Summary: Inner Mongolia is expanding its green energy production and utilization, aiming to become a major national energy base, with total installed new energy capacity reaching 174.1 million kilowatts as of March 2026. The region is focusing on local consumption of green electricity, innovating new models such as wind-solar hydrogen production integration, and expanding green electricity usage in key energy-consuming industries. Inner Mongolia is also developing a strong new energy equipment manufacturing industry, including wind power and photovoltaic equipment, with investments in the sector accounting for nearly 80% of total energy investment. Party Secretary Wang Weizhong stated that Inner Mongolia will continue to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional energy industries, accelerate the research and development and manufacturing of new materials and equipment needed for new energy development.
Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to strengthen basic research, highlighting initiatives from top-level design to local implementation. It details the establishment of mechanisms for funding non-consensus projects, promoting collaborative research models, and exploring diversified investment pathways involving government, enterprises, and research institutions. The National Natural Science Foundation's support for innovative but risky projects is emphasized, alongside the Chinese Academy of Sciences' promotion of mission-driven basic research. Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun stated that the Ministry of Science and Technology will adhere to the "15th Five-Year Plan" for basic research guidance, systematically plan major scientific research tasks, and comprehensively plan reform measures to strengthen basic research.
Summary: The article reports on the ongoing campaign to promote a "correct view of performance" among Party officials, focusing on local initiatives across China. Various regions and departments are implementing measures to address historical issues, rectify past mistakes, and establish long-term governance mechanisms. These efforts include problem-solving, rectification, and system building, often incorporating public feedback and addressing concerns raised through hotlines and complaints. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's encouragement to Chinese youth to contribute to national development across various sectors. It profiles young individuals and teams achieving breakthroughs in areas like AI, including the "Moshi Space" AI innovation hub in Shanghai, and advanced manufacturing. The report emphasizes the importance of youth engagement in rural revitalization, technological innovation, and national defense, while adhering to Xi's call to integrate personal aspirations with the country's broader goals. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Following a deadly fireworks factory explosion in Liuyang, Hunan, Xi Jinping issued directives emphasizing the need for all regions and departments to learn from the accident and strengthen safety production responsibilities. He stressed the importance of risk assessment and rectification in key industries. The article underscores the need for proactive measures in safety production, focusing on prevention, technological empowerment, and corporate responsibility. It emphasizes the paramount importance of safeguarding people's lives and property through diligent risk management and accountability. No U.S. or U.S.-China relations were discussed in the article.
Summary: During the five-day "May Day" holiday (May 1-5), China's total cross-regional personnel mobility is estimated to reach 1.525 billion trips, averaging over 300 million trips per day, a 4.0% increase compared to the same period last year. Railway passenger traffic is projected at 106.606 million trips, waterway passenger traffic at 8.561 million trips, and civil aviation passenger traffic at 10.556 million trips. Road passenger traffic is estimated at approximately 1.4 billion trips. The Ministry of Transport released these figures on May 5th.
Summary: The article reports on agricultural activities across China on May 5th, the day of the "Beginning of Summer" solar term. Specifically, it highlights farmers in Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan province, using a mobile rice seedling conveyor to transplant rice seedlings in the fields. The article emphasizes the importance of seizing the opportune time for agricultural work. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this report.
Summary: In the first quarter of 2024, China's total social logistics reached 96.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%, indicating a positive start to the year with strong growth in logistics demand. Industrial goods logistics, particularly in the manufacturing sector, remained a key driver, contributing over 80% to the overall growth of social logistics. High-end manufacturing played a leading role in this growth. No mentions of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations were encountered.
Summary: This article highlights the theoretical importance of understanding Chinese-style modernization within the context of world history. It also focuses on policies aimed at facilitating tourism and consumer spending within China.
Summary: Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing was dispatched to Liuyang, Hunan, to oversee the emergency response to a fireworks factory explosion, conveying Xi Jinping's emphasis on prioritizing the safety of the people. Zhang conveyed Xi's instructions to focus on search and rescue, treat the injured, handle the aftermath, investigate the cause of the accident, and rectify potential risks in key industries. Zhang stressed a thorough investigation into the accident, accountability for those responsible, and stricter enforcement against illegal activities in the fireworks and hazardous materials industries. He further instructed that regulatory departments who simply "replace management with fines" should be investigated and held accountable.
Summary: A press conference in Changsha reported that the浏阳市华盛烟花 company explosion resulted in 26 deaths and 61 injuries, leading to a complete shutdown and rectification of fireworks production in Liuyang. Authorities have mobilized over 1500 personnel for rescue and response efforts, facing difficulties due to ongoing explosions and structural collapses. The Hunan fire rescue team is focused on securing the remaining explosives and preventing secondary disasters. The explosion at the fireworks factory occurred on May 4th. The article does not contain any discussion of the United States.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, various regions in China, including Beijing, Shanghai, and Chengdu, launched diverse activities and policies to boost consumption. These initiatives focused on integrating tourism with culture, sports, commerce, and agriculture, resulting in new consumption patterns. Experiential tourism, such as county tourism, industrial tours, and immersive cultural experiences, gained popularity. Local governments also promoted consumer goods trade-ins and the development of "smart" consumption options, offering subsidies and incentives to encourage spending. Regions innovated service models by guaranteeing the consumer experience, and also linking various commercial partnerships together.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday and extending to the end of June, Lanzhou is focusing on ten consumer sectors and launching over 240 activities to benefit the people. Health, intelligent technology, and green consumption are emerging as new trends, with traditional Chinese medicine products, smart home devices, and new energy vehicles gaining popularity. Consumers are increasingly interested in environmental performance, as evidenced by the success of new energy vehicle sales at the Lanzhou International Auto Show. Lanzhou is also promoting green consumption through subsidies and incentives for purchasing new energy vehicles. There is no mention of the United States or U.S. - China relations in the article.
Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping sent a letter to representatives of winners of the "China Youth May Fourth Medal" and "New Era Youth Pioneer Award," encouraging them to contribute their youth to the new journey of national development. Wang Jingzhi, a 27-year-old design engineer at AVIC Xifei Civil Aircraft, was deeply touched by Xi's message, reflecting on his participation in the development of unmanned transportation systems. Wang discussed his work on the HH-200 commercial unmanned transportation system and the challenges of balancing design constraints. He emphasized the importance of experience and safety in aircraft design and development, especially regarding the need to balance innovation with risk management. According to the "15th Five-Year Plan", China will speed up the development of new low-altitude equipment such as heavy-duty fixed-wing UAVs and long-range vertical take-off and landing aircraft.
Summary: China's drone industry is experiencing breakthroughs, driven by young engineers born in the 1980s and 1990s. These engineers are pushing boundaries with interdisciplinary perspectives and innovative approaches, aligning with the diverse demands of the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry. While youthful boldness is valuable, the article emphasizes the need for rational respect, long-term dedication, and a shift towards systemic optimization. The article advocates for platforms and opportunities to support young talent in overcoming the challenges of the aerospace sector, ensuring their contributions are recognized and rewarded as the "15th Five-Year Plan" sets a clear direction for the low-altitude economy. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Since 2016, China has established over 30 Luban Workshops globally, offering vocational training in over 100 disciplines and educating over 160,000 students. These workshops, like the one in Thailand established with Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technical College, aim to export Chinese vocational education standards and technology. The workshops tailor their programs to local needs, as seen in Egypt where they support the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone. Additionally, the workshops prepare students for global competitions, such as in Kazakhstan, where students trained in a Luban Workshop won a bronze medal at the World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, with Chinese teachers providing technical guidance. These efforts promote cooperation and development within Belt and Road countries and beyond.
Summary: An Iraqi Communist Party official highlighted the importance of China's Global Governance Initiative (GGI) in the current international environment. The official emphasized the initiative's alignment with the UN Charter and its goals of promoting multilateralism and a more equitable global order. According to the official, the GGI addresses the shortcomings of the current global governance system, including the over-concentration of power in a few Western nations and the under-representation of developing countries. The official stated that GGI opposes unilateralism, double standards, and violations of international law, advocating for a more democratic global governance structure. It was mentioned that the official sees the initiative as a way to counter the actions of certain countries that undermine the UN-centered international system.
Summary: An exhibition titled "A Taste Across Mountains and Seas: The Tea Road and Coffee Route" opened at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Brazil, highlighting the historical connections between Chinese tea and Brazilian coffee. University Rector Alessandro Moreira noted that the tea and coffee routes transcended economics, becoming vehicles for cultural exchange. Chinese Ambassador Zhu Qingqiao stated that the exhibition vividly presents the rich connotations of China-Brazil cultural exchange and mutual learning. The exhibition also highlights the long-standing friendship between the two countries, mentioning that Chinese tea farmers brought tea cultivation to Brazil as early as 1812. The exhibition is part of the "China-Brazil Culture Year" and will eventually be permanently displayed at the "Tea Affinity, China-Brazil Friendship Garden" in Rio de Janeiro's botanical garden.
Summary: China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) is undertaking a 100-kilometer municipal road upgrade project in Zanzibar, Tanzania. The project includes road renovations, two new overpasses, and other municipal construction. The project has already completed a road connecting Zanzibar International Airport and Stone Town, as well as the first overpass in Zanzibar, with 85% completion overall. Zanzibar's Minister of Infrastructure, Communications and Transport, Khalid Salum Muhammed, stated the roads improved transportation and boosted the local economy. The project has created approximately 1200 jobs for local residents. There is no mention of U.S. involvement or relations in the article.
Summary: A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson responded to a journalist's question regarding the U.S. expanding sanctions against Cuba, citing Cuba's threat to U.S. national security. The spokesperson stated that the U.S. sanctions severely violate the Cuban people's rights and international norms. China firmly supports Cuba in safeguarding its sovereignty and opposes U.S. interference, urging the U.S. to end its blockade and sanctions. The statement directly addresses U.S. policy and its impact on Cuba.
Summary: In the first quarter of 2026, Chinese company Gotion High-Tech's new energy production base in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany, achieved a record output value exceeding 36 million euros. The facility collaborates with the University of Hanover and has established a battery failure analysis and solid-state battery research and development laboratory, leveraging local resources to enhance engineering technology and research capabilities. No U.S. related issues are discussed in the article.
Summary: Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi will visit China on May 6 at the invitation of the Chinese government. During the visit, Araghchi will meet with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, who is also a member of the Politburo. The announcement did not provide specifics on the agenda of the talks.
Summary: China delivered two batches of humanitarian aid to Lebanon on May 4th, according to Xinhua News Agency, to assist conflict-affected Lebanese citizens and alleviate the humanitarian situation. The aid includes food and essential supplies such as tents, blankets, and hygiene products. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call for young cadres to improve their mass work abilities and details local initiatives in Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Chongqing aimed at achieving this goal. In Zhejiang, young cadres are solving immediate issues like water quality. In Guangxi, cadres like Chen Ting are leveraging e-commerce and short videos to boost local lychee sales and increase farmer income. Chongqing utilizes a "mentorship" plan to pair experienced cadres with young ones, teaching them local dialects and effective outreach methods to mobilize the public.
Summary: The article discusses the role of China's youth in national development and rejuvenation, highlighting their confidence, self-reliance, and embrace of the future. It emphasizes the importance of aligning personal aspirations with national goals, citing examples of young entrepreneurs and researchers contributing to technological innovation and societal progress. The article also touches upon the spirit of perseverance and dedication required to overcome challenges and achieve breakthroughs in various fields. It emphasizes that young people should engage with the needs of the masses and contribute to the grand cause of national development. The "15th Five-Year Plan" supports youth development and encourages them to be pioneers in all fields.
Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to strengthen basic research, highlighting initiatives like increased funding, the establishment of mechanisms to support unconventional research projects, and a shift towards more coordinated, mission-driven research structures, as exemplified by the Chinese Academy of Sciences' approach to analyzing lunar samples from Chang'e-6. It reports on collaborative efforts between universities, research institutions, and enterprises, such as the joint funding of basic research by the Xiaomi Foundation and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation. The article quotes Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun, who stated that the Ministry of Science and Technology would lay out major scientific research tasks in a systematic way, and comprehensively plan reform measures to strengthen basic research in an all-round way. It does not mention the United States.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, the Fuyang Science and Technology Museum in Anhui Province held a "Experience Science, Fly Dreams" themed event. The event aimed to allow children to experience the charm of science up close and cultivate their interest in it. The provided image shows visitors watching a robot performance in the "Smart Creation" exhibition hall. The article does not mention any political figures, statements, or actions, nor does it allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article reports on the ongoing campaign to establish and practice a "correct view of political achievements" (正确政绩观) across various regions and departments in China. Localities are actively addressing historical issues, improving governance, and ensuring public well-being through problem-solving, rectification, and institutional improvements. The campaign emphasizes practical and effective problem-solving and long-term governance through improved mechanisms and public participation. Regions are soliciting public feedback to ensure tangible results from the campaign. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article highlights Xi Jinping's encouragement to Chinese youth to contribute to national development in various fields, including technological innovation, rural revitalization, and community service. It cites examples such as researchers advancing optical disc technology and AI development, as well as individuals dedicating themselves to rural development and border security. The piece emphasizes the importance of youth integrating their aspirations with the country's goals and contributing to China's modernization. It also describes how some youth are working to make China a leader in key technology areas. The article does not include discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article emphasizes that regional development in China, like a marathon, requires strategic thinking and proactive action rather than simply relying on inherent advantages. It highlights examples such as Meizhou's economic growth through attracting investment and Xinjiang leveraging its unique position for westward opening. The piece stresses the importance of breaking from conventional thinking and fostering collaboration between regions, such as Shandong establishing innovation centers in other cities and Hunan partnering with Hainan to access global markets. Ultimately, the article promotes a vision of high-quality development achieved through a combination of policy support, strategic planning, and collaborative efforts across different regions within China.
Summary: An executive at Roland Berger likened the Chinese market to a "gym" where multinational corporations must quickly adapt and innovate to compete. The intensity of the Chinese market forces companies to strengthen their capabilities, fostering innovation and rapid response. China offers diverse application scenarios, talent support, and an open innovation ecosystem. Streamlined regulations, greater policy transparency, and increased openness attract foreign investment and reinforce the market's appeal.
Summary: The article discusses the Tianshan Victory Tunnel, the world's longest highway tunnel, and its significance for regional development and national strategy. A tour guide's description of the tunnel's construction, highlighting the sacrifices made to build it and its benefits for the local population, went viral. The article emphasizes the tunnel's importance in connecting Xinjiang, supporting the Belt and Road Initiative, and embodying the people-centered approach of Chinese modernization. It also touches upon a heartwarming story of a family from Taiwan who visited Xinjiang and formed a close bond with a local family, underscoring the shared heritage and kinship between people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
Summary: The State Council issued an opinion focused on expanding and improving the quality of the service industry, aiming for a total scale of 100 trillion yuan by 2030. The plan emphasizes strengthening weak links in producer services, bolstering technological support, and enhancing the overall competitiveness of modern logistics. The goal is to cultivate more "Chinese service" brands and significantly enhance the global competitiveness and influence of China's service sector. The document does not discuss U.S. relations.
Summary: Several cities in Jiangsu province, including Yancheng and Nantong, have initiated "climate loans" to support local agriculture and fishing industries. These loans use long-term meteorological data as collateral to address financing challenges for green and low-carbon projects that are vulnerable to climate conditions. However, obstacles remain in the widespread adoption of "climate loans," including the lack of unified risk assessment standards and data sharing between government departments. The article advocates for standardized climate risk assessments, improved inter-departmental data sharing, and government subsidies to promote wider adoption of "climate loans." The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article, written by a pediatrician from the First Affiliated Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine, reflects on the responsibilities and emotional demands of working in pediatrics. It emphasizes the importance of meticulous attention to detail in patient care, effective and empathetic communication with parents, and collaborative multidisciplinary approaches to diagnosing and treating complex cases. The author highlights how advancements in medical technology and increased awareness contribute to the identification of more diseases. Ultimately, the piece underscores the critical role of pediatricians in safeguarding the future by caring for children. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article is a call for submissions to various opinion columns within the People's Daily, including "Everybody Talks," "Heartwarming News and Hot Reviews," "The Chinese Road and the Chinese Dream," and "Incoming Arguments." It encourages submissions on a variety of topics relevant to Chinese society and political discourse. The article explicitly requests that submissions not be sent to multiple publications simultaneously. There is no mention of any specific officials, events, or the United States.
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Summary: In response to letters from youth representatives working in grassroots positions, Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of young people dedicating themselves to innovation, rural revitalization, social service, and border defense. The article profiles four recipients of the China Youth May Fourth Medal, including a skilled welder, a village leader, a delivery driver, and a border patrol officer. These individuals exemplify dedication to their professions and contributions to national development. The individuals are noted to be mastering new technologies and overcoming challenges in their respective fields. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of China's youth in contributing to national development and achieving the goals outlined in the "15th Five-Year Plan." It highlights the role of young people in areas such as technological self-reliance, rural revitalization, and improving livelihoods. The piece stresses that the grassroots level provides a crucial training ground for youth to gain experience and contribute to the country. It encourages young people to integrate their personal aspirations with national development and dedicate themselves to the cause of national rejuvenation. Ultimately, the article frames the current era as one where youth are entrusted with furthering China's progress.
Summary: Lu Huiting, the first secretary of Xinfangzi Village in Sichuan Province, took actions to reinforce a river embankment after villagers raised concerns about its structural integrity. She also invited experts to advise on local agriculture and helped villagers market their products, including selling them overseas. Lu also helped a disabled child get medical support and coordinated with organizations to provide vision screenings, supplies, and scholarships to local children. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During China's 14th Five-Year Plan, the Ministry of Water Resources released 182 water conservancy technical standards, with the number of standards released in 2025 increasing by more than 125% year-on-year, a new high in the past 10 years, bringing the current number to 774. The Ministry also initiated 576 scientific and technological projects, achieving breakthroughs in areas including water conservancy, basic research, and high-tech R&D. 502 mature and applicable water conservancy science and technology achievements have been selected and released. Work on the revision of "urgent-first" technical standards for water conservancy has achieved breakthroughs in both scale and quality.
Summary: Zhejiang province has issued guidance to strengthen management of rural collective funds, assets, and resources ("三资"), aiming to support the development of the rural collective economy and contribute to common prosperity. The guidance focuses on standardizing management systems for funds, assets, and resources, as well as strengthening overall regulatory oversight. It emphasizes the need for proper accounting of all income and prohibits off-book accounting practices. The guidance establishes a multi-tiered framework for management and oversight, involving village, township, and departmental levels. The guidance will take effect on May 25, 2026.
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Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, China saw a surge in international tourists drawn to its culture and scenery, with convenient payment options and efficient tax refunds enhancing their experiences. Tourists like Martina from Italy, visiting Chengdu, praised the ease of mobile payments via Alipay and WeChat, along with the "buy and refund" tax policies. Similarly, a Brazilian customer, Ade, purchased a drone in Guangzhou, highlighting the appeal of Chinese technology and the streamlined tax refund process. In Fuzhou, a Canadian-Chinese tourist, Norman, enjoyed immersive cultural experiences, including learning about jasmine tea and purchasing local art.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, the Xiong'an New Area saw a total of 1.5886 million visitors, drawn by attractions like Baiyangdian Lake, the new city landscape, and cultural venues such as the Xiong'an Library. Visitors cited the improved ecological environment of Baiyangdian, the rapid development of the new city, and the availability of employment opportunities as reasons for their visit. The Xiong'an New Area Propaganda and Information Bureau stated that they will continue to optimize cultural and tourism services to improve the tourist experience. One visitor was visiting their son who was working at China Chengtong Holdings Group. One visitor, who is about to graduate, is prioritizing finding work in Xiong'an.
Summary: Xiao Gan city in Hubei province undertook projects to restore the Lao Fu river, improving its flood control, irrigation, and water storage capabilities. The river's banks were reinforced, its width expanded, and sluices were rebuilt, alongside ecological restoration and water environment improvements. These efforts aim to lay the foundation for regional green and sustainable development. The revitalized river now exhibits clear water, unobstructed flow, green banks, and scenic beauty.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, China experienced a surge in service consumption, driven by policies promoting extended spring breaks and concentrated travel demand. Cross-province tourism increased significantly, boosting hotel and rental car consumption. The "May Day" film season generated over 700 million yuan in box office revenue. The trade-in program for consumer goods reached 86.2 million people, generating 629.27 billion yuan in sales. Sales of daily necessities are stable and markets well supplied.
Summary: Shanghai's International Flower Festival, upgraded from a flower exhibition, has transformed the city into a large garden, attracting over 150,000 visitors to the Huangpu main venue on a single day. The festival promotes a "flower +" model, integrating flower displays into commercial areas and public spaces, and features collaborations with businesses sponsoring exhibits and activities. This year's event saw the debut of 18 new global flower varieties and aims to stimulate the flower industry by connecting laboratories with urban applications. The festival seeks to boost both the economy and citizens' well-being through increased flower consumption and urban beautification. The government invested 2 million yuan, attracting over 25 million yuan in corporate sponsorships.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, China's national railway system handled a surge in passenger traffic, with 20.383 million passengers on May 4th and an expected 23 million on May 5th. In response to the return travel peak, railway authorities are adding train services, including night-time high-speed trains, in popular routes such as those connecting Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area. Specific railway bureaus, including Zhengzhou, Shanghai, Nanchang, and Guangzhou, are deploying additional trains to manage the increased demand. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: During the sixth Asian Beach Games held in Sanya, Hainan from April 22-30, Haikou Customs oversaw 595 million yuan in offshore duty-free sales, involving 112,000 shoppers. The Games attracted participants from 45 Asian countries and regions. Sanya's four duty-free shops offered exclusive promotions such as shopping zones, coupons, and gifts targeting event attendees. Hainan Province also launched exclusive preferential packages for inbound tourists, providing discounts across various sectors like dining, accommodation, transportation, and entertainment.
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Summary: This article is a promotional advertisement seeking business partners to expand sales of a fruit juice-based carbonated beverage. It highlights the product's strong sales performance across online and offline channels. The advertisement cites data from Frost & Sullivan indicating its leading cumulative sales volume in the Chinese mainland fruit juice-based carbonated beverage market from 2020-2025. Potential partners are encouraged to contact the provided hotline to explore collaboration opportunities. The advertisement makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article argues that Chinese modernization offers an alternative to the Western model, which it characterizes as capital-centric, exploitative, and unsustainable. It emphasizes that modernization is not equivalent to Westernization, and that China's path is rooted in its own history and culture, prioritizing the people and common prosperity over capital accumulation. It posits that China's approach promotes harmonious coexistence, open and inclusive development, and a shared future for humanity, contrasting this with the perceived zero-sum mentality of the West. The article concludes that Chinese modernization breaks the myth of Western dominance and provides a new development philosophy and governance model, significantly reshaping the world's modernization landscape. It does not mention United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article emphasizes that the key to high-quality development lies in adopting a correct view of performance, or *zhengjiguan*, for leading cadres. It critiques the phenomenon of "wearing new shoes but walking the old road," where new development concepts are superficially adopted without substantive change in approach, ultimately hindering progress. The author argues that this formalism stems from a misalignment of performance goals with the new development philosophy and a reluctance to break from familiar, albeit outdated, practices. The piece advocates for aligning actions with the new development philosophy, conducting thorough research, and prioritizing the long-term benefit of the people to achieve sustainable progress. Ultimately, the author emphasizes the need to overcome ideological barriers to create meaningful and lasting achievements.
Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to build a lifelong learning system to enhance the population's overall quality and meet the demands of a transforming population structure. It emphasizes strengthening legal and institutional guarantees, aiming for precise supply and fair allocation of learning resources, and innovating investment mechanisms. The article also calls for the construction of a unified national platform for learning achievement recognition and conversion, as well as the deepening of digital empowerment, including the use of AI and big data, to reshape learning and improve service efficiency. It makes no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: President Xi Jinping has signed Order No. 74, promulgating the revised "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China," which will take effect on November 1, 2026. The law aims to standardize prison management, ensure the correct execution of criminal penalties, and promote the rehabilitation of prisoners into law-abiding citizens. It emphasizes the leadership of the CCP, the importance of national security, and respect for human rights within the prison system. The law also covers various aspects of prison operations, including security, inmate rights, and educational programs. International exchange and cooperation in crime prevention and criminal penalty execution are encouraged.
Summary: A three-year action plan (2026-2028) issued by five departments including the Propaganda Department of the CPC Central Committee emphasizes cultivating talent for rare and endangered theatrical genres and supporting the restoration of traditional repertoire. As part of the Chinese Dramatists Association's "Rare Theatrical Genre Protection and Inheritance Project," the Fujian Shaowu Sanjiao Opera and the Henan Dengzhou Luojuan Opera have been revived and performed. The Shaowu Sanjiao Opera has established a talent pipeline and is incorporating details from older performers. The Dengzhou Luojuan Opera is creating new historical and modern dramas while preserving traditional elements, and is performing in schools and communities. The local government is providing funding and guidance to encourage innovation while preserving tradition.
Summary: The article discusses the challenges faced by lesser-known Chinese opera genres, including loss of tradition and difficulty in attracting audiences. It highlights initiatives in Fujian and Henan, where local operas like the Shaowu Triangle Opera and Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera are revitalizing their art forms through talent cultivation, government support, and the revival of old plays alongside the creation of new ones. These efforts aim to expand their reach by returning performances to rural areas and showcasing them at exhibitions, with some even finding international audiences. The central theme emphasizes preserving these unique cultural roots and fostering their continued growth. There is no reference to the United States.
Summary: A "Literary Immersion into Every Home" reading promotion event, organized by the Jilin Province Writers Association and other regional associations, was held in Changchun during the first "National Reading Week." The event included poetry readings, book recommendations, and sharing of literary works, with writers like Zhang Muyu presenting their works and association members like Hao Xufang recommending suitable books. Bao Honglie, director of the China Writers Association's Social Liaison Department, stated that the China Writers Association is advocating for such activities nationwide to promote reading and literary exchange. The events aimed to bring quality literary resources to the grassroots level and cultivate a love for reading. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: President Xi Jinping has issued Presidential Decree No. 74, promulgating the revised "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China," which will take effect on November 1, 2026. The law focuses on standardizing prison management, ensuring the correct execution of penalties, and promoting the rehabilitation of prisoners into law-abiding citizens. It emphasizes the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party in prison work and adheres to the overall national security concept. The law also addresses international cooperation in crime prevention and criminal justice. The new law does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: 容海瑞, a post-00s college student and demobilized soldier from Wuchuan, Guangdong, is leveraging e-commerce to sell locally-made slippers internationally, including to the U.S. Seeing an opportunity in the price difference between overseas markets and the manufacturing capabilities of his hometown, he and his team have sold 250,000 pairs of slippers to countries like the U.S., Japan, and South Korea. Using data analysis and AI, Rong helps local factories identify profitable products for overseas markets and streamlines operations. He aims to help more local factories navigate cross-border e-commerce, bridging the gap between traditional production and global consumers.
Summary: China's Ministry of Civil Affairs and 10 other departments jointly issued an "Opinion on Promoting the Development of Mutual Aid Elderly Care Services," defining mutual aid elderly care as voluntary, non-profit services provided by neighbors or community residents. The opinion sets goals for 70% coverage of urban and rural community elderly care facilities with mutual aid functions by 2030 and further organizational development by 2035. The plan encourages various models, including community-supported home services and rural initiatives, while emphasizing the role of grassroots organizations and standardized development. The opinion calls for strengthened organizational implementation, promotion, and supervision to achieve these goals.
Summary: The Beijing Internet Court recently ruled against a ticket scalping platform for unfair competition, finding that its coordinated efforts with merchants to use automated technology to snatch tickets harmed consumers' rights and disrupted the plaintiff's (a major ticketing platform) operations. The court determined that the platform operator, by setting standards for vendors, uniformly releasing ticket information, and providing customer service, was complicit in the unfair competition. The defendant was ordered to cease the infringing activity and pay damages. The ruling aims to curb "tech scalpers" and promote a fair and transparent ticket market. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A bus driver in Tianjin, Gao Xiaochen, intervened when a male passenger verbally harassed two female passengers on his bus. Gao initially warned the man, then drove the bus directly to the Yuhua Police Station and alerted the officers. Passengers corroborated Gao's account, and the police detained the man. Gao had also been praised for his courage and quick thinking in the past, including for apprehending a robber and rescuing an injured child. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the use of advanced technologies, including underwater robots, climbing robots, and internal imaging systems, to maintain the Pingtan Strait Road-Rail Bridge, China's first cross-sea highway-railway bridge and the world's longest. These technologies have significantly increased the efficiency and precision of bridge inspections, identifying and addressing over 4,000 potential safety hazards since the bridge's opening. The robots have replaced manual labor in dangerous and difficult environments, allowing for thorough structural analysis and timely maintenance planning. The bridge is expected to handle over 270 high speed rail trips during the May Day holiday.
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Summary: The UNESCO officially recognized Siguniang Mountain as a world geopark on April 27th, making it the first in the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. Experts highlighted its geological heritage, biodiversity, and cultural significance, noting the area's unique "West Kang type" folds and rich ecosystem. The designation aims to promote sustainable development through community involvement, cultural tourism integration, and green initiatives, ensuring the preservation of its geological and ecological integrity. Local villagers are already benefiting from increased tourism through homestays and the sale of local products. A new mountain rail project is under construction to further promote tourism to the area.
Summary: China Meteorological Administration's 2025 report indicates significant warming in the Arctic and overall warming in the Antarctic, with notable seasonal variations. Arctic sea ice reached record lows, while Antarctic sea ice was the third lowest since 1979. Extreme weather events, such as heatwaves in Greenland and unusual rainfall at China's Zhongshan Station in Antarctica, were observed. The report also noted diverging ozone trends in the Arctic and Antarctic, and a continued rise in major greenhouse gas concentrations in both polar regions.
Summary: The Tarim Oilfield has completed a large-scale replanting project along the Tarim Desert Highway ecological protection forest, which is crucial for connecting northern and southern Xinjiang and securing energy exploration. 500,000 drought-resistant and alkali-tolerant seedlings, including *Haloxylon ammodendron* and *Tamarix*, were planted along the highway to revitalize the aging protective forest. Additionally, 1.65 million square meters of grass squares were installed to stabilize shifting sand dunes and prevent encroachment. These efforts aim to improve the ecological diversity and resilience of the forest belt, safeguarding the highway from sand erosion. The original ecological protection forest was established in 2005.
Summary: A recent report from the Qinghai Forestry and Grassland Bureau indicates an increase in bird species within the province, now totaling 541, including 27 species under national first-class protection. Surveys conducted in Qinghai, situated on major bird migration routes, documented significant numbers of migratory waterbirds, with increases observed in both autumn migration and wintering populations. Qinghai has implemented various conservation measures, including enacting wildlife protection regulations, establishing hunting restrictions, and strengthening habitat protection. The province has also launched law enforcement campaigns and encouraged public participation in bird conservation efforts. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China is constructing its first dedicated wildlife bridge over the Pinglu Canal, a 134.2 km, 72.7 billion RMB project to connect Nanning in Guangxi to the sea in Qinzhou. The bridge, designed for animals like civets and squirrels, spans 240 meters and prioritizes their migration by incorporating native vegetation, shelter, and water sources. This is to mitigate the impact of the canal on local ecosystems. In addition to the dedicated bridge, the project includes another bridge which functions for both human and animal passage. The Pinglu Canal will accommodate ships of up to 5000 tons.
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Summary: A memorial service was recently held in Tokyo for former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama, where attendees commemorated his legacy, particularly the landmark 1995 "Murayama Statement." This statement, issued on the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, acknowledged Japan's past colonial rule and aggression, expressing "deep remorse" and "heartfelt apologies" for the suffering inflicted on Asian countries. The article notes that Japan's adherence to the spirit of the "Murayama Statement" remains an important signal of its national direction, especially given recent shifts in its military, security, and diplomatic policies. There is a concern that Japan is deviating from its post-war peaceful role. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of the Tokyo Trials in establishing the post-World War II international order and denounces attempts by Japanese right-wing politicians to deny the trials' legitimacy and revise history. It argues that Japan's historical revisionism, military expansion, and territorial claims violate international law, specifically citing the Cairo Declaration and Potsdam Proclamation concerning territories such as the Diaoyu Islands and the Taiwan question. The author accuses Japan of violating its international legal obligations and calls on the international community, especially the UN, to uphold these foundational documents and resist historical revisionism. The article states that China firmly opposes any actions that glorify aggression or undermine regional peace and stability.
Summary: A recent Asian Development Bank report indicates Papua New Guinea's (PNG) economy is showing resilience due to ongoing macroeconomic reforms, forecasting a potential 4% growth in 2026 driven by resource projects and export increases. PNG is focusing on agricultural transformation through its National Agriculture Sector Plan, aiming to become a commercialized, export-oriented economy by 2033. The mining sector is expected to contribute significantly to PNG's export revenue, and the government is promoting economic zones to attract foreign investment and drive industrial development. PNG, the first Pacific Island country to sign a Belt and Road cooperation document with China, is seeing increased Chinese investment in infrastructure projects. PNG officials have expressed their expectation to further broaden cooperation with China.
Summary: Here's a summary of the provided articles: Japanese media and opposition parties expressed concerns over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's renewed push for constitutional revision, particularly Article 9, which renounces war. Takaichi expressed her desire to revise the constitution to reflect the times in a video message to a pro-revision gathering in Tokyo. Separately, CNN reported that Israel is coordinating with the U.S. to prepare for potential strikes against Iranian energy infrastructure and officials due to heightened tensions in the Strait of Hormuz, with the decision ultimately resting with President Trump. The U.S. trade deficit increased in March due to rising goods imports. An EU official stated that the Middle East crisis has severely damaged the EU's energy and economy, with member states spending an additional 30 billion euros on fossil fuel imports without increased supply.
Summary: The provided article depicts the dire humanitarian crisis facing children in Gaza due to the ongoing violation of the ceasefire agreement by Israeli forces. Despite the destruction of schools, Gazan children are shown continuing their education in damaged facilities. The article emphasizes the children's unwavering thirst for knowledge amidst the devastation. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Brazilian government has launched its first "Food Sovereignty Protected Area" in the Yanomami Indigenous Reserve, aiming to restore sustainable food production after clearing illegal mining activities. This initiative is part of a broader effort to protect indigenous territories, including formalizing land rights and combating illegal mining, which has seen a significant reduction in active mining areas within the reserve. The government is shifting focus from damage control to ecological restoration and rebuilding sustainable production capacity within indigenous communities, providing resources and training. These efforts are intended to improve food security, autonomy, and living standards for the Yanomami people. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China is conducting a new round of agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning to adapt to climate change, which is causing shifts in agricultural zones, such as apple-growing regions extending into the Mao Wusu Desert. The surveys aim to create detailed agricultural "climate portraits" to optimize resource use and mitigate risks from extreme weather. These efforts involve collaboration between meteorological and agricultural departments at national, provincial, city, and county levels, focusing on data accuracy, consistent technical approaches, and reliable validation standards. The goal is to provide farmers with data-driven decision-making tools, improve disaster risk management, and promote sustainable development in rural areas. These efforts do not appear to discuss U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of accurately assessing and utilizing China's diverse climate resources for agricultural production in the face of climate change. It highlights how climate change has already altered agricultural patterns, necessitating a new round of agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning. By leveraging technologies like satellites, radar, and AI, the aim is to create precise "climate IDs" for crop-growing regions, moving from traditional observation-based farming to data-driven agriculture. This effort seeks to increase crop yields, reduce disaster impacts, and ensure sustainable agricultural development, ultimately bolstering China's food security. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A German photographer, Jakob Becker, recreated photos of China taken by his great-grandfather, Horst Kontop, sixty years prior, showcasing China's rapid development. Becker's work, displayed in exhibitions and a photography book, captures the stark contrast between 1961 and the present day, highlighting changes in Shanghai, Beijing, and other cities. Becker noted the changes in Chinese people's daily lives, space and infrastructure. Becker's project, supported by Chinese friends and scholars, aims to promote understanding of China's transformation and foster German-Chinese friendship.
Summary: A European scholar, frequently visiting China, observes China's shift from technology follower to leader, attributing it to a culture of innovation and ambitious goals. The scholar highlights China's "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" focus on "new quality productive forces" and advancements in areas like quantum technology and AI. The development of China's EV industry, exemplified by companies like BYD expanding into Europe, showcases this innovation. The scholar witnessed AI applications in diverse sectors like fashion and perfumery, further demonstrating China's innovative drive. The scholar believes China's innovation offers global cooperation and development opportunities.
Summary: A British man who has lived in Chengdu for ten years became a foreign community assistant in the Tongzilin International Community. He assists foreign residents with issues such as understanding local medical insurance policies by creating bilingual guides and videos in Chinese and English. He also facilitates cultural exchange events, such as "international food festivals" and English corners, bringing Chinese and foreign residents together. He aims to foster a sense of belonging and integration for foreigners in the community. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the importance of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance in government to promote high-quality development, tying it to the achievements of the 15th Five-Year Plan. It emphasizes that true achievements require long-term, sustainable efforts tailored to local conditions, citing Yiwu's economic success as an example. The article also calls for cadres to adapt to local conditions, seize opportunities, and promote green transformation of traditional industries. It concludes that the current economic achievements reflect the effectiveness of the ongoing study and education on the correct view of performance. The complex international environment is briefly mentioned.
Summary: The article discusses how three regions in China—Dingxiang, Rizhao, and Suzhou—are developing "new productive forces" by focusing on their unique strengths. Dingxiang is upgrading its traditional flange forging industry with digital technologies, while Rizhao is promoting green and intelligent upgrades in its steel industry. Suzhou is focusing on artificial intelligence, particularly in autonomous driving, supported by favorable policies and a long-term development strategy. None of the regions are reported as having any involvment with the United States. These regions are all said to be pursuing high-quality development tailored to their local contexts.
Summary: China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) has unveiled the world's largest rotor sail Wind Assisted Propulsion System (WAPS), developed by its subsidiary Shuangrui Environment, after completing onshore testing. The 5-meter diameter, 35-meter high system aims to reduce fuel consumption for large ocean-going vessels by 5-25%. CSSC claims this achievement marks a leap from "follower to partial leader" in high-end marine environmental equipment, breaking the dominance of foreign companies in the market. The system incorporates innovative design and intelligent control systems to maximize wind energy capture and withstand harsh marine conditions. CSSC emphasized that the system's development will provide key technology and equipment for reducing carbon emissions in China's shipping industry.
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Summary: The article discusses the resurgence of wired headphones in China's consumer market, attributing it to precise responses to segmented needs and reflecting a shift towards personalized and diversified consumption. It highlights the importance of tapping into niche markets and specific scenarios to stimulate consumption and drive economic growth, particularly in rural areas. The article also notes that in the first quarter of the year, the total retail sales of consumer goods in China reached 12769.5 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4% year-on-year. The article concludes that China's consumer market has the potential to maintain its vitality and foster more growth points, injecting stronger impetus into the economy.
Summary: Kaifeng is transforming its tourism sector by focusing on immersive experiences and emotional value for visitors, moving beyond simply selling tickets to offering complete cultural experiences. The city has seen a significant increase in tourism revenue and visitor numbers by offering interactive experiences such as NPC interactions, themed parks, and nighttime river cruises. Kaifeng is integrating the city and its attractions to create a seamless tourism experience, with improved transportation, dining, and consumer protection measures. The city is also offering consumer protection insurance to cover any consumer disputes that tourists might have.
Summary: The article discusses a recently discovered Ming Dynasty-era Miao ethnic group's colored batik dress with heron motifs, a national-level cultural relic excavated in Guizhou province, highlighting its artistic and historical significance. It notes the rarity of finding such well-preserved colored batik clothing and the advanced craftsmanship involved, connecting it to the broader history of batik and embroidery among ethnic minorities in Guizhou. The article then shifts to a contemporary designer, Zhang Lan, who is revitalizing traditional Miao embroidery and batik techniques by incorporating them into modern fashion and cultural products, contributing to the local economy and promoting Guizhou's cultural heritage. The initiative aims to make ethnic elements fashionable, targeting younger consumers and showcasing Guizhou's Miao embroidery and batik on global stages like China International Fashion Week. There is no mention of the United States in the article.
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Summary: This article discusses the evolving role of the "Shifu" (师傅), or master/mentor, in the age of Artificial Intelligence in China. While AI can replicate skills and provide vast knowledge, the article argues that the Shifu remains crucial for imparting values, ethical judgment, and a strong work ethic. The piece suggests that Shifus teach critical thinking and discernment in a world saturated with AI-generated solutions, emphasizing the importance of experience-based wisdom beyond data. It also mentions that the master-apprentice relationship is becoming more flexible and project-based, but the core function of instilling values remains. The article does not make any mention of the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article profiles Zhou Shuxia, a cotton expert at the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps First Division Agricultural Science Institute, and her contributions to cotton breeding in Xinjiang. It details her meticulous work in hybrid cotton breeding, including developing the "Xinza Mian No. 2" variety. The article also highlights her mentorship of younger researchers like Zhao Xiaoyan, who now leads the cotton research lab and continues her legacy. Zhou emphasized adapting to new challenges, including mechanical harvesting, and encouraged a willingness to abandon unproductive paths in research.
Summary: The article recounts the story of Sun Fengsheng, nicknamed "Sun Dasheng" (Monkey King), a dedicated bridge maintenance worker on the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge since 1996. It details his exceptional skill in identifying bridge defects by sound, a skill passed down to his apprentice Ye Qiqi. The article further describes Sun's commitment to ensuring the bridge's safety, even in hazardous conditions, and how this dedication inspired Ye Qiqi to excel in his own career maintaining another Yangtze River bridge. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: This article is a personal reflection on the author's mentorship under a senior editor at the People's Education Press. The author describes the mentor's eccentricities, meticulous work ethic, and profound knowledge of the teaching materials. The author recounts instances of the mentor's intense dedication to accuracy and his unexpected kindness towards a student. The author concludes by describing how the mentor stayed late into the night to support the author during a difficult project.
Summary: The article profiles Xu Xudong, a young agricultural expert who returned to his hometown to work in agriculture, following in the footsteps of his grandfather, Xu Chongxiang, a renowned agricultural scientist. Xu Xudong now uses drones and technology to improve farming practices, while also recalling his grandfather's farming wisdom. He is also working alongside other young people. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: A young police academy graduate, Yu, initially disappointed not to become a criminal investigator, joins the water police and learns from his mentor, Xu, the importance of their role in saving lives and retrieving evidence. Yu masters essential skills like underwater searching and ice rescue, eventually becoming a respected member of the unit. One successful retrieval involved recovering stolen jewelry from a river, and another involved rescuing people who had fallen through thin ice, highlighting the water police's dedication. After Xu's retirement, Yu becomes a mentor himself, passing on the lessons he learned. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article provides contact information for submissions to the "Dadi" section of *People's Daily*, specifying that contributions must be original and not submitted elsewhere. The email address for submissions is dadi@peopledaily.cn. The page layout was designed by Wang Zheping and Zhao Siru. There is no mention of specific political figures, events, or U.S.-China relations.
By: 本报记者 冯春梅 张 枨
In May, the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) Xilingol (锡林郭勒) Grassland is vibrant with green. Located in Xilinhot (锡林浩特市), Xilingol League (锡林郭勒盟), the State Grid (国家电网) 1000 kV UHV Shengli Substation (1000千伏特高压胜利变电站) operates at full capacity. The 366-kilometer UHV line, like a silver dragon, crosses the grassland, directly transmitting green electricity from the northern border of the motherland to hundreds of kilometers away, lighting up thousands of homes.
"We collect the green energy generated by the Xilingol League (锡林郭勒盟) new energy base and transmit approximately 20 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity to areas such as Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), Hebei (河北), Shandong (山东), and Jiangsu (江苏) annually," said Hao Jianguo (郝建国), Party Branch Secretary of the State Grid (国家电网) 1000 kV UHV Shengli Substation (1000千伏特高压胜利变电站). Since Inner Mongolia's (内蒙古) first UHV project was put into operation in July 2016, as of the end of March 2026, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has transmitted 135.168 billion kilowatt-hours of green energy to 11 provinces through UHV channels.
In June 2023, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古): "Promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional energy industries, vigorously developing green energy, and strengthening the national important energy base are the top priorities for Inner Mongolia's (内蒙古) development."
Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest instructions, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) makes full use of its advantages of "wind and solar power overhead, coal underfoot, and power grids in hand" to vigorously develop green energy and synergistically promote the development of new energy development and utilization and the new energy equipment manufacturing industry. As of March 2026, Inner Mongolia's (内蒙古) total installed capacity of new energy reached 174.1 million kilowatts, which is 3.4 times that of the initial period of the "14th Five-Year Plan," accounting for 54% of the region's total installed power capacity.
Promoting green transformation by deploying new energy projects in traditional energy areas.
In Wulanmulun Town (乌兰木伦镇), Yijinhuoluo Banner (伊金霍洛旗), Ordos City (鄂尔多斯市), nearly a million silver-blue photovoltaic panels stretch as far as the eye can see, interspersed with countless green plants and trees, transforming the coal mining subsidence area.
"The project generates an average of about 900 million kilowatt-hours of electricity per year," said Xue Feng (薛峰), head of the Tianjiao Green Energy (天骄绿能) Coal Mining Subsidence Area Photovoltaic Power Generation Demonstration Zone. Under the photovoltaic panels, forage grasses such as alfalfa and protein mulberry are also planted, and economic fruit forests such as apples and sea buckthorn are planted in ecological areas, generating green electricity and greening the mountains.
In recent years, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has deployed new energy projects in traditional energy areas such as open-pit coal mines and coal mining subsidence areas, and has built a total of 61 green electricity application projects with an annual green electricity generation of approximately 5.2 billion kilowatt-hours, equivalent to saving 1.58 million tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 4.6 million tons per year, effectively promoting the green transformation of traditional energy industries.
Seizing the development of green energy and accelerating the promotion of new energy consumption and utilization.
In Siziwang Banner (四子王旗), Ulanqab City (乌兰察布市), strong winds howl, and hundreds of white wind turbines, each hundreds of meters high, stand on the ridgeline, with huge turbine blades slowly rotating in the wind.
"The wind here is strong and there are many days with high winds. The 134 wind turbines generate approximately 3.3 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity per year," said Zhang Haowei (张浩伟), a wind turbine operation and maintenance worker at Inner Mongolia Energy Group Co., Ltd. (内蒙古能源集团有限公司).
This green electricity has been actively consumed and applied locally. Ulanqab City (乌兰察布市) makes full use of its wind and solar resource advantages and local consumption advantages to continuously increase the proportion of green electricity in industrial projects. At present, the city has deployed 32 green ferroalloy projects, with direct green electricity supply exceeding 40% of the total electricity consumption.
"In recent years, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has actively expanded the local consumption and application scenarios of green electricity. We have studied and introduced a package of policies and measures to promote the local consumption of new energy, innovatively launched six new models for local and nearby consumption of new energy, such as wind and solar hydrogen production integration, and continuously expanded the scale of green electricity use in key energy-consuming industries..." said Cao Siyang (曹思阳), Director of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Energy Bureau (内蒙古自治区能源局). In 2025, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) produced 279.1 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity, an increase of 31.4% year-on-year, accounting for nearly 1/3 of the region's total power generation; among them, more than 2/3 was consumed locally, strongly supporting the green transformation of the region's economic and social development.
Transforming resource advantages and strengthening the new energy equipment manufacturing industry.
In Shiguai District (石拐区), Baotou City (包头市), the Mingyang New Energy Equipment Manufacturing Industrial Park (明阳新能源装备制造产业园), workers are installing wind turbine components on an intelligent flexible pulse production line, and the various processes of wind turbine assembly are proceeding in an orderly manner.
"We have intelligently upgraded seven processes, including yaw assembly, and adopted a flexible pulse production line, which has shortened the wind turbine assembly time from 3 days to 4 hours, and has the capacity to produce 1,500 sets of wind turbines per year," said Xu Fei (徐飞), Director of the General Assembly Plant of Mingyang Northern Smart Energy (Inner Mongolia) Co., Ltd. (明阳北方智慧能源（内蒙古）有限公司).
At present, there are 57 wind power equipment manufacturing industry chain enterprises in Baotou City (包头市), with a matching rate of 85% for main engine components, basically forming an industrial chain covering key links such as wind power main engines, generators, gearboxes, and blades.
Transforming wind and solar resource advantages into industrial advantages, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) continues to strengthen the new energy equipment manufacturing industry, expand the four industrial clusters of wind, solar, hydrogen, and energy storage, and accelerate the construction of a national-level new energy equipment manufacturing base. In recent years, investment in new energy and equipment manufacturing in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has accounted for nearly 80% of total energy investment, becoming a new engine supporting the energy economy and even the region's economic development.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Accelerate the construction of a clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient new energy system." "In-depth implementation of the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important speech and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) adheres to the direction of high-end, intelligent, and green development, focuses on promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional energy industries, accelerates the research, development, production, and manufacturing of new materials and new equipment required for new energy development, and strengthens the national important energy and strategic resource base," said Wang Weizhong (王伟中), Secretary of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Party Committee (内蒙古自治区党委书记).
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Finally, the intricate appearance of sugar, the "dark matter of life," has been clearly seen!
Recently, the Yan Ning (颜宁) team of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangdong (广东深圳医学科学院) and the Tsinghua University (清华大学) team achieved a key breakthrough in the field of glycobiology, advancing the research of natural glycoconjugates to near-atomic resolution, providing methodological support for large-scale structural studies of complex natural glycoconjugates.
On April 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the symposium on strengthening basic research: "Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and the general mechanism for all technical problems. We must strengthen basic research with greater efforts and more practical measures, enhance our country's original innovation capabilities, and further consolidate the foundation for building a strong country in science and technology."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes: "Strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and coordinate the promotion of goal-oriented and free exploration basic research."
The revised "Regulations on the National Natural Science Foundation of China" came into effect at the beginning of last year, continuously improving the diversified investment mechanism of the Science Fund from the perspective of national administrative regulations, encouraging original research, and clearly establishing special funds to cultivate young scientific and technological talents. Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places have also introduced a number of policies to strengthen basic research in combination with their own industrial and scientific research characteristics. This year, the central government's science and technology expenditure includes a basic research budget of approximately 116.938 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3% compared to last year's implementation number.
From top-level design to local practice, from system improvement to financial security, China's basic research system is constantly improving, and the vitality of original innovation continues to burst forth.
Establish a non-consensus project screening mechanism to help original innovation boldly try and make mistakes. The so-called non-consensus projects usually refer to innovative research in the field of basic research that is highly innovative but has not yet reached a consensus, is highly controversial, difficult to identify, and high-risk. This type of research project is usually difficult to pass the expert review process and cannot obtain funding through conventional channels.
Benefiting from the funding support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), the Chen Zibo (陈子博) team of the Westlake Laboratory (西湖大学西湖实验室) of Westlake University (西湖大学) has recently made steady progress in the field of artificial synthetic cells, and has initially verified the controllable division of artificial cells in vitro.
At the end of last year, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会) completed the first batch of major non-consensus project selections. After evaluation, three projects were finally selected, and the synthetic artificial cell project of the Chen Zibo (陈子博) team was one of them.
"This policy adopts a brand-new selection and evaluation mechanism, which gives full support and affirmation to this kind of interdisciplinary and high-risk research, allowing us to break away from conventional assessments and focus on verifying that extremely small possibility of innovation," said Chen Zibo (陈子博).
The relevant person in charge of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会) stated that the establishment of a non-consensus project screening mechanism to promote non-consensus project research will support the majority of scientific researchers to bravely climb the peak of science and produce more original achievements "from 0 to 1".
Create a new paradigm of institutionalized scientific research and forge hard power for systematic tackling of key problems.
Since the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) returned with lunar back samples in June 2024, researchers have produced a number of major achievements in just over a year. Among them, many achievements come from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所).
The speed stems from organized scientific research behind the scenes. At the first time when the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar soil samples were applied for, the Party Committee of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所党委) took the lead in preparing to establish a hundred-member team composed of personnel drawn from various research groups, with only one goal - to tackle the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar back sample research.
"In the past, everyone did their own projects, but now everyone is working on the same direction," said Yang Wei (杨蔚), director of the Nano-Ion Probe Laboratory of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所纳米离子探针实验室主任).
From a single research group fighting alone to multiple directions twisted into one rope - this is just a microcosm of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) adjusting its scientific research organization model.
Adjusting the decentralized and repetitive layout to mission-driven collaboration, the institutional advantages can be fully utilized. In recent years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) has formulated and implemented the "Ten Basic Research Articles" in depth, actively promoting mission-driven institutionalized basic research, and has achieved remarkable results. "In the next stage, we will strengthen top-down collaborative promotion, continuously improve the tiered and connected basic research task system, organize and carry out cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborative tackling of key problems, and make new and greater contributions to accelerating the creation of an original innovation source and fully achieving the 'four firsts' goal," said the relevant person in charge of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).
Explore diversified investment paths and gather synergistic forces from government, enterprises, and research institutions.
After more than 3 years of joint research, targeting the applied basic research needed by the industry, the team of Professor Zhang Qiang (张强) of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University (清华大学化工系) recently proposed the regulation of ion solvation behavior by lithium bond chemistry, providing important theoretical support for the design of high-performance batteries.
In July 2022, the Xiaomi Foundation (小米公益基金会) donated 500 million yuan to establish the Beijing Natural Science Foundation - Xiaomi Innovation Joint Fund (北京市自然科学基金—小米创新联合基金), and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (北京市自然科学基金) also allocated 50 million yuan to jointly support the development of basic research. Through "unveiling the list," the Zhang Qiang (张强) team was successfully selected and received long-term and stable funding.
"We hope to attract the attention of more social forces through our own practice, and we also look forward to guiding more social forces to invest in basic research in a public welfare manner through policies," said Diao Meiling (刁美玲), director and executive secretary-general of the Xiaomi Foundation (小米公益基金会理事、执行秘书长).
In recent years, Beijing (北京市) has explored a diversified investment mechanism for basic research, established a three-level linkage joint funding model involving the city, districts, and enterprises, established the Beijing Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund (北京市自然科学基金联合基金), and driven more than 70 enterprises and public welfare foundations to participate in basic research, leveraging external funds to invest more than 700 million yuan in basic research, and has accumulated more than 2,300 technology lists.
Plan before acting, and success will come with implementation. Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun (阴和俊) said that the Ministry of Science and Technology will adhere to the "15th Five-Year Plan" basic research plan to lead the way, systematically lay out major scientific research tasks, systematically plan reform measures to comprehensively strengthen basic research, improve the independent guarantee level of scientific and technological infrastructure conditions, create a strong basic research and original innovation capability, and further consolidate the foundation for building a strong country in science and technology.
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Currently, the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance is being carried out in depth and in a solid manner. All regions, departments, and units are carefully organizing and conscientiously implementing work arrangements such as learning and discussion, problem identification, rectification and remediation, establishing rules and regulations, and open education, facing problems directly, being precise and pragmatic, and promoting learning, investigation, and rectification in an integrated manner.
Speaking Frankly and Seriously Rectifying Problems
The Xicheng District (西城区) of Beijing (北京市) firmly established the conscious action of "clearing up old accounts is creating new achievements," deeply integrating the resolution of historical legacy issues with urban renewal, grassroots governance, and people's livelihood security work, comprehensively sorting out the historical legacy issue ledger, and constructing a three-level linkage system of district-level leaders taking charge of cases, special work teams tracking and supervising, and responsible units fighting on a map, using list-based management, project-based promotion, and closed-loop implementation to promote the phased resolution of many "hard bone" problems.
The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州) of Jilin Province (吉林省) combined the problems reflected by discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and patrol, letters and visits, and other aspects to sort out and form a list of common problems; resolutely returned those departments and units that did not deeply and realistically investigate the problems existing in the view of performance, and avoided the important and took the light. At the same time, the special work team for study and education in the prefecture and county adopted methods such as regular scheduling, on-site inspection, and random visits to dynamically grasp the situation of rectification and remediation, and strengthen tracking and supervision.
Mine development is one of the important resource industries in Anshun City (安顺市), Guizhou Province (贵州省). Since the launch of study and education, Anshun City (安顺市) has listed the outstanding problems found in environmental protection inspections, compacted the responsibility for rectification, and in terms of mining rights access, daily supervision, exit management, and regulatory information sharing, one county-level leader is responsible for one key mine, leading the coordination of departments, towns, and mining enterprises to continuously promote the implementation of rectification.
Qingyunpu District (青云谱区) of Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) insisted on rectifying while investigating, and immediately rectifying, and in response to the problems found such as "the grasp of the urgent difficulties and expectations of the elderly and weak groups in the jurisdiction is not comprehensive and accurate enough," continued to improve the normalized investigation and accurate assistance mechanism; focusing on the employment and income increase problems of the disabled, deeply implemented the "employment assistance, public welfare assistance to the disabled, and preferential job placement and training" special action, and calibrated the performance coordinates in rectification and remediation.
Zhongxian County (忠县) of Chongqing (重庆市) combined the study and education rectification with inspection and patrol, established a centralized evaluation mechanism for inspection and rectification, the main leaders of the county party committee listened to reports on the spot, questioned problems, assigned tasks, and commented on the effectiveness, forming a closed loop of problem rectification work. On this basis, it deeply searched for the deviation of the view of performance behind the cases, and strived to find gaps, investigate the root causes, and strengthen self-cultivation from the perspective of party spirit.
Establishing Rules and Regulations and Long-Term Governance
Baisha Li Autonomous County (白沙黎族自治县) of Hainan Province (海南省) issued a notice, strictly following the principle of "whoever formulates is responsible," each responsible unit shall clean up the system and mechanism and related normative documents that do not meet the requirements of the correct view of performance in accordance with the procedures; in response to the deviation of the view of performance such as "emphasizing the short term and neglecting the long term, emphasizing the obvious and neglecting the potential," formulated and issued documents such as the work flow of civil servant transfer, optimized the promotion process of rank, and established a clear guidance for the people to produce performance and to produce performance with practical work.
Wuwei City (武威市) of Gansu Province (甘肃省) insisted on treating both the symptoms and the root causes, and systematically governing, improving industry governance, source prevention and control, mass participation, and other mechanisms, and continuously optimizing the development environment. Among them, in the field of public resource transactions, the implementation of "online intelligent early warning + offline manual witnessing" formed a multi-party collaborative linkage co-governance pattern, and severely cracked down on illegal and irregular behaviors in the field of bidding in accordance with the law.
Yanchi County (盐池县) of Wuzhong City (吴忠市), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区) deeply searched for the regulations in the current system and mechanism that do not meet the requirements of the correct view of performance, repealed 5 normative documents in accordance with the law, and timely revised the rules and regulations with lagging content, loopholes, and unclear powers and responsibilities. Optimized the assessment and evaluation indicators, and differentiated the weight of people's livelihood services, public satisfaction, etc.; improved the long-term mechanism of cadre supervision, supervision and handling, and risk prevention and control, compacted the regulatory responsibility in key areas, and standardized decision-making from the source, and eliminated "image projects" and "performance projects".
Asking the People for Needs and Asking the People for Advice
Xiqing District (西青区) of Tianjin (天津市) promoted leading cadres at the division level and above to focus on important development matters, practical matters for people's livelihood, and difficult governance matters to lead topics and conduct visits and investigations, and went deep into enterprises, rural areas, communities, and other grassroots fronts to listen to the suggestions of the masses and accept the supervision of the masses; deeply analyzed the 12345 hotline work orders, and made early discovery, early intervention, and early disposal of high-frequency commonality, seasonality, periodicity, and risk-prone demands, so that the masses can feel and reach the effectiveness of study and education.
Jinzhong City (晋中市), Shanxi Province (山西省) insisted on solving whatever problems there are, and focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent, comprehensively sorted out the outstanding problems reflected by the masses through the 12345 hotline, letters and visits, and other channels, combined with the list of problems found, formulated a work plan for rectification and remediation, clarified the responsible person one by one, reversed the time, and solidly promoted the rectification to ensure that practical results are achieved.
Xiaoshan District (萧山区) of Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) insisted on opening up education, continued to deepen "people call me to do," promoted actions such as "enterprises call me to respond" and "people's feelings double visits," built a mechanism for sinking guidance, list review, and closed-loop rectification, guided party members and leading cadres to sink into the front line to listen to the voices of the people, solve the worries of the people, and benefit the people's livelihood, responded to the expectations of the masses with practical work and practical results, and promoted the study and education to go deep and solid and see results.
Nanjing Forestry University (南京林业大学) insisted on opening the door to grasp study and education, and actively asked for needs and advice, focusing on the tendency of emphasizing the current and neglecting the long term, emphasizing indicators and neglecting connotation in talent training and discipline construction, the school leadership team went deep into the front line to visit and investigate, sorted out and formed 10 outstanding problems such as the unbalanced allocation of teaching resources and the need to improve the degree of conformity between professional construction and social needs, and established a graded research and judgment ledger, implemented account cancellation and closed-loop management, and took the reform of the excellent agricultural and forestry talent training model as the traction, and transformed the effectiveness of study and education into the high-quality development of the cause.
(Our reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Huang Xian (黄娴), Wang Weijian (王伟健), Jin Bo (靳博), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Fu Mingli (付明丽), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Jiao Siyu (焦思雨))
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Hubei Wuhan, Optics Valley Laboratory researcher Zhang Jingyu (张静宇) focuses on the cutting-edge femtosecond laser track, breaking through technical barriers and increasing the theoretical capacity of a single glass optical disc;
Heilongjiang Jixian County, Zhang Guangdong (张广东), director of Qiufeng Rice Planting Professional Cooperative, deeply cultivates the fertile fields of the countryside, introduces intelligent equipment, and forms a young e-commerce team to empower agricultural production with digitalization;
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"I hope you will have lofty ideals, be determined to work hard, lead the majority of young people to integrate their personal pursuits into the overall situation of national development, continuously create new achievements based on their respective positions, and contribute youth strength to the new journey." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) reply encouraged the representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award, and the earnest entrustment stirred up the majestic power of hundreds of millions of young people to forge ahead on a new journey and make contributions to a new era.
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and it is the right time for young people to make contributions.
Climbing to the peak of science and technology, rooting in the front line at the grassroots level, and adhering to ordinary positions, the majority of young people embrace dreams and are down-to-earth, dare to think and act, and are good at doing things successfully. A magnificent picture of a vibrant and youthful China is slowly unfolding.
Embracing Ideals: Striving for New Strength and Courageously Climbing the Peak of Scientific and Technological Innovation
50 minutes and 26 seconds to complete the race!
At the 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the "Lightning" robot of the Qitian Dasheng Team (齐天大圣队) of Guangdong Shenzhen Glory Wisdom Technology Development Co., Ltd. won the championship, surpassing the human men's half marathon record and creating a history of human-machine speed competition.
Autonomous navigation, dynamic balance, breaking through limits... Young researchers have implemented laboratory algorithms in real-world scenarios, injecting strong momentum into the iteration of the humanoid robot industry with youthful wisdom.
Embracing the ideal of serving the country, willing to tackle the toughest challenges. Looking at the land of China, the innovation wave of Chinese youth is surging from embodied intelligence to a wider world.
