Summary: Xi Jinping sent a letter to faculty and students of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Southwest Jiaotong University, and Beijing Jiaotong University, congratulating them on the 130th anniversary of their founding. He expressed his hope that these universities would adhere to Xi Jinping Thought, focus on national strategic needs, and strengthen independent innovation in science and technology and talent cultivation. Xi also urged them to further integrate industry, academia, and research to contribute to building a strong nation in education, science and technology, and talent. The universities, with roots in institutions founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, wrote to Xi to report on their development and contributions to national rejuvenation. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Xi Jinping congratulated To Lam on his election as Vietnam's president, emphasizing the strategic significance of the China-Vietnam community. Xi noted the rapid development of bilateral relations and fruitful cooperation under the guidance of both countries' leaders. He expressed a desire to work with To Lam to advance their shared socialist cause and contribute stability to the region and the world. Premier Li Qiang also congratulated Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh, expressing his willingness to work together to build a mutually beneficial cooperation. Xi Jinping mentioned that strengthening cooperation between China and Vietnam is in the shared interest of both parties and countries amidst global changes.
Summary: The article discusses Xi Jinping's emphasis on political building within the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and ensuring the CCP's absolute control over it. It highlights the importance of rooting out corruption and maintaining the PLA's revolutionary spirit through political education, ideological purification, and adherence to the Party's leadership. The article also mentions the need to resolve deep-seated issues to uphold political loyalty and ensure the military's modernization with revolutionary personnel. Furthermore, it touches on the PLA's enhanced combat readiness and its commitment to defending national sovereignty. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Premier Li Qiang emphasized the importance of a stable China-Australia relationship amid global instability and protectionism. Li stated China's commitment to expanding domestic demand and opening its market, expressing willingness to import more Australian products and enhance cooperation in areas like clean energy and trade. Albanese affirmed Australia's commitment to a constructive relationship with China, its adherence to the One China Policy, and its interest in expanding cooperation across various sectors, managing differences respectfully. Both leaders mentioned strengthening multilateral coordination to address global challenges. Albanese also expressed his anticipation to attend the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in China.
Summary: Eight central guidance groups have completed their deployment to twenty localities and units as part of the CCP Central Committee's campaign to establish and practice correct views on performance. The groups emphasized the importance of studying Xi Jinping's directives and resolutely upholding the "Two Establishments" and "Two Safeguards." These groups are tasked with ensuring the thorough implementation of the Party Central Committee's arrangements for the study and education campaign. The guidance groups will focus on improving ideological understanding, rectifying prominent problems, and establishing regulations. Local Party leaders pledged to fully cooperate with the central guidance groups and uphold their responsibility in promoting the study and education.
Summary: China's 42nd Antarctic expedition successfully completed the country's first hot water drilling experiment in the subglacial Lake Kirin area of East Antarctica, reaching a depth of 3,413 meters. This breaks the international record of 2,540 meters for polar hot water drilling, indicating China's capability to conduct drilling research on most of the Antarctic ice sheet and all of the Arctic ice sheet. The experiment aimed to demonstrate the application of a deep ice sheet hot water drilling system in Antarctica, providing a pollution-free channel for subsequent in-situ observation, water and lakebed sample collection. The successful drilling fills a gap in China's capabilities in this field. The article makes no mention of US-China relations.
Summary: In the first two months of the year, China's total service trade reached 1.143 trillion yuan, with exports increasing by 4.7% to 442.49 billion yuan, according to the Ministry of Commerce. Knowledge-intensive service trade accounted for 42.5% of the total, a slight increase year-on-year. Travel was the largest sector, followed by other commercial services and transportation. Travel exports specifically saw a notable increase of 22.5%. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this report.
Summary: This article focuses on promoting the construction of a "community of common destiny" with neighboring countries through high-quality Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) cooperation. It also includes a special section on World Health Day, highlighting the role of healthcare and technology in boosting health outcomes. The article does not make any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed a State Council decree implementing regulations focused on securing China's industrial and supply chains. The regulations, comprising 18 articles, aim to bolster resilience, stability, and national security through domestic coordination and international cooperation. They establish mechanisms for risk monitoring, prevention, and emergency management across key sectors. Furthermore, the rules allow for countermeasures against foreign entities that undermine China's supply chain security and establish investigative procedures. They also address information collection activities related to the supply chain within China.
Summary: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, along with other departments, is launching the "Benefit Enterprises Together" SME service campaign for 2026. This initiative aims to address challenges faced by SMEs in policy implementation, talent acquisition, investment and financing, technological innovation, digital transformation, management improvement, and market expansion. The campaign includes measures to promote policy access, accelerate digital transformation, facilitate investment and financing, and improve management capabilities. The aim is to reduce costs, increase efficiency, improve quality, and upgrade SMEs. There is no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the text.
Summary: The article discusses Xi Jinping's focus on strengthening the Chinese military through political rectification, emphasizing the absolute leadership of the Communist Party and ensuring the military's loyalty. It highlights efforts to address corruption, uphold the Party's traditions, and cultivate revolutionary spirit within the ranks. The piece also mentions the importance of modernizing military training and equipment, including naval advancements. Furthermore, the article alludes to joint military exercises conducted by the PLA, and their ability to safeguard China's national soverignty and territorial integrity. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In the first two months of the year, China saw a 14% year-on-year increase in newly established foreign-invested enterprises, totaling 8,631. Surveys indicate that a significant percentage of American and German companies plan to increase investment in China, with most not considering relocating production or procurement. Foreign companies view China as a key testing ground for global competitiveness, driven by its large market and innovation potential. Experts note that China's expanded domestic demand and focus on innovation create opportunities for foreign firms in high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, and green technologies, with some seeing the country as a positive example for multilateralism and free trade. The article references the U.S. through the American Chamber of Commerce report on investment plans of U.S. firms.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of multilateralism and adherence to the UN Charter's principles of sovereign equality in building a sustainable international order. It criticizes unilateral actions taken without UN Security Council authorization, arguing they undermine international law and exacerbate global instability. The author notes that China's global governance initiatives align with the needs of the times, advocating for dialogue, consultation, and shared benefits in global governance while respecting each country's right to choose its own social system and development path. BRICS is presented as a key platform for Global South cooperation, promoting global governance reform and development cooperation. The author concludes that a truly sustainable international order must be based on equal dialogue, mutual respect, and consensus-building rather than coercion.
Summary: American Evan Kail, a former Japanese Studies major, donated a photo album documenting Japanese atrocities in Nanking to the Chinese consulate in Chicago, facing online threats and pressure to sell it. The donation stemmed from his belief in preserving historical truth and was motivated by his grandfather’s experience fighting in the Pacific theater during WWII. Invited to China in 2024, Kail visited sites like the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall and experienced modern Chinese life, which inspired him to counter negative Western narratives about China. He is now promoting U.S.-China understanding through sharing his experiences and plans to create documentaries about rural China. Kail has decided to reside in Tianjin, and wants to promote his vision of a more peaceful relationship between the U.S. and China.
Summary: The China-constructed Nzoia River irrigation and flood control project in western Kenya, built by Power Construction Corporation of China (Power China), has been operational for nearly a year, directly benefiting over 12,500 farming households in Siaya and Busia counties. The project provides stable irrigation water for approximately 4,500 hectares of farmland, contributing to local food production. The integrated water conservancy project includes 111 kilometers of irrigation channels and 71 kilometers of drainage channels, along with upgrades to river flood control dikes. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Wu Weihua, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, visited Gabon at the invitation of the Gabonese National Assembly. Wu met with President Nguema and held talks with National Assembly President Onanga and Senate First Vice-President Mabiala. Wu stated that China is willing to work with Gabon to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges of governance experience, and promote the development of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership between China and Gabon. Wu also promoted China's zero-tariff policy for 53 African countries. Gabon expressed its commitment to the One China principle and willingness to deepen cooperation with China in various fields, including resource development and infrastructure.
Summary: China General Nuclear Power Group's (CGN) first phase of the Laos Northern Interconnection Clean Energy Base, a 1 million kilowatt photovoltaic project, went into operation on April 7th. The project, located in Oudomxay Province, is CGN's first self-planned and developed overseas million-kilowatt-level clean energy greenfield project, and Laos' first large-scale mountain photovoltaic project. It is expected to generate 1.65 billion kilowatt-hours annually, reducing carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 1.3 million tons, and involve more than 70 Chinese and Lao industrial chain enterprises. The project aims to help Laos achieve its goal of becoming a "clean energy battery" for Southeast Asia.
Summary: The article discusses methods for improving the emergency response capabilities of young cadres in China, emphasizing preparedness, proper handling of incidents, and post-incident reviews. Examples from Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, and Jiangxi provinces highlight training programs, practical exercises, and post-event analyses aimed at equipping young officials with necessary skills. The article details how cadres are trained to identify risks, respond effectively during emergencies, and learn from past experiences to improve future responses. Specifically, it mentions training programs in mountain flood geological disaster disposal, forest fire fighting, and on-site emergency command. The programs allow young cadres to grow in real-world situations and improve through after-action review.
Summary: An article reports on the transformation of Junying Village in Xiamen, Fujian, guided by Xi Jinping's past directives on ecological development, emphasizing afforestation and cultivation. The village has achieved significant economic growth through tea and fruit cultivation, and tourism. Junying Village also participates in carbon trading, generating revenue for residents and infrastructure. The village's success has attracted young people to return, fostering new business and further development. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: KMT Chairwoman Cheng Li-wen arrived in Nanjing with a KMT delegation on April 7th at the invitation of the CCP and Xi Jinping. Cheng expressed gratitude and stated the visit aimed to maintain cross-strait peace and improve people's well-being, reaffirming the KMT's adherence to the "1992 Consensus" and opposition to "Taiwan independence." CCP Taiwan Affairs Office Director Song Tao welcomed the delegation in Shanghai. Song expressed hope that Cheng's visit would foster cross-strait peaceful development and contribute to the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation under the leadership of Xi Jinping and the CCP.
Summary: The article reports on agricultural activity in Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, specifically at the Qinglong River Cooperative's automated rice seedling cultivation facility. Workers are managing rice seedlings during the crucial spring planting season. The focus is on ensuring a solid foundation for a bountiful summer harvest through activities like seedling cultivation and field management. The article does not discuss U.S.-China relations or mention any statements or actions of an official.
Summary: During the Qingming holiday, China's border inspection agencies facilitated 6.779 million cross-border trips, a 9.1% increase compared to last year, with the peak on April 6th. Specifically, entries and exits of residents from Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan rose by 19.5%, while those of foreigners increased by 20.9%, with visa-free entries growing by 30.7%. Border inspection agencies implemented measures such as deploying sufficient personnel and establishing special channels for specific groups to ensure efficient and smooth customs clearance. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Guangxi has allocated 2.41 billion yuan in central government subsidies to support affordable housing projects, including urban village and dilapidated housing renovations. The funds will support the construction of over 24,000 affordable housing units, over 5,800 urban village resettlement houses, and the renovation of over 20,000 dilapidated housing units. The initiative aims to improve living conditions, eliminate safety hazards, and upgrade infrastructure in urban areas, transforming urban villages into liveable communities. Guangxi plans to increase financial coordination, strengthen supervision, and improve efficiency in order to accelerate the realization of the goal of providing housing for all.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of improving people's livelihoods as a key focus of China's development, highlighting various initiatives and policies aimed at enhancing public services and well-being. It details examples such as increased childcare subsidies, elderly care support, and improved access to healthcare, including the use of AI in medical diagnostics, referencing a *New York Times* article on AI tumor detection in China. The piece advocates for a systematic and coordinated approach to addressing livelihood issues, balancing immediate needs with long-term goals. It also discusses turning challenges such as an aging population and environmental protection into economic opportunities.
Summary: This article discusses the increasing attractiveness of Hainan as a tourist destination, driven by policy benefits like duty-free shopping and visa-free entry, as well as the island's natural resources and improved services. According to the article, the number of foreign visitors is also increasing, with a year-on-year increase of 44.5%. The upgrade of local people's consumption experience has also been addressed, with the opening of new duty-free shops and other measures to improve their life quality. The authors argue that Hainan's development demonstrates China's high-quality development and the opportunities that come with investing in China. The United States is not mentioned.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of protecting not just rare or endangered animals, but also common species categorized as having ecological, scientific, and social value ("三有" animals). It highlights a case where an elderly man was detained for capturing sparrows and protected birds, emphasizing that even seemingly abundant species play a vital role in maintaining ecological balance. The article stresses the need for increased awareness, stricter law enforcement against illegal hunting and trading, and a multi-faceted approach involving public education and coordinated efforts from various departments to protect these "三有" animals. It argues that safeguarding these creatures is crucial for achieving harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: Since the start of the new year, Yiwu International Trade Market and the Global Digital Trade Center have experienced increased activity with merchants launching new products and a surge in international business travelers engaging in "wholesale tourism." The "world supermarket" is evolving from traditional manufacturing to smart technology and from offline wholesale to digital trade, breaking its development ceiling. The article highlights the variety and quality of Chinese goods attracting global merchants. It does not mention any official statements or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article from the *Inner Mongolia Daily* emphasizes the importance of building platforms ("stages") for talent to thrive, arguing that simply attracting talent is insufficient. The author stresses the need to provide appropriate resources, policies, and recognition tailored to different types of talent, such as engineers, agricultural experts, and young innovators. The piece advocates for creating an environment where individuals can contribute meaningfully and feel valued, fostering a mutually beneficial relationship between cities and talented individuals. By prioritizing comprehensive support systems, cities can attract and retain talent, leading to greater innovation and progress. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Shenzhen authorities declined a citizen request to increase lighting in Shenzhen Bay Park, citing the need to protect the habitat of migratory birds, a decision praised online. The park argued that excessive lighting would disrupt the birds' natural rhythms and affect their migration. This decision reflects a shift away from prioritizing GDP growth towards a focus on ecological harmony. Other cities, such as Beijing and Changsha-Zhuzhou-Xiangtan are implementing policies to protect and promote green spaces for ecological reasons. The decision was made with the goal of improving the habitat for migrating bird populations, which can in turn boost ecological tourism.
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Summary: The article profiles Wang Miaoli, a Henan drug rehabilitation center police officer, who was lauded as a hero after she physically intervened to stop a knife attack, sustaining facial injuries in the process. Wang's actions are being promoted as a model for other law enforcement officials in Henan, and across China. She says her actions were inspired by previous Henan law enforcement hero Ren Changxia, and that they reflect her commitment to serving the people. The article highlights systemic support and incentives for law enforcement in Henan, linking commendations to promotions and providing financial assistance to officers in need. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Tengjiao, a welder at Shengu Group, has been recognized as a national model worker for his 28 years of dedication and innovation in welding techniques, including developing methods for repairing aluminum sealing teeth and optimizing welding efficiency. He has overcome numerous technical challenges in welding various components, contributing to the manufacturing of critical equipment. Zhang also mentors new welders, passing on his technical skills and work ethic. His work involves maintaining the "pulse" of the "industrial heart" of China. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China's National Administration for Market Regulation announced that advertising revenue for institutions and large enterprises surpassed 2 trillion yuan in 2025, doubling since 2020 with an average annual growth rate of 16.8%. Internet advertising drove this growth, reaching 1.357 trillion yuan and comprising 66.2% of total advertising revenue. Advertising revenue exceeding 100 million yuan was reported for over 1400 entities, accompanied by growth in profits and taxes. Regional development became more balanced, with 19 provinces exceeding 10 billion yuan in advertising revenue, although Beijing, Shanghai, Guangdong, and Zhejiang still account for 68.5% of the national total. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: An article reports on the agricultural development strategy in Pinglu County, Shanxi Province, which leverages its location along the Yellow River to establish a 50,000-acre peach orchard. The county utilizes a "Party branch + cooperative + base + farmer" model to integrate agricultural production with tourism. A photograph accompanying the article depicts the blossoming peach orchards, highlighting the county's successful blend of agriculture and ecological tourism. No US or US-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Beijing has released the "Beijing Manufacturing Pilot Platform Open Service Manual (2026 Edition)," showcasing an initial selection of 50 high-quality manufacturing pilot platforms. According to Chen Chaohui, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology, this initiative aims to strengthen manufacturing innovation by integrating pilot resources and facilitating the transition of technological breakthroughs into industrial applications. These platforms cover eight key industries, offering comprehensive pilot services, including design verification and small-batch production. The initiative intends to support various innovation entities such as enterprises, universities, and research institutions.
Summary: Construction has begun on the second reactor of the Jinqimen nuclear power plant in Zhejiang province, featuring the "Hualong One" design. The "Hualong One" is a domestically developed third-generation nuclear power technology. The plant is planned to have two reactors operational by 2031. The facility aims to support the energy and carbon reduction goals of Zhejiang province and the Yangtze River Delta region.
Summary: Five major A-share listed insurance companies (China Life, PICC, Ping An, CPIC, and New China Life) reported record high combined net profits attributable to the parent company for 2023. These companies increased investment in the real economy, with China Life focusing on emerging industries and PICC supporting financial initiatives. Several companies, including New China Life and CPIC, saw significant premium growth through bancassurance channels. Ping An underwrote a large number of technology insurance policies, while other companies increased non-vehicle insurance business and improved cost controls of vehicle insurance. The report provides no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Hainan is striving to overcome challenges in its coffee industry, such as low production and brand concentration, by focusing on cultivating superior varieties, integrating agriculture with tourism, and leveraging its geographical and policy advantages for international trade. The province is promoting high-quality Robusta beans and unique regional characteristics like volcanic soil-grown coffee to enhance its reputation. Benefiting from Hainan's free trade port policies, companies are importing coffee beans for processing and re-export, taking advantage of "zero tariff" incentives. This is transforming Hainan from a raw material importer into a global coffee processing hub, particularly with increased imports from Belt and Road countries.
Summary: A large air dome has been constructed at the Zongguan Water Plant in Wuhan to enclose construction and mitigate dust and noise. According to the project leader, Yuan Song, the air dome reduces noise by over 30% and isolates over 99% of dust, which is important due to the plant's proximity to residential areas, a protected historical site, and the water source for two million residents. The air dome has internal air circulation, monitoring systems, and a double-door interlocking system to maintain air pressure when vehicles enter and exit. Yuan Song emphasized the cost-effectiveness of the air dome, noting that it has prevented fines, work stoppages, and the need for extensive site restoration. The article did not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During the critical cotton planting season, Hutubi County in Changji Prefecture, Xinjiang, is widely adopting a water-saving "sow first, drip later" planting model. The county relies on the BeiDou navigation system to achieve high-precision straight-line sowing, ensuring even seed distribution. This technology is intended to lay a solid foundation for a bountiful cotton harvest. The image accompanying the report depicts agricultural workers using BeiDou-equipped precision sowing machines for cotton planting in Wugongtai Town.
Summary: Jiangxi province has issued a new regulation requiring the registration and reporting of leading cadres' irregular interference and intervention in bidding and tendering activities. The regulation specifies 21 types of prohibited conduct across the entire tendering process for projects including construction, government procurement, and state-owned enterprise bidding. All parties involved in bidding activities are required to report any instances of interference, with detailed requirements for recording and storing evidence. Violations will be investigated and punished, with records kept in cadres' personal integrity files. The regulation also targets those who fail to report or falsely accuse others.
Summary: Guangxi has issued 22 specific measures to promote the high-quality development of high-tech industrial development zones, focusing on optimizing layouts, enhancing independent innovation, and fostering a high-quality development environment. The measures include financial support for newly approved national and regional high-tech zones, with up to 10 million RMB and 5 million RMB in project funding respectively. Financial backing will also be provided to enterprises within these zones to foster national-level innovation platforms, and to support firms which are leading national science and technology projects. Funds of up to 50 million RMB and 20 million RMB, respectively, will be provided to these firms, contingent upon meeting certain criteria. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The China General Nuclear Power Group (CGN) began construction on the world's highest altitude trough-type solar thermal power plant in Damxung County, Lhasa on April 6th. The project utilizes domestically developed, large aperture trough collectors and a 6-hour molten salt energy storage system, enabling continuous nighttime power generation. The integrated solar thermal and photovoltaic project aims for full operation in 2027 with an annual power generation of 719 million kWh. The project is expected to boost the domestic solar thermal power industry and has already generated over 2000 jobs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 139th Canton Fair will feature dedicated zones for consumer and agricultural drones for the first time, showcasing China's advancements in the low-altitude economy. These zones will display innovations in areas like flight control systems, AI obstacle avoidance, and new energy power, with applications ranging from aerial photography to precision agriculture. The fair highlights China's technological capabilities and application of drones across various sectors. As of April 6th, over 190,000 overseas buyers had pre-registered to attend the Canton Fair.
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Summary: The State Grid Jibei Electric Power Company (SGJEPC) is implementing the national energy security strategy by constructing a clean, low-carbon, secure, and efficient energy system. SGJEPC is focusing on strengthening the power grid, promoting technological innovation for green energy consumption, and empowering emerging industries through digital intelligence. Specifically, SGJEPC is building ultra-high voltage power lines to improve the security of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei power grid, increasing renewable energy capacity, and promoting green electricity use in data centers supporting the "Eastern Data, Western Computing" initiative. The company aims to increase renewable energy to 75% of the energy mix by 2030.
Summary: The article argues that the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is crucial for building a community of common destiny with neighboring countries, aligning with the goals outlined in the 15th Five-Year Plan. It highlights the synergy between the BRI's emphasis on infrastructure connectivity, "soft connectivity" through aligned rules and standards, and people-to-people exchanges with the concept of a shared future. The BRI's "hard connectivity" is strengthening economic ties, while "soft connectivity" is fostering responsibility through shared rules. The article emphasizes "heart connectivity" as key to mutual understanding through sustainable projects and cultural exchange, and argues that BRI can serve as a testing ground for a broader global community of common destiny. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article emphasizes that Party members should view their work as a "cause" (事业) rather than merely a "job" (职业), highlighting the difference between serving personal interests and dedicating oneself to the Party and the people. It argues that loyalty to the Party and the people is the foundation for treating work as a cause, requiring cadres to prioritize public interest and long-term goals over short-term gains. The article uses Xi Jinping's early work in Zhejiang as an example of prioritizing in-depth research and long-term planning over immediate results. It stresses that a "cause" is a relay race, necessitating a focus on the bigger picture, and making contributions that may not yield immediate visible results but benefit future generations.
Summary: This article argues for enhancing the international communication of Chinese rural culture to boost China's soft power, following Xi Jinping's call to actively promote Chinese culture. It identifies shortcomings in current rural cultural exports, including a lack of understanding of foreign audiences, over-reliance on foreign platforms, and a shortage of skilled personnel. The piece advocates for innovative storytelling that resonates emotionally with international audiences, leveraging digital technologies to improve dissemination, and cultivating local talent to share authentic narratives. By focusing on shared human experiences and utilizing advanced technologies, the article seeks to make Chinese rural culture more accessible and relatable to a global audience. The United States is not directly mentioned, but there are allusions to the utilization of overseas social media platforms.
Summary: Guangzhou is accelerating the application of unmanned agricultural technology to scale, creating "unmanned farms" that utilize drones, AI, and IoT devices like soil sensors to monitor crop growth and manage farming processes. AI algorithms analyze data from these devices to optimize irrigation, fertilization, and pest control, significantly reducing labor and resource costs while increasing efficiency. One farm manager noted that the "busiest" thing on the farm is now data. Guangzhou aims to build a complete unmanned system for cultivation and harvesting, integrating technologies like BeiDou navigation and agricultural big data platforms. These efforts include policy support and the construction of smart demonstration farms.
Summary: Anping County in Hebei province, known as "China's Wire Mesh Homeland," has successfully produced high-precision stainless steel printing mesh for high-end photovoltaic (PV) cell manufacturing through a "crowdfunding research" project. This initiative, involving collaborative investment and research, overcame previous reliance on expensive foreign imports of the critical material used in solar panel electrode printing. The project involved a consortium of entities, including the Hebei Academy of Industrial Technology, Anping Wire Mesh Group, Hebei Silk Reed Metal Products, and Kunshan Liangpin Silk Printing Equipment, sharing costs and risks. The domestically produced mesh has reduced costs and boosted the PV industry. Anping County has now initiated new "crowdfunding research" projects.
Summary: During the critical lambing season, Sunan Yugur Autonomous County in Zhangye, Gansu Province, is implementing precise policies and scientific management. Newborn lambs are being successfully delivered, revitalizing the grasslands. The provided image shows a flock of sheep foraging in Songmutan Village, Dahe Township, Sunan County on April 6th. The article makes no mention of either Chinese officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Following significant volatility in international crude oil prices since March 23rd, China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) announced continued price controls on refined oil products. Effective April 7th, the NDRC will implement adjustments, increasing gasoline prices by 420 RMB per ton and diesel prices by 400 RMB per ton, despite calculations indicating potential increases of 800 and 770 RMB respectively. The NDRC emphasized ensuring market stability and cracking down on violations of state pricing policies. The adjustments aim to mitigate the impact of rising international oil prices on the domestic market. The article does not refer to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Kunming Customs reports that the China-Laos Railway's import and export value has exceeded 80 billion yuan since its opening, expanding from 500 to 3,800 product types, serving over 6,000 enterprises nationwide and reaching 19 countries, including Laos and Thailand, boosting the Belt and Road Initiative. In the first quarter of this year, import and export value reached 6.81 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 62.7%. Notably, the export of "new three items" (新能源汽车、锂电池、光伏产品) increased significantly, with photovoltaic product exports reaching 1.19 billion yuan, a 43.2-fold increase. The railway is becoming an efficient channel for two-way trade.
Summary: Yiwu's foreign trade is booming, particularly with Africa, which is Yiwu's largest export market with trade increasing 84.7% year-on-year in the first two months of 2024. Senegalese businessman Cheikh Ahmadou praised Yiwu's efficiency in business registration, enabled by reforms reducing the process to one day. Yiwu is seeing increased trade with ASEAN countries, with imports and exports up 99.0% in the first two months of 2024. The city is also expanding its imports, particularly of consumer goods, facilitated by policies like zero tariffs on goods from 53 African countries and the development of the Yiwu aviation port. Yiwu is also upgrading its export products by focusing on technology and brands, as seen in the popularity of AI translators.
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Summary: The article focuses on the efforts to encourage local officials to take initiative and responsibility in their work, specifically in attracting investment to Shandong's Zaozhuang city. It highlights the experience of Tian Qing, a deputy director of the investment promotion department in the Tai'erzhuang Economic Development Zone, who overcame her initial hesitation and proactively sought solutions to attract businesses. Zaozhuang city has implemented reforms, including a new operation regulation, to support officials in their innovative exploration and encourage them to take responsibility. These reforms also include reward and promotion procedures to incentivize and recognize the work of officials who attract large projects.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of proactive initiative and a willingness to take responsibility among cadres, arguing that some have become passive and risk missing opportunities by waiting for instructions. It stresses that cadres should cultivate a sense of responsibility, proactively seek out problems, and develop their skills through diligent research and practical experience. The piece advocates combining enthusiasm with scientific decision-making to find effective solutions. By cultivating a proactive mindset, cadres can better seize opportunities and achieve success. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Gansu province is implementing measures to strengthen the rule of law in grassroots governance, focusing on the revised "two laws" concerning village and resident committees. These measures include strengthening the leadership of local Party organizations, revising village rules and resident covenants, reducing the burden on grassroots organizations, and expanding channels for public participation. Emphasis is placed on studying and implementing Xi Jinping's thoughts on the rule of law, particularly in relation to grassroots governance. The province is also working to improve the legal service system at the grassroots level, and is standardizing village affairs disclosure to protect the rights of the public.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court released five typical cases on safeguarding and regulating lawyer participation in litigation, emphasizing the support for lawyers' lawful and standardized performance of duties. These cases demonstrate the court's commitment to protecting lawyers' rights and regulating their professional activities, including zero tolerance for infringement on lawyers' personal rights, as shown in a case where a person who assaulted a lawyer was detained. However, the court also highlighted the need to regulate lawyers who violate laws and regulations, citing a case where a lawyer was penalized for defaming and threatening a judge. The report aims to maintain judicial authority and public trust through these measures.
Summary: The article reports on Jianwei County in Sichuan Province's efforts to improve elder care through community initiatives. Specifically, it highlights the construction of "happiness canteens" in communities and villages. One example is a privately run "one-yuan canteen" in Yujin Town, funded through donations, subsidies, and self-funding, which addresses the needs of elderly, disabled, and isolated individuals over 80. The initiative aims to provide affordable meals to vulnerable elderly populations. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were mentioned.
Summary: Beijing's 2025 white paper on administrative reconsideration and litigation shows a 5.1:1 ratio of administrative reconsideration applications to first-instance administrative cases, indicating increased preference for reconsideration. In the resolved administrative reconsideration cases, direct error correction measures were taken in 7.9% of cases. Mediation and settlement efforts led to a 28.5% settlement rate, and 93% of cases did not proceed to litigation or petitions after administrative reconsideration. Zhang Guoqiang, Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice, noted that the "streamlined case handling" mechanism reduced the average case processing time by 50% compared to before the implementation of the new Administrative Reconsideration Law.
Summary: A long-standing dispute between two neighbors in Shanghai's Yangpu district, stemming from a disagreement over a shared hallway window, escalated into legal action and physical altercations. The Yangpu District People's Procuratorate intervened, employing a "procuratorate-court coordination + comprehensive management linkage" mechanism, to mediate the conflict. Prosecutors conducted extensive investigations and facilitated communication, emphasizing the emotional and temporal costs of the dispute. Ultimately, the court adopted the procuratorate's re-examination proposal, leading to a settlement where both parties addressed their respective grievances and withdrew legal actions. The procuratorate highlighted the importance of proactive dispute resolution and integrating legal principles with empathetic approaches in handling community conflicts.
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Summary: Premier Li Qiang signed State Council Decree No. 834, promulgating the "Regulations on the Security of Industrial and Supply Chains," effective immediately. These regulations aim to safeguard supply chains, enhance resilience, and protect national security, citing laws like the National Security Law and the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law. The regulations establish a national-level coordination mechanism, tasking various ministries with securing critical supply chains and promoting international cooperation, including participation in global rule-making. Articles 14 and 15 address countermeasures against discriminatory measures or actions by foreign entities that harm China's supply chains, including potential restrictions on trade, investment, and personnel. These regulations address the possibility of retaliatory measures against entities that take actions against China.
Summary: In April, the Chengwuxian County Power Supply Department of Heze City, Shandong Province is supporting local farmers with spring irrigation. 750,000 mu of winter wheat utilize water-saving irrigation methods like sprinkler and drip irrigation to improve production efficiency. This effort aims to secure stable and high yields for grain production. A photo shows the sprinkler irrigation in operation.
Summary: Sichuan province has granted professional titles to independent artists, including singer Hailai Amu and Jiangyang Zhuoma, a move designed to recognize and support this growing sector. Sichuan established a special committee within the provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles to evaluate artists lacking affiliation with state-run institutions, focusing on professional achievements and social impact. This initiative aims to break down barriers and provide clearer career paths for talented individuals previously excluded from the formal accreditation system. The reform emphasizes practical skills and contributions over traditional criteria for evaluating artistic professionals. This marks a targeted effort in Sichuan's broader professional title reform to boost innovation and talent development.
Summary: The China Manned Space Engineering Office has officially released the mission insignia for the Tianzhou-10 flight. The circular design symbolizes the mission's success and harmonious coordination between space and Earth. The insignia features the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft traveling to the space station and incorporates the number "10" with the official project logo. The color scheme of deep space blue and red-gold represents the mission's precision and the courage of Chinese astronauts. The design does not include any reference to the United States.
Summary: A Long March-8 rocket successfully launched 18 satellites into orbit from the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site. This launch, marking the seventh installment of the "Qianfan Constellation" network, contributes to China's independent low-orbit satellite internet system. The system aims to provide integrated air-space-sea solutions. The launch involved upgrades to the launch site's infrastructure to accommodate the Long March-8, and also saw the launch site's meteorological system independently handling weather support.
Summary: Karamay District in Xinjiang is implementing a talent-strengthening strategy to support its transition from a resource-based city, focusing on attracting, cultivating, retaining, and utilizing talent. The district has established a special fund, implemented projects to attract experts in various fields, and expanded recruitment channels to attract professionals. These efforts have led to technological advancements, improved public services, and the establishment of new tech enterprises. Karamay District has also improved its talent service system, offering subsidies, housing, and support to attract and retain skilled individuals.
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Summary: To commemorate World Health Day, China is promoting the use of technology and AI to improve healthcare access and efficiency. Qingzhen City in Guizhou has implemented "AI doctors" in rural clinics to assist doctors with diagnoses, while Hangzhou, Zhejiang is using robots for physical therapy. Tianjin's Xiqing District has established a digital medical consortium ("four clouds" platform) to enhance healthcare management, drug supply, and diagnostic services. These initiatives aim to address shortages in medical personnel and improve the quality of care, particularly in underserved areas. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Shanghai police are warning citizens to be wary of overseas employment scams that lure workers abroad on tourist visas. Authorities caution that legitimate overseas employment requires a work visa obtained through the employer, while tourist visas used for work can lead to charges of illegal residence, detention, and forced criminal activity. Potential workers should verify employers through official channels, consult with family and friends, and be especially cautious of opportunities in regions known for telecom fraud.
Summary: Shanghai police officers Jiang Jiaming and Dai Haosheng intervened at Hongqiao Airport to prevent a 25-year-old man from boarding a flight after a tip-off from his family who suspected a scam. The man claimed he was going abroad for a new job, but the officers noted irregularities, such as the lack of a labor contract or work visa. Jiang explained the legal risks of working abroad without proper documentation, and convinced the man to abandon his plans, protecting him from potential fraud and illegal employment. The officers also recommended anti-fraud resources. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China has established initial standards for intelligent quality control in fetal ultrasound, according to the State Administration for Market Regulation. These standards include ultrasonic section scoring and quantitative scoring models for key anatomical structures. Six industry and group standards have been formulated, filling a standardization gap in the field. The effort, which spanned the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, involved research into standard reference atlases and intelligent evaluation technologies. A dynamic evolution mechanism for fetal ultrasound standard reference atlases was established, and a large-scale fetal ultrasound database was constructed.
Summary: During the 2024 Qingming holiday, domestic tourism in China saw 135 million trips, a 6.8% increase year-on-year, generating 61.367 billion yuan in revenue, up 6.6%. Memorial activities at sites honoring revolutionary martyrs saw increased visitation, with "cloud sweeping" gaining popularity. Various localities integrated remembrance with patriotic education. Extended spring breaks for students in multiple provinces fueled family travel, with parent-child activities accounting for 37% of tourism spend.
Summary: Hong Kong's Home and Youth Affairs Bureau launched the "World Health Day 2026: Master Your Healthy Life - 18 Districts Caring for Health Campaign" in Sai Ying Pun to strengthen community-level primary healthcare support. Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs Alice Mak Mei-kuen stated the collaboration combines the care teams' community network with the HKU medical school's expertise to promote "healthy roots in the community." The year-long campaign will offer free health screenings, lectures, and community sports experiences across Hong Kong's 18 districts. The initiative aims to promote preventative medicine and improve overall community health.
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Summary: Liaoning province, with its extensive coastline, is focusing on ecological restoration, coastline management, and improving water quality to protect its marine environment. The province has implemented measures such as restoring wetlands, exemplified by the Liaoning River estuary, where they removed aquafarms and restored over 5700 hectares of wetlands. They also addressed river pollution, such as in the Fuzhou River, by reducing nitrogen levels through improved waste management and agricultural practices. These efforts have led to improved water quality and the development of eco-tourism, as seen on Dalu Island, which was named to the national list of "Beautiful Bays".
Summary: According to a report from the China Three Gorges Corporation, the Three Gorges Project operated well in the first quarter of 2024, ensuring safety across several sectors including water, energy, navigation, and ecology within the Yangtze River basin. The Three Gorges Dam and reservoir are functioning normally, with water quality remaining stable, and a total of 9 billion cubic meters of water were released downstream to support water demand. Electricity generation exceeded 16 billion kilowatt-hours, and cargo volume through the ship lock reached 35.47 million tons. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: China's Meteorological Administration has launched the "Spring Rain" operation to induce rainfall and snowfall in Northwest and North China, aiming to combat drought and support spring planting. The operation, utilizing 19 aircraft and ground teams, has already completed three joint operations, impacting nearly one million square kilometers and increasing precipitation by 129 million tons. This initiative, running until April 30th, is part of a broader effort to implement seasonal weather modification activities across China to address various needs, including disaster relief, food security, and ecological protection. The upcoming "Summer Peace," "Autumn Harvest," and "Winter Purity" operations will focus on regions like Southwest, Central, and Eastern China. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The "Blooming Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei: National Flower Appreciation Season" ecological and cultural activities have commenced in Tianjin, jointly organized by the forestry and grassland departments of the three regions. The event, promoting ecological collaboration and cultural tourism integration, features flower viewing experiences and themed routes across the region. Tianjin alone has established 129 viewing locations, most free of charge, accompanied by an electronic map and offering themed experiences like "flower appreciation, green embrace, historic visits, and culinary delights". The event aims to build platforms for ecological co-construction, cultural tourism consumption, and regional cooperation, showcasing ecological achievements and fostering deeper collaboration in branding, route connectivity, and tourist exchange.
Summary: A team of wildlife conservationists in Xinjiang's Tashkurgan Wildlife Nature Reserve, led by veteran Milu Maimaiti, are conducting routine patrols to protect the Pamir Argali and other rare species. Milu Maimaiti emphasizes the improved protection conditions, including better infrastructure and monitoring technology, while highlighting the importance of continued vigilance. The reserve has implemented a management system dividing the area into responsibility zones with assigned teams. Local border guards and herders also contribute to conservation efforts. The Pamir Argali population has increased to approximately 3,000, with other wildlife populations also showing growth.
Summary: Gansu Province has issued an opinion paper focusing on the conservation and intensive use of water resources, aiming to support high-quality economic and social development by improving water security. The measures include a comprehensive assessment of water resources, establishing a unified database, and classifying areas facing water scarcity. The province plans to accelerate water rights reform pilot programs, aiming to make water rights trading a standard method for addressing new water needs within three years. The plan also includes establishing a mechanism for the tiered collection and storage of water indicators.
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Summary: The article discusses smart city initiatives in Santander, Seoul, and Stockholm, highlighting the use of technology to improve urban management and citizen services. Santander integrates city sensor data for efficient resource management, and a Hikvision innovation center offers AI and IoT applications. Seoul focuses on smart infrastructure, services, and citizens, including free WiFi, autonomous buses, and AI-driven administrative assistance. Stockholm leverages IoT for traffic management, a central IoT platform for collaboration, and data-driven waste management, including congestion taxes and electric hydrofoil ferries.
Summary: At a press conference, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning expressed "serious concern" over Japan's planned revision of its "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment," including potentially exporting lethal weapons and relaxing reporting requirements. Mao stated this represents a fundamental shift in Japan's post-war arms export policy, violating international legal documents and its own constitution, and undermining safeguards against the resurgence of Japanese militarism. Mao asserted that Japan's "re-militarization" is a reality with concrete actions, threatening regional stability, and urged Japan to reflect on its history and act cautiously in military and security matters. The spokesperson also noted that most Japanese citizens oppose easing restrictions on arms exports. There was no mention of the United States or US-China relations in the article.
Summary: During a press conference on April 7th, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning stated that the root cause of the ongoing conflict in Iran lies in the military strikes launched by the United States and Israel against Iran in violation of international law. Mao emphasized the urgent need for a ceasefire and a return to dialogue and negotiation to fundamentally resolve the issues and restore peace and stability in the Gulf region. She mentioned that Foreign Minister Wang Yi has made 26 calls with Iran, Israel, Russia, and Gulf states to promote a ceasefire, and that China's special envoy to the Middle East has also been working to mediate the conflict. She further stated that China and Pakistan jointly proposed a five-point initiative which demonstrates the general consensus among the international community to facilitate peace and end the war. Mao also stated that the current situation is worsening, impacting the world economy and energy security and that the international community is deeply concerned.
Summary: According to U.S. officials cited by the *Wall Street Journal*, the U.S. attacked over 50 military targets on Khark Island, Iran, a major oil export hub, while Iran's Mehr news agency reported joint U.S.-Israeli attacks and explosions on the island. These attacks prompted the EU to voice opposition to any threats or attacks on critical civilian infrastructure, especially given potential escalation risks in the Middle East. Meanwhile, Cambodia enacted a new law targeting telecom fraud, with severe penalties including life imprisonment for leaders of criminal syndicates. Japan's parliament approved a record-high budget for the 2026 fiscal year, raising concerns about national debt.
Summary: A Korean translator discusses their experience translating the Chinese film "731," detailing the atrocities committed by the Japanese Unit 731 during World War II. The translator emphasizes the importance of remembering this history, including the live experiments conducted on Chinese, Korean, and Soviet citizens. The translator notes that some countries, for their own gain, harbored war criminals and received data related to Japan's biological warfare. The translator criticizes the current denial of these atrocities by some in Japan and stresses the need to remember history to prevent future tragedies.
Summary: Chinese motorcycle brands are gaining popularity in Latin America due to their performance, affordability, and improved after-sales service, with exports to the region increasing significantly in 2025. The "Zhangxue Motorcycle" team's victory in the World Superbike Championship has boosted sales and brand recognition. Chinese manufacturers like CFMOTO and Qianjiang Motorcycle are expanding their presence with new models and customized solutions. The increasing demand for motorcycles in Latin America, driven by urban transportation needs and the growth of delivery services, presents significant growth opportunities for Chinese brands. Latin American media notes the shift of Chinese motorcycles from "cost-effective" to focusing on "technology and brand power".
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Summary: A symposium was held at the People's Daily to discuss strengthening international communication and promoting a community with a shared future for neighboring countries, along with the launch of a book and video project titled "Border Town Notes." Participants exchanged ideas on telling stories about neighboring regions and contributing to the implementation of the central government's policy on neighborhood diplomacy. The speakers emphasized the importance of portraying a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China through genuine and relatable stories, especially those highlighting cultural exchange and mutual understanding with neighboring countries. Several speakers mentioned the importance of media in promoting mutual understanding with neighboring countries.
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Summary: A Shenzhen-based company is developing core components for intelligent sensing and robotics, aiming for breakthroughs in humanoid robots and autonomous driving, creating an independent robotic perception system. Their strategy involves "climbing peaks while laying eggs," focusing on long-term core technology development while rapidly commercializing mature technologies. This approach allows them to sustain growth and contribute to China's broader push for technological self-reliance and high-quality development by integrating technological innovation with industrial innovation. The article highlights the need for China to achieve key technological breakthroughs independently, given the complex international environment. It also shows how technology from the new energy vehicles is being used in the humanoid robot industry.
Summary: Professor Yu Guangli of Ocean University of China traveled to Chile to obtain a specific species of Antarctic brown algae, *Durvillaea antarctica*. From this alga, his team in Qingdao extracted key components to develop BG136, a novel marine-derived polysaccharide drug for cancer immunotherapy, which is entering clinical trials. Yu's team was motivated by previous experiences of having research interrupted due to supply chain issues, and sought to find alternative resources from the ocean. The development of BG136 involved overcoming numerous challenges, including scaling up production and navigating stringent regulatory reviews. The article highlights the need for national-level support and strategic coordination to further advance China's marine biomedicine industry.
Summary: The "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1," the world's largest piling ship, has been delivered in Nantong, Jiangsu. Equipped with a 156-meter-high piling frame and capable of driving 7-meter diameter piles weighing up to 700 tons, it features core components that are domestically produced, including a globally unmatched hydraulic cylinder. According to Hu Kai, General Manager of China Railway Bridge Bureau Shipping Company, the ship will be deployed to Brazil for the construction of the Salvador Sea-Crossing Bridge, the largest cable-stayed bridge in Latin America. The ship incorporates technologies such as a closed-loop hydraulic system for energy recovery and a domestically produced BeiDou satellite positioning system for centimeter-level accuracy. The ship represents a significant advancement in China's piling ship technology, reducing dependence on foreign technology.
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Summary: China's March PMI figures show expansion in manufacturing (50.4%), non-manufacturing (50.1%), and composite output (50.5), signaling improved economic sentiment and resilience. New orders in equipment and high-tech manufacturing are particularly strong, indicating new growth momentum driven by technological innovation. Consumption is also on the rise, with the consumer goods manufacturing new orders index exceeding 52%. The focus is on high-quality development, upgrading manufacturing, and fostering new productive forces to bolster the economy. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese-made thermoses are gaining popularity globally, evolving from practical tools to symbols of a healthy lifestyle, with China producing over 60% of the world's supply. Thermos manufacturers are incorporating smart technology, such as AI-powered tea brewing and temperature monitoring, to meet changing consumer demands and expand into high-end markets. Companies are also innovating with materials like titanium and adapting designs to suit regional preferences in markets like North America and Asia. Chinese companies are focusing on building their own brands and integrating Chinese cultural elements to enhance their global market presence and move up the value chain. There is no mention of US-China relations.
Summary: The Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu is promoting ancient Shu culture through creative cultural products based on a unique bronze figure unearthed from the site. This 10.35 cm tall, headless bronze figure has gained popularity due to its modern-like design. The museum has designed various cultural products based on the bronze figure, such as bottle openers and "呜噜噜" themed merchandise, to engage with the public and make ancient Shu civilization more accessible. Tourists have expressed enthusiasm for these products, finding them interesting and representative of local culture. The museum aims to make its relics "alive" and pass on ancient Shu culture.
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Summary: The author recounts their personal and professional relationship with writer Wang Zengqi, beginning with an early literary review in 1981 that initiated a decades-long correspondence and friendship. The author, a native of Gaoyou like Wang, emphasizes their role in promoting Wang's work, including editing his collected works and initiating a television documentary about him called "Dream Homeland" for which Wang wrote the title and theme song. They highlight Wang's gratitude for the reform and opening up period, which allowed him to return to the literary scene. The author expresses pride in their connection to Wang Zengqi and their efforts to promote his legacy. The author makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article critiques superficial achievements ("长处") that mask underlying deficiencies, arguing they are ultimately unsustainable. It criticizes officials who prioritize appearances and empty rhetoric over genuine action and tangible results for the people. The author calls for a shift in evaluation metrics, emphasizing practical effectiveness (实效) and public satisfaction (民心) over superficial displays. Historical examples illustrate the futility of prioritizing outward appearances over substance. The piece advocates for focusing on genuine capabilities and addressing real needs to create lasting value.
Summary: This article is a reflection on the author's personal experiences and fondness for books and reading. The author recounts memories of their personal "sunshine study," their time working in a library, and an encounter with a young boy reading in a poor village. The author emphasizes the beauty of people reading and the joy they derive from reading a variety of books. They conclude that spending time with books brings light into their life. The U.S. and U.S.-China relations are not discussed in the article.
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Summary: This article describes the process of making "Shefan," a traditional Tujia dish made during the Spring Social Festival (春社) in rural China. The author recounts memories of helping their aunt (孃孃) gather ingredients like artemisia and cudweed from the fields. The dish involves cooking these herbs with rice, preserved meat, and other ingredients in a wooden steamer. The Spring Social Festival is described as a time for community celebration, honoring the land, and welcoming home family members who have migrated for work. The article alludes to the festival's historical roots in ancient Chinese traditions and poetry.
Summary: This poem praises the moon, especially the moon in the latter half of the night, for its brightness and quiet influence. It emphasizes the moon's role in illuminating China's landmarks, from the Great Wall to the Yangtze River. The poem suggests the latter-night moon is like a modest gentleman, preferring to shine when others are asleep. Furthermore, it argues that the new day begins not with the sunrise but at midnight, implying the moon's influence in ushering in new beginnings and awakening the sun. The poem does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Workers from a Jiangxi water plant company are planting *duck tongue grass* in the Qingxi River to purify the water. According to one of the workers, Mr. Hu, the company has hundreds of acres of the water plant and the workers have been planting them nationwide for 10 years. The workers are being paid by the amount of grass planted, and they expect to be working on this particular river for a month.
Summary: This blurb is a brief announcement from the *People's Daily* soliciting original submissions from readers. It specifies that submissions should be original, unpublished works and not submitted to multiple publications simultaneously. There is no discussion of any official statements, actions, or U.S.-China relations.
Reply Letter
To all faculty, students, and staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), Xi'an Jiao Tong University (西安交通大学), Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学), and Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学):
I have received your letter. Your four universities share the same roots and are jointly celebrating the 130th anniversary of their founding this year. I would like to extend my congratulations to all faculty, students, staff, and alumni.
I hope that you will continue to be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold the educational philosophy of "seeking practical knowledge and pursuing practical careers," inherit and promote the spirit of westward relocation, focus on major national strategic needs, strengthen independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talent, achieve more breakthroughs in promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, and research, and make new contributions to building a strong country in education, science and technology, and talent.
Xi Jinping (习近平)
April 7, 2026
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), April 7)
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), April 7 Recently, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), President of the People's Republic of China (国家主席), and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), replied to a letter from all faculty, students, and staff of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), Xi'an Jiao Tong University (西安交通大学), Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学), and Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学), expressing his earnest expectations for the development of the universities.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that your four universities share the same roots and are jointly celebrating the 130th anniversary of their founding this year. I would like to extend my congratulations to all faculty, students, staff, and alumni.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that he hopes you will continue to be guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, uphold the educational philosophy of "seeking practical knowledge and pursuing practical careers," inherit and promote the spirit of westward relocation, focus on major national strategic needs, strengthen independent innovation in science and technology and independent cultivation of talent, achieve more breakthroughs in promoting the deep integration of industry, academia, and research, and make new contributions to building a strong country in education, science and technology, and talent. (The full text of the reply will be released separately.)
The predecessors of Shanghai Jiao Tong University (上海交通大学), Xi'an Jiao Tong University (西安交通大学), Southwest Jiaotong University (西南交通大学), and Beijing Jiaotong University (北京交通大学) were Nanyang Public School (南洋公学), established in 1896, Beiyang Railway Official School (北洋铁路官学堂), and the Railway Management Training Institute (铁路管理传习所), established in 1909. In 1921, they merged to form Jiaotong University (交通大学). Recently, all faculty, students, and staff of the four Jiaotong Universities wrote a letter to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), reporting on the 130-year development history and academic achievements of the universities, and expressing their determination to contribute to the great cause of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 7th. On April 7th, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China, sent a congratulatory message to To Lam (苏林), congratulating him on his election as President of Vietnam.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Vietnam are a community with a shared future of strategic significance. In recent years, under the joint leadership and promotion of the leaders of the two parties and countries, China-Vietnam relations have achieved leapfrog development, and the comprehensive strategic cooperation has yielded fruitful results, bringing tangible benefits to the people of both countries. Since the beginning of this year, the two sides have maintained high-level strategic communication and continued to promote all-round mutually beneficial cooperation, fully demonstrating the profound friendship of "comrades plus brothers."
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that in the face of the accelerating evolution of the world's once-in-a-century changes, strengthening solidarity and cooperation between China and Vietnam is in the common interest of the two parties and countries. I attach great importance to the development of relations between the two parties and countries of China and Vietnam, and I am willing to work with General Secretary and President To Lam (苏林) to jointly seek development and revitalization, lead the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future to move forward continuously, continuously strengthen their respective socialist causes, better benefit the people of the two countries, and inject stability and positive energy into the region and the world.
On the same day, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) sent a congratulatory message to Pham Minh Chinh (黎明兴) on his election as Prime Minister of the Vietnamese Government, expressing his willingness to work with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (黎明兴) to take the important consensus of the top leaders of the two parties and countries as the fundamental guideline, accelerate the construction of a mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation pattern, and make positive contributions to promoting the building of the China-Vietnam community with a shared future of strategic significance.
Return to TopHow can one of the world's largest Marxist ruling parties successfully break free from the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise, and decline, and ensure that it never changes its nature, color, or flavor?
The Chinese Communists of the new era, based on the first answer given by Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) in those years, which was "let the people supervise the government," have given a second answer, which is "the Party's self-revolution."
How can the People's Army, which is about to celebrate its centenary, continuously enhance its political advantages and stride towards becoming a world-class force in the face of complex and profound changes in the world, the country, the Party, and the military?
President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that it is necessary to firmly grasp the requirements of the times for building the military politically, unremittingly promote building the military politically, and ensure that the People's Army always maintains its nature and purpose, always dares to fight and win, always unites and struggles, always has a continuous stream of talent, always remains pure and glorious, and always strictly abides by laws and disciplines.
"To strengthen the military, we must first strengthen it politically, and political strength is the most fundamental strength." Since entering the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of winning the historical initiative in strengthening the military and revitalizing the military, leading and promoting the building of the military politically and deepening political rectification with great political courage and a strong sense of historical responsibility, firmly safeguarding the political character of the People's Army, and opening a new journey of reshaping the People's Army through political rectification.
"Comprehensively strengthen the Party's leadership and Party building work in our army in the new era to provide a strong political guarantee for creating a new situation in strengthening the military."
September 3, 2025, the anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The People's Army will gloriously accept the review of President Xi (习近平) and the review of the Party and the people with a new style of political rectification, a new layout of power structure, new progress in modernization construction, and new achievements in preparing for war and combat.
At the forefront of the reviewed troops, the flag of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the flag of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国), and the flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军) flutter in the wind under the escort of the guard of honor.
In this grand military parade, the "August 1st" Army Flag (八一军旗), the service flags, the branch flags, and the People's Armed Police Force flag made their first collective appearance on the parade ground, with a red background and gold five-pointed stars and the words "August 1st" on them.
The soul of the army will never change, and the military flag will always be oriented towards the Party. Unwaveringly adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army, the People's Army has always been highly centralized and unified, and marched forward in unison.
The Party's leadership and Party building are the key to the construction and development of our army, which is related to the success or failure of strengthening the military and the long-term stability of the Party and the country.
Before the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the People's Army once experienced problems such as the weakening of the Party's leadership, the absence of Party building, and the failure to comprehensively and strictly govern the Party. If these problems are not thoroughly resolved, they will not only affect the army's combat effectiveness, but also concern the major political principle of the Party commanding the gun.
At a major historical juncture, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core firmly grasped the fundamental principle of adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army, unswervingly promoted political rectification, and comprehensively strengthened the Party's leadership and Party building in our army in the new era.
Minxi Gutian (闽西古田) – the place where the principles of building the Party ideologically and building the military politically were established. President Xi (习近平) personally decided to hold the All-Army Political Work Conference here, made arrangements for building the military politically in the new era, promoted political rectification with the spirit of rectification, and led the People's Army to set out again with a new look.
Northern Shaanxi Yan'an (陕北延安) – the sacred place of the Chinese revolution and the birthplace of the rectification movement. At the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference held here, President Xi (习近平) scientifically summarized the connotation requirements of the "Ten Clears" of the new era's strategy for building the military politically, and emphasized the need to "carry forward the spirit of thorough self-revolution and continuously deepen political rectification."
"Political rectification must adhere to grasping from a political perspective, focusing on solving the fundamental problems of the Party's absolute leadership over the army." In recent years, the People's Army has unswervingly promoted political rectification, rectifying ideology, rectifying personnel, rectifying organization, rectifying work style, and rectifying discipline, effectively solving the prominent problems of weakening the Party's absolute leadership over the army, adhering to, consolidating, and improving the system of the Party's absolute leadership over the army, and guarding the roots and soul in revolutionary forging.
The Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission have made a series of political designs and institutional arrangements around the Party's absolute leadership over the army, and have achieved major theoretical, practical, and institutional achievements –
"Adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army" has been elevated to a basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The system of the Chairman Responsibility System of the Central Military Commission was established in the Party Constitution. Deepen the reform of national defense and the military, form a new pattern of the Military Commission exercising overall management, the theater commands focusing on combat, and the services focusing on construction, so as to better concentrate the supreme leadership and command of the military in the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission.
Establish and improve the three mechanisms of request for instructions and reports, supervision and inspection, and information service, issue opinions and regulations on major matters such as requesting instructions and reports, supervising and implementing instructions and approvals, supervision and accountability, and learning and education planning, and promote the implementation of the Chairman Responsibility System of the Central Military Commission in all fields and throughout the entire process of national defense and military construction.
Adhere to the simultaneous efforts of building the Party ideologically and governing the Party with institutions, issue the "Regulations on Party Building in the Chinese People's Liberation Army" and the "Work Regulations of the Communist Party of China Army Committee (Branch)" and the "Regulations on the Implementation of the Main Responsibility of Comprehensively and Strictly Governing the Party by the Army Party Committee," revise the "Regulations on Political Work in the Army," and systematically construct the institutional regulations for Party building in the army...
All officers and soldiers of the army profoundly understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," achieve the "Two Safeguards," implement the Chairman Responsibility System of the Central Military Commission, and firmly be loyal to the core, support the core, maintain the core, and defend the core.
Jiangxi Yongxin (江西永新), among the green hills and clear waters, the magnificent Sanwan Reorganization Monument stands tall. During an inspection of troops, President Xi (习近平) affectionately recounted the story that took place here during the early days of the Red Army: "The 54th Group Army has a famous 'Red First Company.' During the 'Sanwan Reorganization' in September 1927, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) personally established a Party branch in this company and developed six new Party members, pioneering the precedent of 'building Party branches at the company level' in our army."
In the new era, the organizational structure and power system of the army have undergone an overall revolutionary reshaping, and the system structure, type setting, and functional configuration of Party organizations at all levels and of all types have correspondingly undergone great changes.
"Only when the Party's organizations at all levels are sound and strong, forming a close organizational system that runs through from top to bottom and is effective in execution, can the Party's leadership be 'as the body uses the arm, as the arm uses the finger.'" This is the reason why the Party's organizational line in the new era emphasizes "focusing on the construction of the organizational system."
Adapt to the adjustment of the army's system and establishment, standardize the functional positioning, establishment and establishment, and main tasks of Party organizations at all levels and of all types, and build a Party organization system that is connected with the new leadership and command system, matched with the new scale structure and force composition, and integrated with the effective fulfillment of the army's mission and tasks in the new era... President Xi (习近平) leads the entire army to grasp the foundation and key of Party organization building, and comprehensively strengthen organizations, functions, and teams, organize and unite the vast number of officers and soldiers, and unite them into "a hard piece of steel."
The high-level Party committees above the army level occupy an important position and bear great responsibility in the Party's organizational system of our army. In July 2023, when President Xi (习近平) inspected the Air Force of the Western Theater Command, he emphasized the need to focus on the high-level Party committees, adhere to leading by example and strict requirements, improve political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, improve the ability to lead war preparedness and combat, and make the Party committee team itself strong.
The entire army focuses on improving the self-construction and combat readiness capabilities of high-level Party committees, strengthens political ability training and political experience, strengthens regular learning and training in implementing democratic centralism, improves the implementation of Party committee deliberation and decision-making rules and decision-making supervision mechanisms, organizes Party committees of units above the army level to conduct a "look back" on ideological cleaning, conducts in-depth investigation and detailed examination around the "Five Rectifications," and continuously improves the self-construction measures of the Party committee team.
The strength of the Party comes from organization, and the army is strong when the organization is strong. Focusing on transforming the Party's leadership advantages into development advantages, the entire army strives to forge strong Party organizations that are politically firm and capable, continuously improves the Party organizations' leadership, organization, and execution, and wherever the mission and tasks expand, the functions and roles of the Party organizations are brought into play –
"Pure love, only for China." On the snowy plateau, Party organizations at all levels of our border defense troops stand firm at the front line, leading Party cadres take on responsibilities, and lead the vast number of officers and soldiers to dare to fight and dare to win, resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In the vast sky, loyalty soars. A certain aviation division of the Air Force has participated in many major exercises and training, and flew abroad to perform humanitarian rescue missions. The division Party committee guides the temporary Party organizations stationed abroad to play their functional roles well, ensuring that the organization is sound and not absent, and that organizational life is continuous.
