Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of unity and effort in achieving Chinese-style modernization, highlighting Xi Jinping's call to consolidate consensus and mobilize all positive factors. It underscores that this modernization is fundamentally about improving the lives of the people and requires the Party to serve the people wholeheartedly. The article references Xi's visit to Yan'an, emphasizing the importance of the Party's connection with the people, and also his visit to the National Innovation Park in Beijing. It calls for continued hard work and dedication from all citizens, particularly the youth, to contribute to the nation's development. The article does not contain any references to the United States.
Summary: The article discusses efforts across multiple provinces to rectify formalism (形式主义) and reduce burdens on lower levels of government by addressing incorrect views on political achievement (政绩观). Local party organizations are encouraged to focus on practical results that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history. Measures include strengthening decision-making mechanisms, improving financial management, and rectifying issues such as unauthorized construction. Officials are also encouraged to solve practical problems for businesses and the people, and avoid wasteful spending.
Summary: The article discusses China's shift from "digitalization" (数字化) to "intelligent digitalization" (数智化) as highlighted in the 15th Five-Year Plan. This evolution represents a deeper integration of AI technologies like intelligent decision-making and advanced sensing. The move towards "intelligent digitalization" aims to promote high-quality development and new productive forces across various industries. China has established preliminary conditions for this transformation, boasting the world's second-largest computing power and a rapidly expanding 5G infrastructure. The article emphasizes that this transformation will provide new impetus for developing new quality productive forces.
Summary: The article focuses on efforts to enhance the appeal and educational impact of the Xibaipo Memorial Hall, the last rural command post before the CCP entered Beiping. It highlights innovative approaches to storytelling, including immersive activities, technology like AR to bring historical photos to life, and the creation of cultural products like a collection of Mao Zedong's telegrams. Officials emphasize the importance of leveraging revolutionary relics for Party history education, revolutionary tradition education, and patriotism education. The goal is to further empower the revitalization of old revolutionary base areas by spreading red stories more widely. In 2023, the memorial hall received about 3.61 million visitors.
Summary: The first section of the steel trestle bridge for the Changhai Bridge in Dalian, Liaoning, has been completed, providing a 11.6-kilometer material transport channel for the larger bridge project. The Changhai Bridge, a 25.5-kilometer land-island highway connecting Dalian's Pulandian district and Dachangshan Island, will reduce travel time between the locations. The trestle bridge is crucial for transporting construction materials and personnel. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In April, China experienced robust investment in frontier technologies, with significant capital flowing into artificial intelligence and other advanced sectors, according to the National Information Center. Investment in AI and humanoid robots increased by 175.2% year-on-year, while infrastructure projects related to data, computing power, and networks saw a 61.7% increase in awarded bids. Consumer spending also saw increases. Outbound cargo ship weight increased 42.1%. The report does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese customs data indicates a 14.9% year-on-year increase in total goods trade value for the first four months of 2023, reaching 16.23 trillion yuan. Exports grew by 11.3% to 9.33 trillion yuan, while imports increased by 20% to 6.9 trillion yuan. Trade with ASEAN rose by 15.7% to 2.75 trillion yuan, and trade with the EU increased by 13.2% to 2.01 trillion yuan. Trade with Belt and Road countries saw a 13.5% increase, totaling 8.28 trillion yuan.
Summary: This article highlights the importance of translating Party's innovative theories of the new era into frameworks for analyzing philosophy and social science. It also discusses the evolution of Chinese consumption trends. Finally, it emphasizes integrating Chinese cultural elements into creative works, and the strength of Chinese culture.
Summary: Li Hongzhong, a member of the Politburo and Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, chaired the first plenary meeting of the NPC Standing Committee's law enforcement inspection group on food security. He stressed the importance of implementing Xi Jinping's directives and the Party Central Committee's decisions on national food security, advocating for the comprehensive implementation of the Food Security Guarantee Law. Li emphasized integrating supervision with legislation to improve related draft laws and strengthening the food security system. Furthermore, he highlighted the necessity of understanding the situation, identifying problems accurately, and proposing practical solutions through extensive consultation and grassroots investigations. Vice Chairpersons of the NPC Standing Committee Wu Weihua and Xuekelaiti Zakir attended the meeting.
Summary: At a press conference on Yunnan's "15th Five-Year Plan," Governor Wang Yubo outlined the province's focus on high-quality development, prioritizing the people's well-being and innovation. Yunnan aims to strengthen its resource, park, and port economies by upgrading industries like aluminum, silicon, and tourism. The province will continue to promote ecological civilization by protecting highland lakes and biodiversity. Yunnan will also boost connectivity with Southeast Asia via the China-Laos Railway, building industrial clusters along the route.
Summary: The article reports on the success of Hefei Guojing Instrument Technology Co., Ltd., a startup specializing in high-end scientific equipment, highlighting the support it received from the KeDa Silicon Valley in Anhui. KeDa Silicon Valley, established in 2022, provided the company with funding, facilities, and connections to potential clients, including a semiconductor company and Anhui University. This support helped the company develop and launch its first table-top cold field emission microscope in 2024. KeDa Silicon Valley aims to foster an innovative ecosystem by connecting startups with global resources and providing assistance in technology transfer and industrial implementation. The article suggests this model reflects a broader trend in China's technology service industry, emphasizing the need for patient capital and comprehensive support for early-stage tech companies.
Summary: Ningbo-Zhoushan Port's Meishan port district is implementing "smart port" technologies, including AI-powered visual recognition, automated container handling, and digital twin systems, to enhance operational efficiency. A "smart brain" system orchestrates operations, with a digital twin providing real-time visualization and precise monitoring of port activities. Customs officials are utilizing quadruped robots with high-definition cameras to streamline container inspections, significantly reducing inspection times. The port district aims to continue its green and digital transformation, as stated by Zhejiang Provincial Seaport Group and Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group Chairman Tao Chengbo.
Summary: In April, China's CPI increased by 0.3% month-on-month and 1.2% year-on-year, driven by rising energy prices and increased travel demand. The core CPI, excluding food and energy, rose by 1.2% year-on-year, indicating a moderate recovery. The PPI increased by 1.7% month-on-month and 2.8% year-on-year, with both increases exceeding those of the previous month. Rising international oil prices impacted domestic petroleum-related industries, while increased domestic demand in some sectors also contributed to price increases. The government attributes some of the increase to improvements in domestic market competition and a crackdown on "involution" competition, citing lithium-ion battery manufacturing prices rising by 1.6% month-on-month.
Summary: China saw a robust increase in new business registrations in the first quarter of 2024, with 5.098 million new entities, including 2.074 million new enterprises and 3.014 million individual businesses. The growth was particularly strong in "new economy" sectors, high-tech manufacturing (especially integrated circuits and drones), and high-tech services like testing and technology transfer. Foreign-invested enterprises also saw a 10% increase, totaling 16,000, with investment concentrated in research, technology services, culture, sports and entertainment. These trends indicate a positive trajectory for China's economic development, with upgrades for manufacturing and service industries. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Agricultural workers in Weinan, Shaanxi province recently began cross-regional operations in preparation for 2026. Weinan, located in the Guanzhong area, has over 7,000 agricultural machines involved in these operations. These "Guanzhong wheat farmers" are reportedly playing a role in enhancing agricultural production capacity and ensuring food security. The article does not make explicit reference to either the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of people-to-people exchanges in U.S.-China relations, citing interviews with Americans from various sectors who express interest in fostering mutual understanding and cooperation. Many Americans interviewed believe that increased interaction, especially among youth, can help dispel prejudices and foster a more accurate perception of China. The piece highlights initiatives such as the "5-year 50,000 youth" exchange program and the positive reception of the Chinese Embassy's open day. Some Americans interviewed noted a shift towards more positive views of China among the American public. The article suggests that strengthened people-to-people ties can contribute to a healthier and more stable U.S.-China relationship.
Summary: Ambassador Xie Feng anticipates President Xi Jinping's meeting with President Trump, highlighting that the U.S. President's state visit to China is the first in nine years. Xie emphasizes that China views the U.S. as a potential partner and opportunity, not a threat, and hopes the U.S. will abandon its Cold War mentality. He outlined China's "red lines" on Taiwan, democracy and human rights, development paths, and the right to development and calls for the U.S. to cease suppressing China in trade, technology, and visa policies. China seeks cooperation with the U.S. in areas like diplomacy, trade, law enforcement, military affairs, technology, AI, and public health.
Summary: Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Chairman of the Kuhn Foundation, expressed optimism regarding a potential U.S.-China summit, emphasizing the need for both countries to recognize the global situation and manage bilateral relations for the sake of their domestic goals and global stability. He suggested expanding communication channels, including cooperation on AI safety and fentanyl, and establishing a pragmatic economic cooperation framework. Kuhn also stressed that a more stable U.S.-China relationship is crucial for the global economy, investment, and cooperation in areas like climate and public health, arguing that "decoupling" is unrealistic. He advocated for increased people-to-people exchanges to foster understanding and cooperation, particularly among young people. Ultimately, Kuhn believes a successful summit between the two heads of state could bring tangible benefits to ordinary people, such as easier visa procedures and increased international flights.
Summary: Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng, China's lead person on economic and trade issues, and US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen held economic and trade consultations in South Korea on May 13th. Guided by the consensus reached by the two countries' heads of state, both parties engaged in candid, in-depth, and constructive communication on resolving each other's economic and trade concerns and further expanding practical cooperation, adhering to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation.
Summary: A U.S.-China pickleball friendship event was held in Ganzhou, Jiangxi Province, co-sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries and other organizations. Judy Hoarfrost, a participant in the original "ping-pong diplomacy," led a delegation from Oregon and a pickleball team from Utah Tech University to the event. Hoarfrost emphasized that sports and cultural exchange can unite the two countries, just as ping-pong diplomacy did. The event, which included friendly matches and cultural experiences, served as a concrete step in fulfilling China's "5-year 50,000" initiative to encourage people-to-people exchanges. Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries Vice Secretary-General Ji Yongjun stated that Xi Jinping values the importance of friendly exchanges between the people of China and the United States.
Summary: On May 13th, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung met with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in Seoul, where He Lifeng conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings and expressed China's willingness to strengthen communication and cooperation to improve the China-South Korea strategic partnership. Lee Jae-myung reciprocated Xi's greetings and expressed hope for strengthened cooperation to benefit both countries and contribute to regional peace. He Lifeng also met with South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho on May 12th to discuss strengthening China-South Korea economic and trade cooperation. The meetings took place following recent visits between the two countries' leaders.
Summary: Liu Haixing, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee, met with a delegation from Azerbaijan's New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) led by Deputy Chairman Budagov in Beijing. They discussed implementing agreements reached by the leaders of both countries and strengthening party-to-party exchanges. The meeting aimed to promote the development of the China-Azerbaijan comprehensive strategic partnership. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The 2026 China-California Business Forum was held in Los Angeles, bringing together approximately 550 Chinese and American political and business figures. Xie Feng, China's Ambassador to the U.S., stated via video that California is at the "forefront of China-U.S. subnational cooperation" and that this year is a "big year" for U.S.-China relations, expressing hope that California would contribute to a new era of mutual respect and win-win cooperation. Guo Shaochun, China's Consul General in Los Angeles, highlighted the forum's role in promoting trade and investment. California State Treasurer Fiona Ma emphasized the long-standing economic partnership between California and China. Hainan Province and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region signed multiple cooperation projects with California during the forum.
Summary: A "Hello! China" and "Tea for Harmony" event was held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, showcasing Chinese culture to Brazilian guests through tea, images, videos, and cuisine. As part of the "China-Brazil Culture Year," the event highlighted scenic landscapes, Chinese tea culture with varieties like Longjing and Oolong, and the flavors of Hubei's Chu cuisine. The event combined cultural and tourism brands to offer Brazilians a taste of China.
Summary: An article reports on China's efforts to strengthen grassroots emergency response capabilities for natural disasters. Local cadres are receiving training, and diverse forces including professional and social rescue teams are being integrated. Technology like drones and emergency management platforms are being deployed to improve efficiency. The article emphasized the importance of public awareness and education through various means, including drills and the integration of disaster preparedness into school curricula. The piece cited multiple examples of local implementations of disaster preparedness, showcasing the degree to which local leadership is taking responsibility for disaster relief. There was no mention of the United States or its relationship with China.
Summary: A press conference held by the State Council Information Office featured five exemplary teachers discussing education and national development. Ningxia middle school principal Jie Wei emphasized personalized education, while Lanzhou University professor Huang Jianping highlighted integrating research with education, focusing on climate observation along the "Belt and Road". Other educators discussed labor education, preschool education focused on character development, and vocational training for aviation. The speakers stressed practical teaching methods and cultivating talent to serve national needs. There was no mention of the United States or US-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's encouragement for youth to dedicate themselves to their work and contribute to national development. It highlights the upcoming 48th WorldSkills Competition in Shanghai, featuring new categories that reflect technological advancements. The piece showcases examples of young people excelling in various fields, from agriculture to AI, driven by innovation and dedication. It also mentions the increasing role of young researchers in national key research and development projects. The article promotes the idea of youth contributing to a better China through hard work, innovation, and dedication to the people and the nation.
Summary: This article describes soy sauce production in Hejiang County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province. Workers are capitalizing on good weather to sun-dry soy sauce at a riverside open-air facility. The county is leveraging the unique ecological resources of the Chishui River to actively develop the traditional soy sauce brewing industry. This initiative aims to boost local employment and contribute to rural revitalization. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Several regions in China are addressing formalism (形式主义) by tackling its root causes in distorted performance evaluations (政绩观) and lack of responsibility. Local party organizations are conducting education campaigns to correct cadres' performance perspectives and encourage them to focus on practical achievements. This includes rectifying issues such as unauthorized construction projects and overspending. Authorities are also streamlining evaluations and reducing burdens on基层 (grassroots level) to allow cadres to focus on serving the people and businesses. The rectification efforts aim to promote high-quality development and address the urgent needs of the population.
Summary: Zhengzhou has implemented a renewable energy system on Longhu Financial Island, utilizing treated wastewater to provide heating and cooling to buildings. This system uses heat pump technology to extract or transfer heat from the wastewater, resulting in significant energy savings and reduced carbon emissions compared to traditional air conditioning. The project saves users approximately 30% on their air conditioning electricity bills during the summer. After heat exchange, the water is then used for urban ecological replenishment. Liang Weigang, the Party Secretary and Chairman of Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., introduced the initiative.
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Summary: The article discusses the emergence and management of spontaneous markets in China, focusing on the "7080" common prosperity market in Qiantang District, Hangzhou. This market brings together diverse groups, including elderly farmers, factory workers, and young entrepreneurs. The article highlights the importance of these markets in promoting common prosperity (共同富裕) by boosting the "grassroots economy," facilitating resource flow between urban and rural areas, and fostering collaboration among different actors. It emphasizes the need for coordinated development and investment in both infrastructure and human capital to ensure the success and sustainability of these markets.
Summary: The article discusses recent breakthroughs in marathon running, both by a human athlete and a robot. Kenyan runner Savy completed a marathon in under two hours, while a robot named "Lightning" broke the half-marathon record. The article emphasizes that these achievements, although different in nature, both represent a pursuit of pushing limits and highlight the continuous technological innovation that supports human progress. Ultimately, the author argues that technology will not diminish the value of human endeavor. A Chinese company provided core materials for the running shoes that helped Savy break the record.
Summary: An agricultural technician in Yunnan's Shidian County, known as the "hometown of the rice mother," emphasizes the importance of their work in ensuring national food security through hybrid rice seed production. The technician highlights Shidian's crucial role in providing parent seeds for over 80% of the nation's two-line hybrid rice and recounts his experience working with experts like Professor Chen Liyun to improve seed propagation techniques. The article emphasizes the dedication required to maintain high yields, including extensive fieldwork and innovative solutions like developing a low-cost seed drying method. The author notes that they have received the personal endorsement of Yuan Longping, who called the area the "best hybrid rice breeding base in China". There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese government has initiated the sixth round of the third cycle of environmental inspections targeting seven provinces (Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Guangdong, Guangxi, Tibet, and Xinjiang) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Seven central environmental inspection teams have been dispatched to oversee the implementation of ecological and environmental protection responsibilities by local Party committees, governments, and related departments. This round of inspections aims to address deep-seated environmental problems and improve the ecological landscape. The inspections are described as a crucial tool for holding local authorities accountable for environmental protection. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Academician Yan Ning of the Chinese Academy of Sciences defended her research in structural glycobiology against criticisms, emphasizing its potential to improve targeted drug development. She described her lab's work ethic using the onomatopoeia "吭哧吭哧" (hēngchī hēngchī) to illustrate a dedicated, persistent approach to research. The article contrasts this with other criticized approaches like prioritizing project applications over research, imitative research, and producing research solely for publication. It argues that integrating personal aspirations with collective goals leads to sustained effort and that evolving evaluation mechanisms will incentivize impactful research. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China has released the "Xiangshan" open-source computing system and the "Ruyi" native operating system, both built on the RISC-V instruction set architecture. This move is seen as an effort to "leapfrog" in the chip sector by embracing open-source ecosystems. The article emphasizes the advantages of RISC-V, including its open-source nature, flexibility, and avoidance of licensing fees and potential bottlenecks. It highlights the importance of building a robust domestic ecosystem for RISC-V to achieve true independence in chip technology. The article argues against relying on foreign technology and advocates for self-reliance in core technology development.
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Summary: The "Jianghai" shield tunneling machine has reached the lowest point of the Hai Tai Yangtze River Tunnel project, a 11.185 km tunnel in Jiangsu province, after completing 5,316 meters of excavation at a depth of 75 meters below the Yangtze River. The project overcame challenges including high water pressure and soft soil conditions, utilizing an independently developed fourth-generation synchronous grouting technology and a new normal pressure cutter replacement system. The shield tunneling machine has an intelligent control platform, incorporating a "deep and far-reaching model" that utilizes extensive data resources to address complex geological conditions and improve construction decisions. The project involves a large-diameter shield tunnel and faces challenges related to its depth, diameter, length, and the high water pressure. There is no discussion or allusions to the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Fudan University's Wen Shaoqing delivered a lecture on the application of scientific archeology to honor martyrs, including DNA identification and facial reconstruction, at a National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) event. Vice Chairperson of the CPPCC, Shen Yueyue, attended the lecture. Wen detailed efforts to reconstruct the lives of unknown martyrs through genetic analysis, emphasizing the role of technology in honoring their spirits. The event aimed to promote scientific literacy and contribute to societal progress, in line with Xi Jinping's directives on popularizing science. There was no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Guo Yingxin, a post-00s individual in Guangzhou, was honored on the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission's "Heroic and Righteous Acts List" for Q1 2026. Guo climbed up the side of a building to rescue a child dangling from a fourth-floor window, while two neighbors helped from below. Other residents and community members describe Guo as a helpful and courageous individual. The article highlights a growing trend of civic heroism in Guangzhou, with the city's foundation recognizing over 200 such individuals in 2025.
Summary: Since 2017, Ningxia has been continuously promoting comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction areas, cumulatively reducing over-extraction by 76.53 million cubic meters and decreasing the number of over-extraction areas from 7 to 3. Ningxia has implemented strict water resource management and established a groundwater regulatory system, including differentiated water resource tax collection. The region has defined 39 groundwater management units, setting control targets for groundwater extraction volume and water levels. Ningxia has also improved its groundwater monitoring network and developed a digital supervision platform, with over 1,000 monitoring stations and a high rate of monitoring for groundwater extraction.
Summary: In Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, a fruit company's workshop is packaging navel oranges. Zigui County has been using a combination of online and offline methods to sell Zigui navel oranges overseas, increasing farmers' income. The article focuses on the economic benefits of this agricultural export strategy, with no mention of any official statements, accompanying personnel, or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses China's efforts to improve healthcare in rural areas, highlighting three main approaches: technological empowerment, resource sharing within counties, and the downward flow of resources. In Xinjiang's remote Arxan Village, "roaming hospitals" with AI-assisted diagnosis and telemedicine are enhancing village doctors' capabilities. In Zhejiang's Haiyan County, a centralized medicine dispensing system ensures access to a wider range of drugs, while Anhui's Suixi County is inviting experts from larger hospitals to provide care and training in smaller towns and villages. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The National People's Congress Standing Committee initiated an enforcement inspection of the Food Security Guarantee Law, set to take effect June 1, 2024. The inspection, aimed at solidifying the legal foundation for national food security, will involve both on-site visits to six provinces (Shanxi, Jilin, Anhui, Shandong, Henan, and Hubei) and commissioned inspections by provincial-level people's congresses in six other provinces/municipalities (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Shanghai, Fujian, Hunan, and Shaanxi). The focus will be on seven key areas, including responsibility systems, farmland protection, production capacity, reserve management, and loss reduction. The inspection methods will include symposiums, on-site visits, and random checks.
Summary: Inner Mongolia is expanding its cross-provincial green electricity (绿电) transactions to meet the growing demand from eastern regions like Shanghai. Shanghai-based company Youfu Network is now engaging in multi-year green electricity contracts with Inner Mongolian power generators, facilitated by the Inner Mongolia Eastern Power Trading Center. Inner Mongolia is improving its transmission infrastructure and market rules to support this expansion, including building high-voltage transmission lines. The goal is to optimize resource allocation and contribute to China's "dual carbon" goals.
Summary: Zhou Changzhan, the Party Secretary of Baini Village, Guangxi, is highlighted for continuing the work of the late Huang Wenxiu in rural revitalization. Since 2017, Zhou has focused on infrastructure development, including roads and lighting, and promoting local industries such as oil camellia and mandarin oranges. He encouraged villagers to adopt new farming techniques and established a company to brand and market agricultural products. The article credits these efforts with increasing village income and fulfilling Huang Wenxiu's vision for the village. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In Fengxin County, Yichun City, Jiangxi Province, local authorities are promoting integrated rice-frog farming and other "rice-plus" models to increase agricultural income and rural development. This approach aims to boost the overall profitability of rice paddies and enhance the industry's ripple effect, ultimately leading to increased income for both village collectives and individual farmers. The practice involves the cultivation of rice fields for multiple products.
Summary: Sinopec announced a breakthrough at its "Deep Earth Engineering- Sichuan-Chongqing Natural Gas Base," with the confirmation of 235.687 billion cubic meters of proven geological reserves at the Ziyang Dongfeng shale gas field in Sichuan. This signifies the emergence of China's first ultra-deep shale gas field, pushing exploration and development beyond 4,500 meters. The Ziyang Dongfeng shale gas field is located in the Sichuan Basin, is a large, integrated gas field discovered in the Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation shale system. The Cambrian shale is the oldest shale system to have achieved large-scale discovery globally.
Summary: The 2026 World Digital Education Conference saw the release of research reports including the "China Smart Education Development Report (2025-2026)" and the "Global Digital Education Development Index (2026)." The Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences released the "China Smart Education Development Report (2025-2026)," outlining China's progress in smart education and future trends. Resources such as the "General Artificial Intelligence Education Lecture Notes" and related courses were also released, showcasing China's exploration in AI education. The releases share China's practical explorations in the field of artificial intelligence elementary education. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Huawei's Qiankun Intelligent Driving ADS 5, a driving assistance solution, was released on April 23, emphasizing safety through multi-sensor fusion technology. The system utilizes a "five-sense collaboration" approach, integrating cameras, millimeter-wave radar, and lidar to create a comprehensive and reliable perception system. The updated WEWA 2.0 architecture enhances both convenience and safety, with cloud-based and vehicle-based upgrades. Qiankun Intelligent Driving has partnered with 25 brands, features in over 50 models, and boasts over 10 billion kilometers of accumulated assisted driving mileage. Huawei plans to invest nearly 10 billion yuan this year and at least 70 billion yuan in the next 5 years to promote the accelerated evolution of assisted driving technology.
Summary: Since the 18th Party Congress, Xi Jinping has put forward major propositions with distinctive concepts, original ideas, and theoretical achievements, answering the question of "what is happening in the world and what should we do?" The article emphasizes the need to transform these concepts into academic frameworks for philosophy and social sciences, breaking down disciplinary barriers to unleash their theoretical potential. It highlights the "Two Integrations" and the concept of "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" as examples of original ideas that can guide methodological approaches. The article calls for a deep integration of these theoretical achievements to promote paradigm innovation in various disciplines, moving away from Western theoretical frameworks.
Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of officials embodying the spirit of being a "mainstay" (主心骨) for the people, particularly during times of crisis. It argues that officials should demonstrate courage to confront challenges, possess the competence to solve problems, and prioritize uniting with the people. The piece criticizes officials who prioritize personal safety and inaction over addressing the needs of the populace. It calls for officials to be willing to take responsibility, be capable of resolving problems, and be willing to connect with and unite the people.
Summary: The article discusses the need to improve the delivery of high-quality public cultural resources to grassroots communities in China, emphasizing the importance of aligning cultural offerings with local needs through mechanisms like data collection and surveys. It advocates for bridging the urban-rural gap in access to cultural resources by enhancing rural infrastructure and promoting cultural exchange between urban and rural areas. The article also promotes a collaborative ecosystem involving the government, social organizations, and the market to ensure cultural resources are effectively delivered and utilized at the grassroots level. It specifically discusses the need to lower barriers to entry for social organizations and cultural enterprises and improve incentive mechanisms to encourage social investment in grassroots public culture. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article emphasizes Xi Jinping's call for international collaboration in AI education to build a shared future for humanity. It advocates for establishing high-level international platforms and mechanisms for AI in education, promoting policy communication and standard alignment to participate in global education governance. China aims to enhance its influence by contributing to global AI education standards and engaging in policy dialogues to address challenges such as data privacy. Furthermore, the article encourages providing capacity-building training and exporting high-quality AI education resources to benefit other countries, especially developing nations. The piece does not mention the United States.
Summary: The town of Subu in Lu'an City, Anhui Province, is transforming its traditional fishing net industry following the 2021 Yangtze River fishing ban. Local businesses are diversifying into new products like climbing nets for agriculture, with one company, Lu'an City Huyu Net Industry Co., Ltd., finding success exporting climbing nets to Thailand. The town is actively supporting this shift by organizing trade show participation and encouraging collaboration across different sectors. The "Lu'an Rope Net" collective trademark was registered in 2022 to strengthen the brand's market position. Deputy Party Secretary Huang Daile stated that they are actively guiding rope net enterprises to broaden their ideas and develop new products and markets.
Summary: A "wheelchair 4S shop" offering customized services and community spaces for people with disabilities has begun trial operations in Shanghai, reflecting a broader trend toward more refined services for disabled individuals. China Disabled Persons' Federation recently released statistical data for the development of programs for the disabled in 2025. Increased accessibility initiatives, such as "shared wheelchair service stations" in Beijing subway stations and accessible maps in Chongqing, are addressing mobility needs. However, the article notes that maintenance of some accessible facilities and adequate special services remain challenges.
Summary: * Inner Mongolia will implement a "green label" certification system for eight categories of products, including electrolytic aluminum, textiles (cashmere), and graphite products. * Xiongan New Area has established a "15-minute volunteer service circle" through a "volunteer partner" mechanism involving 52 centrally-administered enterprises and public service institutions. * A green paper on "Village Super League" (村超) development in Guizhou was released, exploring a new model for rural revitalization in counties. * Nanchang, Jiangxi, has launched a "Comedy Bus" featuring stand-up comedy and interactive performances in the local dialect, which will now operate regularly on weekends. * Xiamen, Fujian, has issued management standards for "no dine-in" takeout food, regulating the operation of local "cloud kitchens."
Summary: Li Yuanlin, a 29-year-old from Guangxi, is revitalizing the traditional Nixing pottery in Qinzhou, Guangxi, with his studio, Jitaoju. He focuses on creating minimalist designs that appeal to contemporary aesthetics. His initial product, a handheld teapot, quickly gained popularity, leading to an updated version. His studio's products are now exported overseas. The studio employs 20 other young people.
Summary: This article reports on a successful elderly meal program in the remote Yanqing district of Beijing. The program consolidates resources from several small villages to provide affordable meals to over 40 seniors in the region. The program utilizes a central kitchen in the village of Qianshan, with meals delivered to residents of more distant villages. Funding is provided through a combination of government subsidies and minimal fees paid by the elderly. The program is made sustainable by contracting out the service to a local restaurant and allowing it to serve tourists when the restaurant is not serving seniors.
Summary: The 2026 China International Bicycle Exhibition in Shanghai showcased new trends in cycling, including 3D-printed titanium frames for enhanced stability and lightweight design. Innovative protective gear, like gloves with DCLAN gel "armor," were also highlighted for rider safety. Exhibitors such as Shanghai Permanent Bicycle Co. and Hebei Hengchi Bicycle Parts (Group) Co. focused on smaller, more refined bikes and lightweight designs for children and teenagers. Additionally, companies like Tianjin Jinlun Group's Baikewu are using AI to analyze rider data and offer customized bicycle production. The exhibition demonstrated the industry's increasing focus on rider experience and technological advancements.
Summary: This article reports on the transformation of Niuzhaping Village in Yichang, Hubei Province, from a stone quarry supplying the Gezhouba Dam project to a thriving eco-tourism destination. Following the closure of the quarries due to environmental concerns, the area has undergone reforestation, leading to an increase in the local macaque population. This has attracted tourists, boosting the local economy through businesses like flower nurseries, restaurants, and guesthouses. The residents have shifted from relying on stone extraction to benefiting from the natural scenery and wildlife. The area's increased accessibility due to new bridges has further facilitated tourism development.
Summary: The article discusses Shanghai's efforts to improve conditions for "new employment groups" like delivery workers, following a central government directive. Shanghai is implementing measures such as negotiated time slots for package drop-offs on narrow streets and providing access to housing and job training. The city's initiatives include establishing consultation mechanisms, providing smart access to communities, and creating "rider homes" with amenities and streamlined government services. These efforts are part of a larger systemic plan to integrate these workers into the modern service economy with better skills, security, and dignity, according to a Shanghai Municipal Committee Social Work Department representative. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A tourist from Gaomi, Shandong, visited Linyi Huafeng International Garment City, a wholesale market newly designated as a 3A-level tourist attraction after undergoing "tourism-oriented" renovations. The market now features amenities like a visitor center, clear signage, and diverse attractions like fashion shows, flea markets, and intangible cultural heritage experience stores. The tourist was drawn to the market by advertisements for fashion shows and flea markets, and expressed surprise at the crowds, who were there despite the rain. She remarked on the unexpected experience of seeing a fashion show in a wholesale market.
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Summary: Chengdu is developing its "first store economy" by attracting new brands, products, and events, including global debuts like a Spanish outdoor brand and local IP collaborations. Since 2019, the city has attracted over 4800 first stores and aims for further growth, supported by policies promoting innovation and streamlined services. This strategy focuses on integrating "innovation-first release-transformation," linking local R&D with market promotion, and facilitating the launch of technological products. Chengdu aims to become a hub for new consumer brands and landmarks, enhancing its appeal as a destination for both businesses and consumers. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: This article discusses Chengdu's success in cultivating a vibrant "first store" economy, attributing it to a strategy of fostering a comprehensive ecosystem rather than simply attracting individual businesses. Chengdu focuses on leveraging local characteristics like consumer trends, industrial advantages, and cultural heritage to create unique and attractive environments for new businesses. The city also implements supportive policies and streamlined services to facilitate the establishment and growth of these ventures. The article emphasizes that this "forest-building" approach, tailored to local conditions, leads to sustainable and competitive economic growth.
Summary: The town of Fenshui in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province, is experiencing a boom in its pen manufacturing industry, accounting for 35% of China's total ballpoint pen production. Local pen manufacturers are innovating with new designs and materials, such as bamboo, and investing in R&D, including core components like ballpoint pen tips, some of which are exported. Fenshui has established a comprehensive pen industry chain and an innovation service complex, partnering with universities to upgrade the traditional industry. The industry is expected to have an annual output value of over 8.2 billion yuan by 2025. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: Liuzhou, Guangxi has established a bamboo-based supply chain for automotive components as an alternative to plastics. Bamboo fiber composites are being used at scale in vehicle interiors, headliners, and seat backs. These bamboo components offer lower VOC emissions compared to traditional plastics, promoting a healthier and low-carbon alternative. The initiative transforms local bamboo resources into valuable automotive raw materials.
Summary: China's railway infrastructure investment reached 200.8 billion yuan from January to April, a 3.2% year-on-year increase, according to the China State Railway Group. The investment focuses on supporting national strategies and regional economic development. Progress has been made on several key projects including the Xi'an-Shiyan high-speed railway and the Xiong'an-Shangqiu high-speed railway Shandong section, both undergoing testing reaching 385 km/h. Static acceptance tests have begun on the Xi'an-Ankang high-speed railway and the Wenling-Yuhuan section of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou high-speed railway.
Summary: China's national carbon market has seen cumulative transaction volume of carbon emission quotas reach 897 million tons, with a total turnover exceeding 60 billion yuan as of May 13th. The market, launched in 2021, initially covered 2,162 power generation companies and approximately 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. By 2025, it will expand to include over 3,000 key emission units in the power generation, steel, cement, and aluminum smelting industries, covering about 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. An official from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment stated that efforts in 2026 will focus on strengthening the national carbon market and expanding the supply of the voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market. The national carbon market is reported as an important tool for controlling greenhouse gas emissions and promoting a comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development.
Summary: Li Yakun, the general manager of Huiguchunhe Agricultural Technology in Baixiang County, Hebei Province, developed a popular frozen sweet potato product ("ice sweet potato") by flash-freezing roasted sweet potatoes. After initially struggling with sweet potato jerky, Li pivoted to ice sweet potatoes after positive feedback at trade shows. His company has implemented standardized cultivation, digital technologies for storage, and a traceability system to ensure quality. The company now has two production lines, and the product has become a best-selling item. Li Yakun has over 300 staff to help with production.
Summary: In the first four months of 2024, Guangdong province's foreign tradeimport and export value increased by 18.4% to 3.49 trillion yuan, according to the Guangdong Sub-Administration of the General Administration of Customs. Exports rose by 11.4% to 2.06 trillion yuan, while imports surged by 30.1% to 1.43 trillion yuan. Guangdong's foreign trade growth outpaced the national average by 3.5 percentage points, accounting for 21.5% of the country's total. The province contributed 25.8% to the overall national import and export growth during this period.
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Summary: The article discusses efforts in Shanghai's Changning district to improve property management in older residential communities by addressing resident concerns and clarifying responsibilities. Key to this effort is a "five-pronged approach" to community work, focusing on gathering opinions, understanding sentiments, resolving difficulties, alleviating concerns, and clarifying responsibilities. This involved detailed surveys to identify resident needs and a tiered system for addressing them. By reducing the burden on local officials and streamlining inter-departmental coordination, officials are able to improve services and gain resident support for increased property fees. There is no discussion or allusion to the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article criticizes superficial research practices by some local officials, characterized by perfunctory actions like taking photos instead of addressing genuine concerns. It attributes this issue to excessive task assignments and bureaucratic burdens, which distract cadres from substantive engagement with the populace. The piece advocates for reducing unnecessary burdens on local officials to free them to better connect with and serve the people. It also calls for improving the capabilities of local cadres and providing institutional support to enhance their effectiveness in serving the masses. The article does not discuss the United States.
Summary: A city-wide "rural naming action" in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, has resulted in the naming of 26,294 rural roads across 167 townships and 1,889 villages. The effort aims to resolve issues like misdelivered packages and difficulties in locating addresses by establishing clear road names that are both easy to remember and culturally relevant. A "four-party joint review and evaluation" mechanism involving experts, villagers, townships, and departments was established to ensure appropriate names and local buy-in. Villagers have reported increased convenience in deliveries and improved business due to the new road names. The information has been entered into a national database and synchronized with map navigation platforms.
Summary: The Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate have jointly issued a 21-article regulation on handling cases of illegal occupation of farmland, set to take effect on May 18, 2026. The regulation addresses challenges in determining responsibility for illegal construction on occupied farmland, especially when the original construction entity is defunct or avoids oversight. It stipulates that the actual occupants and users of illegally constructed facilities on farmland can be held liable if they refuse to cooperate with administrative authorities. From 2020 to 2025, national courts concluded 239,800 administrative cases, 399,700 civil cases, and 45,667 criminal cases related to farmland protection. The regulation emphasizes the importance of protecting farmland and ensuring national food security.
Summary: A meeting was held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, led by the State Council Safety Committee Office, the Ministry of Emergency Management, and the National Fire and Rescue Administration, focused on strengthening grassroots fire safety work. The meeting emphasized solidifying grassroots emergency management by strengthening local capabilities, improving mechanisms, and enhancing overall disaster prevention. Key areas of focus included deploying specialized fire safety regulatory forces, clarifying safety responsibilities across sectors, and leveraging technology and public participation to fortify emergency response. Attendees observed organizational structures and operational models at the Xiaoshan Social Governance Center and local street-level emergency fire management stations in Hangzhou.
Summary: An event was held in the Xishui Community, Rucheng Subdistrict, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province. Elderly members of the community participated in a flower arranging class at the "Silver Age Classroom". The class was led by a flower arranging teacher. The article does not discuss Chinese politics, officials, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Ministry of Public Security's Traffic Management Bureau issued a warning to drivers regarding nighttime highway driving safety following several recent fatal accidents. The announcement detailed two specific incidents: one in Hebei involving a semi-trailer rear-ending a slow-moving car resulting in three deaths and two injuries, and another in Anhui where a semi-trailer hit a car stopped in the lane due to a phone call, causing four deaths and three injuries. The Bureau urged drivers to concentrate while driving at night and to exercise caution when entering or exiting highways.
Summary: The Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development issued a revised "Technical Guidelines for Urban Renewal in Chongqing," establishing a comprehensive technical system for urban renewal based on annual city-wide physical examinations. Adhering to the principle of "no renewal without examination," the guidelines prioritize micro-renewal and gradual renovation, strictly controlling large-scale demolition and construction. The guidelines emphasize preserving historical buildings and urban features, while also focusing on improving infrastructure and public spaces. Eight key tasks are outlined, including renovating existing buildings, upgrading old residential areas, and protecting historical and cultural heritage. The goal is to support the construction of innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart cities.
Summary: The head of the Shibadong police station, Long Hui, received a thank you call from villagers Shi and Yang, neighbors who had been in a decade-long dispute over access rights. The police station, employing the "Fengqiao method," formed a joint investigation team with local government departments to resolve the conflict by clarifying property rights and mediating between the parties. After the police explained the legal ramifications of blocking the road and village officials promised to improve the access road, the neighbors relented. The case was then used to educate other villagers on legal matters and dispute resolution. Long Hui stated that the police station will continue to use various mechanisms to resolve conflict.
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Summary: Chinese artist Cai Gao won the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy this April, the first Chinese artist to receive this honor. Cai Gao believes that Chinese aesthetics in children's literature should come naturally and have a profound influence, emphasizing the importance of integrating Chinese culture into works to move readers. She also suggested that young illustrators not to be overly reliant on technology and AI, and to focus on the genuine feeling in their creations. She emphasized the importance of parents reading quality picture books with their children, so that children can develop a love of reading in a joyful environment. Cai Gao plans to continue creating picture books and exploring topics of interest in books for adults.
Summary: The film *An Accompanying Letter to Grandma* has become a sleeper hit in China, driven by strong word-of-mouth. The film's success is attributed to its emotional depth, respect for real life, and focus on human connection. The director, Lan Hongchun, is a native of Chaoshan, and based the film on years of field research and personal experiences. The film eschews modern filmmaking trends, opting for sincerity and authenticity over spectacle, suggesting that genuine storytelling can still resonate with audiences.
Summary: China is conducting the world's first space-based human "artificial embryo" experiment on the Tiangong space station, with samples delivered via the Tianzhou-7 cargo spacecraft. Led by Yu Leqian, the experiment involves two models to study the effects of microgravity on early human embryo development using stem cells. The "artificial embryos" are not actual human embryos and cannot develop into individuals, but serve as models for early human development research. The experiment aims to understand factors impacting human reproduction in space, addressing long-term space habitation risks. Identical samples are being studied on Earth for comparative analysis after the five-day space experiment, with the samples to be frozen and returned to Earth.
Summary: A research team including Professor Li Haifeng from Shandong University has confirmed the existence of top quarkonium, a bound state of a top quark and anti-top quark, with a significance of 8 standard deviations. This discovery, made using the ATLAS experiment, challenges previous assumptions about the top quark's ability to form bound states due to its short lifespan. The finding, published in *Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics*, is considered a significant advancement in top quark physics. Professor Li's team completed all the analysis steps that produced the result. Top quarkonium is the smallest bound state discovered so far.
Summary: Longquan, Zhejiang province is revitalizing its ancient villages through art and cultural tourism, attracting visitors with pottery workshops, coffee shops, and other cultural experiences. Old spaces are being renovated into studios and campgrounds, connecting the village with creative postcards. The aim is to attract young people with creative and relaxing trips in the ancient villages of Longquan, rediscovering the true nature of life. Li Wenxiu, Director of the Longquan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, and Tourism expressed this hope. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Anhui Agricultural University's Professor Ma Chuanxi's team has made significant progress in wheat seed dormancy and pre-harvest sprouting resistance research, identifying key genes regulating resistance. They elucidated the molecular mechanisms of low-temperature-induced dormancy release, providing new genetic resources and technical pathways to address wheat pre-harvest sprouting. The team has identified six superior gene combinations for pre-harvest sprouting resistance, potentially shortening the breeding cycle from 8-10 years to 3-5 years through molecular marker-assisted selection and gene editing. This advancement aims to accelerate the cultivation and promotion of pre-harvest sprouting-resistant, high-yield, and high-quality wheat varieties. The discoveries were reported in *Nature Communications* and *Plant Communications*.
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Summary: Professor Wang Yi of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology leads a team that collaborates with industrial enterprises to solve practical engineering problems related to industrial building environments and energy efficiency. The team focuses on improving air quality and promoting energy conservation in factories, addressing issues such as high-temperature smoke and oil mist. Inspired by the concept of a tornado, they developed an "artificial tornado" technology to efficiently collect pollutants in large factories. This approach involves collaboration with medical professionals to understand the health impacts of pollutants and optimize protective measures, indicating a move towards integrating engineering solutions with worker well-being. The team also utilizes smart technologies to dynamically adjust ventilation systems, achieving significant energy savings.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of upgrading traditional wet markets in China to meet modern needs while preserving their essential functions. It emphasizes that successful market upgrades must prioritize affordability for residents by controlling costs through direct sourcing and efficient management. The piece also highlights the need for markets to offer diverse services beyond just selling produce, such as repairs and dining options, to enhance convenience. Finally, it stresses the importance of maintaining the market's social function as a community hub that fosters neighborly connections and preserves local memory.
