning of April 2nd, officers and soldiers of the Beijing Garrison participated in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京). Yin Li (尹力), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee, and Zhang Shengmin (张升民), Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission, participated.
The tree planting site is located in the Tundian Suburban Park (屯佃郊野公园) in Haidian District (海淀区), which is under construction. At about 9 o'clock, Yin Li (尹力) and Zhang Shengmin (张升民) arrived at the tree planting site and, together with military and local leaders and officers and soldiers, wielded shovels to dig soil, build embankments, and water the plants. After more than an hour of intense labor, they jointly planted more than 1,000 saplings of white bark pine, Beijing peony, small-leaf boxwood, oil pine, and ash.
This is the 44th consecutive year that leaders of the Central Military Commission have participated in the capital's voluntary tree planting activity, and it is also a microcosm of the People's Army's participation in the national land greening campaign and safeguarding a good ecological environment. The entire army has thoroughly implemented Xi Jinping's (习近平) ecological civilization thought, actively participating in voluntary tree planting activities and supporting the construction of key local ecological projects. Since the launch of the national voluntary tree planting campaign, the army has invested a total of more than 65.1 million person-times, planted more than 783 million trees, and protected 13 million mu of forest and grassland resources. The Beijing Garrison has successively participated in the greening of more than 200 key areas in the capital and the planting of trees in more than 60 large parks and more than 300 leisure woodlands, actively contributing to the construction of garden cities and a beautiful China.
Various departments of the Central Military Commission, relevant units stationed in Beijing, and relevant leaders of Beijing Municipality participated in the tree planting activity together.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Nanchang, April 2nd. Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Zhejiang and Jiangxi from March 30th to April 2nd. He emphasized the need to deeply study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) water management principles of "prioritizing water conservation, balancing spatial distribution, promoting systematic governance, and leveraging both government and market forces," as well as his important discourses on water management. He also stressed the importance of earnestly implementing the deployments of the 20th Fourth Plenary Session of the Party Central Committee and the National People's Congress, establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements, accelerating the construction of a modern water network, comprehensively promoting the protection and governance of rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, and continuously improving water security capabilities to provide strong support for achieving a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Liu Guozhong (刘国中) visited Hangzhou (杭州), Quzhou (衢州) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), and Shangrao (上饶), Jingdezhen (景德镇), and Jiujiang (九江) in Jiangxi Province (江西省). He gained detailed insights into the construction and management of water conservancy projects such as reservoirs, rivers, dikes, irrigation areas, and rural water supply, as well as the protection and governance of the Xin'an River (新安江) and Poyang Lake (鄱阳湖). He emphasized the need to implement the "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline," accelerate the construction of the main framework of the national water network, scientifically coordinate the construction of water network projects at all levels, effectively promote connection and intercommunication, mutual assistance and joint regulation, and promote the optimal allocation of water resources. It is necessary to consistently strengthen the responsibility of river and lake chiefs, comprehensively promote the construction of happy rivers and lakes, and continuously improve the level of river and lake protection and governance. We must promote the construction and transformation of large and medium-sized irrigation areas with high quality, deepen the comprehensive reform of agricultural water prices, vigorously promote water-saving irrigation, and effectively improve water use efficiency and benefits. It is necessary to improve the rural water supply security capacity by category, improve the long-term mechanism for water quality monitoring and project management and maintenance, and continue to consolidate the achievements of rural drinking water safety. It is necessary to improve the construction, operation and management mechanism of water conservancy projects, strictly supervise the quality of the whole process of project establishment, construction and acceptance, and ensure the safety of projects and funds.
Liu Guozhong (刘国中) conducted on-site investigations on flood prevention and preparation, hydrological monitoring and reporting, and other situations. He emphasized that the southern region has already entered the flood season. Focusing on the main stream dikes of major rivers, areas prone to mountain torrent disasters, diseased reservoirs and sluices, water conservancy projects under construction, and key sections of small and medium-sized rivers, it is necessary to improve flood control plans, prepare sufficient emergency supplies, strengthen training exercises, comprehensively carry out risk and hidden danger investigation and rectification, and implement measures such as emergency transfer and evacuation of personnel in advance to effectively improve the ability to prevent and control flood disasters. It is necessary to accelerate the construction of a digital twin water conservancy system, improve the accuracy and timeliness of rainfall and water situation monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, strengthen the joint scheduling of upstream and downstream, left and right banks, and tributary water conservancy projects to minimize disasters.
During the research, Liu Guozhong (刘国中) also inspected the early rice seedling cultivation, rapeseed production, and other situations.
Return to TopChen Wenqing (陈文清), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), recently stated during a research visit to Liaoning (辽宁) that political and legal organs should conscientiously implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, establish and practice a correct view of performance, adhere to a people-centered approach, earnestly implement responsibilities, deeply investigate and resolve conflicts and disputes, protect the legitimate rights and interests of the people in accordance with the law, and ensure the safety and stability of the overall social situation.
Chen Wenqing (陈文清) conducted in-depth special investigations in Fuxin Mongolian Autonomous County (阜新蒙古族自治县) of Fuxin City (阜新市), Shahekou District (沙河口区) of Dalian City (大连市), and Tiexi District (铁西区) of Shenyang City (沈阳市), dissecting typical cases and providing face-to-face guidance. At the comprehensive management center, he carefully inquired about the acceptance and handling of conflicts and disputes, and worked with staff to identify problems, analyze causes, and study improvement measures. He stated that the comprehensive management center should strengthen its role in overall coordination, supervision, and implementation, comprehensively understand and grasp the conflicts and disputes in its region, follow up on every accepted conflict and dispute to the end, manage it in a closed loop, and promote the substantive resolution of functional departments in accordance with legal procedures, so that every demand of the people is handled and handled in accordance with the law. At the office of the joint meeting of petitioning work, he gained an in-depth understanding of the "four responsibilities and four no's" situation, and emphasized the need to further promote the rule of law in petitioning work, continue to work hard to open up the "roadmap," promote the formation of a work pattern of "the accepting department being responsible for procedural advancement, and the handling department being responsible for substantive resolution," truly resolve disputes on the track of the rule of law, and maintain social stability by determining legal relationships.
At the People's Court (人民法院) and the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院), Chen Wenqing (陈文清) gained an in-depth understanding of how many cases and at what stage and link the people have not yet felt fairness and justice. He emphasized that it is necessary to fully grasp the situation of acceptance of judgments and appeals related to cases, and in law enforcement and judicial practice, to carry deep feelings for the people, to resolve both "legal knots" and "heart knots," and strive to achieve resolution of cases and reconciliation of people, so that the people can feel fairness and justice in every judicial case.
At the Public Security Bureau (公安局) and the Justice Bureau (司法局), Chen Wenqing (陈文清) comprehensively understood the risk investigation in key areas, the service management of relevant groups, and the situation of people's mediation and administrative reconsideration. He stated that it is necessary to comprehensively uncover all kinds of risks and hidden dangers, dynamically grasp the trends of relevant groups, and clarify the nature, jurisdiction, and responsibilities of the conflicts and disputes identified, so as to achieve thorough investigation, acceptance, handling, accountability, and investigation. It is necessary to adhere to the unity of safeguarding rights and maintaining stability, focus on outstanding conflicts and disputes such as marriage and family, neighborhood relations, and mountain forest land, deepen source resolution, diversified resolution, and orderly resolution, strictly prevent the occurrence of extreme cases, and ensure national security, social stability, and people's tranquility.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 屈信明
On the performance stage, robots rotate and jump; in ordinary people's homes, smart assistants are added to the sides of the elderly and children; on factory production lines, precision manipulators are in firm control... In recent years, embodied intelligent robots have entered more and more production and life scenarios, and the demand for risk protection has increased accordingly. Recently, several insurance companies have successively launched exclusive insurance products for the risk of embodied robot research and development, production and application scenarios. What situations can these insurance products provide protection for? What is the role of promoting robot product promotion and industrial development? The reporter recently conducted an interview.
Insurance provides services for the entire chain of the embodied intelligence industry.
Not long ago, the Guangdong Shenzhen Robot 6S store expanded and upgraded, and the innovative robot immersive experience attracted many customers.
From the previous massage, moxibustion, and coffee making, to the new brain-controlled experience, human-machine chess, dialogue interaction, and robot boxing matches and human-machine collaborative battles, "This integrates robot sales, accessories, after-sales, leasing and personalized customization. Users can intuitively feel the robot's movement and interaction capabilities. The store uses scenario-based displays to help efficient docking of supply and demand," said store manager Lin Feng (林枫).
However, as robots achieve greater range of application scenarios, some risks are exposed: robots may cause personal injury and property damage to third parties during the interactive demonstration process, and on-site staff may also encounter accidental injuries during the exhibition, commissioning, and operation and maintenance.
Who bears these risks? "We customize exclusive insurance plans to provide protection for losses caused by robots to third parties in the venue. We can also provide additional protection based on the differentiated risk protection needs of the store to ensure that new business formats are open and the risks are controllable," said Shi Hequn (石合群), general manager of Ping An Property & Casualty Insurance Group Business Group.
From exhibition and sales, experience to use, and then to front-end research and development, pilot tests and other links, insurance is providing diversified and adapted services for the development of the embodied intelligence industry.
Zhang Hao (张浩), the financial director of a robot company, said that the company's research and development of a new type of robot for elderly care was interrupted, and the initial investment of about 2 million yuan faced the risk of **打水漂** (dǎ shuǐ piāo - "hit water float," to come to nothing, be wasted), but fortunately the insurance provided a certain amount of economic compensation.
The person in charge of a company that uses electric power inspection robots introduced that the purchase cost of a single robot is about 300,000 yuan, and the company has insured property insurance for the robot body, "the money to repair the robot is settled."
Industry insiders said that for users, robots that are insured are also a "physical examination report" of their reliability. In the fields of medical care, logistics, public services, etc., robots with insurance coverage have higher market acceptance and shorter procurement decision cycles. From the perspective of international market experience, robot products often need to be "insured" before they can be actually used.
Zhang Chunguang (张春光), the relevant person in charge of De Yi Robot Company, believes that the insurance industry's collaborative creation of a good ecology is conducive to robots entering the market, entering scenarios, and going overseas.
Insurance helps companies innovate with research and development expense losses and failure of achievement transformation.
The "China Development Report 2025" released by the Development Research Center of the State Council shows that China's embodied intelligence industry is in its infancy, and the market size is expected to reach 400 billion yuan in 2030 and exceed one trillion yuan in 2035, and drive further leaps in application fields such as transportation, logistics, industrial manufacturing, and commercial services. As robots move to more open and complex scenarios, the insurance industry faces new challenges.
"In the process of robots moving from experimental verification to test lines, and then to large-scale mass production and commercial operation, companies urgently need to put risk management in the forefront," said Shi Hequn (石合群). Insurance institutions should assist companies in improving operating specifications, on-site management, safety inspections and emergency response mechanisms.
Insurance has begun to play a role in helping companies with research and development innovation. In Guangdong, PICC Property & Casualty Insurance's "Zhiyan Insurance" includes technical solutions and raw material defects in the scope of protection, providing companies with a complete chain of risk barriers covering the entire cycle of research and development, pilot tests, and pilot tests, so as to better reduce the direct losses caused by research and development failures.
"Insurance for research and development expense losses and failure of achievement transformation can reduce the economic losses caused by unexpected stagnation or interruption of projects, help companies focus more on research and development innovation activities, and provide them with the confidence to 'break through' and the ability to 'pass the test'," said Wei Li (魏丽), director of the China Insurance Research Institute of Renmin University of China.
Industry insiders introduced that the promotion of remote operation and maintenance and cloud control technology, network security, data security and system stability have become important prerequisites for the large-scale application of robots. In this regard, the relevant person in charge of PICC Property & Casualty Insurance said that it will further improve the digital security insurance product system, and the company has also launched embodied intelligent robot comprehensive insurance, which includes network security and system crashes in the scope of protection.
Combined with the characteristics of robot hardware failures, algorithm defects, and the entanglement of multiple risks such as operational errors and network attacks, many insurance institutions said that they will continue to improve one-stop comprehensive insurance solutions.
The embodied intelligence industry iterates quickly and the scenarios are new. For insurance innovation, there are challenges such as insufficient data and difficulty in pricing.
"We should start from platform co-construction and data sharing to create a good ecology for insurance innovation," Wei Li (魏丽) believes that we can explore products with dynamic data supplementation and flexible rate adjustments, and disperse underwriting risks and improve underwriting capabilities through reinsurance, co-insurance groups, and risk securitization.
Science and technology insurance continues to expand the scope of protection.
Insuring robots is also a microcosm of the insurance industry serving high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement and helping develop new quality productive forces: intelligent assisted driving is on the "fast track," and many insurance companies have launched assisted driving protection services; the low-altitude economy and commercial aerospace are poised to take off, and new insurance products such as aviation product liability insurance and testing equipment loss compensation insurance have been launched...
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to establish a science and technology insurance policy system and enrich science and technology insurance products. "Science and technology insurance continues to expand the scope of protection, and has initially formed a multi-level insurance product system covering the entire innovation cycle of project establishment, research and development, achievement transformation, and industrialization promotion," said Zhao Yulong (赵宇龙), president of the Insurance Association of China. Data shows that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, science and technology insurance provided a cumulative risk guarantee of more than 10 trillion yuan.
The complex and volatile risk structure of emerging industries and future industries and the insufficient accumulation of risk data are the difficulties in promoting the high-quality development of science and technology insurance. How to continue to solve problems and break through?
Wei Li (魏丽) believes that insurance institutions should accelerate the exploration of the application of technologies such as artificial intelligence, and focus on professional talent training and the construction of specialized institutions.
"Financial institutions, technology companies, scientific research institutions, etc. can jointly build risk and insurance laboratories to improve the ability to analyze accident mechanisms, assess scenarios, and verify models," said Wang Xiangnan (王向楠), a researcher at the Institute of Finance of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. In the claims settlement process, for scenarios where insurance conditions are mature, automatic triggering, verification and advance payment mechanisms based on Internet of Things data and rule engines can be promoted to improve service efficiency.
Improving the quality and efficiency of science and technology insurance also requires a good policy environment.
"In order to reduce the financial burden on companies, increase their willingness to insure, and promote the promotion of insurance tools, certain premium subsidies can be given to science and technology insurance-related products, or relevant tax preferential policies can be studied, and financial and tax coordination can be used to amplify the use efficiency of fiscal funds and better play the role of supporting scientific and technological innovation," Wei Li (魏丽) suggested.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on April 2nd (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)): The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) recently issued the "Notice on Further Implementing the 'Anti-Unfair Competition Law of the People's Republic of China'," clarifying the comprehensive rectification of "involution-style" competition and strengthening the supervision of unfair competition in the network.
Comprehensively utilize various anti-unfair competition measures to focus on preventing and controlling "involution-style" competition in key industries and fields such as the platform economy, photovoltaics, lithium batteries, and new energy vehicles. Accurately identify and legally investigate platform enterprises that, without justifiable reasons, force or virtually force operators within the platform to sell goods at prices below cost, disrupting market competition order. Consolidate the responsibilities and obligations of platform operators in handling unfair competition, urge platforms to clarify fair competition rules, establish dedicated working mechanisms, accept reports and complaints, properly handle disputes, promptly take necessary measures to handle unfair competition, preserve relevant records, and report to law enforcement agencies. Prevent platform operators from improperly interfering with operators' independent business rights through improper review and management.
Improve network competition rules and strive to enhance the normalized supervision level of unfair competition in the network. Make good use of special provisions prohibiting infringement of data rights and trade secret protection rules, accurately identify unfair data competition behaviors, balance the relationship between data protection and data utilization, increase the protection of emerging industries such as artificial intelligence, effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of all participants in data elements, and maintain the data market competition order. Timely respond to various new types of unfair competition in the network, and effectively regulate unfair competition behaviors implemented using data and algorithms, technology, platform rules, etc. Accurately grasp the legal composition and practical characteristics of unfair competition in the network, continue to increase the identification and supervision and enforcement of various disguised forms of expression such as traffic hijacking, malicious interference, malicious incompatibility, and abuse of platform rules to implement false transactions, false evaluations, or malicious returns, and further increase the maintenance of the digital economy market order.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), April 2nd (Reporter Li Linwei (李林蔚)) -- Recently, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部), together with the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), and the National Financial Regulatory Administration (金融监管总局), conducted administrative guidance on Zhaopin.com (智联招聘), BOSS Zhipin (BOSS直聘), 58.com (58同城), Maimai (脉脉), Douyin (抖音), Kuaishou (快手), Sina Weibo (新浪微博), Baidu Tieba (百度贴吧) and other online platforms regarding the regulation of online platform recruitment information dissemination. The platforms are required to further consolidate their primary responsibility for information content management, ensuring that qualification verification is in place, information is clearly indicated, content is thoroughly reviewed, risk prevention is in place, and disposal and control are effective. They should continuously improve their compliance operations, technical defense algorithms, and rights protection levels, strengthen the governance of online recruitment space, and safeguard the legitimate employment rights and interests of job seekers.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Beijing (北京) on April 2nd (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) recently released the "Typical Application Practices of 5G Factories in 2025," selecting a total of 100 technologically advanced and benchmark-leading typical application practices of 5G factories, covering important industries such as raw materials industry, equipment industry, consumer goods industry, electronic information, and energy transportation.
Since 2022, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) has implemented the "Hundred-Thousand-Ten Thousand" Action for 5G factories, cumulatively promoting the construction of more than 23,000 industrial 5G private networks, and releasing 1,260 classified, graded, and distinctive 5G factory directory projects, effectively promoting the "5G + Industrial Internet" from single-point exploration to system integration expansion, and from peripheral auxiliary links to production core links, accelerating the integrated application of the industrial Internet.
The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) requires all regions to strengthen policy support and resource guarantees in accordance with local conditions, promote the construction of 5G factories with high quality, and accelerate the deep embedding of "5G + Industrial Internet" into the entire process and all links of production and manufacturing.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Guangzhou on April 2nd (Reporter Li Gang (李刚)) Recently, at the China Shipbuilding Longxue Island shipbuilding base in Nansha District (南沙区), Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong Province (广东省), the No. 1 ship of the 10,800-vehicle LNG/fuel dual-fuel vehicle carrier built by China Shipbuilding Guangzhou International set sail for sea trials. The ship has an overall length of 230 meters, a molded breadth of 40 meters, and a structural draft of 10.5 meters. The 14-story garage deck design can load various types of vehicles such as electric vehicles, hydrogen energy vehicles, and heavy trucks, with a maximum loading capacity of 10,800 vehicles per ship. This ship uses a dual-fuel propulsion system of liquefied natural gas and fuel oil, and is equipped with a shaft generator, which can generate electricity while sailing, saving energy and reducing emissions.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 2nd (Reporter Wang Guan (王观)): This reporter learned on April 1st from the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局): Nearly 8,200 domestic and foreign internet platform enterprises have submitted tax-related information to the tax authorities.
According to the requirements of the "Regulations on the Reporting of Tax-Related Information by Internet Platform Enterprises" (《互联网平台企业涉税信息报送规定》), platform enterprises are required to report the identity information of operators and employees within the platform and their income information for the previous quarter to the tax authorities on a quarterly basis starting from October 2025. On April 1st, the first quarter's tax-related information reporting work for platform enterprises began.
The implementation of the regulations has brought positive effects. Looking at the reporting of tax-related information in the fourth quarter of 2025, most platforms submitted their information significantly earlier than the first reporting (third quarter of 2025); the number of operators and employees within the platform and the scale of revenue reported by each platform increased by more than 10% compared to the previous quarter, and the quality of the reported information was further improved. Tax payment by merchants within the platform has been significantly standardized. After the implementation of the regulations, most merchants within the platform truthfully declared taxes in accordance with the law, and some merchants began to require their suppliers to issue invoices for the need of compliant operation. In the fourth quarter of 2025, the amount of invoices obtained by small-scale taxpayers within the platform increased by 28% year-on-year, and the role of tax-related information reporting in promoting the linkage and compliance of the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain continued to manifest; the number of merchants within the platform paying taxes increased by 32% compared to before the implementation of the regulations, and the difference between the average tax burden of online merchants and offline merchants was significantly reduced.
"The reporting of tax-related information makes platform operating data explicit, and the space for illegal operations such as unregistered or undeclared income, splitting income, and converting the nature of income by merchants within the platform has been greatly compressed. Irregular business behaviors such as false marketing, malicious brushing, and low-price dumping within the platform have begun to decrease, and the role of tax-related information reporting in leveraging the 'anti-involution' of the platform economy continues to manifest." Lian Qifeng (练奇峰), Director of the征管 and Technology Development Department of the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局征管和科技发展司司长), said that the tax authorities will continue to do a good job in consultation and guidance and technical support, strictly verify the quality of the data reported by the platform, further deepen the analysis and application of tax-related information, identify the tax risks of merchants within the platform and carry out compliance declaration reminders.
Return to TopAccording to information obtained recently by a reporter, Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊), from the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会): In February, the national trade promotion system issued a total of 744,500 certificates of origin, ATA (temporary admission) carnets, commercial certificates, and other types of certificates, an increase of 72.38% year-on-year.
Among them, the visa amount of non-preferential certificates of origin issued by the national trade promotion system was 32.348 billion US dollars, an increase of 54.23% year-on-year; the number of visas was 410,700, an increase of 71.34% year-on-year. The visa amount of preferential certificates of origin issued by the national trade promotion system was 9.589 billion US dollars, an increase of 72.48% year-on-year; the number of visas was 282,100, an increase of 100.32% year-on-year.
The visa amount of RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) certificates of origin issued by the national trade promotion system was 911 million US dollars, an increase of 72.73% year-on-year; the number of visas was 29,985, an increase of 94.81% year-on-year.
Wang Guannan (王冠男), a news spokesperson for the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会), stated that the substantial increase in commercial certification data in February not only benefited from the continued release of foreign trade policy dividends, but also reflected the effectiveness of diversified market layouts and the strong momentum of new business forms and models.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚凯元
Guangdong Xuwen Pineapple (广东徐闻菠萝) has accumulated a century of planting experience, Henan Zhang Baoshan Yam Products (河南张宝山山药制品) have been deeply cultivated by three generations, Hunan Mayang Ice Orange (湖南麻阳冰糖橙) and egg chicken farming have formed an ecological cycle, Gansu Gangu County Apple (甘肃甘谷县苹果) single fruit exceeds one pound... At the 62nd French International Agricultural Show held in Paris, the local products in the Chinese Pavilion showcased the inheritance and innovation of a major agricultural country.
Under the organization of the Agricultural Trade Promotion Center of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China (中国农业农村部农业贸易促进中心), the China National Agricultural Exhibition Group made its debut at the exhibition, showcasing a new landscape of Sino-French agricultural cooperation. "China and France are both major agricultural and food countries, and agricultural cooperation has always been an important part of the economic and trade relations between the two countries." The head of the exhibition group said that he hopes to take this exhibition as an opportunity to promote the two-way flow of high-quality agricultural and food products between the two countries, further deepen the exchange of agricultural and food industries between China and France, and help the in-depth development of Sino-French agricultural cooperation.
"Not only a major manufacturing country, but also a major agricultural and food country"
A cup of Chinese tea, first smell the aroma, then observe the color, and then taste it... In the exhibition hall, many French visitors who came to the booth to taste tea showed great interest in the Chinese tea tasting process.
"This is an important opportunity. The entry of Chinese tea into the international market cannot stay at 'selling tea', but should spread a complete system of expression that integrates variety selection, processing technology, tea drinking methods and aesthetic logic." Said Zhou Jiayu, President of the Tea Association of Dujiangyan City, Sichuan (四川都江堰市茶叶协会会长周佳玉).
At this exhibition, wild ginseng from Changbai Mountain (长白山) won the title of "High-Quality Honorary Product". In the 1980s, after wild ginseng was listed as an endangered protected species, all harvesting was banned, and related industries turned to the "forest ginseng" model - artificially planted in the mountains and forests, and minimizing human intervention, so that ginseng grows naturally in an environment close to the wild. Ma Xiaohua (马晓骅), head of Tianyuan Cao Health Technology Co., Ltd., a participating exhibitor, told reporters that Chinese ginseng planting has established a standard system with growth years, origin environment and quality as the core, and has embarked on a modern industrial development path again.
As one of the world's largest agricultural events, the French International Agricultural Exhibition reflects the broad space and deep potential of agricultural cooperation in diversified displays and in-depth exchanges. Alain Leclerc, a French expert in the agricultural and food field, said that the exhibition is more like a global food and lifestyle exhibition for the public, with about 80% of the audience being ordinary consumers. He said: "The appearance of the Chinese delegation at this exhibition, which focuses on sensory experience and cultural narrative, will help the French public to understand China more three-dimensionally - not only a major manufacturing country, but also a major agricultural and food country."
Leclerc used to be a senior executive of the French Olmix Group and has maintained cooperation with China since the 1990s. He said that France and China have significant complementarity in the field of high-quality food and food culture. The two countries have different climatic conditions and agricultural product structures, and can cooperate in high-quality ingredients, sustainable production methods and food culture communication. "Through cooperation, France and China can respond to consumers' needs for health and quality, and tap the potential to jointly face the global market."
"Use the advantages of Chinese agricultural machinery and equipment to improve production efficiency and reduce operating costs"
Next to the Chinese Pavilion is the "Food and Medicine Homology" special area, where the French International Institute of Food and Medicinal Plants jointly participated in the exhibition with more than 10 units and enterprises such as Henan Agricultural University (河南农业大学) and Henan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (河南中医药大学). "Global health problems are becoming increasingly prominent, and China has accumulated systematic experience in food therapy and traditional Chinese medicine health care, which has important reference value." Jean-Yves Moisseron, Research Director of the French Institute of Development and Honorary President of the International Institute of Food and Medicinal Plants, said that Europe, Africa and China have great potential in the field of medicinal plant development. At present, the International Institute of Food and Medicinal Plants has signed cooperation agreements with African countries and many universities in China to promote scientific research cooperation, talent exchange and enterprise participation.
In the international agricultural machinery exhibition area, Chinese scientific research institutions and enterprises presented a full-chain agricultural solution covering circular agriculture, livestock health, agricultural machinery equipment, labor protection and intelligent aids.
Intelligent agricultural machinery such as remote-controlled lawn mowers and chaff cutters designed for various terrain and crop scenarios are small, lightweight and easy to operate; agricultural exoskeleton auxiliary equipment can drive the motor to output power in real time, which can share more than 40% of the body load; Chinese unmanned spraying vehicles integrate automatic driving and precision spraying, and have been applied in the Champagne region of France... In the exhibition area, Chinese agricultural machinery and equipment have become popular exhibits, attracting many European farmers to stop and consult.
"China has obvious advantages in the application of artificial intelligence and drones. In the future, this type of technology will be widely popularized in the agricultural production system, and French agriculture needs to use the advantages of Chinese agricultural machinery and equipment to improve production efficiency and reduce operating costs." Moisseron told reporters.
"Collaboration for long-term capacity building"
In the Chinese Pavilion, the caviar exhibited by Sichuan Runzhao Fisheries Co., Ltd. (四川润兆渔业有限公司) has been exported to more than 30 countries and regions. This traditional Western delicacy has become a local specialty in China from a "foreign product". Thomas Pavy, representative of livestock breeding and dairy industry of the French National Agriculture and Seafood Administration, told reporters that the recovery of sturgeon populations once benefited from the cooperation between France and China in the field of genetic breeding, "Agricultural cooperation is related to economy, but also to biodiversity and sustainable development."
The cooperation between China and France in the field of agricultural breeding has a long history. In 1973, the two sides began cooperation in beef cattle genetic breeding. The two sides also cooperated to hybridize and cultivate new varieties of pigs. Over the past few decades, this two-way technology flow has never been interrupted.
Evolis International, a French breeding company, has been deeply involved in the Chinese market for 15 years and maintains cooperation with many large Chinese agricultural groups. Marielle Bréheret, the company's export manager, introduced that in the past 5 years, China's demand for beef cattle genetic breeding has increased significantly. French beef cattle breeds such as Charolais and Limousin have prominent advantages and will create higher added value for China's local industrial chain.
"Improving local production capacity does not mean reducing international cooperation." Bréheret said that genetic improvement is a continuous updating process, and France and China have broad cooperation space in genetics, breeding management, slaughtering and processing, "This is not a simple trade, but a collaboration for long-term capacity building."
Last year, Capgènes, a French goat genetic breeding institution, signed a technical cooperation memorandum with Shaanxi Zhengda Co., Ltd. (陕西正大有限公司) in China. Yves Rouault, the company's general manager, told reporters that the two sides will jointly build a laboratory in China according to French standards to implement genetic improvement of local dairy goat populations in China, focusing on improving milk production and milk quality. The two sides have signed a 10-year cooperation agreement, and French experts will participate in the implementation of the project for a long time, "This is an in-depth technical cooperation around the genetic breeding system, which is far beyond the traditional export model."
The "Insect Factory" from Zhengzhou showcases a new field of Sino-foreign biotechnology cooperation. The team of Professor Yang Sen (杨森) of Henan Agricultural University (河南农业大学) relies on the synergistic effect of the entire life cycle of black soldier flies and functional microorganisms to build a technical system with biological breeding as the core and engineering means as the support, which can efficiently treat agricultural organic waste such as crop straws and kitchen waste, and convert them into resource-based products such as insect protein, insect sand fertilizer, and functional oils. During the exhibition, European, African and Chinese experts and scholars held a special seminar on this technology. Yang Sen told reporters that the "Insect Factory" system can be promoted to areas in Africa with suitable climate and abundant resources, and has practical value in ensuring protein nutrition safety and promoting circular agriculture, and also has the potential to sell to the European market, "The future cooperation space is very broad."
Return to TopThis military adventurism, at the expense of the well-being of the people and the destruction of regional peace, not only goes against the trend of peaceful development, but also does not conform to the fundamental interests of Japan and its people.
On March 31, Japan's Ministry of Defense (日本防卫省), despite strong opposition from local residents, deployed so-called long-range missiles with "ability to attack enemy bases" in Kumamoto Prefecture (熊本县) and Shizuoka Prefecture (静冈县), respectively. This is the first time Japan has deployed such missiles with obvious offensive attributes, far exceeding the scope of self-defense and "exclusively defense-oriented" policy. It not only seriously violates the Japanese Constitution and existing domestic norms, but also seriously violates the provisions of international legal documents such as the Cairo Declaration (《开罗宣言》), the Potsdam Proclamation (《波茨坦公告》), and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender (《日本投降书》). This move shows that the offensive trend of Japan's "new militarism" is becoming more prominent, seriously threatening regional peace and security.
The Japanese Ministry of Defense (日本防卫省) has given the long-range missiles it has deployed the name of "important equipment to enhance Japan's deterrence and response capabilities," claiming that "in view of the severe security situation around Japan, the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (日本陆上自卫队) is working to build long-range defense capabilities." This set of rhetoric is exactly the same as the "crisis narrative" trick commonly used by Japanese right-wing forces. By hyping up the so-called "peripheral threats," Japanese right-wing forces intend to override the post-war peace system, fundamentally subvert the basic policy of "exclusively defense-oriented," and promote the transformation of the "Peace Constitution" into a "constitution capable of launching war." The so-called "severe security situation" is just a guise for finding excuses for military expansion; the so-called "defense capability" is just a shield for developing offensive forces. Japan is using "crisis" as a name, but it is actually destroying regional peace; it is using "defense" as a guise, but it is seeking to break the shackles of the post-war period and become a "war-capable country."
"At this point, Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution exists in name only." A former Japanese cabinet official made such an evaluation of Japan's deployment of offensive missiles. Japan has pledged in its constitution to "forever renounce war, the threat of force, or the use of force as a means of settling international disputes," and has established the principle of "exclusively defense-oriented." The Potsdam Proclamation (《波茨坦公告》) also clearly stipulates that Japan is prohibited from rearming. These are all legalizations of Japan's obligations as a defeated country. In recent years, the Japanese government has openly written "counterattack capabilities" into the national defense strategy by formulating a new version of the "Three Security Documents (安保三文件)". Now, for the first time, it has deployed long-range offensive missiles, step by step subverting the post-war defense concept and step by step deviating from the principle of "exclusively defense-oriented." From "exclusively defense-oriented" to "counterattack," from "defense" to "preemptive strike," the Japanese government is using the banner of "security assurance," but in reality, it is gradually breaking free from the shackles of the "Peace Constitution," fully exposing its ambition to continuously promote "remilitarization."
Japan's forced deployment of offensive missiles, and its plan to continue to purchase and deploy more such missiles in the coming years, reflects the manic restlessness of Japan's "new militarism," and this trend is very dangerous. In recent years, Japanese right-wing forces have promoted the transformation of security policies in an offensive and expansionary direction, and the defense budget has increased for 14 consecutive years, with huge funds mainly invested in the field of offensive combat capabilities, and vigorously developing out-of-area strike equipment. Japan's deployment of long-range missiles this time not only seriously threatens the security of neighboring countries, but also makes the regional situation more complex and sensitive, which has to make Asian neighbors and the international community highly vigilant.
The Japanese people have also expressed strong opposition to this, and people in many places have held rallies to protest against the government's forced advancement of military deployments. Japan's Kyodo News (日本共同社) reported that the Ministry of Defense (防卫省) had held equipment exhibitions for government officials in Kumamoto (熊本) and other places, but had not held briefings for the public. Considering that areas where long-range missiles are deployed are prone to becoming targets of attack in modern warfare, local residents strongly oppose the deployment of missiles. This kind of military adventurism, at the expense of the well-being of the people and the destruction of regional peace, not only goes against the trend of peaceful development, but also does not conform to the fundamental interests of Japan and its people. "Deterrence cannot create peace at all," "We don't need missiles for war preparation," "Stop deploying missiles"... The Japanese government should listen carefully to the voices of the people, stop using the development of military power to tie people's livelihoods to the war chariot, and truly be responsible to its own people and to regional peace.
Japan's "new militarism" not only endangers neighboring countries, but will also inevitably backfire on itself. Using missiles as a "blade," the Japanese right wing thinks it has grasped the key to security, but in reality it has pushed itself onto a dangerous blade. As a defeated country in World War II, deeply reflecting on the history of aggression, adhering to the "Peace Constitution," and maintaining regional stability are Japan's basic obligations. Japan should abide by its commitments in the field of military security, act prudently, and stop any attempts to undermine regional peace and stability.
Return to TopBy: 查尔斯·奥努纳伊朱
Institutions are not "commodities" that can be moved from one shelf to another, but are gradually formed through practical testing in the process of national development. Understanding this not only helps to understand the secret of China's success, but also helps to grasp the direction of China's future development.
Ultimately, the measure of whether a political system and governance system are effective depends on whether it can continuously improve the well-being of the people. China's contribution to global economic growth has stabilized at around 30%, and its contribution to world poverty reduction has exceeded 70%, achieving the poverty reduction target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development 10 years ahead of schedule, allowing the sunshine of poverty alleviation to shine in every corner, and the fate of countless people has changed as a result. These achievements fully demonstrate that China's institutional arrangements and governance practices are very effective, providing valuable experience for developing countries to study and learn from.
The reason why China's governance experience is enlightening is that China's development is rooted in its own national conditions, and it has always been keenly grasping the trends of the times, identifying strategic opportunities, and transforming the favorable conditions in the external environment into the driving force for its own development. This ability enables China to accurately grasp its own historical position and embark on a development path that conforms to its own reality in a constantly changing international environment.
From the institutional level, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), China's institutional system has been continuously improved through extensive consultation and cooperation, continuous theoretical exploration and practical innovation. The advantage of the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党领导的多党合作和政治协商制度) lies in the fact that through the coordination and integration of opinions, a broad consensus on promoting national development is forged. The innovative logic behind this system is to extract true insights from practice and sublimate them into the laws of development.
Institutions are not "commodities" that can be moved from one shelf to another, but are gradually formed through practical testing in the process of national development. Understanding this not only helps to understand the secret of China's success, but also helps to grasp the direction of China's future development.
Africa's challenges in terms of governance capacity and governance efficiency remain prominent, but this is not an insurmountable fate. Africa is actively exploring development paths and governance solutions that are suitable for itself. The key to Africa's development and revitalization lies not only in examining its own historical trajectory, but also in identifying and solving the weak links in the governance system. In this process, China's governance practices and experience are undoubtedly worthy of in-depth study.
At the same time, Sino-African partnership also plays a constructive role in helping Africa cope with governance challenges, especially in effectively responding to the historical shortcoming of insufficient interconnection. Trade and investment are also important pillars of Sino-African cooperation. China has remained Africa's largest trading partner for 16 consecutive years. These pragmatic cooperation not only enhance the material foundation for Africa's development, but also create more favorable conditions for improving governance effectiveness.
History has repeatedly proven that blindly following others without fully understanding one's own social reality will ultimately make it difficult to follow the path of development. The real significance of China's experience for Africa is not to provide a "standard formula" or precise template that applies to all parts of the world, but to convey a simple concept: governance is neither an accidental event, nor a gift from heaven, nor a matter of luck. The improvement of governance capacity and governance efficiency must be based on its own national conditions.
(The author is the director of the Nigerian Center for Chinese Studies)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd. On April 2nd, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, had a phone call with Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani (扎耶尼), the rotating chairman of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Bahrain, at the latter's request.
Al Zayani (扎耶尼) introduced the latest developments in the Middle East situation and Bahrain's position, stating that the security of the Gulf countries is currently facing severe challenges, navigation in the Strait of Hormuz is obstructed, and Bahrain is willing to play a role through the United Nations Security Council to resolve the issue of navigation in the Strait. Bahrain hopes to strengthen communication and coordination with China.
Wang Yi (王毅) clarified China's principled position of opposing aggression and advocating peace. He stated that China and Pakistan recently issued a five-point initiative to restore peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East regions, which includes calling for a cessation of attacks on civilians and non-military targets, ensuring the security of the Strait of Hormuz, and restoring normal navigation. A ceasefire and cessation of hostilities are the common call of the international community. The actions of the United Nations Security Council should help ease the situation, stop the war and resume negotiations, and not endorse illegal acts of war, let alone 火上浇油 (huǒ shàng jiāo yóu - "add oil to the fire," to aggravate a situation). As a permanent member of the Security Council and a responsible major country, China is willing to work with Bahrain to promote the cessation of hostilities, the restoration of peace, the achievement of lasting regional stability, and the safeguarding of the legitimate rights and interests of the Global South, especially small and medium-sized countries.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd. Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by telephone on April 2nd with Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal (费萨尔) at the latter's request.
Faisal (费萨尔) briefed on the latest developments in the Middle East situation, stating that the Iranian war has had a serious impact on the region and countries around the world. The Saudi side attaches importance to the important role played by China in international affairs, cherishes the high-level strategic cooperation between Saudi Arabia and China, and hopes to strengthen communication and coordination with China on platforms such as the United Nations to jointly promote de-escalation of the war and end the conflict.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the Iranian war has been prolonged for more than a month, causing huge casualties and losses, and impacting the security and stability of Gulf countries such as Saudi Arabia. China is concerned about this. China and Pakistan recently jointly issued a five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East regions, which includes safeguarding the sovereignty and security of Gulf countries, stopping attacks against civilians and non-military targets, and ensuring the safety of waterways. The issue of passage through the Strait of Hormuz is an overflow manifestation of this war. If the war does not stop, the Strait will not be safe. The urgent task is to focus on a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities as soon as possible. The actions of the UN Security Council should avoid escalating confrontation and must not legitimize unauthorized military actions, otherwise, there will be endless troubles (后患无穷 (hòu huàn wú qióng - "future trouble no end," endless troubles in the future)), and small and medium-sized countries will be the first to bear the brunt (首当其冲 (shǒu dāng qí chōng - "bear the brunt," to bear the brunt)). China appreciates Saudi Arabia's commitment to promoting peace and stopping the war and is willing to work with Saudi Arabia to make efforts to restore regional peace as soon as possible.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by telephone on April 2nd with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock. The two sides exchanged views on the situation in the Middle East.
Baerbock stated that the current situation in Iran is severe and complex, causing serious impact on global economy, energy, and food security. Ending the conflict as soon as possible is in the common interest of the international community. Germany supports the United Nations in playing its due role, attaches importance to the five-point initiative issued by China and Pakistan on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and Middle East region, and is willing to continue to maintain communication and cooperation with China.
Wang Yi elaborated on China's principled position, stating that the military attack launched by the United States and Israel against Iran was not authorized by the UN Security Council and clearly violates international law. The sovereignty and security of the Gulf countries should be respected, civilians and non-military targets must be given necessary protection, and the safety of waterways and energy and infrastructure should also be guaranteed. China and Germany, as responsible major countries, should uphold an objective and fair position, play a constructive role, and promote the cessation of hostilities as soon as possible to restore regional peace and stability.
The two sides also exchanged views on China-Germany relations and agreed to implement the results of Chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to China, strengthen strategic communication, enhance strategic mutual trust, and promote greater development of the China-Germany all-round strategic partnership.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd (Reporter) - Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, spoke by phone on April 2nd with EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrell (卡拉斯), at his request.
Borrell (卡拉斯) introduced his views on the situation in the Middle East, and appreciated China's active diplomatic mediation to ease the situation, including the latest five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and the Middle East jointly issued by China and Pakistan. The European side did not participate in this war, but was affected by it, and hopes to promote the de-escalation of the war as soon as possible and resume dialogue and negotiations. The European side supports the United Nations in carrying out humanitarian actions to protect the safety of civilians and non-military targets, and will also make every effort to ensure the open navigation of the Strait of Hormuz.
Wang Yi (王毅) said that the current international situation is turbulent, and it is the common responsibility of China and Europe to strengthen communication and exchanges, and to maintain the international system with the United Nations as the core and the international order based on international law. Wang Yi (王毅) elaborated on China's principled position on the Middle East situation, saying that the five-point initiative of China and Pakistan reflects a broad international consensus. The core is to stop hostilities, start peace talks as soon as possible, ensure the safety of non-military targets, ensure the safety of waterways, and ensure the primacy of the UN Charter. A ceasefire is the strong call of the international community and the fundamental solution to ensuring safe navigation in the Strait of Hormuz. All parties should gather more consensus for this and create the necessary conditions. The actions of the UN Security Council should focus on easing the situation, rather than putting a legal cloak on unauthorized military actions, let alone further intensifying contradictions and escalating conflicts. China is willing to maintain communication and cooperation with the European side to promote an early cessation of hostilities and restore peace in the region.
The two sides also exchanged views on China-EU relations. Wang Yi (王毅) said that China's development is an opportunity for Europe, and the challenges facing Europe do not come from China. Protectionism cannot enhance competitiveness, and decoupling from China means decoupling from opportunities. He hopes that the European side will establish a comprehensive and objective understanding of China and maintain the correct direction of the development of China-EU relations. Borrell (卡拉斯) said that the European side regards China as an important partner, does not seek to decouple from China, and looks forward to maintaining dialogue and communication between the two sides.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈一鸣 谢佳宁
"The '15th Five-Year Plan' outlines a new blueprint for advancing Chinese-style modernization and provides valuable development opportunities for developing countries, including Cuba," said Luis Fernandez, a senior researcher at the Center for International Economic Studies at the University of Havana, Cuba, in a recent interview with this reporter.
"China has achieved remarkable development achievements during the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, and its economic strength, scientific and technological strength, and comprehensive national strength have reached new levels," Fernandez said. "During the '14th Five-Year Plan' period, China has made important progress in tackling a series of key core technologies, and high-tech manufacturing and strategic emerging industries have become important forces driving industrial optimization and upgrading. New quality productive forces create endogenous动力 for high-quality development."
Fernandez said that the Communist Party of China's (中国共产党) adherence to a people-centered development philosophy has left a deep impression on him. "China not only focuses on the growth of the total economic volume, but also strives to promote the development results to benefit all the people more and more fairly. Ultimately, it is to meet the people's ever-growing needs for a better life."
Fernandez said that the "15th Five-Year Plan" makes special arrangements for expanding high-level opening up, releasing a strong signal that China adheres to open cooperation and mutual benefit and win-win results. "At present, against the background of increasing unilateralism and protectionism, China continues to expand opening up and promote the flow of investment and trade among countries, which will continue to provide a strong impetus for world economic growth."
"The formulation and implementation of the Five-Year Plan demonstrates a high degree of strategic stability, which is an important experience in the governance of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党)," Fernandez said. This strategic determination of "**一张蓝图绘到底**" (yī zhāng lán tú huì dào dǐ - "drawing one blueprint to the end," sticking to a plan and seeing it through) is an important reason for the continuous advancement of Chinese-style modernization. "China's Five-Year Plan formulation is a scientific and broadly democratic process. This process is based on a systematic assessment of the implementation of the previous planning cycle, and also widely absorbs the research results of professional departments and the opinions of the public, ensuring the scientific, continuous and stable nature of the national development strategy from the institutional level."
Fernandez said that China's Five-Year Plan also focuses on incorporating technological progress and the needs of the times into the overall consideration, and promotes high-quality development and cultivates new quality productive forces through forward-looking layout. The Five-Year Plan is guided by solving the practical problems of China's development and responding to long-term challenges. "The '15th Five-Year Plan' will lay a more solid foundation for China to basically realize socialist modernization, and also provide experience for the vast number of developing countries to move towards modernization," Fernandez said.
Fernandez believes that jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) is a vivid practice of China's promotion of building a community with a shared future for mankind and injects more impetus into maintaining the stability of the global value chain and promoting a healthier and more stable development of the international economic and trade system. He said that he believes that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the cooperation prospects between Cuba and China (古中) in digital economy, biotechnology, medical and health and other fields are broad.
(Intern Hou Tianze (侯天泽) participated in the writing)
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Geneva, March 31st (Reporters Wang Lu (王露) and Jiao Qian (焦倩)) The 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference Digital Economy Cooperation and Innovation Forum was held on March 31st at the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. With the theme of "Boundless Digital Intelligence, Friendly Win-Win," the forum brought together more than 150 representatives from political, business, academic, and international organizations around the world to conduct in-depth exchanges on cutting-edge trends in the digital economy, international cooperation, and win-win paths.
Ambassador Shen Jian (沈健), Deputy Representative of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and other International Organizations in Switzerland, said in his speech that the digital economy is a vane for keeping up with the trend of the times and grasping development opportunities, and an important platform for deepening international cooperation and promoting common development. The more the digital economy develops, the more it needs to strengthen global governance.
The forum was co-hosted by the Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance and the Organizing Committee of the Global Digital Economy Conference. According to reports, the forum focused on the forefront of digital economy development and international cooperation frameworks, and held a China-Switzerland enterprise symposium around the theme of "A New Paradigm of Global Digital Economy Cooperation - Mutual Trust, Rules, and Common Growth." The forum also specially set up a "Beijing Program" exhibition area, where several Beijing (北京) digital economy benchmark enterprises conducted enthusiastic exchanges and interactions with the participating guests.
The 2026 Global Digital Economy Conference will be held in Beijing (北京) in July. The conference will focus on the construction of digital-friendly cities and the release of data element value, and comprehensively present the latest achievements in digital technology innovation applications and industrial development. The Global Digital Economy Cities Alliance was jointly launched by Beijing (北京) and more than 40 partner cities around the world at the Global Digital Economy Conference in July 2025.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王欣悦
Accelerate efforts to address shortcomings in inclusive services such as elderly care, childcare, and healthcare. Improve mechanisms for government procurement of services, public construction with private operation, and private operation with public assistance to support diverse entities in expanding service provision.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline
"Before moving in, I didn't expect a public nursing home to be so comfortable!" Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉), an 80-year-old, told reporters that he has lived in the Diankangli Yinian Apartment (垫康里颐年公寓) in Dianjiang County (垫江县), Chongqing (重庆市) for more than four years.
Previously, Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉) avoided nursing homes due to the "climbing stairs" problem. "The nursing home was built on a hillside, and you had to climb about four stories of stairs to get to the entrance," Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉) recalled. In 2022, Yinian Apartment (颐年公寓) was renovated and upgraded, with a direct elevator built from the Kangyang Hospital (康养医院) at the foot of the mountain directly to the apartment, which made Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉) completely "settle down" and not want to leave.
As he spoke, Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉) led the reporter into his room. The room is fully equipped with hot and cold water, air conditioning, barrier-free access, and a call system. "Look, how convenient it is," Chen Xianghui (陈祥辉) said with a smile.
Stepping into the cafeteria, a yellow card on Chen Xianghui's (陈祥辉) place setting was marked "No chicken, duck, or konjac," and a green card was affixed to another elderly person's place setting, reading "Likes to eat soft rice."
"Green cards represent healthy elderly people, yellow cards represent elderly people with diabetes, and there are colors representing high blood lipids, gout... Color cards facilitate the customization of nutritious diets for elderly people with different physical conditions," said Dong Yipei (董易佩), Dean of Diankangli Yinian Apartment (垫康里颐年公寓). "In the past, the elderly in nursing homes ate more casually, but now even blood sugar and taste preferences are taken into account."