In the distant sea, the heart is oriented towards the motherland. The naval escort formation has been fighting the wind and waves in the waters of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden for a long time. The temporary Party committee of the formation adheres to grasping education and construction in motion, forging a strong fighting fortress on the deep blue channel, and the ship will not lose its way for thousands of miles...
"Ensure that the gun is always in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the Party."
With the warm spring breeze, Baiwang Mountain (百望山) in the western suburbs of Beijing (北京) is full of lush grass and blooming mountain flowers. At the foot of the mountain, the National Defense University (国防大学) welcomes another group of military commanders who have been tempered and forged.
People are the core element of combat effectiveness and the decisive factor in modernization construction. As China's highest military academy, the National Defense University (国防大学) is rooted in the red Jinggang (井冈), inherits the blood of the Red University and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and is an important base for cultivating joint operations talents and senior and middle-level leading cadres.
In the spring of 2016, when President Xi (习近平) inspected the National Defense University (国防大学), he profoundly pointed out: "When cadres come to the National Defense University (国防大学) to study, the first thing is to study the Party's theory, receive Party spirit education, and improve their political and theoretical level. This must be highlighted and clear-cut."
Our army is facing complex and intricate tests in politics. How can we ensure that the gun is always in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the Party and ensure that the cause of the Party and the army is succeeded by future generations?
"We must firmly grasp the political gate, strengthen ideological and political construction, do a good job in casting souls and educating people and political investigation, and ensure that the talents cultivated and used are absolutely politically qualified." Grasping the decisive factor of people in winning the war, President Xi (习近平) leads the entire army to grasp the root and consolidate the foundation, and strives to forge a high-quality talent team that can shoulder the heavy responsibility of strengthening the army –
Emphasize "grasping the characteristics and laws of casting souls and educating people under the new situation, and focusing on cultivating a new generation of revolutionary soldiers with souls, abilities, bloodiness, and morality"; propose the standard of "good cadres in the army who are loyal to the Party, good at planning battles, dare to take responsibility, have outstanding achievements, and are honest and clean"; clarify that "the political standard is the first standard for talents in our army, and political requirements are the most fundamental requirements for talents in our army"...
At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, President Xi (习近平) clearly required when attending the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the People's Armed Police Force that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of a revolutionary and professional talent team, unremittingly use the Party's innovative theory to cast souls and educate people, lay a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party and follow the Party, and ensure that modern weapons and equipment are in the hands of the revolutionary talent team.
– Theoretical arming, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality.
One after another, carefully explained lectures, theoretical research experts gave lectures and guidance, and systematically interpreted; one after another, impromptu discussions, members of the Party committee's theoretical study center group connected with reality and discussed enthusiastically; one after another, ideological debates, the Party committee secretary took the lead in carrying out ideological self-examination and problem analysis...
In 2024, the entire army organized high-level Party committee theoretical lectures for Party committees of various departments and units and Party committees of units above the deputy theater level, setting up a demonstration guidance for senior cadres to receive education first and truly receive education.
Explain the theory with heartfelt service and summon officers and soldiers with the charm of truth. In the northwest border, the propaganda team went deep into the border posts to answer questions and dispel doubts; in the depths of the South China Sea, the backbone of theoretical study went to sea with the ship to open "deep blue theory classrooms"... In recent years, activities to serve the grassroots level with theory have been continuously carried out to promote the Party's innovative theory to better enter the hearts of officers and soldiers.
Learn ideology and cast loyalty. At the end of 2024, the "Dagong Third Company" (大功三连) went to South Sudan as a whole to perform peacekeeping missions. Facing the test of complex environment and difficult conditions, the company held a "soldiers' forum" every month and opened micro-classes during mission gaps, integrating theoretical study into daily life, encouraging officers and soldiers to brave the scorching sun and fight against wind and sand, and successfully completed joint patrols, armed escorts, and other tasks, demonstrating the good image of the Chinese army.
From the peacekeeping battlefield to the disaster relief front line, from the plateau islands to the Gobi Desert... Party committees at all levels of the army adhere to higher standards and take the lead, continuously deepen theoretical arming, grasp the study of the Party committee's theoretical study center group, the ideological and political education of the troops, and the political theory teaching of the colleges and universities, adhere to reading the original works, learning the original text, and understanding the principles, connect with the historical achievements of the cause of strengthening the army in the new era to feel the power of truth and the power of practice, and continuously enhance the political identity, ideological identity, theoretical identity, and emotional identity of the Party's innovative theory. Issued the "Opinions on Building a New Era People's Army Ideological and Political Education System" and the "Regulations on Ideological and Political Education in the Army," systematically reshaping the content, strength, operation, and institutional mechanisms of education, and continuously laying a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party and follow the Party.
– Transforming thoughts and correcting the "three views."
"If you relax an inch in thought, you will scatter a foot in action." President Xi (习近平) solemnly warned that ideological decline is the most serious disease. If the "master switch" is not tightened, the relationship between public and private cannot be handled correctly, and there is a lack of correct views on right and wrong, morality and interests, power, and career, various deviations and transgressions, running, leaking, and dripping are inevitable.
In the summer of 2024, at the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference, President Xi (习近平) profoundly analyzed the deep-seated contradictions and problems that need to be solved in the current political construction of the army, and required cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, to put themselves in it, take out the courage to abandon face and expose shortcomings and ugliness, and deeply reflect and seriously rectify with an attitude of deeply digging into the roots and touching the soul, solve the problems of ideological roots, and promote the political construction of the army to go deeper and more solid.
What do you do when you join the Party? What do you do when you become a soldier? What do you do when you become a general? Party committees of units above the regimental level throughout the army solemnly and earnestly held democratic life meetings of the Party committee team, conducted in-depth analysis and self-examination, and strictly reflected on themselves; checked and corrected erroneous words and deeds and bad practices contaminated by the poison at different levels, and focused on solving the problems of ideological roots such as ideals and beliefs, Party spirit cultivation, official morality, and personal character; solidly carried out the study and education of establishing and practicing correct views on performance, and corrected problems such as impure motives for performing duties, improper use of power for officials, and unrealistic work style... One after another discussion and analysis made people blush and sweat, touching the soul, and one after another warning education took cases as a mirror, shocking and awakening.
Ideological quenching is a deep plowing in the depths of the soul. Party committees at all levels adhere to political leadership, strengthen ideological quenching, promote ideological cleaning in depth, continuously deepen theoretical analysis, and strive to remove the roots of wrong ideas and establish correct values. A certain unit of the Army organized office cadres to analyze the ideological crux of problems such as circle culture, privilege thinking, and hypocrisy, diligently dusting off "ideological dust," thinking more about "the harm of greed," and often breaking "the thief in the heart," to ensure that there are no wild thoughts inside and no wild actions outside; the Guangdong (广东) Armed Police Force focused on correcting the work routines of falsehood, exaggeration, emptiness, and space, correcting the work ideas of subjective speculation, eagerness for quick success and instant benefit, and deviation from reality, and rebuilding the prestige of political work and reshaping the image of political cadres...
– Improve the style of study and combine knowledge with action.
The power of theory can only be brought into play when it is put into practice; the results of learning must be tested by practical results.
President Xi (习近平) once used the historical lessons of Zhao Kuo (赵括) in the Warring States period "talking about war on paper" and the scholars of the Jin Dynasty "talking emptily and abandoning affairs" to warn leading cadres to carry forward the Marxist style of study of integrating theory with practice, "never talk boastfully and fall into 'empty talk'"; he required adhering to the integration of learning, thinking, and application, the unity of knowing, believing, and acting, highlighting learning transformation and ideological transformation, and truly learning, understanding, and doing solid work.
The Party committee of a certain unit of the Air Force focused on solving the problem of "two skins" in learning and application. The Party committee team seriously studied and understood the military views and methodology contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) thinking on strengthening the army, conducted solid research on topics such as accelerating the generation of new quality combat effectiveness and innovating talent training models, and came up with practical and effective methods; a certain brigade of the Rocket Force combined special study with special tasks, promoted topic tackling with theoretical study, and cleared multiple blockages restricting the efficiency of combat readiness mobilization...
A Party Committee of an Air Force unit is focusing on solving the problem of the disconnect between theory and practice. The members of the Party Committee are conscientiously studying and comprehending the military perspectives and methodologies contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military. They are conducting thorough research on topics such as accelerating the generation of new-type combat capabilities and innovating talent cultivation models, and are coming up with practical and effective methods. A Rocket Force brigade is combining thematic studies with specific tasks, using theoretical learning to promote the tackling of key problems, and clearing multiple bottlenecks that restrict the improvement of combat readiness and mobilization efficiency...
The entire army is vigorously promoting the excellent study style of integrating theory with practice, researching and formulating measures to improve the study style of officers at or above the rank of lieutenant colonel, and issuing the "Measures for Inspecting Ideological and Political Education with Practical Results (Trial Implementation)," to promote the genuine study, understanding, belief, and application of the Party's innovative theories of the new era. At all levels, they are conducting research by directly facing problems, grasping rectification and reform by taking real action, and wholeheartedly solving difficult problems, transforming the effectiveness of learning into a vivid practice of focusing on preparing for war and advancing the cause of strengthening the military.
The power of thought flows silently and deeply; the nourishment of theory moisturizes things without sound.
The officers and soldiers of the "Strong Military and Skilled Red Fourth Company" of an Army brigade always keep in mind the entrustment of the commander-in-chief, devote themselves to the practice of strengthening the military with a charging posture, achieve full qualification in combat shooting less than a hundred days after the new equipment is installed, refresh 7 records in the superior's military skills assessment, and successfully complete a number of major exercises and training missions, and are commended by the Army as a "model unit for practicing the goal of strengthening the military."
War patrols in the South China Sea, police patrols in the East China Sea, strategic cruises... The "Strong Military Pioneer Flight Brigade" of an Air Force unit continues to strengthen theoretical arming, cultivate the political character of officers and soldiers who listen to the Party's command and are absolutely loyal, vigorously train for war, highlight actual combat training, pilots quickly master new models, fly to the limit, hit the boundary, strengthen the system, and many people win the "Golden Helmet" in the Air Force's confrontation competition.
"Model Border Defense Company on the Snowy Plateau," "Model Ground Station for Serving the Country with Aerospace," "Anti-Terrorist Sharp Knife Squadron," "Model Ground-to-Air Missile Battalion"... Looking at the entire army, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military, revolutionary soldiers of the "Four Haves" in the new era are growing up healthily, and "Four Irons" outstanding troops are accelerating their forging, injecting inexhaustible power into the cause of strengthening the military in the new era.
"We must inherit and carry forward the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army, pass them on from generation to generation, and always maintain the true qualities of the old Red Army."
In the new era, how to inherit and carry forward the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army is a major issue of concern to President Xi (习近平).
At an important meeting of the Central Military Commission, President Xi (习近平) pointed out clearly: "Our army is a people's army created and led by the Party. Whether it can maintain the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army is related to the life and death of the army, the success or failure of the Party and the country, and whether the socialist red country will change its color."
"We must pass on the fire of ideals and beliefs and the genes of red traditions from generation to generation, so that the revolutionary cause will be passed on and the blood will continue, and we will always maintain the true qualities of the old Red Army." In recent years, President Xi (习近平) has led the entire army to take inheriting and carrying forward the fine traditions of our Party and our army as an important part of promoting political building of the army and deepening political rectification, grasping it constantly and achieving success over time, and promoting the return of fine traditions and the return of the original intention.
The site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, the Red Boat on Nanhu Lake in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, the Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park of the Red Army's Long March, the Martyrs' Cemetery in the Capital of the Eyuwan Soviet Area... "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, whenever I go to a place for inspection, I have to pay tribute to the revolutionary holy sites, red old sites, and revolutionary historical memorial places that are of great historical significance to our Party. I have basically visited the main ones." President Xi (习近平) said: "Every time I go with a heart of reverence and return with many feelings."
Western Fujian, a land soaked in the blood of the ancestors. Every time he comes here, President Xi (习近平) takes time to visit and comfort the old revolutionary veterans.
"We meet again, how is your health now..." During the Gutian All-Army Political Work Conference, President Xi (习近平) specially invited 10 old Red Army soldiers, family members of martyrs, and representatives of "old underground Party members, old guerrillas, old liaison officers, old contact households, and old Soviet township cadres" to the conference驻地 to recall the past, talk about traditions, and chat about everyday life.
At lunchtime, President Xi (习近平) sat around with 11 grassroots cadres and model representatives of the troops to eat "Red Army meals," earnestly urging everyone that the young generation is the future and hope of the Party and the army, and the revolutionary cause depends on your continued struggle, and the fine traditions depend on your inheritance and development.
At this meeting, President Xi (习近平) incisively summarized the "eleven insistences" of the fine traditions of our army's political work, emphasizing that "these fine traditions are the fundamental principles and contents of our army's political work," and that they should be "restored and carried forward" to better promote the army's various constructions and work.
The towering Baota Mountain and the rolling Yanhe River. Yan'an (延安), the revolutionary holy land, witnessed the glorious history of the older generation of revolutionaries eating coarse grains, wearing cloth clothes, and defeating the "Xi'an (西安) style" with the "Yan'an (延安) style."
"When I was an educated youth in northern Shaanxi, every time I passed by Yan'an (延安), I would go to the revolutionary sites such as the Seventh National Congress Site, Yangjialing (杨家岭), Zao园 (枣园), and Fenghuangshan (凤凰山) to take a look." In President Xi's (习近平) heart, these old sites are "a book that can never be finished reading."
"Ten years ago, we held the All-Army Political Work Conference in Gutian (古田), and today we are holding the Military Commission Political Work Conference in Yan'an (延安), once again tracing back to the source." On June 17, 2024, during the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference, President Xi (习近平) led the participating representatives back to this red hot land that reversed the fate of China, and studied and deployed major issues concerning the Party's construction and control of the army from the ideological, political, and organizational aspects in the new era and on the new journey.
At this meeting, President Xi (习近平) profoundly expounded the six key tasks to be grasped in promoting the political building of the army on the new journey, one of which is to "restore and carry forward the fine traditions of political work." He emphasized that we should adhere to seeking truth from facts, adhere to teaching by example rather than by words, and cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, should lead by example and set an example, and inspire and drive the troops with their excellent work style and image.
The expectations with profound meaning and the earnest exhortations are powerful appeals and guiding forces.
Tracing the roots and casting the soul, inheriting the red gene—
In the deepening of political rectification, revolutionary holy sites have welcomed "root-seeking" detachments from all directions, becoming a large classroom for troops to carry out on-site teaching and continue the red bloodline.
Jinggang Mountain (井冈山), a mountain of revolution, a mountain of battle, but also a mountain of heroes and a mountain of glory. In the early spring season, the "root-seeking" detachment of the Army Infantry Academy came here again to trace the fighting footprints of the revolutionary predecessors and deeply appreciate the Jinggang Mountain (井冈山) spirit of firm belief, hard struggle, seeking truth from facts, daring to break new ground, relying on the masses, and daring to win.
For a long time, the academy has insisted on giving play to the advantages of red resources and has made active explorations in casting the soul and cultivating people with red genes. In May 2019, President Xi (习近平) came to the academy's Red Resource Research Center, listened to the relevant situation introduction, and emphasized that we should make good use of red resources, inherit red genes, and cultivate qualified Red Army successors from generation to generation.
Vigorously inheriting the red gene is a strategic task and basic project of the political building of the army in the new era. The Central Military Commission issued the "Implementation Outline for Inheriting the Red Gene," clarifying the guiding ideology, basic principles, key points of focus, and main tasks of inheriting the red gene. The entire army vigorously carried out publicity and education on the history of the Party and the army, strengthened the preservation, compilation, and research of history, carried out important commemorative activities, built and used military history venues well, and developed red revolutionary culture, so that the red gene will always maintain its vitality and demonstrate its power.
Maintaining the true color and carrying forward the fine work style—
Again, the sound of soldiers snoring is heard, and again, the night watch is stood. In recent years, batches of office cadres have packed their bags and rushed to grassroots units in remote and difficult areas of the army to serve as soldiers and squat in companies, change to the rank of private, and implement "five togethers" with officers and soldiers, returning to the "beginning of the soldier."
In May 2013, when President Xi (习近平) inspected the former Chengdu Military Region, which first created the practice of cadres going down to the company to serve as soldiers, he specially emphasized: "Serving as a soldier should be genuine, and squatting in the company should be genuine, and we should truly develop feelings and squat out a good work style." He has repeatedly made important instructions on the work of serving as a soldier and squatting in the company, leading and promoting the continuous development of the activities of serving as a soldier and squatting in the company, strengthening the relationship between officers and soldiers, and improving the work style.
"An excellent work style can shape a heroic troop, and a loose work style can ruin a victorious division." The entire army deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, the Military Commission's Ten-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, deeply carried out the "eight special cleanups and rectifications," comprehensively stopped the army's compensated services, and issued disciplinary prohibitions such as strictly prohibiting illegal banquets and drinking, and strictly prohibiting illegal business operations for profit. Firmly grasping the "key minority" of leading cadres, strengthening the restriction and supervision of matters such as the implementation of treatment regulations and the management and control of family members and children, influencing and driving the "vast majority" with the "key minority." Vigorously correcting formalism and bureaucracy, continuing to solve the "five excesses" problem to reduce the burden on the grassroots, wholeheartedly solving problems for officers and soldiers, and stimulating the motivation and vitality for starting businesses.
Tempering bloodiness and honing combat spirit—
"The army is to fight wars, and fighting wars must have the appearance of fighting wars, and we must not be afraid of hardship or death. The 'two fear nots' spirit was, is, and will always be our valuable spiritual wealth."
On December 13, 2017, President Xi (习近平) came to the "Wang Jie (王杰) Class" of a brigade of the 71st Group Army, cordially greeted the soldiers to sit around a circle, inquired in detail about everyone's study, training, and life, and encouraged everyone to make persistent efforts and take the lead in being good soldiers of the Wang Jie (王杰) type in the new era.
"In peacetime, we must never spoil the soldiers, the mighty division must still be mighty, and the soldiers must still have bloodiness." At important military meetings, at the scene of exercises and training, and when inspecting grassroots troops, President Xi (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that no matter when, the combat spirit of not being afraid of hardship or death cannot be lost. At the moment when the Party, the country, and the people need it, the army must have this spirit and this spirit.
The grassroots is a fertile ground for continuing fine traditions and a melting pot for forging bloody courage. The entire army's troops implemented the "Opinions on Strengthening the Cultivation of Combat Spirit," actively explored the construction of a long-term mechanism for cultivating combat spirit through multiple channels, learned from combat heroes, told combat stories, sang combat songs, and tempered and trained troops in arduous and strict training, in an environment close to actual combat, and in severe and complex military struggles, guiding officers and soldiers to hone their combat will and temper their combat style.
"The army is the one who holds the gun, and there must be no one in the army who has two minds about the Party, and there must be no hiding place for corrupt elements."
"At the beginning of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,' we must establish strict regulatory rules, closely monitor key links such as the flow of funds, the operation of power, and quality control, strengthen the supervision of major projects, strengthen military-local integration supervision, and ensure construction under the premise of supervision."
On March 7 this year, President Xi (习近平) attended the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress and delivered an important speech. Focusing on upholding and strengthening the Party's absolute leadership over the army and promoting the modernization of national defense and the army with high quality, he made important deployments for the key work of political building of the army at present, and clearly emphasized that the army is the one who holds the gun, and there must be no one in the army who has two minds about the Party, and there must be no hiding place for corrupt elements, and we must unswervingly promote the anti-corruption struggle.
Corruption is a stumbling block and stumbling block in the process of the development of the Party, the country, and the army. Setting rules at the beginning is a heartfelt exhortation and a clear attitude of being strict to the end.
The people's army does not tolerate corruption, and the mighty and civilized division does not tolerate defilement. At the beginning of his tenure as Chairman of the Military Commission, at an important meeting of the Military Commission, President Xi (习近平) made clear his attitude, "We must adhere to investigating every case and punishing every corruption, and we must severely punish all acts that violate Party discipline, state laws, and military discipline, and we will never tolerate or be soft-handed."
"Anti-corruption is a major struggle that we cannot afford to lose and must not lose." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi (习近平) has led the entire army to unswervingly comprehensively administer the Party strictly and comprehensively administer the army strictly, deeply promote political rectification, rectify the style of work and fight corruption, with unprecedented determination and unprecedented efforts.
Resolutely investigate and deal with serious violations of discipline and law cases such as Guo Boxiong (郭伯雄), Xu Caihou (徐才厚), Fang Fenghui (房峰辉), and Zhang Yang (张阳), and seriously investigate and deal with serious violations of discipline and law cases such as He Weidong (何卫东) and Miao Hua (苗华), and file cases for investigation and investigation into Zhang Youxia (张又侠) and Liu Zhenli (刘振立) who are suspected of serious violations of discipline and law...
No matter who it is or how high the position is, as long as they engage in corruption, they will never be tolerated. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and President Xi (习近平), the army's anti-corruption campaign has hit "tigers," cleared "big rats," and dug out "termites," always maintaining a high-pressure strict governance posture with no restricted areas, full coverage, and zero tolerance, investigating as much as is involved and digging as deep as is involved.
It takes more than a day to freeze three feet of ice, and it takes more than a day to melt three feet of ice. Corruption is the embodiment of the long-term accumulation and continuous fermentation of various adverse factors, and it has extremely strong stubbornness and repeatability. A slight relaxation will lead to a comeback, and even intensify. In this regard, President Xi (习近平) has made a series of important instructions—
Pointed out that "the situation in the anti-corruption struggle is still severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption is still arduous and heavy"; emphasized that "the anti-corruption struggle must be unswerving, and any hesitation, wavering, relaxation, softness, or abandonment halfway will commit a subversive error"; required that "we must always maintain the perseverance and persistence of anti-corruption forever on the road, maintain strategic determination and a high-pressure posture, and not stop for a step or retreat for half a step"...
宜将剩勇追穷寇，不可沽名学霸王 (yí jiāng shèng yǒng zhuī qióng kòu, bù kě gū míng xué bà wáng - "It is better to pursue the defeated enemy with the remaining courage than to seek fame like a tyrant," to press home the attack against a defeated foe rather than seeking empty glory). In this overall offensive and defensive war and protracted war, President Xi (习近平) has led the people's army to play a set of "combined punches" that treat both the symptoms and the root causes and systematically govern, and promote the integrated advancement of not daring to be corrupt, not being able to be corrupt, and not wanting to be corrupt, and strive to eradicate the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption.
——Grasp the key of governing power, optimize and restructure the resources and forces of discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and patrol, audit supervision, and judicial supervision, and form a power operation system in which decision-making power, execution power, and supervision power are mutually restricted and coordinated;
——Weave a tight cage of systems, and regulations and systems such as the "Central Military Commission's Regulations on Inspection Work," the "Regulations on the Implementation of Intra-Party Supervision in the Army," and the "Regulations on the Army's Accountability Work" are intensively introduced and exert their power;
——Closely monitor the hidden and mutated forms of corruption, resolutely investigate and deal with new types of corruption and hidden corruption, strengthen the rectification and governance of key industries and fields and military-local cross-border areas, and deeply investigate and carefully investigate issues such as expected returns and agreed-upon holding on behalf;
——Vigorously correct the "micro-corruption" around officers and soldiers, deepen and expand the work of grassroots style supervision contact points, closely monitor sensitive grassroots affairs, and deeply correct problems such as eating, taking, carding, asking, operating in the dark, and falsely reporting and receiving;
——Deepen the co-investigation and co-governance of style and corruption, and crack down on phenomena such as illegal eating and drinking, receiving gifts and giving gifts, and improper interactions as soon as they emerge, and block the channel for the evolution of style and corruption...
"Thousands of sails pass by the sunken boat, and ten thousand trees spring before the diseased tree." The deeper the political rectification, the purer the people's army, and the more confident it is in strengthening the army and winning battles.
The entire army insists on taking the ability to fight and win battles as the fundamental focus of political rectification, corrects the accumulated malpractices of the troops with the spirit of rectification, resolutely returns to the center of gravity of work, firmly establishes the standard of combat effectiveness, and accelerates the solution of problems such as "five will nots" and "two insufficient abilities," and forges a strong army that dares to fight and will win.
Sharpening the blade on the battlefield, an Army brigade organized battalion commanders of combined arms battalions to participate in online command confrontation training, with real-time transmission and flow of battlefield sea and air conditions, and the full participation of elements such as army aviation, long-range fire, and special operations, to improve the joint literacy, overall concept, and adaptability of grassroots commanders.
Fighting in the sea and sky, China's first electromagnetic catapult-type aircraft carrier Fujian (福建) conducted its first maritime actual-troop training in the second week of its commissioning, with multiple types of carrier-based aircraft completing multiple catapult takeoffs and landing training, and carried out its first cross-sea area experimental training mission in the second month of its commissioning.
Competing in the long sky, an Air Force unit used technological means to create a new type of blue army aimed at the operational concepts, equipment performance, and tactical characteristics of potential opponents, focusing on the red side's weaknesses, frequently raising difficult problems and setting up traps, forcing pilots to find shortcomings and strengthen capabilities.
Being able to come when called, being able to fight when coming, and being able to win when fighting, the Eastern Theater Command organized land, naval, air, and rocket forces to carry out joint exercises such as "Joint Sharp Sword," "Strait Thunder," and "Justice Mission," and implemented subjects such as maritime and air combat readiness patrols, seizing comprehensive control, blockading key ports and domains, and joint assaults by various services and arms, comprehensively testing the troops' integrated joint operations capabilities, and fully demonstrating the strong will and ability to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Summoned on command, capable of fighting upon arrival, and certain to win in battle: the Eastern Theater Command organized forces from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force to conduct joint exercises such as "Joint Sword," "Strait Thunder," and "Just Mission." These exercises involved subjects such as maritime and aerial combat readiness patrols, seizing comprehensive control, blockading key ports and areas, and joint assaults by various military branches and arms. They comprehensively tested the troops' integrated joint combat capabilities and fully demonstrated their strong will and ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Prepared for battle at any moment, seizing every minute and second. All levels of the military adhere to fighting, preparing, and building simultaneously, comprehensively strengthening military training and readiness. They guide officers and soldiers to transform the political enthusiasm sparked by the rectification into motivation for training. The vast number of commanders and fighters single-mindedly plan for war, study war, and train for war, and their confidence in defeating all powerful enemies and opponents is even more firm, and their fighting spirit is even higher.
In this magnificent era, with a rapidly changing military and refreshing military camps, officers and soldiers who have been transferred and exchanged can still be recognized for their merits and awards in their new units as long as their work performance is outstanding. When higher-level authorities inspect work at the grassroots level, they no longer simply flip through books, check records, or test memorization... One act of **徙木立信** (xǐ mù lì xìn - "move a log to establish trust," establishing credibility through a small act), demonstrates the good atmosphere and ecology brought about by the deepening and solidifying of political rectification.
As the cause of strengthening the military in the new era continues to advance, the vast number of officers and soldiers deeply feel that this unprecedented, soul-touching, and deeply rooted political rectification is not only a cleanup and rectification aimed at major corruption problems, but also a tempering and forging aimed at strengthening the military and winning battles. From a deeper perspective, it is a fundamental measure to implement the new era's strategy of building the military politically and strengthening the Party's absolute leadership over the military.
Rectification forges a new style, and storming the fortress sprints towards a strong military. On the journey to accelerate the building of a world-class military, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) unswervingly adheres to the Party's absolute leadership over the military, corrects deviations and restores order in reform and innovation, strengthens the soul in tempering and forging, and undertakes its mission in tackling difficulties and forging ahead. It will always be a heroic force that the Party and the people can fully trust.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 7. Xinhua News Agency reporters Mei Changwei (梅常伟), PLA Daily reporters Ou Can (欧灿), Fei Shiting (费士廷), Yan Shan (严珊), and Qian Zongyang (钱宗阳))
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 7th (新华社北京4月7日电) On the afternoon of April 7th, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) had a phone call with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (阿尔巴尼斯).
Li Qiang (李强) stated that the current international situation is characterized by intertwined turbulence and changes, and the world economy is continuously impacted by geopolitical unrest and protectionism. China and Australia are important partners to each other and should grasp the correct direction of bilateral relations, strive to create and maintain a good atmosphere, and consolidate the positive momentum of bilateral relations and cooperation. China is willing to work with Australia to implement the important consensus reached by President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the Prime Minister last year, maintain high-level exchanges, strengthen communication and coordination, consolidate political mutual trust, deepen mutually beneficial cooperation, jointly safeguard multilateralism and free trade, add more impetus to the development of both countries, and provide more stability to the region and the world.
Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that China-Australia economic and trade cooperation has strong endogenous动力 (nèi shēng dòng lì - "internal driving force," inherent momentum) and huge potential in the long run. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will adhere to expanding domestic demand as a strategic focus, vigorously boost consumption, promote a significant increase in the residents' consumption rate, and continuously release market demand. China's large market will always be open to the world. China is willing to import more high-quality products from Australia, work with Australia to continuously expand and improve the quality of bilateral trade, support enterprises of both countries to carry out cooperation according to market principles, and promote mutual benefit and win-win results. The two sides should accelerate the review and upgrade discussions of the bilateral free trade agreement to provide better institutional guarantees for cooperation between the two countries. There is great potential for China-Australia green cooperation. China is willing to strengthen complementary advantages with Australia, deepen cooperation in clean energy, new energy vehicles, energy storage, carbon reduction and other fields, and jointly expand the development momentum of the green economy.
Anthony Albanese (阿尔巴尼斯) stated that the Australian government has always been committed to developing stable, mature, and constructive relations with China. Under the current international situation, the sound development of Australia-China relations is particularly important. Australia has long adhered to the one-China policy and is willing to strengthen high-level exchanges with China, expand exchanges and cooperation in trade, investment, mining, clean energy, culture and other fields, properly manage differences in the spirit of mutual respect, and promote the development of the Australia-China comprehensive strategic partnership. I look forward to attending the 2026 APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in China. Australia is willing to strengthen multilateral communication and coordination with China, respond to global challenges, and promote world peace, stability and development.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 7th. According to the Party Central Committee's unified plan to carry out learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance throughout the Party, recently, eight central guidance groups completed their stationing in 20 localities and units.
At the stationing meeting, the leaders of the central guidance groups put forward requirements for deeply studying and implementing the important speeches and important instructions and approvals of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), reported on the duties and tasks, work arrangements, and specific requirements of the central guidance groups, listened to reports on the relevant situation of learning and education, and studied and deployed guidance and supervision work.
The leaders of the central guidance groups pointed out that carrying out learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance throughout the Party is an important task of Party building this year. Sending central guidance groups is a powerful measure to promote relevant localities and units to deeply understand the decisive significance of the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two safeguards," a powerful measure to promote relevant localities and units to implement the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements for learning and education, and a powerful measure to promote relevant localities and units to achieve practical results in learning and education. Relevant localities and units should, in accordance with the Party Central Committee's deployment requirements for learning and education, raise their political standing, deeply understand the great significance of carrying out this learning and education and the political considerations of the Party Central Committee in sending central guidance groups, and effectively enhance their consciousness and determination to grasp learning and education well.
The leaders of the central guidance groups emphasized that it is necessary to closely focus on the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments and the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, and closely focus on earnestly and practically improving ideological understanding, rectifying outstanding problems, and establishing good systems and rules to carry out guidance and supervision. It is necessary to accurately grasp the positioning of responsibilities, compact and solidify political responsibilities, adhere to focusing on the theme and highlighting problem orientation, adhere to answering the same questions, jointly plan, jointly discuss countermeasures, and jointly solve problems, promote concentrated efforts to deeply study, truly investigate, and practically rectify, focus on improving the quality and effectiveness of guidance and supervision work, and promote the achievement of solid results in Party-wide learning and education by using points to promote the whole.
The main responsible persons of relevant local and unit party committees (party groups) stated that sending central guidance groups is a powerful promotion for carrying out learning and education and central work, and they will take this as an opportunity to deeply study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speeches and important instructions and approvals, effectively unify their thoughts and actions with the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, shoulder the main responsibility for learning and education, fully cooperate with and support the work of the central guidance groups, and grasp learning and education with higher standards and more practical measures.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) that the reporter learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部): The 42nd Chinese Antarctic expedition team successfully completed China's first Antarctic ice sheet hot water drilling experiment in the subglacial Lake Kylin area of East Antarctica. The drilling depth reached 3413 meters, breaking the international polar hot water drilling record of 2540 meters. This marks that China has the ability to carry out drilling research on more than 90% of the Antarctic ice sheet and all of the Arctic ice sheet.
Polar ice sheet hot water drilling research is an international cutting-edge scientific research field for studying ancient global environmental changes, predicting global climate change, exploring the boundaries of life, and expanding human knowledge. Compared with traditional mechanical ice drills, hot water drilling has strong penetration ability, high drilling efficiency, and less disturbance to the ice body.
The main goal of this field test was to carry out Antarctic application demonstrations of deep ice sheet hot water drilling systems, and to provide pollution-free channels and key technical support for subsequent in-situ observation of subglacial lakes and collection of water and lake bottom samples. The successful drilling this time realized the efficient, stable, and clean drilling of polar deep hot water drilling, filling the gap in China in this field.
Return to TopBeijing, April 7th (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部): In the first two months, China's total import and export of services amounted to 1143.07 billion yuan, of which exports were 442.49 billion yuan, an increase of 4.7% year-on-year.
The proportion of knowledge-intensive service import and export has increased. In the first two months, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services was 486.27 billion yuan, accounting for 42.5% of the total service import and export, an increase of 0.3 percentage points over the same period last year. Among them, the export of knowledge-intensive services was 248.23 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4% year-on-year.
Travel, other commercial services, and transportation ranked among the top three in terms of scale. In the first two months, travel import and export amounted to 362.59 billion yuan, making it the largest field in China's service trade. Among them, travel exports were 60.96 billion yuan, an increase of 22.5% year-on-year. The import and export volume of other commercial services and transportation were 272.32 billion yuan and 212.23 billion yuan respectively.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 7th (Reporter). Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) recently signed a State Council decree, announcing the "Regulations of the State Council on the Security of Industrial and Supply Chains" (hereinafter referred to as the "Regulations"), which will take effect from the date of promulgation.
The "Regulations" aim to prevent security risks in industrial and supply chains, enhance the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains, and safeguard economic and social stability and national security. The "Regulations" consist of 18 articles, mainly stipulating the following contents.
First, clarify the working principles for the security of industrial and supply chains. The regulations stipulate that the work on the security of industrial and supply chains should implement the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, coordinate domestic and international affairs, promote high-level opening to the outside world, and promote the stable and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains. It is clarified that the state guides the rational and orderly layout of industrial and supply chains, strengthens international cooperation in the field of industrial and supply chains, supports tackling key core technologies in key areas, and promotes the high-quality development of industrial and supply chains.
Second, establish and improve security systems and measures for industrial and supply chains. Establish and improve the working mechanism for the security of industrial and supply chains. The regulations stipulate the relevant responsibilities of the relevant departments of the State Council and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government for the security of industrial and supply chains. Strengthen the security guarantee of industrial and supply chains in key areas, establish and improve information sharing, risk monitoring and early warning, risk prevention, and emergency management systems, and maintain the stable, continuous operation of the production and circulation of raw materials, technologies, equipment, products, etc. in key areas.
Third, stipulate countermeasures and extraterritorial application. In response to foreign countries, regions, and international organizations, as well as foreign organizations and individuals that harm the security of my country's industrial and supply chains, a security investigation system for industrial and supply chains will be established. Relevant departments of the State Council may conduct security investigations on industrial and supply chains based on this and take countermeasures. Organizations and individuals within my country's borders shall implement relevant countermeasures. If any organization or individual illegally carries out information collection activities related to industrial and supply chains, the relevant departments shall take corresponding measures in accordance with the law.
(The full text of the "Regulations" can be found on page 12)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) that recently, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), together with relevant departments, launched the 2026 "Working Together to Benefit Enterprises" Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) Service Action. Focusing on the pain points and difficulties faced by SMEs in implementing policies, attracting and cultivating talent, investment and financing, technological innovation, digital transformation, management improvement, and market expansion, the action introduces practical service measures to help SMEs reduce costs and increase efficiency, improve quality, and upgrade.
Promote the direct and rapid enjoyment of policies benefiting enterprises. Make good use of the "One Network" of national SME services, leverage the role of public service institutions for SMEs at all levels, and combine online and offline methods to promote the publicity and interpretation, accurate delivery, and intelligent matching of policies benefiting enterprises. Deepen the "Spring Rain Moisturizing Seedlings" action to ensure that various tax and fee policies benefit small and micro business entities in a timely manner. Implement a special action to clean up and standardize policies and measures involving enterprise-related charges, carry out evaluations of the development environment for SMEs, and create a favorable environment for the development of SMEs.
Accelerate the digital transformation of enterprises. Conduct inclusive "cloud adoption, data utilization, and intelligence empowerment" for SMEs in a classified and tiered manner, focusing on key scenarios and systematic integration of digital transformation. Around the digital transformation scenario map of key industries, create a batch of "small, fast, light, and accurate" digital products and solutions. Carry out the "Hundred Fields, Ten Thousand Enterprises" integration and docking activities between large, medium, and small enterprises, organize large enterprises to "issue lists" around scenario verification, technology tackling, and product procurement, and SMEs to "reveal lists" to promote the specialized, refined, and novel development of SMEs.
Promote enterprise investment and financing. Focus on advantageous and characteristic industries and key industrial chains to carry out industry-finance docking, and deeply implement the "One Chain Per Month" national SME financing promotion activity. Strengthen the construction of "specialized, refined, and novel" special boards in regional equity markets, and guide the National SME Development Fund (国家中小企业发展基金) to drive more social capital to invest early, invest small, invest long-term, and invest in hard technology. Make good use of the national integrated financing credit service platform network to promote the collection of credit information and financing credit enhancement, strengthen government-backed financing guarantees, and improve the financing convenience of SMEs.
Help enterprises improve their management level. Carry out special actions for SME talent services, hold the National SME Online Hundred-Day Recruitment of College Graduates activity and the "Excellent Enterprises Entering Schools, Recruiting Talents and Attracting Wisdom" special action, and train approximately 800 leading talents in SME operation and management throughout the year. Promote self-assessment tools such as SME quality diagnosis, management diagnosis, compliance management, and sustainable development to enhance corporate management awareness and capabilities.
Return to TopHow can one of the world's largest Marxist ruling parties successfully break free from the historical cycle of governance, chaos, rise, and decline, and ensure that it never changes its nature, color, or flavor?
The new era of Chinese Communists, based on the first answer given by Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) in those years, which was "let the people supervise the government," has given a second answer, which is "the Party's self-revolution."
As the People's Army, which is about to celebrate its centenary, faces complex and profound changes in the world, the country, the Party, and the military, how can it continuously enhance its political advantages and stride towards becoming a world-class force?
President Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out that it is necessary to firmly grasp the requirements of the times for building the military politically, to promote the building of the military politically without a moment's pause, and to ensure that the People's Army always maintains its nature and purpose, always dares to fight and win, always unites and struggles, always produces talented people, always remains pure and glorious, and always maintains strict discipline and adherence to the law.
"To strengthen the military, we must first strengthen it politically, and political strength is the most fundamental strength." Since entering the new era, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has stood at the strategic height of winning the historical initiative in strengthening the military and revitalizing the military, and has led the promotion of building the military politically and deepening political rectification with great political courage and a strong sense of historical responsibility, firmly defending the political nature of the People's Army, and opening a new journey of reshaping the People's Army with political rectification.
"Comprehensively strengthen the Party's leadership and Party building work in our army in the new era to provide a strong political guarantee for creating a new situation in strengthening the military."
September 3, 2025, the anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression. The People's Army will gloriously accept the review of Chairman Xi (习主席), and the review of the Party and the people, with a new look of political rectification, a new layout of force structure, new progress in modernization, and new achievements in preparing for war.
At the forefront of the reviewed troops, the flag of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), the flag of the People's Republic of China (中华人民共和国), and the flag of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军) fluttered in the wind under the escort of the guard of honor.
In this grand military parade, the August 1st Army Flag, the military service flags, the branch of service flags, and the People's Armed Police Force flag made their first concentrated appearance on the parade ground, with a red background and golden five-pointed stars and the words "August 1st" on them.
The military soul will never change, and the military flag will always be oriented towards the Party. Unwaveringly adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army, the People's Army has always been highly centralized and unified, and has moved forward in unison.
The Party's leadership and Party building are the key to the construction and development of our army, which is related to the success or failure of strengthening the military, and is related to the long-term stability of the Party and the country.
Before the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the People's Army once experienced problems such as the weakening of the Party's leadership, the absence of Party building, and the failure to fully and strictly govern the Party. If these problems are not thoroughly resolved, they will not only affect the army's combat effectiveness, but also involve the major political principle of the Party commanding the gun.
At a major historical juncture, the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core firmly grasped the fundamental principle of adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the army, unswervingly promoted political rectification, and comprehensively strengthened the Party's leadership and Party building in our army in the new era.
Minxi Gutian (闽西古田) – the place where the principles of building the Party ideologically and building the military politically were established. Chairman Xi (习主席) personally decided to hold the All-Army Political Work Conference here, made arrangements for building the military politically in the new era, promoted political rectification with the spirit of rectification, and led the People's Army to re-embark on its journey with renewed vigor.
Northern Shaanxi Yan'an (陕北延安) – the sacred place of the Chinese revolution and the birthplace of the rectification movement. At the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference held here, Chairman Xi (习主席) scientifically summarized the "ten clarifications" of the connotation requirements of the new era's strategy for building the military politically, and emphasized the need to "carry forward the spirit of thorough self-revolution and continuously deepen political rectification."
"Political rectification must adhere to grasping from a political perspective, and focus on solving the fundamental problems of the Party's absolute leadership over the army." In recent years, the People's Army has unswervingly promoted political rectification, rectifying ideology, rectifying personnel, rectifying organization, rectifying work style, and rectifying discipline, effectively solving the prominent problems of weakening the Party's absolute leadership over the army, adhering to, consolidating, and improving the system of the Party's absolute leadership over the army, and guarding the root and soul in revolutionary forging.
The Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission have made a series of political designs and institutional arrangements around the Party's absolute leadership over the army, and have achieved major theoretical, practical, and institutional achievements –
"Adhering to the Party's absolute leadership over the People's Army" has been elevated to a basic strategy for upholding and developing socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era. The system of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission assuming overall responsibility has been established in the Party Constitution. Deepen the reform of national defense and the military, form a new pattern of the Military Commission exercising overall management, theater commands focusing on combat, and services focusing on construction, so as to better concentrate the supreme leadership and command of the military in the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission.
Establish and improve the three mechanisms of requesting instructions and reporting, supervising and inspecting, and information service, and issue opinions and regulations on major matters such as requesting instructions and reporting, supervising and implementing instructions and approvals, supervising and holding accountable, and planning for study and education, so as to promote the implementation of the Chairman Responsibility System of the Central Military Commission in all fields and throughout the entire process of national defense and military construction.
Adhere to the simultaneous efforts of building the Party ideologically and governing the Party with institutions, issue the "Regulations on Party Building in the Chinese People's Liberation Army" and the "Work Regulations of the Chinese Communist Party's Army Committee (Branch)" and the "Regulations on the Army Party Committee Implementing the Main Responsibility for Comprehensively and Strictly Governing the Party," revise the "Regulations on Political Work in the Army," and systematically construct the institutional regulations for Party building in the army...
All officers and soldiers of the army deeply understand the decisive significance of the "Two Establishments," enhance the "Four Consciousnesses," strengthen the "Four Confidences," achieve the "Two Safeguards," implement the Chairman Responsibility System of the Central Military Commission, and firmly be loyal to the core, support the core, safeguard the core, and defend the core.
Jiangxi Yongxin (江西永新), among the green hills and clear waters, the magnificent Sanwan Reorganization Memorial stands tall. During an inspection of the troops, Chairman Xi (习主席) affectionately told the story that happened here during the early days of the Red Army: "The 54th Group Army has a famous 'Red First Company.' During the 'Sanwan Reorganization' in September 1927, Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) personally established a Party branch in this company and developed six new Party members, pioneering the precedent of 'building Party branches at the company level' in our army."
In the new era, the organizational structure and force system of the army have undergone an overall revolutionary reshaping, and the system structure, type setting, and functional configuration of Party organizations at all levels and types have correspondingly undergone great changes.
"Only when the Party's organizations at all levels are sound and strong, forming a strict organizational system that runs from top to bottom and is effective in execution, can the Party's leadership be 'as the body directs the arms, and as the arms direct the fingers.'" This is the reason why the Party's organizational line in the new era emphasizes "focusing on the construction of the organizational system."
Adapt to the adjustment of the army's system and establishment, standardize the functional positioning, establishment and establishment, and main tasks of Party organizations at all levels and types, and build a Party organization system that is connected with the new leadership and command system, matches the new scale structure and force composition, and integrates with the effective fulfillment of the army's mission and tasks in the new era... Chairman Xi (习主席) leads the entire army to grasp the foundation and key of Party organization building, and exerts concerted efforts to strengthen organizations, strengthen functions, and strengthen teams, organize and unite the vast number of officers and soldiers, and unite them into "a piece of hard steel."
The high-level Party committees above the military level occupy an important position and bear great responsibility in the Party's organizational system of our army. In July 2023, during his inspection of the Western Theater Air Force, Chairman Xi (习主席) emphasized the need to focus on high-level Party committees, adhere to leading by example and strict requirements, improve political judgment, political understanding, and political execution, improve the ability to lead in preparing for war and fighting, and make the Party committee team itself strong.
The entire army focuses on improving the self-construction and leadership capabilities of high-level Party committees, strengthens political ability training and political experience, strengthens regular learning and training in implementing democratic centralism, improves the implementation of Party committee deliberation and decision-making rules and decision-making supervision mechanisms, organizes Party committees of units above the military level to conduct a "look back" on ideological cleaning, deeply investigates and examines the "five rectifications," and continuously improves the self-construction measures of the Party committee team.
The strength of the Party comes from organization, and the army is strong when the organization is strong. Focusing on transforming the Party's leadership advantages into development advantages, the entire army strives to forge strong Party organizations with firm political convictions and outstanding capabilities, continuously improves the Party organizations' leadership, organization, and execution, and wherever the mission and tasks expand, the functions and roles of the Party organizations are brought into play –
"Pure love, only for China." On the snowy plateau, Party organizations at all levels of our border defense troops stand firm at the front line, Party-member leading cadres take on responsibilities, and lead the vast number of officers and soldiers to dare to fight and dare to win, resolutely safeguarding national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In the vast sky, loyalty soars. A certain aviation division of the Air Force has participated in major exercises and training many times, and has flown out of the country to carry out humanitarian rescue missions. The division Party committee guides the temporary Party organizations stationed abroad to play their functions and roles well, ensuring that the organization is sound and not absent, and that organizational life is continuous.
In the distant sea, the heart is oriented towards the motherland. The naval escort formation has been fighting the wind and waves in the waters of Somalia and the Gulf of Aden for a long time. The temporary Party committee of the formation adheres to grasping education and construction while moving, and forges a strong fighting fortress on the deep blue channel, and the ship does not get lost after traveling thousands of miles...
"Ensure that the gun is always in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the Party."
The spring breeze sends warmth, and the Baiwang Mountain (百望山) in the western suburbs of Beijing (北京) is full of lush grass and blooming mountain flowers. At the foot of the mountain, the National Defense University welcomes another group of military commanders who are being tempered and forged.
People are the core element of combat effectiveness and the decisive factor in modernization. As China's highest military institution, the National Defense University is rooted in the red Jinggang (井冈), inherits the blood of the Red University and the Anti-Japanese Military and Political University, and is an important base for cultivating joint operations talents and senior and middle-level leading cadres.
In the spring of 2016, during his inspection of the National Defense University, Chairman Xi (习主席) profoundly pointed out: "When cadres come to the National Defense University to study, the first thing is to study the Party's theory, receive Party spirit education, and improve their political and theoretical level. This must be highlighted and done with a clear banner."
Our army is facing complex and intricate tests in politics. How can we ensure that the gun is always in the hands of those who are loyal and reliable to the Party, and ensure that the cause of the Party and the army has successors?
"We must firmly grasp the political gate, strengthen ideological and political construction, do a good job in casting souls and educating people and political assessment, and ensure that the talents we cultivate and use are absolutely politically qualified." Grasping the decisive factor of people in winning the war, Chairman Xi (习主席) leads the entire army to grasp the root and consolidate the foundation, and strives to forge a high-quality talent team that can shoulder the heavy responsibility of strengthening the military –
Emphasizing the need to "grasp the characteristics and laws of casting souls and educating people under the new situation, and focus on cultivating a new generation of revolutionary soldiers with soul, ability, courage, and morality"; proposing the standard of "good cadres in the army who are loyal to the Party, good at planning battles, dare to take responsibility, have outstanding achievements, and are honest and clean"; clarifying that "political standards are the first standard for talents in our army, and political requirements are the most fundamental requirements for talents in our army"...
At this year's National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Chairman Xi (习主席) clearly required when attending the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force that it is necessary to strengthen the construction of a revolutionary and professional talent team, unswervingly use the Party's innovative theory to cast souls and educate people, lay a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party and follow the Party, and ensure that modern weapons and equipment are in the hands of a revolutionary talent team.
——Theoretical arming, consolidating the foundation and cultivating the vitality.
Class after class of detailed lectures, theoretical research experts give lectures and guidance, and systematically interpret; discussion after discussion, members of the Party committee's theoretical study center group connect with reality and have heated discussions; ideological analysis after ideological analysis, the Party committee secretary takes the lead in carrying out ideological inspection and problem analysis...
In 2024, the entire army will organize and carry out high-level Party committee theoretical lectures for Party committees of various departments and units and Party committees of units above the deputy theater level, setting up a demonstration guidance for senior cadres to receive education first and receive genuine education.
Explain the theory with heartfelt service and summon officers and soldiers with the charm of truth. In the northwest border, the propaganda team goes deep into the border posts to answer questions and dispel doubts; in the depths of the South China Sea, the backbone of theoretical study goes to sea with the ship to open "deep blue theory classrooms"... In recent years, activities to serve the grassroots level with theory have been continuously carried out to promote the Party's innovative theory to better enter the hearts of officers and soldiers.
Study ideology and cast loyalty. At the end of 2024, the "Great功三连" (Dàgōng Sānlián) went to South Sudan as a whole to carry out peacekeeping missions. Facing the test of complex environment and difficult conditions, the company held a "soldiers' forum" every month, opened micro-classes during mission breaks, integrated theoretical study into daily life, encouraged officers and soldiers to withstand the scorching sun and fight against sandstorms, and successfully completed joint patrols, armed escorts, and other tasks, demonstrating the good image of the Chinese army.
From the peacekeeping battlefield to the disaster relief front line, from the plateau islands to the vast Gobi Desert... Party committees at all levels of the army adhere to higher standards and stay ahead, continuously deepen theoretical arming, grasp the study of the Party committee's theoretical study center group, the ideological and political education of the troops, and the teaching of political theory in colleges and universities, adhere to reading the original works, learning the original texts, and understanding the principles, connect with the historic achievements of the cause of strengthening the army in the new era to feel the power of truth and the power of practice, and continuously enhance the political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional recognition of the Party's innovative theory. The "Opinions on Building a New Era People's Army Ideological and Political Education System" and the "Regulations on Ideological and Political Education in the Army" have been issued, systematically reshaping the content, strength, operation, and institutional mechanisms of education, and continuously laying a solid ideological foundation for officers and soldiers to listen to the Party and follow the Party.
——Transforming ideology and correcting the "three views."
"If the ideology is relaxed by an inch, the action will be scattered by a foot." Chairman Xi (习主席) solemnly warned that ideological decline is the most serious lesion. If the "master switch" is not tightened, and the relationship between public and private cannot be correctly handled, and there is a lack of correct views on right and wrong, morality and interests, power, and career, various deviations and leaks will be inevitable.
In the summer of 2024, at the Central Military Commission Political Work Conference, Chairman Xi (习主席) profoundly analyzed the deep-seated contradictions and problems that need to be solved in the current political construction of the army, and required cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, to put themselves in the position, show the courage to abandon face and expose shortcomings, and deeply reflect and seriously rectify with an attitude of deeply digging into the roots and touching the soul, solve the problems of ideological roots, and promote the political construction of the army to go deeper and more solid.
What do you do when you join the Party? What do you do when you join the army? What do you do when you become a general? Party committees above the regimental level in the entire army solemnly and conscientiously held democratic life meetings of the Party committee team, deeply analyzed and examined, and strictly reflected on themselves; checked and corrected the wrong words and deeds and bad practices contaminated by the residual poison at different levels, and focused on solving the ideological root problems such as ideals and beliefs, Party spirit cultivation, official morality and personal character; solidly carried out the study and education of establishing and practicing correct views on performance, and corrected problems such as impure motives for performing duties, improper use of power for officials, and unrealistic work style... Discussion after discussion, analysis made people blush and sweat, touching the soul, and warning education after warning education used cases as a mirror to deter and awaken.
Ideological tempering is a deep plowing in the depths of the soul. Party committees at all levels adhere to political leadership, strengthen ideological tempering, promote ideological cleaning in depth, continuously deepen theoretical analysis, and strive to remove the roots of wrong ideas and establish correct values. A certain army unit organized office cadres to analyze the ideological crux of problems such as circle culture, privilege thinking, and hypocrisy, diligently dusting off "ideological dust," thinking more about "the harm of greed," and often breaking "the thief in the heart," so as to ensure no random actions outside with no random thoughts inside; the Guangdong Armed Police Corps focused on correcting the false, big, and empty work routines, correcting the work ideas of subjective assumptions, eagerness for quick success and instant benefits, and deviating from reality, and rebuilding the prestige of political work and reshaping the image of political cadres...
——Improving the style of study and combining knowledge with action.
The power of theory can only be brought into play when it is put into practice; the results of learning must be tested by practical results.
Chairman Xi (习主席) once used the historical lessons of Zhao Kuo (赵括) in the Warring States period, who "talked about war on paper," and the scholars of the Jin Dynasty, who "talked emptily and abandoned affairs," to warn leading cadres to carry forward the Marxist style of study of linking theory with practice, "never talk boastfully and fall into 'empty talk'"; he required adhering to the integration of learning, thinking, and using, and the unity of knowing, believing, and acting, highlighting learning transformation and ideological transformation, and truly learning, understanding, and implementing.
The Party committee of a certain air force unit focused on solving the problem of "two skins" in learning and application. The members of the Party committee conscientiously studied and understood the military views and methodologies contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military, conducted in-depth research on topics such as accelerating the generation of new quality combat capabilities and innovating talent training models, and came up with practical and effective methods; a certain rocket army brigade combined special study with special tasks, and promoted topic tackling with theoretical study, unblocking multiple blockages restricting the efficiency of combat readiness mobilization...
A Party Committee of an Air Force unit is focusing on solving the problem of the disconnect between theory and practice. The members of the Party Committee are seriously studying and comprehending the military perspectives and methodologies contained in Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military. They are conducting thorough research on topics such as accelerating the generation of new-type combat capabilities and innovating talent cultivation models, and are coming up with practical and effective methods. A Rocket Force brigade is combining special studies with special tasks, using theoretical learning to promote key project breakthroughs, and clearing multiple bottlenecks that restrict the efficiency of combat readiness mobilization...
The entire army is vigorously promoting the excellent study style of integrating theory with practice, researching and formulating measures to improve the study style of officers at or above the rank of lieutenant colonel, and issuing the "Measures for Inspecting Ideological and Political Education with Practical Results (Trial Implementation)," to promote the genuine study, understanding, belief, and application of the Party's innovative theories in the new era. At all levels, they are conducting research by directly facing problems, grasping rectification and reform by taking real action, and wholeheartedly solving problems, transforming the effectiveness of learning into a vivid practice of focusing on preparing for war and promoting the cause of strengthening the military.
The power of thought runs deep and silently; the nourishment of theory is subtle and soundless.
The officers and soldiers of the "Strong Military and Skilled Red Fourth Company" of an Army brigade always keep in mind the commander's instructions, throw themselves into the practice of strengthening the military with a charging posture, achieve full qualification in combat shooting within 100 days of the new equipment being commissioned, break seven records in participating in higher-level military skills assessments, and successfully complete a number of major exercises and training missions, and were commended by the Army as a "model unit for practicing the goal of strengthening the military."
Combat patrols in the South China Sea, alert patrols in the East China Sea, strategic cruises... The "Strong Military Vanguard Flight Brigade" of an Air Force unit continues to strengthen theoretical arming, cultivate the political character of officers and soldiers who listen to the Party's command and are absolutely loyal, vigorously practice military training and preparation, highlight actual combat training, pilots quickly master new models, fly to the limit, hit the boundaries, strengthen the system, and many people win the "Golden Helmet" in the Air Force's confrontation military skills competition.
"Model Border Defense Company on the Snowy Plateau," "Model Ground Station for Serving the Country through Aerospace," "Anti-Terrorism Commando Squadron," "Model Ground-to-Air Missile Battalion"... Looking at the entire army, under the guidance of Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on strengthening the military, revolutionary soldiers of the "Four Haves" in the new era are growing up healthily, and "Four Irons" outstanding troops are being forged at an accelerated pace, injecting inexhaustible power into the cause of strengthening the military in the new era.
"We must inherit and carry forward the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army, pass them on from generation to generation, and forever maintain the true qualities of the old Red Army."
In the new era, how to inherit and carry forward the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army is a major issue of concern to President Xi (习近平).
At an important meeting of the Central Military Commission, President Xi (习近平) pointed out clearly: "Our army is a people's army created and led by the Party. Whether it can maintain the glorious traditions and fine work style of our Party and our army is related to the life and death of the army, the success or failure of the Party and the country, and whether the socialist red country will change its color."
"We must pass on the fire of ideals and beliefs and the genes of red traditions from generation to generation, so that the revolutionary cause will be passed on from generation to generation, the bloodline will continue forever, and the true qualities of the old Red Army will be maintained forever." In recent years, President Xi (习近平) has led the entire army to take inheriting and carrying forward the fine traditions of our Party and our army as an important part of promoting political building of the army and deepening political rectification, grasping it constantly and making persistent efforts, promoting the return of fine traditions and the return of the original intention.
The site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China in Shanghai, the South Lake Red Boat in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, the Xiangjiang Battle Memorial Park of the Red Army's Long March, the Martyrs' Cemetery in the capital of the Eyuwan Soviet Area... "Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, when I go to local areas for inspection, I have to pay tribute to the revolutionary holy sites, red old sites, and revolutionary historical memorial places that have great historical significance for our Party. I have basically visited the main ones." President Xi (习近平) said: "Every time I go with a heart of reverence and return with many feelings."
Western Fujian, a land soaked in the blood of the ancestors. Every time he comes here, President Xi (习近平) takes the time to visit and comfort the veteran revolutionaries.
"We meet again, how is your health now..." During the Gutian All-Army Political Work Conference, President Xi (习近平) specially invited 10 old Red Army soldiers, family members of martyrs, and representatives of "old underground Party members, old guerrillas, old liaison officers, old contact households, and old Soviet township cadres" to the conference驻地 to recall the past, talk about traditions, and chat about everyday life.
During lunchtime, President Xi (习近平) sat around with 11 grassroots cadres and model representatives of the troops to eat "Red Army meals," earnestly urging everyone that the younger generation is the future and hope of the Party and the army, the revolutionary cause depends on your continued struggle, and the fine traditions depend on your inheritance and development.