Summary: The General Office of the Central Social Work Department issued the "Basic Specifications for Volunteer Service Logos (Trial Implementation)" to standardize the use, design, and management of volunteer service logos. The regulations aim to institutionalize and standardize volunteer services, safeguarding their social credibility. The regulations specify acceptable and prohibited uses of volunteer service logos, stipulating that the "China Volunteer Service Logo" should be used for major and foreign-related volunteer activities. The Volunteer Service Federation and other industry organizations are tasked with strengthening self-regulation in the use of these logos.
Summary: On May 13th, doctors from the Coast Guard Hospital visited Nanhu Experimental School in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province. They provided oral health checkups and health education to the children. No other officials were mentioned as accompanying the doctors. The article does not contain any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations. The report focuses solely on a local health initiative.
Summary: China's National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) recently issued a five-year action plan (2026-2030) to strengthen oversight of medical insurance funds, aiming to build a multi-layered regulatory system. The plan focuses on deterring fraud through strengthened inspections, leveraging technology to prevent misuse, and establishing long-term mechanisms to discourage fraudulent practices. The plan emphasizes comprehensive on-site inspections of designated medical institutions nationwide, including exploring special inspections for long-term care insurance and joint military-civilian inspections. This initiative seeks to create a comprehensive supervision and management chain from inspection to rectification.
Summary: This article from Shenzhen People's Hospital explains how to differentiate between common insect bites (mosquitoes, mites, rove beetles, fleas) based on their visual characteristics and symptoms. Dermatologist Zhang Jianglin advises on treatment methods, emphasizing cleaning the wound, reducing swelling, and avoiding scratching. He warns against common misconceptions like using unverified remedies or delaying treatment, advocating for prompt medical attention for severe reactions. The article provides tips for preventing insect bites, such as maintaining a clean environment and wearing protective clothing. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The 2025 Drug Review Report from China's Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) indicates record highs in both drug registration applications (20,149) and approvals (19,375). Approvals included a record 76 Class 1 innovative drugs and addressed needs for rare diseases (48), children (138), and shortages (174). Traditional Chinese medicine applications (2723) and approvals also increased, with new drugs emerging for respiratory and digestive ailments. The report also noted advances in cell and gene therapy and innovative vaccine approval standards, with multiple CAR-T therapies and novel vaccines approved.
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Summary: Xie Jun, the Vice President of FIDE and President of the Chinese Chess Association, discussed her career transition from a chess player to an educator and administrator, emphasizing the educational and cultural value of chess beyond competition. She highlighted China's successful "four-step" plan for international chess development and advocated for integrating chess into national fitness and youth education programs. Xie also noted the potential of chess as a "soft power" tool for cultural exchange and promoting understanding between different regions, but also mentioned that AI poses higher requirements for anti-cheating supervision. She believes AI cannot replace chess training to develop one's thinking.
Summary: China's U17 men's national football team qualified for the 2026 FIFA U17 World Cup after defeating Qatar 2-0 in the AFC U17 Asian Cup, marking their first appearance in the tournament finals in 21 years. The U17 women's team also secured a spot in their World Cup by defeating India. These successes follow the senior women's and U20 women's teams qualifying for their respective World Cups.
Summary: The 2025-2026 CBA playoffs quarterfinals concluded with Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, and Guangsha advancing to the semifinals. Shanghai and Shenzhen secured their spots with 2-0 sweeps, while Beijing narrowly defeated Guangdong in a decisive third game. Guangsha also advanced after a deciding game. The semi-finals are set to begin on May 15th with Shanghai facing Beijing and Shenzhen playing Guangsha.
Summary: The inaugural China Billiards Club Professional League (CBL), organized by the Chinese Billiards Association (CBA), launched in Guangzhou, Guangdong. The league will feature eight clubs competing over eight months in a team format consisting of group stages, knockout stages, and a final. CBA Chairman Jiang Shicai stated the league's creation is supported by the high-quality development of Chinese billiards, citing world champions like Zhao Xintong and Wu Yize. The CBA aims to optimize the league's operations and promote the further development of Chinese billiards. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese men's national ice hockey team won a silver medal at the IIHF World Championship Division I Group B, defeating Estonia in a shootout and achieving their best result since 2001. This victory reflects the growth of Chinese ice hockey since the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, where China was able to promote winter sports and bring in new talent. Forward Hou Yuyang was the tournament's top scorer and MVP for China, while Wang Haoxi was named best defenseman. According to Chinese Ice Hockey Association President Wang Xuan, the win is a result of systematic development and investment in the sport. The team's success is expected to boost confidence and further promote the sport's development in China.
Summary: The 2026 Hunan Province High School "Big Three Balls" League recently opened at the Hunan Sports Vocational College, with nearly 600 high school athletes from 14 cities and prefectures in Hunan Province participating in the opening ceremony. Hunan Province has focused on the integration of sports and education in recent years, implementing a series of policies, events, technology, and hardware to create a four-tier league system and promote participation in sports at all levels. The province has also explored ways for students to advance to higher education through sports and has established numerous specialized sports schools. The province has also implemented measures to prioritize the hiring of retired athletes as coaches and to promote the participation of middle school students in the "Xiang Super" League.
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Summary: The Geely China Star Racing team, debuting their new Xingrui TCR car at the FIA TCR World Tour in Italy, secured a first-place victory in the second race with Chinese driver Ma Qinghua. The win highlights Geely's technological capabilities and brand confidence, marking a significant achievement for Chinese motorsport. Geely has been engaged in international racing for years, exemplified by the Lynk & Co team's success in the WTCR. Geely plans to continue innovating and promoting Chinese strength on the global stage. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: A UN report highlights the growing global issue of minors' internet addiction and excessive screen time, leading to mental health problems, sleep disorders, and cyberbullying. Countries are implementing measures like age restrictions and content regulation, with the EU emphasizing online-offline protection and France suggesting platform bans for users under 15 without parental consent. The United States has seen a court ruling holding tech companies responsible for harm to minors' mental health from social media addiction. Australia implemented a social media ban for those under 16. Collaborative efforts from governments, platforms, schools, and families are crucial to promote digital literacy and safeguard children's well-being in the digital world.
Summary: An African journalist working in China highlights the significance of China's zero-tariff policy for 53 African countries, emphasizing its potential to boost African exports to the Chinese market. The journalist notes that this policy reduces trade barriers and facilitates access to the world's second-largest consumer market for African farmers and businesses. The zero-tariff initiative, seen as a concrete manifestation of China's commitment to its relationship with Africa, is expected to accelerate the development of trade ties. The journalist also emphasizes the need for African nations to actively leverage this opportunity by improving logistics, meeting Chinese standards, and tailoring products to Chinese consumer preferences. The journalist participated in the eighth China International Import Expo, and was impressed by the special zone for products from the least developed countries.
Summary: A UNESCO report indicates global higher education enrollment more than doubled in the past two decades, reaching 269 million in 2024, though inequalities persist across regions and demographics. Nissan Motor Co. reported substantial losses for the second consecutive fiscal year, attributing this to weak global sales, inflationary pressures, and the impact of U.S. tariff policies. Nauru's parliament approved a constitutional amendment to change the country's name to "Naoero," subject to a public referendum.
Summary: The International Council of Nurses' 2026 "International Nursing Status Report" highlights unprecedented pressures on global healthcare systems and nurses, including shortages, increasing health demands, conflicts, climate crises, and regional imbalances. The report urges countries to empower nurses and shift towards preventative, continuous, and community-based care to achieve universal health coverage and the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This comes as May 12 marks International Nurses Day, themed "Our Nurses, Our Future: Empowering Nurses, Safeguarding Lives."
Summary: South Korea's economy grew by 1.694% in the first quarter of this year, with foreign direct investment (FDI) reaching the second-highest level for any first quarter on record. President Lee Jae-myung signaled a commitment to improving the investment environment, emphasizing AI and renewable energy. The government is focusing on attracting investment in advanced manufacturing, supply chains, AI, and green industries, offering incentives such as cash subsidies and R&D support, particularly for investments outside of Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. Despite record FDI inflows in 2025, domestic voices are calling for reforms to address institutional and investment environment obstacles that limit the entry of multinational regional headquarters, as well as the need to guarantee policy consistency.
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Summary: China's new Social Assistance Law, passed on April 30th and set to take effect in 2026, aims to strengthen the social safety net by expanding the scope of assistance to include families facing significant expenses, not just those with low incomes. The law emphasizes a tiered assistance system that provides differentiated support based on need, moving beyond basic survival to focus on risk prevention and development. It also promotes a combination of material assistance and services, such as employment training and psychological support, to empower recipients. The law streamlines application processes and enhances monitoring through information technology to ensure efficient and fair allocation of resources. It emphasizes that the state will provide material assistance and aid.
Summary: This article discusses the role of grassroots legislative outreach programs in Zhejiang province, specifically highlighting the "Hubin Qingyu" studio in Hangzhou and Yiwu's integrated legislative contact points. These programs serve as channels for citizens to voice concerns and contribute to lawmaking, exemplified by a tourist's suggestion regarding unofficial tour guides and discussions on optimizing cross-border e-commerce tax policies. The article emphasizes the importance of these programs in connecting national legislation with local governance and promoting public participation in the legislative process. The article claims there are 60 legislative contact points by the end of 2025.
Summary: NPC Delegate Ma Changzhai, a sanitation worker from Shijiazhuang, Hebei, is advocating for improved working conditions and wages for sanitation workers. Ma's proposals stem from extensive on-the-ground research, where she interviewed fellow workers and residents to understand their concerns. Her suggestions for the NPC this year include technological upgrades to reduce labor intensity and increased compensation and benefits to attract younger workers. Ma emphasizes the importance of grassroots engagement for effective representation and responsiveness to the needs of sanitation workers. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: During the "May Day" holiday, NPC deputies in Heilongjiang Province, including Gao Chunyan and Chen Yuhui, engaged in agricultural extension work, providing technical guidance and high-quality soybean seeds to farmers. The Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress emphasizes the role of NPC deputies in leveraging their expertise to protect black soil and promote agricultural development. Deputies are gathering feedback from farmers on issues like agricultural resources, policies, and technology, with suggestions from representatives like Yang Yanjie being adopted by the provincial legislature to improve agricultural product quality and branding. The Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress is actively promoting the deputies to address issues and contribute to the revitalization of the countryside. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Xiamen is implementing new measures to build a high-standard, law-based government, focusing on improving the business environment and safeguarding citizen rights. Key initiatives include a "scan-to-enter" system for corporate inspections via the "Min Zhifa" platform, requiring prior registration and leaving a traceable record. The city has also focused on targeted legislation, such as regulations protecting the labor rights of online delivery workers. Efforts are being made to ensure legal compliance in policy decisions through a unified review system and expert consultations. Additionally, Xiamen is working to reduce unnecessary interference with businesses through measures like "white lists" and economic impact assessments of law enforcement, while improving administrative dispute resolution mechanisms.
Summary: To commemorate the 33rd International Day of Families, various regions in China are implementing measures to strengthen family services and safeguard family well-being through legal means. The article highlights the importance of family harmony for social stability and emphasizes the role of law in addressing domestic violence, citing the Anti-Domestic Violence Law as a key instrument. Recent court cases have expanded the definition of domestic violence to include verbal abuse and economic control, demonstrating the evolving legal interpretation. The article calls for increased legal awareness, easier access to legal recourse for victims, and enhanced collaboration between government departments to address domestic violence effectively. There is no specific discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: A near-bankrupt Chongqing thermal power company, formerly known as Chongqing Zhongji Longqiao Thermal Power, successfully underwent restructuring after its parent company's financial issues caused a production halt. The court identified the problem as debt transmission from the controlling shareholder rather than operational issues, separating assets into operational and non-operational categories. This allowed for strategic investment from Chongqing ShanYu Lingang Thermal Power, cutting off potential debt risks and facilitating a turnaround. The restructuring ensured continued employment and stable coal and electricity supply, serving as a model for reviving struggling enterprises. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Xicheng District People's Procuratorate in Beijing supported an "off-site restoration" project in Xihai Wetland Park as ecological compensation for illegal trade of helmeted hornbill products, as the original habitat was too far away. Prosecutors worked with the Xicheng District Gardening and Greening Bureau, local streets, and maintenance units to plant reeds, shrubs, and build artificial nests in the park. This initiative aligns with the "rule of law deputy director" mechanism, which embeds prosecutors in grassroots governance to extend prosecutorial duties beyond individual cases. Procuratorate leader Zhang Jun stated that they will continue to uphold the "red wall awareness" and carefully protect the green waters and green mountains in the core area of the capital. The restored wetland now serves as a crucial stopover for migratory birds.
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Summary: A recent article in *People's Daily* discussed the current state and future of China's burgeoning micro-drama (微短剧) industry with industry insiders. Participants discussed the impact of AI on the industry, agreeing that AI will not replace human creators, but rather force them to innovate and focus on originality and quality, and that human-created dramas were still more successful than AI generated dramas.. Speakers highlighted the need for original stories, talent cultivation, and stronger copyright protection, especially as micro-dramas increasingly go global. One industry member pointed to the importance of Chinese culture in the success of these programs overseas.
Summary: The director of the Taiyuan Jin Opera Art Research Institute discusses the challenges of cultivating young talent in traditional Chinese opera, emphasizing the long training periods and low success rates. To address the shortage of young performers, the institute has implemented measures to support and train students from rural areas, including providing housing, subsidies, and diverse career paths for those who cannot perform on stage. The institute has also established a new organizational structure with an experimental troupe and a youth troupe to promote young talent through performance opportunities and mentorship from senior actors. The director underscores the importance of passing down classic repertoire and fostering a spirit of collaboration across different opera genres.
Summary: The director of the TV series "Kashgar Love Song" discusses the motivations and creative process behind the show, emphasizing its focus on three young women finding themselves in Kashgar. The series aims to portray the authentic life and vibrant culture of Kashgar, incorporating elements like music, dance, and the everyday lives of its residents. The director highlights the use of real locations and local people in the filming process to capture the city's essence. The goal of the show is to offer a warm and uplifting story, celebrating life and new beginnings. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The documentary "Leap of Success" (马到功成), China's first giant-screen nature film, premiered at the China Science and Technology Museum, showcasing the relationship between humans and horses. The film, a co-production with international partners including Mark Brownlow of *Blue Planet II*, aims to present Chinese philosophy of harmony between humans and nature. The film crew traveled across six countries, including the United States, to capture the stories of different horse breeds. The film has been screened in the United States where it resonated with audiences. The film hopes to provide a window for the world to understand China through the Chinese zodiac.
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By: 本报记者 李 鹤 李 洋
Chinese-style modernization is the only correct path to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong country and the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "To promote Chinese-style modernization, we must broadly gather people's hearts, build consensus, pool wisdom, and unite strength."
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a crucial stage for laying the foundation and fully exerting efforts to basically realize socialist modernization. On the new journey, how can we always "broadly unite strength"?
"Unite all forces that can be united, mobilize all positive factors that can be mobilized, and maximize the cohesion of forces for common struggle."
To advance Chinese-style modernization, we must unite the power of the people's hearts.
"Our goal is very grand, but also very simple. In the final analysis, it is to enable the people to live a better life." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) stated the fundamental purpose of Chinese-style modernization.
From winning the battle against poverty to building the world's largest education system, social security system, and healthcare system... we are pushing forward day and night, "taking the people's heart as our own and the benefit of the world as our benefit."
Those who work for the people are yearned for by the people. The Chinese people's yearning for a better life is the greatest endogenous driving force for China's development.
In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) led the new members of the Political Bureau Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee to Yan'an (延安), Shaanxi (陕西) Province, to pay homage to the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Site and revisit this "book that can never be finished." "The hearts of the world turn to Yan'an (延安)" simply because they "sit firmly on the side of the people."
The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) is the most reliable backbone for achieving great undertakings. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Our Party is a party that is founded for the public and governs for the people, a party that serves the people wholeheartedly. Only by continuously promoting the development of the Party and the country and benefiting the people with good political achievements can we practice the Party's purpose and fulfill the Party's historical mission."
Advancing Chinese-style modernization cannot be separated from the power of consensus.
"Unity is strength, unity is strength, this strength is iron, this strength is steel..."
At the end of many New Year tea parties of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), the entire audience stood up and sang "Unity is Strength," which was inspiring.
In the course of more than a hundred years of struggle, the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) has always placed the united front in an important position. China is so big that different people will have different demands, and they will have different views on the same thing. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "This is very normal, and we must build consensus through communication and consultation."
In a series of important meetings and inspections, the General Secretary repeatedly urged, "We must consolidate and develop the broadest patriotic united front" and "focus on drawing the largest concentric circle for building a strong country and rejuvenating the nation." Under the leadership of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), the institutional foundation for building consensus and strength among various parties, groups, and people from all walks of life has become increasingly solid.
With consensus, we can think together and work together.
At the beginning of the "15th Five-Year Plan," it is a challenging task to accelerate the construction of a new development pattern, steadily promote high-quality development, and further comprehensively deepen reform and opening up. The General Secretary pointed out: "Broadly building consensus and fully mobilizing all positive factors are very important for the smooth advancement of reform" and "We must do a good job in resolving doubts, dispelling confusion, and building consensus, and strive for understanding and support to the greatest extent."
Advancing Chinese-style modernization requires inspiring the power of struggle.
Strength comes from unity, and success comes from struggle.
In the 1960s, party members, cadres, and the people of Linxian County (林县) (now Linzhou City (林州市)), Henan (河南) Province, united and worked hard, relying on "a hammer, a chisel, and a pair of hands" to "carve" a 1,500-kilometer-long "artificial Tianhe (天河)" (lit. Heavenly River, referring to the Hongqi Canal) out of the cliffs.
In October 2022, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to the Hongqi Canal (红旗渠) Memorial Hall and profoundly pointed out: "Socialism was built, worked for, and exchanged for life, not only in the past, but also in the new era."
"China's today is made by the Chinese people!" Among them, it embodies the wisdom, creation, dedication, responsibility, courage, and vision of the strivers.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) awarded the Party's highest honor, the "July 1st Medal (七一勋章)," to 29 ordinary heroes who were based on their posts and silently dedicated themselves, injecting strong spiritual motivation into the strivers.
Realizing socialist modernization is a historical process of step-by-step progression and continuous development and progress, which requires unremitting efforts and continuous struggle.
At the National Innovation Center (国家信创园) in Yizhuang (亦庄), Beijing (北京), the General Secretary encouraged the vast number of science and technology workers to cultivate patriotic feelings and carry forward the spirit of struggle, and make contributions on the journey of Chinese-style modernization;
During the collective study of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee (中共中央政治局), the General Secretary required party members and cadres to "actively participate in the practice of Chinese-style modernization and temper their struggle life in the process of starting businesses";
On the occasion of this year's May Fourth Youth Day (五四青年节), the General Secretary replied to the representatives of the winners of the China Youth May Fourth Medal (中国青年五四奖章) and the New Era Youth Pioneer Award, "leading the vast number of young people to integrate their personal pursuits into the overall situation of national development, constantly create new achievements based on their respective positions, and contribute youth strength on the new journey";
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On the new journey, everyone is the protagonist, every effort is precious, and every ray of light shines brightly. More than 1.4 billion people think in one direction, work together, and twist into one rope. The grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization will surely become a beautiful reality step by step.
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Formalism is essentially subjectivism and utilitarianism, and its roots lie in the misplacement of the concept of performance and the lack of a sense of responsibility. Currently, various regions are using the deepening of the "six rectifications" as a starting point, combined with carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and are promoting the rectification of formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots level as a whole. They are educating and guiding Party organizations and Party member cadres at all levels to work and start businesses in a down-to-earth manner, and strive to create practical results that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Digging Deep into Ideological Roots
Calibrating the Coordinates of Performance
Since the launch of study and education, various regions have combined the typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots level reported by the central government, and educated and guided Party member cadres to deeply explore the deviations in the concept of performance behind formalism, and constantly tighten the "main switch" of thought.
"The illegal construction of landscape sketches is fundamentally an expression of the erroneous view of performance that emphasizes obvious achievements over potential achievements, appearance over substance, landscaping over benefiting the people, and reckless action over rules." The Standing Committee of the Qingxu County (清徐县) Party Committee in Shanxi Province (山西省) held a special briefing on typical cases in the county. Members of the leadership team conducted self-examination and exchanges and discussions one by one, deeply drawing lessons, and effectively unified their thoughts and actions to benefit the people.
In terms of decision-making mechanisms, strengthen the decision-making and supervision of "major issues"; in terms of fund control, scientifically assess fiscal affordability and strictly control illegal debt; in terms of supervision and accountability, increase the rectification of unauthorized construction... Qingxu County (清徐县) launched a series of "combined punches."
Eagerness for quick success and instant benefits and blind decision-making are ultimately caused by "performance impulses." In the process of promoting the rectification of problems reported by the central government, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County (恭城瑶族自治县) in Guilin City (桂林市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), organized county-level leading cadres and key personnel to conduct self-examination one by one, deeply reflect on the root causes of deviations in the concept of performance, and refine rectification measures.
The rectification of problems should not only calculate economic accounts, but also calculate the accounts of popular sentiment and political accounts. Local Party member cadres visited households to investigate the needs of the masses and actively connected with trade unions, hospitals and other units to revitalize idle assets.
"Only by abandoning the idea of 'large-scale demolition and construction, GDP-only theory' and preventing 'making decisions on a whim' and blindly borrowing money for construction can we embark on a new path of high-quality development." Guanshanhu District (观山湖区) in Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), organized Party member cadres to carry out special discussions, centralized training, and warning education. Leading groups at all levels focused on development blockages, people's livelihood pain points, and work difficulties, and deeply searched for problems existing in the concept of performance, putting themselves in, putting their work in, and putting their responsibilities in.
Adhering to Problem Orientation
Promoting Genuine Investigation and Practical Rectification
Solve whatever problems there are, and focus on rectifying whatever problems are prominent. In study and education, various regions have combined the typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce the burden on the grassroots level reported by the central government, grasped the investigation of problems and rectification, continued to deepen the "six rectifications," and freed the grassroots level from the shackles of formalism.
The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission system of Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), sorted out specific situations such as scattered meeting arrangements, repeated material submissions, and concentrated supervision and inspections, analyzed the causes one by one, and established a problem ledger to consolidate the foundation for accurate rectification. In response to the hidden and variable problems of assessment existing in some fields, it urged relevant departments to streamline and optimize the assessment indicator system, and clarified that it is not allowed to simply replace work guidance with ranking announcements; at the same time, it strengthened information sharing and mutual recognition of results to avoid multiple and repeated requests for materials and data from the grassroots level.
On the playground of Huayue School (华岳学校) in Jingyue High-tech Zone (净月高新区), Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), teachers are guiding children to play games. Teachers are freed from complicated affairs and have more time to concentrate on preparing lessons and educating people with their hearts. Recently, the school has also actively launched after-school care services, offering diversified courses such as physical exercise and interest expansion.
Changchun City (长春市) insisted on closely combining study and education with deepening the "six rectifications" and promoting them in a coordinated manner, conducted conversation reminders to the "top leaders," and promoted leading groups at all levels to conduct in-depth self-examination in light of the main list of problems with deviations in the concept of performance. In response to the problem of excessive burden on grassroots teachers, relevant departments comprehensively streamlined commendations and established a "whitelist" mechanism for social affairs entering the campus to reduce the burden on schools from the source.
Benefiting the people is the greatest achievement. Party and government organs live a tight life in order to let the masses live a good life.
In study and education, the Dazu City (达州市) Party Committee in Sichuan Province (四川省) proposed to strictly prohibit extravagant and wasteful behaviors such as making large-scale spray paintings and large-scale exhibition boards, focusing on key areas such as buildings, halls, pavilions, festivals, forums, creation standards, etc., and conducted special investigations and rectifications throughout the city in light of the list of problems with deviations in the concept of performance; at the same time, it improved a number of rigid measures and negative lists for Party and government organs to practice thrift and oppose waste, and embedded the requirements of "living a tight life" into all aspects such as budget preparation and project approval.
Doing Solid Work to Promote Work Through Learning
Aspiring to Benefit the People
Not long ago, cadres from the Market Supervision Bureau of Zhongshan City (中山市), Guangdong Province (广东省), visited the Zhongshan base of Dongpeng Group (东鹏集团). After learning about the difficulties of the enterprise, they immediately reported the establishment of a special working group to conduct on-site investigation and optimization of each link such as workshop layout, process flow, and management system, guide the enterprise to eliminate a number of risk points, help the enterprise complete the special equipment use registration certificate on schedule, and successfully put it into production.
Research and investigation are to understand the situation and solve practical problems. In study and education, Zhongshan City (中山市) focused on key tasks such as "correcting the formalism of research," carried out the "walking thousands of enterprises into thousands of factories, listening to opinions to solve problems, strengthening services to promote development" activities, and focused on solving practical problems and promoting development.
Only by unloading the burden can we move forward lightly. Party member cadres in various regions adhere to promoting work through learning, and solve the urgent and difficult problems of enterprises and the masses with their hearts and feelings, and effectively transform the results of study and education into the practical results of promoting high-quality development.
At the construction site of the 300,000-ton pre-baked anode project of Shandong Keyu Energy Co., Ltd. (山东科宇能源有限公司), the machinery roared and the construction was in order. "At the beginning of the project, we were worried about the approval. Unexpectedly, the relevant departments not only guided us to prepare the planning plan and construction drawings in advance, but also set up a 'mobile service hall' to send the approval services to the door of the enterprise." Xu Kaisi (徐凯思), the person in charge of the project, said with emotion.
In study and education, Yangxin County (阳信县), Shandong Province (山东省), focused on the entire process of project signing, commencement, and construction, deeply corrected the problems of emphasizing form over substance, blindly pursuing quantity, and even falsely reporting and exaggerating problems and the deviations in the concept of performance behind them, and guided Party member cadres to solve problems and see the truth on the front line.
With a lighter burden, there is more enthusiasm for work.
"With this outdoor parking shed, it is much more convenient to park electric vehicles!" Residents of Fenghuang Chunxiao Garden Community (凤凰春晓花园小区) in Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇), Zhangjiagang City (张家港市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), praised repeatedly. Recently, town cadres went down to the community and organized several resident consultation meetings to solve the problem of resident electric vehicle parking.
Since the launch of study and education, Zhangjiagang City (张家港市) has taken the correction of hidden burdens at the grassroots level as a starting point, followed the principle of "setting up posts according to events, determining posts according to responsibilities, and matching people with posts," and based on the list of job responsibilities, refined and formulated job responsibilities, compiled "job descriptions" for each post, and promoted more and more Party member cadres to enter residential communities, participate in volunteer services and community governance, and benefit the people with practical actions.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Wang Yunna (王云娜), Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), Fang Yuan (方圆), Li Rui (李蕊), Su Bin (苏滨), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文))
By: 本报记者 刘涓溪
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline mentions "digital intelligence" multiple times. What changes have occurred from "digitalization" to "digital intelligence"? What does it mean for China's development?
——People's Daily Online Netizen
This netizen is very perceptive. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline does indeed mention "digital intelligence" multiple times: "improving the level of digital intelligence development," "building a digital intelligence transformation promotion network," "promoting the digital intelligence empowerment and information transformation of cultural construction," etc. These proposals bring new opportunities for the transformation and upgrading of various industries and fields, and for the development of new quality productive forces.
What is "digital intelligence"? As the name suggests, it is the deep integration of "digitalization" and "intelligence." It integrates new artificial intelligence technologies such as intelligent decision-making and deep perception on the basis of "digitalization" to analyze, predict, make decisions, and apply complex problems.
From "digitalization" in the "14th Five-Year Plan" outline to today's "digital intelligence," this one-word change reflects that China is adapting to the trend of the new technological revolution and industrial transformation, and is striding towards a new stage of high-quality development under the vigorous development and driving force of artificial intelligence technology.
In the past, China's digital industry was generally large but not strong, and the layout of computing power needed to be optimized urgently. In recent years, with the acceleration of construction, in 2025, the scale of China's core artificial intelligence industry exceeded 1.2 trillion yuan. As of the end of March this year, the total number of 5G base stations reached 4.958 million. The "Eastern Data and Western Computing" (东数西算) eight major hub node computing power facility clusters are developing in a clustered manner, and the total scale of computing power ranks second in the world. China already has the basic conditions for "digital intelligence" transformation.
Why vigorously promote "digital intelligence" transformation?
——Moving towards "new," the "digital intelligence" transformation is an update to the connotation of enterprise development concepts.
In response to the difficult problem of mine excavation, Guangxi LiuGong Machinery Co., Ltd. (广西柳工机械股份有限公司) has developed a smart mine solution. Under the guidance of the intelligent dispatch system, unmanned excavators perform precise operations, and unmanned mining trucks automatically plan routes. In the past, mine excavation relied on manual operations, which were high-risk and had a high error rate. After adopting the smart mine solution, the entire process does not require manual intervention, which can not only reduce the safety risks of personnel operations, but also greatly improve operational efficiency. More and more companies rely on digital intelligence innovation to develop new equipment and build intelligent workshops and smart factories to improve efficiency, increase output, and change the landscape. The change in concepts is driving the change in development, and "digital intelligence" transformation is bursting with new vitality.
——Improving quality with "intelligence," the "digital intelligence" transformation empowers thousands of industries, spawning new business formats and opening up new growth points.
Take the intelligent robot industry as an example. Using a bionic hand to accurately grab a glass bottle and place it on a medical spectral analyzer to complete sample testing... A bionic dual-arm robot developed by the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics College of Hunan University (湖南大学) can think and analyze like humans and complete complex experimental tasks. "We have created a 'physical feedback learning' mechanism, which becomes smarter and smarter through continuous practice," said Zhang Hui (张辉), Dean of the College. "Digital intelligence" transformation puts forward requirements such as self-adaptation and self-learning for various industrial equipment, driving huge market demand for intelligent robots, thereby driving the upstream and downstream of the industrial chain to spawn new industrial manufacturing formats such as perception systems, decision-making systems, execution systems, and system integration, bringing new growth points to economic development.
——Gathering "data" to form momentum, the "digital intelligence" transformation will provide surging momentum for the development of new quality productive forces.
The world's first 35,000-ton heavy-haul train group operation test was successfully conducted at the end of last year. Seven 5,000-ton freight cars are not connected by traditional mechanical hooks, but rely on China's independently developed intelligent system to achieve synchronous acceleration and synchronous braking. The attempt of railway freight from "mechanical connection" to "intelligent interconnection" provides a model for the development of new quality productive forces in the industry.
From "digitalization" to "digital intelligence," what other efforts need to be made?
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline gives the direction: coordinate the construction of computing power facilities, the development of model algorithms, and the supply of high-quality data resources to consolidate the foundation for digital intelligence development; fully implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, strengthen the combination of artificial intelligence with scientific and technological innovation, industrial development, cultural construction, people's livelihood security, and social governance, seize the commanding heights of artificial intelligence industrial applications, and comprehensively empower thousands of industries; adhere to the overall planning of promoting development and regulating management, strengthen the construction of basic data system rules and artificial intelligence governance, and create a beneficial, safe, and fair development environment...
Making good use of cutting-edge technologies to promote the leap in productivity and social governance capabilities, and help build a more resilient, more dynamic, and more efficient society... In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," embracing "digital intelligence" transformation in various industries and fields has changed from an "optional question" to a "required question."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 史自强
In May, in the courtyard of the Xibaipo (西柏坡) CPC Central Committee Former Site, the pines and cypresses are lush and green, and the Party flag is bright and vibrant.
Tourists paused to gaze at the mottled adobe houses, reminiscing about that soul-stirring period of history. A burst of crisp快板 (kuàibǎn - "clapper talk," a traditional Chinese rhythmic storytelling form) sounds attracted everyone's attention.
The tour guide, Li Hongjie (李红杰), said in a clear voice: "Right here in the old mountain roots of the Taihang Mountains (太行山区), there is a small mountain village. This small mountain village is very special, like a glittering diamond, guiding China onto a bright path..."
"Seeing such a vivid performance, I was immediately drawn into that red era," said Zhao Kun (赵坤), a tourist from Shandong (山东), unable to hide his excitement.
Xibaipo (西柏坡) is located in Pingshan County (平山县), a revolutionary old area in Hebei (河北), and was the last rural command post for the Party Central Committee to enter Beiping (北平) [now Beijing (北京)] and liberate all of China, with abundant red resources.
Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, made important instructions on the work of revolutionary cultural relics, emphasizing: "We must effectively protect, manage, and utilize revolutionary cultural relics, and give full play to the important role of revolutionary cultural relics in Party history learning and education, revolutionary tradition education, and patriotism education."
"Telling red stories further and wider is an important issue to empower the revitalization of old revolutionary areas," said Zuo Luyao (左路遥), deputy curator of the Xibaipo Memorial Hall (西柏坡纪念馆).
Seventy-seven years ago, the Party Central Committee set off from Xibaipo (西柏坡) to "enter the capital for the examination (进京赶考)." With innovative expression, the immersive theme activity "Xibaipo in Poetry" made a wonderful appearance.
Changing back into coarse cloth military uniforms and cloth shoes, and braiding pigtails, the memorial hall guides took tourists from all over the world back to Xibaipo (西柏坡) on the eve of the "entering the capital for the examination (进京赶考)": in the Military Commission's operations room, the song "My Xibaipo (我的西柏坡)" allowed people to relive the revolutionary years; in front of the site of the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Party, the poetry recitation "Xibaipo Ci (西柏坡词)" brought the atmosphere to a climax...
The Xibaipo Memorial Hall (西柏坡纪念馆) also uses technology to empower cultural relics and historical photos to "speak."
In the second exhibition hall of the memorial hall, in front of a black and white photo of the land conference, a gentle scan with the AR (augmented reality) recognition function of the memorial hall's mini-program immediately played the black and white documentary footage of that year on the screen.
Red stories exist in historical materials and are also placed in tangible and perceptible carriers.
Strolling through the memorial hall's cultural and creative hall, hundreds of red cultural and creative products dazzled the eyes. A set of telegram cultural and creative books presented in the form of ancient books has become a "popular choice."
"This set of books brings together more than 40 of the more than 100 telegrams sent by Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) in Xibaipo (西柏坡) that year," said Li Jianzeng (李建增), head of the Xibaipo Cultural Development Center (西柏坡文化发展中心).
Wu Yanchun (吴燕春), a tourist from Shijiazhuang (石家庄), Hebei (河北), carefully read with her daughter, "From these telegrams, we can truly feel the strategic wisdom and firm will of the revolutionary predecessors."
Vivid story content and diverse storytelling forms have continuously enhanced the attractiveness of Xibaipo (西柏坡). In 2025, the Xibaipo Memorial Hall (西柏坡纪念馆) received approximately 3.61 million visitors.
Telling red stories well is a heritage and, even more so, a mission. "We will continue to optimize the theme exhibition of the core scenic area, enrich product experiences, and inject more impetus into the revitalization and development of old revolutionary areas," said Zuo Luyao (左路遥).
Return to TopOn May 12, the first section of the main steel trestle bridge of the Changhai Bridge in Dalian (大连), Liaoning (辽宁) was successfully joined. The main steel trestle bridge is 11.6 kilometers long and 9 meters wide, serving as an important marine material transportation channel for the Changhai Bridge project, undertaking important functions such as the transfer of building materials, the entry of large machinery, and personnel commuting.
The Changhai Bridge land-island highway project connects Pikou (皮口) in Pulandian District (普兰店区), Dalian (大连) and Dachangshan Island (大长山岛) in Changhai County (长海县), with a total length of 25.5 kilometers, including a 19-kilometer sea-crossing section, and a designed speed of 80 kilometers per hour. After completion, the past 1-hour boat trip will be shortened to an 18-minute drive.
The picture shows the site of the closure operation of the main steel trestle bridge of the Changhai Bridge on the 12th.
Xin Yang (辛阳) and Zhao Haiquan (赵海权) reported with photographs.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) May 13th dispatch (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)): The reporter learned from the National Information Center (国家信息中心) of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委): High-frequency data shows that in April, investment in China's cutting-edge fields showed strong momentum. Investment in digital infrastructure grew rapidly, and fields such as artificial intelligence demonstrated outstanding capital absorption capabilities. In April, capital investment in cutting-edge fields such as artificial intelligence and humanoid robots increased by 175.2% year-on-year; the bid-winning amount of infrastructure projects in fields such as data, computing power, and networks increased by 61.7% year-on-year.
In terms of consumption, in April, offline consumption payment amount increased by 1.7% year-on-year, and commodity consumption increased by 2.7% year-on-year; in terms of foreign trade, in April, the departure load of cargo ships from major ports increased by 42.1% year-on-year, an increase of 41.7 percentage points compared with March; in terms of industry, in April, the production heat index of industrial parks increased by 0.6% year-on-year.
Return to TopAccording to customs statistics, in the first four months of this year, the total value of China's goods trade import and export was 16.23 trillion yuan, an increase of 14.9% year-on-year. Among them, exports were 9.33 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.3%; imports were 6.9 trillion yuan, an increase of 20%.
From the perspective of trade partners, in the first four months, the total trade value between China and ASEAN was 2.75 trillion yuan, an increase of 15.7%; the total trade value between China and the European Union (欧盟) was 2.01 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.2%. During the same period, China's total imports and exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) totaled 8.28 trillion yuan, an increase of 13.5%. From the perspective of trade methods, in the first four months, China's general trade import and export was 9.82 trillion yuan, an increase of 8.5%; processing trade import and export was 3.08 trillion yuan, an increase of 21.3%; bonded logistics import and export was 2.81 trillion yuan, an increase of 38.7%.
People's Daily (本报) Beijing (北京), May 13th (Reported by Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁))
Return to TopTheory
Transforming the Party's innovative theories of the new era into a philosophical and social science analysis framework.
Ninth Edition
China's consumption is moving towards the new.
Cultivating a full-chain first-launch ecosystem.
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Dialogue
"We must recognize the power of Chinese culture and integrate it into our works."
Thirteenth Edition
Return to Top(Reported by Ni Yi (倪弋), Beijing, May 13th) Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC), presided over the first plenary meeting of the NPC Standing Committee's Law Enforcement Inspection Group on Food Security Law and delivered a speech in Beijing on the 13th. He emphasized the need to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important expositions on national food security and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, practice the overall national security concept, promote the comprehensive and effective implementation of the Food Security Law, and provide legal guarantees for consolidating the foundation of national food security.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) pointed out that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has put forward a series of major assertions, new concepts, new ideas, and new requirements regarding national food security, and has made a series of major deployments, providing fundamental guidelines for promoting food security governance and strengthening food security guarantees. It is necessary to deeply understand the spirit of the General Secretary's important expositions, accurately grasp the institutional provisions of the Food Security Law, accurately grasp the focus of law enforcement inspections, enhance the pertinence and effectiveness of inspections, and promote the resolution of outstanding problems facing food security governance in accordance with the law. It is necessary to combine supervision and legislation to promote the improvement of relevant draft laws such as the draft revision of the Agricultural Law and the draft Law on the Protection and Quality Improvement of Cultivated Land, and weave a dense network of systems to ensure food security.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) emphasized that law enforcement inspections should be closely integrated with carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, promoting the spirit of seeking truth and being pragmatic, widely listening to opinions from all parties, going deep into the grassroots level, going more to the fields, and understanding the situation from grain farmers, agricultural representatives, grassroots practitioners, and ordinary consumers; adhering to being realistic and pragmatic, truly understanding the situation, accurately identifying problems, and putting forward practical countermeasures.
Vice Chairmen of the NPC Standing Committee Wu Weihua (武维华) and Shohrat Zakir (雪克来提·扎克尔) attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨文明 张 驰
On May 13th, a press conference on Yunnan's "15th Five-Year Plan" was held in Kunming (昆明). Wang Yubo (王予波), Deputy Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Yunnan Province, stated that adhering to the guiding spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Yunnan must focus on promoting high-quality development as the main theme, take benefiting the people as the fundamental value orientation, emancipate the mind, reform and innovate, strive forward, and work hard to achieve decisive progress in building a demonstration zone for ethnic unity and progress, a vanguard in ecological civilization construction, and a radiation center facing South Asia and Southeast Asia.
Leveraging Comparative Advantages to Promote Industrial Transformation and Upgrading
Wang Yubo (王予波) stated that Yunnan is working hard to strengthen the resource economy, park economy, and port economy, and accelerate the processes of marketization, industrialization, legalization, ecologization, and digitalization.
Making resource-based industries stronger and better. Yunnan is a major province for energy resources, with an installed power capacity of 171 million kilowatts in 2025, of which 91.2% is green electricity. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan will focus on industries such as aluminum, silicon, phosphorus, non-ferrous metals, and rare and precious metals, accelerate the upgrading of resource-based industries to the high end of the value chain, accelerate the export of photovoltaic products, and deeply promote a new round of strategic actions for mineral exploration breakthroughs.
Making advantageous industries even stronger. Continue to develop plateau characteristic agriculture well. Yunnan adheres to the "six ones" mechanism to promote industrial value-added, enterprise efficiency, and farmer income growth. At the same time, systematically promote innovation in tourism products, models, formats, and service optimization, strengthen the integrity construction of the tourism market, create the "Living in Yunnan" brand, and cultivate world tourism destinations.
Making innovation a catalyst for development. Promote integrated innovation among upstream, midstream, and downstream industries in the industrial chain, as well as large, medium, small, and micro enterprises, promote the organic connection and mutual support of various innovation platforms, promote the efficient transformation of Tengchong Scientists Forum (腾冲科学家论坛) resources, and promote the transformation of scientific and technological innovation into industrial competitiveness.
Enhancing the level of openness is Yunnan's mission to serve the overall situation with its own regional development. Yunnan takes the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) as its main axis, coordinates the promotion of surrounding public, water, and air transportation networks, and builds a regional international energy hub; focuses on building advantageous industrial clusters along the route, such as advanced equipment manufacturing, rare and precious metal processing, new energy batteries, and biomedicine. Proactively connect with international high-standard economic and trade rules, continue to deeply cultivate "small but beautiful" livelihood projects, and promote people-to-people connectivity.
Focusing on Ecological Civilization Construction and Consolidating the Ecological Security Barrier in Southwest China
Looking up to see blue skies, looking down to see clear waters, and looking around to see ecological greenery... The ecological environment is Yunnan's valuable asset, and also the nation's valuable asset. Wang Yubo (王予波) introduced that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan will firmly practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on ecological civilization and continue to promote the construction of a beautiful Yunnan.
Holding the bottom line of ecological protection for plateau lakes. The water quality of Fuxian Lake (抚仙湖) has generally remained at Class I, the water quality of Dianchi Lake (滇池) has reached the best level since systematic monitoring began in 1993, and the "Erhai Index" (洱海) has been rated as "excellent" for nearly 4 years. Yunnan strictly controls the "two lines and three zones," coordinates the treatment of sewage, prevention of floods, drainage of waterlogging, protection of water supply, grasping of water conservation, and optimization of lake water, protects key plateau lakes well, and makes rivers and lakes clearer and more beautiful.