But before this, the development of public elderly care institutions in Dianjiang County (垫江县) was not smooth.
"At the end of 2021, the development of public elderly care institutions in Dianjiang County (垫江县) fell into a bottleneck. The elderly were unwilling to move in, a large number of beds in the county's 25 public elderly care institutions were vacant, and the bed utilization rate of township nursing homes was only 47.4%. There were also obvious shortcomings in services," said Li Bishu (李必树), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Civil Affairs Bureau of Dianjiang County (垫江县民政局党委书记、局长).
"Some public elderly care institutions are located in relatively remote areas, and even caregivers are unwilling to go. Most of the managers are retired village and community cadres 'releasing residual heat' (发挥余热 (fā huī yú rè - "give off residual heat," to make use of one's remaining abilities after retirement)), and there are only 13 caregivers in 25 institutions," Li Bishu (李必树) admitted. "If we split the bidding, companies will only 'pick the fat and choose the lean' (挑肥拣瘦 (tiāo féi jiǎn shòu - "choose the fat and pick the lean," to be picky and choosy), and those institutions in remote areas, old facilities, and concentrated with extremely poor elderly people will be ignored."
How to break the deadlock?
"Our idea is to package everything together, let professionals do professional things, and promote the 'public construction and private operation' reform of public elderly care institutions," Li Bishu (李必树) introduced. Dianjiang County (垫江县) bundled 25 public elderly care institutions with uneven development into an "asset package," without changing ownership, and put the 20-year operating rights on the market, uniformly bidding for operators. The government no longer participates in specific operation and management, ensuring that the bottom-line guarantee is not weakened, state-owned assets are not lost, the purpose of elderly care is not changed, and the service level is improved.
In 2021, the private enterprise Hongshan Group (宏善集团) successfully won the bid. "The overall package and 20-year service period are key," said the person in charge of Hongshan Diankangli Elderly Care Service Co., Ltd. (宏善垫康里养老服务有限公司). "With a long cooperation period, we are motivated to carry out renovation and upgrades. The charging standards are also reasonable and fair, and the County Civil Affairs Bureau also provides us with policy subsidies such as operating subsidies and 'supplementary differences' for centralized care of disabled people in accordance with regulations."
Subsequently, Hongshan Group (宏善集团) integrated the 25 public elderly care institutions and carried out age-appropriate upgrades and renovations in terms of environment, function, and safety: the height of the corridor handrails was reduced from 90 cm to 80 cm to make it easier for the elderly to grip; squat toilets were changed to sit-down toilets to make it easier for the elderly to use the toilet; non-slip tiles were laid in the shower rooms; the call devices were repeatedly tested to ensure that the elderly could reach them with a single hand...
"In addition to improving hardware, we also require all 13 original caregivers and more than 50 newly recruited caregivers to receive pre-job training, obtain certificates, and undergo assessments. The elderly's service satisfaction is linked to performance, so we can no longer 'do the same whether you do well or badly' (干好干坏一个样 (gàn hǎo gàn huài yī ge yàng - "do good do bad same way," no difference in reward for good or bad work))," said the person in charge of Hongshan Diankangli Elderly Care Service Co., Ltd. (宏善垫康里养老服务有限公司).
"After the reform, the bed utilization rate of township nursing homes in Dianjiang County (垫江县) has increased to more than 85%. Taking Chengxi Town Nursing Home (澄溪镇敬老院) as an example, 84 new elderly people have moved in after the reform, and the number of new additions is three times the number of original elderly people," said Li Bishu (李必树). The "public construction and private operation" reform has revitalized existing elderly care resources and helped Dianjiang County's (垫江县) public elderly care institutions achieve a transformation from basic subsistence to quality elderly care.
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Against the backdrop of actively addressing population aging, deepening the reform of elderly care services should establish a public value orientation, focusing more on the well-being that the elderly, families, and society can obtain. Based on this consideration, we should actively guide professional institutions, including private enterprises, to continuously improve the capacity and level of elderly care services through entrusted operations, cooperative construction, and other methods.
The key to a good experience lies in people, not things. Therefore, improving the quality and expanding the capacity of elderly care services cannot remain at the level of resource accumulation, but needs to focus on service integration, resource sharing, mutual assistance for the elderly, and autonomous management, taking the needs of the elderly as the center, and exploring a development pattern in which multiple entities work together.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, it is necessary to optimize the supply of basic elderly care services and develop the silver economy. Strengthening the elderly care service force and providing richer products and services around the needs of the elderly is not only a concrete implementation of ensuring that the elderly are 老有所养 (lǎo yǒu suǒ yǎng - "the elderly are provided for," ensuring the elderly are cared for and supported), but will also provide important support for the high-quality development of China's (中国) economy.
(The author is a professor at the School of Government Management, Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学), and this article was compiled from an interview with Chen Zhen (陈震), a reporter from this newspaper.)
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How to establish and practice a correct view of performance? The answers of two veteran party members are thought-provoking.
In their twilight years, why do they keep walking and running at the forefront of poverty and wilderness management? Lin Zhanxi (林占熺), the 83-year-old "father of Juncao," answered calmly, "It is my duty to do something for the poor. It is something I am happy to do."
In his twilight years, what kind of energy supports him to be rooted in the front line of agricultural production for a long time? Guo Tiancai (郭天财), a 73-year-old wheat expert, said passionately, "With affection, with sincerity, with passion, and sometimes with infatuation."
A sentence of "duty" and a sentence of "infatuation" reveal the simple and profound purpose of party members and illuminate the value core of a correct view of performance.
To establish a correct view of performance, we must stick to our duty. What is duty? If we only do our own job well, we underestimate the duty of communists.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The foundation of us communists is our belief in Marxism, our faith in socialism with Chinese characteristics and communism, and our loyalty to the Party and the people."
To keep to our duty is to keep to the "foundation" of faith, the "foundation" of belief, and the "foundation" of loyalty. When the foundation is established, the way is born. With this foundation, our duties will not be reduced to mechanical performance, but will be sublimated into sincerity to the people and responsibility for the cause.
Duty is a step forward in times of crisis. When a typhoon struck Maoming (茂名), Guangdong (广东), Liu Mingfang (刘名芳), a village cadre, predicted the risk of landslides during a patrol in the early morning. She braved the rainstorm and worked with her colleagues to evacuate the villagers overnight, achieving "zero casualties." She said: "I am a party member and a women's federation cadre. The lives of the masses are more important than my own."
Duty is a step back in the face of interests. When he encountered a vehicle stuck in the mud, Abudujapaer Mengde (阿布都加帕尔·猛德) decisively lent a helping hand. He firmly declined the reward and showed his party member badge in a hurry. He said: "When I joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), I made a vow to serve the people. This is my original intention, and it will never change in my life."
Duty is an active step in serving the masses. When he encountered a disabled person who wanted to handle business at 10 p.m., the old policeman He Guoqing (贺国庆) completed the process overnight. Accommodating the people's time is his persistence. He said, "I just love to 'handle special affairs in a special way.' But this is not 'handling with special privileges,' but 'handling specially' for the urgent needs and anxieties of the masses."
Why would they make such a choice? Only because in their hearts, there are things more important than life, beliefs more precious than fame and fortune, and aspirations more lofty than comfort. When this duty is established, the view of performance will not be biased.
Establishing a correct view of performance is inseparable from a sense of infatuation. Our modernization is not only the most difficult, but also the greatest. Without a "crazy" energy, we cannot overcome difficulties and achieve practical results.
Infatuation is a state of mind. Shi Guangyin (石光银), a recipient of the "July 1st Medal," has been fighting in the desert for more than 40 years, leading his fellow villagers to create a miracle in desert control and embark on the road to prosperity. Some people once said that he was "asking for trouble," but he said: "I am a party member, and I must stand up and set an example for everyone!"
Infatuation is a kind of power. Sonam Dargye (索南达杰), one of the prototypes of the protagonist of the TV series "Tree of Life" and a cadre in Zhiduo County (治多县), Qinghai (青海), fought with poachers in the no-man's land to protect Tibetan antelopes. This was a dangerous battle with no "term return" in sight, but he did not hesitate to integrate his life into the magnificent picture of ecological protection.
On the road to modernization, why are there always people who are willing to do what others are unwilling to do and dare to do what others dare not do? Only because they deeply love this land and the people on this land. For them, doing business and starting a career is not only giving and dedication, but also love and belonging. Where the will goes, no distance is too far, and no mountain is too high.
Uphold duty to establish oneself, so one is not confined to one's own selfishness, and goes forward despite thousands of people; cherish infatuation to establish a career, so one does not covet temporary achievements, and practices one's mission with a lifetime of effort. In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the wind is strong and the tide is surging. Achieving "accomplishments" with a "selfless" heart is the most practical footnote of the times and the most sonorous answer to the correct view of performance.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 2nd (Reporter Jin Xin (金歆)): A reporter learned on the 2nd from the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) that since the implementation of the Personal Information Protection Law, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), together with relevant departments, has continuously increased its efforts in personal information protection, investigated and dealt with various illegal and irregular acts of processing personal information, and urged and guided personal information processors to continuously improve their compliance level, achieving positive results. In 2026, the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), and the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) will, together with relevant departments, further deepen the governance of typical problems of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in service products such as APPs, as well as in key areas such as internet advertising, education, transportation, health, and finance, and strive to improve the satisfaction and sense of gain of the people.
The relevant departments will carry out a series of special actions focusing on the following key issues: special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information by APPs, etc.; special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in the field of internet advertising; special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in the field of education; special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in the field of transportation; special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in the field of health; special governance of illegal and irregular collection and use of personal information in the field of finance; special crackdown and governance of illegal and criminal cases related to personal information, etc.
Return to TopIn the Hulan Railway Station freight yard in Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), staff are loading grain. As an important commodity grain base in China, Heilongjiang (黑龙江) has sufficient and high-quality grain sources. In response to the continuously growing grain demand in the southern regions, the railway department has tailored transportation plans and regularly operates "point-to-point" grain special trains, allowing high-quality grain to quickly reach the whole country.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd - The State Council has appointed and removed national personnel.
Chang Junhong (常军红) (female) was appointed as Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Finance; Lei Xiaowu (雷小武) was appointed as Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics; Wang Jianbo (汪剑波) was appointed as Deputy Director of the National Energy Administration; Yao Laiying (姚来英) was appointed as Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration.
Zhao Zenglian (赵增连) was removed from the post of Deputy Director of the General Administration of Customs; Yao Laiying (姚来英) was removed from the post of Deputy Director of the State Taxation Administration; Sheng Laiyun (盛来运) was removed from the post of Deputy Director of the National Bureau of Statistics; Zhang Jianmin (张建民) was removed from the post of Director of the State Tobacco Monopoly Administration.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 2nd dispatch (Reporter Gu Yekai (谷业凯)) On April 1st, the National Intellectual Property Administration (国家知识产权局) released the "2025 China Patent Survey Report." The report shows that the industrialization rate of invention patents of Chinese enterprises reached 54%, an increase of 0.7 percentage points compared with 2024, and the industrialization rate of invention patents of enterprises has achieved steady growth during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
The report shows that the proportion of enterprise invention patents obtained through research and development is 87.4%, an increase of 0.8 percentage points compared with 2024. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, this proportion has remained above 80% and shows a steady upward trend. Among the invention patents obtained by enterprises through research and development, the proportion of research and development cycles of more than one year is 55.6%, which is more than half of the total. In 2025, the average income of industrialization of enterprise invention patents was 8.72 million yuan/piece. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the average income level of industrialization of invention patents steadily increased. Among the unindustrialized enterprise invention patents, the proportion used for medium and long-term development technology reserves is the highest, at 34.4%.
In terms of industry-university-research collaborative innovation, the proportion of enterprises cooperating with universities or research institutions reached 43.8%. Among the invention patents obtained by enterprises through cooperative research and development, the proportion of cooperative objects including universities or research institutions was 71.2%, an increase of 6.1 percentage points compared with 2024.
By: 本报记者
Since the launch of the learning and education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions, departments, and units have focused on the theme, meticulously organized, and educated and guided the vast number of party members and cadres to deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. They have consciously sought shortcomings from the perspective of Party spirit, investigated the root causes, strengthened self-cultivation, and strived to achieve performance for the people and through practical work.
Deep Study and Comprehension, Entering the Mind and Heart
On March 20, the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Finance (财政部) held the first study class and collective learning and discussion session of the theoretical learning center group on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on studying "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Expositions on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance," giving full play to its exemplary and leading role.
The Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) guided party members and cadres to deeply study and comprehend General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. It used the Party Leadership Group's study class as a demonstration, "three meetings and one lesson" and "Youth Pioneer Classrooms" as carriers, typical examples and warning education as grasps, and the effectiveness of theoretical arming to promote the correct view of performance to enter the mind, heart, and action.
The Party Committee of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) deeply studied and implemented General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on financial work, consolidated the ideological foundation and calibrated the value coordinates in in-depth discussions and exchanges; combined learning and education with central work, closely focusing on the responsibilities of monetary policy regulation, financial risk prevention and control, and financial services to the real economy; conscientiously studied and implemented the deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, and created a good monetary and financial environment for stable economic growth, high-quality development, and the stable operation of financial markets.
The Party Leadership Group of the State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) proposed "four-learning linkage" measures, adhering to the Party Leadership Group's theoretical learning center group leading learning, market supervision grand lecture hall promoting learning, market supervision learning forum researching learning, and market supervision youth forum practicing learning, guiding party members and cadres to make efforts in deep learning and thorough understanding, and to see results in going deep and being practical. Various grassroots party organizations promoted the correct view of performance to be internalized in the heart and externalized in action through various forms such as centralized learning and discussion, individual self-study, and youth micro-party classes, and effectively consolidated the ideological foundation and calibrated the value coordinates with the results of theoretical learning.
The Party Leadership Group of China Southern Power Grid Company (南方电网公司) used a four-level learning system of "Party Leadership Group leading learning, leadership team guiding learning, branch researching learning, and party members self-learning," and opened special columns for learning and education on the company's internal online platform, such as the "Knowing and Acting Southern Grid" new position. The company's Party Leadership Group consolidated the foundation of faith through holding study classes and theoretical learning center group learning; clarified the practical path through inviting experts to give lectures; and tempered a pragmatic style through carrying out self-examination and discussion with the blade inward.
The Party Committee of China Communications Construction Group (中交集团) held a special study class for learning and education, studying "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Expositions on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance" word by word and sentence by sentence. Members of the leadership team took the lead in exchanging discussions and demonstrating leading learning; party committees at all levels carried out discussions simultaneously, organizing party members and cadres to compare the list of major problems with deviations in the view of performance, deeply digging out ideological lesions and calibrating the direction of action.
Enriching Carriers, Innovating Forms
"Before the meeting, we collected enterprise demands through online platforms, offline 'inspections,' and other channels; at the meeting, we conducted policy publicity, enterprises spoke, and departments responded immediately; after the meeting, we completed classified assignments within 2 working days." A comrade from the Lijiang City Development and Reform Commission (丽江市发展和改革委员会) in Yunnan (云南) introduced. Lijiang City (丽江市) took the political-business symposium as a carrier for carrying out learning and education, promoting party members and cadres to learn while doing and do while learning, and implementing the correct view of performance in the practice of solving problems.
Jixi City (鸡西市) in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) gave full play to the exemplary and leading role of typical cases and warning education. Party committees (party groups) at all levels combined with the actual situation to select positive and negative typical cases in the view of performance in their respective regions, systems, and units, and carried out learning in the form of learning and discussion meetings, case analysis meetings, etc.; they made full use of resources such as warning records of illegal cadres, confession records, warning education films, and warning education bases to carry out warning education.
Huaian District (淮安区) in Huaian City (淮安市), Jiangsu (江苏) took General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance as the first lesson of the Party School's main class, organized district-level leading groups, town and street, and district-level department main responsible comrades to carry out centralized learning and discussion, and at the same time took the lead in carrying out research visits, investigating problems and shortcomings, and promoting the leading group to learn one step ahead and one layer deeper.
The Party Leadership Group of China National Petroleum Corporation (中国石油集团) deeply studied and comprehended General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, focusing on the strategic mission of "building a strong energy country and enabling a better life," closely focusing on the work deployment in 2026 and the starting goal of the "15th Five-Year Plan" to carry out special discussions, demonstrating and driving party organizations at all levels to make good use of carriers such as "three meetings and one lesson" and theme party days, moving the learning classroom to the front line of exploration and development, refining and sales, new energy construction, and engineering technical services, and testing the effectiveness of learning with practical work and practical results.
The Party Committee of the Head Office of Bank of Communications (交通银行) established a monthly centralized learning and discussion mechanism, focusing on each topic of "Excerpts of Xi Jinping's (习近平) Expositions on Establishing and Practicing a Correct View of Performance," combined with learning and thinking and work practice, to conduct exchanges and discussions; members of the leadership team combined with grassroots research, etc., to go deep into the front line to share learning experiences. Party committees of various directly affiliated institutions planned in advance, focused on problems, and conducted in-depth discussions and centralized exchanges through the theoretical learning center group learning of the party committee, etc., deeply studying and thoroughly understanding chapter by chapter and section by section.
Promoting Work Through Learning, Striving for Practical Results
"When carrying out work, we must respect the long-term and systematic characteristics of forest and grassland ecology. The north-south mountain greening project we are promoting is a work that benefits future generations..." At the first "Secretary Forum" in Qushui County (曲水县), Lhasa City (拉萨市), Tibet (西藏) in 2026, a comrade from the Forestry and Grassland Bureau talked about his experience and understanding. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Qushui County (曲水县) has made good use of platforms such as the "Secretary Forum" to educate and guide party members and cadres to carry out learning based on their own work and grassroots practice to ensure practical results.
In Futuguan Community (浮图关社区), Daping Street (大坪街道), Yuzhong District (渝中区), Chongqing (重庆), members of the street leadership team and residents sat around an "deliberation table" made up of several long tables in the courtyard, and launched a "courtyard discussion" on the follow-up maintenance of the installation of elevators in old residential areas. Since the launch of the learning and education campaign, Yuzhong District (渝中区) has adhered to open education, "moving" the learning classroom from the conference room to community courtyards and building enterprises, so that the results of learning and education can be truly transformed into practical actions to serve the masses.
Jincheng City (晋城市), Shanxi (山西) took the satisfaction of the masses as the standard for testing the effectiveness of learning and education, deepened the "four packages and four links" mechanism of municipal leaders contracting counties and linking townships, county-level leaders contracting townships and linking villages, township-level leaders contracting villages and linking households, and village-level cadres contracting households to people, carried out the "planning major events, doing practical things, and accomplishing things" mass opinion collection activity, widely listened to the opinions of party members, cadres, and the masses, understood urgent difficulties and anxieties, and solved outstanding problems.
The Party Committee of China Logistics (中国物流) held a "Gathering Strength to Promote Development" project competition, guiding party members and cadres to take serving national strategies, ensuring the national economy and people's livelihood, promoting modern circulation, and reducing logistics costs as the benchmark for measuring performance, and promoting the group to move from scale integration to quality improvement.
(Reporters Zhao Cheng (赵成), Qu Zhehan (曲哲涵), Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余), Lin Lili (林丽鹂), Wang Ke (王珂), Ding Yiting (丁怡婷), Han Xin (韩鑫), Ge Mengchao (葛孟超), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Fang Yuan (方圆), Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧), Liu Xinwu (刘新吾), Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋) of this newspaper)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2nd. Comrade Chi Haibin (迟海滨), former Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Finance, passed away in Beijing (北京) on February 28, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 94.
After the death of Comrade Chi Haibin (迟海滨), relevant central leading comrades expressed their condolences in various ways and expressed their condolences to his family.
Chi Haibin (迟海滨) was born in Longkou (龙口), Shandong (山东) Province, in June 1931. He participated in the revolution in January 1948 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in August 1956. From September 1948 to December 1949, he served as an accountant at the Heilongjiang (合江省) Provincial Grain Bureau and an accountant at the Huachuan (桦川县) County Enterprise Company in Songjiang (松江省) Province. From October 1950 to December 1954, he served as a cadre in the Northeast Finance Department and a cadre in the Northeast Finance Administration Bureau. From December 1954 to April 1971, he served as Deputy Section Chief and Deputy Division Chief of the Economic Construction Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance, and Deputy Leader of the Enterprise Finance Group of the Financial Business Group. From April 1971 to June 1972, he worked at the "May Seventh" Cadre School of the Ministry of Finance. From June 1972 to April 1982, he served as Deputy Division Chief, Head, and Deputy Director-General of the Industrial and Transportation Finance Department of the Ministry of Finance. From April 1982 to May 1986, he served as Vice Minister and member of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Finance. From May 1986 to April 1993, he served as Vice Minister and Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group of the Ministry of Finance. He retired in December 2003.
Chi Haibin (迟海滨) was a representative of the 13th and 14th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China, a member of the Standing Committee of the 8th National People's Congress (全国人民代表大会) and Deputy Director of the Financial and Economic Committee, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 9th National People's Congress and a member of the Financial and Economic Committee. He served as the President of the Chinese Abacus Association (中国珠算协会) and the President of the Council of the World Abacus and Mental Arithmetic Federation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shanghai, April 2nd (Reporter) - Comrade Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪), former Director and Party Group Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee, and former Chairman and Party Group Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), passed away in Shanghai on March 7, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 91.
After the death of Comrade Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪), relevant central leaders expressed their condolences in various ways and expressed their condolences to her family.
Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪) was born in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province in December 1935. She started working in September 1956 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in January 1952. From September 1961, she successively served as a lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Physics of Tongji University (同济大学), head of the Material Mechanics Laboratory, Party Branch Secretary of the Basic Mechanics Teaching and Research Section, and Party General Branch Secretary of the Department of Mathematics and Physics. From July 1981, she served as Deputy Party Secretary of Tongji University (同济大学). From March 1983, she served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee (上海市委常委) and Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Education and Health Work Party Committee. From April 1988, she served as Deputy Director of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (上海市人大常委会). From June 1991, she served as Deputy Secretary of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee (上海市委副书记). From February 1993, she served as a member of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee (上海市委常委), Chairman of the Municipal CPPCC (市政协), and Party Group Secretary. From January 1996, she served as Chairman of the Shanghai Municipal CPPCC (上海市政协) and Party Group Secretary. From February 1998 to February 2003, she served as Director of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress Standing Committee (上海市人大常委会) and Party Group Secretary. She formerly served as Honorary President of the China Charity Federation (中华慈善总会).
Chen Tiedi (陈铁迪) was a representative of the 13th, 14th, 15th, and 16th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China (中共), a representative of the 9th and 10th National People's Congress (全国人大), and a member of the 8th National Committee of the CPPCC (全国委员会).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Hefei, April 2nd (Reporter) -- Comrade Wang Jinshan (王金山), former Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and former Director of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial People's Congress, passed away in Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽) on March 9, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 81.
After the death of Comrade Wang Jinshan (王金山), relevant central leading comrades expressed their condolences in different ways and expressed their condolences to his relatives.
Wang Jinshan (王金山) was born in February 1945 in Gongzhuling (公主岭), Jilin (吉林). He started working in September 1967 and joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in February 1971. From April 1983, he served as Vice Governor of Jilin Province (吉林省). From January 1988, he served successively as Deputy Secretary of the Baicheng (白城) Prefectural Committee of the Communist Party of China in Jilin Province, Commissioner of the Administrative Office, and Secretary of the Baicheng (白城) Prefectural Committee. From February 1991, he served successively as Deputy Minister of the Organization Department of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, Member of the Standing Committee of the Jilin Provincial Party Committee, Minister of the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, Deputy Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Provincial Political and Legal Affairs Commission, and Principal of the Provincial Party School. From July 1996, he served as Deputy Secretary of the Zhejiang Provincial Party Committee and Principal of the Provincial Party School. From November 1998, he served successively as Deputy Secretary of the Party Group and Vice Chairman of the Council of the All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives (中华全国供销合作总社), and Secretary of the Party Group. From September 2002, he served successively as Deputy Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, Vice Governor, Acting Governor, and Governor of Anhui Province (安徽省). From November 2007 to May 2010, he served successively as Secretary of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee, and Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Anhui Provincial People's Congress.
Wang Jinshan (王金山) was an alternate member of the 15th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), a member of the 16th and 17th Central Committees of the Communist Party of China, and a representative of the 14th, 15th, 16th, and 17th National Congresses of the Communist Party of China. He was the Deputy Director of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee of the 11th and 12th National People's Congress, and a representative of the 10th, 11th, and 12th National People's Congress.
Return to TopBy: 李洪兴
The real leap always begins with one step after another. Every step taken counts.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly defines the direction and priorities for the next five years. How to implement it well? The keyword "step by step" provides an important perspective.
"After continuous transformation, upgrading, quality improvement, and upgrading, we move up step by step," "Step by step to build the foundation of mass medical care." At the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (两会), focusing on developing new quality productive forces, and around artificial intelligence empowering new grassroots diagnosis and treatment systems, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized "step by step" when discussing state affairs with deputies and members, demonstrating the methodology of accumulating small victories into big ones.
In the "first lesson of the year," he pointed out, "Take firm steps step by step, and advance stage by stage"; at the Spring Festival group visit, he emphasized, "Walk firmly forward step by step, and steadily advance stage by stage"... General Secretary Xi Jinping's words are full of strategic determination and gather the strength to forge ahead.
Having a grand plan in mind and being down-to-earth are important methods and experiences for our party to govern the country.
Looking at history, from the "First Five-Year Plan" to the "15th Five-Year Plan," successively drawing blueprints and continuously grasping implementation, national strategic deployments are transformed into concrete tasks step by step, and long-term goals are broken down into actionable and pragmatic measures... The connection in the long timeline has created the advantages of stable direction and strong execution. This vividly interprets that "good planning and execution must be combined."
Looking at practice, taking the example of people in remote rural areas seeing a doctor, in the past, there was a lack of doctors and medicines, insufficient equipment, minor illnesses were delayed, major illnesses were difficult to treat, and costs were high. Now there are village health rooms, various insurances, medical linkage, remote consultation... Improving grassroots medical care is difficult to achieve 一步到位 (yībùdàowèi - "one step in place," to accomplish something in one step; to get there in one move), but "every step" has improved. The process of pursuing a happy life is precisely "taking one step at a time, and passing the baton forward one after another."
This reminds people of the methodology of the development process, gradual progress and steady progress.
"Step by step" means grasping the rhythm and direction well. For example, from solving the problem of food and clothing to achieving a comprehensive well-off society, it is based on precision to achieve a different look every year. Now, to accelerate the modernization of agriculture and rural areas, it is also necessary to distinguish between primary and secondary, focus on key points, and continue to work hard in terms of abundant production, prosperity for the people, and industry. For another example, industries such as artificial intelligence and new energy did not explode overnight in the past, and now they must rely on enterprises and research institutions to achieve breakthroughs and seize opportunities in continuous accumulation.
In fact, this method is a cumulative practice. It's like building a house, first laying a solid foundation, and then building it layer by layer. Development is the same, taking the first step well, and then gradually improving, quantitative change will bring about qualitative change.
This also reminds me of the iterative thinking of the digital age, gradual optimization and dynamic debugging.
In recent years, robots have always been amazing. From welding and handling on the production line to learning to dance and boxing... The reason why robots continue to "evolve" is due to the continuous improvement of "hardware iteration + algorithm optimization," and also to the continuous adaptation of application scenarios. "Trial and error - correction - breakthrough" is the norm for technological change and application expansion.
Looking further, iterative thinking reflects problem orientation, and new problems and new needs stimulate new ideas and new solutions. For example, government services have changed from people running errands to "one network for all," "cross-provincial handling," and "easy handling on the palm," and service processes are constantly being reshaped with technological updates, and the degree of convenience and benefit to the people is also increasing; there is no best business environment, only better, and Shanghai's action plan has entered "Version 9.0," which not only provides factor guarantees, but also enables innovation.
Society is always developing, and new situations and new problems are emerging one after another. Go to the problem, stare at the problem and change it, work hard and gain experience in studying new situations and solving new problems, accurately exert force, and be down-to-earth, and the goals that are identified can be achieved.
This also reminds me of the consistent view of political achievements, steady and steady progress, and long-term success.
The "Double Eight Strategy" (八八战略) leads the transformation of Zhejiang (之江) land, the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) continues to deepen and advance, and a plan spanning 15 years has turned Xiamen's (厦门) grand plan into a beautiful scenery... Abandoning the slogan of "achieving success in one fell swoop," having more "step-by-step" execution, and taking out the perseverance of "water dripping through stone" (水滴石穿 (shuǐ dī shí chuān - "water drips pierce stone," constant effort brings success)), only by engraving political achievements in the depth of time and falling into pragmatic actions can they stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Accumulate steps to travel a long way. Forward development is the superposition of countless "steps" and the continuous cultivation day after day. Whether it is the grand narrative of development or the microscopic picture of people's livelihood, the real leap always begins with one step after another. Every step taken counts.
Return to TopBy: 孔艳华
In 2024, when the plane landed at Lhasa Gonggar Airport (拉萨贡嘎机场) in Tibet (西藏), the high altitude immediately gave me a 下马威 (xià mǎ wēi - "a show of strength from the outset," an initial deterrent) – the severe panic caused my heart rate to soar, and my blood oxygen saturation barely maintained around 80%. It seemed to be reminding me that working on the plateau wouldn't be easy. Although my body felt uncomfortable, my belief was firm: having chosen to aid Tibet (援藏), I would never retreat.
During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "For the construction of a healthy China (健康中国), the shortcoming in remote areas must be addressed." Coming to Tibet (西藏) is to make up for the local medical shortcomings, but over time, I also feel that Tibet (西藏) has made up for my "shortcomings," often healing, always inspiring, and promoting growth.
During my aid work in Tibet (援藏), I have taken many pulses. Through each pulse, I touched the most moving power of this land and re-examined and understood the profession of a doctor.
A pair of herder's hands made me feel the trust and respect of the plateau people for doctors. Dorje (多吉), a herdsman, was the first patient I became familiar with. The first time I took his pulse, when he saw me gesture for his hand, he grabbed my hand and kept saying "Manba, Tu Qi Ji (曼巴，突及其)." I asked, and it turned out to be Tibetan for "Thank you, doctor." Those rough hands were warm and strong, calming my initial anxiety.
Later, when his health improved, he walked into the clinic with a large bag of dried beef, loudly greeting everyone and introducing that it was air-dried beef from northern Tibet (藏北), brought from his hometown and prepared by himself. Seeing that we didn't accept gifts, he insisted on asking everyone to tear off a little to taste. The beef chewed in the mouth was sweet in the heart. The plateau is bitterly cold, but such simple emotions warm people so they are no longer afraid of the cold, making them willing to take deeper root.
A pair of soldier's hands allowed me to experience the loyalty and dedication of young border guards to the motherland. When I went to a border post for a free clinic, I met a young soldier who still had a childish face. The harsh wind of the plateau had carved rough marks on his face that were inconsistent with his age, and his eyes were full of bloodshot eyes due to long-term hypoxia, but his eyes were extremely firm. When taking his pulse, the disordered heart pulse under my fingers made my heart tighten. A heart that should have been strong at this age was undergoing the test of low oxygen on the plateau. Seeing me frown, he whispered: "It's been four months since I came up, and I always wake up suffocated at night, with a stone pressing on my chest, and I can't catch my breath even when I turn over..." Before he finished speaking, he smiled embarrassedly, as if apologizing for his "delicacy."
Hearing this, my nose felt sore. Heaven and earth are silent, and the plateau stands still. Young soldiers nail themselves to the place where the motherland needs them most, building a steel barrier with their youth and blood, guarding the motherland and protecting the people. The soldiers never complain, but their bodies have been silently bearing the burden of rising altitude. Isn't this another kind of burning oneself? Such patriotic feelings are purer than the snow on the plateau and need us to cherish and protect them.
A pair of colleagues' hands allowed me to understand the plateau doctors' sincerity and love for their careers. I have a "little apprentice" named He Fengjuan (何凤娟). Under the guidance of generations of aid-Tibet (援藏) doctors, she is now able to stand alone. Once, when I took her pulse, I suddenly felt her heartbeat under my fingers was disordered. It turned out that she caught a glimpse of the photo of me and my child on my phone's lock screen, and she felt a little emotional: "I don't know when I will be able to live with my child!"
He Fengjuan (何凤娟) works as a doctor in Tibet (西藏), and her child attends kindergarten in her hometown, thousands of miles apart, and they are full of concern for each other. This care is transformed into her care for patients: "The more this is the case, the more we must take good care of patients. Since we can't be with our families, let's dedicate this heart to society and to patients." The words are simple but powerful. I don't know how many other medical workers like her have turned their love for their families into love for the snowy plateau. The benevolence of doctors, on the plateau, my understanding of these four words has increased by one point.
Now, the aid work in Tibet (援藏) has ended, but those touching pulses are always unforgettable. If someone asks me, should I go to aid Tibet (援藏)? I would sincerely suggest, be sure to go! Not to prove, but to discover – to discover a more resilient self, a purer love, and a broader life. Aiding Tibet (援藏) is a contribution, but also development and growth. What we share is technology, what we cultivate is spirit, we heal, and we are also healed.
(The author is a member of the group-style aid-Tibet (援藏) medical team of the Organization Department of the Central Committee (中组部) and a doctor at China-Japan Friendship Hospital (中日友好医院). This newspaper reporter Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) compiled the interview)
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【Keywords】Seed Exchange
【Event】At the recent National People's Congress (全国两会), in front of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), three wheat breeding experts from different provinces—Ru Zhengang (茹振钢) from Henan, Guo Jinkao (郭进考) from Hebei, and Yang Wuyun (杨武云) from Sichuan—carefully took out a packet of wheat seeds from their pockets and solemnly exchanged them with each other. They promised each other to break regional boundaries, share high-quality germplasm resources, and collaboratively tackle core technologies in the seed industry.
【Commentary】
A good seed, planted in the soil, can grow into a crop; planted in the hearts of researchers, it yields a golden belief. In front of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂), it was not just wheat seeds that were exchanged, but also the true feelings of agricultural researchers.
This true feeling is in the solemn commitment. Two years ago, a "seed exchange" scene was staged. Ru Zhengang (茹振钢) from Henan handed a small packet of seeds to Guo Jinkao (郭进考) from Hebei, who in turn gave back the "Malan No. 1" wheat seeds he had independently cultivated. Two years have passed, and Guo Jinkao (郭进考) brought good news: the descendants of those seeds have been successfully propagated in Hainan and have been transplanted back to Hebei. Promises must be kept, and efforts will be rewarded. Such seamless cooperation is especially valuable to researchers.
This true feeling is in the selfless sharing. Scientific research needs to seize the high ground, and a certain degree of competition is inevitable. Seeds are the "chips" of agriculture. The birth of an excellent variety often embodies the researchers' painstaking efforts of "ten years of grinding a sword," which can be described as a "secret." Refusing to fight alone, the three took the initiative to open their "pockets." The few seeds exchanged are valuable resources, key data, and opportunities for breakthroughs. Removing invisible barriers and forming a "1+1>2" effect, such a sense of the overall situation and a win-win consciousness are crucial to the development of the cause.
This true feeling is even more in the sincere original intention. As several experts said, sharing without reservation is because they all have the same thing in their hearts—to ensure national food security and firmly hold the Chinese people's rice bowl in their own hands. Food security is a matter of national importance (国之大者) (guó zhī dà zhě - "the most important thing for the country," refers to matters of national importance and strategic significance). When facing major events, the original intention is even more tested. If the original intention is firm, the direction will not be lost. With a sincere heart, carrying out pragmatic cooperation, and building an efficient and collaborative innovation network, scientific research can naturally gather immense power.
This true feeling is not only the "patent" of agricultural research, but is also shining in various fields. The "seed agreement" in front of the Great Hall of the People (人民大会堂) is a vivid footnote to China's deepening reform of the science and technology system and optimization of the innovation ecology.
The establishment of the Central Science and Technology Commission (中央科技委员会) to strengthen the overall planning of strategic planning, policy measures, major tasks, scientific research forces, resource platforms, and regional innovation; the revision of the Law on Scientific and Technological Progress to clarify the "establishment of a regional scientific and technological innovation cooperation mechanism and a collaborative mutual assistance mechanism"... In recent years, a series of powerful measures aimed at breaking down scientific research "islands," promoting resource sharing, and strengthening collaborative innovation have been introduced one after another. Improving the new national system, strengthening the awareness of the whole country as one, promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, research, and application, and allowing innovation elements to flow smoothly between different entities will surely accelerate the realization of high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement.
Exchanging true feelings, conveying hope. On the day the three experts met, snowflakes floated in the sky in Beijing (北京), and the snowflakes fell on their shoulders and hair. "A timely snow promises a good harvest!" "Spring rain is as precious as oil!" "Let's do it together!" The words are full of hope. We look forward to more researchers transforming their ideals and feelings into practical actions, moving forward step by step, and helping to turn a strong country in science and technology and a strong country in agriculture into reality.
Data shows that the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学) has established 82,000 grassroots learning centers across the country, and a three-dimensional, grid-based education service network is gradually taking shape. The National Public Service Platform for Elderly Education has gathered 793,000 age-appropriate free course resources, totaling 7.295 million minutes, with 12.22 million registered users. An extensive, universally beneficial, high-quality elderly education system is continuously improving, and the level of lifelong learning public services is continuously increasing.
This is precisely:
The elderly gather together,
Wandering in the sea of learning.
Who says the twilight years are late?
Picking up shells to salute the setting sun.
By Shen Qiuwen (沈丘文)
Return to TopBy: 王一喆
"Young people must go to bed early" and "Regularity is more important than duration" – recently, sleep-related topics have sparked heated discussions. Emphasizing sleep is respecting healthy routines and awakening personal responsibility for health. Each person is the primary person responsible for their own health. Every reasonable dietary combination and every choice to avoid staying up late are accumulating energy for life. Seemingly insignificant daily adherence, when gathered together, forms an unbreakable health dam.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines "promoting the shift from a disease-centered approach to a health-centered approach." This is a profound change in social concepts. Maintaining physical health is not an awakening when seeking medical treatment for illness, but should be integrated into daily life.
The prevention and control of chronic diseases also illustrates the importance of prevention first. According to statistics, the disease burden caused by chronic diseases exceeds 70%, and deaths caused by them account for 88.5% of total deaths. The occurrence of chronic diseases is inextricably linked to unhealthy lifestyles. From bidding farewell to high-oil diets to bring "three highs" indicators back to normal, to improving physical and mental states through exercise and fitness, chronic disease prevention and control relies on proactive changes to prevent diseases before they occur. A doctor's scalpel can remove lesions, but an individual's self-discipline can largely prevent the occurrence of diseases.
The national health defense line relies not only on individual conscious adherence, but also on the hard-core protection of primary healthcare workers. They are the front-line sentinels who adhere to prevention first, building a professional barrier to protect health. Fan Huyong (范虎勇), a village doctor in Changxing County (长兴县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), has persevered in his village clinic for more than 40 years, using crutches. Gu Bo (谷波), a "backpack doctor" in Qingyang District (青羊区), Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), has been rooted in the community for nearly 20 years. Numerous primary healthcare workers fulfill their duties and missions with day-to-day efforts, consolidating the first line of defense against disease prevention and control.
Adhering to a health-centered approach also requires all sectors of society to come up with practical and warm measures. Universities in Beijing (北京) organize outdoor walking activities for faculty and staff to stretch their bodies and minds and relieve work pressure in the mountains and rivers. Making healthy lifestyles more attractive helps everyone develop good habits imperceptibly.
To promote the shift from a disease-centered approach to a health-centered approach, it is even more important to make full life-cycle health services tangible and accessible. Community health stations that could only dispense medicine and give injections in the past are now upgrading equipment and staffing to conduct basic examinations. Residents can sign contracts with family doctor teams to enjoy bundled services from establishing health records and managing chronic diseases to door-to-door medication changes and rehabilitation guidance. Geriatric medicine is no longer a simple "repair," but a three-dimensional protection that integrates physiological, psychological, and social support. Taking into account different groups and providing personalized care makes the construction of a Healthy China more warm.
The construction of a Healthy China is not a solo performance, but a concerto: individuals practice the concept of healthy living; Party committees and governments build a policy bottom line for public health services and improve the health security system; the medical system shifts from a passive response of "treating existing diseases" to a proactive approach of "treating diseases before they occur"; and society builds a platform for national health and creates an atmosphere of healthy living. With all parties working together in the same direction, the cornerstone of a Healthy China will be more solid.
Return to TopBy: 孙海天
Meishan Wang has a new ledger that he is increasingly reluctant to put down. At the entrance of the Weida Chemical Plant in Yangpu, Hainan (海南洋浦), he took out his phone, opened the calculator, and recalculated the account – purchasing 16,000 tons of polypropylene annually. Previously, each ton included a 6.5% import tariff. After the customs closure, the raw material cost per ton decreased by 400 yuan, saving more than 6 million yuan annually.
This calculation was impossible to make three months ago. Weida Chemical and Hainan Refining & Chemical (海南炼化) have been neighbors for 20 years, separated by only a wall, but the "distance" in policy once caused frustration. Before the customs closure, the 30% value-added tariff exemption policy was only available to Hainan Refining & Chemical, the "chain leader" enterprise, while the downstream supporting Weida Chemical could only watch enviously. Now, the two companies have completed Hainan's first cumulative value-added tariff exemption business. With cost advantages, they are in a better position to promote more "Hainan-made" products to a wider market.
More business entities sharing policy dividends reflect the significant changes after the closure of the free trade port. One cannot help but ask again: How can enterprises have a wider road to market? It can be explained with three keywords.
First, synergy. The vitality of a policy lies not in single-point breakthroughs, but in layer-by-layer transmission and ring-by-ring empowerment.
For example, the expansion of zero-tariff list items, value-added tariff exemptions, and the addition of multi-functional free trade account tools – multiple policies form a combined punch, lowering the overall cost line. Some enterprises save 12 million yuan in tariffs per 100 million yuan of raw materials, while others have cumulatively enjoyed about 300 million yuan in value-added tariff reductions. For example, in the Xiang-Qiong Advanced Manufacturing Co-construction Industrial Park, Hunan's engineering machinery, technology, and enterprises are accelerating their integration with Hainan's free trade port policies and deep-water port advantages; nuts from Africa, after being processed by Wunye Foods in Dongfang City, Hainan (海南东方市), are transported to the China-Africa Economic and Trade Cooperation Innovation Promotion Demonstration Park in Hunan. Playing the "synergy card," leveraging the multiplier effect of policies and the agglomeration effect of factors, the industrial ecology will be richer, and enterprises will have more confidence to venture out.
Second, precision. For enterprises to grow bigger and stronger, policy support must be strong, and services must be precise.
Gege Foods (鸽鸽食品), which traveled thousands of miles from Jiangxi, when it first arrived in Yangpu to "build a nest," the Danzhou Enterprise Service Center (儋州企业服务中心) mobilized its backbone within 10 minutes to rush to the scene to provide full assistance. High-efficiency, high-quality service allows enterprises to focus on production and expand the market without distraction. Moreover, Hainan also relies on the "Hai Yi Dui" (海易兑) system to promote the transformation of enterprise-benefiting policies from "passive application" to "active realization." From "policies finding enterprises" to transparent law enforcement with "one code showing the bottom line," and then to direct access to funds with "exemption from application and immediate enjoyment," the precision of governance enhances the warmth of service and solidifies enterprises' confidence in scaling new heights.
Third, rhythm. Promoting development requires both the "fast forward" of seizing the day and the "slow thinking" of steady progress.
When policies are clearly defined, execution must be fast. In Haikou (海口), the Nongfu Spring (农夫山泉) base project took only 40 days from signing to land acquisition, and the approval procedures were reduced to 14 working days; in Chengmai (澄迈), the Feitiangu Hainan Digital Industry Community project in the Zhejiang-Qiong Cooperation Industrial Park completed the land ownership procedures on the second day after the Spring Festival holiday, paving the way for "starting construction upon land acquisition." Steadiness is reflected in the prudence of institutional exploration. Whether it is the value-added tariff exemption policy expanding from pilot projects in individual parks to the entire island, or the free trade port legal system gradually improving from scratch, it reflects the strategic determination to focus on the long term. The sense of rhythm of combining speed and slowness, and seeking progress in stability, ensures that every step of reform is both fast and steady.
Synergy breaks down barriers, precision builds trust, and rhythm has a proper balance. When policy effects, industrial vitality, and governance effectiveness resonate at the same frequency, a more open and dynamic development pattern will naturally form. Ausca Grains & Oils' rapeseed oil was exported to Malaysia for the first time, Zhong'ao Tangye's bone broth concentrate products went directly from Yangpu's front port and back factory to overseas tables, and Sanya's Hairun Pearl (三亚的海润珍珠) relied on the value-added tariff exemption policy to achieve a double improvement in product domestic sales and brand overseas expansion... Since the customs closure, the number of newly added foreign-funded enterprises in Hainan Free Trade Port has increased by 30%, and the number of newly registered foreign trade enterprises has increased by 74%. More and more enterprises are regarding Hainan as a starting point for going overseas.
In the past, the sea was a geographical barrier; now, the sea is an open channel. Bringing in, allowing various factors to converge in Hainan; going out, allowing more enterprises to set sail from Hainan. As policy dividends continue to be released and the business environment continues to improve, the development path connecting domestic and foreign markets will surely become wider and wider.
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Headline Highlights
Token, the smallest unit of information processed by large models. China's daily average token usage has increased significantly, reflecting not only the vigorous vitality of the intelligent economy but also implying that a new type of business logic is accelerating its evolution. In the intelligent era, with measurable, priceable, and tradable tokens, artificial intelligence is expected to become a basic resource like water and electricity, supporting the operation of society.
On the user end, it's used for looking up information, writing code, and revising copy; on the enterprise end, it's used for financial risk control, intelligent customer service, and code correction. Nowadays, every scenario where artificial intelligence applications are implemented is inseparable from the massive use of tokens.
Token, the smallest unit of information processed by large models. In March of this year, China's daily average token usage exceeded 140 trillion, an increase of more than a thousand times in two years. How should we understand tokens? What is the relationship between tokens and the artificial intelligence industry, and what are the future development trends? The reporter conducted interviews.
The Explosive Growth of Token Usage is Due to the Improvement of Model Capabilities
Some people wonder, how are tokens different from common data?
"The essence of artificial intelligence large models is a complex mathematical operation system. It cannot directly understand text, hear sounds, or understand images like humans," said Tang Huabin (唐华斌), Deputy Director of the Network and IT Technology Research Institute of China Mobile Research Institute (中国移动研究院). "Artificial intelligence large models must first convert all kinds of raw data into a 'language' that they can recognize, and then output the results through calculations. Tokens are the most basic unit in this 'language'."
Specifically, text tokens are like "LEGO bricks," where a word or a Chinese character is broken down into blocks of tokens; audio tokens are like "notes on a musical score," where a piece of sound is cut into extremely short time segments, each containing pitch and volume; video tokens are like "puzzle pieces," where each frame is cut into small squares, and the continuity in time must also be considered.
"In the eyes of large models, there is no difference between the three modalities of tokens. In the model's eyes, it doesn't feel like it is reading text or watching videos; it only feels like it is processing an extremely complex sequence of numbers," said Wu Di (吴迪), Head of Intelligent Algorithms at Volcano Engine (火山引擎).
Basic tokens constitute the "cells" of the intelligent economy. In March of this year, China's weekly token usage of artificial intelligence large models ranked first for three consecutive weeks, making it one of the countries with the highest activity in global large model applications.
"The most direct reason for the explosive growth of token usage is the improvement of model capabilities. Every improvement in model capabilities will unlock more application scenarios, thereby further increasing the token usage of large models," Wu Di (吴迪) said. Taking Seedance (豆包视频生成模型) 2.0 as an example, generating a 1-minute video consumes more than 1 million tokens.
At the same time, new application forms and new business models will also drive a significant increase in the token usage of large models. Tang Huabin (唐华斌) said that the recently emerging intelligent agents are different from traditional single-round question-and-answer systems. Their operation often means longer context, more frequent model calls, more rounds of task decomposition, and continuous feedback during the tool execution process.
"Simple tasks, if they can be completed with only a single round or a few rounds of tool calls, only require a few thousand tokens; if they require dozens of rounds of tool calls, they need to consume at least tens of thousands of tokens or even more," Wu Di (吴迪) said. The emergence of new business forms such as intelligent agents has put token usage into a rapid growth channel again.
Token Usage is Concentrated in Areas with High Information Density and Fast Iteration Cycles
6 billion is the amount of token usage for Li Jiayi (李加义), the founder of iAskData Technology (爱问答科技), in the past year.
Walking into the AI Origin Community (AI原点社区) in Haidian District (海淀区), Beijing (北京), in a studio of about 16 square meters, Li Jiayi's (李加义) team is debugging the newly designed AI toy.