At this meeting, President Xi (习近平) incisively summarized the "Eleven Adherences" of the fine traditions of our army's political work, emphasizing that "these fine traditions are the fundamental principles and contents of our army's political work," and that they should be "restored and carried forward" to better promote the army's various constructions and work forward.
The towering Pagoda Mountain and the rolling Yan River. Yan'an (延安), the revolutionary holy land, witnessed the glorious history of the older generation of revolutionaries eating coarse grains, wearing cloth clothes, and defeating the "Xi'an style" with the "Yan'an style."
"When I was an educated youth in northern Shaanxi, every time I passed by Yan'an (延安), I would visit the revolutionary old sites such as the site of the Seventh National Congress, Yangjialing, Zaoyuan, and Fenghuangshan." In President Xi's (习近平) heart, these old sites are "a book that can never be finished reading."
"Ten years ago, we held the All-Army Political Work Conference in Gutian, and today we are holding the Military Commission Political Work Conference in Yan'an (延安), once again tracing the roots." On June 17, 2024, during the Military Commission Political Work Conference, President Xi (习近平) led the participating representatives back to this red hot land that reversed the fate of China, and studied and deployed major issues of building and controlling the army ideologically, politically, and organizationally in the new era and on the new journey.
At this meeting, President Xi (习近平) profoundly expounded the six key tasks to be grasped in promoting the political building of the army on the new journey, one of which is to "restore and carry forward the fine traditions of political work." He emphasized that we must adhere to seeking truth from facts, adhere to personal example being better than verbal instruction, and cadres at all levels, especially senior cadres, must set an example and take the lead, and inspire and lead the troops with an excellent work style and image.
The far-reaching expectations and sincere exhortations are powerful appeals and leading promotions.
Tracing the roots and casting the soul, inheriting the red gene—
In the deepening of political rectification, revolutionary holy sites have welcomed "root-seeking" detachments from all directions, becoming a large classroom for troops to carry out on-site teaching and continue the red bloodline.
Jinggang Mountain (井冈山), a mountain of revolution, a mountain of struggle, but also a mountain of heroes and a mountain of glory. In the early spring season, the "root-seeking" detachment of the Army Infantry Academy came here again to trace the fighting footprints of the revolutionary predecessors and deeply feel the Jinggang Mountain (井冈山) spirit of firm belief, hard struggle, seeking truth from facts, daring to break new ground, relying on the masses, and daring to win.
For a long time, the academy has insisted on giving play to the advantages of red resources and has made positive explorations in casting the soul and cultivating people with red genes. In May 2019, President Xi (习近平) came to the academy's Red Resource Research Center, listened to the introduction of relevant situations, and emphasized that we must make good use of red resources, inherit red genes, and cultivate qualified Red Army successors from generation to generation.
Vigorously inheriting the red gene is a strategic task and basic project for the political building of the army in the new era. The Central Military Commission issued the "Implementation Outline for Inheriting the Red Gene," clarifying the guiding ideology, basic principles, key points of focus, and main tasks of inheriting the red gene. The entire army vigorously carried out publicity and education on Party history and military history, strengthened the preservation, compilation, and research of history, carried out important commemorative activities, built and used military history venues well, and developed red revolutionary culture, so that the red gene will always maintain its vitality and demonstrate its power.
Maintaining the true colors and carrying forward the fine work style—
Again, I heard the snoring of soldiers, and again, I stood guard on that starry night. In recent years, batches of office cadres have packed their bags and rushed to grassroots units in remote and difficult areas of the entire army to serve as soldiers and stay in companies, changing to the rank of private and implementing "five togethers" with officers and soldiers, returning to the "beginning of being a soldier."
In May 2013, when President Xi (习近平) inspected the former Chengdu Military Region, which first created the practice of cadres going down to companies to serve as soldiers, he specially emphasized: "Serving as a soldier must be genuine, and staying in a company must be genuine, and we must truly develop feelings and stay out a good work style." He has made important instructions on the work of serving as soldiers and staying in companies many times, leading and promoting the continuous development of activities to serve as soldiers and stay in companies, strengthening the relationship between officers and soldiers, and improving the work style.
"An excellent work style can shape a heroic unit, and a loose work style can ruin a victorious division." The entire army deeply studied and implemented the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation, the Military Commission's Ten-Point Regulation and its implementation rules, deeply carried out "eight special cleanups and rectifications," comprehensively stopped the army's compensated services, and issued disciplinary prohibitions such as strictly prohibiting illegal banquets and drinking, and strictly prohibiting illegal business activities for profit. Firmly grasping the "key minority" of leading cadres, strengthening the restriction and supervision of matters such as the implementation of treatment regulations and the management and control of family members and children, and using the influence of the "key minority" to drive the "vast majority." Vigorously correcting formalism and bureaucracy, continuing to solve the "five excesses" problem to reduce the burden on the grassroots, wholeheartedly solving problems for officers and soldiers, and stimulating the motivation and vitality for starting businesses.
Sharpening the courage and tempering the fighting spirit—
"The army is to fight, and fighting must have the appearance of fighting, and we must not be afraid of hardship or death. The 'two fear nots' spirit was, is, and will always be our valuable spiritual wealth."
On December 13, 2017, President Xi (习近平) came to the "Wang Jie Class" of a brigade of the 71st Group Army, cordially greeted the soldiers to sit around in a circle, inquired in detail about everyone's learning, training, and living conditions, and encouraged everyone to make persistent efforts and take the lead in being good soldiers of the Wang Jie type in the new era.
"In peacetime, we must never spoil the soldiers, the mighty division must still be mighty, and the soldiers must still have courage." At important military meetings, at the scene of exercises and training, and when inspecting grassroots troops, President Xi (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized that no matter when, the fighting spirit of not being afraid of hardship or death must not be lost. At the moment when the Party, the country, and the people need it, the army must have this energy and this spirit.
The grassroots level is a fertile ground for continuing fine traditions and a melting pot for forging courage and courage. The entire army's troops implemented the "Opinions on Strengthening the Cultivation of Fighting Spirit," actively explored the construction of a long-term mechanism for cultivating fighting spirit through multiple channels, learned from fighting heroes, told fighting stories, sang fighting songs, and tempered and trained troops in arduous and strict training, in environments similar to actual combat, and in severe and complex military struggles, guiding officers and soldiers to hone their fighting will and temper their fighting style.
"The army is the one with guns, and there must be no one in the army who has two minds about the Party, and there must be no hiding place for corrupt elements."
"At the beginning of the 'Fifteenth Five-Year Plan,' we must establish strict regulatory rules, closely monitor key links such as the flow of funds, the operation of power, and quality control, strengthen the supervision of major projects, strengthen military-local integration supervision, and ensure construction under the premise of supervision."
On March 7 this year, President Xi (习近平) attended the plenary meeting of the delegation of the People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force to the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress and delivered an important speech. Focusing on upholding and strengthening the Party's absolute leadership over the army and promoting the modernization of national defense and the army with high quality, he made important deployments for the key work of political building of the army at present, and clearly emphasized that the army is the one with guns, and there must be no one in the army who has two minds about the Party, and there must be no hiding place for corrupt elements, and we must unswervingly promote the anti-corruption struggle.
Corruption is a stumbling block and stumbling block in the process of the development of the Party, the country, and the army. Setting rules at the beginning is a heartfelt admonition and a clear attitude of being strict to the end.
The people's army does not tolerate corruption, and the mighty and civilized division does not tolerate defilement. At the beginning of his tenure as Chairman of the Military Commission, at an important meeting of the Military Commission, President Xi (习近平) made his attitude clear, "We must adhere to investigating every case and punishing every corruption, and we must severely punish all acts that violate Party discipline, national law, and military discipline, and we will never tolerate or be soft on them."
"Anti-corruption is a major struggle that we cannot afford to lose and must not lose." Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, President Xi (习近平) has led the entire army to unswervingly comprehensively strengthen Party discipline, comprehensively strengthen military governance, and deeply promote political rectification, rectification of work style, and anti-corruption, with unprecedented determination and unprecedented efforts.
Resolutely investigate and deal with serious violations of discipline and law cases such as Guo Boxiong (郭伯雄), Xu Caihou (徐才厚), Fang Fenghui (房峰辉), and Zhang Yang (张阳), and seriously investigate and deal with serious violations of discipline and law cases such as He Weidong (何卫东) and Miao Hua (苗华), and file cases for investigation and investigation of Zhang Youxia (张又侠) and Liu Zhenli (刘振立) suspected of serious violations of discipline and law...
No matter who it is or how high the position is, as long as they engage in corruption, they will never be tolerated. Under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee and President Xi (习近平), the army's anti-corruption campaign has hit "tigers," cleaned up "rats," and dug out "maggots," always maintaining a high-pressure and strict governance posture with no restricted areas, full coverage, and zero tolerance, investigating as much as is involved and digging as deep as is involved.
It takes more than a day to freeze three feet of ice, and it also takes more than a day to melt three feet of ice. Corruption is the embodiment of the long-term accumulation and continuous fermentation of various adverse factors, and has extremely strong stubbornness and recurrence. A slight relaxation will lead to a comeback, or even intensify. In this regard, President Xi (习近平) has made a series of important instructions—
Pointed out that "the situation in the anti-corruption struggle is still severe and complex, and the task of eradicating the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption is still arduous and heavy"; emphasized that "the anti-corruption struggle must be unwavering, and any hesitation, wavering, relaxation, softness, or abandonment halfway will commit a subversive error"; required that "we must always maintain the perseverance and persistence that anti-corruption is always on the road, maintain strategic determination and a high-pressure posture, and not stop for a step or retreat for half a step"...
宜将剩勇追穷寇，不可沽名学霸王 (yí jiāng shèng yǒng zhuī qióng kòu, bù kě gū míng xué bà wáng - "better to pursue the defeated enemy with courage, not seek fame like overlord," it is better to press home the attack against a defeated foe than to halt out of a desire for fame). In this overall battle of tough battles and protracted battles, President Xi (习近平) has led the people's army to play a set of "combined punches" that treat both the symptoms and root causes and systematically govern, and comprehensively promote the situation where one dares not, cannot, and does not want to be corrupt, and strive to eradicate the soil and conditions for the breeding of corruption.
——Grasp the key of governing power, optimize and restructure the resources and forces of discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and patrol, audit supervision, and judicial supervision, and form a power operation system in which decision-making power, executive power, and supervisory power are mutually restricted and mutually coordinated;
——Weave a tight cage of systems, and regulations and systems such as the "Central Military Commission's Regulations on Inspection Work," the "Regulations on the Implementation of Intra-Party Supervision in the Army," and the "Regulations on the Accountability Work of the Party in the Army" are intensively introduced and exert their power;
——Closely monitor the invisible and mutated corruption, resolutely investigate and deal with new types of corruption and hidden corruption, strengthen the rectification and governance of key industries and fields and military-local intersection areas, and deeply investigate and carefully investigate issues such as expected income and agreed-upon holding on behalf;
——Vigorously correct the "micro-corruption" around officers and soldiers, deepen and expand the work of grassroots style supervision contact points, closely monitor sensitive affairs at the grassroots level, and deeply correct problems such as eating, taking, carding, asking, operating in the dark, and falsely reporting and falsely receiving;
——Deepen the joint investigation and treatment of style and corruption, and crack down on phenomena such as illegal eating and drinking, receiving gifts and giving gifts, and improper interactions as soon as they emerge, and block the evolution channel of style and corruption...
"Thousands of sails pass by the sunken boat, and ten thousand trees spring before the diseased tree." The deeper the political rectification, the purer the people's army, and the more confident it is in strengthening the army and winning battles.
The entire army insists on taking the ability to fight and win battles as the fundamental focus of political rectification, corrects the accumulated malpractices of the troops with the spirit of rectification, resolutely returns the focus of work to the right track, firmly establishes the standard of combat effectiveness, and accelerates the solution of problems such as "five will nots" and "two insufficient abilities," and forges a strong army that dares to fight and will win.
Sharpening the blade on the battlefield, an army brigade organized synthetic battalion commanders to participate in online command confrontation training, the battlefield air and sea situation was transmitted and circulated in real time, and elements such as army aviation, long-range fire, and special operations全程 participated, improving the joint quality, overall concept, and adaptability of grassroots commanders.
Fighting in the sea and sky, China's first electromagnetic catapult-type aircraft carrier Fujian (福建) ship carried out its first maritime actual force training in the second week of its commissioning, and multiple types of carrier-based aircraft completed multiple catapult takeoffs and landing training, and carried out experimental training missions across sea areas for the first time in the second month of its commissioning.
Competing in the long sky, an air force unit used technological means to build a new type of blue army aimed at the operational concepts, equipment performance, and tactical characteristics of potential opponents, focusing on the weaknesses of the red side, frequently posing difficult problems and setting up dilemmas, forcing pilots to find shortcomings and strengthen capabilities.
Being able to come when called, being able to fight when coming, and being able to win when fighting, the Eastern Theater Command organized land, naval, air, and rocket forces to carry out joint exercises such as "Joint Sharp Sword," "Strait Thunder," and "Justice Mission," and implemented subjects such as air and sea combat readiness patrols, seizing comprehensive control, blockading key ports and domains, and joint assaults by various services and arms, comprehensively testing the integrated joint operations capabilities of the troops, and fully demonstrating the strong will and ability to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
Be summoned and arrive, arrive and be able to fight, fight and be victorious. The Eastern Theater Command (东部战区) organized forces from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Rocket Force to conduct joint exercises such as "Joint Sword (联合利剑)," "Strait Thunder (海峡雷霆)," and "Just Mission (正义使命)," implementing subjects such as maritime and aerial combat readiness patrols, seizing comprehensive control, blockading key ports and areas, and joint assaults by various services and arms. This comprehensively tested the troops' integrated joint operations capabilities and fully demonstrated their strong will and ability to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity.
枕戈待旦 (zhěn gē dài dàn - "pillow on spears await dawn," to be ready for battle at any moment) and seize every minute. All levels of the military adhere to fighting, preparing for war, and building simultaneously, comprehensively strengthening military training and preparation. They guide officers and soldiers to transform the political enthusiasm inspired by rectification into motivation for training, and the vast number of commanders and fighters single-mindedly plan for war, study war, and train for war. Their confidence in defeating all powerful enemies is more firm, and their fighting spirit is even higher.
In this magnificent era, with a rapidly changing military and refreshing military camps, officers and soldiers who are transferred and exchanged, as long as their work performance is outstanding in their new units, will still be on the list for commendations and awards. When higher-level authorities inspect work at the grassroots level, they no longer simply flip through books, check records, or test memorization... These actions of establishing credibility like moving a tree demonstrate the good atmosphere and ecology brought about by the deepening and solidifying of political rectification.
As the cause of strengthening the military in the new era continues to advance, the vast number of officers and soldiers increasingly deeply feel that this unprecedented, soul-touching, and deeply rooted political rectification is not only a cleanup and rectification aimed at major corruption problems, but also a tempering and forging aimed at strengthening the military and winning battles. From a deeper perspective, it is a fundamental measure to implement the new era's political military building strategy and strengthen the Party's absolute leadership over the military.
Rectification forges a new style, and storming the fortress sprints towards a strong military. On the journey to accelerate the building of a world-class military, the People's Liberation Army (人民解放军) unswervingly adheres to the Party's absolute leadership over the military, correcting deviations and restoring order in the process of reforming malpractices, solidifying the soul in the process of tempering, and undertaking missions in the process of tackling difficulties and forging ahead. It will always be a heroic force that the Party and the people can completely trust.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), April 7. Xinhua News Agency reporter Mei Changwei (梅常伟), PLA Daily reporters Ou Can (欧灿), Fei Shiting (费士廷), Yan Shan (严珊), and Qian Zongyang (钱宗阳))
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The "2026 China Business Environment Survey Report" released by the American Chamber of Commerce in China shows that nearly 60% of American-funded enterprises surveyed plan to increase investment in China, more than half of American-funded enterprises in China surveyed expect to achieve profitability or substantial profitability in 2025, and more than 70% of enterprises surveyed have not considered transferring production or procurement links outside of China. A report released by the German Chamber of Commerce in China shows that more than 90% of German companies surveyed have no intention of withdrawing from the Chinese market, and more than half of the companies plan to increase investment in China.
"Investing in China is investing in long-term certainty. In the past year, we have enhanced the deployment of logistics networks between China and Europe, Asia, and other regions, including adding five new China-France cargo flights per week, increasing capacity from China to Thailand, and increasing the frequency of China-Vietnam cargo flights." Xu Baoyan (许宝燕), President of FedEx China (联邦快递中国区), said, "FedEx has been deeply rooted in China for more than 40 years, precisely because of its trust in China's super-large market, industrial supporting capabilities, and innovation potential."
BASF's largest single investment project in the world, the BASF (Guangdong) Verbund site (巴斯夫（广东）一体化基地项目), has officially started production. Eli Lilly plans to invest $3 billion in China over the next 10 years to expand production. Novo Nordisk announced the expansion of its Guangzhou production base (广州生产基地). Schneider Electric announced the construction of two new factories in Xiamen (厦门) and Wuxi (无锡) and the upgrade of its Beijing R&D center (北京研发中心). Jiangsu Haihang Electric (江苏海航电气)'s "AI+Photovoltaic Storage Direct Flexible" zero-carbon demonstration park in Yangzhou, Jiangsu (江苏扬中) was successfully put into operation. Volkswagen's first full-process R&D and testing center outside of Germany was completed in Hefei, Anhui (安徽合肥). Müller, a retail leader, announced that its first Asian store will be located in Pudong, Shanghai (上海浦东)... Multinational corporations have demonstrated their willingness and confidence to deeply cultivate China for a long time with practical actions, and their optimism about the Chinese market has not changed.
"China's in-depth implementation of the strategy of expanding domestic demand provides a definite growth anchor for foreign-funded enterprises." Ben Yong (奔勇), Vice Chairman of the Thai-Chinese General Chamber of Commerce (泰国中华总商会), said, "The Chinese market has become a core testing ground for foreign-funded enterprises to forge global competitiveness and a high ground for value creation. From 'Made in China' to 'Innovated in China,' foreign-funded enterprises have gained greater growth in the Chinese market."
Chen Guangyan (陈光炎), Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University (南洋理工大学) in Singapore, said that the attractiveness of China's super-large market lies in its rich demand levels, multiple application scenarios, and rapid iteration and upgrading. "Expanding domestic demand will release more incremental growth into consumption upgrades and structural improvements, providing development space for foreign-funded enterprises in high-end brands, sustainable products, and professional services." He believes that China's continued promotion of expanding service consumption will create more opportunities for foreign-funded enterprises to increase their layout in the fields of medical and health care, elderly care, and digital services.
The "Catalogue of Industries Encouraging Foreign Investment (2025 Edition)" officially came into effect on February 1. "This is an important measure for China to attract and utilize foreign investment with greater efforts." Ivan Cardillo (伊万·卡尔迪洛), Chairman of the Italy-China Business Development Forum (意大利中国商业发展论坛), believes that China is guiding and optimizing the direction and regional layout of foreign investment, "allowing foreign-funded enterprises to feel the scale and maturity of the Chinese market, and enabling foreign-funded enterprises to strengthen their confidence in deeply cultivating the Chinese market."
"Opening up space for foreign-funded enterprises to participate in cooperation in high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, and green and low-carbon fields."
The "National Innovation Index Report 2025" released at the 2026 Zhongguancun Forum Annual Meeting (2026中关村论坛年会) shows that China's comprehensive ranking of the National Innovation Index has risen to ninth in the world. China promotes the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and foreign-funded enterprises have incorporated the Chinese market into their global core R&D system.
Amcor (安姆科), a Swiss consumer goods packaging company, has established its Asia-Pacific R&D Center in Jiangyin, Jiangsu (江苏江阴), and new packaging products are going to the world from here. "At last year's CIIE (进博会), more than half of the 400 new products in the consumer goods and medical industries that we showcased were developed and produced in China." She Xin (佘昕), President of Amcor Group Greater China and North Asia, said that thanks to China's good scientific and technological innovation environment, Amcor's new products developed in China are highly competitive in the global market. "Now many international customers are actively proposing to 'learn from experience' in China and bring Chinese innovative products back to their home countries. We no longer simply bring global technology to China, but use the R&D innovation of the Chinese market to give back to the world."
"China is at the forefront of the world in the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, sensor technology, and big data applications, empowering our products and global air quality big data platform." Han Jingjing (韩晶晶), Vice President of Sales for the Chinese market of IQAir (艾可爱尔), a Swiss air purification information technology company, said that deep participation in Chinese innovation has significantly enhanced IQAir's competitiveness in the global market.
China's R&D and service to the world is becoming a consensus among many foreign-funded enterprises. Jens Stephan (简思华), Vice Chairman of Deloitte Asia Pacific (德勤亚太), said that China's innovation capabilities are increasing day by day, attracting foreign-funded enterprises to continue to increase their investment in the Chinese market. He cited as an example that AstraZeneca (阿斯利康), a pharmaceutical company, has established two global strategic R&D centers in Shanghai (上海) and Beijing (北京), and China's R&D pipeline is completely synchronized with the world, delivering R&D results to the world.
"China adheres to using scientific and technological innovation to lead industrial upgrading, which not only enhances the strength of its own industrial system, but also opens up space for foreign-funded enterprises to participate in cooperation in high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, and green and low-carbon fields." Marcos Pires (马科斯·皮雷斯), Professor of Political Economy at São Paulo State University (圣保罗州立大学) in Brazil, said that China's continuous improvement of innovation capabilities, through technology transfer, industrial synergy, and knowledge sharing, plays a driving role in global economic growth.
Li Jiancong (李健聪), a member of the Malaysian Parliament and Chairman of the Regional Strategy Research Institute (区域策略研究所), has visited Chinese high-tech enterprises many times. In his opinion, China's technological innovation and industrial innovation are highly integrated, and scientific research results can be rapidly industrialized. "China's innovation not only serves its own development, but also promotes global energy transition, digital economic development, and industrial upgrading, which helps developing countries narrow the technology gap and achieve inclusive growth."
"China maintains multilateralism and free trade with practical actions, and shares growth opportunities with all countries."
China expands high-level opening up to the outside world and creates a transparent, stable, and predictable institutional environment, injecting confidence into foreign-funded enterprises to continue to deeply cultivate the Chinese market.
"China's continued expansion of opening up to the outside world is a long-term strategic choice, bringing valuable certainty to global economic growth and sustainable development." Li Jiancong (李健聪) said that China adheres to openness and inclusiveness, adheres to the correct direction of economic globalization, enhances the confidence of global investors, and provides broader space for regional economic cooperation.
"Institutional opening up is a prominent advantage for China to attract foreign investment." Pires (皮雷斯) said that China continues to reduce the negative list for foreign investment access, promote the comprehensive implementation of national treatment for foreign-funded enterprises, and promote and regulate the cross-border flow of data, which shows that China always welcomes foreign investment, attaches importance to foreign investment, and is committed to creating a fair competition development environment for various business entities. "China maintains multilateralism and free trade with practical actions, and shares growth opportunities with all countries, and will continue to be an important destination for global investors to achieve long-term value."
Chen Guangyan (陈光炎) believes that from a macro perspective, China's expansion of high-level opening up to the outside world promotes inclusive and inclusive economic globalization, and continues to provide market opportunities and cooperation platforms, which helps stabilize cross-border investment expectations and promote industrial chain and supply chain cooperation; from a micro perspective, China strives to transform "policy dividends" into "business convenience" and continues to enhance its attractiveness to foreign investment. "The Chinese government uses clearer rules and more stable expectations to reduce the uncertainty of foreign investment in China and enhance its confidence in 'daring to invest, willing to invest, and investing for the long term.'" Chen Guangyan (陈光炎) said.
Supporting developing countries to participate in global trade governance, promoting high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), expanding opening up by connecting with international high-standard economic and trade rules, reducing tariffs and expanding imports... Combining long-term observations of China's development, Cardillo (卡尔迪洛) said that China promotes economic globalization in the right direction with practical actions, creates growth opportunities for the world with its own stable development, and provides valuable technical and experience support especially for developing countries, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country. "At present, reiterating the commitment to an open, inclusive, and rules-based multilateral trading system, actively undertaking international responsibilities, and carrying out solidarity and cooperation rather than zero-sum games can promote sustainable world development and achieve common prosperity."
(Reporters Cui Yin (崔寅), Zhang Jinruo (张矜若), Sun Guangyong (孙广勇), Zheng Bin (郑彬), Chen Haiqi (陈海琪), and Gong Ming (龚鸣) of this newspaper participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 玛尔塔·费尔南德斯
A truly sustainable international order must be built on the basis of equal dialogue, mutual respect, and consensus. Adhering to the purposes and principles of the "Charter of the United Nations" (《联合国宪章》), firmly upholding multilateralism, and promoting the construction of a more inclusive global governance system are the choices that conform to the trend of history.
The purposes and principles of the "Charter of the United Nations" (《联合国宪章》) constitute the cornerstone of contemporary international relations. The Charter begins by stating "We the peoples of the United Nations determined," thereby establishing two fundamental guidelines: on the one hand, taking the improvement of human well-being as the core goal of global governance; on the other hand, taking sovereign equality as the fundamental principle of state-to-state interaction.
The formation of the principle of sovereign equality has a profound historical background. In the process of striving for national independence and liberation, the vast number of developing countries played a decisive role in the establishment of this principle. The concept of determining whether a country can be independent based on so-called "civilized standards" has gradually been replaced by the universal principle of sovereign equality. All countries, regardless of size, strength, wealth, or poverty, have the right to participate equally, make decisions equally, and benefit equally in the global governance process, marking an important step towards a more inclusive international order.
For some time, the international order has faced increasingly severe challenges. Individual countries taking unilateral military actions without the authorization of the United Nations Security Council (联合国安理会) seriously violates the basic principles of international law and exacerbates the problem of selective application of international rules. Once the principle of sovereign equality is weakened at will, the international community will inevitably face more instability and uncertainty.
The impact of these shocks is broad and far-reaching. Currently, heightened geopolitical tensions have exacerbated volatility in global energy markets, driven up the cost of key production materials such as fertilizers, and made food security issues more prominent. The humanitarian crisis continues to deepen, and vulnerable groups are particularly affected. The erosion of international trust and growing unpredictability hinder international coordination, and many of the challenges facing the world today require countries to work together, which is directly related to the common well-being of all peoples.
In the face of numerous challenges, the importance of multilateralism is even more prominent. The international system with the United Nations (联合国) as its core not only provides a platform for all parties to strengthen dialogue, coordinate interests, and build consensus, but also creates space for developing countries to express their demands and make their voices heard. As early as the 1970s, developing countries proposed the establishment of a new international economic order at the United Nations General Assembly. However, these efforts have not eliminated long-standing structural injustices, and building a more just and reasonable international order remains a long and arduous task.
The global governance initiatives proposed by China (中国) are very much in line with the needs of the times. China (中国) has always been committed to strengthening the core role of the United Nations (联合国), actively advocating resolving disputes through dialogue, resolving differences through consultation, and promoting security through cooperation, adhering to the global governance concept of joint consultation, joint construction, and shared benefits, and respecting the right of all countries to independently choose social systems and development paths. The goal of these efforts is to build a more stable, inclusive, and predictable international order. This concept is also reflected in China's (中国) practical actions - providing humanitarian assistance in times of crisis and carrying out diplomatic mediation in times of tension, all of which demonstrate China's (中国) responsible attitude of adhering to dialogue and cooperation. In the current uncertain international environment, China's (中国) adherence to policy continuity and predictability is of great significance for rebuilding international trust.
With the deepening development of world multipolarization, the BRICS cooperation mechanism has become an important platform for solidarity and cooperation among countries of the Global South. BRICS countries are not only committed to promoting the reform of the global governance system, but also actively exploring effective mechanisms to promote development and cooperation. For example, the New Development Bank (新开发银行), as a supplement to existing multilateral and regional financial institutions, has enhanced the pertinence and effectiveness of international development cooperation by responding to the long-neglected needs of developing countries. The joint efforts of BRICS countries help to enhance the inclusiveness and representativeness of the global governance system and further consolidate multilateral cooperation based on dialogue, consultation, mutual respect, and focus on development.
In today's increasingly multipolar world, the question is not whether change is needed, but how to change and in what direction. Individual countries are trying to maintain the old hierarchical order by relying on coercion and force. However, a truly sustainable international order must be built on the basis of equal dialogue, mutual respect, and consensus. Adhering to the purposes and principles of the "Charter of the United Nations" (《联合国宪章》), firmly upholding multilateralism, and promoting the construction of a more inclusive global governance system are the choices that conform to the trend of history. In this interdependent world, only by deepening cooperation on the basis of respecting sovereignty, seeking consensus on the basis of adhering to diversity, and strengthening common responsibilities on the basis of taking into account the interests of all countries, can we provide a more solid guarantee for lasting world peace and common development.
(The author is the director of the Brazilian BRICS Policy Research Center)
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"This album is a window into the true face of history. History must be remembered and defended." American youth Evan Kail (埃文·凯尔) said firmly when talking about the album recording the crimes of the Japanese invaders in China. It was this belief that led him to make an important decision in 2022 - to donate the album to China free of charge. This move not only protected the truth of history, but also opened a journey of friendship across the Pacific for him.
The discovery of the album stemmed from an accident. Evan runs a pawn shop in Minnesota, USA. He noticed an old album among the items consigned by customers. The photos inside were bloody and cruel, and the word "Nanking" (南京的英文旧译) appeared frequently. As a graduate of Japanese studies at the University of Minnesota, he keenly realized its historical value and resolutely decided to purchase and donate it. With the assistance of professional lawyers, the album was eventually donated free of charge to the Consulate General of China in Chicago.
In fact, the donation process was not smooth sailing. Cyberbullying, death threats... Evan once wore a bulletproof vest to protect himself. "I refused the temptation of money and withstood all kinds of pressure." He always firmly believed that "doing the right thing is never wrong" and that "some things should never be priced and should be jointly protected by the people." This determination stems from family memories - his grandfather fought in the Pacific War, and the trauma of the war made Evan deeply aware of the significance of safeguarding the truth of history. Staff at the Consulate General of China in Chicago gave Evan a letter of thanks, which read: "History is a mirror of today's society, and your donation will inspire the world to maintain peace with a kind heart." This made Evan even more convinced: "I did the right thing."
At the end of 2024, Evan set foot on Chinese soil for the first time. This visit, which he called a "healing journey," allowed him to see a real and three-dimensional China. In Beijing (北京), he received a folding fan with a built-in payment chip and experienced the convenience of a smart city. In Nanjing (南京), he went to the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders to pay his respects and felt the Chinese people's remembrance of history. The friendliness of the Chinese people also left a deep impression on him. Thousands of letters from young Chinese people made him feel "cherished and cared for." He sincerely exclaimed: "The Chinese people are very friendly to me, and I am bathed in full of kindness."
In August 2025, Evan met with readers in Shenzhen (深圳) with his new book "Dare to Act" (《敢为》), which recorded the donation of the album and his trip to China, revealing many unknown stories. He frankly stated in the book: "I know that this historical truth is crucial to the Chinese people. This history, which carries national memory, should return to the land connected to it by blood. This album deserves to be seen by everyone." Evan said that to this day, those ghosts who attempt to tamper with memories are still wandering, and every lie they fabricate is a blasphemy against the victims. Any act of distorting historical facts should be severely condemned, and each of us should cherish the hard-won peaceful years.
What Evan saw and heard in China allowed him to observe different lifestyles, learn new cultures, and have more powerful evidence to refute Western prejudices against China. He observed that the streets of Chinese cities are clean and safe, and technologies such as mobile payment are deeply integrated into life, which is very different from the one-sided image depicted by some Western media. "Those media reports about China are full of negative colors, misleading many people who have never been to China." To this end, Evan actively shares his experiences in China through social media and leads American friends to China to experience it firsthand. He sincerely appealed: "Come and feel it for yourself. Only through personal experience can you understand the real China." Not long ago, he announced that he chose to settle in Tianjin (天津) because of "Tianjin's unique urban temperament and humanistic temperature," and is committed to showing the real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China to the Western world.
Today, Evan regards promoting people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China as one of his missions. "I am not only a social media creator, but also hope to be an envoy of peace. I want to tell the story of China to the Western people." Evan said that he plans to go deep into Chinese villages to produce documentaries and attract more international friends to experience the real China. "I hope my efforts can promote more constructive dialogue and contribute to world peace."
Return to TopThe irrigation section of the Nzoia River Downstream Irrigation and Flood Control Project in western Kenya, constructed by Power Construction Corporation of China (中国电建), has been in operation for nearly a year. It directly benefits more than 12,500 farmers in Siaya County (西亚亚郡) and Busia County (布西亚郡) in the country, providing a stable irrigation water source for approximately 4,500 hectares of farmland, and helping local food production. According to reports, this water conservancy project integrates functions such as water intake, water conveyance, drainage, and flood control, including 111 kilometers of irrigation canals, 71 kilometers of drainage canals, etc., and has also upgraded some river flood control dikes.
Layout design: Wang Zheping (汪哲平)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Libreville, April 7th (Xinhua) - At the invitation of the Gabonese National Assembly, Wu Weihua (武维华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation to Gabon from the 5th to the 7th of April. He met with Gabonese President Brice Oligui Nguema (恩圭马), and held talks with the Speaker of the Gabonese National Assembly Faustin Boukoubi (奥南加) and First Vice-President of the Senate, Lucie Milebou Aubusson Mboussou (马比亚拉).
Wu Weihua (武维华) stated that the friendship between China and Gabon has a long history. In recent years, under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Brice Oligui Nguema (恩圭马), the development of China-Gabon relations has been strong, and cooperation in various fields has yielded remarkable results. China is willing to work with Gabon to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state and the results of the Beijing Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, carry forward traditional friendship, strengthen exchanges of experience in governance, and promote the in-depth development of the China-Gabon comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership. Wu Weihua (武维华) also introduced China's comprehensive implementation of zero-tariff measures for the 53 African countries that have established diplomatic relations with China.
The Gabonese side positively evaluated the achievements in the development of bilateral relations and China's zero-tariff policy towards Africa, and stated that it will continue to firmly adhere to the One China principle, and is willing to work with China to strengthen exchanges and cooperation between the two legislative bodies, deepen cooperation in areas such as resource development, infrastructure construction, and agriculture, and transform the traditional friendship between Gabon and China into more cooperative achievements to benefit the people of both countries.
Return to TopThis report Guangzhou (广州), April 7 (Reporter Li Gang (李刚)) The reporter learned from CGN (中广核): Local time April 7, CGN Laos (老挝) Northern Interconnection Clean Energy Base Phase I 1 million kilowatt photovoltaic project was connected to the grid and put into operation. The project is expected to generate an average annual power of 1.65 billion kWh, equivalent to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 1.3 million tons, driving more than 70 industrial chain enterprises in China (中国) and Laos (老挝) to jointly participate in the construction, and helping Laos (老挝) move towards the goal of becoming the "clean energy battery of Southeast Asia." The project is located in Mengsai County (孟赛县) and Namo County (纳磨县), Oudomxay Province (乌多姆赛省), Laos (老挝), and is CGN's (中广核) first independently planned and developed overseas million-kilowatt-level clean energy greenfield project, and also Laos' (老挝) first large-scale mountain photovoltaic project.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋 李凯旋 杨颜菲
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Young cadres must improve their ability to respond to emergencies."
The ability to respond to emergencies is the skill to deal with emergencies and handle unexpected events. It is an important ability that young cadres must possess to grow and succeed.
In advance, it is necessary to enhance risk awareness, make proactive moves, and prepare to deal with various risks and challenges at any time. During the event, it is necessary to continuously improve the knowledge and courage to deal with emergencies, so as to have a clear understanding of the situation, implement classified policies, accurately defuse potential crises, effectively control the situation, and resolve crises. In the aftermath, it is necessary to closely integrate with the practice of dealing with risks, find loopholes in work and systems, and improve them in a timely manner.
Recently, reporters in Inner Mongolia, Sichuan, Jiangxi and other places, learned how relevant departments help young cadres improve their ability to respond to emergencies.
——Editor
Focusing on the pre-event stage:
Preventing problems before they occur and making proactive moves
"Uncle Hou (侯叔), there are cracks in the base of this wall, and it needs to be reinforced as soon as possible." In Houjiagedong Village (侯家圪洞村), Yaogou Township (窑沟乡), Qingshuihe County (清水河县), Hohhot City (呼和浩特市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), in an old cave dwelling, township cadre Li Mingyang (李明扬) patiently exhorted the resident.
After pulling out a tape measure and carefully measuring, Li Mingyang (李明扬) wrote in the ledger - the crack at the base of the wall is 0.2 cm wide, which meets the conditions for determining a dilapidated house. "Don't look at the narrow cracks, but the cracks behind the wall skin should be quite deep. The cracks must be chiseled open and filled with cement mortar to prevent further cracking." Sitting on the edge of the kang, Li Mingyang (李明扬) exhorted, "Uncle Hou (侯叔), you can only move back in after the reinforcement is completed."
Yaogou Township (窑沟乡) is located along the Yellow River (黄河), and most of the residences are cave dwellings. In the event of concentrated heavy rainfall, the houses are prone to cracking and collapsing. Therefore, before the flood season arrives, it is crucial to investigate potential risks.
Li Mingyang (李明扬), 28 years old, has been working in Yaogou Township (窑沟乡) for 6 years. It is hard to imagine that this young man with rich experience in risk investigation was once a "layman". "How to classify dilapidated houses, what counts as ordinary cracks, what is a structural hazard, I couldn't distinguish these issues at first."
"Young cadres lack experience, and often don't know where to start when identifying and assessing risks." Qiao Jianbin (乔建斌), Secretary of the Yaogou Township (窑沟乡) Party Committee, said that the work of investigating dilapidated houses alone involves many professional contents such as building structure, damage classification, and reinforcement methods, and it is not easy to accurately assess and respond.
Zhang Yanrong (张艳蓉), Section Chief of the Cadre Section 1 of the Organization Department of the Hohhot Municipal Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, Hohhot City (呼和浩特市) has focused on enhancing the risk assessment and response capabilities of young cadres at the grassroots level, formulated differentiated training lists, and built a full-chain capacity development system.
In Yaogou Township (窑沟乡), pre-flood risk investigation and early warning are important contents in the training list.
"In these villages along the Yellow River (黄河), if there is a concentrated heavy rainfall this year, where are the hidden dangers?" Zhang Zhi (张智), director of the Qingshuihe County (清水河县) Flood Control and Drought Relief Command Center, stood in front of the screen, holding a laser pointer in his hand, and the red dot moved slowly on the satellite map of the dangerous sections along the Yellow River (黄河).
"These households at the bottom of the ditch are close to the slope, and the water collection area of the slope is large, and rainwater will pour into here." Li Mingyang (李明扬) raised his hand to answer.
"That's right, this area should be the focus of investigation this year." Zhang Zhi (张智) nodded, "Not only to look at the houses, but also to see if there are new cracks on the slope and whether there is water seepage at the foot of the slope."
Closely following the word "pre-event", Yaogou Township (窑沟乡) provides flood prevention and early warning training for young cadres. In the classroom, the "lecturer" explained the landslide cases of previous years one by one, and the young cadres sat around the table, thinking and learning carefully.
Not only that, Hohhot (呼和浩特) towns along the Yellow River (黄河) regularly organize young cadres to carry out drills such as mountain flood defense and geological disaster avoidance, so as to improve the emergency response speed and ability of young cadres in practical operations.
Wang Liming (王立明), Deputy Director of the Hohhot Emergency Management Bureau, introduced that in the next step, Hohhot (呼和浩特) will continue to focus on the shortcomings of young cadres such as insufficient emergency experience, improve the risk prevention and resolution mechanism, deeply integrate theoretical training with practical exercises, systematically improve the ability of young cadres to prevent risks and meet challenges, and help young cadres strive to develop real skills.
Focusing on the event:
Properly handle and effectively resolve crises
Before dawn, Chen Peng (陈鹏), captain of the full-time fire brigade of the Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County (北川羌族自治县) government in Sichuan Province (四川省), went into the mountains early to check the fire prevention checkpoints. He carefully verified the fire-fighting equipment and emergency water sources, and rehearsed the handling of disasters in his mind.
The front line of disaster handling is the training ground for young cadres. Chen Peng (陈鹏) started as a grassroots rescue team member, and successively experienced dozens of sudden disaster rescues such as flash floods, landslides, and geological collapses, and gradually grew into an emergency rescue expert.
"The most difficult battle was a flood and geological disaster caused by a heavy rainstorm." Chen Peng (陈鹏) recalled that at that time, 8 townships in Beichuan County (北川县) were severely affected, and he entered the disaster area as soon as possible, and found that communication, electricity, and transportation were completely interrupted on the scene. "Disaster information is fragmented. If the advance team makes a wrong judgment, it will delay the best rescue time." Chen Peng (陈鹏) said.
After assessing the water situation and safe evacuation areas, Chen Peng (陈鹏) divided the rescue members into 3 commando teams responsible for checking houses, delineating warning areas, and transferring the masses. Chen Peng (陈鹏) and his team members walked on the mud and rubble, and successively sorted out information such as the number of trapped people and high-risk hidden danger points, which provided an important basis for the rear command to allocate and transport rescue resources.
"In-event rescue, not afraid of hardship or fatigue, is afraid of misjudgment and slow handling." Chen Peng (陈鹏) admitted frankly that the mountainous terrain is complex and there are many potential disaster hazards. If you don't understand geological and meteorological assessment and can't operate professional rescue equipment, you will fail at critical moments.
In order to improve his in-event handling ability, Chen Peng (陈鹏) memorized the distribution of geological hazard points, flash flood-prone areas, and high forest fire risk areas in the county, and also took the initiative to study new technologies and equipment such as drone aerial photography and demolition rescue. "But relying on my own efforts alone is always a gap from the professional frontier." The bottleneck of growth once made Chen Peng (陈鹏) feel confused.
The local government included Chen Peng (陈鹏) in the "Qiangshan Talent Training Program" (羌山育才计划) and selected Chen Peng (陈鹏) to participate in professional training in Sichuan Province (四川省) for mountain flood geological disaster handling, forest fire fighting, and on-site emergency command. "One training session can learn professional knowledge that can top several months of self-study." Chen Peng (陈鹏) gained a lot.
In addition to professional training, the Beichuan County (北川县) Emergency Management Bureau arranged for senior experts in the emergency field to pair up with Chen Peng (陈鹏). After each rescue mission, experts and Chen Peng (陈鹏) reviewed and analyzed together, from disaster prediction, force deployment to on-site disposal, one by one to sort out shortcomings and optimize the plan, and constantly make up for capacity shortcomings. Bureau leaders regularly listened to his work reports, helped him sort out his ideas, and tried their best to coordinate the professional resources needed for capacity improvement.
"Young cadres are energetic, enterprising, and have a strong desire for knowledge." Zhu Fusong (朱福松), Deputy Director of the Emergency Management Support Center of the Beichuan County (北川县) Emergency Management Bureau, said that they will adhere to the methods of special training, on-the-job training, and temporary job exchanges to allow young cadres to grow in the front line and become talents in actual combat.
Post-event review:
"Dissecting the sparrow" to summarize experiences and lessons
"Our logistics support team's action plan was not detailed enough, which led to everyone not being able to eat until after 8 pm after putting out the mountain fire that day. Why? Because the road was blocked and the car couldn't get up." Huang Nan (黄楠), a young cadre from Shahe Town (沙河镇), Zhanggong District (章贡区), Ganzhou City (赣州市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), said.
"As soon as we received the news, everyone rushed out, and the fire-fighting tools were not fully brought, which led to a large number of people and a shortage of tools on the scene." Young cadre Hu Dongshan (胡东山) said.
"The on-site division of labor was not very clear, and everyone did their own thing, which greatly reduced efficiency." Young cadre He Wei (何威) said.
Recently, at the "Learning Salon" in Shahe Town (沙河镇), a review of the Longcun (龙村) fire extinguishing operation was underway. Without avoiding the important and dwelling on the trivial, without covering up, everyone spoke freely about their respective shortcomings in their work.
"Although there are emergency handling plans, in the actual implementation process, everyone found that there are still many problems, and many details need to be further improved." Zhao Yang (赵洋), Mayor of Shahe Town (沙河镇), said.
The cadres who participated in the rescue took turns "dissecting the sparrow", putting the "pain points" in the rescue process on the table, and "diagnosing" and prescribing prescriptions.
"This review is to summarize the problems and improve the work. This mountain fire was caused by villagers burning paper on the mountain to worship their ancestors, which exposed the shortcomings in our work. In the later stage, we still need to increase the publicity of civilized ancestor worship to avoid such situations from happening again." After Zhao Yang (赵洋) finished speaking, the young cadres present nodded in agreement.
"Through review, let young cadres talk about problems, talk about ideas, and find answers, and transform the results into action guidelines and system norms." He Tao (何涛), Organization Member of the Party Committee of Shahe Town (沙河镇), introduced.
How to let young cadres develop a "big heart" and "broad shoulders" for emergency response as soon as possible? Shahe Town (沙河镇) regards the "Learning Salon" as a normalized exchange and learning platform, and "reviews" and "revisits" cases such as emergency response and mediation of disputes in the town. Break down the disposal process and analyze and study it one by one from the cause of the problem to the key links. After 72 activities, the emergency response capabilities of young cadres have been significantly improved.
"Everyone opens up and talks about loopholes, and seniors talk about experience. Every session makes us gain a lot." Huang Nan (黄楠) felt deeply.
"The emergency response capabilities of young cadres cannot be waited for or demanded, but can only be developed through continuous practice, exercise, review and summary." Liu Mai (柳迈), member of the Standing Committee of the Zhanggong District (章贡区) Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, said that they will continue to summarize and refine the experiences and practices of the grassroots level, so that young cadres can grow in actual combat and improve in review.
This issue is coordinated by: Chen Zhen (陈震)
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On the morning of April 7th, a reporter departed from Tongan District (同安区), Xiamen (厦门) City, Fujian (福建) Province, and after an hour's drive along winding mountain roads, arrived at Junying Village (军营村), Lianhua Town (莲花镇).
Upon arriving at Junying Village (军营村), one is immediately immersed in a sea of green.
Everywhere you look, trees such as red chinquapin and silk chestnut stand tall and sturdy, while the tea gardens, varying in height, are lush and verdant.
On April 7, 1986, and July 14, 1997, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平同志) conducted in-depth research in Junying Village (军营村) on two occasions, proposing the development concept of "putting a hat on the mountain and developing below the mountain," meaning afforestation on the mountain, fruit and tea planting at the foot of the mountain, and developing diversified operations. This concept has guided Junying Village (军营村) on a path of green development.
Today, the "hat" on the mountain in Junying Village (军营村) has been put on. "The village currently has 8,416 mu of forest land, with a forest coverage rate of over 78%," Gao Quanwei (高泉伟), Secretary of the Party Branch and Director of the Village Committee of Junying Village (军营村党支部书记、村委会主任), told reporters.
The barren mountains, now re-covered in green, not only purify the air and improve the local microclimate but also fill the villagers' pockets. In May 2022, Junying Village (军营村) obtained the first batch of agricultural carbon tickets in the country from the Xiamen Property Rights Trading Center (厦门产权交易中心) and has since "sold carbon" for more than 500,000 yuan.
"A portion of this income is distributed to the villagers as a 'red envelope' at a standard of 200 yuan per person to stimulate ecological forest protection awareness, and the remainder is used for road maintenance and water conservancy management in the tea gardens," said Gao Quanwei (高泉伟).
At the foot of the mountain, Junying Village (军营村) has developed the planting of fruit trees such as persimmons, tangerines, and blueberries, covering an area of more than 100 mu. At the same time, it has made great efforts to develop tea planting, carry out pilot projects for the construction of ecological tea gardens, and cultivate and strengthen a number of leading tea enterprises such as Hengli Tea (恒利茶叶) through forms such as "company + cooperative + farmer" and "base +".
Pushing open the door of tea farmer Gao Xinke's (高新科) home, the fragrance of tea is rich and refreshing. Recently, the couple has been "chasing the sun," taking advantage of sunny days to weed and fertilize. "In another half month, we will be picking spring tea," Gao Xinke (高新科) said, rubbing his hands together, his eyes full of anticipation.
"Last year, we harvested 18,000 jin of finished tea," said Gao Xinke (高新科), who started learning tea planting and tea making at the age of 13 and now manages more than 50 mu of tea gardens. To ensure the quality of the tea, he uses highly effective, low-toxicity biological pesticides and has purchased special baking equipment, strictly controlling the quality from planting to processing.
By 2025, the tea planting area in Junying Village (军营村) will be nearly 6,500 mu, and tea brands such as "Ya Hao (雅毫)" and "Mu Lan (慕兰)" will be sold far and wide at home and abroad, increasing the income of tea farmers by more than 26 million yuan each year.
The first floor is for tea making, the second floor is for self-occupation, and the third floor has been upgraded to the "Yue Shan (阅山)" homestay. In 2021, Gao Xinke (高新科) renovated four vacant houses and added air conditioners, televisions, and other equipment to provide accommodation for tourists visiting Junying Village (军营村). "It only costs 200 yuan a night, including breakfast," said Gao Xinke (高新科), adding that in the past five years, the family's homestay income has been nearly 200,000 yuan.
Junying Village (军营村) holds special agricultural, cultural, and tourism activities such as the "High Mountain Life Festival" to promote the standardized construction of rural homestays, allowing visiting tourists to "eat well," "stay well," and "play well." Gao Quanwei (高泉伟) said that the village currently has 72 homestays and 10 farmhouses, with an average of nearly 100,000 tourists and nearly 4 million yuan in tourism revenue per year.
As we left Gao Xinke's (高新科) home, a drizzle began to fall, and the ensuing mist enveloped the village. Walking along the wide asphalt road, we heard lively cries of vendors.
"This is our own homegrown white radish, take it back and taste it!" At the "Seeking the Taste of High Mountain Goodies Market," 74-year-old Lin Fanxi (林番洗) was attracting customers. On the stall, sweet potato flour, dried cabbage, bamboo shoots, and other special agricultural products were displayed in abundance. As soon as someone placed an order, she immediately took out a QR code to collect the payment: "This doesn't need change, and it's clear how much money I've made."
The stalls in this market are provided by the village for villagers to use free of charge, which not only increases the income of the people but also allows foreign tourists to take away local specialties.
As noon approached, Lin Fanxi (林番洗) packed up her stall and walked quickly to the Junying Village (军营村) Elderly Canteen. Today's lunch is still the standard of one meat dish, one vegetable dish, one soup, and a serving of rice. "We provide free lunch from Monday to Friday every week, with funding from donations from local benefactors and caring enterprises, as well as subsidies from the Civil Affairs Bureau," said Gao Jinta (高金塔), president of the Junying Village (军营村) Elderly Association, who is responsible for operating the canteen. The canteen is open to all villagers over the age of 70, and the food is also light, fully considering the needs of the elderly.
Thanks to the "strengthening" of industries such as tea processing and rural tourism, Junying Village's (军营村) collective economic income reached 1,073,800 yuan last year, and the per capita income of villagers reached 48,000 yuan, and the lives of the people are getting better and better.
The prosperity of the industry has attracted more and more young people to return to the village to start businesses. Gao Guoda (高国达), 38 years old this year, returned to his hometown five years ago. He started with tour itinerary arrangement and gradually figured out the needs of tourists. In October last year, he partnered with relatives to set up the Yunjing Stargazing Camp (云境星空营地), which has received more than 3,000 tourists so far. "We need to expand the consumption scenarios of rural tourism and can no longer make homogeneous products," said Gao Guoda (高国达).
"By the end of last year, Junying Village (军营村) already had 23 college graduates returning to their hometown to carry out e-commerce live broadcasts and develop special agricultural, cultural, and tourism projects," said Gao Quanwei (高泉伟). The return of young people has brought new vitality and new ideas to rural development, promoting the formation of a virtuous cycle of rural revitalization.
Forty years have passed, and the Junying Village (军营村) that once had no electricity, no roads, and a per capita annual income of only 280 yuan is gone forever. Looking to the future, the future of Junying Village (军营村) is even more worthy of expectation.
Return to TopOur newspaper Nanjing (南京), April 7th (Reporter Zhang Shuo (张烁)) – At the invitation of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), Kuomintang Chairman Cheng Li-wen (郑丽文) led a Kuomintang delegation to Nanjing (南京) via Shanghai (上海) on the 7th, beginning their visit to the mainland.
After arriving in Nanjing (南京), Cheng Li-wen (郑丽文) said that she was grateful to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and to the mainland for their warm reception. This visit is of great significance for maintaining peace in the Taiwan Strait and enhancing the well-being of the people. The Kuomintang will adhere to the "1992 Consensus" and oppose "Taiwan independence," and continue to play an important role in promoting the peaceful development of cross-strait relations.
Song Tao (宋涛), Director of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the CPC Central Committee, welcomed Cheng Li-wen (郑丽文) and her delegation in Shanghai (上海). Song Tao (宋涛) said that he welcomed Chairman Cheng (郑丽文) and her delegation. He believes that Chairman Cheng's (郑丽文) visit will allow her to personally feel the great development achievements made by the motherland under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the Communist Party of China, fully feel the deep friendship of mainland compatriots towards Taiwan (台湾) compatriots, and will receive high recognition and support from compatriots on both sides of the strait. The two parties should prioritize the interests of the nation and the well-being of compatriots, work together to promote the peaceful development of cross-strait relations, and jointly create the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. The two parties should **以民族利益为重、以同胞福祉为念** (yǐ mínzú lìyì wéi zhòng, yǐ tóngbāo fúzhǐ wéi niàn - "regard national interests as paramount, and the well-being of compatriots as a priority," emphasizing the importance of prioritizing the interests of the Chinese nation and the well-being of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait).
Return to TopOn April 6th, staff members were managing rice seedlings at the fully automated and intelligent seedling raising factory of the Qinglong River Cooperative in Guangshan County (光山县), Xinyang City (信阳市), Henan Province (河南省).
The spring breeze brings warmth, and the fertile fields are covered in green. Currently, it is a crucial period for spring agricultural production. People in various regions are seizing the farming season and working diligently to do a good job in seedling raising and sowing, field management, etc., to lay a solid foundation for a bumper summer harvest.
Photo by Xie Wanbai (谢万柏) (Xinhua News Agency)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)): The reporter learned from the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局): During this year's Qingming holiday, national border inspection agencies ensured the entry and exit of 6,779,000 Chinese and foreign personnel, with a daily average of 2,260,000, an increase of 9.1% compared to the same period last year. The peak for daily entry and exit clearance occurred on April 6th, reaching 2,334,000 person-times. Among them, the entry and exit of residents from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan reached 3,291,000 person-times, an increase of 19.5% compared to the same period last year; the entry and exit of foreigners reached 843,000 person-times, an increase of 20.9% compared to the same period last year; among the foreigners entering the country, 319,000 person-times entered under visa-free policies, an increase of 30.7% compared to the same period last year. In addition, national border inspection agencies inspected a total of 307,000 inbound and outbound transportation vehicles (planes, ships, trains, vehicles), an increase of 13.3% compared to the same period last year.
According to reports, in accordance with the unified deployment of the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局), national border inspection agencies mobilized all police, acted proactively, scientifically predicted and promptly released information on passenger flow at their respective ports, reminding the majority of inbound and outbound personnel to arrange their trips reasonably; scientifically organized duty arrangements, allocated sufficient police force, and set up special inspection channels for the large number of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan residents and overseas Chinese returning to their hometowns to worship their ancestors, as well as the large number of elderly people, providing assistance to passengers in need of special care; closely coordinated with relevant departments, promptly diverted passenger flow peaks, and ensured efficient and smooth port clearance. During the Qingming holiday, entry and exit at national ports were safe, convenient, and orderly.
Return to TopThis reporter learned from the Department of Finance of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) and the Department of Housing and Urban-Rural Development that Guangxi (广西) has allocated 2.41 billion yuan of central government subsidies in advance since the beginning of this year to support the collection of more than 24,000 sets of various types of affordable housing, more than 5,800 sets of resettlement housing for urban village renovation, and the implementation of urban dilapidated housing renovation of more than 20,000 sets, laying a good foundation for the subsequent work of the 2026 urban affordable housing project.
Guangxi (广西) supports the renovation and upgrading of urban villages to help the high-quality development of cities. It coordinates financial subsidies and special loans for urban village renovation to support the promotion of demolition and resettlement and the improvement of supporting facilities such as municipal roads, green parks, education, and medical care, so that urban villages can be transformed into happy homes suitable for living and working.
Guangxi (广西) strives to eliminate the hidden dangers of dilapidated houses and improve the quality of the living environment. By guiding the masses to contribute through financial subsidies, it promotes the transformation of dilapidated house renovation from "government solo" to "co-construction and sharing." In 2025, the autonomous region's (自治区) finance department coordinated a total of 800 million yuan in subsidies to promote the renovation of dilapidated urban houses, starting the renovation of 17,300 sets, effectively eliminating housing safety hazards and optimizing the spatial form of cities.
Guangxi (广西) also promotes the upgrading of old urban residential areas and makes up for shortcomings in facilities. In 2025, the autonomous region's (自治区) finance department arranged a total of 1.416 billion yuan in subsidies to support the upgrading of living conditions for 127,000 households in 1,195 old residential areas, focusing on key tasks such as pipeline network renovation, environmental remediation, and facility improvement, making up for shortcomings in public services, and giving old residential areas a new look.
It is reported that in the next step, Guangxi (广西) will continue to increase the coordination of funds, strengthen the supervision of the entire process, improve the efficiency of use, promote the construction of affordable housing projects, and help accelerate the realization of the goal of having a place to live and living in a safe and comfortable environment.
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People's livelihood work is complex and involves every household. Systemic, holistic, and coordinated approaches are both epistemological and methodological.
"Calculating the accounts" is a direct "interest connection" between ordinary people and national development.
Calculate the "childcare account": a childcare subsidy of 300 yuan is issued monthly for eligible infants and young children, and a continuous payment for 3 years amounts to 10,800 yuan; calculate the "elderly care account": there are 86,000 elderly meal assistance points nationwide, serving more than 3 million elderly people every day; calculate the "health account": over 90% of residents can reach the nearest medical service point within 15 minutes, and more than 5,500 secondary and tertiary medical and health institutions have opened health weight management clinics...
"Economic development and social development are mutually reinforcing and must be coordinated." At the "first lesson of the year," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must take improving people's livelihood as the focus of promoting social development and steadily improve the quality of people's lives while developing the economy."
Creating benefits for the people is the greatest political achievement. Grasping reform and promoting development are ultimately for the purpose of allowing people to live a better life.
At the beginning of the year, *The New York Times* published a full-page report entitled "In China, AI is Discovering Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss." The report stated that a hospital in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江) used AI technology to screen a patient for potential diseases, costing the patient only about $25. Technological innovation benefits people, inclusive medical care protects people, and Healthy China (健康中国) supports people.
For the people and to benefit the people, this is the value engine for starting a business in the new journey. From "accurately grasping the new expectations of the people for a better life and the new characteristics of people's livelihood work under the new situation" to "facing the people's increasing and diversified health needs," practical results come from listening attentively, responding sincerely, and working diligently.
Improving people's livelihood requires methods. With the right method, one can achieve twice the result with half the effort.