Protecting the biodiversity treasure trove in Southwest China. Yunnan deeply implements major projects for biodiversity protection, consolidates and makes good use of the Germplasm Resource Bank of Wild Species in Southwest China (中国西南野生生物种质资源库), accelerates the creation of national parks and national botanical gardens, and at the same time, adheres to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, and grasslands, and strives to improve the quality and stability of ecosystems.
Equipping high-quality development with a "green engine." Yunnan has suitable temperature, humidity, cleanliness, and abundant green electricity, forest, and grassland resources, and strives to establish and improve a green, low-carbon, and circular development economic system, strengthen policy coordination between the carbon market and green electricity, green certificates, etc., and amplify the new advantages of "green electricity + advanced manufacturing."
Taking the People as the Center, Maintaining Ethnic Unity and Border Stability
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan used more than 74% of its fiscal expenditure for people's livelihood security, accomplished a large number of practical things for people's livelihood, and held the bottom line of preventing large-scale return to poverty. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan will continue to implement a series of new measures in the fields of people's livelihood security, social governance, and public safety.
Firmly forging a sense of community for the Chinese nation. Deeply implement the "Ten Hundred Thousand" demonstration leading project, accelerate the completion of infrastructure shortcomings, improve the level of public services, and implement regular assistance measures well. Continue to implement the "Three Plans" to promote exchanges, interactions, and integration among all ethnic groups, carry forward the glorious tradition of the Ethnic Unity Oath Monument (民族团结誓词碑), deepen the creation of ethnic unity and progress, and promote the construction of a community for the Chinese nation.
Achieving employment and income increase "at the doorstep." In 2025, 8.56 million rural laborers in Yunnan will achieve employment "at the doorstep," and many families have achieved childcare, worry-free elderly care, and earning money nearby. Adhering to the coordinated efforts of the government and the market, Yunnan is accelerating the construction of an employment-friendly development model, consolidating county industrial support, and creating more "Happiness Lane" communities and "doorstep" workshops.
Meeting the expectations of "good schooling" and "good medical care." Yunnan continues to run education and revitalize education with the people as the center, build a high-quality education system, and accelerate the construction of a strong education province; promote the cultivation and improvement of medical resources and the balanced regional layout, and improve the public health service system. In Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), where there used to be a shortage of doctors and medicines and schooling relied on crossing rivers by cable, standardized township health centers and village health rooms are now fully covered, and more than 300 college students have emerged.
Deeply promote the new era's action of enriching the people and strengthening the borders. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan invested 13.8 billion yuan to build happy border villages. Yunnan continues to smooth border infrastructure and external channels, develop characteristic advantageous industries in accordance with local conditions, and make villages more beautiful and people happier.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐 靖
A wafer sample is placed into a scanning electron microscope, and a clear "ravine" on the sample surface is immediately displayed on the computer screen.
"This is the microscopic pattern formed after the wafer is processed by the lithography machine. The electron optical system inside the scanning electron microscope can clearly magnify the image and further detect it," said Fang Xiaowei (方小伟), founder and general manager of Anhui Hefei Guojing Instrument Technology Co., Ltd. (安徽合肥国镜仪器科技有限公司).
Founded in 2023, the company is located in Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) in Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), focusing on the research and development and manufacturing of high-end instrument equipment. "Our entrepreneurial team is mainly composed of alumni from the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学). When we decided to start a business, we had nothing but the direction of product technology and a group of like-minded partners, no funds, no venues, no orders," Fang Xiaowei (方小伟) said. After learning about our entrepreneurial intentions, Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) took the initiative to contact us and communicate with us many times. "They are very professional in their understanding of technology and their judgment of the industry."
Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷), founded in 2022, is a science and technology innovation cluster built by Anhui (安徽) relying on universities and research institutes such as the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), providing services such as the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, business incubation, and talent cultivation for start-ups. After research, the staff of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) were optimistic about the development prospects of Fang Xiaowei's (方小伟) team and coordinated office space and handled relevant procedures for them. Gan Lingyun (淦凌云), Deputy Director of the Ecological Center of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) Company Partnership, said that start-up technology companies often have technology and potential, but lack funds and markets. "We must work hard in the areas where companies are lacking and solve the actual difficulties of companies."
The first thing to solve is the money problem. Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) provides project support through "two-wheel drive of investment and loan", in which the Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) Guidance Fund invests 5 million yuan and the Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) start-up loan product supports 2 million yuan, and links its participating sub-funds to realize "joint investment of parent and sub-funds." "More than 2/3 of the more than 30 million yuan investment in the first two years of entrepreneurship came from Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) and related financing channels," Fang Xiaowei (方小伟) said.
With financial support, Fang Xiaowei's (方小伟) team worked hard for more than a year and released the first desktop cold field electron microscope in October 2024, which has the advantages of high resolution, miniaturization, and low voltage damage, and can accurately observe nano-scale microscopic morphology to meet scientific research and industrial testing needs.
For enterprises, another difficulty is finding application scenarios. From the beginning of product research and development, Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) helped contact a semiconductor company. "Through technical docking, we gradually clarified the needs of customers and the market, and also clarified the research and development direction of our own products," Fang Xiaowei (方小伟) said. We have become the technical cooperation party of the company, and have applied electron microscopy to the Strong Light Magnetic Science Center of Anhui University (安徽大学).
Under the matchmaking of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷), many technical backbones have joined one after another. With venues, funds, markets, and talents, Fang Xiaowei's (方小伟) company has gradually opened up: this year's revenue is expected to reach 20 million yuan, and the current amount of orders on hand has exceeded 10 million yuan.
"Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) strives to provide an 'ecological rainforest' for innovation and entrepreneurship. We hope that enterprises here can get the most basic help 'from 0 to 1'; expand scenarios and orders 'from 1 to 10'; and continue to grow upward 'from 10 to 100'," introduced Wu Dan (吴丹), Assistant President of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) Company. Up to now, more than 2,800 science and technology innovation-oriented enterprises have settled in, attracting more than 80,000 innovators and entrepreneurs, and gathering a "fund jungle" of 250 billion yuan.
"We will further link global universities and research institutes and innovation resources through Keda Silicon Valley's (科大硅谷) innovation centers at home and abroad to help start-ups grow rapidly; build technology manager offices to continuously provide assistance to enterprises in terms of achievement transformation and industrial landing," Wu Dan (吴丹) said.
This issue is coordinated by: He Biao (何彪)
Reporter's Note
Bend Down and Look Far Ahead
It is not easy for scientific and technological achievements to take root, blossom and bear fruit, and each stage requires careful care.
For technology entrepreneurs, the initial lack of funds, scenarios, and orders is the norm. The value of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) lies in understanding pain points, breaking down barriers, and paving a growth path "from 0 to 1" and "from 1 to 100" for technology innovators.
Give enterprises trust and support with professional judgment; alleviate financing difficulties with multi-channel fundraising; and help enterprises achieve a key leap from technology research and development to market landing with precise scenario connection. We must not only bend down, but also look far ahead to cultivate a full-chain innovation ecosystem.
The exploration of Keda Silicon Valley (科大硅谷) reflects that China's technology service industry has reached a stage of development in which both rapid quantitative growth and effective qualitative improvement are taking place. Looking at the whole country, we expect more patient capital and more professional full-cycle services to benefit the vast number of start-up teams.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘 学 窦瀚洋
On May 11th, at the Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) in Zhejiang (浙江), a container truck passed through an unmanned intelligent gate in just two seconds. The photovoltaic modules on the truck took only half a day at the fastest from entering the port to going out to sea.
Between the quay cranes and gantry cranes, unmanned intelligent trucks and manned trucks operate in an orderly mixed manner. The quay crane steadily places the container on the giant ship, but the command is issued by the quay crane driver in the remote control room 1 kilometer away. Without having to climb into the narrow operating room 50 meters high to work with their heads down, the occupational diseases such as cervical spondylosis of the quay crane drivers are greatly reduced.
In the Meishan Port Area, which has been operating for more than 15 years, high technology is very common. The rapid passage of trucks is due to the application of artificial intelligence visual recognition technology. The overall operating efficiency of the port has been improved, which is due to the "smart brain" of the terminal developed by Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港).
"The 'smart brain' commands the smart port, and the 'left and right brains' perform their respective functions to keep the port running in an orderly manner." Zhao Chengjun (赵诚君), manager of the Technology R&D Department of Zhejiang Zhigangtong Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江智港通科技有限公司), who participated in the research and development, said, "The 'left brain' is the terminal operating system, which is responsible for the main process control of container business; the 'right brain' is the intelligent equipment scheduling system, which is responsible for scheduling the port's quay cranes, gantry cranes, trucks and other operating equipment, providing a better solution for port operations in terms of time and space."
The entire process is reflected in real time in the "Ningbo Zhoushan Port Digital Meishan Visualization System" (宁波舟山港数字梅山可视化系统) of the Meishan Port Area Control Center. With the help of digital twin technology, from the running track of the truck and the stacking point of the container, to the whole-chain intelligent operation of the quay crane and the gantry crane, the system's accuracy in sensing various transportation equipment and identifying abnormal events in the port area exceeds 98%.
More and more smart scenarios are taking root in the port. On the customs heavy container inspection platform, a customs officer gave an order, and a four-legged robot dog began to patrol. As the "photographer" of the container, the robot dog uploads photos taken with its portable high-definition camera in real time. Soon, high-definition pictures with the container number and seal number appeared on the inspection operation system.
"This is a customs heavy container inspection auxiliary robot that we introduced in cooperation with the port area and Unitree Robotics (宇树科技), which has the functions of automatic inspection, box number recognition and autonomous learning ability." Chen Yi (陈轶), deputy section chief of the Meishan Customs Inspection Section II (梅山海关查验二科) under Ningbo Customs (宁波海关), said, "In the past, it took 4 to 6 customs officers more than 1 hour to open 118 containers, but now it only takes 20 minutes, which greatly improves the efficiency of heavy container inspection."
As a pilot demonstration area for the construction of a smart port in Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), the Meishan Port Area has achieved 100% electrification coverage of large equipment, more than 80% electrification rate of internal trucks, and more than 96% success rate of intelligent truck automated operations. These achievements are providing support for the improvement of quality and efficiency of operating entities.
"The company's freight forwarding business continues to expand." Talking about the changes brought about by the construction of smart ports, Wang Hongbing (王红兵), general manager of Zhejiang Ganglianjie Logistics Technology Co., Ltd. (浙江港联捷物流科技有限公司), said, "Loading and unloading and scheduling are more convenient, and links such as receiving goods, making orders, and customs declaration are smoother. The turnover rate of goods continues to refresh, and the company's average annual business growth has exceeded 30% in the past 5 years."
In 2025, the container throughput of Meishan Port Area will exceed 13 million TEUs, a year-on-year increase of 17.9%. "We will continue to research and develop green and intelligent advanced technologies, promote innovative changes in digital management models, and help the port's green and digital transformation achieve new breakthroughs." Tao Chengbo (陶成波), chairman of Zhejiang Seaport Group (浙江省海港集团) and Ningbo Zhoushan Port Group (宁波舟山港集团), said.
Return to TopBeijing, May 13th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)) The reporter learned from the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局): In April, affected by changes in international crude oil prices and increased holiday travel demand, the Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.3% month-on-month and 1.2% year-on-year. The core CPI, excluding food and energy prices, increased by 1.2% year-on-year, maintaining a moderate recovery. The Producer Price Index (PPI) increased by 1.7% month-on-month and 2.8% year-on-year, with both increases expanding compared to the previous month.
From a month-on-month perspective, the national CPI changed from a decrease of 0.7% in the previous month to an increase of 0.3%, which is 0.4 percentage points higher than the seasonal level, mainly due to the increase in energy and travel service prices. From a year-on-year perspective, the national CPI increase expanded by 0.2 percentage points compared to the previous month. This month, the price of industrial consumer goods increased by 3.5%, with the increase expanding by 1.3 percentage points compared to the previous month, affecting the CPI year-on-year increase by approximately 1.06 percentage points. Service prices increased by 0.9%, with the increase expanding by 0.1 percentage points compared to the previous month, affecting the CPI year-on-year increase by approximately 0.44 percentage points.
From a month-on-month perspective, the national PPI increase expanded by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous month. International import factors affected the increase in domestic oil-related industry prices; increased demand in some domestic industries drove prices upward; the domestic market competition order continued to optimize, and price increases in related industries increased or the decline narrowed. The in-depth rectification of "**内卷式**" (nèi juǎn shì - "involution," a situation where increased effort yields diminishing returns due to excessive competition) competition continued to show results. The price of lithium-ion battery manufacturing increased by 1.6% month-on-month, and the price of new energy vehicle manufacturing decreased by 0.1%, with the decline narrowing by 0.7 percentage points compared to the previous month. From a year-on-year perspective, the national PPI increase expanded by 2.3 percentage points compared to the previous month.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on May 13th (Reporter Lin Lili (林丽鹂)): The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) released data on the 13th showing that in the first quarter of this year, 5.098 million new business entities were established nationwide, including 2.074 million new enterprises and 3.014 million new individual businesses. The development of business entities has been generally stable and positive, providing strong support for a good start to the economy.
The industrial structure continues to optimize. In the first quarter, 229,000 new business entities were established in the primary industry, 396,000 in the secondary industry, and 4.473 million in the tertiary industry. As of the end of March, there were 26.848 million registered "four new" (new technologies, new industries, new business formats, and new models) economic enterprises nationwide, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year, accounting for 40.9% of the total number of enterprises.
Manufacturing-related enterprises are iterating and upgrading. In the first quarter, high-tech manufacturing accelerated its growth, with new business entities in "integrated circuit manufacturing" increasing by 31.0% year-on-year and "intelligent unmanned aerial vehicle manufacturing" increasing by 15.7%. There were 70,000 new business entities in "equipment manufacturing," with "railway, ship, aerospace, and other transportation equipment manufacturing" increasing by 10.6% year-on-year.
Service-related enterprises are expanding capacity and improving quality. In the first quarter, 535,000 new business entities were established in the high-tech service industry, including 8,064 new business entities in "inspection and testing services," an increase of 30.8% year-on-year, further consolidating the quality foundation for industrial upgrading; 226,000 new business entities were established in "scientific and technological achievement transformation services," an increase of 7.56% year-on-year, further smoothing the transformation channel for the cultivation of new quality productive forces.
Foreign-funded enterprises continue to grow. In the first quarter, 16,000 new foreign-funded enterprises were established nationwide, an increase of 10.0% year-on-year. Investment industries are concentrated in "scientific research and technical services" and "culture, sports, and entertainment," with new establishment growth rates reaching 16.9% and 15.0% respectively, fully demonstrating the strong attractiveness of the Chinese market.
Return to TopIn Weinan City (渭南市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省), agricultural machinery operators recently started cross-regional operations for 2026. Weinan City (渭南市), located in the Guanzhong (关中) area, has more than 7,000 agricultural machines operating across regions. The "Guanzhong Wheat Harvesters" ("关中麦客") have played a role in enhancing agricultural production capacity and ensuring food security.
The above pictures are all taken by Cui Zhengbo (崔正博) (People's Vision).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
The hope for China-U.S. relations lies in the people, the foundation lies in the grassroots, the future lies in the youth, and the vitality lies at the local level. To explore the right way for the two countries to get along, China and the United States need to continuously consolidate the foundation of people-to-people exchanges and jointly tighten the bonds of friendship. People from all walks of life in the United States said in interviews with reporters from this newspaper that more and more voices in the United States are advocating for enhancing mutual understanding and promoting cooperation between the two countries, and they look forward to the continuous deepening and solidifying of people-to-people exchanges between the two countries to promote the healthy, stable, and sustainable development of relations between the two countries.
"We should put aside prejudice and establish a sincere, friendly, and pragmatic relationship."
Although China and the United States have different historical cultures, social systems, and development paths, the people are kind, friendly, hardworking, and pragmatic. They all love their country, their families, and their lives, and they all have goodwill and interest in each other. It is the two-way efforts between the people that have allowed China-U.S. relations to return to the right track from the trough time and time again.
In Harrisonburg, Virginia, USA, local resident Lana Doughty is a fan of Chinese TV dramas. Lana said: "By watching film and television dramas and reading, I feel the beauty of China and discover the great charm of Chinese culture, which brings a lot of excitement to my world."
"There may be gaps between people, but we can learn from each other and gain a deeper understanding of each other's culture. Both the United States and China have a strong sense of national pride, but we must also take the initiative to increase our understanding of each other and expand exchanges in history, music, culture, and other aspects," Lana said. "We should put aside prejudice and establish a sincere, friendly, and pragmatic relationship."
Lana's daughter, Natalie, is a music teacher at James Madison University. She said that the United States and China should further increase exchanges between the people, which is beneficial to both sides. "Only by deepening mutual understanding and breaking down inherent prejudices can we see the real each other, instead of clinging to vague stereotypes." Natalie plans to visit China next year and travel to Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Yunnan (云南), and other places. "I look forward to seeing a real China. I also hope that visa procedures for travel between the United States and China will be more convenient so that people-to-people exchanges between the two countries will be smoother."
Recently, the Chinese Embassy in the United States held an open day event. More than 7,000 local people visited the Chinese Embassy and experienced Chinese culture, and people showed a strong interest in Chinese culture. Forrest Albiston, a real estate lawyer from Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区), took his children to participate in the event. He said that he traveled to China 20 years ago and had fond memories. For this reason, he specifically studied Chinese when he was in school. Now, he feels it is very meaningful to bring his children to experience Chinese culture. "I like China. Beijing (北京), Xi'an (西安), Shanghai (上海), and other places have left me with deep and beautiful impressions. There are many places in China worth visiting," Albiston said. The people of the United States and China should carry out more exchanges. The more they understand each other's culture and society, the more they can understand each other and appreciate each other's culture.
American economist and Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs, said that more young Americans should go to China to take a look. He especially suggested exchanging or studying in China for a period of time, "so that they can personally feel that China has a long and splendid civilization, and that society is booming and full of vitality."
"What I saw and heard in China made me truly feel the beauty of this land."
In recent years, the "5-Year Invitation for 50,000 American Youths to China for Exchanges and Study" initiative has achieved fruitful results, and more young people are becoming a vital force in the cause of friendship between the two peoples.
Emanuel Gomez, a student at Muscatine High School in Iowa, USA, visited China by participating in the "5-Year 50,000" initiative. Gomez said that learning about China in school or in the classroom is one thing, but actually going to China and getting to know Chinese friends is a completely different experience. "What I saw and heard in China made me truly feel the beauty of this land." Another student, Cole Luers, said that the opportunity to experience and learn in China firsthand "allows us to broaden our horizons, form our own opinions, and establish a deeper understanding of China."
"From the eyes of the students, I can see that their trip to China was very rewarding, and they were fascinated by what they saw and heard." Roderick Shaw, Principal of the Chicago Montessori Intercultural Language School in the United States, said that this experience will become a precious memory, and people can learn to cooperate by understanding each other's traditions, cultures, and strengths.
"One of the biggest gains for the children participating in this project is that they can establish genuine connections with Chinese friends, peers, and local families." Luca Berrone, a member of the Board of Directors of the Iowa Sister States, said that youth exchanges are one of the most important initiatives to invest in the future of U.S.-China relations. American students are full of enthusiasm for their experiences, knowledge, and new friends after returning from exchanges in China. "The feedback is very good, which is a very gratifying development." He emphasized that building a bridge of friendship between the people of the United States and China and promoting the deepening and solidifying of people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China will play a fundamental role in building a better and more meaningful bilateral relationship and inject greater impetus into enhancing friendship between the two countries.
"Looking forward to both sides continuing to expand the breadth and depth of people-to-people exchanges."
A poll released by the Pew Research Center in the United States in April this year showed that Americans' views on China have become more positive, and the American public's favorability toward China has increased significantly since 2023. More and more Americans are viewing and evaluating China's development more objectively and realistically, accumulating more rationality and positive energy for bilateral relations.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Chairman of the Kuhn Foundation in the United States, said that for many years, American public opinion has been filled with suspicion and anxiety about China, and people have developed "narrative fatigue" about this situation, which is changing.
"I think China's development achievements have been recognized by many Americans." Zach Anderson from Chicago, USA, told reporters that for a period of time, Americans' views on China have undergone positive changes, and there have been more and more positive comments on China because everyone can see the great progress China has made in infrastructure construction and even the overall development of the country.
James Wilson, an information technology engineer working in Washington, D.C. (华盛顿特区), USA, said that Americans' impressions of China have generally become more positive. "When people communicate more and more frequently, they can form more objective and realistic views."
"There is no doubt that many Americans are eager to learn about China." Lawrence Freeman, an American expert on international issues, said that he visited China two years ago and felt that the Chinese people were sincere, open, and optimistic, and hoped to get along with Americans in a friendly manner. "I hope that the meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China can continue to promote the positive momentum of people-to-people exchanges between the two countries. I look forward to both sides continuing to expand the breadth and depth of people-to-people exchanges, so that more Americans can put aside their prejudices against China and learn about this extremely charming country," Freeman said.
Sarab Gupta, a senior researcher at the U.S.-China Research Center, said that the history of U.S.-China exchanges is composed of the real lives and exchange experiences of many ordinary people in the two countries. People-to-people exchanges between the United States and China have become a bond that maintains relations between the two countries. The meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China will provide an important opportunity to further promote the establishment of a more solid foundation for people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China and create positive conditions for tightening the people-to-people bonds between the two sides.
(Washington (华盛顿), May 13, this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 谢 锋
President Xi Jinping (习近平) is about to hold a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, who is coming to China for a state visit. This is the first visit by a U.S. president to China in nine years. Nine years have passed in the blink of an eye (弹指一挥 - tán zhǐ yī huī - "snap fingers wave," in an instant), and China, the United States, and the world have undergone major and profound changes, fully confirming President Xi Jinping's (习近平) strategic judgment and foresight regarding the major changes unseen in a century. In these nine years, with lofty aspirations (壮志凌云 - zhuàng zhì líng yún - "ambition soars to the clouds," having great ambition), the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) at its core has led the people of the whole country to forge ahead, overcome difficulties, and resolutely carry out a great struggle with many new historical characteristics. Over these nine years of hard work and dedication (风雨兼程 - fēng yǔ jiān chéng - "wind rain both journey," to weather the storm; to go through thick and thin), President Xi Jinping (习近平) has steered the course at critical moments, leading the giant ship of China-U.S. relations through rapids and shoals, forging ahead.
The 47-year development of China-U.S. relations since the establishment of diplomatic ties has repeatedly proven that it is impossible for China and the United States not to interact, it is unrealistic to want to change each other, and the consequences of conflict and confrontation are unbearable for anyone. The fact that "cooperation benefits both, while confrontation hurts both" is a common sense proven by practice, and "mutual achievement and common prosperity" is the only correct choice. Against the backdrop of increasing turbulence in the international situation, the strategic significance of China-U.S. relations is even more prominent. Looking at the world, whether it is to promote the de-escalation and stabilization of regional hotspot issues, or to address new challenges in global governance and explore new frontiers of human progress, every single thing is inseparable from a stable, healthy, and sustainable development of China-U.S. relations. China and the United States should demonstrate the pattern of major countries, take on the responsibility of major countries, play the role of major countries, and explore the construction of a China-U.S. relationship with strategic, constructive, and stable characteristics, to benefit the people of both countries and respond to the call of the times.
It is necessary to establish a correct understanding. Whether China and the United States are partners or opponents is a directional issue that determines the development of bilateral relations, and the "first button" must be fastened correctly. Viewing each other from the narrow perspective of a zero-sum game makes everything a "life-and-death struggle"; viewing each other from the broad perspective of a community of common destiny makes every place an opportunity for cooperation. More and more insightful people in the United States realize that China is not a threat or opponent of the United States, but an opportunity and a partner. Mainstream U.S. polls in 2025 reflect the first positive rebound in public opinion on China in five years. A Chicago Council on Global Affairs poll shows that 53% of Americans support cooperation and engagement with China. The latest Pew poll shows that the number of Americans with a positive view of China has almost doubled in the past three years, with a higher proportion of young people. It is hoped that the U.S. side will follow the will of the people, abandon the Cold War mentality, and be determined to be a partner and friend with China.
It is necessary to properly manage differences. China and the United States have different national conditions, and differences are inevitable. The key is to respect each other's core interests and major concerns. China has always viewed and handled its relations with the United States from a height of responsibility to history, to the people, and to the world. At the same time, we have legitimate rights and interests that must be safeguarded and principles that must be adhered to. Taiwan, democracy and human rights, the path and system, and the right to development are China's four red lines, and China's sovereignty, security, and development interests must not be violated. China requires the U.S. side to abide by the one-China principle and the three China-U.S. joint communiqués with practical actions, stop the illegal and unreasonable containment and suppression of China in the economic, trade, and technological fields, and stop taking discriminatory measures such as unwarranted interrogation, harassment, and repatriation of Chinese students and scholars to the United States, so as to remove obstacles to the development of bilateral relations.
It is necessary to actively expand cooperation. Under the new situation, the common interests of China and the United States have not decreased but increased. The two countries should carry out cooperation in a wide range of fields such as diplomacy, economy and trade, law enforcement, military-to-military relations, science and technology, artificial intelligence, public health, and cultural exchanges, so as to create a constructive tone for bilateral relations. Not long ago, I visited the Midwest of the United States and visited a well-known American company that entered the Chinese market in the 1970s. The company and its Chinese partners complement each other's advantages and join forces, which not only achieved a reverse growth in revenue in China against the backdrop of a decline in the North American market, but also, under the introduction of Chinese partners, jointly expanded their business to other developing countries, and their products are sold all over the world, achieving a "1+1>2" effect, and embarking on a new path of "China-U.S. win-win, multi-party win-win."
President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that the hope of China-U.S. relations lies in the people, the foundation lies in the grassroots, the future lies in the youth, and the vitality lies in the local areas. President Xi Jinping's (习近平) initiative to "invite 50,000 American teenagers to China for exchanges and study in 5 years" has greatly promoted exchanges between the people of the two countries. From the youth of Maryland coming to China to carry out pickleball exchanges, to the Shenzhen (深圳) youth pickleball delegation being invited to visit in return; from the China National Ballet's visit to the United States with works such as "Chinese New Year" causing enthusiastic response, to the Utah Children's Choir singing "As Wish" at the Temple of Heaven (天坛), China-U.S. cultural and local exchanges have been full of highlights. "Becoming Chinese" has gone viral, and "extreme Sinicization" has become popular. More and more young Americans are discovering a "cool China" and a "warm China," and the general trend of the two-way rush of the Chinese and American people is unstoppable.
With high sails hanging, we break through the huge waves, and step on the peak again to open up a new world. Head-of-state diplomacy has always been the "compass" and "stabilizer" of China-U.S. relations. This year is a "big year" for China-U.S. relations, and both sides will also host the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting and the G20 Leaders' Summit respectively. We look forward to, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, not only promoting the steady and long-term development of China-U.S. relations this year, but also exploring the correct way for China and the United States to respect each other, coexist peacefully, and cooperate for mutual benefit in the new era.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to the United States)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
"The world today faces multiple unstable factors, and the international community expects a stable and healthy development of US-China relations." Recently, Robert Lawrence Kuhn (罗伯特·劳伦斯·库恩), chairman of the Kuhn Foundation (库恩基金会), said in an interview with this reporter that the United States and China should work together to benefit the people of both countries and the world.
"I am optimistic and confident about this meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China." Kuhn said that both sides need to recognize the current global situation and set pragmatic expectations. Both the United States and China need a stable environment to achieve their respective key domestic development goals. "There are more and more uncertain factors in the international environment, and the United States and China must ensure the stability of bilateral relations," Kuhn said.
Kuhn expects this meeting to open up greater space for cooperation between the two sides, including continuing to increase consensus and manage differences through consultation mechanisms. "The United States and China can further broaden communication channels, promote artificial intelligence safety supervision, combat fentanyl and other related cooperation, and at the same time build a pragmatic economic cooperation framework."
Kuhn believes that there are many differences between the United States and China today, "However, in the face of challenges, the United States and China must work together." In his view, it is very important for global stability and development that the United States and China explore the right way to get along and promote the steady and long-term development of bilateral relations. Maintaining the overall stability of US-China relations through high-level exchanges "will have a positive impact that will resonate globally."
Kuhn said that companies need a stable market environment to formulate plans and conduct business, and uncertainty will inhibit business activities and investment. A good US-China relationship will have a positive boosting effect on the market, thereby promoting business activities and economic development.
"A more stable US-China relationship is crucial to the world." Kuhn said that the United States and China need a competition management mechanism, such as maintaining regular communication and carrying out necessary cooperation. "The stability of US-China relations is now seen as a global cost. Instability will drive up risks, inhibit investment, divide technical standards, weaken cooperation in climate and public health, and make development financing and debt issues more complicated."
In Kuhn's view, a more stable US-China relationship is of great significance to the United States and China and their people. From an economic point of view, cooperation between US and Chinese companies can broaden the boundaries of economic development and growth and achieve common growth. "'Decoupling' is neither rational nor realistic." Kuhn said that American companies still cannot do without China's market, manufacturing system, consumer groups, and scientific research talents. Capital investment, management experience, and overseas customers from around the world will also help Chinese companies develop.
"In the long run, the best way to improve US-China relations is to carry out people-to-people exchanges at all levels." Kuhn said that mutual understanding between young people is the foundation of future cooperation between the United States and China, and people-to-people exchanges and cooperation should be carried out in the fields of society, culture, health care, and news media.
"A successful meeting between the two heads of state can benefit ordinary people." Kuhn hopes that visa procedures between the United States and China will be more convenient, the number of international flights will increase, and cross-border tourism will return to normal; universities will restart cooperation projects, and scientific researchers will resume academic exchanges; companies will regain customers, giving the business community more confidence.
(Reported from Washington (华盛顿) on May 13 by this newspaper)
Return to TopThis report Seoul May 13 (Reporters Han Shuo (韩硕) and Mang Jiuchen (莽九晨)) Local time May 13, the Chinese lead person for China-U.S. economic and trade affairs, Vice Premier of the State Council He Lifeng (何立峰), and the U.S. lead person, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, held economic and trade consultations in South Korea. Guided by the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, and adhering to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, the two sides conducted frank, in-depth, and constructive exchanges on resolving economic and trade issues of mutual concern and further expanding practical cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王 丹
On the banks of Nanhu Lake in Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi Province, the Shangyou County (上犹县) Ecological Pickleball Sports Center was filled with enthusiasm. The 2026 China-U.S. People-to-People Pickleball Friendship Tournament, sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会), the General Administration of Sport of China (国家体育总局), and the People's Government of Jiangxi Province (江西省人民政府), was held here recently. The U.S. Oregon Friendship Pickleball Delegation led by Judy Hoarfrost (朱迪·霍夫罗斯特), a participant in the "Ping-Pong Diplomacy" between China and the United States, the Utah Tech University Pickleball Team, Chinese pickleball athletes, and representatives of American companies in China, totaling more than 100 people, participated in the event. This is the second time the sports center has witnessed young people from the two countries making friends through sports and enhancing friendship since the China-U.S. youth pickleball exchange during the Spring Festival this year.
"This is my eleventh visit to China, and it feels as comfortable as visiting relatives." The 70-year-old Hoarfrost was very active on the court. In April 1971, as the youngest member of the U.S. table tennis team, she visited China with the delegation and experienced the "ice-breaking journey" of China-U.S. relations. "That period of history 55 years ago proved that sports and cultural exchanges can always unite us. Today in Jiangxi, we are continuing a new chapter of cooperation with pickleball. Friendship and mutual trust are the most solid foundation of national relations. As a participant in 'Ping-Pong Diplomacy,' I am passing this torch to a new generation," Hoarfrost said.
On the field, they are opponents, but even more so, they are friends. The beginner-level friendship match, the intermediate-level friendship match, and the professional demonstration match were all wonderful, with Chinese and American players fighting side by side and showing their respective styles. After the game, everyone shook hands, exchanged skills, and shared happiness. Riley Hanks, coach of the Oregon Friendship Pickleball Delegation, said with emotion: "Pickleball is a sport that knows no borders. It is like a universal language, bringing the people of the United States and China closer together."
"The Chinese players have superb skills, and the competition venue facilities are first-class. It is a pleasure to watch the Chinese and American players compete here," exclaimed Chloe Butterfield, coach of the Utah Tech University Pickleball Team.
Checking in at the "forest-style" camping site, experiencing outdoor projects and intangible cultural heritage handicrafts; exploring the World Hakka Folk Culture City (世界客家民俗文化城), walking into the villages and towns of Longnan City (龙南市), and feeling the charm of Hakka culture. Everyone was immersed in the development pulse and humanistic beauty of the old revolutionary base area of Jiangxi, and they used their cameras to record the heritage and vitality of this land. Liam Daffin, a player from Utah Tech University, said: "The development of Ganzhou (赣州) has made me see that while China is promoting modernization, it is also carefully protecting its culture and ecology, showing the depth and warmth of a country."
This friendship tournament is a concrete practice of implementing the "5-year 50,000" initiative proposed by China. Ji Yongjun (吉拥军), Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (中国人民对外友好协会), said: "President Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to people-to-people exchanges and friendly exchanges between young people between China and the United States, and has repeatedly encouraged American youth to be new-generation envoys of friendship between the two countries. Young people from the two countries make friends through ball games and interact with each other with their hearts. They learn from each other on the field and get to know each other off the field, leaving warm moments. This fully proves that sports exchanges can transcend differences, cross mountains and seas, and closely connect the people of the two countries."
More than half a century ago, a small ping-pong ball crossed the divide and wrote a diplomatic story of "a small ball moving a big ball." Today, pickleball has also become a new carrier and new link for people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States in the new era. With pickleball as a medium, young people from China and the United States enhance their understanding in exchanges, build consensus in interactions, and deepen friendship in communication.
(Zhang Huiting (张惠婷) also contributed to this article)
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Seoul on May 13th (Reporters Han Shuo (韩硕) and Wang Siyuan (汪思源)): On May 13th, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) met with Vice Premier of the State Council He Lifeng (何立峰) at the Presidential Office in Seoul (首尔).
He Lifeng (何立峰) conveyed greetings from President Xi Jinping (习近平) to Lee Jae-myung (李在明), and stated that since the end of last year, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) have achieved mutual visits in a short period of time, leading China-South Korea relations to open a new situation of improvement and development. China is willing to work with South Korea to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen communication, enhance mutual trust, deepen exchanges and cooperation, and maintain and develop the China-South Korea strategic cooperative partnership.
Lee Jae-myung (李在明) asked He Lifeng (何立峰) to convey his greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平), and said that his two meetings with President Xi Jinping (习近平) were very productive. Recently, exchanges and cooperation between South Korea and China in various fields such as economy and people-to-people exchanges have been active. He hopes that the two sides will further strengthen exchanges and cooperation, enhance the sense of closeness between the two peoples, allow the development of South Korea-China relations to better benefit the two peoples, and play an important role in regional peace and stability.
On May 12th, He Lifeng (何立峰) also met with South Korea's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy and Finance Choo Kyung-ho (具润哲) at his request, and exchanged in-depth views on strengthening China-South Korea economic and trade cooperation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13th (Xinhua) On May 13th, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), met in Beijing (北京) with a delegation from the New Azerbaijan Party (新阿塞拜疆党) led by Budagov (布达戈夫), Deputy Chairman and Head of the Central Office of the New Azerbaijan Party, to exchange views on jointly implementing the consensus reached by the leaders of the two countries, strengthening inter-party exchanges and dialogue, and promoting the development of the China-Azerbaijan comprehensive strategic partnership.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, May 12th (Reporter Gao Shan (高山), Tan Jingjing (谭晶晶)) The 2026 China-California Business Forum was held on May 12th in Los Angeles (洛杉矶), California (加利福尼亚州), USA. Nearly 550 political and business figures from China and the United States gathered to jointly call for stimulating the vitality of China-U.S. local cooperation and strengthening cooperation between Chinese provinces and cities and California in the fields of economy and trade.
In his video address, Xie Feng (谢锋), Chinese Ambassador to the United States, said that California is "the forefront of China-U.S. local cooperation," and the China-California Business Forum has become a landmark brand activity for local cooperation between the two countries. He pointed out that this year is a "big year" for China-U.S. relations, and the important agenda of high-level exchanges has been set in motion. He hopes that California will continue to contribute to exploring a correct way of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation between China and the United States in the new era with an open attitude facing the ocean and a pioneering spirit of 敢为人先 (gǎn wéi rén xiān - "dare to be the first," to be a pioneer; to take the lead).
Guo Shaochun (郭少春), Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles (洛杉矶), said in his speech that the forum has been held for eight sessions so far. It is not only an important platform for relevant Chinese provinces and cities and California to conduct policy dialogues, information communication, and promote trade and investment, but also provides valuable opportunities for entrepreneurs from both sides to have direct exchanges, expand business opportunities, and connect cooperation.
California State Treasurer Fiona Ma (马世云) said in a written speech: "California and China have a long history of economic and trade partnership, innovative cooperation, and cultural exchange. Such forums help both sides build deeper understanding and connections, creating conditions for strengthening business cooperation and achieving common prosperity."
Hainan Province (海南省) and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) signed a number of cooperation projects with California (加州) during the forum.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, São Paulo, May 12th (Reporter Chen Haoquan (陈昊佺)) The "Hello! China" and "Tea for Harmony" gathering event was held in São Paulo, Brazil on the 12th. Chinese and Brazilian guests gathered over tea, experiencing the charm of Chinese culture in the fragrant atmosphere, appreciating China's magnificent mountains and rivers through pictures and videos, and savoring authentic "Chinese flavors" through Hubei cuisine.
As an activity within the framework of the "China-Brazil Culture Year," the event integrated the three cultural tourism brands of "Hello! China," "Tea for Harmony," and "Chinese Flavors." Brazilian guests could not only appreciate China's magnificent mountains and rivers and profound cultural heritage through pictures, videos, and tourism promotional materials, but also experience the long-standing Chinese tea culture through famous Chinese teas such as Longjing, Oolong, and white tea, and experience the rich and diverse Chinese flavors while tasting the special Chu cuisine from Hubei.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘温馨 原韬雄
The grassroots level is the front line for resisting natural disasters, and the work of strengthening the grassroots and consolidating the foundation must never be relaxed.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "It is necessary to improve the grassroots emergency rescue force system, strengthen the construction of emergency sites and the guarantee of material and equipment, and do a good job in mass monitoring, prevention, and treatment. Increase the intensity of popular science publicity to improve the public's awareness and ability to prevent disasters and avoid risks."
In recent years, various localities and departments have extensively mobilized and relied on the masses, integrated resources, and coordinated forces to effectively strengthen the construction of grassroots emergency capabilities and continuously build a people's defense line for disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief.
Strengthen team building and improve a diversified force system
In Xinyi (信宜市), Maoming (茂名市), Guangdong Province (广东省) in May, the country roads were wet and it rained in bursts.
"There has been more rainfall this year, and the risk of phased and localized heavy rainfall is high." Liu Mingfang (刘名芳), secretary of the Zhonghe Village (中和村) branch of the Guizi Town (贵子镇) Party Committee in Xinyi (信宜市), distributed a stack of newly printed leaflets to several village officials, repeatedly instructing, "Be sure to distribute them to everyone and explain them clearly!"
Participating in safety training, conveying key points of disaster prevention and mitigation, and closely monitoring the progress of slope reinforcement projects, Liu Mingfang (刘名芳) did not dare to relax for a moment. In June last year, Typhoon "Hudie" brought continuous heavy rain. During an inspection, Liu Mingfang (刘名芳) discovered signs of a landslide and hurriedly knocked on gongs, shook alarms, played loudspeakers, and knocked on doors to persuade people to evacuate... Party members and cadres transferred 57 villagers from 25 households to temporary resettlement sites overnight. An hour later, a mountain collapsed, and the villagers in the disaster area were evacuated in time, with no casualties.
According to statistics, in 2025, 423,000 Party and government leaders at all levels across the country were "called" by early warnings of impending disasters, and many places urgently transferred and resettled 2.851 million people. At this year's main event of the National Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Day and Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Publicity Week, Liu Mingfang (刘名芳) and 11 other outstanding representatives of grassroots disaster prevention and risk avoidance were commended.
Relevant officials from the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) stated that China's disaster information officer team has more than 1.15 million people, who have effectively protected the lives and property of the people in the process of preventing and responding to major disaster risks such as landslides, floods, debris flows, and forest fires.
To make the grassroots a solid fortress against disaster risks, it is necessary to build a diversified grassroots emergency rescue force system of "comprehensive + professional + social", clarify responsibilities, strengthen coordination and linkage, and ensure that the grassroots have teams, guarantees, and capabilities for emergency response.
Cadres become "experts." Recently, the video live broadcast training class for improving the ability of grassroots cadres in northern regions to prevent floods, reduce disasters, and provide disaster relief was launched, inviting technical experts to systematically teach practical essentials such as meteorological early warning, risk identification, plan preparation, early warning "call", transfer and evacuation, and emergency rescue. Joint learning and training for 278,000 village (community) Party organization secretaries in northern regions will be completed by the end of May.
Multiple forces coordinate and link up. "This mountainous area has complex and steep terrain, a vast water area, and arduous tasks of forest fire prevention and ecological protection." Wang Hongwei (王宏伟), secretary of the Party Committee and director of the Jizhou District (蓟州区) Emergency Management Bureau of Tianjin (天津市), said that the district has established 24 district-level professional rescue teams in professional fields such as forest fire prevention and flood control and drought relief, which complement the Blue Sky Rescue Team (蓝天救援队) and other 4 social emergency forces to ensure that they can be pulled out and rushed up at critical moments.
Science and technology help improve quality and efficiency. "The town is equipped with drones, walkie-talkies, satellite phones, and other equipment, and has also built a smart emergency management platform, which can realize intelligent services such as auxiliary identification of hidden dangers and automatic reminders of early warning forecasts." Shu Shi (舒适), secretary of the Dashi Town (大石镇) Party Committee in Xuyong County (叙永县), Luzhou City (泸州市), Sichuan Province (四川省), said that in 2025, floods in Sichuan (四川) did not cause any deaths.
Make good use of the system plan to weave a "protective net" for disaster response
At 10:00 a.m. on May 10, an alarm sounded in Baihuayu Village (百花峪村), Taoxu Town (桃墟镇), Mengyin County (蒙阴县), Linyi City (临沂市), Shandong Province (山东省). This was Baihuayu Village's (百花峪村) first emergency drill for transferring and evacuating from mountain floods this year.