"This toy needs to have interactive capabilities, which is inseparable from the corresponding software system. In the past, the development of a software system of the same size would take at least half a year, and it would require the cooperation of multiple people," Li Jiayi (李加义) said. With the deep empowerment of AI large models and assisted programming, the development cycle has been compressed to two months, consuming hundreds of millions of tokens.
In early 2025, Li Jiayi (李加义), who did not have a computer science background, came into contact with AI-assisted programming tools and used new technologies to break through the professional barriers of software development. "In one year, we efficiently completed the development and design of two APPs and an AI toy. Not long ago, we also launched our self-developed AI hardware products at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES)," Li Jiayi (李加义) said. AI assistance not only greatly reduces development costs but also makes innovation exploration more possible for small and micro enterprises.
Software development is one of the typical scenarios for the implementation of artificial intelligence applications. Overall, the distribution of token usage shows distinct industry and scenario characteristics, mainly concentrated in areas with higher information density, faster product iteration cycles, and closer connections between models and production systems.
Taking Baidu's Ernie Bot (豆包大模型) 2.0 as an example, Wu Di (吴迪) introduced that from the perspective of industry classification, the Internet industry has the highest proportion of token usage, followed by consumer electronics, finance, new retail, and business services.
From the perspective of scenarios, the processing and analysis of unstructured information accounts for the largest proportion, followed by education, content creation, and "search and recommendation."
Observing future development trends, intelligent agent application scenarios such as software development, in-depth research, and personal assistants may become important areas for the explosive growth of token usage. "Especially in software development, artificial intelligence is currently shifting from simply writing code to understanding the entire project. It can not only troubleshoot errors and automatically optimize but even complete the entire development task independently through intelligent agents. The code context is long, and there are many rounds of interaction. Companies have a strong willingness to pay to improve efficiency, which will become a huge demand growth point," Tang Huabin (唐华斌) said.
Tokens are Measurable, and Artificial Intelligence is Expected to Become a Basic Resource for Social Operation
"Since the end of January this year, some model companies have set a performance record of exceeding the total revenue for the entire year of 2025 in 20 days. Behind this set of numbers, a new type of business logic based on token billing is accelerating its evolution," said Liu Liehong (刘烈宏), Director of the National Data Bureau (国家数据局).
Looking back at the development history of the artificial intelligence industry, in the past, the industry focused on the competition of model performance, and there was a lack of quantifiable connection bridges between technological innovation and commercial implementation, making it difficult to form a virtuous cycle of "technology iteration - value output - continuous investment."
"Tokens themselves have the characteristics of being measurable, anchoring computing power consumption, and universal cross-modal settlement, which enables them to become a settlement unit connecting technology supply and commercial demand. To give an example, the intelligence output by large models is like electricity, and intelligent computing centers are like power plants. Electricity is measured in kilowatt-hours, and intelligent calls are billed in tokens," said Huang Shan (黄山), Strategic Management Director of Lenovo China Infrastructure Business Group (联想中国基础设施业务群). Looking forward to the intelligent society of the future, artificial intelligence is expected to become a basic resource like water and electricity, available on demand, and you pay for what you use.
From the perspective of tokens, what advantages does China have in creating a new form of intelligent economy? What are the key development points?
Algorithm innovation continues to achieve breakthroughs, and domestic large models are gradually narrowing the gap with the world's top technologies through underlying architecture optimization. Wu Di (吴迪) said that China's large model manufacturers have made a lot of algorithm innovations, continuously optimizing reasoning costs and response speeds, and can complete complex tasks with fewer tokens.
Infrastructure has leading advantages. Every token generated is calling the computing power of the data center, accompanied by power consumption. China has built the world's most complete and largest energy system, with sufficient power supply, a strong power grid, and a vibrant market. Tang Huabin (唐华斌) said that China's continuous improvement in power supply and continuous reduction in electricity costs can effectively reduce token usage costs.
"Energy consumption and computing power are the two key costs of token usage. Allowing each token to be produced with less computing power and less energy consumption reflects the production capacity and efficiency of infrastructure such as intelligent computing centers," Huang Shan (黄山) said. It is necessary to build a safe, efficient, and inclusive artificial intelligence infrastructure, continuously improve the reasoning efficiency of large models, and reduce the cost of individual tokens, so that artificial intelligence can be applied on a large scale to the greatest extent.
Return to TopBy: 袁 军
Have you ever wondered when talking to artificial intelligence: how does cold data turn into vivid and intelligent content? To understand the secrets behind this, you must first understand how tokens "flow."
For artificial intelligence, tokens are like a "translator," building a bridge between human language and machine numbers. All data fed to artificial intelligence needs to be divided into independent tokens according to rules, and then converted into digital codes before it can be recognized by artificial intelligence. For example, if you enter "Spring Festival dumplings (春节包饺子)," artificial intelligence will divide it into three tokens: "Spring Festival (春节)/wrap (包)/dumplings (饺子)," and then find the matching code from the "dictionary."
To process these tokens on a large scale in batches, a "token factory" – a data center – is indispensable. Before artificial intelligence officially starts working, it needs to go through a training process: the data center consumes a lot of electricity, starts the computing power engine, and continuously feeds hundreds of trillions of tokens to the artificial intelligence. What it has to do is to dig out and remember the relationship between tokens, such as when "Spring Festival (春节)/wrap (包)/dumplings (饺子)" appear, artificial intelligence can associate with tokens such as "North (北方)" and "tradition (传统)" that often appear in the same frame with them in the learning materials. These experiences precipitated from massive tokens are what we perceive as "intelligence."
When you ask artificial intelligence a question, the factory runs again. The question is divided into tokens and sent to artificial intelligence, and the huge computing power group then drives it to carry out a "text relay race," which is reasoning. According to the input tokens, artificial intelligence predicts the next most likely token step by step according to the experience and rules learned before, and splices out complete content, and then translates it back into human text. Then the sentence jumps out on the screen: "Wrapping dumplings (包饺子) during the Spring Festival (春节) is a tradition in the North (北方)."
Behind the jumping tokens is a leap in productivity, which enables artificial intelligence to discover the deep correlation rules from massive data, greatly expanding the space for data value mining. It is also small tokens that connect the bridge between data and intelligence, which not only gives data temperature, but also makes every response of artificial intelligence a vivid practice of data value release.
(The author is the Deputy Dean of the National Data Development Research Institute (国家数据发展研究院). This report was compiled from interviews with Wang Yunshan (王云杉), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郁静娴
In spring, rapeseed flowers bloom, full of vitality. From the flowering of rapeseed to seed formation, a special group quietly plays a key role in increasing the yield and quality of rapeseed: bees.
A single bee's body surface has branched villi and electrostatic properties that can adhere to over 5 million pollen grains, enabling precise pollen transfer to the stigma for pollination. Rapeseed has a long flowering period and a large planting area, making it China's main spring source of nectar and pollen. Bee pollination is a cost-effective green technology pathway for increasing rapeseed yield per unit area. Through long-term co-evolution, rapeseed and bees have formed an interdependent relationship. "If there are fewer bees, it will cause poor pollination, and the pods will have sparse seeds or shriveled grains," said Wang Zhongdong (汪忠东), farm owner of Zhongdong Family Farm in Wangjiang County (望江县), Anhui Province (安徽省).
Recently, the Rapeseed Bee Pollination On-site Observation Conference, hosted by the Institute of Apicultural Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院蜜蜂研究所), the Oil Crops Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院油料作物研究所), and other units, was held in Wangjiang County (望江县). As the largest rapeseed planting county in Anhui Province (安徽省), beekeepers bring their bee colonies here to chase the flowers and collect honey every March and April. In addition to more than 50 local beekeeping households with approximately 9,000 bee colonies, 35 beekeepers from other places have come here this year for seasonal migration.
As the large-scale yield improvement action for major crops such as grains and oilseeds continues to advance, the importance of bee pollination as a green yield-increasing technology continues to stand out. It is understood that rapeseed's dependence on bees in the pollination process is about 25%, making it a highly dependent crop. In 2022, the breakthrough of double-density and high-yield technology increased the rapeseed planting density in some areas from the traditional 15,000 plants per mu to nearly 30,000 plants per mu. In addition, a large amount of winter fallow land has been expanded to plant short-growth-period rapeseed. These new technologies and models have placed new demands on pollen transmission efficiency and pollination time windows.
Currently, it is the flowering period of winter rapeseed, which is also a critical window for preventing and controlling sclerotinia. How can we balance the scientific use of pesticides during the rapeseed flowering period with bee protection?
"In production practice, growers will actively protect bees," said the relevant person in charge of the National Agricultural Technology Extension Service Center (全国农业技术推广服务中心). In response to the relatively common use of pesticides during the flowering period in recent years, various regions will guide farmers to choose appropriate agents and appropriate timing for operations to minimize the impact on bees. For example, prioritize the use of agents that have little impact on bees and are environmentally friendly, operate before 8 am or after 5 pm, and reasonably avoid bee pollination periods. In terms of mechanism interoperability, many places have formed an effective "three-way communication" approach in practice. After beekeepers move to a new place, they inform the local area of their contact information, bee placement locations, etc., and the village committee or management unit promptly informs local farmers.
Huang Jiaxing (黄家兴), chief expert and researcher of the Chinese Honeybee Conservation and Utilization Team at the Institute of Apicultural Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院蜜蜂研究所), said that one bee colony can typically serve 2-3 mu of rapeseed fields. Scientific allocation of bee colonies for pollination can increase rapeseed yield by 10%-30% and oil yield by more than 3%, achieving a double improvement in rapeseed yield and quality. Bees pollinating rapeseed can create an economic value of 26 billion yuan annually.
If continuous cloudy and rainy weather is encountered during the peak flowering period, bees will be reluctant to leave the hive, or if there are insufficient local bee colonies, the pollination effect of the plants will be compromised. "Bee-machine collaboration" high-efficiency liquid pollination technology is expected to provide a new path for green and efficient crop production.
Luo Shudong (罗术东), researcher at the Institute of Apicultural Research of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院蜜蜂研究所) and deputy director of the Biotechnology Research Institute of the Xinjiang Academy of Agricultural Reclamation Sciences (新疆农垦科学院生物技术研究所), introduced that using bee colonies to collect pollen in different locations, and then efficiently spraying it through modern spraying machinery, can effectively promote pollination and increase pollen viability by more than 10%. Currently, this technology has been widely used in orchards.
"Bee pollination, as a green and efficient agricultural technology, has great potential in improving the yield and quality of oil crops," said the relevant person in charge of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (中国农业科学院). It is necessary to focus on promoting the implementation of practical technologies such as scientific bee placement, bee-machine collaboration, and scientific pesticide use, so that beekeepers and rapeseed growers can cooperate more efficiently and achieve a double harvest for the bee and rapeseed industries. In areas with rapeseed bee colony shortages, subsidies for relocation and pollination services can be formulated based on market conditions for pollination services to cultivate and attract market-oriented and professional pollination service entities.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on April 2nd (Reporter Wang Zhou (王洲)) On April 2nd, the 2026 "Centennial Lilac Poetry Festival" series of cultural events opened at the Baoguo Temple (报国寺) in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京市). With the theme of "Lilac as a Token, Youth as Poetry," this year's poetry festival includes more than 10 distinctive activities such as poetry salons, writing sessions, recitals, poetry and music concerts, City Walk + Flying Flowers Game, and Lilac Poetry Writing Booths, covering both online and offline venues, and balancing professional depth with public participation. It aims to deeply integrate poetry culture with ideological and political education and urban civilization construction, and promote the popularization, rejuvenation, and modernization of poetry art.
The Lilac Poetry Festival originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. In recent years, it has been continuously innovated and held. This year, it pays more attention to the immersive experience and the wide participation. As a pilot activity, the "Lilac Poetry Rhyme Hutong Flying Flowers" City Walk has been launched in the Fayuan Temple (法源寺) historical and cultural block in late March.
In addition to launching the "This is How I Read Chinese Poetry" and "Appreciate a Lilac Tree, Recite a Poem" topic relay on social platforms, the poetry festival has also set up "Lilac Poetry Writing Booth" pop-up points in nearly 30 locations, including cultural venues and university poetry creation alliance institutions in many provinces and cities across the country, creating an immersive national reading and creation space integrating reading, creation, check-in, display, and dissemination.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京), April 2nd (Reporter Zhao Cheng (赵成)) On April 2nd, the Office of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group for International Fugitive Repatriation and Asset Recovery and Cross-border Corruption Governance held a meeting to study and implement the spirit of the Fifth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, research and deploy the work of international fugitive repatriation and asset recovery and cross-border corruption governance in 2026, and launch the "Sky Net 2026" operation.
The meeting pointed out that in 2025, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) as the core, and under the direct command of the Central Anti-Corruption Coordination Group, all member units of the Office and all provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities directly under the Central Government thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, maintained a strong offensive in fugitive repatriation and asset recovery, achieved the clearing of "100 Red Notice Personnel" in Asia, advanced cross-border corruption governance in depth, deepened the building of a clean "Belt and Road" ("一带一路"), and achieved obvious results in various tasks.
The meeting decided to launch the "Sky Net 2026" operation. Among them, the National Supervisory Commission will take the lead in carrying out special actions to recover stolen assets overseas in duty-related crimes, the Ministry of Public Security will carry out the "Fox Hunt" special action, the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) will work with the Ministry of Public Security to carry out special actions to prevent and crack down on the use of offshore companies and underground banks to transfer赃款 overseas, and the Organization Department of the Central Committee will work with the Ministry of Public Security and the National Immigration Administration to manage the positions of "naked officials" and govern the problem of public officials going abroad (境) for personal reasons in violation of regulations.
The meeting required that we should fully implement the spirit of the Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Party, thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's important thoughts on Party building and the Party's self-revolution, implement the deployment of the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, strengthen both short-term and long-term solutions, maintain high-pressure deterrence, strictly investigate cross-border corruption cases, carry out special rectification of outstanding problems, formulate a law against cross-border corruption, deepen anti-corruption law enforcement and judicial cooperation, concentrate efforts to tackle the "100 Red Notice Personnel" and newly added fugitive cases in recent years, increase efforts to recover stolen assets, and use a dragnet to cut off their retreat and eliminate their illusions. 天罗地网 (tiān luó dì wǎng - "heaven's net and earth's web," inescapable net, leaving no escape route).
Return to TopApproaching Qingming Festival, the national spring tea harvest has entered its peak season, and many tea-producing areas have new helpers for transporting tea.
In "China Tea Sea," Meitan County (湄潭县), Guizhou (贵州) province, spring tea delivery has started a new "air-land combined" model. Drones take off and land precisely along predetermined routes, airlifting fresh tea from the mountain tops to the foot of the mountains; unmanned vehicles seamlessly connect to processing and packaging plants, quickly transferring the tea to major cities.
"The front-end delivery time is shortened by nearly 4 hours, the damage rate is reduced by more than 40%, and the average daily order volume has increased by 200%. The benefits brought by the new model are very obvious," said Zhang Zhaoqing (张昭庆), head of Shentong Express (申通快递) Meitan County (湄潭县) Company, Guizhou (贵州).
In Longwu Tea Town (龙坞茶镇), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) province, the intelligent robotic dog provided by JD Logistics (京东快递) has become a "new partner" for tea farmers. Carrying a tea basket, it agilely travels through steep slopes and narrow paths, transferring the freshly picked tender buds down the mountain; next to the tea-making workshop, unmanned logistics vehicles are ready to go, transporting the spring tea to express delivery stations, reaching the whole country as early as the next morning.
(People's Daily reporter Han Xin (韩鑫))
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 2nd (Reporter Shen Shaotie (申少铁)): A reporter learned on the 2nd from the Xuanwu Hospital (宣武医院) of Capital Medical University (首都医科大学) that the hospital recently completed the first GCP (Good Clinical Practice) multi-center clinical trial implantation surgery of the "BeiNao No. 1" intelligent brain-computer system (hereinafter referred to as "BeiNao No. 1"), and the subject is expected to gradually recover hand motor function. As a result, "BeiNao No. 1" will usher in a new stage of standardized and large-scale confirmatory clinical trials. The first batch of planned enrolled patients is 36 cases.
"BeiNao No. 1" is independently developed by a Chinese research team, covering key links such as electrodes, signal processing, decoding algorithms, and external control, forming a complete technology closed loop, demonstrating China's system innovation capabilities in the field of brain-computer interfaces. While ensuring the quality of signal acquisition, the system greatly reduces the risk of immune response and tissue damage after implantation. Its high-density and high signal-to-noise ratio signal acquisition capability lays the foundation for accurate decoding of motor intentions.
Return to TopEditor's Note: This year marks the 90th anniversary of the victory of the Red Army's Long March. Around the time of Qingming Festival, people in various places are carrying out sweeping activities in various forms to remember the martyrs and comfort their heroic spirits.
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, emphasized: "The inspiring and powerful force that burst forth from the Long March transcends time and space, transcends ethnicity, and is a great epic of humanity's unremitting efforts to pursue truth and light." Ninety years have passed, the smoke of war has dissipated, memories remain, and the spirit endures. Recently, reporters from this newspaper visited Red Army Martyrs' Cemeteries and Memorial Parks in many places to listen to stories of bloodline inheritance and dedicated guardianship.
Wen Yongdong (温永东), a resident of Yudu County (于都县), Jiangxi (江西) Province, and his family have been searching for the burial place of Red Army relatives for many years.
"Every martyr is a hero worth remembering."
By Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), reporter of this newspaper.
As Qingming Festival approaches, light rain is falling. Wen Yongdong (温永东), 76, and his family stood in front of the Wall of Heroes in the Yudu Martyrs' Memorial Park (于都烈士纪念园) in Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西) Province, looking for the names of their relatives.
"Found it, it's here!" Wen Yongdong's (温永东) wife excitedly pointed to a name on the wall. "This is my grandfather, Wen Mingyang (温名扬)," Wen Yongdong (温永东) said proudly.
Wen Yongdong's (温永东) daughter, Wen Fengxiu (温丰秀), told reporters that her great-grandfather, Wen Mingyang (温名扬), was a revolutionary martyr, and her grandfather and uncle were also Red Army soldiers. Several generations of her family are connected to the revolutionary bloodline, and finding relatives has always been her father Wen Yongdong's (温永东) wish. Not long ago, Wen Fengxiu's (温丰秀) family watched the large-scale red cultural tourism epic "The First Crossing of the Long March" (长征第一渡) in Yudu County (于都县). The wonderful performance reproduced the fiery years of the Red Army's Long March, once again arousing their desire to trace their ancestors.
"We went to the County Civil Affairs Bureau to inquire and learned that our great-grandfather was in this cemetery," Wen Fengxiu (温丰秀) said. The family came to the Yudu Martyrs' Memorial Park (于都烈士纪念园). After finding their great-grandfather's name on the Wall of Heroes, the family hoped to find their great-grandfather's tombstone and offer a bouquet of flowers.
Wen Fengxiu (温丰秀) and her family searched among more than 4,000 tombstones but could not find it. "There are 16,356 Yudu (于都) martyrs on the Wall of Heroes, most of whom died during the Long March, of which 4,823 have tombstones," said Guo Xiaowen (郭小文), the person in charge of the Yudu County Veterans Affairs Bureau (于都县退役军人事务局). "The memorial park mainly commemorates early revolutionary martyrs like Wen Mingyang (温名扬). Due to the long history and complex war situation, the specific burial places of some martyrs are difficult to verify."
"It doesn't matter if we can't find it. Every martyr here is a hero worth remembering. Offering flowers to them is the best comfort to our great-grandfather," Wen Fengxiu (温丰秀) placed the bouquet in front of the Tomb of Unknown Martyrs and bowed deeply.
"When I was a child, my father often told stories about my great-grandfather participating in the revolution and the scene when the Red Army set off on the Long March. At that time, I didn't understand much, but I just felt that they were amazing people," Wen Fengxiu (温丰秀) said. "Now that I have children, I also tell them these stories. I want them to know that today's happy life did not come easily."
An endless stream of people came to the Yudu Martyrs' Memorial Park (于都烈士纪念园) to pay their respects. Among them were elderly people with white hair, young parents holding their children, and students coming in formation. People held flowers and stood silently under the Wall of Heroes and in front of the martyrs' tombs. They spoke with different accents but with the same respect.
On the way back, passing the Wall of Heroes again, Wen Yongdong (温永东) and his wife stopped and stared for a long time. These names engraved in the hearts of later generations have become clearer after experiencing wind and rain.
Wang Jiangang (王建刚), a resident of Tongjiang County (通江县), Sichuan (四川) Province, and his family have been silently guarding the Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery for three generations.
Fulfilling a solemn promise made 90 years ago.
By Li Kaixuan (李凯旋), reporter of this newspaper.
On the eve of Qingming Festival, in the Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base (川陕革命根据地红军烈士陵园) in Tongjiang County (通江县), Bazhong (巴中) City, Sichuan Province (四川省), light rain was drizzling, and the green pines were covered with dew. 25,048 tombstones stood silently.
Wang Jiangang (王建刚), 74, walked slowly into the park with a cane. Behind him, his second son, Wang Junquan (王均权), and granddaughter, Wang Han (王菡), carried brooms and baskets. The family made a special trip here to perform voluntary tomb guarding.
"Every year before Qingming, our family comes here to carefully clean the tombstones and add a handful of new soil to the martyrs," Wang Jiangang (王建刚) bent down to wipe the tombstones, and Wang Han (王菡) also learned from her grandfather and gently wiped the tombstones with a soft cloth.
The Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base (川陕革命根据地红军烈士陵园) is the Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery with the largest number of Red Army martyrs buried and the largest scale in the country, carrying the red memory of the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base (川陕革命根据地).
In December 1932, the Fourth Front Army of the Red Army crossed the Daba Mountains (大巴山) and entered Tongjiang (通江) to establish the Sichuan-Shaanxi Revolutionary Base (川陕革命根据地). 25,048 martyrs are buried here, only 7,823 of whom left their names, and the rest are marked with a red five-pointed star to commemorate their loyalty. The Wang Jiangang (王建刚) family's road to guarding and protecting the cemetery began with his father, Wang Chengxian (王成现). When the Red Army withdrew in 1935, Wang Chengxian (王成现) missed the team because he went out to deliver a letter, so he made a "lifelong tomb guarding" promise and became the first voluntary tomb guard in the cemetery. Every day before dawn, he carried a broom and hoe to the cemetery to weed, wipe tombstones, and cultivate the soil.
"When I was a child, my father always brought me to the cemetery. He squatted in front of the tombstone and said to me again and again, 'Child, you remember, the Red Army is the savior of the poor, and this kindness must never be forgotten in this lifetime.'" Recalling this, Wang Jiangang's (王建刚) eyes were red.
After his father passed away, Wang Jiangang (王建刚) took over the broom and guarded it for more than 40 years. Later, he was injured while doing farm work and became disabled, so his three sons took over his task. But Wang Jiangang's (王建刚) pace of protecting the cemetery never stopped. "Guarding here, accompanying the martyrs and waiting for their relatives."
He remembered that during the Qingming Festival in 2011, Wu Fangyi (吴方宜), the youngest son of martyr Wu Zhan (吴展), traveled thousands of miles at the age of 83 to find his relatives. He trembled in front of Wu Zhan's (吴展) tombstone and shouted "Dad," and he also burst into tears. Over the years, Wang Jiangang (王建刚) has witnessed too many family-seeking stories in the cemetery. "Guarding the tomb is not just sweeping the tombstone and weeding, but also guarding a deep concern and inheriting an indelible red memory," Wang Jiangang (王建刚) said.
After more than 90 years of guarding, Wang Jiangang's (王建刚) three generations have also witnessed the changes in the Daba Mountains (大巴山), from dirt roads to thoroughfares, and from adobe houses to small western-style buildings. "No matter how prosperous life is, there are two things that cannot be forgotten - the spirit of the Red Army cannot be forgotten, and the kindness of the heroes cannot be forgotten." Wang Jiangang (王建刚) patted Wang Junquan's (王均权) shoulder, and Wang Junquan (王均权) nodded emphatically.
The drizzle gradually stopped, and the warm sun penetrated the clouds, illuminating the red five-pointed stars on the tombstones. Wang Han (王菡), who has become a "little narrator" at Tongjiang Li Xiannian Red Army Primary School (通江李先念红军小学), held a bunch of white chrysanthemums in both hands and gently placed them in front of the Red Army Martyrs' Collective Tomb. The students who came to pay their respects surrounded her, listening to her tell the story of the Red Army's bloody battles in the Daba Mountains (大巴山).
"My grandfather told me that many of the martyr's predecessors were not much older than us. In order to let the poor live a good life, they went to the battlefield without hesitation and never returned to their relatives," Wang Han's (王菡) eyes were full of admiration and emotion. "I hope the martyrs can rest in peace. We will remember your sacrifices and contributions, study hard, temper our character, inherit your spirit and faith, and build our country well."
A promise, a broom, three generations have persevered for more than ninety years. The story of the Wang Jiangang (王建刚) family is also a microcosm of countless Chinese people inheriting the red gene and continuing the red bloodline. Heroes have never gone far away, and the spirit of the Long March continues to flourish on the land of China.
Guo Degang (郭德刚), the tomb keeper of the Luban Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery (鲁班红军烈士陵园) in Renhuai (仁怀) City, Guizhou (贵州) Province, has been giving voluntary lectures for 27 years.
Bringing the spirit of the Long March into the hearts of generations.
By Huang Xian (黄娴), reporter of this newspaper.
During the Qingming season, before the morning mist had cleared, Guo Degang (郭德刚), a 75-year-old veteran, had already begun his day of duty in the Luban Red Army Martyrs' Cemetery (鲁班红军烈士陵园) in Renhuai (仁怀) City, Guizhou Province (贵州省). The broom swept across the bluestone slabs, and fallen leaves and weeds were cleared away one by one. After sweeping the walkway, he squatted in front of the tombstone and carefully wiped the dust off the tombstone with a clean cloth.
This cemetery is the final resting place of 146 Red Army martyrs who died in the Battle of Lubanchang (鲁班场战斗) in March 1935. That hard battle strategically won time and space for the Central Red Army to successfully achieve the Third Crossing of the Chishui River (三渡赤水).
The martyrs who are sleeping here have never been forgotten. During the Qingming Festival in 1998, Guo Degang (郭德刚), who had returned to his hometown after retiring from the army, went to the cemetery to pay his respects and met Liu Fuchang (刘付昌), the first generation of tomb keepers. Liu Fuchang (刘付昌) was a veteran who participated in the War of Liberation and had been guarding the tomb alone for many years after retiring from the army. Guo Degang (郭德刚), who was also a veteran, was moved by this day-to-day dedication and had the idea of taking over the tomb guarding.
"Guarding the martyrs' tombs is the responsibility that I must fulfill in this life." In 1999, Guo Degang (郭德刚) officially joined the tomb guarding team. For the next 19 years, he learned and worked with Liu Fuchang (刘付昌), treating the cemetery as his own home.
In 2018, the old man Liu Fuchang (刘付昌) passed away. Before his death, the old man repeatedly instructed, and Guo Degang (郭德刚) solemnly promised: "I will definitely guard every stone, every tree, every flower and every grass here until the day I can't walk."
This year marks the twenty-eighth year that Guo Degang (郭德刚) has been guarding the cemetery. Every morning, the first thing he does when he gets up is to clean the cemetery, which takes about 2 hours, and then open the door to welcome guests who come to pay their respects and register them; at night, he patrols the park with a flashlight, fearing that there will be any mistakes in the cemetery and the martyrs' tombstones.
As time goes by, the development of his hometown is changing with each passing day, and people's lives have been significantly improved. More and more people come to the cemetery to visit, remember, and receive red education. In addition to his daily duties, Guo Degang (郭德刚) is also a volunteer guide at the cemetery. In order to tell the story of the Red Army well, he consulted historical materials and visited those who had experienced it, and he knew the history of the battle and the deeds of the martyrs by heart. In the past 27 years, he has given more than 2,000 voluntary lectures, bringing the spirit of the Long March into the hearts of generations.
As the sun rises higher, students in school uniforms, party members wearing party member badges, veterans in military uniforms... waves of people come to pay their respects one after another. After completing the registration, Guo Degang (郭德刚) began to explain. "The martyrs exchanged their lives for today's good life, and we must cherish it." He talked about the fiery years of Lubanchang (鲁班场), and the relay guarding of the tomb by two generations of tomb keepers. His tone was not high, but it was very powerful.
As dusk approached, the crowd paying their respects gradually dispersed, and the cemetery returned to silence. Guo Degang (郭德刚) picked up the broom again and carefully swept the ground: "We must let the martyrs know that someone has been taking care of their resting place, and their fighting spirit will continue to be passed on."
This newspaper Beijing (北京), April 2nd (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) reported: This reporter learned on the 2nd from the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院): With the continuous and severe crackdown on the crime of trafficking in women and children (hereinafter referred to as "trafficking crimes") and the gradual implementation of comprehensive management measures, the number of trafficking crime cases in China has generally shown a downward trend. In 2025, it decreased by 77.95% compared to the peak in 2012, and this type of crime has been effectively curbed.
Punishing trafficking crimes severely in accordance with the law is the firm stance and consistent practice of the people's courts. People's courts at all levels are taking strong action against "human traffickers," who are deeply hated by the people, and will never tolerate them. From 2021 to 2025, among the defendants in trafficking crime cases with legally effective judgments in courts nationwide, the proportion sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of ten years or more, life imprisonment, or the death penalty was 10 percentage points higher than the proportion of all criminal cases sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of ten years or more during the same period.
At the same time, while severely punishing trafficking crimes in accordance with the law, the people's courts also focus on punishing the crime of buying trafficked women and children (hereinafter referred to as "buying crimes") in accordance with the law, and strive to crack down on the "buyer's market." Those who commit buying crimes should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, and those who buy and commit crimes such as rape, intentional injury, illegal detention, and abuse shall be punished for multiple crimes in accordance with the law. Those who illegally handle or forge materials such as birth medical certificates, marriage certificates, and household registration certificates, and whose actions constitute a crime, shall be convicted and punished as accomplices in trafficking and buying crimes or under other relevant charges in accordance with the law.
The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) also released four typical cases of severely punishing trafficking crimes in accordance with the law on the same day. According to reports, the methods and means of trafficking crimes show some new characteristics: trafficking by means of kidnapping, robbery, and theft has decreased significantly, while trafficking by means of deception and other non-violent means has increased; the number of online trafficking cases has increased, and buyers, sellers, and intermediaries use online platforms to release information through code words, conduct online contact and transactions, break through geographical restrictions, and are highly concealed.
In the next step, the people's courts will give full play to their trial functions, unswervingly adhere to severely punishing trafficking crimes in accordance with the law, further improve the quality of trial work, strengthen judicial guarantees, strengthen assistance and protection for victims, and help comprehensive governance at the source.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 2nd (Reporter Qi Yukun (亓玉昆)): According to information obtained by the reporter on the 2nd from the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委): According to statistics from various regions, the cumulative number of confirmed individuals who acted righteously and courageously (见义勇为) nationwide exceeds 178,000. Many heroes who acted righteously and courageously sacrificed their precious lives to protect the lives and property of the people, with 96 people in 2025 alone.
Acting righteously and courageously is a traditional virtue of the Chinese nation and a distinct characteristic of the new era that demonstrates social integrity. Heroic models of acting righteously and courageously step forward in the face of danger, draw their swords against illegal and criminal activities, and charge forward in the face of disasters and accidents, using their blood to safeguard the peace and tranquility of the country and their lives to protect the safety of others.
In order to promote the social ethos of honoring heroes, cherishing martyrs, and striving to be pioneers, and to gather the spiritual strength to build a higher level of safe China and rule-of-law China, the China Righteous and Courageous Foundation (中华见义勇为基金会) launched the "Tribute and Remembrance, Upholding Righteousness and Valuing Courage - 2026 Qingming Festival Tribute to Righteous and Courageous Martyrs and Sacrificed Personnel Activity" during the 2026 Qingming Festival on China Changan Net (中国长安网) and the WeChat official account "Chang'an Sword (长安剑)" of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委). The activity page allows people to recall the heroic deeds, offer flowers, and express deep condolences.
Return to TopAccording to the relevant arrangements for the 2026 Central Work Safety Assessment and Inspection, starting in early April, 24 central work safety assessment and inspection teams led by responsible comrades from relevant member units of the State Council's Safety Committee will successively conduct quarterly announced and unannounced visits to key areas.
These announced and unannounced visits will focus on the problems exposed by typical accidents and major near-miss accidents that have occurred since the beginning of this year, focusing on the implementation of work safety responsibilities, the progress of the three-year fundamental improvement campaign for work safety, the effectiveness of key work safety tasks and the "one thing" whole-chain rectification, and the investigation and rectification of major safety risks and hidden dangers in key industries and fields. In-depth investigation and rectification of major accident hidden dangers and expert guidance services will be carried out. By discovering problems, the performance of relevant departments will be investigated, and all regions will be urged to carry out the study and education of establishing and practicing the correct view of political achievements, coordinate development and safety, effectively improve the quality and efficiency of risk and hidden danger investigation, eliminate safety hazards in a timely manner, resolutely curb the momentum of frequent accidents, and ensure the stability of the work safety situation. Typical cases discovered during the announced and unannounced visits will be investigated and dealt with in accordance with the law, held accountable, and publicly exposed.
Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)
State Council's Safety Committee (国务院安委会)
The teams will 倒查 (dào chá - "investigate backwards," to trace back to the source of a problem).
The teams will 追责问责 (zhuī zé wèn zé - "hold accountable and assign responsibility," to investigate and punish those responsible).
By: 本报记者 张丹华
Shaanxi is a major province for historical and cultural resources, with 54,000 immovable cultural relics distributed within its borders. In recent years, the Shaanxi court system has continuously provided legal support for promoting the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage by constructing an integrated protection model of "judicial trial + protection and restoration + cultural inheritance."
Exercising adjudicative functions and conveying the concept of cultural protection through judicial rulings. On March 21, 2025, the Xi'an Railway Transportation Intermediate Court (西安铁路运输中级法院) made a final ruling on the case of "Liu (刘) illegally selling cultural relics, and Liang (梁) and Chen (陈)盗掘古墓葬案 (dào jué gǔ mù zàng àn - "stealing and excavating ancient tombs case") stealing and excavating ancient tombs." "During the trial, the defendant Liu refused to confess the facts of his long-term acquisition of stolen cultural relics and the whereabouts of the cultural relics that were resold, resulting in the difficulty of recovering the cultural relics involved in the case, and the circumstances were particularly serious. Finally, the collegial panel constructed a complete chain of evidence through the 'confession corroboration + mixed identification + detail restoration' model and made a judgment in accordance with the law," said Zhu Ailin (朱爱琳), head of the Environmental Resources Tribunal of the Xi'an Railway Transportation Intermediate Court (西安铁路运输中级法院) who handled the case.
"Every case is a legal lesson in cultural inheritance." Gong Fuwen (巩富文), Vice President of the Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court (陕西省高级人民法院), introduced that in the past three years, Shaanxi courts have concluded a total of 249 cases of crimes such as illegally selling cultural relics and盗掘古文化遗址 (dào jué gǔ wén huà yí zhǐ - "stealing and excavating ancient cultural sites") stealing and excavating ancient cultural sites, sentencing 863 defendants.
Adhering to the equal emphasis on依法惩治 (yī fǎ chéng zhì - "punishing according to law," to punish criminals according to the law) and collaborative governance, promoting cross-departmental collaboration through public interest litigation, and jointly protecting cultural relics. In October 2021, the Luochuan Conference Memorial Hall (洛川会议纪念馆) suffered damage due to continuous heavy rainfall, including the collapse of the kiln base and kiln back of the No. 3 courtyard kiln of the Guard Team's former site. As the memorial hall did not effectively repair the cultural relics after the disaster, the Luochuan County People's Procuratorate (洛川县人民检察院) issued a procuratorial recommendation to the competent department of the memorial hall. However, by the expiration date, the procuratorate had not received a reply. After following up on the investigation, it was found that the kiln was still in a collapsed state, so the procuratorate transferred the case according to jurisdiction and filed a lawsuit. After trial, the Fuxian People's Court (富县人民法院)依法判决 (yī fǎ pàn jué - "legally judged," to make a judgment according to the law) ruled that the competent department of the memorial hall should continue to perform its supervisory duties and carry out repairs and protection. In March 2024, the 1.76 million yuan special fund applied for by the competent department of the memorial hall was allocated, and the court and the procuratorial organs continued to follow up and supervise the entire process of cultural relic repair, and the damaged kiln has been fully restored.
Strengthening the publicity of judicial protection and integrating the protection of intangible cultural heritage into judicial practice. In the Ming and Qing ancient village of Danga Village (党家村), the judges and police officers of the Environmental Resources Tribunal of the Hancheng City People's Court (韩城市人民法院) set up a publicity point in front of the judicial protection base. "In October 2023, we established an ancient residential judicial protection base in Danga Village (党家村) to promote the coordinated development of regional culture and tourism economy," introduced Zhang Yanlan (张延岚), Director of the Environmental Resources Tribunal of the Hancheng City People's Court (韩城市人民法院). "The court regards the judicial protection base as a tourist attraction in Danga Village (党家村), and enhances tourists' understanding of Hancheng's (韩城) local customs and cultural ecology by explaining typical cases and distributing publicity leaflets."
At present, Shaanxi has established 119 environmental resource circuit tribunals or trial points in world heritage sites, cultural blocks, ancient villages, and ecological protection zones, and has built 20 judicial protection bases for historical and cultural heritage integrating circuit trials, dispute mediation, cultural promotion, cultural relic restoration, and rule of law publicity. In addition, Shaanxi courts have also incorporated the protection of intangible cultural heritage such as Northern Shaanxi folk songs and folk paper-cutting into the scope of judicial protection, and established the concept of "protecting creativity and promoting culture" through individual case trials.
Han Deyang (韩德洋), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and President of the Shaanxi Provincial High People's Court (陕西省高级人民法院), introduced that the Shaanxi courts will further strengthen the judicial protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage, and strive to build a solid security defense line for the protection of cultural relics and cultural heritage in Shaanxi with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law, so that the millennium-old cultural context can continue to flow on the track of the rule of law.
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Chen Jie (陈洁), a post-00s girl, opened her photo editing software as usual, edited a selfie, and prepared to share it on WeChat Moments. On the photo editing completion page, a strange option caught her eye between "Poster Design" and "Help Me Edit" – "Borrow Money." She was stunned: "Why does a photo editing software want to lend me money?"
In today's widespread digital services, many people have found that it's not just financial apps that want to lend you money. From social networking, entertainment, and travel to life tools, many internet platforms are vying to play the role of creditor. Borrowing money has changed from a matter requiring careful consideration to a "convenient operation" that can happen in many scenarios.
Easily Accessible Loan Entry Points
The penetration of internet credit often begins with a small click.
College student Li Yang (李洋) was following a popular drama and clicked on the "Get 1 Month VIP for Free" button on a video platform. The page immediately redirected to an off-site lending platform, requiring him to fill in his ID number and mobile phone number to apply for a credit line. To save the twenty-odd yuan membership fee, he needed to first become a "borrowing user."
Chen Xin (陈欣), born after 1995, almost borrowed money from a ride-hailing platform to get a discount coupon. After the ride ended, a prominent discount prompt popped up on the payment page. She subconsciously clicked, scanned her face, and verified, all in one go. It wasn't until the content "Confirm whether to take out a loan" popped up that she suddenly woke up: she almost took on debt for a discount of more than ten yuan. "The process is too smooth, so smooth that you don't even realize it's a loan," said Chen Xin (陈欣).
A reporter tested more than 20 commonly used apps, covering shopping, entertainment, travel, food delivery, and other types, and found that many of them had loan entry points. Behind these entry points are mainly two models: financial products operated by the platform itself and loan assistance services that divert traffic to third parties. Various apps have successively deployed lending businesses, which has also made "Why do these apps want to lend me money?" a common question for many users.
If the intuitive "Borrow Money" button still has a certain degree of recognition, then "installment payment" is a more hidden and more daily embedded credit. It is integrated into the consumption action itself, often blurring the boundary between consumption and debt.
"I never thought that 'installment' and 'loan' were the same thing before," Guo Xuan (郭轩), born in the 1980s, told reporters that it wasn't until she saw her credit report that she realized that her "installment payment" was displayed as a personal loan record from a consumer finance company.
From wanting to save more than ten yuan in taxi fare to almost taking on debt, from "interest-free installments" to quietly generating loan records – financial decisions that should be made with caution are simplified into a few inadvertent clicks in the carefully designed process of the APP.
The Financial Calculation of Traffic Monetization
For internet companies, with the dividend of user growth peaking, financializing massive user data and behavioral scenarios has become one of the platform's growth paths.
Behind this is a profitable business. The annualized interest rate on credit loans to ordinary consumers is usually between 3% and 24%, while the cost for large platforms to obtain funds is much lower. One of the main methods is to issue asset-backed securities (ABS) – the platform packages the massive personal consumer loans it issues that can generate stable cash flow in the future and raises funds from investors.
Taking the Dingyou Phase II Personal Consumer Loan ABS issued by Henan Zhongyuan Consumer Finance Company (河南中原消费金融公司) in 2025 as an example, the project scale is 1.5 billion yuan, of which the A tranche is 1.106 billion yuan, with an annualized interest rate of only 1.95%.
The large interest rate spread constitutes the cornerstone of profit.
If self-operated credit earns the interest rate spread of funds, then the more common "traffic diversion" model earns traffic monetization fees. The platform provides scenarios and traffic, and directs users to cooperative licensed financial institutions. The two parties usually distribute profits according to the principle of "risk sharing and profit sharing."
"APP wants to lend you money, which is the common result of platforms seeking traffic monetization and the 'embedded finance' trend, but it may also lead to problems such as opaque interest rates, induced lending, and even fraud," said Dong Xi Miao (董希淼), deputy director of the Shanghai Finance and Development Laboratory (上海金融与发展实验室).
Algorithms Understand When You Want to Borrow Money Better Than You Do
If easily accessible entry points are visible temptations, then what really makes borrowing money "irresistible" is often the algorithm that understands you better than you do.
"The interest-free ads that pop up when you watch short videos, the text messages you receive saying 'Congratulations on getting an exclusive credit line,' and even the 'cashable red envelopes' that pop up when you order takeout are not accidental," explained Wang Lei (王磊), an algorithm engineer who used to work in the financial departments of several internet companies. Compared with bank loans that mainly look at "hard conditions" such as income, work, and assets, internet platform credit has a more detailed division of labor, and data will capture a series of "tight funds" signals: users' monthly consumption is close to or exceeds their income level, and they frequently use consumer credit services, especially after the credit card billing date and before the repayment date, the algorithm will determine that the user is in a "payment pressure period" and is a "golden window" for pushing loan information.
Wang Lei (王磊) said that the platform can infer the user's approximate income and expenditure status from the frequency, category, and amount of consumption. Once the algorithm determines that you may be short of money, a series of carefully designed pushes will be launched.
For example, if the algorithm finds that you are used to browsing e-commerce platforms after 10 pm, loan ads are more likely to pop up at this time. There are various forms of push: in addition to obvious pop-ups and advertising spaces, they may also be disguised as "points expiration reminders," "payment success red envelopes," or "AI exclusive consultant consultation," which are essentially interactive designs that guide lending.
Not all users will receive pushes. The algorithm will stratify users and label them with invisible tags. If a person has never clicked on any red envelope or loan promotion, the system will gradually mark them as a "low-intention user" and reduce the frequency of pushes; conversely, as long as there is one click or credit granting behavior, they may be labeled as "easy to convert."
On the marketing side, some platforms are well versed in the "interest rate illusion" – the ads only mention "daily interest as low as a few ten thousandths" and "a loan of 1,000 yuan only costs a few cents," using seemingly insignificant numbers to dilute the cost of borrowing; on the repayment side, in addition to interest, there are also numerous charging items such as "service fees," "membership fees," and "credit enhancement fees," and most of them are hidden in the small print of lengthy electronic contracts or scattered on different confirmation pages, allowing consumers to bear far more financing costs than expected without realizing it.
Cash Flow Unknowingly Seized
Ubiquitous lending is quietly changing some people's consumption habits and financial structures.
"This is a certain Bei (某呗), 12 installments for buying a camera; this is a certain Tiao (某条), an installment plan made last year to buy a TV for my parents; this is a certain Yin's (某音) monthly payment, mainly for impulsive orders placed while watching live broadcasts in the middle of the night..." Lin Yue (林悦), 32, showed the repayment reminder calendar on her mobile phone, which was marked with the repayment dates of 8 different APPs.
Looking at each debt separately, each one is "harmless": monthly repayments range from a few hundred to a little over a thousand, and most of them are interest-free installments. They seem insignificant, but they continue to seize her cash flow. Lin Yue's (林悦) repayment plan has been scheduled until 2028. She has not purchased large assets such as real estate or vehicles, but has become a "moonlight clan" – and is "moonlighting" for past consumption.
In comparison, debt accumulates faster for some other people. Li Zhe (李哲), 27, is one such example. At that time, he wanted to change to a new mobile phone, and found that "borrowing money is so easy," so he clicked in casually, and from then on embarked on the road of "using loans to repay loans." The first few loans came from large platforms with compliant interest rates. When the monthly repayment amount exceeded half of his salary, he had to find new loan channels to "plug the hole."
Soon, the source of loans slid from compliant platforms to "niche loan APPs" hidden in advertisements: borrowing 10,000 yuan here, the actual amount received may only be 8,000 yuan; borrowing 5,000 yuan there for emergency use, but having to repay 6,000 yuan a week later.
"When you start borrowing from one platform, other platforms will soon surround you," Li Zhe (李哲) described. In the end, the snowballing debt was out of control, and Li Zhe (李哲) had no choice but to ask his parents for help.
Lin Yue (林悦) and Li Zhe (李哲) are not isolated cases. The China Consumers Association (中国消费者协会) once pointed out that some young consumers blindly overspend and take out large loans, falling into debt due to exceeding their repayment ability, and even affecting their credit records. The China Consumers Association (中国消费者协会) called on young consumers to deeply understand the harm of excessive borrowing, consume rationally, and borrow prudently.
Regulatory Agencies Put Forward Rectification Requirements, New Regulations Land
Recently, in response to the problems of internet loan assistance business, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) interviewed the operating institutions of 5 platforms, including Fenqile (分期乐), Qifu Jietiao (奇富借条), Niwodai Jiekuan (你我贷借款), Yixianghua (宜享花), and Xinyongfei (信用飞), requiring platform operating institutions to effectively regulate marketing and publicity activities when cooperating with financial institutions to carry out lending business, clearly and explicitly disclose interest and fee information of lending products, strictly comply with personal information protection regulations, carry out collection in accordance with laws and regulations, improve customer complaint resolution mechanisms, and effectively protect the legitimate rights and interests of financial consumers. In January, 6 travel platform companies, including Ctrip Travel (携程旅行), AutoNavi Maps (高德地图), and Tongcheng Travel (同程旅行), were also interviewed for non-standard financial business marketing and unclear disclosure of interest and fees.
In addition to interviews, there are also new regulations landing. In March of this year, the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) and the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) jointly issued the "Provisions on Explicitly Stating the Comprehensive Financing Cost of Personal Loan Business" (hereinafter referred to as the "Provisions"), requiring financial institutions to show borrowers a comprehensive financing cost statement. The comprehensive financing cost statement should indicate the loan principal amount, and list item by item the interest and fee items charged by the lender and its cooperative institutions and their charging methods, charging standards, and charging entities, and on this basis, comprehensively calculate the annualized comprehensive financing cost borne by the borrower under normal performance conditions. At the same time, it should list item by item the contingent cost items and their charging standards and charging entities under default circumstances such as loan overdue or misappropriation. The comprehensive financing cost statement should also clearly indicate that in addition to the explicitly stated cost items, the lender and its cooperative institutions will no longer charge the borrower any other interest and fees related to the loan.
For personal loan business handled online, the "Provisions" require that the comprehensive financing cost statement be displayed to the borrower in a pop-up window, set a mandatory reading time, and be confirmed by the borrower before signing the loan contract or handling installments.
For installment payment business handled in online consumption scenarios, the "Provisions" require that the loan principal, installment arrangements, and service fees charged, charging entities, annualized comprehensive financing cost under normal performance conditions, and contingent cost items and charging standards under default circumstances be clearly displayed in a prominent manner on the consumption order payment page. At the same time, it should be clearly indicated that in addition to the explicitly stated cost items, no other interest and fees will be charged.
Dong Xi Miao (董希淼) suggested further strengthening the accurate regulation of online loan advertisements, mandatory disclosure of interest rates, and restrictions on data use. For consumers, Dong Xi Miao (董希淼) reminded them to "**认清本质，理性借贷** (rèn qīng běn zhì, lǐ xìng jiè dài - "recognize the essence, borrow rationally," understand the true nature of borrowing and make responsible decisions)," and not to take out loans casually for small discounts.