Shanghai Xuhui District, the night is getting darker, the "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) large model innovation ecological community is still brightly lit. Xia Lixue (夏立雪), CEO of Wuwen Xinqiong (无问芯穹) and a post-90s generation, is discussing computing power optimization solutions with team members.
A year ago, in "Model Speed Space," Xia Lixue introduced to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) the research and development breakthroughs in core software technology for artificial intelligence computing power infrastructure. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) cordially encouraged: "Artificial intelligence is a young cause, and it is also a cause for young people."
Xia Lixue (夏立雪) led a young team with an average age of 32 to achieve efficient utilization of autonomous computing power, and jointly created the country's first "computing power ecological supermarket" - the Model Speed Space Computing Power Ecological Platform, determined to "let computing power enter thousands of industries and thousands of households like water, electricity, and gas."
Gathering more than 300 artificial intelligence companies, with annual revenue increasing by more than 12 times and total production value exceeding 100 billion yuan, the average age of entrepreneurs is under 30... This year, the youth team of the Shanghai "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) large model innovation ecological community won the China Youth May Fourth Medal Group. "Model Speed is Young" is not only a slogan, but also a picture of industrial chain symbiosis where "upstairs and downstairs are upstream and downstream" and "neighbors are partners."
Embracing the heart of patriotism, establishing the ambition to serve the country, and enhancing the ability of the country, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest teachings, the new era youth are taking on the ambition and courage to promote Chinese-style modernization, charging towards the forefront of science and technology, and writing a bright answer sheet worthy of the times -
Breaking new ground in basic frontiers. Xiao Guoliang (肖国梁), director of the Research Office of the Institute of Fusion Science Experiment of the Southwestern Institute of Physics, Nuclear Industry, developed an imaging system and realized the first fine distribution measurement of fusion fueling beams, promoting the comprehensive performance of the "artificial sun" - "China Ring Current Three" to the world's leading level.
Breaking through barriers in key technologies. Hu Xiaotian (胡笑添), professor of the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Energy Chemistry, explored a wet preparation technology with independent intellectual property rights, promoted the mass production of flexible perovskite solar cells, and enabled China's photovoltaic technology to achieve a leap from "following," "running side by side," to "leading."
Casting the backbone of major national instruments. Zhang Haonan (张昊楠), director of the Geophysical Equipment Research Institute of the Geophysical Exploration Division of China Oilfield Services Co., Ltd., focuses on scientific research and dedicated research, helping to realize the independent control of the world's three major marine geophysical exploration equipment.
Taking the lead, acting as the protagonist, and showing their skills. At the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, the majority of young people have become the well-deserved main force. Looking at aerospace, the "Beidou" (北斗) network, the average age of the satellite development team is 31 years old; "Chang'e" (嫦娥) takes soil, the average age of the person in charge of key measurement and control positions is 33 years old; "Tiangong" (天宫) builds a station, the average age of the Mengtian Experimental Module assembly team is 33 years old; "Tianwen" (天问) explores Mars, the average age of the flight control team is only 30 years old... Empowering innovation with youth, China is accelerating its transformation from a global science and technology participant and contributor to a pioneer and leader.
Rooting in the Front Line: Deeply Cultivating Downward and Writing a Regretless Youth on the Vast Land
Only by sowing the seeds of ideals in the soil most needed by the country can youth bloom with the most dazzling light.
Kantian Gezhuang Village (阚田各庄村), Panggezhuang Township (庞各庄乡), Leting County (乐亭县), Hebei Province, the tomatoes in the fruit and vegetable greenhouses are growing gratifyingly. Li Yao (李瑶), secretary of the Party branch and director of the village committee of Kantian Gezhuang Village (阚田各庄村), is introducing the village's agricultural industry to guests.
Eight years ago, Li Yao (李瑶) paid out of his own pocket to buy materials, lay out lines, and replace lights, and 120 LED street lights in the village lit up. He built 3,000 meters of stone slag roads in farmland, updated tap water pipe networks, and installed fitness equipment, and the village's living environment was completely renewed.
"With roads open and lights on, villagers can increase their income and become rich, and they still have to rely on industry." Li Yao (李瑶) led the villagers to build high-standard farmland, and introduced a fish-vegetable symbiosis agricultural cycle collective economic project to develop facility agriculture. Over the years, the average income per mu of land has increased from more than 1,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan.
"This year is the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. I will keep in mind my original aspiration and mission, actively devote myself to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and make the lives of the masses more and more happy," said Li Yao (李瑶).
The hope that grows out of the soil is growing rapidly. Young people can not only go back and stay, but also do well in the countryside.
At the northeastern end of the Hexi Corridor and the lower reaches of the Shiyang River, Minqin County (民勤县), Wuwei City (武威市), Gansu Province, is like a boat in the sand sea, surrounded by the Tengger and Badain Jaran deserts. For thousands of years, wind and sand have been memories engraved in the bones of Minqin people.
Zhong Lin (仲麟), the head of the Minqin County (民勤县) Afforestation Public Welfare Development Center, is a post-95s generation. He was born in Minqin (民勤), grew up in the sand, and resolutely returned to his hometown after graduating from university to plant Haloxylon ammodendron on the edge of the Tengger Desert, afforesting more than 7,000 mu of public welfare, allowing the desert to gradually grow new greenery.
"Youth takes root downward, and green grows upward." Clicking on Zhong Lin's (仲麟) short video account, the content of the shooting always revolves around desertification control and tree planting. Under his leadership, more and more volunteers from all over the country, carrying luggage and enthusiasm, rushed to this sand sea.
Rooting is not only in the countryside, but also in the places most needed by the motherland.
5373 meters is the height of the highest administrative township in China, and it is also the height that youth touches.
Puma Jiangtang Township (普玛江塘乡), Langkazi County (浪卡子县), Shannan City (山南市), Tibet, has an oxygen content of less than 40% of sea level, an average annual temperature of minus 7 degrees Celsius, and an extremely harsh natural environment. The young police officers of the Puma Jiangtang Border Police Station (普玛江塘边境派出所) have deeply rooted themselves in this "no-go zone for life," guarding the 1,511 square kilometers of border jurisdiction and 25 kilometers of border line, just because "the place where we stand is China."
From the fields of rural revitalization to the forefront of ecological governance, from the "no-go zone for life" on the border of the motherland to the front line of grassroots development, the majority of young people practice their original aspirations with perseverance and fulfill their missions with dedication, writing a regretless youth on the vast land.
Pragmatic Responsibility: Persisting in Long-Term Practice and Integrating into the Overall Situation of National Development to Create Extraordinary Achievements
Youth casts ingenuity, and struggle never stops. The majority of young people take on responsibilities in ordinary positions and hone their skills in the pursuit of excellence.
This responsibility is the skill honing of "forging ten thousand jun of force in a fraction of a millimeter."
Next to the 80,000-ton die forging press, Ye Linwei (叶林伟), the leader of the 80,000-ton die forging press team of China Erzhong Group (中国第二重型机械集团) Deyang Wanhang Die Forging Co., Ltd. (德阳万航模锻有限责任公司), led the team members to precisely control the equipment, and the pulse of the major national instrument beat in the sound of each rise and fall.
As the first operator of the equipment and the winner of the 2023 China Youth May Fourth Medal, Ye Linwei (叶林伟) led the team to continuously overcome technical problems and successfully pressed out a variety of high-end aviation die forgings such as the main landing gear outer cylinder and fuselage frame beam structure of the C919 large aircraft.
General Secretary's reply "lead the majority of young people to integrate their personal pursuits into the overall situation of national development" impressed Ye Linwei (叶林伟). "I will adhere to the original aspiration of serving the country with skills, continuously create new achievements based on my position, lead the team to tackle more 'hard bones' of extreme forging, and let youth shine more brilliantly in the hot practice of building a manufacturing power."
Love what you do, love what you do, and be good at what you do. Today, China has more than 80 million professional and technical personnel, more than 220 million skilled workers, including more than 72 million highly skilled personnel. More and more young people are embarking on the road of becoming talented through skills and serving the country with skills.
This responsibility is the persistent adherence of ordinary people to pursue a brilliant life.
By chance, Wang Qinjin (汪勤金), who became a Shunfeng Express (顺丰快递) warehouse manager after graduation, became one of the pilots selected and trained within the company. Physical training regardless of wind and rain, sleepless nights of aviation theory learning, and racing against time for simulator training... Wang Qinjin (汪勤金) exchanged day-to-day persistence for the medal to the blue sky.
From a courier to a civil aviation captain, and then to a flight instructor, Wang Qinjin (汪勤金) handed over a struggle answer sheet with 6,600 hours of safe flight time, confirming that in an era where everyone enjoys the opportunity to shine, as long as you work hard, youth has unlimited possibilities.
This responsibility is even more the heart-warming guardian on the stage of social service.
The "Sichuan-Tibet-Qinghai Bright Journey" eye health volunteer service team has been advancing to the plateau for 14 consecutive years, and has established eye health records for about 40,000 people; Li Zhaojing (李兆静), secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Neighborhood Committee of Chachahe Community (岔河社区), Guangchuan Street (广川街道), Decheng District (德城区), Dezhou City (德州市), Shandong Province, took the lead in operating the city's first community meal assistance center, benefiting special groups...
The spirit of the May Fourth Movement is immortal, and the struggle of youth is just in time.
The majority of young people, guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important reply, are rooted in the front lines of grassroots such as scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, social services, and guarding the country, writing a regretless youth with practical responsibility, showing the good spirit of self-confidence, self-improvement, and high spirits of Chinese youth in the new era, and striving to write a youthful chapter worthy of the times and the people.
By: 彭 飞
Recently, a fireworks factory explosion occurred in Liuyang City (浏阳市), Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province, causing significant casualties. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued important instructions, emphasizing that "all regions and relevant departments must profoundly learn from the lessons, closely monitor and implement safety production responsibilities, and focus on investigating and rectifying potential risks and hidden dangers in key industries and fields."
Safety production is a major issue concerning people's livelihood, and cannot be relaxed in the slightest. Only by grasping safety production work with a spirit of extreme responsibility to the people, always thinking from the perspective of the masses, and treating major risks and hidden dangers as accidents, can we tighten the "master switch" of thought, strengthen the "firewall" of the system, grasp the "responsibility network" of action, and resolutely hold the bottom line of safety production.
To seize the initiative in safety production work, we must put in the effort in normal times. Adhering to eliminating accident risks from the root and solving problems fundamentally, paying more attention to source prevention and control, paying more attention to technological empowerment, and paying more attention to implementing the main responsibility of enterprises, so that every position and every person becomes an important node in the safety defense line, can we truly solve problems before they sprout and before they become disasters.
Safety is 一失万无 (yī shī wàn wú - "one loss, ten thousand losses," a single mistake can lead to total failure), and we must ensure 万无一失 (wàn wú yī shī - "ten thousand without one amiss," absolute safety; leaving nothing to chance). The vast number of party members and cadres must always put the safety of people's lives and property first, build a safety barrier with a bottom-line thinking, and safeguard the peace and tranquility of thousands of families by performing their duties and fulfilling their responsibilities.
Return to TopBeijing, May 5th (Reported by Han Xin (韩鑫)) According to the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) on the 5th, it is estimated that the total cross-regional personnel flow of the whole society during this year's "May Day" holiday (May 1st to 5th) will reach 1.525 billion, with an average daily flow of over 300 million, an average daily increase of 4.0% compared to the same period last year.
In terms of mode of transportation, the estimated railway passenger volume is 106.606 million, with an average daily volume of 21.321 million. The estimated waterway passenger volume is 8.561 million, with an average daily volume of 1.712 million. The estimated civil aviation passenger volume is 10.556 million, with an average daily volume of 2.111 million. The estimated highway passenger flow is approximately 1.4 billion.
Return to TopMay 5th is the Start of Summer solar term, and farmers in various regions are seizing the time to carry out various agricultural activities.
The picture shows the scene on that day in the Qinglong River Cooperative (青龙河合作社), Guangshan County (光山县), Xinyang City (信阳市), Henan Province (河南省), where people are using mobile rice seedling transporters to lift seedlings in the fields.
Photo by Xie Wanbai (谢万柏) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued)
Return to TopBeijing, May 5th (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) The China Federation of Logistics and Purchasing (中国物流与采购联合会) recently released logistics operation data showing that in the first quarter of this year, China's total social logistics reached 96.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.2%, and the growth rate increased by 0.5 percentage points compared with the same period last year. Logistics operations had a good start and a positive trend. Logistics demand achieved rapid growth, and development resilience continued to strengthen.
Specifically, industrial product logistics provided solid support, and high-end manufacturing led the growth. In the first quarter, the total amount of industrial product logistics increased by 5.8% year-on-year, contributing more than 80% to the growth of total social logistics. Among them, manufacturing logistics demand accounted for more than 80%.
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Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Changsha, May 5th (新华社长沙5月5日电) According to the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the requirements of Premier Li Qiang (李强), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, representing the Party Central Committee and the State Council, led responsible comrades from relevant departments to Liuyang City (浏阳市), Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) on the 5th to guide the emergency rescue and disposal work for the fireworks factory explosion accident.
After arriving, Zhang Guoqing (张国清) immediately rushed to the explosion accident site and Liuyang City Hospital (浏阳市医院) to convey the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives to the injured people, grassroots cadres, and rescue personnel, and to convey General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) concern. He inquired in detail about the search for personnel, treatment of the injured, and other matters. Subsequently, he held a meeting at the on-site command center to study and deploy further efforts to do a good job in rescue and treatment, consolation and aftermath, and accident investigation. He said that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) repeatedly urged that the safety of the lives and property of the people should be put first, and made important instructions on seizing the search for missing persons, making every effort to treat the injured, properly handling the aftermath, finding out the cause of the accident as soon as possible, grasping the investigation and rectification of risk hidden dangers in key industries and fields, and strengthening public safety management. Premier Li Qiang (李强) issued instructions, requiring that the number of people be verified as soon as possible, the injured be treated with all efforts, the search and rescue be organized scientifically, secondary disasters be strictly prevented, the aftermath be properly handled, and the cause of the accident be found out as soon as possible. Hunan Province (湖南省) and all localities and relevant parties must resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives and Premier Li Qiang's (李强) requirements, deeply learn from the lessons, keep a close eye on and consolidate the responsibility for safe production, solidly carry out the investigation and rectification of risk hidden dangers in key industries and fields, and ensure the safety of the lives and property of the people.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized that it is necessary to make every effort to search for missing persons, mobilize professional forces to conduct scientific search and rescue, verify the casualties and missing persons, ensure that no one is left behind, and strictly prevent secondary casualties. It is necessary to mobilize high-level medical forces and resources to make every effort to treat the injured and reduce disability caused by injuries. It is necessary to do a good job of comforting the families of the victims and handling the aftermath work "one-on-one" with patience and care. An accident investigation team of the State Council should be established to investigate and thoroughly investigate the cause and responsibility of the accident in accordance with the principle of "four no releases" (不放过), strengthen the connection between administration and criminal justice, and seriously pursue accountability. It is necessary to deeply promote the "anti-illegal and rule-breaking" campaign in the fireworks and hazardous chemicals industries, and severely crack down on behaviors such as exceeding the number of people, exceeding the amount of medicine, exceeding the scope of permits, exceeding the designed production capacity, and changing the use of workshops or changing production processes without authorization. All localities and relevant parties must earnestly 引以为戒、举一反三 (yǐn yǐ wéi jiè, jǔ yī fǎn sān - "take as a warning, draw inferences about other cases from one instance," learn a lesson from one incident and apply it to other situations), improve the quality and effectiveness of investigation and rectification, and never "replace management with fines." Those at all levels of regulatory departments who simply "replace management with fines" should be held accountable. It is necessary to improve the standards for determining hidden dangers, enhance the professionalism and penetration of the investigation of risk hidden dangers in key industries and fields, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major and particularly serious accidents.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha (长沙) May 5th (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)) The Information Office of Changsha Municipality held a press conference at noon on May 5th regarding the explosion accident at the Huasheng Fireworks Company (华盛烟花公司) in Liuyang (浏阳市). The Changsha (长沙) Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government reported the relevant situation: As of now, the Liuyang (浏阳) fireworks factory explosion has resulted in 26 deaths and 61 injuries. All fireworks and firecracker production enterprises in Liuyang (浏阳) City have been completely shut down for rectification.
Before the press conference, the participants observed a moment of silence for the victims of the Liuyang (浏阳) fireworks factory explosion. According to reports, after the accident occurred, the Changsha (长沙) Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government established an accident handling command center, mobilizing more than 1,500 people from fire, emergency response, public security, health, and other departments to carry out emergency rescue, on-site disposal, medical treatment, and other related work.
According to reports, the Hunan (湖南) Provincial Fire and Rescue Corps carried out personnel search and rescue, fire control, and fire spot removal operations, and has basically completed the on-site search and rescue. The accident disposal faces difficulties in control, fire extinguishing, and search and rescue. A large number of finished and semi-finished products remain on site, repeatedly igniting and continuously forming sporadic explosions. At the same time, a large amount of gunpowder stored in the depot is difficult to transfer. The walls, beams, columns, and roofs of the on-site factory buildings collapsed, forming a large amount of debris, burying people and blocking passages, which limited rescue conditions. The next step will be to concentrate efforts to fully protect dangerous areas. High-jet fire trucks and remote-controlled water cannons will be used to protect the gunpowder depot, while strengthening risk assessment to prevent secondary disasters.
At about 16:40 on May 4, an explosion occurred in the workshop of Liuyang Huasheng Fireworks Manufacturing & Display Co., Ltd. (浏阳市华盛烟花制造燃放有限公司).
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Various special activities were held in business districts such as Wangfujing (王府井) in Beijing (北京), Nanjing Road (南京路) in Shanghai (上海), and Chunxi Road (春熙路) in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川); provincial football leagues such as "Su Super" (苏超), "Yue Super" (粤超), and "Gan Super" (赣超) continued to be held... During the "May Day" holiday, various regions introduced key benefit-the-people measures of "policy + activities," with new supplies, new scenarios, and new models constantly emerging, and the consumer market showing new characteristics.
The Experience Economy is Popular
During the "May Day" holiday, various regions promoted the integration of tourism with culture, sports, commerce, agriculture, and other formats, creating seasonal cultural and tourism products around outings to enjoy flowers and parent-child entertainment.
County tourism is booming. In Luxi County (芦溪县), Jiangxi (江西), "camping +" is deeply integrated with cultural, pastoral, parent-child, and other elements. At the 8th Kite Picnic Season event held in Xianfeng Sanbao Garden Scenic Area (仙凤三宝园景区), giant manta rays and other kites flew all over the sky, and activities such as feeding lambs in pastures and lawn music parties continued, meeting the one-stop needs of families for "baby walking + leisure." In Yaoxia Village (窑下村), Nankeng Town (南坑镇), Luxi County (芦溪县), the millennium pottery art is combined with camping experience. Tourists can make pottery in the kiln culture research center during the day and stay in mountain tents at night, experiencing a full sense of experience.
From paying attention to "where to play" to paying more attention to "how to play." In Luoyi Ancient City (洛邑古城) in Luoyang City (洛阳市), Henan (河南), costume travel photography is quite popular. Young people in Tang costumes, silver-haired elderly people with pearl hairpins, and parent-child families rushing with cameras are performing their own "Tang Dynasty stories" on the same street. Meituan data shows that during the "May Day" holiday, the number of orders for Luoyang (洛阳) scenic spots increased by 35% year-on-year, and young people aged 20 to 30 accounted for nearly half.
Niche gameplay such as industrial tourism is heating up. On May 2, in Yijiale Common Prosperity Industrial Park (亿家乐共富产业园) under Zhichi Food Company (知吃食品公司) in Changzhou City (常州市), Jiangsu (江苏), tourists can not only watch "old-fashioned fermentation" and "carp mouth" wrapping, but also experience the fun of making in the interactive area. "The production workshop has been transformed into a 'living museum' integrating cultural inheritance, parent-child research and immersive consumption, providing consumers with a new space for experience with both knowledge and fun," said Jiang Tianfan (江天帆), founder of Zhichi Food (知吃食品).
Increased Quality Supply
Business districts are popular, shopping malls have large passenger flows, and night markets have high sales... During the "May Day" holiday, various regions improved consumer policies, increased the supply of high-quality goods and services, created diversified integration scenarios of business, tourism, culture, sports, and health, and promoted the vitality of new types of consumption such as health, intelligence, and green.
The release of policy dividends and the integration of online and offline have driven the popularity of bulk consumption. "This high-efficiency and low-energy dishwasher usually sells for nearly 10,000 yuan. With the old-for-new 'national subsidy' and platform special subsidy, the price is thousands of yuan lower than the daily price. It's really cost-effective!" On May 3, in Jiawang District (贾汪区), Xuzhou City (徐州市), Jiangsu (江苏), Dao Yun Co., Ltd. (道赟有限公司) jointly created a green and intelligent consumption special event with offline stores in the jurisdiction. Liu Xia (刘霞), a citizen, shared the joy of home appliance replacement with her family while holding the just-confirmed order.
Jin Xin (靳芯), general manager of Dao Yun (道赟) Company, introduced that during the "May Day" holiday, the company linked hundreds of small and medium-sized enterprises in China to launch a green and intelligent consumption special event, with multiple overlays of "national subsidy + local subsidy + enterprise profit sharing," helping to increase the consumption of large items.
Seizing the "May Day" consumption window, many places have issued policies to accelerate the promotion of trade-in of consumer goods. Jiangsu (江苏) has included 10 types of products such as clothes dryers, dishwashers, and sweeping robots into the provincial subsidy range on the basis of national subsidies, and carried out thousands of benefit-the-people activities throughout the province. Chongqing (重庆) launched "government-enterprise double subsidies," and consumers can sell old and buy new in one-stop through designated platforms, enjoying a maximum discount of 16,000 yuan.
Intelligent consumption is favored. "The vehicle-mounted artificial intelligence system has planned the optimal route and put it on the screen. You don't need to take out your mobile phone at all. It's really convenient." On the first day of the "May Day" holiday, Lei Jianjiang (雷剑江), a citizen, took a fancy to a smart electric two-wheeled vehicle at the Jiangbei flagship store of Shouqu Technology Electric Vehicle (首驱科技电动车江北旗舰店) in Chongqing (重庆). Wu Weigao (吴维高), regional business负责人 of Shouqu Technology (首驱科技) in Sichuan (川) and Chongqing (渝), introduced that the company's offline experience store has significantly increased its passenger flow, and many smart models are popular among young people.
Taste buds drive destination selection, and local specialty catering is more attractive. Douyin Life Service data shows that during the "May Day" holiday, dine-in group purchases with distinct regional characteristics were quite popular among consumers. The sales of Fujian (福建) satay noodles Douyin (抖音) group purchases increased by 192% year-on-year, and the sales of Guangdong (广东) chicken pot increased by 131% year-on-year.
Innovative Service Model
The "May Day" holiday ushered in a peak of travel. Relevant departments in various regions, together with operating entities, made every effort to ensure the holiday consumer market, so that consumers can buy with peace of mind, eat with confidence, and have fun.
During this holiday, the red cultural tourism market in Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong (山东) was crowded with tourists. From the "Yimeng Mountain Ballad" (沂蒙山小调) real-life theater to the immersive courtyard performances in the hometown of Hongsao (红嫂)... Tourists walked into the Yimeng (沂蒙) revolutionary old area and felt the temperature of history in the immersive experience.
Red research tours, homestay clusters, rural cuisine... The red cultural tourism industry chain continues to extend, and the demand for electricity is more vigorous and diversified. State Grid Linyi Power Supply Company (国网临沂供电公司) innovatively launched an exclusive service model of "one special class for one red site, one plan for one scenic spot," which not only guarantees the power supply of the scenic spot, but also extends to surrounding homestays, catering shops, and charging facilities. In response to the increasing trend of new energy self-driving tourists, the company has equipped mobile charging cabins and emergency charging equipment at popular stations, and arranged special personnel to guide at charging stations during peak periods to alleviate "queue anxiety."
Xinxiang City (新乡市), Henan (河南) has worked hard on "ticket stubs" - using a consumption voucher to open up the consumption closed loop of hotels, catering, and supermarkets. On May 2, Zheng Li (郑丽), a tourist from Hebei (河北), visited Pangdonglai Supermarket (胖东来超市) in Xinxiang City (新乡市) during the day and went to eat braised mutton at night. When checking out, the waiter scanned the code to confirm the supermarket consumption record and directly gave a 5% discount. After the meal, she got an 80% discount on the market price at a nearby chain hotel with the same shopping receipt.
Xinxiang City (新乡市) launched the "Ticket Stub Economic Alliance," and 166 merchants agreed that tourists can enjoy a 5% discount on catering and an 80% discount on chain hotels and homestays with any consumption voucher within the alliance.
"One ticket stub connects hundreds of stores, which not only allows consumers to enjoy discounts, but also improves the enthusiasm of merchants to attract traffic to each other, attracting tourists to be more willing to stay, eat a meal, and then stroll around," said a relevant负责人 of the Xinxiang Municipal Bureau of Commerce (新乡市商务局).
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From the "May Day" holiday to the end of June, Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu (甘肃) Province, is focusing on 10 consumption sectors and launching more than 240 activities to benefit the people. Reporters visited local business districts and shopping malls and found that health, intelligence, and green are becoming new consumption trends.
In Guofang Department Store (国芳百货) on Dongfanghong Square (东方红广场) in Chengguan District (城关区), the specialty store "Longcuitang (陇萃堂)" is bustling with people. On the shelves, various health gift boxes made with local Chinese medicinal materials are neatly displayed. "During the 'May Day' holiday, sales of health gift boxes and other traditional Chinese medicine-related products exceeded 300,000 yuan, an increase of 25% year-on-year," said Wang Xiaowei (王小伟), general manager of Gansu Longcuitang Nutrition and Health Food Co., Ltd. (甘肃陇萃堂营养保健食品有限公司). "In the past, local Chinese medicinal materials were mostly sold as primary raw materials, with limited profits. Now, the medicinal diet packs and health products made through deep processing have entered shopping malls and business districts, and the added value has increased several times."
In the Foci Tea House (佛慈茶馆) in Lanzhou MixC (兰州万象城), a faint herbal fragrance permeates the air. "Traveling during the holiday, I'm tired from playing and eating all sorts of things, so it's good to have a cup of health drink," said Li Ting (李婷), a tourist from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), holding a cup of astragalus and apple juice, "It's refreshing and relieves greasiness."
"This is a new product we launched in combination with the season. We hope to introduce the wisdom of 'medicine and food homology' into daily life through tea drinks," said An Ning (安宁), marketing director of Lanzhou Foci International Business Co., Ltd. (兰州佛慈国际商务有限公司), "The number of young people coming to the store during the holiday is much higher than usual."
From selling raw materials to making products, Lanzhou (兰州) is closely following the trend of healthy consumption and promoting the extension of the Chinese medicinal material industry chain to formula research and development, deep processing, and other directions, which is welcomed by the market.
While healthy consumption continues to heat up, smart consumption is also gaining popularity. "This robot vacuum cleaner can rely on real-time maps and intelligent fitting algorithms for fully intelligent operation." At the DJI Authorized Experience Store (大疆官方授权体验店) in MixC (万象城), a salesperson is introducing a robot vacuum cleaner to consumers.
In the test flight experience area, several customers are operating remote controls, and drones are hovering and flying low. Next to them, many consumers are lining up to experience the latest portable sports cameras. Liu Zixuan (刘子轩), a citizen, purchased a mini aerial camera, "This machine uses artificial intelligence follow-up technology and can be operated even without a remote control. It's so cool."
After completing the payment, Liu Zixuan (刘子轩) clicked on the "One MixC (一点万象)" app: "The 'MixC Stars (万象星)' accumulated here can be donated. Donating 3,000 stars is equivalent to planting a Haloxylon ammodendron tree in Minqin County (民勤县)." It is understood that Lanzhou MixC (兰州万象城) launched the "MixC Star Public Welfare · Star Action Afforestation" activity, converting the collected "MixC Stars (万象星)" into public welfare funds for purchasing Haloxylon ammodendron trees and donating them to the Gansu Qingsuo Public Welfare Development Center (甘肃青梭公益发展中心) for planting in Sifangdun (四方墩), Changning Town (昌宁镇), Minqin (民勤), Gansu (甘肃), allowing customers to participate in ecological protection while consuming.
The concept of green is also very prominent in the field of automobile consumption. Lanzhou (兰州) recently launched the first batch of new car purchase subsidy activities this year, with a maximum subsidy of 5,500 yuan per vehicle for individuals purchasing new energy vehicles. "During the 'May Day' holiday, the daily customer flow in the store increased by 1,000 compared to usual," said Yang Siyi (杨思懿), vehicle business supervisor of Huawei Smart Life Pavilion (华为智能生活馆) Lanzhou MixC Store (兰州万象城店), "In addition to caring about how long the battery life is and how fast the charging is, consumers will also actively inquire about the vehicle's environmental performance."
Three kilometers away from MixC (万象城), at the Gansu International Convention and Exhibition Center (甘肃国际会展中心), the Lanzhou "May Day" International Auto Show (兰州“五一”国际车展) is crowded with people. Many consumers are lining up to experience travel and leisure functions such as "one-button bed conversion" and learn about the energy-saving power architecture and lightweight environmentally friendly body design of new energy vehicles. "There are 24 new energy brands participating in this exhibition, and the remaining traditional brands also have new energy models on display," said Liu Cheng (刘承), head of the auto show organizing committee. As of May 5, nearly 2,000 new energy vehicles had been sold.
It is understood that Lanzhou (兰州) relies on the opportunity of holiday consumption to launch new car purchase subsidies and the "Xiao Lan You Li (小兰有礼)" prize-winning invoice activity while implementing the national policy of replacing old products with new ones. Consumers who purchase new energy vehicles can enjoy a maximum of 20,000 yuan in subsidies for replacing old products with new ones or a maximum of 5,500 yuan in special Lanzhou (兰州市) car purchase subsidies, and can also participate in activities through the "Xiao Lan You Li (小兰有礼)" platform to win a maximum cash red envelope of 800 yuan, effectively stimulating the green consumption boom.
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On the occasion of the May Fourth Youth Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award, pointing out that "integrating personal pursuits into the overall national development, continuously creating new achievements based on their respective positions, and contributing youth strength to the new journey."
Wang Jingzhi (王敬之), a 27-year-old overall design engineer at AVIC SAC Commercial Aircraft Co., Ltd., deeply felt this, "After graduation, I participated in the development of unmanned transportation systems and found a field that I am willing to devote myself to for a long time. The aviation research and development cycle is very long, and you must have enough love to persevere."
On April 15, at the Weinan (渭南) operating base of the Aviation Industry Civil Aircraft Flight Test Center (航空工业民机试飞中心) in Shaanxi Province (陕西省), an unmanned aerial vehicle with a wingspan of nearly 17 meters landed smoothly on the runway. The "Xin Zhou Honghu" (新舟鸿鹄) HH-200 aviation commercial unmanned transportation system, independently developed by the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (中国航空工业集团), successfully completed its maiden flight.
"Finally, finally..." Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) murmured beside the runway, his eyes filled with tears.
"The standard cargo hold volume is 12 cubic meters, the use of composite materials reduces weight by 20%, and the operating cost per ton-kilometer is as low as 4.7 yuan, which can be adapted to complex environments such as high-altitude plateaus, extreme temperatures, and short runways - it can be used for cross-border freight, as well as emergency rescue and agricultural and forestry plant protection that require short take-off and landing." Watching the HH-200 gradually take shape, the experience of fighting alongside colleagues for more than 600 days flooded the mind of this young engineer...
"Many children have aviation dreams since they were young, and my dream germinated in junior high school." Speaking of the scene of the Y-20 (运—20) transport aircraft taking off on TV at that time, Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) still remembers it vividly, "I stared at the screen and felt that the plane was very magical - it could cross terrain obstacles and send people and materials to places where they were needed." Later, he got his wish and entered the aircraft design major at Harbin Engineering University (哈尔滨工程大学).
In his studies and work, Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) gained a deeper understanding of the urgent need for "trunk and branch integration" development in the aviation industry. "Express delivery is still difficult for people living in remote areas." There is a need for a low-cost, reliable, and autonomously operating air transport system to enable efficient logistics to reach the grassroots level.
"When I first entered the industry after graduation, I thought that engineering problems had standard answers: if the weight is exceeded, reduce the weight; if the resistance is too great, optimize the shape." Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) remembers that during the overall plan stage of the HH-200, the team argued endlessly about the size of the cargo hold: in order to improve loading flexibility, some colleagues advocated that the cargo hold should be larger and higher, but after deduction, it was found that increasing the height of the cargo hold would lead to an increase in structural weight and an increase in the cross-sectional area of the fuselage, resulting in increased resistance and more complex center of gravity management, affecting economy. "Many times, engineering design is not about doing multiple-choice questions, but about finding a balance between multiple constraints," Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) said.
There are also many doubts in the industry about HH-200 - unmanned freight demand, airworthiness path, commercial closed loop, many problems remain unresolved. At the daytime seminars, all parties repeatedly pulled each other; in the office late at night, the weight balance sheet was revised again and again, and the loading envelope was polished. In the continuous overturning and reconstruction, Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) gradually understood: "An excellent engineer is not the person who is best at proposing ideal solutions, but the person who finds feasible solutions under many constraints."
Forming an overall understanding from engineering design, and learning rational awe in teamwork. In the HH-200 team, there are senior experts who have been deeply involved in the development of transport aircraft for half their lives, as well as young engineers with innovative thinking. The two generations tackled three directions: balancing commercial load and range, building a solid foundation for unmanned flight safety, and adapting to diverse low-altitude scenarios.
A sudden thunderstorm at the flight test site left a deep impression on Wang Jingzhi (王敬之). That day, the young people in the team seized the flight test window and wanted to fly one more time before the thunderstorm arrived to accumulate flight test data. However, after the verification aircraft took off, the thunderstorm suddenly struck. "Under the guidance of senior experts, we slowly adjusted the flight altitude, speed and attitude, and the aircraft hovered in the air for more than two hours until the weather improved and landed safely." Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) said that he used to think that the most important thing for unmanned aerial vehicle design was courage, constantly challenging and constantly breaking through, "but now I think that experience is also very important - when the aircraft takes off, every set of parameters and every control law is tied to the safety bottom line, and in some aspects, 'the smaller the courage, the better'."
According to the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要), China (我国) will accelerate the development of new low-altitude equipment such as heavy-duty fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles and long-range vertical take-off and landing aircraft, break through key technologies such as intelligent flight, electric propulsion and hybrid power systems, and strengthen the tackling and application of low-altitude operation management and low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle safety prevention and control technology products.
"The low-altitude equipment industry is moving from technological exploration to industrialization. In the past, everyone paid more attention to whether it could fly, but now the discussions are more about commercial operation, airworthiness certification, integration into the airspace management system, forming large-scale applications and achieving cross-border integration..." Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) sighed that more and more young engineers with interdisciplinary thinking are entering this field, and the industry will be more imaginative.
"This year is the opening year of the '15th Five-Year Plan', and it is the right time for young people to make contributions." The General Secretary's earnest exhortations are inspiring, and Wang Jingzhi (王敬之) has new plans for his future work: "Aircraft research and development requires long-termism, and many results will not be immediately apparent. In the future, I want to slow myself down, do every parameter optimization and experimental verification in a down-to-earth manner, so that aircraft can fly better into the sky and serve those around me."
The blue sky is boundless, and the young "Honghu" (鸿鹄) are ready to go.
This issue is coordinated by: Zhang Anyu (张安宇)
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The "Nine Heavens Azure Sky" unmanned aerial general platform took off, and the "Xin Zhou Honghu" HH-200 aviation commercial unmanned transportation system successfully completed its first flight... China's drone industry has achieved continuous breakthroughs. Observing the research and development teams behind these achievements, many post-80s and post-90s aviation youths are bravely taking on heavy responsibilities, supporting the better flight of domestically produced drones.
Young thinking is the source of innovation for industrial revolution. Young engineers dare to break through inherent thinking and jump out of traditional research and development stereotypes; they dare to repeatedly trial and error in parameter games and polish their skills in complex working conditions. This spirit of 初生牛犊不怕虎 (chū shēng niú dú bù pà hǔ - "a newborn calf is not afraid of a tiger," young people are fearless and full of vigor) stems from interdisciplinary perspectives, innovative vitality, and a spirit of perseverance, which is suitable for the diverse and challenging needs of the drone industry. However, it must also be recognized that in addition to passionate ideals and bold breakthroughs, rational awe and long-term accumulation are even more valuable. From "pursuing single-point optimization" to "pursuing system optimization" - this is a sign of mature engineering thinking, and also a transformation of young people from "knowing how to build airplanes" to "knowing how to build good airplanes."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines a clear direction for the healthy and orderly development of the low-altitude economy. The drone industry is moving from technological exploration to industrialization and implementation. With policy empowerment and track expansion, the era has unfolded a dream-chasing picture for young people. Here, there is no shortage of cutting-edge technologies or development opportunities, but there is a shortage of new forces who dare to face the challenges of high research and development thresholds, long cycles, and high pressure in the aviation field, and who are good at research, willing to cultivate deeply, and settle down. All parties involved in the industry should also build cultivation platforms, improve growth channels, break down development barriers, and give young people room for error and trial; unblock promotion paths, so that talent is not buried and efforts can be rewarded.
The sky for drones has no boundaries, and the potential of young people is also unlimited. Continuously provide opportunities, build platforms, and strengthen support, so that more young people who are professionally skilled, emphasize practice, and are capable of taking responsibility can take root in the low-altitude track, and help China's low-altitude industry embark on a more distant journey.
(The author is the director and professor of the Unmanned Systems Development Strategy Research Center of Northwestern Polytechnical University (西北工业大学), interviewed and compiled by Jia Fengfeng (贾丰丰), a reporter of this newspaper.)
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Since the first overseas Luban Workshop was established in Thailand in 2016, the workshops named after the outstanding ancient Chinese craftsman Luban have given wings to young people in various countries to realize their career dreams. Over the past 10 years, China has built more than 30 Luban Workshops around the world, offering more than 100 majors, enrolling more than 30,000 academic students, and training more than 160,000 students.
Using skills as a bridge and connecting hearts, Luban Workshops have become "technical stations" on the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative and a shining name card for Sino-foreign vocational education cooperation, writing a vivid chapter of Sino-foreign joint development and cultural exchange.
Creating a New Model for Chinese Vocational Education to Go Global
Located next to an ancient temple on the banks of the Chao Phraya River (湄南河), the teaching site features a bionic robot learning experience area, a maze robot learning competition area, an innovative kit training area, and an automated production line teaching area, where dozens of Thai students are focusing on operations; at another teaching site, several Thai students are gathered around a high-speed rail operation sand table discussing operating routes, with Chinese teachers occasionally joining the conversation to answer questions...
In March 2016, the Thailand Luban Workshop, jointly built by Tianjin Bohai Vocational Technical College (天津渤海职业技术学院) and Ayutthaya Technical College (大城技术学院) in Thailand, was inaugurated, creating a new model for Chinese vocational education standards, vocational education equipment, and vocational education programs to go global. The Thailand Luban Workshop has undergone three phases of construction and now has 15 teaching and experimental areas. The majors offered have gradually expanded from the initial mechatronics technology to Internet of Things applications, numerical control, new energy vehicles, and more. After the establishment of the Railway Institute Center in July 2018, railway engineering technology and railway operation management majors were added, gradually forming a diversified teaching pattern.
"In the Luban Workshop, I learned advanced technologies such as programmable controller applications and robot numerical control, and I also came into contact with rich theories and innovative solutions," said Wattana, a young Thai man. "The Luban Workshop not only taught me excellent technical skills, but also taught me the spirit of Luban of striving for perfection." After graduating, Wattana successfully entered Haier Electric (Thailand) Co., Ltd. (海尔电器（泰国）有限公司).
"The Luban Workshop focuses on the actual development of the host country," said Nithinu, a Thai teacher. Worawan, who studied high-speed rail railway signal automatic control at the Thailand Luban Workshop, said that she went to Tianjin (天津) to study high-speed rail driving, signal control, and other technologies through the workshop cooperation mechanism, "That experience greatly broadened my horizons." Worawan said that it was her learning experience at the Luban Workshop that made her determined to become a high-speed rail technician.
Currently, all six majors offered by the Thailand Luban Workshop have been certified by the Vocational Education Commission of Thailand and included in the national education system. Students can obtain qualifications recognized by the Thai education administrative authorities after completing their studies. The "academic education + skills training" dual-track education model was pioneered by the Thailand Luban Workshop and promoted globally.
The Thailand Luban Workshop also attracts students from Malaysia, Indonesia, and other countries to study, becoming an important base for cultivating skilled talents in the ASEAN region. "The entry of the world's first Luban Workshop is the pride of Thailand," said Mayuree, President of Ayutthaya Technical College (大城技术学院). The Luban Workshop has cultivated a large number of professional and technical talents for Thailand's industrialization process and the high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative between Thailand and China, changing the lives of many Thai youths and enabling them to embrace and realize their dreams.
Vocational Education Resonates with Industrial Needs
In the numerical control processing technology training area of the Luban Workshop at Cairo Advanced Maintenance Technology School (开罗高级维修技术学校) in Egypt, several new machining centers are neatly arranged, and the program code on the screens is constantly jumping. The students are wearing blue overalls and look focused - some are modifying parameters in front of the computer, some are leaning over to observe the tool trajectory, and others are using calipers to measure the parts that have just been processed. With a roar, sparks fly as a metal blank is cut by the tool. Instructor Hossam softly reminds: "Pay attention to the feed rate!"
In November 2020, two Luban Workshops jointly built by Tianjin Light Industry Vocational Technical College (天津轻工职业技术学院) and Tianjin Transportation Vocational College (天津交通职业学院) with local partners - the Ain Shams University Luban Workshop (艾因夏姆斯大学鲁班工坊) and the Cairo Advanced Maintenance Technology School Luban Workshop (开罗高级维修技术学校鲁班工坊) - were officially inaugurated. According to the needs of Egypt's intelligent manufacturing, new energy, automobile maintenance, and other industries, the two Luban Workshops have a total of 5 majors, and have trained more than 3,000 local students to date.
The Egyptian Luban Workshop is closely linked to the China-Egypt TEDA Suez Economic and Trade Cooperation Zone (中埃·泰达苏伊士经贸合作区) on the Red Sea coast. The cooperation zone currently attracts more than 200 enterprises, which need a large number of local talents who are proficient in modern manufacturing technology. The Luban Workshop and the enterprises in the cooperation zone jointly build training bases to realize the resonance between vocational education and industrial needs.
"The Chinese vocational education program has played an important exemplary role in the construction of Egypt's vocational education system," said Hassan Imam, head of the Luban Workshop at Cairo Advanced Maintenance Technology School (开罗高级维修技术学校). In January of this year, he went to Tianjin (天津) to study Chinese vocational education experience and study how to strengthen the integrated teaching of "Chinese + vocational skills." "We are not only training graduates with skills, but also future talents who serve Egypt-China cooperation and enhance people-to-people connectivity," Imam said.
"The Luban Workshop has shown me another possibility in life," said 19-year-old Mustafa from a village in the Nile Delta. He hopes to learn technology well, have the opportunity to work in a Chinese-funded enterprise in the cooperation zone, let his family live a better life, and contribute to Egypt-China friendship.
Helping Young People Pursue Dreams on the World Skills Stage
The "precision seven-level detection technology" development opens up a "7-second" life channel, winning valuable time for passengers to escape after the thermal runaway of new energy vehicles; the "voice interaction system" allows technology to "speak," helping maintenance engineers efficiently diagnose faults; going out of the laboratory and into the society, providing free new energy vehicle testing and popular science services to local communities with technology and equipment... At the 2025 World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, young people from Kazakhstan won the bronze medal in the "New Energy Vehicle Core Technology and Key Component Operation Skills Demonstration" project with their skilled operation.
In order to prepare for the World Vocational Colleges Skills Competition, Chinese and Kazakh teachers formed a joint team: the Chinese teachers were responsible for technical guidance and interpretation of competition rules, and the Kazakh team focused on technical implementation and innovative practice. Time after time of online connections, questions, discussions, and summaries, the cooperation became more and more tacit. "Once, in order to overcome the equilibrium control logic of the battery management system, we discussed from 8 pm to 1 am," recalled team leader Anaser. The Chinese teacher used bilingual courseware to deconstruct the principles step by step, and also connected to the laboratory for real-time operation demonstrations until each student could independently draw the control flow chart.
This competition experience is a microcosm of the talent training of the Luban Workshop at East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学). In December 2023, the Luban Workshop at East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学), jointly built by Tianjin Vocational University (天津职业大学) and East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学), was officially put into operation. The first phase of the workshop offers a transportation equipment and technology major, based on new energy and intelligent connected vehicles, introducing Chinese vocational education concepts, training systems, and modern teaching facilities.
Young teacher Dmitry was previously a student majoring in automotive engineering at East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学). In the past, students' internships were mostly carried out in repair stations, but the arrival of the Luban Workshop changed this situation. "The 'golden signboard' of the Luban Workshop is becoming brighter and brighter," Dmitry introduced. Luban Workshop graduates have now successively entered enterprises to participate in new energy vehicle projects, and East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学) students have gained more internship opportunities relying on the Luban Workshop platform. "The Luban Workshop promotes education and industry to promote each other," Dmitry said. He chose to stay at the school to teach, hoping to use this platform to train more students and contribute to the development of Kazakhstan's manufacturing industry.
The professional teaching content of the Luban Workshop at East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学) has become an important part of the undergraduate and graduate training programs of East Kazakhstan Technical University (东哈萨克斯坦技术大学), with a 66.6% embedding rate in doctoral professional courses, attracting more than 400 international students from Nigeria, Mongolia, Belarus, and other countries.
In August and November of last year, the second and third Luban Workshops in Kazakhstan were successively inaugurated. The two Luban Workshops focus on artificial intelligence and industrial robot technology. Alibek Tazhibayev, Director of the Kazakhstan "Eurasian Monitoring" Analysis and Research Center, believes that as a model of Kazakhstan-China vocational education cooperation, the Luban Workshop focuses on Kazakhstan's industrial development plan, focusing on cultivating professional and technical talents that meet the needs of local industrial development and transformation and upgrading, "helping the younger generation master future-oriented vocational skills and injecting strong impetus into the innovation and sustainable development of countries jointly building the 'Belt and Road' initiative."
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The current international situation is characterized by turbulence and change, highlighting the increasing value of the Global Governance Initiative in this era. It continues to guide all parties to strengthen collaboration, share development opportunities, jointly respond to global challenges, and work together to create a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.
The thematic event of the Global Governance Initiative and the launch ceremony of the Vienna "Group of Friends of Global Governance" were recently held at the United Nations headquarters in Vienna. This is another "Group of Friends of Global Governance" established by China relying on the United Nations platform, following New York in December last year and Geneva in February this year. The membership of the "Group of Friends of Global Governance" continues to grow, and its influence and cohesion continue to increase, indicating that reforming and improving global governance and working together to address global challenges is the common aspiration of the international community.
In 2025, President Xi Jinping (习近平) solemnly proposed the Global Governance Initiative during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Tianjin Summit. This is another major initiative put forward by China after the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, and the Global Civilization Initiative, contributing Chinese wisdom to promoting the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
Currently, the international order established after World War II is facing severe challenges, and the world has once again come to a crossroads of peace or war. Improving global governance and promoting mechanism reform is urgent. Only in this way can we better safeguard world peace, establish a more just and reasonable international order, and ensure that the sovereignty, independence, and economic and social development rights of all countries are respected and protected.
The Charter of the United Nations clearly requires: "To maintain international peace and security," "to settle their international disputes by peaceful means," and "to refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state." In recent decades, the practices of some countries have repeatedly violated the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, seriously infringing on the authority of the international system with the United Nations as its core. Faced with global challenges in various fields such as climate change, global diseases, and nuclear non-proliferation, the current international system's response capacity is severely insufficient. The willingness of some countries to participate in international cooperation and multilateralism is declining, leading to damage to global peace, security, and stability.
Another serious crisis facing the global governance system is that the power of its institutions is too concentrated in the hands of a few Western countries and their representatives, and the representation of the Global South is seriously insufficient. In particular, individual countries are engaging in unilateralism on a large scale, posing a severe challenge to the international order. With the collective rise of emerging market countries and developing countries, significant changes have taken place in the international political landscape, and the global governance system needs to conform to the general trend of world multi-polarization and further reform and improve.
The Global Governance Initiative proposed by China emphasizes the importance of the purposes and principles of the UN Charter, calls for adhering to important principles such as sovereign equality, compliance with international rule of law, and practicing multilateralism, and opposes double standards and violations of international law. In September 2024, the UN Summit of the Future adopted the "Pact for the Future" and its annexes to further develop a multilateral cooperation framework, adapt to future development, and strive to build a safe, peaceful, just, equal, inclusive, sustainable, and prosperous world. The Global Governance Initiative is highly consistent with the goals of the "Pact for the Future." While emphasizing the maintenance of the UN's status, the Global Governance Initiative calls for efforts to achieve the democratization of global governance, that is, to give developing countries greater representation in the international system, and to oppose certain countries' unilateralist practices overriding the international system.
The current international situation is characterized by turbulence and change, highlighting the increasing value of the Global Governance Initiative in this era. It continues to guide all parties to strengthen collaboration, share development opportunities, jointly respond to global challenges, and work together to create a bright future of peace, security, prosperity, and progress.
(The author is the General Secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 陈一鸣
Precious images vividly recount the long history of the "Tea Road," which originated in 17th-century East Asia; a carefully designed timeline clearly outlines the development and dissemination of coffee cultivation in Brazil... The "Aroma Across Mountains and Seas: Special Exhibition of the Tea Road and the Coffee Route" recently opened at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学) in Brazil and will run until June 22.
"The Tea Road and the Coffee Route have long transcended their purely economic functions and gradually become carriers of cultural dissemination," said Alessandro Moreira (阿莱桑德罗·莫雷拉), President of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学). Along with tea and coffee beans, cultivation methods, production techniques, and even the hospitality of welcoming guests from afar are also disseminated.
The Tea Road starts in the tea-producing areas of southern China and stretches over 13,000 kilometers, running through China, Mongolia, and Russia. It is the longest land-based trade route in history and was officially included in the "China World Cultural Heritage Tentative List" in 2019. "The Federal University of Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学) has been studying the cultural heritage value of the Tea Road for many years." Natacha Rena (纳塔莎·雷纳), a professor at the university who participated in the exhibition's curation, said that in recent years, the university has collaborated with Chinese universities to innovatively compare it with the Brazilian coffee trade route, exploring the profound impact of the two trade networks on social development from a cross-cultural perspective.
"Although China and Brazil are separated by vast oceans, the people of the two countries have always been close in heart and connected in spirit. Whether it is cultural exchange, educational cooperation, or people-to-people exchanges, they are constantly bringing each other closer, enhancing mutual understanding," said Zhu Qingqiao (祝青桥), Chinese Ambassador to Brazil. This exhibition uses tea and coffee as a medium and language and culture as a bridge, vividly presenting the rich connotation of Sino-Brazilian civilization exchange and mutual learning, and demonstrating the deep and sincere friendship between the people of the two countries.
As early as 1812, Chinese tea farmers traveled across the ocean to Brazil, bringing tea tree cultivation and tea-making techniques to this land. Today, the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (里约热内卢植物园) still preserves the Chinese tea trees planted that year, witnessing the long history of friendly exchanges between the two countries. Ye Xinfeng (叶新锋), Permanent Honorary President of the Zhejiang Chamber of Commerce in Brazil (巴西中国浙江商会), lives in Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯州). In his view, such an exhibition helps the Brazilian people to have a deeper understanding of Chinese culture and further promote the mutual understanding between the Chinese and Brazilian people.
"The exhibition not only deepened my understanding of Chinese tea culture, but also made me more deeply understand the connection between Brazilian coffee culture and the world. This is a cultural dialogue that transcends time and space," said Macedo (马塞多), a public relations student at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学). "Our young generation should embrace the world with an open mind and seek the direction of the future in the mutual learning of civilizations."
Miriam Mansur (米里亚姆·曼苏尔), the Brazilian Director of the Confucius Institute at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (米纳斯吉拉斯联邦大学孔子学院), said that the "China-Brazil Culture Year" has built a broader platform for cultural exchanges between the two countries. Today, more and more Brazilian young people are interested in Chinese culture, actively learning Chinese, and hoping to seize the historical opportunities brought about by the deepening of Brazil-China relations.
Moreira (莫雷拉) emphasized that the university has been continuously strengthening its ties with countries in the Global South in recent years, especially deepening cooperation with universities in BRICS countries. "This trend is based on a consensus that the diversity of these countries in science, culture, and ethnicity broadens our way of understanding the world."
As an important cultural exchange activity under the framework of the 2026 "China-Brazil Culture Year," this special exhibition will also be held in other cities in Brazil and will eventually be located in the "Tea Affinity China-Brazil Friendship Garden" (茶缘·中巴友谊园) in the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden (里约热内卢植物园) as a long-term exhibition open to the public. In 2024, with the support of the State Grid Brazil Holding Company (中国国家电网巴西控股公司), the "Tea Affinity China-Brazil Friendship Garden" (茶缘·中巴友谊园) project renovated and reinforced the buildings in the garden, introduced high-quality Chinese tea trees, and planned the "Tea Road" cultural exhibition, allowing more people to understand the story of friendship between China and Brazil through tea.
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The roar of bulldozers broke the tranquility of the coast. At the construction site of the Zanzibar Southern Seawater Tidal Road Project in Tanzania, foreman Sai Ndekeja is directing more than 10 workers. The workers are driving bulldozers to raise and level the roadbed and build culverts to prevent seawater from submerging the road surface and hindering normal traffic during high tide.
Although this road is only 2 kilometers long, it is the only way for the villagers of Uzi Village to travel. "Every time the tide rises, this road will be submerged by seawater, which is very inconvenient for travel," villager Maurid Juma told reporters. "After this project is completed, we don't have to calculate the time of high and low tides to go out."
The Seawater Tidal Road Project is part of the Zanzibar 100-kilometer Municipal Road Upgrade Project undertaken by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (中土集团). Xiong Yunxu, manager of China Civil Engineering East Africa Zanzibar Branch, introduced that the main content of the upgrade project includes the reconstruction of approximately 100 kilometers of highways in the main urban area, the construction of two new overpasses, and the construction of municipal road ancillary facilities. At present, Route 1, which connects Zanzibar International Airport and the World Heritage Site Stone Town of Zanzibar (桑给巴尔石头城), and the first overpass in the area have been completed and opened to traffic, with an overall project completion rate of 85%.
Near the newly opened overpass, taxi driver Mneni said: "In the past, during peak hours, there were often traffic jams here for half an hour, but now it only takes a few minutes to pass. After the overpass opened to traffic, I can run a few more airport trips a day, and my income has increased a lot." Tour guide Hassan Said told reporters that now the bridge diverts traffic, the team arrives more punctually, and the tourist experience has been significantly improved. "This is the first overpass in Zanzibar (桑给巴尔), which not only brings us convenience but also symbolizes urban progress."
According to reports, the 100-kilometer municipal road upgrade project has provided approximately 1,200 jobs for the local area. Porter Deus William said: "In the past, I had been doing odd jobs, but now I have come to work for a Chinese company and have a stable income every month. People on the construction site teach us technology, and I feel that I am making progress every day." Ndekeja has participated in road construction operations in many Chinese companies and has grown from an ordinary worker to a foreman. He said: "I am very proud to be able to build roads and bridges for my hometown."
"The roads and bridges built with the participation of Chinese companies have alleviated traffic congestion, facilitated the daily travel of residents, and improved the overall traffic conditions of the city," said Khalid Salum Mohamed (哈立德·萨鲁姆·穆罕默德), Minister of Infrastructure, Communications and Transportation of Zanzibar (桑给巴尔基础设施、通信和交通部). "With the roads well-built, the transportation of agricultural products is smoother, and tourists travel more conveniently, adding vitality to the local economic development."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) May 5th. A Foreign Ministry Spokesperson answered questions from reporters on the 5th regarding the US escalation of sanctions against Cuba (古巴).
A reporter asked: According to reports, on May 1st, the US President signed an executive order, citing Cuba's continued threat to US national security and foreign policy, to expand the scope of sanctions against Cuba (古巴). On the same day, the Cuban (古巴) Foreign Minister stated that the United States' unilateral and illegal coercive measures are despicable and extremely absurd, and will not intimidate the Cuban (古巴) people. What is China's comment on this?
The spokesperson stated that the United States is intensifying its illegal unilateral sanctions against Cuba (古巴), which seriously violates the Cuban (古巴) people's rights to survival and development, and seriously violates the basic norms of international relations. China (中国) firmly supports Cuba (古巴) in safeguarding its national sovereignty and security, resolutely opposes interference in Cuba's (古巴) internal affairs, and urges the United States to immediately terminate its blockade and sanctions against Cuba (古巴) and any form of coercion and pressure.
Return to TopIn the first quarter of 2026, the new energy production and operation base of Chinese enterprise Gotion High-Tech (国轩高科) in Göttingen (哥廷根), Lower Saxony (下萨克森州), Germany (德国) achieved an output value of over 36 million euros, reaching the highest level in the factory's history. The base cooperates with the University of Hanover (汉诺威大学) to build a battery failure analysis and solid-state battery research and development laboratory, relying on local resources to improve engineering technology and scientific research levels. The picture shows a bird's-eye view of the base.
People's Daily reporter Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华) photographed.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 5th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on May 5th: Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit China on invitation on May 6th. Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, will hold talks with him.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency Beirut, May 4th (Reporter Shen Feng (申峰)), the Chinese government delivered two batches of humanitarian aid supplies to the Lebanese government on the 4th to help Lebanese people affected by the conflict and alleviate the local humanitarian situation. According to reports, the aid supplies include food and daily necessities such as tents, blankets, and hygiene products.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦瀚洋 祝佳祺 王欣悦
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Young cadres should improve their ability to work with the masses."
The ability to work with the masses is an important basic skill for Party members and cadres. To establish and practice a correct view of performance, young cadres must have the masses in their hearts, always put their safety and well-being first, adhere to the principle of coming from the masses and going to the masses, and truly become intimate friends of the masses.
Recently, reporters visited Zhejiang, Guangxi, Chongqing and other places to understand how various localities are guiding young cadres to improve their ability to work with the masses.
——Editor
Solving the Urgent Difficulties and Anxieties of the Masses
In Yuhang District (余杭区), Hangzhou (杭州) City, Zhejiang (浙江) Province, Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚), a post-90s cadre, encountered a problem shortly after taking office as the Party Secretary of Jingshan Village (径山村) in November last year.
During a household survey in the Lihong (里洪) area, several villagers told Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚) about a situation: a water supply pipeline in the Lihong (里洪) area was connected to the water of the Baibu (百步) Reservoir, which they usually relied on for washing vegetables, clothes, and watering the land. Recently, the water coming out suddenly became turbid, and everyone was worried about using it.
Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚) immediately convened the village committee and invited experienced veteran cadres and village representatives to first understand the situation and then discuss countermeasures. A village representative took the lead in speaking: "The reservoir was built in the 1950s and has always been managed by the village. The last dredging was 7 years ago." An veteran cadre added: "The turbidity of the water quality is related to the recent heavy rainfall." Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚) immediately stated: "The issue of water use for the masses cannot be taken lightly. Taking this opportunity, we must completely solve the problem of the reservoir."
Soon, Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚) compiled the problem into a special report and contacted the town's urban construction and agricultural affairs departments. After on-site investigation and comprehensive research and judgment, the village decided to thoroughly dredge the reservoir and sedimentation tank, with a total budget controlled within 100,000 yuan, which would be borne by the township and village in proportion. "We also plan to relocate the drainage ditch near the reservoir, replant seedlings, and actively prevent all possible causes of water turbidity," said Sheng Donggang (盛栋刚).
At the beginning of this year, Jingshan Village (径山村) listed the dredging of the reservoir as the "first thing to do" for the village committee. Twenty days later, the dredging project was fully completed. The village invited a professional testing agency, and the water quality reached the Class II water standard, solving the villagers' water use problem.
"In recent years, Hangzhou (杭州) City has been deeply implementing the 'Cadre Selection and Training for Frontline Tackling' action, allowing young cadres to hone their skills in grassroots practice. Taking the 'One Promise, One Responsibility, One Striving for Excellence' special action explored by Yuhang District (余杭区) as an example, the action establishes a 'Masses Order, Cadres Accept' mechanism to guide young cadres to solve the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the masses," said Chen Ganggang (陈刚刚), Director of the Comprehensive Cadre Division of the Hangzhou (杭州) Municipal Party Committee Organization Department.
Exploring Ways for the Masses to Get Rich
"These fruits are particularly sweet, but their popularity was not high before. At that time, tens of thousands of kilograms of lychees took two months to sell out." Zheng Xinrong (郑新荣), a large lychee grower in Group 10 of Long'an Village (龙安村), Beiliu Town (北流镇), Beiliu (北流) City, Yulin (玉林) City, Guangxi (广西), no longer frowns and sighs as often as he did in previous years. "Xiao Chen (小陈) and the others have come up with many ways. Now there are more orders for door-to-door purchases and online shopping, and the income is getting better and better."
Xiao Chen (小陈) mentioned by Zheng Xinrong (郑新荣) is Chen Ting (陈庭), a selected graduate. In 2024, after graduating from university, Chen Ting (陈庭) joined the Beiliu (北流) City Natural Resources Bureau and was later dispatched to Long'an Village (龙安村) as an assistant to the village committee director. Chen Ting (陈庭) learned in his research that Long'an Village (龙安村) has more than 8,000 mu of lychees, which are of excellent quality but cannot be sold. Therefore, he had the idea of online sales. However, he also found that the village had tried live streaming sales, but failed due to a lack of professional talent and skills. He worried whether he would fail as well. At a critical moment, the "Torch Plan" implemented by Beiliu (北流) City for young cadres helped him.
The "Torch Plan" focuses on building a young cadre training platform of "Intensive Training to Strengthen the Foundation, Research to Improve Ability, Symposium to Clarify Direction, and Reading to Expand Horizons." Chen Ting (陈庭) participated in many training sessions, and his confidence gradually increased. At a young cadre reading sharing session, a speaker's point of view that "to drive villagers to get rich, we must pay attention to new technologies and let science and technology become a tool to benefit the masses" further strengthened Chen Ting's (陈庭) idea. He calmed down and improved his thinking: "If we can show the rural scenery and villagers' labor by shooting short videos, and slowly build up a reputation, the operability should be stronger."
"Long'an (龙安) lychees are many, lychees are all over the mountains, if you come to Long'an (龙安), you will gain a lot." Soon after, a short video of singing folk songs in the Long'an Village (龙安村) orchard attracted attention, and then the traffic gradually increased. As of now, several short videos directed by Chen Ting (陈庭) and filmed by villagers have received more than 100,000 views. Taking advantage of the attention brought by the short videos, the village set up lychee exhibition and sales points, inviting tourists and merchants who came to taste and appreciate the lychees, and the sweet and high-quality lychees received unanimous praise.