"Shenxian Lake" (神仙湖) in Haining (海宁), Zhejiang (浙江), is a "treasure scenic spot" restored from abandoned mine pits. The local area established the Shenxian Lake Rural Comprehensive Revitalization Area Comprehensive Party Committee to coordinate 10 administrative villages and realize the transition from "single-village governance" to "area coordination." Instead of fighting alone to manage water, they are working together to manage the watershed, demonstrating the unity of key promotion and coordinated progress.
On the Yak Mountain (牦牛山) grassland 70 kilometers away from Wulan (乌兰), Qinghai (青海), a 6-meter-long steel bridge was quickly built because the road was blocked by mountain floods. In Qinghai (青海), the special people's livelihood project "The Bridge in Front of My House" built 500 bridges last year alone, covering hundreds of villages. Consider the big and small and plan accordingly, consider the urgent and the slow and arrange accordingly, both doing what one can and acting according to one's capabilities.
Industrial revitalization is the top priority, but it does not mean rushing into action and creating a **一哄而上** (yī hòng ér shàng - "swarm up," to act in a disorderly fashion) situation. Ningxia (宁夏) "relies on sand" to turn the Gobi Desert (戈壁荒漠) into a resort; Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) "raises grass" to "raise" wind power, photovoltaic power, beef and mutton... Based on reality, adapt to local conditions.
People's livelihood work is complex and involves every household. Systemic, holistic, and coordinated approaches are both epistemological and methodological.
To secure and enrich the people, it is necessary to make immediate changes and also to work persistently.
Urban renewal, "achieve breadth and strive for precision." Shanghai (上海) historically solved the problem of "carrying chamber pots," fighting tough battles and tackling difficult problems for "one square meter of happiness."
Medical reform is a world-class problem. The national medical insurance drug access negotiation "soul price bargaining," the hierarchical diagnosis and treatment system is steadily advancing, and the world's largest medical security system has been built, meeting difficulties head-on and making steady progress.
"For urgent matters, we must act immediately and handle them quickly, and we must not be slow or procrastinate. For long-term tasks, we must maintain strategic focus and patience, adhere to a blueprint to the end, and **滴水穿石** (dī shuǐ chuān shí - "dripping water pierces stone," perseverance will eventually overcome any difficulty), and work persistently."
The people's livelihood list is also a development list. In other words, the weak points of people's livelihood are often also the growth points of development.
Population aging has pressure, but looking at it from another perspective, it is also an opportunity. From health and wellness tourism to special silver-haired trains to smart wearable devices and elderly care robots, China (中国) has become the country with the greatest consumption potential in the silver economy.
Ecological protection is a requirement, and a change of thinking is a way out. The wastewater from the food processing and manufacturing industry has been transformed into a "carbon source" for sewage treatment plants. A "carbon transmission pipe" in Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) connects two companies, to everyone's delight.
The process of solving problems is also the process of development and progress. Look to the distant mountains and forge ahead, know the direction and act vigorously.
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Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊), commentator for this newspaper
Wei Yan (魏燕), commentator for Hainan Daily
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): This year's "Government Work Report" proposed "solidly advancing the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port" when deploying "actively expanding independent opening-up." Every holiday, Hainan welcomes a tourism boom. During the recent Qingming holiday, the popularity of "Hainan tours" remained undiminished. What experiences worthy of learning from are hidden in Hainan's "heat"?
Wei Yan (魏燕): The heat of the consumer market reflects the accelerating release of the Hainan Free Trade Port's attraction to domestic and foreign tourists, which is driven by three core forces.
Policy dividends are the key engine. The offshore duty-free policy continues to exert its strength, and policies such as tariff exemption for processing and value-added products and zero tariffs for domestic residents' consumption of imported goods have been implemented, effectively transforming the institutional opening-up dividends into tangible benefits for consumers.
Resource dividends are a natural advantage. Hainan accurately connects with the consumption trend of in-depth tourism, transforming sunshine beaches, tropical rainforests, and folk culture into rich scenarios, satisfying emotional experiences with "differentiation" and "healing," and efficiently transforming natural resources into market competitiveness.
Careful service is a bonus. The "Hainan Worry-Free Tour" platform has been upgraded, and complaints are accepted within 3 minutes and pre-compensated within 30 minutes. This attitude of guaranteeing consumer rights with real money allows tourists to dare to consume and be willing to consume.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): Policy dividends not only attract tourists but also facilitate the lives of local people. Not long ago, the first batch of 5 duty-free shops for daily consumer goods opened in Hainan, and "buying globally" at the doorstep has become a new fashion. From "tourist exclusive" to "daily life circle," allowing open policies to better benefit local people and activate endogenous动力 (dònglì - "driving force," internal impetus), this is Hainan's exploration and also has universal significance.
Wei Yan (魏燕): The opening of 5 duty-free shops means that the achievements of opening up are expanding from a "traffic entrance" to attract tourists to a "lifestyle" that enhances the happiness of local residents. To activate the local market and transform short-term dividends into long-term动力 (dònglì - "driving force," internal impetus), the key is to bring the "world market" to the doorstep and change "trying something new" into a "habit." This requires rooting downwards, promoting the extension of stores from central cities to counties and communities, and exploring the "online selection, instant delivery" model to cultivate consumer stickiness with convenience. At the same time, it is necessary to grow upwards, create "duty-free +" consumption scenarios, integrate the purchase of global good things into daily life, and give the local market lasting vitality.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): Local residents' "global shopping" is more convenient, and foreign tourists are also keen to travel and shop in Hainan. One hundred days after the full island customs closure operation, the number of foreigners entering and leaving the country reached 518,000, an increase of 44.5% year-on-year, and the number of foreign passengers entering the country with visa-free entry was 223,000, an increase of 54% year-on-year, reflecting a "deeper" attraction.
Wei Yan (魏燕): The influx of international tourists is due to the fact that visa-free entry and increased flights have brought Hainan closer to the world; on the other hand, activities such as intangible cultural heritage experiences and folk performances are rich and diverse, and "culture +" enhances the tourism experience, allowing Hainan to shine in the international cultural tourism market.
Attracting tourists depends on policies, and retaining tourists depends on services. From menus that take into account both Wenchang Chicken (文昌鸡) and borscht, to multilingual guides in duty-free shops, and diverse experiences such as sailing and international medical care, Hainan is matching the consumption preferences of international tourists with high-quality supply, transforming short-term traffic into long-term retention.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): The significance of "customs closure" lies not only in "duty-free" and "lively," but also in institutional opening-up. To build a true international tourism consumption center, the real challenge lies in how to achieve sustainable and high-quality development.
Wei Yan (魏燕): Duty-free shopping is a "traffic entrance." To make Hainan move from a "shopping paradise" to a "consumption highland," it is also necessary to clear deep-seated blockages such as cross-border data flow, free inflow and outflow of funds, and mutual recognition of professional qualifications, provide international and youthful tourism products, and truly build a world-class tourist destination.
In the short term, policies are used to attract traffic, and in the long term, systems are used to retain people. Transforming policy advantages into development effectiveness and matching first-class resources with a first-class environment can turn "passers-by" into "permanent residents" and build a global reputation.
Zhou Shanshan (周珊珊): The full island customs closure operation of the Hainan Free Trade Port is a window to observe China's high-level opening-up. The dividends of opening-up can only stimulate the surging动力 (dònglì - "driving force," internal impetus) of domestic demand if they are ultimately shared by enterprises and the people; the advantages of policies can only be transformed into tangible competitiveness if they are undertaken through a first-class business and consumption environment; and the characteristic resources can only form irreplaceable advantages if they are combined with a modern industrial system and international service standards. The practice of the Hainan Free Trade Port shows that China's high-quality development allows policy dividends, market vitality, people's well-being, and opening-up opportunities to resonate at the same frequency. Investing in China is investing in the future.
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Rare or endangered animals need protection, but can common animals be captured at will? The answer is no.
According to reports, recently, an elderly man in Beijing (北京) was criminally detained for capturing 42 sparrows and 2 red-billed leiothrixes, which are Class II national protected wild animals, with nets. According to experts, capturing rare wild animals is suspected of "endangering precious and endangered wild animal species," and illegally hunting more than 20 sparrows can also be filed as a criminal case, constituting the crime of illegal hunting.
This case is thought-provoking. Biodiversity protection is a holistic project. We cannot simply look at the popularity and economic value of species, but must measure the value of each living creature in the entire ecosystem. If you think that the number of species is large, or the protection efforts are small, and you kill them at will, you may touch the double red line of law and ecology.
In fact, the wild animals strictly protected by Chinese laws are never only flagship species such as giant pandas and golden monkeys, but also a larger, more widely distributed species that lives with humans day and night—terrestrial wild animals with important ecological, scientific, and social value, commonly known as "animals of three values" (三有动物), of which there are more than 1,900 species, including sparrows, geckos, hedgehogs, turtledoves, and pheasants.
These animals seem ordinary, but they are important cornerstones of the ecosystem. A sparrow can eliminate tens of thousands of pests a year; a non-venomous snake is a natural defense against rodent infestations in the fields; turtledoves and squirrels travel through the forests, silently completing the spread of plant seeds. They are not endangered, but they play an irreplaceable role in maintaining the ecological balance of farmland, forests, and cities.
In recent years, China's wildlife conservation efforts have achieved remarkable results: the quality of habitats has continued to improve, the populations of key protected species have steadily recovered, and the protection rate has exceeded 80%. While we are delighted with the progress, we must also soberly realize that the foundation of ecological security is not only in remote protected areas, but also around us. The birds we can see when we look up and the small animals we encounter on the roadside, the attitude with which we treat them will determine how nature rewards us.
To better protect the common creatures around us, we must establish a sense of priority for protection and get out of the "cognitive misunderstanding." The relevant laws and regulations promulgated in China have made clear provisions on the hunting, trading, and transportation of "animals of three values." Relevant illegal and criminal acts must bear corresponding legal responsibilities. For example, the People's Court of Pucheng County (浦城县), Fujian Province (福建省) sentenced criminal suspects who hunted 7 "animals of three values" such as night herons to detention and probation for the crime of illegal hunting, and ordered them to compensate for ecological losses.
In reality, some people argue that the killing is out of habit and "did not know it was a protected animal." However, "knowing" in law includes "actually knowing" and "should know" in rules. Ignorance is not an excuse, and habit cannot override the law. Never be greedy for a moment's pleasure or have the侥幸心理 (jiǎo xìng xīn lǐ - "lucky mentality," a fluke mentality), to harm innocent creatures.
"Animals of three values" are widely distributed, and illegal hunting, trafficking, and other behaviors have the characteristics of being "small, scattered, and frequent," and are highly concealed. It is necessary to eliminate regulatory blind spots through full-chain governance. On the one hand, we must give full play to the "vanguard" role of forest rangers and grid members to achieve early detection and early prevention; on the other hand, we need to strengthen departmental linkages, not only to crack down on source hunting, but also to cut off illegal transportation channels, ban illegal trading venues, and strictly manage catering and consumption links. At the same time, combined with real and typical cases, we should popularize legal knowledge to the masses, enhance protection awareness, and unblock reporting channels, so as to weave a dense protection network and allow ordinary creatures to live peacefully with humans.
Biodiversity makes the earth full of vitality and is the foundation of human survival and development. Maintain a sense of awe,恪守 (kè shǒu - "scrupulously abide by," adhere to) behavioral boundaries, take a step forward in ecological construction, take the initiative to master ecological common sense, actively participate in protection activities, and take a step back from the legal red line, do not hunt indiscriminately, do not sell privately, do not abuse food, and do not disturb, so that every life is treated gently, and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature will become a moving picture on the road to modernization.
Return to TopMerchants are targeting "exclusive tracks" with frequent new product launches, and business people from all over the world are coming in an endless stream, with "shopping-style tourism" becoming popular... Since the start of the new year, the Yiwu International Trade City (义乌国际商贸城) and the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center (义乌全球数贸中心) in Yiwu (义乌), Zhejiang (浙江) have seen increasing popularity. From traditional manufacturing to smart technology, from offline wholesale to digital trade, the "world supermarket" that buys and sells globally is constantly breaking through its own development ceiling.
This is precisely:
Countless good things, a dazzling array of goods,
Merchants from all over the world are busy coming and going.
Good quality and reasonable prices stand at the forefront,
Chinese manufacturing leads a new voyage.
By Gao Shilin (高世林)
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To do a good job in talent work, it is necessary to build a good stage for talents to perform. If development is compared to a big stage, then talents are the leading actors on the stage. Doing a good job in talent work is never as simple as "snatching" famous actors. Knowing how to repair the theater, provide costumes, and adjust the lighting so that the leading actors can fully display their talents will ensure continuous applause from the audience.
To build a stage, you must first have a place where the pillars can stand firmly. Give a chip engineer more relocation fees, but if there is no integrated circuit industry chain in the city, it will be difficult to play a role in the end; give an agricultural expert a higher salary, but if even a piece of experimental field cannot be found, he can only talk on paper. Building a stage means allowing every talent to find a place where they can make a big difference. Cities with abundant scientific and technological innovation resources may wish to guide talents to start from the needs of enterprises, industries, and sectors to find innovative breakthroughs; manufacturing towns may wish to use the technical pain points on the production line to set questions and let engineers work together to tackle them; regions with a large proportion of agriculture should be good at discovering local characteristics and let "local experts" (土专家) and "rural talents" (田秀才) show their skills in the fields. The stage does not matter in size; a good stage is one where talent can be displayed.
Having a stage does not mean that the play can be performed well. The lighting of policies must be accurate and bright. Talent policies must be tailored to individual needs: leading talents should be given team autonomy and financial control so that they can have the final say; young talents should be given growth ladders and room for trial and error so that they dare to venture; skilled talents should be given upward channels and professional honor so that they have a goal. The props for services should also be made carefully and warmly. Making talents feel the precision and warmth of services is itself an effective talent introduction advertisement.
The sense of accomplishment of talents comes not only from the self-realization of overcoming difficulties but also from the value feedback of social recognition. A city should know how to cheer for talents. The names of those scientific researchers who are devoted to tackling key problems, those craftsmen who stick to their posts day and night, and those young faces who return to their hometowns to start businesses deserve to be known by more people. Some places have established Talent Days and selected outstanding models, which convey respect and praise for talents.
It is more important to build a good stage than to focus on attracting talent. When we put enough effort into building the stage, more and more talents will come voluntarily, and more and more good plays will be staged in turn. By then, this two-way rush between the city and the talents will write a more exciting chapter.
(Excerpted from *Inner Mongolia Daily* (内蒙古日报), original title "Build a Good Stage for Talents to Perform")
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【Keywords】"Leaving Darkness" for Birds
【Event】Not long ago, a "rejection" became popular online. In Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), some citizens reported that the lighting on some roads in Shenzhen Bay Park (深圳湾公园) was too dim at night and hoped to add street lights. In response, the park quickly replied, "No." It stated that adding too many high-brightness lamps would disrupt the ecological balance, especially interfering with the overwintering and migratory rhythms of migratory birds; to take into account the needs of citizens for nighttime activities, basic lighting has been retained at the main entrances and traffic nodes. This approach has been praised by netizens.
【Commentary】
Rejecting citizens' suggestions, but winning praise from the entire network. This seemingly abnormal phenomenon is reasonable in the context of high-quality development and high-level protection. Let's start with three "whys."
Why reject? Because of respecting the natural laws of birds' lives.
Shenzhen Bay (深圳湾) is an important "gas station" on the East Asian-Australasian Flyway. In recent years, with the protection and restoration of local mangroves and mudflats, the number of migratory birds stopping here to replenish their supplies has continued to increase. For these "aerial passengers" who have come from afar, once the nighttime light is too strong, it is easy to disrupt their day and night rhythms, increase energy consumption, and affect their next migratory activities. The park's approach may seem inhumane, but this restraint of "leaving darkness" is actually a reverence for life and a protection of the biodiversity of this land.
Why willing to reject? Because the concept of development has quietly changed.
"All things obtain their harmony to grow, and obtain their nourishment to thrive." Today's urban construction in China has long jumped out of the single framework of "GDP only," not only focusing on how wide the roads are and how bright the lights are, but also pursuing the ecological beauty of "harmonious coexistence between man and nature." In addition to Shenzhen's (深圳) "leaving darkness," there is also Beijing's (北京) "leaving wilderness," exploring urban "rewilding," setting up multiple natural zones in Wenyuhe Park (温榆河公园), without artificial intervention and restricting tourists from entering, where grasses grow and birds fly, creating a natural wildness; Hunan (湖南) "leaving blank," "leaving vacant" an ecological green heart between the three cities of Changsha (长沙), Zhuzhou (株洲), and Xiangtan (湘潭), leaving room for nature to breathe and accumulating growth momentum for the metropolitan area. Skyscrapers stand tall, with green trees interspersed among them, the prosperity of the city and the vitality of nature complement each other and coexist beautifully.
Why receive so much praise? Because of the sincerity of "every matter having a response" and because the concept of ecological civilization has deeply permeated people's hearts.
It is worthy of recognition that relevant departments do not perfunctorily or shirk responsibility in response to citizens' demands, but actively respond and explain clearly. Even if the proposal is ultimately rejected, it wins public understanding with reasoned analysis and patient and detailed explanations. A sincere attitude and solid working methods demonstrate the value orientation of "people's city for the people."
What is even more gratifying is that people widely recognize this rejection. In Shanghai (上海), thousands of national second-class protected wild animals, raccoon dogs, live next to residents. Last year's fourth "raccoon dog census" showed that citizens' emotional tendencies towards raccoon dogs were more positive. In Zhengzhou (郑州), a large number of birds nest in the downtown area, which once made residents feel both love and hate, but more and more people choose to accept it, "Birds nesting also shows that our environment here is good." From complaining to tolerance, from driving away to guarding, the change in mentality reflects the green development concept deeply rooted in people's hearts and externalized into action.
This harmony will ultimately give back to people. Dongtai (东台), Jiangsu (江苏) takes bird watching tours as the center and launches ecological tourism services such as visiting exhibitions and buying cultural and creative products. Tiaozini Scenic Area (条子泥景区) receives nearly one million tourists annually. Taking the protection of the ecological environment as the foothold for development, Hainan's (海南) tourism, modern service industry, and tropical characteristic efficient agriculture and other industries are accelerating their climb to the high end of the value chain. Facts have proved that ecological friendliness is not a "stumbling block" for urban construction, but a "plus" for sustainable development. Protecting in development and developing in protection, the green background of high-quality development will be more intense.
In the park's reply, a netizen commented, "Shenzhen (深圳) is not only economically developed." Indeed, the charm of a city lies in its growth rate, development height, and also in its tolerance for animals and its reverence for nature. "Leaving darkness" for birds illuminates a place's civilized temperament.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 方 敏
When Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), a police officer from the Henan Second Compulsory Isolation Drug Rehabilitation Center (河南省第二强制隔离戒毒所), was commended in early February this year, she still had a bandage on her left cheek—a scar left from stopping a knife-wielding assailant a month earlier, which required more than 30 stitches on her face.
Speaking of the scar, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) said calmly, "A scar from saving the people is a badge of honor."
Now, the "Learn from Comrade Wang Miaoli (王妙丽)" campaign is being carried out across the Central Plains. From the depths of the Taihang Mountains (太行) to the banks of the Yellow River (黄河), from Ren Changxia (任长霞), who was selfless, fearless, and dedicated to serving the people, to Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) today, who is wholeheartedly devoted to the Party and bravely fearless, heroic models in the Henan (河南) political and legal system are emerging one after another, passing on the torch.
"The people's affairs are never trivial; there is no distinction between what is within and outside one's duty."
On the evening of January 3, on the streets of Luohe (漯河), Henan (河南), two men had a heated argument over a trivial matter, and one of them suddenly pulled out a sharp knife from under the seat of his tricycle, intending to stab the other. At that critical moment, a woman rushed forward without hesitation.
She was Wang Miaoli (王妙丽).
At the time, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) happened to be passing by with her 10-year-old son. She instinctively pushed her son behind her and rushed forward bravely, standing in front of the crowd.
Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) showed her police ID and shouted, "I am a police officer! Put down the knife!" But the man in front of her had lost his mind and instead lunged at her with the knife. The blade slashed across her cheek—she didn't have time to dodge at that moment.
Later, recalling that moment, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) said, "I didn't even feel the pain." During the struggle, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) stared intently at the knife in the other person's hand. Seizing an opportunity, she used her daily training to kick the knife away. Seeing that the situation was not good, the assailant tried to escape on his tricycle. Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) grabbed the rear railing of the vehicle and refused to let go. Soon, police officers who had received the report arrived at the scene and worked together to apprehend the assailant.
At the hospital, when the doctor cleaned the wound, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) realized that the knife had left four cuts on her face, the longest being nearly 5 centimeters, and the deepest being only two millimeters away from severing the facial artery. After receiving more than 30 stitches at the hospital, the doctor sighed and said, "A little deeper and it would have been life-threatening."
After media reports, people realized that Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) act of stepping forward at a critical moment was not accidental. The 47-year-old has been a police officer for 23 years and has been working diligently at the station. To do her job well, she developed a set of working methods: "loving care, patient guidance, and meticulous correction," and has helped more than 1,000 drug addicts quit their addictions. Over the years, she has also visited more than 300 schools and communities, giving drug prevention lectures to a total of more than 200,000 people.
Outside of work, if she encounters neighborhood disputes or street conflicts, she will also intervene, "The people's affairs are never trivial; there is no distinction between what is within and outside one's duty," Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) said.
Colleagues at the station commented on Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), saying, "She can't stand being idle. She always tackles the toughest challenges." Therefore, her colleagues were not surprised that she rushed forward to stop the crisis on the street. "When something happens, she will definitely step up," one colleague said.
"Who can we rely on in times of crisis? We still have to rely on police officers like this." "This is the true color of a Communist Party member." Many netizens praised Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) actions.
"If I didn't go to save them, I wouldn't be able to live with myself."
"Were you afraid at the time?" the reporter asked Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) during the interview. She answered decisively, "I am a Communist Party member. Seeing that the citizens were in trouble, if I didn't go to save them, I wouldn't be able to live with myself."
On February 4, the Ministry of Justice (司法部), the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源和社会保障部), and the Henan Provincial Party Committee (河南省委) held a commendation meeting in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), awarding Comrade Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) the titles of "National First-Class Heroic Model of the Judicial and Administrative System" and "Outstanding Communist Party Member of Henan Province." Recently, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委) issued a notice requiring the study and promotion of Comrade Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) advanced deeds. The political and legal system of Henan Province (河南) is combining the study of Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) deeds with the study and education of establishing and practicing correct views on political achievements.
Heroic models demonstrate and inspire.
On the evening of February 12, five tourists were lost and trapped in the mountains of Mingyue Village (明月村), Gongyi City (巩义市), Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), and the situation was urgent. Wu Yaning (吴亚宁), a police officer from the Mihe Police Station (米河派出所), led auxiliary police officers Zhang Hongtao (张红涛) and Zheng Yazhou (郑亚洲) in a search that lasted nearly 3 hours, finally rescuing the trapped tourists.
On March 21, the Baliying Police Station (八里营派出所) in Hua County (滑县), Anyang City (安阳市), Henan (河南), received a report of "someone falling into the water." Auxiliary police officer Liu Xiaoxu (刘晓旭) rushed to the Huangzhuang River (黄庄河) and, without hesitation, jumped into the icy river to rescue the person.
During interviews, Wu Yaning (吴亚宁) and Liu Xiaoxu (刘晓旭) both mentioned Wang Miaoli (王妙丽): "There was nothing to hesitate about; the only thought in my mind was to save the person." "Recently, I have been studying Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) deeds. We must practice our skills, be brave and fearless, so that we can rush forward at critical moments."
The upsurge of "Learning from Comrade Wang Miaoli (王妙丽)" has also been set off across the country. Judicial and administrative systems in Beijing (北京), Guangdong (广东), and other places have organized special studies and symposiums to transform the spirit of heroic models into practical actions. At the same time, Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) deeds have also resonated strongly with ordinary people.
On March 1, on a national highway in Tanghe County (唐河县), Nanyang City (南阳市), Henan (河南), a private car collided with a semi-trailer, and a family of five was trapped in the car. Dang Xiaoming (党晓明), a passerby, risked his life to crawl into the deformed car body, assisted in breaking it apart, and helped all five people escape.
When a reporter interviewed Dang Xiaoming (党晓明), he mentioned Wang Miaoli (王妙丽): "I have read many reports about her recently and have been deeply moved. I may not have Wang Miaoli's (王妙丽) 'flying kick knife' skills, but I have no problem lending a hand at a critical moment."
In a word, it reveals the most simple meaning of learning from role models—not everyone can become a hero, but lending a helping hand when others need it is a responsibility.
"When I rushed up, I didn't think about being commended as an advanced worker."
After the commendation meeting, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) returned to her job. The scars on her face have not completely faded, and she said, "It doesn't affect anything at all. Being injured to save the people is the most beautiful injury."
During the interview, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) mentioned Ren Changxia (任长霞). Many years ago, Ren Changxia (任长霞), then the director of the Dengfeng City Public Security Bureau (登封市公安局) in Henan (河南), sacrificed her life in the line of duty and became a banner for the political and legal system of Henan (河南). Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) said, "Everything I have done is learning from Ren Changxia (任长霞)."
From Ren Changxia (任长霞) to Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), the Central Plains has never lacked Party members and cadres who love the people and uphold their original aspirations.
Henan (河南) has produced a Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), and Henan (河南) has more than just one Wang Miaoli (王妙丽).
On November 12, 2020, Li Peilun (李培伦), a police officer from the Pingyu County Public Security Bureau (平舆县公安局) in Zhumadian City (驻马店市), Henan (河南), bravely fought against a knife-wielding assailant with a 20-centimeter-long blade, his right arm was pierced, and his artery was ruptured. He persevered to control the situation and protect the safety of the people behind him.
On March 20, 2025, an elderly man in Luyi County (鹿邑县), Zhoukou City (周口市), Henan (河南), accidentally fell into a deep well. The well opening was so narrow that it could only accommodate one person. Auxiliary police officer Zhang Chong (张冲) had someone tie a rope around himself and went down "upside down." After repeated attempts, he finally rescued the elderly man.
Their positions and ages are different, but their choices at critical moments are the same—to stand up for the people and do their duty without hesitation.
Henan (河南) has produced a Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), and there will be more Wang Miaolis (王妙丽) in the future.
In recent years, the reason why Henan (河南) has produced so many advanced models like Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) is the result of systematic cultivation and long-term efforts. In recent years, Henan (河南) has established a mechanism of "normalized selection + special selection + differentiated selection," selecting models in different systems and striving to have role models in every field. It has deeply cultivated typical publicity brands such as "Legal Figures Tell Legal Stories" and "Most Beautiful Grassroots Police Officers," giving full play to the exemplary and leading role of role models, and the atmosphere of learning from the advanced and striving to be advanced in the province has continued to be strong.
Solid guarantees eliminate the worries of police officers. "The organization is our strong backing, allowing us to charge forward with confidence." This is the common aspiration of Henan (河南) political and legal police officers. Henan (河南) has introduced a number of measures to treat the police preferentially, directly linking commendations and rewards with assessment and promotion. Since 2009, the Provincial Party Committee Political and Legal Affairs Commission (省委政法委) has jointly with the Provincial Department of Finance (省财政厅) provided assistance to police officers who have sacrificed their lives, been injured, become disabled, suffered from serious illnesses, and have families in difficulty, and has distributed more than 42 million yuan in assistance funds to 795 police officers in the past three years.
From ideological guidance to ability improvement, from political incentives to life security, from typical demonstrations to comprehensive publicity, a full range of cultivation and promotion mechanisms have allowed the spirit of heroic models to take root deeply in the Central Plains.
At present, the whole Party is carrying out the study and education of establishing and practicing correct views on political achievements. In this regard, Wang Miaoli (王妙丽) said realistically, "When I rushed up, I didn't think about being commended as an advanced worker; when I helped thousands of people quit drugs, I didn't think about being commended as an advanced worker. Serving the people is the original aspiration and mission of a Party member."
From Ren Changxia (任长霞) to Wang Miaoli (王妙丽), in the Central Plains, the stories of heroic models are inherited in the same line and continue to be written...
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For 28 years, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), a welder in the Turbine Final Assembly Workshop of Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司), has been hardworking and meticulous. He innovatively summarized the "Cast Aluminum Seal Tooth Tip Welding Repair Method" and the "Marking and Positioning Layout Method." He has successively overcome many technical problems such as stainless steel casing repair, casing split surface flange welding defects, and pipeline welding deformation, helping the birth of "national heavy equipment." He has successively won honors such as "National Technical Expert," "National May 1st Labor Medal," "National Excellent Communist Party Member," and "National Model Worker."
Wearing a mask, selecting welding wire, and lifting the welding gun, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), a welder in the Turbine Final Assembly Workshop of Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司), climbed onto a centrifugal compressor weighing more than 10 tons. He stepped left and drilled right, bypassing the vertical and horizontal engineering pipelines, stepped on the edge of the machine base, and squatted in front of a component, ignited the welding gun, and lightly touched the pipeline. The arc light burst out suddenly, and the welding sparks splashed like silver stars.
Strong light, high temperature, and continuous "buzzing" sounds could not affect Zhang Tengjiao's (张腾蛟) steady hands. Through the mask window, he kept his eyes locked on the weld, sending welding wire with his left hand and holding the welding gun with his right hand, welding the component gaps as precisely as before. This kind of "doing two things at once" still keeps his hands as steady as a rock, because he has already practiced this welding skill, which is comparable to "ambidexterity," to perfection, reaching a state of 炉火纯青 (lú huǒ chún qīng - "fire is purely blue," having attained perfection in a skill).
"This kind of welding is called 'argon arc welding,' which requires welding only on the outer wall, and the inner wall weld must be smooth and integrated. A slight defect will cause hidden dangers due to stress concentration in the pipeline," Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) said. He repeatedly experimented and summarized five operating methods, such as the molten pool sinking method and the gapless butt joint method, according to the characteristics of different welding positions, so that the inside and outside of the weld are smooth and the forming is regular, which greatly improves the one-time qualification rate of welding.
Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟), 49 years old this year, has been sticking to the welding position in Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司) for 28 years. He has grown from an apprentice to a National Model Worker and a National Technical Expert step by step, and was selected as the "Most Beautiful Worker" in 2025, relying on his day-to-day research and polishing skills. The compressors produced by Shenyang Blower Works Group Co., Ltd. (沈鼓集团股份有限公司) are known as the "industrial heart," and the intricate engineering pipelines are the "blood vessels" that transmit power, bearing high pressure, and the welding requirements are high. In Zhang Tengjiao's (张腾蛟) view, his job is to connect "steel blood vessels" to "industrial hearts." To do a good job, he must be extremely meticulous and meticulous.
Among Zhang Tengjiao's (张腾蛟) various stunts, the "Cast Aluminum Seal Tooth Tip Welding Repair Method" is called "embroidering on the blade" by his peers. The inside of the compressor seal has staggered tooth tips, the thickness of which is equivalent to three hairs, which are easily damaged and broken. "There is no precedent for welding repair at home and abroad, because as soon as the 'arc' is started, the tooth tip will be melted down, but I want to try," Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) said. After thousands of experiments, summarizing the failures again and again, he finally overcame the difficulties.
He squatted in front of the damaged sealing tooth tip, aimed the welding gun and welding wire at the damaged point, lightly started the welding arc with his right hand, and lightly sent the welding wire with his left hand. With a "pop," the electric arc flashed away, and the welding wire only melted a little bit. The tooth tip was repaired perfectly. "The key is to control the burning time of the electric arc within 0.5 seconds, and at the same time accurately send the welding wire to the root, not even 1 millimeter away," Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) said.
Over the years, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) has successively overcome many technical problems such as stainless steel casing repair, casing split surface flange welding defects, and pipeline welding deformation, and has continued to innovate and break through. Once, in order to ensure the progress of a national key project, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) boldly proposed a welding optimization plan and explored the "marking and positioning layout method," which increased welding efficiency by 12 times.
28 years ago, among the apprentices who entered the factory in the same batch, Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) loved to 打破砂锅问到底 (dǎ pò shā guō wèn dào dǐ - "break the casserole to get to the bottom," to get to the bottom of something) and would often "steal lessons" and silently observe every action of the master, remembering how many welding rods to use under different working conditions, and then control the welding speed.
When encountering confusion, he would ask every master in the workshop for advice, pestering them for tips, and gradually understand the housekeeping skills of his predecessors, and gradually summarize the scattered skills into his own unique skills.
It is necessary to not only guard the skills with ingenuity, but also pass on the skills. Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) has successively brought out 12 outstanding apprentices. In his spare time, he also patiently checks the works of his apprentices. "What I learned from my master is not only superb skills, but also the spirit of craftsmanship of hard work and excellence," said his apprentice Jiang Ping (姜平).
The arc light is dazzling, the high temperature scorches the skin, the work clothes are often wet with sweat, and burns are commonplace. Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) took off his gloves and spread out his rough, yellowed hands. They were covered with thick calluses, which were the marks left by repeated welding work. "It is my responsibility to guard the pulse of 'national heavy equipment' with a welding gun," Zhang Tengjiao (张腾蛟) said with a smile.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)) The State Administration for Market Regulation (国家市场监督管理总局) announced on the 7th that in 2025, the national advertising business revenue of public institutions and large-scale enterprises exceeded 2 trillion yuan for the first time, reaching 2050.21 billion yuan, doubling the revenue scale compared with 2020, with an average annual growth rate of 16.8%.
Digital intelligence technology has become the engine of growth in the advertising industry, injecting strong momentum into industrial development. Data shows that in 2025, the revenue of Internet advertising business reached 1357.43 billion yuan, an increase of 34.6% year-on-year, accounting for 66.2% of the overall advertising business revenue. From the perspective of advertising publishing, the revenue of Internet advertising publishing was 1251.84 billion yuan, and the proportion of various media advertising publishing revenue has increased to 89.1%.
The scale and efficiency of advertising industry business entities have been improved simultaneously. At present, there are more than 1,400 business entities with advertising business revenue of more than 100 million yuan, and the total profit and tax have maintained steady growth. Among them, the growth rate of advertising business revenue of leading Internet platforms exceeded 36.1%, becoming an important force driving the high-quality development of the industry.
In terms of regional development, the tiered development pattern of the eastern, central, and western regions is more balanced. Nineteen provinces across the country have advertising business revenue exceeding 10 billion yuan. Among them, the total advertising business revenue of Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Guangdong (广东), and Zhejiang (浙江) reached 1404.18 billion yuan, accounting for 68.5% of the national total, a decrease of 5.5 percentage points compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan" period, and the regional development gap has further narrowed.
Return to TopIn recent years, Pinglu County (平陆县), Shanxi Province (山西省), based on the geographical and climatic advantages along the Yellow River (黄河), has adopted the "Party Branch + Cooperative + Base + Farmer" model to build a characteristic peach production base of more than 50,000 mu, exploring a new path of industrial integration and development that combines benefit agriculture with cultural tourism. The picture shows on April 6, in the vast fields of Zhangdian Town (张店镇), Pinglu County (平陆县), patches of peach blossoms are in full bloom, forming a spring pastoral ecological picture.
Zhang Xiufeng (张秀峰) photographed (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on April 7th (Reporter Wang Haonan (王昊男)). Recently, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology (北京市经济和信息化局) officially released the "Beijing Manufacturing Pilot Platform Open Service Manual (2026 Edition)," and the first batch of 50 selected high-quality manufacturing pilot platforms were unveiled.
In recent years, Beijing (北京) has always been based on the real needs of the industry, following the idea of "industry posing the questions, mechanism answering the questions," and continuously strengthening the innovation support capabilities of manufacturing. Chen Zhaohui (陈朝晖), Deputy Director of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology (北京市经济和信息化局), introduced that at present, Beijing (北京) has built 4 national manufacturing pilot platforms, 23 pilot platforms that are key cultivation projects of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工信部), and 146 pilot platforms have been included in the national pilot service system. "The compilation and release of the 'Beijing Manufacturing Pilot Platform Open Service Manual (2026 Edition)' is a concrete practice of Beijing (北京) integrating the city's high-quality pilot resources, aiming to achieve effective connection between technological breakthroughs and industrial applications through the market-oriented operation and professional services of the pilot forces, promote the rapid transition of innovative achievements from the laboratory to the production line, and consolidate the foundation for innovation transformation for the development of Beijing's (北京) high-precision and cutting-edge industries."
The 50 manufacturing pilot platforms released this time cover eight key industrial fields: new-generation information technology, pharmaceutical health, green advanced energy and low-carbon environmental protection, integrated circuits, robotics and intelligent manufacturing, intelligent connected vehicles, aerospace technology, and new materials, basically achieving full coverage of pilot services for Beijing's (北京) high-precision and cutting-edge industries.
Each platform is equipped with international and domestic advanced pilot equipment and supporting facilities, and can provide full-process pilot services such as design verification, process improvement, scale-up and familiarization, small-batch trial production, performance testing, and compliance support. Some platforms have the ability to provide value-added services such as instrument and equipment sharing, talent training, and standard formulation and revision, and the service objects cover various innovation entities such as enterprises, universities, and research institutes.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Hangzhou (杭州) April 7th dispatch (Reporter Liu Junguo (刘军国)): Recently, "Hualong One" construction has achieved new progress: the pouring of the first tank of concrete for the nuclear island of Unit 2 of the Xiangshan Jinqimen Nuclear Power Plant (象山金七门核电站) in Ningbo (宁波), Zhejiang (浙江), has commenced, marking the full entry of the unit into the main construction phase.
"Hualong One" is a third-generation nuclear power brand independently developed by China National Nuclear Corporation (中核集团) with complete independent intellectual property rights. It is the main reactor type for the mass construction of nuclear power in China and a "national business card." Currently, both units of the first phase of the Jinqimen Nuclear Power Plant (金七门核电站) are under construction and are planned to be put into operation for power generation in 2030 and 2031, respectively. The overall plan for the Jinqimen Nuclear Power Project (金七门核电项目) is to build six units, which, upon completion, will have an annual power generation of 55 billion kilowatt-hours, which can reduce carbon dioxide emissions by approximately 45 million tons, providing support for the energy and electricity supply and green and low-carbon transformation of Zhejiang Province (浙江省) and even the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Qu Xinming (屈信明)) Recently, five A-share listed insurance companies released their 2025 annual performance reports. Last year, the combined net profit attributable to the parent company of PICC (中国人保), China Life (中国人寿), Ping An (中国平安), CPIC (中国太保), and New China Insurance (新华保险) reached a new historical high.
On the asset side, listed insurance companies increased their support for the real economy and achieved good investment returns. China Life (中国人寿) vigorously promoted the entry of medium and long-term funds into the market, actively deployed in new quality productive forces-related fields, with a total investment income of 387.694 billion yuan and a total investment yield of 6.09%; PICC (中国人保) served the "five major articles" of financial investment with a scale of 328 billion yuan, an increase of 39.1% compared with the beginning of the year; Ping An (中国平安) had a comprehensive investment yield of 6.3%, an increase of 0.5 percentage points year-on-year; CPIC (中国太保) achieved a total investment income of 141.634 billion yuan for the year, an increase of 17.6% year-on-year.
On the liability side, the premium growth rate of the life insurance banking and insurance channel was relatively high. New China Life (新华人寿) seized the policy opportunity of "reporting and acting in unison" (报行合一), enhanced the strategic positioning of the banking and insurance channel, and on the basis of a substantial optimization of the cost structure, achieved a first-year premium of 37.934 billion yuan for long-term insurance and a new business value of 5.273 billion yuan, both of which set new historical highs; CPIC's (中国太保) new insurance premium scale for the banking and insurance channel was nearly 17 billion yuan, an increase of 43.2% year-on-year, and the new business value increased by 102.7% year-on-year.
In addition, Ping An (中国平安) underwrote 3.26 million science and technology insurance policies, providing 9.29 trillion yuan in risk protection; the proportion of non-vehicle insurance business of PICC Property and Casualty (人保财险) was 45%, an increase of 0.3 percentage points year-on-year; CPIC (中国太保) strengthened the refined management of vehicle insurance, the comprehensive cost ratio of vehicle insurance underwriting decreased by 2.6 percentage points year-on-year, and the proportion of new energy vehicle insurance premiums increased by 5.6 percentage points year-on-year.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曹文轩
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Hainan coffee has accumulated a century of history, carrying unique cultural memories. However, constrained by low output and low brand concentration, the development of the Hainan coffee industry faces challenges.
In recent years, Hainan has been making efforts in multiple directions, promoting stable production and quality improvement through the selection and breeding of fine varieties; leveraging agricultural, cultural, and tourism integration to explore unique development; and relying on location and policy advantages to open up new tracks in international trade, exploring new paths for the development of the coffee industry.
In Xinglong Town (兴隆镇), Wanning City (万宁市), Hainan Province (海南省), stepping into any coffee shop, you are greeted by laughter and the aroma of roasted coffee. Find an empty table, order a cup of "Ge Bi Ou" (歌碧欧) (Hainanese dialect, meaning "black coffee"), take a sip, and the rich and mellow taste slowly spreads between your lips and teeth. Paired with emerald green pandan cake, crispy coconut-flavored thin pancakes, or even more common steamed buns and fried dough sticks, this is how many locals start their new day.
How much do Hainanese people love coffee? According to statistics, the number of coffee shops in Hainan currently exceeds 4,000, with an average of about 4 per 10,000 people. Xinglong Town (兴隆镇), with a permanent population of just over 30,000, has more than 200 coffee shops, with an average annual consumption of over 200 cups of coffee per person.
In the recent wave of rapid rise of local coffee, Hainan coffee, which is highly recognized on the island, is also working to further enhance its popularity outside the island. What are the characteristics of Hainan coffee, and how can it leverage its industrial competitive advantages? The reporter conducted an investigation.
Rooted in Qiong Island (琼岛) for a Century
Hainan Coffee Stabilizes Production and Improves Quality
Hainan's connection with coffee dates back to the end of the 19th century. At that time, a group of returned overseas Chinese from Southeast Asia brought coffee seeds back to Hainan. The island has plenty of sunshine and rainfall throughout the year, and coffee has since taken root. Along with it came planting techniques, roasting processes, and a unique culture. "Hainan coffee is full of Nanyang (Southeast Asian) flavors. For example, adding yellow butter and sugar during the roasting process makes the coffee more caramel-flavored," said Wu Chunguang (吴春光), Secretary-General of the Wanning Xinglong Coffee Industry Association (万宁兴隆咖啡行业协会).
Hainan, which "started" the coffee industry relatively early, created several "firsts" in the new China—establishing the first coffee factory, forming the first professional coffee research institution, and introducing the first instant coffee production line. In 1988, the coffee planting area in Hainan Province (海南省) once reached 238,000 mu, ranking among the national coffee production and consumption bases.
Hainan coffee has both climatic advantages and cultural heritage, but many consumers from other places still lack understanding of it. When asked about the reasons in interviews, some industry insiders mentioned brand building, and some believed that there was a lack of leading enterprises to drive it, but they all unanimously mentioned one problem—low output.
In the 1990s, crops with higher benefits and shorter cycles, such as tropical fruits and winter vegetables, were promoted and planted on the island. Coupled with fluctuations in international coffee prices, the planting area of Hainan coffee gradually shrank under market choices, and by the end of 2009, there were less than 3,000 mu left in the entire province.
The situation changed a few years ago. Since the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港), Hainan has proposed to build a "3+1" modern industrial system, and the "1" is tropical characteristic and efficient agriculture. Hainan's agricultural and rural departments have launched a series of policies such as free distribution of seedlings and subsidies, and agricultural technology guidance. Coupled with the rapid growth of domestic coffee consumption, farmers' enthusiasm for planting coffee has been boosted. At present, the province's coffee planting scale has steadily rebounded to about 26,000 mu.
Ultimately, beverages must taste good. While stabilizing production, it is also necessary to improve quality. "The imported Hainan coffee is mainly Robusta beans, which are characterized by cross-pollination, and the offspring of seed seedlings are difficult to maintain the excellent characteristics of the variety," introduced Yan Lin (闫林), Director of the Coffee Research Center of the Spice and Beverage Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Tropical Agricultural Sciences (中国热带农业科学院香料饮料研究所). After continuous research, the Spice and Beverage Research Institute has selected and bred 10 excellent varieties (lines) suitable for China's climate environment, among which "Reyan No. 5" (热研5号) is not only high-yielding and stable-yielding, but also exhibits excellent flavor characteristics, and is now being promoted throughout the province.
At present, Hainan coffee has several brands such as Nanguo (南国) and Chunguang (春光), and Xinglong Coffee (兴隆咖啡) and Fushan Coffee (福山咖啡) have been rated as national geographical indication products. "Compared with Yunnan and other places, Hainan Island (海南岛) has objective limitations in land resources, but it can leverage its own advantages and create a new path of 'small but refined, refined and strong'," Yan Lin (闫林) believes that although the development of Hainan coffee has bottlenecks, it also has opportunities.
Based on Resource Endowments
Agricultural, Cultural, and Tourism Integration Has Characteristics
"We came here specifically to enjoy the flowers and drink coffee, and it really has a unique flavor." Hearing the guests' praise, Zeng Weimao (曾威懋), the person in charge of Longyuan Coffee Manor (隆苑咖啡庄园) in Xinglong Town (兴隆镇), was very happy.
A few years ago, Zeng Weimao's (曾威懋) father founded this coffee farm. Zeng Weimao (曾威懋), who graduated from university and worked outside, decided to return to his hometown to help his father. "In the beginning, the farm only sold coffee beans, and the income was limited. After our research, we believed that the integration of the three industries could lengthen the value chain and increase the gold content of coffee." Over the past ten years, they have upgraded the farm into a rural complex covering an area of 200 mu, integrating coffee planting, processing, leisure, and sightseeing, and have developed dozens of coffee-related products, attracting a steady stream of tourists.
In 2023, Longyuan Coffee Manor (隆苑咖啡庄园) was recognized as a provincial-level shared farm, and received greater support in planning, funding, and service guarantees. Together with 9 other coffee-themed shared farms in the province, it has become a pioneer in the construction of Hainan's boutique coffee farms.
Having tasted the sweetness of the integrated development of agriculture, culture, and tourism, Zeng Weimao (曾威懋) has new ideas: "Wanning City (万宁市), where Xinglong Town (兴隆镇) is located, is very 'popular' for surfing, attracting a large number of young consumers. We plan to upgrade supporting facilities and enrich business formats to allow more tourists to deeply experience Xinglong coffee culture."
Hainan's unique tourism resources are the foothold and advantage of local coffee development. According to statistics, in 2025, Hainan Province (海南全省) received 106 million domestic and foreign tourists, an increase of 9.1% year-on-year.
How to make good use of tourism resources? Fushan Coffee Cultural Town (福山咖啡文化风情镇) in Chengmai County (澄迈县) is also trying.
The town was originally a gathering place for local coffee shops. After the start of market-oriented operation, a professional team carried out bold upgrades and renovations to the town, building the Fushan Art Museum (福山美术馆) and the Coffee Culture Museum (咖啡文化馆), allowing young people to drink coffee and see exhibitions on weekends; establishing a coffee vocational training school to cultivate local baristas; and holding intangible cultural heritage exhibitions and cultural activities to enhance tourist interaction and experience. The renovated town has been operating for two years and has been rated as the first 4A-level scenic spot with a coffee theme in the country, attracting 225,000 tourists during the 2026 Spring Festival holiday.
In the view of Chen Haoyang (陈豪阳), the former general manager of Chengmai Fushan Development Co., Ltd. (澄迈县福山发展有限公司), further enhancing the reputation of Hainan coffee requires both "bringing in" and "going out": bringing in more tourists and attracting people with high-quality local coffee; and going out with a unified image of "boutique Robusta beans." "Although Hainan coffee has a characteristic flavor map, such as Fushan coffee growing in volcanic selenium-rich areas, Mu Mountain coffee produced in tropical rainforests, and Xinglong coffee with a strong cultural heritage, participating in competitions and exhibitions with a unified standard and image will help enhance overall popularity," said Chen Haoyang (陈豪阳).
Seize Policy Opportunities
Open Up New Tracks in International Trade
In Wanning Zhengda Xinglong Coffee Cultural Park (万宁正大兴隆咖啡文化园), people taste coffee and visit exhibition halls amidst the scenery of lakes and mountains. In stark contrast to the leisurely scenery in front of the park, the factory area in the back is buzzing with activity, and the production line is running at full capacity.
There is a reason why the company is full of motivation. In February 2025, the adjusted "zero tariff" policy for raw and auxiliary materials in the Hainan Free Trade Port (海南自由贸易港) was implemented, including 297 commodities such as unroasted coffee in the "zero tariff" raw and auxiliary materials policy list, which brought huge benefits to the company's development. Ye Jian (叶剑), general manager of Zhengda (Hainan) Xinglong Coffee Industry Development Co., Ltd. (正大（海南）兴隆咖啡产业开发有限公司), calculated an account: importing high-quality beans from Colombia to China, doing high-quality processing in Hainan, and then exporting them to Australia, completing the "two ends outside" model of the "zero tariff" policy, can save a real 8% tariff and 13% value-added tax.
In recent years, with the further reduction of operating costs, a number of coffee manufacturers such as Daka International (大咖国际), Indonesian Fireboat Group (印尼火船集团), and Vietnamese Trung Nguyen Legend (越南中原传奇) have come to Hainan to look for opportunities. Before 2022, Hainan mainly imported a small amount of coffee from countries such as Brazil and Vietnam. According to Haikou Customs (海口海关) statistics, with the implementation of the Free Trade Port and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) (《区域全面经济伙伴关系协定》) related policies, in 2025, Hainan enterprises imported more than 9,000 tons of coffee beans and products, with a value of 480 million yuan, an increase of 5.6 times and 8.3 times respectively year-on-year, mainly imported from 15 countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路).
"Hainan's development of coffee deep processing needs 'foreign aid' coffee bean supply. Hainan is close to Southeast Asian countries and has a huge domestic consumer market behind it, which can just leverage its location advantages," said Ye Jian (叶剑). Sealing off customs will provide multiple dividends such as cost, channels, and talent for the coffee industry, helping Hainan transform from a raw material input place to a global coffee processing hub.
Layout Design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
At the Zongguan Water Plant (宗关水厂) in Qiaokou District (硚口区), Wuhan City (武汉市), Hubei Province (湖北省), a balloon-like giant white air dome has recently attracted the attention of many citizens.
"This is the upgrading and renovation project of the Zongguan Water Plant (宗关水厂). It is the first municipal project in Hubei Province (湖北省) to use a fully enclosed air dome for construction (see picture, provided by Wuhan City Investment Group (武汉市城投集团)). Encasing the construction site with an air dome is mainly for dust and noise reduction," introduced Yuan Song (袁松), the project leader of the Zongguan Water Plant (宗关水厂) upgrading and renovation project. The air dome can reduce project noise by more than 30% and isolate more than 99% of project dust.
It is now spring, with birds singing and flowers blooming near the project, and the air is fresh. On the adjacent LED environmental monitoring display, the noise decibel value consistently remains around 55, and the PM2.5 value shows 71.
"We are in the central urban area here. To the west of the project is a residential area with nearly 2,000 households; to the south of the project is the old pump house site of the Zongguan Water Plant (宗关水厂), which was built in 1906 and is a key provincial-level cultural relic protection unit; to the northeast corner of the project is the reaction sedimentation tank of the Zongguan Water Plant (宗关水厂), which supplies water to 2 million citizens every day," said Yuan Song (袁松). It is crucial to ensure the quality of life for residents, protect cultural relics, and prevent tap water from being polluted. The air dome-assisted construction has been a great help.
"The air dome is 23 meters high, covers an area of 4,200 square meters, and has an internal space of 96,000 cubic meters, which can 'wrap' the entire project site inside," said the on-site construction manager at the entrance of the air dome, guiding reporters to put on safety helmets and masks and pass through a revolving glass door to enter the air dome.
Engineering vehicles were moving in and out, making constant "rumbling" sounds; two pile drivers were rapidly hitting the ground, making "bang bang" sounds; and three excavators were colliding with metal and stones, occasionally making "thump thump" sounds.
"The noise inside is very loud. Workers must be forced to go out and rest for a period of time every two hours," Yuan Song (袁松) introduced. As long as someone is working, the sprinkler system in the air dome will operate. When the dust is too heavy, the blue mist cannon next to it will also be activated. The reporter saw that in the northwest corner of the air dome, mist was constantly spraying from the white sprinkler heads.
Will there be a lack of oxygen when working in the air dome? "In the northwest corner of the air dome, we have set up two 11-kilowatt blowers, which can send 40,000 cubic meters of fresh air per hour," Yuan Song (袁松) pointed to the two black holes on the top of the air dome, "These are two fans that constantly refresh the air inside the air dome."
The dome not only has an air circulation system but is also equipped with an air index monitor. On the screen, five gas indices, including methane, propane, hydrogen sulfide, carbon monoxide, and oxygen, are jumping in real time. "Once the harmful gas exceeds the standard, the alarm will immediately alert us, and we will immediately stop work and conduct a safety inspection," said Yuan Song (袁松). When the weather is hot, a cooler will also be activated to cool down the workers.
How to ensure the stability of the air pressure inside the air dome when engineering vehicles enter and exit? "We have formulated a tightly sealed 'internal and external double door interlock' mechanism," the on-site construction manager introduced. Engineering vehicles must pass through the inner and outer doors of the waiting area when entering and exiting to ensure the airtightness of the air dome. Not only that, but the air dome is made of flame-retardant materials, and it is difficult to ignite with ordinary fire sources. "As long as it is not deliberately damaged, the air dome is also difficult to be scratched," said Yuan Song (袁松). Even if it is really scratched, technicians can use a hot melt gun to patch it up like patching a tire, and it can be repaired in 3 minutes.
From dust flying to being spotless, from deafening noise to reducing disturbance to residents, using an air dome to wrap the construction site is not only environmentally friendly but also economical.
"Building the air dome cost more than 1 million yuan, but you can calculate: because we reduced the impact on residents, we did not receive a single fine or a single complaint about work stoppages; because it is rainproof, we did not waste a single man-hour; plus the saved dust-proof nets, noise reduction facilities, and post-project restoration costs around the project, this calculation is cost-effective and saves trouble," said Yuan Song (袁松). After the project is completed, the air dome can be reused in other projects, which will not cause waste.
Return to TopIt is the key period for cotton sowing. Hutubi County (呼图壁县), Changji Hui Autonomous Prefecture (昌吉回族自治州), Xinjiang (新疆), widely uses the water-saving planting model of "sowing first, then drip irrigation," relying on the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (北斗导航系统) to achieve high-precision straight-line sowing, ensuring straight rows and uniform sowing, and laying a solid foundation for a bumper cotton harvest throughout the year.
The picture shows on April 6, in Longwangmiao Village (龙王庙村), Wugongtai Town (五工台镇), Hutubi County (呼图壁县), agricultural machinery operators driving precision planters equipped with the Beidou Navigation Satellite System (北斗导航系统) to carry out cotton sowing operations.
Tao Weiming (陶维明) photographed (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper Nanchang (南昌) April 7th (Reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)) - Jiangxi (江西) recently issued a registration and reporting system for leading cadres who violate regulations to interfere in and meddle with bidding activities. Targeting the entire chain of integrity risk points in bidding activities such as engineering construction projects, government procurement projects, and bidding and procurement projects of state-owned enterprises, the system specifies 21 types of specific situations in which leading cadres violate regulations to interfere in and meddle with bidding activities, drawing a clear "negative list" for the honest use of power by leading cadres.
The system clarifies that in bidding activities, if relevant entities and personnel such as bidders, tenderers, bidding agencies, and evaluation experts encounter leading cadres violating regulations to interfere in and meddle with the activities, they must comprehensively, truthfully, and promptly fill out the registration report form and submit it to the administrative supervision department or discipline inspection and supervision agency along with relevant supporting materials. For violations implemented through online information, verbal communication, and other means, specific recording and storage requirements are also clarified to ensure that violations can be traced and verified throughout the entire process.
For the collected problem clues, the accepting department and the discipline inspection and supervision agency will promptly sort, identify, and classify them for disposal. Violations that are verified to be true will be seriously dealt with in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law, and the relevant circumstances will be recorded in the personal integrity files of leading cadres. At the same time, those who deliberately fail to record or truthfully record violations, or who falsely accuse and frame others, will also be held accountable in accordance with regulations, discipline, and law.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Nanning (南宁), April 7th (Reporter Zhang Yunhe (张云河)) - Guangxi (广西) recently issued several measures to promote the high-quality development of high-tech industrial development zones, launching 22 specific measures in six aspects, including optimizing the layout of high-tech zones, enhancing independent innovation capabilities, and creating a high-quality development environment.
The measures clarify that Guangxi (广西) will provide a maximum of 10 million yuan in support from the autonomous region's science and technology plan project funds to newly approved national high-tech zones, as stipulated; it will lay out and construct a number of autonomous region-level high-tech zones, and provide a maximum of 5 million yuan in support from the autonomous region's science and technology plan project funds to newly approved autonomous region-level high-tech zones, as relevant regulations stipulate. At the same time, Guangxi (广西) supports enterprises within high-tech zones to take the lead in cultivating and creating high-level innovation platforms such as national technology innovation centers, emerging industry innovation centers, and manufacturing innovation centers. After being recognized, they will be given no less than 50 million yuan in support from the autonomous region's science and technology plan project funds during the construction period. For enterprises within high-tech zones that take the lead in undertaking national science and technology plan projects, matching funds will be given at a ratio of 1:1 according to the amount of funding obtained by the enterprise, up to a maximum of 20 million yuan, for project research and development, achievement transfer and transformation, and productization and industrialization.
Return to TopThis newspaper Lhasa (拉萨) April 7th (Reporter Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎)) On April 6th, the world's highest altitude trough solar thermal power plant - CGN Tibet Wumatang (中广核西藏乌玛塘) 50 MW solar thermal project, officially started construction in Wumatang Township (乌玛塘乡), Damxung County (当雄县), Lhasa (拉萨). The project uses China's independently developed 8.6-meter large-aperture trough collector and is equipped with a 6-hour molten salt heat storage device, which can realize continuous power generation at night. The overall "solar thermal + photovoltaic" integrated project is planned to be fully put into operation in 2027, with an annual power generation of approximately 719 million kilowatt-hours after completion.
According to reports, this large-aperture trough collector is currently the largest aperture trough collector in international commercial applications. The commercial application of this technology will effectively drive the collaborative upgrade of China's entire trough solar thermal power generation industry chain, realizing a leap from technology introduction to independent innovation.
The project is located in a high-altitude and oxygen-deficient area, facing extreme natural conditions such as low average annual temperature, large day-night temperature difference, low air density, and strong ultraviolet radiation. The effective construction period for the whole year is only from April to October. As of now, the project has cumulatively driven local employment of more than 2,000 person-times, bringing economic income of more than 5.2 million yuan to the local area through labor and machinery. At the same time, the project relies on its own active development of professional skills training to help farmers and herdsmen transform into skilled workers, and promote local income and employment.
Return to TopGuangzhou, April 7th (Reported by Li Gang (李刚)) The reporter learned on April 7th from the Canton Fair (广交会) Organizing Committee that the 139th Canton Fair (广交会), which will open from April 15th to 19th, will set up a drone (consumer-grade) zone and an agricultural drone zone for the first time in the first phase of the exhibition, focusing on showcasing China's low-altitude economic innovation achievements.
The two major drone zones cover two major fields: consumer entertainment and smart agriculture. Consumer-grade drones are transformed into "eyes in the sky," focusing on cultural tourism aerial photography, emergency lighting, logistics and transportation, fire rescue and other scenarios; agricultural drones have become "farming experts," relying on precise spraying, sowing, fertilization and other functions to help upgrade agricultural modernization.