(At the request of the interviewees, Chen Jie (陈洁), Li Yang (李洋), Chen Xin (陈欣), Guo Xuan (郭轩), Wang Lei (王磊), Lin Yue (林悦), and Li Zhe (李哲) in the article are all pseudonyms)
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People capture colors and record life, understanding the unique charm of cities while walking.
What are some ways to experience spring?
Many young people are unlocking a new way – Color Walk. Without setting a destination or making a plan, they choose a favorite color before setting off, focusing on finding and recording scenes with that color during their casual stroll.
The new green sprouting on branches, the crimson dyed by the setting sun, the warm orange when thousands of lights are lit... the lens chases colors, capturing the vibrant poetry in ordinary days. Color Walk is similar to the previously popular "City Walk" and "20-minute park effect," both of which involve people seeking "small certain happiness" with a heart of "discovering beauty and feeling beauty," relaxing and healing themselves in the interaction between people and the city.
Color Walk releases emotional value and adds a continuous stream of vitality to spring. In Beijing (北京), the "Color Walk" cultural tourism guide transforms the spring scenery of the city into a visible and tangible poetic picture, allowing citizens and tourists to feel the warm spring light while moving and changing scenes, and activating consumer momentum. In Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西), "Color Walk" plays the prelude to the traditional festival "March 3rd" (三月三). The local area connects the sea of flowers in Qingxiu Mountain (青秀山), the blue waves of Nanhu Lake (南湖), and the ancient charm of Sanjie Liangxiang (三街两巷) into a spring check-in route, allowing natural scenery and folk customs to complement each other. People capture colors and record life, understanding the unique charm of cities while walking.
The healing power at the doorstep comes from the vigorous vitality of rising fireworks. From the meticulous carving of back streets and alleys to the planting of greenery in pocket parks, from the quality improvement and upgrading of municipal projects to the accelerated construction of the "15-minute living circle," old streets and alleys are revitalized, and convenient services are increasingly improved. In Zaozhuang (枣庄), Shandong (山东), the former resource-based city continues to deepen ecological restoration, enriching the city's color palette for "Color Walk." In Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), the city retains the atmosphere of daily life and unique texture in urban renewal, weaves a dense network of convenient services in functional layout, and extracts a "color card" with local characteristics.
When people encounter a sea of flowers at their doorstep, stop at a green space at a corner, and see life in farmers markets, bookstores, cafes, and gyms... diverse scenes are organically connected, and daily walks become micro-trips, allowing people to unlock "poetry and the distance" in familiar corners.
A city is built by the people and for the people. A livable and workable city must not only secure the bottom line of people's livelihood of "firewood, rice, oil, and salt," and effectively solve the urgent needs and anxieties of the masses; but also safeguard the spiritual yearning for "wind, flowers, snow, and moon," and meet people's expectations for a better life. Starting from the details, so that urban construction has both height and warmth, when the colorful colors of the city continue to add luster to life, the "poetry and the distance" at the doorstep will be transformed into a sense of gain, happiness, and security that the masses can feel and reach.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on April 2nd (Reported by Shen Shaotie (申少铁)) The National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局) released the "Implementation Opinions on 'Artificial Intelligence + Drug Regulation'" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") on the 2nd, focusing on key tasks of drug regulation reform, aiming at the modernization of drug regulation, and proposing seven key directions for the next stage of regulatory digitalization. Combining the new trends in the development of artificial intelligence technology, it proposes five key tasks to consolidate the basic support of "Artificial Intelligence + Drug Regulation."
The "Opinions" propose that by 2030, a fusion innovation system of drug regulation and artificial intelligence will be initially constructed, the operation and management mechanism of "Artificial Intelligence + Drug Regulation" will be basically formed, the computing power support base will be more intensive and efficient, high-quality data sets, vertical large models, and intelligent agents that meet the needs of intelligent regulation will be formed, and artificial intelligence will be effectively applied in scenarios such as review and approval, supervision and inspection, inspection and monitoring, and government services. The efficiency of human-machine collaboration will be significantly improved, and the digital and intelligent regulatory capabilities throughout the entire life cycle will reach a new level. By 2035, a new pattern of intelligent drug safety governance driven by digital intelligence, intelligent agility, independent controllability, and ecological collaboration will be basically formed.
Return to TopOn the evening of April 1st, the Tawan Xingshun Night Market in Huanggu District, Shenyang (沈阳) City, Liaoning (辽宁) Province, officially opened, attracting many citizens and tourists to check in.
Inside the night market, over a hundred kinds of special flavors such as barbecue, snacks, and desserts filled the air with fragrance. The night market also added wonderful program performances, so that everyone can enjoy the performances while tasting the food, and feel the lively atmosphere of nighttime consumption.
Photo by Zou Xinjiang (邹新江) (Image China)
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Walking into Xitang Village (息塘村), Nanxun Town (南浔镇), Nanxun District (南浔区), Huzhou City (湖州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), a modern and transparent smart ranch comes into view, where you can see the entire process of milk from production to finished product. Chen Weifeng (陈威风), a post-00s youth, founded Huzhou Jiotouniu Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (湖州九头牛农业科技有限公司), creating an agricultural, cultural, and tourism complex integrating milk production, industrial experience, and cultural tourism in the countryside. "Nanxun (南浔) has created very good conditions for youth entrepreneurship," said Chen Weifeng (陈威风).
In recent years, Nanxun District (南浔区) has adhered to the principle of "arranging a good economy in a beautiful landscape," allowing more and more young people to form a "development community" with the countryside. Behind this is a set of precise empowerment policy service systems. Nanxun District (南浔区) integrates policies from multiple departments to launch a "policy package" for young people entering the countryside, enabling "one-window acceptance" for business registration, social security processing, and talent apartment applications. It also established a youth entry fund and jointly launched a "Youth Innovation Loan" with banks, providing financial support of more than 200 million yuan for young people starting businesses in Nanxun (南浔).
The deep integration of youth and industry has spawned new forms of rural development. In Shanlian Town (善琏镇), the birthplace of Hubi (湖笔) brushes, more than 20 young people who inherited the Hubi (湖笔) brush-making family business have revitalized the traditional industry through live streaming and cultural and creative development, improved Hubi (湖笔) brush technology, and developed blind boxes and souvenirs. Their products have won more than 60 provincial-level and above awards, with annual sales exceeding 10 million yuan. Hefu Town (和孚镇) focuses on modern fisheries, attracting highly educated talents to gather and start businesses. Nanxun Town (南浔镇) has introduced more than 20 "Artificial Intelligence +" related projects and gathered more than 400 young people. As of now, Nanxun District (南浔区) has introduced youth operation teams in 79 villages, revitalizing more than 100 idle assets and driving more than 1,600 villagers to achieve employment at their doorsteps.
Today, Nanxun District (南浔区), located in the heart of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), has become a hot spot for young people to enter and develop in the countryside, where young people have found their stage. "In 2026, Nanxun (南浔) will focus on the entire chain of 'attracting, cultivating, using, and retaining' young people in the countryside, allowing the creativity of young people to resonate with the growth of the countryside," said the relevant person in charge of Nanxun District (南浔区).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李俊杰
The spring breeze brings warmth, and all things recover. For many, foraging for wild vegetables has become a leisure activity. However, this "spring on the tip of the tongue" also hides risks. Every spring, incidents of gastrointestinal discomfort or even poisoning caused by mistakenly eating wild vegetables occur from time to time.
What are the precautions for picking wild vegetables? How can you safely enjoy this delicacy?
"Many poisonous plants look very similar to edible wild vegetables, such as varnish tree buds and toon tips, poison hemlock and water celery, and *Gelsemium elegans* and honeysuckle. Sometimes, even professionals find it difficult to distinguish them with the naked eye," said Rong Shuang, director of the Clinical Nutrition Department of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China (Anhui Provincial Hospital). The primary principle for safely picking and eating wild vegetables is: resolutely do not pick, buy, or eat wild vegetables that you do not recognize or are not familiar with.
"Wild vegetables can accumulate harmful substances from their growing environment, and even if they are not poisonous in themselves, there may still be safety risks." Rong Shuang reminded that wild vegetables near chemical plants, sewage treatment plants, and highways should not be picked. The soil, water sources, and air in these areas may be contaminated by heavy metals or other industrial pollutants, making them high risk for consumption. Wild vegetables near farmland and orchards may have pesticide residues due to spraying, and are also not suitable for picking.
Compared to picking them yourself, Rong Shuang suggests that everyone buy wild vegetables through regular supermarkets and farmers' markets. "Wild vegetables from regular channels have undergone strict testing, and the source can be traced, which can avoid mistaken picking and eating to the greatest extent." She said that when buying, priority should be given to choosing fresh wild vegetables with emerald green leaves, no insect damage, no peculiar smell, and plump texture, and eat them as soon as you buy them, and do not store them for a long time.
How should wild vegetables be processed scientifically?
"If you want to eat safely and healthily, you must remember the 'wash, blanch, boil' three-step method." Rong Shuang emphasized that the first step is washing. After removing old roots and yellow leaves, rinse repeatedly with running water, and you can soak them appropriately before rinsing again. The second step is blanching, which is a key step in removing natural toxins and astringency. Put the wild vegetables in boiling water and blanch them for 1 to 2 minutes, and then quickly cool them in cold water to maintain the taste. Finally, cook them thoroughly. Most wild vegetables are not suitable for eating raw. You can use quick stir-frying, steaming, stewing, and other methods to cook them thoroughly. You can also eat them with eggs, meat, and soy products, which can balance nutrition, neutralize the cold nature of wild vegetables, and relieve astringency.
"Although wild vegetables are fresh, you can't eat too much." Rong Shuang reminded that most wild vegetables are cold in nature, bitter in taste, and have coarse and hard fibers. Eating too much can easily irritate the stomach and intestines, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea, and stomach cold. She suggested that healthy people should not eat more than 200 grams of wild vegetables at a time. Special groups need to be more cautious - pregnant women and breastfeeding women should avoid cold wild vegetables such as purslane and dandelion; the elderly and children have weak gastrointestinal functions, so they should taste a small amount and not eat too much; people with allergies should try a small amount for the first time and observe whether there are allergic reactions such as rashes and itching; patients with gastrointestinal diseases, gout, and kidney disease need to strictly follow the doctor's advice to eat or abstain from wild vegetables.
If you accidentally eat wild vegetables and experience symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal pain, dizziness, and fatigue, what should you do? Zhou Shusheng, director of the Emergency Medicine Center of the First Affiliated Hospital of the University of Science and Technology of China, emphasized that you must remember the "three-step first aid": induce vomiting immediately, use your fingers or chopsticks to stimulate the throat to induce vomiting and reduce toxin absorption; keep the vomit and wild vegetable samples to provide a basis for the doctor to make a quick diagnosis; call 120 or go to the nearest hospital in time, and do not drink water, vinegar, or take medicine on your own, so as not to cover up the condition or aggravate the poisoning reaction.
Tasting fresh food in spring, safety comes first. Be more cautious and standardize the handling of each step of picking, purchasing, processing, and eating.
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People's democracy is the life of socialism and an inherent requirement for building a socialist modern country in all respects. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Developing people's democracy must adhere to the rule of law and safeguard the authority of the Constitution and laws, so as to institutionalize and legalize democracy." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has creatively put forward a series of new concepts, new thoughts, and new strategies for whole-process people's democracy and comprehensively governing the country according to law, making major original contributions to enriching and developing the theory of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics and the theory of the rule of law with Chinese characteristics. The "15th Five-Year Plan" period holds an important position of linking the past and the future in the process of basically realizing socialist modernization. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline includes "the level of institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of whole-process people's democracy will be further improved, and the construction of a socialist country ruled by law will reach a higher level" as a goal to be achieved in economic and social development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. To implement this requirement, it is necessary to deeply grasp the dialectical unity between democracy and the rule of law, adhere to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law, and better promote whole-process people's democracy on the track of the rule of law.
Our socialist democracy and rule of law construction unifies democracy and the rule of law.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Democracy is a beautiful pursuit and common value of all mankind" and "The rule of law is one of the important achievements of human civilization." Democracy and the rule of law are important achievements and basic symbols of the progress of human civilization. Our socialist democracy and rule of law construction unifies democracy and the rule of law, orderly promotes the institutionalization and legalization of national and social life, stimulates the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire people, and engages them in socialist modernization construction with the attitude of masters of the country.
As a form of state, democracy mainly answers the question of who exercises state power; as an important achievement of human political civilization, the rule of law mainly answers the question of how to exercise state power. The two are closely linked. Democracy provides the basis for the rule of law, and the value orientation of democracy determines the basic principles and goals of the rule of law; the rule of law stipulates the forms and procedures of democracy through the legal norm system, and provides institutional guarantees for the realization of democracy in safeguarding the basic rights of citizens and maintaining the legitimate rights and interests of the people. In practice, there is a certain tension between the two, and it is easy to produce problems such as the asynchronous development of democratic construction and the rule of law construction in time and the imbalance in practice. How to unify democracy and the rule of law, promote the two to complement each other, and use the two "wheels" of democracy and the rule of law to promote social development is an important topic in the development of human political civilization.
Since the founding of our Party, we have always adhered to combining the basic principles of Marxism with the specific reality of China and with China's excellent traditional culture, and constantly explored the laws of socialist democracy and rule of law construction. After the founding of New China, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) presided over the drafting of the first Constitution of New China, and our country successively formulated and implemented laws such as the Marriage Law and the Trade Union Law, laying a preliminary foundation for the people's democratic legal system of New China. The Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party proposed that "in order to ensure people's democracy, the socialist legal system must be strengthened." Comrade Deng Xiaoping (邓小平) clearly put forward the important thesis that "in order to ensure people's democracy, the legal system must be strengthened. Democracy must be institutionalized and legalized," guiding our country to continuously promote and strengthen socialist legal system construction and better guarantee people's democracy.
Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, our Party has unswervingly followed the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, and has integrated the development of whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law into all aspects and links of leading economic and social development, and has continuously promoted the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law. We have adhered to and improved our country's fundamental political system, basic political system, and important political system, continuously improved the system of people being the masters of the country, given play to the important role of socialist consultative democracy, expanded people's orderly political participation, fully reflected the people's will, guaranteed the people's rights and interests, stimulated the people's creative vitality, and comprehensively promoted the institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of socialist democratic politics; we have incorporated the comprehensive rule of law into the "Four Comprehensives" strategic layout, adhered to the joint promotion of the rule of law, the exercise of power according to law, and the administration according to law, adhered to the integrated construction of a country ruled by law, a government ruled by law, and a society ruled by law, accelerated the improvement of the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core, amended the Constitution in keeping with the times, strengthened legislation in key areas, emerging areas, and foreign-related areas, formulated the Foreign Investment Law, the Hainan Free Trade Port Law, etc., compiled the Civil Code and the Ecological Environment Code, and revised the Legislation Law, etc., to legally guarantee that state power serves the people and enhances the people's well-being.
In general, our country has solidly promoted the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law, ensuring that the rule of law reflects the people's will and guarantees the people's rights and interests through whole-process people's democracy, and regulating the operation of democracy and consolidating the achievements of democracy through the comprehensive rule of law, effectively avoiding the disconnection or even conflict between democracy and the rule of law, and successfully embarking on a development path of benign interaction and organic integration between the two, providing a strong political guarantee for successfully continuing to write new chapters in the two miracles of rapid economic development and long-term social stability, and comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation with Chinese-style modernization. In particular, since the "14th Five-Year Plan," against the background of the accelerated evolution of the century-old changes and the weak recovery of the world economy, the certainty and sustainability of our country's development have been continuously enhanced, which further demonstrates the remarkable achievements of our country's socialist democracy and rule of law construction in the new era.
Promoting the coordinated progress of whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law has deepened the understanding of the dialectical unity between democracy and the rule of law.
Since the new era, our Party has promoted the organic unity and coordinated progress of whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law, and while ensuring that our country's socialist modernization process is always full of vitality and stable and orderly, it has deepened the understanding of the dialectical unity between democracy and the rule of law.
Rooted in the fundamental position of putting the people first. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "With the continuous development of our country's economy and society and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the people's demands for democracy, the rule of law, fairness, justice, security, and the environment are increasing day by day, and we must actively respond to the people's new demands and new expectations." Faced with this era's topic, whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law are the scientific answers given by our Party in the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law. The comprehensive rule of law takes legally guaranteeing the people's rights and interests as its fundamental purpose, stipulates the forms, channels, and procedures of democracy, and promotes the continuous improvement of the level of institutionalization, standardization, and proceduralization of whole-process people's democracy, ensuring that democracy is broad, real, and effective. Whole-process people's democracy ensures that the people legally manage state affairs, manage economic and cultural undertakings, and manage social affairs through various channels and forms, ensuring that the construction of the rule of law always reflects the people's will. The two are highly unified in value orientation and jointly serve to realize, safeguard, and develop the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people.
Relying on the system of the people being the masters of the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Improve the system of the people being the masters of the country, realize the people's will, guarantee the people's rights and interests, and fully stimulate the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the entire people." After long-term efforts, our country has formed a comprehensive, broad, and organically connected system of the people being the masters of the country, including the state system of the people's democratic dictatorship, the political system of the people's congress system, the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, the system of regional ethnic autonomy, the system of grassroots mass autonomy, and the broadest patriotic united front. Among them, the people's congress system implements the principle of the people being the masters of the country into the national political and social life through organizational systems, electoral systems, and rules of procedure, and is an important institutional carrier for realizing our country's whole-process people's democracy, which can maximize the guarantee of the people being the masters of the country. This series of institutional arrangements improves the support for the democratic system, improves the design of the democratic mechanism, and enriches the forms of democratic participation, providing a solid institutional support for the coordinated promotion of whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law, and continuously improving democratic practice and guaranteeing the rights of the masses on the track of the rule of law.
Serving the efficient operation of the national governance system. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The reason why China's governance has achieved world-renowned achievements is that a very important experience is that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, we have followed the path of socialist political development with Chinese characteristics, and adhered to and developed whole-process people's democracy" and "Governing the country according to law is the basic way for the Party to lead the people in governing the country." The comprehensive rule of law provides stable and reliable rule support and legal guarantees for national governance by building a complete, scientific, standardized, and effective legal system, preventing abuse of power, and maintaining fairness and justice. Whole-process people's democracy widely absorbs public opinion and gathers public wisdom by unblocking channels and building platforms, ensuring that the people can orderly participate in all aspects of national governance, promoting the design of various systems and policies to meet the expectations of the masses, and making national governance always full of vitality. The two have their own focuses and complement each other in function, continuously promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities, and making national political life both full of vitality and stable and orderly.
Running through all activities of the Party leading the people in governing the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "adhering to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law is an inevitable requirement for socialist political development," and proposed to "improve the democratic system, enrich the forms of democracy, broaden the channels of democracy, and ensure that the people being the masters of the country is implemented in the national political and social life." In the practice of reform and development, our Party has always adhered to the coordinated deployment and integrated promotion of democratic construction and the rule of law construction, both widely gathering consensus through democratic procedures to ensure that reform measures reflect public opinion and conform to the people's will, and emphasizing that they are based on law and promoted according to law to ensure that comprehensively deepening reform is steadily promoted on the track of the rule of law; in grassroots governance, we pay attention to embedding the thinking and methods of the rule of law into the rules of procedure and practical processes of grassroots autonomy, both seeking the greatest common divisor of the will of the whole society through democratic methods, and relying on the means of the rule of law to consolidate the foundation of social stability. From the coordinated deployment of top-level design to the practical implementation at the grassroots level, the resonance of the comprehensive rule of law and whole-process people's democracy in the practice of governing the country in all fields and at all levels is vividly demonstrated, effectively transforming our country's institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, and promoting Chinese-style modernization to move forward steadily and far.
In general, whole-process people's democracy, as the essential attribute of socialist democratic politics, provides a solid political foundation and value guidance for the comprehensive rule of law; the comprehensive rule of law, as the essential requirement and important guarantee for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics, provides a reliable institutional carrier and legal guarantee for whole-process people's democracy. In this process, the Party's leadership is the fundamental guarantee, running through the important links of scientific legislation, strict law enforcement, impartial justice, and universal law-abiding in the comprehensive rule of law, and integrated into the entire chain of democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision, ensuring that our country's socialist democracy and rule of law construction moves forward in the correct political direction. Only by adhering to the organic unity of the Party's leadership, the people being the masters of the country, and the rule of law can we realize the mutual complementation and mutual promotion of whole-process people's democracy and the comprehensive rule of law, better give play to the advantages of the socialist system with Chinese characteristics, orderly promote the institutionalization and legalization of national and social life, and provide a strong political guarantee for Chinese-style modernization to move forward steadily and far.
Adhere to promoting whole-process people's democracy on the track of the rule of law.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for consolidating the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization, and it is also an important stage for promoting the construction of socialist democracy and the rule of law. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline makes arrangements for "developing whole-process people's democracy and improving the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics," which is conducive to further legally guaranteeing the people's rights and interests and ensuring that the people realize various democratic rights through legal channels, methods, and procedures. To implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, we must adhere to the path of the socialist rule of law with Chinese characteristics, guarantee the people being the masters of the country with good laws and good governance, and gather great strength for promoting Chinese-style modernization.
Improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core, and provide institutional guarantees for whole-process people's democracy. Our country's Constitution comprehensively and systematically stipulates the basic rights and obligations of citizens, and the various systems and major policies established by the Constitution reflect the people being the masters of the country, and are all for the purpose of realizing, safeguarding, and developing the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. To this end, we must adhere to the comprehensive implementation of the Constitution's provisions, principles, and spirit, improve the socialist legal system with Chinese characteristics with the Constitution as the core, accelerate the supply of laws, regulations, and systems in the fields of finance, taxation, science and technology innovation, intellectual property, digital economy, and artificial intelligence, solidly do a good job in the work of grassroots legislative liaison points, continuously improve the working mechanism for absorbing public opinion and gathering public wisdom, promote legal norms to better conform to public opinion and popular sentiment, and provide legal guarantees for further enriching the practice of whole-process people's democratic participation. At the same time, improve the quality of constitutional review and record review work, ensure that laws, regulations, and normative documents conform to the spirit of the Constitution and the requirements of whole-process people's democracy, and maintain the unity of the rule of law and democratic values.
Adhere to the joint promotion of governing the country according to law, exercising power according to law, and administering according to law, and ensure that the people being the masters of the country is implemented in practice. This is conducive to promoting the legalization of the exercise of public power and better guaranteeing and developing whole-process people's democracy. To this end, we must firmly establish the legal concepts of statutory powers, statutory duties must be performed, and no authorization is not allowed, use the rule of law to set rules and boundaries for administrative power, and strengthen the awareness of administering according to law; improve the legality review mechanism for major decisions and normative documents, implement the "Interim Regulations on the Procedures for Major Administrative Decisions," strictly implement statutory procedures such as public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legality review, and collective discussion and decision, and strive to ensure legal decision-making and scientific decision-making; strengthen the openness and supervision and restriction of the exercise of power, put power in the cage of the system, and regulate the exercise of power and guarantee democracy with the rule of law.
Strengthen the implementation, supervision, and guarantee of the rule of law, and provide a stable environment for whole-process people's democracy. The rule of law system is an organic unity of all aspects of law-making and the implementation, supervision, and guarantee of the rule of law. Deepening the reform in the field of the rule of law, and promoting the joint reform of law enforcement, justice, and law-abiding at the same time as improving legislation, and running the belief in the rule of law, the authority of the rule of law, and the effectiveness of the rule of law through and reflecting them in the entire process of reform, can provide a stable environment and build a solid foundation for whole-process people's democracy. To this end, we must deepen the reform of the administrative law enforcement system, improve the system and mechanism of comprehensive law enforcement at the grassroots level, improve the system and mechanism of administrative law enforcement supervision, improve the long-term mechanism for regulating law enforcement involving enterprises, prevent and correct illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement, and safeguard whole-process people's democracy with strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement; improve the system and mechanism of fair justice, further give play to the role of people's jurors in promoting judicial democracy and enhancing judicial credibility, and provide strong judicial guarantees for the development of whole-process people's democracy; create a good environment in the whole society that advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains fairness, promote the broad masses of the people to enhance their legal concepts and democratic literacy in the practice of the rule of law, and help promote the high-quality development of whole-process people's democracy.
Strengthen the construction of grassroots democracy and the rule of law, and consolidate the practical foundation of whole-process people's democracy. Grassroots democracy is the most extensive practice of socialist democratic politics and an important part of whole-process people's democracy. We must strengthen the publicity and implementation of the Organic Law of Villagers Committees and the Organic Law of Urban Residents Committees, promote the improvement of the grassroots mass autonomy mechanism under the leadership of grassroots Party organizations, improve the grassroots democratic system and work system, and give play to the leading and gatekeeping role of village (community) Party organizations in key links such as democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision; promote carriers such as villagers' councils, resident hearings, and community consultation and deliberation halls, and promote civil affairs deliberation, civil affairs handled by the people, and civil affairs managed by the people; use the rule of law to handle grassroots public affairs, guide the masses to express their demands through legal channels, and guarantee the healthy operation of grassroots democracy and social harmony and stability with the rule of law, and effectively guarantee the grassroots masses to directly exercise their democratic rights according to law.
(The author is a researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance))
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Xun Yue (荀悦) of the Eastern Han Dynasty said in *Shen Jian* (《申鉴》): "Words must be useful, techniques must have standards, names must be true to reality, and actions must be effective." This implies that those in government should maintain a proactive and pragmatic attitude. Currently, the study and education campaign on establishing and practicing correct views on performance, which is being carried out throughout the Party, takes "serving the Party for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and earnestly implementing them" as the general requirement, and issues a clear call to all Party members and cadres to devote themselves to practical work and take on responsibilities. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) once vividly and profoundly explained that leading cadres should not only have the awareness to want to do things and do them sincerely, but also need to have the ability to do things well and accomplish them, with "broad shoulders of responsibility" and "genuine skills to get things done." Among them, being able to do things well and accomplish them is a necessary requirement for creating achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history. Possessing this excellent skill is not achieved overnight, but requires persistent learning, thinking, and practice, maintaining the vigor and fighting spirit to overcome difficulties.
Of all virtues, learning comes first. Valuing learning is a fine tradition of our Party. Whether in the revolutionary years of war, or in the construction period of pioneering; whether in the era of surging reform, or on the new journey of Chinese-style modernization, our Party has always placed learning in an important position, especially at key nodes calling on all Party comrades to strengthen learning, increase skills, and continuously promote the great development and great progress of the Party and the people's cause. At present, the complex situation of the world's century-old changes accelerating, and the arduous tasks of reform, development, and stability, all put forward new and higher requirements for the ability and quality of Party members and cadres, and it is even more necessary for Party members and cadres to improve their ability and quality through learning, so as to better take on responsibilities.
Improving theoretical literacy through strengthening learning focuses on accumulation and values perseverance. Neglecting or relaxing the study of the Party's innovative theories, always mechanically going from one thing to another, being satisfied with "doing it is enough" and "doing it is good," without understanding why to do it and how to do it better, can easily waste time in the mediocrity and busyness of事務主義 (shì wù zhǔ yì - "事務主義," roughly translated as "事務主義," focusing solely on routine tasks and neglecting broader strategic goals), losing the enthusiasm and passion for starting a business. Only by taking theoretical learning as a consistent conscious pursuit, cherishing every minute and every second, seizing every opportunity to deepen theoretical learning, and unremittingly using 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) to strengthen the soul, can we think and grasp the problems in our work with a broader mind and a longer-term vision, and improve our ability to cope with major challenges, resist major risks, overcome major obstacles, and solve major contradictions.
In reality, some Party members and cadres think about retreating as soon as they encounter difficulties and obstacles in their work, worrying that their lack of ability will ruin things, and always thinking about gaining more experience and stronger abilities before taking on major responsibilities. This cautious and responsible attitude towards work is correct, but caution is not a shield for avoiding contradictions and shirking responsibility. It should be seen that the major and difficult issues encountered in practice are both challenges and tests, and opportunities to improve one's ability and quality. Many genuine skills for doing things well and accomplishing them are honed in the face of difficulties, challenges, contradictions, and risks. On the contrary, if you retreat when you encounter difficulties and hand over problems when you encounter them, you will miss good opportunities to exercise your skills and improve your abilities, and you will wear down the vigor to overcome difficulties and the courage to take responsibility. Over time, not only will personal growth stagnate, but the development of the cause will also be difficult to achieve substantial progress.
Since the new era, from the anti-corruption struggle of "offending thousands of people, not failing 1.4 billion people," to resolutely handling our own affairs in the face of external forces' containment and suppression, to resolutely practicing the promise of "not leaving a single one behind," allowing nearly 100 million rural poor people to escape poverty... which task is not difficult? It is precisely by actively embracing various difficulties and challenges with the perseverance of 明知山有虎，偏向虎山行 (míng zhī shān yǒu hǔ, piān xiàng hǔ shān xíng - "knowing there are tigers in the mountain, deliberately walking towards the tiger mountain," knowingly facing danger), that our Party has trained a cadre team and cultivated a large number of backbone forces who can rush out and stand up at critical moments in winning hard battles. Practice has proved that only by carrying forward the pioneering spirit of paving roads when encountering mountains and building bridges when encountering water, forging ahead in turbulent rapids, and breaking through obstacles in climbing slopes, can we increase our wisdom and talent in the face of major tests of high winds and waves, and truly achieve 霜雪压枝枝愈劲、风雨阻行行更坚 (shuāng xuě yā zhī zhī yù jìn, fēng yǔ zǔ xíng xíng gèng jiān - "frost and snow press the branches, the branches become stronger; wind and rain hinder the journey, the journey becomes firmer," adversity strengthens resilience), and develop the hard backbone, iron shoulders, and real skills to take responsibility.
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On March 6 this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized while visiting members of the All-China Federation of Trade Unions, the China National Democratic Construction Association, the China Association for Promoting Democracy, the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, the Jiusan Society, and representatives from the fields of medicine, health, social welfare, and social security attending the fourth session of the 14th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference: "Building a healthy China is a systematic project. Facing the increasingly diverse health needs of the people, we must focus on key areas, tightly grasp the work that benefits a wide range of people and affects the overall situation, concentrate efforts and resources on improving the public health system, building a high-quality and efficient medical service system, and advocating healthy and civilized lifestyles, and take effective measures to promote continuous new achievements." The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline clearly requires: "Implement a health-first development strategy, improve the policy and system for health promotion, enhance the effectiveness of the patriotic health campaign, promote the shift from a disease-centered approach to a health-centered approach, provide the people with equitable, accessible, systematic, and continuous health services, and improve the health level of the people." To meet the people's growing and diversified health needs and improve the health level of the people, we should thoroughly study and implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on building a healthy China, implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and continuously achieve new results in building a high-quality and efficient medical service system.
The basic national conditions of China, with its huge population size and large urban-rural gap coexisting, require medical services to maintain the bottom line at the grassroots level and promote the sinking of resources; the acceleration of aging and the increasing burden of chronic diseases require the medical service model to transform from "treating diseases" to "whole life cycle management"; and the people's health needs are upgrading from "having it" to "having it well," placing higher expectations on equitable, continuous, and convenient services. These realities and challenges all require the construction of a high-quality and efficient medical service system. "High-quality" is rooted in the value orientation of people's health as the center, not only pursuing the excellence of clinical diagnosis and treatment technology, but also emphasizing the continuity of medical services, the depth of humanistic care, and the breadth of fair accessibility; "efficient" focuses on the optimization of system operation, through the deep integration and coordinated development of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine, pursuing the maximum output of limited resources, so that the system moves from mechanical superposition to organic coupling. Both jointly point to making it possible for the people to see a doctor, see a doctor well, see a doctor more conveniently, and see a doctor more affordably, corresponding to the accessibility, quality, convenience, and affordability of public product supply.
Consolidate the foundation of the grassroots medical service system. In 2025, the number of diagnoses and treatments in China's grassroots medical and health institutions accounted for 52.6% of the total number of diagnoses and treatments in the country throughout the year, and more than 90% of residents can reach the nearest medical service point within 15 minutes. This set of data confirms the solid advancement of the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system and also reveals the direction of continuous efforts. The 2026 National Health Work Conference clearly proposed "continuously promoting the medical and health strengthening project, stabilizing the operation of secondary hospitals and expanding rehabilitation and nursing functions, and regulating the scale and development speed of tertiary hospitals." This not only refers to hardware investment, but also covers internal requirements such as system improvement, personnel capacity improvement, and assistance and cooperation. It is necessary to promote the quality and upgrading of medical services through accelerating the strengthening of weaknesses, promoting reform, gathering talents, and improving efficiency, so that the medical and health strengthening project is more high, deep, and warm. The effectiveness of strengthening the foundation must ultimately be reflected in the people's sense of gain. The National Health Commission has determined ten practical things to do for the people in 2026, including adding 1,000 township health centers and community health service centers to provide pediatric diagnosis and treatment services, ensuring that counties with a resident population of more than 60,000 have the ability to provide hemodialysis services, and adding 110 counties to provide psychological outpatient services, and so on. These drip-irrigation-style precise investments are extending the tentacles of high-quality services to the doorsteps of the people.
Promote the coordinated development and governance of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine. This year's "Government Work Report" emphasized the need to improve the coordinated development and governance mechanism of medical care, medical insurance, and medicine, and to deepen the reform of public hospitals oriented towards public welfare. Under the comprehensive leadership of the Party, the reform of public hospitals must adhere to the public welfare background, take meeting the health needs of the people as the starting point and foothold, and not be guided by profit-seeking. Through fiscal security, price regulation, medical insurance payment, personnel salary, comprehensive supervision, and other institutional arrangements, it will provide safe, effective, convenient, and affordable basic medical and health services for all the people. The reform of medical insurance payment methods needs to play the role of "strategic purchasing." Through payment tools, guide medical institutions to shift from passive cost control to active optimization of cost structure; introduce the concept of "value-based healthcare," link payment with health outcomes, and provide higher-quality services at more reasonable costs; the reform of medical service prices should reasonably reflect the technical labor value of medical personnel, and promote the establishment of a linkage mechanism between price adjustment and payment standards. Drugs are the carrier connecting clinical needs and medical insurance payments. Pharmaceutical companies should enhance the power of original innovation and increase their efforts to develop truly breakthrough and revolutionary new drugs. Drug regulatory authorities should optimize review and approval, guide industry alignment with health needs with patient needs and clinical value as the orientation; strengthen the whole life cycle supervision of drugs, and ensure medical safety and medical insurance payments; and implement the action plan to improve drug standards in depth, and improve the quality and efficacy consistency evaluation quality and efficiency of generic drugs.
Establish a systematic response to the health rights and interests of the entire population and the entire life cycle. At present, health services are no longer a simple medical intervention, but a systematic guarantee embedded in the social support system.
Focusing on the "elderly." During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China completed the age-friendly renovation of 2.24 million households of elderly people with special difficulties. In 2026, China will deploy and implement the capacity expansion and improvement project for rehabilitation and nursing care, develop medical and nursing care services, and promote long-term care insurance. The core of healthy aging lies in maintaining functional performance rather than simply prolonging life. The capacity expansion and improvement project for rehabilitation and nursing care reflects the leap from "survival-oriented elderly care" to "function maintenance-oriented elderly care." Deeply integrating long-term care insurance with home-based age-friendly renovation and smart elderly care is a useful supplement to building a social support system for healthy elderly care that adapts to national conditions and characteristics, allowing the elderly to enjoy their twilight years in a familiar environment. This model not only respects the subjectivity and dignity of the elderly, but also reduces the care burden on families through an institutionalized risk-sharing mechanism.
Focusing on the "young." At present, the direct payment of maternity allowances to individuals has been realized nationwide, and various places have successively introduced a number of convenient and beneficial policies for maternity insurance, and the level of maternity protection for women has been greatly improved. In 2026, inclusive childcare services will accelerate expansion, and 150,000 new inclusive childcare places will be added nationwide; 10,000 medical institutions will provide early pregnancy care clinics to provide one-stop convenient services for women in early pregnancy; and free national immunization program human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination services for girls aged 13 and above have been included in the ten practical things for the people in the medical and health system in 2026. The forward shift of inclusive childcare and maternal and child health care means that the node of health intervention is extending to the early stages of life.
The deep participation of traditional Chinese medicine injects the wisdom of "**治未病**" (zhì wèi bìng - "treating before disease," preventive treatment) into the whole life cycle health management. In 2026, the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine will organize and implement the "Western Medicine Learning Traditional Chinese Medicine" backbone talent training program, select 3,200 Western medicine doctors for traditional Chinese medicine training, and train a group of backbone talents who are good at using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine diagnosis and treatment methods. Through this type of talent training, the two medical systems of traditional Chinese and Western medicine are moving from technical superposition to cognitive integration. Expanding the coverage of the traditional Chinese medicine service system is not only an extension of the service radius, but also a popularization of a health philosophy, integrating health concepts into daily life, and transforming individuals from passive disease recipients into active health managers.
(The author is a researcher at the National Health Commission's Health Development Research Center)
By: 本报记者 金 歆 任飞帆
From March 28th to 29th, the 2026 China Internet Media Forum was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南). This forum was hosted by the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), People's Daily (人民日报社), and the Cyberspace Administration Commission of the Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委网信委), with the theme of "Leveraging the Guiding Force of Mainstream Media and Stimulating the Creativity of Diverse Entities – Jointly Creating a Prosperous Online Content Ecosystem."
During the forum, participating guests stated that 2026 is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and online media shoulders important responsibilities and missions. It is necessary to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches, continuously strengthen mainstream public opinion, promote the strong voice of the times, build a concentric circle online and offline, and unite efforts to achieve a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Strive to Play a Leading Role in the Mainstream of Cyberspace and Make the Party's Voice the Strongest in Cyberspace
At the opening ceremony of the forum, Zhuang Rongwen (庄荣文), Deputy Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部), Director of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), and Director of the State Internet Information Office (国家网信办), stated that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has profoundly grasped the development trends of the information age and the changing trends of the communication landscape. He has made a series of important expositions on strengthening the construction of online content, guiding the construction of online content to take solid steps, and the cyberspace is improving and showing a new atmosphere. It is necessary to adhere to consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality, and use Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to build the soul and cast the spirit, launch more online works that are thorough in reasoning and vivid, and enhance the sense of the times and attractiveness of online theoretical propaganda.
In recent years, People's Daily (人民日报) has taken the deepening of systemic reforms as an opportunity to enrich the supply of high-quality online content, improve communication effectiveness, and strive to play a leading role in the mainstream of cyberspace.
"Currently, how to make the mainstream voice of cyberspace louder is a question of the times that we must answer well." Yu Shaoliang (于绍良), President of People's Daily (人民日报社), said that Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era is the source of living water for publicity and reporting, and the myriad phenomena of the new era provide the richest soil for the production of high-quality content. We must always hold high the banner of thought, make the Party's voice the strongest in cyberspace, and gather the wisdom and strength of hundreds of millions of people to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Liu Jian (刘健), member of the Party Leadership Group and Vice President of Xinhua News Agency (新华社), said that Xinhua News Agency (新华社) always regards studying and understanding Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era as the main entry point, focusing on the goal of striving to build a world-class new type of all-media institution, firmly grasping a series of key areas such as technology empowerment, integrated development, process reengineering, investigation and research, international communication, and discourse innovation, and comprehensively deepening systemic reforms.
At the main forum, the Central Cyberspace Administration of China's (中央网信办) 2026 online major theme publicity and major issue setting project and the "Looking at China in the Opening Year" online theme publicity campaign were launched. Relevant负责人 of the Online Communication Bureau of the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办网络传播局) stated that the Central Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) uses major theme publicity and major issue settings as the traction, with more than 800 projects covering six major areas, core publicity leading the direction, digital intelligence empowering production and communication, and diverse entities jointly building and sharing, so that positive energy surges with large traffic.
Liu Ning (刘宁), Secretary of the Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委) and Director of the Standing Committee of the Henan Provincial People's Congress (省人大常委会主任), said that he sincerely invites the vast number of online media and creators to Henan (豫) for interviews and field trips to experience the development momentum, innovation changes, cultural prosperity, and beautiful mountains and rivers of the Central Plains, and to launch more high-quality works with connotation, warmth, and influence, so as to better showcase Henan's (河南) efforts to forge ahead in the "15th Five-Year Plan" and write a new chapter.
Enrich the Supply of High-Quality Online Content and Fill Cyberspace with Positive Voices, Mainstream Values, and the New Trends of the Times
Paying attention to leveraging the respective advantages of diverse entities, enriching the supply of high-quality online content, and filling cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and the new trends of the times is an important responsibility of media and other online content creators.
In recent years, Henan Radio and Television Station (河南广播电视台) has created popular content such as "Tang Palace Night Banquet" (唐宫夜宴), "Luoshen Water Fu" (洛神水赋), and the "Chinese Solar Terms" series. "What we do is to let the beauty of this Chinese cultural heritage be seen by more people." Wang Renhai (王仁海), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of Henan Radio and Television Station (河南广播电视台), said that the main force must advance into the main battlefield, so as to achieve all-round coverage of mainstream values.
The WeChat official account "Zhejiang Propaganda" (浙江宣传) created and published 289 official account articles with more than "100,000+" views in just half a year since its creation. Wang Siqi (王思琦), a member of the editorial department of "Zhejiang Propaganda" (浙江宣传), said: "'Speaking human language, cutting to hot topics, and having an attitude' is the concept of 'Zhejiang Propaganda' (浙江宣传). Facing hot topics directly, but not blindly following trends; dissecting difficulties, not avoiding the important and dwelling on the trivial; expressing opinions clearly, not engaging in pleasing everyone; being concise and to the point, letting readers know what we are supporting, opposing, and conveying."
Online platforms are primarily responsible for information content management. In recent years, various online platforms have optimized the online content creation ecosystem, striving to make every fingertip touch of users and creators converge into a force for good.
"Encourage serious creation, oppose sensationalism, and seek traffic; encourage professional content, oppose provoking emotions; encourage true feelings, oppose hypocritical personas." Chen Rui (陈睿), Chairman and CEO of Bilibili (哔哩哔哩), said that supporting high-quality content is the most effective way for the platform to continue to develop. In the long run, what users can remember must be high-quality content.
Recently, literary and artistic works rooted in the fertile soil of Chinese civilization, respecting the laws of online communication, and conveying mainstream values have frequently sparked heated discussions on the Internet.
At the beginning of this year, a TV series "The Years of Peace" (太平年) showing the "unpopular history" of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms sparked heated discussions, with the total number of topic views on the entire network reaching 4.1 billion. Many netizens voluntarily became "tap water," making character relationship diagrams, video explanations of history, and making emoticons, and "secondary creation" further helped popularize high-quality works.
The behind-the-scenes creative team of "The Years of Peace" (太平年) revealed the "traffic code": behind the hot search is the entire crew's pursuit of excellence in creation, whether it is the plot structure or the details of costumes, props, and makeup, they have put in a lot of effort. "**内容为王** (nèi róng wéi wáng - "content is king," content is the most important thing)" and "**真诚为魂** (zhēn chéng wéi hún - "sincerity is the soul," sincerity is the essence)," said Bai Yu (白宇), a young actor who played Qian Hongchu (钱弘俶) in "The Years of Peace" (太平年). Only by being in awe of history, creation, and the audience can we create characters with flesh and blood and warmth.
Deeply Cultivate the Digital Intelligence Field, and Use Advanced Technology and Novel Forms to Make the Mainstream Voice More Popular
Currently, new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) are constantly emerging. The media adhere to integrity and innovation, deeply cultivate the digital intelligence field with historical initiative, and use advanced technology and novel forms to make the mainstream voice more popular in cyberspace.
Ye Zhenzhen (叶蓁蓁), Vice President of People's Daily (人民日报社), introduced that in 2019, the National Key Laboratory of Cognitive Computing for Content Dissemination was established in People's Daily (人民日报社), and in May 2022, it was reorganized into one of the first national key laboratories. People's Daily (人民日报社) bears in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) expectations, uses mainstream value orientation to control algorithms, builds a mainstream value corpus, builds a value foundation for artificial intelligence, and makes artificial intelligence a new interface for telling Chinese stories.
Peng Jianming (彭健明), member of the editorial board of China Media Group (中央广播电视总台), said that the headquarters is steadily advancing the "5G+4K/8K+AI" strategic layout, seizing the first opportunity for the development of artificial intelligence, launching the CCTV listening media model 2.0, and using AI to create micro-short dramas, animated films, etc. throughout the entire process, allowing technology to add wings to content creation. "The elephant is dancing street dance, and we have danced out the perfect combination of technical sharpness and cultural temperature."
In 2025, the TV series "Silent Glory" (沉默的荣耀) set off a wave of drama chasing across the Taiwan Strait. Due to the particularity of the hidden front, martyrs such as Wu Shi (吴石), Zhu Feng (朱枫), Chen Baocang (陈宝仓), and Nie Xi (聂曦) did not leave a group photo during their lifetime. At the forum site, the four heroes' group photo made by AI technology was displayed on the big screen, and the historical regret was made up for. Na Zhidong (那志东), the actor who played Chen Baocang (陈宝仓) in the play, said: "The four martyrs came to this moment through network technology. Their belief back then is our happy life today."
Robot dancing, robot fighting, robot marathon... In recent years, robots and embodied intelligence have attracted attention. At the forum, a robot wearing a red evening dress stepped onto the stage, performing a flexible dance, and paying tribute to the audience. The guests opened their cameras one after another to record this moment of the integration of technology and art.
Not long ago, a robot "kung fu" made Unitree Technology (宇树科技) popular on the Internet again. Wang Xingxing (王兴兴), founder and CEO of Unitree Technology (宇树科技), said: "We have collected nearly a hundred kinds of Chinese classic kung fu, selected dozens of them, and brought them to the stage through robots. The program is popular at home and abroad, allowing Chinese kung fu and Chinese technology to go to the world, and allowing the world to see and recognize Chinese culture and technological strength."
With the development of various new technologies, strengthening governance is extremely important.
Shi Jianzhong (时建中), Dean of the Data Rule of Law Research Institute of China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学数据法治研究院), said that the current new technologies and applications such as artificial intelligence and big data are accelerating iteration, and the production and dissemination model of online content is undergoing tremendous and profound changes. Taking responsibility as the anchor and guarding the bottom line, every choice of technology for good will inject upward and good forces into cyberspace.
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Attending the 2026 China Internet Media Forum in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), the most frequently heard word, both inside and outside the venue, is "Zhong (中)." "Zhong" represents the straightforwardness of the people of Henan: sincere praise and cheerful agreement are both expressed with a simple and authentic "Zhong." "Zhong" highlights Henan's advantages: located in the Central Plains (中原), connecting the whole country, the "米"-shaped high-speed rail network fully demonstrates its hub status.
Today, "Zhong" has new connotations for Henan: from the savory and warming Spicy Soup (胡辣汤) to the Laojun Mountain (老君山), which became popular due to its snow scenery, from the archaeological blind boxes that are a hit in the cultural and museum world to star enterprises Mixue Ice Cream & Tea (蜜雪冰城) and Pang Donglai (胖东来)... With culture as its root and innovation as its wings, this ancient land of Henan is striving to transform cultural resources into traffic advantages, moving towards the center of the stage in the digital age.
The Henan practice of cultural communication provides inspiration, and there is much to be done in building network content.
Actively embrace and innovate in "seeking novelty."
At the sub-forum "2026 Digital Intelligence Empowers Positive Energy Production and Communication Conference," the audience wore scent generators. Relying on "digital scent" technology, they could not only step into the Song Dynasty streets depicted in "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" (《清明上河图》), but also truly smell a series of rich flavors such as the food in the market. Digital intelligence technology brings new communication experiences and is also reshaping the underlying logic of content production. Practice shows that technological iteration is the core engine of content communication. Only by making good use of cutting-edge technologies can good content be better presented and gain greater voice.
Technological update is the surface, and thinking innovation is the inside. When mainstream media communicate with readers in a younger tone, when ancient intangible cultural heritage is realized through digital technology, and when new mass literature and art and folk sports become fashionable with the help of the Internet, what we see is not only the support of technology, but also the advancement of thinking.
At present, the wave of digital intelligence is surging, and creators will fall behind if they do not advance. Facing the continuous emergence of new technologies, new scenarios, and new users, only by actively embracing change and daring to lead change can we occupy the high ground of communication and make the mainstream voice have both internet sensibility and temperature, as well as ideological depth and value weight.
Uphold what is important and respond to all changes with "unchanged."
The super-burning shouts of the aircraft carrier "Three Ship Guests" bring a full sense of security; the AI group photo of four hidden front martyrs across time and space is tearful; the two "small vegetable gardens" cultivated by the famous writer Mo Yan (莫言) on the Internet make people smile knowingly... At the forum site, although the cool technology is eye-catching, what really touches people's hearts is always sincere feelings and a strong sense of everyday life.