With the support of online traffic and offline on-site experience, the popularity of Long'an (龙安) lychees has been further enhanced, orders have continued, and the sales price is much higher than before, truly turning online popularity into increased income for villagers. In 2025, the village's lychee sales were about 18 million kilograms, and the sales channels were fully opened.
"To improve the added value of agricultural products, we also need to strengthen brand building." In a training course, the teacher's explanation made Chen Ting's (陈庭) heart brighter: "After expanding the popularity of Long'an (龙安) lychees, we must also work hard on brand building and rural tourism. This is a long-term strategy."
Under the specific guidance of village cadres, Chen Ting (陈庭) actively planned to apply for a trademark for Long'an (龙安) lychees, connect with e-commerce platforms to broaden sales channels, and proposed the construction of rural picking gardens. In 2025, Long'an Village's (龙安村) tourism income increased by 62.1% year-on-year, and the village's collective economic independent operating income steadily increased.
"We will continue to make good use of the 'Torch Plan' to allow young cadres to increase their talents in helping industrial development and increasing the income of the masses," said Lü Wenfu (吕文富), Secretary of the Party Committee of Beiliu Town (北流镇).
Let the Masses' Hearts Warm Up and Take Action
In Xinghe Village (兴合村), Wuyang (乌杨) Street, Zhongxian (忠县) County, Chongqing (重庆), a young man walking on the road frequently greeted villagers, and everyone smiled and waved: "Dengzhuo (登卓) is back! Come in and sit down!"
This young man is Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓). In 2023, he was dispatched to Xinghe Village (兴合村) as an assistant to the Party Branch Secretary as a selected graduate. Now he works in the County Science and Technology Bureau. "During the time I worked in Xinghe Village (兴合村), I gained a lot. Now I always want to come back and see how much the village has changed," said Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓).
After taking office as the Deputy Director of the County Science and Technology Bureau, Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) went to the village more often - promoting new agricultural technologies, connecting with expert resources, and checking the implementation of projects. Xinghe Village (兴合村) is one of the villages he visits most frequently.
"Young people have no experience. They are afraid of disturbing people when they knock on doors, and the most troublesome thing is the dialect, which they can't understand at all." Recalling the scene when he first arrived in the village, Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) said, "Zhongxian's (忠县) 'Qinglan Plan' solved my problem. Experienced village cadres serve as mentors for young cadres, teaching me hand-in-hand."
"To learn the local language well, you can speak the language that the masses understand." The first suggestion given by the mentor was to learn the dialect. Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) worked hard and was able to successfully mediate villagers' disputes in the dialect after a few months. After the language barrier was eliminated, he began to send policies, technologies, and ideas to the fields.
There is a citrus orchard in the village, planted with old varieties of navel oranges, which cannot be sold at a good price. Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) wanted to organize villagers to carry out variety improvement, but everyone's response was lukewarm, and several mobilization meetings were deserted.
Remembering the "local method" taught by the mentor - first chat about family matters and then talk about business, and speak from the other party's perspective. He changed his method: first start with a few respected old Party members, and visit each household to chat about family matters. When he went to the old branch secretary's house, he didn't talk about work, but only talked about the harvest. "You are knowledgeable, do you think you can earn money after the variety is improved?" When he went to the house of Lao Chen (老陈), a large grower, he took out his mobile phone and showed him videos of modern orchards: "People's fruits sell for eight or nine yuan a kilogram, but we only sell for two or three yuan. Do you think it's a loss?" ... Gradually, everyone's hearts warmed up.
While the iron was hot, Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) organized another courtyard meeting. "Please calculate how much money we earn per mu of citrus?" The villagers started calculating, and after deducting the cost, less than 2,000 yuan was left per mu. He continued: "People earn more than 1,000 yuan per mu, what's the difference between us? The difference is that the variety is not suitable for the market, we don't understand high-yield technology, and we can't develop as a group." He calculated the accounts with his fingers: unified purchase of grafted seedlings to reduce costs, unified technology to improve quality, and unified brand to sell at high prices. The accounts were clear.
He also took the villagers to visit modern orchards and invited agricultural experts to teach grafting techniques hand-in-hand. A few months later, the villagers signed the agreement, and the new variety was successfully implemented. In the past year or so, the newly grafted branches of the citrus trees have grown well. The villagers patted Zhang Dengzhuo (张登卓) on the shoulder: "Dengzhuo (登卓) is knowledgeable, we are convinced!"
"To do a good job in mass work, we can't rely on 'I say you listen', but we must carry out work in a way that the masses like to see and are easy to accept, so that the masses' hearts warm up and take action," said Li Dian (李电), Secretary of the Zhongxian (忠县) County Party Committee.
This issue is coordinated by: Chen Zhen (陈震)
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"Jueying Chitu (绝影赤兔)" Team, "Thunderbolt Lightning (雷霆闪电)" Team, "Taihang (泰行)" Team... Not long ago, at the semi-marathon for humanoid robots held in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), multiple participating teams competed on the same field. The vivid team names reflected the "youthful spirit" of the engineering teams, with the average age of engineers in some teams being less than 30 years old.
The youth stories behind this are thought-provoking. The power of youth inspires youthful vigor, becoming a shining landscape on the new journey of building a strong country and national rejuvenation.
Self-confident and self-reliant, energetic and upward-looking, viewing the world equally and embracing the future—this is the attitude, mentality, and state of Chinese youth in the new era. As the "15th Five-Year Plan" begins, we must remember to "integrate personal pursuits into the overall national development, continuously create new achievements based on our respective positions, and contribute youthful strength to the new journey," with a sense of responsibility and timeliness.
Taking the overall situation as a yardstick to build the foundation of youth. Consciously find one's position and seize opportunities in the overall national development. When the pattern is opened, one can stand at the right vent and be more fortunate with more effort.
Wang Xingxing (王兴兴) of YuShu Technology (宇树科技) plunged into the wave of entrepreneurship, starting from "hand-crafted robots," and gradually approached "robots producing robots" in the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation. Wang Ning (王宁) of Pop Mart (泡泡玛特) firmly believes in cultural confidence, transforming "Chinese design" into "global trends," reshaping the trend toy industry pattern with Guochao IP.
Open up horizons, integrate into the overall situation, and pursue self-realization at a higher dimension, so as to have a large space and great achievements.
Youth should be "burning" and "I" should be there to tackle key problems. Youth is the most energetic and unburdened, and daring to fight is the bright background color of youth. But in the face of difficulties and obstacles, loving to fight requires knowing how to win.
Lu Yaxiang (陆雅翔), a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), devoted himself to research and solved the air stability problem that had plagued the relevant field for more than 40 years, promoting the transition of sodium-ion batteries from liquid to solid state, and supporting the construction of a 10,000-ton positive and negative electrode material production line and a 100-megawatt-hour sodium battery energy storage station. Yang Guoxin (杨国心), a post-90s fitter at Shenfei (沈飞), focused on honing his skills, and the precision of the parts he processed caught up with the industry limit of 0.00068 mm. "The precision between millimeters carries the mission of the motherland's aviation industry."
Both fighting tough battles and fighting protracted wars, adhering to long-termism and focusing on grasping the laws, can we see what others have not seen and be able to do what others cannot do.
Youth is the burning pursuit of ideals. What kind of person to become and what kind of life to achieve, young people should ask themselves diligently.
Holding "new agricultural tools" and playing with "new agricultural work," Zeng Qinghuan (曾庆欢), a post-90s new farmer, innovated the "one village, one product, one anchor" model, teaching villagers to shoot videos hand in hand, training nearly 5,000 students, and driving sales of more than 400 million yuan. Peng Qinglin (彭清林), a delivery boy who jumped into the river to save people, joined the "Courier Sentinel" team, walking through the streets and alleys to pay attention to the community situation, and driving new employment groups to participate in grassroots governance.
When Marx was 17 years old, he wrote in "Thoughts of a Young Man on Choosing a Career": "If we choose the career that can work best for mankind, then the burden cannot overwhelm us." From the fields to the city streets, wherever the masses need it, there is a great cause and a big stage.
Step by step forward, journey by journey towards rejuvenation. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines a special section on "supporting youth development," proposing to "support youth to strive to be pioneers and main forces in all fields and aspects of work." The vast number of young people are in a good time for struggle.
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Finally, the intricate appearance of sugar, the "dark matter of life," has been clearly seen!
Recently, the Yan Ning (颜宁) team of the Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Guangdong (广东深圳医学科学院) and the Tsinghua University (清华大学) team achieved a key breakthrough in the field of glycan structural biology, advancing the research of natural glycan complexes to near-atomic resolution, providing methodological support for large-scale structural studies of complex natural glycans.
On April 30, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the symposium on strengthening basic research: "Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and the general mechanism for all technical problems. We must strengthen basic research with greater efforts and more practical measures, enhance our country's original innovation capabilities, and further consolidate the foundation for building a strong country in science and technology."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes: "Strengthen the strategic, forward-looking, and systematic layout of basic research, and coordinate the promotion of both goal-oriented and free exploration basic research."
The revised "Regulations on the National Natural Science Foundation of China" came into effect at the beginning of last year, continuously improving the diversified investment mechanism of the Science Fund from the perspective of national administrative regulations, encouraging original research, and clearly establishing special funds to cultivate young scientific and technological talents. Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏) and other places have also introduced a number of policies to strengthen basic research in combination with their own industrial and scientific research characteristics. This year, the central government's science and technology expenditure includes a basic research budget of approximately 116.938 billion yuan, an increase of 16.3% over last year's execution number.
From top-level design to local practice, from system improvement to financial security, China's basic research system is constantly improving, and the vitality of original innovation continues to burst forth.
Establish a non-consensus project screening mechanism to help original innovation boldly try and make mistakes. The so-called non-consensus projects usually refer to innovative research in the field of basic research that is highly innovative but has not yet reached a consensus, is highly controversial, difficult to identify, and high-risk. These types of research projects are usually difficult to pass the expert review process and cannot obtain funding through conventional channels.
Benefiting from the funding support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金), the Chen Zibo (陈子博) team of the Westlake Laboratory (西湖大学西湖实验室) at Westlake University (西湖大学) has recently made steady progress in the field of artificial synthetic cells, and has initially verified the controllable division of artificial cells in vitro.
At the end of last year, the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会) completed the first batch of major non-consensus project selections. After evaluation, three projects were finally selected, and the synthetic artificial cell project of the Chen Zibo (陈子博) team was one of them.
"This policy adopts a brand-new selection and evaluation mechanism, which gives full support and affirmation to this kind of interdisciplinary and high-risk research, allowing us to break away from routine assessments and focus on verifying that extremely small possibility of innovation," said Chen Zibo (陈子博).
The relevant person in charge of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (国家自然科学基金委员会) stated that the establishment of a non-consensus project screening mechanism to promote non-consensus project research will support the majority of scientific researchers to bravely climb the peak of science and produce more original achievements "from 0 to 1".
Create a new paradigm of institutionalized scientific research and forge a systematic hard power for tackling key problems.
Since the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) returned with lunar back samples in June 2024, researchers have produced a series of major achievements in just over a year. Among them, many achievements come from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所).
The speed stems from organized scientific research behind the scenes. At the first time when the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar soil samples were applied for, the Party Committee of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所党委) took the lead in preparing for the establishment of a 100-person team composed of personnel drawn from various research groups, with only one goal - the Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) lunar back sample research.
"In the past, everyone did their own projects, but now everyone is working on the same direction," said Yang Wei (杨蔚), director of the Nano-Ion Probe Laboratory of the Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所纳米离子探针实验室).
From a single research group fighting alone to multiple directions twisting into one rope - this is just a microcosm of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) adjusting its scientific research organization model.
Adjusting the decentralized and repetitive layout, turning to task-driven collaboration, and the institutional advantages can be fully utilized. In recent years, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) has formulated and implemented the "Ten Basic Research Articles" in depth, actively promoting mission-driven institutionalized basic research, and has achieved remarkable results. "In the next stage, we will strengthen top-down collaborative promotion, continuously improve the tiered and connected basic research task system, organize and carry out cross-field and interdisciplinary collaborative research, and make new and greater contributions to accelerating the creation of an original innovation source and fully achieving the 'four firsts' goal," said the relevant person in charge of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院).
Explore diversified investment paths and gather synergistic efforts from government, enterprises, and research institutions.
After more than 3 years of joint research, targeting the applied basic research needed by the industry, the team of Professor Zhang Qiang (张强) of the Department of Chemical Engineering of Tsinghua University (清华大学化工系) recently proposed the regulation of ion solvation behavior by lithium bond chemistry, providing important theoretical support for the design of high-performance batteries.
In July 2022, the Xiaomi Foundation (小米公益基金会) donated 500 million yuan to establish the Beijing Natural Science Foundation - Xiaomi Innovation Joint Fund (北京市自然科学基金—小米创新联合基金), and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation (北京市自然科学基金) also allocated 50 million yuan to support the development of basic research. Through "unveiling the list," the Zhang Qiang (张强) team was successfully selected and received long-term and stable funding.
"We hope to attract the attention of more social forces through our own practice, and we also expect to guide more social forces to invest in basic research in a public welfare manner through policies," said Diao Meiling (刁美玲), director and executive secretary-general of the Xiaomi Foundation (小米公益基金会).
In recent years, Beijing (北京市) has explored a diversified investment mechanism for basic research, established a three-level linkage joint funding model involving the city, districts, and enterprises, established the Beijing Natural Science Foundation Joint Fund (北京市自然科学基金联合基金), and driven more than 70 enterprises and public welfare foundations to participate in basic research, leveraging external funds to invest more than 700 million yuan in basic research, and accumulating more than 2,300 technology lists.
Plan before acting, and success will come with implementation. Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun (阴和俊) said that the Ministry of Science and Technology will adhere to the "15th Five-Year Plan" to guide basic research, systematically lay out major scientific research tasks, systematically plan reform measures to comprehensively strengthen basic research, improve the autonomous guarantee level of scientific and technological infrastructure conditions, create a strong basic research and original innovation capability, and further consolidate the foundation for building a strong country in science and technology.
Return to TopDuring the "May Day" holiday, the Fuyang Science and Technology Museum (阜阳市科技馆) in Anhui Province (安徽省) held a themed event called "Experience Science, Fly Dreams," allowing children to experience the charm of science up close and cultivate their interest in science. The picture shows visitors watching a robot performance in the "Wisdom Creation" exhibition hall of the Fuyang Science and Technology Museum (阜阳市科技馆) on May 3.
Photo by Wang Biao (王彪) (Image China)
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Currently, the study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance are being carried out in depth and in a solid manner. All regions, departments, and units are carefully organizing and earnestly implementing work arrangements such as learning and discussion, problem identification, rectification and remediation, system establishment, and open education, directly facing problems, being precise and pragmatic, and promoting learning, investigation, and correction in an integrated manner.
**Taking it Seriously and Making Real Changes**
The Xicheng District (西城区) of Beijing (北京市) firmly establishes the conscious action of "clearing old accounts is creating new achievements," deeply integrating the resolution of historical legacy issues with urban renewal, grassroots governance, and people's livelihood security work. It comprehensively sorts out the historical legacy issue ledger and constructs a three-level linkage system of district-level leaders taking charge of cases, a working team tracking and supervising, and responsible units fighting on a map, promoting the phased resolution of many "hard nut" problems through list-based management, project-based advancement, and closed-loop implementation.
The Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture (延边朝鲜族自治州) of Jilin Province (吉林省), in conjunction with problems reflected in discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and patrol, and letters and visits, has sorted out a list of common problems; resolutely returning those concerning departments and units that have problems in their view of performance that are not deeply or realistically investigated, or avoid the important and dwell on the trivial. At the same time, the state and county study and education working teams adopt methods such as regular scheduling, on-site inspection, and random visits to dynamically grasp the rectification and remediation situation and strengthen tracking and supervision.
Mine development is one of the important resource industries in Anshun City (安顺市), Guizhou Province (贵州省). Since the launch of study and education, Anshun City (安顺市) has listed problem lists and consolidated rectification responsibilities for prominent problems discovered by environmental protection supervision, with 1 county-level leader responsible for 1 key mine in terms of mining rights access, daily supervision, exit management, and regulatory information sharing, leading the coordination of departments, townships, and mining enterprises to continuously promote rectification and implementation.
Qingyunpu District (青云谱区) of Nanchang City (南昌市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), adheres to investigating and rectifying simultaneously, immediately rectifying, and continuously improving the normalized investigation and accurate assistance mechanism for problems identified such as "not fully and accurately grasping the urgent needs and expectations of the elderly and weak groups in the jurisdiction"; focusing on the employment and income increase problems of the disabled, deeply implementing the "Employment Assistance, Public Welfare Assistance for the Disabled, and Excellent Job Customized Training" special action, calibrating the performance coordinates in rectification and remediation.
Zhong County (忠县) of Chongqing (重庆市) combines study and education rectification with inspection and patrol, establishes a centralized evaluation mechanism for patrol rectification, with the main leaders of the county party committee listening to reports, questioning problems, assigning tasks, and commenting on results on the spot, forming a closed loop of problem rectification work. On this basis, it deeply investigates the performance view deviations behind the cases, striving to find gaps, investigate the roots, and strengthen self-cultivation from the perspective of party spirit.
**Establishing Systems and Long-Term Governance**
Baisha Li Autonomous County (白沙黎族自治县) of Hainan Province (海南省) issued a notice, strictly following the principle of "whoever formulates is responsible," with each responsible unit cleaning up the system and mechanism and related normative documents that do not meet the requirements of a correct view of performance in accordance with the procedures; in response to performance view deviations such as "emphasizing the short term over the long term, emphasizing obvious achievements over potential achievements," it formulated documents such as the work process for the transfer of civil servants, optimized the rank promotion process, and established a clear guidance for making achievements for the people and making achievements through hard work.
Wuwei City (武威市) of Gansu Province (甘肃省) adheres to treating both the symptoms and root causes, systematic governance, and improves mechanisms such as industry governance, source prevention and control, and public participation to continuously optimize the development environment. Among them, in the field of public resource trading, the implementation of "online intelligent early warning + offline manual witnessing" forms a multi-party collaborative linkage co-governance pattern, severely cracking down on violations of laws and regulations in the field of bidding in accordance with the law.
Yanchi County (盐池县) of Wuzhong City (吴忠市), Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区), deeply investigates the regulations in the current system and mechanism that do not meet the requirements of a correct view of performance, legally abolishes 5 normative documents, and timely revises the rules and regulations with lagging content, loopholes, and unclear powers and responsibilities. Optimize the assessment and evaluation indicators, differentially set the weight of people's livelihood services, public satisfaction, etc.; improve the long-term mechanism of cadre supervision, supervision and handling, and risk prevention and control, consolidate the supervision responsibility in key areas, and standardize decision-making from the source to eliminate "image projects" and "performance projects."
**Asking the People for Needs and Asking the People for Advice**
Xiqing District (西青区) of Tianjin (天津市) promotes leading cadres at or above the division level to focus on important development matters, practical matters for people's livelihood, and difficult governance matters to lead topics and conduct visits and investigations, going deep into enterprises, rural areas, communities, and other grassroots levels to listen to the suggestions of the masses and accept the supervision of the masses; deeply analyze 12345 hotline work orders, and achieve early detection, early intervention, and early disposal of high-frequency common, seasonal, periodic, and risk-prone demands, so that the masses can feel and touch the effectiveness of study and education.
Jinzhong City (晋中市) of Shanxi Province (山西省) adheres to solving whatever problems there are and focusing on rectifying whatever problems are prominent, comprehensively sorts out the outstanding problems reflected by the masses through channels such as the 12345 hotline and letters and visits, combines the list of problems identified, formulates a rectification and remediation work plan, clarifies the responsible person one by one, reverses the time, and solidly promotes rectification to ensure that practical results are achieved.
Xiaoshan District (萧山区) of Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), adheres to open education, continues to deepen "the people call and I act," promotes actions such as "enterprises call and I respond" and "double visits to people's conditions," constructs a mechanism for sinking guidance, list review, and closed-loop rectification, guides party members and leading cadres to sink into the front line to listen to the voices of the people, solve the worries of the people, and benefit the people's livelihood, responds to the expectations of the masses with practical work and effectiveness, and promotes study and education to go deep and solid and see results.
Nanjing Forestry University (南京林业大学) adheres to open learning and education, actively asks for needs and advice, focuses on the tendency of emphasizing the present over the long term and emphasizing indicators over connotation in talent training and discipline construction, the school leadership team goes deep into the front line to visit and investigate, sorts out 10 outstanding problems such as the unbalanced allocation of teaching resources and the need to improve the degree of matching between professional construction and social needs, and establishes a hierarchical research and judgment ledger, implements account cancellation and closed-loop management, and takes the reform of the excellent agricultural and forestry talent training model as the traction, and transforms the effectiveness of study and education into the effectiveness of high-quality development of the cause.
(Reporters He Zhaoyu (何昭宇), Huang Xian (黄娴), Wang Weijian (王伟健), Jin Bo (靳博), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Fu Mingli (付明丽), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲), Wang Xinyue (王欣悦), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文), Song Chaojun (宋朝军), Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), Jiao Siyu (焦思雨))
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Hubei Wuhan, Optics Valley Laboratory researcher Zhang Jingyu (张静宇) focuses on the cutting-edge femtosecond laser track, breaking through technical barriers and increasing the theoretical capacity of a single glass optical disc;
Heilongjiang Jixian County, Zhang Guangdong (张广东), director of Qiufeng Rice Planting Professional Cooperative, deeply cultivates the fertile fields of the countryside, introduces intelligent equipment, and forms a young e-commerce team to empower agricultural production with digitalization;
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"I hope you will have lofty ideals, be determined to work hard, lead the vast number of young people to integrate their personal pursuits into the overall situation of national development, continuously create new achievements based on their respective positions, and contribute youthful strength to the new journey." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) reply encouraged representatives of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and New Era Youth Pioneer Award winners. The earnest entrustment stirred up the immense power of hundreds of millions of young people to forge ahead on a new journey and make contributions to a new era.
This year is the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and it is the right time for young people to make contributions.
Climbing to the peak of science and technology, rooting in the front line at the grassroots level, and adhering to ordinary positions, the vast number of young people embrace dreams and are down-to-earth, dare to think and act, and are good at doing things successfully. A magnificent picture of a vibrant and youthful China is slowly unfolding.
Embracing Ideals: Striving for New Strength, Courageously Climbing the Peak of Scientific and Technological Innovation
Completed the race in 50 minutes and 26 seconds!
At the 2026 Beijing Yizhuang Half Marathon and Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the "Lightning" robot of the Qitian Dasheng Team (齐天大圣队) of Guangdong Shenzhen Glory Wisdom Technology Development Co., Ltd. won the championship, surpassing the human men's half marathon record and creating a history of human-machine speed competition.
Autonomous navigation, dynamic balance, breaking through limits... Young researchers are applying laboratory algorithms to real-world scenarios, injecting strong momentum into the iterative development of the humanoid robot industry with youthful wisdom.
Embracing the ideal of serving the country, willing to tackle the toughest challenges. Looking at the land of China, the innovation wave of Chinese youth is surging from embodied intelligence to a broader world.
Shanghai Xuhui District, as the night deepens, the "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) large model innovation ecological community is still brightly lit. Xia Lixue (夏立雪), CEO of Wuwen Xinqiong (无问芯穹) and a post-90s generation, is discussing computing power optimization solutions with team members.
A year ago, right in "Model Speed Space," Xia Lixue introduced to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) the research and development breakthroughs in core software technology for artificial intelligence computing power infrastructure. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) cordially encouraged: "Artificial intelligence is a young undertaking, and it is also an undertaking for young people."
Xia Lixue leads a young team with an average age of 32, achieving efficient utilization of autonomous computing power, and jointly building the country's first "computing power ecological supermarket" - the Model Speed Space Computing Power Ecological Platform, determined to "let computing power enter thousands of industries and thousands of households like water, electricity, and gas."
Gathering more than 300 artificial intelligence companies, with annual revenue increasing by more than 12 times and gross output value exceeding 100 billion yuan, the average age of entrepreneurs is under 30... This year, the Shanghai "Model Speed Space" (模速空间) large model innovation ecological community youth team won the China Youth May Fourth Medal collective. "Model Speed is Young" is not only a slogan, but also a picture of industrial chain symbiosis where "going upstairs and downstairs is upstream and downstream" and "neighbors are partners."
Embracing a heart of patriotism, establishing the ambition to serve the country, and enhancing the country's capabilities, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest teachings, the new era youth are charging towards the forefront of science and technology with the ambition and courage to shoulder the responsibility for Chinese-style modernization, writing a brilliant answer sheet worthy of the times -
Blazing new trails in basic frontiers. Xiao Guoliang (肖国梁), director of the Research Office of the Institute of Fusion Science at the Southwestern Institute of Physics of the Nuclear Industry, developed an imaging system and achieved the first fine distribution measurement of fusion fueling beams, promoting the comprehensive performance of the "artificial sun" - "China Circulator No. 3" to the world's leading level.
Breaking through barriers in key technologies. Hu Xiaotian (胡笑添), a professor at the Jiangxi Provincial Key Laboratory of Thin Film Energy Chemistry, explored a wet preparation technology with independent intellectual property rights, promoting the mass production of flexible perovskite solar cells, enabling China's photovoltaic technology to achieve a leap from "follower" and "runner-up" to "leader."
Casting the backbone of major national instruments. Zhang Haonan (张昊楠), director of the Geophysical Equipment Research Institute of the Geophysical Exploration Division of China Oilfield Services Limited (中海油服), focuses on scientific research and dedicated research, helping to achieve independent control of the world's three major marine geophysical exploration equipment.
Taking the lead, playing the leading role, and showing their skills. At the forefront of scientific and technological innovation, the vast number of young people have become the well-deserved main force. Looking at aerospace, the "Beidou" (北斗) network, the average age of the satellite development team is 31; "Chang'e" (嫦娥) takes soil, the average age of the key measurement and control post leaders is 33; "Tiangong" (天宫) builds stations, the average age of the Mengtian (梦天) experimental module assembly team is 33; "Tianwen" (天问) explores Mars, the average age of the flight control team is only 30... Empowering innovation with youth, China is accelerating its transformation from a global science and technology participant and contributor to a pioneer and leader.
Rooting in the Front Line: Deeply Cultivating Downward, Writing a Regretless Youth on the Vast Land
Only by sowing the seeds of ideals in the soil most needed by the country can youth bloom with the most dazzling light.
Kantian Gezhuang Village (阚田各庄村), Panggezhuang Township (庞各庄乡), Leting County (乐亭县), Hebei Province, the tomato growth in the fruit and vegetable greenhouses is gratifying. Li Yao (李瑶), secretary of the Party branch and director of the village committee of Kantian Gezhuang Village (阚田各庄村), is introducing the village's agricultural industry to guests.
Eight years ago, Li Yao (李瑶) paid out of his own pocket to buy materials, lay out wires, and replace lights, and 120 LED street lights in the village lit up. He built 3,000 meters of stone slag roads in farmland, updated tap water pipe networks, and installed fitness equipment, and the village's living environment was焕然一新 焕然一新 (huàn rán yī xīn - "completely new look," to take on a completely new appearance).
"With roads open and lights on, villagers can increase their income and become rich, and it still depends on industry." Li Yao (李瑶) led the villagers to build high-standard farmland, and introduced a fish-vegetable symbiosis agricultural cycle collective economic project to develop facility agriculture. Over the years, the average income per mu of land has increased from more than 1,000 yuan to 15,000 yuan.
"This year is the 105th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China. I will keep in mind the original aspiration and mission, actively devote myself to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and make the lives of the masses more and more happy," said Li Yao (李瑶).
The hope that grows out of the soil is growing vigorously. Young people can not only go back and stay, but also do well in the countryside.
At the northeastern end of the Hexi Corridor (河西走廊) and the lower reaches of the Shiyang River (石羊河), Minqin County (民勤县), Wuwei City (武威市), Gansu Province, is like a flat boat in the sea of sand, surrounded by the Tengger (腾格里) and Badain Jaran (巴丹吉林) deserts. For thousands of years, wind and sand have been memories engraved in the bones of Minqin people.
Zhong Lin (仲麟), the head of the Minqin County (民勤县) Afforestation Public Welfare Development Center, is a post-95s generation. He was born in Minqin (民勤), grew up in the sand, and resolutely returned to his hometown after graduating from university. He planted Haloxylon ammodendron trees on the edge of the Tengger Desert (腾格里沙漠), and afforested more than 7,000 mu of public welfare, allowing the desert to gradually grow new greenery.
"Youth takes root downward, and green grows upward." Clicking on Zhong Lin's (仲麟) short video account, the shooting content always revolves around desertification control and tree planting. Under his leadership, more and more volunteers from all over the country, carrying luggage and enthusiasm, rushed to this sea of sand.
Rooting is not only in the countryside, but also in the places where the motherland needs it most.
5373 meters is the height of the highest administrative township in China, and it is also the height that youth touches.
Puma Jiangtang Township (普玛江塘乡), Langkazi County (浪卡子县), Shannan City (山南市), Tibet, has an oxygen content of less than 40% of sea level, and an average annual temperature of minus 7 degrees Celsius. The natural environment is extremely harsh. The young police officers of the Puma Jiangtang Border Police Station (普玛江塘边境派出所) have deeply rooted themselves in this "no-go zone for life," guarding the 1,511 square kilometers of border jurisdiction and 25 kilometers of border line, just because "the place where we stand is China."
From the fields of rural revitalization to the forefront of ecological governance, from the "no-go zone for life" on the border of the motherland to the front line of grassroots development, the vast number of young people uphold their original aspirations with perseverance and fulfill their missions with dedication, writing a regretless youth on the vast land.
Pragmatic Responsibility: Persisting in Distant Actions, Integrating into the Overall Situation of National Development to Create Extraordinary Achievements
Youth casts craftsmanship, and struggle never stops. The vast number of young people take on responsibilities in ordinary positions and hone their skills in the pursuit of excellence.
This responsibility is the skill honing of "forging ten thousand jun of force in a fraction of a millimeter."
Beside the 80,000-ton die forging press, Ye Linwei (叶林伟), the leader of the 80,000-ton die forging press team of China Erzhong Group (中国第二重型机械集团) Deyang Wanhang Die Forging Co., Ltd. (德阳万航模锻有限责任公司), led the team members to accurately operate the equipment, and the pulse of the major national instrument beat in the sound of each rise and fall.
As the first operator of the equipment and the winner of the 2023 China Youth May Fourth Medal, Ye Linwei (叶林伟) led the team to continuously overcome technical problems and successfully pressed out various types of high-end aviation die forgings such as the main landing gear outer cylinder and fuselage frame beam structure of the C919 large aircraft.
General Secretary's reply "lead the vast number of young people to integrate their personal pursuits into the overall situation of national development" impressed Ye Linwei (叶林伟). "I will adhere to the original aspiration of serving the country with skills, continuously create new achievements based on my position, lead the team to tackle more 'hard bones' of extreme forging, and let youth shine more brilliantly in the hot practice of building a manufacturing powerhouse."
Love what you do, love what you do, and be good at what you do. Today, China has more than 80 million professional and technical personnel, more than 220 million skilled workers, including more than 72 million highly skilled personnel, and more and more young people are embarking on the road of becoming skilled and serving the country with skills.
This responsibility is the persistent adherence of ordinary people in pursuing a brilliant life.
By chance, Wang Qinjin (汪勤金), who became a Shunfeng Express (顺丰快递) warehouse manager after graduation, became one of the pilots selected and trained within the company. Physical training regardless of wind and rain, sleepless aviation theory learning, and simulated machine training against the clock... Wang Qinjin (汪勤金) exchanged day-to-day persistence for the badge leading to the blue sky.
From a courier to a civil aviation captain to a flight instructor, Wang Qinjin (汪勤金) handed over a struggle answer sheet with 6,600 hours of safe flight time, confirming that in an era where everyone enjoys the opportunity to shine, as long as you work hard, youth has unlimited possibilities.
This responsibility is even more the heart-warming guardian on the stage of social service.
The "Sichuan-Tibet-Qinghai Bright Journey" eye health volunteer service team has advanced into the plateau for 14 consecutive years, and has established eye health records for about 40,000 people; Li Zhaojing (李兆静), secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Neighborhood Committee of Chachahe Community (岔河社区), Guangchuan Street (广川街道), Decheng District (德城区), Dezhou City (德州市), Shandong Province, took the lead in operating the city's first community meal assistance center, benefiting special groups...
The spirit of the May Fourth Movement is immortal, and the struggle of youth is just in time.
Guided by the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important reply, the vast number of young people are rooted in the front lines of grassroots levels such as scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, social services, and guarding the country, writing a regretless youth with pragmatic responsibility, showing the good spirit of self-confidence, self-improvement, and high spirits of Chinese youth in the new era, and striving to write a youthful chapter worthy of the times and the people.
By: 尹双红
Breaking the inertia of thinking and the inertia of laziness, and leading development breakthroughs with ideological breakthroughs, can create more possibilities with limited resources.
To achieve good results, one must test both physical strength and wisdom. Using collaborative "tactics" well, supporting each other, and moving in the same direction will allow you to run faster and farther.
As the temperature gradually warms, marathons are starting in many places. Unlike other track and field events, marathon events adopt a partitioned start method, starting in sequence according to partitions such as A, B, and C.
So, do people in the front partitions start earlier and more easily occupy favorable positions on the track, while people in the rear partitions can only waste waiting time in vain?
In fact, the net results of marathons are timed using chips. Whether you are the first to rush out or the last to start, the result only depends on yourself. For runners who start later, following the run can also reduce wind resistance. Being good at using the "late-mover advantage" can easily achieve good results. Thinking about it this way, isn't regional development a marathon? The foundations of various regions are different, and development is fast and slow, but they can also catch up later. The key is to run at their own pace.
First of all, we must run, and run hard and persistently. Meizhou (梅州), Guangdong (广东), was once a "development depression." Faced with the reality of limited resource endowments and general location conditions, should we be content with the status quo and be satisfied with small progress, or should we take the initiative to strengthen ourselves and strive for the lead? In one ideological collision after another, Meizhou (梅州) gathered the consensus that "small places can also make great achievements," took the initiative to attract investment, revitalized idle assets, and invested core elements in the real economy and manufacturing. In 2025, the growth rate of the region's gross domestic product ranked first in the province.
As local cadres said, "Opportunity windows are not waited for, but are obtained by actively running and striving with all our strength." Wanting to do and being willing to do are the seeds of change. Breaking the inertia of thinking and the inertia of laziness, and leading development breakthroughs with ideological breakthroughs, can create more possibilities with limited resources.
Catching up is not just about burying your head and rushing forward, but also looking up at the road, both to see whether the pace of running is suitable for you and to see where the advantages of others lie, and to give full play to your own comparative advantages in comparison.
For example, Jieshou (界首), Anhui (安徽), did not develop popular industries in a rush, but based on its own recycling industry foundation, proactively laid out a circular economy track, and has been on the list of "China's Top 100 Innovative Counties (Cities)" for consecutive years.
For another example, avoiding the detours taken by developed regions and learning from proven mature models, Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) plans every inch of land clearly before starting construction, and a high-level modern city is rising from the ground.
There is no doubt that resource endowment is an important condition for a region to develop, but what really widens the gap is often strategic vision and practical action. From a traditional perspective, Xinjiang (新疆) is deep inland, far away from the ocean and ports, and its location conditions are not as good as those of the eastern coastal areas. But from another perspective, opening to the west, Xinjiang (新疆) also has the unique advantage of "five ports connecting eight countries and one road connecting Europe and Asia," and the inland can also become the frontier. With radiating vision and an open pattern, the connotation of resource endowment will continue to be enriched and expanded, and the story of development will be more exciting.
In marathon races, running groups wearing uniform clothing are often seen. Athletes can often achieve better results through teamwork. In fact, those running together on the field are not only opponents competing on the same stage, but also teammates who can work together. The same is true for development.
Learning from each other's strengths to make up for weaknesses, Heze (菏泽), Shandong (山东), is exploring the establishment of offshore innovation centers in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and Suzhou (苏州) to achieve borrowing ladders to go upstairs. Each exhibiting its strengths, Hunan (湖南) and Hainan (海南) are working together to build an advanced manufacturing co-construction industrial park, using ports to go overseas and leverage a broader global market. Strengthening alliances, Chengdu (成都) and Chongqing (重庆) are jointly singing the "Twin Cities Story," promoting the total economic volume of Sichuan (川) and Chongqing (渝) to cross four trillion-yuan levels in six years, and the overall level of development has been upgraded.
To achieve good results, one must test both physical strength and wisdom. Using collaborative "tactics" well, supporting each other, and moving in the same direction will allow you to run faster and farther.
With policies, space, opportunities, and the courage to dare to venture and try, as well as the determination to make long-term efforts, transformations of "**无中生有**" (wú zhōng shēng yǒu - "create something from nothing," to create something out of nothing) and "**有中生新**" (yǒu zhōng shēng xīn - "create the new from the existing," to innovate based on existing foundations) are constantly being staged on the land of China today. The track is long enough and the stage is big enough. All regions are running bravely, and every step is an advance towards a higher level of development, which will surely converge into a strong joint force for achieving high-quality development.
Return to TopBy: 李心萍
How to view the Chinese market? In recent interviews, a metaphor from a foreign company executive is quite meaningful.
According to Dai Pu (戴璞), co-president of Roland Berger's global management committee: The Chinese market is like a "gym," and multinational companies must act quickly, use the latest technology, and improve their competitiveness through intense "training."
Being likened to a "gym" lies in the fact that the Chinese market has the intensity to temper physical fitness and the strength to forge skills. Companies that have experienced the 大浪淘沙 (dà làng táo shā - "big waves wash away sand," a process of sifting and selection) in China will also develop first-class reaction speed, management mechanisms, and innovation capabilities. Many multinational companies bluntly say, "Success in the Chinese market is the only way to succeed in the world market."
From a "big market" to a "gym," understanding market changes and recognizing development trends can be viewed from four dimensions.
Using competition to conduct "capability tempering" promotes companies to strengthen their hard power.
The Chinese market has a high-intensity and diversified competitive environment, making it difficult for companies to "lie flat" or "win lying down," and they must improve their competitiveness. This competition is a comprehensive competition among global peers, including local companies, under market-oriented rules.
Taking the automotive industry as an example, local car companies such as BYD (比亚迪) and Seres (赛力斯) occupy a significant market share with their new energy technology and cost-effectiveness advantages, which has prompted companies such as Volkswagen (大众) and BMW (宝马) to accelerate adjustments. For example, Volkswagen (大众) is jointly developing new models and intelligent driving solutions with local companies. This kind of competition is a "capability tempering" for both Chinese and foreign companies. Only by continuously strengthening their product quality, cost control, and market response capabilities can they gain a foothold in the competition and then win a larger market.
Using innovation to promote scenario-based applications activates the source of corporate transformation.
The value of the Chinese market is reflected in its unique advantages as a global innovation test field. Just as a gym provides a variety of training equipment, China provides companies with rich application scenarios, sufficient talent support, and an open innovation ecosystem for corporate innovation, promoting companies to upgrade from "technology reserves" to "landing transformation."
The ultra-large-scale market and diverse consumer demands provide landing scenarios for innovative technologies. A sound innovation environment and "engineer dividend" provide solid support for corporate innovation. At the 93rd China International Medical Equipment Fair (中国国际医疗器械博览会), GE Healthcare (通用电气医疗) showcased more than 50 precision medical innovation achievements and multiple ecological cooperation projects, of which more than 60% of the exhibits were led by the Chinese team and 95% were made in China. When innovation capabilities are integrated into scenario applications, companies are honing their products, verifying their technologies, and expanding their opportunities.
Using ecology to nurture the entire industrial chain builds a training ground for corporate growth.
Complete hardware and a comfortable environment are the foundation for a gym's popularity. China has an unparalleled and complete industrial ecology and a stable development environment. This not only reduces corporate innovation and operating costs, but also allows companies to focus on capability improvement.
Taking the policy environment and opening-up measures as examples, the negative list for foreign investment access has been reduced from the earliest 190 items to the current 29 items in the national version, and the restrictive measures for foreign investment access in the manufacturing sector have been "cleared"... The transparency, convenience, and openness of policies continue to improve, allowing companies to have clear development expectations. The "2025 China Business Environment Research Report" (2025年度中国营商环境研究报告) released by the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (中国贸促会) shows that the surveyed companies rated the Chinese business environment as 4.39 points (out of 5 points). With an excellent ecology and strong policy support, companies are optimistic and naturally develop with peace of mind and invest for the long term.
Using growth to anchor future possibilities achieves corporate capability re-upgrades.
The "gym" value of the Chinese market is reflected in the fact that companies can achieve a leap in capabilities from adapting to the market to leading the market through localized deep cultivation. And this is rooted in China's continuously cultivated development fertile land, and even more in the future direction with clear strategic planning.
Looking at the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要), many trillion-level and even trillion-level industries are expected to be spawned and grown in the fields of artificial intelligence, new materials, new energy, etc. At the same time, promoting the orderly expansion of opening up in the fields of telecommunications, the Internet, and medical care, and promoting the efficient, convenient, and safe cross-border flow of data... China's future is full of unlimited growth and new opportunities. As German experts said, China has "the kind of modernization vision that other countries have lost." This not only attracts more companies to come to the Chinese market to show their skills and hone themselves, but also allows companies to temper their muscles and achieve long-term success in innovative attacks.
"Investing in China values China's 'competitive opportunities'." The foreign company executive's sigh shows that China is not just a simple investment hot spot, but also a "training ground" for tempering competitiveness. Cooperating in openness and achieving win-win results in cooperation, more wonderful stories will be staged on the land of China.
(The author is a reporter from the Economic and Social Department of this newspaper)
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【Keywords】Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道)
【Event】Not long ago, Dilinuer Tuerxunjiang (迪丽努尔·吐尔逊江), a tour guide from Xinjiang (新疆), was returning to Urumqi (乌鲁木齐) with the Lin (林) family from Taiwan after their trip, passing through the Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道). She gave a detailed introduction to this mega-project: deep in the Tianshan Mountains (天山) at an altitude of over 3,000 meters, the Chinese people carved through 22.13 kilometers of the mountain's belly, creating the world's longest highway tunnel—the Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道). "Because the people need such an easy road to travel, the motherland can make the high mountains give way and the rivers bow their heads. It's not easy to tunnel through the Tianshan Mountains (天山), but there are people on the other side of the Tianshan Mountains (天山)." Dilinuer's (迪丽努尔) heartfelt words quickly went viral online.
【Commentary】
Why can a tour guide's commentary move millions of netizens?
Because they understand the difficulty of "making the high mountains give way and the rivers bow their heads." Crossing the Tianshan Mountains (天山) has been the dream of generations. In the 1950s, dozens of builders were buried here to build the Wuku Highway (乌库公路). The Tianshan Victory Tunnel (天山胜利隧道) has an average altitude of over 3,000 meters and must pass through 16 geological fault zones. This is not only a challenge to technology but also an extreme test of the builders' physical and mental limits. People are moved to tears, touched by the dedication of the builders, and pay tribute to their courage to face danger.
Because the significance of the mega-project is obvious to all. In the past, people in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains (天山) had to spend at least 3 hours traveling along the winding mountain roads to move around. Now, this time has been shortened to more than 20 minutes, directly driving the efficient flow of people and logistics in and out. During the 2026 Spring Festival holiday, Korla (库尔勒) received a cumulative total of 528,000 tourists, an increase of 22.07% year-on-year. This road facilitates the economic cycle between the north and south of Xinjiang (新疆), serves the westward opening-up and the "Belt and Road" initiative, and provides important support for the overall national development.
Because it reveals the moving logic of Chinese-style modernization. With the saying "the villagers can't wait," the builders innovated technology and shortened the original 72-month construction period to 52 months. The national ledger not only calculates the "economic account" but also the "people's livelihood account" and the "long-term account." From the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge (港珠澳大桥) connecting the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), to the Xi'an-Yan'an High-Speed Railway (西延高铁) opening into the old revolutionary base areas of northern Shaanxi (陕北), to the Huajiang Canyon Bridge (花江峡谷大桥) building a thoroughfare in the clouds... one mega-project after another is not for the "highest" or "largest" record, but for the simple wish of the people to have "easy roads to travel." Chinese-style modernization prioritizes the people's livelihood. This value orientation is written in the world-shocking mega-projects and also in the convenient facilities that are within reach. Guarantee and improve people's livelihood in development, so that the fruits of modernization benefit everyone.
The netizens' emotion also comes from the inseparable blood ties between compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait. In October 2025, the Lin (林) family came to Xinjiang (新疆), moved by the beautiful scenery and warm fireworks shared by Dilinuer (迪丽努尔) on social media. Dilinuer (迪丽努尔) not only accompanied them on their trip to Xinjiang (新疆) but also invited them to visit her home next time. In March of this year, the Lin (林) family arrived as scheduled, and Dilinuer's (迪丽努尔) family prepared a large table of special delicacies, which greatly moved the Lin (林) family, "Coming here is like being at home." Getting to know and love each other is a two-way commitment between the two families, and it is also the profound friendship and common voice of compatriots on both sides of the Taiwan Strait who share the same roots, culture, and blood.
A netizen from Guizhou (贵州) shared his story: When he was a child, the teacher gave the composition topic "What is on the other side of the mountain?" Now, his children no longer have to imagine the world outside the mountains while looking at the high mountains. The people's yearning for a better life is our goal. From the miracle of the Tianshan (天山) thoroughfare, we see the power of the people's will and the bright prospects of Chinese-style modernization.
To comprehensively strengthen the weak links in productive service industries, enhance the supporting role of science and technology services, and enhance the comprehensive competitiveness of modern logistics... Recently, the State Council (国务院) issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Expansion and Quality Improvement of the Service Industry," which clearly states that by 2030, the total scale of the service industry will reach a new level of 100 trillion yuan, more "Chinese Service" brands will be cultivated, and the global competitiveness and influence of the service industry will be significantly enhanced.
This is precisely:
Traffic weaves the warp and weft,
Financial water nourishes micro and small businesses.
Services empower and connect,
And help to climb towards the heights.
Cheng Senwen (成森文)
Return to TopBy: 孟亚生
Not long ago, Yancheng and Nantong in Jiangsu (江苏) Province respectively implemented their first "climate loan." Xiangshui County (响水县) in Yancheng (盐城), using 30 years of meteorological data as an "invisible collateral," helped a broccoli planting enterprise obtain a credit line of 50 million yuan and an initial loan of 5 million yuan, solving the financing pain points of agriculture, which is characterized by "lack of collateral and weak risk resistance." Qidong City (启东市) in Nantong (南通) issued 3.3 million yuan in "climate loans" to fishermen, solving the financing problem of fishing boat upgrades. The "meteorology + finance" model is transforming intangible climate resources into tangible credit assets.
Industries such as agricultural planting, offshore aquaculture, and distributed photovoltaics are highly dependent on natural climate conditions, causing banks to have many concerns when issuing loans, and high-quality green and low-carbon projects often face financing bottlenecks. Yancheng (盐城), Nantong (南通), and other places have innovated credit granting measures, linking meteorological departments to integrate long-term monitoring of meteorological data, regional climate resilience assessment reports, extreme disaster adaptation rating and other multi-dimensional authoritative data, and quantifying the intangible climate performance capabilities and low-carbon adaptation strength into visible, verifiable, and creditworthy credit assets, realizing financial empowerment and industrial quality improvement.
To promote the popularization and inclusiveness of "climate loans," it is still necessary to overcome multiple barriers. At present, a unified climate risk quantification and assessment standard and an exclusive risk control accounting system have not yet been established, and the assessment standards of various financial institutions are inconsistent. At the same time, the data barriers between meteorology, ecological environment, market supervision, financial credit investigation, and other departments have not been completely broken, which increases the cost of financial institutions to verify credit granting.
To make "climate loans" 早日成气候 (zǎo rì chéng qì hòu - "become a climate soon," to become a significant trend or achieve substantial progress) as soon as possible, the key is to target and break through the blockages and coordinate to make up for the shortcomings. Based on the experience of pilot projects, unify general norms such as regional climate rating, credit accounting, and interest rate pricing; focus on breaking through data barriers between departments, and synchronize and verify relevant data such as climate adaptation, low-carbon operation, and disaster prevention and quality improvement of business entities in real time; strengthen policy support and empowerment, and provide special fiscal interest subsidies and special funds for credit risk compensation to eliminate banks' worries about lending... With multi-party coordination and the formation of synergy, financial innovation achievements will inject a source of vitality into high-quality development and better benefit the general public.
(Excerpted from *Xinhua Daily* (《新华日报》), originally titled *When Can "Climate Loans" Become a Climate?* (《“气候贷”何时能成气候》))
Return to TopBy: 袁 珂
Pediatrics safeguards the future of 100% of people, even though it only serves 20% of the population. Although a world without illness is not yet a reality, may every family in need have a light shining for them.
The lights of the hospital are always on, on the desk in the duty room, outside the neonatal intensive care unit, and in the waiting area of the emergency room. Since I started working, I have become accustomed to seeing those lights that never go out when I look up. I know that is responsibility, is mission, and even more represents hope.
The hospital is one of the places with the highest concentration of emotions in the world, and it is also the place where you need to work with the most emotion. In pediatrics, which is known as the "mute department," we especially need to use our hearts and feelings and shoulder our responsibilities. I think of three scenarios.
In the "handover sheet," every serious effort is an awe of life.
Last winter, a premature baby who was just one month old was hospitalized with pneumonia. During the handover, a colleague specifically instructed: "Although the blood oxygen is still normal, it fluctuates slightly, and the breathing looks a little tired." This reminder allowed us to pay close attention to the child's breathing, promptly discover early signs of respiratory failure, and intervene, avoiding a tragedy.
It is better to be "unnecessarily cautious" than to not look carefully enough or think comprehensively enough. A seemingly ordinary blood oxygen fluctuation curve may hide a signal of a turning point in the condition, which requires more attention. A slight feeding intolerance may indicate an infection or metabolic problem, which requires continuous tracking. Even changes in the child's crying pitch are signs of a change in the condition. Handover, handover, is not just about transmitting information, but also about handing over responsibility. Doing the details well and forming a closed loop of responsibility can turn worry into peace of mind.
In doctor-patient communication, every empathy tightens the bond between people's hearts.
In the pediatric emergency department, parents rush into the clinic with their children in their arms every day. For medical staff, who have been immersed in the department for many years, most of the cases they encounter are common emergencies, and there are scientific response procedures. For parents of sick children, however, it is often the first time in their lives. Moreover, there are cognitive barriers between doctors and patients, coupled with emotional tension, and it is inevitable that there will be doubts, worries, and misunderstandings.
There is a concept in medicine—not only to see the person's disease, but also to see the person with the disease. I understand that even if we are used to it, we must always maintain that patience and gentleness to listen, understand, and comfort, without getting tired of it. Treating the disease and treating the heart, if the communication is done well, the trust between doctors and patients will be strengthened by one point; if the explanation is thorough, the family's anxiety and helplessness will be reduced by one point. Is this not also treating the disease and saving people?
In medical consultations, every concentrated battle is a race against life.
At the beginning of this year, the pediatrics department received a girl who had been transferred to many hospitals without a diagnosis. We quickly launched multidisciplinary treatment. Experts from pediatrics, orthopedics, imaging, pharmacy, and genetics gathered together to give opinions and inspire each other from their respective professional fields. The final diagnosis was a rare disease with an incidence of only one in 100,000 to one in a million, and an individualized diagnosis and treatment and follow-up plan was formulated accordingly.
The problem of seeking medical treatment for many years was finally solved in one morning, thanks to the streamlining of the mechanism—in the past, people were spinning around between departments, but now, each department revolves around the patient, solving multivariate equations together; it also lies in the support of technology, gene detection, precise image evaluation, artificial intelligence, etc., which make more difficult and complicated diseases visible.
Thinking about the past few years, I often hear such remarks: medicine is becoming more and more developed, but diseases seem to be increasing. As a practitioner, to a large extent, it is still because with the progress of medical technology and the improvement of health awareness, our ability to discover, diagnose, and perceive diseases has been greatly enhanced, and many past unknown diseases have been classified into the known category. Looking at it in the long run, this is also a race between medicine and time.
Some people say that pediatrics safeguards the future of 100% of people, even though it only serves 20% of the population. This is the special care of the whole society for children and adolescents, and it is also the noble mission of pediatricians. Although a world without illness is not yet a reality, may every family in need have a light shining for them.
(The author is an attending physician in the Department of Pediatrics, the First Affiliated Hospital of the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University (浙江大学医学院附属第一医院). This article is selected and compiled from email submissions.)
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Return to TopOn the occasion of the May Fourth Youth Day, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) replied to representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award, pointing out: "You have kept in mind the Party's entrustment, and have taken root in the front lines of grassroots such as scientific and technological innovation, rural revitalization, social services, and guarding the country's borders, writing a youthful chapter with practical work and dedication, demonstrating the confident, self-reliant, and upward-looking spirit of Chinese youth in the new era."
A common welder diligently studies technology and grows into a chief technician; village cadres take root in the deep mountains, work practically for the people, and use the power of youth to change the face of the countryside; online delivery riders carefully complete each order, and have a greater sense of belonging to the city... Recently, 16 youth representatives who have won awards since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China wrote to General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) to report on their dedication and experiences at the grassroots level. This reporter approached four representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award to listen to their stories of having lofty ideals and striving hard.
-- Editor
Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰), Chief Technician of Welding at China Petroleum Natural Gas First Construction Co., Ltd. (中国石油天然气第一建设有限公司):
Deeply Cultivating Small Links, Achieving Great Results
By Zhu Peixian (朱佩娴), reporter of this newspaper
Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰), born in the 1990s, has grown from an ordinary welder to the chief welding technician of China Petroleum Natural Gas First Construction Co., Ltd. (中国石油天然气第一建设有限公司), and has won the title of National Model Worker and the China Youth May Fourth Medal.
Five years ago, when interviewed, when asked "What is the secret to developing this welding technology?", he said: "There is no secret, just learn with your heart and practice hard. If you want to be a worker, you have to be the best!"
Interviewing Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰) again, his sharpness has not diminished, and there is a sense of steadiness in his brisk pace. He is no longer just a competitor holding a welding gun, but also a "master" who imparts knowledge and teaches skills. He takes technical workers younger than him to travel north and south, refining their skills and striving for excellence in the national engineering projects that need them most. "From the polishing of a screw to the millimeter-level precision of the process, there is great knowledge in small links, and great results can be achieved," Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰) said.
He also often goes to campuses and workshops to guide young welders hand-in-hand. He imparts all that he has learned—from "winning himself" to "teaching others to win," Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰) has completed the transformation from an excellent welder to an outstanding coach. He is no longer just a dazzling "welding flower," but a torchbearer who has ignited countless "sparks."
Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰) uses his own experience to tell every young person: The best ability is to develop the hard-core skills of "when the country needs it, I can handle it."
"The times are changing, and new technologies are developing rapidly. I also want to continue to study and improve my skills with younger comrades, charge again, climb higher mountains, and master more new technologies," Pei Xianfeng (裴先峰) said. "In the future, I will actively integrate my personal growth into the overall situation of national development, temper my skills with a fighting attitude, dare to overcome technical difficulties, actively explore and innovate, write a youthful chapter with practical work and dedication, and contribute my strength to the research of key technologies."
Yang Ning (杨宁), Secretary of the General Party Branch of Jiangmen Village (江门村), Anchui Township (安陲乡), Liuzhou (柳州), Guangxi (广西):
Youth Guards the Deep Mountains, Working Practically for the Villagers
By Zhang Yunhe (张云河), reporter of this newspaper
At the beginning of summer, the mountain breeze is gradually warming, and the spring water is gurgling. Yang Ning (杨宁) walks quickly on the mountain path.
"Youth takes root in the deep mountains, and practical work is only for the villagers." Born in the Miao (苗) township of Rongshui (融水), Liuzhou (柳州), Guangxi (广西), Yang Ning (杨宁) has grown from a college student village official to the secretary of the General Party Branch of Jiangmen Village (江门村), Anchui Township (安陲乡), and has been guarding the mountains for 16 years.
In the village's mountain spring water factory, the production line is running at full speed. Practicing the concept that "green water and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains," Yang Ning (杨宁) guards the living water of the mountain spring, turning good mountains and rivers into good days. As the village's first independently established enterprise, after the water factory is put into production in 2025, it will increase the village's collective income by 200,000 yuan, and the per capita annual income of the entire village will simultaneously exceed 20,000 yuan.
Initially, Jiangmen Village (江门村) had no way to get rich. In 2010, after graduating from university, Yang Ning (杨宁) gave up her job in Nanning (南宁) and returned to her hometown to lead the villagers to find a way out. "I tried selling bamboo, planting peppers, and planting kudzu roots, but the results were minimal," Yang Ning (杨宁) said.
After experiencing setbacks, she calmed down and figured out the "temperament" of the mountains and rivers, and developed characteristic industries according to local conditions. She planted alpine spring water watermelons well, and launched the "Miao A Sao (苗阿嫂)" brand; she made good use of slope resources to strengthen the passion fruit industry; she deeply explored agricultural resources and promoted the "rice + duck + fish" co-cultivation model... Just as she wrote in her circle of friends: "Even if there are thousands of difficulties, I am not afraid of high mountains and winding roads!"
With the prosperity of the industry, there is a new atmosphere. After Jiangmen Village (江门村) achieved overall poverty alleviation, it built a rural revitalization industrial park, with a bacon processing plant and a mountain spring water factory built in the park, allowing agricultural products to be realized locally, strengthening the village and enriching the people.
This year, under the planning of Yang Ning (杨宁), the village formed a professional mountain spring water sales team. She said with confidence: "We will also add a new production line to create online bottled mountain spring water products and sell the good water from our village to the whole country."
Chen Yiwen (陈一文), online delivery rider of Jiangxi (江西) Ganzhou Paige Network Technology Co., Ltd. (赣州湃格网络科技有限公司):
Carefully Complete Each Order, Repaying a City with Love
By Yang Hao (杨昊), reporter of this newspaper
In early summer, the Gannan (赣南) land in Jiangxi (江西) is lush with vegetation. At 6 o'clock in the morning, the mist in the streets of Ruijin (瑞金) has not yet dissipated. Chen Yiwen (陈一文), a 38-year-old online delivery rider of Paige Network Technology Co., Ltd. (湃格网络科技有限公司), tidied up his work clothes, fastened his helmet, checked his meal box, and set off on his electric car on time, starting a day of running around. This run has been going on for 8 years.
In 2018, Chen Yiwen (陈一文) became a takeaway rider. When he first entered the industry, he was unfamiliar with the road conditions, often timed out, and had difficulty finding buildings. He once thought of giving up. But with a tenacity, he carefully studied the distribution of buildings in old residential areas, the meal preparation time of merchants, the waiting time for elevators during peak hours, and the access control of office buildings, and improved the delivery efficiency to a new level.
On rainy days, he walks up the stairs to ensure that the meals are delivered on time; when the road is blocked, he detours 5 kilometers to protect the temperature of the hot meals... Over the past 8 years, Chen Yiwen's (陈一文) footprints have spread to every corner of the city, and he has remained the "order runner king" of the station for many years.
Carefully complete each order, repaying a city with love. In the summer of 2020, a middle school student fell and was injured while riding a bicycle. He immediately stopped the order and escorted the child to the hospital for medical treatment, registration, and bandaging. In the winter of 2021, he found a fire in a residential building while delivering an order. He assisted in evacuating the crowd and reporting to the police until the firefighters arrived before leaving silently.
The youth of struggle should not only have speed, but also have depth. Ruijin City (瑞金市) has specially established the "Jin Xiaoge (金小哥) College" for new employment groups to provide systematic training and growth guidance. Chen Yiwen (陈一文) decisively signed up. Under his leadership, 26 takeaway riders have signed up to participate in the training.
In a grassroots governance class, a sentence from the training teacher was engraved in Chen Yiwen's (陈一文) mind: "You takeaway riders and couriers travel through the streets and alleys every day, and are the 'mobile probes' of this city."
After class, with the assistance of relevant personnel, Chen Yiwen (陈一文) took the lead in building a WeChat group, named "Take Photos at Will." Now, there are more than 300 takeaway riders and couriers in the group, reporting more than 1,000 clues about road damage, facility hazards, and fire safety, with a disposal rate of 98%, becoming a vivid force in grassroots governance.
From a "five-star knight" who accurately delivers meals to a "city hero" who steps forward in times of crisis, and then to a "mobile grid member" who shuttles through the streets, Chen Yiwen (陈一文) has run out of a trajectory full of warmth, conveying the care between people, and also condensing the responsibility and responsibility of new employment groups.
Wang Wei (王伟), Deputy Captain of the Manzhouli (满洲里) Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station (出入境边防检查站) in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古):
Taking Root in the Front Line of Border Defense, Ensuring Customs Clearance Safety
By Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋), reporter of this newspaper
Just after midnight, in Manzhouli City (满洲里市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), the headlights cut through the night, and trucks drove into the Manzhouli Highway Port (满洲里公路口岸) in an orderly manner. "Master, please open the door." Picking up the duty tools, tightening the equipment belt on his body, Wang Wei (王伟) walked quickly to a truck and politely shouted to the driver.
The door opened, Wang Wei (王伟) deftly entered the cab, carefully checked the driver's documents and every corner of the cab, and at the same time used the law enforcement recorder to completely record the inspection process. "There are many blind spots at night, and we must carefully inspect," Wang Wei (王伟) said.
The Manzhouli Highway Port (满洲里公路口岸) must maintain 24-hour cargo customs clearance. In order to ensure the smooth entry and exit of vehicles, it is necessary to ensure that someone is on duty all day. Wang Wei (王伟), 39 years old this year, is the deputy captain of the Sixth Duty Team of the Manzhouli Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station (满洲里出入境边防检查站) of the Inner Mongolia Entry-Exit Border Inspection General Station (内蒙古出入境边防检查总站). When he is busy, he needs to assist in inspecting more than 200 entry and exit trucks every day, and the day and night shifts are reversed, often making him feel sore in his waist and knees.
When he encounters holidays, he always takes the initiative to request to be on duty, and he has not been able to go home for the New Year for 5 consecutive years. "Comrades-in-arms come from all over the country, and many people are far away from home. It is not easy to go back. I want to give priority to them during the holidays," Wang Wei (王伟) said.
In addition to being separated from his family, the harsh climate is also testing the resilience of Wang Wei (王伟) and his comrades-in-arms. In winter in Manzhouli (满洲里), the temperature is often below minus 30 degrees Celsius. Most of the working time, Wang Wei (王伟) and his comrades-in-arms need to stay outdoors. In order to facilitate inspection and action, everyone can only wear ordinary cotton shoes. When the cold air strikes, the soles of the feet are often frozen numb, and they can only rely on constant walking to get heat.
The rigorous and meticulous work habits have allowed Wang Wei (王伟) to discover and eliminate safety hazards in a timely manner time and time again. Because of his outstanding performance, Wang Wei (王伟) has been awarded the third-class merit three times in 2021, 2023 and 2024.
In addition to his job duties, Wang Wei (王伟) also actively participates in publicity and education work. The Party building education film he wrote and directed was rated as an excellent case by the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局), and various publicity works such as original songs and original legal publicity dramas have been widely circulated, with a total of more than one million views.