The exhibition area will focus on presenting technological breakthroughs in flight control systems, AI obstacle avoidance, new energy power, and other technologies, as well as a variety of new products such as tethered lighting, logistics and transportation, and intelligent plant protection. From lightweight emergency rescue equipment to ultra-light manned aircraft, from high-precision plant protection drones to multi-functional operation platforms, it will comprehensively demonstrate the technical strength and scenario implementation capabilities of China's drone industry, becoming a major highlight of this Canton Fair (广交会).
As of April 6, the number of overseas buyers pre-registered for this Canton Fair (广交会) has exceeded 190,000.
Return to TopThe "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to "deeply implement the new energy security strategy, accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system, and build a strong energy nation."
As a super-large state-owned key backbone enterprise related to national energy security and the lifeline of the national economy, State Grid Corporation of China (国家电网有限公司) resolutely implements the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, keeps the "big picture of the country" in mind, coordinates high-quality development and high-level security, strives to be a promoter, pioneer, and leader in the clean and low-carbon energy transition, and injects a continuous stream of green momentum into the high-quality economic and social development.
Adjacent to Beijing (北京) and Tianjin (天津), the Hebei North (冀北) region is rich in new energy resources such as wind and solar power. State Grid Hebei North Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网冀北电力有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "State Grid Hebei North Electric Power") always keeps in mind its responsibilities and missions of "ensuring the power supply security of the capital, serving the economic and social development of the Hebei North region, and serving the national new energy development." Based on the construction of the Zhangjiakou (张家口) National Renewable Energy Demonstration Zone and the State Grid's regional demonstration zone for new power systems, it strives to create a demonstration benchmark for new power systems and a benchmark for high-quality development.
Based on years of exploration and practice in promoting clean and low-carbon energy development, State Grid Hebei North Electric Power has devoted itself to creating the distinctive brand of "Green Hope (绿色希冀)," consolidating the foundation of energy supply security with a strong power grid, stimulating the potential of green electricity consumption with technological innovation, and empowering the development of emerging industries with digital intelligence integration. In 2025, "Green Hope" was selected as one of the second batch of creation achievements (product brand) in the "Brand Leading Action" of central enterprises by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (国务院国资委), becoming a vivid footnote to State Grid Hebei North Electric Power's deep cultivation of green development and its commitment to innovation and breakthroughs.
The Strength of "Green Hope": Consolidating the "Ballast Stone" of Energy Supply Security
The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to "optimize the national power flow and cross-regional channel layout, and accelerate the construction of smart grids." The strength of "Green Hope" lies in consolidating the foundation with a strong power grid, making the confidence in energy supply security more sufficient.
On March 10, the Datong (大同)-Huailai (怀来)-Tianjin South (天津南) 1000 kV UHV AC project (Hebei North section) fully resumed construction. Workers seized the golden period of construction and accelerated the progress of the project. After the project is put into operation, it will comprehensively improve the safety and stability of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei power grid and better serve the coordinated development of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei.
In the Hebei North region, a series of key projects are being fully promoted. Zhangbei East (张北东) 500 kV transmission and transformation project, Longhua (隆化) 500 kV transmission and transformation project and other new energy transmission channels are accelerating construction, widening the channels for the external transmission of new energy in Zhangjiakou (张家口) and Chengde (承德), Hebei. At the same time, the construction of power grid projects at all voltage levels of 220 kV and below is continuously intensified, further weaving a dense grid structure.
Looking back at the "14th Five-Year Plan," State Grid Hebei North Electric Power consolidated the foundation of energy security with a strong power grid. Two UHV projects were put into operation successively, and 10 500 kV new energy supporting power grid projects were completed and put into operation. The Hebei North power grid has built a backbone grid structure supported by the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei North 1000 kV UHV large ring network, and the western Zhangjiakou (张家口) and Chengde (承德) new energy bases have formed a multi-level and multi-channel clean energy external transmission pattern.
Striving forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," State Grid Hebei North Electric Power has clear development goals and clear paths: to build an AC UHV layout of "two vertical, one horizontal, and six landing points," to radiate clean power to Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei-Shandong (鲁) through two flexible DC projects, and to promote the formation of a grid interconnection pattern between large-scale clean energy bases and AC/DC power grids. A stronger, smarter, and greener modern power grid is accelerating its "growth."
The Novelty of "Green Hope": Activating the "New Engine" of Green Electricity Consumption
Green development calls for technological innovation. In accordance with the important requirements of "striving to achieve new breakthroughs in strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies, seizing the commanding heights of science and technology, and exploring new ways to promote the deep integration of the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain, and promoting the efficient transformation and application of scientific and technological achievements," State Grid Hebei North Electric Power, based on its own endowments and closely linked to its location advantages, relies on key scientific research platforms to increase its efforts in tackling key technologies, fully solves the problem of new energy consumption, and transforms the power of innovation into a strong driving force for high-quality development. The novelty of "Green Hope" lies in breaking through the situation with technological innovation, taking the lead in breaking through and accelerating progress in the forefront of energy transition.
Recently, in the "Virtual Laboratory" of the Zhangbei (张北) Flexible DC Project of the State Grid Hebei Electric Power Research Institute (国网冀北电科院), researchers completed a four-terminal networking test. By reproducing the operating details of the project in the digital world, they studied and optimized the control strategy under complex operating conditions. The comprehensive simulation environment based on digital technology can intelligently simulate 12 types of complex operating conditions during the operation of the flexible DC power grid, realize in-depth analysis of operating characteristics, reproduction of typical faults, and verification of control strategies, which is of great significance for improving the safe operation level of the Zhangbei Flexible DC Project.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, State Grid Hebei North Electric Power vigorously implemented the "Three Climbing Actions" of technological innovation, digitalization, and wind-solar-storage transmission. All seven sub-projects of the Zhangjiakou-Chengde (张承) region's technological innovation demonstration project for new power systems were included in the State Grid Corporation's demonstration project for the source of original technology for new power systems. The technological innovation system is increasingly improved, and the pace of pursuing new and green technologies is becoming more sonorous.
The "gold content" of technological innovation has increased the "green content" of the Hebei North power grid. As of the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan," the installed capacity of wind and solar new energy in the Hebei North region exceeded 80 million kilowatts, an increase of nearly 1.86 times compared with the end of the "13th Five-Year Plan," accounting for 74% of the installed capacity, ranking first among provincial power grids in the country. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the cumulative green electricity transaction volume of the Hebei North power grid reached 100.162 billion kWh, and the transaction scale has ranked among the top in the country for years.
Striving forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," State Grid Hebei North Electric Power will take the comprehensive demonstration action of the new power system in the whole region as the starting point, and focus on tackling major scientific research topics in the fields of power grid coordination, flexible DC, and power distribution and utilization. It is estimated that by 2030, the proportion of wind and solar new energy installed capacity in the Hebei North region will reach more than 75%, the installed capacity of new energy storage will reach more than 14 million kilowatts, and a pool of adjustable load resources with more than 20% of the maximum load will be built.
The Intelligence of "Green Hope": Empowering the "Growth Pole" of Emerging Industries
Computing power is a new type of productivity in the digital economy era. The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to "promote the coordinated layout of green electricity and computing power," which points out the direction for the deep integration of energy and the digital economy.
According to the "Comprehensive Computing Power Index Blue Book (2025)" of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (中国信通院), the urban computing power sub-indices of Langfang (廊坊) and Zhangjiakou (张家口), Hebei, rank first and second in the country, respectively. The operation of computing power relies on electricity, and even more on green electricity. State Grid Hebei North Electric Power seized the opportunity and formally established a "Computing Power and Electricity" coordinated development team in March this year, concentrating its efforts to promote the coordinated development of computing power and electricity, so that surging computing power and green electricity can achieve a "two-way rush." The intelligence of "Green Hope" is to empower economic and social development with digital intelligence integration, so that the responsibility value of central enterprises can be fully released in thousands of industries.
The deep integration of green electricity and computing power is moving from concept to reality. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Zhangjiakou (张家口), the core city of the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei computing power hub node of the "Eastern Data and Western Computing" project, has accumulated 243.6 billion kWh of green electricity generation, driving the vigorous development of the big data industry. By the end of 2025, 1.72 million servers have been landed in Zhangjiakou, consuming more than 9 billion kWh of green electricity annually.
The accelerated promotion of the coordinated development of computing power and electricity not only opens up new ways for green electricity consumption, but also provides a broad application stage for artificial intelligence, becoming a warm force for serving the people's better life and helping enterprises' green development.
Make green travel more "intelligent." In Langfang (廊坊), the artificial intelligence green electricity super charging station operated by State Grid Hebei North Electric Power is equipped with a self-developed charging network intelligent system, providing car owners with a full-process intelligent service from scanning the code to charge to battery health detection, making charging more worry-free. In Tangshan (唐山), the country's first electric heavy-duty truck virtual power plant relies on intelligent control algorithms to achieve flexible and intelligent interaction with the power grid through artificial intelligence precise prediction and scheduling, with an annual adjustable load of more than 700,000 kilowatts, equipping green logistics with a "smart brain."
Make front-line work more "simple." In the field of electricity metering, State Grid Fengning County Power Supply Company (国网丰宁县供电公司) has built a mobile digital operation mode for meter replacement, automatically retrieving user information and generating new meter files, making the work process streamlined and efficient, and increasing on-site operation efficiency by more than 30%. On the front line of work order review, State Grid Hebei North Information and Communication Company (国网冀北信通公司) has developed a work order verification intelligent body, which can automatically identify and verify the standardization of work orders, reducing the review time from 1 hour to 8 minutes, allowing staff to have more energy to go to the front line to serve thousands of households.
Make enterprise carbon reduction more "smart." In Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), CITIC Dicastal (中信戴卡) "Lighthouse Factory" completed 380 million kWh of green electricity transactions in 2025, accounting for 88.6% of the annual electricity consumption. State Grid Qinhuangdao Power Supply Company (国网秦皇岛供电公司) relies on artificial intelligence algorithms to analyze electricity consumption data in real time to accurately ensure the stable supply of green electricity. In Zhangjiakou (张家口), the proportion of green electricity used in Lynk & Co (领克) automobile factory continues to increase. State Grid Zhangjiakou Power Supply Company (国网张家口供电公司) has established an intelligent energy service platform to help enterprises optimize their energy consumption structure through green electricity transactions, energy efficiency diagnosis and other means, so that "Hebei manufacturing" is labeled with green.
Striving forward to the "15th Five-Year Plan," State Grid Hebei North Electric Power will continue to deepen and expand the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, focusing on digital twin power grids and enterprise-level intelligent hubs, upgrade the enterprise intelligent computing center, improve the technical support system centered on the Bright Power large model, comprehensively promote the deep integration of digital and intelligent technologies and power grid business, and continuously promote production quality improvement, management efficiency improvement, and service improvement.
Galloping forward to the new, chasing the wind and pursuing the green is the right time. State Grid Hebei North Electric Power will thoroughly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, follow the strategic arrangements of the State Grid Corporation of China (国家电网有限公司), accelerate the construction of a new power system, further consolidate the strong power grid, release innovation efficiency, accelerate digital intelligence transformation, forge ahead courageously on the new journey of building a strong energy nation, and strive to write a new chapter of "Green Hope" full of green and magnificent with practical actions and responsibilities.
Data source: State Grid Hebei North Electric Power Co., Ltd. (国网冀北电力有限公司)
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The community of common destiny in the periphery is an important part of the community of human destiny. The Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries held in April 2025 pointed out that: "The periphery is an important foundation for achieving development and prosperity, a key point for safeguarding national security, a priority for diplomatic planning, and a key to promoting the construction of a community of human destiny." The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes: "Deepen the integration of peripheral development, strengthen common security, consolidate strategic mutual trust, and build a community of common destiny in the periphery."
In 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed the "Belt and Road" Initiative. Over the past decade, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has become a popular international public product and international cooperation platform. Facing the complex situation of profound adjustments in the international political, economic, and security landscape and the accelerated transformation of the global governance system, using high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" to promote the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery is not only related to the realization of the "Two Centenary Goals," but also to promoting the development of global governance and regional governance in the right direction. We must thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries, implement the deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, give full play to the role of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" in promoting the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery, and promote the continuous deepening and solidifying of peripheral cooperation.
The High-Quality Joint Construction of the "Belt and Road" Highly Aligns with the Concept of a Community of Common Destiny in the Periphery
The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is an important platform for building a community of common destiny in the periphery, and the two are highly aligned in terms of concept, purpose, development goals, and realization paths. The high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" emphasizes deepening infrastructure "hard connectivity," rules and standards "soft connectivity," and people-to-people "heart connectivity" with jointly building countries, which is an important starting point for expanding the breadth and depth of peripheral cooperation, and also an important part of promoting the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery.
The high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery deeply overlap in geographical space. The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" joins hands with the periphery, benefits the periphery, and promotes the common development and prosperity of China and neighboring countries. Among the six major economic corridors in the direction of the Silk Road Economic Belt, in addition to the New Eurasian Land Bridge Economic Corridor, the China-Mongolia-Russia Economic Corridor, the China-Central Asia-West Asia Economic Corridor, the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (中巴经济走廊), the Bangladesh-China-India-Myanmar Economic Corridor, and the China-Indochina Peninsula Economic Corridor are all key projects for the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery. The 21st Century Maritime Silk Road radiates from China's coastal areas to the periphery, and then extends to other parts of the world. From a practical perspective, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has made the most significant progress in the periphery over the past decade. From a geopolitical perspective, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has a natural advantage in promoting the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery.
The Silk Road spirit is consistent with the concept of Asian values. In May 2017, President Xi Jinping (习近平) systematically elaborated on the Silk Road spirit of peace and cooperation, openness and inclusiveness, mutual learning and mutual benefit, and win-win results at the first "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum. The Silk Road spirit is extracted and sublimated from the development process of the Silk Road, which has stretched for thousands of years, and has a profound historical heritage and strong cultural appeal. China welcomes countries and regions that recognize the Silk Road spirit to participate in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road." In November 2021, at the Commemorative Summit marking the 30th Anniversary of the Establishment of Dialogue Relations between China and ASEAN, China clearly proposed to jointly safeguard and promote Asian values; at the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries in April 2025, the core content of Asian values was further summarized as "peace, cooperation, openness, and inclusiveness." Asian values inherit the long-standing civilization traditions of Asia, condense the common values and concepts of all parties in the region, and gather the common aspirations of the Asian people for a better life. Looking at the connotations of the Silk Road spirit and Asian values, the two have a high degree of consistency.
The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is in line with the vision of a community of common destiny in the periphery. At the opening ceremony of the first "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, President Xi Jinping (习近平) officially proposed the beautiful vision of building the "Belt and Road" into a road of peace, a road of prosperity, a road of openness, a road of innovation, and a road of civilization. This is highly consistent and internally unified with the vision of building a peaceful, tranquil, prosperous, beautiful, and friendly "five homes" for the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery.
The correct concept of righteousness and benefit complements the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness. In April 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during the 31st collective study of the 18th Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee that in promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road," "we must adhere to the correct concept of righteousness and benefit, prioritize righteousness, combine righteousness and benefit, not seek quick success and instant benefits, and not engage in short-term behavior." The joint construction of the "Belt and Road" adheres to "righteousness" as the foundation of mutual trust and "benefit" as the key to win-win cooperation, emphasizing "prioritizing righteousness and combining righteousness and benefit" to promote stable and long-term cooperation. In October 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) officially proposed the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness at the symposium on peripheral diplomatic work, which became the basic principle for building a community of common destiny in the periphery. The correct concept of righteousness and benefit establishes the criteria for interaction, and the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness broadens the dimensions of cooperation. The two jointly constitute the value coordinates and practical framework of China's peripheral diplomacy in the new era.
Consultation, joint construction, and sharing are the common principles followed by the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery. In March 2015, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized in his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2015: "The construction of the 'Belt and Road' adheres to the principles of consultation, joint construction, and sharing." Consultation, joint construction, and sharing, as the principles of the "Belt and Road" construction, are written into the "Vision and Actions on Jointly Building Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road." The principle of consultation, joint construction, and sharing has been further sublimated into an important concept for China's participation in global governance. China proposes global governance initiatives, with the practice of a global governance concept of consultation, joint construction, and sharing as the basic principle. High-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" must always adhere to the principles of consultation, joint construction, and sharing. The construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery takes the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as the main platform. Consultation, joint construction, and sharing have achieved logical and practical coherence in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and the construction of a community of common destiny in the periphery.
Consolidate the Foundation of a Community of Shared Interests Between China and Neighboring Countries with "Hard Connectivity"
A community of shared interests is an important foundation for building a community of common destiny in the periphery. Most of China's neighbors are developing countries, and common development is a long-term consensus between China and neighboring countries, which has become the core content of building a community of shared interests. In this regard, the infrastructure "hard connectivity" of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" plays an indispensable role.
For a long time, insufficient infrastructure construction in developing countries has seriously restricted economic growth. Insufficient investment in the infrastructure sector has become an important problem faced by most developing countries. The reasons for this are: first, the savings rate of developing countries is not enough to support the demand for infrastructure investment; second, this type of investment is large in scale, has a low direct rate of return, and has a long recovery period, and at the same time has the attributes of public goods, so investors cannot occupy all the benefits of the investment and lack the motivation to invest. How to overcome the market failure phenomenon in the infrastructure sector has always been a practical problem that has plagued international economic cooperation and common development. Within a country, the government can implement macro-control, but there is a lack of similar institutional guarantees at the international level. China's initiative to jointly build the "Belt and Road" promotes the development experience of "If you want to get rich, build roads first" and the practical logic of "If roads are open, all industries will prosper" in domestic modernization construction to jointly building countries through infrastructure "hard connectivity." Over the past decade, under the framework of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," connectivity construction, especially infrastructure "hard connectivity," has become an important link in cooperation between China and neighboring countries. The China-Laos Railway, the China-Kyrgyzstan-Uzbekistan Railway, the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway, the railway and road network under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, the China-Russia oil pipeline, Gwadar Port, Hambantota Port, and other landmark projects have benefited the periphery. In recent years, China has become a major trading partner and an important source of investment for neighboring countries.
Facing the new round of technological revolution represented by artificial intelligence, the space for cooperation between China and neighboring countries in the field of infrastructure construction will be further expanded. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development pointed out in the "World Investment Report 2025" that due to the limited infrastructure, connectivity, and digital capabilities of developing countries, the digital divide between developing countries and developed countries will be further widened in the new round of digital wave driven by artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing. In the future, under the framework of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," cooperation between China and neighboring countries will realize the expansion from traditional infrastructure construction to new infrastructure construction.
Strengthen the Construction of a Community of Shared Responsibility Between China and Neighboring Countries with "Soft Connectivity"
The matching of rights and responsibilities is the premise of cooperation, which depends on the effective support of rules and mechanisms. Building a community of shared responsibility is indispensable for building a community of common destiny in the periphery. In the field of economic cooperation, signing regional trade agreements is a common practice for building a community of shared responsibility with rules and mechanisms as the core. To date, China has signed a total of 24 free trade agreements, nearly half of which are in the periphery, laying a solid foundation for the construction of a community of shared responsibility in the periphery. At the same time, the "soft connectivity" advocated by the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" expands institutional consensus through the alignment of rules and the coordination of standards, broadening the path for the construction of a community of shared responsibility.
"Soft connectivity" is born with the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." At the opening ceremony of the first "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, President Xi Jinping (习近平) proposed "to promote the connectivity of policies, rules, and standards in a three-in-one manner"; in August 2018, at the 5th anniversary symposium on promoting the construction of the "Belt and Road," he clearly pointed out the basic requirements for the transformation to high-quality development; in April 2019, at the second "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum, he further pointed out that to achieve high-standard, people-benefiting, and sustainable goals, rules and standards that are universally supported by all parties should be introduced; in November 2021, at the third symposium on the construction of the "Belt and Road," "rules and standards 'soft connectivity'" was officially positioned as an important support.
"Soft connectivity" adheres to a development orientation. Under the current global governance system, whether it is a multilateral cooperation mechanism or a regional cooperation mechanism, both adhere to the principle of rules first, which is reflected in establishing rules before carrying out cooperation, and adhering to a rules-oriented approach. Procedurally, this is a path that conforms to the logic of cooperation, determining the rights and responsibilities of all parties in advance, but it has a potential drawback, that is, the rules themselves can also become a kind of entry threshold, excluding some countries, especially underdeveloped countries, from the cooperation process. Even if most cooperation mechanisms claim to be open, it is a conditional openness. In contrast, rules and standards "soft connectivity" adheres to a development orientation, following the principle of talking about cooperation first and then setting rules. This practice of not pre-setting rule thresholds provides opportunities for all countries, especially underdeveloped countries, to participate in international cooperation, reflecting true openness. With the deepening of cooperation, the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" has gradually established clear and complete rules and mechanisms.
Promoting "soft connectivity" is an inherent demand for the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road." As the main carrier of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road," the development direction of the economic corridor reflects the inherent connection between "soft connectivity" and high-quality development. The so-called economic corridor refers to a mechanism that connects economies along the way through transportation lines or specific geographical markers such as rivers and mountains. The economic corridor is a dynamic concept, and its core function is to solve the problem of regional development imbalance. The development and evolution of the economic corridor can be divided into four stages: the first stage is to build transportation lines with infrastructure as the core, forming a narrow economic corridor; the second stage is to focus on enhancing the radiation effect of transportation lines, and to expand the economic corridor from "linear" to "belt-shaped" by improving the investment environment, promoting urbanization and industrialization; the third stage is to promote trade facilitation and promote the cross-border flow of goods, services, and factors of production; the fourth stage focuses on coordinating the policies and plans of countries along the economic corridor to form a broad economic corridor. The development and evolution of the four stages of the economic corridor covers the process of progressive upgrading from infrastructure "hard connectivity" to rules and standards "soft connectivity," which is the inherent meaning of high-quality development.
In addition, "soft connectivity" provides the preconditions for the docking of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" with the current global governance system. Through the alignment of rules and the institutional arrangement, build a foundation for institutional compatibility and policy coordination, promote the orderly connection of the multilateral trading system, regional cooperation mechanisms, and the development direction of various countries, and build a solid institutional support and practical foundation for the relevant docking.
Deepen the Identification of a Community of Common Destiny Between China and Neighboring Countries with "Heart Connectivity"
The key to sound relations between states lies in the affinity between their people, and the key to this affinity lies in mutual understanding. Building a community of human destiny and a community of common destiny in the periphery is based on people-to-people connectivity. The principles of consultation, joint construction, and sharing, the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit, and inclusiveness, Asian values, and the vision of "five homes" are all based on people-to-people connectivity, and "heart connectivity" has become an important starting point for China and neighboring countries to build a community of common destiny.
The core meaning of "heart connectivity" is to realize emotional understanding and spiritual connection between people of different countries with people's friendship as the link. In the practice of jointly building the "Belt and Road," infrastructure "hard connectivity" has achieved obvious results and has been widely recognized by the international community; rules and standards "soft connectivity" is entering the implementation stage. How to transform the construction of "hard connectivity" and "soft connectivity" into "heart connectivity" is a long-term and arduous task. In the future, it is necessary to accelerate this process at two levels: one is to adhere to the correct concept of righteousness and benefit and promote the sustainable development of the joint construction of the "Belt and Road"; the other is to launch more "small and beautiful" projects to achieve the goal of benefiting people's livelihoods.
Adhering to the correct concept of righteousness and benefit, adhering to the principle of prioritizing righteousness and combining righteousness and benefit, means that the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" is not a purely commercial cooperation mechanism, nor is it a simple foreign aid project. It is precisely because of adhering to the organic unity of "righteousness" and "benefit" that the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" brings practical benefits to jointly building countries while enhancing the sustainability of its own development. For example, "teaching people to fish" through connectivity construction; implementing the "Guiding Opinions on Central Enterprises Fulfilling Social Responsibilities to a High Standard in the New Era" to guide "going out" enterprises to better fulfill their social responsibilities in international cooperation in the industrial chain and supply chain, and help jointly building countries' economic and social development; building a green Silk Road and effectively promoting the sustainable development of jointly building countries; and so on.
In October 2023, President Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the opening ceremony of the third "Belt and Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum that we will coordinate the promotion of landmark projects and "small and beautiful" livelihood projects. Large-scale infrastructure projects have the characteristics of long investment cycles and slow results, and the public lacks a real perception in the short term. In contrast, "small and beautiful" livelihood projects not only require less investment and produce quick results, but also have more diverse participating entities, and more importantly, they can directly improve people's livelihoods, improve the quality of life of the people, and enhance social inclusiveness and cohesion. In addition, promoting "heart connectivity" also requires strengthening cooperation and exchanges in science and technology, education, culture, health, tourism, think tanks, and other fields, and giving play to the effect of 润物细无声 (rùn wù xì wú shēng - "moistening things silently," to influence subtly and gently).
The current global pattern and order are undergoing unprecedented changes, and the promotion of building a community of common destiny in the periphery with the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as an important platform has taken a crucial step. As a testing ground for building a community of human destiny, building a community of common destiny in the periphery still needs to continue to expand and deepen cooperation in many fields such as partnership, security pattern, economic development, cultural exchanges, and ecological environment.
(The author is a member of the Academic Divisions of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院))
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There is only a one-character difference between a career and a cause, but their connotations are worlds apart. A career is a "clock in, clock out" duty, while a cause is a lifelong endeavor that one is "constantly concerned about." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that Party members and cadres should "treat the work entrusted by the Party as a cause to pursue, rather than as a job or a means of earning a living." Whether Party members and cadres treat the work entrusted by the Party as a job or as a cause reflects their answer to the question of "why join the Party, what to do as an 'official,' and what to leave behind," and directly affects their fundamental view of political achievements. A mistake in this choice will breed an incorrect view of political achievements. Only by treating work as a cause can one be guided by faith, uphold a sense of public service, and work with responsibility and emotion, delivering excellent answers that live up to the Party and the people.
Treating work as a cause is supported by the foundation of loyalty to the Party and the people, and the selfless nature of Communists. Loyalty is not abstract, but concrete. Specifically, how one treats the work entrusted by the Party is reflected in pursuing it as a cause to fulfill one's responsibility to the Party, rather than as a means to seek personal gain. Cadres who treat their positions as stepping stones for promotion only want to produce quick and visible achievements labeled with their own names, rather than the interests of the Party and the people. Different things in one's heart will lead to different levels of work starting points and results. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Party puts cadres in various positions so that everyone can take responsibility and work hard, not to be officials and enjoy themselves." For Party members and cadres, when the organization entrusts a job to them, it is not only entrusting a position, but also a responsibility and trust. Only by being wholeheartedly and diligently, putting the interests of the people first, seeking more benefits for the people and solving their problems, not coveting personal fame and fortune, and doing the work wholeheartedly, can one live up to this important trust.
Pursuing a cause relies on solid work based on reality and with long-term goals in mind. As Marx said: "Philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." As Marxists, the cause of Communists has never been shouted out, but done. True hard work is not burning the "three fires" of quick success and instant benefit, but the real and hard skills of understanding, solving, and answering questions. In October 2002, when Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) first arrived in Zhejiang (浙江) to work, someone asked him to talk about his "governance program." He smiled and said, "I just arrived and have no right to speak yet." Subsequently, he devoted himself to intensive research, traveling to all 11 prefecture-level cities in Zhejiang (浙江) in more than two months. In July 2003, Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) systematically proposed the "Double Eight Strategy," setting the direction for Zhejiang's (浙江) development. Not rushing to make an appearance at the moment, but dedicating to long-term cultivation, treating work as a cause requires such determination.
A cause is a relay race, not a solo performance. To treat work as a cause, one must consciously abandon one's own small calculations and focus on long-term and overall interests. 滴水穿石 (dī shuǐ chuān shí - "dripping water pierces stone," perseverance will eventually overcome any difficulty); achieving a cause is not a matter of one morning. Some things often require decades of continuous struggle to be effective. Shanxi's (山西) Youyu (右玉) has been transformed from a "barren land" into a "green oasis on the frontier" because cadres have led the people to persist in planting trees and creating greenery for many years. Choosing to plant trees is difficult to see results in a short time. But if the harsh natural environment is not fundamentally improved, there will be no long-term development in Youyu (右玉). In the face of the test of "personal future or the people's way out," every cadre has firmly protected the fundamental interests of the people and the bottom line of Youyu's (右玉) long-term development. Visible achievements are certainly important, but the quality of a cause is often reflected in the subtle and silent contributions. To treat work as a cause is to handle the relationship between immediate and long-term interests, partial and overall interests, not to pursue seeing results in one's own hands, but to do more groundwork and lay the foundation for future generations.
Choosing to pursue the work entrusted by the Party as a cause is choosing to put the Party in the center of one's heart, choosing to put the interests of the people first, meaning the broad mind of "calculating interests should calculate the interests of the world," and meaning the responsibility to be truly responsible to the Party and the people. Only with such a choice can life have weight, and achievements can stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Continuously enhance the country's cultural soft power and the influence of Chinese culture" and "We must take a more proactive approach to promoting China's propositions, disseminating Chinese culture, and showcasing China's image." Rural culture is an important component of Chinese culture and also an important carrier for the international communication of Chinese culture. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "prosper and develop rural culture" and "enhance the effectiveness of international communication and strengthen foreign cultural exchanges and cooperation." It is necessary to focus on building a narrative system and communication pattern that integrates China and foreign countries, promote the rich connotation of rural culture to reach overseas audiences in a perceptible and shareable way in the exchange and mutual learning of civilizations, enhance the effectiveness of international communication of Chinese civilization, and enhance the communication power and influence of Chinese civilization and the country's cultural soft power.
In the current context of deep integration of globalization and digital media, rural culture, with its simple life atmosphere, distinct regional characteristics, and profound emotional tension, is increasingly becoming a distinctive window for telling Chinese stories and showcasing China's image. In recent years, a number of "village-branded" IPs have accelerated their journey to the world. Guizhou's "Village Super League" (村超), "Village BA" (村BA), and "Village T" (村T) have built a global communication matrix with the help of short video platforms, bringing rural cultural activities into the world's vision. Jiangxi Wan'an Peasant Paintings and Sichuan Zigong Lanterns, among others, have demonstrated their unique charm on the world stage through digital means and international exhibitions. These practices provide a referential path for China to showcase its rural image, tell rural stories, and enhance the international communication capabilities of rural culture. It should also be recognized that the overall effectiveness of international communication of rural culture still needs to be improved. From the perspective of content presentation, some rural cultural products remain in the stage of self-display, with insufficient in-depth research on the cultural psychology and acceptance habits of overseas audiences, and insufficient grasp of the cultural context of target markets, resulting in poor communication effects. In terms of communication channels, an independent and controllable communication matrix has not yet been formed, the degree of dependence on overseas platforms is relatively high, and the ability to set agendas and the initiative in discourse need to be strengthened. From the perspective of talent support, there is a lack of compound talents who are both deeply familiar with the connotation of rural culture and familiar with the laws of international communication and master modern communication technologies, and the grassroots communication team has problems such as weak cross-cultural awareness and insufficient digital skills. In terms of the overall situation, the international influence of rural culture is still insufficient, and there is an urgent need to form a cultural brand system that matches the profound heritage of Chinese civilization. Facing these problems and challenges, we can work together from the three dimensions of narrative innovation, technology empowerment, and talent support to promote the quality and efficiency of the international communication influence of rural culture.
Innovative narratives activate emotional resonance. Enhancing the effectiveness of international communication depends not only on the appeal of the cultural content itself, but also on the precise alignment of communication methods and discourse expression with the psychology of the audience, so that people can generate and deepen recognition in common emotions. It is necessary to adhere to the integration of user thinking into the entire process of rural cultural innovation, conduct in-depth research on the cultural psychology of audiences in different countries and regions, and make narrative adjustments according to different cultural preferences. Systematically build a narrative resource library covering diverse cultural forms, improve the tracking and feedback mechanism of narrative effects, and optimize narrative strategies through the interactive behavior data of overseas audiences. Deeply explore the narrative transformation rules of different types of rural culture, adopt more micro-narratives to present the real rural style and villagers' lives, transform the cultural genes and lifestyles of Chinese villages into a discourse system that is easy for overseas users to understand and accept, and show the world a picture of Chinese villages with thriving industries, ecological livability, civilized rural customs, effective governance, and affluent life. Starting from the common emotional experiences and emotional needs of human beings, refine the common values and cultural connotations in rural culture, break down cultural barriers with emotion as a bridge, promote the effective implementation of cross-cultural communication, and form high-quality content that combines cultural recognition and cross-cultural empathy. For example, Guizhou's "Village Super League" integrates Dong folk songs and Miao Lusheng with football, realizing the cross-media translation of local cultural symbols in the common context of sports competition, allowing overseas audiences to perceive the unique charm of Chinese rural culture in the familiar framework of the event.
Technology empowerment enhances communication effectiveness. Digital technology has broken the geographical limitations of rural cultural communication, transforming regional folk skills, customs, and other things into visual symbols with global characteristics, and promoting rural culture to enter the international communication field. Strengthening technology empowerment helps to improve the level of international communication capacity building of rural culture and optimize product forms and user experience. It is necessary to vigorously strengthen the construction of digital cultural resources, promote the digital transformation and standardization of rural cultural resources, and establish a multilingual, cross-media cultural content database to provide continuous, stable, and callable content resource support for international communication. Actively expand the application scenarios of cutting-edge digital technologies in the international communication of rural culture, and create virtual and real integrated cultural experience spaces through short videos, virtual reality, augmented reality, and other technologies to further expand the audience's perception dimension. For example, the "One Mobile Phone Tour Yunnan" platform relies on panoramic and slow live broadcast technology to push the scenery of Yuanyang Hani Rice Terraces (元阳哈尼梯田) to users' mobile phones, realizing the visual communication of cultural heritage and allowing overseas users to break through physical space limitations and obtain an immersive cultural experience. We can accelerate the construction of an independent and controllable communication platform matrix, deepen content cooperation and channel co-construction with overseas mainstream platforms, and enhance the ability to set agendas and the initiative in discourse. Use algorithm recommendation technology to establish a global user dynamic portrait, and achieve precise content distribution for the cultural preferences of audiences in different regions, effectively improving the reach and acceptance of communication. Guide overseas users to participate in the re-creation of cultural meaning through interactive technology, promote the international communication of rural culture from one-way transmission to value co-creation, deepen emotional identity in two-way interaction, and realize the leap of rural culture from "visible and perceptible" to "credible and amiable."
Cultivate talents to consolidate the foundation for development. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Cultivate and discover local cultural talents." The scale, structure, and ability of the communication team directly determine the space for improving communication effectiveness. It is necessary to focus on building a three-dimensional pattern of international communication of rural culture, and promote more groups such as media, literary and art volunteers, and villagers to become participants and contributors to the international communication of rural culture. For example, Xiayuan Village (下苑村) in Changping (昌平), Beijing (北京) gathers many artists, forming a cultural ecology of "art + folk customs," attracting many overseas tourists to visit and showcase the artistic vitality of Chinese villages through self-media platforms. Another example is "Dianxi Xiaoge" (滇西小哥), a rural video blogger in Shidian County (施甸县), Baoshan City (保山市), Yunnan Province (云南省), who uses food as an entry point to showcase the daily lives of villagers and rural scenery, attracting many fans on overseas social platforms. It is necessary to strengthen the training of local rural cultural international communication talents, continue to broaden the horizons of talent selection, and focus on discovering and cultivating emerging rural cultural communication forces such as rural intangible cultural heritage inheritors, "new farmers," and rural self-media bloggers to enrich talent reserves. Increase the intensity of digital communication skills training, help grassroots cultural talents master the ability to produce and operate all-media content, and adapt to the communication needs of the digital age. Accelerate the establishment of a cross-field talent collaboration network, promote in-depth cooperation between professional forces in international communication, cultural research, digital technology, and other fields, and vigorously cultivate compound talents. Fully respect and stimulate villagers' cultural subject consciousness, enhance villagers' initiative in participating in international communication, transform villagers from being narrators to narrators, enhance cultural identity and cultural confidence in communication practice, and ultimately achieve a deep transformation from "talent support" to "subject consciousness."
(The author is a researcher at the Beijing Institute of International Openness, University of International Business and Economics.)
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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) aerially seed rice paddies, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as soil sensors monitor the entire process of crop growth; an agricultural big data platform is built to form an unmanned system for the entire process of cultivation, management, and harvesting... People can grow crops well without going to the fields. In recent years, Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) has accelerated the large-scale application of unmanned agricultural technology, opening up the "last mile" of agricultural technology promotion.
What do these unmanned farms look like? How do they help farmers improve agricultural production efficiency? How to promote the development of smart agriculture? The reporter conducted an exploration.
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"The work is basically handled by equipment, and the 'busiest' thing on the farm is data"
At 6 am, in Huangpu District (黄埔区), Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东), the "digital housekeeper" of XAG's Super Farm has already started working. This is an experimental field that uses robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and IoT technology to reconstruct agricultural production methods. Agricultural drones automatically take off from the rooftop apron of the warehouse and fly over the rice fields at a speed of 8 meters per second, and batches of rice seeds are sown, completing the aerial seeding of nearly 300 mu of rice seeds in 30 minutes. "When the rice grows, we can scan the high-definition image of the entire field with centimeter-level accuracy through the field patrol drone, and the leaf color, plant height, and pest and disease areas will be marked one by one by the AI system," said Ye Yonghui (叶永辉), the farm's operations manager.
"During the peak of rice transplanting during the busy farming season, 300 mu of rice fields require 10 to 15 people to work intensively under the traditional model; under the smart farm model, only 2 to 3 people need to cooperate with smart equipment to complete the work." Ye Yonghui (叶永辉) pointed to the AI prescription map on the screen and introduced that an area has been clearly identified by AI for farmland boundaries and obstacles, and the system automatically generates work instructions to guide agricultural drones to broadcast fertilizer to designated areas.
This kind of scene runs through every link of rice growth. When sowing, under the arrangement of the "digital housekeeper", the agricultural drone automatically sets flight parameters, such as flight altitude, flight speed, rice seed dosage, etc., and automatically generates the optimal operation route. After loading nearly 80 kilograms of rice seeds, it shuttles back and forth in the farmland, and the sowing efficiency is 50 times that of traditional manual labor; the tractor equipped with the Beidou (北斗) navigation system realizes automatic driving, and the operation error does not exceed 2.5 centimeters.
"The work is basically handled by equipment, and the 'busiest' thing on the farm is data." Ye Yonghui (叶永辉) introduced that IoT devices deployed everywhere in the farmland—soil sensors, weather stations, and smart cameras—upload data every 15 minutes. Parameters such as temperature, humidity, light, and fertility are incorporated into the "farmland brain", and the AI algorithm analyzes the farmland's multi-faceted data to provide a scientific basis for the subsequent arrangement of agricultural irrigation, fertilization, and spraying. "In the past, we relied on experience, but now we rely on data. Even how many liters of water to use for watering, the system can calculate it clearly," said Ye Yonghui (叶永辉).
In the past, farmers 看天吃饭 (kàn tiān chī fàn - "rely on the sky for food," depend on the weather for a living); nowadays, data has become a new agricultural material, and algorithms have become new agricultural tools.
"The value of smart agriculture must also fall on the 'efficiency account'"
In the office of XAG's Super Farm, the electronic screen scrolls with the farm's harvest and related cost data from last year. "The use of a complete set of systems has reduced the cost of water and electricity per mu of rice field by 47%, reduced the amount of pesticides by 30%, and increased the fertilizer utilization rate by 40%. The value of smart agriculture must also fall on the 'efficiency account'. Behind this is AI in 'fine-tuning details'," said Ye Yonghui (叶永辉).
For example, in the sowing link, traditional rice transplanters rely on the experience of agricultural machinery operators, which can easily lead to land waste. The rice transplanter equipped with an autopilot plans the path through AI, and the land utilization rate per mu is increased by 15%. In the plant protection link, the AI prescription map changes the pesticide spraying from full coverage to precise spraying. In the prevention and control of rice blast in the summer of last year, the system identified that some mild areas can reduce the amount of spraying, saving more than 10,000 yuan in pesticide costs.
"The most intuitive thing is the labor cost." Ye Yonghui (叶永辉) said that in the past, field inspections relied on people walking, but now with field patrol drones, the efficiency has been greatly improved, and high-definition images and vegetation growth information of the entire field can also be obtained; the farm only needs 3 technicians all year round, and the labor cost has been greatly reduced. In the "Super Cotton Field" project in Xinjiang (新疆), this model is more effective—two employees manage 3,000 mu of cotton fields, the yield per mu is 16% higher than traditional planting, and the comprehensive cost is reduced by 22.89%.
Conghua District (从化区) jointly with South China Agricultural University (华南农业大学) to build a thousand-mu unmanned fragrant rice farm; Zengcheng District's (增城区) "Fuxi Farm" (伏羲农场) promotes the construction of a 200-mu pilot area in the north, a 2,000-mu promotion area in the south, and an agricultural service center to create a digital benchmark for Silky Rice... Guangzhou (广州) is piloting smart grain planting, integrating Beidou (北斗) navigation, intelligent equipment, and agricultural big data platforms to build an unmanned system for the entire process of cultivation, management, and harvesting, and create smart demonstration farms.
In the Dajisha Island (大吉沙岛) Smart Farm in Huangpu District (黄埔区), there is a smart agriculture demonstration base, which is an experimental field jointly built by South China Agricultural University (华南农业大学) and Huangpu District (黄埔区). "This place used to be barren and the grass was taller than people," said Wang Zaiman (王在满), Executive Vice President of the Huanong Huangpu Research Institute (华农黄埔研究院) and Deputy Chief Scientist of the National Rice Industry Technology System (国家水稻产业技术体系). Today, scattered plots have been transformed into scaled planting units, and a smart farm control center has been built, with more than 30 sets of intelligent agricultural machinery and equipment stationed, covering the entire process of rice cultivation, management, and harvesting.
"People can grow crops well without going to the fields," said Luo Xiweng (罗锡文), Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) and Professor of South China Agricultural University (华南农业大学). Not long ago, the list of major new agricultural science and technology achievements in China in 2025 was announced, and the "Key Technologies of Unmanned Smart Rice Farm" led by Luo Xiweng's (罗锡文) team was on the list.
"The degree of intelligence is constantly improving, and we strive to achieve 'unmanned' as soon as possible"
In Zengcheng District (增城区), a group of "new farmers" are rewriting the traditional farming methods with drones. In 2017, Liu Guangzhen (刘广镇), 22, resigned from his information technology job and devoted himself to the promotion and application of agricultural drones, becoming the first batch of agricultural drone pilots in Guangzhou (广州).
"At the beginning, the number of orders was very small. With policy promotion and government recommendations, the number of orders has been steadily increasing in recent years," said Liu Guangzhen (刘广镇). Now he serves as the technical manager of Guangzhou Xingnong Agricultural Service Co., Ltd. (广州市兴农农业服务有限公司) and the president of Guangzhou Yongsheng Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative (广州市永昇农机专业合作社), leading 4 teams to work outside every day, with an annual workload of 120,000 mu times.
"We not only serve farmers, but also are growers ourselves. We already have 800 mu of Silky Rice planting base, and the degree of intelligence is constantly improving, and we strive to achieve 'unmanned' as soon as possible," said Liu Guangzhen (刘广镇).
A new model of smart agriculture is also emerging. Through the "Feikuai Nongfu" (飞快农服) platform developed by Guangzhou Daqihou Group (广州大气候集团), after farmers place an order with their mobile phones, the system intelligently matches and dispatches orders to suitable pilots according to the farmer's location, crop type, and operation needs, and professional pilots will bring drones to provide on-site services.
These changes in the fields are inseparable from Guangzhou's (广州) continuous efforts in policy. "Through policy support, scenario opening, pilot demonstrations and other measures, we are accelerating the large-scale application of unmanned agricultural technology in the city," said the relevant person in charge of the Guangzhou Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (广州市农业农村局). Construct a virtuous commercial closed loop of agricultural artificial intelligence, construct 171 standardized data catalogs, and cumulatively collect more than 61 million pieces of agricultural data, and innovatively develop a "three rural" map and multi-terminal system; construct an agricultural artificial intelligence demonstration and promotion system, create smart demonstration farms, promote scenario applications, and create industrial clusters; construct an agricultural artificial intelligence data integration system, and promote the integration and application of multi-source data by focusing on improving the data standard system; construct an agricultural artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem, and coordinate and promote the collaboration of government, industry, academia, and research to cultivate an artificial intelligence industrial ecosystem. Guangzhou (广州) issued a medium- and long-term development plan to accelerate the construction of a strong modern urban agriculture city, and clearly proposed that by 2035, a strong modern urban agriculture city will be basically built.
The story of AI farms is surging to wider fields with the tide of technology.
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In Anping County (安平县), Hebei Province, known as the "Hometown of Chinese Wire Mesh," tens of thousands of wire mesh industrial and trade enterprises are operating at full capacity, outlining an industrial landscape with an annual output value exceeding 100 billion yuan.
Stepping into the workshop of Hebei Silk Reed Metal Products Co., Ltd. (河北丝筘金属制品有限公司), a stainless steel printing mesh with a specification of 480 mesh, as thin as a cicada's wing and shimmering with a silvery-white luster, is slowly forming on an intelligent weaving machine.
This is the fruitful result of Hebei Province's first "crowdfunding scientific research" project – a high-mesh, high-precision stainless steel printing mesh used in the manufacturing of high-end photovoltaic cells, which has finally achieved domestic production.
Let's rewind to two years ago. China's photovoltaic industry was booming, but an inconspicuous key material was severely restricted by others – the high-end metal mesh used for printing electrodes on solar panels.
"This type of mesh not only needs to have a high mesh count, but also needs to be precise and uniform, which places extremely high demands on weaving technology; otherwise, it will affect the efficiency and performance of the battery," said Liu Yanhui (刘彦辉), general manager of Silk Reed Company (丝筘公司). Due to high technical barriers, the global market has long been dominated by several foreign companies, with high prices and tight supply.
Although there are many wire mesh enterprises in Anping County (安平县), they are concentrated in the traditional low-to-medium-end product field, and some enterprises are trapped in homogeneous competition and price wars. Facing innovation, due to huge R&D investment, complex technology chains, and high risks of failure, many local wire mesh enterprises are "unwilling to invest, dare not venture, and do not know how to research."
"Taking this high-mesh, high-precision stainless steel printing mesh as an example, it is difficult for a single enterprise to organize the entire process of R&D and production to overcome the hurdle of the 480-mesh specification." This is not only Liu Yanhui's (刘彦辉) dilemma, but also a common predicament for the upgrading and technological innovation of the entire Anping County (安平县) wire mesh industry.
A turning point came at the end of 2024. Anping County (安平县) undertook Hebei Province's first "crowdfunding scientific research" project – the manufacturing technology of high-mesh wire mesh for photovoltaic cell screen printing, exploring a new mechanism for joint investment, joint research, joint responsibility, and joint sharing of R&D.
"Changing from 'fighting alone' to 'group operations' allows enterprises to no longer face innovation risks alone," said Zhao Chaoying (赵超英), Deputy County Mayor of Anping County (安平县).
An innovation consortium was quickly formed: Hebei Provincial Academy of Industrial Technology (河北省产业技术研究院) coordinated resources and partially funded the project, Anping County (安平县) integrated state-owned enterprise resources to establish Silk Mesh Group (丝网集团) as the undertaking and testing party, Liu Yanhui's (刘彦辉) Silk Reed Company (丝筘公司) served as the core R&D and production party, and Kunshan Liangpin Screen Printing Equipment Co., Ltd. (昆山良品丝印器材有限公司), a photovoltaic equipment enterprise from Kunshan City (昆山市), Jiangsu Province, served as the key downstream application verification party.
The four parties jointly invested 2 million yuan in R&D funds according to the agreed-upon ratio, and clarified the mechanism for the division of rights, responsibilities, and benefits: if the project is successfully tackled, the results will be enjoyed and mass-produced by the enterprise, and the research institute and the group will recover the funds and reinvest them in new projects; if it fails, the risks will be shared.
The goal to be achieved is extremely demanding: using stainless steel wire with a diameter of 11 microns, 480 mesh holes must be woven on a length of one inch (25.4 millimeters), the thickness error of the entire mesh surface must be controlled within 0.5 microns, and the uniformity error of the mesh hole size must be less than 3%. Any slight vibration, temperature change, or even air cleanliness can cause the slender metal wires to break during the weaving process.
In the following months, the workshop became the main battlefield. Liu Yanhui (刘彦辉) and the technical team stayed in the workshop together, repeatedly modifying and debugging the equipment, and conducting massive trials of process parameters in each link of drawing, annealing, and weaving. The notebooks were densely filled with records of each adjustment and the reasons for the failures.
Finally, in March 2025, when the 138th trial-produced mesh roll was taken off the machine, after strict testing, all the data met the standards!
The benefits of success were immediately apparent. The cost of domestically produced 480-mesh high-precision printing mesh has dropped from more than 40,000 yuan per square meter to about 30,000 yuan, strongly supporting the cost reduction and efficiency improvement of the downstream photovoltaic industry. The output value of Silk Reed Company (丝筘公司) also increased from 20 million yuan in 2024 to 80 million yuan in 2025.
The success of the first "crowdfunding scientific research" project has activated a pool of spring water for the industrial upgrading of Anping County (安平县). Today, projects such as the development of automatic metal wire mesh threading machines and the development of fully automatic intelligent fence welding systems in Anping County (安平县) have been shortlisted for the second batch of "crowdfunding scientific research" projects in Hebei Province.
From a technological island that a single enterprise is unable to break through, to an innovation ecosystem where a set of mechanisms activates an industrial cluster – a roll of metal mesh as thin as a cicada's wing weaves not only new materials for China's high-end manufacturing, but also a new path to solve the problem of industrial upgrading through mechanism innovation.
Return to TopIt is now the crucial time for farmers and herders to welcome spring lambs. Sunan Yugur Autonomous County (肃南裕固族自治县) in Zhangye (张掖), Gansu (甘肃) Province, is promoting related work through precise policies and scientific management. Newborn lambs are being born one after another, adding vitality to the vast grassland. The picture shows a flock of sheep foraging in Songmutan Village (松木滩村), Dahe Township (大河乡), Sunan County (肃南县) on April 6.
Shen Yixiao (申翌晓) Photo (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) - The reporter learned from the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委): Since the domestic refined oil price adjustment on March 23rd, international market crude oil prices have fluctuated significantly. In order to mitigate the impact of rising international oil prices on the domestic market, the state continues to take regulatory measures on refined oil prices. Calculated according to the refined oil price mechanism, from 24:00 on April 7th, the domestic gasoline and diesel (standard grade) prices should be increased by 800 yuan and 770 yuan per ton respectively, but after regulation, the actual increase is 420 yuan and 400 yuan.
The National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) will guide refined oil production and sales enterprises to make every effort to do a good job in the production, transportation, and supply of refined oil, ensure stable market supply, and cooperate with relevant departments to increase market supervision and inspection, and severely investigate and deal with illegal and non-compliant behaviors such as failure to implement national price policies, so as to effectively maintain market order and protect consumer interests.
Return to TopThis newspaper Kunming (昆明) April 7th (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)) Menglai Customs (勐腊海关), affiliated with Kunming Customs (昆明海关), data shows: Since the opening and operation of the China-Laos Railway, as of April 7, the total value of imports and exports has exceeded 80 billion yuan, and the categories of import and export commodities have expanded from more than 500 in the initial stage of operation to more than 3,800, serving more than 6,000 enterprises across the country, radiating to 19 countries and regions including Laos (老挝) and Thailand (泰国), injecting momentum into the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and promoting regional connectivity, mutual benefit and win-win cooperation.
In the first quarter of this year, the import and export value of the China-Laos Railway reached 6.81 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 62.7%, a record high for the same period in previous years. On the import side, the value of imported fresh and dried melons and fruits via the China-Laos Railway was 500 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1 times; imports of bulk commodities such as grain, metal ores and their concentrates were 1.13 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 34.6%.
On the export side, exports of the "new three items" via the China-Laos Railway reached 1.3 billion yuan, a surge of 10.4 times year-on-year, of which exports of photovoltaic products were 1.19 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 43.2 times, and the "new" content of foreign trade continued to climb. The China-Laos Railway is becoming an efficient two-way trade channel for "Made in China going south and Southeast Asian specialties going north."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘军国
"After only 15 days in Yiwu (义乌), I completed the company registration and procurement shipment." In the China-Africa Mansion (中非大厦) in Yiwu City (义乌市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), Senegalese businessman Cheikh Ahmadou (谢赫·艾哈迈杜) said with a smile while checking the list of goods to be shipped to his hometown. On the table was the newly issued business license.
Thanks to the foreign investment registration commitment system reform promoted by Yiwu, the original 15 working day registration process has been compressed to one day, an efficiency that surprised Ahmadou.
On April 2, the 18 cars he purchased in Yiwu were loaded onto a ship from Ningbo-Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) and will arrive at the Port of Dakar (达喀尔港) in Senegal (塞内加尔) in 60 days.
"Yiwu is both open and inclusive." Ahmadou, who is learning Chinese, is full of expectations for his business and plans to purchase more Chinese cars for export to Africa.
The China-Africa Mansion brings together 63 foreign-funded entities, with African merchants accounting for more than 80%. Relying on the African Bulk Project Investment Exhibition Center, 21 African countries have settled in to build bulk commodity trading platforms, enabling precise docking and efficient cooperation between Chinese and African enterprises.
Africa is Yiwu's largest import and export market. In the first two months of this year, Yiwu's total imports and exports to Africa reached 35.41 billion yuan, an increase of 84.7% year-on-year, accounting for 20.4% of Yiwu's total imports and exports.
In Yiwu, the vitality of foreign trade development is extending to the global market, and new explorations from competing on price to competing on technology and brand are fully underway.
At the Yiwu Global Digital Trade Center (义乌全球数贸中心), the artificial intelligence translator independently developed by operator Chen Jing (陈靖) has become a hit. This device supports 146 languages, and after iterative upgrades, it has added functions such as magnetic suction and mobile phone brackets, which are very popular in the European and ASEAN markets.
After experiencing this translator, Indian buyer Abby (艾比) decided to place an additional order on the spot: "The first batch of more than 100 units sold out quickly. This time I saw the upgraded version, and I estimate I will order 300 units."
Since the beginning of the year, Yiwu's foreign trade "circle of friends" has continued to expand. In the first two months of this year, Yiwu has established trade relations with 222 countries and regions, an increase of 9 compared with the same period last year. Emerging markets are in full bloom. Yiwu's imports and exports to ASEAN reached 24.74 billion yuan, an increase of 99.0% year-on-year. Countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" are the **压舱石** (yā cāng shí - "ballast stone," a stabilizing force) for Yiwu's stable foreign trade growth, accounting for more than 70% of Yiwu's total imports and exports.
While "selling globally," Yiwu's pace of "buying globally" is also accelerating. The Yiwu Comprehensive Bonded Zone (义乌综合保税区) is full of good products, and European health products, East Asian beauty products, and Southeast Asian fruits are constantly pouring in. In the first two months of this year, Yiwu City's imports of consumer goods were 10.51 billion yuan, an increase of 54.2% year-on-year, accounting for 55.8% of the city's total imports.
The release of policy dividends and the increase in channel construction have allowed more and more global good products to enter thousands of households in China. Starting from May 1 this year, China will fully implement zero-tariff measures for 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with China. Ding Yang (丁暘), general manager of Yiwu Kaihe Import and Export Co., Ltd. (义乌市开合进出口有限公司), is very optimistic about the import of African agricultural and sideline products: "After the implementation of zero tariffs, the cost performance advantages of African agricultural and sideline products will be more obvious, and the relevant import volume is expected to increase by 60% this year."
The construction of Yiwu Aviation Port (义乌航空口岸) is also accelerating. In February this year, the designated supervision site for imported aquatic animals for food use at Yiwu Aviation Port was approved, and the first order was successfully implemented on March 9. The number of imported edible aquatic products and meat products in Yiwu has increased significantly.
"The foreign trade structure continues to be optimized, and the development momentum is accelerating. Yiwu is writing a new chapter of high-quality development with vivid practices," said the relevant person in charge of Yiwu City.
Yiwu, the "World Supermarket," is allowing thousands of commodities to reach the world with an open and inclusive attitude, and also allowing global good products to enter China.
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Editor's Note: Cadres, cadres, the word "do" must come first. This is both a requirement of duty and a fundamental aspect of political integrity. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that cadres must have the courage to take responsibility. The greater the responsibility one undertakes, the greater the achievements one will make.
On the new journey, we still face many major challenges, major risks, major obstacles, and major contradictions. How can we mobilize the enthusiasm, initiative, and creativity of the vast number of party members and cadres to encourage them to be willing to take responsibility, dare to take responsibility, and be good at taking responsibility? Starting today, this edition launches a series of reports titled "New Observations on Cadre Status: Fostering a Strong Atmosphere of Willingness, Courage, and Skill in Taking Responsibility," focusing on the specific practices of various regions in helping party members and cadres consolidate the ideological foundation for willingness to take responsibility, shed the burden of not daring to take responsibility, and cultivate the ability to take responsibility well, so as to better lead the masses in starting businesses and making achievements.
"Your scale is small, why should we choose you?"
In the past, facing such a sharp question, Tian Qing, Deputy Minister of the Investment Promotion Department of the Tai'erzhuang Economic Development Zone (台儿庄经济开发区) in Zaozhuang (枣庄), Shandong (山东), might have given up. Now, she responds calmly.
"Our park is indeed not large in scale, but it also has unique advantages." From location advantages and logistics costs to industrial support and policy windows, Tian Qing laid out the advantages of the park one by one.
After listening, the person in charge of the other party was silent for a moment and nodded. Tian Qing knew that this project might be promising.
Before being transferred to the investment promotion position, Tian Qing had worked in the development and reform and administrative approval departments, familiar with the industrial situation and clear about the service enterprise process. With the previous experience background and work habits as a foundation, she was quite confident when she took over the investment promotion work: "Investment promotion, just memorize the policies, explain the services thoroughly, and run errands more, it's not difficult."
But after running a few trips, Tian Qing realized that it was not the case. It is difficult to attract enterprises by using the "old routine" of investment promotion.
"The Tai'erzhuang Economic Development Zone (台儿庄经济开发区) is a provincial-level development zone, but the approved area is only 4.05 square kilometers, which can only be regarded as a 'small size' compared with the development zones with hundreds of square kilometers of planned area in the surrounding cities." Tian Qing said. Some enterprises come to inspect, and they have preconceived ideas about the situation of the park. After listening to the introduction, they leave after a tour; some enterprises attach great importance to professionalism, and they quickly lose interest if they cannot hear key information or see feasible solutions; other enterprises put forward more personalized needs, but there is no policy precedent in related fields, and they dare not break the rules. After hesitating again and again, the project was signed by another city.
"With a fear of difficulty, the mentality of 干多干少一个样 (gàn duō gàn shǎo yī ge yàng - "doing more or less is the same," whether one works hard or not makes no difference) and 干与不干一个样 (gàn yǔ bù gàn yī ge yàng - "doing or not doing is the same," whether one works or not makes no difference) quietly grows; not daring to break the rules, waiting for 'the policy to be clearer' and 'the conditions to be more mature', the investment promotion work becomes a push." Tian Qing reflected, "Good projects will not fall from the sky by themselves. If you want to attract projects, you must change."