In less than 5 minutes, 10 emergency team members and 5 volunteers were assembled. The search and rescue team carried lifebuoys and ropes to the banks of the river, the transfer team knocked on the doors of villagers in low-lying areas, and the warning team quickly pulled up isolation belts... In less than 15 minutes, all 14 villagers from 4 households living in high-risk areas were safely transferred to the village committee resettlement site according to the predetermined route.
This year, Shandong Province (山东省) issued the "Seven Ones" standardized construction guide for emergency preparedness in villages prone to loss of contact, namely a plan for the transfer, resettlement, and life support of disaster-stricken people, a standardized disaster report template, a temporary resettlement site, a comprehensive village-level emergency team, an emergency material reserve point, a set of emergency support equipment for extreme scenarios, and a set of three-dimensional models of village risk scenarios, covering the entire process of pre-disaster prevention, mid-disaster response, and post-disaster support.
"According to the guide, 203 villages in the province that are prone to mountain floods and debris flows will be uniformly equipped with satellite phones, mobile generator sets, and three-dimensional village models." Relevant officials from the Shandong Provincial Department of Emergency Management (山东省应急管理厅) said that various localities can flexibly adjust and accurately implement the plan based on the actual situation of the village's geographical environment, population size, and disaster risk type.
Towns (streets) and villages (communities) are the "last mile" of disaster prevention and response. Improving their disaster prevention and response capabilities is the key to consolidating the foundation of grassroots emergency response.
In Changgou Town (长沟镇), Fangshan District (房山区), Beijing (北京市), 5 "highland fortresses" for both peacetime and emergency use are fully equipped with living materials, lighting equipment, emergency power supplies, medical supplies, etc., which can guarantee the living needs of disaster-stricken people for at least 24 hours; Fujian Province (福建省) has established a normalized emergency drill mechanism, and communities organize at least one comprehensive emergency drill every year; Xi'an City (西安市), Shaanxi Province (陕西省) has built 740 urban and rural emergency shelters, and more than 3,000 communities (villages) in the city have established emergency teams and equipped grid members, who are responsible for daily hidden danger investigation and mass transfer guidance after disasters occur...
"There are now 2.84 million grassroots emergency broadcasts nationwide, covering 345,000 administrative villages." Relevant officials from the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) said that various localities and departments are focusing on the grassroots level, improving disaster prevention facilities, improving emergency management systems, and optimizing emergency response processes to promote the grassroots to become the "first line of defense" for disaster prevention.
Strengthen popular science publicity and enhance the public's awareness and ability to prevent and mitigate disasters
"Run to high ground when you hear the gong, don't be greedy for property!" Once the flood season arrives, the "emergency publicity team" of Bali Village (八里村), Fang County (房县), Shiyan City (十堰市), Hubei Province (湖北省) gets busy. More than 50 Party members and cadres in the village put on red vests, walk through the streets and alleys, knock on doors, and explain mountain flood warning signals, evacuation routes, and risk avoidance points in everyday language.
In order to popularize disaster prevention and mitigation knowledge, the village emergency station has integrated various resources to uniformly produce flood prevention and risk avoidance all-in-one cards and dialect versions of audio, making the publicity content down-to-earth and warm. Since entering the flood season this year, the "emergency publicity team" has carried out door-to-door publicity to more than 500 households, distributed more than 2,000 copies of materials, and carried out 3 drills.
"We organized special large-scale flood prevention exercises in many places. At the same time, relying on online interview columns, we invited industry experts, grassroots cadres, and rescue team members to analyze typical risk cases and popularize disaster prevention, risk avoidance, self-rescue, and mutual rescue knowledge, so that scientific disaster prevention knowledge can be deeply rooted in thousands of households." Relevant officials from the Hubei Provincial Department of Emergency Management (湖北省应急管理厅) said.
One person guarding one place is safe, and everyone guarding it is as stable as a mountain. Everyone becomes an "expert" in emergency response, and every family builds a "firewall" for disaster reduction, which will gather tremendous strength to support a higher level of safe China.
Jiangxi Province (江西省) has incorporated earthquake prevention and disaster reduction knowledge into the "first lesson of the new semester" for primary and secondary schools throughout the province, and a popular science dissemination team of more than 1,000 people regularly goes to schools to give lectures; Jiangsu Province (江苏省) uses the "Su Chao" competition to play public service advertisements and opens more than 1,000 popular science education venues; Zhejiang Province's (浙江省) cross-border situation drama "Su Dongpo (苏东坡) PK Hang Xiaoying (杭小应)" vividly shows the traditional wisdom of "preparing for the unexpected and preventing problems before they occur" through a cross-temporal dialogue between ancient and modern disaster prevention concepts; the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) held an emergency popular science explanation competition, and 33 contestants competed on the same stage in the finals with 30 works... During the Disaster Prevention and Mitigation Publicity Week, various localities and departments widely gathered public wisdom and strength, and continued to organize popular science publicity, education and training, hidden danger investigation, emergency drills, and prevention and preparation work to popularize disaster prevention, mitigation, and relief knowledge to more people.
Relevant officials from the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) stated that they will strengthen resource integration and the construction of publicity and education positions, and promote popular science publicity and education on disaster prevention and mitigation to go deeper and more solid in enterprises, rural areas, communities, schools, and families, so that the public's safety awareness can take root, sprout, and grow.
(Reporters He Linping (贺林平), Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), Li Jiading (李家鼎), Li Rui (李蕊), Wu Jun (吴君), and Dou Hanyang (窦瀚洋) participated in the writing)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 闫伊乔
Education is a national strategy and a Party priority. On May 13th, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference for Chinese and foreign journalists titled "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting five outstanding teacher representatives to exchange ideas with Chinese and foreign journalists on the theme of "Promoting the Spirit of Educators and Creating a New Situation in the Construction of a Strong Educational Nation."
"When every child's shining point is carefully discovered and cared for by teachers, they will surely grow up and become successful." Xie Wei (解玮), principal of Yinchuan No. 15 Middle School (银川市第十五中学) in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区), who has been deeply involved in the field of basic education for 21 years, takes "seeing everyone, discovering everyone, and achieving everyone" as her educational creed, striving to let every child find their own life track.
Building a "general knowledge + characteristics" curriculum system and being selected as one of the first Ministry of Education (教育部) primary and secondary school artificial intelligence education bases... In recent years, Yinchuan No. 15 Middle School has found the right direction in the digital transformation of education, realizing an overall improvement in the quality of education and teaching and the level of running the school. Last year, the school's digital reform case was presented at the World Digital Education Conference. "This recognition from industry experts and education colleagues has doubled our confidence," said Xie Wei (解玮).
Also rooted in the west is Huang Jianping (黄建平), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and a professor at Lanzhou University (兰州大学), who is known as the "sand chasing academician." In 2003, Huang Jianping (黄建平) returned to his alma mater, Lanzhou University (兰州大学), and founded China's first College of Atmospheric Sciences. Facing the harsh scientific research environment, he led the team to work tirelessly with the ideal goal of "a lifetime in the desert, pursuing dreams, and creating a first-class institution." Today, China's first internationally standard semi-arid climate change observation station has been built on Cuiying Mountain (萃英山) in Lanzhou City (兰州市), Gansu Province (甘肃省), and the "Belt and Road" climate observation network established by Huang Jianping (黄建平) and his team also provides scientific support for co-building countries in disaster prevention and mitigation, climate change response, and regional climate governance.
As a teacher, Huang Jianping (黄建平) closely integrates scientific research with education. He said: "The spirit of educators is not an abstract slogan. As teachers, we must have students and the country in our hearts, and teach well and cultivate talents in a down-to-earth manner."
A good principal makes a good school. Zhang Zhenle (章振乐), the general principal of Fuchun No. 7 Primary School Education Group (富春第七小学教育集团) in Fuyang District (富阳区), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), has cultivated children's character and increased their talents through carrying out labor education, and is known as the "innovative principal who came out of the farm."
"We have designed a twenty-four solar terms curriculum to allow children to work according to the solar terms. For example, just after the Beginning of Summer solar term, we organized children to pick nan zhu leaves, steam black rice, and boil broad beans, which are all local customs in Fuyang (富阳)." For 17 years, Zhang Zhenle (章振乐) and his teachers have explored a variety of new "ways to play" in labor education, opening up the "last mile" for the implementation of labor education.
In last month's bird watching class, a photo of a small bird jumping at the classroom door shared by Zhang Zhenle (章振乐) excited the students. "I hope that our children can be moved when they see wild chrysanthemums, and stop when they hear birdsong," said Zhang Zhenle (章振乐).
At the meeting, An Huixia (安慧霞), the general director of Xinghua Preschool Education Group (兴华学前教育集团) in Wanbailin District (万柏林区), Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi Province (山西省), who has been engaged in preschool education for 35 years, brought badges designed by the children. Hundreds of small badges, such as confidence badges, gratitude badges, punctuality badges, health badges, and patriotism badges, represent the excellent qualities pursued by the children.
Pioneering the group management of public kindergartens in Shanxi Province (山西省), allowing more children to enjoy inclusive and high-quality preschool education; establishing a famous kindergarten director studio and a model worker innovation studio to build a growth platform with hundreds of kindergarten directors inside and outside the province; as a member of the Ministry of Education's (教育部) educator spirit publicity group, An Huixia (安慧霞) has now traveled to 22 provinces and carried out more than 90 sharing sessions... "Although the world of preschool education is small, the feelings are great. Being with children is the happiest thing in my life," said An Huixia (安慧霞).
"I am very pleased to see them master skills proficiently, walk out of the campus, enter major aviation companies, and contribute to major national instruments such as domestically produced aircraft." Zhou Shuqiang (周树强), a professor at Chengdu Aeronautic Polytechnic (成都航空职业技术大学), has been teaching aviation maintenance technology for 20 years. With his help, more and more students have become skilled talents who can take on the important task of serving the country through aviation.
Vocational education is an important way to cultivate high-quality technical and skilled personnel. As the national "Most Beautiful Teacher" and technical expert, Zhou Shuqiang (周树强) promotes the school to deepen the integration of industry and education, school-enterprise cooperation, help enterprises solve technical problems, and also teach students skills hand-in-hand. Adhering to the principle of "teaching what the enterprise needs," he does not engage in pure theoretical teaching, but allows students to learn the latest methods in practical training, so that they can be exposed to real projects of enterprises in the school.
"As a vocational education teacher, I must guard the three-foot podium, deeply cultivate the practical training base, teach conscientiously, educate people earnestly, and wholeheartedly cultivate more skilled talents to contribute to the country's aviation industry," said Zhou Shuqiang (周树强).
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This September, the 48th WorldSkills Competition will be held in Shanghai (上海). Compared with previous sessions, this year's event adds projects such as digital interactive media design, smart security technology, and drone systems, demonstrating the new demands and expectations of technological innovation and industrial upgrading for skilled craftsmen.
The tide of the times is rolling forward. When robots outrun humans in half marathons, when algorithms and models iterate rapidly in the information field... how should we adapt to changes and step forward to take on responsibilities?
"Continuously create new achievements based on your respective positions," President Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest message is full of praise for youth and guidance for growth.
Hardship reveals courage and perseverance. In demanding positions, treating difficult environments and arduous tasks as opportunities to temper one's will is the only way to be like seedlings that "can withstand wind and rain and stand firm."
Pink overalls, a pink medicine box, a pink stethoscope... Bai Hua (白婳), a post-95s rural veterinarian who likes pink, does a very "hardcore" job: giving cows injections, delivering calves, and trimming hooves in the cattle pen. When asked if she finds it hard, she says, "Doing this is especially meaningful."
In youth, choosing to endure hardship also means choosing to reap rewards. Choosing to endure hardship is not about "enduring hardship for the sake of it," but about strengthening one's muscles and bones after experiencing tempering, growing and becoming talented in the wind and rain, and firmly believing that "all the hardships once endured will become the sweetness of future memories."
Ordinary people create greatness. In ordinary positions, working diligently, dedicating oneself silently, and doing everything practically, every ordinary job can create extraordinary achievements.
Growing from an ordinary welder to a chief technician, post-90s Pei Xianfeng's (裴先峰) secret is "learning with heart and practicing diligently"; initiating the "Tianlu Gesanghua Youth Volunteer Service Team," the most beautiful volunteer Yangzong's (央宗) belief is "I just want to use my weak light to illuminate the path in other people's hearts."
From rooting in the depths of the mountains to guarding the borderlands of the motherland, from deeply cultivating community services to inheriting intangible cultural heritage, groups of young people are either unafraid of high altitude and oxygen deficiency, or desert wind and sand, or unafraid of thousands of threads and complex trivialities, writing brilliant lives and creating extraordinary achievements in daily progress and daily improvement.
Time is the fairest constant, never failing to fulfill its promises to those who dedicate themselves, nor stingy with its praise for those who persevere.
Innovation leads the future. In cutting-edge positions, being determined to make progress and striving to be the first can transform abundant energy, active thinking, and vigorous vitality into core competitiveness and the initiative for development.
Looking at the fields, factory-style seedling cultivation, drone plant protection, intelligent field patrols... young new farmers are irrigating the land with the living water of technology, interpreting "rice does not fail the land, youth does not fail the dream chaser."
Looking at basic research, national key laboratories and large scientific installations are opening their doors to young talents, and people under the age of 45 account for more than 80% of the participants in national key research and development programs.
Looking at artificial intelligence, a group of post-95s and even post-00s practitioners are competing on the same stage with the world's top teams in computer vision, natural language processing, autonomous driving, and other tracks.
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Youth is always new, with the most innovative enthusiasm and the most innovative drive. Using new ideas to solve old problems, using new technologies to empower old industries, and bringing digital literacy, international vision, and cross-border thinking into every subtle job can always stand at the forefront of the times and be a pioneer of the times.
In all walks of life, what remains unchanged is the surging of youth, the responsibility of youth, and the power of young people.
No matter where we are or what position we are in, let us "measure the land of the motherland with our footsteps, discover the spirit of China with our eyes, listen to the voices of the people with our ears, and sense the pulse of the times with our hearts, and integrate the emotions of being thicker than water with the motherland and sharing the same breath and destiny with the people throughout the entire process of our studies and integrate them into the pursuit of our careers," and jointly create a better China.
Return to TopOn May 13, in Xianshi Town, Hejiang County, Luzhou City, Sichuan Province, at an open-air soy sauce drying field on the banks of the Chishui River, workers seized the sunny weather to dry soy sauce. Hejiang County utilizes the unique ecological resources of the Chishui River to actively develop the traditional soy sauce brewing industry, driving local employment and helping the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Li Guiping (李贵平) Photo (Image China)
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Formalism is essentially subjectivism and utilitarianism, and its roots lie in the misaligned view of performance and the lack of a sense of responsibility. Currently, various regions are using the deepening of the "six rectifications" as a starting point, combined with carrying out study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and are promoting the rectification of formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level in an integrated manner, educating and guiding Party organizations and Party member cadres at all levels to work and start businesses in a down-to-earth manner, and strive to create achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Digging Deep into Ideological Roots
Correcting the Coordinates of Performance
Since the launch of study and education, various regions have combined the typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level reported by the central government, educating and guiding Party member cadres to deeply explore the performance view deviations behind formalism, and continuously tightening the "master switch" of thought.
"The illegal construction of landscape sketches is fundamentally an expression of the erroneous view of performance that emphasizes visible achievements over potential achievements, emphasizes appearance over substance, emphasizes landscaping over benefiting the people, and emphasizes reckless action over rules." The Standing Committee of the Qingxu County (清徐县) Party Committee in Shanxi Province (山西省) specially reported on typical cases in the county, and members of the leadership team conducted self-examination and exchanges and discussions one by one, deeply drawing lessons, and effectively unified their thoughts and actions to benefiting the people.
In terms of decision-making mechanisms, strengthen the decision-making and supervision of "major issues, important projects, and large amounts of funds" (三重一大); in terms of fund control, scientifically assess fiscal affordability and strictly control illegal debt; in terms of supervision and accountability, increase the rectification and remediation of construction without approval and construction before bidding... Qingxu County (清徐县) launched a series of "combined punches."
Eagerness for quick success and instant benefits and blind decision-making are ultimately caused by "performance impulses." In the process of promoting the rectification of problems reported by the central government, Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County (恭城瑶族自治县) in Guilin City (桂林市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区), organized county-level leading cadres and cadres in key positions to conduct self-examination one by one, deeply reflect on the root causes of performance view deviations, and refine rectification measures.
Problem rectification must not only calculate economic accounts, but also calculate popular support accounts and political accounts. Local Party member cadres visited households to investigate the needs of the masses and actively connected with trade unions, hospitals and other units to revitalize idle assets.
"Only by abandoning the idea of 'large-scale demolition and construction, GDP-only theory,' and eliminating 'brainstorming decision-making' and blind debt-financed construction can we embark on a new path of high-quality development." Guanshanhu District (观山湖区) in Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), organized Party member cadres to carry out special discussions, centralized training, and warning education. Leading groups at all levels focused on development bottlenecks, people's livelihood pain points, and work difficulties, and deeply searched for problems existing in the view of performance, putting themselves in, putting their work in, and putting their responsibilities in.
Adhering to Problem Orientation
Promoting Genuine Investigation and Practical Rectification
Solve whatever problems there are, and focus on rectifying whatever problems are prominent. In study and education, various regions have combined the typical problems of rectifying formalism to reduce burdens at the grassroots level reported by the central government, grasped the investigation of problems and rectification and remediation, continued to deepen the "six rectifications," and freed the grassroots from the shackles of formalism.
The Discipline Inspection and Supervision Commission system of Shuangyashan City (双鸭山市) in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) sorted out specific situations such as scattered meeting arrangements, repeated material submissions, and clustered supervision and inspections, analyzed the causes one by one, and established a problem ledger to consolidate the foundation for accurate rectification. In response to the hidden and variable problems of assessment existing in some fields, it urged relevant departments to streamline and optimize the assessment indicator system, and clarified that it is not allowed to simply replace work guidance with ranking announcements; at the same time, it strengthened information sharing and mutual recognition of results to avoid multiple departments repeatedly asking the grassroots for materials and data.
On the playground of Huayue School (华岳学校) in Jingyue High-tech Zone (净月高新区), Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), teachers are guiding children to play games. Teachers are freed from complicated affairs and have more time to concentrate on preparing lessons and educating people with their hearts. Recently, the school has also actively launched after-school care services, offering diversified courses such as physical exercise and interest expansion.
Changchun City (长春市) insisted on closely combining study and education with deepening the "six rectifications" and promoting them in a coordinated manner, conducted interviews and reminders with "top leaders," and promoted leading groups at all levels to conduct in-depth self-examination in light of the main list of problems with performance view deviations. In response to the problem of excessive burden on grassroots teachers, relevant departments comprehensively streamlined commendations and established a "whitelist" mechanism for social affairs to enter the campus, reducing the burden on schools from the source.
Benefiting the people is the greatest achievement. Party and government organs living frugally is for the people to live a good life.
In study and education, the Dazu City (达州市) Party Committee in Sichuan Province (四川省) proposed to strictly prohibit extravagant and wasteful behaviors such as making large-scale spray paintings and large-scale exhibition boards, focusing on key areas such as buildings, halls, pavilions, festivals, forums, and creation standards, and conducting special investigations and rectifications throughout the city in light of the list of problems with performance view deviations; at the same time, it improved a number of rigid measures and negative lists for Party and government organs to practice thrift and oppose waste, embedding the requirements of "living frugally" into all aspects such as budget preparation and project approval.
Doing Solid Work to Promote Work Through Learning
Determined to Benefit the People
Not long ago, cadres from the Zhongshan City (中山市) Market Supervision Bureau in Guangdong Province (广东省) visited the Zhongshan base of Dongpeng Group (东鹏集团). After learning about the company's difficulties, they immediately reported and established a special working group to conduct on-site inspections and optimizations one by one for links such as workshop layout, process flow, and management system, guiding the company to eliminate a number of risk points, helping the company complete the special equipment use registration certificate as scheduled, and successfully put it into production.
Research and investigation are for understanding the situation and solving practical problems. In study and education, Zhongshan City (中山市) focused on key tasks such as "correcting the formalism of research and investigation," carried out the "walking thousands of enterprises into thousands of factories, listening to opinions and solving problems, strengthening services and promoting development" activities, focusing on solving practical problems and promoting development.
Only by unloading the burden can we move forward lightly. Party member cadres in various regions adhere to promoting work through learning, solving the urgent and difficult problems of enterprises and the masses with heart and affection, and effectively transforming the results of study and education into the practical results of promoting high-quality development.
At the construction site of the Shandong Keyu Energy Co., Ltd. (山东科宇能源有限公司) project with an annual output of 300,000 tons of pre-baked anodes, the machinery roared and the construction was orderly. "At the beginning of the project, we were quite anxious about the approval. Unexpectedly, the relevant departments not only guided us to prepare the planning plan and construction drawings in advance, but also formed a 'mobile service hall' to send the approval service to the door of the enterprise." Xu Kaisi (徐凯思), the person in charge of the project, said with emotion.
In study and education, Yangxin County (阳信县) in Shandong Province (山东省) focused on the entire process of project signing, commencement, and construction, deeply corrected the problems of emphasizing form over substance, blindly pursuing quantity, and even falsely reporting and exaggerating problems and the performance view deviations behind them, and guided Party member cadres to solve problems and see the truth on the front line.
With a lighter burden, there is more enthusiasm for work.
"With this outdoor parking shed, it is much more convenient to park electric vehicles!" Residents of Fenghuang Chunxiao Garden Community (凤凰春晓花园小区) in Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇), Zhangjiagang City (张家港市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) praised repeatedly. Recently, town cadres went down to the community and organized several resident consultation meetings, and the problem of resident electric vehicle parking was solved.
Since the launch of study and education, Zhangjiagang City (张家港市) has taken correcting the hidden burdens at the grassroots level as a starting point, and in accordance with the principle of "setting up posts according to events, determining posts according to responsibilities, and matching people and posts," based on the list of job responsibilities, refined and formulated job responsibilities, compiled "job descriptions" for "one post, one book," and promoted more and more Party member cadres to enter residential communities, participate in volunteer services and community governance, and benefit the people with practical actions.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Wang Yunna (王云娜), Wang Mingfeng (王明峰), Fang Yuan (方圆), Li Rui (李蕊), Su Bin (苏滨), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋), Bai Guangdi (白光迪), Zheng Zhiwen (郑智文) of this newspaper)
By: 本报记者 方 敏
Longhu Financial Island (龙湖金融岛) in Zhengdong New District (郑东新区), Zhengzhou (郑州) City, Henan (河南) Province, is characterized by towering office buildings and thriving commerce. It requires cooling in the summer and heating in the winter, making each building a major consumer of electricity and energy. However, upon arriving on the island, one is struck by a peculiar sight: the absence of the iconic cooling towers and boilers typically associated with traditional central air conditioning systems. Where does the hot and cold air come from?
On Longhu Financial Island (龙湖金融岛), the reporter found the answer: here are 3 quietly operating energy stations, a stream of reclaimed water transformed into a "super air conditioner," for the island's 2.79 million square meters of buildings continuously sent to the winter warm and summer cool.
Walking into Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (中原环保股份有限公司), Liang Weigang (梁伟刚), the company's Party Committee Secretary and Chairman, introduced that the financial island has a large demand for energy supply and high standards. If traditional decentralized air conditioning is used, each individual building would have to be equipped with refrigeration rooms and cooling towers, which would not only affect the landscape and reduce energy efficiency, but also require huge investment and high operation and maintenance costs.
So, is there a solution that is both low-carbon and cost-effective, and can be integrated with the urban landscape? Zhongyuan Environmental Protection Co., Ltd. (中原环保股份有限公司) and Zhengzhou (郑州) Municipal Urban Management Bureau (郑州市城市管理局) found after research that Zhengzhou (郑州) produces a large amount of reclaimed water every year - taking Matougang Sewage Treatment Plant (马头岗污水处理厂) as an example, the daily domestic sewage of more than 1.8 million people in the surrounding 209 square kilometers, after physical sedimentation, microbial decomposition, activated coke adsorption and other processes, the main indicators can reach the Class III water body standard. This reclaimed water is not only clear and usable, but also has a long-neglected feature: the water temperature is stable throughout the year, about 15 degrees Celsius in winter and about 25 degrees Celsius in summer, and the flow is continuously reliable.
"Isn't this a ready-made source of cold and heat?" Liang Weigang (梁伟刚) suggested: using water source heat pump technology, "extract" heat from reclaimed water in winter and send it indoors, while in summer, "transfer" indoor heat to reclaimed water and take it away. The whole process consumes only a small amount of electricity, without combustion and without exhaust gas emissions.
Since 2019, Zhengzhou (郑州) has planned and built 3 energy stations in the underground space of Longhu Financial Island (龙湖金融岛), with a total heating capacity of over 200,000 kilowatts and a cooling capacity of nearly 58,000 cold tons. Through a ring network connected to the Matougang Sewage Treatment Plant (马头岗污水处理厂), reclaimed water is continuously sent to the island.
At Energy Station No. 1, Jin Guofeng (金国锋), an operator from Zhongyuan Environmental Protection (中原环保), showed reporters a set of data: "Compared with traditional decentralized energy supply, this model can save 70% of the air-conditioning power distribution capacity and 80% of the air-conditioning machine room area; for users on the island, it can save about 30% of the air-conditioning electricity bill in a summer."
More importantly, the environmental protection account. This system has an energy efficiency ratio of more than 30% higher than traditional air conditioners, and the entire financial island can reduce a large amount of carbon emissions every year. And such green energy projects are not limited to the financial island - in key areas such as subway stations, Zhengzhou (郑州) has cumulatively developed 3.75 million square meters of reclaimed water for cooling and heating, saving 32,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 81,000 tons per year.
After completing the heat exchange, this water is not discharged, but continues to flow to the Jinshui River (金水河), the Xionger River (熊耳河), and the Dongfeng Canal (东风渠), becoming a stable source of urban ecological water replenishment. Zhengzhou (郑州) has thus explored a "first energy extraction, then utilization, then landscape" cascade utilization model. By 2025, the cumulative supply of reclaimed water from each reclaimed water source plant in the central urban area of Zhengzhou (郑州) will exceed 60 million tons, realizing a "dual cycle" of water resources between production, life and natural ecology.
Return to TopBy: 李洪兴
Walking hand in hand allows us to go further; advancing with one heart and one mind allows us to reach new heights. To move towards a better future, all parties should not only avoid fighting on their own but also work together with a united front.
If a street has about 40,000 industrial workers and more than 2,200 farming households, far from large commercial districts, how should the spontaneous trading market that emerges be managed?
Allowing it to develop spontaneously can easily lead to disorganization, chaos, dirt, and inferiority; guiding it in an orderly manner can achieve mutual benefits for all parties. The "7080" Common Prosperity Market in Qianjiang District (钱塘区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, is a vibrant market that "grew" out of vacant land.
Why is it called "7080"? Because most of the initial stallholders were elderly people in their seventies and eighties, and most of the consumers were those born in the 1970s and 1980s. Nowadays, the groups setting up stalls and consuming are wider. For example, during the day, the fresh and cheap vegetables that workers buy are grown by grandmothers themselves; at night, some workers and their families become "small bosses" and set up night stalls; some college students also try to start businesses here. Some say this symbolizes a relay race about life and dreams.
A market brings together all kinds of people. In this kind of "common prosperity" narrative, there are figures of the old, middle-aged, and young people running their own races, and there is the cultivation of great hope in a small space. In the lively scene of day and night relay, there is a new flavor of development.
In the flavor of everyday life, there are tangible and perceptible development achievements, activating new momentum for the "grassroots economy."
What is valuable in the market is the flavor of everyday life. The Wulin Night Market (武林夜市) in Hangzhou connects formats such as intangible cultural heritage, traditional crafts, and handmade crafts, attracting nearly 100,000 visitors per day; on the streets of Shankou Town (山口镇), Xiushui County (修水县), Jiangxi (江西) Province, offline stalls and online live broadcasts are synchronized, and good products such as fresh chili sauce from the mountains bring good income to the masses. The small market not only maintains the original intention of benefiting the people and benefiting the people, but also connects with the needs of the masses to increase income, and builds a convenient sales channel for characteristic products.
In the market, market transactions and people's hearts are intertwined. This is an accurate grasp of "people's livelihood is no small matter" and a pragmatic practice of making development results more and more fairly benefit the people. Common prosperity is not an abstract concept, but a series of happy stories that are happening.
In the flavor of everyday life, there is an accelerated flow of resource elements, giving birth to a "1+1>2" new ecology.
Common prosperity is not a single-dimensional increase in income, but a common progress in material and spiritual aspects. Some places promote the flow of resource elements, connecting the ecological landscape and characteristic agricultural products of the countryside with the leisure consumption and creative operation of the city, and opening up industrial chains such as planting, breeding, processing, and cultural tourism; some places integrate old crafts such as tie-dyeing and lanterns into new scenes and give them new meanings. Through brand packaging and online and offline promotion, craftsmen can both "preserve their skills" and benefit.
By breaking down urban-rural barriers and industrial boundaries through integration, and by building a way of urban-rural mutual assistance, resource sharing, and value co-promotion, so that the masses can benefit more in terms of quality of life and spiritual culture, we can better stimulate the vitality of multi-party win-win and build a solid foundation for common prosperity.
In the flavor of everyday life, there is a resonance of development subjects, spreading out a new situation of co-construction, co-governance, and sharing.
Taking the "7080" Common Prosperity Market as an example, the location of the market was previously unattended. The street took the initiative to intervene and completed the construction from land consolidation, hardening and paving to water and electricity access; a professional operation team carried out investment promotion and management, and did a good job in business format planning; the surrounding farmers, workers, and young entrepreneurs found their own positions in the same space. The barren land has become hot land, and the partial brilliance is driving the overall improvement.
Walking hand in hand allows us to go further; advancing with one heart and one mind allows us to reach new heights. To move towards a better future, all parties should not only avoid fighting on their own but also work together with a united front. Coordinated development is the key to solving the problem of unbalanced development. When the goals are consistent and the actions are coordinated, the road to common prosperity can be taken more steadily and wider.
Looking at common prosperity from the Common Prosperity Market, we should adhere to the close combination of investing in things and investing in people. Investing in things is to consolidate the foundation of common prosperity, such as building exhibition and sales platforms and opening up logistics channels, so that agricultural products have sales channels and industries have support. Investing in people is to activate the momentum of common prosperity, such as carrying out skills training and improving farmers' business capabilities, so that people can actively expand their paths to prosperity. Investment in things builds a solid foundation for common prosperity, and investment in people injects living water into common prosperity. This is the simultaneous improvement of "blood-making" ability and innovative and creative vitality.
From the fields to the city streets, from offline stalls to cloud platforms, the Common Prosperity Market is full of vitality. If the flavor of everyday life is stronger, the flavor of integration is fuller, and the synergy is stronger, we can better maintain our original intention of serving the people, activate the momentum of development, and gather the strength to forge ahead, so that everyone can share the fruits of development in the prosperity of the market and move towards a common prosperous future together.
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We set off, we challenge, only because the flame in our hearts has never been extinguished, only because of the distant places we have never set foot on, only because life should shine brightly in breaking through limits.
42.195 kilometers is the distance of a marathon, and also a journey to challenge the limits. Recently, two world records have been broken one after another, which is inspiring.
In the 2026 London Marathon, Kenyan athlete Savy crossed the finish line with a time of 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds, and humans officially completed the marathon "sub-2" feat.
Just a week before, in the Beijing (北京) Yizhuang (亦庄) Humanoid Robot Half Marathon, the "Lightning" robot won the championship with a time of 50 minutes and 26 seconds, nearly 7 minutes faster than the human half marathon record.
One is the flesh and blood body crossing the physiological limit, and the other is the steel body stepping onto a new level. While cheering for this, people also have some doubts. What is the use of robots running so fast? With speed crushing, why do humans run?
In essence, this is not a speed competition between humans and machines, but a challenge to the limits that leads to the same goal by different routes.
Savy's breakthrough is a paean to human body and will. What does it mean to run a marathon in less than 2 hours? It is the "no compromise" of human body functions in the face of extreme challenges; it is the "no speed drop" of running more than 40 kilometers with an average time of only about 2 minutes and 50 seconds per kilometer; it is the "never give up" of standing up again after countless ascetic training cycles and fighting injuries... Running is not only a physical exercise, but also a spiritual tempering. The courage, resilience and willpower behind breaking through the limits are the most moving badges on the track.
This new record, which is 65 seconds faster than the previous one, powerfully proves that there is no end to human exploration of their own potential. As Savy said after the race, "Nothing is impossible, everything is possible." Never giving up and always moving forward are the beliefs that have pushed mankind to constantly expand the territory of possibilities, leaving "impossible" behind time and time again.
"Lightning's" surpassing the human half marathon world record is the crystallization of technological innovation and progress. Its "body" was forged by hundreds of R&D personnel with nearly a year of hard work; its "running" is supported by artificial intelligence, precision machinery, and system control. Although robots do not have cardiopulmonary limits and will not encounter a "wall," the difficulties that need to be overcome are equally arduous. How to ensure that it does not overheat? How to adapt to complex road surfaces? Can it recognize the road and not go far?
The robot half marathon is testing the comprehensive technical level under extreme conditions, and also testing human wisdom, human ability, and human creativity. In order to run faster, self-developed integrated joint modules; in order to reduce temperature, innovative application of liquid cooling technology; in order to run more stably, design a high-dynamic motion control system. From staggering last year to running like the wind today, what the robot needs to surpass is not human runners, but the existing technical level and scientific research level.
The two tracks have different logics and different paths, but they converge on the same spirit - the continuous challenge to the limits and the unremitting pursuit of better.
From the perspective of challenging the limits, robots have never been human competitors, but fellow travelers exploring side by side. Today, they can walk on flat ground in competitions, and tomorrow they can shuttle through fire scenes for rescue, flexibly inspect workshops, and carry out heavy-duty surveys in mountainous areas. The algorithms, materials, and energy technologies that are constantly improved due to running will eventually be implemented as the cornerstone of safeguarding safety and improving efficiency. Savy's "sub-2" this time also benefited from the ultra-light running shoes with core midsole materials provided by Chinese companies. Technological innovation has always been empowering and escorting human progress.
There is also no need to worry about the meaning of sports being diminished. From "Deep Blue" defeating the chess champion to "AlphaGo" repeatedly defeating Go masters, technological leaps have never shaken the true nature of sports, but have allowed us to re-examine and define our own values. That indomitable spirit, the desire to create, and the instinct to move upward are even more precious.
Perhaps in the near future, robots will also break the human full marathon world record. When the speed competition between humans and machines loses suspense, the meaning of running will become more pure. We set off, we challenge, only because the flame in our hearts has never been extinguished, only because of the distant places we have never set foot on, only because life should shine brightly in breaking through limits.
Opening up new realms in constant challenges is the common background color of strivers. Whether it is a competitive track or a life arena, there is an answer if you run bravely and fearlessly, and a badge if you run to challenge the limits.
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"We can't be careless, if we mess up, people might go hungry." Although this is a playful joke among colleagues, those who stand in this field know the weight of it. Today, the Chinese people can eat their fill, thanks in no small part to hybrid rice. Shidian County (施甸县), Yunnan Province (云南省) where I am located, is known as the "Hometown of Rice Mothers." The rice seeds cultivated here are the "chips" of grain, guaranteeing more than 80% of the "two-line hybrid rice" seed parent seeds nationwide every year. As a grassroots agricultural technician, I deeply feel the immense responsibility of the four words "food security."
I am the son of a farmer and deeply understand the hardship of farming. When I was young, I was determined to change the status quo and strengthen local agriculture. When I took the college entrance exam, many people wanted to "jump out of the farm gate," but I chose agronomy. It was both the sincerity towards the land in my bones and the development of the times that allowed me to witness and participate in the process of this small county growing into a "seed industry highland."
I still remember that Academician Yuan Longping's (袁隆平) team developed "two-line hybrid rice" and urgently needed to propagate rice two-use nuclear sterile lines as parent plants for large-scale promotion and planting. In 2009, Professor Chen Liyun (陈立云) of Hunan Agricultural University (湖南农业大学), in order to solve the problem of seed propagation, used a computer to analyze 50 years of meteorological data from 740 meteorological stations across the country and finally selected our area. Shidian County (施甸县) has a suitable summer temperature and short sunshine hours, becoming a pilot site as its name suggests. At that time, I was sent to assist in the work, and this road accompanied by "rice" began.
The value of a piece of land depends not only on its natural endowment but also on people's practical work and responsibility. Professor Chen (陈教授) gave me a solid lesson on the first day he arrived. On the way to welcome him, I was still drumming in my heart, wondering if I could chat with such a great expert. Unexpectedly, as soon as we met, he went straight to the field, took off his leather shoes, rolled up his trouser legs, and went down to the field, observing until it was dark before coming up. I was both in awe and moved, and truly understood what it means to "write the thesis on the land." Since then, I have plunged into the field with the experts, learning and planting all the way, and becoming "old acquaintances" with the seeds through hard work. With a group of "crop doctors," the potential of this treasure land has gradually been tapped.
In Shidian County (施甸县) today, breaking the record for yield per mu has become a common occurrence. Behind the bright data is the continuous hard work of the scientific research team, making the seeds stronger from generation to generation; it is also inseparable from the precise connection of our agricultural technicians, opening up the "last mile" for the landing of fine seeds.
Seed breeding tests "foot strength." The parent seeds are very delicate. Once the temperature is wrong before heading, or there is an error in management, the seeds can only be converted into commercial grain, which damages the income of farmers and affects the national seed use. In order to keep a close eye on every link, I spend nearly 300 days a year rooted in the fields. From sowing and transplanting to fertilizing and spraying, and then to harvesting and warehousing, my colleagues and I try our best to run to, see, and guide. To ensure clean weeding, we walk each field at least 5 times. From "research" to "planting," it is precisely with everyone's awe and duty to the land that Shidian County (施甸县) propagates millions of pounds of seeds every year.
Seed breeding requires even more "brainpower." There are many links and high requirements in the seed production process, and the "temper" of the rainy season in Yunnan (云南) is unpredictable, and seeds are often damp and moldy during the drying period. Professional dryers are expensive, and not every household can afford them. What to do if there are no conditions? Then, grab all the resources at hand and keep trying. As a result, a local method was really forced out. I used facilities such as boilers, fans, and intelligent temperature controllers to design a simple baking oven, which won a national utility model patent. This kind of furnace can bake more than 10,000 pounds of seeds in one go. When you encounter problems, don't just think about bypassing or ignoring them. Study more, work hard, and compete head-on. Maybe you can come up with new ideas.
Cultivating for more than ten years, stepping in the mud, my heart is at ease. In recent years, what has excited me the most is that I have had the opportunity to meet Academician Yuan Longping (袁隆平) face-to-face three times to talk about the breeding practice of rice in Shidian County (施甸县). After listening to a report once, Academician Yuan (袁老) personally wrote "Yunnan Shidian (云南施甸) · China's Best Hybrid Rice Breeding Base (中国杂交水稻最佳繁育基地)," which greatly encouraged us. "Let everyone in the world have enough to eat." This cause is not easy, but I firmly believe that I will love it for the rest of my life.
(The author is the second "Most Beautiful Agricultural Technician" in the country and an agricultural technology promotion researcher in Shuichang Township (水长乡), Shidian County (施甸县), Baoshan City (保山市), Yunnan Province (云南省). This article was compiled by Zhang Chi (张驰), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopCentral Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection is a crucial and effective measure to promote the implementation of ecological and environmental protection responsibilities by local Party committees and governments and their relevant departments. Recently, with the approval of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, the sixth batch of the third round of central ecological and environmental protection inspections has been fully launched. Seven central ecological and environmental protection inspection teams have been formed to conduct inspections in Liaoning (辽宁), Jilin (吉林), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), Tibet (西藏), Xinjiang (新疆) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团).
This is precisely:
The inspection wields a sharp sword,
Clearing the source to protect the blue sky.
Taking real action to remove chronic diseases,
Mountains and rivers take on a new look.
Yang Yuwen (杨羽文)
Return to TopBy: 刘根生
"This is what our laboratory is working hard on." Not long ago, Academician Yan Ning (颜宁) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) responded to the misinterpretations and criticisms such as "returning to China is a last resort" with her latest research results in the field of glycoscience structural biology. This achievement enables glycoscience research to move from "inference" to "seeing," which can improve the targeting of drug research and development. Describing the working state with "working hard," it not only has the effect of "facts speak louder than words," but also vividly presents the best way to do scientific research.
"Working hard" is the sound of breathing when working, which sounds heavy and powerful because it is holding back; it sounds rough and rhythmic because it is exerting effort; it sounds thick and firm because it is not letting up. Although scientific research is more of a mental activity, the hard work, concentration, and perseverance required are often the same as doing manual labor. For example, scientific research is "long-term accumulation, occasional gain," and accumulation is the norm, so it is most necessary to work hard; scientific research is "honest learning," and there is no shortcut to verification, so the whole process must be done with effort; scientific research is like facing the wall for ten years to break through, failure is the norm, and success is occasional, so the initial enthusiasm must be continued to the end. Whoever can continue to "work hard" is likely to "have the last laugh."
On the other hand, some other ways of doing scientific research have been repeatedly criticized. One is "emphasizing project approval, neglecting research," going all out in the application stage, and once the project is approved, it is considered a "great success," treating "having said" as "having done." The second is "following-style research," being content with "following behind" and lacking "self-assertion." The third is creating "artificial flowers," whose research process is not to discover new knowledge, but to "write papers for the sake of papers," which is not helpful in solving real problems. Such methods may also be tiring, but they do not produce tangible results, but instead turn scientific research into a futile effort.
Yan Ning (颜宁) said: "Others may find doing experiments boring, but I enjoy it, and I want to 'make research truly benefit people's life and health.'" This once again shows that once "I" is integrated into "we," and personal pursuits and aspirations guide the direction of behavior, "working hard" will become "happy persistence." Nowadays, the incentive evaluation mechanism is shifting from "more work, more gain" to "better work, better gain," and emphasizing actual results, looking at contributions, and strengthening transformation have become the norm. Allowing the vast number of workers who do practical work and make conscientious efforts to have gains and be respected will surely better stimulate the whole society's innovation and creativity, and achieve more innovative results and development achievements.
(Excerpted from *Xinhua Daily* (新华日报), original title: "'Working Hard' is the Best Way to Do Things")
Return to TopBy: 谷业凯
[Phenomenon] Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) released the "Xiangshan" (香山) open-source computing system and the "Ruyi" (如意) native operating system. These two systems are based on the fifth-generation reduced instruction set RISC-V, realizing "full open source" from the core processor core to the supporting interconnection network and development tools, becoming an important step for China to establish itself in the chip field based on the open-source ecosystem and strive to "**换道超车**" (huàn dào chāo chē - "change lanes to overtake," to take a different approach to surpass others).