Wang Wei (王伟) said that he will start by strictly guarding the port control line and ensuring safe and smooth customs clearance, give play to the exemplary role of young pioneers, and drive more young people to take root in the border and perform their duties.
Return to TopBy: 王 博
Each era has its own mission, and each generation of youth has its own responsibility. The winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award are rooted in the grassroots, demonstrating the confident, self-reliant, and upward-striving spirit of Chinese youth in the new era.
It is the right time for young people to make contributions. In the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, major deployments are vividly presented on paper. Accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance and self-improvement, steadily promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, and increasing efforts to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods... The implementation of each task requires young people with ideals, courage, ability to endure hardship, and willingness to struggle to work hard and create. The era has paved a broad stage for young people, calling on them to integrate their personal ideals into the torrent of national development and create extraordinary value in ordinary positions.
The stage for making contributions is at the grassroots level. The grassroots level is the best classroom for young people to understand the national conditions, temper their will, and increase their talents. Young scientists move their laboratories to the front lines of engineering and write their papers on the land of the motherland; young cadres take root in the countryside, their feet covered in mud, and open up paths to prosperity; community workers convey warmth in the trivial matters of families; border guards use their blood to protect the peace of the motherland... These valuable experiences of working hard at the grassroots level allow young people to shed their immaturity, develop their skills, strengthen their sincere heart for the country and the people, and better contribute their youthful strength on the new journey.
The torrent of the times is surging forward, and the baton of building a strong country and national rejuvenation has been passed to the hands of the new era youth. Young people should have lofty ideals and be determined to struggle. When thousands of young people choose to take root in the earth, there will be a continuous source of power for upward growth.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王明峰
"Secretary Lu, the river embankment is hollow underneath, it needs to be repaired! Otherwise, when the water rises in the summer, there will be problems!"
Just after the Spring Festival in 2025, Lu Huiting (路慧婷), the first secretary of the village stationed in Xinfangzi Village (新房子村), Jintang Town (金汤镇), Kangding City (康定市), Garze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan Province (四川省), was approached by several villagers during a visit to the village, who anxiously pulled her to the riverbank. Adjacent to the embankment were the houses of many villagers and more than 40 mu of cultivated land. She immediately inspected the embankment and found several "hollowing" hazards that needed to be reinforced as soon as possible.
After compiling the materials and reporting them, coordinating with various departments, and repeatedly coordinating issues such as the occupation of cultivated land, Lu Huiting (路慧婷) was busy running around, and relevant personnel came to investigate and repair the situation time and time again. Finally, the embankment repair and reinforcement project was implemented, and the villagers' hanging hearts were put down.
At the end of July 2024, the western Sichuan Plateau (川西高原) was in the rainy season. On the winding mountain road leading to Xinfangzi Village (新房子村), a mudslide carrying gravel roared down, blocking the way forward. In the car, Lu Huiting (路慧婷) clenched her fists, very anxious.
Xinfangzi Village (新房子村) is located in a canyon, with steep mountains and scattered plots of land, and a weak industrial base. How to break the situation? Lu Huiting's (路慧婷) answer was: invite the "think tank" into the mountain gully. She invited experts from Sichuan University (四川大学) and Sichuan Agricultural University (四川农业大学) to the village to "diagnose and treat." *Bletilla striata* and pepper had "physical examination reports," and the under-forest economy had scientific prescriptions. She also led the villagers to try planting new varieties with high added value such as yam and single-clove garlic.
The pepper and morel mushrooms grown in the village were of good quality, but because there was no brand, the price could not go up and the sales channels could not be opened. Lu Huiting (路慧婷) also became a "salesperson" and "designer." Online, she opened up channels everywhere and told everyone the stories of the mountains; offline, she seized every exhibition opportunity to set up stalls and promote. She led the villagers to polish the label copy and design packaging gift boxes for agricultural products, and also weighed, packed, and delivered goods with everyone. Thanks to her efforts, the village's agricultural products were sold overseas, driving up the income of the villagers.
In addition to letting agricultural products out of the mountains, Lu Huiting (路慧婷) was also concerned about the children in the village. Yangyang (阳阳), a 7-year-old Tibetan boy, was mentally disabled, and the high rehabilitation costs weighed heavily on the whole family. Lu Huiting (路慧婷) helped to apply for temporary assistance and strive for medical reimbursement, and sent toys and food every now and then. Yangyang (阳阳) went from being timid and afraid to speak, to later taking the initiative to call "Hello, Aunt Lu (路阿姨)!" - that innocent greeting was a warm echo on Lu Huiting's (路慧婷) road to being stationed in the village.
Under the coordination of Lu Huiting (路慧婷), Chengdu Pury Eye Hospital (成都普瑞眼科医院) provided free vision screening for all students in the town and funded two children with eye diseases to undergo surgery; the Sichuan Provincial Federation of New Social Stratum Association (省网络人士联谊会) sent materials worth 110,000 yuan; the Sichuan Provincial Association of Overseas Chinese Entrepreneurs (省侨商投资企业协会) invested 40,000 yuan to transform the village's deserted cultural activity room into a warm farmhouse bookstore, and also distributed Spring Festival condolences to the children. She also strived for scholarships for new university students and organized university students to come to the village to tutor the children... On the road to growth for students on the plateau, there were more hands to support them.
In the depths of the canyon, Lu Huiting (路慧婷) measured the land with her footsteps and exchanged sincerity for trust, drawing the most beautiful concentric circles on the road to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Return to TopAccording to the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, a total of 182 water conservancy technical standards were issued, with the number of standards issued in 2025 increasing by more than 125% year-on-year, a record high in nearly 10 years. The current number of effective water conservancy technical standards reached 774. Focusing on major national strategies and the needs of high-quality water conservancy development, the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) has initiated and implemented 576 scientific and technological research projects through various channels, continuously carrying out basic research, applied basic research, and high-tech research and development in water conservancy, and has achieved a series of major breakthroughs. It has selected and released 502 mature and applicable water conservancy scientific and technological achievements, effectively promoting the demonstration application and iterative upgrading of scientific and technological achievements.
The revision and improvement of water conservancy "urgent and priority" technical standards have achieved breakthroughs in both scale and quality. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, 405 "urgent and priority" standards were initiated for revision and improvement, effectively filling the standard gaps in key and urgently needed areas for high-quality water conservancy development such as intelligent dams, national water networks, and digital twin water conservancy systems. The formulation of 23 mandatory technical standards in key areas such as water consumption quotas, water conservancy and hydropower projects, and flood control and drainage continues to advance.
This was reported on May 5th from Beijing (北京) by our newspaper's reporter Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Hangzhou (杭州) May 5th dispatch (Reporter Liu Junguo (刘军国)) Recently, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (浙江省农业农村厅) issued the "Guiding Opinions on Further Strengthening the Management of Rural Collective 'Three Funds' (关于进一步加强农村集体“三资”管理的指导意见)", aiming to consolidate and expand the special rectification achievements of outstanding problems in the management of rural collective "three funds," strongly support the high-quality development of the new rural collective economy, and help achieve common prosperity.
The rural collective "three funds" refers to the funds, assets, and resources owned by rural collective economic organizations. The "Guiding Opinions" clarifies four major aspects of tasks: improving the standardized management system for funds, improving the standardized management system for assets, improving the standardized management system for resources, and improving the rural collective "three funds" supervision system. The "Guiding Opinions" proposes that village collective economic organizations should promptly, fully, and standardizedly record all income into accounts for accounting, and strictly prohibit off-book accounting and 坐收坐支 (zuò shōu zuò zhī - "collect income, make expenditure," to directly collect income and make expenditures without going through proper accounting procedures).
The "Guiding Opinions" will be implemented from May 25, 2026, requiring all regions to establish and improve a working pattern of "village group operation and management, township supervision in the forefront, department follow-up guidance, disciplinary inspection and coordination, and platform data empowerment."
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 观 游 仪 洪秋婷 刘晓宇
During the "May Day" holiday, tourists from all over the world came to China to enjoy the beautiful scenery, experience traditional Chinese culture, and have an unforgettable trip. Efficient tax refunds and convenient payment methods allowed overseas travelers to enjoy worry-free travel and shopping, spreading the vitality of the Chinese economy to the world.
Convenient Payment Enhances the "China Tour"
"There it is!" In the woods, a round giant panda lazily appeared, and cheers rang out from the crowd. On the afternoon of May 1st, at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan, Martina, a girl from Italy, was attracted by the black and white figure. "Clumsy yet clever, like it came out of a cartoon, I want to post it on a short video platform!" She raised her phone and took several photos in a row.
During the "May Day" holiday, Chengdu, as a popular tourist city, saw a significant increase in inbound tourist traffic. At 1:00 AM on May 1st, an eight-person Italian tour group, including Martina, arrived at Chengdu Tianfu International Airport to begin a 2-day "highlights tour."
"There are so many giant panda-themed cultural and creative products on the streets of Chengdu." Martina's 48-hour plan was packed: seeing giant pandas, taking a night tour of Jinjiang River, strolling through Taikoo Li, and drinking gaiwan tea...
As night fell and the lights came on, Martina came to Wangping Street and enjoyed ice jelly, hot beef, and tripe with her companions. The aroma of red oil filled the air, and the food was hot and spicy. The next day, she went to Chengdu People's Park to admire flowers, drink tea, and experience ear cleaning, enjoying a taste of Chengdu's slow-paced life.
"Mobile payment is so convenient, I couldn't help but buy a lot of souvenirs." In the Taikoo Li business district, Martina carried large and small bags, took out her mobile phone at the checkout counter, and gently touched the payment sensing area to complete the payment. "No need to wait until the airport to shop in a hurry, shopping at the duty-free shops in the city saves time and worry," she said.
Today, Chengdu has built a payment system that supports "large-amount credit card payments, small-amount QR code payments, and cash as a backup," with more than 90% of key business districts supporting international card payments. Foreign tourists can use Alipay, WeChat Pay, UnionPay, and other methods to pay like local citizens. In the Chunxi Road and Taikoo Li business districts, there are more than 200 "buy-and-refund" stores for departure tax refunds. The tax authorities have also launched a convenient "scan-to-refund" service, reducing the processing time for a single tax refund to 3 minutes, making the inbound consumption experience more attractive and in line with tourists' preferences.
Efficient Tax Refunds Upgrade "China Shopping"
"I just received Ms. Li's arrival notice, so I rushed over. I can finally buy this Chinese drone that I've been thinking about!" said Ed, a customer from Brazil.
Taking a taxi from the Canton Fair Complex in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong, to the Grandbuy Department Store on Beijing Road, Ed went straight to the DJI counter on the 8th floor and greeted Li Xiuwen (黎秀文), the store manager, happily.
"You can tell that he is a fan of Chinese technology products. He came to the store to learn about the products during the Canton Fair, and we even added each other on WeChat. This 8K panoramic flagship drone is very popular among foreign tourists and is often out of stock. I promised Ed that I would notify him as soon as it arrived," said Li Xiuwen.
"Not only is the price right, but I can also enjoy a departure tax refund, and the merchant's service is even more attentive," Ed praised repeatedly. "This trip to China, the open and inclusive convenient environment and advanced technology products, impressed me deeply. Chinese technology products are very popular in Brazil, and I will strongly recommend them to my friends and family when I return."
Chen Yingyan (陈颖燕), Deputy General Manager of Grandbuy Department Store on Beijing Road, said that the store relies on the advantages of the centralized refund point for departure tax refunds to promote services such as "buy-and-refund," "one order one package," and free express delivery. At the same time, it optimizes the cross-border payment environment, deploys relevant equipment, and supports convenient payment with overseas bank cards, using efficient tax refunds and convenient payment methods to make shopping in Guangzhou smoother for overseas travelers. Currently, the store has successfully processed tax refunds for travelers from Malaysia, Singapore, and other places.
When the "May Day" holiday coincides with the Canton Fair, business and tourist flows converge in both directions, and the effects are superimposed, further releasing the consumption demand of overseas travelers and promoting the vitality of Guangzhou's inbound consumption market.
Immersive Experiences Make Tourists More "Engaged"
"Look! This newspaper has a sense of history!" In front of a building in the Yantai Mountain historical and cultural district in Fuzhou, Fujian, a retro-style AI photo newspaper machine has become a popular check-in spot. This Watsons store restores the decoration style of the early 20th century, with wooden shelves, brass signs, and an AI photo newspaper machine complementing each other. Norman, a Chinese-Canadian, is wearing a light-colored shirt and staring at the screen with great interest - a custom newspaper printed with him holding Fuzhou bodiless lacquerware is slowly pushed out, with the mottled red brick buildings of Yantai Mountain in the background.
On the morning of May 1st, the opening ceremony of the Mawei Shipping Administration Official Street was grandly opened amidst ancient and elegant music. Min opera a cappella was melodious and melodious, and the dragon and lion dance gongs and drums were sonorous. Norman felt the weight and freshness of the Chinese historical context at close range.
The next day, Norman walked into the Sanfang Qixiang intangible cultural heritage workshop and learned how to make jasmine tea from a master craftsman. From "serving the flowers" to "scenting," Norman repeatedly sifted, mixed, and let the flowers sit in front of the bamboo sieve, his fingertips filled with the fragrance of jasmine. "I only knew that Fuzhou jasmine tea was delicious before, but today I understand the mystery of 'only smelling the fragrance of flowers but not seeing the flowers.'" He carefully packed the tea he had scented himself into a can, ready to take it back to Canada to share with his wife and children. He also specially bought a Fuzhou cork painting, "This is a unique skill in Fuzhou, and I want to hang it in the living room."
"Come to Fuzhou and have fun" is the cultural tourism theme launched by Fuzhou this "May Day" holiday, focusing on local characteristics. Norman's "May Day" itinerary is a microcosm of the inbound consumption boom in Fuzhou. Fuzhou focuses on the three axes of "Cultural Central Axis," "Poetic and Pictorial Minjiang River," and "Charming Coastline," launching more than 500 cultural tourism-themed activities, more than 50 preferential measures, and six series of boutique tourism routes, allowing overseas travelers to appreciate the connotation of Chinese culture in immersive experiences and gain unique travel fun.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邵玉姿
Take a boat trip on Baiyangdian (白洋淀) Lake and enjoy the scenery of the lake; take a leisurely stroll in Yuerong Park (悦容公园) and admire the beautiful scenery; move to the Suburban Park and listen to the open-air concert; walk into the Xiong'an Workers' Cultural Palace (雄安工人文化宫) and encounter wonderful performances; explore the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) and quietly enjoy the rich fragrance of books; stroll through the Central Green Valley (中央绿谷) and check in at the intangible cultural heritage market...
From touring Baiyangdian (白洋淀) to visiting the new city, more and more people came to Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北) Province, during this "May Day" holiday. According to the tourist statistics of various scenic spots in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), the total number of tourists in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) during the "May Day" holiday was 1,588,600.
Why did they choose to visit the city of the future?
"It's a pleasure to take a boat trip on Baiyangdian (白洋淀)." On the shore of Baiyangdian (白洋淀), the water is sparkling. At Songzhuang Pier (宋庄码头), Liu Chu (刘初), a tourist from Dingzhou (定州), Hebei (河北), followed his parents to board a boat for a tour. As the boat traveled through the lake, the breeze caressed their faces, the water rippled, and birds chirped from time to time in the reed marshes. Liu Chu (刘初) was intoxicated by it, "This feeling is so wonderful." Since the establishment of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), the ecological environment of Baiyangdian (白洋淀) has continued to improve, and the water quality has remained stable at Class III standards for five consecutive years. The "Pearl of North China" has regained its glory. In recent years, Liu Chu (刘初) has come to Baiyangdian (白洋淀) every year. "There is good scenery every year, and I will continue to come next year," Liu Chu (刘初) said with a smile.
In the first two years, they visited Baiyangdian (白洋淀), and this year they made a special trip to see the new city.
In the past three years, Yang Bingying (杨秉英), a tourist from Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) Province, has come to Xiong'an (雄安) to take a look every year. "It's getting better every year, and there's something new to see every time." Standing in front of the CITIC Bookstore (中信书店) in the Central Green Valley (中央绿谷), Yang Bingying (杨秉英) took a photo and shared it with his family, "The combination of blue and green is so beautiful." This time in Xiong'an (雄安), he also went to the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆). "Last year, the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) was not open yet, so of course I had to check it in this time." Stepping into the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), the bottom layer of the building is like a huge open book page, full of charm. The library has a collection of 1.5 million books, and is also equipped with intelligent service robots to provide readers with intelligent services such as guidance and consultation, and assisted reading. During the "May Day" holiday, there were even more activities: picture book sharing to immerse children's hearts, cultural lectures to inspire thinking, and special handicraft experiences full of fun... "There are flowers and books, Xiong'an (雄安) is so beautiful!" This summer vacation, Yang Bingying (杨秉英) plans to bring his grandchildren to Xiong'an (雄安) again, "I will be the tour guide and take the children to get to know the new city."
Xiong'an Yuerong Park (雄安悦容公园) is lush with vegetation and winding paths. "The city and the lake are integrated, and Xiong'an (雄安) has grown so fast in such a short time, it's really a miracle." On Anhe Tower (安和塔), Wang Hongwei (王宏伟) couldn't help but sigh as he looked out over the vibrant scenery. Wang Hongwei (王宏伟) is from Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Province and settled in Baoding (保定), Hebei (河北) Province 10 years ago. This is her first visit to Xiong'an (雄安) since the establishment of the new area. "The construction of Xiong'an (雄安) is really great," Wang Hongwei (王宏伟) said, "I'm here to scout the way, and I will bring my two sons here again soon."
This year's "May Day", Xiong'an (雄安) has "new updates": a new double-decker bus special tourist route has been launched, connecting urban landmarks such as Yuerong Park (悦容公园), Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆), Central Green Valley (中央绿谷), and the City Computing Center (城市计算中心), creating an immersive experience of "food + sightseeing + culture". When visiting Xiong'an (雄安), the first thing Mou Ping (牟萍) and her wife from Liaoning (辽宁) did was to take a double-decker bus to see the scenery of Xiong'an (雄安). "This was arranged by my son." Last autumn, her son moved to Xiong'an (雄安) with his company. During the "May Day" holiday, at her son's invitation, Mou Ping (牟萍) and her wife came here.
Taking pictures along the way, "Look, this is where my son works - China Sinochem Building (中国中化大厦), everyone calls it 'Golden Reed'." As the bus drove on Wocheng Road (渥城路), Mou Ping (牟萍) pointed excitedly to the window and introduced it to reporters. "We are relieved to see that Xiong'an (雄安) is so well built." Mou Ping's (牟萍) son has now bought a house and settled in Xiong'an (雄安), she said with a smile, "I will come here often in the future!"
"Young and energetic!" Lu Lanhao (吕兰浩), a tourist from Shijiazhuang (石家庄), Hebei (河北) Province, described Xiong'an (雄安) in his eyes as he walked the streets and visited the parks. Unlike other tourists, this trip to Xiong'an (雄安) was a visit before Lu Lanhao (吕兰浩) started his job. "There is a lot of room for development here, and there is also a quality of life, which is very friendly to young people like us." Lu Lanhao (吕兰浩) majored in industrial design and is about to graduate this year. Before traveling to Xiong'an (雄安), he had been paying attention to Xiong'an (雄安)-related recruitment information on various platforms. "Working in Xiong'an (雄安) is my first choice for employment." A few years ago, Lu Lanhao's (吕兰浩) brother came to work in Xiong'an (雄安). Influenced by him, Lu Lanhao (吕兰浩) is full of expectations for this new city, "Xiong'an (雄安) is a city under construction and has a broad stage."
This year's "May Day" holiday, Yang Lei (杨雷) chose to stay in Xiong'an (雄安). Yang Lei (杨雷) runs a coffee shop on Wenhua Middle Road (文华中路) in the starting area. In 2024, China Satellite Network (中国星网), where her husband works, moved to Xiong'an (雄安). Yang Lei (杨雷) resigned from her job in Beijing (北京) and followed her husband here to open this coffee shop.
"In the past year, especially since the New Year, I have clearly felt that more and more people are coming to Xiong'an (雄安)." Yang Lei's (杨雷) coffee shop is close to the Xiong'an Library (雄安图书馆) and the Xiong'an Sports Center (雄安体育中心), and there are many enterprises and affordable housing relocated to Xiong'an (雄安) around it. "When it opened in August last year, there were very few catering stores on this street. Now the shops in the entire block have opened one after another, and the business formats are very rich, and there are more and more catering stores, and it is getting more lively day by day." Yang Lei (杨雷) said while making coffee, "During the holidays, there are more tourists. The turnover since the beginning of this year is much higher than last year."
"Tourism is an important window for people to enter Xiong'an (雄安), understand Xiong'an (雄安), and work together to build Xiong'an (雄安)." According to the relevant person in charge of the Cyberspace Administration of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区宣传网信局), during this year's "May Day" holiday, various departments of the new area worked together to strengthen tourism services and safety guarantees, standardize business service standards, implement clear pricing, unblock complaint channels, improve rapid disposal mechanisms, and respond to tourists' demands in a timely manner, and fully create a safe, orderly, comfortable and warm holiday tourism environment, focusing on the entire chain of tourists' travel. Next, the new area will continue to optimize the supply of cultural and tourism services, enrich urban cultural and tourism consumption scenarios, refine and implement service measures, comprehensively improve the quality of cultural and tourism services and tourists' travel experience, and create more cultural and tourism demonstration windows that highlight the style and charm of the future city, and welcome guests from all over the world with a better environment and warmer services.
Return to TopThe Lao Fu River (老府河) is an important river within the Xiaogan City (孝感市) area of Hubei (湖北). The local area, through projects such as bank slope management, river widening, sluice gate reconstruction, ecological restoration, and water environment improvement, has not only improved flood control, regulation, and irrigation capabilities, but also laid the foundation for regional green and sustainable development. The picture shows the Lao Fu River (老府河) recently, with clear water, unobstructed river flow, green banks, and beautiful scenery.
Hu Xuejun (胡学军) photo (People's Vision)
Beijing, May 5th (People's Daily reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) The Ministry of Commerce (商务部) released data on the 5th showing that during the "May Day" holiday, many regions implemented spring break policies, leading to a concentrated release of consumer travel demand, strong demand for service consumption, generally stable commodity consumption, and sufficient supply and stable prices of daily necessities.
In terms of service consumption, the number of national inter-provincial tourists on key platforms increased by 7.6% year-on-year, with tourists traveling over 800 kilometers increasing by 20%, driving a corresponding 18% year-on-year increase in hotel accommodation consumption. Car rental orders increased by 21% year-on-year, with inter-city orders increasing by 67.6%. Performance consumption increased by 17.6%, and the "May Day" film box office exceeded 700 million yuan.
In terms of commodity consumption, as of May 4, trade-ins for consumer goods in 2026 benefited 86.204 million people, driving sales of 629.27 billion yuan. Among them, 2.132 million vehicles were traded in, driving new car sales of 342.39 billion yuan; 34.735 million home appliances were traded in, driving sales of 141.54 billion yuan; and 49.337 million digital and smart products were purchased, driving sales of 145.34 billion yuan.
Business big data also shows that pedestrian streets and other core business districts were full of people. From May 1st to 4th, the passenger flow and turnover of 78 pedestrian streets (business districts) monitored by the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) increased by 5.0% and 5.3% year-on-year, respectively.
Local commercial authorities guided commercial and trade enterprises to increase the market supply of daily necessities, ensuring sufficient and stable market supply and generally stable prices. Business big data shows that during the holiday, the national 200 large agricultural and sideline product wholesale markets had sufficient inventory. The prices of grain, oil, pork, and beef were basically the same as before the holiday (April 30), while the prices of chicken, fruit, and vegetables decreased by 0.4%, 0.3%, and 0.2% year-on-year, respectively, and the prices of eggs and mutton increased by 0.5% and 0.3% year-on-year, respectively.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 田 泓
What can a flower bring to a city?
During the "May Day" holiday, the Shanghai International Flower Festival's Huangpu main venue, Xintiandi Taiping Bridge Park, welcomed over 150,000 visitors in a single day, 4 to 5 times the usual weekend peak. On April 18th, the 2026 Shanghai International Flower Festival (上海国际花卉节) grandly opened. This 23-day citywide floral event presents not only the pleasing scenery of spring flowers but also the infinite possibilities of flower exhibitions.
In 2007, the Shanghai Landscaping and City Appearance Administration (上海绿化市容部门) created the Shanghai International Flower Show (上海国际花展) to "select flowers" for the World Expo held three years later. After years of accumulation, the flower show has gradually become an annual event for the greening industry to showcase new products. In recent years, the Shanghai International Flower Show has gradually transformed, moving from parks to more urban public spaces, exploring a new market-oriented exhibition model of "flowers +". This year, the flower show has been upgraded to a flower festival, with a "2 main venues + 10 sub-venues + multiple urban business districts" full-area layout, turning the entire city into a huge garden.
Flowers bloom in shop windows. The window art season, themed "Hearing the Sound of Flowers Blooming," connects nearly 50 large commercial complexes and more than 50 distinctive street shops in 34 key business districts, allowing citizens to discover beauty around every corner. The Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce (上海市商务委) deeply links shopping centers, characteristic blocks, youth stores, and well-known brands to create a new consumption experience of "seeing flowers at every step, buying everywhere, and enjoying at all times." During the flower festival, more than 50 special themed activities such as floral art, music, and markets were staged in major business districts, and more than 130 themed products of "flower blooming gifts" were launched, with "flowers +" stimulating the vitality of cultural, commercial, tourism, sports, and exhibition integration.
The flower festival requires huge resource investment. Is the marketization path going smoothly?
"This year, more than 40 sets of themed gardens and more than 60 sets of window floral art in the Huangpu District main venue of the flower festival are all funded and exhibited by more than 100 companies, institutions, and individuals." Gu Fang (顾芳), Deputy Director of the Huangpu District Landscaping and City Appearance Bureau (黄浦区绿化和市容管理局), introduced that Huangpu District allows companies to deeply participate in the exhibition and activities in the manner of "the government building the stage and enterprises performing," with the district government investing 2 million yuan to leverage enterprises to sponsor more than 25 million yuan in the form of funds or real-scene construction.
The newly established Wanhua (Shanghai) City Operation and Management Co., Ltd. (万花（上海）城市运营管理有限公司) is the central platform for the market-oriented operation of the flower festival. At the Shanghai Garden Economy Conference held on April 20, Wanhua Company, together with a number of units, released a list of city-level garden economic cooperation opportunities. The cooperation objects involve 15 parks and green spaces in Changning District (长宁区), urban park groups in Fengxian District (奉贤区), 12 buildings in Jinshan District (金山区), etc. The cooperation methods include naming cooperation, scene co-construction, co-branded products, etc. "The flower festival is not only a grand event that benefits the people, but also a trade fair full of opportunities," said Lü Zhihua (吕志华), director of Wanhua (Shanghai) City Operation and Management Co., Ltd.
From exhibition to festival, how can the new quality productivity of the flower industry be activated by taking advantage of the situation?
On the first day of the flower festival, 18 new and excellent global flower varieties were launched in Shanghai. The Shanghai Botanical Garden (上海植物园), the professional main venue of the flower festival, is one of the organizers of this global new and excellent flower variety collection activity. This year, a total of 28 domestic and foreign seed companies, research institutions, and universities sent 78 unreleased new plant varieties, with the number of varieties increasing by 1 times compared with last year, and the participation of international companies increasing by 17%.
"The professional advantages of the industry have been strengthened because of the citywide festival. More new and excellent plants have gone through the 'last mile' from the laboratory to urban application through the scenario-based display of the Shanghai International Flower Festival," said Yan Wei (严巍), director of the Shanghai Botanical Garden.
Shanghai Yuanyi Flower Co., Ltd. (上海源怡花卉有限公司) is a professional seed company. For the first time in more than 20 years since its establishment, it has brought the flower exhibition from the planting base in the distant suburbs to the urban business district - Xintiandi Dongtai Lane Flower Market. Li Xiaolin (李晓霖), the company's sales manager, said: "90% of domestic flower consumption comes from public scenes, and only 10% from family scenes. We are optimistic about this huge potential market and let flowers enter more people's daily lives."
A flower empowers a city. From exhibition to festival, from flower exhibitions in gardens to citywide flower events, the flower viewing traffic not only brings economic increment but also the happiness increment of citizens.
Return to TopBeijing, May 5th (Reported by Li Xinping (李心萍)) According to the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司), on May 4th, the national railway sent 20.383 million passengers. Since the "May Day" holiday transportation started on April 29th, the national railway has cumulatively sent 117 million passengers, and the transportation has been safe, stable, and orderly. On May 5th, the railway return passenger flow continued to rise, and the national railway is expected to send 23 million passengers, with a plan to add 2,225 passenger trains.
Railway departments in various regions actively responded to the peak of return passenger flow, making overall use of transportation capacity resources, adding trains in popular directions and time periods, and making every effort to ensure that passengers return safely and orderly.
The Zhengzhou Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (郑州局集团公司) added 134 passenger trains in popular directions such as the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀), Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区), including 38 overnight high-speed trains. The Shanghai Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (上海局集团公司) added 469 passenger trains, including 272 overnight high-speed trains, arranged 289 sets of EMU trains to run in heavy formation, and added 89 ordinary-speed passenger car carriages. The Nanchang Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (南昌局集团公司) added 381 passenger trains in popular directions such as Nanchang (南昌) to Hangzhou (杭州), and Jiujiang (九江) to Guangzhou (广州), including 12 overnight high-speed trains. The Guangzhou Railway Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (广州局集团公司) added 707 passenger trains in popular directions such as round trips between the Guangzhou-Shenzhen (广深) area and Chaozhou (潮州), Shantou (汕头), Zhanjiang (湛江), Changsha (长沙), and Huaihua (怀化).
Return to TopAccording to Haikou Customs, during the 6th Asian Beach Games held in Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南) from April 22nd to 30th, Haikou (海口) Customs oversaw offshore duty-free sales of 595 million yuan, with 112,000 shoppers.
The Asian Beach Games included participating athletes, accompanying officials, and related representatives from 45 countries and regions in Asia. Targeting relevant customer groups, four offshore duty-free shops in Sanya (三亚) launched consumption activities including exclusive shopping areas, exclusive consumer coupons, and exclusive gifts. Hainan Province's (海南省) exclusive preferential rights product package for inbound tourists was launched, allowing tourists to enjoy discounts across the entire chain of dining, accommodation, transportation, travel, shopping, and entertainment.
(Reported by Dong Zeyang (董泽扬), reporter of this newspaper)
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Data source: Frost & Sullivan (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. (弗若斯特沙利文（上海）企业咨询有限公司); calculated based on the cumulative sales volume of each brand in the national (excluding Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions) fruit juice-type carbonated beverage market from 2020 to 2025 in mainland China. Fruit juice-type carbonated beverages refer to carbonated beverages that meet the GB/T10792-2008 standard and contain a certain amount of fruit juice; the survey was completed in April 2026.
By: 张冠梓
Achieving modernization is a historical trend in world development and a common aspiration of people of all countries. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Achieving modernization is an inalienable right of all countries" and "For a country to move towards modernization, it must not only follow the general laws of modernization, but also conform to its own reality and have its own characteristics." The world today is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and the balance of international power is undergoing profound adjustments. The limitations and drawbacks of the Western modernization model are becoming increasingly prominent, and the world urgently calls for new paths to modernization. As a brand-new model of modernization, Chinese-style modernization breaks the myth of "modernization = Westernization" and provides a new solution for world modernization. Deeply understanding the historical process of world modernization and the world significance of Chinese-style modernization will help us grasp the contemporary value of Chinese-style modernization from the perspective of world history, and more consciously and confidently promote and expand Chinese-style modernization.
The world modernization process is a joint exploration and promotion by all mankind.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The various civilizations created by human society all shine with brilliant light, accumulating a profound foundation and endowing distinctive characteristics for the modernization of various countries, and making important contributions to the modernization process of human society across time and space and beyond national borders." The world modernization process started in Western capitalist countries, and the developed countries in the world today are mainly European and American countries and capitalist countries deeply influenced by Western civilization. However, it must be deeply recognized that many civilizations around the world have made important contributions to nurturing and promoting the world modernization process.
Marx made profound insights into the universal laws of human social development, pointing out that Eastern societies "have the opportunity to possess all the positive achievements created by the capitalist system without going through the Caudine Forks of the capitalist system," thereby accelerating the historical process. At the same time, he firmly opposed the rigid view that "all nations, regardless of their historical circumstances, are destined to follow this path," emphasizing that "correct theory must be combined with specific circumstances and explained and developed according to existing conditions." This shows that the path to modernization is not limited to a single model. Diverse and diverse development paths are what the world should be like. So far, most of the countries that have achieved modernization are Western capitalist countries, and some people have therefore formed the illusion of "modernization = Westernization," but they have overlooked that world modernization is a process of joint exploration and promotion by all mankind.
On the one hand, Western modernization is not an endogenous evolution completed in isolation in a vacuum, but is deeply rooted in the global civilization exchange network. In the long historical period, many wisdom achievements of other civilization systems continued to be introduced into Europe and were widely used. For example, China's papermaking and printing broke the church's monopoly on knowledge and culture, the compass promoted the Age of Discovery, and gunpowder shook the feudal rule of Europe. As Marx pointed out: "Gunpowder, the compass, and printing—these were the three great inventions that heralded the arrival of bourgeois society." These achievements are not simply technological advances, but have truly become catalysts for ideological liberation and productivity development, and have become indispensable social and historical conditions for the initiation and advancement of Western modernization.
On the other hand, the world modernization process is not a one-way "Eurocentric" diffusion. Before the expansion of Western capitalist forces, people in different regions had already participated in and profoundly shaped the early "reservoir" of world modernization in their own ways through ancient trade networks. The outbreak of the Industrial Revolution rapidly connected the world market, greatly promoting the flow and reallocation of production factors such as capital, technology, labor, and raw materials on a global scale. Marx and Engels generously praised the improvement of capitalist productivity and its role in promoting the formation of the world market. At the same time, it should be seen that in this process, the non-Western world such as Asia, Africa, and Latin America is not simply a passive recipient, but has become an important part of the global division of labor system with its huge market and rich resources, and has been irreversibly involved in and integrated into the magnificent wave of world modernization.
Historically, Western modernization is just one way of world modernization, rooted in specific conditions. From an institutional point of view, Western modernization is modernization under the capitalist system, and the core driving force is the unlimited appreciation and expansion of capital. Although this method has released huge productivity in a specific historical stage, it inevitably brings about the alienation of people and the tearing of society. The logic of capital regards people as tools and means for capital appreciation rather than the purpose of social development, making labor no longer a creative activity but a hard labor for laborers to make a living. This alienation leads to universal spiritual emptiness, loss of meaning, and materialism expansion, which runs counter to the goal of human freedom and all-round development in modernization. The instinct of capital to pursue profit maximization, if not effectively regulated and restrained, will inevitably lead to serious polarization between the rich and the poor, erode social fairness and justice, and further trigger consequences such as social class solidification and populism. From an ethical point of view, the history of Western modernization is full of bloody crimes such as war, slave trade, colonialism, and plunder. This determines the injustice and non-universality of its modernization path, and also puts the countries and people in colonies and semi-colonies in a tragic situation. As the American scholar Wallerstein pointed out, the core, semi-peripheral, and peripheral regions of the capitalist world economic system are assigned different economic roles. The ruling groups in the core and semi-peripheral regions will sacrifice the peripheral regions in order to maintain their own production and employment levels. It can be said that Western modernization has been promoted to a large extent at the expense of the long-term underdevelopment of countries and regions outside the West, which has brought profound suffering to the vast number of developing countries.
Chinese-style modernization has achieved a major transcendence of Western modernization theory and practice.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Chinese-style modernization has both the common characteristics of modernization in all countries and the distinct characteristics based on its own national conditions." Modernization is not a "patent" of a few countries, nor is it a "multiple choice question" that is either this or that. Simple uniformity and "copy and paste" cannot be used. History fully shows that there is no template to apply to achieve modernization. For a country to move towards modernization, it must not only follow the general laws of modernization, but also be based on its own national conditions and have its own characteristics.
The successful advancement and expansion of Chinese-style modernization has its inherent regularity and is rooted in a deep historical soil. After the Opium War, China tried to transplant Western technology, systems, and even culture, but all failed. Instead, it fell into a situation of national fragmentation and dire straits. The historical task of exploring the road to modernization fell on the Communist Party of China (中国共产党). Guided by Marxism, our Party has continuously promoted China's modernization with the support of an independent and self-reliant spirit of exploration and the confidence and determination to adhere to its own path. After the founding of New China, our Party led the people to complete the industrialization process that Western developed countries had gone through in hundreds of years in a few decades, successfully promoted and expanded Chinese-style modernization, and created a new form of human civilization. Chinese-style modernization demonstrates a broad historical depth and civilizational height, and benefits from the nourishment of the Chinese nation's more than 5,000 years of outstanding traditional culture. For example, the value pursuit of "the world is for the public" promotes Chinese-style modernization to avoid the traps of polarization and the gap between the rich and the poor; another example is the cosmology of "harmony between man and nature" and the ecological concept of "Tao follows nature," which promote Chinese-style modernization to respect nature, conform to nature, and protect nature, highlighting the distinct characteristics of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.
At present, more and more countries no longer blindly follow the Western modernization model, but actively explore development paths that conform to their own national conditions and the laws of human social development. Chinese-style modernization contains a unique worldview, values, view of history, view of civilization, view of democracy, and view of ecology, and has achieved remarkable achievements. It is regarded as a model for a late-developing country to strive to catch up and successfully open up a new road to modernization, and has achieved a major transcendence of Western modernization theory and practice. Here are a few aspects.
Surpassing capital supremacy with people supremacy. Western modernization is centered on capital. Under the dominance of capital logic, Western modernization promotes instrumental rationality, and the subjective value of people is constantly diminished or even emptied, which also makes Western modernization inevitably fall into multiple predicaments such as social tearing and governance failure. Chinese-style modernization respects the subjectivity of people, highlights the value of people, regards people as the fundamental purpose of development, adheres to the people-centered development thought, strives to guarantee and improve people's livelihood in development, solves the urgent and difficult problems of the people, and guides capital to serve socialist modernization construction and the all-round development of people, so that the fruits of modernization construction can benefit all people more and more fairly.
Surpassing harming others and benefiting oneself with harmony and coexistence. Western modernization is embedded with binary opposition thinking and is keen on zero-sum games. From plunder based on violent conquest to harvesting based on the hegemonic system, from the unrestrained exploitation of natural resources to the destructive development of the ecological environment, Western modernization runs through various tangible and intangible plunders, bringing the interests of a few countries above the interests of most countries, widening the gap between the rich and the poor in the world, and also causing imbalances between material and spiritual, the opposition between man and nature, and widespread social disorder. Chinese-style modernization promotes harmony and coexistence, pays attention to sustainable development, adheres to the path of civilized development of production development, affluent life, and good ecology, and continuously expands the breadth and depth of peaceful development and win-win cooperation.
Surpassing system monopoly with openness and inclusiveness. In order to maintain the pattern of its own interest monopoly, Western modernization has shaped and promoted a dependent and closed monopoly system in practice, attempting to fix and even perpetuate this interest monopoly structure. Chinese-style modernization looks at the world with an open, inclusive, and shared future, and realizes modernization together with all countries in the world, including the vast number of developing countries. For example, China takes high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" as an important platform, focusing on promoting an equal and orderly world multipolarization and a universally beneficial and inclusive economic globalization, promoting mutually beneficial cooperation among countries, and achieving common development.
Chinese-style modernization has a profound impact on the world modernization process.
The great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation is unfolding in the tide of world modernization, pursuing not only its own prosperity and strength, but also the development and progress of human civilization. The new form of human civilization created by Chinese-style modernization has not only realized the continuation, iteration, and innovation of its own civilization form, but also explored the universal laws of human civilization, especially the civilization revival of developing countries and late-developing modern countries, in multiple dimensions, and has broad and far-reaching world significance.
It breaks the myth of the Western modernization model and confirms the diversity of modernization paths. For a long time, the Western world has firmly controlled the right to interpret, measure, and speak about "civilization" by continuously imposing its so-called "civilizing" on the non-Western world. Western modernization theory is often based on the presuppositions of Western centrism, which leads to systematic cognitive biases and practical errors. How different regions, nations, countries, and civilizations achieve development and evolution under their specific conditions is a non-linear and unbalanced specific historical process. The successful practice of Chinese-style modernization declares the bankruptcy of the linear view of history that believes that all countries in the world will eventually return to the Western institutional model. From this point of view, Chinese-style modernization has not only profoundly changed China itself, but also rewritten the modernization narrative that has long been dominated by the West, proving that true modernization is not a myth of self-respect, but a manifestation of development diversity; it is not a forced export of a single model, but an independent choice of multiple paths; it is not the so-called "end of history," but the common progress of human civilization towards the future.
It provides a development philosophy and governance ideas different from Western modernization. For many nations, in the current international environment, obtaining a reasonable position in the world system by imitating Western modernization faces heavy oppression and obstacles. The new road to modernization taken by Chinese-style modernization can provide useful solutions. Chinese-style modernization adheres to the independent and self-reliant development path, and relies on a strong political core to ensure the long-term stability and coherent implementation of the national development strategy, and firmly grasps the initiative of development. Chinese-style modernization has achieved continuous correction of development goals, from the comprehensive victory in the battle against poverty to the solid promotion of common prosperity in high-quality development, reflecting the adherence to the people-centered development thought. Chinese-style modernization provides richer governance ideas. For example, the socialist market economy system promotes a better combination of an effective market and a promising government, breaking the binary opposition between "market fundamentalism" and "government intervention theory" and the mindset of "either the market or the government."
Reshaping the world modernization pattern and promoting the human modernization process. On the one hand, Chinese-style modernization will greatly change the world map of modernization. The overall entry of more than 1.4 billion people into modernization can profoundly change the balance of power and pattern of world modernization, and will effectively break the world map of modernization that some Western countries are trying to frame with a Western-centric worldview, which is of great significance for solving the problems of human social development and promoting the human modernization process. On the other hand, the continuous advancement of Chinese-style modernization has expanded the development space of world modernization in the process of contributing momentum and opportunities to global development. China deepens exchanges and cooperation with countries around the world, promotes the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind, creates conditions for all countries to board the express train of China's development and share development opportunities, and provides important opportunities for global Southern countries to break through development bottlenecks and enhance their voice in global affairs, which will promote all countries to work together in the world modernization process and reach a new height of human civilization.
(The author is the Dean of the Chinese-style Modernization Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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Whether leading cadres have a correct view of performance directly affects the effectiveness and even the success or failure of development. Adhering to high-quality development is an inherent requirement and important content of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "To achieve the second centenary goal, we must adhere to the Party's basic line and adhere to economic construction as the center, but under the new situation, development cannot wear new shoes and walk the old road. We must fully, accurately, and comprehensively implement the new development concept, accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, and promote high-quality development." "Wearing new shoes and walking the old road" is superficially a deviation in behavior, but fundamentally a misalignment of the view of performance. Only by establishing and practicing a correct view of performance and fully, accurately, and comprehensively implementing the new development concept can we truly embark on a "new road" of high-quality development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) vivid metaphor about "wearing new shoes" and "walking the old road" contains the dialectic of form and content, appearance and essence. "Shoes" are the "appearance," while "road" is the "essence." The so-called "new shoes" refer to the new scenarios and new models presented by economic and social development under the new situation, the new conditions and new resources generated, and the new roles and new positioning assigned to corresponding subjects. The so-called "old road" refers to the " **大呼隆** (dà hū lōng - "a great roar," a chaotic and disorganized way of doing things), crude development path," such as the "overdraft road" of draining the pond to get all the fish and burning the forest to reclaim land, the "blind road" of excessive water and fertilizer and large-scale demolition and construction, the "imbalanced road" of being too light on one side and too heavy on the other, and the "quick fix road" and the "GDP-only road." "Wearing new shoes and walking the old road" is like putting old wine in new bottles, only updating the form while the essence remains unchanged. In some places, documents emphasize the implementation of the new development concept, but the way of implementation is still the old way; new policy documents have been issued, but the ideas for interpretation and implementation still follow the old routine; and so on. Under the new situation, without establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, wearing new shoes and walking the old road will inevitably fail to create achievements that can withstand the test of practice and history, truly benefit the people, and be recognized by the masses.
Why do people still walk the "old road" when they put on "new shoes"? Its essence is formalism. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The essence of formalism is subjectivism and utilitarianism. The root cause is the misalignment of the view of performance and the lack of a sense of responsibility. It replaces solid implementation with a vigorous form and covers up contradictions and problems with a bright appearance." Some party members and cadres take the "old road" not because the "new road" is impassable, but because the "old road" is familiar, labor-saving, and the risks are "controllable"; some alienate experience into dogma in their work and are unwilling to make adjustments according to the times and circumstances; some superficially pursue formal innovation, but in essence, they carefully maintain the old pattern, fearing that "taking the new road" will break the "balance," touch contradictions, and bring "uncertainty." The root cause of the problem of "wearing new shoes and walking the old road" lies in the failure to establish and practice a correct view of performance, the serious disconnection between thought and action and the new development concept, pretending, engaging in window dressing, and blindly spreading the stall.
Entering a new stage of development, various new situations and new problems emerge one after another. If we still hold on to old thinking and use old methods, it will inevitably be difficult to adapt to the development requirements of new quality productive forces. If we blindly wander on the "old road," even if the equipment is new and the enthusiasm is high, it will be difficult to avoid being bound by outdated concepts and dragged down by inherent models. In the end, we can only stand still and fail to open up new spaces and reach new realms. Only by adhering to wearing new shoes and taking the new road, resolutely breaking through ideological barriers, firmly establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and achieving consistency between content and form and unity between thought and action, can we keep up with the pace of the times, conform to the expectations of the people, and move steadily and far in high-quality development.
To establish and practice a correct view of performance, we must take the "new road" steadily, well, and far. To take the "new road" steadily, we need to act according to the laws, not only making good use of existing successful experiences, but also exploring new methods in combination with new realities. To enhance the foresight, predictability, and initiative for new situations and new problems that may be encountered in the development process, we must be prepared for danger in times of peace, plan ahead, and play the "first move." To take the "new road" well, we need to strengthen investigation and research, go deep into the grassroots, get close to the masses, truly understand the situation, accurately identify the problems, and take serving the people as the greatest political achievement, responding to the expectations of the masses with practical work and practical results. To take the "new road" far, we need to cultivate the spiritual realm of "achieving success does not necessarily have to be me" and shoulder the historical responsibility of "achieving success must have me," willingly doing the groundwork and willingly grasping unfinished matters, not only doing practical things that the people can see, touch, and benefit from, but also doing good things that lay the foundation, build the foundation, and benefit the long term for future generations, truly creating practical achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to improve the mechanism for promoting lifelong learning for all, and build a lifelong learning system that is more flexible, has richer resources, and is more convenient for learning." This points out the direction and provides guidance for building a lifelong learning system in China. The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "optimize public services for lifelong learning," a strategic deployment that reflects our Party's profound grasp of the laws of educational development and human capital development. We must take meeting the learning needs of the people as the starting point and foothold, continuously optimize public services for lifelong learning, improve the overall quality of the people, promote the all-round development of people, enhance the level of social civilization, and transform the people's lifelong learning potential into a continuous stream of talent dividends.
Improving the level of public services for lifelong learning is an urgent need to adapt to the transformation of the population structure and achieve the continuous development of human capital. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Understand, adapt to, and lead the new normal of population development, and focus on improving the overall quality of the population." At present, China is undergoing a profound transformation of its population structure. The growth model that relies on the expansion of the population size is unsustainable, and the country's competitiveness increasingly depends on the quality of human capital. It is urgent to improve the level of public services for lifelong learning to accelerate the shaping of modern human resources with excellent quality, sufficient quantity, optimized structure, and reasonable distribution. Currently, the new generation of information technology represented by artificial intelligence and big data is profoundly changing the way knowledge is produced, disseminated, and acquired, and is driving historical changes in social production, lifestyles, and learning methods. Optimizing public services for lifelong learning can leverage technology to empower and build a flexible, open, intelligent, and convenient learning ecosystem, providing a solid human capital foundation for the development of new quality productive forces. Human development has unlimited potential and multi-dimensional needs, and is not limited to a certain stage of life. Optimizing public services for lifelong learning helps to meet individuals' needs for knowledge renewal, skill improvement, and spiritual enrichment at different stages of life, thereby improving the overall quality of the people and cultivating social civilization.
Strengthen top-level design and improve the system and legal guarantees for lifelong learning. The system is fundamental and long-term. Solid legal guarantees can provide stable expectations and rigid constraints for the lifelong learning system, ensuring that the rights and responsibilities of various entities are clear, resource allocation is based on evidence, and learning outcomes are recognized by society. We should speed up the legislative process for lifelong education and promote the formation of a regulatory system in which national laws, local regulations, and departmental rules are interconnected. Actively promote local legislation and practical innovation, and encourage qualified regions to incorporate the construction and evaluation of the public service system for lifelong learning into the overall economic and social development plan and annual livelihood projects, forming a work pattern of linkage from top to bottom and implementation at all levels. Further establish and improve systems such as government procurement of services, learning funding subsidies, and linking learning outcomes with career development, and strengthen the operability and sustainability of the system.
Aim at diverse needs and promote the precise supply and fair allocation of learning resources. To build a learning society where everyone can learn, learn everywhere, and learn at any time, we must focus on solving the structural contradictions on the supply side of learning resources and more accurately meet the learning needs of the masses. Precise supply and fair allocation are important ways to improve the accessibility of public services for lifelong learning, narrow the learning gap between groups, and promote social equity. In practice, some regions have explored more effective practices. For example, Jiangsu (江苏) has deepened the "Jiangsu Craftsman" cultivation project, promoted the "academic + skills" through training model, and strengthened the construction of a highly skilled talent team; Shanghai (上海) has promoted the "Elderly University Doubling Plan" to expand the supply of elderly education, and focused on tilting elderly education resources to the grassroots level; and so on. We must focus on narrowing the digital divide between regions, urban and rural areas, and groups, and promote the tilting of high-quality learning resources to old revolutionary areas, ethnic areas, border areas, and poverty-stricken areas through government procurement of services, development of public welfare projects, and other means to ensure that public services for lifelong learning cover everyone.
Innovate the investment mechanism and expand the support model and space carrier for learning services. Sustainable investment and ubiquitous scenarios are the realistic guarantees for a vibrant and accessible public service system for lifelong learning. We can explore the establishment of a multi-party investment mechanism with the joint participation of the government, the market, and society. For example, Guangdong (广东) has established vocational skills training subsidies and implemented differentiated subsidy standards to help cultivate more highly skilled talents who meet the needs of the modern industrial system. We can explore a combination policy of "pre-tax deduction of part of the enterprise's training expenses + training subsidies" and encourage qualified regions to introduce incentive measures based on their own realities to stimulate the endogenous motivation of business entities to invest in employee training. In terms of service models, promote the extension of learning places from traditional schools to communities, enterprises, families, and virtual spaces. Build community learning centers, employee reading rooms, youth night schools, etc. in accordance with local conditions, and promote flexible models such as mobile learning and virtual training to deeply integrate learning into daily life and work practice. For example, many cities such as Hangzhou (杭州) in Zhejiang (浙江), Changsha (长沙) in Hunan (湖南), and Wuhan (武汉) in Hubei (湖北) have opened youth night schools, continuously improving the service supply of youth night schools and promoting the accelerated sinking of high-quality educational resources.
Build a public platform and unblock the channels for certification and conversion of learning outcomes. Establishing a national unified, clear-cut, scientific, and standardized public service platform for the certification, accumulation, and conversion of learning outcomes is a key measure to stimulate the endogenous motivation of national learning. To promote the construction of a ubiquitous and accessible lifelong education system, we can build a lifelong learning system based on a qualifications framework, a credit bank as a platform, and certification of learning outcomes as the focus. Explore the establishment and improvement of a national-level system for the certification, accumulation, and conversion of learning outcomes, and study and formulate recognition standards and conversion rules covering diversified learning outcomes such as academic education, vocational training, community learning, and online courses. Build a public service platform for lifelong learning, promote functional integration and data interoperability, and provide a full range of online services such as outcome registration, storage verification, credit inquiry, conversion application, and certificate issuance to ensure that information cannot be tampered with and the process is transparent and traceable. Explore the establishment of an incentive mechanism that appropriately links personal lifelong learning points with credit evaluation and career development to encourage lifelong learning for all.
Deepen digital empowerment and gather strong synergy for building a learning society for lifelong learning for all. Digital technology is a revolutionary force for reshaping learning forms and improving service efficiency. Relying on the national digital education strategy, we must continue to explore the integration of artificial intelligence and education, and build and use the national smart education platform for lifelong education. Use artificial intelligence and big data technology to develop personalized learning recommendation systems, plan paths, push resources, and evaluate results for learners to achieve teaching according to needs. Strengthen the construction of a digital learning resource opening and sharing mechanism. Strengthen the government's overall coordination capabilities, build a government-school-enterprise cooperation platform, and promote the flow and sharing of high-quality digital learning resources across regions, departments, and levels. Actively guide enterprises to deeply participate in resource development and talent cultivation, and form a good pattern of multi-party collaborative promotion. Cultivate and support relevant social organizations and volunteer service forces. Organize volunteers to carry out various learning activities in a targeted manner, help promote national reading, build a book-filled society, and create a good social atmosphere.
(The author is the director of the Population and Health Research Center of the School of Economics of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law (中南财经政法大学).)
Return to TopPresidential Decree of the People's Republic of China
No. 74
The "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China" was revised and adopted at the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on April 30, 2026, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into effect on November 1, 2026.
President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping (习近平)
April 30, 2026
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Prisons
Section 1 Establishment and Security of Prisons
Section 2 Prison Security and Guard
Section 3 Prison People's Police
Section 4 Rights and Obligations of Prisoners Serving Sentences in Prisons
Chapter III Execution of Penalties
Section 1 Admission to Prison
Section 2 Handling of Prisoners' Appeals, Accusations, and Reports
Section 3 Temporary Execution Outside Prison
Section 4 Commutation and Parole
Section 5 Release and Resettlement Assistance
Chapter IV Prison Administration
Section 1 Separate Custody and Management
Section 2 Use of Police Equipment and Weapons
Section 3 Communication and Visits
Section 4 Life and Hygiene
Section 5 Rewards and Punishments
Section 6 Home Visits and Special Permission to Leave Prison
Section 7 Handling of Crimes Committed by Prisoners During Imprisonment
Chapter V Education and Rehabilitation of Prisoners
Chapter VI Special Provisions for Juvenile Delinquents
Chapter VII Legal Responsibility
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution to regulate and ensure the correct execution of penalties by prisons, to punish and rehabilitate criminals according to law, to prevent and reduce crime, and to promote the construction of a higher level of Safe China and Rule of Law China.
Article 2 A prison is a state organ for the execution of criminal penalties.
In accordance with the provisions of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China," criminals sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, life imprisonment, or fixed-term imprisonment shall serve their sentences in prison.
Article 3 Prison work shall adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), adhere to the overall national security concept, and establish a fair, rule-of-law, civilized, honest, and efficient prison penalty execution system.
Article 4 Prison work shall adhere to the combination of punishment and rehabilitation, the combination of education and labor, with the purpose of rehabilitating people, adhere to management according to law, respect and protect human rights, transform criminals into law-abiding citizens, and promote their reintegration into society.
Article 5 The judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) shall be in charge of prison work nationwide.
The judicial administration departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be in charge of prison work in their respective jurisdictions. The prison management organs shall be managed by the judicial administration departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be responsible for the specific management of prisons in their respective jurisdictions.
Article 6 The People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall, in accordance with the law, supervise the activities of prisons in executing penalties.
Article 7 The state shall guarantee the construction and operation of prisons, and prison funds shall be included in the budget in accordance with regulations.
The state shall provide the necessary facilities and funds for prisoners' labor and provide conditions for prisoners' rehabilitation activities.
Article 8 Prisons shall implement openness in prison affairs, and shall, in accordance with the law, promptly and accurately disclose the legal basis, procedures, and results of the execution of penalties, and voluntarily accept supervision. Information involving state secrets, personal privacy, and information that may endanger national security, social stability, and prison order after disclosure shall not be disclosed.
Article 9 The state encourages and supports theoretical research and talent cultivation in prisons and penalty execution, and provides theoretical support and talent guarantee for the high-quality development of prison work.
The state encourages and supports international exchanges in the fields of crime prevention and penalty execution, and enhances judicial mutual trust and cooperation.
Article 10 Units and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to prison work shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Chapter II Prisons
Section 1 Establishment and Security of Prisons
Article 11 The establishment, revocation, and relocation of prisons shall be approved by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院).
Article 12 Prison construction shall be based on the needs of prisoner rehabilitation work, in accordance with relevant state regulations, adhere to overall planning and rational layout, and achieve complete functions and moderate scale.
Male prisons, female prisons, and juvenile offender re-education centers shall be established according to the gender and age of the prisoners. Prisons and prison areas with different security levels shall be set up according to the type of crime, sentence length, and degree of personal danger of the prisoners. Prison areas with different functional types shall be set up according to the health status and rehabilitation needs of the prisoners.
Article 13 The land, mineral resources, other natural resources, and property of prisons used in accordance with the law shall be protected by law, and no organization or individual may encroach upon or damage them.
Article 14 Prisons shall strengthen information technology construction, use modern science and technology, and improve the level of prison management and the quality of prisoner rehabilitation work.
Section 2 Prison Security and Guard
Article 15 The armed security of the periphery of prisons shall be the responsibility of the People's Armed Police Force (人民武装警察部队), and the specific scope of tasks shall be implemented in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Article 16 Prisons shall establish security facilities according to supervision needs. A security isolation zone shall be set up around the prison, and no one shall enter without permission.
Article 17 State organs, social organizations, enterprises, institutions, and grass-roots organizations around prisons shall assist prisons in doing a good job in security and guard work.
Without approval, no photography, videography, recording, surveying, or other activities shall be carried out in prison security facilities, prisoner rehabilitation sites, or other places; no unmanned aerial vehicles or other flight activities shall be carried out in the controlled airspace above prisons and surrounding areas within a certain range in violation of regulations.
Article 18 Prison security shall be incorporated into the security work system of the local people's government. Prisons, the People's Armed Police Force (人民武装警察部队), public security organs, health and health, disease prevention and control, emergency management, and other relevant units shall be responsible for their respective duties and coordinate disposal in prison anti-terrorism and riot prevention, escorting prisoners, disease prevention and control, disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
Section 3 Prison People's Police
Article 19 Each prison shall have one warden and one political commissar, several deputy wardens, and shall set up necessary work institutions and equip other prison management personnel according to actual needs.
The management personnel of prisons are people's police. Prison people's police are an important part of the people's police.
The state shall reasonably determine the number of prison people's police according to the needs of managing prisons, executing penalties, and rehabilitating prisoners.
Article 20 Prison people's police shall be loyal to the Party, serve the people, enforce the law impartially, be strict in discipline, and strictly abide by the Constitution and laws.
The activities of prison people's police in managing prisons, executing penalties, and rehabilitating prisoners in accordance with the law shall be protected by law.
Article 21 The state shall promote the construction of a high-quality prison people's police force. Prison people's police shall be trained in a planned manner. Relevant departments shall strengthen the management, supervision, training, and occupational security of prison people's police.
Article 22 Prison people's police shall perform the following duties in accordance with the law:
(1) Admitting and releasing prisoners;
(2) Maintaining supervision order and security;
(3) Supervising and educating prisoners, and managing prisoners' lives and hygiene;
(4) Assessing, rewarding, and punishing prisoners' rehabilitation performance;
(5) Proposing suggestions for handling temporary execution outside prison, commutation, and parole;
(6) Handling prisoners' appeals, accusations, and reports;
(7) Preventing, stopping, and investigating criminal activities of prisoners in prisons;
(8) Escorting prisoners;
(9) Other duties prescribed by law.
Article 23 Prison people's police shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Releasing prisoners privately or neglecting their duties, causing prisoners to escape;
(2) Extorting confessions by torture or physically punishing or abusing prisoners;
(3) Beating, instructing, or condoning others to beat prisoners;
(4) Insulting the personal dignity of prisoners;
(5) Using prisoners to seek personal gain;
(6) Soliciting, accepting, or encroaching on the property of prisoners and their relatives;
(7) Transmitting letters, information, or items for prisoners in violation of regulations;
(8) Handling prisoners' assessments, rewards, and punishments in violation of regulations;
(9) Handling changes in the place of execution of prisoners' penalties in violation of regulations;
(10) Proposing suggestions for handling temporary execution outside prison, commutation, and parole in violation of regulations;
(11) Using police equipment and weapons in violation of regulations;
(12) Delegating the power to supervise prisoners to others in violation of regulations;
(13) Disclosing state secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned in the course of their work;
(14) Other acts in violation of regulations.
Article 24 The judicial administration department shall establish a police supervision system to supervise the implementation of laws and regulations and compliance with discipline by prison people's police.
If prison people's police cause damage to the legitimate rights and interests of citizens or organizations in the course of performing their duties, the prison shall provide compensation and compensation in accordance with the provisions of the "State Compensation Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant laws and regulations.
Article 25 Prisons and their superior organs shall maintain the acts of prison people's police in performing their duties in accordance with the law.
The professional dignity and personal safety of prison people's police shall be protected by law. No unit or individual may retaliate against prison people's police and their close relatives. Those who retaliate, frame, insult, slander, violently infringe, threaten, intimidate, or create disturbances against prison people's police and their close relatives shall be punished in accordance with the law.
If prison people's police suffer false reports, false accusations, insults, or slanders due to the performance of their duties in accordance with the law, resulting in damage to their reputation, the prison and its superior organs shall, together with relevant departments, clarify the facts in a timely manner, eliminate adverse effects, and pursue the responsibilities of relevant units and individuals in accordance with the law.
Section 4 Rights and Obligations of Prisoners Serving Sentences in Prisons
Article 26 Prisons shall ensure that the rights enjoyed by prisoners in accordance with the law during their imprisonment are not violated.
The personal dignity of prisoners shall not be violated, and their personal safety, legal property, and rights to defense, appeal, accusation, report, and other rights that have not been deprived or restricted in accordance with the law shall not be violated.
Article 27 Prisons shall protect the life and health of prisoners in accordance with the law, and shall provide treatment in accordance with regulations if prisoners are found to be ill.
Article 28 Prisoners must strictly abide by laws, regulations, and prison rules and regulations, obey management, and accept education.
Prisoners who have the ability to work shall participate in labor.
Article 29 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall inform him of the rights he enjoys in accordance with the law and the obligations he must perform.
Article 30 If a prisoner applies for legal aid in accordance with the law, the prison shall promptly transfer the application to the legal aid agency in accordance with regulations.
Chapter III Execution of Penalties
Section 1 Admission to Prison
Article 31 Prisons shall execute penalties on prisoners in accordance with the effective judgments, rulings, and decisions of the people's courts.