How to change? She began to re-examine the land under her feet and sort out her ideas:
In terms of location, Tai'erzhuang (台儿庄) is the "South Gate" of Shandong (山东). The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal (京杭大运河) runs 42 kilometers through the whole territory, and water transportation directly reaches the Yangtze River Delta (长三角). For industries with large cargo transportation needs such as equipment manufacturing, water transportation conditions are an advantage;
In terms of industry, the Tai'erzhuang (台儿庄) lithium battery chain has taken shape, from positive electrode materials to electrolyte, from battery cells to assembly, and then to energy storage equipment, the "small but refined" pattern is initially formed;
In terms of land, although the approved area is not large, by revitalizing inefficient and idle land, it can achieve "zero land increase" investment promotion, the cost of enterprise landing is low, and you can enter the factory without waiting;
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After sorting out the ideas, you must also "know yourself and your enemy."
Over the years of dealing with each other, Tian Qing has discovered a change: the representatives sent by the project parties have high academic qualifications and strong professional skills. "In a few words, people can weigh whether you understand the industry or not. If they see that you only have a smattering of knowledge, they are unwilling to talk more."
The change in understanding forced Tian Qing to actively hone her professional skills, and she "ran" more diligently. "In the past, running errands was to complete a task number, but now running errands is to achieve success." Tian Qing said. In the past, when running projects, she only understood basic policies and service processes, and was slightly unfamiliar when talking about industrial details and industry trends; now, before visiting, she tries to understand the upstream and downstream layout of the enterprise and the current situation of industry development; in order to match the professional requirements of the project party, she repeatedly studies the technical points of new energy, equipment manufacturing and other fields. "If you do your homework well, the enterprise will be willing to open up."
The change is not only reflected in the improvement of business capabilities, but also in the change of mentality and initiative. In the past, Tian Qing was accustomed to answering whatever the enterprise asked, waiting for projects based on policies. Now, facing the personalized needs of enterprises, she first plans "how to do it" and then thinks about "whether it can be done", communicates with enterprises with preliminary solutions, and boldly explores feasible paths within the framework of the system. "In the past, it was 'what the enterprise wants me to do', but now it is 'what I can do for the enterprise', thinking ahead and running in practice." Tian Qing said that this shift from "passive response" to "active attack" has made her more and more confident in the front line of investment promotion.
At the same time, a mechanism change is also being promoted.
In 2025, the Zaozhuang (枣庄) City Reform and Innovation Item Filing Operation Regulations will support bold explorers, clarifying the boundaries of reform and innovation. After filing in the city, you can work with confidence and boldness. In the process of work promotion, if the expected results are not achieved or mistakes occur due to unforeseen factors, a comprehensive analysis of motives and other factors will be carried out, and tolerance should be given where tolerance is due. The city also issued timely reward work operation regulations, giving awards and merits to individuals and collectives who attract and land major projects; issued a method for integrating "examining affairs" and "examining people", evaluating performance based on affairs and evaluating people based on performance, and identifying cadres on the front line. "This series of systems is to make cadres who dare to break through and dare to do things be seen and reused." Li Yan, member of the Standing Committee of the Zaozhuang (枣庄) Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Organization Department, said.
The city held a mobilization meeting, and relevant documents were also distributed to the cadres. Tian Qing read it over and over again, and those "personalized requirements" that once made her hesitate, and those "no precedents" that once made her timid, had some space to explore. Zhai Jun, Secretary of the Zaozhuang (枣庄) Municipal Party Committee, said: "Zaozhuang (枣庄) is in a critical period of 'strengthening industry and revitalizing production, and transforming and developing'. We organize party members and cadres to take responsibility based on their positions, serve enterprises, and benefit the masses, and turn investment promotion into a 'test room' for discovering talents, testing cadres, and encouraging practical work."
In the first batch of 12 list projects, Tai'erzhuang District (台儿庄区) revealed the list of new energy ship and supporting equipment production and manufacturing projects, and Tian Qing led the team to tackle the key problems. Recently, the Haiqing New Energy Power Project was officially registered and landed, with a planned total investment of 1 billion yuan. "The park construction and project investment promotion are being promoted simultaneously. At present, 7 projects have reached the intention to settle in. Such efficiency was unimaginable in the past. A 'small' development zone can also attract good projects." Tian Qing said.
Not only the Tai'erzhuang Economic Development Zone (台儿庄经济开发区), but also the Yicheng District (峄城区) combines its own advantages to accurately connect with the power drone project; the Shanting District (山亭区) has promoted the signing of large-scale logistics industry projects after more than 30 rounds of negotiations... In the past two years, facing the important task of investment promotion, the cadre team in Zaozhuang (枣庄) City has changed from "afraid of trouble" to "looking for things to do", from "pushing one to move one" to "rushing all work forward". The work style is solid, the courage is sufficient, and the machines are roaring in the parks, and the traffic is shuttling, growing vigorously.
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In reality, some cadres face new situations and new challenges, lack confidence, and their enthusiasm for work is also diminished. If they lose initiative and get used to waiting for instructions in everything, they will easily fall into a situation of being "pushed to move," missing opportunities to do things and develop. To untie the "knot" in their thinking, they must use their brains and take the initiative.
It is a lifelong shame for an official to avoid responsibility. Taking responsibility starts with a willingness. When thinking is proactive, work is not passive. To be proactive in thinking, one needs to consciously cultivate a sense of responsibility, build confidence in doing, and enhance resilience. When shouldering responsibility, one should have the courage to meet difficulties head-on and the determination to be the first to act. From "answering whatever is asked" to actively looking for problems, from "not moving unless pushed" to taking the initiative, only with a proactive mindset can there be opportunities for success.
Hone your skills, and proficiency comes from diligence. Usually, if you put in the effort to investigate with problems in mind, you will be able to have confidence and seize opportunities at critical moments. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the local area? What do enterprises and the masses hope for? What experiences are worth learning? Many questions do not have ready-made standard answers, and cadres need to combine their enthusiasm for work with scientific decision-making to find appropriate laws and practices. In experiencing wind and rain and seeing the world, they can grow their talents and strengthen their muscles and bones, and develop the hard backbone, iron shoulders, and real skills to take responsibility.
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Grassroots governance is the cornerstone of national governance. Promoting the rule of law at the grassroots level is an important measure to accelerate the modernization of the grassroots governance system and capacity. The "Organic Law of the Villagers Committees of the People's Republic of China" and the "Organic Law of the Urban Residents Committees of the People's Republic of China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Two Laws") are a vivid practice of Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law in the field of grassroots governance. They are the basic guarantee for adhering to the fundamental strategy of comprehensively governing the country according to law and connecting it to the "last mile," providing solid institutional support for further promoting the rule of law in grassroots governance.
Gansu's Solid Practice in Promoting the Rule of Law in Grassroots Governance
Gansu Province has thoroughly studied and implemented Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law, earnestly implemented the spirit of the "Two Laws," strengthened grassroots organizational construction, improved the grassroots mass autonomy system, and innovated deliberative and consultative platforms, so as to promote good governance in Longyuan (陇原) through the construction of the rule of law.
Enhance the Leadership of Grassroots Party Organizations. Combining with the actual situation in Gansu, four local regulations have been formulated (revised), including the Implementation Measures of the Organic Law of the Villagers Committees, the Implementation Measures of the Organic Law of the Urban Residents Committees, the Villagers Committee Election Measures, and the Residents Committee Election Measures. These regulations clarify the matters for which Party organizations lead and support villagers (residents) committees in performing their duties in accordance with the law, and promote the Party's leadership throughout all aspects of the work of villagers (residents) committees. Among them, the Villagers Committee Election Measures and the Residents Committee Election Measures were reviewed and approved by the 19th meeting of the 14th Gansu Provincial People's Congress Standing Committee on November 27, 2025, and will be implemented on January 1, 2026. Deeply promote the joint construction of Party building, promote all streets and 1,621 communities to establish a regional Party building joint construction work mechanism, and carry out joint construction with more than 15,000 units stationed in the community, effectively enhancing the cohesion of Party organizations. Play a combined punch of grassroots mass autonomy. Implement the revision and update action of village rules and regulations, and revise and improve the village rules and regulations of 15,900 villages in the way that the masses propose, discuss, and decide, forming binding norms with clear guidance, new content, and effective management. Lanzhou (兰州) City guides all counties (districts) to follow the principles of "legal compliance, easy to remember and understand, simple and effective," promote multiple rounds of argumentation at the township (street) and village (community) levels, and widely solicit opinions, and formulate village rules and regulations and residents' covenants that are both in line with the actual situation at the grassroots level and reflect broad consensus. Strengthen the autonomous functions of villagers (residents), build practical and effective villagers (residents) councils, red and white affairs councils, moral evaluation councils and other villagers (residents) autonomous mechanisms, and form a vivid situation of civil affairs being discussed by the people, handled by the people, and managed by the people. Strengthen hard measures to reduce the burden and empower the grassroots. Highlight the orientation of reducing the burden on the grassroots, focus on solving the problem of "small horses pulling big carts" in grassroots governance, and all 86 counties and districts in the province have formulated and implemented "three lists" to ensure that grassroots organizations focus on their main responsibilities and have more time to serve the masses. Jiayuguan (嘉峪关) City has focused on cleaning up the "excessive licensing" of village (community) organizations, comprehensively streamlined the various meetings and activities participated in by villages (communities), significantly reduced the filling of ledgers, reporting materials and other transactional work, and promoted the "online verification" and "joint review by departments" of certification matters, so that grassroots organizations and Party members and cadres can unload their burdens and move forward lightly. Expand new channels for the orderly participation of the masses. Guide various localities to actively explore in accordance with local conditions, and innovatively promote beneficial practices such as "one question per month" and civil affairs direct speech "1234" to guide the masses to widely participate in deliberation and consultation. Longnan (陇南) City has established a "Civil Affairs Direct Speech Committee" in rural areas, taking "everyone discusses village affairs" as the carrier, and educating and guiding the masses to consciously abandon outdated customs and advocate civilized new customs through the determination of village rules and regulations by everyone, the discussion of red and white happy events by everyone, and the evaluation of the most beautiful families by everyone. Actively create "sunshine village affairs," issue work guidelines, promote the normalization, institutionalization, and standardization of village affairs disclosure, and effectively protect the masses' right to know, participate, and supervise.
Actively Explore Effective Paths for the Rule of Law in Grassroots Governance
2026 is the first year of implementation of the revised "Two Laws." It is very important to do a good job in publicity and implementation. Gansu Province will innovate publicity methods, strengthen content interpretation, promote implementation and implementation, and provide high-level legal protection for efficient grassroots governance.
Take the lead in respecting the law and establishing the concept of the rule of law. Adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on the Rule of Law as the guide, closely integrate the study and implementation of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on grassroots governance with the publicity and implementation of the "Two Laws," continue to work hard on in-depth study, firm belief, and practice, shoulder the responsibility of the rule of law, and act in accordance with the law. Accelerate the promulgation of implementation measures to further refine the clauses, clarify responsibilities, and standardize procedures to ensure that Longyuan (陇原) has laws to rely on for good governance. Take the lead in learning the law and strengthening publicity and guidance. Organize and carry out "Two Laws" publicity activities in villages and communities, and widely carry out publicity and education through centralized counseling, case interpretation, graphic science popularization, and other methods to promote the "Two Laws" to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Incorporate the "Two Laws" into the training courses for new members of villagers (residents) committees, organize and carry out full coverage learning and training, and enhance the ability of village affairs workers and community workers to perform their duties in accordance with the law. Improve the grassroots public legal service system, carry out the "1 village (resident) legal adviser + N 'legal明白人'" action, and drive the majority of grassroots cadres and the masses to handle affairs in accordance with the law, seek the law in case of trouble, use the law to solve problems, and rely on the law to resolve conflicts. Take the lead in using the law to improve the system system. Improve the institutional mechanism for township (street) and village (community) Party organizations to uniformly lead various grassroots organizations and various tasks in the jurisdiction, and the Party organization shall study and discuss important matters and major issues before making decisions in accordance with the procedures, effectively giving play to the Party organization's role in political supervision. Highlight the principles of easy memorization and effective management, promote the revision and updating of village rules and regulations and residents' covenants, improve the filing and performance mechanism, and better play the role of incentive and restraint. Deepen the "Party building leads to immediate handling of complaints," consolidate the experience and practices explored in practice in the form of a system, and promote the extension from "solving one thing" to "solving a class of things." Take the lead in using the law to regulate autonomous activities. Establish villagers (residents) committee subordinate committees such as people's mediation, public security, and public health as needed. Improve the incentive policies for social forces to participate in grassroots governance, make good use of deliberative and consultative methods such as symposiums and hearings, and broaden the channels for various grassroots organizations and the masses to participate in governance in an orderly manner. Comprehensively sort out the work items of villages (communities), study and formulate an access system for village (community) work items, and provide resources for decentralized items at the same time to promote the realization of consistent responsibilities and powers and consistent responsibilities and capabilities.
(The author is the Minister of the Social Work Department of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and the Secretary of the "Two New" Work Committee of the Provincial Party Committee)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) The Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) released 5 typical cases on the 7th to protect and regulate lawyers' participation in litigation, adhering to the guidance of supporting lawyers in performing their duties in accordance with the law and regulations, fully protecting lawyers' practice rights, regulating lawyers' practice activities in accordance with the law, and safeguarding judicial authority and credibility.
Lawyers' practice rights originate from the clear provisions of the law and are essentially an extension of the parties' litigation rights. Respecting and supporting lawyers in performing their duties in accordance with the law is respecting the legitimate rights and interests of the parties and safeguarding judicial justice. The People's Court (人民法院) continues to strengthen the protection of lawyers' practice rights to ensure that acts that infringe upon lawyers' practice rights are promptly corrected.
Lawyers' personal rights in their practice activities shall not be violated. In a typical case, a spectator beat a lawyer. The People's Court (人民法院) took immediate action to stop the spectator and reprimanded him, and later imposed a three-day detention in accordance with the law, reflecting a clear "zero tolerance" attitude towards acts that infringe upon lawyers' personal rights, and effectively safeguarding lawyers' personal safety and dignity.
At present, the majority of lawyers strictly perform their duties in accordance with laws and regulations such as the Lawyers Law, maintain normal trial order, and safeguard social fairness and justice. However, there are also a very few lawyers who practice illegally and irregularly, and should be regulated in accordance with the law. In a typical case, lawyer Zheng Moumou (郑某某) violated the law and repeatedly publicly insulted and slandered the judge through self-media and other platforms, and threatened and intimidated the judge, and repeatedly threatened to kill the judge verbally and by sending text messages. The People's Court (人民法院) imposed a fine on him in accordance with the law and suggested that the judicial administrative organ investigate and deal with it. The judicial administrative organ imposed administrative penalties on him in accordance with the law to safeguard judicial authority.
Return to TopIn recent years, Qianwei County (犍为县), Leshan City (乐山市), Sichuan Province (四川省) has actively carried out civilized practice services such as respecting, loving, honoring, and helping the elderly, accurately connecting with the needs of the elderly, and accelerating the construction of happy canteens in communities and villages.
In the northern section of Fenghuang Road (凤凰路) in Yujin Town (玉津镇), Qianwei County (犍为县), Wang Yonghang (王永航), the operator of a restaurant, opened a "One Yuan Canteen." Through the model of "self-raised funds, donations from caring people, and subsidies from the civil affairs department," it focuses on solving the dining needs of elderly people living alone over 80 years old and people with first- and second-degree disabilities in the surrounding area.
Return to TopAccording to the 2025 Beijing Municipal Administrative Reconsideration and Administrative Response Work White Paper recently released by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice (北京市司法局), Beijing (北京), April 7th (Reported by Wang Zhou (王洲)): In 2025, administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels in Beijing (北京市) received a total of 69,095 administrative reconsideration applications. Compared with the number of first-instance administrative cases accepted by the city's courts with municipal administrative agencies as defendants, the ratio of reconsideration to litigation cases received reached 5.1:1, and the preferred rate of administrative reconsideration was further improved. Among the 39,435 administrative reconsideration cases concluded in the same year, 2,534 cases were directly corrected with decision types such as cancellation, confirmation of illegality, modification, and order to perform duties, with a direct correction rate of 7.9%. At the same time, administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels implemented mediation and settlement throughout the entire process of handling cases. A total of 11,082 cases were concluded through pre-case mediation, in-case mediation, and settlement throughout the year, with a mediation and withdrawal settlement rate of 28.5%. After administrative reconsideration, 93% of the cases did not enter administrative litigation or petition channels for handling.
Relying on the "separation of complex and simple cases" mechanism to quickly handle simple cases, the average trial period for administrative reconsideration cases has been shortened by 50% compared to before the implementation of the new Administrative Reconsideration Law. "Administrative reconsideration agencies at all levels have strengthened efficiency requirements and strictly implemented the 'separation of complex and simple cases' mechanism for case trials. They adhere to the principle of quickly handling simple cases for cases with clear facts and little dispute, such as small fines and government information disclosure, effectively reducing the time cost for the public to obtain relief," said Zhang Guoqiang (张国强), Deputy Director and First-level Inspector of the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Justice (北京市司法局).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 巨云鹏
In a narrow residential building hallway in Yangpu District (杨浦区), Shanghai (上海), two neighboring families became "sworn enemies" over the opening and closing of a window.
"This window must not be opened!" The two households lived no more than 3 meters apart. One family wanted to open the window in the public hallway for ventilation, while the other feared dust from outside would drift in and would close it whenever they saw it open, thus creating unpleasantness. What was originally a small matter unexpectedly led to each side refusing to yield: one installed a surveillance camera at their door, and the other illegally demolished the bathroom exhaust duct, leading to more and more quarrels.
The disputes later escalated into physical altercations. After mediation, both parties sued in court, and one party, dissatisfied with the judgment, applied for retrial. The conflict between the two sides gradually escalated like a "snowball." Later, one of the families applied to the Yangpu District People's Procuratorate (杨浦区人民检察院) of Shanghai (上海) for prosecutorial supervision.
"After we accepted this case, we couldn't simply carry out supervision and correction based on legal procedures, but rather had to focus on the substantive resolution of the conflict between the two parties," said Wang Xiaowei (王晓伟), a prosecutor from the Fifth Procuratorial Department of the Yangpu District Procuratorate (杨浦区检察院). Considering the long-standing grievances between the two parties, the Yangpu District Procuratorate (杨浦区检察院) launched a "prosecutorial-judicial coordination + comprehensive governance linkage" mechanism. First, they listened to the demands of both parties, then reviewed multiple related litigation files, visited the street and police station to clarify the context of the dispute, and finally organized active communication between the two parties. The prosecutors ran back and forth more than a dozen times.
"Distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. It's not worth letting the dispute continue for so long over this little thing." In the hearing room of the Yangpu District Procuratorate (杨浦区检察院), with repeated phrases like "not worth it" and "no need," the prosecutors analyzed the origin and escalation of the conflict between the two parties, calculating the time cost and emotional cost brought about by the dispute. The parties finally sat down to communicate calmly, starting with the window they disagreed on, talking about their respective thoughts and demands, and trying to put themselves in each other's shoes.
Thanks to the unremitting efforts of the procuratorial organs, the court adopted the prosecutorial recommendation for retrial, and the two parties finally reached a settlement. One party rectified the exhaust duct, and the other voluntarily withdrew the lawsuit and promised not to petition again. This long-standing neighborhood dispute was substantially resolved.
"Practicing the 'Fengqiao Experience' (枫桥经验) in the new era requires prosecutors to break away from the mindset of 就案办案 (jiù àn bàn àn - "handling a case as it stands," dealing with problems only when they arise) and combine conflict resolution with source governance," said Wang Xiaowei (王晓伟). "The rule of law thinking is not only a guideline for handling cases according to law, but also the wisdom to resolve conflicts. When dealing with livelihood cases such as neighborhood disputes, we must not only base ourselves on the law and adhere to the bottom line of fairness and justice, but also carefully resolve disputes from the source, so that justice has both strength and warmth."
Return to TopDecree of the State Council of the People's Republic of China
No. 834
The "Regulations on Security of Industrial and Supply Chains" was adopted at the 81st Executive Meeting of the State Council on March 13, 2026, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.
Premier Li Qiang (李强)
March 31, 2026
Article 1 These Regulations are formulated in accordance with the National Security Law of the People's Republic of China, the Foreign Relations Law of the People's Republic of China, the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China, the Foreign Trade Law of the People's Republic of China, and other laws, in order to prevent security risks in industrial and supply chains, enhance the resilience and security level of industrial and supply chains, and maintain economic and social stability and national security.
Article 2 The work on security of industrial and supply chains shall implement the overall national security concept, coordinate development and security, coordinate domestic and international affairs, promote high-level opening to the outside world, and promote the stability and smooth flow of global industrial and supply chains.
Article 3 The state shall establish and improve a working mechanism for security of industrial and supply chains to coordinate the work on security of industrial and supply chains as a whole.
The departments of foreign affairs, development and reform, industry and information technology, public security, national security, rule of law, finance, natural resources, transport, agriculture and rural affairs, commerce, financial management, customs, market supervision and administration, and cyberspace affairs of the State Council (国务院) shall be responsible for the work on security of industrial and supply chains in accordance with their respective duties. Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall strengthen coordination and cooperation in the work on security of industrial and supply chains.
The people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall, under the overall coordination of the state, be responsible for the work on security of industrial and supply chains related to their respective administrative regions.
Article 4 The state shall guide the rational and orderly layout of industrial and supply chains, promote the digitalization and intelligentization of industrial and supply chains, enhance the level of security and controllability of industrial and supply chains, and promote the high-quality development of industrial and supply chains.
Enterprises are encouraged and supported to explore diversified supply channels, carry out industrial and supply chain cooperation, participate in market competition fairly, and enhance the level of preventing security risks in industrial and supply chains.
Article 5 The state shall adhere to the principles of equality, mutual benefit, and win-win cooperation, strengthen international cooperation in the field of industrial and supply chains, and actively participate in the formulation of relevant international rules on industrial and supply chains.
Article 6 Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) and the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall fully consider the possible impact on the security of industrial and supply chains in the process of formulating relevant plans.
Article 7 The state shall strengthen the security guarantee of industrial and supply chains in key areas. Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall formulate a list of key areas and implement dynamic adjustments to maintain the stable and continuous operation of the production and circulation of raw materials, technologies, equipment, products, etc. in key areas.
Article 8 Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall promote information sharing of industrial and supply chains in key areas, strengthen the support of information platforms, guide industries and enterprises to strengthen the interconnection of information on industrial and supply chains in key areas, and take effective measures to ensure data security.
Article 9 The state shall establish and improve a monitoring and early warning system for security risks in industrial and supply chains in key areas. Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall organize and carry out assessment and monitoring of the stability of supply channels of raw materials, technologies, equipment, products, etc. in key areas and their impact on economic and social stability and national security, identify security risks in industrial and supply chains, and release early warning information in a timely manner.
Enterprises, industry associations, chambers of commerce, etc. that discover situations affecting the security of industrial and supply chains may report to relevant departments of the people's governments at or above the county level.
Article 10 The state shall establish and improve a risk prevention system for security of industrial and supply chains in key areas. Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall organize and carry out physical reserves and capacity reserves in key areas, increase research and development efforts in technology, equipment, and products, and enhance the risk resistance capacity of industrial and supply chains in key areas.
Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) and local people's governments shall, in light of the characteristics of their respective industries and regions, take targeted measures to prevent security risks in industrial and supply chains.
Article 11 The state shall establish and improve an emergency management system for security of industrial and supply chains in key areas, and relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall formulate emergency work plans. In the event of a situation affecting the security of industrial and supply chains in key areas that endangers economic and social stability and national security, emergency response measures such as emergency scheduling, use of reserves, and organization of production, transportation, and supply may be taken upon the decision of the State Council (国务院) or a department authorized by the State Council (国务院). If laws and administrative regulations provide otherwise, such provisions shall prevail.
Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) and local people's governments shall implement emergency response measures within the scope of their respective duties and powers, and shall terminate the implementation in a timely manner after the relevant situations are eliminated. Relevant organizations and individuals shall cooperate with the implementation of emergency response measures.
Article 12 It is encouraged and guided to invest social funds to support scientific and technological research and development and core technology breakthroughs in key areas, and promote the transformation of scientific and technological achievements.
Enterprises, research institutions, etc. shall improve their risk prevention and control systems to achieve security and controllability of core technologies and related information systems and data. Relevant departments shall strengthen guidance and training.
Article 13 If any organization or individual violates China's laws, administrative regulations, departmental rules, and relevant national regulations by conducting information collection activities such as investigations related to industrial and supply chains within China, relevant departments shall take corresponding measures in accordance with the law.
Article 14 If a foreign country, region, or international organization violates international law and the basic norms of international relations by taking discriminatory prohibitions, restrictions, or other similar measures against China in the field of industrial and supply chains, or implements or assists in implementing acts that harm the security of China's industrial and supply chains, relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall have the right to conduct security investigations on the relevant measures or acts.
Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) may take corresponding measures in accordance with procedures, including but not limited to prohibiting or restricting the import and export of relevant goods and technologies or international service trade, and collecting special fees.
Relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) may, in accordance with the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China and the Provisions on Implementing the Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law of the People's Republic of China, decide to include organizations and individuals that directly or indirectly participate in the formulation, decision-making, and implementation of the measures or acts stipulated in the first paragraph of this article in the countermeasure list and take countermeasure measures.
Article 15 If a foreign organization or individual violates the principles of normal market transactions, interrupts normal transactions with Chinese citizens or organizations, takes discriminatory measures against Chinese citizens or organizations, or implements other acts that cause substantial damage or pose a substantial threat of damage to the security of China's industrial and supply chains, relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall have the right to conduct security investigations on industrial and supply chains.
The investigation may take the form of questioning relevant parties, consulting or copying relevant documents and materials, and other necessary means, and the relevant parties shall cooperate with the investigation. During the investigation, the parties may make statements and defenses.
Based on the results of the investigation, relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) may take measures to prohibit or restrict foreign organizations or individuals from engaging in import and export activities related to China, prohibit or restrict their investment in China, prohibit or restrict organizations and individuals within China from conducting relevant transactions and cooperation with them, prohibit or restrict the entry of relevant personnel and means of transport, and cancel or restrict the qualifications of relevant personnel to work, stay, or reside in China. The relevant measures may apply to organizations that are actually controlled or participated in the establishment and operation of by foreign organizations or individuals.
Article 16 Organizations and individuals within China shall implement the measures taken by relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) in accordance with the provisions of Articles 14 and 15.
For organizations and individuals who violate the provisions of the preceding paragraph, relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) shall have the right to order corrections, prohibit or restrict them from engaging in government procurement, bidding, and related activities such as import and export of goods and technologies or international service trade, prohibit or restrict them from receiving data and personal information from abroad or providing them to abroad, and prohibit or restrict their exit from the country and stay or residence in China.
Article 17 It is encouraged and supported that law firms, notary institutions, and other professional service institutions provide legal services related to the security of industrial and supply chains for Chinese citizens and organizations.
Article 18 These Regulations shall come into force as of the date of promulgation.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), April 7)
Return to TopEntering April, agricultural activities gradually become busy. The Chengwu County (成武县) power supply department in Heze City (菏泽市), Shandong Province (山东省) serves farmers and helps with spring irrigation operations. The local 750,000 mu of winter wheat widely uses water-saving irrigation methods such as sprinkler irrigation and drip irrigation to improve production efficiency and lay a good foundation for stable and high grain yields. The picture shows a sprinkler irrigation machine in operation.
Photo by Wang Cancheng (王灿成).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
Hai Lai Amu (海来阿木) (stage name), the singer who appeared on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, recently gained a new identity. In March, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security approved his and 12 other new literary and art group talents, including singer Jamyang Dolma (降央卓玛), to be assessed as associate senior professional titles. This is the first time Sichuan has centrally assessed associate senior professional titles for new literary and art groups.
In recent years, with the vigorous development of the cultural market, new literary and art groups such as independent musicians and folk artists have become increasingly active, becoming an important force in promoting literary and artistic prosperity. However, for a long time, their "no affiliation" status has left them in an awkward situation of "no way to apply, no basis for evaluation" in professional title evaluations. Many talented literary and artistic talents are hidden among the people and find it difficult to gain professional recognition.
"We found in our research that many new literary and art group talents have a strong desire for professional title evaluation. They are eager to be recognized and hope to have a clear career development path." According to the relevant person in charge of the Sichuan Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, in 2025, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, together with the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles, listed the professional title evaluation of new literary and art groups as a key pilot project for the reform of professional and technical talent management services.
The key to the reform lies in breaking the "rules and regulations" of traditional evaluation. Sichuan innovatively established the "Sichuan Provincial Art Series New Literary and Art Group Associate Senior Professional Title Evaluation Committee," authorizing the Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles to directly take the lead, specializing in conducting associate senior professional title evaluations for three majors: actors, directors (directors/editors), and fine arts, so that literary and art workers without affiliated units can also "apply directly and participate fairly."
This evaluation focuses on genuine talent and practical learning—professional achievements, work quality, social influence, and industry contributions have become the criteria for evaluation. In December 2025, the first batch of evaluations was officially launched. After strict procedures such as qualification review, on-site defense, peer review, and voting, 12 of the 55 applicants finally stood out.
"In the past, I always felt like a 'self-employed individual' with no sense of belonging." Jamyang Dolma (降央卓玛), who was awarded the title of second-level actor, said, "Being able to apply for a professional title is as warm as returning to my 'mother's home.' This is not only an affirmation of my professional ability, but also makes me more confident in my creation."
The awarding of associate senior professional titles to 12 new literary and art group talents this time is a preliminary achievement of Sichuan's precise efforts in professional title reform. Many grassroots literary and art workers said that the reform has broken down the barriers between inside and outside the system, making it a consensus to speak with practical achievements, and also giving their struggles a clear goal.
Next, Sichuan will promote the reform of the province's professional title system to develop in depth, focusing on increasing professional title evaluation majors and innovating professional title evaluation standards around characteristic industries, emerging industries, and future industries, increasing policy supply to groups such as specially contributed talents, introduced high-level talents, and outstanding young talents, further strengthening the evaluation orientation of innovation ability, quality, effectiveness, and contribution, and continuously stimulating the innovation and creativity vitality of various professional and technical talents.
Return to TopBeijing, April 7th (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) It has been learned that the China Manned Space Engineering Office (中国载人航天工程办公室) has officially released the mission logo for the Tianzhou-10 (天舟十号) flight. The logo adopts a circular design, symbolizing the complete success of the mission and the harmonious unity of space and Earth collaboration. The golden gradient lines on both sides, like blooming rays of light, symbolize the vigorous power and brilliant achievements contained in the mission, implying the brilliance of China's aerospace industry.
The central image focuses on the scene of the Tianzhou cargo spacecraft rushing to the space station along a golden trajectory, directly presenting the core mission. The visual center innovatively integrates and nests the silhouette of the number "10" with the official logo of the project, conveying the firm belief of China's aerospace industry in accumulating strength and 厚积薄发 (hòu jī bó fā - "accumulate broadly, erupt greatly," to accumulate experience and knowledge gradually and then achieve rapid success) and the determination to fulfill its mission.
The color scheme is dominated by deep space blue, symbolizing the precise operation of the space mission in the vast universe; the red and gold gradients complement each other, symbolizing the fearless courage and outstanding pursuit of astronauts.
Return to TopOur newspaper Wenchang (文昌), April 7th (Reporter Dong Zeyang (董泽扬)) At 21:32 on the 7th, the Long March 8 carrier rocket (长征八号运载火箭) successfully sent the seventh batch of networked satellites of the Qianfan Constellation (千帆星座) into their predetermined orbit in a "one arrow eighteen stars" manner at the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场), achieving complete success in the launch mission.
The Qianfan Constellation (千帆星座) is China's independent and controllable low-orbit satellite Internet system, which can provide high-speed, real-time, safe, and reliable integrated space-air-ground-sea comprehensive solutions and services.
In this mission, the Hainan Commercial Space Launch Site (海南商业航天发射场) switched the status of equipment such as the fairing air conditioner and hydrogen exhaust pipeline to adapt to the Long March 8 carrier rocket (长征八号运载火箭); the launch site's meteorological system independently undertook the task's meteorological support work for the first time; and systems such as aerial electric field detection and fully automatic high-altitude detection have been tested in multiple actual combat missions, with stable and reliable data acquisition and transmission links, and accurate detection data.
Return to TopKaramay District (克拉玛依区), Karamay City (克拉玛依市), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), based on the transformation and development needs of resource-based cities, deeply implements the strategy of strengthening the district with talent, and constructs a "introduction, cultivation, retention, and utilization" full-chain talent work system. In recent years, Karamay District (克拉玛依区), focusing on Karamay City's (克拉玛依市) "13421" development ideas and accelerating the construction of Karamay District's (克拉玛依区) "1+2+N" modern industrial pattern work requirements, has injected strong impetus into the city's high-quality development through innovative talent introduction and cultivation mechanisms, building development platforms, and optimizing service guarantees.
Innovation in Talent Introduction and Cultivation Mechanisms
Karamay District (克拉玛依区) always adheres to the principle of "the Party managing talent," and has formulated policy documents such as the "Karamay District (克拉玛依区) Enterprise and Institution Talent Introduction Housing Reward and Subsidy Measures (Trial Implementation)," and established a special fund of 15 million yuan for talent development. It has implemented projects such as "revealing the list and taking command" and "specially appointed experts," flexibly introducing 8 experts and talents in the fields of petroleum and petrochemicals, information technology, and grassroots governance. It has expanded the "online + offline" three-dimensional talent introduction channels, organized 82 recruitment fairs, served more than 16,000 people, and conducted special talent introduction activities in universities in Chengdu City (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省), Lanzhou City (兰州市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), and other places; it has held 12 activities such as "Talent Salon" and "Policy Promotion," covering 236 enterprises. It has deepened the Shanghai-Karamay (沪克) talent cooperation mechanism, cumulatively sending 115 person-times to Shanghai (上海) for training, 12 person-times for on-the-job training, and cultivating 18 cadre backbones and 24 skilled talents.
Enhanced Momentum for Industrial Development
Karamay District (克拉玛依区) focuses on the main petroleum and petrochemical industry, establishes a expert talent pool, conducts more than 60 enterprise demand surveys, promotes the precise connection of expert resources and enterprises, and overcomes 15 industrial technical problems. It has introduced Shanghai (上海) medical resources, trained more than 300 medical staff; education cooperation covers 9 primary and secondary schools, helping 445 people to be selected into the "Oil City Famous Teachers" program, and comprehensively improving the level of public services. Seizing the development opportunities of the digital economy, it has achieved a computing power scale of more than 20,000P; the Future Industry Science and Technology Park has been established, with 28 technology-based enterprises settled in, and the Northern Xinjiang Technology Trading Center has been put into operation. The results of talent cultivation are remarkable, with a cumulative total of 57 projects selected into the Autonomous Region's key talent plan projects, Xinjiang Keli Company (新疆科力公司) was approved to establish a national postdoctoral research workstation and became the first listed private enterprise in Xinjiang (新疆) on the Beijing Stock Exchange (北交所), 44 enterprises were rated as specialized, refined, and new enterprises or specialized, refined, and new "little giant" enterprises, 49 enterprises were rated as national high-tech enterprises, and 105 science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises completed filing.
Optimized Talent Service Ecology
Karamay District (克拉玛依区) improves and perfects the "district-street (township)-community (village)" three-level talent service system, forms a service commissioner team, visits more than 50 enterprises and institutions, and coordinates and solves more than 30 problems such as project application and spouse placement. It has cumulatively issued more than 2 million yuan in settlement fees and housing subsidies, benefiting 33 introduced talents; it has held and undertaken various skill competitions at all levels, helping 615 people obtain vocational skill level certificates. It has improved the talent housing project, providing 252 sets of finely decorated talent apartments, and 408 talents have achieved "move in with luggage." It has strengthened talent publicity and guidance, opened a "Talent Style Record" column, and created a good atmosphere of "policies with warmth, services with strength, and development with breadth."
Karamay District (克拉玛依区) will continue to deepen the reform of the talent development system and mechanism, attract and gather talents with a more open mind, pragmatic measures, and superior environment, provide intellectual support for regional high-quality development, and contribute "Oil City Wisdom" to building a strong country with talent.
Data source: Organization Department of the CPC Karamay District Committee (中共克拉玛依市克拉玛依区委员会组织部)
Return to TopApril 7th is World Health Day. The World Health Organization has set this year's theme as "Working Together to Promote Health, Firmly Supporting Science," and the National Health Commission has set the publicity theme as "Sharing Scientific and Technological Innovation, Working Together to Promote Health." From remote diagnosis and treatment, artificial intelligence-assisted diagnosis, to wearable devices and health big data management, the construction of digital health for all is constantly advancing, helping to continuously improve the health level of the people.
——Editor
Qingzhen City (清镇市), Guizhou Province
"AI Doctor" Arrives in the Village
By Our Reporter Su Bin (苏滨)
"Everyone, please double-check if you have your ID cards. If there are no problems, line up and get on the bus!" At 9:00 AM on April 7th, Jin Dekai (金德凯), a village doctor from Heimishao Village (黑泥哨村), Chaofeng Street (巢凤街道), Qingzhen City (清镇市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), stood in front of the bus with a loudspeaker, guiding the elderly in the village to board in an orderly manner. Coinciding with World Health Day, the village health center organized free physical examinations for elderly people over 60 years old at the Chaofeng Street Community Health Service Center (巢凤街道社区卫生服务中心).
"This is the first time we've held an event on World Health Day, thanks to the 'AI doctor' in the village. It has improved the efficiency of diagnosis and treatment, allowing us to have more time and energy to do a good job in public health services," said Jin Dekai (金德凯).
Heimishao Village (黑泥哨村) has 1,381 villagers, but the village health center only has 4 doctors. Starting in 2024, in response to the shortcomings of insufficient basic medical resources and limited diagnosis and treatment levels, Qingzhen City (清镇市) took the deployment and application of "AI doctors" as a starting point, invested 31 million yuan, built a county-level medical data center, promoted the full coverage of artificial intelligence medical assistance systems at the county, township, and village levels, and realized the interconnection of data from 252 medical institutions in the county.
In June 2025, the Heimishao Village (黑泥哨村) Health Center connected to the "AI doctor" system. The powerful data analysis capabilities provide suggestions for village doctors' diagnoses. "'AI doctor' is the village doctor's intelligent helper and expert assistant, allowing us to diagnose more accurately and comprehensively, and not panic when encountering complex cases," said Jin Dekai (金德凯).
Some time ago, 7-year-old Chen Zitong (陈梓彤) had a fever, diarrhea, and headache, and was sent to the health center by his family. Jin Dekai (金德凯) opened the AI system and entered the symptoms described by the child's parents. The system immediately gave a prompt: Has there been contact with patients with colds? Is there any allergy? Is there any unclean diet?
After receiving a negative answer, the system listed diagnostic suggestions: First, do a B-ultrasound to rule out intestinal obstruction. If it is a digestive problem, montmorillonite powder and probiotics can be used to regulate the intestines; if it is a viral cold, antiviral drugs can be used, if accompanied by cough... "Don't worry, the child's condition is consistent with the symptoms of recent seasonal colds. There is no need to do a B-ultrasound first. Take the medicine for 3 days and observe. If the symptoms improve, continue to take the medicine. If the symptoms worsen, come to the health center as soon as possible." Referring to the diagnostic results of the "AI doctor," Jin Dekai (金德凯) gave his own diagnosis.
Jin Dekai (金德凯) said that the "AI doctor" can conduct professional analysis of diseases and give professional advice. The village doctor is like having an expert assistant, which can effectively make up for business shortcomings and improve the diagnosis and treatment level of common diseases and some complex diseases in the diagnosis and treatment, and the confidence in diagnosis and treatment has been significantly improved. "Of course, the 'AI doctor' is only an aid and cannot be completely copied. We will combine our own medical knowledge and experience to make a diagnosis," said Jin Dekai (金德凯).
Since its full-scale promotion in 2025, the "AI doctor" in Qingzhen City (清镇市) has served more than 290,000 people, and the auxiliary usage rate of "AI doctors" in primary care clinics has reached 30.03%.
Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省)
Robots Become Physical Therapists
By Our Reporter Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋)
On April 7th, a new physical therapy activity was opened to nearby residents in the Jiubao Street (九堡街道) Community Health Service Center in Shangcheng District (上城区), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省).
Inside the acupuncture and massage department, a robot "physical therapist" is waving its robotic arm to perform traditional Chinese medicine physical therapy for citizens lying on the bed. "Can I try it?" Citizen Xu Heng (许恒) asked when he passed by the service center after get off work. He had been sitting in front of the computer all day and had sore back and waist.
"In your case, the waist muscles are statically contracted for a long time when sitting, resulting in insufficient local blood supply and excessive accumulation of muscle lactic acid. Massage can be used to regulate it," the doctor provided a targeted treatment plan.
After speaking, the doctor operated the tablet computer on the physical therapy robot, selected specific acupoints and techniques on the screen, and the robot's robotic arm slowly started, accurately hovering over Xu Heng's (许恒) waist acupoints. As a crisp "da da" sound rang out, the physical therapy service began.
"The technique is good!" After half an hour of physical therapy, Xu Heng (许恒) sat up and turned his body, and the soreness was reduced a lot. "It's very meaningful to have a new experience on World Health Day."
Chen Feng (陈峰), secretary and director of the service center, introduced that this is a rehabilitation robot developed by Kecheng Embodied Intelligence Robot (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. (客成具身智能机器人（杭州）有限公司). Luo Wen (罗文), the head of the company, said that this robot can quickly find 74 acupoints on the back of the human body, and is proficient in shock waves and radiofrequency. More importantly, according to the physical therapist's diagnosis plan, it can assist in massage, moxibustion, etc., which greatly reduces the doctor's mechanical physical labor.
"Our center has an average of 50 visits per day, more than 60% of which require massage and physical therapy, but the department only has 4 doctors," Chen Feng (陈峰) said, adding that the doctors are busy all day long.
Zhao Tianwen (赵天文), an acupuncture and massage doctor who has been in the industry for more than 6 years, has a deep understanding of this. He and his colleagues have varying degrees of strain on their cervical spine, lumbar spine, and wrists. "Massage and physical therapy are not only technical work, but also physical work!"
Although experienced doctors have precise techniques and just the right strength, their experience is difficult to replicate in batches. "In recent years, more and more people have chosen traditional Chinese medicine physical therapy, and it is necessary to reconstruct the service model from the technical bottom layer," Chen Feng (陈峰) said.
In November 2024, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and other three departments issued the "Reference Guide for the Application Scenarios of Artificial Intelligence in the Health Industry," which mentioned the use of artificial intelligence technology to establish acupuncture and massage robots to realize intelligent diagnosis and treatment of traditional non-drug therapies such as traditional Chinese medicine acupuncture and massage. At the end of last year, Shangcheng District (上城区) launched the "Artificial Intelligence +" scenario traction project, which directly addresses the pain points of community health service centers.
In November 2025, with the help of relevant government departments, the service center and Kecheng Company (客成公司) jointly built a robot physical therapy application scenario. The service center provided doctors and scenarios, and Kecheng Company (客成公司) provided technology and products. The two parties jointly explored the application of artificial intelligence in the field of physical therapy.
"We have formed a digital expert database, which initially includes 10 physical therapy experts with an average of 40 years of clinical experience, and converted their physical therapy techniques into data, and then generated standardized execution plans to 'feed' the robots," Luo Wen (罗文) said. In the team's view, physical therapy robots must have 4 capabilities: visual perception, tactile force control, motion control, and deep learning.
Traditional physical therapists rely on experience and feel to find acupoints, while robots can complete three-dimensional modeling of the human back in 1 second through a deep vision camera, identify acupoints, and control the error within 3 millimeters.
"However, robots can only assist humans and cannot completely replace humans. Specific medical judgments and treatment plans still need to be led by doctors," Luo Wen (罗文) said. "After a year and a half of real-world scenario verification, physical therapy robots have accumulated enough experience and can gradually enter hospitals, nursing homes, sports rehabilitation centers and other institutions to serve more people."
Xiqing District (西青区), Tianjin City (天津市)
Medical Consortium Has "Four Clouds"
By Our Reporter Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟)
"Uncle Wang (王叔), I am Yang Ru (杨茹), the health manager of your contracted family doctor team. Our hospital system shows that your blood sugar data is unstable. It is recommended that you come to the hospital for an examination as soon as possible. I will help you make an appointment." On April 7th, Yang Ru (杨茹), a staff member of the Jinmenhu Street (津门湖街) Community Health Service Center in Xiqing District (西青区), Tianjin City (天津市), called a community resident.
Since the Jinmenhu Street (津门湖街) Community Health Service Center joined the Xiqing District (西青区) Digital Medical Consortium in 2024, health managers, with the help of the health management intelligent body, have been checking the health indicators and service progress of contracted patients one by one, so that residents can have "minor illnesses in the community, rehabilitation in the community, and health managed by someone."
In recent years, Xiqing District (西青区) has innovated its operating model, taking Xiqing Hospital (西青医院) and Xiqing District Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (西青区中医医院) as the leaders, and jointly established a close-knit medical consortium in Xiqing District (西青区) with 11 community health service centers. It has built a digital health community through digital empowerment, forming a "four clouds" platform to promote the digital upgrade of basic medical and health services.
The "cloud management" platform enables member units of the medical consortium to form a unified management platform, improving management efficiency. The "cloud pharmacy" platform establishes a "shared prescription" within the medical consortium, effectively improving the drug supply guarantee capacity of primary medical institutions, and uses artificial intelligence prescription review technology to realize full-process supervision of drug safety. The "cloud service" platform is a platform that provides residents with multi-form, multi-level medical and health management services, equipped with health managers as assistants to general practitioners and family doctor teams, improving the efficiency of medical services and contracted services. The "cloud inspection" platform builds a service model of "basic inspection, higher-level diagnosis," realizing mutual transmission and recognition of inspection and test results and sharing of high-quality medical resources.
In April 2025, the "Respiratory Chronic Disease Digital Therapy Center" of the Zhongbei Town (中北镇) Community Health Service Center in Xiqing District (西青区), Tianjin City (天津市) was officially unveiled. The center uses intelligent equipment to provide patients with personalized and refined medication guidance, significantly improving the correct rate of inhalation device operation and treatment compliance. In addition, the "Respiratory Chronic Disease Digital Therapy Center" also innovatively launched a "family doctor contract characteristic service package," based on digital therapy to achieve data-driven precision prescription decision-making, to provide patients with continuous and dynamic health monitoring services.
Digital empowerment allows residents to enjoy "enhanced" health services.
The Xiqing District (西青区) close-knit medical consortium launched a two-way referral system, smoothing the referral channel and making it easier for the public to seek medical treatment.
In the Zhongbei Town (中北镇) Community Health Service Center in Xiqing District (西青区), Wang Aiqin (王爱芹) (pseudonym), a 68-year-old diabetic patient, often goes to the community hospital to measure blood sugar and get medicine. Not long ago, she felt unwell and went to the community hospital for examination. The electrocardiogram showed that her heart function was abnormal. In view of her medical history, the community hospital immediately opened the "one-click referral" service in the system. After the patient was referred, she could get a free number and see a doctor quickly through the green channel. Before Wang Aiqin (王爱芹) arrived at the referral hospital, the community hospital system had automatically uploaded her long-term blood sugar monitoring records, medication plan, and related examination and test results, so that the referral receiving hospital could fully grasp the condition.
After hospitalization, Wang Aiqin's (王爱芹) data was automatically transmitted back to the community hospital for subsequent rehabilitation guidance.
Behind the information running more and the masses running less is the data interconnection and sharing of the Xiqing District (西青区) close-knit medical consortium, allowing information to be connected in real time and problems to be handled collaboratively.
"The community health service center can rely on the 'cloud pharmacy' in the 'four clouds' digital platform built by Xiqing District (西青区) to provide supplementary guarantees for community drugs and provide door-to-door delivery services," said Zhu Jiayue (朱嘉月), director of the Jinmenhu Street (津门湖街) Community Health Service Center in Xiqing District (西青区). Before the prescription is issued, the three-medical-linked risk control system embedded in the community hospital work system will automatically review the compliance and rationality of the prescription, such as reminding of excessive prescription, combined use of drugs with drug conflicts, and reminding of caution or prohibition of certain drugs for patients with specific underlying diseases, which is equivalent to having an "AI pharmacist" to intelligently review the prescription in the whole process, improving the level of drug safety.
By: 本报记者 巨云鹏
In recent years, fraud cases in the name of "overseas recruitment" have emerged from time to time, posing a threat to the life and property safety of the parties involved. Wang Zhuohui (王卓慧), a police officer from the Anti-Fraud Task Force of the Shanghai Municipal Public Security Bureau International Airport Branch (上海市公安局国际机场分局), reminds:
Be wary of "overseas employers" asking workers to apply for tourist visas themselves to work abroad.
The sole purpose of a tourist visa is for short-term affairs such as tourism and visiting relatives, and it is strictly forbidden to engage in any labor activities. Formal employment abroad requires applying for the corresponding work visa. Otherwise, it may involve illegal residence or illegal employment. If discovered, not only will you be repatriated, but you will also face fines and detention. At the same time, work visas require guarantees from overseas employers, review by embassies and consulates, and record keeping. Tourist visas, on the other hand, do not have labor registration or employment supervision, which is likely an operation by telecom fraud gangs to evade crackdowns. Therefore, when someone asks a worker to go abroad with a tourist visa, be aware that the next second you go out, you may face a triple trap of illegal residence, personal control, and forced crime.
Use formal channels to check the employer.
In the past, "overseas recruitment" scams often used the guise of "low threshold, high income." Nowadays, with the public's increased awareness of anti-fraud, some fraudsters have begun to "tailor-make" scams, designing so-called "positions" specifically for job seekers based on their educational background and expertise to attract them. Therefore, when faced with foreign job opportunities, job seekers should seek verification from multiple sources, especially through public platforms to understand the situation of the company they intend to join, such as checking the National Directory of Foreign Labor Cooperation Enterprises, and not listen to just one side of the story.
Communicate and exchange ideas with family and friends.
If you have plans to work abroad, you should communicate and exchange ideas with family and friends. When family members or friends suddenly propose to go abroad for work or travel, if the destination is a country or region with a high incidence of telecom fraud, be especially cautious, and if you encounter suspicious circumstances, call the police for help in a timely manner.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 巨云鹏
"A 25-year-old young man, whose family reported that he had been deceived into going abroad and was about to board a plane from Hongqiao Airport (虹桥机场), please quickly find the person and persuade him to return." Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明), a police officer at the Hongqiao Terminal Police Station (虹桥候机楼治安派出所) of the International Airport Branch (国际机场分局) of the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (上海市公安局), still remembers the emergency call from the 110 command center that afternoon on March 17. At this time, there were less than 40 minutes before the plane took off.
"We must find him before the plane door closes!" said Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明). Although she was very familiar with the terrain of the terminal, she did not dare to slack off and went to the boarding gate of the target flight with her colleague Dai Haosheng (戴昊晟).
Fortunately, the young man had not yet boarded the plane. But facing the police, he was very resistant, saying that he was going abroad to work and did not need help.
"You just joined the job yesterday, and today they told you to go abroad to work, don't you think it's strange?" Dai Haosheng (戴昊晟) asked. In a brief exchange, Dai Haosheng (戴昊晟) learned that the young man had found the job online. When looking for a job, he said that he would work in China, but just after joining the company, the company asked him to go abroad to "take over an emergency project."
"Since you have joined the job, you must go through some procedures, right? Did the other party sign a labor contract with you?" Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) asked. The young man shook his head.
"Then for working abroad, did the other party help you apply for a work visa?" Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) asked again. The young man still shook his head.
Dai Haosheng (戴昊晟) and Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) exchanged glances. According to their experience in handling cases, these abnormal situations were mostly fraud.
But the young man believed that working abroad might be an opportunity for development.
The two police officers knew that stopping him by force was not the way, and they had to make him realize the danger himself.
Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) started with the visa: "You must apply for a work visa before working abroad, otherwise you will be illegally employed there. If you are discovered by the local law enforcement department, you will not only be repatriated, but may also be fined and detained."
Hearing this, the young man was silent. Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) seized the opportunity: "You just joined the job, and the other party asked you to take over the project, isn't it a bit unreasonable? Even if the company wants to send someone out to work, it should send a skilled person, right? Otherwise, how would they know if you can handle the job?"
"Then what should I do now?" The young man was silent for a while and asked.
"You should come with us, we are the people's police, we are here to protect you." In the end, the young man refunded the plane ticket and walked to the police station with the two police officers.
On the way, he called the contact person of that company: "I'm not going."
"You are still young, and you don't understand many things, but you must raise your safety awareness and don't let your family worry and suffer losses." The police patiently communicated with the young man.
Hearing that he majored in computer science, Jiang Jiaming (蒋佳明) also recommended the "803 Anti-Fraud" (803反诈) intelligent entity of the Shanghai public security organs to him: "If you don't understand anything, ask it to help you identify some telecommunications fraud-related risks."
The young man nodded and bought a train ticket from Shanghai (上海) to Jiangsu (江苏), "I'm not going abroad."
"Remember to report your safety to your family." When the young man left the police station, the two police officers still did not forget to tell him.
At this time, the plane that the young man was supposed to take had already taken off.
According to reports from the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), China has formulated ultrasonic section scoring standards and quantitative scoring models for key anatomical structures, taking the lead in formulating six industry and group standards. A preliminary intelligent quality control standard system for fetal ultrasound has been established, effectively filling the gap in standardization construction in this field.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) organized domestic superior scientific research forces to conduct systematic research on fetal ultrasound standard reference atlases and intelligent evaluation technologies, achieving a series of innovative results and promoting a major breakthrough in China's intelligent quality control field for fetal ultrasound.
The research team broke through the limitations of traditional static atlases, proposed and established a dynamic evolution mechanism for fetal ultrasound standard reference atlases, and for the first time proposed and realized the acquisition of standard dynamic short videos, forming a dynamic standard reference atlas oriented to gestational week evolution and individual differences, which was officially published by Science Press (科学出版社); it also constructed the first international full-cycle coverage, multi-center distributed large-scale fetal ultrasound database.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Wang Ke (王珂), Zheng Haiou (郑海鸥)): The reporter learned from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部) that the national culture and tourism market was safe, stable, orderly during the Qingming Festival holiday in 2026. According to calculations by the Data Center of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (文化和旅游部数据中心), during the 3-day Qingming Festival holiday, there were 135 million domestic trips nationwide, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year; total domestic tourism spending was 61.367 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6% year-on-year.
Martyrs' cemeteries, memorial halls, and red tourism attractions welcomed peak passenger flow, and all sectors of society expressed their condolences through methods such as presenting flower baskets and observing moments of silence. Various regions promoted green and civilized tomb-sweeping methods such as "cloud tomb-sweeping" and "online flower offerings," demonstrating a new era of social customs. Guyuan (固原) in Ningxia (宁夏), Jinggangshan (井冈山) in Ji'an (吉安), Jiangxi (江西), and Zunyi (遵义) in Guizhou (贵州) and other places closely integrated remembrance and patriotism education, uniting national sentiments.
Various regions created garden cities, suburban parks, etc., to expand consumption scenarios. Concerts and music festivals were held intensively during the holiday, driving the warming of surrounding cultural and tourism consumption. The nighttime cultural and tourism economy grew steadily, with the cumulative nighttime passenger flow in national-level nighttime culture and tourism consumption clusters reaching 45.4854 million.
The overlap of spring break and the Qingming Festival holiday effectively released the demand for family-friendly travel. Many primary and secondary schools in Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), Anhui (安徽), Guizhou (贵州), and other places had spring breaks, forming the longest 6-day holiday, which significantly boosted family travel. The proportion of minors among airline and high-speed rail passengers increased, and the number of passengers traveling more than 800 kilometers increased significantly. Family travel orders accounted for 37% of the total national tourism order amount, becoming the core market group. Hubei (湖北), Sichuan (四川), and other places launched a series of cultural and tourism activities around the spring break to meet the diverse needs of family travel.
Return to TopThis newspaper Hong Kong April 7th (Reporter Chen Ran (陈然)) The "World Health Day 2026: Take Control of Your Healthy Life - 18 Districts Caring for Health Carnival" program, co-organized by the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, the Hong Kong District Services and Care Teams, and the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (香港大学医学院), was launched on the 7th in Sai Ying Pun (西营盘), Hong Kong, with the first district outreach health promotion event. This aims to strengthen primary healthcare support at the community level and enable citizens to acquire practical health knowledge.
Alice Mak Mei-kuen (麦美娟), Secretary for Home and Youth Affairs of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, stated that this collaboration combines the community network of the Care Teams with the professional medical knowledge of the HKU Faculty of Medicine, further advancing community health services and promoting the concept of "health rooted in the community." It is hoped that the plan will not only raise public awareness of physical and mental health, but also 凝聚力量 (níng jù lì liàng - "gather strength," to unite and concentrate efforts), to shape a healthy life together.
The "18 Districts Caring for Health Carnival" will last for one year, providing free health screenings, lectures, community sports experiences, and health consultations for the elderly and families in all districts of Hong Kong (香港), aiming to promote preventive medicine and improve the overall health level of the community. In the coming months, the plan will launch a series of activities designed to meet the needs of different communities, in order to enhance public health awareness.
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Liaoning has more than 2,200 kilometers of mainland coastline and is an important blue ecological barrier in northern China. In recent years, Liaoning has focused on wetland ecological restoration, coastline management, and improvement of water quality in rivers flowing into the sea, implementing refined management and protection according to local conditions, and making every effort to protect the marine ecology.
The Liaohe River Estuary wetland in spring is the season for migratory birds. Waterbirds skim over the vast reed marshes and rest on the intertidal zone and shoals, playing an ecological prelude to this coastal wetland.
This scene was once bleak a few years ago. "Affected by changes in the natural environment and human activities such as land reclamation from the sea and aquaculture development, vegetation here once shrank, water systems were blocked, and biodiversity declined," said Sun Lei, Deputy Director of the Panjin Natural Resources Bureau (盘锦市自然资源局) in Liaoning.
Liaoning Province has more than 2,200 kilometers of mainland coastline, spanning the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea, and is an important blue ecological barrier in northern China. In recent years, Liaoning has been deeply promoting marine ecological protection and restoration, taking land-sea coordination and systematic governance as the path, focusing on important tasks such as returning aquaculture to wetlands, coastline restoration, pollution control into the sea, and the construction of beautiful bays, and making every effort to protect the northernmost coastline of China.
Liaohe River Estuary—
Returning aquaculture to wetlands, restoring and enhancing the function of coastal wetland ecosystems
In the archive room of the Panjin Natural Resources Bureau (盘锦市自然资源局), a "Returning Aquaculture to Wetlands" project ledger clearly records ten years of perseverance: 598 coastal wetland aquaculture households have withdrawn in an orderly manner, 366 sewage outlets into the sea have been completely eliminated, and a total of 85,900 mu of wetlands have been restored.
In 2015, Liaoning launched the Liaohe River Estuary Wetland Ecological Restoration Project, focusing on returning aquaculture to wetlands and rebuilding the "river-sea-wetland" ecological cycle. "At the beginning, there was a lot of resistance, and many aquaculture farmers couldn't figure it out," Sun Lei recalled. In order to get through the work of the masses, the cadres went to the homes of aquaculture farmers time and time again to calculate ecological accounts and long-term accounts.
After ten years of tackling key problems, the tide has re-sculpted the natural coastline: only in the Red Beach Scenic Corridor (红海滩风景廊道) in Panjin City (盘锦市), the coverage area of salt-tolerant alkali grass has expanded from 2,000 mu in 2018 to 28,000 mu in 2025, and the biodiversity of wetlands has continued to increase. The magnificent landscape of "red beach and green reeds" has reappeared in Liaodong Bay (辽东湾).