[Commentary]
Speaking of "**换道超车**" (huàn dào chāo chē - "change lanes to overtake," to take a different approach to surpass others), the case of China's (中国) new energy vehicle industry development is very typical. How should we understand "**换道超车**" (huàn dào chāo chē - "change lanes to overtake," to take a different approach to surpass others) in the chip field? It may be necessary to start with different path choices—instruction sets.
An instruction set is the set of all instructions that a CPU (Central Processing Unit) can understand and execute, which can be understood as a set of rules for "communication" between computer or mobile phone software and hardware. Similar to "grammar," with this set of rules, the software can "clearly state" the instructions, and the hardware can "understand" the instructions, so that the two can work together.
Different "grammars" determine the differences in the software and hardware ecosystems they carry. The Wintel ecosystem formed by the x86 instruction set and the Windows operating system, and the AA ecosystem formed by the ARM instruction set and the Android (安卓) operating system, are technical systems based on instruction sets. The two have formed a large advantage in personal computers and mobile terminals, respectively.
Why did "Xiangshan" (香山) and "Ruyi" (如意) choose the RISC-V instruction set?
One practical consideration is that some instruction sets have built solid ecological barriers with the help of tens of thousands of software programs and hundreds of millions of devices, which not only charge high licensing fees but also make it difficult for latecomers to get involved and are restricted everywhere.
As a new reduced instruction set architecture, RISC-V also has outstanding advantages. Open source and open, it can be used and modified freely, which can significantly reduce the threshold and innovation cost of chip design. Flexible and efficient, it means that it can be widely adapted to different scenarios such as mobile phones, the Internet of Things, and high-end servers. More importantly, it does not belong to any company or institution, but is jointly maintained and iterated by global developers.
Based on the RISC-V architecture, "Xiangshan" (香山) has reached the world's leading level in performance. Developers can use this "design blueprint" to design and manufacture high-performance chips, which can not only save licensing and royalty fees, but also do not have to worry about being "**卡脖子**" (qiǎ bó zi - "stuck by the neck," to be held back or constrained). "Ruyi" (如意) is an operating system tailored for these chips, which helps to solve the problem of software and hardware adaptation from the source. With the release of "Xiangshan" (香山) and "Ruyi" (如意), two major open-source root communities have also taken shape, making China (中国) an active builder and key contributor to the global RISC-V ecosystem.
Building a house on someone else's foundation, no matter how big or beautiful it is, may not be able to withstand wind and rain. This year's "Government Work Report" (《政府工作报告》) proposed that "new breakthroughs have been made in independent research and development of chips." The advent of "Xiangshan" (香山) and "Ruyi" (如意) relies on independent innovation and self-reliance. Getting rid of traditional path dependence, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) and other units organized and carried out RISC-V technology research, and supported researchers to dare to break through and try bravely when the prospects were not clear. This courage and perseverance are the key to the project's achieving phased breakthroughs.
Fighting a tough battle in core technology research and development requires both a "charge call" and a "rallying call." The development of instruction sets cannot be separated from ecological construction. The more developers, the richer the products, the wider the applications, and the more mature the community, the more solid the foundation for the success of the instruction set. China (中国) established the Open Instruction Ecology Alliance (开放指令生态联盟), the RISC-V Industry Alliance (RISC-V产业联盟), and other organizations many years ago. "Xiangshan" (香山) and "Ruyi" (如意) have gathered a large number of industry, academia, research, and application units. To solve the problems of enterprise fragmentation, fighting on their own, and ecological fragmentation, and to fully promote the integration of core technology research, innovation chain, industrial chain, and talent chain, domestic chips can accelerate the arrival of the singularity moment in the industry.
It is easy to change lanes, but difficult to overtake. From "usable" to "easy to use" to "everyone can use," chip research and development and ecosystem construction are arduous expeditions. Breaking through new technologies, seizing new opportunities, bravely entering new tracks, and stimulating new momentum will surely firmly grasp the initiative of development in our own hands.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健
At 9:00 AM on May 3rd, at a depth of 75 meters in the waters of the Yangtze River estuary, the "Jianghai (江海号)" shield tunneling machine successfully completed its 5316-meter excavation task, marking the arrival of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel project at the lowest point under the riverbed.
Descending from the construction shaft on the riverbank, reporters delved into the brightly lit tunnel construction site. The sound of the waves on the river gradually faded away, leaving only the low rumble of the domestically produced super-large diameter shield tunneling machine "Jianghai (江海号)" echoing continuously.
Overhead were tens of meters of river water and riverbed, and ahead was a silty clay stratum as soft as tofu. The "Jianghai (江海号)," 150 meters long, five stories high, and weighing 5,000 tons, resembled a long dragon, tasked with completing an ultra-long single-drive excavation of 9315 meters under the riverbed. Since construction began, the project team has successively overcome challenges such as ultra-high water pressure and the construction of super-large diameter shield tunnels in soft soil strata. Now, this steel dragon is steadily excavating deep beneath the Yangtze River (长江) riverbed at an average speed of 16 meters per day and 480 meters per month.
Excavating in "silty tofu" is as difficult as precisely drilling holes in tofu.
On May 3rd, the "Jianghai (江海号)" faced a crucial "major test" during its river crossing: reaching the lowest point of the tunnel's entire riverbed section. This point is 75 meters vertically below the Yangtze River (长江) surface, making it the "throat section" with the highest water pressure, the most complex geological conditions, and the greatest construction risks along the entire line.
"It's like diving to the extreme depth underwater, taking each step with extreme caution," said Meng Defeng (孟德锋), shield manager of the China Railway 14th Bureau (中铁十四局) Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel project. To successfully overcome this hurdle, the engineering team spent two days at the end of April giving this "steel behemoth" a thorough "physical examination."
In the shield machine's operating room, Meng Defeng (孟德锋) carefully reviewed a checklist of over 50 pages. From the remaining wear of the cutting blades to the operating status of the main bearing, and the pressure of the propulsion cylinders to the sealing performance of the slurry inlet and outlet pipes, more than 1,000 inspection items were checked inside and out, leaving no detail overlooked.
After confirming that the entire machine was in good condition and without any abnormalities, the technicians immediately began discussing technical parameters. Construction drawings were repeatedly marked on the conference table, and the parameters for each ring of excavation were carefully calculated.
The riverbed strata traversed by the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel (海太长江隧道) consist of silt and silty clay, silty sand, and gravelly medium-coarse sand strata with high water content, high compressibility, and low strength. For the "Jianghai (江海号)" to excavate in such strata is as difficult as precisely drilling holes in tofu, while ensuring that the tofu does not break, scatter, or deform.
"Surface subsidence must be firmly controlled at the millimeter level," said Xu Xingju (徐兴居), director of the laboratory of the China Railway 14th Bureau (中铁十四局) Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel project department. In this type of soft soil stratum, an annular gap forms between the segments and the soil when the shield machine excavates forward. If this gap is not filled in a timely and dense manner, the surrounding soil will quickly deform and subside, directly threatening the safety of the tunnel structure.
Inside the shield machine, rows of black high-pressure grouting pipes are neatly arranged, extending along the shield tail towards the outer wall of the tunnel. "Don't underestimate these pipes; they are the stabilizing pins for the 'tofu stratum'," Xu Xingju (徐兴居) said, pointing to the grouting pipes. In the past, shield construction generally used single-liquid cement slurry, which took more than ten hours to initially set and harden. During the hardening process, uncontrollable subsidence of the soft soil stratum would occur. To solve this problem, the team independently developed the fourth-generation synchronous double-liquid grouting technology after hundreds of trials. A specially formulated A-liquid cement-based material and a B-liquid water glass material are synchronously transported through dedicated pipelines and precisely mixed at the grouting port, gelling in just a few seconds.
"As soon as the two slurries are injected, they immediately form rigid support, which is equivalent to instantly driving 'reinforcement nails' into the stratum, minimizing disturbance to the soil," Xu Xingju (徐兴居) said. With this innovative technology, the team has controlled surface subsidence within 3 millimeters, setting an industry record for subsidence control in soft soil strata for super-large diameter shield tunnels.
Excavating in the ultra-high water pressure environment at the bottom of the river, in addition to subsidence control, there is another unavoidable technical problem: cutter replacement. The "Jianghai (江海号)" needs to excavate 9315 meters in a single drive. During long-distance construction, the blades must be replaced in a timely manner when they wear to a certain extent.
"In the past, cutter replacement was our biggest headache," Meng Defeng (孟德锋) said. The soil chamber in front of the cutterhead must maintain a balance pressure of 7.5 bar to prevent soil collapse. This pressure is equivalent to a person diving to a depth of 75 meters underwater, which ordinary people cannot withstand. Only professionally trained divers can enter the chamber to work, and each cutter replacement costs tens of thousands of yuan, with extremely high safety risks.
To overcome this problem, the "Jianghai (江海号)" team, in conjunction with the shield machine equipment manufacturer, spent more than two years of technical research to develop a new type of normal-pressure cutter replacement system. "Now, cutter replacement is as safe as changing a pen refill," Meng Defeng (孟德锋) said with a smile. Workers can simply extract the worn blades and close the corresponding gate in a normal-pressure environment, without causing soil chamber depressurization, avoiding safety risks, and improving efficiency.
Precast components weighing more than 10 or even dozens of tons are precisely engaged and interlocked ring by ring in the hands of the builders.
Inside the tunnel under the riverbed, a highly precise "building block assembly" is underway.
Precast components weighing more than 10 or even dozens of tons are precisely engaged and interlocked ring by ring in the hands of the builders. Multiple arc-shaped segments are spliced into rings, and the rings are tightly connected, gradually extending into an underground passage connecting the Yangtze River (长江).
Wu Junjie (吴俊杰), who has seven years of experience in segment assembly, is a segment assembler for the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel (海太长江隧道) project. His operating "tool" is a remote control worn on his back. The small panel has sensitive joysticks and dozens of function buttons. Each press can precisely control the lifting, rotation, and positioning of the cranes.
Wu Junjie (吴俊杰) introduced that, unlike previous shield tunnel construction, the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel (海太长江隧道) is the first in China to achieve integrated synchronous prefabrication and assembly of intermediate box culverts and side box culverts. A single precast box culvert weighs more than 40 tons, and the largest block is 13.5 meters long. To ensure that such a "large block" precisely matches the tunnel body, the installation error must be controlled within millimeters, which is far from enough relying solely on the operator's experience.
"There is also a good helper under the box culvert," Wu Junjie (吴俊杰) said, pointing to the bottom of the shield machine. The helper he mentioned is a small box culvert assembly fine-tuning robot. While the manual initial positioning of the box culvert is being completed, the assembly robot has started working in the gap between the shield machine body and the segments. Through real-time calibration and precise fine-tuning by micrometer-level sensors, the installation error of the box culvert is firmly controlled within the design range.
Building an underwater passage with "building blocks" at the bottom of the river dozens of meters deep places extremely high demands on the quality of the "building blocks" themselves. Walking into the project department's testing laboratory, blocks of concrete test pieces, the size of bricks, that have undergone 24 hours of standard curing are undergoing rigorous "extreme testing." They must not only withstand an ultra-high pressure of 42.5 MPa but also pass strict flexural performance tests. Only when each index meets and exceeds the design standards can they obtain an entry "pass."
Leaving the laboratory, the reporter came to the nearby precast component production workshop. In the fully enclosed central control room, the staff lightly tap the screen to set the parameters, and the intelligent mechanical arm precisely dances, evenly injecting the proportioned high-performance concrete slurry into the customized steel mold.
The cast box culvert components are then sent to a closed room for 6 hours of steam curing and shaping. After leaving the production line, each precast box culvert will be "dressed" in a special protective clothing for insulation and moisture retention and carefully cured for 28 days. Only after all performance indicators meet the standards can they be sent to the underwater operation site.
At the bottom of the river 75 meters deep, the complex conditions of ultra-high water pressure and soft soil strata place extremely high demands on the integrity, rigidity, and waterproof performance of the tunnel structure. Each ring of the tunnel structure must withstand water and soil pressure far exceeding conventional conditions. "To make the segments weighing more than ten tons tightly engage with each other to form sufficient support, breakthroughs must be achieved in connection technology," said You Shaoqiang (游少强), chief engineer of the China Railway 14th Bureau (中铁十四局) Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel (海太长江隧道) project.
To this end, the project technical team conducted repeated experiments and explorations, and finally broke through conventional thinking to innovate and develop a new type of connection structure. This new connection system greatly improves the overall structural rigidity, waterproof performance, and deformation resistance of the tunnel through a unique meshing structure, solving the problem of excessive deformation that is prone to occur in large-section shield tunnels in soft soil strata.
Equipping the shield machine with a flexible "body" and a thinking "brain."
Standing in the main control room of the "Jianghai (江海号)" shield machine, the screen displays real-time parameters such as cutterhead speed, propulsion pressure, slurry circulation, and equipment status, and red and yellow indicator lights are constantly flashing. It is hard to imagine that the daily excavation operation of this "big guy," 150 meters long, weighing more than 5,000 tons, and with an excavation diameter of 16.64 meters, can be completed by only two technicians.
"In the past, operating a shield machine relied on experience and feel, but now it relies on data and intelligent systems," said Zhang Siyu (张思宇), captain of the "Jianghai (江海号)" shield machine.
The "Jianghai (江海号)" is equipped with tens of thousands of parts, covering dozens of core systems such as cutterhead, main drive, grouting, assembly, and hoisting. The tens of thousands of intelligent sensors throughout the machine, like a neural network, give this steel behemoth the ability to "sense the whole body." The torque speed of the cutterhead, the temperature and vibration parameters of the main bearing, the pressure and flow of the grouting system, the stroke of the propulsion cylinder... Each ring of excavation generates massive amounts of real-time data, all of which are aggregated into the shield machine's intelligent management and control platform to achieve digital management and control of the entire process and all elements.
If intelligent sensing and automated operation can give the "Jianghai (江海号)" a flexible "body," then the "Deep and Far Model" independently developed by the project team gives it a thinking "brain."
Meng Defeng (孟德锋) introduced that the "Deep and Far Model" integrates the massive data resources of China Railway 14th Bureau's (中铁十四局) 20 years of large shield construction, as well as more than 800,000 academic papers and field monographs related to shield construction, to build a common knowledge graph system in the field of shield construction.
"In the past, when encountering complex strata or emergencies, we could only quickly call experts and look up past cases. Now it's different. The large model has massive engineering data. When encountering problems, it can immediately provide analysis results and help with construction decisions," Zhang Siyu (张思宇) said. Not long ago, when the shield machine was traversing loose strata, the large model analyzed historical cases and adjusted the excavation parameters and grouting plan in advance, and finally successfully passed through the strata.
As night falls, the sound of ship horns on the river gradually becomes sparse, but the depths of the Haitai Tunnel (海太隧道) are still brightly lit and the machinery is roaring. After successfully crossing the lowest point, the "Jianghai (江海号)" shield machine will complete a key attitude conversion, from "diving down" to "raising its head uphill," entering a new stage of excavation.
Extended Reading
The Four Challenges of the Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel Construction
The Haitai Yangtze River Tunnel (海太长江隧道) project is located in the Yangtze River (长江) estuary area of Jiangsu Province (江苏省). It is 39.07 kilometers long, starting from Haimen District (海门区), Nantong (南通) in the north and ending in Taicang City (太仓市), Suzhou (苏州) in the south. The river-crossing tunnel is 11.185 kilometers long and adopts a two-way six-lane highway design standard with a design speed of 100 kilometers per hour. It is constructed using a combination of cut-and-cover and shield methods, with an excavation diameter of 16.64 meters, making it the largest diameter Yangtze River (长江) tunnel in China. The project is constructed by the Jiangsu Provincial Transportation Engineering Construction Bureau (江苏省交通工程建设局), designed by TieSiYuan (铁四院), and constructed by China Railway 14th Bureau (中铁十四局) and other units.
The tunnel construction faces four challenges: ultra-long distance, ultra-large diameter, ultra-high water pressure, and ultra-deep burial depth: "Long" means that the river-crossing tunnel is ultra-long, with a total length of 11.185 kilometers and a shield section of over 9 kilometers; "Large" means that the tunnel section diameter is ultra-large, and the highway design standard adopted by the tunnel is higher than the standards for urban trunk roads or other river-crossing passages; "High" means ultra-high water pressure, and the maximum water pressure borne by the construction equipment reaches 7.5 bar, which is equivalent to a pressure of 7.5 kilograms on an area the size of a fingernail; "Deep" means deep overburden, and the maximum overburden depth of the tunnel in the river section is 41 meters.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 13th (Reporter: Jiang Jie (姜洁)) On May 12th, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) held a popular science lecture in Beijing (北京). Wen Shaoqing (文少卿), Associate Professor of the Institute of Scientific Archaeology and Technology, Fudan University (复旦大学) and Director of the National Development and Intelligent Governance Comprehensive Laboratory (国家发展与智能治理综合实验室), was invited to give a report entitled "The Spirit of Heroes and Martyrs from the Perspective of Scientific Archaeology." Shen Yueyue (沈跃跃), Vice Chairperson of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协), attended.
Combining specific cases such as the establishment of a national hero and martyr DNA database, Wen Shaoqing (文少卿) systematically introduced the innovative applications and practical achievements of scientific archaeology in the fields of identification of martyrs' remains, tracing of identities, and craniofacial reconstruction. He shared the team's exploration process of reconstructing the heroic lives of unknown martyrs from the genetic code of the remains, paying tribute to heroes in a scientific way, decoding the spirit with technical means, and looking forward to the development prospects of molecular archaeology, and interacted with the audience.
Carrying out this activity is a practical action of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协) to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition on doing a good job in popular science work. It aims to give play to the professional advantages of CPPCC members and experts and scholars, popularize scientific knowledge, advocate scientific methods, disseminate scientific ideas, and promote the spirit of science, so as to contribute to promoting economic development and social progress, and forming a social atmosphere of loving science and respecting science.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 程远州
As dusk fell, the lights in Baimagang Community of Tianfu Community, Yuancun Street, Tianhe District, Guangzhou (广州天河区员村街道天福社区白马岗小区), Guangdong (广东), gradually lit up. The aroma of cooking oil mingled with other scents, drifting through the narrow streets. Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) had just set up his fried chicken stall when regular customers gathered around. Amidst laughter, golden-brown chicken wings, popcorn chicken, and Chaozhou (潮汕) dried tofu were successively taken out of the fryer.
"Xiao Guo (小郭) is now a hero in our area!" Seeing the reporter's interview, Guo Qingying (郭清莹), a resident of the community, hurried forward to introduce him. Not long ago, the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委) released the first quarter "List of Heroes of Justice and Courage" for 2026, and Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕), a young man born after 2000, was on the list.
It was around 7:40 PM on December 24th last year when someone in the community shouted, "A child is stuck outside the window!"
Following the shouts, Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) looked up and saw a boy's head stuck in the security bars of a bay window on the fourth floor of a residential building. His body was suspended in mid-air, his legs kicking helplessly, accompanied by cries. Residents quickly gathered below, everyone's heart in their throat.
Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) quickly dialed the police, but the narrow roads of the old community made it difficult for rescue vehicles to enter. Moreover, waiting for rescue might be too late for the child.
The child's cries were weakening. "We can't wait any longer!" Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) quickly observed the building structure: the outer wall was equipped with old-fashioned security bars, each grid providing a foothold, and there were also air conditioner outdoor units to step on.
Without hesitation, Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) rushed out of the crowd, climbed onto a garbage station on the first floor, and then grabbed the security bars on the outer wall, climbing up in a zigzag pattern. The security bars were rusty, and when his fingers dug into the mesh, powder fell in a rustle.
Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) calmed down and cautiously climbed upward step by step, one floor, two floors, three floors... Below, everyone was silent, looking up at him climbing, holding their breath.
The most difficult part was the corner on the fourth floor. Two walls formed a 90-degree angle, with a gap of about 80 centimeters, requiring him to gather strength and leap across. Below was a height of more than 10 meters, and there was only one point of support for his hands. Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) took a deep breath, exerted force suddenly, his body swung, and he steadily crossed to the opposite side.
Without safety ropes or protective mats, everything relied on his skill and courage. Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) used to be a professional football player, playing for the Meizhou Hakka (梅州客家队) youth team, and later studied at Guangdong Sport Vocational and Technical College (广东体育职业技术学院). His excellent physical fitness came in handy at this moment of saving lives.
While Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) was climbing the building selflessly, Lei Jiayi (雷家奕), a doctor at the First Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University (暨南大学附属第一医院) and a resident of the community, and Huang Yefan (黄业帆), who runs an e-commerce business in Guangzhou (广州), also took action. The two rushed to the second-floor platform, tore open a quilt, and created a simple "life safety net" for Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) and the child in distress, to prevent accidents.
Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) finally climbed to the child's side and gently comforted him, "Don't be afraid, uncle is here to save you." He held the child's body steady with one hand and slowly adjusted the angle with the other, pushing him little by little towards the inside. Finally, the child returned to the balcony, safe and sound.
Applause thundered below. Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) slowly came down along the security bars, his palms and arms already scratched with deep bloody marks.
"These three young people are ordinary heroes around us," said Cai Yan (蔡燕), Secretary of the Party General Branch and Director of the Neighborhood Committee of Tianfu Community (天福社区党总支书记、居委会主任). Faced with praise, Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) smiled shyly. Someone asked him if he was afraid, and he replied frankly, "I was a little scared afterward, but at that time, the child could have fallen down at any time, where was there time to be afraid?"
After seeing the video of the rescue online, Guo Yingxin's (郭颖昕) fiancée was both proud and distressed. "This is not a momentary impulse. Although saving people has risks, it is worth doing," said Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕).
In the eyes of his neighbors, Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) has always been happy to help others. In the "Fu Ji Chaozhou Chicken Wings (芙记潮汕鸡翅)" WeChat group he created, 189 neighbors have already joined, and the marketing group has become a mutual aid group. "If any family has a difficult problem, they can mention it in the group, and neighbors will come forward to lend a hand," said Guo Qingying (郭清莹). After this incident, Luo Bin (罗斌), a regular customer of the fried chicken stall, came even more frequently: "Xiao Guo (小郭) is diligent and kind, and we are assured of eating what he makes."
After saving the child, Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕) remained low-key and diligent. "Saving people is an instinct, not for winning awards. A happy life still needs to be built up bit by bit," said Guo Yingxin (郭颖昕).
Chi Xian (池贤), Chairman of the Guangzhou Foundation for Justice and Courage (广州市见义勇为基金会理事长), introduced that in recent years, a social atmosphere of advocating justice and courage is forming in Guangzhou (广州), and a large number of ordinary good deeds have emerged, with people stepping forward in sudden scenarios such as life rescue and emergency response. Among them are a seventy-year-old man who jumped into the river to save a drowning woman, a retired soldier who fearlessly performed CPR on a person with sudden cardiac arrest, and a hospital employee who bravely put out a fire in a waste station at a critical moment. In 2025 alone, 209 people who acted righteously and courageously received condolences and rewards from the foundation.
Return to TopYinchuan (银川), May 13th (Reported by Jiao Siyu (焦思雨) of this newspaper) - Recently, the reporter learned from the Water Resources Department of the Autonomous Region that since 2017, Ningxia (宁夏) has continuously promoted the comprehensive management of groundwater over-extraction areas, and has cumulatively reduced groundwater over-extraction by 76.53 million cubic meters. The number of over-extraction areas has decreased from 7 to 3, the area has been reduced to 518 square kilometers, the groundwater level has stopped declining and rebounded, and the groundwater ecological environment has continued to improve.
Ningxia (宁夏) thoroughly implements the principle of "**四水四定**" (sì shuǐ sì dìng - "four waters determine four things," determining development based on water resources), strengthens the rigid constraints of water resources, adheres to legislation first, and has successively issued regulations and systems such as the implementation measures for the administration of water abstraction permits and water resources fee collection, the regulations on water resources management, and the interim measures for the administration of water resources tax collection, gradually establishing a groundwater supervision system. A classified and zoned differentiated water resources tax collection system is implemented, and water resources tax is levied at double the rate for behaviors that exceed the planned abstraction of groundwater. Since the "14th Five-Year Plan," the amount of groundwater abstraction in the region has steadily decreased, from 614 million cubic meters in 2020 to 443 million cubic meters in 2025, and has continued to be controlled within the national allocation target.
Ningxia (宁夏) issued a groundwater control target plan, delineated 39 groundwater management units, and clarified the total amount of groundwater abstraction and water level control targets for various regions and industries. Strict management of groundwater abstraction permits is implemented, and the approval of new construction projects that newly abstract groundwater in areas that have reached or exceeded the control targets is suspended. A groundwater level early warning system has been established, and quarterly reports and early warnings are issued on the changes in groundwater levels and the total amount of water abstraction in various cities and counties. In addition, Ningxia (宁夏) has improved the groundwater level monitoring station network, developed a digital groundwater supervision platform, with 1,024 groundwater level monitoring stations and 4,042 online monitoring and metering facilities for groundwater abstraction, and the monitoring and metering rate of groundwater exploitation has reached more than 90%. A sound cooperation mechanism of "River Chief (河长) + Police Chief (警长) + Procurator-General (检察长)" has been established, the strictest water resources management assessment system has been thoroughly implemented, and the assessment results have been included in the autonomous region's performance assessment.
Return to TopOn May 13th, Zigui County (秭归县), Yichang City (宜昌市), Hubei Province (湖北省), workers are sorting navel oranges in a workshop of a fruit company. In recent years, Zigui County (秭归县) has sold Zigui navel oranges far and wide, both online and offline, boosting farmers' income.
Photo by Zhou Shiwei (周仕伟) (People's Vision)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尚嵘峥 窦 皓 李俊杰
Al'ershan Village (阿尔善村), Narat Town (那拉提镇), Xinyuan County (新源县), Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture (伊犁哈萨克自治州), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), is surrounded by mountains on three sides and is geographically remote.
The child of villager Jiarken Gu·Mainamubayi (加尔肯古·买那木巴依) had a fever, so she took the child to the village clinic to see the village doctor Amanguli·Dawuletihan (阿曼古丽·达吾列提汗).
"How long has the fever been going on? Let's take a temperature first." Amanguli took a non-contact infrared thermometer from the general practitioner's auxiliary diagnosis package and aimed it at the child's forehead—the temperature exceeded 38 degrees Celsius. On the tablet next to her, the system automatically synchronized the data to the child's electronic medical record file.
"The auxiliary diagnosis package is like a 'walking hospital'. It can measure blood pressure, perform electrocardiograms, do blood tests, and urine tests. If we encounter diseases that are difficult to diagnose, AI (artificial intelligence) can assist in the diagnosis, and we can also ask doctors from top Beijing (北京) hospitals for online consultations," said Amanguli.
Primary healthcare institutions are the "nerve endings" of China's medical and health service system and the first line of defense for safeguarding people's health. Recently, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine (国家中医药局) jointly issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Improving the Quality of Medical Care in Primary Healthcare Institutions (2026-2028)," proposing that by the end of 2028, the standardization of medical services in primary healthcare institutions nationwide will be significantly improved, and the quality of medical care will be significantly improved. The latest data shows that China has selected and built 12 national comprehensive pilot zones for primary health and health, and has guided and promoted 186 provincial-level comprehensive pilot zones for primary health and health in 20 provinces. What effective paths have been explored in various places? The reporter conducted an investigation.
Technology empowers and enhances the ability of primary care to receive patients.
Among the nearly 1,000 households in Al'ershan Village (阿尔善村), about 60% make a living by herding. The villagers live scattered, and more than 300 patients with chronic diseases need regular follow-up visits, so Amanguli has to travel by motorcycle or horse.
Every June, herders move to alpine summer pastures. The homes of the farthest herders are seventy or eighty kilometers away from the village, and it takes Amanguli a whole day to reach them. In the past, relying on stethoscopes, thermometers, and blood pressure monitors, village doctors traveled through mountains and rivers to the herders' yurts and could only do the simplest examinations.
"The village clinic does not have large-scale examination equipment, and in the past, herders who needed medical treatment had to go down the mountain to the town health center," said Mu Qin (牟琴), director of the Xinyuan County (新源县) Health and Health Affairs Center. In 2024, Xinyuan County (新源县) equipped 50 village clinics with general practitioner auxiliary diagnosis packages, covering more than 100,000 people. The auxiliary diagnosis package contains a tablet computer and several testing instruments, which can complete more than 30 testing items. The AI-assisted diagnosis system built into the computer can realize the auxiliary diagnosis of more than 1,500 diseases. By entering symptoms, diagnostic suggestions can be generated in just 5 seconds. At the same time, a remote consultation center was established in Xinyuan County People's Hospital (新源县人民医院). Relying on the remote consultation system in the auxiliary diagnosis package, village doctors have carried out more than 900 remote consultations with county hospitals and top Beijing (北京) hospitals.
Narat Town (那拉提镇) has a permanent population of 28,000, and the Narat Scenic Area (那拉提景区) in its jurisdiction receives millions of tourists every year. The person in charge of the Narat Town Central Health Center (那拉提镇中心卫生院) introduced that in 2024, the Narat Town Central Health Center (那拉提镇中心卫生院) added more than 10 clinical departments such as surgery and hemodialysis, and introduced equipment such as CT and color ultrasound to realize on-site routine examinations and on-site routine surgery. In March of this year, the Narat Town Central Health Center (那拉提镇中心卫生院) completed the relocation of its new campus and was upgraded to the Second People's Hospital of Xinyuan County (新源县第二人民医院) (Narat Scenic Area Medical Rescue Center (那拉提景区医疗救援中心)), and its reception capacity was significantly improved.
Villager Wu Zhishuang (吴志双) and his wife felt a huge change as soon as they entered the hospital gate. "The old hospital area was relatively old, and the hardware could not keep up. In the past, we only saw colds and fevers. Now the equipment and environment are better, so we will definitely give priority to seeing a doctor here." "Next, please come in." In less than 10 minutes, Wu Zhishuang (吴志双) and his wife entered the clinic for treatment. With the improvement of medical conditions, the masses can see a doctor at their doorstep.
County-level sharing solves the problem of drug use at the grassroots level.
In Xueshui Port Village (雪水港村) Health Center, Tongyuan Town (通元镇), Haiyan County (海盐县), Jiaxing City (嘉兴市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), villager Shen Zurong (沈祖荣) is receiving treatment.
"The system intelligently reviews prescriptions, senior and intermediate TCM pharmacists manually review them, and the decocted Chinese medicine can be delivered to your home for free." Doctor Zhu Feng (朱峰) clicked the mouse, and a prescription was simultaneously displayed on the "County-level Shared Chinese Medicine Pharmacy" platform. The platform has built an intelligent auxiliary diagnosis and treatment system, which includes the clinical diagnosis and treatment experience of nearly 100 national medical masters to help primary doctors find omissions and fill gaps and improve the qualification rate of prescriptions.
"In the past, I had to take the prescription prescribed by the doctor to the county town to get medicine, which took most of the day. Now I can get a prescription for a follow-up visit at my doorstep, and it only takes ten minutes to complete everything. Whether it is self-decoction or decoction on behalf, it is very convenient." Shen Zurong (沈祖荣) gave a thumbs up.
In 2019, Haiyan County (海盐县) relied on the County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (县中医医院) to establish the only physical "County-level Shared Chinese Medicine Pharmacy" in the county, and incorporated nearly 600 kinds of Chinese herbal medicine pieces into unified allocation. TCM physicians in the county share the same medicinal material library, and even an infrequently used medicinal material can be fully equipped by the large pharmacy.
Coming to the Chinese medicine automatic decoction and dispensing center of the "County-level Shared Chinese Medicine Pharmacy" of Haiyan County Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (海盐县中医医院), the automatic decoction and dispensing assembly line operates efficiently, and the whole process of Chinese medicine extraction, soaking, decoction, and packaging is intelligently controllable. "Now the number of prescriptions processed and the efficiency of decoction are several times that of traditional manual labor. Patients who see a doctor in the morning and get a prescription can have it delivered to their door by logistics on the same day." Wu Lifeng (吴利锋), deputy director of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Management Section of the Haiyan County Health Bureau (海盐县卫生健康局), said that the system also uses AI technology to monitor the entire process of the Chinese medicinal material supply chain, and the qualified rate of spot checks on the quality of Chinese herbal medicine pieces has steadily increased to more than 94%.
"Unified procurement and centralized management of medicinal pieces not only reduces the backlog of inventory at the grassroots level, but also reduces the cost of medicine through economies of scale," said Wu Lifeng (吴利锋). Data shows that the average cost of Chinese herbal medicine pieces per patient has decreased from 33.87 yuan to 26.54 yuan.
At present, all county-level hospitals in Haiyan County (海盐县) have departments of traditional Chinese medicine, and TCM diagnosis and treatment service areas and TCM diagnosis and treatment rooms (corners) have achieved full coverage at the grassroots level. The coverage rate of TCM community health services has reached 100%, the integrated management rate has reached 100%, and the satisfaction rate of TCM services among the masses has reached 98.76%. "In the next step, we will continue to promote the iterative upgrade of the shared Chinese medicine pharmacy and the Digital Intelligence National Medicine Platform, continuously optimize the supply of medical services, and effectively improve the people's sense of access to medical treatment," said Yang Linfeng (杨林峰), director of the Haiyan County Health Bureau (海盐县卫生健康局).
Resources are sinking to reduce the number of trips people make to see a doctor.
At 8 a.m., on the second floor of the outpatient department of the Suixi County (濉溪县) Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital (中医医院) in Huaibei City (淮北市), Anhui Province (安徽省), patients were already waiting outside the cardiology clinic. Inside the room, Shao Zhengbin (邵正斌), chief physician of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine and master's supervisor of the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui University of Traditional Chinese Medicine (安徽中医药大学第一附属医院), was seeing patients.
Sun Xiujuan (孙秀娟), 55 years old, has been suffering from dizziness and fatigue for many years, and has seen a doctor many times without relief. She had long wanted to go to a large hospital in the province for treatment, but the journey was difficult and it was not easy to register, so she had not been able to do so. Hearing that a famous doctor from the provincial capital was coming to Suixi (濉溪) to see patients, she rushed over from the town early in the morning. Shao Zhengbin (邵正斌) carefully checked Sun Xiujuan's (孙秀娟) past medical records, inquired about her condition in detail, diagnosed her with posterior circulation ischemia, and made significant adjustments to the medications she was taking. "The expert gave a clear diagnosis, so I feel relieved," said Sun Xiujuan (孙秀娟).
On the same day, after finishing his outpatient clinic, Shao Zhengbin (邵正斌) also went to the hospital's cardiology department to make rounds and guided the completion of 3 operations.
Suixi County (濉溪县) invites experts from tertiary hospitals outside the county to come to the county-level hospitals for routine consultations and teaching, and at the same time actively promotes the sinking of county-level medical resources to towns and villages, driving the capacity improvement of primary medical institutions.
In the morning, Yangyang (洋洋) (pseudonym), a patient from Nanping Town (南坪镇), Suixi County (濉溪县), walked to the town health center to receive hemodialysis treatment—this is his fixed routine 3 times a week. "In the past two years, I have traveled back and forth to the county hospital more than 300 times, and a one-way trip takes one and a half hours, which is very inconvenient," said Yangyang (洋洋). Now it only takes 10 minutes to walk to the town health center for dialysis, which eliminates the need to travel back and forth.
In recent years, Suixi County People's Hospital (濉溪县人民医院) has selected 79 backbone doctors to be stationed in 12 township health centers to provide assistance, and has created 12 primary characteristic departments, including the blood purification center built in Nanping Town (南坪镇) Health Center in March this year.
"To enable the people to obtain high-quality medical services at their doorstep, we must not only bring people in and sink them down, but also cultivate a group of good doctors who can stay in the grassroots," said Wu Liang (吴亮), director of the Suixi County Health Commission (濉溪县卫生健康委). With this goal in mind, Suixi County (濉溪县) has implemented the "Special Program for College Student Village Doctors" and the "Rural Order-Oriented Medical Student Training Program."
In the Longtuo Village (龙沱村) Health Center, Baishan Town (百善镇), Suixi County (濉溪县), Zhao Ruixiang (赵瑞祥), a village doctor born after 2000, is busy seeing patients and dispensing medicines. In July last year, Zhao Ruixiang (赵瑞祥) graduated from the clinical medicine major of Wanbei Health Vocational College (皖北卫生职业学院) and came to work in the Longtuo Village (龙沱村) Health Center.
"In the past, the conditions in the village health center were poor, and there was no guarantee of treatment, so young people could not be retained at all," said Lin Mingyong (林明永), director of the Longtuo Village (龙沱村) Health Center. "We have explored and carried out the post-based reform of village doctors, incorporating 212 village health centers in the county into the extended medical service points of township health centers, and 775 village health center personnel have been transferred to employees hired by the health center," Wu Liang (吴亮) introduced. By fully implementing "hospital-run and hospital-managed, township-employed and village-used," we can effectively solve the problem of village doctors' treatment and allow the majority of village doctors to settle down in the grassroots with peace of mind.
In the past three years, Suixi County (濉溪县) has recruited a total of 265 college student village doctors, achieving full coverage of "one college student in each village." The proportion of licensed (assistant) physicians among village doctors has increased to 58.6%, the structure of the grassroots health talent team has been further optimized, and the service capacity of grassroots medical institutions has been significantly improved.
(Wu Yongsheng (吴永生) participated in the writing)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 13th (Reporter Ni Yi (倪弋)) To promote the implementation of the Food Security Guarantee Law, to lay a solid legal foundation for ensuring effective food supply, ensuring national food security, and improving the ability to prevent and resist food security risks, the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) Standing Committee launched an enforcement inspection of the Food Security Guarantee Law on the 13th.
The Food Security Guarantee Law, which will be implemented on June 1, 2024, is a fundamental and overarching law in China's (中国) food sector.
The reporter learned on the 13th from the first plenary meeting of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) Standing Committee's Food Security Guarantee Law Enforcement Inspection Team that this enforcement inspection will be carried out by combining on-site inspections in local areas with inspections entrusted to the standing committees of provincial-level people's congresses. From May to August, the enforcement inspection team will conduct on-site inspections in six provinces, including Shanxi (山西), Jilin (吉林), Anhui (安徽), Shandong (山东), Henan (河南), and Hubei (湖北), and entrust the standing committees of the people's congresses of six provinces (municipalities), including Hebei (河北), Heilongjiang (黑龙江), Shanghai (上海), Fujian (福建), Hunan (湖南), and Shaanxi (陕西), to inspect the implementation of the Food Security Guarantee Law within their respective administrative regions. The inspection team will adopt various methods, such as holding symposiums, conducting on-site inspections, and conducting random checks, to gain an in-depth understanding of the implementation of the law and the main problems that exist, and conduct in-depth research on the prominent problems with general applicability that are reflected.
During the enforcement inspection, the focus will be on inspecting seven aspects: the implementation of the food security responsibility system and the establishment and improvement of the food security guarantee investment mechanism; strengthening the protection of cultivated land, improving the quality of cultivated land, and building high-standard farmland; improving the comprehensive grain production capacity, and mobilizing farmers to grow grain and the government to grasp grain; strengthening the management of grain reserves and circulation, and improving emergency support capabilities; promoting the high-quality development of the grain processing industry, and promoting the reduction of grain loss in the entire chain; implementing food security supervision and inspection, and improving supporting rules and regulations; the main problems existing in the implementation of the law, and further implementing the opinions and suggestions of the Food Security Guarantee Law.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 赵景锋
In May, the grasslands of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) sprout with green.
On the grasslands, wind turbine blades turn slowly. Green electricity produced by a power generation enterprise in Hinggan League (兴安盟), Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), is being "flash delivered" to the computer room of Shanghai Ufqi Network Co., Ltd. (上海有孚网络股份有限公司). The channel for this "flash delivery" is a specially established inter-provincial "green electricity special line." After both parties submitted their green electricity transaction intentions, the East Inner Mongolia Electric Power Trading Center (内蒙古东部电力交易中心) assessed and confirmed that the green electricity could be stably supplied without affecting the safe operation of the power grid, allowing the "green electricity special line" to "pass" smoothly.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划纲要) proposes: "Comprehensivley improve the complementarity and mutual assistance and safety and resilience of the power system."
China's western regions are rich in clean energy sources such as wind, solar, and water, while the eastern regions have strong electricity demand. Inter-provincial green electricity trading is a crucial step in promoting the optimal allocation of electricity resources nationwide. In 2021, China officially launched a pilot program for green electricity trading, and since then, many regions have actively explored inter-provincial green electricity trading. As of now, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) has established green electricity transmission and transaction cooperation mechanisms with nine provinces and cities, including Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and Jiangsu (江苏), with the volume of inter-provincial green electricity transactions expected to exceed 8.9 billion kilowatt-hours in 2025.
As a provider of computing power services, Shanghai Ufqi Network Co., Ltd. (上海有孚网络股份有限公司) consumes approximately 300 million kilowatt-hours of electricity annually. Purchasing green electricity not only allows them to offset carbon emissions with "green certificates" but is also a requirement of an increasing number of partners. As a result, Wang Huibo (王慧波), the company's head, has become a "regular" at the Green Electricity and Green Certificate Service Station in Baoshan District (宝山区), Shanghai (上海).
"We have a large demand for green electricity, but the local supply is limited. In the past, most of the inter-provincial green electricity transactions we engaged in were monthly transactions, which were not very stable," Wang Huibo (王慧波) said at the service station, expressing his concerns.
"This is the multi-year green electricity transaction recently launched in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古). With one signing, you can directly lock in the electricity volume for the next three years, which is suitable for users like you who have a stable demand for green electricity," the staff member explained.
"Since the distance is so far, the transmission costs alone must be quite high, wouldn't the price be even higher?"
"Although the transmission costs are higher, the power generation costs in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) are lower, and the electricity price is also lower, so it is more cost-effective overall."
With the doubts dispelled, the transaction proceeded quickly. After logging into the power trading platform, information on dozens of new energy power generation enterprises in Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) was readily available. After screening and comparing, Wang Huibo (王慧波) selected a power generation enterprise. After both parties negotiated and determined the electricity volume and price for the next three years, the East Inner Mongolia Electric Power Trading Center (内蒙古东部电力交易中心) "built a platform" to promote "point-to-point" signing between electricity-consuming enterprises and power generation enterprises.
Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) is making every effort to smooth the external transmission mechanism of green electricity, helping supply and demand to **双向奔赴** (shuāng xiàng bēn fù - "rush to each other," to move towards each other; to meet halfway).