In the intelligent age, the communication ecology is changing rapidly. But the more we run forward against the clock, the more precious humanistic care, value pursuit, and hard work become. He Jiaolong (贺娇龙), a cadre in Xinjiang (新疆), regards online creation as a means to benefit one party, writing a vivid footnote of "traffic for the people." The self-media "Institute of Planet" delves into major national projects, mountains, rivers, and humanities, and uses hardcore science to deconstruct China's strength, just to let more people "rediscover the beauty of China." The moving power of communication often stems from ordinary persistence and perseverance. When traffic is easy to obtain and fast production and fast output are becoming more and more the norm in content creation, the more precious is the creator's mentality of guarding the original intention, cultivating humanistic feelings, and deeply cultivating value expression.
Content creation is a technical job, but also a conscientious job; it is easy to follow the trend and do addition, but it is difficult to calm down and work hard. The vast number of online media and content creators take value as the anchor and ingenuity as the pen, always adhere to the mainstream value orientation, always carefully polish their works, and always strictly abide by the bottom line of content creation, and they will be able to maintain the unchanged in the ever-changing and create high-quality products in the noise.
As of the end of 2025, China's Internet user scale reached 1.125 billion, and the number of generative artificial intelligence users reached 602 million, both ranking among the top in the world. What a vast market and what a broad stage.
"We must adhere to shaping the cyberspace with positive voices, mainstream values, and new trends of the times, so that the Internet becomes an important position for ideological guidance, moral cultivation, and cultural inheritance." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) exhortations are still in our ears, inspiring countless strivers who are devoted to building a strong network country and promoting the development of the network information cause to be determined and pragmatic, and to move forward.
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When a thousand-year-old cultural heritage encounters cutting-edge technology, and when the dissemination of mainstream values is empowered by artificial intelligence, a two-way convergence of positive energy and new technology is wonderfully staged on the banks of the Yellow River. On the evening of March 28th, the "2026 Digital Intelligence Empowers Positive Energy Production and Dissemination Conference," hosted by the Bureau of Internet Communication and the Bureau of Network Management Technology of the Central Cyberspace Administration (中央网信办), and organized by People's Daily Online (人民网) with the assistance of People's Video, was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南).
The conference closely focused on all aspects of the digital intelligence empowerment of positive energy content creation, dissemination, and distribution, and concentrated on showcasing the latest applications of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence in the field of network communication. Through scenario-based performances, interactive experiences, and scholarly discussions, it promoted the empowerment, integration, and driving of digital intelligence technology for diverse entities to participate in the production and dissemination of positive energy content on the network, and continuously enriched the supply of high-quality content on the network.
The conference kicked off with a unique "scent journey." The Northern Wei painted pottery figurine of a woman holding hands from the Luoyang Museum (洛阳博物馆) was revitalized by AI and "walked out" of the display case, embarking on a Henan "City Walk" that could be taken at any time. On-site, with the cooperation of scent interaction equipment, the audience immersively experienced the rich cultural heritage of the Central Plains in a variety of scents such as peony fragrance and the spicy aroma of *hulatang* (胡辣汤). This "immersive" surprise was progressively advanced in subsequent programs.
The digital image of the "Northern Wei painted pottery figurine of a woman holding hands" co-hosted the three chapters of the conference—AI Empowerment, Virtual-Real Integration, and Digital Intelligence Driven—with a reporter from People's Daily Online (人民网). When technology becomes a "confidant" of cultural inheritance, classics are reborn in the digital age. Digital intelligence empowerment provides a more vivid way to open up the dissemination of positive energy.
The "Daily Painting Reading" column, jointly promoted by the Literature and Art Department of People's Daily (人民日报社文艺部), People's Daily Online (人民网), and the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院), used AI to make the "Spring Morning in the Han Palace" scroll "live in the present," transforming static paintings into vivid scenes that can be seen, heard, and felt. Kuaishou's Keling AI awakened the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival" scroll, allowing the audience to experience the prosperity of Bianjing (汴京) on-site and touch the urban fireworks in the ancient painting. Himalaya used AI to preserve red memories, making the "Echoes of the Dabie Mountains" "sound endlessly." Alibaba Cloud (阿里云) used advanced broadcasting technology to create the "Cloud Winter Olympics," allowing the fighting spirit of the Winter Olympic athletes to cross mountains and seas and spread around the world.
Technology not only "revitalized" culture but also allowed creations to break through. With the breaking of technological boundaries, positive energy creation has ushered in an era of "co-creation for all." Zhang Yimeng (张一萌), the 9-year-old "smallest photographer in Village Super League," used the "editing department on wheels" created by BYD's in-vehicle drone system to achieve the freedom of creation that can be taken at any time, filmed at any time, and transmitted immediately. Douyin (抖音) focused on "algorithm escort" and used creative special effects to help positive energy works gain hundreds of millions of views. In the latest AI work released on-site, actor Wang Lei (王雷) had a cross-temporal dialogue with Red Army soldiers of the Long March, paying tribute to heroes and moving people deeply. From professional teams to the general public, AI is breaking down the barriers to creation, making it possible for everyone to become a recorder and disseminator of positive energy.
At this conference, the audience relived the famous scene of the "Turing Test" from the "2025 China AI Ceremony" jointly hosted by China Central Television (中央广播电视总台) and the Central Cyberspace Administration (中央网信办). Aishi Technology brought real-time generation AI technology, turning creation from "post-production" into "live broadcast." Yingmu, Leqi, Thunderbird, Zhiyi and other four smart glasses brands collectively appeared, showing a new paradigm of human-computer interaction with the "eyes of the future." Zhiyuan Robot performed on the same stage with real people, fully demonstrating the new possibilities of the integration of digital intelligence technology and art in "Martial Arts and Dance."
This "Night of Wonders" vividly demonstrated the fresh achievements of the deep integration of digital intelligence technology and positive energy content. The Chinese Academy of Cyberspace Studies (中国网络空间研究院) and People's Daily Online (人民网) jointly released the "Digital Intelligence Empowers Positive Energy Production and Dissemination Trend Report," analyzing the development context and trends of the mutual promotion of digital intelligence technology and high-quality content. The conference also released the "AI Empowers Positive Energy Production and Dissemination Scenario Innovation Practice Reference" and the 2025 China Positive Energy Network Communication AI Excellent Cases.
As the participating guests said, only by allowing digital intelligence technology and high-quality content to achieve a "**双向奔赴**" (shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "two-way rush," a mutual convergence or reciprocal movement), forming a cycle of "technology empowering culture and culture nourishing technology," can we consolidate our spiritual foundation in the digital wave.
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The wave of artificial intelligence is profoundly reshaping the production and dissemination of information content, making "good use" and "good governance" the questions of our time. The "Good Use and Good Governance: Standardized Development of AI Content" theme forum, one of the theme forums of the 2026 China Online Media Forum, was recently held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南). The forum focused on the standardized development of AI content, showcasing governance achievements, deeply exchanging practical experiences, and jointly discussing long-term strategies for online ecological governance.
"100 Seconds to Salute the Century of Guardianship of the Forbidden City" used AI technology to restore a large amount of historical data, creating wonderful "same frame" scenes of ancient and modern times. "AI Creative Video | Nezha, Ao Bing, and Wukong are Here! Mythology Shining into Reality is 'E' bit Cool'" was 脑洞大开 (nǎo dòng dà kāi - "brain hole wide open," wildly imaginative; thinking outside the box), showcasing the smooth "transformation" of major national instruments into Chinese mythological figures. "Waking Up, Su Shi Arrived in 2025" allowed the Song Dynasty poet Su Shi (苏轼) to romantically encounter Sichuan (四川) in 2025, cleverly showcasing Sichuan's development vitality. The 2025 China Positive Energy Online Communication AI Excellent Case vividly demonstrated the role of AI in helping content creators improve efficiency and broaden their imagination.
At the same time, the risk of artificial intelligence being abused has also become prominent, becoming a new issue in online ecological governance. Shi Jianzhong (时建中), professor at China University of Political Science and Law (中国政法大学) and Dean of the Institute of Data Rule of Law, said: "When technology is abused, seeing is no longer believing, and hearing is not enough to trust." Deepfakes erode the cornerstone of trust. In reality, some merchants use AI to synthesize the portraits and voices of celebrities, hosts, and professionals without authorization, impersonating them to recommend products, which not only infringes on personal rights but also constitutes commercial fraud.
The values and output quality of AI large models are highly dependent on training data. Zhang Peng (张鹏), CEO of Beijing Zhipu Huazhang Technology Co., Ltd. (北京智谱华章科技股份有限公司), said that if there are biases and errors in the training data of large models, they may subtly affect the audience's cognition through continuous output. Zheng Zhiming (郑志明), academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), professor at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学), and director of the Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Blockchain and Privacy Computing, pointed out that unverifiable sources, uncontrollable boundaries, unassignable responsibilities, and unauditable processes are the deep-seated problems of AI content governance.
AI technology significantly lowers the threshold for content production, leading to an explosive growth of homogeneous and low-quality information on the Internet. The personalized information distribution mechanism implemented through algorithms may exacerbate the "information cocoon" effect. Lei Binyi (雷彬艺), founder and CEO of Wuyou Media Group Co., Ltd. (无忧传媒集团有限公司), said: "The more powerful the technology, the more content producers must have a sense of awe and always adhere to positive value orientation."
On November 28, 2025, the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局) conducted its 23rd collective study on strengthening online ecological governance. This is of great and far-reaching significance for promoting the high-quality development of the cyberspace affairs and accelerating the construction of a cyber power. Under the top-level design, governance practices are constantly deepening. The Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办) has taken the "Qinglang" (清朗) series of special actions as a starting point, launching a strong attack on prominent problems such as the use of AI technology to produce and publish false information and pornographic and vulgar content, and promoting the standardized management of content generated by large models.
At the same time, the legal foundation is constantly being consolidated. Last year, the "Measures for the Identification of AI-Generated and Synthesized Content" jointly issued by the State Cyberspace Administration of China (国家网信办) and other four departments, and the supporting mandatory national standard "Network Security Technology Artificial Intelligence Generated Synthetic Content Identification Method" were released simultaneously, both of which officially came into effect on September 1, 2025. This set of combined punches has built a collaborative governance closed loop of "source identification - distribution review - dissemination verification - user declaration," successfully transforming principled requirements into enforceable governance practices. Laws, regulations and institutional documents in the field of information content have been successively formulated and promulgated, the governance system has become more and more perfect, and the governance effectiveness has become increasingly prominent.
The problems brought about by technology ultimately need to be solved by technology. Zheng Zhiming (郑志明) systematically elaborated on the technical framework of "trustworthy intelligence," that is, to realize the confirmation of rights, storage of evidence, traceability and attribution through blockchain technology, to ensure that high-value data is "available but not visible, computable but not leaked" through privacy computing, and to realize precise intelligence through content governance from "large and comprehensive" to "accurate and specialized, stable and controllable," and to embed governance in the "pre-, mid-, and post-" links of content generation.
Many companies are exploring the transformation of AI technology into a governance tool. Tencent (腾讯) launched "Qinghe Guardian" (青禾守护), injecting a large number of samples into the large model through reinforcement learning and other methods, so that the large model can better achieve timely screening of risks, and build a social and information flow active defense system. Douyin (抖音) launched the "Zhidun Plan" (智盾计划), using large model technology to study and judge the risk of online violence from the global perspective of hot spots, abnormal traffic, and specific emotions, realizing the leap from passive response to active defense. Baidu (百度) developed the "Qingliu Jian" (清流鉴) product, relying on the Wenxin (文心) large model, starting from three lines of defense: multi-modal intelligent detection, content traceability, and AI + manual collaborative verification, to help the public identify deepfake content and online rumors. People's Daily (人民网)'s "Tianmu" (天目) intelligent recognition system explores a new model of content risk control of "using AI to govern AI," detecting deepfake content and tracking the source of synthesis methods.
Corpus building and industry self-discipline jointly build the cornerstone of a healthy ecosystem. Shi Qiming (施其明), founder and executive president of Wuhan University of Technology Digital Communication Engineering Co., Ltd. (武汉理工数字传播工程有限公司), emphasized that high-quality professional corpus will determine the upper limit of model capabilities and become a watershed and important variable in the international AI competition landscape. He suggested taking the publishing industry as a starting point, using its advantages of strict review, complete text, and perfect system to build an independent and controllable, healthy and orderly Chinese AI high-quality corpus supply system. At the forum, 52 companies related to AI content development also collectively signed the "AI Generated Synthetic Content Self-Discipline Convention" (《AI生成合成内容自律公约》), working together to guard the bottom line and promote co-governance.
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On March 29th, the theme forum of the 2026 China Online Media Forum, "The Road of Transformation: Innovative Practices of Online Media," was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南). Guests from central and local mainstream media and research institutions combined theory with practice to deeply explore how mainstream media can uphold integrity and innovate in the AI era, providing a path reference for the systematic transformation of the media industry.
Under the wave of generative artificial intelligence, how to balance technological application and value orientation has become an important issue. In this year's National People's Congress (全国两会) reports, the "AI content" of People's Daily (人民日报) new media was three times that of last year. AI creative products such as "Picking up the Pen" (提笔) and "Drawing a Grand Blueprint" (起宏图), and the "Future is Here: AI Creative Competition" activity, went viral across the entire network. "AI can generate text, images, and videos, but it cannot generate ideas." Xue Yuan (薛原), director of the People's Daily (人民日报) New Media Center, believes that mainstream media should be the "ballast stone" of the AI era, adhering to ideological depth, practical foundation, and professional standards. "The draft of life is always written by people."
Qian Tong (钱彤), director of Xinhua News Agency (新华社) New Media Center, proposed that "the more powerful AI is, the higher the requirements for people are." He shared the case of "a liberal arts student breaking into the top 30 of the OpenClaw global contribution list," which proves that even without understanding code, media professionals can still use humanistic perception to correct technical deviations. The micro-video "Mountains and Rivers Will Always Be Remembered" (山河永志), commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory against Japanese aggression, recreates the history of the war through AI, connecting history with the present and inspiring empathy.
Breaking the traditional editing and compilation structure and releasing talent creativity are important measures for the systematic transformation of mainstream media. Hu Minghua (胡明华), general manager of Shanghai United Media Group (上海报业集团), introduced that the group has incubated more than 250 vertical studios, cultivated 42 key IPs, and those born in the 1990s and 1995s have become the main creative force. Zheng Huaping (郑华平), editor-in-chief of Hunan TV (湖南卫视), shared the equally impressive "Principal Mechanism," which fully authorizes and incentivizes frontline staff. Technical directors born in 2000 and producers born in 1995 continue to emerge. The spin-off mini-game of "Back to Field" (向往的生活) ranks eighth on the WeChat mini-game popularity list, realizing the full-chain development of IP value.
"42 million fans are not just numbers, but also confidence, strength, and popular support." Zou Wen (邹雯), the main creator of the "News Sister" (新闻姐) official account of Zhejiang Radio and Television Group (浙江广播电视集团), shared the original intention of "entrepreneurship." She tracked and reported the story of a 19-year-old burned girl, Xiaoling (小玲), leveraging the entire network to raise 2 million yuan in donations, turning large traffic into positive energy to change fate. Guo Tao (郭涛), director of the Chang'an Street Knowledge Editorial Department (长安街知事编辑部) of Beijing Daily (北京日报), shared the transformation from "reporter thinking" to "friend thinking." The "Be a Friend for a Day" studio created by his team abandoned the preset script and adopted a first-person subjective perspective, using a softer posture to carry more firm values.
Zhou Qing'an (周庆安), dean of the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University (清华大学), said: "The voice of the mainstream, upholding integrity and innovation, is 声声不息 (shēng shēng bù xī - "voice voice not cease," continuous and unceasing)." Actively embracing technological change, constantly innovating systems and mechanisms, and continuously strengthening user awareness will surely demonstrate new responsibilities and achieve new achievements in the new era and new journey, making greater contributions to the construction of a strong network country.
Return to TopAll the above pictures were taken by Jiang Yushi (蒋雨师), a reporter of this newspaper.
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On the morning of March 28th, during the 2026 China Online Media Forum, the theme forum "New Voices of Integrated Media: New Paths for Government and Enterprise New Media to Break Through and Win Hearts," hosted by the Bureau of Internet Communication of the Central Cyberspace Administration (中央网信办网络传播局), was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南).
The forum focused on innovative practices in the integrated communication of government and enterprise new media, exploring how to innovate methods of expression and connect government and public opinion in the new situation, and promote the joint efforts of multiple entities to condense and promote the main theme and disseminate positive energy. The forum revolved around five keywords: "professionalism, groundedness, innovation, grasping hot spots, and empathy." Representatives from more than 10 government and enterprise new media accounts, including the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), Qinglian Shanxi (清廉山西), and the National Anti-Fraud Center (国家反诈中心), spoke and jointly discussed the vivid practice of government and enterprise new media using integrated communication to achieve public opinion guidance and ideological leadership. In addition, relevant heads of platforms such as Tencent (腾讯), Douyin (抖音), and Kuaishou (快手) combined the development trend of government and enterprise new media on commercial website platforms and exchanged and shared ideas from the aspects of content creation, platform operation, and interaction with netizens.
The theme forum also launched the government-enterprise new media positive energy co-creation and the "Ten-Year Journey Along the Yangtze River" network theme publicity campaign.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 任飞帆
In the Spring Festival of 2026, the "China craze" continued to heat up on overseas social media. Topics such as "Becoming Chinese" have attracted widespread attention, and "Becoming Chinese" has become a popular online term.
On the morning of March 28, during the 2026 China Internet Media Forum, the theme forum "Telling Good Stories: From Empathetic Communication to Cultural Identity" was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南). Friends from many countries and regions shared their experiences in China, shared how to tell Chinese stories in international language and personalized expressions, and conveyed a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive image of China to the world through the Internet.
In the era of digital intelligence, the Internet crosses mountains and seas to connect the world. It is an important carrier for promoting exchanges among people from all countries and an important bridge for promoting exchanges and mutual learning among civilizations. Liu Dong (刘东), editor-in-chief and vice president of Xiaohongshu, said: "When we talk about 'becoming Chinese', we are actually talking about a common desire - the yearning for a better life."
From the landscape paintings of "Traveling in China" to the vibrant everyday life of "Shopping in China"; from the tireless pursuit of "Studying in China" to the identity recognition of "Becoming Chinese," vivid stories string together an in-depth dialogue about cultural exchange and spiritual resonance. This forum reflects the new trend of current Sino-foreign cultural exchanges: more and more foreigners are actively entering China and understanding China, and becoming envoys of civilization exchange in a two-way journey.
Gao Zhikai (高志凯), deputy director of the Center for China and Globalization (全球化智库), said that for a long time in the past, some foreigners had misunderstandings or even prejudices against China, "But with the increase of exchanges, more and more foreigners want to come to China and see what China really looks like with their own eyes."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 彭 飞
On March 28th, the "Positive Energy Creator Conference," one of the thematic events of the 2026 China Online Media Forum, was held in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南). With the theme of "Diversity Builds Consensus, Gathering Strength to Form a Galaxy," the event provided a platform for commercial website platforms, MCN organizations, online influencers, online streamers, and other groups to communicate and showcase themselves.
"Having the greater good in mind, life in their writing, and tools in their hands," Yu Qi (于琪), General Manager of Media Cooperation at Sina Weibo (新浪微博), accurately portrayed positive energy producers and disseminators.
Xu Ludi (徐柳涤), the creator of "Ten Kilometers of the World" (人间十公里), transformed the everyday scenes on the way to work into a poetic expression of social warmth and kindness. Liang Tian (良田), a short video creator and photography blogger, used his lens to focus on children with autism and people with disabilities, sharing their stories and illuminating each other's lives.
These small stories, without earth-shattering plots, are exceptionally sincere. Once discovered and amplified, they can demonstrate a heart-stirring power.
"Traffic is the power to move people to tears." Qu Tao (瞿涛), Vice President of Wuyou Media (无忧传媒), made a deeply impressive remark.
How popular can a traditional art troupe be when it breaks through the boundaries of the theater? Henan Song and Dance Performing Arts Group (河南歌舞演艺集团) dared to 吃螃蟹 (chī páng xiè - "eat crab," to be the first to try something new or risky), joining Douyin's (抖音) "Art Broadcast Program" to bring art to ordinary people's homes. "In the past year, more than 50 actors have accumulated over 5,000 hours of live broadcasts, reaching 100 million viewers," said Liu Zhifeng (刘志峰), Chairman of the Group.
How high can an ancient intangible cultural heritage fly with the wings of the internet? Upholding tradition without being rigid, innovating without abandoning roots, traditional culture is thriving in the fertile soil of the digital age with a new look. "It is rare that young people are actively pestering me to learn this old craft," said Yang Jianjun (杨建军), a representative inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage Queshan Iron Flower (确山打铁花). "Online communication has rejuvenated ancient skills, attracting the younger generation to actively inherit them. The light of intangible cultural heritage is endless, and the charm of culture is enduring."
"Above the noisy traffic, using technology to uphold integrity and allowing algorithms to be benevolent, we must always adhere to the platform's original intention and allow good stories to generate good traffic," said Zhong Wei (钟伟), Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of Content Security at Douyin Group (抖音集团), expressing the platform's responsibility and commitment.
At the conference, the "2026 Positive Energy Action Plan" and the "2026 Positive Energy Creator Support Plan" were launched simultaneously, building a full-chain support system for positive energy creators through traffic inclination, revenue incentives, and growth empowerment.
In addition, the conference also released the "Clear and Bright Online Space, Gathering Upward and Kind Forces" initiative, which was read aloud by on-site guests and creators, conveying the determination and strength to jointly protect the online homeland and build a better online ecosystem.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云杉
Shanghai Baoshan (上海宝山), Baosteel Co., Ltd. (宝钢股份) Cold Rolling Plant, artificial intelligence master operators process and predict hundreds of parameters in real time, reducing annual costs by about 15 million yuan.
Anshan (鞍山), Liaoning (辽宁), the production workshop of Angang Steel Co., Ltd. (鞍钢股份) Silicon Steel Division, modern production lines operate at high speed, and all the electricity required for production is green electricity.
From south to north, one "intelligence" and one "green" scene reflect the transformation achievements of China's steel industry.
The steel industry is an important basic industry in China. In recent years, how can the steel industry, which is in a period of deep adjustment and tackling key problems, create new quality productive forces? The reporter conducted an interview.
0.1 mm thick electrical steel
The supply of high-end materials continues to increase
At the Shougang Zhixin (首钢智新) electrical steel production line, robots operate efficiently, and rolls of electrical steel products are continuously produced.
"This electrical steel was launched globally in August last year and is only 0.1 mm thick." An Dongyang (安冬洋), chief technology expert of Shougang Zhixin (首钢智新), introduced to reporters while holding a sample. Electrical steel is a key material for products such as new energy vehicle motor cores, high-end household appliances, and ultra-high voltage transformers.
"Our product is aimed at the development trend of small size and high power of new energy vehicle motors. As soon as the product was launched, more than a dozen car companies wanted to cooperate with us and apply it to new products." An Dongyang (安冬洋) said that compared with the 0.25 mm thick electrical steel widely used in the industry, its iron loss is reduced by more than 30%, the energy conversion efficiency of the motor is higher, and the driving range of new energy vehicles can be greatly improved.
"Today, one out of every three new energy vehicles in China is equipped with 'Shougang Core'." An Dongyang (安冬洋) said that in the future, Shougang (首钢) will also focus on new fields such as electrical steel for humanoid robots, and continue to promote product upgrades to high-end.
In recent years, China's steel industry has focused on promoting the variety structure to be new and better, and continuously enhancing the supply capacity of high-end materials. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's steel industry continued to increase innovation investment, and nearly 20 new global first-launched steel products were added in 2025 alone.
China Baowu Magang (中国宝武马钢) high-speed wheels support the successful speed-up of the world's fastest high-speed train CR450; Angang Group Panzhihua Iron and Steel (鞍钢集团攀钢) blade steel helps the delivery of China's first domestically produced F-class 50 MW heavy-duty gas turbine; Nangang (南钢) ship plates and profiles are exclusively supplied to China's first domestically produced large cruise ship "Adora Magic City (爱达·魔都号)"...
Supply creates demand, and demand drives supply. A series of high-end products witness the changes in China's steel demand structure. In 2025, the proportion of steel used in China's construction industry decreased from 58% in 2020 to 49%, and the proportion of steel used in the manufacturing industry increased from 42% to 51%.
"For the first time in China's history, steel used in the manufacturing industry has exceeded steel used in the construction industry. This is the result of the steel industry actively adapting to changes in demand and promoting product quality improvement and upgrading." Jiang Wei (姜维), vice president and secretary-general of the China Iron and Steel Association (中国钢铁工业协会), said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China's steel self-sufficiency rate basically reached 100%, ensuring the demand for steel for national economic development with high quality and high level.
An intelligent entity that can make steel
Artificial intelligence technology is applied throughout the process
At the production site of the Steelmaking Division of Hegang Group Tangsteel Company (河钢集团唐钢公司), 1650-degree Celsius molten steel continuously gushes out from No. 1 converter.
Dozens of meters away, in the main control room of the converter of the Steelmaking Division of Tangsteel Company (唐钢公司), chief expert Zhou Quanlin (周泉林) stared at the central control screen, tapping his fingertips, and the system autonomously completed the key links of smelting.
Achieving precise control of molten steel temperature is not a simple task.
Last year, Hegang (河钢) connected a large model to its self-built platform, developed a steelmaking intelligent entity, and officially applied it to the key processes of steel smelting.
"In the past, we had to stare at the flame of the furnace mouth and judge the timing and amount of feeding based on experience." Zhou Quanlin (周泉林) said that the large model uses the massive data accumulated in past steelmaking production and operation as a base, analyzes data such as the sound and flue gas in the furnace in real time, and precisely controls the reaction state in the furnace.
The intelligent upgrade has achieved significant results - since the intelligent entity was put into use in the Tangsteel (唐钢) steelmaking production line, the steelmaking efficiency has increased by 10.3%, and the comprehensive energy consumption has been reduced by about 10%.
Not only in the steelmaking process. In the quality inspection process, the artificial intelligence cloud table inspection system built by Baosteel Co., Ltd. (宝钢股份) has an accuracy rate of 96% in identifying key defects and a reduction of 35% in defect missed detection rate; in the supply chain management process, after Zhaogang Group (找钢集团) applied artificial intelligence technology, it can process more than 10 million transaction messages every day, with an analysis accuracy rate of more than 95%, and complete hundreds of millions of intelligent transaction matching...
Artificial intelligence technology has been applied to all aspects of steel production, manufacturing, and operation, greatly accelerating the intelligent manufacturing upgrade of the steel industry. Among the key statistical enterprises of the China Iron and Steel Association (中钢协), 95% of the enterprises have incorporated the digital transformation strategy into the overall development process of the enterprise, and steel intelligent manufacturing is transforming from "single-point exploration" to "system promotion".
"As an important basic industry of the national economy, steel has a rich data base and industrial application scenarios, and is an ideal practice field for the deep empowerment of the new generation of artificial intelligence." Zhang Longqiang (张龙强), president of the Metallurgical Industry Information and Standardization Research Institute (冶金工业信息标准研究院), said that in the future, "AI + steel" has a broader development space. With the deep application of large model technology to the entire process of steel production, the intelligent level of the steel industry will be further improved.
Reducing production by more than 100 million tons
The effect of "anti-involution" continues to appear
Through a set of data, we can see the operating quality and efficiency of the steel industry in the past year: In 2025, the total profit of key statistical enterprises of the China Iron and Steel Association (中钢协) was 115.1 billion yuan, an increase of 1.4 times year-on-year, of which the main steel business profit was 44.5 billion yuan, achieving a turnaround from loss to profit.
In 2025, although domestic demand declined and the foreign trade situation was complex and severe, the steel industry achieved stable operation, with a year-on-year decrease in output and a significant improvement in efficiency.
The reporter learned that the improvement of the steel industry's efficiency has the factor of the downward shift of raw material cost center, and it is also inseparable from the self-discipline of the majority of steel companies to control production and stabilize prices, and the continuous improvement of the modernization level of industry governance.
Data can prove it: In 2025, the national crude steel output was 961 million tons, a year-on-year decrease of 4.4%. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the steel industry actively explored new mechanisms for capacity governance that conform to market laws, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, and eliminate the inferior, and continued to reduce production by more than 100 million tons, and the industry layout was further optimized. The effect of "anti-involution" continued to appear. In 2025, the CR10 (industrial concentration of the top 10 steel enterprises) of the steel industry reached 43.1%, an increase of 4.2 percentage points compared with 2020.
"Many steel companies have actively abandoned the old thinking of blindly pursuing scale and began to pay attention to controlling production, no longer simply diluting costs with scale." Wu Wenzhang (吴文章), founder and chairman of Steel Home (钢之家) website, said that the change in concept has promoted the decline in crude steel output and laid the foundation for improving the market supply and demand relationship.
Jiang Wei (姜维) said that in the past year, enterprises have done a good job in self-discipline and production control, and steel inventories have been at a relatively low level, which on the one hand has led to a decline in raw material demand and a downward shift in prices, and on the other hand has maintained a basic balance between supply and demand in the steel market and relatively stable steel prices, realizing the gradual return of industry efficiency to a reasonable profit level that can support high-quality development.
Looking forward to the future, the main steel-consuming industries will maintain a stable operating trend, and the steel industry has the conditions to achieve high-quality and efficient development. Among them, the development focus of the real estate industry is inclined to the construction of "good houses", the supply of guaranteed and improved housing is increased, and urban renewal is promoted in an orderly manner; the manufacturing industry pays more attention to quality improvement and upgrading, and traditional steel-consuming industries such as machinery, automobiles, ships, household appliances, and equipment will continue to maintain a steady growth trend, and emerging industries such as new energy, low-altitude economy, and artificial intelligence are spawning new steel growth points.
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan". Jiang Wei (姜维) said that in the process of industry reduction development and stock optimization, we must always maintain strategic focus, prevent 内卷式 (nèi juǎn shì - "involution," a situation where increased effort yields diminishing returns), focus on the goals of high-end, intelligent, and green development, and the steel industry will be able to achieve high-quality development in a higher level of dynamic balance between supply and demand.
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Electrical steel with a thickness of only 0.1 millimeters, high-speed wheels for CR450 series EMU (CR450动车组), Pangang (攀钢) blades on China's first domestically produced F-class 50-megawatt heavy-duty gas turbine... The steel industry is undergoing transformation and upgrading, radiating new vitality.
This vitality stems from the innovation of production methods. From staring at the furnace flame to judge the timing of charging, to using large models to analyze flue gas in real-time and precisely control the reaction state, more and more steel companies are embarking on the fast track of intelligent transformation, expanding new spaces for high-quality development.
This vitality stems from the determination to adapt and seek change. The old path of relying on scale expansion to dilute costs is no longer viable. Where should we go in the future? The steel industry is actively adapting to the new trend of industrial upgrading, focusing on new fields such as electrical steel for humanoid robots, and promoting product value to higher levels.
New quality productive forces are not only growing in emerging tracks, but also between thousand-degree furnaces and ten-thousand-ton steel billets. The upgrading of traditional industries is also the development of new quality productive forces. Supported by more intelligent production processes and more excellent product performance, the steel industry will surely continue to write more exciting chapters in the new round of industrial revolution.
Return to TopThe Beijing (北京) April 2nd (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) report – The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) recently issued a notice to organize a special action to empower small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with inclusive computing power. It proposes that by the end of 2028, a widely covered, low-cost, high-quality service, ecologically vibrant, and talent-strong inclusive computing power service system will be basically established, covering no less than 10 categories in the 15 industries applicable to the SME classification standards. This will further strengthen public service efforts for SME computing power applications and significantly lower the barriers for SMEs to obtain and use computing power.
The notice proposes innovative inclusive models for computing power services, clarifying the exploration of innovative businesses such as "computing power banks" and "computing power supermarkets," that is, supporting SMEs to deposit idle computing power resources and achieve flexible access through cross-regional and cross-cycle scheduling. At the same time, it will improve the SME zone of the China Computing Power Platform (中国算力平台), the computing power resource docking zone of the China SME Service Network (中国中小企业服务网), and the special zone for national computing power internet service nodes, promote the precise connection between SME needs and computing power resource supply, and promote flexible payment models such as billing by "card time," "core time," and word elements (Token). It encourages relevant local departments to subsidize "computing power vouchers," "storage vouchers," and "transportation vouchers" to SMEs that meet industrial guidance through SME platform zones.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on April 2nd (reporter Wang Guan (王观)): The State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局) and the National Financial Regulatory Administration (国家金融监督管理总局) recently jointly issued the "Notice on Further Deepening and Standardizing the 'Banking-Tax Interaction' Work," to better leverage the role of tax payment credit in the construction of an inclusive financial system and support the financing and development of private and small and micro enterprises.
Since 2015, the two departments have jointly carried out "Banking-Tax Interaction" activities to help the development of small and micro enterprises. As of the end of 2025, national banking financial institutions have cumulatively issued 45.1772 million loans totaling 15.7 trillion yuan to honest taxpayers through the "Banking-Tax Interaction" mechanism.
This year, the two departments further optimized the mechanism and measures to promote the quality and efficiency of the "Banking-Tax Interaction" work.
Deepen the application of banking and tax data. Standardize the content and methods of providing banking and tax data to further resolve the problem of information asymmetry between banks, tax authorities, and enterprises. Banks continue to optimize credit services, increase the supply of financing services to honest taxpayers, and continuously monitor the effectiveness of "Banking-Tax Interaction" loan models to improve risk management levels.
Protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises. Strictly provide relevant information based on enterprise authorization to effectively protect enterprises' right to know and right to choose. Strictly implement data security management and confidentiality responsibilities, manage and apply data in accordance with the principle of minimum necessary authorization, and conduct regular supervision and inspection.
Return to TopBeijing, April 2nd (People's Daily reporter Wang Guan (王观)) - This reporter learned from a press conference held by the State Taxation Administration (国家税务总局): Tax authorities have recently made special arrangements to organize and carry out a centralized rectification of tax-related issues concerning the "invoice economy." In the next step, tax authorities will, based on their own responsibilities, increase efforts to rectify the "invoice economy" in accordance with laws and regulations.
The "invoice economy" is a prominent manifestation of irregular investment promotion and “内卷式” (nèi juǎn shì - "involution," a situation where increased effort yields diminishing returns due to excessive competition) competition in some areas. Invoice data shows that from January 1st to March 25th, the invoiced amount of six types of industries where irregular investment promotion enterprises are relatively concentrated—comprehensive utilization of discarded resources, recycling of renewable materials, wholesale of mineral products, building materials, and chemical products, organizational management services, information technology consulting services, and road freight services—decreased by 4.7% year-on-year. Among them, the rectification effect in the central region is particularly obvious, with the invoiced amount of the six types of industries decreasing by 6.2% year-on-year. Preliminary results have also been achieved in rectifying "circular invoicing" and "mutual invoicing." From January 1st to March 25th, the invoiced amount of the wholesale industry, where such enterprises are relatively concentrated, decreased by 2.6% year-on-year.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 2nd dispatch (Reporter Wu Qiuyu (吴秋余)) - It has been learned from the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) that China CITIC Bank (中信银行), China Everbright Bank (中国光大银行), Huaxia Bank (华夏银行), China Minsheng Bank (中国民生银行), Guangdong Development Bank (广发银行), Shanghai Pudong Development Bank (浦发银行), China Zheshang Bank (浙商银行), Bank of Ningbo (宁波银行), Bank of Jiangsu (江苏银行), Bank of Beijing (北京银行), Bank of Nanjing (南京银行), and Bank of Suzhou (苏州银行) have been newly added as banking digital Renminbi (人民币) business operating institutions and have been connected to the central bank's digital Renminbi system. The newly added institutions will carry out digital Renminbi business after completing business and technical preparations.
The People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) stated that the next step will be to orderly promote the expansion of operating institutions in accordance with market-oriented and rule-of-law principles, and to build an open, inclusive, and fair competitive digital Renminbi development environment.
Return to TopApril 1st, the spring is warm and the scenery is bright. Tourists taste coffee by the rapeseed flower fields in Xiangshuijian Village (响水涧村), Eqiao Town (峨桥镇), Yijiang District (弋江区), Wuhu (芜湖), Anhui (安徽). In recent years, the local area has relied on its unique resources, upgraded its infrastructure, promoted the development of the rural tourism industry, and promoted the income increase of villagers.
Tao Haijin (陶海金) photographed (Image China (影像中国)).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 政
Hubei Jingzhou (湖北荆州), stepping into the Midea washing machine factory, a scene of intelligent production unfolds before your eyes: wheel-type robots steadily lift a 9-kilogram washing machine tub with both hands, accurately transferring it to a 3D quality inspection platform, and then completing standardized tasks such as fire hydrant inspection and lubricating oil replenishment; in the long-term operational reliability laboratory, AI (artificial intelligence) inspection robots check the operating status of the washing machine panels one by one to confirm product quality... "Ten seconds, this is the speed at which we produce a drum washing machine," said Lu Hongzhi (吕宏志), general manager of the factory.
Behind the improvement in production efficiency is the deep empowerment of AI technology. Zhang Xiaoyi (张小懿), vice president and chief digital officer of Midea Group (美的集团), said: "The company has 13,000 intelligent agents running every day, covering all aspects of research and development, manufacturing, supply chain, and marketing."
In Midea's Jingzhou (荆州) washing machine factory, the "factory brain" uniformly dispatches 14 intelligent agents, covering assembly, quality inspection, patrol inspection, production scheduling, supply chain... The factory's intelligence has moved from the mechanical automation of the past to an autonomous decision-making stage.
In the automatic locking station for the dryer back cover, collaborative robots and planning intelligent agents deeply collaborate to upload real-time collected images to the "factory brain." Facing the complex scenario of mixed production of multiple models of washing machines, the "factory brain" can complete model recognition in real time and automatically update the screw locking program, achieving flexible and efficient flexible operations, allowing the accuracy and efficiency of mixed-line production to achieve a dual improvement. Xi Wei (奚伟), director of Midea's Humanoid Robot and Intelligent Technology Innovation Center, said: "Through multi-modal perception technology and embodied intelligent operation technology, we have achieved a closed loop from the digital world to the physical world."
In specific and tangible life scenarios, the value of smart home appliances is becoming increasingly prominent. Hao Tianhong (郝天鸿), a staff member at Midea's Guangzhou (广州) Operations Center, has been engaged in home appliance sales for 8 years. He introduced: "In the past two years, the sales of smart home appliances have grown particularly fast, and many customers are willing to pay for peace of mind and time-saving." Mr. Li (李先生), who lives in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) Province, is one of them. "When I get off work in the evening and want to cook a home-cooked meal, I don't need to manually adjust the heat. As long as I put in the ingredients and start the AI cooking function with one click, I can complete the dish," said Mr. Li (李先生).
The transformation of smart home appliances from usable to easy-to-use is underpinned by the continuous upgrading of key technologies. Taking the whole-house air intelligent agent as an example, when the user expresses a vague need, the system will comprehensively consider various factors such as indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, carbon dioxide concentration, and make the best decision. "Users who use this intelligent agent have seen a 74% year-on-year decrease in the frequency of home appliance operations," said Xu Yi (徐翼), Dean of Midea AI Research Institute. "We hope to make smart homes warmer through technological innovation."
At dusk, Ms. Wang (王女士), who lives in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, just drove into the community, and the lights in the living room slowly turned on, the air conditioner automatically adjusted to 26 degrees Celsius, and the water heater preheated to a suitable water temperature. "When the user drives into a geographical fence 500 meters away from home, the 'preparation mode' of the home is automatically triggered. This is the 'person-car-home' smart ecosystem we have created," introduced Shang Zhe (尚喆), general manager of Midea Whole House Intelligence. Recently, Midea has completed agreement docking with car companies such as Changan Automobile (长安汽车) and BYD (比亚迪), and has joined hands with mobile phone manufacturers such as Huawei (华为), OPPO (OPPO), and vivo (vivo) to build an intelligent linkage network.
Seamless cross-scene connection benefits from the deep breakthrough of multi-modal decision-making technology. According to reports, the key to the "person-car-home" ecosystem lies in breaking down the "data silos" between different terminals. This cross-border linkage will further promote the extension of intelligent technology from the industrial end to the home scene, building a full-time, full-scene smart life experience for consumers.
From production efficiency iteration to quality of life improvement, AI is profoundly reshaping the development landscape of the manufacturing industry and redefining people's beautiful lives. "We are transforming into an 'AI+' global technology group," said Fang Hongbo (方洪波), chairman and president of Midea Group (美的集团). "We hope to promote the two-way empowerment of manufacturing strength and AI technology through our own practice, and accumulate strong potential for the transformation of Chinese manufacturing from Made in China to Intelligent Manufacturing in China."
Return to TopThe Suzhou East Tunnel "Tongyong Yuanmeng (通甬园梦) Hao" shield tunneling machine on the newly built Tongyong High-speed Railway (Nantong (南通), Jiangsu Province to Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang Province) has exceeded 10,000 meters in total mileage, marking a breakthrough in the tunnel's construction.
The Suzhou East Tunnel is one of the controlling projects of the Tongyong High-speed Railway, with a total length of 15.57 kilometers. It is China's highest standard and longest 350 km/h urban high-speed rail tunnel. The tunnel is constructed using cut-and-cover and shield tunneling methods, with the shield tunnel being 13.246 kilometers long. The "Tongyong Yuanmeng (通甬园梦) Hao" shield tunneling machine, built by China Railway 14th Bureau (中铁十四局), is responsible for the 11.544-kilometer shield segment excavation task. It pioneered the application of "pushing and assembling synchronization + synchronous double-liquid grouting" technology in China. The route requires passing under multiple operating railways, subways, municipal roads, and multiple rivers and lakes. The geological conditions are complex, and the construction environment is sensitive.
The Tongyong High-speed Railway is an important part of China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network's coastal passage. The newly built line is 301 kilometers long and has a design speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
Return to TopAccording to reports from the Capital Airport Group, Beijing (北京), on April 2nd (reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)), Terminal 3 of the Capital Airport, which has been in operation for more than 18 years, has recently started a systematic upgrade and renovation, and the project to improve the quality and efficiency of the terminal has started in full swing.
The quality and efficiency improvement project will be implemented while the terminal remains in operation and is expected to be fully completed in the second half of 2028. During the renovation, the airport will scientifically plan operating hours, optimize passenger routes, strengthen on-site guidance and consultation, and promptly release reminder information to minimize the impact on passenger travel.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 高 炳 方 敏 白光迪 李 蕊
This year marks the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. The start should have the momentum of a start, especially requiring the broad masses of Party members and cadres to take responsibility and implement tasks.
Competence is the foundation for getting things done. Our Party has always attached importance to the competence and work style of cadres. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Fully mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of Party members and cadres in starting businesses and making achievements, and focus on solving the problems of cadres acting arbitrarily, not acting, not daring to act, and not being good at acting." The "15th Five-Year Plan"纲要 proposes to "comprehensively enhance the modernization construction capabilities of the cadre team."
To strengthen the cadre team and focus on solving the problems of cadres acting arbitrarily, not acting, not daring to act, and not being good at acting, what effective experiences and practices have been formed in various regions? What shortcomings still exist?
As the whole Party carries out the study and education on establishing and practicing the correct view of performance, the reporter investigation edition will launch a series of reports on "Focusing on Solving the Problems of Cadres Acting Arbitrarily, Not Acting, Not Daring to Act, and Not Being Good at Acting" starting today. Please pay attention.
No less than 2 administrative penalty cases per month, and no less than 2,000 yuan in fines... In order to promote the investigation of fire hazards, the Hua County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade in Henan Province (河南省) used fines instead of management, assigning mandatory fine targets to the grassroots, which was discovered by relevant departments in a timely manner. In April 2025, the Hua County (滑县) Administrative Law Enforcement Coordination and Supervision Bureau issued an administrative law enforcement supervision opinion to the County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade to correct the relevant behavior.
Data released by the Ministry of Justice (司法部) shows that in 2025, administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels corrected 72,000 illegal or inappropriate administrative actions through methods such as modification, revocation, confirmation of illegality, and ordering performance.
In recent years, various regions and departments have done a lot of work in correcting cadres' arbitrary actions. However, it must also be seen that individual cadres are prone to "performance impulse syndrome." Some are working hard to seek obvious achievements, while others are detached from reality and too impetuous, keen on "performance projects" and "image projects." How to target and correct these problems? Recently, reporters visited Jiangsu (江苏), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南), Shaanxi (陕西), and other places.
Adhere to Problem Orientation
Rectify arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, arbitrary inspections, and arbitrary seizures, and carry out special actions to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises.
Many townships and streets have few people and many affairs, and their enthusiasm for investigating fire hazards is not high. What to do?
In July 2024, the Hua County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade came up with a "solution" - issuing task targets to the grassroots, establishing a WeChat work group, requiring each township and street to "check in" and report at the end of the month.
What was the effect? The enthusiasm of grassroots cadres was still not high, and most of them completed the tasks according to the minimum standards, resulting in the "uniformity" of the number and amount of penalty cases.
At the end of 2024, the General Office of the State Council (国办) issued the "Opinions on Strictly Regulating Administrative Inspections Involving Enterprises," proposing to "strictly prohibit the issuance of inspection targets" and "increase the investigation and punishment of arbitrary inspections."
The practice of the Hua County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade "fought" with the above-mentioned document requirements. Realizing the mistake, they quickly canceled the assessment requirements and disbanded the WeChat work group.
However, an emergency stop is not the same as in-depth rectification. In April 2025, Kong Lingxin (孔令欣), a staff member of the Hua County (滑县) Administrative Law Enforcement Coordination and Supervision Bureau, found an abnormality during routine visits: the number of fire law enforcement penalty cases in some townships was stable at 2 to 3 cases per month, and the amount of fines was concentrated between 2,000 and 2,500 yuan.
"The law enforcement orientation with the purpose of fines is essentially a deviation in the view of performance." Kong Lingxin (孔令欣) immediately interviewed the person in charge of the County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade, requiring a thorough rectification within a time limit.
"We can't rely on task assignment to do our work. We must see the problems of insufficient manpower and insufficient professional level at the grassroots level." Wang Haitao (王海涛), director of the office of the Hua County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade, introduced that in combination with the work of reducing the burden on the grassroots, the brigade turned the knife inward, combined the rectification of the problem of arbitrary fines with the improvement of work methods, optimized the allocation of human resources in the agency, and promoted the inclination of staff to the grassroots. Since May 2025, the time spent by brigade cadres in helping and guiding the front line has increased by more than 30%.
Grassroots fire work is broad and involves many things. It is not enough to rely solely on the fire department. The Hua County (滑县) Fire and Rescue Brigade innovated administrative law enforcement methods and incorporated fire safety into the grassroots "Party building + grid + big data" governance system. Following Yang Lu (杨露), a staff member of the brigade, to Daokou Town (道口镇), the reporter saw that she was accompanied by electricians and grid members. "In the past, we assigned tasks to others, but now everyone is working together." Yang Lu (杨露) introduced that fire inspections are more targeted in different places, and sometimes they are completed in cooperation with staff from relevant departments and town and village cadres.
Relying on grassroots governance, the power of the masses has also been mobilized. "At present, 23 townships (街道) in Hua County (滑县) have established fire safety service centers composed of 3 to 5 people, and all communities and established village groups have formed volunteer fire brigades, which regularly carry out investigations, publicity, and other work." Wang Haitao (王海涛) said.
In October 2025, the second batch of typical cases of the special action to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises released by the Ministry of Justice (司法部) included this case, and commented that "administrative law enforcement supervision agencies at all levels adhere to the 'error correction accountability + system loophole filling' approach" "demonstrating the role of administrative law enforcement supervision in actively correcting law enforcement chaos and regulating law enforcement behavior."
Since last year, Henan Province (河南省) has continued to deepen the work of regulating administrative law enforcement involving enterprises, cumulatively conducting spot checks on more than 28,900 cases, correcting 1,612 violations of enterprise-related law enforcement, and reporting 123 typical cases.
Adhering to problem orientation, various regions are actively exploring new measures. Xi'an City (西安市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省) collected 788 clues to problems such as "excessive inspection," investigated and handled 435 problems, and promoted "scanning code to enter enterprises" for smart supervision. As of the end of 2025, Xi'an City (西安市) had conducted 7,626 inspections with code, and the frequency of on-site inspections decreased by more than 30% year-on-year.
Since March 2025, a special action to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises has been carried out nationwide. As of the end of the same year, a total of 57,000 outstanding problems in administrative law enforcement involving enterprises were investigated and corrected, recovering economic losses of 28.97 billion yuan for enterprises, and the total amount of administrative inspections involving enterprises decreased by 33% year-on-year.