The practice of the Liaohe River Estuary (辽河口) is a vivid microcosm of Liaoning's in-depth promotion of marine ecological protection and restoration. As a major province of wetland resources with coastal wetlands accounting for nearly 50%, Liaoning is working hard to build an ecological barrier for the Yellow and Bohai Seas. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Liaoning has completed a total of 3,774 hectares of coastal wetland remediation and restoration, and 31.9 kilometers of coastline remediation and restoration.
In February of this year, the newly revised "Liaoning Province Wetland Protection Regulations" (辽宁省湿地保护条例) was officially implemented, requiring comprehensive protection of natural coastlines and coastal tidal flats, restoration of coastal wetland biological habitats, and restoration and enhancement of the structure and service functions of coastal wetland ecosystems.
Whether the ecology is good or not, birds know best. "Since late February this year, more than 400,000 migratory birds, including red-crowned cranes, oriental white storks, and black-billed gulls, have arrived one after another, and the number of bird distribution species has been updated to 336," said Li Fengli, an ecological monitoring section staff member of the Panjin Forestry and Wetland Protection Service Center (盘锦市林业和湿地保护服务中心). Today, the Liaohe River Estuary Wetland (辽河口湿地) attracts more than one million migratory birds to stop and breed here every year.
Fuzhou River—
Implementing classified policies to remove the "total nitrogen exceeding the standard" label
The spring breeze in April blows across the banks of the Fuzhou River (复州河), the river is clear and shallow, and the reeds are sprouting.
The Fuzhou River (复州河) is an important river in western Dalian (大连) that flows into the Bohai Sea. However, in 2021, the Fuzhou River (复州河) was "named" by the central ecological and environmental protection inspection for failing to meet the total nitrogen reduction target.
"Standing by the river at that time, you could clearly see that the river water was turbid, and there were piles of livestock and poultry manure on the bank," said Zhao Hui, a senior engineer at the Dalian Ecological and Environmental Affairs Service Center (大连市生态环境事务服务中心), who clearly remembered the situation when he first visited the Fuzhou River (复州河).
Where does the total nitrogen come from? Dalian (大连) set up a special team to start a "carpet-like" source tracing. "The investigation team set up more than 200 monitoring points along the main stream, tributaries, breeding farms, and sewage outlets to carry out high-frequency intensive monitoring," Zhao Hui said. After more than half a year of investigation, three major causes were finally identified: livestock and poultry manure, agricultural fertilizer loss, and tail water from urban and rural domestic sewage.
With the source clear, there is a direction for governance. At the end of 2021, the "Fuzhou River Total Nitrogen Reduction Plan" (复州河总氮削减方案) was officially released, and 35 specific tasks were broken down into departments and implemented to nodes, and a total nitrogen reduction battle was fully launched.
In response to livestock and poultry manure, the Fuzhou River (复州河) basin has comprehensively built a closed-loop system of "breeding farm collection - professional transportation - centralized treatment - organic fertilizer returning to the field", and the comprehensive utilization rate of manure has reached more than 90%; in response to agricultural non-point source pollution, soil testing and formula fertilization are promoted, and ecological interception belts are constructed in field ditches; in response to domestic sewage tail water, sewage treatment plants are upgraded and expanded, and rain and sewage mixed pipe networks are renovated... In 2023, the average total nitrogen concentration of the Fuzhou River (复州河) decreased to 6.13 mg per liter, completing the reduction target ahead of schedule; in 2025, it will be further reduced to 4.92 mg per liter, completely removing the "total nitrogen exceeding the standard" label.
In 2023, Liaoning's "Work Plan for Improving Water Quality in Nearshore Sea Areas of the Province" (全省近岸海域水质提升工作方案) was issued, and the prevention and control of pollution in nearshore sea areas was expanded from 6 coastal cities to 14 cities in the province; in 2024, the "Liaoning Province River Section Water Quality Incentive Compensation Measures" (辽宁省河流断面水质激励补偿办法) was revised and issued, incorporating the total nitrogen index into the river section water quality compensation scope; in early 2026, the Liaoning Provincial Marine Environment Monitoring Center (辽宁省海洋环境监测中心) was officially established, making up for the shortcomings in professional monitoring of the marine ecological environment...
Data show that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the proportion of good water quality area in nearshore sea areas in Liaoning Province has been generally stable at about 90%, of which the proportion of good water quality area in nearshore sea areas reached 92.8% in 2025.
Dalu Island—
Demolishing weirs, building beautiful bays, and developing ecological tourism
At the end of 2025, good news came: Dandong Dalu Island-Zhangdao sea area (丹东大鹿岛—獐岛海域) was selected as an excellent case in the fourth batch of beautiful bays by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment. For the people of Dalu Island (大鹿岛), this honor is hard-won.
Dalu Island (大鹿岛) covers an area of about 6.6 square kilometers. Stepping onto the Moon Bay (月亮湾) beach on the south side of the island, the water is clear and the beach is clean, and seagulls are flying.
"This sea used to be different," fisherman Tao Chuanbin (陶传斌) said with emotion. In 2009, the Dalu Island Village Collective (大鹿岛村集体) built nearly a thousand mu of sea cucumber farming weirs, which increased income but caused seawater siltation and bottom hardening, and the yellow clams and variegated clams almost disappeared.
"The aura of the sea is gone," Tao Chuanbin (陶传斌) said. In 2013, Zhang Zongyi (张宗义) took office as the director of the village committee and promoted "ecological island building", but the proposal to demolish the weirs was strongly opposed. This game lasted for 7 years. Until 2020, the people of Dalu Island (大鹿岛) finally made up their minds: demolish all the weirs and return a blue sea and blue sky to future generations.
Tao Chuanbin (陶传斌) put down his fishing net and joined the beach protection team: "In the past, we took from the sea, but now we are 'healing' the sea. Watching the sea water become clearer day by day, I feel at ease." In recent years, the water quality of the nearshore sea area of Dalu Island (大鹿岛) has been greatly improved, benthic organisms have recovered, and yellow clams and swimming crabs that have disappeared for many years have returned to the sea area.
Climbing to the highest point of the island, the small island, which is about 4 kilometers long from east to west and about 1.5 kilometers wide from north to south, can be seen at a glance. "Now all the barren hills suitable for afforestation on the island have been greened, the green coverage rate in the built-up area of the village has reached 75%, and there are nearly a hundred wild sika deer living in harmony with the villagers on the island," Zhang Zongyi (张宗义) said proudly.
At the end of last year, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment released the fourth batch of beautiful bay lists and excellent beautiful bay case lists. Including the Dalu Island-Zhangdao sea area (大鹿岛—獐岛海域), Liaoning has a total of 5 bays on the list. So far, Liaoning has built 11 national-level beautiful bays.
"In recent years, we have issued documents such as the 'Liaoning Province Beautiful Bay Construction Work Plan' (辽宁省美丽海湾建设工作方案), dividing the coastal areas of the province into 30 bay units, and tailoring the 'one bay, one policy' for beautiful bay construction to implement refined management and protection," said Li Tiemin (李铁民), director of the Marine Ecological Environment Department of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Ecology and Environment (辽宁省生态环境厅).
With the ecology improving, Dalu Island (大鹿岛) is focusing on promoting the development of characteristic tourism. "The income from a tourist season can be 70,000 to 80,000 yuan, which is comparable to the income from fishing in the past year." Walking into the "Taojia Xiaoyuan" (陶家小院) fisherman's house, Tao Chuanbin (陶传斌) took reporters to visit the guest rooms, "Now the entire island has become a national 4A-level tourist attraction, and at least 1/3 of the village is making a living from tourism."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on April 7th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)): The reporter learned from China Three Gorges Corporation (中国长江三峡集团有限公司) that in the first quarter of this year, the Three Gorges Project (三峡工程) operated well, and its comprehensive benefits were fully realized, fully guaranteeing the water supply security, energy security, shipping security, and ecological security of the Yangtze River Basin (长江流域). The Three Gorges Dam (三峡大坝) and reservoir are operating normally, and all monitoring indicators are within the design allowable range, and the reservoir bank remains safe and stable as a whole. The water quality of each monitoring section of the Three Gorges Reservoir (三峡水库) is mainly Class II, maintaining a stable state.
In the first quarter, the inflow volume of the Three Gorges Reservoir (三峡水库) was about 10% higher than the average of the same period in the past 5 years. After dynamic optimization and scheduling based on the inflow situation, power load demand, and downstream water demand, the Three Gorges Reservoir (三峡水库) controlled the average daily outflow flow to be greater than 7,000 cubic meters per second. This year, a total of about 9 billion cubic meters of water has been replenished to the downstream, providing a strong guarantee for meeting the water demand of all parties in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江).
In the first quarter, the Three Gorges Power Station (三峡电站) continued to maintain safe production, the units operated normally, and the cumulative power generation exceeded 16 billion kilowatt-hours. In addition, from January to February, the water storage and energy storage values of the cascade reservoirs in the main stream of the Yangtze River (长江) were at a historical high for the same period. As of March 31, the cumulative power generation of the Three Gorges Group (三峡集团) in 2026 exceeded 107.4 billion kilowatt-hours, an increase of 7% year-on-year, setting a new historical high for the same period.
In the first quarter, the Three Gorges ship locks (三峡船闸) passed 8,337 ships, 1,088 passengers, and 35.47 million tons of cargo. The South Line ship lock of the Three Gorges (三峡南线船闸) started its annual planned shutdown maintenance on March 4 to further improve the safety and reliability of equipment operation. The Three Gorges ship lift (三峡升船机) gave full play to its role as a rapid dam-crossing channel, with a cumulative throughput of more than 100,000 passengers, 875 ships, and 430,000 tons of cargo.
Return to TopBeijing, April 7 (Reporter Jiang Xuehong (蒋雪鸿)) On April 7, the reporter learned from the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局): the artificial weather modification "Spring Moistening" action has been launched. Meteorological departments at the national and provincial levels are working together to carry out normalized cross-regional artificial rain enhancement (snow) operations in Northwest and North China at appropriate times.
Currently, it is a critical period for spring agricultural production. The "Spring Moistening" action focuses on increasing rain (snow) to combat drought, ensuring water demand for spring plowing and sowing, and helping to improve and restore the ecological environment. It coordinates and dispatches aerial and ground operation forces in Northwest and North China, planning to invest 19 artificial rain enhancement aircraft. According to drought conditions and actual precipitation conditions, multiple waves of continuous air-ground joint operations will be organized and carried out.
As of now, the "Spring Moistening" action has completed 3 joint artificial weather modification operations, affecting an area of approximately 979,300 square kilometers, with a cumulative increase in precipitation of approximately 129 million tons, which has played a positive role in helping crop revival and growth, improving soil moisture, and reducing forest fire risk levels. The action will continue until April 30.
This year, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) is using the "Spring Moistening," "Summer Safety," "Autumn Harvest," and "Winter Clearing" four-season actions for artificial weather modification as a starting point, strengthening departmental collaboration and national-provincial linkage, focusing on disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief, food security, water resources security, ecological restoration and protection, and other needs. In response to the weather characteristics of different regions, it will carry out normalized joint operations covering the entire season and serving multiple scenarios, and strive to promote the systematic transformation and development of artificial weather modification.
Subsequently, the "Summer Safety," "Autumn Harvest," and "Winter Clearing" actions will focus on strong convective weather defense, reservoir water storage, port fog elimination, and other needs, and will be promoted in an orderly manner in Southwest, Central China, East China and other regions.
Return to TopThis newspaper Tianjin (天津) April 7th dispatch (Reporter Li Jiading (李家鼎)) "Flowers Bloom in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei: National Flower Appreciation Season" series of ecological and cultural activities recently launched in Tianjin (天津). This event is jointly organized by the forestry and grassland departments of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北). The event uses flowers as a medium to deepen the ecological coordination and cultural tourism integration of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and launches a full-area flower viewing experience and characteristic cultural tourism routes for the public.
Among them, Tianjin (天津) has set up a total of 129 viewing points, most of which are open for free, and a flower viewing electronic map has been released. The event carefully creates four themes: "Flower Appreciation, Embracing Greenery, Visiting Ancient Sites, and Seeking Flavors," and launches a number of characteristic routes. Citizens and tourists can go to the Peach Blossom Embankment of the Grand Canal of the North (北运河桃花堤), the Begonia Corridor of the Five Avenues (五大道海棠长廊), the Water Park (水上公园), the Huangyaguan Great Wall (蓟州黄崖关长城) in Jizhou (蓟州), and other places to enjoy the flowers and scenery. They can also stroll through the 736-square-kilometer green ecological barrier area, or explore ancient trees, and can also watch Quyi performances, taste authentic food, and feel the charm of intangible cultural heritage while enjoying the flowers, enjoying a full range of immersive cultural tourism experiences.
This year's event will focus on building three major platforms: ecological co-construction, cultural tourism consumption, and regional cooperation, focusing on showcasing the achievements of ecological coordination in Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and adopting the "flower appreciation +" model to integrate diversified business formats, in order to deepen the cooperation among the three places in brand co-construction, route interconnection, and mutual delivery of tourists, and help "Flowers Bloom in Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei" become a regional long-term cultural tourism brand.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺 勇 阿尔达克
The Pamir Plateau in April is still chilly.
The Xinjiang Tashkurgan Wildlife Nature Reserve (新疆塔什库尔干野生动物自然保护区), located in Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County (塔什库尔干塔吉克自治县), Kashgar Prefecture (喀什地区), Xinjiang (新疆), has an average elevation of over 4,000 meters. Most of the area is uninhabited, but it is home to rare wild animals such as the Pamir Argali.
On a ridge at an altitude of 4,300 meters, 51-year-old Mi Lu Maimaiti Nurjun (米路买买提·努尔俊), a national public welfare forest ranger in the reserve, climbed step by step on the gravel. Several young patrol members followed closely behind.
This is the first routine patrol this spring. The accumulated snow has just melted, and the mountain road is muddy. The off-road vehicle can only be parked at the foot of the mountain, and the rest of the road depends on walking. "Teacher Mi Lu (米路) has worked in the reserve for 22 years and is our 'living map'. When it snows heavily, all the roads are covered, but he can find the way into the mountains." 32-year-old team member Keli Mubi Ke Wu Mai'erbieke (克力木比克·吾买尔别克) spoke with respect.
Climbing over the mountain ridge, Mi Lu Maimaiti (米路买买提) stopped and squinted, looking into the distance. On the hillside not far away, dozens of gray-brown figures were moving slowly. Those are Pamir Argali, a national second-class key protected wild animal, known for their thick, spiraling horns. He took out his binoculars and said, "In the past, they would run away when they saw people, faster than the wind, and couldn't be approached at all. Now they don't run, and sometimes they even look back at us."
He recalled that when he first became a forest ranger, the herders' awareness of protection was weak. They did not know that the Argali were protected animals and would sneak into the reserve at will, disturbing the wild animals. What was even more worrying was that every winter, heavy snow blocked the mountains, food was scarce, and Argali often starved and froze to death.
In the deep winter of 2009, during a mountain patrol, he found 7 trapped Argali in a snow pit. Several ewes were tightly protecting their cubs, covered in ice and snow, and had not eaten for several days. Mi Lu Maimaiti (米路买买提) felt very sorry for them and immediately carried two bags of fodder from the surrounding herders' "winter settlements" and carefully sprinkled them around the snow pit. Those 7 Argali eventually survived.
"The reserve covers an area of 16,200 square kilometers, and it is simply not enough to rely on the 29 cadres and 22 national public welfare forest rangers of the reserve service center." Keli Mubi Ke (克力木比克) introduced that in recent years, the reserve has implemented a management model of dividing areas into zones and assigning responsibility, dividing the jurisdiction into four responsible areas: Reskam (热斯喀木), Hongqilafu (红其拉甫), Maryang (马尔洋), and Karachigu (卡拉其古). Each area implements a work mechanism of cadres leading the team and forest rangers collaborating on patrols. Each area is patrolled regularly by two to three cadres leading five or six forest rangers. At the same time, border guards and herders living on the plateau have also become the most reliable "eyes" and "ears" of the reserve.
Mi Lu Maimaiti's (米路买买提) wife is a border guard. Since 2017, she has been stationed on the border line. When patrolling, she always pays extra attention to observing the traces of wild animals and reports any abnormalities as soon as possible.
In daily patrols, the team members also use their own methods to protect the Argali. In order to better record the appearance of the Argali, the team members also taught themselves photography. Team member Yimingjiang Hudabairdi (依明江·胡达拜尔迪) introduced that a few years ago, he bought photography equipment at his own expense and went into the mountains whenever he had time to look for the Argali. Now he has accumulated a large amount of valuable Argali image data, which is not only used for popular science publicity in the reserve, but also becomes first-hand data for studying the behavior and habits of the Argali. "We want more people to see the Argali here and know that they must be well protected," said Mi Lu Maimaiti (米路买买提).
Now, the conditions have been greatly improved: simple roads have been built in many valleys; management stations have been built from scratch; more than 100 infrared cameras have been set up in sequence to monitor Argali, snow leopards, and other animals around the clock, making protection more precise and efficient. "The conditions are better, but not a single step of the road that should be taken can be reduced," said Mi Lu Maimaiti (米路买买提).
Today, the Pamir Argali in the reserve is conservatively estimated to have increased to about 3,000. Not only Argali, but also the populations of wild animals such as ibex and argali are increasing year by year, and the figures of rare species such as snow leopards often appear in the lenses of infrared cameras.
As the sun sets in the west, the Argali herd in the distance is still foraging. Mi Lu Maimaiti (米路买买提) led his team members back. He glanced back at the hillside and said his wish - "As long as I can still walk, I will keep guarding here."
Return to TopThis newspaper's Lanzhou (兰州) dispatch on April 7th (Reporter: Zeng Yichen (曾亦辰)) Recently, the People's Government of Gansu Province (甘肃省人民政府) issued the "Opinions on Promoting Higher-Level Conservation and Intensive Use of Water Resources in the Province," systematically deploying the province's water resource conservation and intensive utilization work from aspects such as revitalizing existing resources, expanding incremental resources, and deepening reforms, to provide a solid water security guarantee for the province's high-quality economic and social development.
The "Opinions" clarified that it is necessary to comprehensively revitalize the stock of water resources, consolidate the foundation of water resources management, construct a province-wide map and account of water-related data, ascertain the baseline of water extraction and usage, scientifically delineate areas with severe water resource shortages and overloading, and conduct comprehensive assessments of water resource development and utilization, water ecological health, and water security risks.
Regarding water rights reform, the "Opinions" require accelerating the classified pilot projects of water rights reform, constructing a full-chain management system of "confirmation of rights + platform + mechanism," fully utilizing national and basin water rights trading platforms, establishing and improving water rights trading mechanisms, and striving to make water rights trading a normalized means for cities and counties to solve new water demand within three years. At the same time, a graded storage mechanism for water indicators should be established, regular verification of water abstraction permits should be carried out, and the establishment of a water rights storage mechanism and a graded and classified storage and regulation system should be explored.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 颜 欢 莽九晨 殷 淼
Road information is collected in real-time around the clock, "smart street lights" provide free WiFi services, park irrigation systems operate precisely based on soil moisture, and the "waste recycling" application promotes garbage sorting... The rich application scenarios of smart city construction are driving urban governance towards refinement and intelligence. Currently, many countries and regions around the world are using technologies such as cloud computing, big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and 5G to continuously innovate the concepts, models, and methods of urban governance, and explore the construction of a more intelligent, efficient, and refined urban comprehensive management system.
Santander, Spain—
Integrate citywide sensor data through a unified platform
In the early morning, on the streets of Santander (桑坦德), in the Autonomous Community of Cantabria (坎塔布里亚自治区), Spain, sensors under the wide roads are recording the gradually increasing traffic flow in real-time. The smart trash cans on the roadside automatically "call" for cleaning trucks when they are full, and the park's irrigation system operates precisely based on soil moisture... This technologically advanced urban landscape originates from the "Smart Santander (智慧桑坦德)" smart city project.
The Santander (桑坦德) Municipal Government, in collaboration with local universities and telecommunications companies, launched the construction of a smart city in 2008. The "Smart Santander (智慧桑坦德)" project is led and planned by the local government, which is responsible for the overall strategy and platform operation. Companies provide sensor and network support, universities and research institutions use open platforms for data mining and innovative development, and citizens participate in interaction and report faults through mobile applications, forming a multi-party collaborative governance ecosystem. The project has received a total of nearly 9 million euros in funding from the EU's "Future Internet Research and Experimentation" program and the Seventh Framework Programme. Previously, the city of Santander (桑坦德) also received project funding from the "European Next Generation Fund" for the deployment of technology platforms and digital solutions in tourist destinations, including the construction of smart platforms, smart tourist cards, digital offices, and intelligent beach management.
The changes brought about by "smartness" are clearly visible. Today, from street lights and trash cans to water pipe networks and buses, there are more than 20,000 Internet of Things devices spread throughout the city of Santander (桑坦德). Luis Muñoz (路易斯·穆尼奥斯), who participated in the planning of the "Smart Santander (智慧桑坦德)" project, said: "By integrating citywide sensor data through a unified platform, we can coordinate the management of garbage collection, water dispatch, green space maintenance, and public lighting. The efficiency of resource utilization has been significantly improved, and the response time has been greatly shortened." Urban governance is moving from the traditional "discovery-processing-feedback" model to a new stage of real-time response, two-way interaction, and process transparency.
Chinese companies are also actively participating in the construction of Santander's (桑坦德) smart city. Not long ago, the Chinese company Hikvision (海康威视) launched an innovation center in Santander (桑坦德), showcasing its cutting-edge applications in the field of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, including intelligent security, traffic monitoring, health monitoring, and retail analysis. Relevant officials from the Department of Industry, Employment and Innovation of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria (坎塔布里亚自治区) stated that this innovation center will provide local companies with opportunities for joint development projects, which is of great significance for promoting the digitalization and industrial upgrading of Santander (桑坦德) and surrounding areas.
Bela (贝拉), a citizen of Santander (桑坦德), said: "The construction of a smart city has improved the efficiency of municipal resource utilization. I believe that the future of urban development will be supported by more technological forces, and the application of technology should follow the needs of the people. Our lives are becoming more and more convenient."
Seoul, South Korea—
Promote the construction of "smart infrastructure," "smart services," and "smart citizens"
In recent years, Seoul (首尔), the capital of South Korea (韩国), has been promoting the construction of smart cities around three aspects: "smart infrastructure," "smart services," and "smart citizens," with the goal of building a smart city where "everyone can enjoy the convenience of digital technology."
In terms of "smart infrastructure," Seoul (首尔) is providing free WiFi services to the public by building "smart street lights." To facilitate citizens' travel, the city has begun operating driverless buses during late night and early morning hours and is vigorously promoting the "Climate Companion Card (气候同行卡)." By paying a certain fee, the transportation card can be used unlimitedly. A reporter recently visited the Seoul (首尔) Metropolitan Government Traffic Operation & Information Service (首尔市综合交通管制中心). According to Ahn Young-jin (安英真), the director of the Seoul (首尔) Metropolitan Government's Transportation Office, Seoul's (首尔) intelligent traffic management system includes multiple systems such as road traffic, unmanned monitoring, and big data analysis. It can monitor road conditions in real-time, analyze traffic data and weather conditions, and update them to smartphones, navigation systems, and websites to facilitate smoother travel for the public.
In terms of "smart services," Seoul (首尔) has launched the "Wrist Doctor (手腕医生)" health management service. Citizens can install relevant applications on smart watches to monitor their health status in real-time and conduct online health consultations. In the event of a sudden illness, the Seoul (首尔) health department will dispatch medical staff in a timely manner based on the user's location information.
In terms of "smart citizens," in order to bridge the digital divide, Seoul (首尔) has set up a special "Digital Companion Plaza (数字同行广场)," mainly targeting the elderly. Citizens can receive training and consultation on digital technology here and experience the latest digital products on-site. Currently, the smartphone ownership rate in Seoul (首尔) is 98%, the Internet usage rate is 100%, and the online banking usage rate is 83%.
With the development of AI technology, Seoul (首尔) proposed the "AI Seoul 2025 Vision (AI首尔2025愿景)" last year, planning to increase support for AI technology in seven aspects, including talent training, infrastructure construction, and administrative reform, and promote the application of AI technology in six fields, including administration, transportation, economy, and culture. Currently, Seoul (首尔) has launched the "Chatbot 2.0 (聊天机器人2.0)" project, and generative artificial intelligence will assist civil servants in writing documents, querying regulations, and drafting reports. The project has been partially piloted on Seoul's (首尔) internal network and will be gradually expanded to the city's administrative system to further upgrade its functions and enhance its smart service capabilities.
Stockholm, Sweden—
Systematically build digital infrastructure and demonstration projects
Stockholm's (斯德哥尔摩) public transportation system in Sweden (瑞典) is highly digitalized. It widely uses Internet of Things technology to monitor traffic flow in real-time, dynamically adjust traffic lights, and optimize road traffic efficiency. When emergency vehicles such as ambulances and fire trucks pass, the traffic control system can automatically switch to green lights to ensure their priority passage, greatly shortening emergency response time.
The Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) Municipal Government promoted the establishment of a "Central Internet of Things Platform (中央物联网平台)" in 2014. Based on the Internet of Things platform and open data portal, it ensures that projects in various fields collaborate and iterate under unified rules and reuse resources, effectively reducing duplicate construction and information silos. The city's resource and environmental governance emphasizes "using data to drive behavioral change." In the practice of household waste sorting, the municipal government cooperates with the private sector to launch a "Waste Recycling (废弃物回收)" application with an incentive mechanism to encourage residents to sort waste and promote the use of underground vacuum waste collection systems. Household waste is transported through pipelines to a centralized processing center at a speed of 70 kilometers per hour and used for power generation or recycling after sorting.
To cope with the challenge of 450,000 cars entering the central business district every day, Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) began collecting a "road congestion tax (道路堵塞税)" in 2006. By setting up monitors at 18 key nodes leading to the city center and using technologies such as radio frequency identification, laser scanning, and automatic photography, automatic vehicle identification and non-stop toll collection have been achieved.
In 2024, Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) launched the electric hydrofoil ferry "Nova (Nova)." On the archipelago commuter route, the ship uses electric and hydrofoil technology to reduce the one-way time from 45 minutes for traditional diesel ships to 30 minutes, reducing energy consumption by about 80% and improving the efficiency and accessibility of water public transportation.
Relying on the "Smart City Sweden (智慧城市瑞典)" platform, Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) continuously outputs and absorbs advanced practical cases, forming a virtuous cycle of mutual promotion between "local governance-national platform-international cooperation." Stockholm (斯德哥尔摩) has not only completed the systematic construction of digital infrastructure and demonstration projects at the technical level, but also established a transformation model with public value as the core in terms of governance logic, and continues to improve the "smarter urban life" that citizens can experience.
Return to TopBeijing, April 7 (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated during a regular press conference on the 7th, in response to a question, that Japan's accelerating "re-militarization" is a fact and a reality, with actual routes and actions, and is threatening regional peace and stability. The international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely resist the reckless actions of Japan's "new militarism."
A reporter asked: According to reports, the Japanese government plans to formally revise the "Three Principles on Transfer of Defense Equipment" this month. The content includes: no longer limited to exporting defense equipment for non-combat purposes, and in principle, allowing the export of lethal weapons; establishing exceptional provisions for exporting weapons to countries in conflict, reserving export space; no longer requiring prior reporting to the Diet, only post-event notification. What is China's comment on this?
"China is seriously concerned about this. Many international scholars and insightful people in Japan are deeply worried about the relevant trends, believing that this marks a fundamental shift in Japan's post-war arms export policy, seriously violates the provisions of legally binding documents such as the Cairo Declaration, the Potsdam Proclamation, and the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, seriously violates the Japanese Constitution and existing domestic norms, and undermines the institutional guarantees for preventing the resurgence of Japanese militarism after the war," Mao Ning (毛宁) said. "I also noted that previous polls conducted by the Japanese government showed that the majority of the Japanese public opposes easing restrictions on arms exports."
Mao Ning (毛宁) stated that all indications show that right-wing forces in Japan are promoting a shift in security policy towards an offensive and expansionist direction. Japan's accelerating "re-militarization" is a fact and a reality, with actual routes and actions, and is threatening regional peace and stability. The international community must be highly vigilant and resolutely resist the reckless actions of Japan's "new militarism."
"We urge Japan to deeply reflect on its militarist history of aggression, abide by its commitments and act prudently in the military and security fields, and not to go further and further down the wrong path," she said.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) April 7th dispatch (Reporter Chu Jun (褚君)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning (毛宁) stated during a regular press conference on the 7th, in response to a question, that the root cause of the Iranian war lies in the United States and Israel's violation of international law in launching military attacks against Iran. The pressing task is to immediately cease fire and end the war, return to the track of dialogue and negotiation, fundamentally resolve the issue, and restore peace and stability in the Gulf region.
A reporter asked: Currently, the Iranian war is prolonged, with continuous attacks from both sides. The blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has caused concerns from all parties, and calls for promoting a ceasefire and ensuring the safety of navigation are rising. In the past few days, the United States and Iran have been showing strength to each other, and there are also reports that the two sides may reach a ceasefire agreement. What is China's view on the current situation?
"Currently, the situation in the Middle East is still deteriorating, the war is still escalating, impacting the world economy and energy security, and the international community is deeply concerned," Mao Ning (毛宁) said.
Mao Ning (毛宁) stated that since the outbreak of the war, China has always adhered to an objective, fair, and balanced position, promoting a ceasefire and an end to the war. Foreign Minister Wang Yi (王毅) has had 26 phone calls with various parties, including Iran, Israel, Russia, and Gulf countries. The Chinese government's special envoy for Middle East issues has traveled to the region to mediate. Not long ago, China and Pakistan jointly put forward a five-point initiative, reflecting the universal consensus of the international community to promote peace and end the war.
"Military force cannot bring peace, and a political solution is the only way out. The root cause of the Iranian war lies in the United States and Israel's violation of international law in launching military attacks against Iran. The pressing task is to immediately cease fire and end the war, return to the track of dialogue and negotiation, fundamentally resolve the issue, and restore peace and stability in the Gulf region," Mao Ning (毛宁) said, adding that all parties should show sincerity and end this war that should not have happened as soon as possible.
Return to TopU.S. Media Claims U.S. Attacked Over 50 Military Targets on Kharg Island, Iran
According to a report by Xinhua News Agency Washington on April 7th, the U.S. "Wall Street Journal" quoted U.S. officials on the 7th, saying that the U.S. attacked more than 50 military targets on Kharg Island (哈尔克岛), Iran's oil export hub, without affecting oil infrastructure.
According to a report by Iran's Mehr News Agency on April 7th, the United States and Israel launched several attacks on Kharg Island (哈尔克岛), and explosions were heard on the island.
Kharg Island (哈尔克岛) is located in the northwest of the Persian Gulf, about 25 kilometers from the Iranian coast. It is about 6 kilometers long and 3 kilometers wide. It is Iran's largest crude oil export base, and 90% of Iran's crude oil is exported from here.
EU Opposes Any Threats and Attacks on Key Civilian Infrastructure
Xinhua News Agency Brussels, April 7th (Reporters Zhang Zhaoqing (张兆卿) and Ding Yinghua (丁英华)) EU chief spokesperson for foreign affairs and security policy, Anita Hipper (阿妮塔·希佩尔), said at a regular press conference in Brussels on April 7th that the EU opposes any threats and attacks on key civilian infrastructure and reiterated that a diplomatic solution is the right way.
When answering reporters' questions about U.S. President Trump's threat to bomb Iranian power plants and bridges, Hipper (希佩尔) said that such attacks could affect millions of people in the Middle East and even the wider region, and could lead to further dangerous escalation of the situation.
Hipper (希佩尔) also said that the EU calls on all parties to exercise maximum restraint, protect civilians and civilian infrastructure, and fully comply with international law and international humanitarian law.
Cambodia Enacts Law to Crack Down on Telecom Network Fraud
Xinhua News Agency Phnom Penh, April 6th (Reporter Wu Changwei (吴长伟)) Cambodian Acting Head of State Hun Sen (洪森) signed a decree on April 6th to promulgate the "Law on Combating Telecom Network Fraud." The law takes effect immediately.
The law was finally approved by the Cambodian Senate on April 3rd and includes five core crimes, including organizing or leading telecom network fraud gangs, recruiting or training others to engage in telecom network fraud. According to the law, participating in telecom network fraud will face 2 to 5 years in prison and fines; if the fraud involves violence, illegal detention, human trafficking, or even death, the leaders of the fraud gang can be sentenced to life imprisonment.
Cambodia is carrying out a nationwide campaign to combat telecom network fraud in order to maintain social security and public order.
Japanese Diet Passes New Fiscal Year Budget Bill, Scale Reaches New High
Xinhua News Agency Tokyo, April 7th (Reporters Liu Chunyan (刘春燕) and Li Shimeng (李诗萌)) The Japanese House of Councillors approved the Japanese government's fiscal budget for fiscal year 2026 (April 2026 to March 2027) on the 7th. Previously, the Japanese House of Representatives had passed the budget bill. The approval of the House of Councillors means that the Japanese fiscal year 2026 budget bill has been passed in the Diet.
According to documents released by the Japanese Ministry of Finance, the scale of Japan's fiscal year 2026 budget reached 122.3 trillion yen (approximately 159 yen to 1 U.S. dollar), far exceeding the 115.2 trillion yen in fiscal year 2025. The scale of the new fiscal year's budget and the national debt expenses used to repay national debt and interest have reached new highs, triggering strong concerns from the market, media, and experts.
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) suddenly announced the dissolution of the House of Representatives and held early elections in January this year, and the schedule for the two houses of the Diet to deliberate on the fiscal year 2026 budget bill was forced to be delayed by about one month. In order to avoid the government's operations falling into difficulties at the beginning of the new fiscal year due to the budget not being able to continue, the Japanese Diet passed a temporary budget bill at the end of March.
Return to TopBy: 咸惠淑
In January of this year, the Chinese film "731," which records the anti-human atrocities of Japanese militarism, officially landed in South Korean cinemas and received widespread attention. Some South Korean citizens were victims of the cruel experiments of the Japanese Unit 731, and it is my responsibility as a translator to help more South Korean compatriots understand the truth of history. Therefore, when I received the commission to translate this film into Korean, I accepted it without hesitation.
When I truly faced the heavy images, I deeply felt that this was not just an ordinary translation job, but a heavy gaze that uncovered historical scars and confronted the evils of war. This film constantly conveys a message: we must always remember the lessons of history and resolutely resist and oppose any form of militarism.
Examining the crimes of militarism, those suffocating historical truths cannot be avoided. I read in a book in high school that during World War II, the Japanese army called live experimental subjects "Maruta," meaning peeled logs. Frostbite experiments, live dissections without anesthesia, organ removal, and cruel infection observations... When these inhuman crimes were presented in visual form, I felt very tormented, and a question constantly emerged in my mind: "How can people become so brutal?" I found it difficult to open my eyes and look directly at the screen. During the translation process, I couldn't help but sigh, and I often stopped to take deep breaths, so translating this film took longer than usual.
Behind the shocking atrocities is the complete deprivation of the victims' dignity. During World War II, knowing that germ warfare violated international conventions, the Japanese Unit 731 still conducted germ research and implemented germ warfare. While producing large quantities of bacteria, they also carried out inhumane live human experiments. None of the victims used for human experimentation survived. Innocent people from China, South Korea, the Soviet Union, and other countries were forcibly brought to this "hell on earth" and reduced to cold numbers. The scene at the end of the film where they each shouted their names was impressive. We need to remember their names and remember that they were all once living people.
After Japan surrendered in 1945, the Japanese army's live experiments came to an end, but the reckoning did not arrive as scheduled. Some major powers, out of their own interests, received information related to germ warfare and, in exchange, shielded the relevant war criminals. If these war criminals had been prosecuted and severely punished at the time, would today's reality be different?
Even today, some people in Japan still refuse to admit the shocking crimes committed by Japanese militarism in those years, refuse to make sincere apologies to the victimized countries, and even advocate completely forgetting the past. In the process of translating this film, I wanted to cover my eyes and ears countless times, but I knew that even if it was painful, I had to insist on seeing the whole picture clearly. The more some people in Japan try to deny the past, the more clearly we must remember history.
Facing this cruel past squarely is not only to comfort the dead, but also for the peace of all mankind. Only by remembering the bloody lessons and always being vigilant and resisting the resurgence of militarism will historical tragedies not be repeated.
(The author is a South Korean translator)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程是颉
At a CFMOTO motorcycle store in Mexico City (墨西哥城), the capital of Mexico (墨西哥), a wide range of models, from small-displacement urban commuter vehicles to medium and large-displacement street bikes and imitation racing bikes, as well as products suitable for outdoor scenarios, provide local consumers with a rich and diverse selection. The store's large screen continuously plays highlights from the Portuguese round of the World Superbike Championship. The Chinese motorcycle manufacturer "Zhangxue Motorcycle" (张雪机车) won consecutive championships in both main races of the round in its first year of participation, sparking a wave of consumer enthusiasm for buying Chinese motorcycles locally.
"Chinese motorcycles are really powerful!" Onesto, a resident of Mexico City (墨西哥城), who was shopping for a new motorcycle with his companion, told reporters that he bought a CFMOTO motorcycle last year and had an excellent riding experience. "After 'Zhangxue Motorcycle' (张雪机车) won the championship, my friend quickly decided to buy a new motorcycle." "These days, the store's sales are very good. The word-of-mouth effect brought by 'Zhangxue Motorcycle' (张雪机车)'s championship has brought us a continuous stream of customers," said Ruben Banos, the store manager, to reporters. "Chinese motorcycles are gaining momentum in Latin American countries such as Mexico (墨西哥), and our stores will become more and more numerous in the future."
In recent years, motorcycles, with their low prices and flexible versatility, are becoming a new means of transportation for many Latin American people. According to the latest data cited by the Italian "Motorcycle Industry Data" website, motorcycle sales in Latin America (拉美) in 2025 increased by 20.6% year-on-year, making it one of the fastest-growing regions in the world. In Brazil (巴西), annual motorcycle sales have expanded from less than 1 million in 2018 to more than 2 million in 2025; Colombia (哥伦比亚) registered more than 1.1 million new motorcycles in 2025; Peru (秘鲁)'s motorcycle sales reached 420,000 last year, a year-on-year increase of 25.3%, setting a new record. Among them, Chinese motorcycle brands are increasingly winning recognition in the Latin American (拉美) market with their technical strength and good after-sales service. According to statistics from the China Association of Motorcycle Manufacturers (中国摩托车商会), China (中国) exported 6.7 million motorcycles to Latin America (拉美) in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 11%, and the export value increased by 18% year-on-year.
At the 2025 Colombia (哥伦比亚) International Two-Wheeler and Motorcycle Exhibition, Qianjiang Motorcycle (钱江摩托) exhibited 30 new models, which attracted the attention of many consumers. In Mexico (墨西哥), CFMOTO launched a number of best-selling motorcycle models, with sales in the local market increasing by 42.9% last year. In Chile (智利), the fire department customized a batch of special all-terrain motorcycles from CFMOTO to meet the needs of patrol and disaster relief in mountainous areas and dense forests. In Brazil (巴西), Chinese motorcycle companies are actively expanding their parts inventory and improving after-sales support and maintenance networks, focusing on eliminating consumers' concerns about the new brand's "easy to buy, difficult to repair." In Argentina (阿根廷), Loncin General (隆鑫通用)'s motorcycles are strengthening cooperation with local brands to rapidly expand market share.
With the continuous release of urban transportation demand in Latin America (拉美) and the continuous promotion of the express delivery industry and riding culture, the motorcycle market has huge growth potential. Industry insiders said that Chinese motorcycle companies are focusing on long-term operations, paying attention to market segment research, emphasizing after-sales service and parts system development, and continuously strengthening brand recognition and consumer stickiness, thereby winning more and more praise from Latin American (拉美) consumers. Several Latin American (拉美) media outlets have noted that Chinese motorcycle brands are upgrading from "cost-effectiveness" to "technology and brand power," especially the continuous progress in technology, design, events, and brand building, which makes the future of Chinese motorcycles in the Latin American (拉美) market promising.
(Reported from Mexico City (墨西哥城) on April 7)
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Return to TopOn April 6, the symposium "Strengthening International Communication and Promoting the Building of a Community of Common Destiny with Neighboring Countries," along with the launch ceremony for the new book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) and video project, was held at the People's Daily (人民日报) headquarters. Participating guests exchanged ideas on how to tell the stories of neighboring countries and improve work related to them, contributing wisdom to further implement the spirit of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries and promote the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries. Excerpts of the wonderful speeches of the participating guests are compiled in this edition for the readers.
Telling the Stories of Neighboring Countries with Sincerity
Yin Lujun (殷陆君), Member of the Party Leadership Group and Secretary of the Secretariat of the All-China Journalists Association (中国记协)
Telling the Chinese story well, spreading the Chinese voice effectively, and showcasing a credible, lovable, and respectable image of China are the major missions entrusted to the vast number of journalists in the new era.
Peripheral communication is an important cornerstone of international communication. Building a community of common destiny with neighboring countries cannot be separated from the cohesive power of news and public opinion, nor from the warm, empathetic, and powerful Chinese stories.
The "Borderland Insights" series of reports is a valuable achievement of People's Daily (人民日报) reporters who have rooted themselves at the front lines and delved into the grassroots, using their footsteps to measure the borderlines of the motherland and recording with their lenses and pens. The publication of the new book *Borderland Insights*, with its sense of weight and completeness, presents a panoramic view of the development and cultural landscape of China's border towns, as well as the moving picture of China's proximity and affinity with its neighboring countries. This is not only a collection of news works, but also a profound work that sees the sky, the earth, and the world, and records people, events, and hearts. The cross-border exchange stories and vivid, heartwarming stories of ordinary people included in the book are filled with the smell of earth, dew, and heat, which is a vivid practice of going to the grassroots, changing work styles, and improving writing styles. The reason why these stories are moving is that they cross language barriers with sincerity and generate international resonance with empathy, providing a vivid sample for us to tell the stories of neighboring countries and promote the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries.
The "Borderland Insights" video project launched simultaneously today is a beneficial exploration to adapt to the trend of all-media communication and innovate communication methods. From paper to screen, from text to image, using a youthful perspective and international expression, the border town stories can reach a wider audience in a more intuitive and easily disseminated form, exploring a new path for the full-chain development and all-media communication of news works that can be used for reference.
At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century at an accelerated pace, and the task of strengthening the construction of international communication capacity is heavy on our shoulders. It is hoped that the vast number of journalists will take the creation of "Borderland Insights" as a benchmark, always adhere to the people's position, continuously enhance their "four forces" (脚力、眼力、脑力、笔力), go to the grassroots and the border areas of the motherland more often, and dig out more vivid stories from the people and the front lines; strengthen peripheral communication, deeply cultivate the theme of good-neighborliness and friendship, and use empathetic narratives and international expressions to tell the stories of mutually beneficial and win-win cooperation and people-to-people connectivity between China and its neighboring countries, and consolidate the public opinion foundation for building a community of common destiny with neighboring countries; adhere to upholding integrity and innovation, actively embrace the wave of media convergence, and continuously innovate communication forms and enrich communication carriers, so that Chinese stories can be spread further, wider, and deeper.
The All-China Journalists Association (中国记协) will firmly unite the vast number of journalists, build a platform for exchanges for everyone, do a good job in service and support, and support everyone in creating more excellent works worthy of the times and the people, and jointly contribute the wisdom and strength of the journalistic community to strengthening the construction of international communication capacity and promoting the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries.
Synergy Between Newspaper and Book to Promote People-to-People Connectivity
Ding Ding (丁丁), President of People's Daily Publishing House (人民日报出版社)
The Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries pointed out that China has a vast territory and a long border line. The periphery is an important foundation for achieving development and prosperity, a key point for maintaining national security, a priority for diplomatic planning, and a key to promoting the building of a community of common destiny for mankind.
As the forefront window of the country's opening to the outside world, the border town is a vibrant field of cultural integration between China and foreign countries. The stories that happen here are vivid portrayals of the people-to-people connectivity and good-neighborly friendship between China and its neighboring countries, and also a practical footnote to China's consistent adherence to the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness in its neighborhood diplomacy and the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries.
In order to implement the spirit of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries, the People's Daily (人民日报) launched the "Borderland Insights" column, which shows the vivid stories and innovative measures of China and its neighboring countries in the fields of cultural exchange, people-to-people connectivity, and economic and trade exchanges with delicate brushstrokes. We compiled the columns into a book, and through careful polishing and design, we condensed the independent reports into a more coherent and warm book. The book specially drew a route map of the reporter team's interviews with all 45 prefecture-level cities, prefectures, and leagues on China's land border, and drew the 140 county-level administrative regions of these prefecture-level cities, prefectures, and leagues into a lucky and complete Chinese knot, artistically presenting beautiful expectations.
*Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) is not only a gazetteer showing the style of Chinese border towns, but also a collection of stories recording good-neighborly friendship between China and foreign countries, and a high-quality reading material for us to tell Chinese stories to the international community. We also produced a separate supplement for this book, which includes relevant reports and expert interpretations of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries, as well as all the layout pictures of the People's Daily (人民日报) "Borderland Insights," in order to better show the important significance of building a community of common destiny with neighboring countries.
Under the era proposition of strengthening the construction of international communication capacity and promoting the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries in the new era, we are also thinking about how to use publishing as a carrier, and use warm, detailed, and empathetic content to let the world see a real, three-dimensional, and comprehensive China. In China's vast borderland, a border town connected to neighboring countries by mountains and rivers is the best entry point.
Today, the publication of *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) is not the end of creation, but the starting point of communication. The "Borderland Insights" video project launched simultaneously with the new book is a new exploration of all-media communication. It is hoped that the book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) will be widely loved by readers, and we also hope that we will take this book as a starting point and work together to tell more beautiful stories of civilization exchange and people-to-people connectivity.
Taking the "First Step" in Peripheral Communication
Lu Di (陆地), Professor of the School of Journalism and Communication, Peking University (北京大学)
On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries, the People's Daily (人民日报) launched a book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) that systematically tells the stories of Chinese border towns. This is the latest achievement of the Chinese news and communication circles in implementing the spirit of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries and practicing the "four forces" (脚力、眼力、脑力、笔力), providing a convincing footnote for exploring the multiple values and potentials of Chinese border towns.
Examining the periphery from the perspective of international communication, the first is to "know the periphery." The importance of the periphery is reflected in "two firsts": it is the "first point of contact" for exchanges between people of neighboring countries, and also the "first antenna" for each other to form national impressions. Ethnic groups living across borders and the unique scene of one village and two countries make border towns a natural space for exchanges between people of neighboring countries. People's Daily (人民日报) reporters walked along the thousands of miles of border lines, using their footsteps to measure the magnificent scenery of the border towns and record the stories of exchanges between China and its neighboring countries. This grand practice of "peripheral communication journey" is a solid step in "knowing the periphery" and also provides valuable cases for studying the theory of China's peripheral communication.
The periphery is the "first stop" for Chinese stories to spread to more distant regions. The core value of peripheral communication lies in transformation - completing the communication connection from domestic to international. The People's Daily's (人民日报) "Borderland Insights" page, books, and video projects are all important ways to creatively communicate Chinese stories.
To do a good job in peripheral communication, we need to follow the progressive logic of "knowing the periphery, befriending the periphery, honoring the periphery, and transforming the periphery": "knowing the periphery" is the prerequisite. Only by understanding the geography, culture, and stories of the border can we clarify the direction of communication; "befriending the periphery" is the bridge. By spreading and eliminating the sense of strangeness, the border town becomes a space for people to make friends; "honoring the periphery" is committed to promoting the prosperity and development of the border areas, making the periphery a "win-win place"; "transforming the periphery" is to strive to transform the border from a "geographical boundary" into a "communication medium" and upgrade it from a "marginal area" to a "communication highland."
**合抱之木，生于毫末；九层之台，起于累土。** (hé bào zhī mù, shēng yú háo mò; jiǔ céng zhī tái, qǐ yú lěi tǔ - "A tree that can be embraced grows from a tiny shoot; a nine-story tower begins with a pile of earth," great things have small beginnings.) The long-term goal of building a community of common destiny for mankind needs to start from the solid foundation of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries. We must tell the stories of border towns well, take the "first step" in peripheral communication, and fasten the "first button" of international communication, so that we can go steadily and far.
Central and Local Governments Work Together to Do a Good Job in International Communication
Zhang Yunyi (张云怡), Member of the Standing Committee of the Baoshan (保山) Municipal Party Committee and Minister of the Publicity Department of Yunnan Province (云南省)
In March last year, reporters from the People's Daily (人民日报) traveled thousands of miles to Tengchong City (腾冲市), Baoshan (保山), Yunnan (云南), to conduct research and write a series of reports on "Borderland Insights," which greatly encouraged us.
Baoshan (保山) is located in the southwest border area and is an important frontier node in China's radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia. It is connected to Myanmar (缅甸) by mountains and rivers and has a deep "Pauk-Phaw" (胞波) friendship. We thoroughly implement the spirit of the Central Conference on Work Relating to Neighboring Countries, actively integrate into and serve the overall situation of the country's foreign affairs, and based on humanistic and regional advantages, adopt the "1234" work method to continuously strengthen the construction of international communication capacity and actively explore international communication paths with Baoshan (保山) characteristics.
"1" means formulating and implementing a series of policy documents to provide a solid institutional guarantee for international communication work; "2" means establishing 2 specialized work agencies, establishing the first prefecture-level and city-level foreign communication and exchange center in Yunnan (云南), and building an international communication matrix; "3" means making good use of 3 communication channels, relying on central media, overseas media, and self-built platforms to transmit Baoshan (保山) voices in all directions; "4" means building 4 strong work teams to consolidate international communication talents and operational support.
Through active exploration and practice, Baoshan's (保山) international communication work has achieved very good results. First, we held the "Love in Colorful Yunnan·Love in Gentle Baoshan" (爱在七彩云南·情定温润保山) - a new era civilization practice collective wedding love witness activity, which was disseminated to the outside world in 8 languages. Second, we held a series of co-creation activities for young new media in China and Myanmar (缅甸), with the participation of overseas communication officers from Myanmar (缅甸) and many Myanmar (缅甸) media, and released more than 50 original short videos. Third, we carried out the "AI Painting Intangible Cultural Heritage·Talking about Pauk-Phaw Friendship" (AI绘非遗·共话胞波情) China-Myanmar (缅甸) intangible cultural heritage poster design activity, realizing multilingual online and offline display and deepening the traditional friendship and mutual learning of civilizations between China and Myanmar (缅甸). Fourth, we carried out the theme interview of "Walking in China·Baoshan Tour" (漫步中国·保山行), inviting mainstream media teams from many countries to visit.
On the historical coordinates of the new era, the release of the new book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) and the launch of the video project are timely and of far-reaching significance. We will take this as an opportunity to continue to strengthen international communication, deepen media cooperation between the central and local governments, consolidate people-to-people connectivity, tell the vivid stories of interconnection and cultural integration in border towns, and contribute Baoshan (保山) strength to promoting the building of a community of common destiny with neighboring countries.
Understanding China Through Border Town Stories
Zhao Jian (赵健), Principal of the well-known reading blogger "Zhao Jian's Reading Diary" (赵健的读书日记)
When I read this heavy book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻), my biggest feeling is that border towns are not far away, but Chinese stories that are happening. People's Daily (人民日报) reporters used their footsteps to measure 9 provinces and 45 prefecture-level cities, prefectures, and leagues, bringing the stories on the border line to the hearts of readers.
As a content blogger, I often think about a question: What kind of stories should be seen? From these rich border town reports, we can find the answer - the most precious thing in border town stories is a specific person: an old man guarding the border for decades, a young man doing cross-border business, a girl who married to a border area... In border towns, people who speak different languages can eat at the same table, and children in the family naturally speak multiple languages. These are the real pictures of China and its neighboring countries being connected by roads, water, and hearts.
The "Borderland Insights" series of reports has nearly 500 million exposures on the entire network, indicating that the public has a strong curiosity about border towns. Border towns are becoming a new highland and a new rich mine for content creation. In border towns, different cultures exchange and converge. People living in border towns almost all have unique experiences that cross space and culture. Border towns also carry strong family affection and local feelings... These common human emotions make border towns a natural emotional intersection.
Telling the stories of border towns is an attempt to answer a more macro proposition: How should China be understood by the world? The reporting practice of "Borderland Insights" allows us to present a real and three-dimensional China through the lives of vivid ordinary people.
Culture is a language that does not need to be translated, and border towns are the starting point for mutual learning of civilizations. In international communication, we must be good at using cross-cultural symbols to connect emotions and stimulate interest. A short video introducing the costumes of the Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) people is not only popular among the local people in Gansu (甘肃), but also praised by audiences in Mongolia (蒙古国); a melody from the Yunnan Mengba Naxi (云南勐巴娜西) Orchestra can instantly narrow the psychological distance between China and audiences in Southeast Asian countries. This is the magic of culture, which turns the concept of amity, sincerity, mutual benefit and inclusiveness into perceptible, visible, and forwardable pictures.
The book *Borderland Insights* (边城见闻) is a treasure house, providing solid materials for us content creators. Today, with the launch of the "Borderland Insights" video project, I hope that more "micro-lights" of new media will converge into the "torch" of international communication, allowing the world to understand Chinese border towns and a China that is friendly, secure, and prosperous to its neighbors.
International Exchanges are Never a Distant Matter
Feng Jiawen (封佳文), Secretary of the Party Branch of Frontier Village (边疆村), Qike Town (奇克镇), Xunke County (逊克县), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省)
Last year, when reporters from the International Department of the People's Daily (人民日报) entered our Frontier Village (边疆村), it coincided with the most grand folk festival of the Russian ethnic group in a year - Bask Festival. Seeing the ordinary border town life in the village being widely disseminated and seen by more people, I was grateful from the bottom of my heart.
Frontier Village (边疆村) is the first Russian ethnic village in China, facing Russia (俄罗斯) across the river. As early as the mid-19th century, border residents on both sides began to communicate. My great-grandmother came from across the river in 1921 and has since taken root here. Today, many people in the village, although with blue eyes and high noses, speak authentic Northeastern dialect. When I was a child, I was always curious why my grandmother looked like a foreigner, but she could cook authentic stewed pork with vermicelli. When I grew up, I realized that this is the most real appearance of our village - Chinese and Russian cultures have long been integrated.
Bask Festival is a traditional Russian festival that has been passed down for a century in our village, and it is also a vivid witness to the exchanges and integration of border residents on both sides. Every year on this day, villagers put on ethnic costumes, and the courtyards are filled with specialties such as pickled cucumbers and tomatoes. At the lively long table banquet, rye bread, sausages, and large meat skewers are fragrant, and villagers and tourists gather together to drink heartily. In the evening, when the bonfire is lit and fireworks bloom, everyone holds hands and sings and dances, and the friendship is deeper.
In our village, the village Party branch and Heilongjiang University (黑龙江大学) work together to study and optimize the pickled cucumber recipe. Not only do tourists love to buy it, but even merchants from Moscow (莫斯科), the capital of Russia (俄罗斯), are chasing after the goods. After the People's Daily (人民日报) report was published last year, many tourists made a special trip to say they wanted to see "Frontier Village (边疆村) in the People's Daily (人民日报) lens." The Russian restaurant in the village combines Russian borscht, canned beef, and local sturgeon dumplings. Some tourists said after eating: "This bite tastes of both China and Russia."
International exchanges are never a distant matter. It is the sour and sweet taste in pickled cucumbers, the joy on Bask Festival, the knowing smile when border residents on both sides of the boundary river meet, and my grandmother's authentic stewed pork with vermicelli. The life in our village is a microcosm of the proximity and affinity of neighbors on the border line of the motherland.
Experiencing International Exchanges in Intangible Cultural Heritage Skills
Naren Qiqige (娜仁其其格), National Intangible Cultural Heritage Representative Inheritor of Gansu Mongolian Costumes (甘肃蒙古族服饰)
I am from Subei Mongolian Autonomous County (肃北蒙古族自治县), Jiuquan City (酒泉市), Gansu (甘肃), and I am the national intangible cultural heritage representative inheritor of Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) costumes. The stories of exchanges between China and neighboring countries that I have experienced are hidden in the costumes woven with every stitch and thread.
I was born in an ordinary herder family. My grandmother was a very famous tailor in the tribe. If someone in the tribe needed to make clothes, they would invite her to live at their home, and she would stay for one or two months. I started learning costume making from my grandmother at the age of 8, and I formed a deep relationship with Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) costumes in the process.
I was born into an ordinary herdsman's family. My grandmother was a very famous tailor in the tribe. When people in the tribe needed to make clothes, they would invite her to stay at their homes, and she would stay for a month or two. I started learning clothing making from my grandmother at the age of 8, and in this immersive environment, I developed a deep connection with Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing.
Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing, whether for spring, summer, autumn, or winter, has fur trim, which is a unique feature of clothing in high-altitude areas. Men's clothing has a long collar and a short hem, which is suitable for riding horses. The belt accessories include a fire striker, chopsticks, and a bowl bag, which are suitable for nomadic life. Women's clothing is characterized by "three longs": the red tassel of the red-tasseled hat is long, the hair bag is long, and the vest is long. These details in the needlework are skills that have been passed down from generation to generation by the Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) people, and have now become one of the cultural symbols of exchanges between China and neighboring countries.
Shagla embroidery is a unique pattern of the Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) people. Three horizontal bars symbolize the "three treasures of auspiciousness," and the surrounding patterns surround and protect them, symbolizing "retaining auspiciousness." Friends from Mongolia have made special trips to our intangible cultural heritage workshop to learn about Shagla embroidery. Our two countries have many similarities in classical embroidery patterns, and our clothing cultures are also very similar, making it easy to resonate when communicating.
In recent years, cultural exchanges between China and neighboring countries have been frequent. I often take Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing to participate in various competitions and intangible cultural heritage exhibitions. I have competed on the same stage with foreign friends from Mongolia, Russia, and other countries, as well as intangible cultural heritage inheritors from Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Qinghai (青海), Xinjiang (新疆), and other places in China. The Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing I made has also won gold medals in competitions. Participating in these cultural exchange activities has allowed me to meet friends from neighboring countries and learn about their clothing cultures. I am grateful to the media for their attention and reports on intangible cultural heritage, which has allowed traditional Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing to go out of Gansu (甘肃) and into the world. In the future, I hope to participate in more such exchange activities to let more people know about Subei Mongolian (肃北蒙古族) clothing.
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Walking on the innovative hot land of Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), a company deeply involved in intelligent sensing and robot core components is impressive. They are continuously climbing towards the technical no-man's land of humanoid robots and high-level autonomous driving, aiming to create an autonomous and controllable robot perception system, equipping humanoid robots with more accurate and reliable "eyes."
The prospect of humanoid robots is broad, but it is still in its initial stage, and large-scale application will take time. This company did not wait for the future, but quickly applied mature technologies to new scenarios. Once launched, related products won market favor and gained considerable returns. This allows the company to adhere to long-term technological ideals while focusing on achieving steady development in the present, forging a feasible path for the solid growth of technology companies.
During interviews and exchanges, the company's relevant负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge," the responsible person) summarized the concept of "climbing peaks and laying eggs along the way," which is inspiring: instead of pursuing reaching the top in one step, they actively transform mature technologies into usable products while tackling core technologies in the long term, and quickly push them to the market.