The external transmission channels are becoming denser and denser, with the completion of 8 ultra-high voltage transmission channels, transmitting Inner Mongolia's (内蒙古) green electricity to city clusters thousands of miles away with high efficiency and low loss, continuously increasing channel capacity.
The transaction rules are becoming increasingly perfect. On the basis of the "Basic Rules for the Operation of the Electricity Market" (电力市场运行基本规则), the "Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) Electricity Multilateral Trading Market Rules System" (内蒙古电力多边交易市场规则体系) is formulated to standardize the detailed rules for electricity market access mechanisms, settlement methods, and other aspects.
"We must continue to optimize the green electricity external transmission and transaction mechanism, proactively carry out inter-provincial cooperation, strengthen the mutual assistance of surpluses and deficiencies, and contribute to the realization of the 'dual carbon' goals," said Jia Haiqing (贾海清), General Manager of the East Inner Mongolia Electric Power Trading Center (内蒙古东部电力交易中心).
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Around noon, Huang Jingying was extremely busy at the "Xiuqi Farmhouse" in Baini Village (百坭村), Leye County (乐业县), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区).
"I used to run a food stall outside. Secretary Zhou (周书记) encouraged me to come back and develop, to contribute to my hometown," she said. Now, the village has a new look and tourism is booming. Last year, Baini Village (百坭村) received nearly 20,000 tourists and trainees from all over the country.
The Secretary Zhou (周书记) in Huang Jingying's (黄静莹) words is Zhou Changzhan (周昌战), the 51-year-old Party Branch Secretary of Baini Village (百坭村). In June 2019, Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀), then the First Secretary of Baini Village (百坭村), unfortunately sacrificed her life in a flash flood on her way back to work at the young age of 30. She is gone, but the relay baton for revitalizing the countryside has not fallen. Over the years, Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) has continued to struggle and has taken on the heavy responsibility of developing Baini Village (百坭村).
Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) has dark skin and rough hands, with the fortitude of a soldier and the simplicity of a farmer. He joined the army at the age of 18 and was tempered in the military. In 1996, out of his love for his hometown, Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) returned to Baini Village (百坭村) and was elected as the Party Branch Secretary of the village in 2017. Facing the difficulties of difficult roads and weak industries, he was determined: "No matter how difficult it is, we must first build roads." In the spring of 2018, Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) took office, and the two cooperated: Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) ran projects and looked for funds, while Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) was responsible for mass work and coordinating construction. "I learned a lot from Secretary Wenxiu (文秀书记). Her work style and work philosophy were very inspiring to me." Now, the lighting of street lamps in Baini Village (百坭村) has been fully completed, the new village department has been put into use, and the 22-kilometer "Wenxiu Industrial Road (文秀产业路)" runs through the entire village.
With roads open, products sell well. Developing the oil-tea camellia industry was the direction set by Huang Wenxiu (黄文秀) before her death, but villagers had many doubts and it was not easy to implement. Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) took the lead in demonstrating: "Party members and cadres should plant first. When everyone sees the benefits, they will naturally follow." He planted 10 mu of oil-tea camellia trees on his own mountain land. At the beginning of this year, the Chinese fir trees planted by villager Chang Zhile (常治乐) reached the felling period, and he came to Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) to go through the formalities. While handling the formalities, Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) naturally chatted with him about follow-up plans: "Do you want to try oil-tea camellia? The unit price is high, and it doesn't require a lot of water and fertilizer." Chang Zhile (常治乐) hesitated a little: "The investment in seedlings is not small, right?" Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) smiled and handed over a promotional leaflet: "Now there are agricultural loans. Our village has a large scale and stable sales channels, so don't worry!" Careful work has paid off. Now, the village has expanded the planting of oil-tea camellia by about 3,000 mu, and the output value in 2025 alone will reach 9 million yuan.
At the same time, in recent years, the village's citrus trees have been aging, and industrial transformation is imminent. Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) led the village committee to strive for industrial awards and subsidies, and invited agricultural experts to go to the fields to provide guidance. He also took the lead in establishing Baise Xiuqi Fudi Baini Agricultural Development Company (百色秀起福地百坭农业发展公司), registered trademarks such as "Xiumei Baini (秀美百坭)," and turned camellia oil, sugar oranges, and other products into branded products. From running exhibition fairs to doing live broadcasts, from telling Wenxiu's (文秀) story to promoting local specialties, the market is being opened up step by step. "Now our products in Baini (百坭) don't have to worry about sales," said Zhou Changzhan (周昌战). In 2025, driven by the brand, the village sold 8 million yuan of agricultural and sideline products, the village's collective economic income was 220,000 yuan, and the oil-tea camellia industry achieved an average household income increase of 7,000 yuan.
The health center has realized "minor illnesses do not leave the village," the village appearance is clean and tidy, and the rural customs are civilized... Huang Wenxiu's (黄文秀) former wishes have been realized one by one. The completion of Wenxiu Kindergarten (文秀幼儿园) allows Huang Jingying (黄静莹) and other villagers' children to enroll nearby.
In 2024, Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) was awarded the title of National Model Retired Soldier. The villagers said that Secretary Zhou (周书记) is very responsible and careful in his work. When it rains, he will go around to see if there are any landslides or other situations. "I really want to lead the villagers to get rich and live a better life." Zhou Changzhan (周昌战) looked at the oil-tea camellia mountains in the village and said firmly, "Wenxiu (文秀) always put the masses first. We continue her belief and cannot let down her efforts." Walking on the industrial road of Baini Village (百坭村), the mountains are full of green oil-tea camellias. This revitalization road, which has been built through relay, is extending towards a more distant future.
Return to TopOn May 12, in Xipan Village (溪泮村), Ganzhou Town (干洲镇), Fengxin County (奉新县), Yichun City (宜春市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), workers at the Jishun Family Farm (吉顺家庭农场) rice-frog breeding base feed the frogs in the paddy fields.
In recent years, the area has vigorously developed integrated farming and circular agricultural development models such as "rice + frog," "rice + fish," and "rice + shrimp" to enhance the comprehensive benefits of paddy fields and the industry's radiation capacity, driving collective village and farmer income growth.
Photo by Zhou Liang (周亮) (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 13th (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) It was learned from Sinopec (中国石化) that Sinopec's (中国石化) "Deep Earth Project·Sichuan-Chongqing Natural Gas Base" has made another breakthrough. The 235.687 billion cubic meters of proven geological reserves of the Ziyang Dongfeng Shale Gas Field (资阳东峰页岩气田) in Sichuan (四川), submitted by Sinopec Southwest Oil & Gas Company (中国石化西南油气分公司), has been approved by the expert group of the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部). This marks the birth of China's ultra-deep, 100 billion-cubic-meter-class shale gas field, successfully advancing shale gas exploration and development to a new ultra-deep layer field with a burial depth of over 4,500 meters. This achieves China's leap from deep to ultra-deep shale gas, which is of great significance for further consolidating the foundation of national energy security and expanding the strategic replacement space for large-scale reserve increase and production.
The Ziyang Dongfeng Shale Gas Field (资阳东峰页岩气田) is located in the Sichuan Basin (四川盆地) and is a large, integrated gas field discovered in the Cambrian Qiongzhusi Formation (寒武系筇竹寺组) shale strata. The Cambrian shale is the oldest shale strata in the world that has achieved large-scale discovery, formed 540 million years ago, with a burial depth of 4,500 to 5,200 meters. The characteristics of the shale reservoir are unclear, the mechanism of accumulation and enrichment is unknown, and the engineering challenges brought by factors such as thick hard-to-drill formations, high temperature, and high pressure are extremely great.
Return to TopAccording to reports from our newspaper in Hangzhou (杭州) on May 13th (Reporter Huang Chao (黄超)), at the 2026 World Digital Education Conference, research findings such as the "China Smart Education Development Report (2025-2026)" and the "Global Digital Education Development Index (2026)," as well as resource achievements including the "Primary and Secondary School Artificial Intelligence General Knowledge Education Series Resources," were released during the conference.
The Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences released the "China Smart Education Development Report (2025-2026)," showcasing China's practical paths, progress, and achievements in smart education, and looking ahead to global trends in smart education development. In addition, the "Artificial Intelligence General Knowledge Education Lecture Notes" and the "One Hundred Questions on Ten Lectures of Artificial Intelligence General Knowledge Education Series Courses" were released, sharing China's practical explorations in the field of artificial intelligence basic education.
Return to TopWith the continuous advancement of assisted driving technology, an increasing number of users are starting to use cars equipped with assisted driving technology, and safety issues have become the focus of attention from all sectors of society.
On April 23, the Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving ADS 5 assisted driving solution was officially released. Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving adheres to the multi-sensor fusion perception technology route, solving the limitations of single-sensor perception through in-vehicle sensor hardware redundancy and algorithm collaboration, and striving to fully implement the "safety first" technology concept. Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving ADS 5 adopts the WEWA 2.0 architecture, which has been comprehensively upgraded compared to the previous version, focusing on improving the convenience and safety of assisted driving technology.
Multi-sensor Fusion "Five-Sense Collaboration" Technology Route
Assisted driving technology aims to help drivers "see clearly, judge accurately, and drive steadily," and in-vehicle sensors are equivalent to the "eyes" of the vehicle. In the exploration of assisted driving technology routes, Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's multi-sensor fusion perception solution, with its core advantages of "redundant reliability and complementary advantages," has become a key technology route for improving assisted driving safety, building a solid safety barrier for intelligent travel.
Multi-sensor fusion perception refers to the deep integration of sensor data from cameras, millimeter-wave radar, lidar, and other different principles through advanced algorithms to achieve a perception effect of "1+1+1>3," building a full-scene, all-weather safety perception system.
Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's multi-sensor fusion perception solution uses a variety of in-vehicle sensors, as if equipping the vehicle with "five senses of perception":
Cameras focus on semantic recognition, accurately capturing key information such as traffic signs, pedestrian clothing, and vehicle types.
Millimeter-wave radar serves as an "all-weather sentinel," stably outputting distance and speed data in harsh driving environments such as rain, fog, and night, compensating for visual shortcomings.
Lidar is responsible for long-distance obstacle detection and 3D scene recognition. Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's latest 896-line lidar can stably identify small obstacle targets about 14 centimeters high (the average height of a vehicle chassis) at 120 meters. In addition, Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving uses the in-cabin laser vision Limera to innovatively create a co-optical path architecture for lidar and cameras, which has both the three-dimensional ranging function of lidar and the color perception function of cameras, enabling multi-dimensional real-time measurement of the environment and further implementing the concept of fusion perception at the hardware level.
When the camera cannot recognize clearly due to strong light and backlight, millimeter-wave radar and lidar can make up for it in time; when small target obstacles appear in the distance in high-speed scenes at night, lidar can accurately identify them from a long distance; when cameras and lidar are interfered with by rain, fog, and dust, the all-weather perception capability of millimeter-wave radar can provide solid data support, fully building a safety perception barrier. This multi-sensor "collaborative operation" mechanism fully helps drivers "see accurately and judge correctly" in complex scenarios, which helps reduce the risk of accidents from the source and improve driving safety.
Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's fusion perception solution can make Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving ADS 5 comprehensive, accurate, and reliable in perception from four key levels: perception dimension, environmental adaptability, decision-making efficiency, and safety redundancy.
The perception dimension is more three-dimensional: lidar can directly output the three-dimensional coordinates and contours of the target, and the camera captures semantic information (such as "this is a pedestrian"), and the combination of the two can clearly define "what object + where it is + how far away."
Environmental adaptability is stronger: millimeter-wave radar can stably detect in harsh weather, lidar is not affected by light, and the cooperation with the camera can realize "all-weather, full-scene" perception.
The response speed is faster: lidar and millimeter-wave radar can output high-precision distance and motion data in real time without waiting for multiple frames, which can allow the assisted driving system to capture sudden situations (such as sudden braking of the vehicle in front) faster, helping drivers shorten the reaction time for decision-making and braking.
Safety redundancy is more sufficient: the data of the three sensors can verify each other. For example, the camera recognizes "there is a pedestrian in front," the lidar confirms "distance is 10 meters," and the millimeter-wave radar monitors "no obstruction." Cross-validation of multi-source information can greatly reduce the probability of misjudgment by a single sensor.
Real Data Serving Millions of Users with Tens of Billions of Kilometers
Huawei Qiankun cooperates with 25 brands and more than 50 models. The cumulative number of ADS series products installed has exceeded 1.7 million, and the cumulative assisted driving mileage has exceeded 10.9 billion kilometers as of 17:00 on May 13 this year.
The computing power scale of Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving has increased from 2.8EFLOPS in 2023 to 60EFLOPS now, which is 21 times that of 29 months ago. Huawei Qiankun plans to invest nearly 10 billion yuan this year and at least another 70 billion yuan in the next 5 years to promote the accelerated evolution of assisted driving technology.
WEWA 2.0 Comprehensively Improves System Capabilities
The WEWA architecture is a technology architecture for future autonomous driving developed by Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving. Now it has been officially iterated to the AI intelligent body WEWA 2.0. The cloud and vehicle ends have simultaneously achieved core technology upgrades to enhance travel safety with comprehensively improved system capabilities.
The cloud WE (World Engine) world engine has achieved two major technological breakthroughs, and the training intensity and efficiency have increased by 10 times compared with WEWA 1.0. Multi-Agent group game realizes autonomous intelligent interaction of all traffic participants, upgrading from "single-vehicle game" to "group game," and the game intensity is increased by 10 times. Online reinforcement learning efficiently learns in the way of "generating, learning, and verifying at the same time," and the training efficiency is increased by 10 times compared with WEWA 1.0, accelerating algorithm iteration.
The vehicle WA (World Action) has undergone technological innovation and innovatively launched defensive driving technology based on safety risk field. It is jointly developed by Huawei's German and French research institutes. It quantifies risks through kinetic energy field, potential energy field, and behavior field to generate dynamic safety decisions. After internal testing, this technology can reduce the risk of collision by 50% and realize active safety protection.
Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving Software and Hardware Collaboration to Build a Safety Foundation
Relying on Huawei Qiankun's strict quality control standards and its deep accumulation in the field of core components and complete machine reliability, Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving's multi-sensor fusion perception solution has fully achieved vehicle-grade reliability standards, stably outputting accurate perception capabilities in all working conditions, and fully building a solid safety foundation for Huawei Qiankun's assisted driving technology.
Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving demonstrates its hard-core technology strength with real data of over 10 billion kilometers of assisted driving mileage.
In the future, with the continuous advancement of multi-sensor hardware iteration and fusion algorithms, Huawei Qiankun Intelligent Driving will adhere to the "safety first" technology concept, take fusion perception as the foundation and WEWA 2.0 architecture as the wing, continue to broaden the safety boundary of assisted driving technology, explore higher-level autonomous driving, and escort safe travel with hard-core technology.
Data source: Huawei Qiankun (华为乾崑)
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Since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has, based on the great practice of socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era, profoundly grasped historical laws, the trend of the times, and the expectations of the people, and put forward a series of major propositions with high recognition, theoretical originality, and practical guidance, including a series of iconic concepts, original ideas, and principle-based theoretical achievements. These not only raise our Party's understanding of what kind of socialist modernized power to build and how to build a socialist modernized power to a new level, but also profoundly answer the questions of the times: "What is happening to the world and what should we do?" Systematically sorting out, deeply refining, and effectively transforming these iconic concepts, original ideas, and principle-based theoretical achievements, organically integrating them into academic research and discipline construction, and transforming them into analytical frameworks for various disciplines of philosophy and social sciences are critical issues that the philosophy and social sciences community must deeply consider and focus on resolving.
Iconic Concepts: Promoting the Effective Transformation from Political Discourse to Academic Categories
Iconic concepts are the most distinctive and recognizable core terms in a theoretical system, carrying specific value positions, historical logic, and practical orientations. Transforming the iconic concepts of the Party's innovative theories in the new era from political discourse into academic categories is a revolution of terminology. For example, Chinese-style modernization is not only a description of the development path but also contains a critical transcendence of the Western modernization model; whole-process people's democracy breaks through the cyclical and fragmented limitations of Western representative democracy, emphasizing the full-chain connection of democratic elections, democratic consultation, democratic decision-making, democratic management, and democratic supervision, reflecting the essential requirement of the people being the masters of the country. The key to transforming the iconic concepts of the Party's innovative theories in the new era into academic categories of philosophy and social sciences lies in creatively elaborating on them in a rigorous, systematic, and in-depth manner.
First, sort out and clarify the core concepts, clarify their connotation boundaries, historical context, theoretical premises, and practical foundations, and distinguish their relationship with related concepts. Taking Chinese-style modernization as an example, at the philosophical level, we can explore its ontological presuppositions, such as the harmonious coexistence of man and nature, and the relationship between individual development and collective interests; from an economic perspective, we can analyze its institutional arrangements and growth mechanisms; at the sociological level, we can explore its social structure characteristics and governance logic, and study the olive-shaped income distribution structure, integrated urban-rural development, and other aspects. Only by thoroughly explaining these specific contents can the concept avoid becoming empty and vague.
Second, embed these concepts into the theoretical framework of disciplines and transform them into academic issues that can be specifically studied, analyzed, and compared. For example, political science can refine whole-process people's democracy into dimensions such as the breadth of people's participation, the depth of policy formulation, and the effectiveness of supervision mechanisms, and then construct an indicator system for evaluating the quality of democracy; law can extract important academic issues such as good laws and governance, equal emphasis on procedural justice and substantive justice, and the organic unity of Party leadership and rule of law from the construction of the rule of law in China.
Finally, make these academic categories return to real-world problems and demonstrate their explanatory power and vitality in specific contexts. For example, at a time when many developing countries are exploring modernization paths, Chinese-style modernization provides a solution different from the Western modernization model; in the new environment where digital technology is profoundly reshaping public life, the concept of whole-process people's democracy can point the way for value leadership and institutional construction in emerging fields such as algorithm governance, platform responsibility, and citizens' digital rights.
Original Ideas: Promoting a Systematic Leap from Value Leadership to Methodological Awareness
Original ideas are the soul of theoretical innovation, and their core lies in the keen capture, profound insight, and systematic interpretation of major issues of the times. It is by no means a simple reorganization of concepts, but an accurate grasp and profound revelation of the laws of social evolution from the commanding heights of history and the times. Taking the "two combinations" as an example, it not only deepens the essential understanding of the inherent laws of the Sinicization and modernization of Marxism but also profoundly reveals the cultural roots and theoretical consciousness of Chinese-style modernization, providing methodological guidance for philosophy and social science research. Similarly, the original proposition that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" completely transcends the development view of GDP supremacy by reconstructing the relationship between man and nature, and establishes a new paradigm of high-quality development with ecological priority and green transformation.
The key to effectively transforming these original ideas into analytical frameworks for specific disciplines lies in achieving a profound leap from value identity and policy identity to methodological internalization. Researchers should not only understand and identify with their ideas and value orientations but also internalize them as a perspective for examining problems, a scientific tool for analyzing materials, and a value scale for judging conclusions. Taking the "two combinations" as an example: history can use this to deeply understand that "Chinese civilization is the only great civilization in the world that has continued uninterrupted and developed into a state, with outstanding continuity, innovation, unity, inclusiveness, and peacefulness," thereby breaking the shackles of the metaphysical view of history on Chinese historical narratives; the field of philosophy can deeply explore ideological resources such as Confucianism's "governing with virtue" (为政以德), Taoism's "governing by non-action" (无为而治), and Legalism's "governing by law" (循法而治), and find their inherent convergence points with Marxist state theory, thereby constructing a philosophical theoretical system that combines national character and globality, historicity and contemporaneity. It is worth noting that these original ideas have interdisciplinary attributes and can cross traditional disciplinary boundaries to form new problem domains. For example, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind transcends the scope of pure international relations, requiring international relations theory to rethink the relationship between sovereignty, security, and development interests, and also profoundly touches on institutional designs such as the allocation of responsibilities in the global governance system, as well as the philosophical foundations in civilizational dialogue. Only by breaking down disciplinary barriers can we truly unleash the theoretical potential of these original ideas and continuously enhance the autonomy, originality, and globality of Chinese philosophy and social sciences in this process.
Principle-Based Theoretical Achievements: Promoting Deep Integration from Systematic Acceptance to Paradigm Innovation
Principle-based theoretical achievements are the organic integration of iconic concepts and original ideas, and are essentially a systematic summary and theoretical expression of the inherent logic and evolutionary laws in a specific field. For example, the theory of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, and the theory of gradually achieving common prosperity for all people, have formed complete and logically rigorous theoretical systems. These achievements are not only the ideological engine for advancing the great practice of Chinese-style modernization but also provide a profound theoretical wealth for building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
To achieve the deep transformation of principle-based theoretical achievements into disciplinary analysis frameworks, we cannot stay at simple interpretation and mechanical application, but should use them as a fulcrum to leverage the structural innovation and paradigm upgrade of the disciplinary knowledge system. For example, in the field of political science, the theory of promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity breaks through the limitations of the traditional governance paradigm, emphasizing the organic unity of institutional execution, governance effectiveness, and people's sense of gain. This theoretical innovation promotes scholars to turn to constructing a new analytical framework that includes multi-dimensional elements such as governance performance evaluation, institutional resilience analysis, and social responsiveness enhancement, providing a new perspective for national governance and even global governance research. In the field of law, fully implementing Xi Jinping's (习近平) thought on the rule of law promotes the transformation of legal research paradigms from static article analysis to dynamic implementation effect evaluation, and constructs a three-dimensional research paradigm covering legal implementation, cultural identity, and institutional effectiveness. This transformation not only expands the theoretical dimension of legal research but also enhances its explanatory power in responding to real-world problems.
The reason why the iconic concepts, original ideas, and principle-based theoretical achievements of the Party's innovative theories in the new era have strong explanatory power, leadership, and lasting vitality is fundamentally because they are not deduced from Western theoretical categories, nor are they designed behind closed doors in study rooms, but are deeply rooted in the magnificent great practice of Chinese-style modernization, and are the ideological crystallization formed in the creative exploration of hundreds of millions of people. Transforming these ideological crystallizations into operable and extensible analytical frameworks for various disciplines of philosophy and social sciences is not only a major academic project but also a profound academic paradigm change, and it has also become the core link and key path for building an autonomous knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social sciences.
(The author is the Executive Director of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
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A correct view of performance is like a mirror, reflecting not only the Party spirit of leading cadres but also determining their weight in the hearts of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Faced with difficult work problems, we must have the spirit of knowing there are tigers in the mountains and preferring to walk towards the tiger mountains, actively seeking specific countermeasures to overcome difficulties, being willing to step forward and withstand pressure, and truly becoming the mainstays leading the people to fight risks and overcome difficulties." The three words "mainstay" carry immense weight. It is not endowed by position, nor is it self-proclaimed, but rather earned through repeated risk tests. Establishing and practicing a correct view of performance requires leading cadres not only to maintain the status quo in calm waters but also to be trusted and relied upon by the people in turbulent times.
Being willing to step forward relies on a pioneering spirit. The people regard leading cadres as mainstays not because of their high positions or eloquent statements, but because they dare to rush forward in the face of risks, can withstand pressure in the face of difficulties, and care about the urgent and difficult matters of the people. This willingness to step forward at critical moments is more convincing than any statement. In reality, a few leading cadres hold the mentality of "rather do nothing than have an accident," avoiding difficulties and dodging risks. In their view, "no decision" means no decision-making errors, "no action" means no mistakes, and "no standing out" means no accountability. This logic deviates from the core meaning of a correct view of performance. If a place's development does not improve and the people's urgent needs are not addressed, the more "stable" such a "peaceful official" is, the "lower" the people's trust will be. The mainstay must step forward at critical moments, dare to make decisions, be able to judge, and be willing to take responsibility, giving the people a sense of security. True achievements are never "maintained" but "forged" in stormy seas.
Being able to withstand pressure relies on ability. The current tasks of reform, development, and stability are unprecedentedly heavy, and the contradictions, risks, and challenges are numerous. It is not enough to have the courage to "walk towards the tiger mountains"; one must also have the ability to recognize the "tiger" and the strategy to break the situation. True responsibility is not blind or hard work but requires in-depth investigation and research, practical countermeasures, and accurate solutions. Jiao Yulu (焦裕禄) was able to become the mainstay of the people of Lankao (兰考) not because he could shout slogans, but because he endured illness and ran through more than 100 production brigades in the county, found out the bottom line of the "three harms," and came up with specific solutions, becoming a model of "being able to withstand pressure." In contrast, a few leading cadres do not lack the volume of statements, but lack the steps to go deep into the front line, resulting in willingness to step forward becoming "reckless," and being able to withstand pressure becoming "adding to the chaos." "Withstanding" is not about showing personal courage but relying on true skills that have been honed over time.
Leading the people gathers the hearts of the people. No matter how strong an individual is, they cannot surpass the strength of united will. The mainstay is by no means a lone hero but a core force that unites people's hearts. The wisdom and strength of the people are infinite. Only by sinking to the front line, sitting on a bench with the people, truly listening, truly seeing, and truly asking, can the people's "golden ideas" be turned into "golden keys" to solve problems. In reality, a few leading cadres have misunderstandings about the "mainstay." Some try to do everything themselves, resulting in cadres doing the work while the people watch, unable to twist into a rope; others are accustomed to giving orders, turning "leading" into "commanding," which the people do not buy into. To make the people change from "I have to do it" to "I want to do it," the key is to take the lead. Shouting slogans is not as good as rolling up your sleeves and working hard. When leading cadres rush to the front, the people will naturally follow. What the people want is not a "flash in the pan" hero but a "always present" reliance. Leading cadres are leaders, but leading is not commanding, let alone doing everything for them. "Being willing to step forward" at critical moments is responsibility, and "bending down" at ordinary times is skill. A true mainstay must not only be able to stand alone but also be able to gather joint forces, allowing the people to see hope, obtain benefits, and taste sweetness. Only when cadres and the masses are of one mind can they break gold. 其利断金 (qí lì duàn jīn - "If they are of one mind, their sharpness can cut through metal," united strength can overcome any obstacle).
The people's hearts are the greatest politics. The people regard leading cadres as mainstays, which is a trust and a heavy responsibility. "Being willing to step forward and being able to withstand pressure" is a clear annotation of a correct view of performance, which requires long-term Party spirit training and requires leading cadres to always put the people in the highest position in their hearts, abandon the comfort of "peaceful officials" and the calculations of "small abacuses," not shirking responsibility in the face of responsibility, not retreating in the face of challenges, and not avoiding difficulties. Leading cadres at all levels must be willing to step forward to shoulder responsibilities, be able to withstand pressure to solve problems, and bend down to gather people's hearts, truly becoming the mainstays that the people can trust, rely on, and cannot do without.
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High-quality public cultural resources are important conditions for meeting the cultural needs of the people, enriching the cultural life of the people, guaranteeing the cultural rights of the people, and improving the cultural accomplishment of the people. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that "more high-quality cultural products and services should be delivered to the people." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes "implementing actions to improve the quality and efficiency of public cultural services and promoting the direct access of high-quality cultural resources to the grassroots." To effectively promote the direct access of high-quality public cultural resources to the grassroots, efforts should be made to promote the downward shift of service focus and the proactive sinking of resources, starting from government cultural supply, mass cultural needs, social organization collaboration, policy mechanism guarantees, and technological innovation, to provide the grassroots with higher-quality, fairer, and more balanced public cultural products and services, and promote the common prosperity of the people's spiritual life.
Anchoring the demand orientation to improve the accuracy of public cultural supply. With the development of the economy and society and the continuous improvement of people's living standards, the spiritual and cultural needs of the masses have grown rapidly and the structure has changed profoundly, showing the distinct characteristics of high quality, diversity, and personalization. Faced with the continuous growth of cultural needs, it is necessary to further make up for the shortcomings in the effective supply of public cultural services, promote the adaptation of cultural supply to the upgrading of demand, and strengthen the effective supply of high-quality culture. To improve the pertinence of cultural supply, improve the accurate collection mechanism of cultural needs, use big data collection, grassroots research and other methods to dynamically grasp the cultural preferences of different regions, different ages, and different groups, understand what cultural resources are lacking at the grassroots level, what kind of cultural services and cultural products are needed by the grassroots, and change "government serving dishes" to "masses ordering meals." For example, Wuyi (武义) in Zhejiang (浙江) has created the "Common Prosperity Hundred Flowers Fair," where the grassroots can conveniently "order" through their mobile phones, establish a timely response mechanism for cultural needs, realize the digital supply and intelligent distribution of high-quality public cultural resources, so that the grassroots can enjoy high-quality public cultural resources more efficiently and directly, and comprehensively improve the effectiveness of direct access of high-quality public cultural resources to the grassroots. Enrich the types, forms, and content of high-quality cultural resources, vigorously support the creation of original masterpieces, cultivate high-quality public cultural projects, promote the integration of online and offline cultural scenes, and develop new formats such as digital culture, cultural and creative industries, and immersive experiences.
Narrowing the urban-rural gap to improve the balance of public cultural services. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "To promote rural modernization, not only should material life be prosperous, but spiritual life should also be rich." At present, the construction of China's public cultural service system has been promoted in all regions and has achieved remarkable results, but the development of urban and rural public culture is still uneven. It is necessary to break down the cultural barriers brought about by the urban-rural dual structure, build a supply pattern of urban-rural integration, resource interconnection, and complementary advantages, solve the problem of unbalanced urban and rural public cultural services from the root, and allow high-quality cultural resources to equally benefit urban and rural people. Improve the rural cultural infrastructure network, effectively increase the total amount of rural public cultural services, build and use farmers' bookstores, cultural halls, rural stages and other places, build grassroots comprehensive cultural service positions, avoid facility vacancies, functional virtualization, and lagging support, and build a solid hardware foundation for balanced development. Carry out cultural activities that meet the characteristics and preferences of rural audiences. For example, the "village evening" (村晚), "village BA" (村BA) and other "village-character" cultural and sports activities carried out in many places have attracted the active participation of the majority of villagers, realizing the matching of high-quality cultural resources with the cultural preferences of the audience, and ensuring that the high-quality cultural resources directly reaching the grassroots are truly close to the grassroots and close to the masses. Promote the "entry into the city" of rural characteristic culture and the "going to the countryside" of urban high-quality resources, and realize the two-way flow and two-way empowerment of high-quality cultural resources in urban-rural linkage. For example, Rizhao (日照), Shandong (山东) has created "community cultural academies + rural cultural courtyards" and carried out activities such as "Four Seasons Village Evening" and "Community Art Performance" to provide high-quality public cultural services to the masses in a precise and regular manner.
Building a collaborative ecology to improve the participation of social forces. To effectively promote the direct access of high-quality public cultural resources to the grassroots, it is necessary to build a multi-party collaborative system led by the government, participated by the society, and operated by the market, so that high-quality public cultural resources can truly sink down, stay, and be used well. Strengthen the government's overall coordination function, build a work pattern of vertical linkage and horizontal coordination, break down departmental barriers, and promote the tilting of various resources to the grassroots and gathering to the masses. Guide the wide participation of social forces, and solve the problems of high access thresholds, narrow participation channels, and insufficient incentive mechanisms for social forces to participate in public cultural services. Deepen the reform of government procurement of public cultural services, include projects such as literary and artistic performances and digital cultural services into routine procurement, open the market to social organizations, professional troupes, cultural enterprises, etc., and introduce competition through public bidding and other methods to improve service quality and efficiency. For example, Zhoukou (周口) City, Henan (河南) Province, has insisted on opening the "Weekend Public Welfare Theater" for more than 10 years, exploring the path of "government-led, public welfare nature, variety show form, contracted performance, social investment, and brand development," and absorbing social funds through corporate naming and co-organized special events. Improve the incentive mechanism for social forces to participate, increase support for outstanding social organizations and cultural enterprises, improve tax incentives, honorary commendations and other policies, and encourage and support social forces to actively invest in grassroots public cultural construction.
(Author's unit: Southwest University Branch of the Chongqing Research Center for the Socialist Theory System with Chinese Characteristics) (重庆市中国特色社会主义理论体系研究中心西南大学分中心)
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Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary, emphasized: "Grasping the global development trend of artificial intelligence, identifying breakthroughs and key areas, and cultivating a large number of high-end artificial intelligence talents with innovation and cooperation spirit are important missions of education." "China is willing to work with other countries around the world to focus on cutting-edge issues in the development of artificial intelligence, deeply explore ideas and measures for educational development and innovation under the rapid development of artificial intelligence, build consensus, deepen cooperation, expand sharing, and jointly promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind." At present, a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth, and artificial intelligence is reshaping the global education landscape with unprecedented speed, breadth, and depth. Not long ago, the Ministry of Education (教育部) and other five departments issued the "Artificial Intelligence + Education" Action Plan, which clearly proposed to promote international cooperation in "Artificial Intelligence + Education" and deeply participate in the formulation of international agendas, rules, and standards in the field of artificial intelligence education. Facing opportunities and challenges, strengthening international cooperation in artificial intelligence education and continuously enhancing the international influence of "Artificial Intelligence + Education" is not only a strategic need to serve the construction of a strong education country, but also a responsible commitment to promote the construction of a community with a shared future for mankind.
Create a high-level international exchange flagship platform and establish a sound long-term cooperation mechanism. On the one hand, relying on existing high-end international platforms, we will optimize and strengthen the exclusive brand section of "Artificial Intelligence + Education." Make full use of international platforms such as the World Digital Education Conference, the World Artificial Intelligence Conference, the World Digital Education Alliance, the World MOOC and Online Education Conference, and the China International Education Annual Conference to plan and hold high-level "Artificial Intelligence + Education" theme side events or special forums. By setting up global artificial intelligence education innovation achievement exhibitions and releasing the latest cases of artificial intelligence education applications, we will focus on showcasing China's advanced concepts, mature technologies, and landing products, attract top universities, research institutions, and technology companies from around the world to participate, and form an international effect of cross-border integration between the industry and education sectors. On the other hand, we should make efforts to "establish mechanisms" and promote the transformation of international exchanges from "event-driven" to "mechanism-driven." Under the guidance of the international exchange flagship platform, take the lead in forming a cross-border "Artificial Intelligence + Education" international organization, establish permanent institutions such as secretariats, and establish a regular meeting, joint release, and information sharing operation mechanism. Through regular mechanism arrangements, international exchanges will move towards "deep docking," continuously expanding China's "circle of friends" in the global artificial intelligence education field.
Actively promote policy communication and standard alignment, and deeply participate in global education governance. Standards are the core of global governance and the commanding heights of the game. To improve international influence in the field of "Artificial Intelligence + Education," we must go beyond simple technology export, deeply integrate into the global education governance system, and demonstrate China's responsibility in policy communication and standard alignment. First, we should actively build a bridge for policy dialogue and build international consensus on the development of "Artificial Intelligence + Education." The application of artificial intelligence in education is accompanied by risks and challenges such as data privacy, algorithm bias, and academic ethics, and countries have different regulatory standards for this. Relying on multilateral mechanisms such as UNESCO (联合国教科文组织), we can actively initiate or participate in policy dialogues on global governance of artificial intelligence education. Through frank communication at the policy level, we can reduce misunderstandings, effectively prevent misjudgments, and demonstrate China's image as a responsible major country. Second, we should fully promote standard mutual recognition and joint formulation to enhance China's substantive voice in rule-making. Focusing on key areas such as artificial intelligence education large model interface specifications, education data classification and grading standards, and intelligent teaching terminal technology requirements, we should encourage domestic leading enterprises and scientific research institutes to connect with international standardization organizations. We should not only promote Chinese standards to "go global" and be adopted internationally, but also advocate that Chinese and foreign experts jointly draft and formulate new international standards. By leading or participating in standard formulation, we will transform the important practices extracted from China's massive education data precipitation into global general rules, thereby enhancing the Chinese imprint of "Artificial Intelligence + Education" at the underlying logic and realizing the transformation from a rule "follower" to a rule "leader."
Vigorously carry out international cooperation training in capacity building and promote the "going out" of high-quality resources. The focus of enhancing international influence lies in truly benefiting the people of all countries, especially helping the global South to cross the digital divide. We must practice the Global Development Initiative, promote the quality and efficiency of "Artificial Intelligence + Education" cooperation, adhere to "teaching people how to fish," and drive it with both capacity building and resource going overseas. On the one hand, we should accurately connect with international needs and vigorously carry out training in artificial intelligence teacher and governance capacity building. In the process of promoting education digitization, the biggest shortcoming faced by countries in the global South is often not the lack of equipment, but the lack of teachers who can master artificial intelligence technology and education managers who understand technology. We should integrate the expert resources of top domestic normal universities and leading artificial intelligence companies to establish a training center for international artificial intelligence education capacity building. By implementing a combination of "going out" training and "bringing in" further studies, we will cultivate a group of localized "seed teachers" who understand technology, can teach, and are good at management for partner countries, and activate their endogenous power for independent development. On the other hand, we should adhere to quality first and systematically promote high-quality "Artificial Intelligence + Education" resources and public service platforms to the world. In the process of resource going overseas, we should not simply translate domestic Chinese resources, but should carry out in-depth localization transformation in combination with the curriculum standards, cultural context, and religious customs of the target country. We should focus on promoting the "hardcore" resources such as domestic high-quality education large models, virtual simulation experiment platforms, and intelligent adaptive learning systems to go overseas, and provide full-cycle technical operation and maintenance support. With high-quality resource supply and good user experience, overseas teachers and students can truly feel the warmth and effectiveness of China's "Artificial Intelligence + Education" products, and enhance the global reputation of China's education technology and cultivate a loyal user base in a 润物无声 (rùn wù wú shēng - "moisten things silently," to influence or educate people subtly and gradually).
(Author's unit: Institute for AI International Governance, Tsinghua University (清华大学))
Return to TopBy: 安徽日报记者 袁 野
The leisurely Pi River (淠河) flows through Lu'an City (六安市), Anhui Province (安徽省), and along the riverbank lies a bustling town – Subu Town (苏埠镇) in Yu'an District (裕安区). Due to convenient transportation, this place has been a prosperous trading hub since ancient times, with a long-standing tradition of ramie textile skills.
Close to the river, fishing was once an important livelihood for the people of Subu Town (苏埠镇). Relying on its unique natural advantages, the town developed a rope and net manufacturing industry, and its fishing nets and other products became well-known far and wide.
"Until the 1990s, our town mainly used cold ramie as raw material for weaving fishing nets. Not only local fishermen used this kind of ramie fishing net, but also fishermen in other areas along the Pi River (淠河) and Huai River (淮河) used the fishing nets woven here. At that time, the rope and net manufacturing industry in Subu Town (苏埠镇) was already well-known in the surrounding areas," said Lu Xiulin (陆秀林), president of the Lu'an City Fishing Net Industry Association (六安市渔网具行业协会), introducing the history of the rope and net manufacturing industry in Subu Town (苏埠镇).
"Subu Town (苏埠镇) has more than 20 rope and net processing-related enterprises. Although the scale of a single one is not large, the combined scale is not small. Our products are sold to many parts of the country, and 'Lu'an Rope and Net' (六安绳网) and 'Subu Rope and Net' (苏埠绳网) have a high reputation in the industry," said Lu Xiulin (陆秀林).
On January 1, 2021, the comprehensive launch of the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔) brought both challenges and new development opportunities to the rope and net manufacturing industry in Subu Town (苏埠镇).
Besides fishing, what else can ropes and nets be used for? Following this line of thinking, practitioners in the rope and net manufacturing industry in Subu Town (苏埠镇) began new explorations.
Wang Weidong (汪卫东), the relevant person in charge of Lu'an City Hu Yu Net Co., Ltd. (六安市沪渔网具有限公司), a leading enterprise in the rope and net industry in Subu Town (苏埠镇), recalled that as early as 2013, he had done a batch of foreign trade orders - climbing nets exported to Thailand, also known as cucumber nets. "This kind of net is not used for fishing, but is installed in vegetable greenhouses for the vines of cucumbers and other plants to climb," said Wang Weidong (汪卫东). In the past, he didn't take these small orders very seriously, but now they have become the starting point for the company's transformation.
Wang Weidong (汪卫东) found his old customers, learned in detail about the overseas market demand for climbing nets, and after returning to the company, he transformed a production line to specialize in the production of climbing net products. Over the years, this product has become one of the company's main products and sells well overseas.
"Although the production process is much more complicated, the added value of climbing nets is higher, and the price per ton is much higher than ordinary fishing nets. Now our company produces more than 100 tons of this product a year, and overseas orders have been scheduled until the end of the year," said Wang Weidong (汪卫东).
"We actively guide rope and net enterprises to broaden their thinking, develop new products, and open up new markets," said Huang Daile (黄代乐), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of Subu Town (苏埠镇党委副书记).
In order to promote industrial development, Subu Town (苏埠镇) actively organizes enterprises to participate in domestic and foreign fishery expositions, rope and net commodity fairs and other exhibition activities, build product display and exchange cooperation platforms, and guide enterprises to strengthen cooperation with enterprises in agriculture, industry, sports and other fields.
Today, large and small rope and net enterprises in Subu Town (苏埠镇) are seeking new development directions. Products have been transformed from single fishing nets in the past into shade nets, protective nets, windbreak nets, climbing nets, etc.
"In the past, the ropes and nets in Subu Town (苏埠镇) were mainly fishing gear, and the categories were relatively simple. Nowadays, our products have been expanded to four categories and more than a dozen varieties of fishing and aquaculture rope nets, agricultural ecological rope nets, construction safety rope nets, and sports and leisure rope nets. The sales of non-fishing rope net products in the town account for more than 40%," said Lu Xiulin (陆秀林).
In recent years, Subu Town (苏埠镇) has actively guided rope and net enterprises to upgrade their production technology, promote the application of advanced net weaving, dyeing and other equipment and technologies, achieve production efficiency improvement and cost reduction, and help enterprises maintain market competitiveness.
In order to better promote the development of industrial clusters, the Lu'an City Fishing Net Industry Association (六安市渔网具行业协会) successfully registered the "Lu'an Rope and Net" (六安绳网) collective trademark in 2022. Through measures such as guiding enterprises to develop in a differentiated manner and organizing participation in domestic and foreign exhibitions, it has effectively enhanced the market influence of the "Lu'an Rope and Net" (六安绳网) regional brand.
"We have registered a collective trademark and authorized the first batch of 9 enterprises to use it. Through the use of the collective trademark, we can curb counterfeit products and establish the brand status of 'Lu'an Rope and Net' (六安绳网) in the industry," said Lu Xiulin (陆秀林).
Transformation has brought new development to the Subu (苏埠) rope and net industry. Facing the new situation of industrial development, Subu Town (苏埠镇), based on the development foundation and resource conditions of the local rope and net industry, has prepared the Subu Town Rope and Net Industry Development Plan, clarifying industrial development goals, key tasks and safeguard measures.