The people's court shall, within ten days after the judgment or ruling becomes effective, send the duplicate of the indictment of the people's procuratorate or the copy of the complaint of the private prosecution case, the judgment, the ruling, the execution notice, and the case closing registration form to the public security organ. If there are property-related judgments in the effective judgment, the materials on the actual execution of the property-related judgments shall be sent together. The public security organ shall send the prisoner to the prison for execution of the penalty within one month from the date of receipt of the above materials. For prisoners who have not been detained at the time of delivery for execution, the public security organ shall first detain or pursue the prisoner in accordance with the law.
If the remaining sentence of a prisoner is less than three months before being delivered for execution of the penalty, the detention center shall execute it on its behalf.
Article 32 When a prisoner is delivered for execution of a penalty, the public security organ shall send the following legal documents to the prison at the same time:
(1) A duplicate of the indictment of the people's procuratorate or a copy of the complaint of the private prosecution case;
(2) The judgment, ruling, execution notice, and case closing registration form of the people's court.
If a prisoner's suspended sentence or parole is revoked or a decision is made to admit him to prison for execution, the public security organ shall also send the people's court's ruling on revoking the suspended sentence, the ruling on revoking parole, and the decision on admitting him to prison for execution to the prison.
If the prison does not receive the above documents, it shall not admit the prisoner; if the above documents are incomplete or contain errors, the people's court that made the effective judgment shall promptly supplement them or make corrections; if the delivery of the prisoner does not match the legal documents, the penalty is incorrectly recorded, or other reasons may lead to erroneous admission to prison, the prisoner shall not be admitted to prison. If the prison does not admit the prisoner, it shall issue a written explanation and send a copy to the people's procuratorate. If the people's procuratorate believes that the reason is not valid and issues a written opinion to the prison, the prison shall admit the prisoner.
If a prisoner is delivered for execution of a penalty, meets the provisions of the first and second paragraphs, or the people's court that made the effective judgment promptly supplements the relevant documents or makes corrections, he shall be admitted to prison.
Article 33 When a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall strictly inspect his person and the items he carries. Contraband shall be confiscated in accordance with the law; other items shall be transferred to his close relatives or guardians with the consent of the prisoner. If the prisoner does not agree to the transfer or cannot be transferred, the prison shall keep them in custody on his behalf.
Female prisoners shall be inspected by female people's police.
Article 34 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall conduct a physical examination on him. If any injury or serious illness is found, the prison shall inquire about the situation and keep a record. After examination, if there is a situation where temporary execution outside prison is possible, the prison may submit a written suggestion and report it to the prison management organ of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for approval.
Article 35 Prisons shall establish prisoner files and do a good job in collecting, archiving, and safely keeping relevant materials.
If a prisoner is detained in a detention center before being admitted to prison, the public security organ shall send the prisoner's detention performance, health records, and other relevant materials in the detention center to the prison when delivering the prisoner; for prisoners who have not been detained before being delivered, the health examination and other relevant materials shall be sent to the prison.
Article 36 Prisoners who should be delivered to the prison for execution of penalties by the state security organs in accordance with the law shall be delivered to the prison by the state security organs in accordance with the provisions of Articles 31, 32, and 35 of this Law concerning public security organs.
Article 37 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall notify the prisoner's family members or guardians. If the prisoner has no family members or guardians or cannot notify his family members or guardians, the prison shall notify the residents committee or villagers committee at the place of the prisoner's household registration or residence. The notice shall be sent within five working days from the date of admission to prison.
Article 38 Prisoners shall not bring their children to serve their sentences in prison.
Section 2 Handling of Prisoners' Appeals, Accusations, and Reports
Article 39 If a prisoner files an appeal against an effective judgment or ruling, the people's procuratorate or the people's court shall handle it within the prescribed time limit after receiving the appeal materials, and shall notify the prison and the prisoner of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
Article 40 If the accusations and reports filed by prisoners are handled by the prison, they shall be handled within three months; if they are transferred to the supervisory organ, the people's procuratorate, or the public security organ for handling, the supervisory organ, the people's procuratorate, or the public security organ shall handle them within the prescribed time limit after receiving the materials transferred by the prison, and shall notify the prison of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
If a prisoner files an accusation or report under his real name, the handling organ shall also notify the prisoner of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
Article 41 After receiving the appeal, accusation, or report materials from a prisoner, if the prison needs to transfer them to other organs for handling, it shall transfer them within five working days and shall not withhold them.
After the prison transfers the appeal, accusation, or report materials, it shall notify the prisoner within five working days. If there are special circumstances that require an extension, the extension time shall not exceed five working days.
After forwarding the materials for appeals, complaints, and reports, the prison shall notify the prisoner within five working days. If there are special circumstances requiring an extension, the extension shall not exceed five working days.
Article 42 If, during the execution of a sentence, the prison believes that there may be errors in the judgment, ruling, or decision, it shall submit the matter to the People's Procuratorate or the People's Court that made the effective judgment for handling. The People's Procuratorate or the People's Court that made the effective judgment shall notify the prison of the handling result within three months from the date of receiving the prison's written opinion. If the case is complicated or there are special circumstances requiring an extension, the extension shall not exceed three months.
Article 43 Prisons, People's Courts, and People's Procuratorates shall not regard a prisoner's lawful appeals, complaints, or reports as evidence of the prisoner's disobedience to management or lack of remorse.
Section 3 Temporary Execution Outside Prison
Article 44 A prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment who is serving his/her sentence in prison may be granted temporary execution outside prison if he/she meets the conditions for temporary execution outside prison stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》).
The prisoner himself/herself or his/her relatives or guardians may submit a written application to the prison for temporary execution outside prison. If the prison believes, based on the written application or the actual situation, that the prisoner needs temporary execution outside prison, it shall organize a medical diagnosis, pregnancy examination, or assessment of the prisoner's inability to care for himself/herself.
Article 45 Temporary execution outside prison shall be proposed by the prison in writing, submitted to the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for approval, and copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the prison administration authority.
A proposal for temporary execution outside prison shall be reviewed by the prison's Temporary Execution Outside Prison Review Committee. If, after review, the committee agrees to submit a request for temporary execution outside prison for the prisoner, it shall be publicized within the prison. The publicity period shall be three working days. If, during the publicity period, the prisoner raises objections to the publicized content, the prison's Temporary Execution Outside Prison Review Committee shall conduct a review. If there are no objections to the publicity or if the objections are found to be unfounded after review, the proposal for temporary execution outside prison shall be submitted after collective discussion and decision by the person in charge of the prison. If the prisoner's condition is serious and requires immediate temporary execution outside prison, the publicity may be waived, but a public announcement shall be made within the prison within three working days after the temporary execution outside prison.
The proposal for temporary execution outside prison shall be reviewed by the Temporary Execution Outside Prison Review Committee of the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. Difficult, complex, and major cases shall be decided by the person in charge of the prison administration authority through collective discussion.
Article 46 If the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government approves temporary execution outside prison, it shall deliver the decision on temporary execution outside prison to the prison and the community correction institution in the place of execution, and copy it to the People's Procuratorate at the same level, the People's Court that made the effective judgment, and the public security organ in the place of community correction execution.
If the People's Procuratorate believes that the application of temporary execution outside prison to the prisoner is inappropriate, it shall submit a written opinion to the prison administration authority that approved the temporary execution outside prison within one month from the date of receiving the decision on temporary execution outside prison. The prison administration authority that approved the temporary execution outside prison shall immediately re-examine the decision upon receiving the written opinion of the People's Procuratorate and make a decision within one month.
Article 47 Prisoners on temporary execution outside prison shall be subject to community correction in accordance with the law, which shall be the responsibility of the community correction institution. The original prison shall transfer the prisoner to the community correction institution within ten days from the date of receiving the decision on temporary execution outside prison, inform the institution of the prisoner's rehabilitation status, and promptly notify the People's Procuratorate of the prisoner's transfer.
Article 48 If a prisoner on temporary execution outside prison has any of the circumstances stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》) that warrant his/her return to prison, the community correction institution shall submit a proposal for return to prison to the prison administration authority in the place of execution or the original approving authority for temporary execution outside prison, and the prison administration authority shall make a decision in accordance with the law; if the term of imprisonment expires, the prison that originally held the prisoner or received the prisoner's file shall complete the procedures for release upon completion of the sentence in accordance with the law.
If a prisoner dies during the period of temporary execution outside prison, the community correction institution shall promptly notify the prison administration authority that originally approved the temporary execution outside prison.
The proposal for return to prison, the decision on return to prison, the certificate of release upon completion of sentence, and the death certificate shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate at the same time.
Section 4 Commutation and Parole
Article 49 A prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment who has shown genuine remorse or meritorious service during his/her imprisonment and meets the conditions for commutation stipulated by law may be granted a commutation based on the results of the prison's assessment; a commutation shall be granted if he/she has one of the following major meritorious performances:
(1) Preventing others from committing major criminal activities;
(2) Reporting major criminal activities inside or outside the prison, which have been verified to be true;
(3) Having inventions or major technological innovations;
(4) Sacrificing oneself to save others in daily production or life;
(5) Having outstanding performance in resisting natural disasters or eliminating major accidents;
(6) Making other significant contributions to the country and society.
Article 50 A prison's proposal for commutation or parole shall be reviewed by the prison's Commutation and Parole Review Committee. If, after review, the committee agrees to submit a request for commutation or parole for the prisoner, it shall be publicized within the prison. The publicity period shall be five working days. If, during the publicity period, the prisoner raises objections to the publicized content, the prison's Commutation and Parole Review Committee shall conduct a review. If there are no objections to the publicity or if the objections are found to be unfounded after review, the proposal for commutation or parole shall be submitted after collective discussion and decision by the person in charge of the prison.
If it is necessary to report to the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for review and approval in accordance with the provisions of Articles 51, 52, and 53 of this Law, it shall be reviewed by the Commutation and Parole Review Committee of the prison administration authority. Difficult, complex, and major cases shall be decided by the person in charge of the prison administration authority through collective discussion.
Article 51 A proposal for commutation of a fixed-term imprisonment shall be submitted by the prison to the intermediate People's Court (中级人民法院) in the place where the prison is located for a ruling; for commutation of a life imprisonment to a fixed-term imprisonment, the prison shall submit a proposal for commutation, which shall be submitted to the higher People's Court (高级人民法院) for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. The written proposal for commutation shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the People's Court.
The People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the written proposal for commutation; if the case is complicated or there are special circumstances, the period may be extended by one month. A copy of the ruling shall be sent to the People's Procuratorate at the same level.
Article 52 If a prisoner sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve meets the conditions stipulated by law for commutation to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment during the period of the death sentence reprieve, the prison where he/she is located shall promptly submit a proposal for commutation upon the expiration of the death sentence reprieve, which shall be submitted to the higher People's Court for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government.
Article 53 If a prisoner sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or commuted to fixed-term imprisonment meets the conditions for parole stipulated by law, the prison shall submit the matter to the intermediate People's Court in the place where the prison is located for a ruling; if a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or commuted to life imprisonment meets the conditions for parole stipulated by law, the prison shall submit a proposal for parole, which shall be submitted to the higher People's Court for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. The written proposal for parole shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the People's Court.
The People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the written proposal for parole; if the case is complicated or there are special circumstances, the period may be extended by one month. A copy of the ruling shall be sent to the People's Procuratorate at the same level.
Article 54 If the People's Court rules for parole, the prison shall grant parole on schedule and issue a parole certificate.
A prisoner who has been granted parole shall be subject to community correction in accordance with the law, which shall be the responsibility of the community correction institution. If a prisoner who has been granted parole violates laws, administrative regulations, or the regulations of the relevant departments of the State Council (国务院) on the supervision and management of parole during the parole test period, and has not yet constituted a new crime, the community correction institution shall submit a proposal to the People's Court to revoke the parole, and the People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the proposal to revoke the parole. If the People's Court rules to revoke the parole, the public security organ shall send the prisoner to the prison for imprisonment.
Article 55 When hearing cases of commutation and parole, the People's Court shall make a ruling on whether to grant commutation or parole. If the People's Court makes adjustments to the scope of commutation proposed by the prison or does not grant commutation or parole, it shall state the reasons in the ruling.
Article 56 A prisoner who does not meet the conditions for commutation or parole stipulated by law shall not be granted commutation or parole.
Before the People's Court makes a ruling on commutation or parole, if the prison discovers that there is an error in the proposal for commutation or parole, it shall submit a written application for withdrawal. With the permission of the People's Court, the proposal for commutation or parole shall be withdrawn, and the People's Procuratorate shall be notified in a timely manner.
If the People's Court discovers that an effective ruling on commutation or parole is indeed erroneous, it shall re-examine the case and make a ruling.
If the People's Procuratorate believes that the People's Court's ruling on commutation or parole is inappropriate, it shall submit a written opinion for correction to the People's Court within the period stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》). For cases in which the People's Procuratorate has submitted a written opinion for correction, the People's Court shall re-examine the case and make a ruling.
If, during the execution of a sentence, the prison believes that there is an error in an effective ruling on commutation or parole, it shall transfer the matter to the People's Procuratorate or the People's Court for handling.
Article 57 Prisons, People's Courts, and People's Procuratorates shall handle cases of commutation and parole for prisoners in a timely, fair, and impartial manner in accordance with the law, and give full play to the role of commutation and parole in the execution of sentences.
Section 5 Release and Resettlement and Assistance
Article 58 Before a prisoner's term of imprisonment expires or before he/she is granted parole, the prison shall provide him/her with a certain period of pre-release education to consolidate the results of education and rehabilitation, improve his/her ability to adapt to social life as soon as possible after release, and promote his/her smooth reintegration into society.
Article 59 When a prisoner's term of imprisonment expires or he/she is pardoned, the prison shall release him/her on schedule, issue a release certificate, and coordinate with the resettlement and assistance agency at the county level in the place of the prisoner's household registration or residence to ensure a smooth transition.
If a prisoner has been sentenced to deprivation of political rights, the prison shall notify the public security organ in the place of the prisoner's household registration or residence before the prisoner is released, and the public security organ shall execute the sentence.
After a prisoner is released, the public security organ shall register his/her household registration based on the release certificate.
Article 60 The people's government in the place of household registration or residence shall organize and carry out education and guidance for released prisoners, encourage and support them to start their own businesses and seek employment on their own, guide them to participate in social insurance, and promote their reintegration into society.
If a released prisoner has difficulties in life and meets the prescribed conditions, the people's government in the place of household registration or residence shall help him/her to settle down and provide assistance in accordance with the law.
Article 61 The state encourages, guides, and supports social forces to participate in the resettlement and assistance of released prisoners.
Article 62 Released prisoners shall enjoy equal rights with other citizens in accordance with the law and shall not be discriminated against in employment, education, and access to social security.
Chapter IV Prison Administration
Section 1 Separate Custody and Management
Article 63 Prisons shall implement separate custody and management for male and female prisoners, adult prisoners and juvenile prisoners.
Prisons shall implement separate custody, classified management, and graded treatment for prisoners based on the type of crime, type of punishment, age, term of imprisonment, degree of personal danger, rehabilitation performance, health status, and rehabilitation needs of the prisoners, and shall make timely adjustments based on changes in the prisoners' rehabilitation performance and other circumstances.
The prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government shall determine or adjust the prison in which a prisoner is held based on rehabilitation needs.
Article 64 The management of juvenile prisoners, female prisoners, elderly prisoners, sick prisoners, and disabled prisoners shall take into account their physiological and psychological characteristics.
Female prisoners shall be directly managed by female people's police officers.
Section 2 Use of Police Equipment and Weapons
Article 65 People's police officers in prisons may use restrictive police equipment in any of the following circumstances:
(1) Performing escort tasks such as medical treatment outside prison, special permission to leave prison, and transfer of prisoners;
(2) There are signs indicating that a prisoner may commit acts of riot and escape, make disturbances in the prison, or commit acts of assault, escape, self-injury, self-mutilation, or suicide, or it is necessary to prevent him/her from continuing to commit the above-mentioned acts;
(3) The prisoner seriously violates management regulations, disrupts the order of supervision, and it is necessary to take preventive measures.
If a prisoner commits acts of violence, makes disturbances in the prison, damages supervision and rehabilitation equipment and facilities, leaves the designated area without authorization, resists or obstructs the people's police officers of the prison from performing their duties in accordance with the law, or engages in other acts that disrupt the normal order of supervision, and the warning is ineffective, the people's police officers of the prison may use expulsive and restraining police equipment in accordance with regulations.
Article 66 If people's police officers of the prison and duty personnel of the People's Armed Police Force encounter an emergency situation in which a prisoner riots, escapes, resists arrest, commits assault, seizes weapons, or commits other violent acts, and the warning is ineffective, and the use of weapons is necessary to stop the prisoner, weapons may be used in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Personnel using weapons shall report the situation in a timely manner in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Article 67 People's police officers of the prison shall use police equipment and weapons only to the extent necessary to stop prisoners from committing the acts specified in Articles 65 and 66 of this Law; if the circumstances listed in Articles 65 and 66 of this Law disappear or it is discovered that the prisoner is not suitable for continued restraint and control, the use shall be stopped immediately. If the prisoner suffers physical injury, he/she shall be given timely medical treatment.
People's police officers of the prison shall record the use of police equipment and weapons in accordance with regulations.
Section 3 Communication and Visits
Article 68 Prisons shall protect the prisoner's right to communication in accordance with the law.
Prisoners may communicate with others during their imprisonment, but incoming and outgoing letters shall be subject to security checks. Letters suspected of endangering national security or criminal activities shall be detained and handled in accordance with the law.
Letters written by prisoners to the prison's superior authorities and state organs such as supervision and judicial organs shall not be inspected.
Article 69 During their imprisonment, prisoners may, in accordance with regulations, communicate and meet with relatives and guardians; if communication and meetings with other persons are conducive to the prisoner's rehabilitation, they may also communicate and meet with the approval of the prison.
Prisons shall reasonably arrange the number and duration of prisoners' communications and meetings based on the prisoner's rehabilitation needs and treatment level. Prisons may also increase the number of video meetings for prisoners in accordance with regulations.
Article 70 During their imprisonment, prisoners may meet with lawyers entrusted by themselves and their legal representatives or close relatives, or appointed by legal aid institutions. Prisoners shall not be monitored when meeting with their defense lawyers.
Lawyers in other cases who need to investigate and collect evidence from prisoners may meet with the prisoners.
Article 71 If there is any violation of regulations during communication or meetings, the people's police officers of the prison shall immediately stop it and give a warning. If the person refuses to listen to the advice or the circumstances are serious, the people's police officers of the prison shall terminate the communication or meeting.
Section 4 Life and Hygiene
Article 72 Prisons shall establish medical institutions and living and hygiene facilities, and establish a system for prisoners' life and hygiene.
Article 73 The living standards of prisoners shall be calculated based on the quantity of goods, which shall be stipulated by the state.
Article 74 Prisoners' clothing and necessary daily necessities shall be uniformly distributed by the prison.
Article 75 Prisoners' receipt of articles and money shall be subject to the approval and inspection of the prison.
Article 76 Special living habits of prisoners related to specific customs shall be taken care of according to the actual situation.
Article 77 The prison cells where prisoners live shall meet the requirements of being solid, ventilated, well-lit, clean, warm, and heat-resistant.
Article 78 When weather conditions permit, prisons shall ensure that prisoners have appropriate outdoor activity time every day.
Article 79. The state guarantees basic medical care for prisoners. The drug list, medical service item list, and medical consumable list for basic medical care for prisoners shall be implemented with reference to the relevant provisions of local basic medical insurance.
Disease prevention and control in prisons and medical and health work for prisoners shall be included in the regional plans where the prisons are located.
Article 80. During the imprisonment of prisoners, issues related to their continuation of social insurance before imprisonment and after release upon completion of their sentence shall be handled in accordance with relevant state regulations, and prisons and relevant departments shall provide assistance. Specific measures shall be formulated by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the human resources and social security, medical security, and other departments.
Article 81. If a prisoner dies while serving his sentence in prison, the prison shall immediately notify the prisoner's close relatives or guardians and immediately notify the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院).
After receiving the notification, the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall immediately go to the scene to supervise the prison's investigation into the cause of death. If the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) has no objection to the prison's investigation results, it shall notify the prison; if it has doubts about the investigation results, it may entrust a judicial appraisal institution to make an appraisal of the cause of death. If the prisoner's close relatives or guardians have doubts about the prison's investigation results, they may raise them to the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院), which shall handle them in accordance with the law.
In the event of an unnatural death of a prisoner, the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall immediately conduct an examination and entrust a judicial appraisal institution to make an appraisal of the cause of death.
After the cause of death of a prisoner is determined, the prison shall handle the prisoner's body and belongings in accordance with relevant regulations.
Section 5 Rewards and Punishments
Article 82. Prisons shall establish a daily assessment system for prisoners in accordance with relevant regulations, and the assessment results shall be used as the basis for rewarding and punishing prisoners.
If a prisoner has any objection to the assessment results, he may raise it to the prison, which shall handle it in a timely manner.
The prison's assessment of prisoners shall be subject to the supervision of the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) in accordance with the law.
Article 83. If a prisoner has any of the following circumstances, the prison may give commendation, material rewards, or record a merit:
(1) Abiding by prison rules and regulations, studying hard, actively working, and showing repentance and submission to the law;
(2) Reporting, exposing, or preventing illegal and criminal activities inside and outside the prison, or providing clues for solving cases, which have been verified;
(3) Assisting supervisory organs and judicial organs in arresting persons under investigation and criminal suspects;
(4) Over-fulfilling labor tasks;
(5) Saving raw materials or taking good care of public property, with achievements;
(6) Carrying out technological innovation or imparting labor skills, with certain results;
(7) Making certain contributions in preventing or eliminating disasters and accidents;
(8) Making other contributions to the country and society.
Article 84. If a prisoner has any of the following circumstances that disrupt the order of supervision, the prison may give a warning, record a demerit, or impose confinement:
(1) Gathering crowds to make noise in the prison and disrupting the normal order of supervision;
(2) Threatening, insulting, attacking, or beating prison people's police or other personnel;
(3) Bullying other prisoners;
(4) Stealing, gambling, fighting, or provoking trouble;
(5) Having the ability to work but refusing to participate in labor or being passive and lazy, and refusing to mend one's ways after education;
(6) Deliberately violating operating procedures in labor, or intentionally damaging labor tools and other labor materials;
(7) Resisting reform by means of self-injury, self-mutilation, suicide, fasting, etc.;
(8) Deliberately damaging prison equipment and facilities;
(9) Transmitting, using, privately possessing, or manufacturing contraband;
(10) Unauthorized crossing of the warning line or leaving the designated area;
(11) Organizing other prisoners to disrupt the order of supervision;
(12) Other acts that disrupt the order of supervision.
The term of confinement for prisoners shall be no more than 15 days.
If a prisoner commits a crime as listed in this article, he shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law.
Section 6 Home Visits and Special Leave
Article 85. A prisoner sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or reduced to fixed-term imprisonment who has served more than one-half of the fixed-term imprisonment, has consistently performed well during imprisonment, and has no risk of re-offending after leaving the prison may be allowed by the prison to leave the prison for a home visit with his written commitment and family guarantee.
The prison shall reasonably set the number of times and time for prisoners to leave the prison for home visits according to the circumstances. If the prison allows a prisoner to leave the prison for a home visit, it shall promptly notify the public security organ at the place of the home visit, and the prisoner shall promptly report to the public security organ at the place of the home visit and voluntarily accept the supervision of the public security organ.
Article 86. If a prisoner sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or reduced to fixed-term imprisonment has a spouse, direct relative, or guardian who is critically ill or deceased, or if a major change occurs in the family and it is indeed necessary for him to leave the prison to deal with it, the prison may, upon his written application, specially allow him to leave the prison for a visit or to deal with it, escorted by the people's police of the prison.
Article 87. If supervisory organs, People's Courts (人民法院), People's Procuratorates (人民检察院), public security organs, and state security organs need to bring prisoners back for investigation, reconnaissance, prosecution, and trial due to case handling needs, they shall obtain the approval of the prison administration organ of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government.
Section 7 Handling of Crimes Committed by Prisoners During Imprisonment
Article 88. A prisoner who intentionally commits a crime during imprisonment shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the law.
Article 89. Cases in which prisoners are suspected of committing crimes in prison shall be investigated by the prison. After the investigation is completed, if the facts of the crime are clear and the evidence is reliable and sufficient, a prosecution opinion shall be issued, and the case file and evidence materials shall be transferred to the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) together.
Article 90. If a prison discovers that a prisoner in custody has escaped, it shall immediately capture him; if he cannot be captured immediately, it shall immediately notify the public security organ, which shall be responsible for the pursuit, and the prison shall closely cooperate.
Article 91. If a prison handles a case in which a prisoner in prison is suspected of committing a crime and needs relevant criminal technical support and takes investigation measures and criminal compulsory measures outside the prison, the public security organ and other relevant units shall provide assistance in accordance with the law.
Chapter V Education and Reform of Prisoners
Article 92. Prisons shall innovate methods of education and reform, and continuously promote the scientification, specialization, and socialization of education and reform work.
Prisons shall help prisoners reshape healthy personalities, become self-reliant and self-improving, repent and rehabilitate themselves, and cultivate prisoners' awareness of abiding by the law and their ability to reintegrate into society through education and reform.
Article 93. Education and reform of prisoners shall be carried out in accordance with the principles of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, classified education, and persuading people with reason, and adopting a combination of collective education and individual education, and a combination of prison education and social education.
Prisons shall formulate targeted reform plans based on the prisoner's type of crime, cause of crime, type of punishment, term of imprisonment, and degree of personal danger, combined with his age, health status, psychological characteristics, performance of repentance, etc., and regularly evaluate the reform effect, and make corresponding adjustments based on the evaluation situation and reform needs.
Article 94. Prisons shall conduct behavioral norms education for prisoners, urge them to abide by daily management systems, and develop good behavioral habits.
Article 95. Prisons shall conduct ideological education on the rule of law, morality, situation, policies, and future for prisoners, conduct patriotism, collectivism education, and education on outstanding traditional Chinese culture, guide prisoners to establish socialist core values, enhance their awareness of the rule of law, discipline, and morality, confess their guilt and submit to the law, and consciously accept reform.
Article 96. Prisons shall conduct psychological health education for prisoners, and provide psychological counseling, crisis intervention, and psychological correction as needed.
Article 97. Prisons shall conduct literacy education and compulsory education for prisoners according to different circumstances, and schools shall issue corresponding academic certificates to those who meet the academic requirements. Prisoners are encouraged to participate in vocational education and continuing education for academic qualifications, and relevant departments and units shall issue corresponding certificates to those who pass the examination.
Literacy education and compulsory education for prisoners shall be included in the educational plans of the areas where they are located.
Article 98. Prisons shall organize prisoners to participate in vocational skills training according to the needs of economic and social development and employment after the release of prisoners, and relevant departments and units shall issue corresponding certificates to those who pass the assessment.
Vocational skills training for prisoners shall be included in local plans.
Article 99. Prisons shall set up necessary educational facilities and activity places such as classrooms and library reading rooms, and equip them with necessary books, newspapers and magazines, and radio and television receiving equipment.
Prisons shall be equipped with necessary sports and cultural entertainment facilities, and organize prisoners to carry out appropriate sports activities and cultural entertainment activities.
Article 100. Prisons shall strengthen contacts and cooperation with relevant state organs, social organizations, troops, enterprises, institutions, and people from all walks of life to create conditions and provide assistance for educating and reforming prisoners and promoting the reintegration of released prisoners into society.
Relevant state organs, social organizations, troops, enterprises, institutions, people from all walks of life, and relatives of prisoners shall assist prisons in doing a good job in the education and reform of prisoners.
The state encourages and supports social workers, volunteers, and other social forces to participate in social assistance to prisoners, and provides policy support in accordance with the law.
Prisons may organize personnel with professional knowledge or practical experience in law, education, psychology, social work, etc., to carry out education and reform-related work according to the needs of educating and reforming prisoners.
Article 101. Prisons shall use their own facilities and conditions to cooperate with relevant parties in carrying out legal publicity and crime prevention education, and provide support and convenience for institutions of higher learning, research institutions, etc., to carry out theoretical research and talent cultivation on prisons and the execution of penalties.
Article 102. Prisons shall reasonably determine labor projects and tasks based on the prisoner's labor ability, physical health, and other personal circumstances and the needs of education and reform, so that they can correct bad habits, develop labor habits, learn labor skills, and create conditions for employment after release.
Article 103. The working hours of prisoners in prisons shall be implemented with reference to the relevant state regulations on working hours.
Prisoners have the right to rest on statutory holidays and rest days, and their rest time shall be guaranteed. If it is occupied due to special circumstances, compensatory rest shall be arranged.
Article 104. Prisons shall pay remuneration to prisoners participating in labor in accordance with relevant regulations and implement relevant state regulations on labor protection.
Article 105. If a prisoner is injured, disabled, or dies in labor, the prison shall handle it in accordance with relevant regulations, and specific regulations shall be formulated by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the finance, human resources, and social security departments.
Chapter VI Special Provisions for Juvenile Delinquents
Article 106. Juvenile delinquents shall serve their sentences in juvenile delinquent reformatories.
Article 107. When a juvenile delinquent reaches the age of 18, if the remaining term of imprisonment does not exceed two years, he may still remain in the juvenile delinquent reformatory to serve the remaining term of imprisonment.
Article 108. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall protect the legitimate rights and interests of juvenile delinquents in accordance with the law, respect the personal dignity of juvenile delinquents, and create a reform environment that is conducive to the physical and mental health and positive progress of juvenile delinquents.
Article 109. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall be equipped with people's police who have relevant professional backgrounds in law, education, psychology, etc., have undergone special training, and are familiar with the physical and mental characteristics of minors.
Article 110. The execution of penalties for juvenile delinquents shall implement the policy of education, persuasion, and salvation, with education and reform as the main focus. The labor of juvenile delinquents shall conform to the characteristics of minors, with learning culture and labor skills as the main focus.
Article 111. The conditions for communication, visits, home visits, and special leave for juvenile delinquents may be appropriately relaxed compared with adult prisoners.
Article 112. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall establish psychological correction institutions, conduct psychological tests on juvenile delinquents, and regularly carry out psychological counseling and other activities according to the psychological characteristics of juvenile delinquents to promote their physical and mental health development.
Article 113. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall cooperate with schools and other educational institutions to provide necessary conditions for juvenile delinquents to receive compulsory education and other education.
When a juvenile delinquent is released upon completion of his sentence, the juvenile delinquent reformatory shall assist the education administrative department at his place of household registration or residence in doing a good job in connecting educational files, student status, etc.
Article 114. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall strengthen contacts with the guardians, family members, and other personnel who are conducive to the education and reform of juvenile delinquents, and guide them to work together to do a good job in the education and reform of juvenile delinquents.
Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall strengthen mutual contact with juvenile protection organizations, educational institutions, the Communist Youth League (共产主义青年团), women's federations, trade unions, and other relevant units, and jointly do a good job in the education and reform of juvenile delinquents.
Article 115. Prisons shall seal up the criminal records and related case information of juvenile delinquents who meet the sealing conditions in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and shall not provide the criminal records and related case information of juvenile delinquents to any unit or individual except for judicial organs for case handling needs or relevant units for inquiries in accordance with state regulations.
Article 116. The relevant provisions of this Law shall apply to the management, education, and reform of juvenile delinquents if this chapter does not provide otherwise.
Chapter VII Legal Liability
Article 117. If a people's police officer of a prison has any of the acts listed in Article 23 of this Law, he shall be given a sanction in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, he shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law.
If other state organ personnel fail to perform their relevant duties or obligations in accordance with the provisions of this Law, they shall be held legally liable in accordance with the law.
In pursuing liability in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the facts, nature, harmful consequences, and subjective fault of the actor shall be comprehensively considered, and handled in accordance with the law.
Article 118. If a unit or individual has any of the following acts, which constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall give a public security administration penalty in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, it shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law:
(1) Disrupting the order of supervision;
(2) Gathering crowds to besiege and attack prisons;
(3) Obstructing the people's police of prisons from performing their duties in accordance with the law;
(4) Colluding with prisoners to destroy or forge evidence, affecting the lawful execution of penalties by prisons;
(5) Stealing, robbing, looting, encroaching on, or intentionally damaging prison property, facilities, land, and other resources;
(6) Violating the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 17 of this Law;
(7) Other acts that seriously affect prison order.
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Article 119. Prisons shall protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign prisoners and ensure that they are treated fairly and justly in criminal enforcement activities.
Relevant matters concerning visits to foreign prisoners shall be handled in accordance with relevant state regulations.
The transfer of prisoners shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the "International Criminal Judicial Assistance Law of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国国际刑事司法协助法) and other laws.
Article 120. The terms "above," "below," and "within" in this Law include the number itself.
Article 121. This Law shall come into force on November 1, 2026.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), April 30)
Return to TopIn the garden of Chinese opera, rare opera genres, though not well-known to most, carry the genetic code of opera art and the vivid memory of regional cultures. The "Three-Year Action Plan for the Revitalization of Drama (2026-2028)" jointly issued by the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部) of the Communist Party of China and five other departments, pointed out that "efforts should be increased to cultivate talents in rare and endangered opera genres" and "support should be given to weak opera genres to restore and reorganize traditional repertoires." As a supported genre of the "Rare Opera Genre Protection and Inheritance Project" of the Chinese Dramatists Association, Fujian Shaowu Triangle Opera (福建邵武三角戏), Henan Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera (河南邓州罗卷戏), and others have achieved revival and performances, allowing audiences to experience the profound significance of the protection and inheritance of rare opera genres in the interweaving of simplicity and novelty, and the ancient yet vivid viewing experience.
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Fujian Shaowu Triangle Opera Establishes a Performance Talent Echelon
Ancient Rhymes and Rare Sounds Usher in the Voice of Youth
Our Reporter Shi Yu (施钰)
Gucheng Road (古城路), Shaowu City (邵武市), Fujian Province (福建省), the small park is crowded with audiences - actors from the Shaowu City Triangle Opera (Nuowu) Folk Culture Research Center (邵武市三角戏（傩舞）民俗文化研究中心) (hereinafter referred to as "Folk Research Center (民研中心)") are carrying out public welfare performances for the benefit of the people.
Accompanied by the rhythm of gongs and drums, He Zhixuan (何志璇) made her debut with small steps, performing the traditional repertoire "Hiring a Farmhand" (《雇长工》), which tells the story of Xiuying (秀英), the daughter of a landlord, breaking through obstacles and marrying a farmhand. "This is the Triangle Opera (三角戏) I watched when I was a child." The audience praised the singing and dialogue with charm.
Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and most of the performances only have three roles: male, female, and clown, and the stage scheduling is triangular, hence the name. Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) integrates Huangmei Opera (黄梅戏), Shaowu folk songs (邵武民歌), etc. The performance style is unique, and the writing is humorous. Because the themes are mostly family stories in daily life, it is also known as "family opera".
He Zhixuan (何志璇) used to be a dancer. She started learning opera at the age of 21 and has been doing it for 11 years. "Before that, I had never sung opera, nor could I speak dialogue." It was not easy to learn opera across fields. He Zhixuan (何志璇) specially asked experienced actors to record the singing and dialogue, and listened and practiced word by word whenever she had free time. "Some audiences always say that she can't sing the taste in their memory." He Zhixuan (何志璇) once felt confused.
"For a long time, Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) has not systematically trained actors." Huang Wenjuan (黄文娟), director of the Folk Research Center (民研中心), introduced that the team has undergone many name changes and functional changes, and has been adjusted to Shaowu Cultural Troupe (邵武文工团), Shaowu Art Troupe (邵武艺术团), etc. The inheritance of Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) has also encountered a "break" crisis. Most of the actors are amateurs. "We try our best to restore the traditional scripts and tunes, but it just doesn't taste right when we perform."
In 2024, the Chinese Dramatists Association (中国戏剧家协会) launched the "Rare Opera Genre Protection and Inheritance Project", and Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) became the first opera genre in Fujian Province (福建省) to receive support from the project.
With the support, the Folk Research Center (民研中心) found the old artists of the original Shaowu Triangle Opera Troupe (邵武三角戏剧团), deeply explored traditional singing, tunes, accompaniment and stage routines, and revived representative traditional repertoires such as "Going to Nanjing" (《下南京》), "Sisters-in-law Watching Lanterns" (《姑嫂观灯》), "Hiring a Farmhand" (《雇长工》), and "Fortune Telling" (《看相》). At the same time, they visited old artists and left video recordings.
The visit and recording provide favorable conditions for the original protection and inheritance of Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏). "In addition to leaving records of singing, scores, and dialogue, the old artists also added more delicate life details to our performances." He Zhixuan (何志璇) recalled that when she performed the scene of the farmhand weeding in "Hiring a Farmhand" (《雇长工》), the old artist designed the action of shaking and arranging the forage for Xiuying (秀英), who was originally watching from the sidelines. "The breath of life in labor, the tacit understanding between the characters, and the progression of emotions came out all at once."
"Old opera genres are rejuvenated, and young people are indispensable." Huang Wenjuan (黄文娟) said that the Folk Research Center (民研中心) has established a triangle opera performance talent echelon and opened inheritance classes in primary and secondary schools.
Talking about the future of Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏), He Zhixuan (何志璇) is full of expectations. She not only wants to perform the role well and spread Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏), but also hopes that more young people will understand and love Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏), so that the ancient rhymes and rare sounds will usher in the voice of youth.
Henan Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera Creates New Theme Modern Drama
Ancient Opera Tunes Take Root in Fertile Countryside
Our Reporter Zhu Peixian (朱佩娴)
"Be the first to worry about the world's worries, and the last to enjoy the world's happiness..." When talking to reporters about the newly compiled historical drama "Fan Zhongyan Refuses Wine" (《范仲淹拒酒》), Wang Honglei (王红雷), head of the Henan Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera Troupe (河南邓州罗卷戏剧团), sang impromptu. Recalling the previous performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院), he was still very excited: "The performance at the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) is a result display of the 'Rare Opera Genre Protection and Inheritance Project', bringing together many rare opera genres."
In addition to serving as the head of the troupe, Wang Honglei (王红雷) is also the village party secretary of Kongzhuang Village (孔庄村), Sangzhuang Town (桑庄镇), Dengzhou City (邓州市). "We are a farmer troupe. When we are free from farming, we get together to talk about opera." Wang Honglei (王红雷) said.
Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) originated in the Song and Yuan Dynasties and was introduced to Dengzhou (邓州) in the Qing Dynasty. In 1925, the Luo Juan Opera Troupe (罗卷戏剧团) was established in Kongzhuang Village (孔庄村) and has continued to this day.
For a period of time, with the death of old artists, a large number of Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) traditional repertoires and unique singing styles faced extinction. "**看在眼里、急在心里！**" (kàn zài yǎn lǐ, jí zài xīn lǐ - "see in eyes, anxious in heart," to be anxious about something). An old opera fan in Kongzhuang Village (孔庄村) said.
In 2014, Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) was included in the extended project list of the national intangible cultural heritage representative project list. The Dengzhou Municipal Party Committee (邓州市委) and Municipal Government (市政府) proposed to protect Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) as the top priority of cultural and tourism work, creating a living environment and development space for it. Since then, relevant departments have allocated special funds for the excavation and sorting of traditional repertoires, the training of inheritors, and the improvement of the basic conditions of the troupe. The troupe's performances, repertoire creation, and personnel training have also received financial subsidies.
The Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera Troupe (邓州罗卷戏剧团) currently has 35 staff members, including 1 national representative inheritor and 5 Dengzhou municipal representative inheritors; the troupe also hired 5 retired opera experts to conduct regular training and guidance. "The annual special performance fund of 200,000 yuan is mostly used for the troupe's transportation, props, and personnel subsidies for performances in rural areas." Wang Honglei (王红雷) said that with the support of "bridging", the troupe's performance level has been greatly improved.
"The rescue and protection of Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) is not only cultural awareness, but also a responsibility. But protection is not conservatism, but also inheritance and innovation, so that the old opera tunes can keep up with the times." The person in charge of the Dengzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (邓州市文广旅局) introduced that the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism (邓州市文广旅局) guides the troupe to "walk on two legs": on the one hand, to protect the traditional charm of Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) in its original flavor, and on the other hand, to encourage the troupe to respond to the needs of audiences of different ages and explore the innovative expression of opera art.
In recent years, the troupe has created and performed newly compiled historical dramas such as "Fan Zhongyan Refuses Wine" (《范仲淹拒酒》), as well as modern dramas such as "Li Youming Gets Rid of Poverty" (《李有命脱贫》). "These new theme modern dramas not only retain the unique singing and performance styles of Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏), but also integrate the value pursuits of contemporary society and local cultural elements, so that young audiences can understand and resonate." Wang Honglei (王红雷) said. The troupe also carries out activities such as "Intangible Cultural Heritage Enters Schools, Enters Villages, and Enters Communities", performing no less than 80 performances every year, covering all towns in the city. Driven by repertoire performances, cultural festivals and other activities, Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) not only has fertile soil for growth, but also has a display platform, allowing more people to approach Luo Juan Opera (罗卷戏) and immerse themselves in the opera tunes.
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Audiences with passion, continuous inheritance, and content close to the times—these are important reasons why opera can take root in the long river of history and grow in local culture. With social changes, some dramas have fallen into difficulties such as the loss of tradition, the disconnection of inheritance, and the difficulty of dissemination, becoming smaller and less vocal genres. How to find more appreciative audiences?
Inside and outside the play, behind the scenes, cultivate fertile soil for growth. Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏) in Fujian (福建) seeks out veteran artists and builds a talent team, so that the original flavor has a youthful inheritance; Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera (邓州罗卷戏) in Henan (河南), with the support of the local government, restores old plays and creates new plays, arousing resonance among opera fans.
Provide accurate supply and expand the stage to amplify the voice of communication. Relying on policy support, operas that are good at local culture have returned to the countryside, and good plays have been sent to the fields; Shaowu Triangle Opera (邵武三角戏), Dengzhou Luo Juan Opera (邓州罗卷戏), and other operas are frequently performed, and Zizhong Puppet Show (资中木偶戏) in Sichuan (四川) has successfully gone overseas, and rare genres have "attracted" audiences in a wider world.
Cherish "rarity" and guard the roots. Looking forward to a garden full of spring, happy to hear the fragrance of rare flowers in the art garden.
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"Guess How Much I Love You." "Oh, I probably can't guess. I love you this much..." As they recited this, the children on stage smiled and stretched their arms wide.
This scene occurred during the first "National Reading Week" at the "This有书 (zhè yǒu shū)" cultural space in Changchun (长春), Jilin (吉林), during the "Literature Enriches Every Home" reading promotion activity organized by the Jilin Provincial Writers Association (吉林省作家协会). Host Jing Yan (静言) led the children onto the stage to recite excerpts from classic fairy tales. "Your voices are so beautiful, and these words are especially beautiful, aren't they?" After the performance, Jing Yan (静言) said to the children, "In this activity, we use our voices to express the beauty of literature."
During the event, Jilin (吉林) poet Zhang Muyu (张牧宇) recited her own works, saying, "Poetry is 'the hand that does housework' and also 'the swelling buds on poplar branches'; poetry is all around us." The guests also invited the audience to recite classic poems together to feel the patriotic sentiments.
In addition to recitations, the event also invited writers to recommend books. "There are so many good books, it's not easy to make choices." Hao Xufang (郝蓄芳), a member of the Party Group and Secretary-General of the Jilin Provincial Writers Association (吉林省作家协会), said that in the early stages of the event's preparation, the association repeatedly discussed with the sharing guests to determine good books suitable for reading promotion. For children, classic fairy tales should be recommended, and well-translated versions that are widely circulated should be selected to avoid roughly adapted versions. For young people, contemporary documentary works and classic literary works are recommended.
After the event ended, many audience members voluntarily stayed to communicate. "It is meaningful to let more people understand and fall in love with literature and recitation." Wu Xu (吴旭), a student at Changchun Normal University (长春师范大学), recited the modern poem "You Are the April of This World" at the event. He said, "I 'planted grass' for several good books and plan to go back and read them slowly."
This event was jointly organized by the Jilin Provincial Writers Association (吉林省作协) and the writers associations of various cities and prefectures in the province. During the event, various activities such as literary lectures, literature entering campuses, writer's work sharing sessions, themed essay competitions, and recitations were held simultaneously. "In the future, we will continue to hold reading promotion activities to empower national reading with the charm of literature and allow more people to enjoy the beauty of reading," said Hao Xufang (郝蓄芳).
Bao Honglie (包宏烈), Director of the Social Liaison Department of the Chinese Writers Association (中国作协), introduced that under the advocacy of the Chinese Writers Association (中国作协), writers associations of various provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities, industry writers associations and their affiliated units, and literary societies under their jurisdiction, with the theme of "Literature Enriches Every Home," are carrying out diverse reading promotion and exchange activities based on reading throughout the country, promoting high-quality literary resources directly to the grassroots, and creating a strong atmosphere of loving to read, reading good books, and being good at reading.
Return to TopPresidential Decree of the People's Republic of China
No. 74
The "Prison Law of the People's Republic of China" was revised and adopted at the 22nd meeting of the Standing Committee of the 14th National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China on April 30, 2026, and is hereby promulgated and shall come into force on November 1, 2026.
President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping (习近平)
April 30, 2026
Contents
Chapter I General Provisions
Chapter II Prisons
Section 1 Establishment and Guarantee of Prisons
Section 2 Security Alert of Prisons
Section 3 Prison People's Police
Section 4 Rights and Obligations of Prisoners Serving Sentences in Prisons
Chapter III Execution of Penalties
Section 1 Admission to Prison
Section 2 Handling of Prisoners' Appeals, Accusations, and Reports
Section 3 Temporary Execution Outside Prison
Section 4 Commutation and Parole
Section 5 Release and Resettlement Assistance
Chapter IV Prison Administration
Section 1 Separate Custody and Management
Section 2 Use of Police Equipment and Weapons
Section 3 Communication and Visits
Section 4 Life and Hygiene
Section 5 Rewards and Punishments
Section 6 Home Visits and Special Permission to Leave Prison
Section 7 Handling of Crimes Committed by Prisoners During Their Sentence
Chapter V Education and Rehabilitation of Prisoners
Chapter VI Special Provisions for Juvenile Delinquents
Chapter VII Legal Responsibility
Chapter VIII Supplementary Provisions
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 This Law is enacted in accordance with the Constitution to regulate and ensure the correct execution of penalties by prisons, to punish and rehabilitate criminals in accordance with the law, to prevent and reduce crime, and to promote the construction of a higher level of Safe China and Rule of Law China.
Article 2 A prison is a state organ for the execution of penalties.
In accordance with the provisions of the "Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China" and the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China," criminals sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, life imprisonment, or fixed-term imprisonment shall serve their sentences in prison.
Article 3 Prison work shall adhere to the leadership of the Communist Party of China, adhere to the overall national security concept, and establish a fair, rule-of-law, civilized, honest, and efficient prison penalty execution system.
Article 4 Prison work shall adhere to the combination of punishment and rehabilitation, the combination of education and labor, with the purpose of rehabilitating people, adhere to the rule of law, respect and protect human rights, transform criminals into law-abiding citizens, and promote their reintegration into society.
Article 5 The judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) shall be in charge of prison work nationwide.
The judicial administration departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government shall be in charge of prison work in their respective jurisdictions. Prison management organs shall be managed by the judicial administration departments of the people's governments of provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government, and shall be responsible for the specific management of prisons in their respective jurisdictions.
Article 6 The People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall, in accordance with the law, supervise the activities of prisons in executing penalties.
Article 7 The state guarantees the construction and operation of prisons, and prison funds shall be included in the budget in accordance with regulations.
The state provides the necessary facilities and funds for prisoners' labor and provides conditions for prisoners' rehabilitation activities.
Article 8 Prisons shall implement openness in prison affairs, and shall, in accordance with the law, promptly and accurately disclose the legal basis, procedures, and results of the execution of penalties, and shall voluntarily accept supervision. Information involving state secrets, personal privacy, and information that may endanger national security, social stability, and prison order after disclosure shall not be disclosed.
Article 9 The state encourages and supports theoretical research and talent cultivation in prisons and penalty execution, and provides theoretical support and talent guarantee for the high-quality development of prison work.
The state encourages and supports international exchanges in the fields of crime prevention and penalty execution, and enhances judicial mutual trust and cooperation.
Article 10 Units and individuals who have made outstanding contributions to prison work shall be commended and rewarded in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Chapter II Prisons
Section 1 Establishment and Guarantee of Prisons
Article 11 The establishment, revocation, and relocation of prisons shall be approved by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院).
Article 12 Prison construction shall be based on the needs of prisoner rehabilitation work, in accordance with relevant state regulations, adhere to overall planning and reasonable layout, and achieve complete functions and moderate scale.
Male prisons, female prisons, and juvenile offender re-education centers shall be established according to the gender and age of the prisoners. Different security level prisons and prison areas shall be set up according to the type of crime, sentence length, and degree of personal danger of the prisoners. Different functional types of prison areas shall be set up according to the health status and rehabilitation needs of the prisoners.
Article 13 The land, mineral resources, and other natural resources used by prisons in accordance with the law, as well as the property of prisons, shall be protected by law, and no organization or individual may encroach upon or damage them.
Article 14 Prisons shall strengthen information technology construction, use modern science and technology, and improve the level of prison management and the quality of prisoner rehabilitation work.
Section 2 Security Alert of Prisons
Article 15 The armed security of the periphery of prisons shall be the responsibility of the People's Armed Police Force (人民武装警察部队), and the specific scope of tasks shall be implemented in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Article 16 Prisons shall establish security facilities according to supervision needs. A security isolation zone shall be set up around the prison, and no one shall enter without permission.
Article 17 State organs, social organizations, enterprises, institutions, and grassroots organizations around prisons shall assist prisons in doing a good job in security alert work.
Without approval, no photography, video recording, audio recording, surveying, or other activities shall be carried out in prison security facilities and prisoner rehabilitation sites; no unmanned aerial vehicles or other flight activities shall be carried out in violation of regulations in the controlled airspace above prisons and surrounding areas within a certain range.
Article 18 Prison security shall be incorporated into the security work system of the local people's government. Prisons, the People's Armed Police Force (人民武装警察部队), public security organs, health and health, disease prevention and control, and emergency management and other relevant units shall be responsible for their respective duties and coordinate in the work of prison anti-terrorism and riot prevention, escorting prisoners, disease prevention and control, disaster prevention, mitigation and relief.
Section 3 Prison People's Police
Article 19 Each prison shall have one warden and one political commissar, several deputy wardens, and shall set up necessary working bodies and equip other prison management personnel according to actual needs.
The management personnel of prisons are people's police. Prison people's police are an important part of the people's police.
The state shall reasonably determine the number of prison people's police according to the needs of managing prisons, executing penalties, and rehabilitating prisoners.
Article 20 Prison people's police shall be loyal to the Party, serve the people, enforce the law impartially, be strict in discipline, and strictly abide by the Constitution and laws.
Prison people's police are protected by law in their activities of managing prisons, executing penalties, and rehabilitating prisoners in accordance with the law.
Article 21 The state promotes the construction of a high-quality prison people's police force. Prison people's police shall be trained in a planned manner. Relevant departments shall strengthen the management, supervision, training, and occupational security of prison people's police.
Article 22 Prison people's police shall perform the following duties in accordance with the law:
(1) Receiving and releasing prisoners;
(2) Maintaining supervision order and security;
(3) Supervising and educating prisoners, and managing prisoners' lives and hygiene;
(4) Assessing and rewarding or punishing prisoners' rehabilitation performance;
(5) Proposing suggestions for handling temporary execution outside prison, commutation, and parole;
(6) Handling prisoners' appeals, accusations, and reports;
(7) Preventing, stopping, and investigating criminal activities of prisoners in prisons;
(8) Escorting prisoners;
(9) Other duties prescribed by law.
Article 23 Prison people's police shall not engage in the following acts:
(1) Releasing prisoners privately or neglecting their duties, causing prisoners to escape;
(2) Extorting confessions by torture or physically punishing or abusing prisoners;
(3) Beating, instructing, or conniving others to beat prisoners;
(4) Insulting the personal dignity of prisoners;
(5) Using prisoners to seek personal gain;
(6) Soliciting, accepting, or encroaching upon the property of prisoners and their relatives;
(7) Transmitting letters, information, or items for prisoners in violation of regulations;
(8) Handling prisoners' assessment, rewards, and punishments in violation of regulations;
(9) Changing the place of execution of prisoners' penalties in violation of regulations;
(10) Proposing suggestions for handling temporary execution outside prison, commutation, and parole in violation of regulations;
(11) Using police equipment and weapons in violation of regulations;
(12) Entrusting others to exercise the power to supervise prisoners in violation of regulations;
(13) Disclosing state secrets, commercial secrets, personal privacy, and personal information learned in the course of their work;
(14) Other acts in violation of regulations.
Article 24 The judicial administration department shall establish a police supervision system to supervise the implementation of laws and regulations and compliance with discipline by prison people's police.
If prison people's police cause damage to the legitimate rights and interests of citizens or organizations in the course of performing their duties, the prison shall provide compensation and compensation in accordance with the provisions of the "State Compensation Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant laws and regulations.
Article 25 Prisons and their superior organs shall safeguard the acts of prison people's police in performing their duties in accordance with the law.
The professional dignity and personal safety of prison people's police are protected by law. No unit or individual may retaliate against prison people's police and their close relatives. Those who retaliate, frame, insult, slander, violently infringe upon, threaten, intimidate, or create disturbances against prison people's police and their close relatives shall be punished in accordance with the law.
If prison people's police suffer false reports, false accusations, insults, or slanders due to the performance of their duties in accordance with the law, resulting in damage to their reputation, the prison and its superior organs shall, in conjunction with relevant departments, clarify the facts in a timely manner, eliminate adverse effects, and pursue the responsibilities of relevant units and individuals in accordance with the law.
Section 4 Rights and Obligations of Prisoners Serving Sentences in Prisons
Article 26 Prisons shall ensure that the rights enjoyed by prisoners in accordance with the law during their sentence are not infringed upon.
The personal dignity of prisoners shall not be violated, and their personal safety, legitimate property, and rights to defense, appeal, accusation, report, and other rights that have not been legally deprived or restricted shall not be violated.
Article 27 Prisons shall protect the life and health of prisoners in accordance with the law, and shall provide treatment in accordance with regulations if prisoners are found to be ill.
Article 28 Prisoners must strictly abide by laws, regulations, and prison rules and regulations, obey management, and accept education.
Prisoners with labor capacity shall participate in labor.
Article 29 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall inform him of his rights and obligations in accordance with the law.
Article 30 If a prisoner applies for legal aid in accordance with the law, the prison shall promptly transfer the application to the legal aid agency in accordance with regulations.
Chapter III Execution of Penalties
Section 1 Admission to Prison
Article 31 Prisons shall execute penalties on prisoners in accordance with the effective judgments, rulings, and decisions of the people's courts.
The people's court shall, within ten days after the judgment or ruling becomes effective, send the duplicate of the indictment of the people's procuratorate or the copy of the complaint of the private prosecution case, the judgment, the ruling, the execution notice, and the case closing registration form to the public security organ, and if there are property-related judgments in the effective judgment, it shall also send the materials on the actual execution of the property-related judgments. The public security organ shall send the prisoner to the prison for execution of the penalty within one month from the date of receipt of the above materials. For prisoners who have not been detained at the time of delivery for execution, the public security organ shall first detain or pursue the prisoner in accordance with the law.
If the remaining sentence of a prisoner is less than three months before being delivered for execution of the penalty, the detention center shall execute it on its behalf.
Article 32 When a prisoner is delivered for execution of a penalty, the public security organ shall send the following legal documents to the prison at the same time:
(1) The duplicate of the indictment of the people's procuratorate or the copy of the complaint of the private prosecution case;
(2) The judgment, ruling, execution notice, and case closing registration form of the people's court.
If a prisoner's probation or parole is revoked or a decision is made to take him into custody for execution, the public security organ shall also send the people's court's ruling on revoking probation, the ruling on revoking parole, and the decision on taking him into custody for execution to the prison.
If the prison does not receive the above documents, it shall not take the prisoner into custody; if the above documents are incomplete or contain errors, the people's court that made the effective judgment shall promptly supplement or correct them; if the delivery of the prisoner does not match the legal documents, the penalty is incorrectly recorded, or other reasons may lead to erroneous admission to prison, the prisoner shall not be admitted to prison. If the prison does not admit the prisoner, it shall issue a written explanation and send a copy to the people's procuratorate. If the people's procuratorate believes that the reason is not valid and issues a written opinion to the prison, the prison shall admit the prisoner.
If a prisoner is delivered for execution of a penalty, meets the provisions of the first and second paragraphs, or the people's court that made the effective judgment promptly supplements the relevant documents or makes corrections, the prisoner shall be admitted to prison.
Article 33 When a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall strictly inspect his person and the items he carries. Contraband shall be confiscated in accordance with the law; other items shall be transferred to his close relatives or guardians with the consent of the prisoner, and if the prisoner does not agree to the transfer or cannot be transferred, the prison shall keep them in custody on his behalf.
Female prisoners shall be inspected by female people's police.
Article 34 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall conduct a physical examination on him, and if he is found to have physical disabilities or serious illnesses, it shall inquire about the situation and keep records. After examination, if there are circumstances for temporary execution outside prison, the prison may submit a written suggestion, which shall be submitted to the prison management organ of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for approval.
Article 35 Prisons shall establish prisoner files and do a good job in collecting, archiving, and safely keeping relevant materials.
If a prisoner is detained in a detention center before being admitted to prison, the public security organ shall send the prisoner's detention performance, health records, and other relevant materials in the detention center to the prison when delivering the prisoner; for prisoners who have not been detained before being delivered, the health examination and other relevant materials shall be sent to the prison.
Article 36 Prisoners who should be delivered to the prison for execution of penalties by the state security organs in accordance with the law shall be delivered to the prison by the state security organs in accordance with the provisions of Articles 31, 32, and 35 of this Law concerning public security organs.
Article 37 After a prisoner is admitted to prison, the prison shall notify the prisoner's family members or guardians. If the prisoner has no family members or guardians or cannot notify his family members or guardians, the prison shall notify the residents' committee or villagers' committee at the place of the prisoner's household registration or residence. The notice shall be sent within five working days from the date of admission to prison.
Article 38 Prisoners shall not bring their children to serve their sentences in prison.
Section 2 Handling of Prisoners' Appeals, Accusations, and Reports
Article 39 If a prisoner files an appeal against an effective judgment or ruling, the people's procuratorate or the people's court shall handle it within the prescribed time limit after receiving the appeal materials, and shall notify the prison and the prisoner of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
Article 40 If the accusations and reports filed by a prisoner are handled by the prison, they shall be handled within three months; if they are transferred to the supervisory organ, the people's procuratorate, or the public security organ for handling, the supervisory organ, the people's procuratorate, or the public security organ shall handle them within the prescribed time limit after receiving the materials transferred by the prison, and shall notify the prison of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
If a prisoner files an accusation or report under his real name, the handling organ shall also notify the prisoner of the handling result in writing in accordance with regulations.
Article 41 After receiving a prisoner's appeal, accusation, or report materials, the prison shall transfer them to other organs for handling within five working days and shall not withhold them.
After the prison transfers the appeal, accusation, or report materials, it shall notify the prisoner within five working days. If there are special circumstances that require an extension, the extension time shall not exceed five working days.
After forwarding materials for appeals, accusations, and reports, the prison shall inform the prisoner within five working days. If there are special circumstances requiring an extension, the extension shall not exceed five working days.
Article 42 If, during the execution of a sentence, the prison believes that there may be errors in the judgment, ruling, or decision, it shall submit the matter to the People's Procuratorate or the People's Court that made the effective judgment for handling. The People's Procuratorate or the People's Court that made the effective judgment shall notify the prison of the handling result within three months from the date of receiving the prison's written opinion requesting handling. If the case is complex or there are special circumstances requiring an extension, the extension shall not exceed three months.
Article 43 Prisons, People's Courts, and People's Procuratorates shall not regard a prisoner's lawful appeals, accusations, or reports as evidence of the prisoner's disobedience to management or lack of remorse.
Section 3 Temporary Execution Outside Prison
Article 44 A prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment serving a sentence in prison who meets the conditions for temporary execution outside prison as stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》) may be granted temporary execution outside prison.
The prisoner or their relatives or guardians may submit a written application to the prison for temporary execution outside prison. If the prison believes that the prisoner needs temporary execution outside prison based on the written application or the actual situation, it shall organize a medical diagnosis, pregnancy examination, or assessment of the prisoner's inability to care for themselves.
Article 45 Temporary execution outside prison shall be proposed by the prison in a written recommendation, submitted to the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for approval, and copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the prison administration authority.
A recommendation for temporary execution outside prison shall be reviewed by the prison's Temporary Execution Outside Prison Evaluation Committee. If the evaluation committee agrees to submit a request for temporary execution outside prison for the prisoner, it shall be publicized within the prison. The publicity period shall be three working days. If the prisoner raises objections to the publicized content during the publicity period, the prison's Temporary Execution Outside Prison Evaluation Committee shall conduct a review. If there are no objections to the publicity or the objections are not substantiated after review, the prison leader shall collectively discuss and decide to submit a recommendation for temporary execution outside prison. If the prisoner's condition is serious and requires immediate temporary execution outside prison, the publicity may be waived, but a public announcement shall be made within the prison within three working days after the temporary execution outside prison.
The recommendation for temporary execution outside prison shall be reviewed by the Temporary Execution Outside Prison Evaluation Committee of the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. For difficult, complex, or significant cases, the person in charge of the prison administration authority shall collectively discuss and decide.
Article 46 If the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government approves temporary execution outside prison, it shall deliver the decision on temporary execution outside prison to the prison and the community correction institution in the place of execution, and copy it to the People's Procuratorate at the same level, the People's Court that made the effective judgment, and the public security organ in the place of community correction execution.
If the People's Procuratorate believes that the application of temporary execution outside prison to the prisoner is inappropriate, it shall submit a written opinion to the prison administration authority that approved the temporary execution outside prison within one month from the date of receiving the decision on temporary execution outside prison. The prison administration authority that approved the temporary execution outside prison shall immediately re-examine the decision upon receiving the written opinion from the People's Procuratorate and make a decision within one month.
Article 47 A prisoner granted temporary execution outside prison shall be subject to community correction in accordance with the law, which shall be executed by the community correction institution. The original prison shall transfer the prisoner to the community correction institution within ten days from the date of receiving the decision on temporary execution outside prison, inform the community correction institution of the prisoner's rehabilitation status, and promptly notify the People's Procuratorate of the prisoner's transfer.
Article 48 If a prisoner granted temporary execution outside prison has circumstances that warrant imprisonment as stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》), the community correction institution shall submit a recommendation for imprisonment to the prison administration authority in the place of execution or the original prison administration authority that approved the temporary execution outside prison, and the prison administration authority shall make a decision in accordance with the law. If the term of imprisonment expires, the prison that originally held the prisoner or received the prisoner's file shall complete the procedures for release upon completion of the sentence in accordance with the law.
If a prisoner dies during the period of temporary execution outside prison, the community correction institution shall promptly notify the prison administration authority that originally approved the temporary execution outside prison.