"Climbing peaks" embodies a strategic focus on anchoring core technologies. In the context of a complex and severe international situation with intertwined changes and chaos, key core technologies cannot be obtained, bought, or begged for; we must rely on our own efforts to拼出来、干出来 (pīn chū lái, gàn chū lái - "fight it out, work it out," to strive and work hard to achieve something). To enable robots to "walk and jump," a large number of technical difficulties need to be overcome—from precision reducers to intelligent sensing, from motion control to autonomous decision-making. The breakthrough of each core technology requires enduring loneliness and persevering for a long time.
Looking at China (中国), many robot companies are continuously exerting efforts in key core technology fields with the posture of climbers. Some companies have spent many years breaking through the balance control technology of humanoid robots, allowing robots to walk freely even in complex terrains; the AI (artificial intelligence) visual algorithms of some companies allow the sorting accuracy of industrial robots to reach the micron level. This persistent climbing of "peaks" is the foundation for Chinese technology companies to move towards high-end and intelligent development.
"Laying eggs along the way" embodies the market wisdom of fully exploring the value of technology. Taking the Shenzhen (深圳) company as an example, while developing products for humanoid robots, they found that lawn mowing robots also have a strong demand for LiDAR. Therefore, the company quickly responded, adapting the product to the lawn mowing scenario and opening up new growth space.
This phenomenon of "technology spillover" is not accidental. From the perspective of the industrial chain, humanoid robots have "borrowed" a lot of technology from the new energy vehicle industry. Important technologies such as motors, reducers, and vision and perception algorithms come from suppliers in the new energy vehicle industry. Facts fully prove that deeply releasing the market potential of technology can not only bring market "nourishment" to enterprises, but also enrich the entire innovation ecosystem and maximize the release of innovation value.
"Climbing" and "laying eggs" seem to have different directions, but they are dialectically unified. Adhering to the ambition of "climbing peaks" provides the technological foundation for "laying eggs along the way"; the continuous nourishment of "laying eggs along the way" can avoid the predicament of capital shortage and detachment from the market on the road to "climbing peaks." The organic combination of the two can truly ensure that the road of technological innovation is stable and far-reaching.
From a larger perspective, the "small logic" of enterprise development reflects the "big code" of China's (中国) economy moving towards new and better.
In recent years, China (中国) has continued to accelerate high-level scientific and technological self-reliance. The "15th Five-Year Plan"纲要 (gāng yào - "outline," a summary of the main points) proposes to promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, and continuously generate new quality productive forces. "Climbing peaks" means "strengthening original innovation and tackling key core technologies" in key areas; "laying eggs along the way" means "strengthening the promotion of attack through application and the combination of attack and application, promoting technological research and development, achievement transformation, standard development, and industrial cultivation in an integrated manner, and accelerating the application of breakthroughs and product iteration and upgrading," so that innovative technologies can empower industrial upgrading.
"Climbing" is an upward pursuit, and "laying eggs" is a downward rooting. On the new journey, we expect more Chinese (中国) technology companies to not only overcome core technologies with firm belief, but also allow innovative achievements to continuously take root in thousands of industries, injecting a continuous stream of innovative impetus into high-quality development.
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Recently, Yu Guangli (于广利), professor at the Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学) and chief scientist at the Qingdao Marine Biomedical Research Institute (青岛海洋生物医药研究院), traveled to Chile for a single Antarctic brown alga.
Along Chile's long coastline grows a special brown alga called sea mustard. Locally, it's just a common dish, with people cooking and eating it as a traditional ingredient.
But when it crossed the ocean to Qingdao (青岛), Shandong (山东) Province, China, its fate was redefined—a Chinese research team extracted key active ingredients from it and developed the Class 1 innovative marine drug for immune-oncology, "BG136 for Injection." This is the first marine polysaccharide drug for immune-oncology to enter clinical trials internationally.
How did a seaweed complete its "transformation journey" from food ingredient to innovative drug? A reporter investigates.
Seeking from the Sea, Breaking Through the "Bottleneck" Dilemma
In 2000, Yu Guangli (于广利) returned to China after completing his studies and joined Qingdao Ocean University (青岛海洋大学) (now Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学)). At that time, marine drug research and development in China was still a desolate "wasteland."
Internationally, although marine drug research had started, only a handful of original drugs had been truly launched. The number of research teams in China engaged in this field was even scarcer, with limited funding, lack of platforms, and shortage of talent being the practical difficulties facing all those "seeking medicine from the sea."
"At that time, people said we were being whimsical to develop marine drugs," Yu Guangli (于广利) recalled. In the eyes of many, finding molecules that can cure diseases from the vast sea was like finding a needle in a haystack. Moreover, new drug development often takes more than a decade, involves large amounts of investment, and has an extremely high failure rate.
"Since the road ahead is lonely, then let's be the pioneers," Yu Guangli (于广利) said. "Marine drug research and development is not only a scientific research gap, but also a blue fertile land with unlimited potential. In the vast ocean, countless unknown active molecules are waiting to be discovered, which is both a challenge and an excellent track for China's biomedicine to achieve original breakthroughs."
The beginning of China's blue drugs started with Guan Huashi (管华诗). Guan Huashi (管华诗), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院) and a professor at the Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学), devoted his life's work to marine biomedical research. In 1980, he established the earliest marine drug research laboratory in Chinese universities. The conditions were extremely rudimentary—the laboratory was converted from a toilet, and in winter, a stove was needed to keep the experiment going.
It was in such harsh conditions that in 1985, the PSS (sodium alginate diester) developed by Guan Huashi's (管华诗) team passed evaluation and became China's first modern original marine drug.
The success of PSS allowed the team to discover the magical medicinal value of seaweed polysaccharides. In the following decades, like searching for a needle in a haystack, they collected hundreds of seaweeds from major sea areas around the world, and performed extraction, separation, structural analysis, and functional evaluation one by one, building the world's first marine sugar library, and in 2009, they won the only first prize of the National Technology Invention Award in the field of marine, aquatic, and biomedical fields in China.
And the "seed" of BG136 was quietly buried in this long accumulation.
There are thousands of algae in the world's oceans, so why did they "target" sea mustard?
It turned out that in 2010, when the team was routinely analyzing a batch of seaweed samples in the laboratory, sea mustard from Chile caught their attention—its β-glucan content was extremely high, far exceeding any terrestrial fungi they had seen before, and it had the potential to be developed as an anti-cancer drug.
There was a reason for this discovery. Previously, Yu Guangli's (于广利) team had aimed at β-glucan from Grifola frondosa to develop anti-tumor drugs, but encountered a cut-off in raw material supply, and the research came to an abrupt end. The acute pain of being "bottlenecked" made Yu Guangli (于广利) deeply aware that key raw materials must be in their own hands.
"At that time, we were thinking, can we find alternative resources from the ocean?" Yu Guangli (于广利) said. The ocean accounts for 71% of the Earth's surface area, and its biological resources are extremely rich. The special environment of high salt and high pressure gives marine organisms the ability to produce structurally novel and uniquely active natural products.
It is by no means easy to truly develop compounds screened from the marine sugar library into innovative drugs for the treatment of major diseases.
In 2013, Guan Huashi (管华诗), then 74 years old, made a bold decision: to establish an institution whose main business is the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and industrial incubation. Thus, with the support of the school, the Qingdao Marine Biomedical Research Institute (青岛海洋生物医药研究院) was established. Facing doubts, Guan Huashi's (管华诗) answer was sonorous: "We can't just stay in the house and write papers, we have to transform our achievements. To build a strong maritime country, we must contribute."
Since then, the team has embarked on a research journey—what they have to do is to obtain marine drugs with development value from various marine organisms. Extracting β-glucan from this seaweed and developing it into an immune-oncology marine polysaccharide drug is one of the important tasks.
Crossing the "Valley of Death," From Laboratory to Production Line
The road "from 0 to 1" is far longer than imagined.
In 2014, the Qingdao Marine Biomedical Research Institute (青岛海洋生物医药研究院) officially started operating, and BG136 became the first marine new drug project it incubated.
The first "stumbling block" facing the team was the pilot-scale amplification, which is known as the "valley of death" in new drug development. From the laboratory to the production line, the process parameters are completely different. The team went through 3 years of repeated research before the production process was opened up.
"The mechanism of action of BG136 is to fight tumors by activating the body's innate immune system, which is theoretically a broad-spectrum drug. But to apply for clinical trials, an indication must be determined," Yu Guangli (于广利) said.
BG136 has different inhibitory effects on lung cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, etc. Which cancer should be locked in to carry out systematic preclinical research needs to be determined by an expert demonstration meeting. The project was stalled for half a year until it turned to colorectal cancer under the guidance of tumor immunology experts, and the animal experiment results were good or even exceeded expectations, and the direction was finally clear.
Greater tests are yet to come. A purity of 95% in the pilot stage is far from enough to apply for a new drug. The team sought external cooperation everywhere, but ran into walls everywhere—BG136 is a structurally complex marine polysaccharide drug, with no precedent to follow, and no institution dared to take it.
Therefore, Li Quancai (李全才), who was responsible for the preparation process, Lü Youjing (吕友晶), who was responsible for structural analysis, and Hu Ting (胡婷), who was responsible for quality control, formed a research team, eating and living in the factory, working day and night, and finally increased the purity to more than 98%.
In the first half of 2019, the BG136 project was jointly incubated with Chia Tai Pharmaceutical (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. (正大制药（青岛）有限公司) (now Qingdao Guoxin Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (青岛国信制药有限公司)), and officially started the production of raw materials. The team adopted a three-shift, 24-hour non-stop approach, and after two months, produced 5 batches of qualified raw materials, providing a sufficient material basis for subsequent formulation and safety evaluation studies.
In September 2020, the team submitted a clinical trial application for the first time, but it was "stuck." Every question raised by the review experts—impurity structure, administration method, and drug economy—made the team return to the laboratory and respond with a large number of experiments. The paper materials submitted were nearly 2 meters high when stacked.
Initially, the team did not understand the "strictness" of the review. Later, an expert's words made Yu Guangli (于广利) suddenly enlightened: "This is not only China's Class 1 innovative drug, but also the world's original innovative drug, and it must stand the test. This project must be a benchmark."
"At that moment, we deeply realized the weight on our shoulders, and we were even more determined to go to the end," Yu Guangli (于广利) said.
Mechanism Innovation, Opening up the "Last Mile" From "Bookshelf" to "Shelf"
In December 2022, BG136 was officially approved to enter clinical trials. The first trial was conducted in a hospital in Qingdao (青岛).
According to animal experiment data, Yu Guangli (于广利) suggested that the dose could start from 24 mg and gradually climb to 400 mg. The doctor shook his head on the spot and insisted on starting from 2 mg.
Early the next morning, Yu Guangli (于广利) learned from the director in charge of the clinical trial that a doctor had stayed by the subject's bed all night, preparing for all the risks he could think of in advance, until he confirmed that the patient was stable throughout the process at dawn, and the heart that had been hanging all night fell.
With the joint efforts of the research team and the hospital, the clinical trial continued. The dose gradually climbed from 2 mg to 24 mg, 50 mg, 100 mg, 200 mg, 300 mg, and 400 mg—all passed safely.
In March 2024, BG136 successfully completed Phase I clinical trials. In 2025, the project will advance to Phase II clinical trials, and the progress is currently smooth. "Phase I mainly evaluates the safety and tolerability of the drug and determines the safe dose range that the human body can tolerate; Phase II, on this basis, also evaluates the effectiveness of the drug and determines the best dose and frequency of administration," Yu Guangli (于广利) said.
In the Phase II trial, the original plan of injecting once every three days triggered new thinking because some patients from other places traveled back and forth and found it difficult to persist. The team returned to the laboratory and repeatedly verified using animal models and found that "once a week is completely feasible, and even some tumor-bearing mouse models have good results with once every two weeks," Yu Guangli (于广利) said.
Looking back on the road, from the start of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金) project in 2004 to entering Phase II clinical trials today, this road has been walked for more than 20 years.
"From 'bookshelf' to 'shelf', every step of BG136's leap is inseparable from a unique achievement transformation mechanism," Yu Guangli (于广利) said. The research institute not only focuses on goal-oriented key technology breakthroughs, but also carries out market-oriented commercial operations. This "integrated dualistic" model breaks the "fences" between universities and enterprises, allowing research institutions to quickly respond to market demands, allowing enterprises to intervene in the incubation stage early, and forming a deeply integrated collaborative innovation system of "government, industry, academia, research, finance, and service."
As of now, the research institute has promoted more than 1,000 achievement transformation projects, provided technical support for more than 200 related units in China, and accumulated contract amounts of more than 1 billion yuan.
In 2026, the team also brought good news: relying on the accumulation of the first prize of the National Technology Invention Award (国家技术发明奖) "Preparation Technology of Marine Characteristic Oligosaccharides," brown algae oligosaccharides were approved as a national new food raw material, realizing a "zero breakthrough" in their application in the food field. This is another important achievement of the "Blue Drug Treasury" development plan after BG136.
From an overall perspective, although China's marine biomedical industry is growing rapidly, there are still problems such as the small overall scale and the low contribution to the marine economy. Zhang Junfeng (张峻峰), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Ocean University of China (中国海洋大学), pointed out that it is necessary to strengthen the national top-level design, build a collaborative pattern of "the whole country as one chessboard," support the construction of national-level platforms in the field of marine biomedicine, give full play to the experience advantages of leading marine research units in resource accumulation and drug development, integrate existing innovation carriers, and strive to promote the construction of national key laboratories, industrial technology centers, concept verification and pilot test bases, etc., give play to the advantages of the new national system, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, form a joint force for the development of the entire innovation chain, and help promote the high-quality development of the marine economy.
"We must consolidate basic research and increase long-term investment. Only by concentrating the strength of the team and persevering in in-depth exploration can we overcome key core technologies, release the huge potential of marine biomedicine, and protect the health of the people," Yu Guangli (于广利) proposed.
From Guan Huashi (管华诗) forming the first marine drug research laboratory in China to today's "Blue Drug Treasury" taking shape, Qingdao's (青岛) exploration of seeking medicine from the sea has gone through nearly half a century. Today, a batch of marine innovative drugs such as BG136, the new anti-chronic obstructive pulmonary disease drug LY104, and the new anti-hepatitis B virus drug LY102 are being promoted in a tiered manner.
Seeking medicine from the sea, the road is long, but it will arrive if you walk it. 向海问药，路虽远，行则将至 (xiàng hǎi wèn yào, lù suī yuǎn, xíng zé jiāng zhì - "Seeking medicine from the sea, the road is long, but it will arrive if you walk it," emphasizes perseverance and determination in achieving a goal, even if it seems distant or difficult).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
In Nantong (南通), Jiangsu (江苏), a giant ship sounded its horn upon delivery. It is the world's largest piling ship – "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号).
Looking at its dimensions, the ship has an overall length of 130.5 meters, a width of 40.8 meters, and a depth of 8.4 meters. Looking at its power, the ship's pile frame has a height of 156 meters and can drive piles with a diameter of 7 meters and a weight of 700 tons, making it the piling ship with the largest pile lifting capacity in the world.
What is a piling ship? What are its wonderful uses?
"A piling ship is a 'strongman' dedicated to offshore construction, which can lay a solid foundation for various offshore or cross-water buildings, driving huge piles deep into the mud or rock layers at the bottom of the water," introduced Hu Kai (胡凯), General Manager of China Railway Bridge Bureau Shipbuilding Company (中国铁建大桥局船舶公司). Taking "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号) as an example, this "strongman" is about to travel to Brazil (巴西) to participate in the construction of Latin America's largest cross-sea cable-stayed bridge – the Salvador Cross-Sea Bridge (萨尔瓦多跨海大桥).
What are the secrets to building the world's largest piling ship?
Core components are independently controllable. As the "heart" of the piling ship, "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号) is equipped with an oil cylinder with a diameter of 1.6 meters. When fully extended, the total length is nearly 50 meters, about 17 stories high; its rated thrust reaches 5,000 tons, which is equivalent to lifting 3,500 family cars at one time. The weight, diameter, length, and thrust of this oil cylinder are all the world's largest.
Forging such an oversized component is not easy. "We have joined forces with the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to overcome a series of process problems such as ultra-large component processing accuracy control, ultra-long piston rod anti-deformation, and ultra-large rod coating cladding," said Hu Kai (胡凯). In the end, the straightness error of the 24.6-meter-long piston rod did not exceed 0.2 millimeters.
Innovative technology takes the lead. In addition to its excellent quality, "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号) is also an "environmental guardian," as it is the first in the world to apply a closed-loop hydraulic system for the main oil cylinder to a piling ship.
With the closed-loop hydraulic system of the main oil cylinder, when the pile frame is lowered or tilted forward, the potential energy can be converted and recovered into electrical energy, with an energy recovery rate of 40%, thereby reducing operating energy consumption and equipment mechanical loss, and controlling operating costs while improving operating efficiency.
"Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号) also uses an advanced low-sulfur oil system and a diesel engine exhaust gas treatment system (SCR system), so that the exhaust gas emissions reach the highest international standard for diesel engine emission control, and it can be used in all emission control areas around the world.
With the help of the domestic Beidou (北斗) high-precision satellite positioning system, the piling ship has built an intelligent ship construction positioning system, which can achieve centimeter-level positioning and complete ship mooring and piling with extremely high precision.
In the past, the core technology of China's (中国) piling ships was restricted by foreign countries. "Tiejian Bridge Pile 1" (铁建大桥桩1号) has achieved comprehensive transcendence in pile frame height, pile lifting capacity, operating water depth, positioning accuracy, and intelligence level, marking that China's (中国) piling ship technology has proudly entered the forefront of the world.
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In March, China's Manufacturing Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) was 50.4%, operating in the expansion range above the 50% boom-bust line again after two months; China's non-manufacturing business activity index was 50.1%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points from the previous month, with consecutive month-on-month increases for two months; the comprehensive PMI output index was 50.5%, an increase of 1.0 percentage points from the previous month.
The comprehensive improvement of the three leading indicators not only releases a strong signal of continuous improvement in the economic prosperity level, but also demonstrates the vitality and resilience of the Chinese economy in a complex and volatile environment.
The comprehensive improvement of the PMI index stems from the determination to pursue high-quality development.
In March, the manufacturing new orders index was 51.6%, an increase of 3 percentage points from the previous month, returning to the expansion range after operating below 50% for two consecutive months. Driven by expanding demand, companies' willingness to purchase has obviously recovered. In March, the purchase volume index rebounded by 2.7 percentage points to 50.9%. The synchronous expansion of both production and demand sides demonstrates a good situation of consolidating the positive economic trend and activating endogenous growth momentum.
Facing the sluggish global economic recovery and the uncertainty brought about by geopolitical conflicts, China is unswervingly promoting high-quality development, improving total factor productivity, and promoting the aggregation of various advanced factors towards the development of new quality productive forces. The manufacturing industry is constantly moving towards high-end, intelligent, and green development. Looking ahead, in the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, 5 aspects and 20 major indicators, 16 major strategic tasks, and 109 major projects... outline the development blueprint for China in the next 5 years, which will further consolidate the industrial foundation of China's economic development and accumulate momentum for economic development.
The comprehensive improvement of the PMI index demonstrates the vitality of new momentum.
Looking closely at the sub-indicators, the performance of indicators representing new momentum, such as the equipment manufacturing industry and the high-tech manufacturing industry, is outstanding: In March, the new orders index for the equipment manufacturing industry increased by more than 3 percentage points from the previous month to over 53%, and the new orders index for the high-tech manufacturing industry increased by more than 2 percentage points from the previous month to over 54%, and the new orders indices for the two industries have been operating in the expansion range for 20 and 14 consecutive months, respectively.
Currently, China is accelerating the cultivation of new quality productive forces, promoting the deep integration of cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence and quantum technology with the manufacturing industry, and the two-way efforts of iterative upgrading of traditional industries and the accelerated rise of emerging industries have formed a diversified and collaborative industrial development pattern, which not only enhances the core competitiveness of the industry, but also injects inexhaustible power into the continuous recovery and improvement of the economy.
The first independently developed quantum computer operating system "Origin Siyuan" (本源司南) is officially available for online download and will empower thousands of industries; domestically produced humanoid robots have entered the "10,000-unit era," breaking the global mass production speed record; the world's leading integrated professional engineering vessel has been delivered, and China Shipbuilding (中国船舶) is moving towards high-end and green development... China has become an important source of global innovation.
The comprehensive improvement of the PMI index releases new consumption potential.
In March, the new orders index for the consumer goods manufacturing industry increased by more than 3 percentage points from the previous month to over 52%, and the demand in the consumer goods market has obviously rebounded. Since the beginning of this year, the consumer market has been developing steadily, moving towards new and better directions. The pace of consumption upgrading is accelerating, and new consumption demands such as green consumption and intelligent consumption are continuously growing, which not only drives the development of the consumer goods manufacturing industry, but also leads the manufacturing industry to transform towards high-end and high-quality development.
Since the beginning of this year, special actions to boost consumption have been continuously deepened, new demand leads to new supply, and new supply creates new demand. Measures will promote sustained consumption growth, expansion, and upgrading, providing important support for resisting external demand fluctuations and promoting sustained economic recovery.
The comprehensive entry of the three leading indicators into the expansion range reflects the current strengthening of development confidence, improvement of expectations, and the good trend of economic recovery. Continuing to implement more proactive fiscal policies and moderately loose monetary policies, realizing the integrated effect of existing policies and incremental policies, moving forward step by step, and promoting stage by stage, the Chinese economy in the opening year is worth looking forward to.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明 窦 皓 洪秋婷 白光迪
For some time now, the Chinese lifestyle of drinking hot water and emphasizing health preservation has quietly become popular in foreign social circles. From the overseas social media craze of "Chinese Lifestyle Checklist" to the global popularity of everyday items such as insulated cups, Chinese manufacturing has moved from factory workshops to global dining tables, and from practical tools to symbols of a healthy lifestyle. China contributes more than 60% of the world's insulated cup production, with an annual output of approximately 800 million units.
A small insulated cup contains a great universe. What are the new trends in the insulated cup market? What is the secret to China's insulated cups dominating the global market? The reporter visited several insulated cup industrial belts to understand the industrial foundation, innovation logic, and cultural power of insulated cups, and to witness the advancement of good Chinese products from "scale advantage" to "brand advantage" and "cultural advantage."
Changes in Consumption
Drinking Utensils Transform into Fashionable Items
Walking into the exhibition hall of Zhejiang Haers Vacuum Containers Co., Ltd. (浙江哈尔斯真空器皿股份有限公司) in Yongkang City (永康市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), the reporter was immediately attracted by thousands of cups and pots of various shapes.
Inside the exhibition hall, a smart tea-making cup caught the eye. When brewing tea, the cup not only informs the precise brewing parameters and time for the tea, but even when the tea is ready, the light ring on the smart lid will light up to remind the user, and the cup will emit a vibrating hum to provide feedback to the user.
"We have introduced near-field wireless transmission Starlight technology and AI recognition technology into the smart tea-making cup, which can achieve millisecond-level intelligent connection. The APP has imported dozens of intelligent tea recipes jointly developed with Bama Tea (八马茶业), guiding users to brew tea, and also supports quick switching of tea types, allowing users to obtain the best taste experience every time they brew tea," the exhibition hall staff introduced.
Haers (哈尔斯) takes "traditional hardware + mobile internet + healthy living + high technology + high-end feel" as a breakthrough, deeply integrating health monitoring, drinking water reminders, and other intelligent modules with traditional insulation technology, opening up a high-end niche market. "We are strategically transforming from 'selling products' to 'selling life,' reconstructing the product, marketing, and channel system around the user's life logic and emotional needs, and integrating AI technology into the entire chain of research and development, manufacturing, and service," said Wu Zifu (吴子富), President of Haers.
Deeply cultivating "intelligence" has also become the choice of Xino insulated cups. In the modern workshop of Xino Co., Ltd. (希诺股份有限公司) in Nantong City (南通市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), intelligent equipment is assembling a brand new intelligent temperature-controlled insulated cup. This is not an ordinary insulated cup; it has a built-in miniature sensor that can monitor the water temperature in real-time, connect to a mobile phone APP via Bluetooth, and provide users with temperature reminders, healthy drinking water suggestions, and more.
"Consumers are no longer satisfied with how 'long' it keeps warm, but are more concerned about 'how to use it' and 'how it combines with life scenarios,'" Chen Jinguo (陈金国), General Manager of Xino, admitted that a smart insulated cup targeting sports enthusiasts quickly became popular in outdoor sports communities after being launched in the cup and pot market, thanks to its real-time temperature display and sports data linkage function.
The popularity of intelligent temperature display is a vivid embodiment of the evolution of insulated cup functions. Drinking water reminders, water quality monitoring, UV (ultraviolet) sterilization, tea and coffee separation... The core function of insulated cups has expanded from "long-term insulation" to many new fields.
It is not just functional changes; material innovation, scenario fission, changes in consumer trends, and many other major factors have formed a synergy, driving the insulated cup to evolve from a small container into a multi-functional life companion that carries health, fashion, and emotion.
Taking material innovation as an example, the application of titanium materials effectively improves the quality of insulated cups. In the exhibition hall of Feijian Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. (飞剑工贸有限公司) in Yongkang (永康), a titanium metal insulated cup treated with high-temperature crystallization is particularly eye-catching. Its surface has a flowing luster and unique texture, and it is the flagship product of Feijian's independent brand.
Long-term use of ordinary insulated cups can easily breed bacteria and produce scale, and sometimes even taste a faint metallic taste. These pain points are all resolved by titanium cups.
"The application of titanium in high-end insulated cups (pots) not only improves the functional characteristics of the product but also opens up a new market space," said Xia Feijian (夏飞剑), Chairman of Feijian Company. Feijian's independent brand "Feijian Titanium Cup" has successfully entered the high-end cup and pot market, and a titanium cup priced at 1299 yuan is in short supply after being launched on the market. The high-end products are even more expensive and have collection value, turning insulated cups from everyday items into collectible trendy items.
Insulated cups, suitable for all ages, have become fashionable items and personalized accessories among different consumer groups. In 2025, the sales of Yongkang insulated cups on the Douyin e-commerce platform increased by nearly 50% year-on-year, among which titanium cups were the most popular among consumers, with sales increasing by more than 100% year-on-year.
The Core of Intelligent Manufacturing
Intelligent Transformation and Digital Modification Link Industrial Clusters
Grinding, polishing, removing burrs, welding, vacuuming... In the tens of thousands of square meters of Haers' intelligent production workshop, dozens of fully automated production lines are operating in an orderly manner. Before long, beautiful and practical finished insulated cups come off the production line.
"With the support of the digital factory, the per capita production efficiency has increased by more than 20%, the product research and development cycle has been shortened by more than 30%, the energy utilization rate has increased by more than 10%, and the cost of output value per 10,000 yuan has decreased by more than 10%," introduced Miao Shuai (苗帅), Manager of the Process Engineering Department of Haers.
The focus shifts from East China to South China. In the park of Jiedong Development Zone (揭东开发区) in Jieyang City (揭阳市), Guangdong Province (广东省), 10 production lines are operating simultaneously, about to complete the "laser welding" production step of an insulated cup. In the blink of an eye, the vacuum insulation layer between the inner liner and the outer shell is welded.
Liu Yu (柳郁), Deputy General Manager of Jieyang Xingcai Industrial Co., Ltd. (揭阳市兴财实业有限公司), frankly said, "The industry's technological path is already quite mature, but we are unwilling to stop there and still insist on independently developing advanced technologies and constantly updating equipment to establish differentiated competitive advantages through technological upgrades."
From "OEM manufacturing" to "intelligent manufacturing upgrades," the key is technological innovation that closely follows market demand. "Look, this is the latest computer UV printing technology, which realizes the three-dimensional presentation of patterns and designs on the cup, turning an ordinary cup into a work of art, with a better appearance and more vivid colors, which is more popular among young consumers," introduced Hu Xingqiu (胡星球), Head of Production Technology at Jieyang Xingcai Industrial Co., Ltd.
From manufacturing to "intelligent manufacturing," China's insulated cup industry is accelerating its iteration and upgrading. The introduction of robot welding, visual inspection, AGV (Automated Guided Vehicle) logistics, 5G full connection... Digital transformation, intelligent transformation, and other innovative practices are being staged in many insulated cup industrial belts.
A complete supply chain and efficient industrial collaboration are also important advantages for China's insulated cup industry to lead the world.
Within a 1-hour drive, you can find all the necessary accessories; with one phone call, suppliers can deliver goods to your door; with one idea, it can be turned into a sample in a few days... In Yongkang (永康), the insulated cup industry has established an efficient industrial cluster over several decades.
Today, Zhejiang (浙江) has formed the "Yongwu Jin" (永武缙) cup and pot industrial cluster with Yongkang (永康) and the surrounding Wuyi County (武义县) and Jinyun County (缙云县) as the core. The cluster's cup and pot production and export volume account for more than 70% of the country's total, and 80% of the leading insulated cup brands in the European and American markets are manufactured by this cluster. As of the end of 2025, Yongkang City (永康市) has gathered more than 2,900 cup and pot production supporting enterprises, with an annual output of more than 600 million cups and pots, including 248 industrial enterprises above designated size in the cup industry, with an output value of 18 billion yuan, forming a complete industrial chain closed loop from mold development, stainless steel plate processing to surface treatment.
"Yongkang and the surrounding areas have a complete and efficient supply chain and corresponding technological accumulation. In Yongkang, the response cycle for personalized printing on an insulated cup can be compressed from 7 days to 48 hours. The same cup, produced in Yongkang, has lower costs, higher efficiency, and better quality. First-tier foreign brands flock to cooperate with local insulated cup companies," said Chen Lei (陈磊), Director of the Yongkang Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology.
In addition, in the fields of long-term insulation, tailless vacuum, and nano-antibacterial coating technology breakthroughs, Chinese insulated cup companies continue to cultivate deeply, increase investment, and upgrade, promoting the transformation of insulated cups from low-end to mid-to-high-end, and a batch of high-tech intelligent and environmentally friendly new products are accelerating their journey to the world.
Global Dance
Product Export Plus Brand Going Overseas
In the industrial park of Yangzhou City (扬州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), the production workshop of Heshuo Stainless Steel Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. (和硕不锈钢工贸有限公司) is in the peak season for annual orders. "In the past, we mainly exported conventional insulated cups, with large order volumes, but the products were basically the same. Now, the proportion of customized product orders has exceeded 30%, especially those with exquisite patterns and multi-functional designs, which are very popular in overseas markets," introduced Huang Yibei (黄溢蓓), Foreign Trade Manager of the company.
This year, a limited edition insulated cup launched by Heshuo Company is a representative of its innovative customized products. This insulated cup integrates European local cultural customs and Jiangsu traditional craft elements. It was jointly developed by the Heshuo team and foreign designers and has both aesthetic and practical functions. "This is a perfect linkage of 'local culture + Chinese manufacturing technology'," Huang Yibei said with a smile.
The North American market emphasizes "cold preservation" and in-vehicle leak-proofness, while the Asian market emphasizes "heat preservation" and tea culture... Consumers in different regions have differences in cultural aesthetics, functional orientation, and consumption preferences. How can Chinese insulated cups truly enter the daily lives of global consumers and become recognized and loved international brands?
Strengthening "market insight and localization" is the experience of many insulated cup companies in developing overseas markets.
Understanding popular consumer trends. The "Sounion" insulated bottle, whose design inspiration comes from the classical aesthetics of the Temple of Poseidon in Greece, is a "hit" independently designed by Xingcai Company. "We maintain long-term cooperation with Starbucks, Disney, and others, and launch new products every year. The international market feedback for this 'Sounion' insulated bottle is very good," said Liu Yu.
Carrying out overseas layout according to local conditions. Wu Zifu introduced that in 2025, the company's Thai base was completed and put into operation, and the entire overseas supply chain was connected, becoming a strategic fulcrum radiating North America and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (RCEP) region. Through localized operations in Thailand, the company has achieved a breakthrough in supply chain localization and accumulated practical experience in overseas markets, laying a solid foundation for global layout.
Strengthening the construction of independent brand value is also important. Improving brand awareness, internationalizing Chinese cultural elements, cultural empowerment to enhance brand premium, advancing from "selling products" to "selling lifestyles," and spreading Eastern health concepts... Chinese insulated cup companies are actively promoting brand strategy and constantly advancing to the mid-to-high end of the industrial chain value chain.
"In the past, we were all doing insulated cups for others' brands, and the price was always squeezed to the lowest price. Three years ago, we tried to transform the production line and put our understanding of product design into it, and then we truly had our own brand logic," said Lü Xiaofan (吕小凡), Workshop Director of Heshuo Company. Today, the selling price of Heshuo Company's own models in the European, American, and Southeast Asian markets is often several times the ex-factory price of past OEM products, and the product pricing power and market voice have been significantly improved.
"From the hard-core support of industrial clusters to the soft value output of cultural empowerment, and then to the global layout of brand going overseas, Chinese insulated cups are integrated into the world in diverse forms," said Chen Lei. In the future, with the deepening of innovation-driven and cultural integration, the brand influence and innovation capabilities of Chinese insulated cups will be further demonstrated.
(Su Yongxiao (苏咏潇) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 宋豪新
Inside the Jinsha Site Museum (金沙遗址博物馆) in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), goldware, jade articles, and bronzeware from the Shang (商) and Zhou (周) dynasties are quietly displayed, recounting the splendid and magnificent ancient Shu (古蜀) civilization. In front of the display case containing a bronze figure only 10.35 centimeters high, tourists always gather to stop and take photos. The extremely modern and unique shape has made this bronze figure a "celebrity cultural relic" in the museum.
The bronze figure, 4.54 centimeters wide and 1.37 centimeters thick, is a unique bronze artifact unearthed from the Jinsha Site (金沙遗址), and the first such shape discovered in the ancient Shu culture site. It has no head or face, a slender upper body paired with short, splayed legs, and hands hanging down below the waist. The overall posture is upright, with a three-dimensional convex front and a concave back. Symmetrical small round holes are also distributed on the shoulders and calves on both sides of the artifact.
According to archaeologists, these round holes should be used for riveting and fixing, and this bronze figure is likely a decoration or accessory of some kind of large artifact. Currently, two bronze figures of the same shape have been unearthed at the Jinsha Site (金沙遗址). Although its specific function has not yet been determined, it is an important physical material for studying the bronze manufacturing technology and bronze civilization of the ancient Shu ancestors in the Chengdu (成都) area during the Shang (商) and Zhou (周) dynasties.
"The shape of this bronze figure is full of modern sense that transcends the times. The first time I saw it, I felt it was very novel," said Qiu Yang (邱扬), a cultural and creative designer at the Jinsha Site Museum (金沙遗址博物馆). It is this "cuteness" that spans 3,000 years that has won the love of many netizens and audiences. Some people think it looks like a modern bottle opener, while others associate its shape with a bladeless fan. Some netizens have even created secondary creations based on this, and have imaginatively equipped it with a spacesuit scene.
When ancient Shu cultural relics meet modern life, the Jinsha Site Museum (金沙遗址博物馆) has opened up a new way to experience this "strangeness and fun". The museum closely focuses on the modern shape of the bronze figure, integrates cultural relic elements into daily life, and has designed and launched a variety of distinctive cultural and creative products, turning ancient Shu cultural relics into "trendy products" that are integrated into the daily lives of the public. The most representative of these is the bottle opener that restores the shape of the bronze figure and the historical texture of bronze. This cultural and creative product not only perfectly replicates the shape of the cultural relic, but also has a refrigerator magnet function. It is practical and has collection value, making it one of the most popular cultural and creative products in the museum.
On this basis, the museum also created the "Wululu" cute pet series of cultural and creative products based on the bronze figure. The cute "Wululu" is transformed into ornaments, pillows, and refrigerator magnets, and also launched exclusive emoticons. "巴适得板" (**bā shì dé bǎn** - "ba shi de ban," Sichuan dialect, meaning "excellent"), "雄起" (**xióng qǐ** - "xiong qi," Sichuan dialect, meaning "cheer up"), and other Sichuan-flavored dialects, as well as "add oil" (meaning "cheer up") and "hahaha" and other versatile common phrases, make the image of this ancient Shu cultural relic more vivid and lovely, and become a fun element in young people's social interactions.
"I thought this bronze figure was very interesting when I visited the museum. I bought the same cultural and creative bottle opener and stuck it on the refrigerator at home, which is very special. I also often send emoticons to my friends," said Ms. Tong (彤), a tourist from Chongqing (重庆). Such cultural and creative products make cultural relics no longer distant, and ancient Shu civilization seems to have a temperature and has entered daily life.
Cultural relics "come alive" and culture is passed down. Today's Jinsha Site Museum (金沙遗址博物馆) is no longer a simple exhibition place for cultural relics, but a cultural space where ancient Shu civilization and modern life blend and coexist. The cultural and creative products represented by the bronze figure have also become an important carrier for the museum's cultural communication.
From the precious cultural relics in the museum to the cultural and creative products in the hands of the people, this 3,000-year-old cultural relic not only allows people to touch the ingenuity and wisdom of the ancient Shu ancestors, but also allows the ancient Shu civilization to radiate new brilliance in creative transformation.
Return to TopBy: 陆建华
My research on Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) officially began in August 1981 when I published "Moving Genre Painting - A Casual Review of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) Three Short Stories," a nearly 10,000-word article in *Beijing Literature* (《北京文学》). At that time, I had not yet met Mr. Wang (汪老) himself, and I imbued this nearly 10,000-word article with too much connotation in my heart: first, as a younger generation of literary figures from the same hometown, my respect for the local worthy; second, starting from this article, I established normal correspondence with Mr. Wang (汪老). Before his death, he wrote me a total of 38 letters in his own handwriting. In addition, also starting from this article, not only did my writing receive Mr. Wang's (汪老) guidance and care many times, but he also entrusted me with the important task of being fully responsible for his first collection of works. In September 1993, this four-volume, five-book *Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) Anthology* was published by Jiangsu Literature and Art Publishing House (江苏文艺出版社), and it was reprinted five times within a short year, winning the Third Jiangsu Literature and Art Award issued by the Jiangsu Provincial People's Government (江苏省人民政府).
Mr. Wang (汪老) affectionately called me his "little fellow townsman" from the very beginning; later, in the "Preface to the Anthology" he wrote for the *Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) Anthology* that I edited, he affectionately called me his "friend"! I feel unworthy of this honor.
On the last day of 1940, I was born in a place called "Nandang Village (南荡村)" in Dongxiang (东乡), Gaoyou (高邮), Jiangsu (江苏). My hometown is located in a remote area with inconvenient transportation and an underdeveloped economy, but the folk customs are simple and honest, and people value farming and reading. Living in such an environment, I liked reading since I was a child, and I vaguely fantasized: when I grow up, I will become a literate and self-reliant cultural person. At the age of 12, my parents saved money on food and clothing to send me out to study, and my love for literature gradually deepened. In the autumn of 1959, I was admitted to the Chinese Department of Yangzhou Normal College (扬州师范学院), and at the end of the year, a short literary review of less than a thousand words was published in the *Sprouts* (《萌芽》) magazine in Shanghai (上海), taking the first step on my literary path. My writing path finally slowly got on the right track, which is closely related to Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺).
After the reform and opening up, Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺), who had once put down his pen to work as an editor, returned to the literary world and wrote a large number of works with the old life of his hometown Gaoyou (高邮) as the theme, such as "Ordination" (《受戒》) and "Chronicles of Danao" (《大淖记事》), which shocked the literary world. At that time, many people were asking, "Where did Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) come from?" I am from the same hometown as Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺), and I was in the same high school class as Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) younger brother, Wang Zengqing (汪曾庆), so I started studying Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) two or three years earlier than ordinary researchers. Those large amounts of original ecological materials that had been understood, interviewed, and accumulated from local life in Gaoyou (高邮) for many years were timely and necessary for the vast number of readers who were eager to understand Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺). I was also delighted to see my own writing direction clearly. In August 1984, I was transferred to work in the province, and a major turning point occurred in my life and destiny. Almost at the same time, I made up my mind that in the future, I would take the study of Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) and the "three truths" essay writing of "telling the truth, writing real things, and expressing true feelings" as my lifelong pursuit.
Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) was born in Gaoyou (高邮) on March 5, 1920. In the summer of 1939, the 19-year-old Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) left home and traveled to Kunming (昆明) after many twists and turns, traveling thousands of miles to apply for the Chinese Department of Southwest Associated University (西南联大), just because Southwest Associated University (西南联大) had famous scholars such as Zhu Ziqing (朱自清), Wen Yiduo (闻一多), and Shen Congwen (沈从文). When Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) was studying at Southwest Associated University (西南联大), he began to publish novels under the guidance of Shen Congwen (沈从文), showing his talent and attracting attention from the literary world. In the 1950s, he worked as an editor in various literary journals, and later transferred to the Beijing Peking Opera Troupe (北京京剧团) as a playwright. After the arrival of the new era, Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) returned to the literary world under the call of the times. He was full of gratitude for the reform and opening up, which was Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) sincere love from the bottom of his heart. The people of Gaoyou (高邮) felt proud and proud of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) creative achievements, and the Gaoyou (高邮) folk evaluation of "There was Qin Shaoyou (秦少游) in ancient times, and there is Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) today" spread rapidly.
Last year was the 105th anniversary of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) birth. On April 6, the "Memory" special edition of the *Xinmin Evening News (新民晚报)* "Sunday Night Light Cup" (星期天夜光杯) launched the special edition "Sending Small Warmth to the World - Remembering Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺)". This edition was planned by senior editor Guo Ying (郭影), and I wrote the article and provided the pictures. Guo Ying (郭影) wrote a poetic introduction at the beginning of the special edition: "'Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) is a well-deserved good writer and good old man.' He was born in spring. This spring, let us read his stories and taste his love for his hometown and his warmth towards people." I wrote at the end of the entire edition with deep affection: "As a Gaoyou (高邮) native, I am deeply honored to be from the same hometown as Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺); as a literature lover, I am happy to do some concrete things within my power to promote Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺)."
Looking back on the road I have traveled in my spare time, I have published eight monographs or collections of reviews on the promotion and research of Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺). What I regret a little is that Mr. Wang (汪老) never wrote the title for my book during his lifetime. It's not that I didn't have the opportunity, but I couldn't bear to bother Mr. Wang (汪老). What I never expected was that this regret would be unexpectedly compensated 20 years after his death.
In the first half of 1993, when I was the editor-in-chief of the *Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) Anthology*, I noticed the newly established "Literature and Appreciation" special program of the Jiangsu TV Station (江苏电视台) Literary Department, and the ratings continued to rise after its premiere. I had a flash of inspiration and went to the TV station to negotiate with the station leaders and the director of the special program, suggesting that they shoot a special program about Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺), which was warmly supported by them. Director Jing Guozhen (景国真) was quick-witted and active in thinking. After listening to my introduction of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) relevant situation, he immediately proposed that the special program be named "Dream Hometown" (《梦故乡》), and humorously made two requests to me as "exchange": one was to ask Mr. Wang (汪老) to write the title for the special program, and the other was to ask Mr. Wang (汪老) to create a theme song. Of course, I quickly contacted Mr. Wang (汪老) to implement it. The special program "Dream Hometown" (《梦故乡》) was completed and broadcast within 3 months, and the response was very good. This is the first and only film and television material of Mr. Wang (汪老) shot during his lifetime that preserves his original voice and image, which is very precious. China Central Television (中央电视台) quickly rebroadcast it, and the theme song "My Hometown is in Gaoyou (高邮)" written by Mr. Wang (汪老) is still being sung today.
In May 2017, to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) death, the Propaganda Department of the Gaoyou Municipal Committee (高邮市委宣传部) invited me to edit a collection of Wang Zengqi's (汪曾祺) works about his hometown Gaoyou (高邮), with more than 700,000 words in the whole book, which was published by Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House (江苏凤凰文艺出版社). The title of the book happened to use "Dream Hometown" (《梦故乡》) written by Mr. Wang (汪老) for the special program. Later, the book was rated as one of the ten "Most Beautiful Books in China" in 2017. The book I edited finally used the calligraphy personally written by Wang Zengqi (汪曾祺) during his lifetime, and there are no more regrets.
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"Everyone has their strengths," which sounds pleasant and is generally true. However, there's a difference between genuine strengths and mere "strengths." True strengths, rooted in genuine talent and learning, are like old pit jade, becoming more radiant with polishing. But there's another kind of "strength" in the world, which is actually a fig leaf for shortcomings and a shield for insecurity. It parades ostentatiously in fine robes, but is rotten inside.
The faces of these kinds of "strengths" are truly vivid: they open their mouths with flowery language, their voices like booming bells, able to "talk" dead branches into gold bars and "discuss" stagnant pools into waves; but when it comes to implementation, their legs are weighed down with lead, they are timid and hesitant, not even daring to cross the threshold. This kind of "empty skill" is practiced to perfection, but practical work is like frost-bitten eggplant seedlings, drooping listlessly. This is hardly a strength; it's just using flashy packaging to cover up the emptiness of the core.
"Empty skills" are like weeds, which cannot be completely cut or burned away. The problem lies in the rusty evaluation criteria. Once the ruler is distorted, valuing superficial achievements over underlying efforts, emphasizing slogans over practical results, it breeds a group of "戏骨" (xì gǔ - "old actors," seasoned performers) who are good at singing but poor at doing. They deeply understand the trick of "数字出官" (shù zì chū guān - "numbers produce officials," promotion based on statistics), turning the stage of entrepreneurship into a personal show: the reports are full of pearls, but the work site is full of leaks; the image projects are bright and beautiful, but no one cares about the practical affairs of people's livelihood. This reminds people of the quack doctor in ancient times who specialized in treating hunchbacks, clamping the patient between door panels. He straightened the back, but also ended the patient's life. He even justified himself, saying, "I only care about treating hunchbacks, not whether people live or die." While laughable, it is even more alarming. If one only seeks superficial "straightness" but ignores the truly "vital" inner workings, then even the most lively superficial achievements will ultimately be a tower on sand, with the foundation completely destroyed.
Lu Xun (鲁迅) summarized it in one sentence, "捣鬼有术，也有效，然而有限" (dǎo guǐ yǒu shù, yě yǒu xiào, rán ér yǒu xiàn - "playing tricks has its methods, and it is effective, but it is limited"). This saying is incisive, revealing the limitations of "empty skills." History is like a mirror, reflecting all absurdities. Zhao Kuo (赵括) talked about military tactics on paper, boasting of his familiarity with the art of war. In the Battle of Changping (长平之战), 400,000 soldiers were sacrificed for his "strengths." Wang Mang (王莽) treated virtuous people with courtesy, acting more realistically than anyone else. Once he had great power, the mask shattered to the ground, and the laughingstock has continued for thousands of years... History, this judge, is the most sober. It cannot remember any performances of painted faces, but will only engrave immortal inscriptions on the footprints of those who work practically. Those who play tricks may be noisy for a while, but will ultimately be a flash in the pan. Only those who do practical things with sincerity can leave true marks on the whetstone of time.
The way to break the situation lies in addressing the root cause. We should calibrate the bright ruler in our hearts: taking effectiveness as the scale and the people's hearts as the aiming point. Don't envy the splendor of fancy fists and embroidered legs, but look at the sharpness of the blade that reveals the bone; don't be fascinated by the delicacy of embroidery on the tip of the tongue, but verify the purity of the inside. Yu the Great (大禹), in controlling the floods, passed his home three times without entering, leaving behind not a gorgeous speech, but the sweat of dredging the nine rivers. Li Bing (李冰) and his son relayed each other to build the weir without leaving a single heroic word, passing down not an inscription, but the two thousand years of roaring waves of the Dujiangyan (都江堰). The immortal in the world has always been the crystallization of continuous tempering of time and craftsmanship.
Empty flowers bear no fruit, and empty words are useless—even if there is an occasional gain, it is just a jar of sour vinegar, which only makes your teeth ache. The ultimate truth in the world largely comes down to a "real" word. Rather than painstakingly managing a "strength" that can be broken with a single poke, it is better to calm down, practice a few real skills, and do a few heartwarming things.
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In life, there are many details and scenes related to books that have always resided in my heart, beautiful and warm.
In my early years, I organized a small room into a study, narrow and cramped, without windows. I insisted on naming it "Sunshine Cottage." To fit more books in the limited space, I had bookshelves custom-made that reached all the way to the ceiling. The books stacked on the shelves became another wall, which, on the contrary, broadened everything. I liked to close the door, isolating myself from all outside sounds, just quietly staying with the books. Interestingly, I never felt any sense of oppression in this small room; on the contrary, my breathing was very comfortable. I have always believed that it was my best study. Precisely because of this, although the current study is completely different from the one back then, I still call it "Sunshine Cottage."
For a while, I worked in a library. I enjoyed watching the students come and go, borrowing and returning books. Coincidentally, sunlight could shine into the room. When I wasn't busy, I would move a chair and sit between the bookshelves. The library was empty of other people, only me. Some sunlight sprinkled on the books, as if it were the light emanating from the words in the books. Some sunlight sprinkled on me, as if simulating my mood. The fragrance of books participated in my breathing, and in a daze, I became a book. It was nice to sit like this for a while.
Over the years, I have worked in various positions in different places. Looking back now, the happiest time for me was the time I could sit for a while between the bookshelves.
I also like to watch others reading, and I always think that people are most beautiful and radiant when they are reading. On the street, on the subway, or in a corner of daily life, whenever I encounter someone reading, I can't help but stare. One year, I went to a village in the west of China. There were not many people in the village, and the feeling of quietness made me feel both familiar and strange. The severely damaged earthen wall of the westernmost house in the village firmly grabbed my attention, and the messy appearance of the courtyard was truly indescribable. The situation inside the house was even worse than in the courtyard, but the child sitting inside became the only refreshing element in this dimness. The seven- or eight-year-old boy was focused on reading, completely unaware of my arrival. The house was damp, cold, and dark, but he was completely immersed in the world of the book. I stood for two or three minutes, intoxicated by the scene before me. When I greeted him, he looked up and hid the book behind his back. His simple face and clear eyes carried a hint of shyness. He was reading the *Three Character Classic* (《三字经》), which surprised me a bit and inexplicably gave rise to a feeling of emotion. Soon, the little boy's parents returned, and when I chatted with them about their daily lives, my eyes hardly ever left the little boy. When I left, I gave his father a few hundred yuan and asked him to use it to buy the boy books he liked.
Personally, I prefer to read miscellaneous books, those that seem useless. Back then, when I was in the Armed Police (武警) squadron, I read all 100+ books in the club. There weren't many books, but the variety was vast, from cooking to pig-raising techniques, from literature to philosophy, from traditional Chinese medicine to martial arts. I enjoyed reading every one of them.
Sitting with books for a moment will give you a beam of light. This beam of light illuminates my life.
Return to TopWatercolor "Fishing Song of Dongting," by Huang Tieshan (黄铁山), collection of the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆).
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Throwing off the heavy cotton-padded jacket, Aunt (孃孃) finished tidying up and washing, walked out of the kitchen, and shouted at me, who was still chasing chickens and teasing dogs in front of the house. Aunt (孃孃) carried the large firewood basket on her back, and I rushed into the woodshed like a gust of wind, took out the wooden cudgel, and followed her to patrol the mountain.
Walking on the hillside where the ice and snow were melting, Aunt (孃孃) would squat down every two steps, recognizing the early-sprouting plants among the weedy ridges and fields, sweet wormwood and cudweed, gently pinching off the tender tips and casually throwing them into the basket. I followed, hopping and skipping, poking at the silt in the stream to allow the hibernating frogs hidden deep within to save some energy to climb out, picking up stones from the ground and throwing them in a parabola, skimming past a group of passing turtledoves. When the sun was close to the mountains at sunset, and the setting sun turned into a soft-boiled egg, the two of us turned around and went home.
Back home, I ran to the kitchen to quickly start the fire, wanting to be a "firewood-adding general." Aunt (孃孃) poured the sweet wormwood and cudweed from the basket into a large wooden basin filled with mountain spring water, removed the old stems, left the tender leaves, and washed them one by one. Then she piled them up, chopped them into fine short sections, vigorously kneaded out the bitterness, and spread them out to drain the water. Standing guard at the stove, I added another bundle of firewood, and the firewood in the stove roared even more vigorously.
Wiping her hands dry and washing the large iron pot clean, Aunt (孃孃) scooped out the village's own pressed tea oil from the earthen jar, put it in the pot and heated it, and stir-fried the chopped leaves until they slowly turned yellow. She stood on tiptoe and took down a piece of smoked bacon weighing more than a pound from the fire pit, with skin and tendons, and placed it on the open flame to roast it to her heart's content. Glutinous rice was soaked in water for later use, and japonica rice was put into a pot of boiling water. When the rice grains jumped up and "stretched their waists," they were quickly scooped out and the rice water was drained. Finally, the standing glutinous rice was filtered to remove the water, and evenly stirred and mixed with the cooked japonica rice. In the meantime, Aunt (孃孃) had to add diced bacon, dried bean curd cubes, tender sweet wormwood, cudweed, and fine salt to mix evenly, and then put all the ingredients into a half-meter-high wooden steamer, and sit the whole thing on the iron pot of the earthen stove. For a time, the kitchen was filled with steam.
That bowl of rice was soul-stirring, mixed with the fragrance of soil and vegetation, the refreshing aroma of green wormwood and wild flavors, the rich aroma of bacon fat, and the rice was oily but not greasy. After eating the whole bowl like Zhu Bajie (猪八戒) eating ginseng fruit, the family would slowly tell me again that this was She Rice (社饭). One bowl is not enough, two bowls, three bowls, until you see the bottom of the steamer.
When I went to elementary school, I learned that the Tujia (土家族) people's "She" is called Spring She (春社), which is the fifth Wuri (戊日) after the Beginning of Spring (立春). On this day, the Tujia mountain people would stop working, and every household would cook She Rice (社饭) to worship the Land God (土地菩萨), praying for a good harvest and peace in the coming year. Originally, there was only green wormwood in the rice, which had a bit of a meaning of remembering bitterness and thinking about sweetness. Later, as life became more abundant, diced bacon and dried bean curd cubes were added imperceptibly, and She Rice (社饭) became "remembering sweetness and thinking about even more sweetness."
In fact, the Spring She Festival (春社节) has long been hidden in ancient poetry and prose. The earliest record can be found in the "Book of Rites·Ming Tang Wei" (《礼记·明堂位》): "Therefore, the Xia Yue (夏礿), the Autumn Chang (秋尝), the Winter Zheng (冬烝), the Spring She (春社), the Autumn Sheng (秋省), and then the Da La (大蜡), are the sacrifices of the Son of Heaven." And the most familiar and yet the most unfamiliar is Lu You's (陆游) immortal masterpiece "Visiting Shanxi Village" (《游山西村》). Today, most Chinese people can recite "Mountains rise beyond mountains, rivers wind round and round, you doubt there is no road ahead, suddenly the willows are green, the flowers in bloom, and another village appears" (山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村). The next sentence is the key: "Flutes and drums follow as Spring She (春社) nears" (箫鼓追随春社近). At that time, he returned to his hometown of Shaoxing (绍兴) after being dismissed from office, walking from the edge of Mirror Lake (镜湖). It was the best time of the year, and he walked westward all the way, leisurely and carefree, with mountains beyond mountains and flowing water surrounding him, his mood extremely happy. This journey of flutes and drums, this journey of joy, is the poet's inner expectation, and also tells of a seemingly disappearing festival, Spring She Day (春社日).
Nowadays, in my hometown, the seasonal festival of Spring She Day (春社日) has also been given new meaning. Under the reflection of the sunset light and shadow, the aunts (孃孃) in the family, after a whole day of labor, make She Rice (社饭) that has been passed down for hundreds of years, brew village wine that has been the same for hundreds of years, and wait for family members who have gone out to work to return home to have a meal together.
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I praise the moon.
I praise the moon in the first half of the night, and even more so the moon in the second half of the night.
The moon in the second half of the night is rounder and brighter.
It's just like a modest gentleman, not fond of excitement and flamboyance.
Hanging high in the night sky, people have already entered dreamland.
In the deep, quiet night, the moon in the second half of the night
Shines on the Great Wall (长城), shines on the frontier.
Shines on the Yellow River (黄河), shines on the Yangtze River (长江).
Shines on the cities and the silent villages.
Even "Moonlight in front of my bed"
Is the moon in the second half of the night.
More importantly,
A new day
Does not begin with the first ray of sunlight.
The midnight bell, the midnight timing, the midnight start,
Is the moon in the second half of the night
Awakening the slowly rising sun.
By: 许俊文
A soft night rain has moistened the crabapple blossoms and red-leaf plum trees lining the river.
As dawn breaks, I stroll along the Qingxi River (清溪河) in the city. This is the river that inspired Li Bai (李白) to write, "Qingxi clears my heart, its waters are different from all others. May I ask the Xin'an River (新安江), how can it compare in clarity?" In recent years, however, once the dog days of summer arrive, the water quality deteriorates due to reduced rainfall, emitting an unpleasant odor.
Walking slowly along the riverbank for several hundred steps, I see several small boats on the river surface ahead, swaying in the light mist. From a distance, it seems the people on the boats are busy with something. My home is close to the river, and I am familiar with the boatmen on this section of the river. Judging from the shape of the boats and the safety vests worn by the workers, they are clearly not sanitation workers collecting floating debris, nor are they the operators of tourist boats.
Curiosity compels me to walk closer. Upon closer inspection, I realize they are planting aquatic plants in the river.
The Qingxi River (清溪河) is a lifeline of this small Jiangnan (江南) city. The flowers and trees on both banks are densely packed. I am accustomed to seeing grass planted, cut, and flowers and trees pruned, but planting aquatic plants is a first for me. As they approach the shore, I go over to chat with them.
The old man planting aquatic plants is named Hu (胡), estimated to be around 60 years old, with a sturdy build and short stature. His thin, long eyes are not very harmonious with his gaunt face. Master Hu (胡师傅) continues working while talking, grabbing handfuls of wet aquatic plants from the boat and using a wooden fork to press the roots of the plants into the silt at the bottom of the water. His movements are skilled, indicating he is an experienced hand. Only then do I realize that the so-called "boat" is made of two pieces of foam board pieced together and stacked, not much larger than a bamboo bed, piled with six or seven bags of aquatic plants, pressing the "boat" surface very low. The old man seems to guess what I am thinking from my surprised expression, wiggling his legs in the water a few times to indicate it is safe.
I ask Master Hu (胡师傅) what kind of grass he is planting. He pulls out a piece of aquatic plant about a meter long and shows it to me. I recognize this aquatic plant, called duck tongue grass. Master Hu (胡师傅) corrects me, saying that in their Fengcheng (丰城), Jiangxi (江西) area, it is called "floating on water." This type of grass grows quickly in water, can absorb suspended solids, and can purify the water.
"Are you from Jiangxi (江西)?"
The old man nods while continuing to plant the aquatic plants. It seems he doesn't want to let our conversation delay his work. They are paid by the amount of work they do.
The old man pulls up a handful of aquatic plants and presses them into the bottom of the water, turning his head to tell me that there is an aquatic plant company in his hometown that cultivates hundreds of acres of aquatic plants. Dozens of workers plant aquatic plants all over the country year-round, earning 200 yuan per day.
I ask Master Hu (胡师傅) how much aquatic plant he can plant in a day. He holds up two fingers and shakes them: "Two mu. Must guarantee planting and survival." He adds, "This river of yours is enough for us to plant for a month."
The small boat sways, attracting many people who are doing their morning exercises to stop and watch.
Master Hu (胡师傅), who plants aquatic plants, moves quickly, grabbing aquatic plants with one hand and holding a wooden fork with the other, planting a large, dark patch in a short time. Upon asking, I learn that he has been doing this kind of work for nearly 10 years, traveling all over most of China. He also boasts that the aquatic plants he has planted can fill 100 large trucks.
Saying goodbye to the people planting aquatic plants, I am filled with anticipation that this ancient river in front of my home will soon be restored to its clear state.
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