Today, there are more than 20 rope and net processing-related enterprises in the town, focusing on cultivating 4 leading enterprises, with 4 provincial-level high-tech enterprises, 1 specialized and new enterprise, and 2 science and technology-based small and medium-sized enterprises, with nearly 5,000 related employees, an annual comprehensive output value of more than 600 million yuan, and an annual output of about 15,000 tons of ropes, threads, nets and other products.
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Recently, a "wheelchair 4S store" in Shanghai (上海) began its trial operation. Unlike ordinary wheelchair repair shops, this "wheelchair 4S store" provides free services for minor repairs, personalized wheelchair customization, age-friendly model rooms, community social spaces, and other diverse functions to meet the multifaceted living needs of people with disabilities. At the same time, the China Disabled Persons' Federation (中国残联) also released the "2025 Statistical Communiqué on the Development of the Cause of Persons with Disabilities." These all indicate that related services are continuously developing in a more refined direction.
The heart-warming practice of the "wheelchair 4S store" reflects the iterative upgrading of the protection of people with disabilities. On the one hand, barrier-free facilities throughout society continue to be popularized and optimized. For example, Dongdan Station (东单站) of the Beijing (北京) Subway recently officially launched Beijing's (北京市) first subway "shared wheelchair convenience service station" to meet the barrier-free travel needs of surrounding hospitals, business districts, and other areas; Chongqing (重庆市) released a "Barrier-Free Mountain City" friendly map, which organizes and marks how to reach locations by public transportation, as well as the locations of barrier-free channels, elevators, and restrooms. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China (我国) has cumulatively implemented barrier-free home renovations for 1.47 million households with severely disabled people in difficulty, and tailored home renovation plans for these households with severely disabled people in difficulty. Relevant departments have promoted the aging-friendly and barrier-free transformation of Internet applications. From home life to outdoor activities, from real-world scenarios to virtual networks, heart-warming care is gradually covering the full range of life scenarios for the groups in need.
On the other hand, disability services are constantly extending to subdivided fields and benefiting all groups. As of the end of 2025, China (我国) has carried out approximately 22,000 sessions of Disability Culture Week activities, and the "Bright Cinema" barrier-free film viewing activities have been held in many places, continuously meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of people with disabilities; Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) launched the "Planet Night School" community night school service project for people with intellectual disabilities, offering courses such as life cooking, home safety, and vocational skills to enhance the life and survival skills of people with intellectual disabilities. The tentacles of disability services are constantly extending to the finer points, and the vision is constantly expanding to the broader areas, striving to ensure that every group and every type of need is valued.
However, it must also be recognized that problems such as the lack of maintenance of barrier-free facilities and the insufficient supply of special services in some areas still exist. Discovering needs is only the first step, and subsequent efforts require more intensive cultivation. Relevant departments need to continue to conduct in-depth research, accurately identify the demands of different groups, continuously optimize service supply, and promote the normalization and institutionalization of refined service supply.
There is no trivial matter concerning people's livelihood, and every twig and leaf is always related to emotions. We look forward to the emergence of more heart-warming practices in the future, meeting diverse livelihood needs with precise service supply, gathering urban warmth with subtle care, and painting a happy picture with warmth and affection. 民生无小事，枝叶总关情 (mín shēng wú xiǎo shì, zhī yè zǒng guān qíng - "There is no small matter in people's livelihood, every twig and leaf is always related to emotions," meaning that even the smallest concerns of the people are important and should be addressed with care).
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Hohhot (呼和浩特), Inner Mongolia Daily (内蒙古日报), May 13 (Reporter Li Guoping (李国萍)) The five departments of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区) recently jointly issued the "Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Product Carbon Footprint Label Certification Directory," covering eight categories of products, including electrolytic aluminum products and products, textiles (cashmere products), and graphite products. In the future, Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) will label the above products with "green labels" through "certification."
Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) Startup Zone's "15-Minute Volunteer Service Circle" Initially Formed
Shijiazhuang (石家庄), this newspaper, May 13 (Correspondent Li Baojian (李保健)) The startup zone of Hebei Xiong'an New Area (河北雄安新区) has established a "Volunteer Partner" mechanism, linking 52 centrally-administered state-owned enterprises, public service institutions, etc., to create the "Yi Qidong (益启动)" volunteer service system, initially forming a "15-minute volunteer service circle" covering the entire startup zone. The startup zone of Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) has carefully built 17 "Volunteer Homes" and 31 "Warmhearted Stations," and launched an electronic map, allowing the public to enjoy convenient services with one-click navigation.
"Village Super" Green Paper Released in Guizhou (贵州)
Guiyang (贵阳), Guizhou Daily (贵州日报), May 13 (Reporter Zhang Liangsheng (张良胜)) "Village Super Green Paper: Guizhou 'Village Super' Development Report (2025)" was recently released in Guizhou (贵州).
The Village Super Green Paper systematically sorts out the origin, competition history, and social impact of "Village Super," and proposes that "Village Super" has explored a new model for the comprehensive revitalization of counties and villages.
Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西) "Comedy Bus" Operates Regularly on Weekends
Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi Daily (江西日报), May 13 (Reporter Cai Yinghui (蔡颖辉)) Nanchang (南昌) Bus and Shengjin Tower (绳金塔) Historical and Cultural Block and Guilinshe (贵林社) jointly launched the "Comedy Bus" during the "May Day" holiday this year. Inside the bus, comedy actors bring performances such as Nanchang (南昌) dialect crosstalk, humorous stand-up comedy, and improvisational interactive comedy. After the "May Day" holiday, the "Comedy Bus" has switched to regular weekend operation.
Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) Releases Management Specifications for Takeout Without Dine-In
Xiamen (厦门), Fujian Daily (福建日报), May 13 (Reporter Huang Xingrong (黄星榕)) Xiamen (厦门) City, Fujian (福建) recently released the "Food Safety Management Specifications for Takeout Without Dine-In," which will comprehensively regulate the local "cloud kitchen" business model.
The specifications formulate highly practical operational guidelines from three dimensions: merchant information disclosure, risk self-inspection and control, and platform positive incentives.
Sanya (三亚), Hainan (海南) First Batch of Rural Collective Economic Managers Take Office
Sanya (三亚), Hainan Daily (海南日报), May 13 (Reporter Liu Jie (刘杰)) Recently, Sanya (三亚) City, Hainan (海南) held the first signing ceremony for rural collective economic managers, formally appointing four professionals as rural collective economic managers to operate village-level collective assets in a professional and market-oriented manner. The rural collective economic managers selected this time implement a full-time village-based work model, adopting a "one-year assessment, two-year term" employment management system.
Five Libraries Jointly Hold Parent-Child Reading Event
Tianjin (天津), Tianjin Daily (天津日报), May 13 (Reporter Zhang Fan (张帆)) Tianjin Library (天津图书馆) recently joined hands with the Capital Library (首都图书馆), Hebei Provincial Library (河北省图书馆), Changdu (昌都) City Library of Tibet (西藏昌都市图书馆), and Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘南藏族自治州) Library of Gansu (甘肃) to jointly hold a parent-child reading event. During the event, teachers led young readers and parents to read carefully together, guiding children to understand the significance of resource reuse through the "circular journey" of a tree becoming a notebook, waste paper, shopping bag, and then a book.
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In the Jitaoju Studio in Qinbei District, Qinzhou City, Guangxi, 29-year-old Li Yuanlin (李远林) is throwing Nixing pottery. Around him, 20 young people are also engrossed in creation.
Li Yuanlin (李远林) is from Guigang City, Guangxi. In 2023, he founded his own Nixing pottery studio. His first product, a hand-held pot, quickly became popular after its launch. In 2024, he launched an upgraded version. Today, the studio's products are sold overseas.
"Using the perspective of young people to make traditional Nixing pottery, creating simple and elegant shapes that meet the aesthetics of contemporary people," Li Yuanlin (李远林) has his own experience in Nixing pottery production. This group of young people are proving with their actions that traditional crafts can also 绽放新光彩 (zhàn fàng xīn guāng cǎi - "radiate new splendor," to shine with renewed brilliance) in the contemporary market.
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At 4:30 PM, at the Wenxin Jiayuan Elderly Dining Table in Qianshan Village (前山村), Sihai Town (四海镇), Yanqing District (延庆区), Beijing (北京), 80-year-old Xie Yun (谢云) picked up her meal: braised pork, stewed green beans, cold lettuce salad, and cornmeal porridge, eating with relish.
Sihai Town (四海镇) is hidden deep in the mountains. The villages are remote and the population is scattered. Most villages have only a dozen or even a few elderly people, making it costly and impractical to set up separate kitchens. In recent years, the town and villages have jointly explored a path of "villages forming groups to share meals": For the surrounding 10 small villages with small populations and difficult operations, instead of setting up their own locations, the elderly dining tables in neighboring central villages provide unified meal distribution and meal assistance services.
The elderly dining table in Qianshan Village (前山村) serves more than 40 elderly people from the three villages of Qianshan (前山), Louliang (楼梁), and Wangshungou (王顺沟). The 20 elderly people in the village come to the dining table themselves; the elderly people in the slightly more distant Louliang Village (楼梁村) and Wangshungou Village (王顺沟村) are delivered to their homes by delivery personnel.
"The government uniformly subsidizes meal expenses for people with disabilities, and other elderly people pay 150 yuan per month themselves. The rest is covered by 'the government subsidizing a little, and the operating entity giving a little'," said Wang Yan (王燕), Secretary of the Party Branch of Qianshan Village (前山村) .
In 2023, Qianshan Village (前山村) introduced a farmhouse restaurant to participate in the operation. Usually, the elderly dining table serves the elderly normally. When there are many tourists in the scenic area next to the village, the restaurant will also operate externally. The two businesses complement each other, and the restaurant can operate on its own.
Supplies are also carefully calculated. The village has specially set aside 10 mu of land, which is planted with Chinese cabbage, radishes, and potatoes by the cooperative and directly supplied to the restaurant, saving labor and transportation costs. The restaurant also purchases green beans, tomatoes, and cucumbers grown by villagers in their own fields, which not only reduces costs but also adds income to farmers.
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Commuting crowds riding during the morning and evening rush hours, professional cyclists racing on suburban greenways... In recent years, a cycling craze has swept through many cities. What are the new trends in cycling today? The 2026 China International Bicycle Exhibition recently held in Shanghai (上海) showcased many new changes in the bicycle industry.
A fully 3D-printed titanium alloy frame placed in the center of the exhibition's innovation demonstration area attracted a lot of attention. "Previously, titanium alloy 3D printing was mostly used in the field of aviation manufacturing. This year, we applied the one-piece printing process to bicycle manufacturing, which greatly improved the stability of the body structure. At the same time, we precisely controlled the weight of the entire vehicle, achieving a two-way breakthrough and balance between frame rigidity and lightweight," said Wang Yuanbo (王渊博), Sales General Manager of the LAGET brand of Shaanxi Taishibang Technology Industry Co., Ltd. (陕西泰世邦科技实业有限公司).
A pair of black cycling gloves brought by Shenzhen Luge Sports Goods Co., Ltd. (广东深圳市路歌体育用品有限公司) had some "armor" added to the metacarpal joints. "Don't underestimate this layer of 'armor'. It contains a new type of nano-composite material - DCLAN gel. This gel hardens upon impact, forming a protective shell when the rider falls, resisting the impact on the metacarpals; it softens upon release of force, so you won't feel stiff when wearing it," introduced Zhang Yu (张宇), the person in charge of on-site activities at the innovation demonstration exhibition. The raw materials for this gel are organic silicone and polyurethane, which are harmless to human contact and more environmentally friendly.
Compared with previous years, this year's exhibition paid more attention to cyclists. At the booth of Shanghai Forever Bicycle Co., Ltd. (上海永久自行车有限公司), "Shenli" (申丽) brand bicycles with small and exquisite appearances and bright colors attracted many visitors to stop and learn more. Hebei Hengchi Bicycle Parts (Group) Co., Ltd. (河北恒驰自行车零件（集团）有限公司), which focuses on the production of children's and youth bicycles, focused on "light weight" as the focus of its display this year.
The bicycle industry is also using artificial intelligence technology to transform and upgrade. In the Baikewu store under Tianjin Jinlun Group (天津金轮集团), after consumers ride a bicycle connected to multiple instruments for a period of time, with the consumer's consent, the relevant riding data is analyzed and summarized by artificial intelligence to generate a data report. "We will customize the bicycles needed by consumers based on this report. Consumers only need to wait an extra week to buy their own unique bicycle," said Zhang Xinyu (张新宇), Chief Executive Officer and Group President Business Assistant of Baikewu.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopBy: 湖北日报记者 文 凯
In the dense forest near the Yangtze River in Niuzhaping Village (牛扎坪村), Dianjun Subdistrict (点军街道), Dianjun District (点军区), Yichang City (宜昌市), Hubei Province (湖北), a loud shout pierces the sky. As the sound fades, several monkeys nimbly jump onto the riverside viewing platform, and villager Yan Chengjun (闫成军) peels a banana and hands it to a monkey.
Yan Chengjun's (闫成军) home is in Group One of Niuzhaping (牛扎坪一组). In the 1970s, when the Gezhouba Dam (葛洲坝) water conservancy project began construction, Niuzhaping (牛扎坪) became a stone supply yard. Yan Chengjun's (闫成军) father, Yan Yongzhong (闫永忠), became a quarry worker. After the Gezhouba Dam (葛洲坝) water conservancy project was completed, the quarries were gradually closed, and villagers went out to work. Yan Chengjun (闫成军) also went out to do decoration work.
"Jointly protect the Yangtze River and avoid large-scale development." As Yichang (宜昌) began to solve the problem of chemical industry surrounding the Yangtze River, the "barren stone hills" in Dianjun District (点军区) began to be re-greened, and the forest coverage rate continued to increase. The forests in Niuzhaping (牛扎坪) became denser, and there were more and more wild macaques by the river. Chen Jun (陈军), director of the Forestry Management Center of the Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau of Dianjun District (点军区农业农村局林业管理中心), introduced that there are currently 5 groups of macaques, totaling more than 200, in the Dianjun (点军) section of the south bank of the Xiling Gorge (西陵峡), with large groups of over a hundred and small groups of twenty or thirty. Many of the tourists who come here are having their first close encounter with wild monkey groups. These scenes are repeatedly written into check-in guides by bloggers, attracting more tourists.
In recent years, Niuzhaping (牛扎坪) has built a flower and tree city, developing the seedling and flower industry. One Yangtze River bridge after another has shortened the distance between Dianjun District (点军区) and the Jiangbei (江北) urban area of Yichang (宜昌). Farmhouses, homestays, village cafes, and bakeries have been built. Yan Chengjun's (闫成军) wife, Xu Jifen (徐继芬), also helps out in the village's farmhouse kitchen. Yan Chengjun (闫成军) said: "In the past, we relied on stones, now we rely on the scenery."
Return to TopBy: 文汇报记者 王宛艺
Gaoyou Road (高邮路), approximately 15 meters wide, is one of Shanghai's (上海) protected historical streets. This narrowness troubles courier Yuan Yahui (袁亚辉) somewhat: in small-scale neighborhoods, there's "nowhere to put"快递包裹. Recently, the subdistrict organized a meeting where urban management officials, residents, and couriers sat down to discuss and decided on a strategy of "staggered centralized storage" – temporary occupation of the road during agreed-upon times, with mutual understanding; outside those times, returning the road "back."
The couriers have become "partners" participating in neighborhood consultations.
In April of this year, the "Opinions of the General Office of the CPC Central Committee and the General Office of the State Council on Strengthening Service Management of New Employment Groups" was released. It proposed establishing and improving a normalized consultation and discussion mechanism for important matters involving the rights and interests of new employment groups, so that these groups "have a voice, are heard, and can make a difference."
Communities are opening smart door access to delivery drivers, requiring them to scan codes upon entry and drive slowly with speed limits; the Shanghai (上海) New Era Urban Builders and Managers Home has prepared nearly 80,000 beds to help more than 6,000 delivery personnel solve their accommodation problems; conflicts in courier sorting have been resolved through negotiations, reaching agreements on staggered times and designated areas.
Behind these vivid practices is a systematic institutional design covering the entire city. Jiading Town (嘉定镇) Subdistrict in Shanghai's (上海) Jiading District (嘉定区) has devolved government services to the Rider's Home, establishing a dedicated service area for handling certificates, and conducting "on-site, centralized" processing of high-frequency services such as residence permits every month. The "New Employment Group Neighborhood Map" on the wall integrates 86 service points, marking charging, hot meal, and rest stations. A map and a directory make this small Rider's Home a reliable "rear support" for riders on their delivery routes.
A relevant person in charge of the Shanghai (上海) Municipal Party Committee's Social Work Department stated: "We must promote new employment groups to move towards modern service industry positions with skill certification, growth and development, social security, and occupational dignity."
Return to TopBy: 大众日报记者 王 楠
At 2 PM, a light rain was falling. Liu Yue (刘玥), a tourist from Gaomi City (高密市), Shandong Province (山东), headed straight for Linyi Huafeng International Clothing City (临沂华丰国际服装城) after visiting the former residence of Wang Xizhi (王羲之). This wasn't her first time in Linyi (临沂), Shandong (山东), but it was the first time she had listed a clothing wholesale market as a tourist destination.
"I saw on my phone that Huafeng International Clothing City (华丰国际服装城) was having a fashion show and a flea market during the 'May Day' holiday this year," said Liu Yue (刘玥). "This morning, when packing my luggage at the hotel, I specifically left half a suitcase empty, waiting to fill it with my 'shopping' results."
Fifteen minutes later, she stood at the entrance of Block B of Linyi Huafeng International Clothing City (临沂华丰国际服装城B区). "Even on a rainy day, there are so many people." Liu Yue (刘玥) was a little surprised as she looked at the customers carrying large and small bags.
After "tourism-oriented" renovations, this wholesale market, originally aimed at retailers across the country, officially became a national 3A-level tourist attraction. Today, the clothing city has a tourist service center, clear guiding signs, and has introduced diverse business formats such as intangible cultural heritage experience stores, fashion shows, and trendy markets, making the traditional wholesale market more "strollable, playable, and purchasable."
At 2:30 PM, music began to play in the clothing city, and the fashion show began. Models wearing the latest seasonal styles walked down the steps, and many customers sat at the stairwell and stood on the sidewalks on both sides to watch. "You can even watch shows in a wholesale market." Liu Yue (刘玥) took videos and posted them on her WeChat Moments.
"I didn't realize you could spend a whole day in a clothing city," Liu Yue (刘玥) exclaimed as she walked out of the mall.
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By: 本报记者 王永战
In Chengdu, Sichuan Province, the Jinjiang District (锦江区) MixC shopping center's "Super Space Cube" southwest debut brings a new parent-child tourism experience; the Eastern Suburb Memory Park (东郊记忆园区) in Chenghua District (成华区), with its "Everywhere is a Stage, New Literary and Artistic Talents Fringe Program," transforms the old factory area into a natural theater; Xinglong Lake (兴隆湖) in Tianfu New Area (天府新区), with its independently developed sports events kicking off... Chengdu continues to create new debut scenes, construct new debut brands, and shape new debut trends, promoting the debut economy from "single-point attraction" to "ecological construction" development, and cultivating a full-chain debut economy.
-- Editor
Creating New Scenes --
From debut stores and debut products to debut events, the debut experience is upgraded.
In the Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, citizens and tourists are bustling. Walking into the global debut store of a Spanish outdoor brand, what catches the eye is the spray-painted design of Mount Gongga (贡嘎雪山) and Mount Siguniang (四姑娘山). The imagery of the two major western Sichuan snow mountains is cleverly integrated into the store environment. "Shopping here is full of freshness," said Sun Qi (孙琦), a tourist from Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi Province.
Continuously introducing debut stores and debut products in the outdoor field, the Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district has formed a new consumer ecology. The Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district gathers nearly 2,000 international brands and more than 600 debut stores, with vigorous debut economic vitality.
The booming debut economy demonstrates the city's consumption vitality. Since the beginning of this year, a batch of debut stores and debut products have been concentrated in Chengdu - Ralph Lauren's first flagship store in mainland China has opened, Deyunshe's (德云社) first theater in southwest China has settled in the Global Center in Chengdu High-tech Zone (成都高新区环球中心), international brands and local IPs have appeared on the same stage, refreshing the business district's consumer appeal... Data shows that since 2019, Chengdu has accumulated more than 4,800 debut stores at home and abroad, and in 2025, 876 new brand debut stores will be added, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year.
In addition to debut stores and debut products, debut shows, debut exhibitions, debut competitions and other debut events have also attracted the attention of many citizens and tourists. A pet sports meeting kicked off in Chengdu, with cute dogs leaping over hurdles, weaving around poles, and rushing through tunnels, with cheers and applause rising one after another. "110 groups of professional racing dogs and nearly 2,000 pet dogs participated in this sports meeting," said the person in charge of the event organizer.
Outside the arena, the pet life market is very lively. Citizens bring their pets to the exhibition, check in and take photos, consult and experience... people come and go. In the forest camping and leisure area, people watch the game, picnic, and enjoy their holiday time.
The original drama "Su堤春晓" (Sū dī chūn xiǎo) by the National Theatre of China (中国国家话剧院) was performed for 3 consecutive shows at the Zhongyan·Chengdu Grand Theatre (中演·成都大剧院), and then additional shows were urgently added. "The drama is very popular, and tickets are quickly sold out every time they are released," said Ms. Li (李女士), who came from Mianyang (绵阳), Sichuan Province, to see the drama. At the same time, an art exhibition is also being held simultaneously in the theater, transforming the theater from a simple performance venue into a standard public cultural space.
Various debut events create new debut scenes and enhance the debut experience. Data shows that in 2025, Chengdu will hold 370 new product debut, debut show, and debut exhibition events, including 14 global debut events, and the number of national and southwest debut events will exceed 80, and high-energy debut events will accelerate gathering.
Constructing New Brands --
Promoting consumption with debut products, creating new urban business forms.
Scan the code to place an order, and the robotic arm accurately completes the material taking and mixing. In just a few minutes, a beautifully shaped ice cream is made. "Watching robots make ice cream is novel and interesting," said Ms. Ye (叶女士), a tourist who took the finished product from the robot.
This is the embodied intelligent robot hypermarket located in Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu - Robot World (机器人大世界). "We focus on 'immersive experience + scenario-based application' to allow technology products to move from the window into life. Ordinary citizens and corporate purchasers can operate and experience full-scene intelligent products and complete the entire process from experience to purchase," said the person in charge of the project.
The debut economy promotes industrial development. Taking the artificial intelligence industry as an example, in 2025, the scale of Chengdu's artificial intelligence core industry will exceed 150 billion yuan, an increase of more than 39% year-on-year. Today, the city has gathered more than 1,200 artificial intelligence and robotics companies, realizing full coverage of the industrial chain's basic layer, technology layer, and application layer, and has built a total of 76 national and provincial-level science and technology innovation platforms in the field of artificial intelligence.
The debut economy drives consumption growth. Light and shadow flow, music lingers, and dances flutter... Walking into the Shuijingtang (水璟唐) block in Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu, the Shu brocade aesthetic immersive dining show "Jinxiu Dining Show" (锦秀餐秀) creates a new consumption scene of "catering + intangible cultural heritage + performing arts."
"The debut economy activates new consumer demands with new products, new technologies, and new services, and creates new urban business forms," analyzed Zheng Tao (郑涛), Dean of the School of Economics and Management of Sichuan Normal University (四川师范大学) and Dean of the Debut Economy Research Institute.
Taking intangible cultural heritage Shu brocade as the main line, "Jinxiu Dining Show" (锦秀餐秀) combines Sichuan cuisine and classical music to create an immersive experience space. "We have introduced the first catering store in southwest China with a regular Konghou performance, so that customers' dining is not only a taste experience, but also a feeling of distinctive culture," said the relevant person in charge of the block.
Cross-border integration allows the debut to superimpose experience consumption. The Youth Magnetic Field shopping center in Jinjiang District (锦江区) gathers many debut trendy brands, and also attracts shoppers through various exhibitions. "We use a business model that integrates 'trendy brands + curation + social interaction' to achieve consumption model upgrades," said Kan Mengying (阚梦莹), the manager of the shopping mall. The mall holds hundreds of art exhibitions and pop-up events every year to enhance the consumer experience.
Constructing new brands, the debut economy is transforming traffic into consumption increment. In 2025, the total retail sales of consumer goods in Chengdu reached 1,143.41 billion yuan, an increase of 5.5% over the previous year, of which commodity retail was 1,000.83 billion yuan, an increase of 5.6%.
Shaping New Trends --
Policy guarantees all elements, and the "innovation-debut-transformation" development ecology is accelerating.
The square screen can perform vivid expressions and display integrated media content; it can dance and is good at efficient group control scheduling and multi-machine collaborative movement; it can patrol and has AI (artificial intelligence) visual technology to achieve multi-language intelligent guidance and explanation services... This robot product is called "Tangba" (镋钯), which is an innovative achievement of Chengdu Xingjin Humanoid Robot Technology Co., Ltd. (成都兴锦人形机器人科技有限公司). "Last year, we quickly increased the popularity of 'Tangba' through the debut product exhibition in the Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district," said the relevant person in charge of the company. The product has been exported in batches and expanded its market.
The debut is linked to technological innovation, shaping new trends in the debut economy. In addition to "Tangba" (镋钯), the Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Center (成都人形机器人创新中心) has also jointly built the Embodied Intelligent Engineering Robot Innovation Center with China Power Construction Group (中国电力建设集团), released a large model, launched standard formulation, and created a technology source for embodied intelligent engineering robots.
"We are promoting the deep integration of the debut economy and technological innovation to form a chain development system of 'first research-first release-first store-headquarters'," said Sun Qiu (孙秋), director of the Debut Economy Development Promotion Center in Jinjiang District (锦江区), Chengdu. Jinjiang District (锦江区) takes the research and development of the Bailuwan Science and Technology Ecological Park (白鹭湾科技生态园) as the source and the Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district as the release platform to promote the linkage of "Debut Chunxi Road (春熙路) + Science and Technology Innovation Bailuwan (白鹭湾)" to achieve the debut of more than 40 technology products. At present, the Bailuwan Science and Technology Ecological Park (白鹭湾科技生态园) has gathered 57 innovation platforms, covering six major future industries including brain-computer interface and embodied intelligence.
The debut economy and technological innovation continue to empower each other in both directions. Not long ago, a supply and demand docking meeting with building scenarios as the entry point kicked off. Drones took off and performed a real-life debut demonstration of automated curtain wall cleaning technology. The innovative technological achievements aroused strong interest from the building operators present.
Strengthening policy supply, Chengdu is accelerating the formation of a "innovation-debut-transformation" development ecology. In April last year, the "Chengdu Three-Year Action Plan for Promoting the Development of the Debut Economy (2025-2027)" was released, proposing to implement a new product debut offensive action, encourage enterprises in Chengdu to increase R&D investment, strengthen services from R&D to market promotion, and promote the formation of an industrial pattern of "Chengdu R&D, global debut."
Government service upgrades, policy "exemption from application and immediate enjoyment," talent gathering empowerment... A series of policy guarantees for all elements inject strong impetus into the development ecological closed loop. In the process of landing the first southwest store of a certain Korean home furnishing brand, Jinjiang District (锦江区) pioneered a one-stop service mechanism for the debut economy, allowing the debut store to accelerate its landing. "After implementing the 'one-window handling' for new product debuts, debut store entry, debut exhibitions, and debut shows, the work efficiency has increased by more than 50%," said Sun Qiu (孙秋).
With the two-way drive of policy and market, the debut traffic continues to be transformed into industrial increment. "With a large number of 'Chengdu-made' dazzling debuts, the market recognition of 'Rong products' is constantly expanding, which has also promoted the iterative upgrade of technological innovation," said Lan Huajuan (兰华娟), Deputy Director of the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Commerce (成都市商务局). By the end of 2027, Chengdu will strive to land 6,500 debut stores of various types, build 100 debut economic landmark carriers, and cultivate 500 new consumer brands.
By: 吴 凯
Why is Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) so full of vitality in its first-store economy? The key lies in not being satisfied with planting trees one by one, but focusing on creating forests in contiguous areas, cultivating a vibrant first-store ecosystem.
"Forest creation" should be tailored to local conditions. Based on consumption characteristics, the Chunxi Road (春熙路) business district continues to introduce first stores and first products in the outdoor field, forming an agglomeration effect. Relying on industrial advantages, Robot World (机器人大世界) allows technology products to move from the window into life. Integrating local characteristics, "Jinxiu Meal Show" (锦秀餐秀) uses intangible cultural heritage Shu brocade to connect catering and performing arts, creating an immersive experience space. Practice has proven that based on its own resource endowment, the first-store economy can grow scenery that cannot be replicated elsewhere.
"Forest creation" requires cultivating the ecosystem. For trees to grow well, suitable sunshine and rain are indispensable. The first-store economy involves many links and a long chain, and any bottleneck may cause good projects to miss opportunities. Chengdu (成都) has created a one-stop service mechanism to accelerate the landing of first stores; it has implemented a "no application required" policy to send policy bonuses to enterprises... Good policies do not replace the growth of trees, but send sufficient sunshine and rain, allowing every tree in the forest to grow towards the sun.
Planting a tree yields a shade; creating a forest cultivates a land. We look forward to more cities adapting to local conditions and allowing the first-store economy to take deep root and flourish.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
Driving southwest from Hangzhou (杭州) city in Zhejiang (浙江) Province for about 2 hours, you'll arrive at Fenshui Town (分水镇) in Tonglu County (桐庐县). The Fenshui River (分水江), the largest tributary of the Fuchun River (富春江), flows through the town, hence its name. From above, a major road flies across the river, along which nearly 900 pen-making and supporting enterprises are distributed.
Entering May, in order to seize market opportunities and rush to produce orders from home and abroad, the pen-making industry in Fenshui Town (分水镇) is in full swing. Fitting pen shells, putting on pen caps, installing springs... the Common Prosperity Workshop (共富工坊) in Tangyuan Village (塘源村) has been particularly busy these past few days, with many villagers assembling ballpoint pens in the workshop. Some pen-making enterprises and villages are collaborating to rush orders, allowing villagers to increase their income at their doorstep.
The workshop machinery is roaring, welcoming the peak of production. On the other side, at Hangzhou Chencai Plastic Products Co., Ltd. (杭州晨彩塑料制品有限公司), automated production equipment is running at high speed: more than 30 injection molding machines are humming, mechanical arms are running back and forth, and assembled ballpoint pens are "walking" off the production line. The company's daily output of various types of pens can reach 300,000.
Data shows that the total output of the pen-making industry in Fenshui Town (分水镇) exceeded 8.5 billion pens last year, with ballpoint pen production accounting for about 35% of the national market share.
From common ballpoint pens and gel pens to creative pens that integrate various functions and designs... in the sample exhibition hall, Zhong Xiujuan (钟秀娟), the person in charge of the enterprise, introduced a spinning pen for students in front of the live broadcast screen, attracting many netizens to place orders.
"Every year, we design and develop new products according to market demand. Currently, we have dozens of patented products," said Zhong Xiujuan (钟秀娟).
Walking into the finished product testing room of Hangzhou Dingshen New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (杭州鼎申新材料科技有限公司), ball beads with a minimum diameter of 0.25 mm are undergoing performance testing on special equipment independently developed by the company. "There are dozens of raw material formulas for ball beads, and subtle changes in various materials will affect the quality of the ball beads," said Zhao Yi (赵毅), the general manager of the company. The technicians spent 18 months conducting nearly a hundred experiments to find a suitable formula. Currently, Dingshen Technology (鼎申科技) can produce 2 billion ball beads per month, exporting them to countries such as India and Italy.
In Fenshui Town (分水镇), the team of enterprises mastering the core technology of the pen industry is constantly growing. The local government also promotes the transformation of scientific and technological achievements and promotes the upgrading of the traditional pen-making industry through technical cooperation with relevant universities.
In the exhibition area of Tonglu Jiudai Stationery Co., Ltd. (桐庐九代文具有限公司), General Manager Liu Quangang (刘全钢) is explaining his company's bamboo pencils to merchants. "We cooperated with Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University (浙江农林大学) to introduce the bamboo industry into pencil manufacturing, and it took us 8 years to develop and launch bamboo pencils," said Liu Quangang (刘全钢). The company has established a production line with an annual output of 80 million bamboo pencils in Anji County (安吉县), Huzhou (湖州), Zhejiang (浙江), which is expected to reduce the felling of 70,000 trees every year.
Liu Quangang (刘全钢) most often visits the pen industry innovation service complex built in the town. Here, the mold precision testing technology application center can realize one-stop functions such as product design and 3D printing; relying on the research results of Wenzhou University (温州大学), the pen testing and technology application center can provide enterprises with services such as automatic assembly of pen products. The complex has gathered 29 innovation service institutions, established cooperative relationships with 15 universities, and built 2 public service platforms, 2 R&D centers, and 1 pilot test base.
Fenshui Town (分水镇) has formed a complete industrial chain including raw material supply, mold processing, parts manufacturing, whole pen production, logistics and transportation, and trade sales. In 2025, the annual output value of the pen-making industry in Fenshui Town (分水镇) will exceed 8.2 billion yuan, forming an industrial gradient matrix with 1 100-million-yuan pen-making enterprise, 5 100-million-yuan cultivation enterprises, and a group of technology-based growth enterprises.
Return to TopLiuzhou (柳州), Guangxi (广西), has established an automotive component "bamboo-for-plastic" related industrial chain, transforming bamboo resources into raw materials for automotive components. Bamboo fiber composite materials have been applied on a large scale in automotive interiors, headliners, seat back panels, and other fields. Compared with traditional plastic parts, this can reduce volatile organic compounds in the car, making it low-carbon and healthy.
The above pictures are all taken by Li Hanchi (黎寒池) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued).
Return to TopAccording to information obtained by reporter Li Xinping (李心萍) from the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司): From January to April this year, railway construction has been advanced with high quality and efficiency. The national railway completed fixed asset investment of 200.8 billion yuan, an increase of 3.2% year-on-year, effectively leveraging its radiating and driving role.
The relevant person in charge of the Construction Department of the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司) introduced that since the beginning of this year, the China State Railway Group Co., Ltd. (中国国家铁路集团有限公司) has focused on serving major national strategies and regional economic and social development, making full use of the national "two major" support policies, seizing the golden period of spring construction, optimizing construction organization, strengthening safety and quality management, and widely applying new technologies and new processes to promote positive progress in the construction of a number of key projects. In April, the joint commissioning and testing of the Xi'an-Shiyan High-speed Railway and the Shandong section of the Xiong'an-Shangqiu High-speed Railway progressed smoothly, with the maximum test speed reaching 385 kilometers per hour, laying a solid foundation for opening and operation; the Xi'an-Ankang High-speed Railway and the Wenling-Yuhuan section of the Hangzhou-Shaoxing-Taizhou High-speed Railway successively started static acceptance; and all tunnels of the Chongqing-Wanzhou High-speed Railway were completed.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) May 13th (Reporter Kou Jiangze (寇江泽)) The Shanghai Environment and Energy Exchange (上海环境能源交易所) released data showing that as of May 13th, the cumulative transaction volume of carbon emission allowances in the national carbon market reached 897 million tons, and the cumulative transaction value exceeded 60 billion yuan.
The national carbon emission trading market is an important policy tool for China to control greenhouse gas emissions and promote the comprehensive green and low-carbon transformation of economic and social development. In 2021, the national carbon emission trading market was launched for online trading, initially including only 2,162 key emission units in the power generation industry, covering approximately 4.5 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions. By 2025, the coverage will be expanded to more than 3,000 key emission units in the power generation, steel, cement, and aluminum smelting industries, covering approximately 8 billion tons of carbon dioxide emissions, accounting for more than 60% of the total national carbon dioxide emissions. Relevant officials from the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部) stated that in 2026, efforts will be made to enhance the momentum of green development, strengthen the construction of the national carbon market, steadily promote a combination of free and paid quota allocation methods, and continuously expand the supply of the voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction trading market.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张腾扬
Hot roasted sweet potatoes become more valuable when frozen?
In Baixiang County (柏乡县), Xingtai City (邢台市), Hebei Province (河北省), roasted golden sweet potatoes are flash-frozen at a frigid -35 degrees Celsius to lock in freshness, then packaged and sent to consumers far away. With one bite, the icy sweet potato mash melts on the tongue, a blend of caramelized aroma and refreshing sweetness, like ice cream yet with the rich flavor of roasted sweet potatoes... This unique taste has made frozen sweet potatoes a popular food.
Li Yakun (李亚坤), general manager of Huiguchunhe Agricultural Technology Co., Ltd. (慧谷春禾农业科技有限公司) in Baixiang County (柏乡县), has deep feelings about the popularity of frozen sweet potatoes. Baixiang County (柏乡县) has advantages such as sandy soil, simultaneous rain and heat, long sunshine hours, and large temperature differences between day and night, resulting in soft, glutinous, fragrant, and sweet sweet potatoes. However, traditional planting relies on the weather, market prices fluctuate, and sales channels are narrow. "During some harvest seasons, piles of fresh sweet potatoes were left in the fields, and farmers squatted on the ridges, worrying," Li Yakun (李亚坤) recalled. In 2021, he founded the company, specializing in the deep processing of sweet potatoes.
Starting from scratch was not easy. Initially making sweet potato jerky products, Li Yakun (李亚坤) spent his days in the workshop, monitoring the cleaning, steaming, roasting, and quick-freezing processes; at night, he studied diligently, researching materials and comparing data. To find the best taste, he used himself as a "guinea pig" - trying different batches of sweet potato products every day for a month. "I got sick of eating them during that time, and I worried whenever I saw sweet potatoes," Li Yakun (李亚坤) laughed.
In 2022, the sweet potato deep-processing production line went into operation. However, reality poured cold water on him - the sweet potato jerky market was very competitive, and his own product sales were mediocre.
How to create a truly well-known new product? "Initially, we mainly promoted sweet potato jerky at exhibitions, and frozen sweet potatoes were just 'decorations' in the corner." As a result, after several exhibitions, Li Yakun (李亚坤) found that many customers had very high evaluations of frozen sweet potatoes. In 2023, he adjusted the production line and made frozen sweet potatoes the main product. With the new product he developed, he traveled to various places to participate in food ingredient exhibitions, and specially thawed the frozen sweet potatoes on-site, cutting them into small pieces for merchants to taste. "This taste is too memorable, we can cooperate for a long time," a person in charge of a chain catering company decided on the spot. In the end, more than 20 customers reached cooperation intentions with Huiguchunhe Company (慧谷春禾公司) on the spot. Soon, "Baixiang Frozen Sweet Potatoes" (柏乡冰薯) successfully entered first-tier cities in China. In 2025, the frozen sweet potato production of Huiguchunhe Company (慧谷春禾公司) reached 1250 tons, doubling from the previous year, and was still in short supply, with sales exceeding 20 million yuan. Today, the second production line is under construction.
With the frozen sweet potato product becoming popular, greater challenges followed. "Planting, processing, transportation, and sales, all aspects are testing the management ability of practitioners," Li Yakun (李亚坤) said. To standardize planting, the company built more than 4,000 mu of order planting bases in the Taihang Mountains (太行山区), uniformly promoting the high-end variety "Huigu No. 2" (慧谷二号); experts provide guidance, from seedling to fertilization, the entire process is standardized management; digital empowerment, intelligent constant temperature warehouses store 6,000 tons of fresh sweet potatoes annually, and AI (Artificial Intelligence) Internet of Things technology monitors temperature, humidity, and carbon dioxide concentration throughout the process, greatly reducing loss rates; for quality traceability, the company established a "one item one code, one box one code" food safety traceability system, allowing consumers to scan the code to see the entire process of sweet potatoes from seedling to distribution, so they can eat with understanding and peace of mind.
Industrial innovation drives the masses to become rich. During the harvest season, the company uniformly purchases at a protective price higher than the market price, with an average annual sweet potato purchase of more than 6,000 tons. In addition, it has absorbed more than 300 villagers, allowing them to achieve employment at their doorstep. To better open up the market, Li Yakun (李亚坤), who is over fifty years old, tried shooting short videos. Exhibition news, decorating exhibition halls, daily thoughts... he told netizens in detail, with a sense of internet savvy. "We understand the temper of the land, and we also understand the difficulties of farmers." He wrote this in a short video introduction.
Return to TopGuangzhou, May 13th (Reported by Li Gang (李刚)) A reporter learned on May 13th from the Guangdong Sub-Administration of the General Administration of Customs (海关总署广东分署) that in the first four months of this year, Guangdong's (广东) total foreign trade import and export value was 3.49 trillion yuan, an increase of 18.4%. Among them, exports were 2.06 trillion yuan, an increase of 11.4%; imports were 1.43 trillion yuan, an increase of 30.1%.
In the first four months of this year, Guangdong's (广东) foreign trade import and export growth rate was 3.5 percentage points faster than the national average, accounting for 21.5% of the country's total import and export value, an increase of 0.6 percentage points compared with the same period last year; the increase in foreign trade was 541.07 billion yuan; and the contribution to the national import and export growth in the same period reached 25.8%.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季觉苏
On an early summer evening, Zhang Liping (张莉苹), a resident of Shanghai (上海), walked into Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) in Beixinjing Subdistrict (北新泾街道), Changning District (长宁区), her steps lighter than before.
In the past, when she came home at this time, she always had to watch her step. The streetlights in the community were not bright enough, and the shadows of the trees loomed, making her feel uneasy walking at night. The stairwells were often dusty, and the handrails felt unclean to the touch. It was an old community of several decades, and life was inevitably a bit of a compromise.
But now, things are different—
The streetlights are brighter, and there are fewer dark corners. The stairwells are swept more frequently, and the garbage rooms are clean and tidy. Walking to the public bulletin board, Zhang Liping (张莉苹) saw the notice of property fee adjustment again: from January 1st of this year, the community property fee increased from 0.8 yuan to 1 yuan per square meter. "It has gone up a bit, but the community environment is indeed much better than before," Zhang Liping (张莉苹) said with emotion.
This sentence made Zhang Jun (张骏), the Secretary of the General Party Branch of the Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) Residential District, feel more at ease. "The method lies in knocking on doors time and time again, coordinating time and time again, improving time and time again, and in the transformation of our work style in research," Zhang Jun (张骏) said.
Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) was built in the 1990s, with 57 buildings and 1,100 households, and is a typical after-sale public housing community. The difficulty of property management problems in old communities lies in "service first or payment first": the property company says the fees are low and services are difficult to provide; the residents say the services are not up to par and they are unwilling to pay. "You wait for me to pay first, and I wait for you to improve first. Back and forth, things get stuck, and the final result is a 'lose-lose' situation," Zhang Jun (张骏) said.