The recommendation for imprisonment, the decision on imprisonment, the certificate of release upon completion of the sentence, and the death certificate shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate at the same time.
Section 4 Commutation and Parole
Article 49 A prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment who has shown genuine remorse or meritorious service during their sentence and meets the legal conditions for commutation may be granted a commutation based on the results of the prison's assessment. A commutation shall be granted if the prisoner has committed one of the following major meritorious services:
(1) Preventing others from committing major criminal activities;
(2) Reporting major criminal activities inside or outside the prison, which have been verified to be true;
(3) Having an invention or major technological innovation;
(4) Sacrificing oneself to save others in daily production or life;
(5) Having outstanding performance in resisting natural disasters or eliminating major accidents;
(6) Making other significant contributions to the country and society.
Article 50 A prison's recommendation for commutation or parole shall be reviewed by the prison's Commutation and Parole Evaluation Committee. If the evaluation committee agrees to submit a request for commutation or parole for the prisoner, it shall be publicized within the prison. The publicity period shall be five working days. If the prisoner raises objections to the publicized content during the publicity period, the prison's Commutation and Parole Evaluation Committee shall conduct a review. If there are no objections to the publicity or the objections are not substantiated after review, the prison leader shall collectively discuss and decide to submit a recommendation for commutation or parole.
If it is necessary to report to the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government for review and approval in accordance with the provisions of Articles 51, 52, and 53 of this Law, it shall be reviewed by the Commutation and Parole Evaluation Committee of the prison administration authority. For difficult, complex, or significant cases, the person in charge of the prison administration authority shall collectively discuss and decide.
Article 51 A recommendation for commutation of a fixed-term imprisonment sentence shall be submitted by the prison to the intermediate People's Court where the prison is located for a ruling. For commutation of a life imprisonment sentence to a fixed-term imprisonment sentence, the prison shall submit a recommendation for commutation, which shall be reported to the high People's Court for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. The written recommendation for commutation shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the People's Court.
The People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the written recommendation for commutation. If the case is complex or there are special circumstances, the period may be extended by one month. A copy of the ruling shall be sent to the People's Procuratorate at the same level.
Article 52 If a prisoner sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve meets the legal conditions for commutation to life imprisonment or fixed-term imprisonment during the period of the death sentence reprieve, the prison where the prisoner is located shall promptly submit a recommendation for commutation upon the expiration of the death sentence reprieve, which shall be reported to the high People's Court for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government.
Article 53 If a prisoner sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or commuted to fixed-term imprisonment meets the legal conditions for parole, the prison shall submit the matter to the intermediate People's Court where the prison is located for a ruling. If a prisoner sentenced to life imprisonment or commuted to life imprisonment meets the legal conditions for parole, the prison shall submit a recommendation for parole, which shall be reported to the high People's Court for a ruling after being reviewed and approved by the prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government. The written recommendation for parole shall be copied to the People's Procuratorate. The People's Procuratorate may submit written opinions to the People's Court.
The People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the written recommendation for parole. If the case is complex or there are special circumstances, the period may be extended by one month. A copy of the ruling shall be sent to the People's Procuratorate at the same level.
Article 54 If the People's Court rules for parole, the prison shall grant parole on schedule and issue a parole certificate.
A prisoner granted parole shall be subject to community correction in accordance with the law, which shall be executed by the community correction institution. If a prisoner granted parole violates laws, administrative regulations, or the regulations on supervision and management of parole issued by relevant departments of the State Council during the parole test period, but the violation does not constitute a new crime, the community correction institution shall submit a recommendation to the People's Court to revoke the parole. The People's Court shall make a ruling within one month from the date of receiving the recommendation to revoke the parole. If the People's Court rules to revoke the parole, the public security organ shall send the prisoner to the prison for imprisonment.
Article 55 When hearing cases of commutation and parole, the People's Court shall make a ruling on whether to grant commutation or parole. If the People's Court adjusts the range of commutation requested by the prison or does not grant commutation or parole, it shall state the reasons in the ruling.
Article 56 A prisoner who does not meet the legal conditions for commutation or parole shall not be granted commutation or parole.
Before the People's Court makes a ruling on commutation or parole, if the prison discovers that there is an error in the recommendation for commutation or parole, it shall submit a written application for withdrawal. If the People's Court approves the withdrawal, the prison shall withdraw the recommendation for commutation or parole and promptly notify the People's Procuratorate.
If the People's Court discovers that an effective ruling on commutation or parole is indeed erroneous, it shall re-examine the case and make a ruling.
If the People's Procuratorate believes that a ruling on commutation or parole made by the People's Court is inappropriate, it shall submit a written opinion for correction to the People's Court within the period stipulated in the "Criminal Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国刑事诉讼法》). For cases where the People's Procuratorate has submitted a written opinion for correction, the People's Court shall re-examine the case and make a ruling.
If the prison believes that there is an error in an effective ruling on commutation or parole during the execution of the sentence, it shall transfer the matter to the People's Procuratorate or the People's Court for handling.
Article 57 Prisons, People's Courts, and People's Procuratorates shall handle cases of commutation and parole for prisoners in a timely, fair, and just manner in accordance with the law, and give full play to the role of commutation and parole in the execution of sentences.
Section 5 Release and Resettlement and Rehabilitation Assistance
Article 58 Before a prisoner's term of imprisonment expires or before parole, the prison shall provide a certain period of pre-release education to consolidate the results of education and rehabilitation, improve the prisoner's ability to adapt to social life as soon as possible after release, and promote their smooth reintegration into society.
Article 59 When a prisoner's term of imprisonment expires or they are pardoned, the prison shall release them on schedule, issue a release certificate, and coordinate with the resettlement and rehabilitation assistance agency at the county level in the prisoner's place of household registration or residence to ensure a smooth transition.
If a prisoner has been sentenced to deprivation of political rights, the prison shall notify the public security organ in the prisoner's place of household registration or residence before the prisoner's release, and the public security organ shall execute the sentence.
After a prisoner is released, the public security organ shall register the prisoner's household registration based on the release certificate.
Article 60 The people's government in the place of household registration or residence shall organize and carry out education and guidance for released prisoners, encourage and support them to start their own businesses and seek employment independently, guide them to participate in social insurance, and promote their reintegration into society.
If a released prisoner has difficulties in life and meets the prescribed conditions, the people's government in the place of household registration or residence shall help them resettle and provide assistance in accordance with the law.
Article 61 The state encourages, guides, and supports social forces to participate in the resettlement and rehabilitation assistance work for released prisoners.
Article 62 Released prisoners shall enjoy equal rights with other citizens in accordance with the law and shall not be discriminated against in employment, education, and access to social security.
Chapter 4 Prison Administration
Section 1 Separate Custody and Management
Article 63 Prisons shall implement separate custody and management for male and female prisoners, adult and juvenile prisoners.
Prisons shall implement separate custody, classified management, and graded treatment for prisoners based on the type of crime, type of punishment, age, term of imprisonment, degree of personal danger, rehabilitation performance, health status, and rehabilitation needs, and shall adjust them in a timely manner based on changes in the prisoner's rehabilitation performance and other circumstances.
The prison administration authority of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government shall determine or adjust the prison where prisoners are held based on rehabilitation needs.
Article 64 The management of juvenile prisoners, female prisoners, elderly prisoners, sick prisoners, and disabled prisoners shall take into account their physiological and psychological characteristics.
Female prisoners shall be directly managed by female people's police officers.
Section 2 Use of Police Equipment and Weapons
Article 65 People's police officers in prisons may use restrictive police equipment in one of the following circumstances:
(1) Performing escort duties such as escorting prisoners for medical treatment outside the prison, special permission to leave the prison, or transfer to another prison;
(2) There are signs indicating that a prisoner may carry out acts such as riots and escapes, disturbances in the prison, and assaults, escapes, self-harm, self-mutilation, or suicide, or it is necessary to prevent them from continuing to carry out the above-mentioned acts;
(3) The prisoner seriously violates management regulations, disrupts the order of supervision, and it is necessary to take preventive measures.
If a prisoner commits acts such as violence, disturbances in the prison, damage to supervision and rehabilitation equipment and facilities, unauthorized departure from designated areas, resistance to or obstruction of the performance of duties by people's police officers in prisons, or other acts that disrupt the normal order of supervision, and warnings are ineffective, people's police officers in prisons may use expulsive and restraining police equipment in accordance with regulations.
Article 66 If people's police officers in prisons and personnel on duty from the People's Armed Police Force encounter emergency situations such as prisoner riots, escapes, resistance to arrest, assaults, seizure of weapons, or other violent acts, and warnings are ineffective, and the situation cannot be stopped without the use of weapons, weapons may be used in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Personnel using weapons shall report the situation in a timely manner in accordance with relevant state regulations.
Article 67 People's police officers in prisons shall use police equipment and weapons only to the extent necessary to stop prisoners from committing the acts specified in Articles 65 and 66 of this Law. If the circumstances listed in Articles 65 and 66 of this Law disappear or it is discovered that the prisoner is not suitable to continue to be restrained and controlled, the use shall be stopped immediately. If the prisoner suffers physical injury, they shall be given timely medical treatment.
People's police officers in prisons shall record the use of police equipment and weapons in accordance with regulations.
Section 3 Communication and Visitation
Article 68 Prisons shall protect the communication rights of prisoners in accordance with the law.
Prisoners may communicate with others during their imprisonment, but incoming and outgoing letters shall be subject to security checks. Letters suspected of endangering national security or criminal activities shall be detained and handled in accordance with the law.
Letters written by prisoners to the prison's superior authorities and state organs such as supervisory and judicial organs shall not be subject to inspection.
Article 69 During a prisoner's imprisonment, they may, in accordance with regulations, communicate and meet with relatives and guardians. If communication and meetings with other persons are conducive to the prisoner's rehabilitation, they may also communicate and meet with the approval of the prison.
Prisons shall reasonably arrange the number and duration of prisoner communications and meetings based on the prisoner's rehabilitation needs and level of treatment. Prisons may also arrange video meetings for prisoners in accordance with regulations.
Article 70 During a prisoner's imprisonment, they may meet with lawyers entrusted by themselves, their legal representatives, or close relatives, or appointed by legal aid organizations. Prisoners shall not be monitored when meeting with their defense lawyers.
Lawyers in other cases who need to investigate and collect evidence from prisoners may meet with the prisoners.
Article 71 If there are violations of regulations during communication or visitation, people's police officers in prisons shall immediately stop and warn the parties. If the parties do not listen to the warnings or the circumstances are serious, people's police officers in prisons shall terminate the communication or visitation.
Section 4 Living and Hygiene
Article 72 Prisons shall establish medical institutions and living and hygiene facilities, and establish a prisoner living and hygiene system.
Article 73 The living standards of prisoners shall be calculated based on the quantity of physical objects and shall be stipulated by the state.
Article 74 Prisoners' clothing and necessary daily necessities shall be uniformly distributed by the prison.
Article 75 Prisoners shall obtain approval and inspection from the prison before receiving items and money.
Article 76 Special living habits of prisoners related to specific customs shall be taken care of according to the actual situation.
Article 77 The prison cells where prisoners live shall meet the requirements of being sturdy, ventilated, well-lit, clean, warm, and heat-resistant.
Article 78 When weather conditions permit, prisons shall ensure that prisoners have appropriate outdoor activity time every day.
Article 78. The prison shall ensure that prisoners have appropriate daily outdoor activity time when weather conditions permit.
Article 79. The state guarantees basic medical care for prisoners. The drug list, medical service item list, and medical consumable list for basic medical care for prisoners shall be implemented with reference to the relevant provisions of local basic medical insurance.
Disease prevention and control and medical and health work for prisoners in prisons shall be included in the planning of the region where the prison is located.
Article 80. During the period when a prisoner is serving his sentence in prison, matters concerning the continuation of his participation in social insurance before imprisonment and after release from prison shall be handled in accordance with relevant state regulations, and the prison and relevant departments shall provide assistance. Specific measures shall be formulated by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the departments of human resources and social security, and medical security.
Article 81. If a prisoner dies while serving his sentence in prison, the prison shall immediately notify the prisoner's close relatives or guardians, and immediately notify the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院).
After receiving the notice, the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall immediately go to the scene to supervise the prison's investigation into the cause of death. If the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) has no objection to the prison's investigation results, it shall notify the prison; if it has any objection to the investigation results, it may entrust a judicial appraisal institution to make an appraisal of the cause of death. If the prisoner's close relatives or guardians have any objection to the prison's investigation results, they may raise it to the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院), which shall handle it in accordance with the law.
In the event of an unnatural death of a prisoner, the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) shall immediately conduct an examination and entrust a judicial appraisal institution to make an appraisal of the cause of death.
After the cause of death of the prisoner is determined, the prison shall handle the prisoner's body and belongings in accordance with relevant regulations.
Section 5 Rewards and Punishments
Article 82. The prison shall establish a daily assessment system for prisoners in accordance with relevant regulations, and the assessment results shall be used as the basis for rewarding and punishing prisoners.
If a prisoner has any objection to the assessment results, he may raise it to the prison, which shall handle it in a timely manner.
The prison's assessment of prisoners shall be subject to the supervision of the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) in accordance with the law.
Article 83. If a prisoner has any of the following circumstances, the prison may give commendation, material reward, or record a merit:
(1) Abiding by prison rules and regulations, studying hard, actively working, and showing repentance and submission to the law;
(2) Reporting, exposing, or preventing illegal and criminal activities inside and outside the prison, or providing clues for solving cases, which have been verified;
(3) Assisting supervisory organs and judicial organs in arresting persons under investigation and criminal suspects;
(4) Exceeding the labor quota;
(5) Saving raw materials or cherishing public property, with achievements;
(6) Carrying out technological innovation or imparting labor technology, with certain results;
(7) Making certain contributions in preventing or eliminating disasters and accidents;
(8) Making other contributions to the country and society.
Article 84. If a prisoner has any of the following circumstances that disrupt the order of supervision, the prison may give a warning, record a demerit, or confine him:
(1) Gathering crowds to make noise in the prison and disrupting the normal order of supervision;
(2) Threatening, insulting, attacking, or beating prison people's police or other personnel;
(3) Bullying other prisoners;
(4) Stealing, gambling, fighting, or provoking trouble;
(5) Refusing to participate in labor despite having the ability to do so, or being passive and slacking off, and refusing to mend his ways after education;
(6) Deliberately violating operating procedures in labor, or intentionally damaging labor tools and other labor materials;
(7) Resisting reform by means of self-injury, self-mutilation, suicide, fasting, etc.;
(8) Deliberately damaging prison equipment and facilities;
(9) Transferring, using, privately possessing, or manufacturing contraband;
(10) Exceeding the warning line or leaving the designated area without authorization;
(11) Organizing other prisoners to disrupt the order of supervision;
(12) Other acts that disrupt the order of supervision.
The term of confinement for prisoners shall be no more than 15 days.
If a prisoner commits a crime as listed in this article, he shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law.
Section 6 Home Visit and Special Permission to Leave Prison
Article 85. A prisoner who has been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or whose sentence has been commuted to fixed-term imprisonment, who has served more than one-half of the fixed-term imprisonment, who has consistently performed well during his imprisonment, and who poses no danger of re-offending after leaving the prison, may be allowed by the prison to leave the prison for a home visit with his written commitment and family guarantee.
The prison shall reasonably set the number of times and time for prisoners to leave the prison for home visits according to the circumstances. If the prison allows a prisoner to leave the prison for a home visit, it shall promptly notify the public security organ at the place of the home visit of the relevant situation, and the prisoner shall promptly report to the public security organ at the place of the home visit and voluntarily accept the supervision of the public security organ.
Article 86. If a prisoner who has been sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment or whose sentence has been commuted to fixed-term imprisonment has a spouse, direct relative, or guardian who is critically ill or deceased, or if a major change occurs in his family that requires him to leave the prison for handling, the prison may, upon his written application, specially permit him to leave the prison for visitation or handling, escorted by prison people's police, depending on the circumstances.
Article 87. If supervisory organs, People's Courts (人民法院), People's Procuratorates (人民检察院), public security organs, and state security organs need to bring prisoners back for investigation, investigation, prosecution, and trial due to case handling needs, they shall obtain the approval of the prison administration organ of the province, autonomous region, or municipality directly under the Central Government.
Section 7 Handling of Crimes Committed by Prisoners During Imprisonment
Article 88. A prisoner who intentionally commits a crime during his imprisonment shall be given a heavier punishment in accordance with the law.
Article 89. Cases in which prisoners are suspected of committing crimes in prison shall be investigated by the prison. After the investigation is completed, if the facts of the crime are clear and the evidence is reliable and sufficient, a prosecution opinion shall be issued, and the case file and evidence materials shall be transferred to the People's Procuratorate (人民检察院) together.
Article 90. If a prison discovers that a prisoner in custody has escaped, it shall immediately arrest him; if he cannot be arrested immediately, it shall immediately notify the public security organ, which shall be responsible for the pursuit, and the prison shall closely cooperate.
Article 91. If a prison handles a case in which a prisoner in prison is suspected of committing a crime and needs relevant criminal technical support and takes investigation measures and criminal compulsory measures outside the prison, the public security organ and other relevant units shall provide assistance in accordance with the law.
Chapter 5 Education and Rehabilitation of Prisoners
Article 92. Prisons shall innovate methods and approaches to education and rehabilitation, and continuously promote the scientification, professionalization, and socialization of education and rehabilitation work.
Prisons shall help prisoners reshape healthy personalities, become self-reliant and self-improving, repent and rehabilitate themselves, and cultivate prisoners' awareness of the law and ability to reintegrate into society through education and rehabilitation.
Article 93. Education and rehabilitation of prisoners shall be carried out in accordance with the principles of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, classified education, and convincing people with reason, and adopting a combination of collective education and individual education, and a combination of in-prison education and social education.
Prisons shall formulate targeted rehabilitation plans based on the prisoner's type of crime, cause of crime, type of punishment, term of imprisonment, and degree of personal danger, combined with his age, health status, psychological characteristics, and expressions of remorse, and regularly evaluate the rehabilitation effect, and make corresponding adjustments based on the evaluation and rehabilitation needs.
Article 94. Prisons shall conduct behavioral norms education for prisoners, urge them to abide by daily management systems, and develop good behavioral habits.
Article 95. Prisons shall conduct ideological education for prisoners on the rule of law, morality, situation, policies, and future prospects, conduct patriotism, collectivism education, and education on outstanding traditional Chinese culture, guide prisoners to establish socialist core values, and enhance their awareness of the rule of law, discipline, and morality, confess their guilt and submit to the law, and consciously accept rehabilitation.
Article 96. Prisons shall conduct psychological health education for prisoners, and provide psychological counseling, crisis intervention, and psychological correction as needed.
Article 97. Prisons shall conduct literacy education and compulsory education for prisoners according to different circumstances, and schools shall issue corresponding academic certificates to those who meet the academic requirements. Prisoners are encouraged to participate in vocational education and continuing education for academic qualifications, and relevant departments and units shall issue corresponding certificates to those who pass the examination.
Literacy education and compulsory education for prisoners shall be included in the educational planning of the region where they are located.
Article 98. Prisons shall organize prisoners to participate in vocational skills training according to the needs of economic and social development and employment after the release of prisoners, and relevant departments and units shall issue corresponding certificates to those who pass the assessment.
Vocational skills training for prisoners shall be included in local planning.
Article 99. Prisons shall set up necessary educational facilities and activity venues such as classrooms and library reading rooms, and equip them with necessary books, newspapers, magazines, and radio and television receiving equipment.
Prisons shall be equipped with necessary sports and cultural entertainment facilities, and organize prisoners to carry out appropriate sports activities and cultural entertainment activities.
Article 100. Prisons shall strengthen contacts and cooperation with relevant state organs, social organizations, troops, enterprises, institutions, and people from all walks of life to create conditions and provide assistance for educating and rehabilitating prisoners and promoting the reintegration of released prisoners into society.
Relevant state organs, social organizations, troops, enterprises, institutions, people from all walks of life, and relatives of prisoners shall assist prisons in doing a good job in educating and rehabilitating prisoners.
The state encourages and supports social workers, volunteers, and other social forces to participate in social assistance to prisoners, and provides policy support in accordance with the law.
Prisons may organize personnel with professional knowledge or practical experience in law, education, psychology, social work, etc. to carry out education and rehabilitation-related work according to the needs of educating and rehabilitating prisoners.
Article 101. Prisons shall use their own facilities and conditions to cooperate with relevant parties in carrying out legal publicity and crime prevention education, and provide support and convenience for institutions of higher learning, research institutions, etc. to carry out theoretical research and talent cultivation on prisons and the execution of punishment.
Article 102. Prisons shall reasonably determine labor projects and tasks based on prisoners' labor ability, physical health, and other personal circumstances and the needs of education and rehabilitation, so that they can correct bad habits, develop labor habits, learn labor skills, and create conditions for employment after release.
Article 103. The working hours of prisoners in prisons shall be implemented with reference to the relevant state regulations on working hours.
Prisoners have the right to rest on statutory holidays and rest days, and their rest time shall be guaranteed. If it is occupied due to special circumstances, compensatory rest shall be arranged.
Article 104. Prisons shall pay remuneration to prisoners who participate in labor in accordance with relevant regulations and implement the state's relevant regulations on labor protection.
Article 105. If a prisoner is injured, disabled, or dies in labor, the prison shall handle it in accordance with relevant regulations, and specific regulations shall be formulated by the judicial administration department of the State Council (国务院) in conjunction with the finance, human resources, and social security departments.
Chapter 6 Special Provisions for Juvenile Delinquents
Article 106. Juvenile delinquents shall serve their sentences in juvenile delinquent reformatories.
Article 107. When a juvenile delinquent reaches the age of 18, if the remaining term of imprisonment does not exceed two years, he may still remain in the juvenile delinquent reformatory to serve the remaining term of imprisonment.
Article 108. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall protect the legitimate rights and interests of juvenile delinquents in accordance with the law, respect the personal dignity of juvenile delinquents, and create a positive and healthy rehabilitation environment that is beneficial to the physical and mental health of juvenile delinquents.
Article 109. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall be equipped with people's police who have relevant professional backgrounds in law, education, psychology, etc., have undergone special training, and are familiar with the physical and mental characteristics of minors.
Article 110. The execution of punishment for juvenile delinquents shall implement the policy of education, persuasion, and salvation, with education and rehabilitation as the main focus. The labor of juvenile delinquents shall conform to the characteristics of minors, with learning culture and labor skills as the main focus.
Article 111. The conditions for communication, meeting, home visits, and special permission to leave prison for juvenile delinquents may be appropriately relaxed compared with adult prisoners.
Article 112. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall establish psychological correction institutions to conduct psychological tests on juvenile delinquents, and regularly carry out psychological counseling and other activities according to the psychological characteristics of juvenile delinquents to promote their physical and mental health development.
Article 113. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall cooperate with schools and other educational institutions to provide necessary conditions for juvenile delinquents to receive compulsory education and other education.
When a juvenile delinquent is released from prison upon completion of his sentence, the juvenile delinquent reformatory shall assist the education administrative department at his place of household registration or residence in doing a good job in connecting educational files, student status, etc.
Article 114. Juvenile delinquent reformatories shall strengthen contact with the guardians, family members, and other personnel who are conducive to the education and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents, and guide them to work together to do a good job in the education and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents.
Juvenile delinquent reformatories and relevant units such as juvenile protection organizations, educational institutions, the Communist Youth League (共产主义青年团), women's federations, and trade unions shall strengthen mutual contact and jointly do a good job in the education and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents.
Article 115. Prisons shall seal up the criminal records and related case information of juvenile delinquents who meet the sealing conditions in accordance with relevant laws and regulations, and shall not provide the criminal records and related case information of juvenile delinquents to any unit or individual except for judicial organs for case handling needs or relevant units for inquiries in accordance with state regulations.
Article 116. The relevant provisions of this Law shall apply to the management, education, and rehabilitation of juvenile delinquents if this chapter does not provide for them.
Chapter 7 Legal Liability
Article 117. If a prison people's police has one of the acts listed in Article 23 of this Law, he shall be given a sanction in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, he shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law.
If other state organ personnel fail to perform their relevant duties or obligations in accordance with the provisions of this Law, they shall be held legally liable in accordance with the law.
When pursuing responsibility in accordance with the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs, the facts, nature, harmful consequences, and subjective fault of the actor shall be comprehensively considered, and handled in accordance with the law.
Article 118. If a unit or individual has one of the following acts and constitutes a violation of public security administration, the public security organ shall give a public security administration penalty in accordance with the law; if it constitutes a crime, it shall be held criminally liable in accordance with the law:
(1) Disrupting the order of supervision;
(2) Gathering crowds to besiege and attack prisons;
(3) Obstructing prison people's police from performing their duties in accordance with the law;
(4) Colluding with prisoners to destroy or forge evidence, affecting the prison's lawful execution of punishment;
(5) Stealing, robbing, looting, encroaching on, or intentionally damaging prison property, facilities, land, and other resources;
(6) Violating the provisions of the second paragraph of Article 17 of this Law;
(7) Other acts that seriously affect prison order.
Chapter 8 Supplementary Provisions
Article 119. Prisons shall protect the legitimate rights and interests of foreign prisoners and ensure that they are treated fairly and justly in criminal enforcement activities.
Relevant matters concerning visits to foreign prisoners shall be handled in accordance with relevant state regulations.
The transfer of prisoners shall be handled in accordance with the provisions of the "International Criminal Judicial Assistance Law of the People's Republic of China" (中华人民共和国国际刑事司法协助法) and other laws.
Article 120. The terms "above," "below," and "within" used in this Law include the number itself.
Article 121. This Law shall come into effect on November 1, 2026.
(Xinhua News Agency (新华社) Beijing (北京), April 30)
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High-temperature injection molding machines press molten plastic into molds, and pairs of brand-new slippers are sent out from the automated production line like flowing water. Workers are busy packing and loading... In Wuchuan (吴川市), Zhanjiang (湛江), Guangdong (广东) Province, slippers are not only daily necessities but also support the livelihoods of many people.
"Wuchuan (吴川) is recognized by the China National Light Industry Council and the China Plastics Processing Industry Association as the 'China Plastic Shoe Capital (中国塑料鞋之都)'. The good products of our hometown are competitive all over the world, but to better 'connect' with the world, we need the efforts of more young people from our hometown," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞). This post-00s veteran and fourth-year university student is using internet thinking and the tenacity forged in the military to open a new window for this traditional business.
Rong Hairui (容海瑞) was born in Tanba Town (覃巴镇), Wuchuan (吴川) City in 2001. In 2019, he was admitted to Shenzhen University (深圳大学). During his university years, he enlisted in the army. In 2023, he retired and returned to school to study Network and New Media.
In less than a year since starting his business in 2025, he and his team have sold 250,000 pairs of "Made in Guangdong (广东制造)" slippers to countries and regions such as the United States, Japan, and South Korea, with revenue exceeding 3 million yuan. He wants to "sell Wuchuan (吴川) slippers to more countries and wider places in the world."
"Even if it doesn't become a hit at the beginning, it's worth it to get the chain running first."
"Because of my major, I usually like to operate social media accounts, browse platforms, and look at data. At that time, I had a feeling that many small household goods are more easily accepted by overseas consumers. Slippers are a necessity among them—worn at home, in the bathroom, on the beach, with many usage scenarios," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞), who said that the opportunity to start his own business came from business opportunities discovered daily.
He further observed: some seemingly ordinary plastic slippers on overseas platforms are not cheap, and the quality is not necessarily outstanding, but the sales and reputation are good. "I thought of my hometown, Wuchuan (吴川), where relatives and friends are making shoes, and I know how much a pair of shoes costs. When I compared overseas prices with the hometown supply chain, I felt there was an opportunity here," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
This "opportunity" is not about how new the product is, but about the information gap.
"Overseas consumers need cheap, durable, and easy-to-use slippers, and our hometown happens to have mature production capabilities. In the past, they were sold layer by layer by traders and wholesalers, and factories rarely knew what end consumers liked directly. We do cross-border e-commerce to shorten this middle section a bit." Several pieces of information are stacked together—overseas demand, platform sales, hometown supply chain, and understanding of content and platforms—Rong Hairui (容海瑞) decided to give it a try, "Even if it doesn't become a hit at the beginning, it's worth it to get the chain running first."
In March 2025, Rong Hairui (容海瑞), a junior in college, used 300,000 yuan of start-up capital to form a business team, aiming at the overseas low-to-mid-end market, focusing on high-cost-performance plastic sandals and slippers, including clogs and casual sandals. Rong Hairui's (容海瑞) team receives online orders through "short video promotion + cross-border e-commerce platform," and then the Wuchuan (吴川) shoe factory partners connect with local factories to ensure supply.
In the early stages of entrepreneurship, manufacturers did not trust the young team, and the first few batches of products did not take off, and orders were unstable. "We put forward style suggestions based on market research, but the manufacturers felt that those styles were outdated and were unwilling to produce them in large quantities," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
The turning point came from a "turnaround from loss to profit" product selection. Rong Hairui (容海瑞) recalled: "A shoe factory produced shoes that were unsalable in China and faced losses. But we uploaded information such as material, cost, and desired selling price to the AI (artificial intelligence) system for scoring and found that it was worth doing. Why couldn't it be sold in China? Was it a quality problem, a style problem, or did domestic consumers not like it? We found that the aesthetics and needs of the domestic market had changed, but the overseas market was not necessarily the same."
The team searched for similar products on multiple overseas platforms and found that this product actually had a lot of potential in some markets. Rong Hairui (容海瑞) said: "It may not look trendy enough in China, but for overseas users, it is a basic, cheap, and durable shoe. The manufacturer has inventory, the cost is already relatively low, and if it is matched to the right market, the profit margin is actually considerable." Sure enough, this shoe was very popular after being put on the cross-border e-commerce platform. The manufacturer not only cleared the inventory but also made more than 100,000 yuan.
"We use data and AI to help old shoe factories find new ways. From that time on, trust slowly began to be established. When we can sell tens of thousands of shoes on the e-commerce platform, the manufacturer will take the initiative to ask for our opinions before deciding on the styles to produce," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
"What young entrepreneurs need more is not to ask why, but to ask what to do next."
"We persuade manufacturers not by saying 'believe us' but by taking out the data. We will find similar styles on overseas platforms, look at their sales, prices, comment volume, and keywords mentioned by users," said Chen Yourong (陈宥融), a team member and product selection manager.
Rong Hairui's (容海瑞) team currently has 11 people, most of whom are post-00s, with only 3 full-time employees. Most of the part-time employees are his classmates from Shenzhen University (深圳大学), a veritable "student army." They have a clear division of labor: part-time employees are responsible for content creation and user analysis; full-time employees handle cross-border logistics work, such as replenishment and operation of overseas warehouses; and Wuchuan (吴川) shoe factory partners connect with local high-quality factories.
"At the beginning, it was not so standardized, the division of labor was a bit chaotic, and the communication cost was particularly high. The reaction cycle from selecting a product to promoting it could be one or two months. Later, we broke down the process: what data to look at first when selecting products, what selling points to clarify before shooting, what indicators to use for operation... These experiences have been deposited into AI and knowledge base. Now, we have built a set of AI enterprise operation hub intelligent body," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
Rong Hairui (容海瑞) is very clear about the advantages of post-00s members in content creation: "We dare to try and understand the language of the platform. We won't think about shooting products in a particularly formal way as in the traditional model, but know what angles are more like users' real usage scenarios." But you can't just rely on feeling, "We will let everyone shoot boldly and try boldly, but you must review after the trial. In this way, the internet sense of young people will no longer be a simple internet sense, but will become a method that can be precipitated."
"In my opinion, what young entrepreneurs need more is not to ask why, but to ask what to do next. This is the influence my military experience has brought me," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞), who said that his military career did not have any earth-shattering legends, but it left a clear mark on his way of thinking.
"The influence of the army on me does not come from a particularly specific event, but from the influence of that environment," Rong Hairui (容海瑞) recalled, "The biggest change is the way I deal with problems. In the past, I might have emotions first, feeling difficult and uncertain; after being in the army, I am more likely to directly enter the state of 'what should I do next'."
This way of thinking has also been extended to leading the team. "Rong Hairui (容海瑞) pays more attention to execution. Many times, things are not understood before they are done, but they are understood while doing them," said team member Lin Jiahui (林佳辉).
Last year, Rong Hairui (容海瑞) officially established a company and is preparing to build his own slipper brand. This year, his goal is to increase revenue by 5 times and hit the "tens of millions" level. The best-selling self-designed styles have given Rong Hairui (容海瑞) a lot of confidence. "In the past, we mostly picked from existing styles to see which one was suitable for the overseas market. After the self-designed styles came out, we realized that we can not only sell goods, but also define products in reverse," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
"The value of our young people lies here."
"Next, I plan to build a dedicated team to provide 'going overseas consultant' services for more shoe factories to help hometown shoe factories open up new sales channels," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
"This idea didn't come out of nowhere. We encountered a lot of pitfalls when we did cross-border e-commerce ourselves. These problems are not only encountered by us, but also by many shoe factories," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞), "In the past, we waited for orders and relied on wholesalers. Now the environment is changing rapidly. If we still just wait for others to place orders, the pressure will become greater and greater. Many hometown shoe factories also want to go overseas, but they don't know how to take the first step."
"We may understand the platform better, understand the data better, and understand how to use AI to sort out the internal things of a company clearly. For example, the most troublesome problem for a factory may not be the lack of products, but the lack of knowledge of which product is suitable for overseas; not the lack of profit, but the inability to calculate the profit clearly. We have now launched an AI profit calculation system, hoping to help shoe factories solve these most practical problems," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞).
Talking about young people building their hometowns, Rong Hairui (容海瑞) said: "Many young people may feel that their hometown's industries are very traditional and ordinary after going out, and feel that there are no opportunities. Now I feel that many business opportunities are hidden in these seemingly ordinary things. For example, slippers are not high-tech products, but they are real industries—there are factories, workers, supply chains, and decades of experience. The problem is that in the past, it was too far away from overseas end consumers."
"The value of our young people lies here. We have seen new platforms, learned new tools, know how to use AI, and know what overseas consumers may think. Then we can just bring these new things back and combine them with the existing industries in our hometown," said Rong Hairui (容海瑞), who believes that the most important thing for young people to build their hometowns is not a certain skill, but "connection ability," "We must be able to understand the outside world, understand the rules of the outside world, and also truly understand what our hometown has and respect local accumulation, and connect the two sides."
Yang Zhenyue (杨振钺) is a partner of a shoe factory in Wuchuan (吴川). "After talking with Rong Hairui (容海瑞) several times, I felt that he was not just shouting slogans, but really did a complete market research. I am also a recent college graduate and know that cross-border e-commerce is a trend now. With a try-it-out mentality, we reached a cooperation," said Yang Zhenyue (杨振钺).
Chen Xiaojia (陈晓佳), a shoe factory worker, is very happy that slippers can be sold overseas: "In the past, we might only have one peak season a year, and the shoe factory had nothing to do in the off-season. Now it's different. Some factories have things to do all year round, and their income has also increased greatly."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 5th (Reporter Wu Chuqi (吴储岐)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部): The Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部) and 11 other departments recently jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Development of Mutual Assistance Elderly Care Services," which clarifies the definition of mutual assistance elderly care services at the national level and proposes goals for promoting the development of mutual assistance elderly care services.
Mutual assistance elderly care services refer to voluntary and non-profit elderly care service activities provided to the elderly through mutual assistance among neighbors or village (community) residents. The Opinions clarify that by 2030, the coverage rate of urban and rural community elderly care service facilities with mutual assistance service functions will be no less than 70%, the working mechanism for visiting and caring for elderly people in special difficulties in townships (streets) will be fully established, mutual assistance elderly care services will be widely carried out, and the sustainability of services will be significantly enhanced. By 2035, the organization of mutual assistance elderly care services will be further improved, the service support system will be further improved, and the service needs of the elderly for visits and care, social participation, and spiritual comfort will be better met.
The Opinions require the establishment and improvement of mutual assistance service models, the development of community-supported home-based mutual assistance services, the implementation of rural mutual assistance services in accordance with local conditions, and the active exploration of new models of mutual assistance services. Coordinate the construction of mutual assistance service positions, strengthen the construction of mutual assistance service facilities, use public service facilities to carry out services, and guide elderly care service institutions to actively participate. Strengthen the support and guarantee of mutual assistance service elements, strengthen the connection of service resources, improve support and development measures, and give play to the functions of grass-roots elderly associations.
The Opinions emphasize that it is necessary to strengthen organization and implementation, give play to the role of village (neighborhood) committees, promote the standardized development of mutual assistance services, strengthen publicity and guidance, and strengthen supervision and guidance.
Return to TopBeijing (北京), May 5th (Reported by Wang Zhou (王洲)) - According to the Beijing Internet Court (北京互联网法院), the court recently heard a case of unfair competition dispute involving a performance ticket scalping platform, effectively regulating the platform-based and large-scale operation of "technical scalpers"抢票乱象.
It is understood that the plaintiff in this case is the operating entity of a well-known domestic ticketing platform, and the defendant is the operator of a scalping platform, whose main business is to facilitate performance ticket scalping transactions between users and merchants stationed on the platform. The court found that the platform and the merchants stationed on it cooperated to carry out scalping business, including setting review standards for merchants' ticket grabbing capabilities, uniformly releasing ticket grabbing information, formulating scalping processes, and uniformly providing consulting services, and settling with the merchants after receiving payment.
The court held that the merchants stationed on the platform used automated technology to grab tickets at high frequency, infringing on consumers' equal right to purchase tickets and hindering the normal operation of the plaintiff's platform. As the operator of the platform, the defendant cooperated with the merchants to jointly implement unfair competition. Considering the defendant's degree of subjective fault, the scale of platform-based operation, and the harmful consequences of the infringing act, the court ruled that the defendant should immediately cease the infringing act, compensate the plaintiff for economic losses of 300,000 yuan and reasonable expenses for safeguarding rights of 75,300 yuan, and the company's sole shareholder should bear joint and several liability for compensation.
The judgment clarifies the legal boundaries of ticket scalping business activities, clarifies that providing matchmaking services for technical ticket grabbing and implementing platform-based operations also constitute unfair competition, provides strong judicial guidance for rectifying the chaos in the performance ticket market and standardizing the business behavior of the digital economy platform, helps to curb the phenomenon of "technical scalpers," and promotes the return of the performance ticket market to a fair, transparent, and orderly development track.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李家鼎
On the evening of April 30th, Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣), the driver of bus route 595 in Baodi District (宝坻区), Tianjin (天津市), was driving his vehicle as usual. When the bus arrived at the west gate stop of Quanbao Supermarket (劝宝超市), a man wearing a black top quickly boarded the bus. "He didn't pay or swipe his card, so I paid a little more attention and prepared to find an opportunity to remind him," Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) said.
Not long after, offensive words came from the carriage. Gao Xiaochen's (高晓臣) peripheral vision swept across the rearview mirror—at the back of the carriage, the man was leaning close to a female passenger by the window, muttering incessantly. The female passenger's body was stiff, and her fingers were clenched tightly on the hem of her clothes.
The foul language instantly froze the air in the carriage. Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) immediately shouted at the man, "This is a public place, watch your language!" Then, he said to the female passenger, "Miss, come over here!" The female passenger moved to the driver's seat in a panic, her hands still trembling.
"I originally thought that saying a few words to him would stop him, but I didn't expect this person to not repent," Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) recalled. When the bus arrived at the east gate stop of Quanbao Supermarket (劝宝超市), another female passenger boarded the bus. Unexpectedly, the man turned to harass the newly boarded female passenger, continuing to harass her with frivolous language. This female passenger was not to be outdone and retorted with a few words.
"If this continues, if the man starts fighting, the passengers will probably suffer." Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) felt a sense of urgency—the bus was already a bit bumpy during the journey, and there were two elderly people on board. If a conflict occurred in the carriage, how could everyone's safety be guaranteed?
Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) has been in the industry for 13 years and has been driving route 595 for more than 6 years. He doesn't know how many times he has traveled this road. "The entire line has 24 stops, and I know every ditch and bump on the road, and what places and units are on the roadside." Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) suddenly remembered: 500 meters ahead is Yuhua Police Station (钰华派出所)!
No sooner said than done. Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) stepped on the accelerator, kept his eyes on the fork in the road ahead, turned the steering wheel, and stopped the car in front of the police station gate. Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) opened the door, jumped out of the car, and waved to the duty room, shouting, "Police comrades, there's a situation, someone on the bus is harassing passengers!"
Hearing the call, several police officers ran out. Fearing that the man would slip away, after letting the other passengers get off the bus safely, Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) turned back and locked the car door. After the police officers stood still, he opened the car door and pointed at the man, saying, "It's him, he has been harassing two female comrades in a row." The passengers testified one after another, and the man was taken into the police station by the police.
Afterwards, the passengers all gave a thumbs up: "You handled it so well!" Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) smiled shyly: "How can I allow troublemakers on the bus? I have to protect my passengers!"
When this matter spread to the internet, some netizens praised Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣): "Positive energy driver, brave and resourceful." Liu Qinglin (刘清林), the captain of the Baodi (宝坻) team of the Fourth Passenger Transport Company of Tianjin Public Transport Group (天津公交集团第四客运有限公司宝坻车队), told reporters that he was not surprised that Xiao Gao (小高) could do this. In 2014, Gao Xiaochen (高晓臣) encountered a motorcycle robbery case. He rushed up and held the robber tightly until the police arrived; in 2022, he also saved an injured child in a traffic accident.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李心萍
As night falls, the sea sparkles with blue light formed by Noctiluca scintillans, creating the spectacle of "blue tears" in Pingtan (平潭), Fujian (福建).
Currently, Pingtan's "blue tears" have entered a period of high frequency, attracting many tourists. High-speed rail is one of the best ways to travel to Pingtan. As of May 5th, during this year's "May Day" holiday, Pingtan Station is expected to have 90,576 arriving passengers and 108,000 departing passengers.
Here, the world's longest and China's first cross-strait road-rail bridge, the Pingtan Strait Road-Rail Bridge (平潭海峡公铁两用大桥), stands majestically. The sea area where the bridge is located experiences more than 300 days of strong winds, frequent typhoons, and high salinity and humidity every year. In this environment, there is a group of bridge protectors who ensure the bridge's stability and the safety of journeys.
Their primary task is to conduct "physical examinations" for the bridge.
Diving into the seabed tens of meters deep, surrounded by darkness and turbulent currents, they had to touch the surface of the bridge piers with their hands to determine if there were any cracks and how deep the corrosion was. This was the daily routine of bridge protectors in the past. "Manual underwater inspection relied entirely on touch and experience. Due to the real-time changes in sea conditions, we had to 'gamble' on the few hours when the wind and waves were small to operate," recalled Huang Mingpeng (黄明鹏), foreman of the Pingtan Bridge Work Area of the Fuzhou South Road Bridge Workshop of the China Railway Nanchang Group (国铁南昌局) Fuzhou Engineering Section (福州工务段). "Checking the underwater part of one pier often took a whole day."
Now, underwater robots are "on duty," providing high-definition live streaming and millimeter-level measurements.
The underwater robot has six vector thrusters, which act like the robot's six feet, enabling it to remain stable on the seabed with strong currents. The robot has a waterproof depth of 350 meters and can dive to the bottom of the piers. Equipped with a 4K high-definition camera and a wide-angle lens, it can scan the piers 360 degrees without blind spots.
If cracks are found, the robot's laser rangefinder immediately goes into action, with a measurement accuracy of up to millimeters. If attachments are found, the robot can also extend its robotic arm to clean them.
"We can see where the problems are clearly, the data is automatically recorded, and the inspection efficiency can be increased by 3 times!" said Zhang Zhen (张振), deputy director of the Fuzhou South Road Bridge Workshop.
It is reported that this robot is custom-made for this sea area. Ordinary underwater robots are washed away as soon as they enter the sea, but this robot has specially made high-thrust thrusters and a self-adaptive control system. It has undergone extreme tests such as high pressure, salt spray, low temperature, and continuous operation. The software system has undergone hundreds of iterations and optimizations, all for the sake of being more reliable, more accurate, and making fewer mistakes.
In addition to underwater robots, there are also aerial "Spidermen."
The 300-meter-long cable stays support the "steel skeleton" of the cross-sea bridge. In the past, workers had to wear safety ropes, brave the strong winds, and climb these steel cables by hand, and an inspection would take two or three hours. "Below our feet were monstrous waves, and our hands and feet were shaking in the wind," said Chen Hao (陈浩), deputy foreman of the Pingtan Bridge Work Area of the Fuzhou South Road Bridge Workshop.
Now, cable stays "physical examinations" have "Spidermen." This is a cable climbing robot independently developed by the Fuzhou Engineering Section. It has a pair of "suction cup feet" that can firmly hold the cable stay and scan with sensors while climbing. "It takes more than two hours for a person to check a cable stay, but it can be done in 30 minutes, which is much more efficient," said Chen Hao.
A bigger challenge is the inside of the piers in the deep sea, where the space is narrow and the light is dim, making maintenance difficult. In the past, team members had to take a boat, land on Dalian Island (大练岛), and drill into the inside of the piers. Relying on the light of headlamps, they would knock on the walls with hammers, relying on the "dong dong" sound to determine whether the walls were solid, whether the interior walls of the beams were damaged, and whether the ventilation and drainage holes were blocked. "One operation requires walking 6 to 12 kilometers, and each person has to hit at least 5,000 hammers a day," said Huang Mingpeng. "Going to sea six or seven times a month, encountering waves of seven or eight meters high is common."
Now, the internal "physical examination" of the piers has a thin-walled hollow pier imaging system. "It's like giving the pier a gastroscopy!" said Huang Mingpeng. Just insert the probe into the pier platform, and you can observe the condition of the inner wall in real time at the control end. Rust, cracks, and seepage can all be seen.
Since the bridge opened to traffic on December 26, 2020, sea, land, and air robots have cumulatively discovered and dealt with more than 4,000 hidden dangers, effectively ensuring the structural safety of the bridge.
At the end of each day's task, the team members retrieve the robots and back up the data. That night, this information will generate inspection logs, which will be used to analyze the "health trends" of the bridge and develop maintenance plans in advance.
During this year's "May Day" holiday, the Pingtan Strait Road-Rail Bridge is expected to have more than 270 high-speed train trips. With the help of technology, safeguarding China's speed is becoming more precise and convenient.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 董丝雨 游 仪
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April 27, Beijing (北京) time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially presented the World Geopark certificate to the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark. Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) became the first World Geopark on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and also the World Geopark with the largest number of extremely high mountains (over 5,000 meters above sea level) in the world.
On the second day of the "May Day" holiday, at dawn, Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) welcomed a snowfall. The unique landscape of "four seasons on one mountain, different weather within ten miles" made the tourists who came specially for it, intoxicated and reluctant to leave.
"After seeing the news that Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) was selected as a World Geopark, I immediately made a travel plan and took advantage of the 'May Day' holiday to 'check in'. I didn't expect to encounter this visual feast. It was really worth the trip," said Zhou Qin (周琴), a tourist from Guangzhou (广州市), Guangdong (广东), who stopped to admire the scenery, her words full of praise.
April 27, Beijing (北京) time, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) officially presented the World Geopark certificate to the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark. Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) became the first World Geopark on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and also the World Geopark with the largest number of extremely high mountains (over 5,000 meters above sea level) in the world, adding another world-class "golden signboard" to China's (中国) ecological civilization construction.
Why was Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) selected as a World Geopark? What are the positive implications for local development?
The basic conditions for being selected as a World Geopark include geological heritage value, biodiversity value, and cultural heritage value.
Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark is located in Xiaojin County (小金县), Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture (阿坝藏族羌族自治州), Sichuan (四川) Province, in the transition zone between the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) and the Sichuan Basin (四川盆地). It is a "book of the earth" spanning hundreds of millions of years and is known as the "geological museum" for studying the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原).
"The basic conditions for being selected as a World Geopark include geological heritage value, biodiversity value, and cultural heritage value," said Zhang Yuanhai (张远海), a researcher at the Institute of Karst Geology, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences (中国地质科学院岩溶地质研究所). Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark is characterized by the "Xikang-style" folds in the Songpan-Ganzi (松潘—甘孜) orogenic belt, the "Xikang Group" turbidite flysch formation, the extremely high mountain peaks on the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and the unique glacial landforms. It records the geological evolution process of the region from the ancient Tethys Ocean to the uplift of the eastern edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原), and has important scientific value and global comparative significance.
In the long geological movement, many folds have formed in the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) area, among which the "Xikang-style" folds are the most representative. He Yanmin (何燕敏), a geological expert at the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) National Nature Reserve Administration, introduced that the "Xikang-style" fold is a kind of upright fold with the same cleavage, mainly formed after being squeezed by forces in two directions. The rock layers are like silk that has been kneaded by a pair of giant hands, recording the hundreds of millions of years of mountain building movement on Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山).
"The Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) area used to be an ocean, and after hundreds of millions of years, it has risen into an extremely high mountain. Subjected to multi-directional squeezing, the rocks meander upwards and then turn sharply downwards, which is extremely beautiful in natural creation," said Li Zhongdong (李忠东), deputy director of the Sichuan Geophysical Survey Institute (四川省地球物理调查研究所).
The unique geological composition and climatic conditions of Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) make the forest, meadow, glacier, and wetland ecosystems complete, and the ecological barrier function is prominent. "Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) belongs to the global biodiversity hotspot area, with more than 2,000 species of higher plants, the world's largest and oldest natural forest of Chinese seabuckthorn, and more than 300 species of vertebrates such as giant pandas and snow leopards call this place home," said Zhang Yuanhai (张远海).
In the villages and towns under the snow-capped mountains, the Jiarong Tibetan (嘉绒藏族) culture is well preserved. "The local people live by the mountains and are accompanied by nature, integrating ecological wisdom into residential buildings, clothing embroidery, production and life. The Chaoshan (朝山) Festival, Guozhuang (锅庄) dance, and Tibetan song festivals are full of rich customs, forming a distinct regional characteristic of the coexistence of geological landscapes and ethnic customs," said He Yanmin (何燕敏).
After being selected, it is necessary to ensure that the authenticity and integrity of geological relics and the ecological environment are permanently preserved.
To be successfully selected as a World Geopark, it is not only necessary to have geological relics of international significance, but also to strengthen protection and popular science, so that more people can understand geological evolution and unlock ecological codes.
Zhang Yuanhai (张远海) introduced that, according to the guidelines of the "International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme Statute," World Geoparks must abandon the single resource protection model and adopt a bottom-up holistic management strategy of "geology + ecology + culture."
In order to accurately understand the resource base, the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark application team, in collaboration with the Sichuan Geophysical Survey Institute (四川省地球物理调查研究所), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), Nanjing University (南京大学) and other scientific research forces, jointly carried out more than 30 systematic field surveys with experts in multiple fields, traversing glaciers, deep mountains, and forests, systematically excavating 3 world-class, 11 national-level, and 46 regional-level geological relics, and comprehensively clarifying the "geological-ecological-cultural" composite value, providing solid data support for scientific protection, popular science education, and rational utilization.
According to the requirements of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Geoparks must establish a sound protection system, management mechanism, and monitoring system to effectively protect the geological and ecological environment. "To this end, we are constantly improving the regulations on the protection of geological relics, the patrol and law enforcement mechanism, and the ecological red line control system, and regularly carry out all-round monitoring of geology, ecology, hydrology, and meteorology, to achieve full coverage, all-weather, and refined protection of key resources, and ensure that the authenticity and integrity of geological relics and the ecological environment are permanently preserved," said He Yanmin (何燕敏).
Geological resources need to be excavated, and more importantly, they need to be seen and understood. In the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) Geological Museum, Li Rong (李蓉), a tourist from Leshan City (乐山市), Sichuan (四川) Province, is visiting with her child. "Originally, I came to appreciate the natural scenery, but I didn't expect the popular science service of the scenic spot to be so complete. The professional explanation signs are clearly visible, and the museum's interactive experience is rich and vivid, allowing us to understand geological knowledge more intuitively," said Li Rong (李蓉).
In response to the weak hardware infrastructure conditions in the past, the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) National Nature Reserve Administration coordinated funds to simultaneously promote the renovation of museum clusters, the updating of popular science guidance systems, the upgrading of visitor service centers, and the construction of ecological trails, and built 4 theme museums, comprehensively using AI (artificial intelligence) popular science, VR (virtual reality) / AR (augmented reality) interaction, physical specimen display, scene restoration and other modern means to make abstract geological knowledge perceptible, touchable, and experienceable.
"We moved the natural classroom to the foot of the snow-capped mountains, displaying rock and animal and plant specimens, restoring typical habitats, and equipping them with professional popular science books in more than 40 popular science natural classrooms, building a popular science education system that covers the entire region and has complete functions," said He Yanmin (何燕敏).
A World Geopark is a sustainable development area, not a "protected area" that is fenced off.
As Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) becomes a World Geopark, more and more tourists are coming here. In Changping Village (长坪村), Siguniang Mountain Town (四姑娘山镇), Xiaojin County (小金县), villager Ming Pingyang (明平阳) is busy receiving tourists: "We run homestays, work as guides, and sell local products. Our happy life has a new direction."
"A World Geopark is a sustainable development area, not a 'protected area' that is fenced off. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) requires World Geoparks to promote community participation, cultural tourism integration, and green development to achieve a win-win situation for protection and development," Zhang Yuanhai (张远海) suggested that the local government should actively guide the masses to deeply participate in tourism services, homestay management, local product sales, popular science publicity and other work, promote local intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, as well as Xiaojin (小金) apples, plateau roses, seabuckthorn drinks and other characteristic agricultural and sideline products, drive the masses to continuously and steadily increase their income, and achieve the unity of ecological protection, green development, and people's livelihood improvement.
Through the construction of a community co-construction and sharing mechanism, Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark develops ecological tourism and outdoor industries, promotes the deep integration of geological tourism, ecological industry, and comprehensive rural revitalization, so that local people can share the fruits of development.
Currently, China's (中国) first mountain rail transit project, the Dujiangyan (都江堰) to Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) mountain rail project, is under construction. After completion, this "snow mountain train" will carry tourists through dense forests and canyons, immersing them in the experience of world natural heritage and world geological wonders.
Zhao Anhong (赵安宏), deputy director of the Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) National Nature Reserve Administration, said that in the future, Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) World Geopark will take "protection first, scientific utilization, community co-construction, and international first-class" as the direction, focusing on geological relic protection, scientific research and popular science transformation, multilingual interpretation system construction, community participation, management optimization, and international exchanges, and continue to work hard to promote Siguniang Mountain (四姑娘山) to become a new highland for geoscience research and popular science education, inject green new momentum into regional high-quality development, promote the expansion of the international tourism market and coordinated community development, and show the world China's (中国) geological treasures and the achievements of ecological civilization construction.
(He Xianqiang (贺先强) and Zhang Ying (张莹) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 蒋雪鸿
As the "sensitive area" and "amplifier" of global climate change, climate change in the Arctic and Antarctic has received widespread attention. The "Polar Climate Change Annual Report" for 2025, recently released by the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局), shows that the polar climate in 2025 is characterized by continued significant warming in the Arctic, continued low sea ice levels in the Arctic and Antarctic, increased abnormality of extreme weather and climate events, and significant differentiation in ozone changes in the Arctic and Antarctic.
The annual report shows that the Arctic continues to warm significantly, and the Antarctic is generally warmer.
The area around the Barents Sea is the main warming area in the Arctic. The annual average temperature in the Arctic is minus 6.40 degrees Celsius, which is 1.14 degrees Celsius higher than the normal year. The four seasons are warmer than usual, especially winter and autumn, which are 2.13 degrees Celsius and 1.78 degrees Celsius higher than usual, respectively. The sea surface temperature of the Arctic Ocean is generally warmer, reaching the second highest level in history in August, and the Kara Sea region hit a record high.
In the Antarctic, temperature seasonal differences are obvious. The annual average temperature in the Antarctic is minus 31.29 degrees Celsius, which is 0.55 degrees Celsius higher than the normal year; spring, summer, and autumn are warmer than usual, with spring being 2.14 degrees Celsius higher than usual, and winter being 0.63 degrees Celsius colder.
"Monitoring and analysis show that the annual average sea ice extent in the Arctic in 2025 has broken the lowest record since satellite observations began in 1979, and the annual maximum sea ice extent has hit a 47-year low. This is one of the most noteworthy signals in this year's polar climate monitoring," said Zeng Qin (曾沁), Director of the Science and Technology Department of the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局科技司司长). The annual average extent, annual minimum extent, and annual maximum extent of Antarctic sea ice are all the third lowest values since 1979.
Extreme weather and climate events in the polar regions are becoming more abnormal.
Monitoring results show that in May 2025, a large-scale heat wave affected Greenland, causing abnormal melting of the ice sheet surface, and the melting rate reached 17 times that of the same period in history; on October 12, 2025, rare rainfall occurred at Zhongshan Station (中山站) in Antarctica.
"These events show that polar changes are not only reflected in long-term trends, but are also manifesting as more abnormal extreme events," said Zeng Qin (曾沁).
Regarding the rare rainfall event that occurred at Zhongshan Station (中山站) in Antarctica in October 2025, Ding Minghu (丁明虎), Director of the Institute of Global Change and Polar Research of the Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (中国气象科学研究院全球变化与极地研究所所长), said that in general, there is relatively little rainfall in Antarctica, mainly occurring in the Antarctic Peninsula region, and rainfall events hardly occur in the East Antarctic ice sheet. Since the establishment of the station in 1990, Zhongshan Station (中山站) in Antarctica, located on the East Antarctic ice sheet, has experienced 19 rainfall or sleet events in 35 years, three of which occurred in 2025, and even one rainfall occurred in October, which is the first time since the establishment of the station. This indicates that extreme events in the East Antarctic region may be becoming stronger and more frequent.
"If rainfall increases, it will be detrimental to the stability of the ice sheet and Antarctic biodiversity," said Ding Minghu (丁明虎).
The annual report shows that ozone changes in the Arctic and Antarctic are significantly differentiated. The Antarctic ozone hole has significantly eased, with a maximum single-day coverage area of approximately 22.86 million square kilometers, the fifth smallest value in history, and closed approximately 3 weeks earlier than usual. However, Arctic ozone has decreased significantly, and the total ozone in March 2025 was significantly lower, forming a sharp contrast with the same period in 2024.
In addition, the concentrations of major greenhouse gases in the polar regions continue to rise. Monitoring shows that the concentrations of four major greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and sulfur hexafluoride, in the Arctic and Antarctic have increased compared with the previous year.
"Polar warming, sea ice reduction, ice sheet melting, and ozone changes will have a profound impact on the global climate system through atmospheric circulation, ocean circulation, radiation balance, and sea level changes," said Zeng Qin (曾沁).
Return to TopUrumqi, May 5th (Reported by Li Yanan (李亚楠) from this newspaper) Recently, in the hinterland of the Taklamakan Desert (塔克拉玛干沙漠), as the last desert seedling took root in the sand dunes, the first large-scale seedling replanting work of the Tarim Desert Highway (塔里木沙漠公路) ecological protection forest was fully completed. 500,000 drought-resistant and alkali-tolerant seedlings were planted in the desert, and approximately 1.65 million square meters of straw checkerboards bound the shifting sand dunes.
The Tarim Desert Highway (塔里木沙漠公路), as the longest graded highway in the world crossing mobile deserts, is not only a transportation hub connecting the north and south of Xinjiang (新疆), but also an energy channel to ensure the exploration and development of oil and gas in the desert. Since the completion of the 436-kilometer protection forest ecological project along the Tarim Desert Highway (塔里木沙漠公路) in 2005, the "green Great Wall" constructed by desert plants such as Haloxylon ammodendron and Tamarix chinensis has effectively curbed the invasion of shifting sand and ensured the safe and smooth flow of the highway. However, with the increase in the growth years of the forest belt, problems such as the degradation of some plants, the breeding of pests and diseases, and the intensification of sand erosion have gradually emerged, and the effectiveness of ecological protection is facing challenges. In early April this year, Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田) seized the golden period of afforestation and launched the seedling replanting work of the ecological protection forest. In the sand erosion areas outside the ecological protection forest, Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田) has successively laid approximately 1.65 million square meters of straw checkerboards to firmly fix the shifting sand dunes and effectively block the path of shifting sand invasion. In areas lacking seedlings, Tarim Oilfield (塔里木油田) pre-wetted the sand ridges, and 8 greening management teams worked simultaneously, strictly following the standards of 80 cm plant spacing and 1.5 m row spacing, planting 500,000 seedlings of Tamarix chinensis, Haloxylon ammodendron, and other species in different zones and categories on both sides of the desert highway to ensure the rationality of seedling types and hierarchical structure, and to enhance the ecological diversity and stress resistance of the forest belt.
Return to TopXining (西宁), May 5th (Reporter Jiang Meng (江萌)) - The reporter learned from the Qinghai Province Forestry and Grassland Bureau (青海省林业和草原局) that, according to the latest data, there are currently 541 species of birds in Qinghai Province (青海省), an increase of 9 species compared to 2024, including the Grey-streaked Flycatcher, Brown-cheeked Suthora, and Common Koel. There are currently 27 species of national first-class protected birds and 89 species of second-class protected birds.
Qinghai (青海) is located on two bird migration routes: East Asia-Australasia and Central Asia. Every year, millions of migratory birds stop, breed, and overwinter here. Since October 2025, Qinghai (青海) has conducted a survey and monitoring program lasting more than 40 days and covering more than 40,000 kilometers, covering 137 important bird habitat sample points. A total of 78 species of autumn migratory waterbirds, totaling more than 690,000, were surveyed; in 2026, 49 species of overwintering waterbirds, totaling more than 50,000, were surveyed, an increase of 7 species compared to the same period.
In recent years, Qinghai (青海) has continued to promote various protection and management measures, and the background of bird resources has become increasingly rich. In 2025, the "Qinghai Province Wild Animal Protection Regulations" (青海省野生动物保护条例) was promulgated and implemented, announcements on hunting ban areas and hunting ban periods were issued, a three-level joint mechanism was established, and the protection of bird habitats was strengthened. Synchronized monitoring of overwintering waterbirds has been carried out for five consecutive years, and bird rescue and epidemic source and disease monitoring, prevention, control, and early warning have been continuously strengthened. A high-pressure law enforcement posture has been maintained, and special actions such as the "Qinghai Province Bird Protection Activity and Special Action to Crack Down on Illegal Hunting and Trafficking of Birds" (青海省保护鸟类活动和打击非法捕猎贩卖鸟类专项行动) and "Qingfeng Action 2026" (清风行动2026) have been promoted. The volunteer "Protecting Birds Action" is being carried out in an orderly manner, and the public is actively participating in bird rescue. Loving and protecting birds has gradually become a conscious action of the general public.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 庞革平
Among the 27 bridges spanning the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) along its entire length, one is a dedicated passage bridge erected specifically for the safe migration of wild animals such as the Spotted Linsang, Leopard Cat, and Red-bellied Squirrel. This is also the first dedicated wildlife passage bridge in China that crosses a canal.
The Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) starts in Hengzhou (横州), Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西), and leads to the sea in Qinzhou (钦州), Guangxi (广西), with a total length of approximately 134.2 kilometers and a total investment of 72.7 billion yuan, allowing navigation for 5,000-ton ships.
During the construction of the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), in order to reduce the impact on the original migration routes of wild animals, the project specifically constructed two wildlife passage bridges.
One is a dedicated wildlife passage bridge. This bridge is located in the watershed section of the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) and is China's first ecological corridor bridge crossing a canal. It does not allow vehicle traffic and is exclusively for the migration of wild animals. The bridge is 240 meters long and 20 meters wide, with a main bridge span of 130.2 meters. It adopts a top-bearing reinforced concrete box arch bridge design, which can not only cross 5,000-ton waterways without affecting navigation, but also adapt to complex terrain, achieving a two-way balance between engineering construction and ecological protection. The other is the Jintang Village Bridge (金塘村大桥) of the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河), which can meet human traffic needs while also serving as an animal passage, taking into account ecological needs.
According to reports, this dedicated animal passage bridge is completely different from ordinary bridges:
The bridge deck is not paved with asphalt, but only covered with soil, planted with native greenery such as Chinese Banyan and Quercus glauca, and food source fruit trees, restoring the original mountain forest environment; natural shelter areas and small water sources are set up to form an "eco-mimicking landscape with shade, food, and hiding places" to facilitate wild animals crossing the bridge; a "two-segment + three-line + multi-node" layout is adopted to adapt to the habits of different animals, maximizing the satisfaction of wild animals' passage and survival needs.
Return to TopLayout design: Cai Huawei (蔡华伟)
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A memorial service for former Japanese Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama (村山富市) was recently held in Tokyo (东京), attended by both his old political acquaintances and ordinary citizens. There was little noise among the crowd, mostly silent tributes and quiet conversations. For many Japanese citizens and those who follow East Asian history, this memorial service was not just a remembrance of an old man, but more of a tribute to a period of historical memory.
In the mourning, the resounding "Murayama Statement" of 1995 was repeatedly mentioned. At that time, it was the 50th anniversary of the end of World War II, and this statement, in the name of the Japanese government, for the first time explicitly acknowledged the past colonial rule and acts of aggression against other countries, using "deep remorse" and "sincere apologies" to directly face the history that brought profound disasters to the people of Asian countries. In the official political narrative of post-war Japan, such a statement broke the long-standing vague and evasive rhetorical inertia, becoming an important symbol of Japan facing history squarely and adhering to the path of peace.
The historical attitude marked by the "Murayama Statement" has long influenced Japan's diplomatic posture and international image. In the years that followed, the "Murayama Statement," left at key historical junctures, was not only an important guideline for the Japanese government on historical issues, but also a key benchmark for the international community to judge Japan's historical attitude. The historical understanding it carries has long transcended temporary political expressions and is of great significance for maintaining regional mutual trust and peaceful order. For this reason, whether the Japanese government can adhere to and inherit the spirit of the "Murayama Statement" has always affected the eyes of Asian neighbors and the international community. Whenever there is an important historical juncture, whether Japanese officials continue this frank historical understanding is often seen as an important signal to observe the country's direction.
As time passes, the generation that personally experienced the war and promoted historical reflection is gradually leaving the stage, and the discussion about war memories in Japanese society is becoming increasingly complex under the intertwining of real politics and social emotions. On the one hand, many scholars and civil groups have always been running around calling for adhering to the position of facing history squarely and opposing war; on the other hand, with the rise of right-wing ideology, many political discourses deliberately blur the essence of the history of aggression, constantly dilute the reflection on war guilt, and attempt to weaken historical conclusions and confuse right and wrong.
In recent years, a series of adjustments in Japan's military, security, and diplomatic fields have attracted much attention. Defense budgets have been rising continuously, the principles of arms exports have been continuously relaxed, and the transformation of the Self-Defense Forces from defense to offense has continued to accelerate... Behind a series of trends, it reflects that Japan is deviating from its post-war peaceful positioning. In this context, the value of the "Murayama Statement" is even more precious. It clearly tells the world: sincere reflection on history is not only an explanation of the past, but also an adherence to the future path of peace. A country that was once deeply mired in the vortex of war can only stay on course by maintaining a clear understanding of history.
In Japanese society, there are always voices that are unwilling to forget history and cannot forget history. The peace rallies in front of the Diet, the rational comments in the media, and the rigorous research in academia together outline the underlying tone of civil society cherishing peace and opposing war. These voices of justice have long reminded the world that historical reflection should not be diluted with the passage of time.
The bouquets at the memorial service will wither, but history will never be erased by the passage of time. It needs to be remembered, examined, and, more importantly, adhered to in the face of changing times. As those who experienced it gradually fade away, how to preserve this precious historical reflection, and how not to lose the awe of history in real choices, is a common question that the times have left to Japan and to all those who cherish peace.
Return to TopBy: 钟 佳 黄惠康
On May 3, 1946, the International Military Tribunal for the Far East officially opened in Tokyo, Japan (日本东京) (also known as the Tokyo Tribunal). This trial, which lasted two and a half years, with conclusive evidence, rigorous legal principles, and a just verdict, recognized the nature of the war of aggression launched by Japanese militarism, investigated the war responsibilities of war criminals, and established that Japan must abandon its post-war positioning of military expansion, thus becoming an important part of the post-war international order. Eighty years later, as we look back on this history, we realize more profoundly that the historical justice embodied in the Tokyo Tribunal cannot be denied, its legal effect cannot be challenged, and the cornerstone of the post-war international order it laid cannot be shaken.
The Tokyo Tribunal: A Legal Monument of Historical Justice
The legitimacy of the Tokyo Tribunal is rooted in international law and the common will of the international community to severely punish crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, and can withstand the dual test of history and legal principles. It represents mankind's common pursuit of justice and the rule of law, and its trial results are not only a consolation to countless victims in World War II, but also build the legal foundation of the post-war international order.
From a legal perspective, the "Charter of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East" clearly grants the court jurisdiction, and its judgments are binding on Japan (日本) under international law. In the "Japanese Instrument of Surrender," Japan (日本) pledged to faithfully implement the 1945 "Potsdam Proclamation," which in turn reaffirmed the legal effect of the 1943 "Cairo Declaration." The three form a complete legal chain, fixing major issues concerning Japan's (日本) statehood, such as its post-war positioning, territorial scope, and arms restrictions, in the form of international law.
The legal significance of the Tokyo Tribunal lies not only in the criminal prosecution of the main Japanese (日本) war criminals who launched the war of aggression, but also in the form of international judicial practice, together with the Nuremberg Trials, pursuing the responsibility of war criminals who committed crimes against peace and crimes against humanity, filling the gap in traditional international law that only adjusts state behavior and does not pursue individual war responsibility, laying the cornerstone for the establishment of a modern international criminal law system.
The Tokyo Tribunal further promoted the Japanese (日本) society's reflection on the history of aggression. Article 9 of the "Constitution of Japan (日本国憲法)" clearly stipulates that Japan (日本) forever renounces the initiation of war, does not recognize the right of the state to belligerency, and does not maintain war potential, which is a legal constraint on Japan (日本) by the post-war international order. This constitutional principle has safeguarded Japan's (日本) post-war peaceful development and has become an important guarantee for regional peace and stability, and should be adhered to for a long time.
Moving Against the Tide: Historical Provocations by the Japanese (日本) Right Wing
Unfortunately, eighty years later, some right-wing politicians in Japan (日本) are reversing course on historical issues, attempting to deny the Tokyo Tribunal and break through the post-war international order, creating hidden dangers for regional peace and stability.
At the level of historical cognition, they deliberately downplay or even deny the history of aggression, tamper with history textbooks, and deny key historical facts such as the Nanjing Massacre (南京大屠杀) and the forced recruitment of "comfort women"; they glorify the crimes of militarism, enshrining war criminals as "heroes"; politicians frequently visit the Yasukuni Shrine (靖国神社), which enshrines Class A war criminals, openly challenging the bottom line of historical justice; and they revive militaristic symbols such as the "colonel" military rank, inciting extreme nationalist sentiments. These actions are essentially a denial of the legal effect of the Tokyo Tribunal and a serious violation of Japan's (日本) international legal obligations.
In terms of arms expansion, Japan (日本) has broken through international law's arms restrictions on Japan (日本) by amending the security law and promoting constitutional amendments, and has significantly increased military spending for 14 consecutive years. They have broken through the constraints of Japan's (日本) "Peace Constitution" and the principle of "exclusive defense," attempting to upgrade the Self-Defense Forces to a "national defense force," vigorously developing long-range strike weapons, and constantly "self-loosening" on the issue of arms exports, lifting the ban on the export of lethal weapons. These military expansion moves seriously violate the "Potsdam Proclamation" regarding Japan's (日本) must "completely disarm" and "eliminate militarism," and also seriously violate the "pacifism" spirit of the Japanese (日本) Constitution, posing a direct threat to regional security. It must be pointed out that Article 9 of the "Constitution of Japan (日本国憲法)" regarding Japan's (日本) "forever renouncing war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes" and "not maintaining land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, and not recognizing the right of the state to belligerency" is not simply Japanese (日本) domestic law, but a legal constraint on Japan (日本) by the post-war international order, and Japan (日本) has no right to change it without authorization.
In terms of fulfilling international legal obligations, Japan (日本) violates the clear provisions of international legal documents such as the "Cairo Declaration" and the "Potsdam Proclamation" regarding Japan's (日本) must unconditionally return the Chinese (中国) territory it stole, and attempts to illegally occupy China's (中国) inherent territory, the Diaoyu Islands (钓鱼岛); on the Taiwan (台湾) issue, which involves China's (中国) core interests, it has repeatedly made wild remarks, openly claiming that a "Taiwan (台湾) emergency" may constitute a "survival crisis situation" for Japan (日本), implying the possibility of military intervention in the Taiwan (台湾) issue, seriously violating the solemn commitments made by the Japanese (日本) government in the "Sino-Japanese Joint Statement," constituting a gross interference in China's (中国) internal affairs; and has long produced and stored plutonium materials far exceeding the actual needs of civilian nuclear energy, threatening to amend the "Three Non-Nuclear Principles," openly challenging the "Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons" and the international nuclear non-proliferation system.
The series of actions by Japanese (日本) right-wing forces to deny the Tokyo Tribunal and break through the post-war international order are essentially a blatant violation of international legal obligations and constitute illegal acts at the international law level, and should bear corresponding state responsibility.
Safeguarding Peace: The Common Responsibility of the International Community
History is the best textbook and the best sobering agent. The historical justice of the Tokyo Tribunal is a precious achievement bought by mankind with countless lives, and must not be trampled on at will.
For Japan (日本), facing up to history, reflecting on its guilt, and complying with international legal obligations are prerequisites for gaining the trust of the international community. Any attempt to deny the Tokyo Tribunal and revive militarism is a reversal of history, which will not only be resolutely opposed by the international community, but will ultimately harm Japan's (日本) own interests.
The international community should jointly safeguard the cornerstone of the post-war international order. The United Nations (联合国) should play a central coordinating role. All countries should firmly uphold the authority of international legal documents such as the "Cairo Declaration" and the "Potsdam Proclamation," oppose any behavior that violates international law, jointly resist historical revisionism, prevent the resurgence of Japanese (日本) militarism, and jointly maintain the stability of the post-war international order.
China (中国) has always been a firm defender of the post-war international order. We firmly oppose any acts that glorify the history of aggression and undermine regional peace and stability, and will firmly defend national territorial sovereignty and safeguard historical justice and the international rule of law.
The Tokyo Tribunal 80 years ago left mankind with the belief that "justice will eventually triumph over evil." Eighty years later, we should revisit this history and take practical actions to defend historical justice and safeguard the hard-won peace. The historical verdict has already been written, and the bottom line of justice must not be crossed. This is the common aspiration of mankind and an irresistible trend of the times.
(The author is an international affairs observer)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 车 斌
The Asian Development Bank recently released the "Asian Development Outlook 2026 (April Edition)" report, which analyzes that since the beginning of this year, the economy of Papua New Guinea (巴布亚新几内亚) has shown strong resilience, the fiscal deficit has decreased, foreign exchange reserves are more abundant, the private economy is becoming more active, and the ability to resist external shocks has been significantly improved. This is mainly due to the country's steady progress in macroeconomic reforms. According to Papua New Guinean media reports, with the upcoming launch of some large-scale resource projects and the growth of export trade this year, Papua New Guinea's economic growth rate is expected to reach 4% in 2026.
Agriculture is a major pillar of Papua New Guinea's economy, sustaining the livelihoods of more than 80% of the population. In June 2024, Papua New Guinea launched the "National Agriculture Sector Plan (NASP) 2024-2033". The plan focuses on key industries such as coffee, cocoa, coconut, rice, and animal husbandry, accelerating Papua New Guinea's transformation from traditional subsistence farming to high value-added agricultural product processing and export, with the goal of transforming the country into a commercialized, export-oriented economy by 2033, creating 1 million new jobs, and effectively ensuring food security. Papua New Guinean Prime Minister James Marape (詹姆斯·马拉佩) recently published a commentary in the local mainstream media *The National*, stating that Papua New Guinea's huge agricultural potential has not yet been fully exploited, and the government will introduce more policies and measures to promote agriculture towards scale, commercialization, and increased added value of agricultural products.
The mining industry is an important engine of Papua New Guinea's economy. Since the beginning of this year, international commodity prices such as gold and copper have risen, and Papua New Guinea will continue to benefit from the expansion of existing gold and copper mine production and the launch of new projects such as nickel and cobalt mines. According to data from a technology company headquartered in Bangalore, India, Papua New Guinea's mining industry is showing rapid growth in 2026, and the mining industry will account for more than 60% of the country's total export revenue.
In order to further attract foreign investment and promote industrial upgrading, the Papua New Guinean government is exploring the development of special economic zones. Richard Maru (理查德·马鲁), Minister of International Trade and Investment of Papua New Guinea, said that the construction of special economic zones will become an important "catalyst" for Papua New Guinea to accelerate industrial development and transformation in the next 20 years. Currently, Papua New Guinea has 5 special economic zones that have been licensed, providing tax incentives and policy support for domestic and international investment developers. "More special economic zones will be prepared for operation in the future. The construction of special economic zones will drive the upgrading of the industrial value chain, continuously reduce dependence on imports, and create more employment opportunities," said Richard Maru (理查德·马鲁).
Papua New Guinea (巴新) was the first Pacific island country to sign a cooperation document with China (中国) on jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路). Under the cooperation framework of jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路), an increasing number of Chinese companies are investing in the construction of infrastructure fields such as ports, railways, energy, and logistics in Papua New Guinea (巴新), promoting local connectivity and inclusive growth. Recently, the "Napanapa" solar energy project in Central Province (中央省) of Papua New Guinea (巴新), which was jointly invested and constructed by Chinese enterprises, was connected to the grid. This is the first grid-connected photovoltaic power station in Papua New Guinea (巴新). William Duma (威廉·杜马), Minister of State-Owned Enterprises of Papua New Guinea (巴新), said: "Cooperating with Chinese enterprises and introducing world-leading photovoltaic energy storage technology not only provides Papua New Guinea Power Company with competitive electricity purchase costs, but also provides a fairer path to solve the problem of power supply in remote areas. We look forward to China and Papua New Guinea further broadening cooperation areas."
Return to TopVarious Circles in Japan Call for Safeguarding the Peace Constitution
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo (陈泽安 (Chen Ze'an), 李子越 (Li Ziyue)) - In response to Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) expressing her desire to revise the constitution again on May 3, Japanese public opinion and several opposition parties expressed their concerns about the constitutional revision on the same day, calling for safeguarding Article 9 of the Constitution.
An editorial in Japan's *Ryukyu Shimpo* (《琉球新报》) on May 3 pointed out that moves to hollow out the peace clause of the Constitution have long been underway, including allowing the exercise of collective self-defense rights, possessing "the ability to attack enemy bases," and lifting the ban on arms exports.
On May 3, several opposition parties issued statements and talks, expressing their willingness to safeguard Article 9 of the Constitution. The Japanese Communist Party stated that if the Self-Defense Forces (自卫队) are written into Article 9 of the Constitution, the "final constraint" will be broken, and Japan will undergo a major transformation, moving towards a war-mongering nation. The Social Democratic Party of Japan (日本社民党) stated that the party will adhere to Article 9 of the Constitution. It is regrettable that constitutional revision issues such as writing the Self-Defense Forces into Article 9 of the Constitution have been put on the political agenda, and some political parties are echoing this trend. Reiwa Shinsengumi (令和新选组) stated that the danger of the Takaichi (高市) administration proposing a constitutional amendment is approaching, and it should be jointly stopped.
On the same day, Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) sent a video to a gathering of constitutional revisionists held in Tokyo (东京), expressing her desire to revise the constitution as soon as possible. *The Nikkei* (《日本经济新闻》) reported that Takaichi (高市) said in the video on the issue of constitutional revision that the constitution should be updated regularly in response to the requirements of the times.
US Media: US and Israel are Coordinating, or Preparing for a New Round of Strikes Against Iran
According to Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem (耶路撒冷) May 5 (庞昕熠 (Pang Xinyi), 冯国芮 (Feng Guorui)) - CNN (美国有线电视新闻网) quoted Israeli sources on May 5 as saying that as tensions in the Strait of Hormuz (霍尔木兹海峡) escalate, Israel is coordinating with the United States to "prepare for a possible new round of strikes against Iran."
The source said the new round of strikes would focus on energy infrastructure and senior Iranian officials, aimed at pressuring Iran through a short-term operation to make more concessions in negotiations. But the source stressed that whether to resume the strikes still depends on US President Trump (特朗普). Trump (特朗普) is "frustrated" by the stalemate in US-Iran negotiations and the inability to open the Strait of Hormuz (霍尔木兹海峡).
US Trade Deficit Increased for the Second Consecutive Month in March
According to Xinhua News Agency, New York (纽约) May 5 (刘亚南 (Liu Yanan)) - Data released by the US Department of Commerce on May 5 showed that affected by the increase in commodity imports, the US trade deficit in goods and services in March was 60.3 billion US dollars, an increase of 2.5 billion US dollars month-on-month, an increase of about 4.4%, and a month-on-month increase for the second consecutive month. Data show that the value of US exports and imports of goods and services in March were 320.9 billion US dollars and 381.2 billion US dollars, respectively, an increase of 2% and 2.3% month-on-month.
EU Official: Middle East Crisis Severely Damages EU Energy and Economy
According to Xinhua News Agency, Brussels (布鲁塞尔) May 5 (康逸 (Kang Yi)) - EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen (丹·约根森) warned on May 5 that since the outbreak of the Middle East conflict, EU member states have spent more than 30 billion euros extra on fossil fuel imports without receiving any additional supplies. He said: "The world is facing the most serious energy crisis in history, and this crisis is testing the resilience of the EU's economy, society and partnerships."
Return to TopFor some time, due to the continued violation of the Gaza ceasefire agreement by the Israeli army, children in the Gaza Strip have been in an unprecedented humanitarian crisis. The war has destroyed the children's schools, but has not extinguished their thirst for knowledge.
The picture shows students sitting on the ground for class in a severely damaged local school recently.
Photographed by Abed Rabbo Rahim Katib (阿拜德·拉希姆·卡提布) (Image China)
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The Brazilian government recently launched the first "Food Sovereignty Protection Area" in the Yanomami (亚诺玛米) Indigenous Territory, within the Xicimabiu community downstream of the Mucajaí River in Roraima state. This marks the first time the Yanomami (亚诺玛米) indigenous people have restored a stable and sustainable food production system in their ancestral lands with official support, based on the systematic clearing of illegal mining activities.
The Yanomami (亚诺玛米) are one of the largest indigenous groups in Brazil in terms of population and land area. The Yanomami (亚诺玛米) Indigenous Territory spans the states of Roraima (罗赖马州) and Amazonas (亚马孙州), covering a total area of approximately 9.6 million hectares and home to approximately 31,000 people, located in the heart of the Amazon rainforest. For a long time, illegal mining and other activities have been rampant in the region, leading to heavy metal contamination of rivers and destruction of forests, severely impacting the traditional gathering, hunting, and shifting cultivation agricultural systems of the indigenous people. The Yanomami (亚诺玛米) Indigenous Territory has become one of the most concerning and urgent areas in the Brazilian indigenous agenda.
Regarding the protection of indigenous territories and the restoration of rights, the Brazilian government has systematically promoted institutional reconstruction in recent years, including strengthening the governance structure of indigenous affairs, establishing the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples (原住民事务部), coordinating territorial protection, rights protection, social policies, and inter-departmental collaboration, concentrating the efforts of various departments to promote the continuous governance of indigenous territories. In terms of guaranteeing land rights, from 2023 to 2025, the regularization process of a total of 51 indigenous territories has made varying degrees of progress, of which 20 territories have been approved by the president, and 10 territories have been officially established as protected areas. Brazil has also announced its commitment to regularizing the protection of approximately 630,000 square kilometers of indigenous and Afro-descendant community territories by 2030.
In terms of combating illegal mining activities, since April 2024, under the joint action framework related to the Amazon region and borders, the Brazilian Ministry of Defense (巴西国防部) and various agencies have cumulatively carried out more than 9,000 operations, covering multiple dimensions of tasks such as prevention, reconnaissance, combating illegal mining, smuggling, and related illegal activities, effectively cracking down on local illegal economic chains, blocking the supply routes of illegal organizations, and strengthening security control around indigenous territories. Data shows that from March 2024 to January this year, active mining areas within the Yanomami (亚诺玛米) Indigenous Territory have decreased by 98.77%.
Currently, the Brazilian government is shifting its governance focus from "stopping losses" to "restoration." Relevant departments have launched river, soil, and forest ecological restoration actions to gradually restore the damaged natural environment; taking food security as a breakthrough point, rebuilding the sustainable production capacity of indigenous communities. The "Food Sovereignty Protection Area" launched in the Xicimabiu (西卡马比乌) community is a representative project. Rosemarie Vilarasa (罗丝玛丽·维拉萨), a researcher at the Roraima (罗赖马) branch of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (巴西农业研究公司), who participated in the project, said that this project is of landmark significance, "In the past, the residents of this land often faced life-threatening dangers; and now, we have brought infrastructure and production tools to ensure the food rights of the indigenous people."
The Brazilian National Indigenous Foundation (巴西国家原住民基金会) also provides indigenous communities with production materials and technical support in conjunction with other departments, including seeds, agricultural and fishing tools, processing equipment, etc., and conducts corresponding technical training in line with local conditions. According to Jefferson Fernandes (杰斐逊·费尔南德斯), General Coordinator of Production Activities of the Brazilian National Indigenous Foundation (巴西国家原住民基金会), this move will not only allow the Yanomami (亚诺玛米) people to effectively recover their land, but will also directly affect the food security situation of indigenous communities, helping to enhance the autonomy of indigenous communities and the living standards of the people.
(Reported by this newspaper from Rio de Janeiro (里约热内卢))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 蒋雪鸿 贾丰丰
In the spring sunshine, on the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地), in Zhaoshipan Town (赵石畔镇), Hengshan District (横山区), Yulin (榆林), Shaanxi (陕西), 86-year-old Zhang Binggui (张炳贵) stands in his orchard, reaching out to pinch the flower buds on the branches, "They're full, and the trees are doing well." Behind him, 300 mu of apple trees spread along the sand ridges, the branches swelling with the promise of spring.
Decades ago, this was a stretch of yellow sand ridges, where sand flew with the wind, and even grass couldn't "stand" firm. Climate warming has "dragged" apple cultivation all the way to the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地).
The tiny flower buds in the orchard are a vivid microcosm of China's climate warming and the profound changes in its agricultural landscape, as well as a true reflection of how the results of the new round of agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning pilots are empowering fields and benefiting farmers.
Climate Warming, Agricultural Production Layout Continues to Shift Northward and Westward
"Shaanxi's (陕西) apples have developed from the northern foothills of the Qinling Mountains (秦岭) all the way north to the Loess Plateau (黄土高原) in northern Shaanxi (陕北). Now, some areas in southern Yulin (榆林) can also grow them, and the suitable planting area for apples has expanded," said Liang Yi (梁轶), a senior engineer at the Shaanxi Provincial Agricultural Remote Sensing and Economic Crop Meteorological Service Center (陕西省农业遥感与经济作物气象服务中心).
"In the past 40 years, China's climate has warmed significantly, and China's temperature zones have been continuously moving westward and northward," introduced Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双), Deputy Director of the National Climate Center (国家气候中心).
The northward extension of the apple planting belt to the southern edge of the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地) is just a typical example of how climate warming is driving the restructuring of China's agricultural landscape. From a national perspective, the trend of agricultural planting boundaries shifting northward and westward is very significant:
In Shanxi (山西), Shaanxi (陕西), and Hebei (河北) provinces, the northern boundary for double-cropping has shifted northward by an average of 26 kilometers;
In Hunan (湖南), Hubei (湖北), Anhui (安徽), Jiangsu (江苏), and Zhejiang (浙江) provinces, the northern and western expansion of the triple-cropping boundary is obvious, with some areas in Zhejiang (浙江) and Anhui (安徽) exceeding 100 kilometers;
The suitable cotton area in Xinjiang (新疆) has expanded significantly, and cotton varieties in the southern Xinjiang (南疆) cotton-growing area have generally shifted to medium-maturing and medium-early-maturing varieties with longer growing seasons and greater yield potential;
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"The core reason for the 'northward and westward shift' of crops is the change in heat and moisture conditions under the dominance of climate warming," said Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双).
The "northward shift" is mainly driven by improved heat conditions. The extension of the frost-free period, the delay of the first frost, and the increase in accumulated temperature greater than or equal to 10 degrees Celsius have ensured the northward shift of the northern boundary for the safe maturation of crops such as corn and soybeans in high-latitude regions. At the same time, the decrease in the frequency and intensity of low temperatures in spring and autumn and the improvement of overwintering conditions in winter have promoted the stable northward push of the northern boundary for overwintering crops such as winter wheat and winter rapeseed.
The key driving factor for the "westward expansion" is the increase in water resources brought about by the trend of warming and humidification in the Northwest. The increase in annual precipitation and the accelerated melting of glaciers provide the basic water source for expanding the scale of oasis agriculture and reclaiming land to the west, which, coupled with the heat guarantee brought about by climate warming, jointly supports the obvious westward expansion of the triple-cropping boundary in the south.
"Climate change presents both opportunities and challenges for agriculture," Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双) further explained, adding that the increase in heat resources and the carbon dioxide "fertilization effect" provide a theoretical "window of opportunity" for optimizing the layout of agriculture.
However, climate warming will also lead to frequent extreme weather events, affecting crop growth and development, yield, and quality, posing a threat to grain production. At the same time, climate warming leads to a reduction in the protein, trace elements, and other nutrients in crops. Climate warming leads to an increase in the overwintering base of pests and diseases, allowing them to spread to higher latitudes and higher altitudes.
China conducted two rounds of national agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning in the mid-1960s and early 1980s, which laid an important foundation for the optimization of agricultural production layout for a long time.
"More than 40 years have passed since the second national agricultural climate resource survey and zoning work, and the climate resources for agricultural production have become blurred. Significant changes have taken place in China's agricultural climate resources and agricultural production, and some of the past achievements can no longer meet the needs of modern agricultural production," Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双) directly pointed out the problem. It is urgent to draw a detailed "climate portrait" of agriculture and rationally utilize climate resources such as light, temperature, water, and heat.
Since the No. 1 Central Document of 2023 proposed "studying and carrying out a new round of agricultural climate resource surveys and agricultural climate zoning work," the national agricultural climate resource survey and zoning pilot work has been carried out in an orderly manner.
In 2024, Shaanxi (陕西) became one of the first pilot provinces for the national agricultural climate resource survey and zoning. "Our goal is very clear: to understand the climate resources for agriculture and make the layout of the apple industry more scientific so that fruit farmers suffer less losses from planting trees," said Liang Yi (梁轶). "We focus on three core elements: resource inventory, zoning accuracy, and application effectiveness."
Technically, the refined climate zoning of apples has for the first time achieved a three-level linkage between provinces, cities, and counties, with the spatial resolution increased to 25 meters; in terms of models, the most climatically suitable areas are precisely superimposed with the data from the Third National Land Survey to identify nearly 280,000 hectares of potential suitable areas for apples in 14 counties (districts) in northern Shaanxi (陕北), and to precisely identify the potential suitable development area and disaster risk sensitive areas by region. Liang Yi (梁轶) put it vividly, "Whether an orchard is suitable for growing apples, what the disaster risks are, and which areas and time periods need to be focused on for prevention, the improved and optimized technical methods make the apple climate zoning results more refined and have higher application value, allowing villagers to realize the transformation from 'relying on experience' to 'looking at data' when growing apples."
"Growing apples is not just about physical strength; you have to rely on the weather and follow the natural order," Zhang Binggui (张炳贵) admitted frankly that in the early years, due to a lack of understanding of climate patterns, fruit trees were often subject to frost damage and wind and sand erosion, resulting in low yields and poor quality. With the advancement of the provincial agricultural climate resource survey and zoning work, refined climate data was delivered to the fields, and experts conducted on-site surveys and guidance, clarifying that the area has sufficient sunlight and a large temperature difference between day and night. Although it is located in a sandy area, the climatic conditions meet the growth needs of apples. As long as windbreak, frost protection, and moisture retention measures are taken, high-quality fruits can be grown.
Stable and high yields, increased income and wealth, the Mu Us Desert (毛乌素沙地) has truly realized a green transformation from yellow sand wasteland to high-quality orchards.
Overcoming Difficulties, Understanding the Climate Resources for Agriculture
The agricultural climate resource survey and zoning practice carried out in Shaanxi (陕西) is a typical case of the new round of agricultural climate resource survey and zoning pilot work.
In 2023, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) jointly carried out preliminary research, clarifying the path for compiling five core climate zoning maps for various crops, including planting, yield, and quality;
In 2024, pilot projects were launched in 7 provinces, with pilot crops including winter wheat, spring corn, spring soybeans, citrus, and apples;
In 2025, the pilot work was rapidly expanded to 19 provinces, with 10 new pilot crops added, and technical specifications and implementation plans were improved.
The two-year pilot project has initially formed a working pattern of "surveying in hundreds of cities and zoning in thousands of counties and districts."
The No. 1 Central Document of 2026 proposed "carrying out agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning." In March 2026, China's agricultural climate resource survey and zoning was fully launched.
What are the difficulties in promoting the survey and zoning work? Wang Yawei (王亚伟), Director of the Disaster Reduction and Service Department of the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局减灾服务司), admitted frankly that from data to technical routes to result verification standards, many technical difficulties and business "pain points" need to be overcome.
How to ensure data accuracy and achieve data integration?
The foundation of the survey and zoning work lies in comprehensive and accurate data accumulation. However, in actual promotion, data shortcomings themselves have become the primary challenge.
"The distribution of traditional meteorological stations is uneven. Some areas have dense stations, while some remote areas have almost none, resulting in the collected meteorological data not being comprehensive and detailed enough," Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双) explained. "Based on such data, only rough divisions can be made for the entire province and city, and it is impossible to accurately divide the planting suitability and disaster risk for each small piece of farmland and each kilometer of area."
To this end, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) has added two types of data: fully utilizing the more precise meteorological observation data from national regional stations to supplement the gaps in traditional stations; and opening and sharing national 1-kilometer grid multi-source integrated meteorological data, combined with 10-meter-level terrain data, using small grid extrapolation to further improve data accuracy. On the basis of the new data, these data are integrated, analyzed, and optimized with the help of artificial intelligence and big data mining technology to realize the survey and zoning results to villages, towns, and plots.
How to ensure the consistency of technical routes?
"This survey and zoning involves 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and their more than 300 cities and more than 2,000 counties. The participating units involve meteorological and agricultural departments at the national, provincial, municipal, and county levels. Ensuring the consistency of technical routes is a major difficulty," said Wang Yawei (王亚伟).
The China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) adheres to the principle of "standardization first" and has organized the compilation of 3 national industry standards, including the "Guidelines for Climate Zoning of Major Grain Crops," 13 national survey and zoning technical specifications, including the "Technical Specifications for Agricultural Climate Resource Surveys," and 3 national technical guidelines, including the "Technical Guidelines for Verification of Agricultural Climate Zoning Results."
"By unifying the national technical routes, work processes, and calculation methods, we ensure that the results in various places have consistent calibers, are aggregable, comparable, and nationally unified," Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双) summarized.
What standards are adopted to verify the results?
Whether the survey and zoning results are accurate and reliable needs to stand the test of practice, but in the past, there was a lack of unified verification standards and multi-source data support.
The National Climate Center (国家气候中心) organized the formulation of the "Technical Guidelines for Verification of Agricultural Climate Zoning Results." Agricultural and meteorological experts collectively review and judge whether the zoning logic is scientific and reasonable; staff go to the fields for on-site inspections and field investigations; and collect county-level statistical data to check the zoning with the actual agricultural planting and yield statistics in various places. "We also combine satellite remote sensing, agricultural meteorological experiments, statistical yearbooks, and other data to carry out multi-dimensional verification to ensure that the survey and zoning results are scientific, credible, and in line with reality," said Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双).
Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双) described the following scenario: "In the future, the government will guide and guide regional planting layouts, cropping systems, planting models, and supporting technical measures, etc. Farmers can rely on the map to accurately decide what crops to choose to achieve the goal of high yield, loss reduction, and increased efficiency."
Implementing Agricultural Affairs and Serving the Comprehensive Revitalization of the Countryside
How can the survey and zoning work be implemented in agricultural services? The answer can be glimpsed from the case of Henan (河南) dealing with hot-dry wind.
Hot-dry wind is a type of agricultural disaster weather with high temperature, low humidity, and a certain amount of wind, which can lead to water imbalance in winter wheat plants and hinder grain filling, seriously affecting the yield and quality of winter wheat.
In mid-May 2025, Henan (河南) experienced temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. At that time, it was the key period for winter wheat grain filling. The Henan (河南省) Meteorological Department, relying on advanced monitoring technology and a sound early warning system, jointly released an early warning of winter wheat hot-dry wind disaster risk with the Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (省农业农村部门).
The province quickly responded and implemented irrigation and moisture retention and "one spray and three preventions" comprehensive prevention and control operations in the hot-dry wind prevention and control areas in a timely manner in accordance with the guidance plan. After experimental verification, taking corresponding measures based on the relevant early warning information released based on the winter wheat scab and hot-dry wind zoning indicators, the meteorological service contributed 9% to the reduction of losses and increased production of winter wheat, and the survey and zoning work effectively served food security.
"The core significance of agricultural climate resource surveys and zoning lies in 'understanding the resources, scientific layout, and avoiding disadvantages'," said Wang Yawei (王亚伟). The China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) closely adheres to the principle of "surveying, zoning, and applying simultaneously" and continues to promote relevant results to serve national food security, agricultural modernization, and the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
"'Farming used to depend on the weather, but now it depends on mobile phones' has become a true portrayal of farmers," and the survey and zoning work continues to serve agricultural modernization. Relying on the national, provincial, municipal, and county-level zoning results, mobile terminal tools such as planting suitability query and disaster risk early warning are developed for grassroots agricultural technicians and large planters. Climate is a resource, zoning is a map, and data is a road sign. When the road is open, the farmer's road will be wider.
The survey and zoning work is also empowering the improvement of the quality and efficiency of characteristic industries and serving the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. The deep integration of zoning results and local characteristic industries helps the local industry's green and sustainable development.
For example, Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi (陕西), based on refined frost damage risk zoning, launched apple flowering frost weather index insurance, which does not require manual investigation, and compensation is automatically triggered when the minimum temperature in the orchard drops to the threshold. In 2025, the insurance pilot area in Luochuan (洛川) and Wuqi (吴起) exceeded 40,000 mu, effectively reducing the planting risk for fruit farmers. The apple zoning results are applied to planting planning, variety adjustment, and disaster prevention engineering construction. In the past three years, the indirect economic benefits generated by meteorological information technology promoting the improvement of quality and efficiency of the Shaanxi (陕西) apple industry have been close to 100 million yuan.
In addition, in other regions, such as Fuzhou (抚州), Jiangxi (江西), the meteorological department relied on the zoning results to complete the first batch of 37 Fuzhou (抚州市) climate-friendly enterprise reviews in 2025 and jointly provided preferential financing solutions such as "climate loans" for the above-mentioned enterprises with financial institutions, promoting the green development of local enterprises and injecting new impetus into the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
In the next 4 years, China will comprehensively promote the survey and zoning of five categories and 25 crops to understand the climate resources for agriculture and scientifically assess agricultural planting boundaries and meteorological disaster risks. By then, a complete closed loop covering indicator establishment, model construction, result verification, application promotion, and effectiveness evaluation will be formed. The massive results of the survey and zoning work will scientifically guide the optimization and adjustment of the agricultural structure of 31 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities) and their more than 300 cities and more than 2,000 counties, and will fully serve diverse application scenarios.
"Against the backdrop of climate warming, the National Climate Center (国家气候中心) will build an intelligent system integrating dynamic monitoring, intelligent analysis, product customization, and decision support; provide predictions of the impact of future climate trends on agriculture, guide agricultural production layout to avoid risks; and promote the establishment of relevant norms and standards to provide standardized guidance for national, provincial, municipal, and county-level collaboration," said Yuan Jiashuang (袁佳双). Through the above-mentioned intelligent platform upgrades, climate prediction integration, and standard specification leadership, the survey and zoning results will become an iteratively upgradeable "living dictionary" and will continue to be transformed into the actual productivity of high-quality agricultural development.
"In the process of full implementation, the key is to establish a sustainable mechanism of 'research-application-feedback-optimization' to allow this detailed 'map' to be continuously iterated and updated in practice and to be used frequently and kept new," Wang Yawei (王亚伟) introduced. The Disaster Reduction and Service Department of the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局减灾服务司) will continue to explore and cultivate application scenarios, revitalize and release the value of climate resource data, and promote the effective transformation of survey and zoning results from "data resources" to "real productivity."
The survey and zoning work is using digital means to make the agricultural climate resource survey results and climate zoning results accurate to the township, village, and even the field. It not only scientifically reveals the impact of climate change and builds a high-precision data base, but also enhances the ability to defend against agricultural disaster risks.
From "relying on the weather for farming" to "knowing the weather and working," the survey and zoning work is rooted in the fields, making the foundation of the great power granary more solid.
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"If you do not miss the farming season, there will be more grain than one can eat." On Earth, the growth of every crop follows the farming season, and climatic resources such as sunlight, water, heat, and wind energy directly determine the arrangement of the farming season.
China has a vast territory and abundant climatic resources. From south to north, it spans tropical, subtropical, and temperate zones, with sufficient heat and long sunshine hours. The monsoon climate is significant, with simultaneous rain and heat, and a large total precipitation. Wind energy resources are vast, and the total solar energy ranks among the highest in the world. In different climate zones, crops seize the farming season, grow vigorously, and produce abundant products.
Climate change is profoundly changing China's agricultural production pattern. Compared to 40 years ago, significant changes have taken place in China's water vapor resource pattern, crop growing season, and agricultural meteorological disasters. For example, the planting area of some crops has expanded, the planting boundary of some crops has moved northward, and the growth cycle of some crops has shortened, etc. Carrying out a new round of agricultural climate resource survey and zoning, finding out the "family property" of agricultural climate resources, and making climate resources "suitable" for agricultural production is of great significance. This is not only an important measure to deal with climate change, but also provides stronger support for future agricultural production.
The key to making climate resources "suitable" for agricultural production is precision. It is necessary to strive to ensure that each crop planting area can have an exclusive "climate ID" and truly achieve "knowing the weather and working accordingly." In this survey and zoning, monitoring systems such as satellites and radar, as well as artificial intelligence technology, are used to sort out historical data, collect the latest data, formulate indicator standards, establish relevant models, and carry out inspection and verification. Each crop, each area, and each scenario will be precisely drawn and delineated with data, transforming traditional "relying on the weather" production into "relying on data" production, and comprehensively empowering high-quality agricultural development.
Making climate resources "suitable" for agricultural production requires more attention to application. It is necessary to ensure that the refined agricultural climate zoning is implemented in the fields, increase crop yields, reduce disaster impacts, and achieve sustainable agricultural development. Some regions have applied the pilot results to agricultural production services with remarkable results. In Shandong (山东), the pilot results of the survey were applied to wheat production, and "full response" meteorological services were carried out in some plots. The average wheat yield per mu increased by 70.4 jin and the income increased by 80.4 yuan, with an average contribution rate of 9.1%. In Heilongjiang (黑龙江), the meteorological department used agricultural meteorological disaster risk zoning indicators and methods to carry out disaster risk estimates for droughts and waterlogging, providing a basis for agricultural production to reasonably avoid disasters, and changing from "passive disaster relief" to "active disaster prevention."
Responding to climate change is an urgent and long-term task. Doing a good job in the agricultural climate resource survey and zoning is an important part of responding to climate change. Promoting the precise "adaptation" of climate resources and agricultural production will enhance the resilience of agricultural production, further consolidate the foundation of food security, and achieve "storing grain in the land and storing grain in technology" (藏粮于地、藏粮于技 (cáng liáng yú dì, cáng liáng yú jì - "store grain in the land, store grain in technology," emphasizing both land cultivation and technological advancements for food security)), helping to make the "Chinese rice bowl" (中国饭碗) held more steadily and firmly.
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Highlights:
Sixty years ago, German photographer Jakob Becker's great-grandfather came to China and took nearly 300 photos. The rich scenes and friendly people became a deep Chinese bond for Becker. Sixty years later, Becker followed in his ancestor's footsteps, trying to photograph China in the same location and from the same perspective. Searching, observing, and discovering—well-protected ancient buildings have become reference points for finding filming locations; entire new facilities have become footnotes to development, replacing old scenes. The tremendous changes in China presented in the photos bring visual impact and spiritual shock, and also write a touching story of "spanning sixty years and passing on through generations."
——People's Daily reporter Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华)
Old photos recording ordinary Chinese people—
Are a gaze of history and a gift of time
In 1961, Shanghai (上海), looking from the Bund (外滩) towards Pudong (浦东), the river surface was vast, and the low skyline in the distance was dotted with docks and shipyards, with several wooden sailboats casually moored; 60 years later, from the same perspective, Pudong's skyline has clearly "grown taller," with skyscrapers rising like steel forests. On the Huangpu River (黄浦江), ships of all sizes cut through the water, leaving trails of waves.
"The changes in Shanghai in just a few decades are so huge that it's hard to imagine," said Claudia, an audience member from Erfurt (埃尔福特) in Germany, looking at the set of before-and-after photos.
This set of photos appeared this year in a special photo exhibition held by the Confucius Institute in Erfurt, Germany (德国埃尔福特孔子学院). The title of the exhibition is "China 1961-2021: Footprints of Change" (中国1961—2021·变迁的足迹). Each set of photos appears in pairs, all taken from the same place and the same perspective. The difference is that the photos on the left were taken in China in 1961, while the photos on the right are comparisons from sixty years later. In the comparison between the old and the new, China's development process and the changes of the times appear more vivid and three-dimensional.
At the exhibition site, Jakob Becker was carefully explaining the content of the photos to the audience. He is a German photographer born in the 1990s, the planner of this photo exhibition, and the photographer of the contemporary version of each set of photos; the person who went to China in 1961 and took the old photos was his great-grandfather, Horst Kontop (霍斯特·孔托普).
"In the 1960s, color photos were not common in China, so these images taken and preserved by my great-grandfather are particularly precious, becoming important visual materials documenting the social landscape of China at that time," Becker said. He carefully opened an old wooden box, the inner lid of which was covered with yellowed paper, with Chinese place names neatly marked in German. Inside the box were neatly arranged stacks of color reversal film (mostly used for slide projection or printing originals). "These are all from my great-grandfather. They are like time capsules sealing old times, full of the magic of telling history."
The batch of color films left by Kontop, nearly 300 in total, are all fixed in double-sided glass frames. After more than 60 years, the colors are still stable, with almost no obvious damage. Becker took out the negatives one by one and put them into a slide projector. As the lights dimmed, after a crisp "click" sound, China in 1961 unfolded one by one on the screen: on the train from Tianjin (天津) to Beijing (北京), a female train attendant in a dark blue khaki uniform smiled at the audience more than half a century later; under the empty corridor of the Summer Palace (颐和园) in Beijing, occasionally pedestrians in gray cloth clothes walked by; in the fields of rural Guangdong (广东), naive teenagers were playing table tennis around a wooden table with a "net" made of bricks; at a street corner in Shanghai, a waiter was busy in a shop selling boiled water...
These small details make the photos transcend mere images, outlining the lives of ordinary Chinese people more than 60 years ago. These moments are a gaze of history and a gift of time.
Filming with curiosity and respect—
Not China being watched, but China in life
Kontop was a doctor and an amateur photographer. "In 1961, my great-grandfather visited China with a medical delegation and recorded these scenes with the camera in his hand," Becker said.
During this trip, Kontop focused more on the daily lives of the Chinese people. After passing through Tianjin and Beijing, he went south all the way, passing through Shanghai, Hangzhou (杭州), and Guangzhou (广州) and surrounding areas, capturing the true face of cities and villages with continuous and meticulous observation. "These images are mostly unretouched, preserving the most authentic side of Chinese social life at that time," Becker said.
Kontop's observation was both curious and respectful, which made his photography transcend mere documentary function, presenting a kind of gentle humanistic care, and also revealing his respect for this land. "That is not China being watched, but China in life," Becker described his feelings when sorting out these images.
Even after returning to Germany, Kontop often talked to people around him about that unforgettable trip to China. What he saw and heard at that time lingered in his mind, especially his first contact with traditional Chinese medicine culture. Kontop had been troubled by toothache and was once in unbearable pain. A Chinese doctor recommended a treatment method that was almost unknown in Germany at the time—acupuncture. He accepted the treatment with a try-it-out mentality. "Incredibly, the toothache disappeared quickly after acupuncture treatment," Becker said with a smile. Since then, Kontop has praised acupuncture, and after returning to Germany, he often shared this oriental medical experience with his colleagues.
What remained in his memory for a longer time was the way people interacted with each other. Kontop later often mentioned the friendliness, honesty, and simplicity of the Chinese people, and was also deeply impressed by the orderliness of Chinese society.
"After my great-grandfather passed away, the films from that year have been carefully preserved by my grandmother. Without her, this memory would be difficult to pass down," Becker recalled. Becker often went to his grandmother's house to play, but before going to China, these films were still "sleeping treasures" to him.
Although he is a civil engineer, Becker, who loves music, spends most of his spare time in the choir of the Berlin State Opera (柏林国家歌剧院). In 2015, the choir was invited to Shanghai and Nanjing (南京) to participate in the 32nd Shanghai Spring International Music Festival (上海之春国际音乐节). The huge city, the modern high-speed rail, the lingering food... That was Becker's first time on Chinese soil, and the shock in his heart was difficult to calm for a long time. He recalled, "Friends from many countries gathered together to sing, and the enthusiasm and openness of the Chinese people deeply touched me." This experience inspired him to further understand China. After returning to Berlin, he actively learned about Chinese culture and worked hard to learn Chinese.
Later, when he looked at the photos taken by his great-grandfather decades ago at his grandmother's house again, Becker was surprised to find that he could clearly identify many of the places he had visited. He couldn't help but repeatedly confirm with his grandmother: "I've been to the Huangpu River in this photo, and I've been to Puxi (浦西) in this photo."
These old photos reactivated Becker's memory of China. "This kind of time-spanning comparison is magical—it makes people feel both familiar and strange, and I hope to share this special feeling with more people." Soon, an idea took shape in his mind—pick up the camera, revisit the same location from the same angle, and present the past and the present side by side.
Lamenting the "new scenery" in the "old photos"—
The tremendous changes in space and life, the qualities of the people have not changed
"This is inheritance, and it is also dissemination," Becker said.
From 2017 to 2019, Becker went to China many times to try to "re-shoot" his great-grandfather's old photos. This process was not easy: Kontop did not leave a diary of his visit to China, and the location information that Becker could refer to was only short or even vague markings on the edge of the film, such as "in the hotel" or "on the street." The urban and rural landscape of China has undergone tremendous changes, and accurately restoring the shooting location and angle is a considerable challenge.
Becker did not give up. "Fortunately, the SLR camera used by my great-grandfather back then could not adjust the focal length, allowing us today to judge the accurate position and perspective at that time by analyzing the composition and shooting angle of the photos."
Becker bluntly said: "When looking for some shooting locations, I had a deeper understanding of China's cultural relic protection. Some temples, city gates, and other historical buildings have been properly protected, becoming relatively stable reference points for judging locations. For example, a street scene near the City God Temple (城隍庙) in Shanghai was identified by locating the City God Temple." But most of the time, he could only judge from the roof structure, street lamp style, or even the activities of people. Sometimes, he would stop at places that were completely unrecognizable—where they had been replaced by elevated roads or entire new infrastructure, and the scenes in the old images no longer existed. It was in these moments of "unrepeatable shooting" that he more directly felt the strength of China's urban changes.
"The most profound change is not the architectural form, but the way people live their daily lives." In the comparison between images and reality time and time again, Becker discovered that the streets in his great-grandfather's lens were spaces where people's conversations, labor, and life were intertwined; today's China, space pays more attention to efficiency and mobility—roads are wider, infrastructure is more convenient, and it is more finely embedded in people's daily lives.
Based on Kontop's old photos and his own new works, Becker published the photo album "1961-2021 Hello, China" (1961—2021你好，中国) in 2021. This is a heavy photo album weighing 2 kilograms and totaling 376 pages. Each chapter is also accompanied by ancient Chinese poems as a guide. In the "Shanghai" chapter, Becker quoted the verse by the Qing Dynasty (清代) poet Gao Ding (高鼎), "Grass grows and warblers fly in the second month, the willows on the embankment are drunk in the spring smoke" (草长莺飞二月天，拂堤杨柳醉春烟), depicting the vibrant and beautiful scenery when he arrived in Shanghai, and also expressing his full of novelty and joyful mood, making the space, time, and cultural context echo each other. He initially only planned to print three or five copies of the German version for family commemoration, but everyone who saw it praised it, so there are now Chinese, English, and German versions, and it has also received love from readers in the United States, Singapore, Australia, and other countries. "I hope to contribute to deepening friendly exchanges between Germany and China through this photo album, and also allow more people to directly feel the miracle of China's development over the past 60 years," Becker said.
During the filming and publishing in China, Becker received support from many Chinese friends. Many Chinese audiences, scholars, and overseas Chinese actively provided clues to help identify photo locations, supplement historical materials, and even participate in image sorting and dissemination. This is itself a vivid cross-cultural interaction. Becker said with emotion: "The filming schedule in China was tight and fulfilling. Many times I didn't feel like an 'outsider', but more like a member here. Whether 60 years ago or now, the Chinese people's qualities of being warm, friendly, and helpful have never changed."
"Re-shooting China along my great-grandfather's lens, all the way, I feel that I understand China better," Becker said with a smile. With the support of German and Chinese friendly people, since 2022, Becker has held more than 10 photo exhibitions in Munich (慕尼黑), Hanover (汉诺威), Zurich (苏黎世), and other places in Germany and Switzerland, and built the website "Footprints of Change" (变迁的足迹) to share the vivid story of China's development with audiences around the world.
From discovering the dusty negatives to revisiting China and continuing to hold photo exhibitions, this journey connected by images has crossed time and space and brought people's hearts closer.
(This newspaper's Berlin (柏林) correspondent Cai Lin (蔡琳) and Zhao Hongsheng (赵宏笙) also contributed to this article)
Return to TopBy: 卡尔·费
At the BYD factory in Shenzhen (深圳) , Guangdong (广东), I personally witnessed the following scene: after a 6-inch nail was hammered into a traditional lithium cobalt oxide battery, the battery immediately caught fire; but when the same nail was hammered into BYD's newly developed lithium iron phosphate battery, it only heated up slightly. This gave me a deep shock at the time, and also made me begin to re-examine "Made in China" and want to explore the code for China's forging of independent innovation capabilities.
As a scholar who travels between Europe and China all year round, I visit China more than 5 times a year, and each time I conduct a lot of research, teaching and consulting work. People often ask me: Why do you always come to China, pay attention to China's technological trends, and why do you prefer to cooperate with Chinese people? The answer is actually very simple: Most of the Chinese people I know seem to believe in their bones that anything is possible, and they are always willing to explore new things and dare to pursue lofty goals. I believe that this spirit of daring to be the first and persevering is one of the important driving forces for China to achieve a magnificent transformation from a high-tech "follower" to a "leader" in many cutting-edge fields in just a few decades.
Not only at the individual level, but also at the national level. China's "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) proposes "developing new quality productive forces." In my opinion, this is a very visionary and wise move, reflecting China's practical path of relying on innovation to empower high-quality development. The continuous breakthroughs in cutting-edge technology fields will spawn more new industries, new models, and new driving forces. The outline also clearly proposes to "focus on leading the key areas of future development, build a full-chain cultivation system for future industries, and promote quantum technology, bio-manufacturing, hydrogen energy and nuclear fusion energy, brain-computer interfaces, embodied intelligence, and sixth-generation mobile communications to become new economic growth points." Looking back at China's innovation history, it is not difficult to find that this future-oriented strategic layout has cultivated a solid fertile ground for China to produce more original and disruptive innovative achievements.
The development of China's new energy vehicle industry is a perfect example. 15 years ago, probably no one would have thought that China would become the world's leading producer of new energy vehicles. And just in the past year of 2025, China's production and sales of new energy vehicles both exceeded 16 million units, ranking first in the world for 11 consecutive years. Now, Chinese car companies represented by BYD (比亚迪) can provide the global market with high-configuration, cost-effective products. From BYD's factory in Hungary (匈牙利) putting into production the first batch of local electric buses, to Leapmotor (零跑汽车) empowering its shareholder Stellantis Group (斯特兰蒂斯集团) in Spain (西班牙) with technology, to NIO (蔚来) continuing to expand its charging and battery swap service network in Europe, China's green innovation is providing new ideas and solutions for various countries to promote low-carbon development. These are by no means accidental, but the inevitable result of China's long-term adherence to independent research and continuous investment in technology research and development.
Artificial intelligence is also a booming field in China today. Many companies around the world are using artificial intelligence to improve efficiency, while many companies in China have begun to use artificial intelligence to drive their innovation processes. I believe that this will become the main focus of Chinese companies in the future, and artificial intelligence will also become an important engine for developing new quality productive forces. In Hangzhou (杭州), I saw companies using artificial intelligence to assist in dress design. Users only need to enter "Please design a red, low-cut, short-sleeved dress" and enter it into the system in free text, and the system will generate multiple dress design options. In Guangzhou (广州), perfume companies use artificial intelligence combined with personal characteristics, based on the facial structure of more than 500 data points and 7 basic emotional expressions, to recommend the most suitable perfume for customers. Not long ago, I myself had a hearty boxing sparring session with a robot from Unitree Robotics (宇树科技). In addition, with the blessing of artificial intelligence, the "hand-rubbing economy" that is quietly emerging in China has made me see the application vitality of Chinese innovation.
Today's China is undergoing a world-renowned development transformation - innovation-driven high-quality development. As a foreigner, I am also fortunate to witness and participate in it. The concentrated emergence of Chinese innovation achievements has never been a one-off accidental event, but stems from a consistent strategic focus, continuous and stable R&D investment, and the enthusiasm and perseverance of ordinary people for innovation. I also believe that Chinese innovation will open up more cooperation space and create more development opportunities for the world.
(The author is a professor of strategy at BI Norwegian Business School, former Dean of Nottingham University Business School (China), interviewed and compiled by Liu Zhonghua (刘仲华), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 迪伦·詹姆斯·亚当斯
I am a Brit who has lived in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) for nearly 10 years. At the beginning of this year, I took on a new role – Foreign Community Director Assistant at the Tongzilin (桐梓林) International Community Neighborhood Center.
The Tongzilin (桐梓林) International Community is one of the areas in Chengdu (成都) with the highest concentration of foreign permanent residents, with foreign residents accounting for about 1/5 of the entire community population. Over the past 10 years, I have witnessed the warm growth of this "international neighborhood" and have been fortunate enough to become a "liaison officer" connecting Chinese and foreign residents.
My connection with Chengdu (成都) began with its cuisine and deepened with its vibrant everyday life. Here, I met my current wife, a native Sichuan (四川) girl, who introduced me to the hot and lively life of Chengdu (成都) and made me feel the warmth of home. I also met many enthusiastic and kind friends whose friendliness helped me quickly integrate here. Later, when I saw the community neighborhood center recruiting international volunteers, I signed up without hesitation, hoping to pass on the kindness and warmth I felt here to more foreign friends.
As a member of the volunteer team, whenever new visa policies and other important documents are released, we promptly sort out the key points and synchronize them to the foreign residents in the contact group. As my experience continues to accumulate, I have also been officially hired as a "foreign assistant," enabling me to participate more deeply in community affairs and enrich and facilitate the community life of residents.
Solving everyone's problems is an important part of my job. For example, how to use medical insurance has always been a concern for many foreign residents, but they don't understand it. At that time, we wrote down everyone's questions one by one, sorted and summarized them, and then uniformly fed them back to the medical insurance department through the community, and soon received clear and accurate official replies. Based on this, we compiled an authoritative and easy-to-understand Chinese-English bilingual local medical insurance usage guide and shared it with foreign residents in the community as soon as possible. We also filmed vivid and interesting science popularization short videos to facilitate everyone's faster understanding of policy details. The positive feedback from everyone made me truly feel that these small efforts, transcending language and culture, can really help many people.
Encouraging everyone to strengthen communication and cultural exchange is also very important. In the community, I met an engineer friend from Mexico. He always talked about the taste of his hometown and wanted to let his neighbors taste authentic Mexican flavors. So, with the support of the community, we jointly planned a small-scale "Mexican Food Night" event, which was well received. Later, as similar activities were held more and more, they gradually developed into the community's "International Food Fair" theme series of activities. Mexican burritos, British afternoon tea, Chinese Sichuan (川菜) cuisine, and other dishes were presented in turn. Residents from various countries sat together, chatting and laughing, tasting special flavors, and talking about how to make food. Food has become a common language to bring our hearts closer.
In addition, the English corner that I led has also become a fixed weekly activity in the community. I teach Chinese friends to speak English, and they patiently take me to speak Sichuanese (四川话). Over time, I can speak authentic and witty phrases like "bashi de ban (巴适得板)" and "yaode (要得)" without thinking, and I speak them very smoothly.
I have long regarded Tongzilin (桐梓林) as my home. People often ask me: "You are a Brit, how can you stay here for so long?" I always answer with a smile: "Because in Tongzilin (桐梓林), life is 'bashi de ban (巴适得板)'." Behind this "bashi (巴适)" is a sense of security that I truly have here, being accepted, needed, and trusted. Especially after becoming a "foreign assistant," I am more like being integrated into the subtle veins of the city's internationalization process, witnessing and personally promoting one moment after another of mutual understanding and cultural integration. I also hope to pass this sense of security on to more people.
(The author is the Foreign Community Director Assistant of Tongzilin (桐梓林) International Community Neighborhood Center in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川). This article was compiled and edited by You Yi (游仪), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopBy: 王云杉
The Politburo meeting of the Chinese Communist Party (中共中央政治局) held on April 28th proposed: "We must deeply carry out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and transform the effectiveness of study and education into the practical effectiveness of promoting high-quality development."
Recently, reporters interviewed various places, and the local industrial development practices are refreshing. Rizhao (日照), Shandong (山东) actively promotes the transformation and upgrading of the steel industry, and the "steel red" and "ecological green" blend with each other; Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) uses "artificial intelligence +" as a fulcrum to promote the leap from "manufacturing city" to "intelligent manufacturing city"...
From north to south, although the development experiences are different, the common logic of the view of performance and the view of development is implied behind them: establishing and practicing a correct view of performance is related to the effectiveness of high-quality development, and the two complement each other and are internally unified.
High-quality development is a development that can well meet the people's growing needs for a better life, and it is a development that reflects the new development concept. Party members and cadres must follow the correct view of performance, respect the law, and make scientific decisions in order to calibrate the direction for development and lay a solid foundation. At present, whether it is from building a modern industrial system to accelerating high-level scientific and technological self-reliance, or from promoting the green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development to promoting the high-quality development of the private economy, these tasks have the characteristics of systematicness and long-term nature, and cannot tolerate quick success and instant benefit or one-sided shortsightedness. We need to correct our view of performance, make persistent efforts, and constantly solve development problems.
Taking the development experience of Yiwu (义乌) as an example, what does Yiwu rely on, without being near the sea or bordering other countries, from "chicken feathers for sugar" to "buying and selling globally"? It relies on 挖深井 (wā shēn jǐng - "dig a deep well," focus on a specific area and develop it thoroughly) without changing direction. Over the past 40 years, Yiwu market has undergone 6 relocations and 13 expansions, but the strategy of "prospering business and building the city" has never wavered. It has created a large market with small commodities and turned it into a large industry, and has embarked on a successful path of developing the county economy in accordance with local conditions. This inspires us that true achievements are often a relay race of "success does not have to be mine" and a tough battle of "success must be mine." Only by adhering to the actual situation, adapting to local conditions, and making persistent efforts can we have greater achievements in actual work.
Establishing a correct view of performance cannot be a mere formality, and must ultimately be seen in practice. For example, the resource endowments and location advantages of various parts of China are significantly different, and doing a good job in industrial layout tests whether cadres can adapt to local conditions and give full play to their strengths and avoid their weaknesses; for example, in the face of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, developing emerging industries tests whether cadres can seize opportunities and increase innovation; for example, promoting the greening of traditional industries, with high investment, long cycles, and greater transformation pressure, whether they can resolutely promote it demonstrates the cadres' vision, determination and responsibility.
At present, we are facing a complex and severe domestic and international environment. The more difficult and dangerous it is, the more it can illuminate the background of performance. From a global perspective, the "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a critical period for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. Around the goals of achieving remarkable results in high-quality development, the "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines a blueprint. Whether these goals can be achieved, whether the tasks can be completed, and whether the quality and efficiency can meet the standards all reflect whether party members and cadres have truly established and practiced a correct view of performance.
To promote high-quality development with a correct view of performance, the key lies in the unity of knowledge and action, and the emphasis is on practical work. In the first quarter of the "15th Five-Year Plan", China's economy delivered a bright report card, with a year-on-year increase of 5.0% in GDP, a substantial increase of 0.5 percentage points compared with the fourth quarter of last year. This good start reflects the effectiveness of studying and educating on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance. On the new journey, always establish and practice a correct view of performance, and promote the high-quality completion of various economic and social goals and tasks with practical actions, we will surely continue to create new development situations and add bricks and tiles to the construction of Chinese-style modernization.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 郑洋洋 王 沛 王伟健
Forging hammers rise and fall rhythmically as wind power flanges are forged in Dingxiang (定襄), Shanxi (山西), and sold to over 40 countries and regions. Molten steel surges and splashes as intelligent production lines operate efficiently in Rizhao (日照), Shandong (山东), where the world's largest thin wide strip steel production base has been built. Anchoring in fields such as autonomous driving, Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) promotes the innovative application of artificial intelligence in key industries and advantageous tracks. A flange, a furnace of steel, and numerous digital intelligence scenarios – the characteristic industries of these three locations are competing to unleash new momentum. Recently, reporters visited these three locations to explore how to develop new quality productive forces by adapting to local conditions.