Standardize Discretion
Improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion to ensure that administrative law enforcement is measured to the end with one ruler.
"I am convinced by the fine of 1.8 times the value of the goods." Lin Zhengrong (林正荣) is the operator of an electric bicycle sales store in Xi'an (西安). In September 2025, Su Sheng (苏胜), a law enforcement officer from the Xi'an (西安) Municipal Market Supervision Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment, found in Lin Zhengrong's (林正荣) sales records that two sold electric bicycles had the problem of illegally modified battery packs.
How to punish? Su Sheng (苏胜) admitted that he would be more confused in the past.
Why? According to relevant regulations, this behavior should be fined "equal to or three times the value of the goods." Su Sheng (苏胜) cited an example. Assuming the value of the goods is 100,000 yuan, the difference between "equal value" and "three times" is 200,000 yuan. "It seems to be 'free discretion,' but it is often 'difficult to discretion.'"
The boundary of discretion is blurred, and the chaos of "willful discretion" such as different penalties for the same case occurs from time to time. How to solve the problem? The key lies in consistent law enforcement standards, appropriate discretion, and proportionate penalties.
Now, when dealing with such cases, Su Sheng (苏胜) has an extra "ruler with scales" in his hand.
The "Decision" of the 20th Third Plenary Session of the Party proposed to "improve the benchmark system for administrative discretion in areas such as administrative penalties." In August 2024, relying on the discretion benchmark released by the Shaanxi Provincial Market Supervision Bureau (陕西省市场监管局) in 2022, the Xi'an (西安) Municipal Market Supervision Bureau issued administrative penalty discretion guidelines, refining the three discretion "levels" of "mitigation, general, and aggravation" of the provincial standards into nine discretion "grades," covering 269 specific illegal behaviors.
"The 'elastic range' in legal provisions is transformed into an easier-to-follow 'scale.'" Shao Pengfei (邵鹏飞), captain of the Legal System and Supervision Brigade of the Xi'an (西安) Municipal Market Supervision Comprehensive Law Enforcement Detachment, said that when enforcing the law, law enforcement officers can first judge which "level" the administrative penalty belongs to in "mitigation, general, and aggravation" according to the provincial standards, and then judge which "grade" it belongs to in "Grade 1, Grade 2, and Grade 3" of that level according to the municipal guidelines.
Taking Lin Zhengrong's (林正荣) illegal behavior as an example, the fines for the three "levels" of "mitigation," "general," and "aggravation" are "equal to or less than 1.6 times," "more than 1.6 times and less than 2.4 times," and "more than 2.4 times and less than 3 times" the value of the goods, respectively.
Why is the fine for Lin Zhengrong (林正荣) 1.8 times? Su Sheng (苏胜) explained that in the first half of 2025, the city repeatedly publicized and rectified the safety hazards of electric bicycles, and conducted training for the heads of relevant sales stores. Lin Zhengrong (林正荣) knew that the behavior of "modifying the battery pack" was illegal, so it did not fall into the category of "mitigation."
"However, Lin Zhengrong (林正荣) did not actively modify it for the purpose of seeking benefits, but at the request of the customer, and the value of the case was not large, and it did not cause serious harm, so it did not fall into the category of 'aggravation.'" Su Sheng (苏胜) said, so Lin Zhengrong (林正荣) was fined 1.8 times according to the "general first grade" standard.
Turning through the case files, accurate discretion is reflected in each case. From September to October 2024, Su Sheng (苏胜) found that the products sold by two electric bicycle stores did not meet the relevant standards. Among them, individual Wang Haibo (王海波) purchased 62 unqualified products, and distributor Zhang Nan (张楠) sold 54 unqualified products.
After investigation, both of them were unaware that "the vehicles sold did not meet the standards," and they also took the initiative to recall the vehicles after the incident. At this time, Wang Haibo (王海波) submitted an application for mitigation of punishment on the grounds of family financial difficulties.
Is it true? Su Sheng (苏胜) came to Wang Haibo's (王海波) residence for an unannounced visit. Community staff confirmed that Wang Haibo (王海波) lived in a rented house, his parents were old, his wife had no fixed job, and his children were in elementary school. Su Sheng (苏胜) knocked on the door to visit, and two old people were at home with medicine on the table.
Wang Haibo (王海波), as an individual industrial and commercial household, is also different from enterprises in its main body, which meets the "mitigation" situation in the relevant discretion rules, and is fined "equal value" according to the "mitigation first grade" standard; Zhang Nan (张楠) is fined 1.2 times according to the "mitigation second grade" standard.
Although they are similar cases, the penalties vary in severity, and all three parties are convinced.
With the benchmark for discretion, administrative law enforcement has a "sighting." In 2025, the Xi'an (西安) Municipal Market Supervision System registered more than 12,000 cases, and the number of losses and modified penalties due to improper administrative penalty discretion was 0. As of the end of 2025, Shaanxi Province (陕西省) had cumulatively formulated and revised 7,107 administrative discretion benchmarks.
Improve Decision-Making Level
Tighten the legality review "valve" to promote scientific, democratic, and rule-of-law decision-making.
From 2019 to 2021, spending 2,496,200 yuan of financial funds to paint and whitewash more than 400,000 square meters of walls in 21 established villages was actually to create a so-called "classic observation route" to cope with the inspection of human settlement environment management... In March last year, the Henan Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection and Supervision (河南省纪委监委) publicly reported 6 typical problems of violating the spirit of the eight central regulations, including the problem of Wang Dongxia (王东霞), the former deputy county magistrate of Shangqiu City Ningling County (商丘市宁陵县), engaging in wasteful "image projects" when she was the secretary of the Huxiang Town (胡襄镇) Party Committee of Zhecheng County (柘城县).
"Instead of supplementing the 'inner' of people's livelihood, the funds are wasted on the 'face.' This is a typical arbitrary act." Sun Yuantai (孙远太), a professor at the School of Politics and Public Administration of Zhengzhou University (郑州大学), said, "Cosmetic" "image projects" seem to "cover up ugliness," but they are actually "bonsai" that are only superficial. Wang Dongxia (王东霞) also had other serious violations of discipline and law, and was expelled from the Party and public office in July 2024.
"The essence of arbitrary action is willful use of power." Sun Yuantai (孙远太) said that some cadres are accustomed to making decisions by patting their heads, expressing their positions by patting their chests, and leaving by patting their butts, which seriously violates the decision-making procedures. In order to avoid the phenomenon of "one-word hall" in decision-making, such as the top leader spending money with "one pen," employing people with "one sentence," and grasping projects with "one hand," it is crucial to promote scientific, democratic, and rule-of-law decision-making.
In May 2023, Shangqiu City (商丘市) issued the Measures for the Management of Major Administrative Decision-Making Items Catalog, stipulating that decision-making items included in the catalog of major administrative decision-making items should perform legal procedures such as public participation, expert argumentation, risk assessment, legality review, and collective discussion and decision-making in accordance with the law. Those who have not performed the relevant procedures for major administrative decision-making shall not be submitted for deliberation.
"Only by figuring out what can be done, what cannot be done, and how it should be done can we establish and practice the correct view of performance." Guo Yueli (郭跃丽), deputy minister of the Organization Department of the Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委组织部), said that in order to solve the problem of arbitrary action, they will continue to improve the working mechanism for effectively preventing and correcting deviations in the view of performance.
Let the power operate in the sun. Shandong (山东) and other places, combined with the urgent needs and expectations of the masses, explore the whole-process public path of major administrative decisions.
In the same municipal district, the price of tap water for residents varies from 2.6 yuan to 3.8 yuan. This strange thing once happened in Luozhuang District (罗庄区), Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东省). "The water price in the village is more than 3 yuan per cubic meter, while the neighboring village is only more than 2 yuan." Wang Feng (王峰), a villager in Dongdianzi Village (东店子村), Luozhuang District (罗庄区), recalled with a frown.
The complaints of the villagers reveal the "muddled account" of decision-making behind the chaos of charges. Due to historical reasons, rural water supply in Luozhuang District (罗庄区) is operated separately by multiple small water plants, and the price department allows water plants to set prices arbitrarily. The 12345 hotline receives more than 3,000 complaints related to water prices on average every year.
The adjustment of rural water prices involves thousands of households. How can we make decisions by patting our heads? In August 2023, Linyi City (临沂市) issued the Measures for the Management of Major Administrative Decision-Making Items Catalog, and "rural water price adjustment" was included in the annual major administrative decision-making items catalog, and 318 opinions and suggestions were collected through multiple channels such as government websites in the early stage.
A professional accounting is also being carried out simultaneously - the Luozhuang District Development and Reform Bureau (罗庄区发展和改革局) hired a third-party agency to conduct strict supervision and audit of rural water supply costs. "Accurately calculate the cost account and people's livelihood account, and conduct multiple rounds of consultations with water supply enterprises." Chen Xuefeng (陈学峰), a first-level chief staff member of the Luozhuang District Development and Reform Bureau (罗庄区发展和改革局), said that 30 experts and 20 legal advisors provided professional support for the decision-making.
After the initial plan was formed, Luozhuang District (罗庄区) held a hearing. Wang Feng (王峰) participated as a villager representative. Participants also included enterprise representatives, people's congress representatives, and CPPCC members. Cost supervision and audit reports, expert opinions, and other materials were placed in front of each person's table. After the water price adjustment plan was formed, it was handed over to the district government legal advisor and the district judicial bureau for review, and submitted to the district government executive meeting for discussion and decision.
"Finally, the rural water supply price in Luozhuang District (罗庄区) was determined to be 2 yuan per cubic meter." Wang Feng (王峰) calculated an account: his family uses about 10 cubic meters of water per month, and can save nearly 20 yuan per month after the price adjustment, and more than 200 yuan per year.
Make decisions openly. Since 2021, Linyi City (临沂市) has had 236 people, including people's congress representatives, CPPCC members, and citizen representatives, attend the municipal government executive meeting.
Tightening the legality review "valve," the legality review rate and legal advisor participation rate of major administrative decisions in Linyi City (临沂市) have reached 100%. According to the Shandong Province (山东省) Measures for Post-Evaluation of Major Administrative Decisions, the decision on rural water price adjustment in Luozhuang District (罗庄区) has also been included in the scope of follow-up evaluation to regularly test the implementation effect. At present, Linyi City (临沂市) has carried out follow-up evaluations on 166 decision-making items at the city and county (district) levels.
In October 2025, Linyi City's (临沂市) "innovative practice of building a 'whole chain' mechanism to promote the rule of law in major administrative decisions" was selected as the third batch of national demonstration projects for the construction of a rule-of-law government.
"Targeted measures to correct arbitrary actions, institutional construction manages the fundamentals and manages the long term." Yang Zengsheng (杨增胜), director of the Shandong Provincial Department of Justice (山东省司法厅), said.
Establish a Long-Term Mechanism
Learn from one case and draw inferences about other cases, promote reform through cases, and promote the self-correction system of administrative actions.
"The day before, we were coordinating and communicating the demolition time, and the next day we encountered a forced demolition." Zhang Meng (张猛), the person in charge of a company involved in the Oriental Yipin Huayuan Community (东方逸品花苑小区) in Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), said helplessly. One day in June 2024, several excavators drove into the Oriental Yipin Huayuan Community (东方逸品花苑小区) to carry out demolition operations on a building illegally built by Zhang Meng's (张猛) company.
"How can people be convinced if they haven't received a written administrative decision?" Zhang Meng (张猛) did not disagree with the demolition and rectification of this illegal construction, but did not accept the forced demolition. Staff of the urban management department said that the demolition was to eliminate safety hazards as soon as possible.
The two sides had no objection to "should it be demolished," and the difference was whether the procedure was compliant.
Both sides had no disagreement on "whether to demolish," but the disagreement lay in whether the procedures complied with regulations.
Zhang Meng (张猛) decided to resort to law. During the court hearing, the focus of the dispute was on law enforcement procedures: Was the urging procedure fulfilled? Was the party's right to state and defend guaranteed? Was the decision on compulsory enforcement made in accordance with the law? After item-by-item review, the court found that the compulsory demolition without fulfilling the statutory procedures was an illegal act. Later, the parties concerned reached a settlement through communication and mediation, properly resolving the dispute.
"Emphasizing efficiency and neglecting procedures is essentially 乱作为 (luàn zuò wéi - "acting arbitrarily," acting recklessly or without proper authorization)," said Zhu Qianqian (朱倩倩), a first-level chief staff member of the Administrative Response Division of the Suqian (宿迁) Municipal Bureau of Justice. She said that these types of cases have strong commonalities, and drawing inferences from one case and actively correcting them can avoid similar problems from happening again.
Driven by the Suqian (宿迁) Municipal Bureau of Justice, the case was included in the "promoting change through cases" special training, explaining the relevant procedural requirements, risk nodes, and law enforcement boundaries to administrative law enforcement personnel item by item. Taking this as an opportunity, the urban management department re-sorted the process of major administrative compulsory matters, added pre-legal review, risk assessment, and other links, and required the entire process to leave traces.
From a compulsory demolition that was confirmed to be illegal to a systematic reshaping of law enforcement procedures—this is precisely the original intention of Jiangsu (江苏)'s exploration and promotion of the administrative act self-correction system. The "Jiangsu (江苏) Province Administrative Procedure Regulations" passed in July 2022, wrote the administrative act self-correction system into local legislation, and all 13 prefecture-level cities in the province have issued supporting implementation opinions.
"From 'waiting for the court to judge' to 'actively changing by ourselves,' the one who tied the bell must untie it," introduced Fan Fuqiang (范富强), director of the First Division of Administrative Reconsideration and Response of the Jiangsu (江苏) Provincial Department of Justice. The judicial organs prompted the administrative organs involved in the lawsuit to actively change or revoke obviously illegal or inappropriate administrative acts by sending the "Administrative Case Loss Risk Warning Letter" to the administrative organs involved in the lawsuit.
Why should work-related injury insurance still be paid after the suspension of insurance procedures has been processed?
In April 2023, Hu (户), an employee of a company in Suqian (宿迁), died suddenly from an illness during work. Li Jian (李建), the person in charge of the company, processed the suspension of insurance procedures for Hu (户) on the same day because he was not familiar with the policy terms. Although the human resources and social security department recognized Hu (户)'s work-related injury, the social security center refused to pay work-related injury insurance benefits on the grounds that "insurance was suspended in the current month." The company filed a lawsuit and lost in the first instance. "At that time, I really felt wronged," Li Jian (李建) recalled.
During the second instance, the Suqian (宿迁) Intermediate People's Court pointed out that the company did not have subjective evasion of payment behavior, and if the regulations were mechanically applied, it would be contrary to the original intention of the system design. Therefore, it issued judicial recommendations and loss risk warning letters to relevant departments. The person in charge of the county social security center admitted that the pressure was great, "If we don't change, we may lose the lawsuit; if we change randomly, we are worried about being held accountable."
After repeatedly studying the judicial recommendations, the county social security center launched the administrative act self-correction procedure. On the one hand, it legally paid Hu (户)'s work-related injury insurance benefits to his family through mediation, and the company withdrew the lawsuit; on the other hand, it fed back the "risk warning" to the provincial platform to help the risk warning function of insurance refund and suspension business go online, and similar situations will be prompted when users operate. "Guiding the administrative organs involved in administrative litigation and administrative reconsideration cases to self-correct, and source governance can eliminate 乱作为 (luàn zuò wéi - "acting arbitrarily," acting recklessly or without proper authorization)," said Wei Liangjun (魏良军), president of the Administrative Tribunal of the Suqian (宿迁) Intermediate People's Court.
According to incomplete statistics, more than 2,200 cases accepted by courts at all levels in Jiangsu (江苏) Province in 2025 adopted the administrative act self-correction model.
"Establishing a long-term mechanism to correct 乱作为 (luàn zuò wéi - "acting arbitrarily," acting recklessly or without proper authorization) and ensure that administrative acts always operate on the track of the rule of law," said Tang Maoren (汤茂仁), a full-time member of the Adjudication Committee of the Jiangsu (江苏) Provincial High People's Court.
(At the request of the interviewees, Lin Zhengrong (林正荣), Wang Haibo (王海波), Zhang Nan (张楠), and Zhang Meng (张猛) in the article are all pseudonyms)
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The essence of arbitrary actions by officials lies in their abuse of power, dereliction of duty, and disordered use of authority. Some make decisions impulsively, disregarding procedures and detaching from reality; some abuse their power, engaging in "selective law enforcement" and "different penalties for the same offense"; and some lack the courage and mechanisms for self-correction even when mistakes occur. These problems not only harm the interests of the people but also erode the credibility of the Party and the government.
How can we prevent and correct arbitrary actions by officials from the source? Defining institutional red lines and clarifying the boundaries of power are key.
To prevent and correct arbitrary actions, we must first "establish rules" for the operation of power. Administrative discretion is the flexible space granted to administrative organs by law, but excessive flexibility can easily lead to "deviation." The key to regulating the exercise of administrative discretion lies in improving the benchmark system for administrative discretion, preventing inappropriate penalties, and resolutely avoiding arbitrary fines. When law enforcement personnel have clear "levels" and applicable conditions for the same type of illegal behavior, discretion is no longer a "rubber band"; when administrative law enforcement has a "sighting device," and "flexible" power is locked in an institutional cage, the people can feel fairness and justice in every law enforcement decision.
To prevent and correct arbitrary actions, power must be exercised in the sunshine. We must adhere to scientific, democratic, and legal decision-making, and unite top-level design with seeking advice from the people. This requires strict implementation of the statutory procedures for major administrative decisions, the establishment of a "whole-chain" decision-making mechanism including opinion collection, analysis and research, collective decision-making, and follow-up evaluation, and the implementation of a lifelong accountability system for major decisions based on the principle of "whoever makes the decision is responsible." Only by ensuring that the exercise of power is constrained and that there is a price to pay for decision-making errors can we effectively prevent the "three pats" phenomenon of making decisions impulsively, making promises rashly, and leaving irresponsibly.
To prevent and correct arbitrary actions, we must also establish an institutional channel for self-correction. 人非圣贤，孰能无过 (rén fēi shèng xián, shú néng wú guò - "no one is a sage, who can be without fault," everyone makes mistakes). The key is to have a mechanism for timely detection of errors and proactive correction of errors. Establishing and promoting a self-correction system for administrative actions allows administrative organs to have both the courage to admit mistakes and the mechanism to correct them when faced with their own inappropriate behavior. This kind of self-correcting institutional design can not only promptly recover the damaged interests of the people but also enhance public trust in the Party and the government.
"What is required by law must be done, and what is not authorized by law must not be done." To prevent and correct arbitrary actions by officials, we must work hard to establish and improve systems, take real action in the implementation of systems, and use the rigidity of systems to constrain the arbitrariness of power, so as to promote officials to act correctly and strive for progress, and provide a strong guarantee for high-quality economic and social development.
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Headline Highlights
April 1st marked the official start of the flood season in China. This year, China will experience distinct regional and periodic droughts and floods, with both occurring simultaneously. Northern regions may face frequent and severe flooding disasters.
Water resources departments are analyzing and assessing the flood season situation and current rainfall and water conditions, arranging and deploying key tasks for drought and flood disaster prevention, and doing everything possible to ensure flood control safety and water supply security.
Starting April 1st, China officially entered the flood season. Southern regions will usher in the first round of heavy rainfall since the start of this year's flood season.
From April 2nd to 4th, most of Jiangnan, eastern and northern parts of South China, and eastern parts of Southwest China will experience a heavy rainfall process. The Xiangjiang River (湘江) and its tributary Liuyang River (浏阳河) in Hunan Province, the Ganjiang River (赣江), Fuhe River (抚河), and Xinjiang River (信江) in Jiangxi Province, and the upper reaches of the Qiantang River (钱塘江) in Zhejiang Province will experience rising water levels.
The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) entered a flood season working state on April 1st, initiating 24-hour flood prevention duty and guard. Relevant provinces in southern regions have entered a flood prevention working state, actively taking actions to prepare for prevention and response in advance.
This year's flood season in China will feature distinct regional and periodic droughts and floods, with both occurring simultaneously.
A long embankment lies on the waves, with lush greenery on the top. On March 31st, the first phase (Yancang Section) of the Bairi Qiantang Comprehensive Renovation and Improvement Project (百里钱塘综合整治提升工程) in Haining City (海宁市), Zhejiang Province, officially opened to the public after nearly 5 years of closed renovation.
"After the project's renovation and upgrade, the safety defense line on the northern bank of the Qiantang River (钱塘江) has been further strengthened," said Yu Gengfeng (俞耿锋), chief engineer of the Water Resources Bureau of Haining City (浙江海宁市水利局). The elevation of the embankment body has been raised from 10.6 meters to 11.2 meters, further upgrading the defense capability. "At the same time, the project simultaneously reconstructed the Haimen Drainage East Sluice and West Sluice, further clearing drainage channels and consolidating the regional flood control safety barrier."
This year, China's entry into the flood season coincides with the multi-year average date. How is the date of entry into the flood season determined?
Huo Chuanlu (火传鲁), a second-level researcher at the Technical Information Division of the Department of Drought and Flood Control of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部水旱灾害防御司技术信息处), introduced that the specific date of entry into the flood season needs to consider both heavy rain and flood factors, corresponding to rainfall and water level indicators, respectively. "Every year from March 1st, the coverage area of rainfall zones with a cumulative rainfall of 50 mm or more for 3 consecutive days reaches 150,000 square kilometers, or any representative station for entering the flood season exceeds the warning water level. Satisfying any one of these conditions can be determined as the date of entry into the flood season. When the date is later than April 1st, April 1st is taken as the date of entry into the flood season for that year."
Gao Weiqing (高唯清), a forecaster at the Information Center of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部信息中心), introduced that at the end of March, Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), and other places experienced heavy rainfall processes. The coverage area of rainfall zones with a cumulative rainfall of 50 mm or more for 3 consecutive days reached 154,000 square kilometers, satisfying the rainfall indicator, and the date of entry into the flood season in China this year was determined to be April 1st.
What is the flood situation this year?
This year's flood season in China will feature distinct regional and periodic droughts and floods, with both occurring simultaneously. Northern regions may face frequent and severe flooding disasters, with more local extreme rainstorms and floods, and typhoons may move northward to affect inland areas.
Focusing on key areas, implement precise policies to address shortcomings. Flood control projects are the first line of defense against floods.
"Taking the 'three major components' of flood control projects, reservoirs, rivers and embankments, and flood storage and detention areas, damage is inevitable in the process of resisting floods. Seize the limited time before the arrival of floods to reinforce embankments, clear river channels, free up reservoir capacity, and promote the restoration of water-damaged water conservancy facilities to ensure that flood control projects meet the flood season with a stronger 'physique'," said Luo Song (罗松), director of the Security Division of the Department of Drought and Flood Control of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部水旱灾害防御司保障处). At present, 2355 of the 4242 key water damage repair projects nationwide have been repaired, with a repair rate of 55.5%.
New technologies empower hydrological monitoring and forecasting, making flood prevention decisions more efficient.
The dam stretches across, and the river flows quietly. The Madu Downstream Extension Control Project (马渡下延控导工程) of the Yellow River (黄河) in Zhengzhou (郑州) appears like coconut shells, hidden in the water.
Each small "stone" is like a "neuron" of the Yellow River (黄河), sensing the situation and collecting information. "Chips and multi-dimensional sensors are installed inside the 'stones', which are waterproof, pressure-resistant, and have a long battery life. They can sensitively sense the loss and displacement of root stones, with a monitoring accuracy of up to centimeter level," introduced Li Zhipeng (李志鹏), deputy director of the Engineering Section of the Information Center of the Henan Yellow River Affairs Bureau of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会河南黄河河务局信息中心工程科).
Root stone is the foundation at the bottom of the Yellow River (黄河) flood control project. "The Henan section of the Yellow River (黄河河南段) is a wandering river channel, wide, shallow, scattered, and chaotic, with complex water conditions, and dangers are hidden underwater. Once the root stone is washed away, it is difficult to detect early," said Li Zhipeng (李志鹏).
New technologies protect the Yellow River (黄河). The team led by Li Zhipeng (李志鹏) has continuously tackled technical problems such as underwater electromagnetic signal transmission, equipment battery life, and shell waterproofing, and the "smart stone" has been iteratively upgraded. "This flood season, 2232 'smart stones' are deployed in the dangerous works and control projects of the Yellow River (黄河), sensing and monitoring around the clock. Once an early warning sounds, staff will know where there is a danger, and the efficiency of patrol and risk elimination is greatly improved," said Li Zhipeng (李志鹏).
"Smart stones" in the water, remote sensing satellites in the sky, and video surveillance on the ground are constantly collecting information. The integrated monitoring and sensing network of "sky, earth, water, and engineering" is constantly being woven, gradually realizing the digital and intelligent upgrade of Yellow River (黄河) flood prevention in all directions, the entire chain, and all fields.
The coordinated linkage of the "Three Yellow Rivers" makes flood prevention decisions more efficient. According to the relevant person in charge of the Yellow River Conservancy Commission (黄河水利委员会), the "Model Yellow River" simulates floods and makes advance judgments; the "Digital Twin Yellow River" precisely calculates and optimizes various large model schemes; the "Prototype Yellow River" verifies on-site, and scientific researchers dynamically track and observe. The "Three Yellow Rivers" support each other, powerfully promoting flood prevention work.
Scientific flood prevention requires data as the foundation. New technologies empower hydrological monitoring and forecasting, allowing information to "run" ahead of floods.
Not long ago, the Xiaobaiyan Hydrological Station (小白岩水文站) in Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang Province, passed completion acceptance. Cableway automatic flow measurement systems, AR (augmented reality) real-scene intelligent monitoring systems, and other equipment work together to become the front-line "哨所" for collecting rainfall and water information.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Department of Water Resources of Zhejiang Province (浙江省水利厅), extreme heavy rainfall and flood events are expected to occur frequently in Zhejiang this year, which puts higher demands on the accuracy of rainfall and water forecasting. At present, Zhejiang Province has basically built a monitoring, forecasting, and early warning system from mountain torrents in the source area, small and medium-sized rivers, mainstream floods, to estuarine tides, providing a decision-making basis for flood prevention.
The construction of the Digital Twin Huai River (数字孪生淮河) is accelerating, building "three lines of defense" for rainfall and water monitoring and forecasting, and completing the construction of flood forecasting, early warning, pre-enactment, and pre-planning capabilities for the Shiguan River (史灌河) and Pihe River (淠河). 34 practical scenario models with the characteristics of the Pearl River Basin (珠江流域) have been applied, which can carry out accurate rainfall and water forecasting, high-precision storm surge simulation, and refined scheduling of reservoir groups.
Strengthen the division of labor and cooperation among flood prevention administrative, technical, and inspection personnel to weave a dense safety management responsibility system.
Taking off and cruising, Tan Wenliang (谭文亮), the management section chief of Shuanglonghu Reservoir (双龙湖水库) in Qingyun County (庆云县), Dezhou City (德州市), Shandong Province, operated a drone early in the morning to carry out reservoir inspections. "There are white floating objects in the water area in the northwest direction, which need to be dealt with by someone," said Tan Wenliang (谭文亮).
"In the past, inspections relied on walking and looking with the eyes, which would take at least an hour and a half. With the help of drones and other 'helpers', it can now be completed in 15 minutes," said Tan Wenliang (谭文亮).
Shuanglonghu Reservoir (双龙湖水库) is located on the right bank of the Dehui New River (德惠新河) and is one of the important flood discharge hubs in the upstream Haihe River Basin (海河流域). Zhang Chaozhong (张朝忠), director of the Qingyun County Water Resources Bureau (庆云县水利局), introduced that the county has implemented the responsibility person for reservoir safety and comprehensively upgraded the reservoir digital information platform. AI video identifies engineering risks, and the "掌上运管" mobile phone software views in real time, realizing human defense plus technical defense.
Reservoirs are important infrastructure for regulating river runoff and are also the focus of flood prevention work.
At present, there are about 95,000 reservoir dams nationwide, with a total storage capacity of more than 1 trillion cubic meters. In recent years, extreme weather events have occurred frequently, and the situation of reservoir risk prevention and safety protection has become more severe and complex.
In response to the characteristics of the large number of small reservoirs and decentralized management, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has implemented 170,000 "three responsible persons" for flood prevention administration, technology, and inspection for each reservoir, weaving a dense safety management responsibility system. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, it concentrated its efforts to implement risk removal and reinforcement of 17,998 sick and dangerous reservoirs, and timely eliminated potential safety hazards.
According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), to ensure the safe passage of reservoirs through the flood season, there must be someone to manage and manage well. The water resources department is accelerating the construction of a modern reservoir operation and management matrix. 48,000 small reservoirs managed by townships, villages, and groups are implementing professional management models such as regional centralized management and government procurement services in accordance with local conditions.
While preparing for flood prevention, drought resistance work cannot be ignored. According to forecasts, periodic droughts may occur in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江) and northern Xinjiang (新疆). According to the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), it is necessary to strengthen drought monitoring and forecasting, accurately target the scope, accurately target the objects, accurately target the time periods, and accurately target the measures, guide drought-stricken areas to conduct rolling supply and demand balance analysis, implement water project drought relief scheduling and emergency water volume scheduling, and do everything possible to ensure water supply security.
Return to TopAccording to the China Meteorological Administration, on April 2, Beijing (北京) - April 4, China's weather will be complex and diverse. The north will experience strong winds, dust, rain and snow, while the south will experience a new round of heavy rainfall and severe convective weather. At 18:00 on the 2nd, the China Meteorological Administration issued a yellow warning for strong winds, and continued to issue a blue warning for sandstorms, a blue warning for rainstorms, a yellow warning for heavy fog, and a blue warning for severe convective weather.
Northern China is being hit by strong winds and dust. From the 2nd to the 4th, affected by cold air and ground cyclones, temperatures in the Northwest China, central and western Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), central and southern Northeast China, North China, and Huanghuai areas will drop by 4-6 degrees Celsius, with local cooling exceeding 8 degrees Celsius, accompanied by winds of level 5-6, gusts of level 7-10; the above-mentioned parts of the region will have dusty or floating dust weather from west to east, of which the most serious period is from the night of the 2nd to the afternoon of the 3rd, and there will be sandstorms in some areas of western Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and western Gansu (甘肃). Affected by this, the risk of wind disasters to facility agriculture is relatively high in central and southeastern Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), northeastern Gansu (甘肃), eastern Ningxia (宁夏), most of Shaanxi (陕西), southern Shanxi (山西), northern Henan (河南), southern Hebei (河北), northwestern and northern Shandong Peninsula (山东半岛), central and northern Liaoning (辽宁), and southern Jilin (吉林); the risk of wind disasters to facility agriculture is high in central and northern Shanxi (山西), central and northern Hebei (河北), northeastern Shandong (山东), Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and western and southern Liaoning (辽宁). On the 2nd, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs and the China Meteorological Administration jointly issued an early warning for the risk of wind disasters to facility agriculture.
There will be rain and snow in North China, Northeast China and other places. From the 2nd to the 4th, there will be light to moderate rain or thunderstorms in parts of central and eastern Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), northern North China, Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林) and other places, with heavy rain in some areas of central and northern Liaoning (辽宁) and central Jilin (吉林), accompanied by mixed convective weather such as wind and hail in some areas; there will be heavy to heavy snow in some areas of northeastern Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) and western Heilongjiang (黑龙江).
The China Meteorological Administration predicts that from the 2nd to the 4th, most areas of Guizhou (贵州), Jiangnan (江南), and South China (华南) will experience moderate to heavy rain, with heavy rain in some areas and heavy rainstorms in some areas. The strongest period will occur from the night of the 2nd to the daytime of the 3rd. Guizhou (贵州), central and southern Jiangnan (江南), northern Guangxi (广西), Guangdong (广东) and other places will experience short-term heavy rainfall, thunderstorms, strong winds or hail and other severe convective weather.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 2nd dispatch (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) On April 1st, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) held a special press conference to report on the Ministry of Public Security's (公安部) deployment of the "Safe Wilderness-2025" special action by public security organs nationwide, and to report on the effectiveness of measures taken in conjunction with relevant departments to severely crack down on crimes endangering nationally protected birds and other wildlife.
Li Chunjie (李春节), Deputy Director of the Environmental Resources and Food and Drug Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部环境资源和食品药品犯罪侦查局), introduced that currently, illegal hunting and trading of birds and other wildlife still occur from time to time in some areas, especially the use of drones with "falling arrows" for illegal hunting, which not only poses a threat to biodiversity and ecological security, but also brings huge safety hazards to public safety.
In response to the illegal hunting and trafficking of nationally protected birds, from August to December 2025, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) deployed the "Safe Wilderness-2025" special action by public security organs nationwide. During the action, public security organs nationwide filed and investigated a total of 9,705 criminal cases, of which 3,562 were cases endangering birds.
Return to TopThe year 2026 marks the beginning of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan." In January, the Heilongjiang Province Market Supervision (Drug Supervision, Intellectual Property) Work Conference was held in Harbin (哈尔滨市). The conference thoroughly implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the plenary sessions of the 20th Central Committee, followed the work arrangements of the Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Provincial Party Committee, the Provincial Government, and the National Medical Products Administration, clarified the direction of drug supervision in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), strictly implemented the "Four Strictest" requirements, and adhered to the work concept of "emphasizing politics, strengthening supervision, ensuring safety, promoting development, and benefiting the people's livelihood." By achieving "five transformations and one step forward," five special campaigns were launched to solidly advance the drug supervision work in 2026, striving to achieve a good start for the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" in drug supervision.
Focusing on the key tasks at the start of the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan," the Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Provincial Drug Supervision System launched five special campaigns, focusing precisely and starting a new chapter.
The "Full Chain Source Clearing" action for safety supervision will be carried out, adhering to inventorying, clearing surfaces, clearing networks, and clarifying responsibilities, focusing closely on the entire chain of research and development, approval, production, operation, and use, severely cracking down on illegal activities such as falsifying clinical trial data, strengthening supervision of key areas such as selected enterprises in centralized procurement, special drugs, and traditional Chinese medicine preparations, deepening the promotion and use of the "Longjiang Drug Supervision Information Center" mini-program, realizing the transformation from "people managing enterprises" to "digital drug management," and building a solid safety barrier for the public's use of drugs, medical devices, and cosmetics.
The "Service Efficiency Improvement" action for high-quality development will be carried out, implementing the deployment requirements of the national unified market construction and the province's "Three Breakthrough Years" action, and compiling the Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" for drug safety and promoting high-quality development with high quality. Implementing "early intervention, one enterprise one policy, whole-process guidance, and research-review linkage" for key varieties, accelerating the listing process of Class 1 innovative traditional Chinese medicines, promoting the transformation of traditional Chinese medicine preparations in medical institutions into new drugs, relying on the resource advantages of traditional Chinese medicinal materials in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) to promote the revision of "one standard one specification," and helping the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry with the optimization of regulatory policies.
The "Strengthening Foundation and Safeguarding" action for governing drugs according to law will be carried out, empowering the entire life cycle supervision of drugs with the rule of law thinking and methods, formulating and revising relevant system documents, and dynamically adjusting the benchmark for administrative discretion. Implementing the "Eighth Five-Year Plan" for legal popularization, strengthening the publicity and implementation of the newly revised "Regulations on the Implementation of the Drug Administration Law of the People's Republic of China," severely investigating and dealing with illegal activities such as manufacturing and selling fake and inferior products, improving the quality and efficiency of information disposal on the 12315 and 12345 platforms, and effectively improving the accuracy and credibility of law enforcement work.
The "Capacity Improvement" action for the regulatory system will be carried out, planning and constructing a visual management system for drug traceability throughout the entire life cycle, deepening the application of AI technology and big data, and upgrading the "Longjiang Drug Supervision Information Center" mini-program. Comprehensively promoting the drug inspection and testing equipment renewal project, ensuring that the biological product batch release capacity construction project passes the China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) certification. Introducing professional talents through methods such as "bidding to select the best," establishing an evaluation standard oriented towards ability, performance, and contribution, and strengthening the construction of the regulatory system and capacity.
The "Clear and Bright Drug Supervision" action for discipline and work style will be carried out, adhering to the Party's comprehensive leadership over drug supervision work, carrying out special rectification in accordance with the deployment of the National Medical Products Administration, focusing on 10 tasks such as strengthening power supervision and strictly grasping work style construction, strengthening the constraints and norms on the operation of drug supervision power, perseveringly correcting the **四风** (sì fēng - "four winds," undesirable work styles: formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism, and extravagance), and building a loyal, clean, and responsible drug supervision iron army, providing a strong political guarantee for the high-quality development of the drug supervision cause.
The Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Provincial Drug Supervision System will adhere to seeking progress while maintaining stability, improving quality and efficiency, coordinating development and safety, supervision and service, ensuring a high level of drug safety with efficient supervision, promoting the high-quality development of the pharmaceutical industry, and contributing drug supervision strength to the high-quality revitalization and development of Longjiang (龙江).
Data source: Heilongjiang Provincial Drug Administration (黑龙江省药品监督管理局)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘文璋 李志伟 尚凯元
Since the Northern Hemisphere entered spring, with the revival of vegetation and the dispersal of pollen, pollen allergies have become a public health challenge faced by many cities around the world. In Tokyo (東京), Japan, pedestrians wearing masks and goggles can be seen everywhere. In Washington (华盛顿), D.C., in the United States, the pollen season came earlier and lasted longer this year, exacerbating allergic reactions in many people. In Paris (巴黎), France, municipal agencies have increased monitoring and early warning efforts to address the problem of pollen allergies. The World Health Organization pointed out in a report that pollen allergy, as a public health issue closely related to the ecological environment and climate change, requires countries to take a long-term perspective, implement scientific policies, and make continuous efforts, both to alleviate the current difficulties of the public with proactive measures, and to gradually promote source governance to gradually solve this problem.
Tokyo (東京), Japan –
Trying to Promote Low-Pollen Tree Species
Every spring, pedestrians wearing masks and goggles can be seen everywhere on the streets of Tokyo (東京), Japan. Nasal congestion, sneezing, itchy eyes, and other allergic symptoms have become a "spring trouble" for many citizens. The latest survey shows that the prevalence of pollinosis in Japan is 42.5%, and this proportion is even higher in highly urbanized areas such as Tokyo (東京), causing great distress to many people. Calculations by Panasonic Corporation of Japan show that the decline in labor productivity caused by pollinosis causes an economic loss of approximately 245 billion yen (approximately 10.617 billion yuan) to Japanese society every day.
In the 1950s, Japan promoted large-scale afforestation throughout the country. Cedar and cypress trees became the main tree species due to their ease of planting and processing. At its peak, the planting area of cedar trees accounted for approximately 12% of Japan's land area, and the artificial forest areas around Tokyo (東京) were also dominated by these two types of trees. In 1964, after the liberalization of timber imports in Japan, the domestic demand for cedar wood plummeted, and a large number of artificial cedar forests were left unmanaged for a long time. Mature cedar trees release large amounts of pollen in the spring, and the increasing number of hardened surfaces during urbanization has exacerbated the secondary dispersal of pollen, increasing the complexity of prevention and control work.
Over the years, Tokyo (東京) has taken various measures to deal with the problem of pollinosis. Approaching the pollen season, the meteorological department releases pollen concentration forecasts by region and time period to provide a reference for public travel. Municipal and other institutions issue materials such as the "Pollinosis Environmental Health Handbook" to guide citizens to take daily protective measures, including wearing special masks and goggles with strong protective performance when traveling to reduce pollen contact. The Japanese government established the "Ministerial Council on Pollinosis-Related Issues" in 2023 and introduced a 10-year comprehensive governance framework, with the goal of reducing the area of cedar forests, which are an important source of pollen, by approximately 20% by 2033, and halving pollen production by around 2053. Tokyo (東京) is accelerating the felling of surrounding artificial cedar forests and the replacement of low-pollen tree species according to this plan.
Industry insiders believe that Japan has a large scale of mature cedar forests, and felling, renewal, and reconstruction require a large investment of manpower and financial resources. The promotion of low-pollen tree species also needs to go through a long tree growth cycle to be effective. A related report from the Japan Forestry Agency stated that addressing the problem of pollinosis is a long-term project to reshape the relationship between humans and forests, and the difficulty of prevention and control cannot be avoided.
Washington (华盛顿), D.C., United States –
Pollen Monitoring Included in Health Information System
This spring, television stations in Washington (华盛顿), D.C., the capital of the United States, reminded citizens on time: "Get ready for allergy medicine. The latest tree pollen monitoring data shows that the concentration of tree pollen in Washington (华盛顿), D.C., has begun to rise." This year, spring in Washington (华盛顿), D.C., came earlier, leading to an earlier and longer pollen season, causing misery for many allergy sufferers.
According to a report by CNBC, not only Washington (华盛顿), D.C., but also the entire United States is welcoming a more intense pollen season this year. For example, the allergy season in some southeastern regions such as Georgia began in late February, almost a week earlier than usual. A report released by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America in March showed that at least 106 million people in the United States have pollen allergies, of which approximately 81 million have been diagnosed with seasonal allergic rhinitis (pollinosis), covering 67 million adults and 14 million children, with an adult prevalence of approximately 26%. Data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that annual pollen-related medical expenses in the United States exceed $3 billion, nearly half of which is prescription drug spending. Increased pollen concentrations and prolonged pollen seasons not only increase the body's sensitivity to allergens and induce asthma, but also reduce people's work and study efficiency, affecting social production and life order.
In 2024, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officially launched an experimental pollen forecasting system to provide alerts for pollen allergen exposure risks. Researchers integrated cross-domain climate data into the health information system to provide support for accurate early warning. Jordan Schnell, assistant researcher at the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Global Systems Laboratory, said: "As a crucial but long-missing link in air quality monitoring, including pollen in monitoring plays a key role in improving the climate modeling framework." In addition, the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America released the "Allergy Medication Guide" to provide the public with diversified allergy treatment options, clarifying that for seasonal allergies, medication should be taken one or two weeks before the start of the allergy season. The plan covers commonly used categories such as corticosteroids and antihistamines.
Despite many prevention and control measures, the problem of pollen allergies in Washington (华盛顿), D.C., and other places is still intensifying. Data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that global climate change has caused the average temperature in the United States to rise in all seasons, including winter, which has prolonged the plant growth cycle, leading to increased pollen production and enhanced allergenicity. Purvi Parikh, an allergist at NYU Langone Medical Center, said that rising temperatures are a common trend in worsening allergy seasons, "Not only is there more pollen, but it lasts longer, which can be said to be a double whammy." An article in The Washington Post believes that climate change, as a global problem, cannot be solved by a single city or country, which also highlights the difficulty of addressing the pollen problem.
Paris (巴黎), France –
Building "Pollen Monitoring Stations" to Strengthen Early Warning
In the spring in Paris (巴黎), France, the city center and surrounding parks are lush with vegetation and blooming flowers, making them a good place for citizens to go for spring outings, but many citizens have to avoid areas with dense pollen when going for spring outings. Official French statistics show that approximately 1/4 of the population nationwide has pollen allergies. Affected by climate change, this proportion is still rising. Related institutions predict that by 2050, half of the population in France may be affected by pollen allergies.
As a city with a high degree of greening in Europe, Paris (巴黎) also has a more prominent risk of pollen allergies. Relevant officials in Paris (巴黎) said that the current pollen season is showing an earlier trend, and some herbaceous plants even have two pollen periods a year, which further exacerbates the severity of pollen allergies. Faced with this problem, Paris (巴黎), based on its own greening characteristics, has explored a prevention and control path mainly based on "source monitoring and pre-warning," the most representative of which is the "pollen monitoring station."
The "pollen monitoring station" is located in the "Paris (巴黎) Floral Park" in the 12th arrondissement of Paris (巴黎). The park monitors nearly 20 kinds of plants, all of which are typical allergenic varieties within a 50-kilometer radius of Paris (巴黎). Since its completion in 2023, the "pollen monitoring station" has become an important "outpost" for Paris (巴黎) to accurately respond to pollen problems. Two municipal gardeners conduct routine monitoring of the plants in the park every day, recording the pollen release in detail. Once a certain species enters the pollen period, the system sends reminder emails to registered citizens through the "pollen warning" platform, relying on the data system of the Paris (巴黎) Green Space and Environment Bureau to provide accurate reference for allergic people, helping them to adjust their medication plans and control symptoms in a timely manner.
In fact, Paris' (巴黎) monitoring of pollen can be traced back to 1987. Monitoring equipment on the roof of the Pasteur Institute has long collected air samples, which are analyzed by the French National Aerobiological Monitoring Network and released to the public through relevant platforms. Compared with this "air-end monitoring," the "pollen monitoring station" garden starts from the source of plants and achieves earlier warning. This system can also provide diagnostic basis for medical professionals, helping doctors to analyze the symptoms of patients in correspondence with specific pollen types, and also allowing patients to accurately grasp the release cycle of allergens and avoid unnecessary long-term medication. At present, 17 such pollen monitoring stations have been built in France and are still being expanded, providing a reference for more cities to cope with pollen problems.
Medical research shows that the earlier pollen allergy patients start treatment, the better the symptom control effect, which can effectively reduce emergency needs and heavy medication. This pre-warning has become an important support for pollen prevention and control in Paris (巴黎). At the urban governance level, Paris (巴黎) incorporates allergy risks into greening planning, and strives to achieve a balance between ecological construction and public health by increasing plant diversity and optimizing tree species structure.
French allergy research expert Aurde said: "Paris' (巴黎) 'pollen monitoring station' is a very valuable attempt, which can provide accurate early warning for allergic people, but pollen prevention and control is a long-term project, which requires both coping with the irreversible impact of climate change and solving the inertia problems of urban greening planning, which brings long-term challenges to prevention and control work."
(Reported from Tokyo (東京), Washington (华盛顿), and Paris (巴黎) on April 2)
Return to TopBy: 周亚楠
In March 2026, the situation in the Middle East was tense, shipping in the Strait of Hormuz was disrupted, and global energy security faced challenges. At this critical moment, on the night of March 31, China and Pakistan jointly proposed a five-point initiative on restoring peace and stability in the Gulf and the Middle East. As all-weather strategic partners, the coordinated voice of China and Pakistan is a timely response to the Middle East crisis, and a beneficial practice for developing countries to build consensus and take the initiative on hotspot issues, providing a pragmatic and feasible Eastern solution to break the deadlock.
The joint promotion of peace by China and Pakistan is not an accidental move, but a natural extension and practical implementation of the all-weather strategic partnership between the two countries and the concept of a community of shared future. As staunch partners, China and Pakistan have always maintained close communication on major international and regional issues. The two visits to China by Pakistani Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar (达尔) within three months are a direct reflection of the normalization of strategic communication between the two countries, laying a solid political foundation for jointly proposing a peace initiative. The coordinated voice of China and Pakistan based on justice and morality has become a positive force in the regional peace process, demonstrating the era's connotation of unity, cooperation, and meeting challenges together.
The five-point initiative proposed by China and Pakistan is based on the specific situation of the current Middle East conflict. Each point accurately addresses the Middle East situation, demonstrating a pragmatic and rational approach.
The initiative puts "immediate cessation of hostilities" in the first place, emphasizing unhindered access to humanitarian relief supplies, directly addressing the grim reality of the escalating humanitarian crisis, and grasping the primary prerequisite for peace. It takes "starting peace talks as soon as possible" as the core path, clarifying the need to safeguard the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran (伊朗) and Gulf countries, and reiterating that dialogue and diplomacy are the only feasible way to resolve disputes, fundamentally negating the solution of military confrontation. It takes "ensuring the safety of non-military targets" as the humanitarian bottom line, directly pointing to the current attacks on energy, electricity and other infrastructure, in order to safeguard the right to survival and development of the people in the region. Focusing on "ensuring the safety of waterways," it hits the "energy throat" of the Strait of Hormuz, calling for the resumption of normal navigation, taking into account the common needs of regional countries' interests and global energy security. Finally, it takes "ensuring the primary status of the UN Charter" as the fundamental guideline, promoting the establishment of a comprehensive peace framework based on international law, and providing institutional guarantees for the long-term peace in the region. The five-point initiative progresses step by step, interlocks, responds to current needs, and focuses on lasting stability, reflecting a long-term and overall vision.
At a time when the Middle East situation is caught in a vicious cycle of "conflict escalation - camp confrontation - crisis spillover," the coordinated voice of China and Pakistan injects positive energy into the turbulent Middle East situation. First, this is a concrete practice of the Global Security Initiative in the Middle East. The common, comprehensive, cooperative, and sustainable security concept contained in the China-Pakistan initiative is highly consistent with the desire of regional countries to pursue independent peace and oppose external interference. Second, this is a hedge of multilateralism against unilateralism. Against the backdrop of some countries promoting camp confrontation and disregarding international law, China and Pakistan firmly safeguard the core role of the United Nations (联合国), providing important guidance for easing the regional situation. Third, this is a vivid example of bilateral partnerships serving global peace. China and Pakistan have transformed bilateral strategic mutual trust into a driving force for promoting regional peace, making the all-weather strategic partnership a positive factor in maintaining international peace and stability, providing a reference for countries to develop bilateral relations.