Adapting to Local Conditions and Strengthening Advantages –
Based on reality, cultivate new quality productive forces and embark on a pragmatic path of traditional industrial transformation.
The reporter walked into the Dingxiang Economic and Technological Development Zone (定襄经济技术开发区), where the roar of machines echoed in the ears. In the workshop of Shanxi Fuxingtong Heavy Ring Forging Co., Ltd. (山西富兴通重型环锻件有限公司), sparks flew sporadically with the rhythm of mechanical operation. A rough flange blank, after multiple processes such as blanking, forging, and heat treatment, transformed into a wind power flange with a smooth surface and meeting precision standards in just a few tens of minutes.
As a core component connecting pipelines and equipment, flanges are indispensable in everything from household pipelines to wind power and petrochemical equipment. "In the past, forging was done manually, and swinging a sledgehammer all day wouldn't produce many pieces," said Wang Yongdong (王永栋), Deputy General Manager of the company. "Now that we have built a digital factory, the production cycle has been shortened by an average of 2.5 weeks, and efficiency has increased by 16%. The county accurately connected with the company's needs and helped us secure digital transformation projects, equipping the old forging industry with a 'smart brain'."
Dingxiang (定襄), Shanxi (山西), has more than 2,000 years of forging heritage and has been known as the "sesame seed blacksmith" since ancient times. Although it does not produce coal, it rose to prominence in the ironworking industry due to its location on the ancient frontier of reclamation and warfare. Most of the people made a living by forging weapons and agricultural tools, and the forging skills were passed down from generation to generation.
From the sweat of manual forging to the precision and efficiency of digital factories, Dingxiang (定襄) does not blindly follow trends or act recklessly. Based on local realities, it cultivates new quality productive forces and has embarked on a pragmatic path of traditional industrial transformation.
Adhering to the principle of "not abandoning the old business and not engaging in industrial flipping," Dingxiang (定襄) has not blindly pursued emerging industry hotspots. Instead, it has anchored its "signature skill" of flange forging, using the construction of specialized towns as a carrier to promote the deep integration of the industrial chain, supply chain, and innovation chain.
In the past, Dingxiang (定襄) flanges faced problems such as severe product homogenization and backward equipment levels. After the launch of specialized town construction, the local government focused on solving structural contradictions and "bottleneck" problems in industrial development, allowing Dingxiang (定襄) flanges to climb to the high end of the industrial chain. For example, in response to problems such as low equipment levels and backward technology, the introduction of Shanxi Jinbo Precision Manufacturing Co., Ltd. (山西锦博精密制造有限公司) filled the gap in high-precision machining. "Now, the utilization rate of steel has increased from 56% to 75%, and production efficiency has greatly improved," said Yang Xiaoguang (杨晓光), Director of the Dingxiang County Bureau of Industry, Information Technology and Science and Technology (定襄县工信和科技局).
Focusing on the high-end development of products, "the county's policies do not engage in '**大水漫灌**' (dà shuǐ màn guàn - "flood irrigation," indiscriminate or unfocused support), but rather precise drip irrigation," said Zhang Hong (张洪), head of Shanxi Haokun Flange Co., Ltd. (山西昊坤法兰股份有限公司). "Under the guidance of the government, we engaged in technological breakthroughs, and we have shifted from ordinary flanges to high-end medical forgings, and the added value of our products has increased several times."
"What we are striving for is not to build how many high-rise buildings or launch how many new projects, but to make the most of our local advantages and strengthen our advantageous industries," said Yang Xiaoguang (杨晓光).
Today's Dingxiang (定襄) flanges have formed a differentiated development pattern: Tianbao Keguang (天宝科工) focuses on wind power flange disks, Yinlei Company (银磊公司) focuses on instrument flange disks, and Fuxingtong Company (富兴通公司) has achieved remarkable results in the field of digitalization.
As of now, Dingxiang (定襄) has 319 forging enterprises with complete process flows, cultivated 8 national-level specialized and new "little giant" enterprises and 62 provincial-level specialized and new enterprises. The annual flange production capacity is 1.9 million tons, with a total output value of 20 billion yuan, accounting for 44% of the country's total output, 60% of the country's wind power flanges, and more than 30% of the country's annual export volume.
"Developing new quality productive forces is not about abandoning traditional industries and starting anew, but about revitalizing old industries," said a relevant person in charge of Dingxiang County (定襄县). The local government will continue to adhere to adapting to local conditions, take the construction of specialized towns as a starting point, and promote the flange industry to move towards high-end, intelligent, and green development.
Ecological Priority, Green Development –
Putting environmental protection in a prominent position in development evaluation and guiding enterprises to "actively reduce carbon emissions."
In the ESP (Endless Strip Production) workshop of Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co., Ltd. (日照钢铁控股集团有限公司), it only takes 7 minutes for molten steel to turn into steel coils, and the thinnest hot-rolled strip steel can reach 0.6 mm, which is the thinnest in the world.
With two leading steel companies, Shandong Iron and Steel Group Rizhao Company (山东钢铁集团日照公司) and Rizhao Steel Group (日钢集团), crude steel production capacity accounts for about 3% of the country's total. For Rizhao (日照), the steel industry is both the "ballast stone" of the economy and means a heavy environmental responsibility.
The traditional path dependence of the steel industry is strong, and green transformation requires large investment and a long cycle. The entire chain of enterprises must be upgraded... "It is really difficult, but improving the ecological environment is developing productivity. Green transformation is not a multiple-choice question, but a political, livelihood, and long-term question that must be answered well," said Zhao Xiaoli (赵晓丽), Deputy Director of the Rizhao Steel Industry Development Service Center (日照市钢铁产业发展服务中心).
The Rizhao Municipal Party Committee (日照市委) and Municipal Government (市政府) have a clear attitude: resolutely not sacrificing the environment for temporary GDP (Gross Domestic Product) growth, resolutely not engaging in **竭泽而渔** (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch the fish," to seek short-term gain without considering the long-term consequences) development, not judging heroes by growth rates, putting environmental protection in a prominent position in development evaluation, and actively guiding steel enterprises to shift from "passive emission reduction" to "active carbon reduction."
On the one hand, it is to eliminate backward production capacity, dismantle small blast furnaces and old converters, and implement ultra-low emission transformation projects in all fields, investing more than 10 billion yuan to achieve stable compliance throughout the entire process; on the other hand, it is to empower with digital intelligence and integrate green intelligence to promote product upgrades to the high end.
In order to promote transformation, Rizhao (日照) has launched a policy "package," providing subsidies and incentives in environmental protection technology transformation, energy conservation and carbon reduction, digital transformation, and green technology breakthroughs, developing green finance to accurately empower, giving priority to factor guarantees, and accelerating and improving the efficiency of approval services, so that enterprises dare to transform, are willing to transform, and transform quickly.
Chen Tong (陈统), Director of the ESP Control Center, said that thanks to energy-saving and carbon-reducing technological transformation, the ESP production line built by Rizhao Steel Group (日钢集团) has outstanding energy-saving and emission-reduction benefits. Compared with the traditional hot-rolling process, it can reduce energy consumption per ton of steel by more than 70% and carbon dioxide emissions by more than 80%, with an annual reduction of about 1.4 million tons.
Today in Rizhao (日照), both Shandong Iron and Steel Rizhao (山钢日照) and Rizhao Steel Group (日钢集团) have successfully strived to become environmental protection performance A-level enterprises and national-level green factories. The steel industry has removed the labels of "heavy pollution and high energy consumption," and green factories and intelligent factories are emerging one after another, and medium-to-high-end products such as high-strength automotive steel are gradually becoming popular.
It is understood that in recent years, the total environmental protection investment of steel enterprises in Rizhao (日照) has exceeded 15 billion yuan. The emissions of major pollutants such as sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particulate matter per ton of steel have decreased by 44%, 44%, and 12% respectively compared with 2020, and the proportion of clean transportation is more than 80%.
"Green is efficiency, environmental protection is competitiveness, and ecological investment is a strategic investment with value. The path of high-quality development is becoming more and more stable and wider," said Song Jun (宋君), Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Rizhao Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (日照市生态环境局).
Based on a Long-Term Perspective and Seizing Opportunities –
Through long-term planning, precise policies, and ecological cultivation, do it one after another.
On Nantiancheng Road (南天成路) in the High-speed Railway New City (高铁新城) of Xiangcheng District (相城区), Suzhou (苏州), unmanned buses accurately identify traffic lights, unmanned taxis quietly take orders, unmanned sanitation vehicles sweep the road, and unmanned delivery vehicles complete the "last mile"... A smart picture of future travel is gradually becoming a reality within reach.
In 2025, the revenue of Suzhou's (苏州) core artificial intelligence industry reached 346.7 billion yuan, an increase of 14.9% year-on-year. Behind the achievements, what kind of development thinking is reflected?
Returning to the beginning of the 21st century, Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区) began to build an international science and technology park, laying out a complete ecosystem from algorithms and hardware to applications, laying the groundwork for cultivating the artificial intelligence industry. In 2017, as one of Suzhou's (苏州) youngest districts and counties, Xiangcheng District (相城区) stood at a crossroads of development: should it attract "short, flat, and fast" mature industries, or should it anchor in cutting-edge tracks?
Faced with the intelligent connected vehicles that many people still did not understand at the time, the Xiangcheng District Committee (相城区委) and District Government (区政府) conducted a large number of surveys and decided to seize the opportunity and choose this innovative path. Shen Zhidong (沈志栋), Secretary of the Xiangcheng District Committee (相城区委书记), admitted: "Because the layout was early, every step was explored and tested. But it is precisely because there are risks that responsibility is needed." It is this forward-looking courage that has allowed Suzhou (苏州) to seize the initiative.
When opportunities come, how to grasp them? What intelligent connected vehicle companies need most urgently is public road testing. Suzhou's (苏州) commitment was straightforward: open public roads. Cao Xudong (曹旭东), founder of Momenta (Suzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (魔门塔（苏州）科技有限公司), which focuses on the research and development of autonomous driving technology, therefore did not hesitate to move its R&D headquarters to directly opposite the Suzhou North Railway Station (苏州北站) of the high-speed railway.
Behind the commitment is real action. Xiangcheng District (相城区) established a Party Building Alliance for the intelligent driving industry chain, bringing together departments such as public security, industry and information technology, transportation, and urban management. When companies encounter problems, the alliance coordinates and solves them as quickly as possible. In the end, the 8.4-kilometer section of Nantiancheng Road (南天成路) was selected as the test road.
Nine Sense (Suzhou) Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (九识（苏州）智能科技有限公司) is another example. This company, which makes unmanned logistics vehicles, has less than 5 years of entrepreneurship, and already has 25,000 unmanned logistics vehicles running at home and abroad. Founder Kong Qi (孔旗) said: "In Suzhou (苏州), we only need to focus on doing a good job in the enterprise, and I don't have to worry about anything else." In the early stages of entrepreneurship, there was a shortage of funds, and relevant departments helped to connect with investment; when talents were needed, relevant departments came to the door to help declare projects; when products were launched, the local government coordinated logistics companies in the jurisdiction to help commercial expansion...
To unblock development bottlenecks, in addition to solving specific problems, it is also necessary to build a long-term mechanism and achieve success over time. In 2023, the "Suzhou Data Regulations" (《苏州市数据条例》) and the "Suzhou Intelligent Connected Vehicle Development Promotion Regulations" (《苏州市智能车联网发展促进条例》) were implemented, allowing enterprises to "have laws to abide by and data to use." This year, the "Suzhou Artificial Intelligence Application Promotion Regulations" (《苏州市人工智能应用促进条例》) has been included in the legislative project. From a test road to a local law, instead of relying on short-term subsidies to stimulate industrial development, Suzhou (苏州) is paving the way for long-term development step by step by formulating long-term plans through legislation.
In 2025, Suzhou (苏州) released the "Suzhou Action Plan for Accelerating the Construction of 'Artificial Intelligence+' City (2025-2026)" (《苏州市加快建设“人工智能+”城市行动方案（2025—2026年）》), with the goal of gathering more than 3,000 artificial intelligence enterprises by the end of 2026, with an average annual growth of more than 20% in core scale. Today, the embodied intelligence of Suzhou High-tech Zone (苏州高新区) is accelerating its rise, and Wujiang District (吴江区) is allowing artificial intelligence to take root in industrial soil...
Gu Haidong (顾海东), Standing Committee Member of the Suzhou Municipal Party Committee (苏州市委常委) and Executive Deputy Mayor, said that by adhering to a long-term perspective and seizing opportunities, Suzhou (苏州) will build a city with international influence in "Artificial Intelligence+" through long-term planning, precise policies, and ecological cultivation, doing it one after another.
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Recently, the world's largest ship-borne wind-powered rotor sail propulsion system (WAPS), independently developed by Sunrui Environment, a subsidiary of the 725th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group (中船集团第七二五研究所), has completed full-size, full-condition onshore testing and was officially released. The system has a diameter of 5 meters and a height of 35 meters, making it the largest ship-borne wind-powered rotor sail propulsion system that has completed land-based testing worldwide.
The rotor sail generates thrust to assist the ship's forward movement by using the rotation of the rotor to create a pressure difference in the airflow passing through both sides. It has advantages such as occupying a small deck space, not affecting cargo loading and unloading operations, and a high degree of automation. It has become a relatively mainstream wind-assisted propulsion technology, which can save 5%-25% of fuel consumption for large ocean-going vessels.
"Rotor sails have high requirements for material, structure, control, safety and other properties, and the market has long been dominated by a few foreign companies." Xu Jian (徐健), Deputy Director of the 725th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group (中船七二五所), said that the release of the system marks China's leap from follower to partial leader in the field of high-end ship environmental protection equipment.
From introduction to independent research and development, how to turn a "pillar" into the "world's largest"?
First of all, the forming of such a huge cylindrical shell is not easy. "The material outer cylinder is a 'thin shell' structure. To maintain stability under high-speed rotation, the mass distribution of the outer shell must be uniform, which requires extremely high manufacturing precision." Zhao Chao (赵超), a senior engineer at the 725th Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Group (中船七二五所), said that any slight deviation in roundness or straightness may cause violent vibrations leading to imbalance.
How to ensure the uniform quality and internal quality of the cylinder? In terms of technical route, the R&D team did not choose the mainstream three-petal or winding process used abroad, but independently developed a "two-petal vacuum infusion" process, cutting and joining the molds, infusing them separately, and then precisely aligning them. Combined with virtual assembly, virtual forming and other technologies, it can resist up to level 17 winds.
Secondly, the 35-meter-high flexible structure stands on a bumpy ship and has to withstand multiple complex loads such as wind, waves, and its own rotational gyroscopic effect. How to control the "dance of the giants"? "We used multi-body system dynamics simulation and fluid-structure interaction analysis to accurately predict and avoid harmful resonances such as structural and wind-induced vibrations, and main engine excitation." Zhao Chao (赵超) introduced that vibration control of ultra-large systems is a structural problem. The R&D team also redesigned the material and structure of the lower limiting wheel, a core load-bearing component, to solve industry pain points such as wear and heat generation under high loads.
In addition, the R&D team also installed a "smart brain" on the "giant". The intelligent control system based on advanced algorithms such as model predictive control is like an experienced artificial intelligence veteran captain, which can comprehensively consider information such as wind speed, wind direction, ship speed, and main engine power to calculate the optimal speed of the rotor in real time, maximizing wind energy capture efficiency. "Taking a 180,000-ton bulk carrier as an example, installing 3 sets of this system is expected to save hundreds to thousands of tons of fuel annually on average." Zhao Chao (赵超) said.
"Our system is not only the largest, but also strives to be the strongest and most reliable." Xu Jian (徐健) said that the successful research and development and industrial application of the project will directly provide key technical equipment for reducing carbon emissions in China's shipping industry, and at the same time drive the development of domestic high-performance composite materials, precision transmission components, intelligent sensing and control and other industrial chains, and promote industrial upgrading.
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An unexpected comeback in the electronic consumer market in the first quarter of this year is inspiring.
Data from relevant market research institutions show that sales of wired headphones increased by 20% year-on-year in the first quarter of this year, ending a five-year decline. With wireless devices already mainstream in the market, the resurgence of wired headphones has sparked widespread discussion among netizens. In addition to getting rid of battery life anxiety and the embarrassment of device "disappearance," "trendiness" has become a driving force behind its comeback. On social platforms, a large number of fashion bloggers and netizens share wired headphone styling tips, and related videos and notes have exceeded 100 million views.
From practical function to fashion accessory, from street casual to workplace commuting, this seemingly niche consumer rebound of wired headphones is essentially an accurate response to segmented scene demands, which not only reflects the new logic of current consumption, but also becomes a vivid footnote to China's (中国) economy in the stage of high-quality development, digging out consumption increments and stimulating market vitality from segmented scenes.
At present, China's (中国) consumer market is accelerating towards personalization and diversification, and the characteristics of consumption upgrading and demand differentiation are becoming more and more obvious. After years of development, China's (中国) consumer market has entered the stage of stock competition, and the markets of various mainstream consumer goods are becoming saturated. The model of simply relying on scale expansion is unsustainable, while the incremental space is more hidden in segmented scenes and personalized needs.
Whether it is wired headphones that have regained attention due to practicality or fashion, or emerging differentiated tracks such as deep sleep and skin care that have been anchored in recent years, enterprises can only open up new growth space in the stock competition by closely focusing on segmented needs and refining and specializing in small categories. This is not only the trend of consumer market development, but also the way for enterprises to achieve sustainable development and 破局之道 (pò jú zhī dào - "the way to break the situation," a way to overcome a difficult situation).
Extending from commercial layout to the context of economic and social development, the value of segmented scenes is becoming more and more prominent. In the first quarter of this year, China's (中国) total retail sales of consumer goods reached 12769.5 billion yuan, an increase of 2.4% year-on-year. Among them, the retail sales of communication equipment commodities by units above the designated size increased by 20.8% year-on-year, and the growth rate was significantly higher than the overall consumption level; the retail sales of services increased by 5.5% year-on-year, and the retail sales of communication and information services increased rapidly. Behind these bright data is the demand aggregation and power release of countless segmented scenes.
The hot sales of niche sports equipment, the rise of customized home furnishings, and the accelerated integration of cultural tourism and sports formats... A series of phenomena all show that when consumption shifts to personalization and diversification, whoever can accurately capture the needs of segmented scenes can activate stock demand, release incremental potential, and win development space.
China (中国) has the advantage of a super-large-scale market, and revitalizing the stock and optimizing the increment contain huge development potential. The rural market is an important and potential front in the segmented scenes, and it is also a key track to optimize the increment. In the first quarter, China's (中国) urban and rural consumption developed in coordination, and the retail sales of consumer goods in rural areas increased by 3.1% year-on-year, faster than in cities. The vitality of county and township markets continues to be stimulated, which not only provides broad space for product sinking, but also confirms that segmented scenes are not divided into urban and rural areas. As long as they accurately connect with needs, they can dig out considerable economic increments and make the rural market an important part of driving consumption and promoting economic growth.
Of course, digging out increments from segmented tracks is inseparable from the active role of enterprises and the precise empowerment of policies. Enterprises conform to the current development trend of consumption quality, capture the diversified and segmented needs in the stock market, and achieve quality and efficiency improvement through technological innovation, model iteration, and service upgrades. At the same time, on the one hand, it is necessary to implement special actions to promote consumption and optimize the consumption environment; on the other hand, it is necessary to revitalize various stock assets and activate endogenous development momentum by means of urban renewal, industrial transformation and upgrading, and comprehensive rural revitalization.
This year, in the face of complex and volatile external shocks, China's (中国) economic growth in the first quarter was better than expected, fully demonstrating its development vitality and resilience. By deeply cultivating segmented scenes, tapping potential needs, and accurately connecting the focus of macro policies with the demand points of the micro market, China's (中国) consumer market will be able to continue to maintain vitality, cultivate more growth points, and inject stronger impetus into the economy.
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As the lights come on, the Gulou Square (鼓楼广场) in Kaifeng, Henan (河南开封), enters its night market time. Chen Jing (陈静), a tourist from Shandong (山东), took out her mobile phone and changed her high-speed train ticket scheduled to leave that night: "I originally only planned to stroll around Wansui Mountain (万岁山), but when I came, I found that there are many attractions to play, and I can also take a boat to tour the Bian River (汴河) at night, so I simply stayed." She said with a smile, "I didn't expect Kaifeng to be so good at 'keeping people'."
Last year, Kaifeng received a total of 116 million tourists, achieving a comprehensive cultural tourism income of 87.068 billion yuan, with year-on-year growth exceeding 10%. Behind the numbers is a profound transformation in Kaifeng—from "selling tickets" to "selling experiences," from "seeing scenery" to "entering the plot." Kaifeng is using immersive, full-chain cultural tourism to retain tourists in the Song Dynasty (宋朝) atmosphere of the entire city.
Experience Attracts Guests—
Tourist Demand Continues to Upgrade from "Sightseeing Check-in" to "Emotional Value"
Chen Jing's understanding of Wansui Mountain Martial Arts City (万岁山武侠城) started with "Granny Wang" ("王婆"). At the beginning of 2024, "Granny Wang's Matchmaking" ("王婆说媒") became popular on the Internet. On stage, Zhao Mei (赵梅), an employee of the scenic spot, dressed in Song Dynasty clothing and speaking authentic Kaifeng dialect, invited single tourists to interact and make friends. "It's both joyful and sincere. I was following it online before I came. After I came, I watched and laughed for a long time under the stage. It's more exciting than a script killing game."
Inside the scenic area, six themed areas, including the Water Margin Area (水浒区), the Xianxia Wonderland (仙侠奇境), and the Jianghu Carnival Art Area (江湖狂欢艺术区), are arranged side by side from east to west, with a surging flow of people. Twenty years ago, even locals in Kaifeng would react to "Wansui Mountain" with "that remote park." At that time, Wansui Mountain was located in the northwest corner of the old city of Kaifeng. Except for a few lively days during the Spring Festival Temple Fair, there were only sporadic performances on a daily basis, and it had a "very low presence" in Kaifeng, which has many scenic spots.
Li Hanyuan (李翰园), deputy general manager of Wansui Mountain Martial Arts City, believes that competition in the cultural tourism industry has shifted from the traditional "resource competition" to "emotional competition," and tourist demand has also continued to upgrade from "sightseeing check-in" to "emotional value." "In 2009, the scenic spot clearly defined its core positioning as Jianghu martial arts culture, and since then it has had its own soul. In recent years, driven by the cultural tourism boom, we have focused on immersive experiences and insisted on diversified empowerment, entering a period of explosive growth."
As a post-90s employee who has been in the scenic spot for less than 3 years, Wang Xueying (王雪莹) has a deep understanding of the changes in the scenic spot. "When I came, there were only a few hundred employees, now there are more than 3,000; a few years ago, there were only hundreds of performances, now there are more than 3,000." In recent years, Wansui Mountain's annual comprehensive revenue has increased from more than 80 million yuan to 1.27 billion yuan, achieving a 15-fold leapfrog growth.
Reviewing the "secrets" of the Martial Arts City's counterattack, Wansui Mountain attributes it to five major models: innovation + value for money, silver ticket + NPC (non-player character) interaction, unlimited entry to the park for three days, affordable commercial activities in the scenic spot, and one ticket for multiple parks. "In our daily work, the company requires us to pursue not only tourist satisfaction, but also 'excitement,' and strive to make tourists feel that the emotional value far exceeds the expected ticket price," Wang Xueying said.
Today, the scenic spot maintains an annual program update rate of 30%. In recent years, it has promoted the "Star Program" to encourage employees and even tourists to participate in operational creativity and break down homogenization barriers. "If you come last month and this month, what you see may be 'two attractions'," Wang Xueying said.
At Wansui Mountain, Chen Jing's deepest feeling is the scenic spot's "silver ticket" gameplay—she obtains silver tickets through interaction with NPCs, and then uses the silver tickets to exchange for gifts and unlock plots. The "silver ticket task chain" has made her start to actively plan her next second and third brush routes. At present, NPC actors account for half of the actors employed at Wansui Mountain, and there are more than 2,000 NPC interactions every day. NPCs with different styles guide tourists to participate in games and plots, allowing tourists to change from "bystanders" to "participants" and become the protagonists of the park's story.
A set of data witnessed the changes: In 2025, Wansui Mountain's comprehensive revenue was 1.27 billion yuan, of which ticket revenue was 790 million yuan, while secondary consumption revenue such as catering and cultural creation reached 480 million yuan, accounting for 37.8%. "The prices of various commodities in the scenic spot are clearly marked, and a bottle of mineral water sells for 1.5 yuan, which is about the same as supermarkets outside the scenic spot." Chen Jing believes that this cost performance makes her more willing to pay for happiness.
Scenery and City Enter the Play Together—
From "Price Competition" to "Culture, Service, and Experience Competition"
In Kaifeng, the spillover effect of Wansui Mountain and other popular scenic spots is becoming apparent: tourists' play emotions are extended, the emotional experience chain is lengthened, and "scenic spot traffic" is accelerating its transformation into "urban retention." Various local scenic spots attract each other and innovate, and a new situation of integrated scenic city and concentrated contiguous all-area tourism has been initially formed.
At night, the Da Song Bian River (大宋汴河) is sparkling, and the once "sleeping river" has been completely awakened. On the 2.5-kilometer waterway, with the help of modern light and shadow technology, Chen Jing and her friends took a boat through 11 imitation Song Dynasty ancient bridges, greeted NPCs along the way, watched performances, and did interactive games. The scenery changed with the boat's movement, and the play moved with the water.
"We have laid out more than 20 performance boats and multiple themed performance points, focusing on Song Dynasty market and street performances, court elegant music, and Song poetry and dance to create themes, so that the cruise experience becomes an immersive journey through the Bian River in the Song Dynasty," said Yu Zhenbin (于振彬), a staff member of the Bian River Scenic Area.
By integrating water resources and connecting 8 standardized terminals, the local area has moved consumption scenarios such as water markets, terminal merchants, and boat economy into the scenic area. Last year, the Bian River Scenic Area achieved revenue of 84.277 million yuan, an increase of 1466% compared to 5.3816 million yuan in 2024, and secondary consumption alone reached 8.9282 million yuan. "We are full of confidence that we can achieve revenue of 100 million yuan this year," Yu Zhenbin said.
The Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden (清明上河园) on the bank of the Bian River is a large-scale historical and cultural theme park restored based on the famous Song Dynasty painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival," and officially opened to the public in 1998. The Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden is the "vanguard" of cultural tourism integration in Kaifeng. In recent years, the Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden itself has also been actively seeking innovation: in addition to the classic "Da Song · Tokyo Menghua" ("大宋·东京梦华") live performance being completely upgraded at the beginning of this year, new products are also being launched in catering and other links.
Next to the Sun Yang Zhengdian (孙羊正店) in the park, an immersive dining show "Song Banquet" is being staged. Stepping into the Bianhe Hall (汴河厅) built near the water, gauze curtain projections create an atmosphere, Song-style elegant art performances continue, and "banquet envoys" dressed in gorgeous Song costumes deliver dishes with different allusions as the plot progresses.
"The cultural tourism industry has entered a critical stage of leaping towards quality. The core of getting rid of low-level competition is to promote the industry to completely shift from 'price competition' to 'culture, service, and experience competition'," said Wang Shuang (王爽), chairman and general manager of the Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden. The park takes the Song culture IP (intellectual property) as the engine to create an immersive experience of "stepping into a painting in one dynasty and dreaming back to a thousand years in one day." During the Qingming holiday, a new "tea party" experience was launched here, where tourists transformed into elegant guests of the Song Dynasty and felt the Song-style life aesthetics in the four Song elegances of incense burning, tea ordering, painting hanging, and flower arrangement.
"In the past, Kaifeng, together with Zhengzhou (郑州) and Luoyang (洛阳), was called the 'old third line' of tourism in Henan, but foreign tourists who came to Kaifeng often only stayed for half a day," said Duan Bo (段博), head of the Kaifeng Prefecture Scenic Area (开封府景区). The emergence of top attractions such as the Qingming Riverside Landscape Garden and Wansui Mountain has met tourists' needs for emotional value and extended the viewing time. The Kaifeng Prefecture Scenic Area is using differentiated competition and the introduction of new technologies to give tourists more diverse choices and experiences when they come to Bian.
Aiming at the increasing number of overnight visitors, the Kaifeng Prefecture Scenic Area has also launched new night tour dramas such as "Nanya Qianqiu Yue" ("南衙千秋月"), using the government office building as a stage, integrating naked-eye 3D, holographic projection, water dance light and shadow, and live performances, allowing tourists to immersively experience the culture of the government office and the elegance of literati while walking.
Liu Dong (刘东), deputy director of the Kaifeng Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism, introduced that Kaifeng currently has 25 A-level tourist attractions, including 13 national 4A-level tourist attractions, accounting for more than half. Facing the transformation of the cultural tourism market from "functional consumption" to "emotional consumption," more and more Kaifeng scenic spots are combining their respective characteristics to tell traditional culture in different ways.
"Tourists have a good experience and are in high spirits, so they are naturally willing to stay, and industries such as eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment are benefiting," Liu Dong said. With the continuous increase in the proportion of secondary consumption such as accommodation, catering, and shopping, the scenic spot ticket economy is transforming into comprehensive urban consumption, and the "integrated city and scenery" is promoting the high-quality development of the cultural tourism industry into a new stage.
Service Warms People's Hearts—
Supporting Service Measures Such as Catering, Accommodation, Cultural Creation, and Transportation Have Been Implemented One After Another
Emotional value lies not only in the "patterns" of the scenic spot, but also in the "temperature" of the city's supporting facilities. With the successive implementation of supporting service measures such as catering, accommodation, cultural creation, and transportation, guarantee measures are also being continuously upgraded.
Chen Jing said that during her trip to Kaifeng, she used the newly launched "Le You Special Line" ("乐游专线"). Open the ride-hailing software, click "online bus," call with one click, and a small roaming bus will arrive at the station in three minutes.
"This is a newly upgraded responsive bus, covering niche attractions and homestay areas that the original bus could not reach, and also alleviating traffic congestion in the city," said Niu Guang (牛广), deputy director of the Kaifeng Municipal Transportation Bureau. The operating area has been expanded from 15 square kilometers to nearly 25 square kilometers, and the number of stations has increased from more than 200 to more than 400. It can not only be booked online, but also stopped by waving, which is very flexible.
Transportation has been a long-term pain point and congestion point in Kaifeng. Kaifeng matches tourists' full-scene experience of "shopping, traveling, eating, purchasing, and entertainment," and gradually builds a transportation network of free connection, special line connection, night direct access, full-area connection, and online response. During the Qingming holiday this year, Kaifeng opened 6 free connection lines, 3 cultural tourism special lines, and 2 night market direct buses at the same time, transporting an average of 90,000 passengers per day.
In terms of catering, Kaifeng is known as "Bian Cuisine" ("汴地美食"). Carp baked noodles and other Yu cuisines, and soup dumplings and other snacks are the first choice for many foreign tourists. Since 2024, the local area has promoted catering and night market quality improvement actions to optimize and upgrade the catering experience.
The reporter saw in a Meili Roast Duck Restaurant (梅利烤鸭店) in Kaifeng that the roast duck room and food operation room are independently separated by glass, and customers can clearly see the food processing process. Wang Yongli (王永利), the head of the store, said: "We are a time-honored brand in Henan Province, but we cannot be 'old' in a single way. In the past two years, our 5 stores in the city have been comprehensively improved in terms of cultural connotation, hardware facilities, and service quality, and the number of customers and praise has obviously increased."
In order to better guarantee the tourist experience, Kaifeng also innovatively launched "Worry-Free Consumption Insurance" ("放心消费险") nationwide—the municipal government allocates 1.2 million yuan of special funds every year to insure a liability limit of 30 million yuan. If tourists encounter consumer disputes in any link such as eating, living, traveling, shopping, and entertainment in Kaifeng, they can obtain rapid compensation through a third-party insurance company.
"I originally encountered a disturbing thing, but with one phone call, Kaifeng's speed and response warmed my heart." Not long ago, Mr. Han (韩先生), a tourist from another province, booked a hotel in Kaifeng through an online platform during a holiday, but found that the hotel had been closed when he arrived in the evening. He immediately called the 12315 consumer complaint hotline for help. Staff from the Kaifeng Municipal Market Supervision Bureau verified the situation and collected materials on the spot, and Mr. Han received compensation within half an hour and rebooked a hotel.
"Kaifeng adheres to the integration of scenery and city, and the sharing of hosts and guests, and strives to write a cultural tourism answer sheet for the experience economy with a full-process emotional value service system," said Wang Zhenjun (汪振军), a member of the Henan Provincial Cultural and Tourism Public Service Expert Committee and a professor at Zhengzhou University. To build an international cultural tourism city, Kaifeng must also comprehensively improve the level of tourism standardization and truly build the cultural tourism industry into a pillar industry, a people's livelihood industry, and a happiness industry.
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Walking into the third exhibition hall of the Guizhou Provincial Museum (贵州省博物馆), a set of colorful costumes stands out at the corner. Passing visitors frequently stop, some whispering in amazement: "Is this really a cultural relic? It clearly looks like a haute couture piece just off the runway at International Fashion Week."
It is called the Heron Pattern Colored Wax-Resist Dyed Dress, a national first-class cultural relic, excavated from the Miao ethnic group cave burial site in Taohua Village (桃花村) in Pingba District (平坝区), Anshun City (安顺市). It is the earliest extant colored wax-resist dyed embroidery artifact in Guizhou Province (贵州省). The costume consists of a top and a skirt, integrating techniques of drawnwork, embroidery, and wax-resist dyeing. The wax-resist dyed pattern on the top is mainly flying herons, arranged with geometric patterns. The lower part is a pleated skirt, with a white linen waistband and a cotton body, decorated with colored wax-resist dyeing and drawnwork, surrounded by lifelike scenes of trees, figures, and animals.
Huang Lin (黄琳), a warehouse administrator of unearthed cultural relics in the Preservation Department of the Guizhou Provincial Museum (贵州省博物馆保管部), introduced that it is very rare to find colored wax-resist dyed costumes in archaeological discoveries. Based on the cotton homespun fabric used for the skirt, experts speculate that it was made during the Ming Dynasty.
Using bronze knives as pens and beeswax as ink, as early as the Qin and Han dynasties, the ancestors of the Miao (苗族), Buyi (布依族), and other ethnic minorities living in southwestern China mastered the wax-resist dyeing technique. By the Ming and Qing dynasties, the wax-resist dyeing technique became more exquisite. It was not only a part of life but also participated in important cultural activities and rituals, becoming one of the important symbols of Guizhou's multi-ethnic culture.
With full composition, intense colors, and diverse needlework, Miao embroidery also has a long history in Guizhou. For thousands of years, the Miao ancestors in Guizhou have drawn inspiration from nature, transforming elements such as flowers, birds, fish, insects, mountains, rivers, sun, moon, and myths into exquisite patterns with every stitch and thread.
"The heron pattern on the clothing conveys the people's yearning and prayer for a better life at that time," said Huang Lin (黄琳). The Heron Pattern Colored Wax-Resist Dyed Dress carries the artistic aesthetics and craftsmanship of ancient ethnic minorities, and has important practical significance for studying the history of Miao embroidery and wax-resist dyeing in Guizhou, ancient Guizhou ethnic costumes, and their evolution.
The "revitalization" of cultural relics begins with the continuation and transformation of skills. Walking out of the Guizhou Provincial Museum (贵州省博物馆), in a clothing design studio not far away, traditional patterns are being re-encoded. The exhibition walls are full of new Chinese-style clothing, and there are also many cultural and creative products on display stands. At first glance, many of the patterns and colors are identical to the Heron Pattern Colored Wax-Resist Dyed Dress.
"Ancient techniques hide the 'top-tier aesthetics' of our ancestors, which is where our confidence lies," said Zhang Lan (张兰), the founder of this studio. Her hometown is near the Miao ethnic group cave burial site in Taohua Village (桃花村). As a native Miao girl, she has mastered the unique skill of embroidery since she was a child. After graduating from university, Zhang Lan (张兰) and her husband started from a small store on the streets of Guiyang (贵阳), boldly innovating on the basis of inheriting the traditional Miao embroidery techniques, combining modern design concepts with Miao embroidery elements, and developing a series of fashionable and practical Miao embroidery products.
After more than 20 years of hard work, Zhang Lan (张兰) not only owns her own clothing company but has also established 7 Miao embroidery workstations and 2 wax-resist dyeing bases in the province, driving more than 500 embroiderers and dyers to participate in industrial development. "We provide design plans, and the embroiderers are responsible for the hand-made production. Once modern concepts collide with traditional elements, unexpected fashion effects are often produced." Picking up a wooden pen holder and pointing to the 10-centimeter square pattern on the surface of the holder, Zhang Lan (张兰) said that with this Miao embroidery design, the pen holder has been transformed into an exquisite souvenir.
Adhering to the concept of "national elements being fashionable," the objects designed and produced by Zhang Lan (张兰) are becoming more and more abundant, from shirts, cheongsams, and coats to hanging paintings, handbags, and cultural and creative products. The company's annual sales reached nearly 30 million yuan at its peak. "Young people are our important customer base. Whether they customize ethnic-style clothing for themselves or give it as a gift to friends, what they value is the hand-made texture and unique attributes." In recent years, Zhang Lan (张兰) and her husband have also been working hard on online platforms, promoting Guizhou Miao embroidery and wax-resist dyeing to a wider world, allowing more people to understand and recognize this ancient technique.
What is national is global. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the proportion of women in Guizhou as representative inheritors of intangible cultural heritage has steadily increased, and 500,000 women have devoted themselves to the "Jinxiu Plan" (锦绣计划) characteristic handicraft industry. At global fashion stages such as China International Fashion Week, Guizhou Miao embroidery and wax-resist dyeing have frequently appeared, fully demonstrating the charm of national culture.
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"Shifu" (师傅), or "master," is a versatile and common term of respect in many places. It used to be that when people asked for directions, looked for someone, or went shopping, they would start by saying "Shifu."
A call of "Shifu" is a respect for labor, a belief in skill, and even more, a kind connection between people. However, with the division of labor and the iteration of social interactions, "Shifu" has gradually faded from daily life. Currently, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is infiltrating all walks of life. AI knows too much; it is online 24 hours a day and can access almost all of humanity's publicly available knowledge. If you want to learn a skill, AI can even explain it more clearly and systematically than some gold-medal masters. The moat of experience is being filled in bit by bit by modern technology.
Does the "Shifu" still have a future? Do we still need a "Shifu" in our lives?
Of course!
Experience can be replicated, but judgment is hard to replace.
In the past, calling someone "Shifu" was to respect their unique skills. A blacksmith's hammer determined the sound, a carpenter's saw shaped the form, and a plasterer's trowel made it flat—all skills honed over ten or eight years. Now, while people are working, AI is recording. Artificial intelligence can accurately reproduce every action, and it is faster, more stable, and more accurate. So, where does the value of the "Shifu" lie? In fact, the "Shifu's" confidence used to rely on "I know" and "I am familiar," but now it relies on "choosing accurately" and "choosing correctly." When AI provides 10 options, the value of the "Shifu" lies in picking out the most effective one; when AI makes a mistake, the value of the "Shifu" lies in detecting the anomaly as soon as possible; when everyone relies on data, the value of the "Shifu" lies in providing experience and perspectives beyond the data.
AI teaches you how to do things; the "Shifu" teaches you how to be a person.
In the past, when a "Shifu" taught an apprentice, "skill" and "way" were integrated together; there was "way" in "skill," and "way" was inseparable from "skill." While learning a craft, apprentices also perceived propriety, and while learning technology, they also cultivated patience.
Now, AI disassembles actions and simulates training, doing it faster and more accurately than humans. However, those "ways" that grow together with "skill"—holding the bottom line, grasping propriety, taking responsibility, as well as the intuition of on-the-spot judgment, the weighing of fuzzy areas, the composure in the face of pressure, the determination in the face of temptation... AI still cannot do these things. We still need a "Shifu" with flesh and blood, affection and righteousness, courage and knowledge to "lead the way."
The "Shifu" teaches you to stay awake, not to be impetuous or blindly follow, in the convenience of full-screen answers and one-click generation. Algorithms may be able to provide the optimal solution, but they may not be able to provide value judgments and moral judgments. A person's professional quality includes not only technology but also aesthetics, conscience, and vision... These can only grow subtly in the daily interaction between "Shifu" and apprentice.
The old days of "passing on, helping, and leading" (传帮带) are now the "guardians of craftsmanship" (守艺人).
"Passing on, helping, and leading" (传帮带) is a traditional method of experienced employees guiding new ones in the workplace. In the AI era, what does the "Shifu" pass on? Not only skills and knowledge—AI knows more about these things. What needs to be passed on even more today is professional attitude and the spirit of labor.
Not long ago, the media reported on Li Mei (李梅), a craftswoman who makes "Fanlihua" (翻里花) (turned-over paper flowers). One paper flower took nearly 20 days to make, with hundreds of layers of paper stacked one by one, and the dyeing was precise. AI can replicate her every action, but it cannot answer: Why stick to one flower for so many years?
Following the "Shifu," learn how the "Shifu" maintains seriousness in boredom, how to not give up in the face of failure, and how to strive for perfection and repeatedly polish. Over time, that kind of focus, perseverance, diligence, and craftsmanship will one day "grow" on you—only a "Shifu" who leads you, takes you, and even pushes you forward can let you feel what the craftsman's spirit of labor is through words and deeds.
Today's "Shifu"-apprentice relationship is also changing, no longer a lifelong attachment, but becoming project-based, short-term combinations, and even mutual learning. What to help with and what to lead with also varies from person to person and from time to time. But what remains unchanged is that when you are swept up by algorithms and drowned in information, the "Shifu" will remind you—what is fundamental, what is true, and what is the boundary.
The "Shifu" guards craftsmanship and also breaks the situation.
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When Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) first joined the Agricultural Science Research Institute of the First Division of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团第一师农业科学研究所), Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) was already known as the "Iron Lady" of the cotton fields.
That was in 2007. Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) followed Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) into the cotton fields. In July in Xinjiang (新疆), the sun was intense. Wearing a straw hat, he sweated profusely, his clothes soaked in no time. He glanced at his mentor amidst the cotton plants – Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) was bent over, observing the flowers one by one, her movements unhurried, as if the scorching sunlight had no effect on her.
"When emasculating, you can remove the bracts," Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) said without looking up, her voice soft but clear, "but the white membrane at the base of the flower must be preserved."
It was a layer of translucent membrane as thin as a cicada's wing, enveloping the delicate stigma. Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) imitated his mentor's movements, carefully using tweezers to peel back the bracts, clamp the stamen, and gently lift. The first flower, successful. The second flower, the white membrane had a small tear.
Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) walked over, took a look, and held the flower up to his eyes: "If you damage the white membrane, the stigma will dry out. This flower is ruined."
Her tone was calm, as if stating something commonplace. But Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) remembered it. From then on, he took care not to damage the white membrane of each flower.
The flowering period of cotton in Southern Xinjiang (南疆) is between June 20th and July 10th. Researchers follow the rhythm of the flowers, not a day can be missed. The flowers "emasculated" the day before are covered with paper bags to prevent pollen contamination. The next day, the flowers of the "father plant" are taken out and used to gently rub the stigma of the "mother plant" after "emasculation," completing pollination. During that time, researchers bent over, raised their hands, emasculated, and pollinated among the cotton plants, repeating this process.
The cotton breeding research work of the First Division Agricultural Science Research Institute (一师农科所) has been passed down from generation to generation since the 1950s, overcoming many difficulties and creating the miracle of Xinjiang (新疆) cotton.
Everyone in the institute knows about Zhou Shuxia's (周曙霞) "dedication." The winters in Xinjiang (新疆) are long. In order to shorten the breeding cycle, breeding must be carried out alternately in the local area and Hainan (海南). The summers in Hainan (海南) are even more humid and hot than in Xinjiang (新疆), and there are many mosquitoes. All the work in the fields has to be done by oneself. Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) led the research team to the fields before dawn and worked until dark. Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) remembers that once his mentor was squatting on the edge of the field eating lunch, holding a steamed bun in her hand, her eyes still fixed on the cotton in the field. As she ate, she suddenly put down the bun and pointed to a cotton plant's leaf, saying, "Look, this leaf shape should have good disease resistance."
Later, that cotton plant was selected and indeed had excellent disease resistance.
"My mentor's eyes are trained," Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) later often told young people, "If you spend a long time in the field, the cotton will naturally tell you its secrets."
With this spirit of hard work, Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) led the research team to overcome one technical difficulty after another in three-line hybrid cotton.
Over more than 30 years, she has undertaken and presided over many important scientific research projects. In 2006, "Xinza Mian No. 2 (新杂棉2号)," bred by Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞), became the first medium-long staple upland three-line hybrid cotton variety approved in China, applying the "three-line supporting technology." In that year, the cumulative demonstration and promotion area of the variety was nearly 10,000 mu, laying the foundation for the development of self-bred hybrid cotton in Southern Xinjiang (南疆).
Before retiring, Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) was awarded the National May Day Labor Medal.
Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) feels that the most precious thing about his mentor is not the medal, but the invisible "legacy" she left in the cotton fields, such as the white membrane that must be preserved, the intuition to judge disease resistance by looking at the leaf shape, and the breeding wisdom of "giving up to gain."
Once, Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) asked his mentor: "After working on the three-line system for so many years, and finally giving it up, are you disappointed?"
Zhou Shuxia (周曙霞) thought for a while and said, "You have to give up to gain. If this road doesn't work, take another one. When doing scientific research, you can't 一条道走到黑 (yī tiáo dào zǒu dào hēi - "walk one road until dark," to blindly follow one path; to be stubborn and inflexible)."
In recent years, mechanized planting and harvesting have become mainstream in the cotton fields of Xinjiang (新疆). In order to adapt to machine picking, many innovations have been made in cotton breeding. In addition, in order to reduce the impurities left by machine picking, the current cotton varieties are very sensitive to defoliants and can quickly and evenly shed leaves uniformly.
Now, Zhao Xiaoyan (赵晓雁) is the director of the Cotton Research Office. Like his mentor, he also spends many years in the cotton fields, bending over in the scorching sun, pointing to the cotton flowers and saying to the young people: "When emasculating, you can remove the bracts, but be careful to preserve the white membrane."
Each generation has its own mission, but some things have never changed. For example, patience with a cotton plant, and a commitment to this land.
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"Your master is called 'Sun Dasheng (孙大圣),' he's right on the bridge." That's what the workshop director blurted out when Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) first reported for duty.
Later, he learned that his master's full name was Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生), known as "Sun Dasheng (孙大圣)," and he had trained many apprentices. It was absolutely right that his master was on the bridge; his workplace was on the bridge, and his heart and soul were also on this bridge.
In 1996, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway opened, and the Jiujiang Yangtze River Bridge (九江长江大桥) was put into use. Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生), then 28 years old, began his bridge-guarding career.
The first time Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) followed his master onto the bridge, his legs were shaking. The bridge was a steel truss bridge, and walking on the open steel grid walkway, the rolling river was in full view, as if pulling at his feet. The arch of the bridge was more than 70 meters above the river, and the river wind howled, seemingly trying to knock people over. He secretly glanced at his master walking in front, climbing steel beams, descending piers, and ascending arches, checking here and probing there. Although he was slightly overweight, his steps were steady and agile.
"As long as you love the bridge, the bridge won't hurt you." Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) tightened Ye Qiqi's (叶奇奇) safety belt and led him through the steel beams. Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) had been walking these places for 30 years, and he was as familiar with every part of the bridge as he was with his own palm.
Later, Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) understood the origin of "Sun Dasheng (孙大圣)."
Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) had a unique skill: diagnosing problems by listening to sounds. The bridge's steel beams weighed more than 30,000 tons and were connected by more than 1 million sets of bolts and rivets. One of the daily tasks of a bridge worker was to check the condition of these bolts and replace broken or loose bolts in a timely manner. He could accurately identify which bolts were problematic simply by tapping and listening.
"There are techniques to this. You have to tap on flat surfaces and not use too much force, otherwise you'll damage the anti-rust paint." Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) made good use of a single inspection hammer. "Tapping bolts is like tapping a gong. You have to listen carefully to the sound. A good bolt sounds crisp and clear, and if there's any noise, it's loose or broken."
With this unique skill, Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) discovered many bridge defects. Typical defects such as "cracks in the corbel bracket" had nowhere to hide from him. The bridge had undergone several railway speed increases and train frequency increases, but it remained 岿然不动 (kuī rán bù dòng - "firm and immovable," standing tall and firm; unshakable).
One winter day, the wind force on the bridge deck exceeded level 8, and the bridge suspender rods swayed abnormally. Inspection revealed that the steel plates of two dampers had fractured due to fatigue. What to do? If they were replaced at this time, the high-altitude wind and icy steel beams would make the working environment too harsh.
"Defects are 'beasts' that can't be left overnight," was Sun Fengsheng's (孙凤生) catchphrase. Without the slightest hesitation, he tied himself and the hanging basket to the steel beam with ropes, braving the bitter cold wind, and worked at high altitude for 4 hours, successfully replacing the dampers. When the work was completed, Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) was frozen to the bone and his limbs were numb.
In 2016, Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) was awarded the National May 1st Labor Medal. Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) was very low-key and never mentioned this honor, but Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) knew its weight and secretly engraved a "coordinate" in his heart: to master his master's unique skills and also become a model worker.
Once, Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) asked his master: "After others become foremen, they all go to management positions. Why have you always stayed on the bridge?"
Sun Fengsheng (孙凤生) smiled: "I'm used to it, I can't leave. If I don't come up and walk around every day, I feel uncomfortable all over." At that moment, Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) felt that his master was already a bolt on the bridge.
Four years later, Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) said goodbye to his master and came to a new position, another bridge over the Yangtze River—the Bianyuzhou Yangtze River Bridge (鳊鱼洲长江大桥), becoming the foreman of the maintenance section of this new bridge.
As the "throat" of the Beijing-Hong Kong High-Speed Railway (京港高铁), the Bianyuzhou Yangtze River Bridge (鳊鱼洲长江大桥) uses a large number of new equipment and technologies, and the maintenance standards are higher and the operation methods are more intelligent. Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) led his colleagues to study diligently and mastered modern maintenance skills such as bridge health monitoring, drone inspection, robot exploration, and laser rust removal.
Now, Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) also has apprentices. He often tells his apprentices the story of "Sun Dasheng (孙大圣)." They have actually learned all of their master's unique skills, but Ye Qiqi (叶奇奇) feels that his master's spirit must be told, learned, and passed down from generation to generation.
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When I was still in college, I heard people mention that a senior alumnus who had graduated for many years worked as an editor at the People's Education Press (人民教育出版社). On the day I joined the company, I finally met the senior alumnus in person: big head, long legs, and a round belly, almost equivalent to two of me. Looking straight ahead, I could only see the pocket on his chest. I said "Hello, senior," but he didn't seem to hear me. Later, the leader said, let him take you! I was very happy, but also a little uneasy, so I changed my greeting to "Hello, master."
At the apprenticeship ceremony, there was a flower presentation. He bent down, took the flowers, and grinned at me. I seemed even more embarrassed. Later, I heard colleagues present say that he rarely smiled. And it was true. My master always had a thoughtful expression. He walked with a sharp gaze, not knowing whether he was pondering words or deliberating punctuation. Going to the cafeteria for dinner, regardless of whether it was delicious or not, he quickly shoveled it into his stomach, got up expressionlessly, and continued to return to his workstation to look at manuscripts. His desk and floor were piled with manuscripts, and no one could find a place to stand. He bent over and squeezed into the book den, then straightened his back, 老僧入定 (lǎo sēng rù dìng - "old monk in meditation," to be in a state of deep concentration), and worked until dark.
After getting to know him for a long time, I found that although my master was a bit eccentric, he did have many extraordinary qualities. In addition to being able to see details such as character spacing and full-width and half-width characters at a glance, he was also a "human database." He remembered clearly which word appeared in which page of which textbook. I asked him how he did it, and he said, just read more.
At the manuscript meeting, he no longer remained silent. He often shouted "Wait" when everyone's opinions were about to reach a consensus, and then outputted his views like a machine gun, saying that this expression could be more precise and that modification could be more perfect. When encountering different opinions, he cited extensively and argued on the basis of reason, becoming more and more excited, and his voice became louder and louder, regardless of whether the leader was sitting opposite him. Watching my master's face turn red, I sweated and didn't dare to breathe. Once, after the meeting, he asked seriously, why didn't you speak? I was very ashamed because I really couldn't say anything at that time. I said that I was not feeling well at the time. My master was very concerned and asked if I was feeling better. So I was even more ashamed.
My master was sometimes so rigorous that he was unreasonable, and sometimes so gentle that it was unbelievable. A student wrote a letter complaining that the classical Chinese in the textbook was too difficult and he didn't want to memorize it, asking the editor to delete it all. I was both angry and amused when I read it, thinking how could I reply to this. After my master read it, he was not angry at all. Instead, he patiently explained to him why classical Chinese was selected, how to learn it well and memorize it quickly, talking a lot, almost like a paper. At the end, he did not forget to wish him progress in his studies and a happy life. The naughty student who wrote the letter would definitely not have imagined that the "old mother" who repeatedly told him in the reply was actually a strong man with a fierce look.
At the end of last year, the leader temporarily asked me to take over a teaching reference book that was about to be published. Time was tight and the task was heavy. I was scrambling and wishing there were 48 hours in a day. The format of the charts, the style of the columns, and the translation of ancient books, wherever I was unsure, my master was replying even at midnight. Sometimes he suddenly went silent. I thought he had fallen asleep, but after a while, he sent a long string of textual research, every sentence of which was reasonable.
When the deadline arrived, my heart was pounding, and I was always worried that there were omissions, and I was hesitant to finalize the draft. It was getting darker and darker, the cleaning lady got off work. Thinking of the typesetting teacher downstairs waiting, and the printing master waiting, I became even more nervous. My master hadn't gone home yet. He said he would go through it one last time. I asked, did the leader ask you to stay? He said no. Then he picked up the manuscript and flipped through it page by page. The manuscript was very thick, with more than 500 pages. He pointed out one place, and I corrected one place. I was so nervous that my pen was shaking. After the revision, he accompanied me to find the typesetting teacher to confirm the final effect. It wasn't until all the procedures were completed that my heartbeat finally stabilized a little. Looking at the watch, it was already the next day.
Walking out of the gate of the unit, the night wind was biting. My master stood under the street lamp, his shadow stretched very long.
The most touching labor is never ostentatious, but silently sticks to the ordinary post, paving the way for those who come later. I think I will always remember this day.
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In Xu Xudong's (徐旭东) eyes, the drone flying towards the field is full of poetry: the fuselage bathed in sunlight, the skillfully rotating blades, and the fine mist-like liquid medicine sprayed down are the drone's poetic lines written to the wheat field. Standing in the thousand-mu agricultural park, watching the crops grow vigorously, he couldn't help but recite his self-created rhyme: "The rotor spins and flies to the sky, intelligent obstacle avoidance ensures safety. Saves time and effort with high efficiency, technology helps agriculture for a good harvest."
When Xu Xudong (徐旭东) was a child, the first time he heard a rhyme was from his grandfather, Xu Congxiang (徐淙祥): "Deep plowing and fine harrowing to ensure sufficient moisture, seedlings are uniform, neat, and strong." At that time, he didn't understand, he just thought his grandfather's nagging was fun. He always saw his grandfather working in the experimental field, either lifting up wheat leaves to take a closer look, or staring at the corn cobs, reciting his scientific farming rhyme to the villagers who came to learn from him. As for himself, he liked to crawl into the wheat field of the experimental field to play.
After studying and becoming literate, Xu Xudong (徐旭东) gradually realized that his grandfather, Xu Congxiang (徐淙祥), was different from others: his grandfather repeatedly set records for the yield per unit area of wheat, corn, and soybeans; in his grandfather's experimental field, not only farmers came to learn, but also university professors, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), and even foreign agricultural experts came to observe and investigate. His grandfather also recited farming rhymes to them, and he had more than 100 of these rhymes. So, his grandfather was so amazing!
On weekends or during winter and summer vacations, his grandfather always took him to the experimental field to help him record the condition of the seedlings. One summer vacation, he followed his grandfather into the soybean field of the agricultural park. The soybean plants covered the field with green jade, as if you could cut off a piece at any time to make a jade pendant. Crickets jumped among the soybean plants, playing a game of "欲擒故纵 (yù qín gù zòng - "to allow someone to escape in order to catch them later," to play cat and mouse; to tantalize)." But from morning to noon, the scorching heat was unbearable, so he asked his grandfather for permission to rest under a tree. His grandfather said, "This is the best time to observe the stress resistance of crops, we can't miss it." Large beads of sweat hung on his grandfather's graying temples, and he couldn't help but reach out to wipe his grandfather's sweat. His grandfather smiled and pulled him over to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
During the winter vacation of his senior year, the land of northern Anhui (皖北) was particularly cold. His grandfather asked him to observe the growth of wheat seedlings in the experimental field of the agricultural park. The north wind howled, and the stubborn wheat plants lay prostrate on the ground, weaving a faint green color. His grandfather squatted in the wheat field, explaining to everyone for more than an hour, while Xu Xudong (徐旭东) listened and recorded. When his grandfather stood up, he staggered suddenly and almost fell. Xu Xudong (徐旭东) grabbed his grandfather, and at that moment, the dilemma swirling in his mind, "whether to stay in the provincial capital to work after graduating from college, or to come back and work with his grandfather," seemed to suddenly have an answer.
In the early summer near graduation, the green wheat fields were full of vitality. Xu Xudong (徐旭东) and his grandfather stood side by side in the depths of the wheat field, with the wheat plants neatly surrounding them. "I will come back as soon as I graduate and work with you to develop agriculture!" he blurted out. His grandfather didn't say anything, but his calloused hand rested heavily on his shoulder.
One day, his grandfather took out the record books from these years, some of which were recorded by Xu Xudong (徐旭东), but most were recorded by his grandfather. Looking at his own childish handwriting, his heart suddenly warmed. It turned out that his grandfather had been intentionally bringing him along since he was a teenager. His grandfather reviewed the contents of the record book with him, and then took him to the experimental field, teaching him how to prepare the land, fertilize, how to take samples and analyze them at fixed points, and assigned him a large field and dozens of small fields, letting him do it himself. When fertilizing, Xu Xudong (徐旭东) thought that as long as he gave enough fertilizer at one time, the wheat would have enough nutrients. Sure enough, after the fertilizer was applied, the wheat seedlings grew rapidly, but when it came to the jointing and booting stage, the wheat seedlings withered. He asked his grandfather for advice. His grandfather said in a deep voice, "Seedlings are like people, they must be taken care of with meticulous effort, you can't rush it. You have to fertilize according to the seedlings, in stages, you can't 'bombard' them all at once." His grandfather also gave him a rhyme: "Wheat seedlings need careful nurturing like people, adapt to local conditions and cleverly supplement the soil. Fertilize as needed according to the growth trend, not in a hurry, but steadily fill the granary." Xu Xudong's (徐旭东) face turned red when he heard this.
At this moment, Xu Xudong (徐旭东) held the remote control and watched the drone return, the sunlight hitting the fuselage, reflecting a dazzling light. The once green young man has now become a senior agronomist, and he is followed by new farmers born after 2000...
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While studying at the police academy, Xiao Yu (小俞) practiced long-distance running, learned to swim, and went to the gym to sweat every day. Lying on his dormitory bed, his mind was always directing and acting out some plots, hoping that one day when he became a criminal police officer, he could capture criminal suspects with his bare hands.
However, after graduating and reporting to the water police detachment, looking at the rough ropes, axes, wooden chisels, hammers, wooden pegs, and iron hooks of different sizes on the equipment rack, the ignorant young man couldn't say a word for a long time. He felt very disappointed that he hadn't become a criminal police officer.
"Young man, don't be discouraged. After a long time, you will know that our water police are also amazing," Xiao Yu's (小俞) master, police officer Lao Xu (老徐), said slowly.
During the heart-to-heart talk between the master and apprentice, Xiao Yu (小俞) remembered Lao Xu's (老徐) words: Every underwater lift by the water police is a rescue of life; every time evidence is salvaged from the water, it is a maintenance of the law.
Swimming is the basic skill of the water police. Xiao Yu (小俞) once prided himself on his superb swimming skills, but when training in the river, he found that he was far inferior to his master. Lao Xu (老徐) plunged into the water and could explore the riverbed three or four meters deep. When he surfaced, he was holding a small spoon in his right hand, which had been thrown down in advance. Xiao Yu (小俞) couldn't do this. So he settled down and learned skills from his master.
In the following days, Xiao Yu (小俞) followed Lao Xu (老徐) and traveled all over the large and small waters inside and outside the city, familiarizing himself with the river width, water depth, and riverside environment, in order to quickly handle accidents after receiving the police. Saving people in the water is a race against time calculated in seconds. When they were driving police patrol boats in the river, the wind stiffly blew up the collars of their police uniforms. At a certain moment, Xiao Yu (小俞) would recall his dream in the police academy dormitory. He knew that he was also realizing that dream now.
One autumn night, a gold store was robbed, and gold and silver jewelry worth 300,000 yuan was robbed. The criminal suspect was eventually caught. After interrogation, he admitted that he had thrown the plastic bag containing the stolen goods into the river. The water area he identified was more than ten meters wide, about 3 meters deep, and had silt underwater. In order to find the stolen goods as soon as possible, the water police used homemade salvage tools to sift every inch of the riverbed like a sieve, while taking turns diving into the water to explore the riverbed and search for evidence. The salvage work lasted for 10 hours. Lao Xu (老徐) dived several times. When he returned to the shore to rest, he did not see Xiao Yu (小俞). Lao Xu (老徐) was worried and was looking around when he suddenly saw an arm stretched out from the water, holding a small bag in his hand. Then, Xiao Yu (小俞) showed his head...
In winter, rescue on the ice is a test for the water police.
That evening, Lao Xu (老徐) and Xiao Yu (小俞) were patrolling the river bank on foot when they suddenly heard a cry for help from behind them. There seemed to be a figure on the ice dozens of meters away. The two quickly turned around. Xiao Yu (小俞) ran to the scene, and Lao Xu (老徐) ran to the police car parked nearby to get tools. Although the ice cave was only a dozen meters away from the shore, improper handling would mean the distance between life and death. Xiao Yu (小俞) crawled forward on the ice, quickly figured out the situation: it turned out that one person had fallen into the water, and the companion tried to rescue him, but the ice layer cracked, and the two fell into the water at the same time. Although they clung to the ice, they couldn't climb up.
When Xiao Yu (小俞) approached the ice cave, Lao Xu (老徐) also threw the rope and life buoy over. After tossing in the biting cold wind and ice water for nearly half an hour, they finally pulled the two people who fell into the water onto the ice...
The days flowed by like water. Later, Lao Xu (老徐) retired, and Xiao Yu (小俞) became the backbone of the detachment. When he was on duty, he would always remember what Lao Xu (老徐) had said and the skills he had taught. In the eyes of the newly graduated water police, he also looked like a "master".
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