Proposing the five-point initiative is not the end of China and Pakistan's peace-promoting actions, but a new starting point for the two countries' continued efforts for peace in the Middle East. As a positive advocate and pragmatic action faction for regional peace, it is believed that China and Pakistan will continue to strengthen strategic communication, continuously transmit the voice of peace in the international community, and promote more countries to respond to the initiative and build consensus on promoting peace. Of course, achieving peace and stability in the Middle East is a long and arduous road, involving multi-party interest games, and it is difficult to achieve overnight, but the coordinated voice of China and Pakistan has injected constructive power into the deadlocked situation, allowing the international community to see the hope of resolving disputes through dialogue and consultation. It is expected that taking the China-Pakistan initiative as an opportunity, more countries will join the ranks of promoting peace and stopping war, and jointly promote the Middle East region to return to the track of peace and stability. China and Pakistan will also continue to contribute wisdom and strength to the regional peace process, making the ironclad friendship even stronger in the practice of safeguarding peace.
(The author is an international affairs observer)
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Recently, on the track of the Supersport World Championship (WSBK) Portuguese round, the Chinese brand Zhangxue Motorcycle (张雪机车), established only two years ago, broke the decades-long monopoly of European, American, and Japanese motorcycle brands in this category. Zhangxue Motorcycle's victory has been followed and interpreted by many foreign media outlets. On overseas social media, international motorcycle enthusiasts have also engaged in heated discussions, with some describing it as a "shocking upset" that marks "the arrival of a new era in superbike racing."
Why is this wave of Chinese motorcycle resurgence attracting worldwide attention? Let's explore the reasons from foreign media reports.
"Farewell to stereotypes, China is serious this time." An Italian automotive media outlet made this judgment in its headline.
Once upon a time, "poor quality," "weak performance," and "low-end imitation" were the labels the world attached to Chinese motorcycles. Today, Zhangxue Motorcycle has torn off these old labels with its hardcore strength: from engines and frames to electronic control systems, core components are 100% independently developed, with a localization rate exceeding 90%.
Among the many innovative breakthroughs, what has attracted high attention from foreign media is the engine, which is known as the "heart" of the motorcycle. For a long time, in the mid-to-large displacement market, Japanese and European brands have built airtight patent walls in the four-cylinder and twin-cylinder engine fields with decades of accumulation. Facing technical barriers, Zhangxue Motorcycle rose to the challenge and fought an 18-month "patent breakthrough battle," finally overcoming the "hard bone" of the three-cylinder water-cooled engine.
What are the advantages of a three-cylinder engine? To give an analogy: a twin-cylinder engine is like a sprinter, with a strong start but slightly weaker endurance; a four-cylinder engine is like a long-distance runner, with sufficient endurance but less explosive power. The three-cylinder engine combines the strengths of both—it has both instantaneous burst of power and sustained climbing endurance, while also being more compact and lighter, allowing for free control in corners.
The winning model, the 820RR-RS, not only has more horsepower, lighter weight, and a lower center of gravity, but also costs only 1/3 of foreign models with the same displacement. This new car uses its strength to break the prejudice that "high performance must be expensive" and "cheap goods are not good," making high-quality motorcycles no longer exclusive to a few.
In fact, Zhangxue Motorcycle's victory is not the first time Chinese motorcycles have shined on the international stage. Previously, Chinese brand motorcycles have won sub-station championships and annual rider championships in the lighter weight categories of WSBK. This time, Zhangxue Motorcycle has achieved a breakthrough in the higher technical threshold of the middleweight category, and its gold content is in a different league.
The Japanese professional motorcycle online media "Lawrence" keenly pointed out earlier that, with the support of countless enthusiastic and unwavering technicians, the Chinese motorcycle industry is ushering in a new era of overseas expansion.
Indeed, for a long time, Chinese motorcycle exports have mainly focused on low-end volume, and have repeatedly been frustrated in the high-end market. Today, Chinese brands represented by Zhangxue Motorcycle are rekindling the enthusiasm of overseas consumers with technology and quality. Currently, Zhangxue Motorcycle's products have been exported to countries and regions such as Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, and Russia.
A British netizen lamented: "The entry of Chinese motorcycles into the Western market is precisely the industry's fortune. Motorcyclists always hear the argument that 'riding motorcycles as a hobby is about to die out,' but China has confidence in the leisure motorcycle market and is providing products that those giants are unwilling to give to motorcyclists." In this sense, Zhangxue Motorcycle is like a "catfish," which not only allows the world to see the hardcore strength of Chinese motorcycles, but also injects new impetus into the global motorcycle industry and brings new choices to global consumers.
From the end of stereotypes to the establishment of value recognition, foreign media's observations clearly outline the progressive trajectory of Chinese manufacturing from "being underestimated" to "being valued" and then to "being needed." With the endurance of independent innovation and the support of a complete industrial system, Zhangxue Motorcycle's success is not just a game changer, but also a declaration to the world that Chinese manufacturing has long changed its "**打开方式**" (dǎ kāi fāng shì - "opening method," a way of doing things) and will serve every love and expectation around the world with better quality products and a more inclusive attitude.
Return to TopApril 2nd is International Children's Book Day. Many countries around the world are carrying out diverse reading activities to sow the seeds of knowledge for children and convey the hope of growth.
Return to TopMacron: Using military action to "liberate" the Strait of Hormuz is "unrealistic"
Xinhua News Agency, Paris, April 2 (Reporter Sun Yi (孙毅)) According to French business radio BFM TV, French President Emmanuel Macron (马克龙), who is visiting South Korea, said on April 2 that using military action to "liberate" the Strait of Hormuz is "unrealistic."
The report said that Macron (马克龙) said during his visit to South Korea that war cannot find a "lasting solution" to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Macron (马克龙) also responded to previous accusations by US President Donald Trump (特朗普), reiterating that military action against Iran was a "unilateral decision" by the United States and Israel, and not a French action.
Trump (特朗普) posted on social media on March 31 that France would not allow planes carrying military supplies and flying to Israel to fly over its territory. "France has been extremely uncooperative in military operations against Iran, and the United States will remember it!" The French presidential palace, the Élysée Palace (爱丽舍宫), expressed "surprise" at Trump's (特朗普) remarks that day and told the media that France had not changed its position from beginning to end.
Russian Foreign Ministry: The consequences of Japan's deployment of long-range missiles are unimaginable
Xinhua News Agency, Moscow, April 2 (Reporter) Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova (扎哈罗娃) said at a regular press conference on April 1 that Japan's deployment of long-range missiles proves that Japan has deviated from the peace clauses in its constitution, and the consequences are unimaginable.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry website, Zakharova (扎哈罗娃) said that Japan's deployment of long-range missile systems and expansion of strike weapons within its territory is a manifestation of its dangerous path of "re-militarization." Japan's move, coupled with its distortion of history, has unimaginable consequences.
Zakharova (扎哈罗娃) said that Russia is seriously studying Japan's actions to formulate necessary countermeasures to ensure that Russia has sufficient defense capabilities.
European energy prices rise significantly
Xinhua News Agency, London, April 2 (Reporter Zhao Xiaona (赵小娜)) Affected by US President Trump's (特朗普) remarks on the situation in Iran, market concerns about energy supply disruptions have risen again, and European oil and gas prices rose significantly on the 2nd.
On the same day, the price of London Brent crude oil futures for June delivery once rose by more than 8%, approaching $110 per barrel. At the same time, international gold prices fell by more than 3%, ending the previous four consecutive trading days of gains.
The European natural gas market also strengthened. The Dutch Title Transfer Facility (TTF) natural gas futures price, which is the benchmark price for European natural gas, rose to 49.6 euros per megawatt-hour. Although rising temperatures and increased renewable energy generation have somewhat alleviated demand concerns, supply uncertainty under the dominance of geopolitical risks still supports price fluctuations at high levels.
Return to TopCeremony Program
Item 1: All stand at attention, drum and bell ringing
Item 2: Sing the Ode to the Yellow Emperor
Item 3: Present flower baskets
Item 4: Read the memorial oration respectfully
Item 5: Bow three times to the statue of Emperor Xuan Yuan (轩辕黄帝)
Item 6: Music and dance sacrifice
Item 7: Dragon Soars over China
Item 8: Pay homage to Xuan Yuan Hall (轩辕殿), worship the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor (黄帝陵)
Item 9: Plant Qiaoshan Cypress (桥山柏)
Organized by: Shaanxi Provincial People's Government (陕西省人民政府), Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院台湾事务办公室), Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of the State Council (国务院侨务办公室), All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (中华全国归国华侨联合会)
Undertaken by: Shaanxi Provincial Huangdi Mausoleum Public Ceremony Working Committee Office (陕西省公祭黄帝陵工作委员会办公室) (Shaanxi Huangdi Mausoleum Cultural Park Management Committee (陕西省黄帝陵文化园区管理委员会))
Co-organized by: Yan'an Municipal People's Government (延安市人民政府), Huangling County People's Government (黄陵县人民政府)
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This year marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of the famous modern writer Yu Dafu (郁达夫). In the reader's impression, Yu Dafu is mostly the distressed and confused young man in "Sinking" or the indignant celebrity who published "Poems of Family Destruction." In fact, as one of the founders of the New Literature Society Creation Society, Yu Dafu was one of the undisputed leaders in the Chinese literary world at that time, with a pivotal influence at home and abroad.
After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Yu Dafu walked out of his study at a time when the nation was in peril, traveling to the front lines of the Anti-Japanese War in eastern Zhejiang (浙东) and southern Anhui (皖南), recording the unyielding resistance of the Chinese military and civilians as a war correspondent. At the end of 1938, he went to Singapore at the invitation to preside over the supplement work of the local Chinese newspaper. Until his martyrdom in Sumatra (苏门答腊岛), Indonesia (印度尼西亚) in 1945, Yu Dafu never set foot on the land of his homeland again. In the last 7 years of his life, Yu Dafu, who was in Nanyang (南洋), made indelible contributions to the War of Resistance with his pen as a weapon.
Editing supplements, nurturing new buds, and uniting revolutionary forces.
Yu Dafu went to Singapore with the intention of "going to Nanyang to do overseas propaganda" to mobilize more overseas Chinese to support the Anti-Japanese War. Initially, Yu Dafu served as the editor of the "Morning Star" ("晨星") supplement of the "Sin Chew Daily" ("星洲日报") morning edition and the "Evening Star" ("繁星") supplement of the evening edition. Later, he took over and founded newspaper supplements and magazines such as the "Sin Pin Daily·Weekly" ("星槟日报·星期刊") and the "Literature and Art" ("文艺") bimonthly in Malaysia (马来西亚).
Living in Singapore for more than three years, Yu Dafu devoted all his enthusiasm to the anti-Japanese movement of overseas Chinese and the development of overseas Chinese culture. He not only edited various newspaper supplements and participated in a large number of social work, but also wrote more than 400 articles including political essays, essays, poems, and literary reviews. On the second day of his arrival, he wrote the political essay "Estimating the Enemy" ("估敌"), firmly believing that "the final victory, of course, is ours, and we will never waver in our belief that we will surely succeed." These words not only greatly encouraged the local people's enthusiasm for resisting Japan, but also played a strong supporting role in the domestic anti-Japanese propaganda.
When Yu Dafu took over "Morning Star" ("晨星"), he said: "If this small garden can become a pioneer of light and the master of the day in Singapore and various ports in Nanyang, wouldn't that be the glory of the motherland and the blessing of mankind?" It was with the help of this garden that he united and cultivated a large number of young writers such as Wen Zichuan (温梓川), Feng Jiaoyi (冯蕉衣), Tie Kang (铁抗), and Wang Junshi (王君实), leaving valuable seeds for Singaporean and Malaysian Chinese literature.
At the end of 1941, the Japanese army bombed Singapore. The local people set off a wave of resistance against the enemy, and the "Singapore Chinese Cultural界 Wartime Work Group" ("星洲华侨文化界战时工作团") came into being, and Yu Dafu was elected as the leader. The famous journalist Zhang Chukun (张楚琨) gave speeches and condolences to the Singaporean Chinese Volunteer Army with Yu Dafu during the day, and saw him staying up late to edit supplements at night. He couldn't help but admire that Yu Dafu never had any fear when he moved from one place to another in the bombing. His thin body burst out with a fire-like vitality, "I seemed to see a Byron fighting for the freedom of Greece."
During Yu Dafu's stay in Singapore, Lao She (老舍), Guo Moruo (郭沫若), Wang Kunlun (王昆仑), and Sun Shiyi (孙师毅) once jointly wrote a poem to him: "Don't say that wandering is bitter, a lonely guest in the world. Raise a glass to wish you a long journey, thousands of miles of four lines of books." Guo Moruo also attached several lines of text message: "Dafu: Although the poem says you are lonely, in fact you are not lonely. Everyone present today is thinking of you, and young friends all over China are thinking of you. Do you know the news about Zhang Ziping (张资平)? He is confused to the end, alas!"
The reason why Yu Dafu was "not lonely" was not only because of his past creations, but also because of his achievements in adhering to cultural resistance in Singapore, which were seen by both old friends and acquaintances in the motherland and young literary people who had never met. Zhang Ziping (张资平), also a core member of the Creation Society, once made important contributions to the New Literature with Guo Moruo (郭沫若), Tian Han (田汉), Cheng Fangwu (成仿吾), and Yu Dafu (郁达夫), but eventually became a traitor. In addition to being deeply saddened, Yu Dafu also took this as a lesson and strengthened his determination to resist Japan: "时穷节乃见 (shí qióng jié nǎi xiàn - "loyalty is revealed in times of adversity," integrity becomes apparent in difficult times; true character is tested in hardship), the ancients said that only when the year is cold can we see the steadfastness of pine and cypress, which is indeed a true saying." And he himself deserves such a true saying.
Hiding his real name, protecting his comrades, and persisting in the anti-Japanese struggle.
In early 1942, Singapore fell. Yu Dafu and more than 20 cultural figures engaged in anti-Japanese propaganda, including Hu Yuzhi (胡愈之), evacuated on the same ship and arrived in Sumatra (苏门答腊), which was then a Dutch colony. Payakumbuh (帕亚昆布) was the last stop in Yu Dafu's life. In this desolate small city, which means "grassy swamp," he disguised himself as a distillery owner and took the opportunity to be conscripted as a translator to deal with the Japanese military police.
According to Zhang Chukun's (张楚琨) recollection, Yu Dafu risked his life to find out the personality, hobbies, and habits of each member of the military police team, "Many overseas Chinese were detained in the military police department for doing business, and he released them after saying a few words." The writer Gao Yunlan (高云览) was detained for a trivial matter, and Yu Dafu bailed him out; Chen Jiageng (陈嘉庚) was searched by the Japanese army, and Yu Dafu used a trick to divert the military police and protect this patriotic overseas Chinese leader.
It is difficult for us to estimate the pressure that Yu Dafu, who was using the pseudonym "Zhao Lian" (赵廉), was under: he had to be all things to all people during the day, and he had to be worried at night. He slept in the military police department at night. Because he was afraid that his sleep talking would reveal his identity, he had to befriend the Japanese military police in the same room. He asked the other party to wake him up immediately when he talked in his sleep, on the grounds that he often had nightmares. In this way, Yu Dafu established a close network of relationships in the military police team. Because of his protection, Payakumbuh (帕亚昆布) became a place for exiled cultural figures to stay.
However, Yu Dafu's identity was eventually exposed. Hong Genpei (洪根培), a translator in the military police team who was familiar with the situation in the Singaporean cultural world, had already recognized that "Zhao Lian" (赵廉) was Yu Dafu (郁达夫), but he did not report it immediately because he wanted to obtain benefits from him. He begged Yu Dafu to be a matchmaker for him. When Yu Dafu learned that the woman was the fiancée of a friend who had fled with him from Singapore, he firmly refused even though he knew there was a risk of being exposed. Hong Genpei (洪根培) reported Yu Dafu to the military police team and used the military police team to arrest Yu Dafu's friend. After Yu Dafu's mediation, this friend was released immediately.
When one's own life is in the hands of the enemy, such acts of righteousness are precious. But from then on, Yu Dafu was under the surveillance of the Japanese military police. Knowing that he could not escape, he persuaded his friends to evacuate quickly. Most of these friends waited for the victory of the Anti-Japanese War and made contributions to the cultural cause of New China.
Green cypress trees, surviving integrity, shining national spirit.
How could Yu Dafu himself not have waited for the news of the victory of the war? On August 15, 1945, Japan announced its unconditional surrender. That night, Yu Dafu listened to the radio broadcast at the home of the local overseas Chinese leader. The next morning, he ran to the distillery and excitedly announced the news. At this moment, Yu Dafu did not know that the victory of the war would push his life to the end.
On the evening of August 29, 1945, Yu Dafu was chatting with friends at home when a young man suddenly visited. Yu Dafu said a few words to him, then said goodbye to everyone, saying that he would go out for a while and come back, but he disappeared from then on. Nearly a year later, Shao Zonghan (邵宗汉), a famous journalist who was also in Sumatra (苏门答腊), received news from the intelligence department of the Allied Headquarters: According to the confession of Japanese war criminals, Yu Dafu was shot and killed by the Japanese military police on September 17, 1945, along with several Europeans. For a long time, this statement became the consensus of the academic community. It was not until 1985, at the academic seminar commemorating the 40th anniversary of the martyrdom of Yu Dafu (郁达夫) in Fuyang (富阳), Zhejiang (浙江), that the Japanese scholar Masao Suzuki (铃木正夫) published an investigation report.
According to Masao Suzuki's (铃木正夫) investigation, Yu Dafu was killed on the night he left home. He did not die on the orders of the senior Japanese military officers. The captain of the military police team was afraid that Yu Dafu knew too much about his own details, so he ordered his subordinates to kill him. Forty years after the massacre, the perpetrator confessed this fact to Masao Suzuki (铃木正夫). "War drives mankind to madness, so we need to make efforts to ensure that there will be no more wars in the future." Masao Suzuki (铃木正夫) wrote in the investigation report.
At that time, the war had already ended, and the Japanese invaders committed new crimes in order to cover up their own crimes, which can no longer be explained by war frenzy - on the contrary, this was the result of the invaders' deliberate consideration after the war frenzy. This kind of heinous act of murdering those who knew the truth in order to escape trial is unforgivable.
In the same war, Yu Dafu never violated his conscience in order to protect himself, and the brilliance of his humanity was never covered up by the flames of war. Yu Dafu sacrificed both for his beloved motherland and for his humanitarian beliefs. His death, along with his achievements during his lifetime, will always be a monument.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Literature, Jilin University (吉林大学))
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The Medan in March is humid, warm, and full of life. This city, located on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, is one of the cities with the longest history and the most concentrated Chinese population in the country: in the old city area, Chinese characters on shop signs can be seen everywhere; the arcade-style Nanyang architecture makes people feel as if they are in an old Lingnan street in China.
Not far from the old city, a memorial hall stands quietly, commemorating Yu Dafu (郁达夫), a modern Chinese writer and patriotic person. The memorial hall is not large, like a bookmark in the city, silently freezing the story of a writer who went south in the flames of war and wandered in a foreign land.
Walking into the exhibition hall, the first thing that catches the eye is the bronze statue of Yu Dafu (郁达夫) in the center of the hall. He is wearing a long robe, holding a book in his right hand, with a thin figure, calm eyes, and slightly furrowed brows, as if he is thinking about the fate of his country. In the display case on the left side of the bronze statue are displayed "The Complete Works of Yu Dafu (郁达夫)" and related research works. Next to it, the exhibition wall successively displays sections such as "Homeland," "Marriage," "Student Life," "Literary Creation," "War of Resistance Period," and "Exile in Sumatra, Indonesia." Black and white photos and concise texts slowly guide the audience to the life trajectory of this writer.
At the end of 1938, Yu Dafu (郁达夫) was invited by the Sin Chew Daily (星洲日报) to go south to Singapore to engage in cultural anti-Japanese propaganda, writing a large number of political essays, current affairs commentaries, and essays to encourage overseas Chinese to support the War of Resistance. After the fall of Singapore, he moved to Sumatra Island and lived incognito in the western city of Payakumbuh. His fate became closely linked to this land of Indonesia and the local overseas Chinese.
Lin Lairong (林来荣), curator of the Yu Dafu (郁达夫) Memorial Hall, stopped in front of the exhibition board and said to me softly: "Yu Dafu (郁达夫) lived under the name 'Zhao Lian (赵廉)' back then, and was forced to work as a translator for the Japanese military police, but he had been secretly helping overseas Chinese and local residents." He pointed to the exhibition board and added: "When someone was arrested for questioning, he would deliberately distort the translation to help them reduce or even avoid punishment as much as possible."
Continue along the exhibition board. A passage on the wall reads: Yu Dafu (郁达夫) spent the last few years of his life in Sumatra and was buried here. He forged a deep friendship with the Indonesian people on this land and left behind many poems and essays. As presented on the exhibition board, Yu Dafu's (郁达夫) experience in Indonesia has now been transformed into a lasting cultural echo. "Many young Nanyang writers came into contact with Chinese new literature for the first time through his writing," said Lin Lairong (林来荣). To this day, many scholars and writers from China, Singapore, Malaysia and other places still come to Medan specifically to visit the Yu Dafu (郁达夫) Memorial Hall to trace the last footprints of this writer.
Yu Dafu (郁达夫) is not only a writer, but also a cultural bridge connecting China and Indonesia. "For our generation of Chinese, we all heard about Yu Dafu's (郁达夫) name and deeds when we were young," said Lin Lairong (林来荣). When he was young, he was curious and found "Sinking" (沉沦) to read, but because he was too young, he could not understand the meaning, "When I read it again when I grew up, I truly felt the sincerity, frankness, and strong emotions in his writing."
This influence continues to this day. "In a sense, Yu Dafu (郁达夫) opened up the modern and contemporary literary exchange between China and Indonesia," said Lin Lairong (林来荣). In recent years, activities such as the North Sumatra (North Sumatra Province) Literary Festival and the Yu Dafu (郁达夫) International Forum have been held continuously, and scholars and writers from the two countries have gathered because of Yu Dafu (郁达夫). Today, many Indonesian Chinese writers still draw linguistic and ideological nourishment from Yu Dafu's (郁达夫) works, and a clear and far-reaching cultural context is always maintained between Indonesian Chinese literature and modern Chinese literature.
"I most hope that people who come to visit will look at this exhibition board." Lin Lairong (林来荣) pointed to the right side of the exhibition hall, which densely listed the names of Nanyang literati and educators such as Wang Renshu (王任叔), Hu Yuzhi (胡愈之), and Shao Zonghan (邵宗汉). They were active in Nanyang at the same time as Yu Dafu (郁达夫), and left a far-reaching impact on anti-Japanese propaganda, cultural education, and literary dissemination in Indonesia. For example, Wang Renshu (王任叔) used the pen name "Baren (巴人)" to found the "Progress Daily (前进报)" in Sumatra, actively reporting the latest news of the Chinese War of Resistance, so that overseas Chinese in Nanyang could understand the dynamics of the motherland's War of Resistance in a timely manner. "These people are not only literati, but also soldiers. They have helped many people here, and they have also sown the seeds of literature and conscience on this land."
Walking out of the main entrance of the memorial hall, you can see the Sin Chew Daily Friendship Auditorium (星洲日报友谊大礼堂) when you look up. Lin Lairong (林来荣) said with a smile that when the memorial hall was selected, he did not specifically think about the connection between Yu Dafu (郁达夫) and the Sin Chew Daily (星洲日报), "**建成后才发现** (jiàn chéng hòu cái fā xiàn - "only realized after completion," only after the memorial hall was built did they realize the connection)," the memorial hall is directly opposite the auditorium, as if there is a connection in the dark, which can be regarded as a rare fate.
When leaving the memorial hall, the sun was particularly bright. The streets were full of traffic, and the cafes were full of voices. Medan was full of vitality. Yu Dafu's (郁达夫) name has been quietly preserved in this city, and a literary and historical story spanning time and space continues to resonate today.
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After the global release of the movie "Zootopia 2," the ideal vision contained in the film touched people's hearts: lions and rabbits side by side, polar bears and foxes working together, species differences gently dissolved. The lush green Zootopia station in the film also attracted the attention of many viewers. Its real-life prototype is the Atocha Railway Station in Madrid (Madrid) (see picture, Image China). Here, whether it is different species, or the city and nature, are integrated because of the green.
At first glance, Atocha Railway Station seems no different from ordinary transportation hubs: electronic screens scroll through train information, suitcases drag out rapid echoes on the ground, and passengers rush through the platforms. Take a few more steps towards the rest area, and the field of vision is suddenly filled with a dense green: tall palm trees reach the dome, wide leaves are layered, and the air is filled with moist water vapor and the fragrance of soil, as if coming from a dry city to a miniature tropical rainforest.
This scene is unbelievable, as this used to be an old platform with crisscrossing railway tracks. In the 1990s, Spain vigorously developed a high-speed railway system, and Atocha Station was expanded accordingly. The new station assumed the main transportation function, and the 19th-century steel structure hall faced the choice of whether to be preserved. In the end, the designers decided to transform it into an indoor plant space open to the public, and continue the good lighting conditions by completely retaining the original steel beams and glass dome. Thus, in a warm space more than 150 meters long and nearly 30 meters high, sunlight pours down through the dome, and the indoor temperature remains at 22 to 24 degrees Celsius throughout the year, with humidity close to 70%, forming a relatively stable tropical microclimate.
Today, thousands of plants from five continents grow here, with more than a hundred species: from Cuban royal palms, Brazilian rubber trees, to Philippine banana trees, and Madagascar traveler's palms... A railway station has transformed from a transportation hub into a green ecological landmark.
More interestingly, the pool in the center of the small botanical garden once housed many abandoned pet turtles. They were centrally placed here, forming a symbiotic space with the surrounding plants. In 2018, due to the rapid increase in the number of pet turtles, they were transferred to professional conservation organizations, leaving a memory: a railway station can not only accommodate plants, but also carry the beautiful vision of harmonious coexistence between humans and animals and plants.
Visiting the botanical garden of Atocha Railway Station does not require a ticket, and there is no fixed route. For most people, it is just a "passing" during waiting or transferring. This natural contact makes "nature" not a destination that requires a long journey to reach, but daily life itself.
When the humid mist of Atocha Railway Station permeates the steel and iron bones of the station's dome, the small botanical garden provides a shade and a touch of green for busy people. For a highly urbanized contemporary society, introducing ecological spaces into transportation hubs is also a new idea for sustainable development: people do not have to make a special trip to nature, nature is on the daily commute. Whether it is ecological protection or returning to nature, it can be integrated into urban life in a more leisurely way.
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How far is Germany from China?
On the map, Beijing (北京) and Berlin (柏林) are located at the eastern and western ends of the Eurasian continent, about 7,500 kilometers apart. However, in the eyes of German journalist Frank Sieren, who has been stationed in China for over three decades, China and Germany are like close neighbors, with many exchanges and mutual learning in institutional construction, social development, and technological progress.
As a well-known German "China expert," Sieren had in-depth discussions with former German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt about China 20 years ago, sharing his experiences and observations of working and living in China. He compiled the records of their conversations into a book titled "Neighboring China," which was published and caused a huge response in Germany. To this day, Sieren has published a series of books introducing China, interpreting the code of China's rise for German readers, and showcasing the vision of "Chinese intelligent manufacturing." In his book "Shenzhen: A Chinese Future" (see photo, data image), he uses a city as a guide to slowly unfold the colorful picture of Chinese-style modernization.
Why Shenzhen? Sieren, who has written for the German business newspaper *Handelsblatt* for many years, defines this "super city" as a "textbook classic case of China's rise" at the beginning of the book. From the establishment of the Special Economic Zone in 1980 to 2024, Shenzhen's regional GDP has increased by an average of nearly 20% annually, achieving a leapfrog development that has amazed the world. What impressed Sieren most was Shenzhen's forward-looking open mindset and the clever integration of innovative technology and daily life.
In the high-rise buildings of the Shenzhen Bay Super Headquarters Base, Sieren saw that the concept of green has become the "foundation" of future cities: the buildings make full use of light and humidity to reduce energy consumption, and connect buildings, seawater, and green spaces with public squares, so that high-rise buildings and livability are no longer opposed. In the scattered cultural spaces, he explored the vibrant and creative youthful rhythm: whether it is designers, musicians, or artists, they can find a moment of inspiration in this young city, and enjoy the joy of life in addition to selfless hard work. In the rapid development of new energy vehicles, he found that innovation has become the core driving force of development: intelligent driving empowers vehicle-road interconnection, creating safer road traffic, and constantly iterating battery and energy replenishment technologies are constantly promoting the fundamental transformation of travel methods. In the cross-cultural and cross-linguistic interaction with robots, he praised the great potential of artificial intelligence: drones assist in agricultural production and public health, robots assist in diagnosing diseases, speech recognition makes work more convenient, and human-machine collaboration is shaping a new digital era.
The most striking part of the book is undoubtedly his exchanges with communication and technology companies. Sieren clearly sees the huge impact that geopolitical games under the century of change can have on a company and a city. But being in Shenzhen, this "innovation port," he also realizes that China has never lost its desire for innovation and is always ready to climb the next Mount Everest of technology. Sieren wrote that China has realized the transformation from "world factory" to "world market," and is now striding towards "world innovation field," precisely because China regards innovation as an achievement and gives positive meaning to change, so that today's technological progress is no longer a one-way street from west to east. China has long been a powerful engine for world economic growth. He therefore lamented that Germany has no other way but to "study innovative cities like Shenzhen more deeply."
This objective, comprehensive, and profound perspective makes Sieren's works not only sell well in Germany, but also benefits me a lot. In the process of translating this book, I have communicated with Sieren many times, not only discussing words, but also sharing my understanding of China and Germany. We have jointly discovered that, taking Shenzhen as an example, this city clearly presents the internal texture of China's development: innovation-driven force. This driving force not only comes from the mirror of China's modern history of the past century, but also from the Chinese people's spirit of seizing every minute and second on the road to rejuvenation: on the road to catching up, not a minute or a second can be wasted.
At the beginning of this year, I led students to visit Berlin (柏林), and the biggest feeling was the stillness of time in Germany. Compared with Shenzhen, Berlin (柏林) has hardly changed, and even the location of the shelves in the supermarket is the same as before. This "unchanged" reflects the characteristics of German society to a certain extent, but the difference in the speed of social development between China and Germany has also led many German friends to misunderstand China. Fortunately, more and more Germans like Sieren are coming to China, feeling China, understanding China, and realizing that "China speed" is not only the spillover of demographic dividend, but also the inevitable result of innovation-led.
The original German title of Sieren's book was "Future Made in China," and he hoped to express that the future of the world will be shaped by China. After several discussions with the publisher, we decided to title it "Chinese-style Future." This is because Sieren uses his insights to tell readers that the Chinese-style future is an open and innovative future, and also a win-win future of cooperation. Facing the century of change, China and Germany need to work together to seize the fleeting opportunities of the times.
Interestingly, it is precisely the cherishing of time that once again connects Chinese and German cultures across mountains and seas. In February this year, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (默茨) visited China for the first time. When visiting the Forbidden City (故宫), he quoted the famous work "Confucius's Proverb" by the German poet Friedrich Schiller, expressing his respect for traditional Chinese culture: "Time has three paces: the future comes slowly, the present flies like an arrow, and the past always stands still." This cannot help but remind me of "逝者如斯夫，不舍昼夜" 逝者如斯夫 (shì zhě rú sī fū - "passing away like this," Time passes like flowing water, ceaselessly day and night) in the *Analects of Confucius*. However, perhaps the past is still in the distance, but Chinese-style modernization with innovation as its foundation has brought the future closer to life. As Sieren's Chinese readers, we will be proud of our country's achievements and devote ourselves to the new journey with a sense of mission that waits for no one.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Foreign Languages, Peking University (北京大学))
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By: 晓 林
How can we perceive the new look of rural customs? The wave of youth returning to and entering the countryside is a good perspective.
First, let's look at a "new farmer." In Zhujiaping Village (朱家坪村), Yishui County (沂水县), Shandong (山东), Zhang Xin (张欣), a post-85s youth who returned to his hometown, shot short videos with the elderly in the village, which became popular on the Internet, enriching the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers and leading the village to develop rural e-commerce and live streaming, leading the villagers on the road to prosperity.
Then, let's look at a "internet-famous village." Tangkouxu Community (塘口墟社区) in Kaiping (开平), Guangdong (广东), through the practical path of "cultural empowerment - talent return - spatial integration - governance innovation," stimulated the "two-way rush" between youth and the countryside, and developed from a "hollow village" with only 9 households to an maker community gathering more than 2,000 people, forming a new ecology of civilized rural customs.
The "sparks" of the collision between youth and the countryside contain the logic of development and show a new look of rural civilization. Rural revitalization requires both shaping and casting the soul. More and more young people are returning to and entering the countryside, and young people are showing their talents in the village. The new trend of civilization is taking root in this youth practice, and the tremendous changes in the mountain villages are also writing vivid notes.
Rural customs and folk customs are "new," and changes come from the "radical transformation" of concepts.
Some time ago, the topic of "post-95s rectifying the countryside" became popular.整治环境、彩绘村庄、发展产业 (Zhěngzhì huánjìng, cǎihuì cūnzhuāng, fāzhǎn chǎnyè - Rectifying the environment, painting villages, and developing industries), Zhang Guifang (张桂芳), born in 1997, returned to Sanjia Village (三家村) in Hebi (鹤壁), Henan (河南) after graduating from university to serve as the Party branch secretary and began to "revamp" the countryside. At first, many villagers did not understand, Zhang Guifang worked from house to house, gradually changing the villagers' ideas. Now, elderly meal assistance, elderly classrooms and other projects have been implemented one after another, and the rural atmosphere has been renewed.
Such a new atmosphere is constantly emerging. "New farmers" come to the countryside and rely on technology to grow "high-yield fields," which makes the village's farming "old hands" admire and learn from; young people in the village take the initiative to propose "zero dowry" for marriage, the dowry becomes thinner, and happiness becomes thicker... Young people who return to and enter the countryside not only bring new technologies and new ideas, but also drive the villagers to renew and upgrade their concepts through their own practice. It is necessary to give full play to the important role of young people returning to and entering the countryside in changing customs and habits and rural governance, and promote the renewal of villagers' concepts through various forms, and promote the vigorous blowing of civilized rural customs in the vast fields.
Rural practice seeks "progress," and development comes from the "cross-border breaking circle" of industry.
Rural cafes, rural concerts, handmade art galleries... With more and more young people returning to and entering the countryside, various new rural industries and new business forms are booming, promoting the deep integration and development of the primary, secondary and tertiary industries in rural areas. By the end of 2025, the cumulative number of various types of return-to-hometown entrepreneurs across the country will exceed 15.1 million. A large number of young people are showing their talents in the vast fields, and some people sigh that the countryside defined by young people has unlimited possibilities.
For the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, industrial prosperity is the foundation. Farmers' money bags are getting more and more bulging, from cultural squares to farm bookstores, from rural Spring Festivals to farmers' painting exhibitions, the "real money" brought by industrial prosperity is being transformed into fertile soil that nourishes rural civilization. However, it should also be seen that there are still phenomena such as "pockets are bulging, but heads are not rich" in some areas, and the benign interaction between rural industrial development and rural civilization construction needs to be further strengthened. Seize the important variable of young people in rural development, guide more young people to return to and enter the countryside, plan rural industrial development and rural civilization construction as a whole, and promote them in coordination, so that industrial development and rural civilization resonate at the same frequency.
The local cultural context is "colorful," and the vitality comes from the "re-emergence of new branches" of old trees.
In Shen'ao Village (深澳村), Tonglu County (桐庐县), Zhejiang (浙江), Dong Shi (董莳), a young teacher at the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院), transformed into a cultural commissioner and led teachers and students to visit and investigate folk customs and local culture, actively held various cultural and artistic activities, and inherited local culture and promoted rural development in the way of "culture + space + industry." In Zhejiang (浙江), the cultural commissioner system innovatively implemented in 2024 has attracted a large number of young people to take root in the countryside, nourish the local cultural context, activate the sleeping mountains and rivers, and let civilized rural customs shine with new brilliance in the continuation of the local cultural context.
Intangible cultural heritage skills, folk culture, local architecture, village rules and regulations, these cultural elements that carry strong rural memories, are rejuvenated in the innovative expression of young people, rural culture is integrated into the daily life of villagers in a more vivid way, and the change of customs and habits is gradually promoted in a subtle way. The younger generation should play the role of a new force, be a good guardian and disseminator of local culture and memory, promote the living inheritance of local culture, and continuously cultivate civilized rural customs.
New youth, new countryside, new rural customs. The countryside is vast and agriculture has a lot to offer. We look forward to more and more young people taking root in the fields of hope, starting businesses and promoting new trends, and injecting more vigorous youthful power into the revitalization of rural civilization.
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The spring sunshine is warm, and the crayfish restaurants in Kejie, Xuyi County (盱眙县), Jiangsu Province are bustling with activity. "Being able to eat fresh crayfish in this season, the 'off-season freshness' doesn't compromise on taste, making it worth the trip!" said tourist Zhang Cheng (张成) as he peeled open another bright red and plump crayfish.
Where do these fresh crayfish come from? More than 2,000 kilometers to the south, in Sanjiang Town (三江镇), Meilan District (美兰区), Haikou City (海口市), Hainan Province. Early in the morning, Ling Chen (凌晨), project manager of the Sinomach Hainan Development Co., Ltd. (国机海南发展有限公司) rice-fish integrated farming project, waded into the shrimp fields and bent down to pull up a ground cage net. A net of crayfish jumped and crackled. "Every day, hundreds of kilograms of crayfish are sent from here to Xuyi (盱眙) by 'air freight'."
From "summer limited" to "four seasons of freshness," the secret lies in Xuyi crayfish's new practice of "north-south collaboration and staggered supply." In November 2025, the first batch of 600,000 shrimp seedlings was sent from Xuyi (盱眙) to Hainan (海南). Today, the overwintering and abundant harvest of crayfish has become a "hot commodity" in the market, and has grown into a large industry driving local people to increase their income and become rich, bursting with the vigorous vitality of coordinated development, industrial collaboration, and complementary advantages.
Good breeds open up new paths—
"Xuyi No. 1" breaks the局 (jú - "situation," breaking the situation in South China)
Xuyi County (盱眙县) has the reputation of "China's Crayfish Capital," but behind this golden brand, there is a "seasonal pain" – in winter, the local high-quality fresh shrimp market is almost blank.
"Crayfish are afraid of the cold, and winter shrimp farming is full of difficulties." Pi Jian (皮健), staff member of the Jiangsu Xuyi Crayfish Whole Industry Chain Standardization Demonstration Base (江苏省盱眙龙虾全产业链标准化示范基地), said that the suitable temperature for crayfish farming is above 20 degrees Celsius. The time for large-scale crayfish farming in the local area is concentrated from March to August. Entering September, the rice fields must be "dried up." Without the rice-shrimp co-cultivation water surface, crayfish can only be raised in lakes and ponds. In the cold winter months, there is a lack of natural conditions for crayfish breeding.
However, there are still many consumers who want to eat crayfish in winter. In the past, what was used to meet market demand?
"There are two ways. One is to eat quick-frozen crayfish, but the taste is a bit worse; the other is greenhouse farming, but the quantity is small and the cost is high, which cannot effectively meet the demand, and to a certain extent affects the competitiveness of the industry," said Guo Yong (郭勇), manager of Xuyi Yushi Crayfish Catering Service Chain Co., Ltd. (盱眙於氏龙虾餐饮服务连锁有限公司).
Can we help the shrimp "migrate" to warmer places for the winter? The idea has been around for many years, but the practice is full of difficulties.
"Conventional shrimp seedlings are delicate and sensitive to temperature. Even a few degrees Celsius difference in temperature will cause stress reactions. If the transportation radius exceeds 400 kilometers, the mortality rate will soar due to 'acclimatization'," said Pi Jian (皮健).
Variety innovation has become the breakthrough point. In 2024, the new crayfish variety "Xuyi No. 1" was successfully cultivated. This new variety, which was selected and bred by the Jiangsu Freshwater Fisheries Research Institute (江苏省淡水水产研究所) and Xuyi Crayfish Industry Group (盱眙龙虾产业集团) for 12 years and 6 generations, has the advantages of fast growth and high meat content. The harvest weight after 50 days of farming is more than 18% higher than that of conventional seedlings.
The "golden key" opens up new development space. "Complete independent intellectual property rights and broad industrial prospects can drive farmers to increase their income, which is the key for us to talk about cooperation and expand the market," said Pi Jian (皮健). Last year, the Xuyi (盱眙) government-enterprise joint inspection team went to many places to find a "new home" for crayfish, repeatedly comparing water quality, climate, and logistics, and finally locked in Hainan (海南) – the local winter climate is suitable for crayfish growth, and shrimp seedlings can grow big and strong in winter.
How to solve the transportation problem? "Large seedlings are prone to acclimatization, while small seedlings have better adaptability, so we sent the newly born small seedlings to try," said Yuan Xiaochun (袁孝春), deputy general manager of Xuyi Crayfish Industry Group (盱眙龙虾产业集团).
Yuan Xiaochun (袁孝春) introduced that the transportation team conducted dozens of simulation tests, from seedling density to oxygen content to water ratio... every parameter was repeatedly verified, and finally a special packaging method and transportation plan were customized to control the survival rate of long-distance transportation of crayfish above 95%.
On November 17 last year, the first batch of 600,000 "water flower seedlings" (newly hatched shrimp seedlings in the earliest stage of growth) were ready to go, about to set off to the Sinomach Hainan (国机海南) breeding base. At that time, a cold wave suddenly struck, and the temperature dropped to below zero. In order to ensure that this batch of shrimp seedlings boarded the plane in the best condition, production and packaging must race against time.
"From 2 a.m. to 7 a.m., the base staff worked continuously for 5 hours in the open air. The wind was like a knife on their faces, and their hands were frozen, so they stretched them into warm water, rubbed them warm, and continued to work," Pi Jian (皮健) recalled. It was not until the last box was sealed and sent to the cold chain truck that everyone had time to stomp their numb feet.
"This is a new starting point," said Pi Jian (皮健). "In the past, we could only raise them in greenhouses, but now we can venture out in all directions – as long as the plane can reach, our seedlings can survive and thrive."
Rooted in cultivating high-quality products—
Rice-shrimp rotation lands and generates gold
How should fresh shrimp seedlings that cross more than 2,000 kilometers and settle in tropical farmland be raised? There is no ready-made textbook.
The first hurdle is hidden in the water. The water quality in Hainan (海南) is soft, and the content of calcium and magnesium ions is low, and the minerals needed for crayfish molting are inherently insufficient. Before the water problem was solved, uninvited guests appeared in the fields. The climate in Hainan (海南) is hot, and many crayfish predators that are rare in Jiangsu (江苏) shrimp ponds are frequent visitors in tropical fields.
"The most difficult thing is the lack of manpower. There are almost no mature crayfish industrial workers in Hainan (海南). Local farmers have to learn the basics of shrimp picking and sorting from scratch," Ling Chen (凌晨) admitted, "We can't copy the Xuyi (盱眙) model, we must adapt to local conditions and take a Hainan (海南) localized path."
In order to solve these problems, Sinomach Hainan (国机海南) started with field engineering transformation, and jointly carried out standardized rice-fish integrated farming with scientific research institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院). At the same time, it deepened cooperation with local governments, scientific research institutes, and leading enterprises to focus on solving the problems of industrial development. To solve the water quality problem, the team invited experts from the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院) to be stationed on site, repeatedly testing probiotics and chlorella, and adding mineral sources to the water, and stubbornly "broke" the indicators to a suitable range; to solve the pest problem, the team invited experts to provide technical guidance and learn from peers, and slowly had targeted solutions.
Sinomach Hainan (国机海南) transferred hundreds of acres of farmland in Sanjiang Town (三江镇) to build a rice base. When transferring the land, some villagers muttered, will raising animals in the farmland affect farming? Ling Chen (凌晨) patiently explained: what we are doing is rice-shrimp rotation. After catching the crayfish before Qingming, we will transplant rice seedlings. The field is still the same field, and the grain has not been reduced. Crayfish can also help with weeding and "fertilizing," but the comprehensive benefits are higher. When the truth was put on the table, the doubts gradually dissipated.
On February 10 this year, the first net of crayfish was caught and put on the market. Big shrimp go first, and small shrimp stay in the pond – crayfish have territorial awareness, and big ones occupy the water plants and territory, and small ones nest and do not grow; after the big shrimp are caught, the remaining ones grow up quickly. The entire fishing season lasts until around Qingming.
The hundred acres of rice fields in Sanjiang Town (三江镇) are sparkling, and crayfish with bright colors and lively jumps are caught. "Shrimp seedlings were released in November last year, and fishing started in February this year. The 'overwintering' crayfish are growing well, and the current yield per mu is more than 200 jin," said Ling Chen (凌晨). "In the past, most of the land here was low-yield land. After the implementation of the rice-fish integrated farming model, one water was used for two purposes, and grain and fish were win-win, which improved the utilization rate of land."
"In the past, I could only go out to work, but now I have work to do at my doorstep, and I have also learned real skills." Yang Chengwen (杨成文), a villager who is busy loading shrimp, has a deep feeling. Learning from technical experts while working, he has mastered many rice-fish integrated farming techniques and has become an "old hand" at shrimp farming. This model not only revitalized idle land, but also created employment opportunities such as breeding, sorting, and packaging for surrounding villagers, and promoted villagers to increase their income and become rich.
"This year, we plan to continue to expand the scale of the breeding base, promote the localization of crayfish seedlings, and at the same time realize the standardization and standardization of breeding technology, and further improve breeding efficiency," said Ling Chen (凌晨). The company is also actively connecting with scientific research institutes to build a science and technology courtyard, one for research and development, and the other for running field classrooms, to build a whole-chain industrial system of seedlings, socialized services, processing, and sales, and promote the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside with industrial revitalization.
After a while, the green rice seedlings will replace the crayfish and continue the agricultural rotation of this tropical paddy field.
Dancing together on the chain—
Win-win for the two places' industries "hand in hand"
Behind the "crayfish migration" across thousands of miles is the precise relay and synchronous resonance of the industrial chains in the two places, creating a new path for high-quality agricultural development.
On February 10, the first batch of "Xuyi No. 1" crayfish grown in Hainan (海南) arrived at Nanjing Lukou International Airport (南京禄口国际机场).
As soon as they got off the plane, the crayfish were transported to a cold chain truck and arrived in Xuyi County (盱眙县) in the early morning. At the crayfish supply chain center in Kejie (尅街), the automatic sorting line is accelerating its operation – every returning crayfish must undergo strict screening, cleaning, and weighing.
"Crayfish 'southward migration' has opened a new track for the industry. Since the beginning of this year, a total of about 30,000 jin and 450,000 crayfish have come to Xuyi (盱眙) from Hainan (海南). Now, it has become a reality to stably supply high-quality fresh shrimp in winter," said Zhu Chunming (朱春名), general manager of Xuyi Crayfish Industry Group (盱眙龙虾产业集团) Fisheries Company.
In Xuyi (盱眙), leading catering companies have tasted the sweetness of "overwintering shrimp." "Fresh crayfish are very popular, and they are often divided up by various stores as soon as they are transported back," Guo Yong (郭勇) introduced. About 400 jin of fresh shrimp with a specification of more than 8 yuan are delivered to the store every day. During the Spring Festival holiday this year, the store's dine-in turnover increased by 5%, and the sales of e-commerce platforms increased by 15%.
What is the price of crayfish that have "taken a plane"? "Although there is more freight, the price will not be higher than that of local greenhouse-raised crayfish. Compared with previous years, the price of finished shrimp has dropped by about 5%," said Guo Yong (郭勇).
Shrimp farmers are getting more and more enthusiastic. Li Xuecheng (李学成), a large Xuyi (盱眙) breeding farmer who has been engaged in rice-shrimp farming for 8 years, is particularly busy this year. In the crayfish breeding base he participated in building, traditional earthen ponds are no longer visible, and replaced by a modern factory. Parent reproduction, temporary rearing of berried shrimp, and "water flower seedling" hatching... The workshops with different functions are clearly divided, and the constant temperature and humidity system runs around the clock.
"In the past, shrimp farming depended on the weather, but now we have built a standardized factory to provide healthy seedlings to Hainan (海南)," Li Xuecheng (李学成) introduced. In April, Xuyi (盱眙) will enter the large-scale breeding season for crayfish, and the preparation work must be completed before the end of March – the equipment must be checked and the water quality must be controlled. "Once the order comes, we will release the 'Xuyi No. 1' berried shrimp, and the time and quantity of 'water flower seedling' breeding are under control."
Industrial collaboration continues to deepen. "In the next step, we plan to increase cooperation with Xuyi Crayfish Industry Group (盱眙龙虾产业集团) in terms of seedling introduction and finished product repurchase, jointly create a Hainan (海南) winter fresh crayfish brand, actively explore new markets, and allow more villagers to share the dividends of industrial development," said Ling Chen (凌晨).
Some crayfish "return home," and some travel overseas. On March 18, after being inspected and quarantined by Huai'an Customs (淮安海关), which is under the Nanjing Customs (南京海关), a batch of 1,700 kilograms of cooked crayfish from Xuyi (盱眙) was shipped from Shanghai Port (上海港) and will be shipped to Canada by sea. This is the first export of Xuyi (盱眙) crayfish this year. At present, by optimizing the export structure and improving cross-border cold chains, Xuyi (盱眙) crayfish has been exported to more than 20 countries.
According to statistics, the total output value of the Xuyi (盱眙) crayfish industry has exceeded 40 billion yuan, driving 1/6 of the county's population to employment and income increase. 32.5% of the income of rural residents in Xuyi (盱眙) comes from crayfish. "Next, we will deepen the three-level expansion system of 'core population breeding base + designated seedling farm + new variety breeding point' and continue to expand the industrial scale. It is estimated that by 2030, the new variety seedling breeding base will exceed 200,000 mu, and the annual production capacity of 'water flower seedlings' will exceed 500 million," said Yuan Xiaochun (袁孝春).
One shrimp, two places to travel. From scientific breeding to off-season farming, from market sales to brand building, on the deeply integrated industrial chain of Xuyi County (盱眙县) and Meilan District (美兰区), crayfish "swim" deeper, and the high-quality development of the industry is deeply promoted, writing a vivid footnote for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
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A duck egg still covered in fresh soil is sent to the workshop by a weight sensing system that is subdivided into 8 levels after being cleaned by high-pressure spray and dried by hot air; the spiral mud feeding device allows the duck egg to be coated with mud in 360 degrees through rolling; in the constant temperature pickling process, online optical inspection and vacuum packaging equipment are fully automated...
This production line of Jiangxi Shengyou Agricultural Development Co., Ltd. (江西省胜邮农业开发有限公司) is located in the ancient village of Sedan Village (穑诞村), Renhe Town (人和镇), Yushui District (渝水区), Xinyu (新余), Jiangxi Province (江西省). According to reports, Shengyou's core production machinery links have achieved intelligent control, and it can produce 300,000 to 400,000 high-quality salted duck eggs and preserved eggs per day.
"These modern production equipment 'grew' out of the site of abandoned earthen kilns," said He Wuya (何伍芽), the village party secretary, with emotion.
"穑 (sè)" means harvest, and "诞 (dàn)" implies reproduction. This ancient village has a history of nearly a thousand years, but the transportation disadvantage of being located in the hinterland of Mengshan Mountain (蒙山) has once plunged this ancient village into poverty.
"Garbage relies on the wind, sewage relies on evaporation, a room, four walls, two benches supporting a bed... this is an indelible memory of generations of Sedan people," said He Wuya (何伍芽). "With the full launch of the battle against poverty, Sedan Village (穑诞村) has embarked on a path of industrial transformation. Today, the village has become a demonstration village for rural revitalization in Jiangxi Province (江西省) with 10 characteristic industries and a per capita net income of 33,000 yuan for villagers."
How to get rid of poverty? The first trick is to optimize infrastructure and pave the way for industrial "restructuring."
Xinyu City (新余市) promoted the "demolition of three houses and construction of three parks." Sedan Village (穑诞村) has access to tap water and natural gas, and the yellow mud road has been upgraded to an asphalt road; breaking the old mindset of "relying on the mountain to eat the mountain," He Wuya (何伍芽) took the lead in shutting down his own lime factory; the development of new industries requires land, and the vacant land of the old earthen kiln site that was shut down and rectified due to failure to meet environmental protection standards has become a breakthrough for industrial development...
"Build a nest to attract phoenixes," and encourage wanderers to return home to start businesses. In 2023, He Naigen (何耐根) returned to his hometown with the title and technology of "Duck King." Rebuilding the industry on the site of the abandoned earthen kiln, He Naigen's (何耐根) entrepreneurial path was not smooth sailing. The "first blow" was the villagers' doubts.
"He was a 'Duck King' outside, and now he's back, is he trying to 跑马圈地 (pǎo mǎ quān dì - "gallop horses to stake out territory," to grab land or resources for oneself) and make a quick buck and leave?" Wu Dainv (吴带女), a villager, muttered under the old tree at the entrance of the village, "Building such a big factory, who will be responsible if the sewage pollutes our pond?"
In order to dispel the villagers' doubts, He Wuya (何伍芽) launched a villager council platform. "We have repeatedly explained the company's plans, environmental protection measures, and the employment opportunities it brings to the villagers," said He Wuya (何伍芽). With sincere communication, more and more villagers supported it.
Funding is a bigger problem. The village committee actively strived for financial connection funds to get the factory up and running. In the early stage of returning home to start a business, the company was still small, and He Naigen (何耐根) faced the risk of a broken capital chain in the process of developing "spotless Songhua preserved eggs."
The local employment center accurately pushed the "entrepreneurial guarantee loan" policy. The bank optimized the approval process, and a loan of 3 million yuan was allocated within 7 working days to ensure the smooth production of the company's new product line. Today, the "Shengyou" brand has been selected into the provincial regional public brand "Ganpo Genuine Products" (赣鄱正品).
A small duck egg "hatched" a new look of common prosperity in Sedan Village (穑诞村). Through the "leading enterprise + cooperative + village collective + poverty-stricken households" model, the company has absorbed more than 80 villagers and poverty-stricken households to achieve employment at their doorstep, and increases the village collective income by more than 460,000 yuan per year.
Wu Dainv (吴带女), who was skeptical at the entrance of the village, became the director of the workshop, grading and inspecting the quality of duck eggs. Her skills have become superb, and her monthly salary is more than 4,000 yuan. She couldn't help but sigh: "I was 'short-sighted' at the beginning. This factory is办得‘恰噶’ (bàn de 'qià gá' - "run very well," local dialect for running well and effectively), and our villagers have really benefited."
Not only the duck egg industry, but under the "returning geese" effect, more and more ambitious young people are returning to their hometowns to start businesses. Sedan Village (穑诞村) has successively built ten characteristic industrial bases such as vegetables, fruits, tea, and aquaculture, and the village's collective economic income has jumped to 960,000 yuan in 2025.
Relying on science and technology to revitalize agriculture, the ancient village is still undergoing continuous transformation. Last year, Shengyou Company (胜邮公司) was recognized as a national-level technology-based small and medium-sized enterprise, and also successfully applied for a provincial-level science and technology courtyard. He Naigen (何耐根) said: "With the science and technology courtyard, we will use the scientific research advantages of universities to overcome the technical problems of egg product processing and improve product quality and added value. Next, we will enrich product categories and drive more villagers to increase their income and become rich."
Today's Sedan Village (穑诞村), vehicles shuttle on asphalt roads, the former abandoned land has been transformed into a vibrant characteristic industrial base, and the dilapidated village has long been renewed into a beautiful village suitable for living and working. This ancient village, more than 900 years old, has injected vitality, revitalized resources, and made life more prosperous with modern industries.
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There has never been a one-size-fits-all standard answer for elderly care. Differences in health status, lifestyle habits, and family environment determine that services must be tailored. In the future, we must adhere to on-demand supply and promote the extension of nursing services towards diversification and personalization.
In Jiangyin City (江阴市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), since the pilot work of the "Silver Age Card" for home-based elderly care assistance services was launched, Grandpa Xue (薛大爷) can independently "order" elderly care services through multiple channels, such as hairdressing, cleaning range hoods, and rehabilitation training, all of which can be booked with one click. In Haikou City (海口市), Hainan Province (海南省), an 86-year-old Zhang Xiangyu (张祥玉) has a sleep monitor hanging at the end of his bed. Once the system detects abnormal breathing or pulse in the elderly, it will immediately issue a warning message. Since the beginning of this year, some vivid scenes have outlined a new look for elderly care services.
What are the changes? Not limited to traditional medical care, today's elderly care services are upgrading towards diversification, personalization, and high quality, responding to the livelihood expectations of millions of families with professionalism and warmth.
From the perspective of demand, by the end of 2025, the national elderly population aged 60 and above will be approximately 323 million, of which there is a huge number of elderly people, disabled and semi-disabled elderly people, and their care needs are very large. On the other hand, the demand for elderly care services also varies from person to person. For example, disabled elderly people need professional door-to-door care, elderly people living alone crave emotional companionship and life assistance, and healthy elderly people pursue spiritual pleasure and rich social interaction. A single care model cannot cover all needs.
From this perspective, there has never been a **一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," a one-size-fits-all approach) standard answer for elderly care. Differences in health status, lifestyle habits, and family environment determine that services must be tailored. In the future, we must adhere to on-demand supply and promote the extension of nursing services towards diversification and personalization. In December 2025, the "Action Plan for Enhancing Elderly Care Service Capacity" issued by the General Office of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委办公厅) proposed "expanding diversified models of elderly care services," increasing service supply through policy guidance, and actively enriching and innovating diversified elderly care service models, so that the elderly have more elderly care choices and a more convenient elderly care experience.
Expanding supply is a prerequisite. Only by making nursing resources "reachable and affordable" can we pave the way for diversified upgrades. At present, the nursing needs of the elderly in China continue to grow, but some regions still have problems such as uneven distribution of nursing resources, single supply, and high prices, making it difficult for many elderly people to "enjoy care when they want it." To solve this problem, on the one hand, it is necessary to revitalize existing medical and elderly care resources, promote nursing institutions to sink into communities and take root at the grassroots level, and increase embedded service stations, so that elderly people living at home can enjoy professional services without leaving their homes. On the other hand, it is necessary to encourage social forces to actively participate, cultivate chain and standardized nursing service entities, and at the same time rely on the long-term care insurance system to reduce the nursing burden of the elderly, so that high-quality services can truly benefit more families.
Actively connecting with the needs of the elderly is the key. To tailor elderly care services, it is necessary to accurately identify the urgent needs and concerns of the elderly. It is necessary to conduct in-depth demand research in communities and families, accurately identify the differentiated needs of different elderly groups such as disabled and semi-disabled, elderly people living alone, and people with cognitive impairment, and shift from "passive response" to "active discovery." Relying on smart platforms to integrate service resources, promote the coordinated supply of home-based, community-based, and institutional elderly care, so that professional care is accessible, perceptible, and affordable. The customized transformation of family elderly care beds in Jiangjin District (江津区), Chongqing (重庆), and the cloud-based nursing home on-demand service in Yongchang County (永昌县), Gansu (甘肃)... The reason why these local explorations are recognized is that they accurately connect with needs and allow diversified services to truly enter the hearts of the elderly.
It should also be noted that professional empowerment and humanistic care are the dual support for the quality improvement and upgrading of elderly care services. Elderly care requires both professionalism and warmth. Professionalism is the bottom line of service. Without strong skills support, no matter how diverse the model is, it is difficult to gain a foothold, and humanistic care is the soul of elderly care. At present, the long-term care worker training program promoted by China has taken a new step in the construction of a socialized long-term care security system. In the future, it is also necessary to continuously strengthen the construction of the workforce, improve the professional quality of medical staff and caregivers through systematic training, school-enterprise cooperation, and other methods, standardize service processes, and make the entire process of nursing services safe, controllable, efficient, and convenient.
In short, accurate service matches elderly care needs. Diversified elderly care services are not only a necessity of life, but also to make elderly life more quality and dignified. May every elderly person enjoy a happy old age in diversified, professional, and warm nursing services.
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In recent days, the "Opinions on Accelerating the Establishment of a Long-Term Care Insurance System" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions") was issued. The "Opinions" clarified that it will take about three years to basically establish a long-term care insurance system that adapts to China's basic national conditions.
In 2016, the state launched a pilot long-term care insurance system. In 2020, the pilot work was steadily and orderly expanded to 49 cities, and then to 92 cities by the end of 2025. The exploration of the pilot cities has provided valuable experience for promotion throughout the country.
Can the resources of long-term care insurance service institutions meet the demand? What about their capabilities? What is the quality of service? The reporter went to the pilot cities of Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) and Nantong (南通), Jiangsu (江苏) to investigate and find answers.
Scientific allocation of resources to promote the matching of the number and scale of institutions with demand
Walking into a three-person ward in the Weipude Fu Medical and Elderly Care Service Center in Longshan Street (龙山街道), Jimo District (即墨区), Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东), the room was warm, clean, and free of any odor. Aunt Chi (迟阿姨), who was bedridden due to disability, chatted with the reporter.
"When I was at home, my 40-year-old son took care of me. He had to go to work, and sometimes I couldn't even get a hot meal at noon," Aunt Chi (迟阿姨) told reporters that because she was too fat, she used to have to find several people to help her with bathing, moving, and so on. Last May, she moved into this medical and elderly care center, where she has dedicated staff to assist her with daily activities, bathing, meals, and other daily life. "This is great!" the cheerful Aunt Chi (迟阿姨) gave a thumbs up.
While she was talking, Aunt Yu (于大妈) on the next bed, who was on a ventilator, suddenly had difficulty breathing. "She's got phlegm!" The caregiver next to the bed called for help with one click, and the attending doctor, Xin Kaiqing (信凯庆), quickly rushed over and worked with the nurse to complete the sputum suction, and the old woman's condition immediately stabilized. Aunt Yu's (于大妈) daughter, Ms. Song (宋女士), who was visiting, also breathed a sigh of relief.
After her mother was discharged from the hospital due to a brainstem hemorrhage, she had been on a ventilator, and the family was unable to provide home care in such a situation. Ms. Song (宋女士) said that there are doctors, nurses, and long-term caregivers here, who can not only receive care, but also calmly deal with situations like phlegm. "The key is that it's not far from home, and I can come and see her almost every day."
The implementation of long-term care insurance benefits is fundamental to institutions being able to provide corresponding services. But can the number and capacity of such institutions match the demand, and can disabled families enjoy services nearby? Finding a suitable institution to enjoy long-term care insurance benefits is the luck of Aunt Chi (迟阿姨) and Aunt Yu (于大妈), or is it common?
"At the beginning of the pilot, we also faced these problems," Ji Enqing (纪恩卿), then director of the Benefit Security Department of the Qingdao (青岛) Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, told reporters that Qingdao (青岛) has been exploring experience and issued a three-year allocation plan for designated nursing service resources in 2023. Through total volume control and optimized allocation, it guides high-quality care institutions to extend to resource-poor areas. In January of this year, the plan was "updated." In order to adapt to the trend of increasing institutional care needs year by year against the background of aging and declining birthrates, it is very necessary to plan the layout of designated long-term care insurance service institutions moderately in advance.
With a compact urban service radius, it is relatively easy to find suitable institutions. How can disabled people in rural areas enjoy institutional services?
In Laixi (莱西), Shandong (山东), Wan Lin (万林), a long-term caregiver from Home, drives the company's electric car to visit rural areas every day, covering remote villages. In order to solve the problem of the shortage of medical and nursing talents in rural areas, the company actively tilts resources towards rural areas and has also established a rural care pilot in Laixi (莱西) to truly restore localized care scenarios such as nursing on the kang (traditional Chinese platform bed). Ji Enqing (纪恩卿) said that at present, there are more than 880 long-term care insurance designated institutions in Qingdao (青岛), of which nursing institutions in rural areas account for 44% of the total number of institutions in the city.
Li Hongjian (李红建), director of the Benefit Security Department of the Nantong (南通) Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, introduced that each township in Nantong (南通) will set up 3 to 4 home service institutions, and build a home-based grid "one-stop" service system by reducing the service radius.
Seeing that long-term care insurance payments are timely, many institutions want to squeeze in. The market is so big, how to grasp the scale of "check and balance" and "incentive"?
In the Nantong (南通) Municipal Long-term Care Insurance Service Center, staff are closely monitoring the screen, and work orders are updated in real time. According to the rules, on the basis of average order distribution in sequence, the staff links the order distribution with the institution's integrity level, allowing designated institutions to increase work orders within the limit, effectively preventing market monopoly or disorderly increase and vicious competition among institutions.
Li Hongjian (李红建) said that in addition to establishing a service work order management mechanism, Nantong (南通) also implements classified designated management for institutions. One institution is planned to be set up for every 50,000 people to reasonably control the number of designated institutions, and the county level is supplemented by township-centered layout planning; for bed service institutions such as nursing homes and elderly care homes with expandable market capacity and large investment, clear access conditions are defined, and "compliance is access" is implemented to support them in providing full-time nursing services. In the past 10 years, the number of service institutions supporting long-term care insurance has increased by more than 360.
Focus on talent training and promote the improvement of care capacity and level
In a farmhouse courtyard in Zhongjialan Haobu Village (钟家兰蒿埠村), Longquan Street (龙泉街道), Jimo District (即墨区), Qingdao (青岛), under the soft light in the bedroom, Li Dama (李大娘), a patient with a tracheotomy after a cerebral infarction, was lying quietly on the bed, looking good. The nurse who was on a routine visit skillfully maintained the catheter for her. Then, Cui Dajie (崔大姐), a long-term caregiver next to her, wiped and cleaned her, with skilled and gentle movements.
"For long-term care insurance participants with severe disabilities like this, we will equip them with an exclusive service team, including doctors, nurses, and long-term caregivers," Yang Yuxian (杨玉显), general manager of Qingdao (青岛) Weipu Elderly Care Industry Co., Ltd., told reporters that doctors and nurses regularly deliver medicines and conduct routine inspections, and Cui Dajie (崔大姐) provides Li Dama (李大娘) with nursing services three times a week for 100 minutes each time. Cui Dajie (崔大姐) is a senior caregiver, and only such qualifications can provide services to severely disabled people with tracheotomies.
Disabled people can enjoy benefits thanks to the support of professional personnel services. Different from ordinary elderly care workers, long-term care insurance caregivers have specific and more professional requirements. Therefore, in pilot cities, the work of cultivating professional teams has been continuing.
"In response to the uneven service quality of care service personnel and the mismatch between the service needs of participants and the service supply, Qingdao (青岛) was one of the first cities in the country to issue skill training documents and supporting construction documents for skill training, broaden the training channels for care service personnel, and gradually establish a skill improvement mechanism for care service practitioners," Ji Enqing (纪恩卿) said.
According to the long-term care designated institution agreement, all caregivers must hold certificates to work, which makes institutions pay more and more attention to team building. In the Qingdao (青岛) Weipude Fu, Fushan (福山), Wan Lin (万林) to Home, Zhongkang Yiyang (中康颐养), and Nantong (南通) Qidong Zhiliang Nursing Home (启东志良护理院) and other long-term care designated institutions that the reporter investigated, almost every institution has its own exclusive training system, and the leading institutions have also participated in the compilation of the national version of training materials.
Ji Bin (纪斌), president of the Qingdao (青岛) Long-term Care Association, introduced that Qingdao (青岛) has made great efforts in personnel training, relying on industry associations and chain nursing institutions to organize training for care personnel in various districts (cities). In recent years, the association has trained a total of 13,000 long-term care service practitioners, of which trainees in rural areas account for about 52%. At present, there are a total of 15,300 long-term care insurance service personnel registered in Qingdao (青岛), accounting for nearly half of the nursing staff, and have become the main force in the care service team.
In the Nantong (南通) Long-term Care Service Industrial Park, there are several special examination rooms. Nursing beds, wheelchairs, and various assistive devices are all available. Last April, the first batch of national long-term care worker vocational skill level identification on-site simulation operation examinations was completed here. Candidates provided corresponding services to a real "disabled person" on the spot according to the questions, and completed the practical "answer sheet."
In 2024, the General Office of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the General Office of the National Medical Insurance Bureau jointly issued the National Occupational Standard for Long-term Care Workers. According to the national occupational standard, long-term care workers need to comprehensively use basic life care and nursing knowledge and skills to provide comprehensive services covering basic life care and closely related medical care, function maintenance, and psychological care for people who enjoy long-term care insurance benefits and other groups in diverse service scenarios such as families, communities, elderly care institutions, and medical institutions.
The standardized development of the long-term care worker profession has laid a solid foundation for providing better services for long-term care insurance, and has also brought new employment opportunities to many people. Among the candidates who participated in the first long-term care worker examination, the oldest was 60 years old, the youngest was under 20 years old, the average age was 41 years old, and nearly 60% had a college degree or above, including many men.
Li Hongjian (李红建) told reporters that after years of unremitting efforts, Nantong (南通) has built a professional nursing service team of nearly 10,000 people, and about 8,000 "4050" people with employment difficulties have been re-employed. As of now, a total of 2,440 people have obtained long-term care worker certificates, and the long-term care profession has entered a new stage. The sense of professional honor and identity has been further enhanced, and the ability and level of nursing services have been significantly improved.
Do a good job of supervision throughout the entire chain to ensure that participants enjoy high-quality benefits
On the official website of the Nantong (南通) Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau, the identification of long-term care insurance disability levels is publicized almost every day. The list includes both 95-year-old elderly people and 16-year-old teenagers. Disability level identification, management of institutions, and supervision of the service process are important links to ensure that the limited funds of long-term care insurance are not lost and that disabled people enjoy high-quality benefits.
Each pilot city has its own working characteristics. In the Nantong (南通) Long-term Care Insurance Service Center, the reporter found that the system popped up a newly included disabled family in a nearby township applying for long-term care services, but the staff did not immediately dispatch the order. "In order to ensure the accuracy of the service, before the first service, we will ask professional personnel to visit the home to learn more about the participant's physical condition, family environment, and family needs, formulate a personalized service plan according to the care needs, and then match the service personnel," the center staff said. Within one month after the new customer receives the first service, the service center will also conduct on-site satisfaction return visits to ensure service matching and service quality.
With the support of mobile Internet, big data, the Internet of Things and other technologies, intelligent supervision systems specially developed for long-term care insurance in many pilot cities are playing an important role. On the first floor of the main building of the Zhongkang Yiyang Nursing Home (中康颐养护理院) in the West Coast New Area (西海岸新区) of Qingdao (青岛), after the staff logged into the long-term care insurance information system, the monitoring information of long-term care insurance service resources in the city was clear at a glance. The mobile nursing APP developed based on the system is used uniformly by nursing service personnel. The system relies on its powerful data analysis capabilities to build a strict monitoring network.
"From the disability level identification of disabled people to every link of the service, it cannot escape the system's 'sharp eyes'. The combination of electronic fences and biometric identification technology has also added a lock to the safety and standardization of the service process," said Tian Wei (田伟), director of the Maternity and Nursing Insurance Department of the Qingdao (青岛) Municipal Medical Insurance Center. Staff can effectively curb non-standard service behaviors and ensure service quality by combining random inspections with system data.
Supervision not only comes from the long-term care insurance management department, but also the long-term care insurance funds are the driving force for the survival and development of designated institutions, and institutions have taken service quality as the most important management element.
"You see, this shows the information of the work orders in service, and you can see the address, personnel information, and service start time," the person in charge of Nantong (南通) Fuli Health Care Company told reporters that they receive more than 10,000 orders every month, and in the past, the assessment of the service quality of these work orders required a lot of manpower. Now the company has developed the "Care Quality Management System Supervision Platform," which sets service rules according to different customer needs or different service projects, such as new complaints from customers must be resolved on-site within 7 days, etc. The program intelligently screens in the background and prompts managers to prioritize which problems to solve, effectively improving the service satisfaction of disabled families.
Most disability assessments rely on contracted professional institutions. Will there be fraud to obtain benefits? In this regard, Ji Enqing (纪恩卿) said that Qingdao (青岛) has specially issued disability assessment supervision documents to strengthen the management of assessment entrances, and regularly conducts assessment verifications on people enjoying benefits through video spot checks, on-site follow-up assessments, random spot checks, and cross-mutual inspections. At the same time, it breaks down data barriers between departments, realizes data sharing with human resources, civil affairs, transportation and other departments, introduces big data analysis models, builds participant portraits, and generates analysis reports of suspicious points. Analyze and verify abnormal situations such as bus travel records and employment information during the period of enjoying benefits to ensure that long-term care insurance funds are truly used on disabled people.
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In spring, wind-pollinated pollen has a particularly significant impact on allergy sufferers, especially those with chronic respiratory diseases, making it a high-incidence season for allergic asthma. Data shows that approximately 60% of acute asthma attacks are related to spring pollen. Allergic asthma can occur at any age, but is more common in children and young adults. Its symptoms mainly include recurrent wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, and shortness of breath, which often worsen at night and in the early morning, and appear rapidly after exposure to allergens.
Scientific prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases caused by pollen requires attention to both short-term measures and long-term management.
Short-term conventional measures can be summarized as the "block," "wash," "medicate," and "avoid" strategy. "Block" refers to physical protection measures such as wearing masks; "wash" means frequently washing eyes, nose, and hands; "medicate" refers to the rational use of targeted therapeutic drugs; and "avoid" means actively avoiding going out during periods of high pollen concentration.
More importantly, it is also necessary to maintain respiratory health in the long term, prevent incomplete lung development, and prevent the rate of lung function decline from being too rapid. Among these, "exercise" and "quit" are key.
"Exercise" means choosing appropriate exercise methods. Swimming is clinically recommended, as it is a more efficient exercise for improving lung reserve. Studies have shown that children who start long-term systematic swimming training have lung capacity and total lung capacity that are generally 10%-20% higher than their peers who engage in land-based sports.
"Quit" means quitting smoking. Nicotine particles that directly penetrate the lungs cause irreversible damage to the lungs for life. For smokers, quitting smoking at any time has an immediate effect on slowing the rate of lung function decline.
Allergic asthma is also preventable and controllable.
First, avoid triggers and block the onset of the disease. Keep the indoor environment ventilated, control humidity at 40%-50% to inhibit mold growth. Close doors and windows during pollen season, wear pollen-proof masks when going out, and shower and wash the nasal cavity promptly after returning home to avoid pollen residue. Strictly quit smoking and stay away from secondhand and thirdhand smoke, and avoid irritating gases such as cooking fumes, paint, perfume, and formaldehyde.
Early diagnosis and treatment can prevent aggravation. If symptoms such as recurrent coughing, wheezing, and chest tightness occur, seek medical attention from the respiratory department in a timely manner, complete lung function and allergen tests, clarify the diagnosis as early as possible, and initiate standardized treatment after diagnosis. Persist in recording symptoms and peak expiratory flow rate daily, regularly recheck lung function, and follow up with a doctor every 3-6 months to adjust the treatment plan.
Control attacks and reduce complications. Patients should adhere to long-term standardized medication, maintain normal lung function, and avoid airway remodeling. Engage in moderate and regular exercise, maintain a regular routine, regulate emotions, avoid staying up late and excessive stress, and enhance the body's immunity.
(The authors are respectively the chief physician of the National Clinical Research Center for Respiratory Diseases (国家呼吸疾病临床医学研究中心) and the First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University (广州医科大学附属第一医院), and the attending physician of the Department of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine of the Fourth Medical Center of the PLA General Hospital (解放军总医院第四医学中心).)
Return to TopBy: 阮国琴
At this time last year, the book "Call 81192: The Flying Dream and Patriotic Feelings of 'Air and Sea Guardian' Wang Wei (王伟)" was published. Many unknown stories from Wang Wei's (王伟) life, as well as the sincere emotions he held deep in his heart, flew to the hearts of readers on the pages of the book.
Spring goes and spring comes again. When I walked into campuses, communities, and military units to share Wang Wei's (王伟) deeds, I found that everyone's understanding of him was richer and more three-dimensional. The heroic Wang Wei (王伟), who seemed somewhat distant in the news, became an ordinary person who loved his small family even more, loved everyone, and was full of enthusiasm for life. Some young soldiers sent after-reading thoughts filled with sincere feelings and determination to serve the country, and some children held the book and said, "Aunt Ruan (阮阿姨), I want to be a pilot too"...
In addition to feeling that the "hard work" put into this book was not in vain, what made me even more gratified was that a sense of dialogue and closeness transcending time and space had arisen between the vast number of readers, especially young people, and Wang Wei (王伟). Many young readers on university campuses saw Wang Wei (王伟) gritting his teeth and saying "I must fly out" in the face of the brutal competition with an 80% elimination rate, through the handwritten letters between us shown in the book. They saw Wang Wei (王伟) write "Love that silver bird," and also love his family, and even more love the sky of the motherland. They said to me: So, ideal love and life are like this; so, heroes are not unattainable symbols, but so close to oneself, "I can do it too!"
It's not just the readers of this book; whenever the People's Army unsheathes its sword in the sea and air, and whenever our new equipment is unveiled, such dialogues will always flood the Internet—
"Call 81192!"
"I am unable to return, please continue to advance!"
Every time I see it, I am very moved. The scene at that time will also appear before my eyes, especially clear. On March 31, 2001, in the afternoon, the weather was sultry. I watched Wang Wei (王伟) ride his bicycle back to the brigade, slowly disappearing at the end of the road. Wang Wei (王伟) loved to drink tea. The next day, at 5 pm, as usual, I brewed a cup of white tea from my hometown of Zhejiang (浙江) in advance, thinking in my heart that when he returned home, he would still be drinking tea while studying three-dimensional animation aircraft combat exercises in front of the computer, with unparalleled concentration...
The tea gradually cooled, but he never came back.
Time flies, and 25 years have passed. In addition to moving past the pain and continuing the bloodline of the hero, I have also been trying to enter Wang Wei's (王伟) spiritual world, and have dialogues with him in my mind again and again, asking him what kind of motivation made him unafraid of powerful enemies and dare to sacrifice?
The answer I found is: dreams. In the letters between us, he always had dreams on his lips. In these dreams, there was family reunion, soaring in the blue sky, defending the homeland, and even more, an ardent desire for the prosperity and strength of the motherland. Such dreams encouraged him to write letters again and again, depicting our future美好生活, and supported him in knowing that the career he loved required sacrifice, yet he still stepped into the fighter plane again and again, rushing to the front line without hesitation, and even drawing his own tombstone in the letter.
In recent years, the publication of books, media reports, and people's commemorations have made me feel even more that Wang Wei (王伟) is still with us. If he had not sacrificed, he would likely have become a carrier-based fighter pilot and would continue to love his small family and his motherland. 人固有一死，或重于泰山，或轻于鸿毛 (rén gù yǒu yī sǐ, huò zhòng yú tài shān, huò qīng yú hóng máo - "Death is inevitable, it may be heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than a feather," meaning the value of one's death depends on what one dies for). People remember "81192," proving that Wang Wei's (王伟) sacrifice was heavier than Mount Tai, and his spirit has taken root in the hearts of millions of compatriots in China (神州大地).
Wang Wei (王伟) has not left us.
(The author is Wang Wei's (王伟) wife, a Navy Colonel. This article was compiled from interviews with our reporters Zhang Mingse (张明瑟), Liu Jie (刘杰), Shi Lei (石磊), and Fang Ziyi (方梓祎).)
Awei (阿伟):
In the blink of an eye, 25 years have passed. Thousands of words are in my heart, but what I want to tell you most is still that sentence: Awei (阿伟), rest assured.
Last year, I participated in the September 3rd parade. When I saw the carrier-based aircraft formation flying over Tiananmen (天安门), I held up your photo high and told you in my heart again and again: Your comrades have completed the wish you didn't have time to realize back then. I am your eyes, watching this increasingly powerful country for you, watching this increasingly peaceful land for you.
Your greatest wish during your lifetime was to be able to take off from our own aircraft carrier. You always said that a pilot who can take off from an aircraft carrier is the best pilot. Now, we already have three aircraft carriers, and those carrier-based fighter pilots are continuing your mission, flying over the sea and air of the motherland, guarding this land you defended with your life for you.
These years, my child and I are both doing well, so rest assured. We are living with your life, living each day seriously, as if you have never left. These years, I have also been working hard to pass on the spirit carried by you and "81192," your loyalty to the motherland, and your adherence to faith to more people.
April 1st has been given a different meaning because of you—it has become a day to凝聚爱国精神 (níng jù ài guó jīng shén - "coagulate patriotic spirit," to gather and strengthen the spirit of patriotism) and witness the rise of the nation.
Awei (阿伟), rest assured! Your ideals and your spirit will always be inherited and will never fade!
Your Qin (琴)
March 27, 2026
Return to TopBy: 王 楠
Recently, the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" (7th Edition, Reverse Order Edition), rearranged based on the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" (7th Edition), has been officially published and distributed. This is the second reverse-order version since the publication of the "Reverse Order Modern Chinese Dictionary" in 1987, and many readers are curious about this thick blue dictionary.
Simply put, the reverse-order edition is a reverse-order arrangement of the regular "Modern Chinese Dictionary." Except for minor supplements and improvements, the number of words and phrases included, phonetic transcriptions, definitions, and example sentences in the reverse-order edition are basically the same as in the regular edition, and the order of single-character entries is also consistent. The fundamental difference between the two lies in the order of multi-character entries. In the regular edition, multi-character entries are grouped by the same first character, such as the entries under the single character "安" (ān) being "安邦定国" (ānbāng dìngguó), "安保" (ānbǎo), "安步当车" (ānbù dāngchē), "安装" (ānzhuāng), etc. In the reverse-order edition, they are grouped by the same last character, such as "保安" (bǎo'ān), "长安" (Cháng'ān), "早安" (zǎo'ān) under the character "安" (ān).
Some may ask: Why publish a reverse-order edition? In fact, the reverse-order edition and the regular edition each have their own emphasis and can be used together to complement each other.
The reverse-order edition can comprehensively and systematically present knowledge information from different categories. It brings together important and common words in the same category, centrally reflecting the relevant knowledge information of this category, making it convenient for readers to master. For example, under the single-character heading "族" (zú), the 56 ethnic groups are presented in a concentrated manner, allowing readers to quickly learn about the names and distribution of China's 56 ethnic groups. Another example is "骨" (gǔ), which is closely related to life and the body. There are more than 50 entries under the single-character heading, such as "扁骨" (biǎngǔ), "髌骨" (bìngǔ), "长骨" (chánggǔ), etc. As long as you look up the character "骨" (gǔ), you can systematically understand the names, shapes, locations, and functions of various bones in humans or animals. Under the single-character heading "书" (shū), there are Confucian classics and related "经书" (jīngshū), "四书" (sìshū), "诗书" (shīshū), reference books such as "类书" (lèishū), "历书" (lìshū), "通书" (tōngshū), "韵书" (yùnshū), the "六书" (liùshū) method of character construction, and "草书" (cǎoshū), "楷书" (kǎishū), "隶书" (lìshū) in the field of calligraphy, providing a wealth of traditional cultural knowledge. The reverse-order edition can be said to play the role of a small multi-category specialized dictionary or thesaurus.
The reverse-order arrangement also provides readers with convenience for finding words and phrases and for rhyme in poetry. Chinese culture is rich and colorful, with a long history, and the development of modern civilization is changing with each passing day. Hundreds of new words and phrases are generated in the Chinese vocabulary every year, which is an open system, and the vocabulary that anyone masters is limited. The concentrated arrangement of multi-character entries with the same last character weaves a broad "vocabulary network," making it convenient for readers to learn in a concentrated manner; understanding and memory are deepened through association with related antonyms, synonyms, and different-meaning words with the same last character, which helps to increase vocabulary reserves, improve language literacy, and enhance writing skills. In addition, the reverse-order edition intuitively presents the different relationships between words, which can also provide new perspectives for language and vocabulary research.
In fact, the compilation of reverse-order dictionaries had already appeared in ancient China. For example, the "Peiwen Yunfu" (佩文韻府) of the Qing Dynasty was compiled by supplementing the "Yunfu Qunyu" (韻府群玉) and "Wuche Yunrui" (五車韻瑞), and the entries were categorized according to the rhyme of the last character, using a reverse-order retrieval method, specifically for literati to look up the origins and allusions of words for writing poetry. The reverse-order edition of the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" can be said to be a continuation of the ancient tradition of compiling reverse-order dictionaries.
From the universal use of a single "Xinhua Dictionary" (新华字典) in the early days of the People's Republic of China to the current abundance and diversity of dictionary varieties and quantities, after decades of efforts, China has changed the situation of "a large country, a small dictionary." The reverse-order version of the "Modern Chinese Dictionary" enriches and prospers the types and compilation practices of modern Chinese dictionaries in China, and is also a microcosm of the transformation of the national common language and writing from basic popularization to high-quality popularization.
(The author is a researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院语言研究所).)
Return to TopBy: 王 干
The writer Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) and his works have a wide influence. With the aesthetic spirit of "sending small warmth to the world," a deep gaze at daily life, and consummate modern Chinese expression, he constructed a literary world full of affinity. His works have been reprinted again and again, continuing to sell well, and the readership is constantly expanding through generational changes.
Against the backdrop of persistent reading enthusiasm, in 2016, Zhao Deqing (赵德清), an amateur author from Gaoyou (高邮), Jiangsu (江苏), spontaneously founded the "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" WeChat official account. This is not an official or institution-led cultural project, but with the self-discipline of pushing 4 original articles every day and releasing them on time at midnight, it quickly gathered a group of loyal readers. In the 10 years since its establishment, "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" has 52,000 fans, a weekly readership that consistently exceeds 100,000, and has gradually gained the attention, recognition, and support of local governments and cultural departments. In 2017, Gaoyou City (高邮市) launched the construction of a new Wang Zengqi Memorial Hall (汪曾祺纪念馆), providing a "home" for Wang (汪) fans. Today, the Wang Zengqi Literature Museum (汪曾祺文学馆) has become a popular destination for literature lovers, with an average daily visitor flow ranking among the top of national celebrity memorial halls, and is also a base for reading and research for many primary and secondary schools.
The emergence and growth of the "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" echoes the inherent requirements of cultural construction and national reading promotion in the new era. To promote national reading, the key is not "whether to read," but "how to continue reading, read in depth, and share reading," internalizing reading into people's lifestyles. Traditional reading promotion focuses on "supply-acceptance," with readers in a relatively passive position; the 10-year practice of "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" has successfully constructed an "interaction-symbiosis" reading ecology, and its most original and enlightening contribution lies in driving the continuous activity of the community and the continuous deepening of reading by activating "public commentary."
Many Chinese classical masterpieces have been fermented by readers. Initially, they were told to the common people by "storytellers" in teahouses and markets. The audience's reaction directly affected the development of the story. Which character was popular, his scenes might be increased; which bridge was wonderful, it would be repeatedly polished. This is itself a primitive "reader feedback creation." "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" inherits this tradition. Within the community, every article pushed, every topic discussed, and every sharing of offline activities will trigger a large number of messages, discussions, and reposts, forming a lively atmosphere of public commentary. This immediate, diverse, and trust-based feedback mechanism transforms reading from a personal behavior into public participation and community co-construction.
Here, the subject of literary criticism is no longer professors, scholars, or professional critics, but every ordinary reader who loves Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺)—they may be tilers, chefs, retired doctors, college students, or company employees. Their comments do not pursue theoretical difficulty and systematic completeness, but focus on inner feelings, life insights, and sincere resonance. "I am a tiler from Gaoyou (高邮) working away from home. The first thing I do every time I come back is to light a cigarette in front of Wang Lao's (汪老) statue. Others laugh at me, I say: Wang Lao (汪老) doesn't dislike me for being rustic." Such comments allow the value judgment of literature to no longer be limited to the ivory tower, but to return to the human world.
Public commentary is the engine of national reading. Once reading behavior is combined with commentary, exchange, and interaction, it gains the energy of self-sustainment and self-proliferation. The high-frequency and in-depth interaction between readers and writers' works, and between readers, is far more sticky and vital than traditional, one-way "good book recommendations" or "reading tasks." This interaction is spread geometrically through new media platforms. At the same time, reading sharing is also invisibly incubating new mass literary creation. In the daily push of "Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)," a large number of articles are written by non-professional writers. Many participants have completed the transformation from reader to commentator to writer, finding ways to observe life and express emotions.
"Wang Mi Tribe (汪迷部落)" is a unique landscape of national reading and new mass literature blooming in the grassroots, especially in county towns. It provides a vivid and referential micro-sample, allowing us to see that only by providing readers with channels for expression, exchange, and creation, and transforming reading from a personal silent "input" into a public participatory "input-output-interaction" cycle, can we truly achieve the popularization, deepening, and internalization of reading. The promotion of national reading and the prosperity of new mass literature are rooted in this virtuous ecology of "everyone can do it, everyone enjoys doing it."
(Author's affiliation: School of Literature, Yangzhou University (扬州大学文学院))
Return to TopBy: 郑永年
If the past 40 years of reform and opening up saw us rely on integrating into the global economic system and on factor input-driven "catch-up" development, then starting from the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will shift to an independent and leading development path, continuously enhancing endogenous动力 (nèi shēng dònglì - "internal driving force," internal impetus), using the certainty of its own development to resist external uncertainties, firmly grasping the strategic initiative of Chinese-style modernization, and seeking broad development space. We have the confidence to do so.
Based on this strategic positioning, I have five understandings of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline.
Technological self-reliance and self-strengthening, from "补短板" (bǔ duǎn bǎn - "make up for shortcomings," addressing weaknesses) to "塑造生态" (sù zào shēngtài - "shape the ecosystem," building a comprehensive system). Since modern times, technological revolutions and industrial transformations have been the engines of economic development. Shifting from "introduction and imitation" to "original breakthroughs" is the only way to escape the "middle-income technology trap," ensure the security of the industrial chain, and provide an engine for high-quality development. At the same time, it should be recognized that the essence of great power technological game is the competition for innovation ecosystems. Technological self-reliance and self-strengthening means forming an endogenously driven, open and integrated innovation ecosystem. The key is not simply increasing R&D investment, but establishing a large-scale research system, breaking down the barriers between universities, research institutes, and enterprises, and promoting the integrated development of education, technology, and talent.
Building a modern industrial system to consolidate the foundation of a manufacturing powerhouse. Currently, the global supply chain is undergoing profound restructuring. Building a complete and resilient advanced industrial system is the only way to grasp the initiative of development and effectively avoid "choke points" risks and marginalization threats. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, building a modern industrial system requires especially firmly anchoring the real economy, with advanced manufacturing as the backbone, and taking effective measures to prevent the economy from being prematurely and excessively financialized and platformized. In the specific construction process, adhere to a dual-wheel drive: on the one hand, actively develop emerging industries, proactively lay out future industries, and seize the commanding heights of industry; on the other hand, do not simply regard traditional productivity as backward, but use new technologies to empower old industries and promote their upgrading and modernization.
Building a unified national market to break down the institutional barriers of involution. A smooth unified national market can promote the free flow and efficient allocation of commodities and factors, reduce production and transaction costs, generate huge economies of scale, thereby improving economic efficiency and releasing domestic demand potential. Establishing a unified national market is also a way to govern involution-style competition, because the latter's main root cause lies in market segmentation and excessively high institutional transaction costs under local protectionism, leading to low-level repetitive construction and homogeneous competition. It is necessary to promote the reform of market-oriented allocation of factors of production, so that the flow of factors can be smooth, thereby strengthening the domestic circulation.
Promoting high-level opening up to the outside world, shifting from "integration" to "contribution." Against the backdrop of globalization encountering headwinds and geopolitical tensions, high-level opening up to the outside world is the key for China to maintain resilience, reshape the external environment, and influence the world pattern. For the domestic front, high-level opening up to the outside world can force reform by actively benchmarking against international high-standard rules and establishing a transparent and predictable rule-of-law business environment. For the external front, it helps to break trade protectionism, technology "decoupling" and "small yard high fence" strategies, consolidate ties with emerging markets and developing countries, reconstruct the geo-economic landscape, and improve the external strategic environment.
Improving the development mechanism for universal sharing to prevent the risk of "growth imbalance." The purpose of development is people. The root cause of the Western social crisis lies in the decoupling of economic growth from the improvement of the livelihoods of ordinary people, leading to the shrinking of the middle class, social division, and ethnic撕裂 (sī liè - "tearing," social fragmentation). We will increase the construction of "soft infrastructure" and build a multi-level social security system that covers everyone, integrates urban and rural areas, is fair and unified, and is sustainable. This is a prerequisite for releasing domestic demand potential and stimulating the vitality of human capital. Against the backdrop of global turbulence, a society with a strong social safety net, equal opportunities, and upward mobility channels can maintain long-term stability and cohesion—this is precisely China's solid foundation for coping with "high winds and waves, even stormy seas."
To help readers understand the direction and implementation path of China's development during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, I was invited to be the chief editor of "The Next Five Years: China's Strategic Choices and Action Plans." During the compilation process, I was fortunate to bring together well-known scholars in the fields of economics, political science, and international relations, such as Wang Yiming (王一鸣), Cai Fang (蔡昉), and Huang Yiping (黄益平). Based on their profound academic accumulation and rich practical observations, they deeply discussed the development path in the next five years from multiple perspectives, hoping to use insightful insights to outline an "action picture" that combines strategic height and operational details.
I hope this book can provide a rational and constructive framework for readers who care about China's future destiny, and also contribute some ideas and references for policymakers. In this challenging era, only clear cognition, firm belief, and pragmatic action can transform the changing situation into a new situation and sail towards a broader future.
(The author is the Dean of the School of Public Policy of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) (香港中文大学（深圳）) and the Dean of the Qianhai Institute for International Affairs (前海国际事务研究院). This article is the preface to the book "The Next Five Years: China's Strategic Choices and Action Plans." This edition has been abridged, and the title was added by the editor.)
Return to TopBy: 胡少卿
Lu Xun's (鲁迅) abandonment of medicine for literature is a story with allegorical significance at the beginning of modern Chinese literature. Lu Xun's (鲁迅) reason was to use literature to transform the spirit of the people; otherwise, even the best medical skills would only maintain a foolish and weak body. In fact, the proposition of "literature transforming the spirit of the people" is not limited to modern literature. Classical literature since ancient times has been transforming and even shaping the spirit of the people. *The Book of Songs*, *The Analects*, *Li Sao*, *Zhuangzi*, *A New Account of the Tales of the World*... It can be said that the best works in the history of Chinese literature have forged a beautiful Chinese soul over thousands of years.
What is literature? It does not only mean poetry, novels, prose, and drama, nor does it only mean ancient literature and modern literature. All languages and writings that can awaken people's hearts are literature. Literature is not only expressed in works; it is a basic ability, an ability to read oneself, others, and the world as a book, and an ability to empathize with others delicately. Literature does not mean classics that are shelved, abstruse research, or capital for boasting and showing off. Literature is our feelings, our lives, and the long traces of our joys, sorrows, and happiness left in language.
Gu Sui (顾随), a master of classical literature, commented on Lu Zhishen (鲁智深) in *On Poetry by Tuizhi*: "Even if he does not write poetry, he can become a poet." "Others express 'poetry' in poetry, but Lu Zhishen (鲁智深) expresses 'poetry' in life." The words of the poet Wallace Stevens can be used as a footnote to this observation: "The poetic spirit embraced in life is greater than any specific poem. Recognizing this is the beginning of recognizing the spirit of poetry." That is to say, literature is not only a work in written form, but also a lofty and transcendent attitude towards life and existence. Studying literature requires not only obtaining its form but also its spirit.
In *Eight Lectures on Chinese Literature*, I not only talk about Lu Xun (鲁迅) and new poetry, but also about *The Book of Songs*, *The Analects*, and *Zhuangzi*. These can all be called "contemporary literature" because they are still new, beautiful, and shining brightly in the contemporary context. *The Book of Songs*' "bright sincerity" can comfort people's hearts, *The Analects* has a broad and advanced humanistic thought, *Zhuangzi* is a mental adjustment technique to resolve anxiety, Lu Xun (鲁迅) established an action philosophy of "healing" and "resisting despair," and new poetry is a "spiritual grindstone" that makes people sharp and sober. The reason why classics are classics lies in their usefulness to ordinary people and everyday life. Classics are readable by everyone and cannot be monopolized by experts.
Through this book, I want to lead readers to understand literature broadly and activate their love for literature. I will never admit that literature is useless. The "uselessness of literature" that people talk about today is actually only the uselessness of some inferior writings under the name of "literature," while in countless corners, strong literature is still growing unyieldingly. What needs to be changed is our concept of understanding literature. The ancient and modern classics I talk about in the book are still alive and powerful. Reading them brings humanity closer to the path of progress. The continuous "Tao Yuanming (陶渊明) craze," "Li Bai (李白) craze," "Du Fu (杜甫) craze," "Su Shi (苏轼) craze," "Dream of the Red Chamber craze," etc. in the field of mass reading and mass cultural creation are clear evidence.
Literature is useful. From a broad perspective, literature is a career that changes the world and people's hearts; from a narrow perspective, literature cultivates readers' ability to sympathize, empathize, and self-reflect, and helps build the individual's spiritual world. The above two points are the two underlying logics hidden in the book *Eight Lectures on Chinese Literature*. Using these basic indicators to create literature, measure literature, and screen literature will help the further prosperity of literature and art.
(The author is a professor at the School of Literature and International Communication, University of International Business and Economics).
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