Balancing property services and residents' needs requires detailed research by residential district cadres. Zhang Jun (张骏) said: "How to conduct in-depth research and how to do a good job in mass work, the method is step by step, household by household." In recent years, Beixinjing Subdistrict (北新泾街道) has promoted the "Five People Work Method" of "collecting public opinion, visiting people's feelings, solving people's worries, relieving people's difficulties, and clarifying people's responsibilities." Specifically, in terms of property services, Zhang Jun (张骏) and his colleagues first went door-to-door to understand the residents' thoughts and demands. Some residents were dissatisfied with the fact that the trees had not been pruned for many years, which affected the lighting, so the residential district coordinated with the property company to prune them in a timely manner; other problems that the residential district could not solve were reported to the grid, and the grid "blew the whistle," and urban management and police officers joined in...
In the course of repeated visits, the community quickly formed a list of residents' demands. The list contained nearly 80 opinions, including parking, monitoring, cleaning, debris removal, greening and pruning, house repairs, and public facility repairs... each item was clearly listed. Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) divided the demands into three categories: red, yellow, and green, according to their urgency, with owner information, problem descriptions, and responses corresponding one by one. Zhang Jun (张骏) introduced that the residential district also launched the "Woodpecker Renovation Action" to organize volunteers to find problems and promote improvements.
The property company found the focus of its work, and residents' dissatisfaction with the property company gradually decreased. Such an effective method was not unthinkable before, but it was not possible to implement.
One aspect is time. "Door-to-door visits and research place very high demands on grassroots cadres in terms of time," Zhang Jun (张骏) admitted. "It's not that we are unwilling to implement it, but our energy is indeed limited."
Another aspect is authority. Zhang Jun (张骏) said: "When research discovers the demands of the masses, they should be responded to and resolved. Otherwise, the research becomes a half-finished project, with only question marks and no periods." However, some matters are beyond the scope of the residential district's capabilities, and it is not always clear who to find, how to find them, and who should take the lead. For example, if a resident's toilet overflows, the residents' first reaction is to find the neighborhood committee and the property company. After the neighborhood committee and the property company came to the door, they found that the problem needed to be resolved after studying the water level of the municipal roads. Zhang Jun (张骏) said: "This problem cannot be solved by the neighborhood committee and the property company alone, so we can only appease the residents while coordinating everywhere."
The change comes from the reorganization of the mechanism—
It is necessary to ensure that grassroots cadres have time to go deep into the grassroots. Changning District (长宁区) carried out a review of the list of duties, and Beixinjing Subdistrict (北新泾街道) formed 112 basic duty items and 71 cooperative duty items, and the higher-level departments took back 98 items that had long involved grassroots energy. With clear boundaries of responsibilities, there is a basis for returning and transferring matters that should not be the responsibility of the grassroots.
It is necessary to give grassroots cadres the means to solve problems. The subdistrict promoted "multi-grid integration." For cross-departmental problems such as toilet overflows, the residential district can report to the grid, which coordinates municipal and other professional forces to deal with them together. "Grassroots cadres free up their hands from repeated explanations and repeated coordination, so they have more time to walk the corridors, listen to demands, and do their work," said Zhu Jianwei (朱剑伟), Secretary of the Party Working Committee and Director of the People's Congress Working Committee of Beixinjing Subdistrict (北新泾街道).
Last year, Xincheng Property (新程物业), the property company to which the community belongs, proposed that the current property fee of 0.8 yuan per square meter was difficult to maintain the cost of continuously improving services. After this problem was put on the table, the residential district did not rush to discuss price increases, but first conducted visits and research to collect demands, and asked questions from a different perspective: What changes have residents already seen? What other improvements do they expect? What can the property company promise? And how can these promises be supervised? ...
The neighborhood committee, the owners' committee, and the property company sat down and re-sorted the opinions formed in the early visits, receptions, and service improvements. Which belong to daily services, which require long-term investment, which can be included in the contract agreement, and which need to be solved through public revenue, special funds, and other methods, item by item in detail. The property company asked a third-party organization to conduct an assessment based on the size of the community and the level of service, and formed a plan that comprehensively considered residents' affordability, the existing service base, and the space for subsequent improvements. Zhang Conghua (张骢骅), Deputy General Manager of Xincheng Property (新程物业), introduced that it is not only necessary to explain "how much it will increase," but also to explain "whether it is worth it."
"We must explain to the residents exactly where the improvements have been made," Zhang Jun (张骏) said. Starting from the word "detail," Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) held a owners' meeting to clarify service requirements: stairwell cleaning was increased from once a week to three sweeps and one mop per week; security patrols were increased from three times a day to six times a day; repairs were implemented with a 15-minute response; greening was increased with pruning, watering, and fertilization; pure elderly families or elderly people living alone over the age of 70 can enjoy a free basic inspection of water and electricity facilities at home once a year; and the community should also be decorated and lanterns installed during holidays...
In order to explain the service details thoroughly, the community held 5 joint reception meetings. The neighborhood committee, the owners' committee, the property company, and the city operation center sat together, and residents asked questions when they came, and the staff answered them on the spot. "The joint reception meeting clarifies the service standards, the boundaries of rights and responsibilities, and the public rules," Zhang Jun (张骏) said. Finally, the property fee adjustment plan of Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) was passed by a vote of the owners' meeting and officially implemented.
In order to ensure that the property service commitments are fulfilled without compromise, the General Party Branch of the Xin Jing Liu Cun (新泾六村) Residential District took the lead in establishing a joint supervision mechanism among the neighborhood committee, the owners' committee, and the city operation center, and checked the implementation of each item in the property service contract every week. The inspection results are fed back to the property company every Friday to urge the property company to rectify and improve as soon as possible.
"The governance of old communities is difficult because there are many old accounts, and it is also valuable because of the deep affection," Zhang Jun (张骏) said. "After the burden is reduced, cadres can 'enter' the grassroots with their 'bodies' and 'enter' the masses with their 'hearts'. In this way, we can supervise and improve property services and solve the problems of the masses' lives."
Return to TopBy: 赵晓曦
Grassroots cadres deal with the masses for a long time, and being able to do mass work is a basic requirement. Solving the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the masses is even more their duty. In some places, cadres complete their research tasks by clocking in, shaking hands, taking photos, and collecting materials. As for whether the problems have been accurately identified, whether things have been resolved, and whether the masses have gained anything, these are often "overlooked."
Why does this perfunctory investigation appear? The assignment of tasks at each level and the continuous increase of account books still exist, diverting the energy and time of grassroots cadres. To truly reduce the burden on the grassroots, reduce the useless work of making account books and reports, so that cadres can get closer to the masses and study problems more. Don't let research visits stop at the level of "doing it," but achieve the effect of "doing it well."
While reducing the "burdens that should be reduced," we should also urge grassroots cadres to take on the "responsibilities that should be shouldered." How to enhance the ability of grassroots cadres to connect with the masses and innovate working methods for serving the masses? This not only requires grassroots cadres to repeatedly ponder, but also requires relevant departments to provide more mechanism support to promote the transformation from "small horse pulling a big cart" to "light car strong horse."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 方 圆
"Previously, drivers using navigation would get confused when they saw there were no street names," said Zhao Hongbin (赵洪斌), who has run a small shop in Baicai Village (百菜村), Tuanjie Town (团结镇), Daowai District (道外区), Harbin (哈尔滨), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), for many years, frowning as he recalled the past.
Old Zhao's problem is not an isolated case.
In the past, in the rural areas of Harbin (哈尔滨), a large number of village roads, hamlet roads, and field roads were unnamed. Packages were delivered to the wrong doors, ambulances had difficulty finding people, and relatives from other places got lost when they entered the village—roads without names became unavoidable obstacles in people's lives.
The change began with a city-wide "Rural Naming Action." A reporter learned from the Harbin Municipal Civil Affairs Bureau (哈尔滨市民政局) that, as of now, all 167 townships and 1,889 villages in the city have achieved full coverage of road naming, with a cumulative total of 26,294 rural roads named. The history of "nameless and difficult to find" streets and lanes in rural Harbin (哈尔滨) has come to an end.
Naming roads is by no means something done by **拍拍脑袋** (pāi pāi nǎo dài - "pat pat head," to make a decision rashly or without careful consideration).
A staff member from the Daowai District Civil Affairs Bureau (道外区民政局) told reporters that the types of rural roads are complex—village roads, hamlet roads, field roads, and dead-end roads coexist. It is necessary to be convenient and easy to remember, while also preserving the local cultural context, and also gaining the approval of the masses.
What to do? Daowai District (道外区) established a "Four-Party Joint Review and Evaluation" mechanism: experts, villagers, townships, and departments sit together to review and demonstrate each item one by one. Dead-end roads have no starting or ending points, so they are named after the village or landmark where they are located; field production roads highlight agricultural connotations such as "harvest" and "cultivation"; duplicate road sections are distinguished by adding "East, West, South, North" according to their orientation. When encountering large differences of opinion, staff repeatedly visit households to communicate, bringing the demonstration meeting to the villagers' doorsteps. There is only one purpose—to satisfy the villagers.
Names must grow out of the soil.
In Donghua Village (东华村), Yongyuan Town (永源镇), a village road adjacent to a primary school, when soliciting names from households, the villagers almost unanimously said: "Let's call it 'Yongxue Road (永学路)'." It turns out that this village has always had a strong academic atmosphere, and the children's grades are excellent. Some villagers said: "This road name is the pride of our village. It feels intimate and can also encourage the children to study hard." In the end, "Yongxue Road (永学路)" was officially put into use. Currently, 1,022 rural streets and roads in Daowai District (道外区) have been named, covering 4 towns and 40 administrative villages.
Xu Huidong (徐汇栋), a 25-year-old villager from Democratic Village (民主村), Democratic Town (民主镇), is an avid online shopper. In the past, he was most afraid of receiving express delivery calls—"I'm in the middle of the village, come and get it yourself." Now, the village has newly named "Shengguo Road (胜国路)," and express delivery and takeout can be accurately delivered to his doorstep. "Picking up packages is no longer a game of **捉迷藏** (zhuō mí cáng - "catch hide hide," hide-and-seek), and life is much more convenient," said Xu Huidong (徐汇栋).
Baicai Village (百菜村) has also changed its appearance. The village invested in erecting eight brand-new road signs—Lianxing Road (联兴路), Zhongxiang Road (众祥路), Guoxing Road (国兴路)... Recently, Zhao Hongbin's (赵洪斌) small shop has been doing better and better: "Now everyone can find it by saying the road name. There are more customers coming to the door. The road name is small, but it helps a lot."
Currently, the origins, meanings, historical evolution, and other information of these rural place names have all been recorded in the National Place Name Information Database and synchronized with map navigation platforms. A dynamic place name maintenance mechanism has also been established to ensure that the service never "drops offline."
One by one, the country lanes have new names, and each road sign carries nostalgia and witnesses changes.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 13th (Reporter Wei Zhezhe (魏哲哲)) To correctly handle cases of illegal occupation of cultivated land, protect cultivated land according to law, and ensure national food security, the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) and the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) issued on the 11th the Provisions on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in Handling Cases of Illegal Occupation of Cultivated Land, which will take effect on May 18, 2026. The provisions, comprising 21 articles, are a comprehensive judicial interpretation integrating administrative, civil, criminal, and public interest litigation trials, as well as prosecution and enforcement.
The time span of illegal occupation of cultivated land is generally long. When administrative organs investigate and deal with such cases, it is common for construction units or individuals to be deregistered, deceased, or deliberately evade supervision, making it impossible for administrative organs to determine the actors of the construction activities. After illegally occupying cultivated land for construction, it is even more common to transfer the completed buildings and other facilities to others for possession and use through sales, debt offsets, donations, leases, and other means.
For illegal construction activities involving illegal occupation of cultivated land, "illegal construction must be punished, and refusal to comply with enforcement must be investigated." Yan Wei (阎巍), a second-level senior judge of the Administrative Trial Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高法行政审判庭), introduced that in cases where the actors of illegal construction activities do not exist or are unclear, there will generally be no dispute if there is no actual possessor or user, or if the actual possessor or user can cooperate with the administrative organ in disposing of the illegal buildings and other facilities. If the actual possessor or user refuses to cooperate with the lawful disposal actions of the administrative organ, they should be dealt with as illegally occupying land.
People's courts earnestly safeguard land resource security, food security, and ecological environment security. From 2020 to 2025, courts nationwide concluded more than 239,800 administrative cases, more than 399,700 civil cases, and 45,667 criminal cases in the field of cultivated land protection.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Hangzhou (杭州) May 13th dispatch (Reporters Qi Yukun (亓玉昆) and Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) - The State Council Safety Committee Office, the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部), and the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局) convened a meeting in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江) on May 13th to promote the strengthening of grassroots fire protection work. The meeting called for solid efforts to advance grassroots emergency management work, improve the grassroots emergency fire governance mechanism, and comprehensively enhance the grassroots accident and disaster prevention and control capabilities.
The meeting emphasized the need to promote the in-depth and practical implementation of grassroots emergency management work, to promptly strengthen grassroots forces, improve grassroots work organizations, establish an efficient operating mechanism, and form a work pattern of joint management; to promote the downward deployment of professional fire supervision forces, scientifically coordinate law enforcement force resources, and continuously strengthen grassroots comprehensive supervision capabilities; to consolidate the grassroots safety responsibilities of all parties, implement the "three managements and three musts" responsibilities of industry departments, the main responsibilities of enterprises and units, and improve the fire safety responsibility system covering the grassroots; to strengthen social co-governance and technological empowerment, implement a national safety quality improvement campaign, and build a solid people's defense line for emergency and fire safety. Attendees observed the organizational system and operating model of the Xiaoshan (萧山) Social Governance Center (社会治理中心) and the Yingfeng (盈丰) and Sijiqing (四季青) Street (街道) Emergency Fire Management Stations (应急消防管理站) in Hangzhou (杭州).
Return to TopOn May 13th, at the "Silver Age Classroom" in Xiushui Community, Rucheng Subdistrict, Rugao City, Jiangsu Province (江苏省), community elders learned flower arrangement under the guidance of a floral art teacher.
Photo by Xu Hui (徐慧) (Image China)
Return to TopBeijing, May 13th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): In response to the recent series of highway traffic accidents at night involving multiple deaths and injuries, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部交管局) reminds drivers to concentrate and drive cautiously when driving on highways at night.
Recently, the Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部交管局) disclosed three serious traffic accidents. Among them, at about 0:05 on May 7, a heavy semi-trailer truck was traveling from east to west along the Beijing-Harbin Expressway (京哈高速) near Qinhuangdao (秦皇岛), Hebei (河北) when it rear-ended a small passenger car that had just entered the driving lane from the emergency lane and was driving at a low speed, causing 3 deaths and 2 injuries. At about 21:33 on May 8, a heavy semi-trailer truck was traveling from west to east along the Wu-Bo Expressway (五亳高速) near Qiaocheng District (谯城区), Bozhou (亳州), Anhui Province (安徽省) when it rear-ended a small passenger car that was stopped in the driving lane to answer a phone call, causing 4 deaths and 3 injuries.
The Traffic Management Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部交管局) advises that when driving on highways at night, concentrate and pay attention to vehicles in front and behind you at all times. When entering the highway driving lane from ramps, service areas, emergency lanes, and emergency parking zones, observe in advance and accelerate into the lane when it does not impede the normal driving of vehicles in the driving lane. When exiting the highway, merge into the rightmost lane in advance, turn on the turn signal, and slow down to exit; if you miss the exit, continue to the next exit and turn around to return, and never brake suddenly, reverse, or drive against the flow of traffic.
Return to TopAccording to the Chongqing Municipal Commission of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, the "Chongqing Urban Renewal Technical Guidelines (Revised Edition)" has been issued. The new version of the guidelines constructs a full-chain technical system of "urban physical examination - special planning - area planning - project implementation plan." It promotes the construction of six major cities: innovative, livable, beautiful, resilient, civilized, and smart, through connotative and sustainable development.
The new version of the guidelines adheres to the principle of "no renewal without physical examination." A comprehensive physical examination of the built-up areas of the city is conducted annually to form a list of problems, a list of resources, and rectification recommendations, providing a scientific basis for precise renewal. During implementation, it strictly follows the principle of combining "preservation, renovation, demolition, and addition," prioritizing micro-renewal and gradual renovation, and strictly controlling large-scale demolition and construction. Except for illegal buildings and C and D-level dilapidated houses with no repair value, large-scale demolition of areas is generally not allowed. Efforts are being made to protect historical buildings, landscapes, ancient trees, famous trees, and the texture of old blocks. Focusing on people's livelihood needs and urban development, the new version of the guidelines clarifies eight key tasks: promoting the renovation of existing buildings, the renewal of old urban communities, the construction of modern communities, the renovation of old blocks/factories/urban villages, the improvement of urban functions, the upgrading of infrastructure, the improvement of blue-green spaces, and the protection and inheritance of historical culture.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 超
"Ding Ling Ling..." The phone rang. Answering the phone, Long Hui (隆晖), the director of the Shibadong Police Station (十八洞派出所) of the Huayuan County Public Security Bureau (花垣县公安局) in Xiangxi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (湘西土家族苗族自治州), Hunan Province (湖南省), was quite surprised. The call was not about a new case, but the hearty laughter of Shi (石) and Yang (秧), villagers of Buhu Village (补毫村), Shuanglong Town (双龙镇). They had agreed to make this call together to express their gratitude to the police station.
Shi (石) and Yang (秧) were originally neighbors, but they had previously had a conflict over the ownership of an access path to their homes. Both sides refused to yield, and the situation even escalated to blocking and cutting off the road, and repeated petitions.
"At that time, both sides blocked the road, and even agricultural materials, fertilizers, and machinery could not pass through the passage. We were determined to untie this knot," said Long Hui (隆晖). Subsequently, the Shibadong Police Station (十八洞派出所) used the "Fengqiao-style Work Method" to carry out mediation.
Led by the police from the police station, the town Party committee and government organized a joint investigation team composed of the Comprehensive Management Center, the Judicial Office, and the Natural Resources Office to conduct on-site investigation. They looked at the drawings, found witnesses, and presented the facts to them. "This place is public land, and neither of you has the right to claim ownership," said Long Hui (隆晖). "Unauthorized road blockage is suspected of being illegal. If you don't give way, we will definitely deal with it according to the law!"
First, they explained the law, and then they moved them with emotion. "Is it worth it to ruin the neighborhood relationship for this trivial matter, and to wear down the ambition to increase income and become rich together?" Under the persuasion of the police, the two people's positions softened. Town and village cadres seized the opportunity: "Because of the dispute between you, this passage has not been hardened or beautified, and the villagers also have opinions. You each take a step back, and we will take a step forward, and harden this place together."
The two finally let go. A passage dispute that had lasted for more than 10 years was thus resolved.
The police then used the case to explain the law, and used this case around the villagers as a living teaching material for popularizing the law. "We used this case as a blueprint to further explain the law, and guide the villagers in each group to study and discuss, so as to achieve the effect of improving understanding and 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "infer the rest from one fact," to draw inferences about other cases from one instance)." said Long Hui (隆晖). A hidden backlog of cases was finally transformed into a vivid lesson in grassroots governance.
For grassroots police stations, neighborhood disputes seem like trivial matters, but they can easily develop into governance risks. The Shibadong Police Station (十八洞派出所) practices the "Fengqiao Experience" in the new era, with the rule of law as the guiding principle and emotion and reason as the goal, and has achieved the effect of "resolving one and educating a group." "We will continue to rely on the police station to establish a rolling linkage investigation mechanism for resolving conflicts and disputes, a 'lawyer entering the station' mechanism, and a 'five-office joint mediation' mechanism to thoroughly investigate and resolve various conflicts and disputes, and earnestly grasp the various tasks of preventing risks, ensuring safety, maintaining stability, and promoting development," said Long Hui (隆晖).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 杨 迅
Chinese artist Cai Gao (蔡皋) won the 2026 Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration at the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy this April. This is the first time a Chinese artist has received this honor.
For decades, Cai Gao (蔡皋) has transformed the beauty and power of outstanding Chinese traditional culture into stories and characters. Her works, with their unique artistic expression, inspire children's imagination and desire for exploration, and also open a window for children around the world to understand China. How to use paintings that children can understand to show the profound connotation of Chinese aesthetics? In the age of artificial intelligence, how to use the paintbrush to depict a child's heart? Our reporter interviewed Cai Gao (蔡皋) to feel the artist's unremitting pursuit of innocence and beauty.
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Profile
Cai Gao (蔡皋), born in 1946 in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南) Province, is an artist.
In the late 1970s, Cai Gao (蔡皋) began to engage in book art editing and children's illustration creation, and launched dozens of picture book works. Representative picture books include "The Story of Birth," "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring," and "Bao'er." Published essay collections include "A Drop of Rain, A Drop of Rice" and "In the World, Let Innocence Reign."
"The influence of Chinese aesthetics in the field of children's literature comes naturally and profoundly."
Q: Nowadays, "ancient charm and national style have become the 'top aesthetic' in the eyes of young people." What "ancient charm and national style" heritage is in your works? What impact do you think the power of Chinese aesthetics will have on children?
A: My works contain the aesthetic spirit of the Chinese people. Works are actually a comprehensive expression of personal values, artistic interests, and daily cultivation, which is natural. Those good things that I recognize will be reflected in the works.
I have been deeply influenced by classical Chinese literature since I was a child. For example, the picture book "Bao'er" is based on "Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio" (聊斋志异), and the painting style absorbs the nutrients of folk art.
The enlightenment of beauty came early, which is a good thing for me. When I was a child, there were not many books at home, so the Chinese textbook became my precious source of reading. I especially like classical Chinese literature, such as Liu Zongyuan's (柳宗元) "Small Stone Pool Record" (小石潭记) - "Walking one hundred and twenty steps west from the small hill, separated by bamboo, hearing the sound of water, like the sound of jade pendants, the heart is happy," that kind of beauty of language, the clarity of mind, I felt very beautiful when I read it as a child.
Q: The Hans Christian Andersen Award is known as the "Nobel Prize for Children's Literature." External comments say that you used Chinese aesthetics to knock on the door of the Andersen Award. What do you think is the influence of Chinese aesthetics in the field of children's literature?
A: The influence of Chinese aesthetics in the field of children's literature comes naturally and profoundly. As a Chinese, it is very natural to absorb the nutrition of this land, just like breathing, especially aesthetics, which is a basic need and does not require deliberate effort. For example, "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring" is to show the picture of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. "Peach Blossom Spring" and its cultural connotation and spiritual symbol are also part of the outstanding Chinese traditional culture. I am not just depicting an ideal place to live, but also want to emphasize "the beauty of pursuit." The pursuit itself is very beautiful, and children are born with questions, and curiosity points to questions. The process of pursuit and the scenery along the way are more interesting than reaching the destination.
After the creation and publication of "The Story of Peach Blossom Spring," it was exhibited on tour overseas. When participating in the Bologna Children's Book Fair in Italy, the picture book also became a bridge for me to show Chinese aesthetics to foreign writers. Picture book authors should recognize the power of Chinese culture, integrate it into their works, and impress readers with excellent works.
"Decades of painting life, no time to be afraid of getting old"
Q: In order to create better, you often go out to sketch. You once said, "I have no time to be afraid of getting old," which won you the reputation of "Treasure Grandma." What kind of power supports you?
A: As a creator, I don't have so many distractions, I just simply like it. With pleasure, everything will naturally be long-lasting. Decades of painting life, no time to be afraid of getting old.
Q: You are not from a professional background. You taught in a rural primary school in Hunan (湖南) in your early years. The experience of rural life has shaped the foundation of your creation. How did the daily scenes of the countryside enter your paintings and become your creative inspiration?
A: What kind of life you live, when you recognize it, you will think of expressing it. Singing, dancing, and painting are all expressions. I just used my favorite technique to record with paintings. I have developed the habit of "not reading without writing" since I was a child, which has benefited me a lot. I take notes when I read books, and the big book of life is even more worth recording. I observe life and read life, just like Gorky reading his grandmother's "book."
"The seemingly clumsy way is actually the best way"
Q: Now artificial intelligence can generate various illustrations, and many young illustrators are anxious and worried about being replaced. Can you give some advice to young illustrators? In the age of artificial intelligence, has the creation method of children's picture books changed, and how should we use the paintbrush to depict a child's heart?
A: I personally like hand-painting. The seemingly clumsy way is actually the best way. Everyone is unique, and the source of creativity lies in the human heart. So I never worry about artistic creation being replaced by artificial intelligence. We can cooperate with artificial intelligence, but don't rely on it blindly.
As for the creation method, artificial intelligence is indeed fast, but artistic creation cannot be too technical. For creators, if they lose their sincerity, what is the meaning of creation? You must have insight and have a heartfelt love for your work. With love, you can give your works abundant emotions.
Q: Digital reading is becoming more and more common, and many children's reading habits and reading tools have changed. Some parents are worried: they don't know how to guide their children to read picture books and feel beauty. As a senior picture book creator, can you give parents some advice?
A: Read more paper books, and the younger the children, the more high-quality picture books they should read. When parents accompany their children to read picture books, the children's feelings are three-dimensional: their ears are listening, their eyes are watching, the paper books make a "rustling" sound when they are turned, and they have the smell of ink. Parents' language is kind, and their embrace is warm. Such reading can mobilize children's perception ability in all directions. In addition, parents and children talk, and language is produced, and children's expression ability is gradually enhanced. The most important thing is not to simply regard reading as a process for children to mechanically absorb knowledge. Picture books are a place for parent-child emotional exchange, and reading is a flowing process. The process is sometimes more important than the result.
The blank space between the pictures and texts of picture books is the space left for parents and children to talk. If it is not used well, it is a pity. Daily conversations are relatively simple, about food, clothing, housing, and transportation. Repeating them too much is not easy to be new, and it is not easy to have depth. But the fairy tale world and stories in picture books are full of imagination. Parents' voices are like the voice-over of a movie. The children are watching, the parents are talking, you say a sentence, I say a sentence, reading in a pleasant environment, and the children will naturally fall in love with reading.
Q: What are your new plans and plans for picture book creation in the future?
A: I will continue to create picture books, and also write some books for adults, discussing some topics that I am interested in. I also want to walk around, adjust the rhythm of work and life, and hug myself and the unknown life with all my strength.
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Recently, the "May Day"档 (dàng - "period") movie "A Letter to Grandma" has been increasingly "tearfully recommended" by audiences. It's not a big investment or a big production, it doesn't have strong plots or strong special effects, and most of the leading actors are filming movies for the first time... This Chaoshan dialect film has been making a comeback with good word-of-mouth, injecting confidence into the current film market.
Nowadays, attention has become a scarce resource. In the face of various "blockbuster formulas," audience preferences are regarded as one of the most difficult puzzles to crack. In the "screen-sweeping" praise for "A Letter to Grandma," more than one viewer lamented that they "cried through half a pack of tissues" because of the plot. What exactly moves the audience?
Because of the "lightness" and "heaviness" of the story. The young Zheng Musheng (郑木生) went overseas to make a living, relying on remittances to send messages of peace; after Zheng Musheng's death, Xie Nanzhi (谢南枝) single-handedly supported two families separated by mountains and seas, continuing to send remittances in Zheng Musheng's name to his wife, Ye Shurou (叶淑柔)... "A Letter to Grandma" tells a story of overseas Chinese memory, describing fate without heroic elegies, portraying characters without sprinkling industrial saccharin, delicate emotions, and restrained expressions, seemingly traditional but very ordinary. And the deepest touch often lies in the most peaceful moment. Just like the ending of the story, like a "glug" sound, ripples spread out on the calm water surface, so "light" that it seems like a sigh, but heavily falls in the audience's heart. Between "lightness" and "heaviness," what touches people is not the technique of weaving stories, but the respect for life itself.
Also because of the priceless core of affection and righteousness. Overseas Chinese remittances are nostalgia, a bond, and an inseparable cultural bloodline. The 18-year-long protection in "A Letter to Grandma" thoroughly depicts the chivalry and kindness of the Chaoshan people. The play deeply depicts the four words "情义无价" (qíng yì wú jià - "affection and righteousness are priceless"), and isn't it the same outside the play! Director Lan Hongchun (蓝鸿春) is a native Chaoshan person. He has created three Chaoshan dialect films, and "A Letter to Grandma" "grew" in his life. The Nanzhi, Shurou, and Musheng in the story come from his field research on hundreds of families for many years, and also have shadows of close relatives. The reason why the human world is so vigorous and the personality and integrity are so powerful is because the creators have traveled far enough, seen enough people, and heard enough stories, and also because they write what they believe, shoot what they want to shoot, and deeply cultivate what they are familiar with. Affection and righteousness are priceless, and in the end, it is the ultimate sincerity and the ultimate love. The tears shed by the audience are, in the end, an affirmation of affection and righteousness itself.
Even more because of the creator's "clumsiness." Without professional acting skills, they use the most simple and sincere emotions to bring the characters to life; without rendering and sensationalism, they use the most simple lenses and the most sincere narratives to knock on people's hearts. The entire film, from the director to the screenwriter to the actors, completely hands themselves over to the work, rather than data, formulas, and gimmicks. Sincerity can be exchanged for sincerity, and "stupid" methods are also effective and good methods.
In this fast-paced era, creators and audiences seem to be losing patience. Some people lament: "Algorithms" may penetrate all creative laws. "A Letter to Grandma" shows us that Chinese films do not lack good stories, nor do they lack new creative forces. As long as the sincerity is hot enough, the audience will not reject good works. As long as the light and shadow project the ultimate truth and sincerity and eternal yearning of mankind, good stories will not lack applause and cheers.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), May 13th (Reporters Li Guoli (李国利) and Liu Yi (刘艺)) - The reporter learned on the 13th from the Technology and Engineering Center for Space Utilization, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) that the human "artificial embryo" experimental samples, which went to space aboard the Tianzhou-10 (天舟十号), have been installed in the China Space Station (中国空间站) experimental module, and the experiment is progressing smoothly.
This is the world's first human "artificial embryo" experiment conducted in space.
On May 11th, 41 space science experiment projects, including the "artificial embryo," arrived at the space station aboard the Tianzhou-10 (天舟十号) cargo spacecraft. At approximately 10 p.m. that evening, the "artificial embryo" experimental samples were loaded into the space station experimental module by astronauts in orbit.
"The experiment is currently progressing very smoothly, and the pre-set automated system will replace them with fresh culture medium every day," said Yu Leqian (于乐谦), head of the "artificial embryo" space science experiment project. He introduced that they will conduct preliminary research on issues concerning the long-term residence, survival, and reproduction of humans in space through this experiment.
An artificial embryo is a structure constructed from stem cells that is very similar to a real embryo. "So, a human 'artificial embryo' is made from human stem cells as raw materials." Yu Leqian (于乐谦) emphasized, "This is not a real human embryo, and it does not have the ability to develop into an individual, but it can be used as a model for early human development research."
It is understood that the "artificial embryo" experimental samples include two models, one placed on uterine cells and the other placed in a microfluidic chip, designed to understand the impact of the space microgravity environment on early human embryo development. Identical experimental samples are also being carried out simultaneously in ground laboratories.
According to the plan, after the human "artificial embryo" completes a 5-day experimental cycle in space, the experimental samples will be cryopreserved in orbit and returned to the ground laboratory at an opportune time for comparative analysis between space and Earth.
"We look forward to exploring the impact factors of the space environment on early human embryo development through the developmental comparison of space and Earth experimental samples, and solving the risks and challenges faced by humans living in space for a long time," said Yu Leqian (于乐谦).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Jinan (济南) on May 13th (Reporter Hou Linliang (侯琳良)). It was learned from Shandong University (山东大学) that the Super-Torus Instrument (ATLAS) experiment, in which Professor Li Haifeng (李海峰) of the university's team participated, discovered the top quark-anti-top quark bound state (i.e., "top quarkonium"), confirming its existence with a significance of 8 standard deviations. The relevant research results were published in the academic journal "Progress in Physics Reports."
The size of top quarkonium is about 0.01 femtometers, which is the smallest bound state discovered so far. In this experiment, Professor Li Haifeng (李海峰) and his research group completed all the steps of the analysis and produced the final results.
The top quark is the heaviest quark discovered by humans so far, with a lifetime of about 10
-25
seconds. Previously, the academic community generally believed that it could not form a bound state due to its short lifetime. The new discovery overturns this view and is one of the most important achievements in top quark physics in 30 years.
By: 本报记者 窦瀚洋
Green fields and blue mountains, pottery handcrafts, the aroma of coffee... In Longquan City (龙泉市), Lishui (丽水), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, many ancient villages are attracting tourists with their artistic atmosphere and warm, simple, everyday life.
In Yuandi Village (源底村), at a café converted from an old cowshed, Li Chenchen (李晨晨) from Jiangsu (江苏) and her friend were drinking coffee while sorting through the beautiful photos they had taken with their camera. "For photography enthusiasts, this place is simply a treasure trove. The ancient alleys in the morning light, the Yicang (义仓) under the setting sun, every shot is a blockbuster."
In the bamboo weaving experience hall next door, under the guidance of the staff, bamboo strips fluttered between Li Chenchen's (李晨晨) fingertips, and a small bamboo basket gradually took shape. "Made by my own hands, taking it back is a souvenir with a story," Li Chenchen (李晨晨) said with a smile. Spending a day in such a quiet and vibrant ancient village is exactly the "sense of ritual" she expects from her vacation.
These fresh scenes that can be participated in and experienced stem from changes in rural development ideas. "There weren't many tourists in the village before," said Wang Xiaozhen (王晓珍), a local villager. Although the village has a rich agricultural culture, the facilities were outdated and the business formats were simple, making it difficult to retain tourists.
How to protect, explore, and utilize the cultural connotation of the countryside? In early 2025, a young operating team moved into Yuandi Village (源底村), integrating modern elements while retaining the ancient village style. Through scene reconstruction and business format innovation, they explored using art to change the countryside and revitalize ancient villages. Vacant spaces have been transformed into handicraft workshops and campsites, and creative postcards connect village check-in points—tourists can follow the map to learn about old farm tools in the rural museum and understand the cultural context of "farming and reading as family tradition."
"We introduce new business formats, upgrade the tourism experience, precipitate the memory of farming and reading culture, and write a new story of comprehensive rural revitalization," said Yu Qifeng (俞奇峰), head of the operating team. Yuandi Village (源底村) has developed into an ancient village with cultural experience, ecological tourism, and creative economy as its main features.
As night falls, the village becomes even more lively. Folk songs float gently, lanterns illuminate the old streets, children run around looking for "treasure" clues, and the elderly sit on the stone steps, smiling as they watch young people dance to the music... A harmonious rural picture unfolds vividly.
Li Chenchen (李晨晨) exclaimed: "The beauty of Yuandi Village (源底村) is simple and moving, and every brick and tile carries an original ecological texture." Compared with popular attractions, there is no noisy commercial atmosphere here, only simple rural customs and natural wildness.
Not far from Yuandi Village (源底村), there is also a China Celadon Town (中国青瓷小镇), which hides another kind of immersive cultural "slow experience."
As a national intangible cultural heritage, Longquan celadon (龙泉青瓷) firing techniques are well-known. As the name suggests, Celadon Town (青瓷小镇) is built around the cultural calling card of celadon. This town, which was transformed from an old porcelain factory, still retains the rough lines of industry and the delicate charm of celadon. When tourists step into the town, they enter the world of celadon.
"Everyone says that you can take great photos in Celadon Town (青瓷小镇), and it's true," said Zhang Xiaoting (张晓婷), a tourist from Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), who started "taking pictures" as soon as she arrived in Celadon Town (青瓷小镇).
The most eye-catching thing is the throwing experience in the celadon workshop. Dozens of throwing machines are neatly arranged, and tourists roll up their sleeves and slowly turn the machines following the gestures of the master craftsman—the originally loose clay gradually reveals the arc of a bowl in the friction between the palm and the turntable, but often "collapses" in the last step.
"Here you can truly calm down and create your own 'work'. No matter what you make, the process itself is particularly healing and a unique souvenir to take away," said Zhang Xiaoting (张晓婷). This experience of touching the soil and feeling the temperature with your own hands makes the thousand-year-old kiln fire approachable and tangible.
Waiting for the opening of the Long Kiln (龙窑) in Xitou Village (溪头村); capturing light and shadow among the thousand-layer terraces in Lishantou Village (李山头村)... In recent years, Longquan (龙泉) has gradually embarked on a path of comprehensive rural revitalization characterized by "protection first, utilization as the foundation, and inheritance as the basis." A number of ancient villages have been transformed into cultural tourism villages,焕发生机 焕发生机 (huàn fā shēng jī - "regain vitality," to come back to life; to be revitalized).
"We hope to use art to attract young people to embark on a cultural journey, a creative journey, and a relaxing journey to the mountains and fields, and find the true meaning of life in the ancient villages of Longquan (龙泉)," said Li Wenxiu (李文秀), director of the Longquan Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports (龙泉市文广旅体局).
Today, walking into the villages of Longquan (龙泉), art is not a high-hanging exhibit, but a fragment of life that can be participated in, experienced, and taken away. When ancient villages meet art, when tradition embraces innovation, the rural journey of Longquan (龙泉) is carefully nurturing every heart that yearns for the pastoral life.
Return to TopAccording to a report from our newspaper in Hefei on May 13th (Reporter Tian Xianjin (田先进)), Professor Ma Chuanxi's (马传喜) team at Anhui Agricultural University has made significant progress in the field of wheat seed dormancy and resistance to pre-harvest sprouting. They have successfully identified key genes regulating resistance to pre-harvest sprouting in wheat and elucidated the molecular mechanism by which low temperatures induce the breaking of seed dormancy, providing new genetic resources and technical pathways for solving the problem of pre-harvest sprouting in wheat. The relevant findings were published in "Nature Communications" and "Plant Communications."
Currently, the team has screened out six excellent gene combinations for resistance to pre-harvest sprouting, which can be applied to breeding practices in combination with molecular marker-assisted selection and gene editing technology. This is expected to shorten the traditional breeding cycle of 8 to 10 years to 3 to 5 years, accelerating the cultivation and promotion of new wheat varieties with resistance to pre-harvest sprouting, high yield, and high quality.
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"We are not conducting research behind closed doors, but rather 'solving problems' for the needs of the front line of engineering. Companies provide the exam papers, and we are responsible for answering them." Professor Wang Yi (王怡), Vice President of Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (西安建筑科技大学) and Executive Deputy Director of the National Key Laboratory of Green Building, defines her team's work in this way. Over the years, the Industrial Building Environment and Energy Conservation Innovation Team led by Wang Yi (王怡) has "moved" the laboratory into factories, using innovative technologies to improve the quality of industrial building environments, enhance the level of intelligence, and promote energy conservation and carbon reduction.
In recent years, Shaanxi Province (陕西省) has taken the Qin Chuangyuan (秦创原) "Scientist + Engineer" team construction project as a key starting point for implementing the innovation-driven development strategy, closely integrating cutting-edge theoretical research in universities with the needs of enterprise engineering practices, accurately connecting with actual production, assisting in sorting out technical difficulties in testing, breaking down barriers between industry, academia, and research, and effectively promoting the integrated development of manufacturing and services. The project adopts a "dual chief responsible system," where enterprise engineers propose needs and university scientists solve technical bottlenecks, focusing on breakthroughs in technical problems in nine major fields such as high-end equipment and new materials.
A Relay Race Starting with the "Swing Spout"
"An alumnus said that the ventilation and dust removal effect of the 'swing spout' in the iron-making plant of the blast furnace has not been good, and asked me to take a look when I have time," Wang Yi (王怡) recalled. More than 20 years ago, during a summer vacation, she took her students to a steel plant for the first time.
The scene in front of her was deeply memorable: huge molten iron tank cars moved slowly on the rails. As a key piece of equipment in the iron-making plant of the blast furnace, the "swing spout" was responsible for distributing high-temperature molten iron. The high-temperature molten iron poured down from it, and the moment it collided with the molten iron tank car, smoke and dust would rise into the air. "Although there is a huge ventilation system in the factory building, and the ventilation ducts are so large that you can drive a car inside, there is still smoke and dust 'running' out," Wang Yi (王怡) said.
These high-temperature flue gases containing inhalable dust are the "number one killer" that threatens the health of workers. "If workers are in such an environment for a long time, they will face the risk of health damage," Wang Yi (王怡) said.
The team took on the task of how to efficiently capture high-temperature smoke and dust. Starting from the mechanism innovation of precise capture, they proposed a technical renovation plan for the ventilation and capture system of the iron-making plant of the blast furnace, which effectively improved the capture efficiency of high-temperature smoke and dust. After repeated calculations, simulations, and on-site debugging, the smoke and dust concentration in this area was finally reduced by 90%, and energy consumption was also reduced simultaneously.
"We continue to summarize experience and write this technology into industry standards. Now, our high-temperature smoke and dust capture technology has been fully promoted and applied in the main process flows of the steel industry, such as blast furnaces, converters, electric furnaces, and steel rolling," Wang Yi (王怡) said.
As the industry continues to upgrade, the team "chases" problems along the industrial chain, from the steel industry to non-ferrous metal smelting. "Non-ferrous metal smelting not only produces high-temperature smoke and dust, but also gaseous pollutants such as sulfur dioxide. The furnace type is more open, and the control is more difficult," said Huang Yanqiu (黄艳秋), a team member and professor at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (西安建筑科技大学). For example, in a magnesium enterprise in northern Shaanxi (陕北), the team provided a full-chain service from the study of pollution source emission characteristics to the design of capture schemes, with the goal of controlling both dust and gas.
From non-ferrous metal smelting, they "chased" to high-end manufacturing. "The industrial structure is transforming. Some metal smelting enterprises are shifting from selling aluminum ingots to producing aluminum foil. Precision processing is increasing, and more oil mist is emitted," said Yang Yang (杨洋), a team member and professor at Xi'an University of Architecture and Technology (西安建筑科技大学) who focuses on this field. These oil mist particles are extremely small, mostly below 1 micron, and have potential harm to workers' respiratory systems and even cardiovascular systems. In the past, China lacked independently developed efficient capture technology and relied heavily on imported equipment. The team cooperated with China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (中色科技股份有限公司) and spent several years figuring out the laws of oil mist generation and diffusion, and designed a matching capture system. "Now a set of equipment can reduce the concentration of pollutants exposed in the work area by 60%," said Yang Chunhui (杨春晖), director of the Environmental Protection Institute of China Nonferrous Metal Industry's Foreign Engineering & Construction Co., Ltd. (中色科技股份有限公司).
From steel and non-ferrous metals to material preparation, machining, and building industrialization... the team's "service list" is getting longer and longer. The coverage of processes has also expanded from the initial steelmaking to manufacturing plants with high pollution emissions.
An Inspiration from a "Tornado"
If solving the "swing spout" problem was the beginning of the team's service, then the birth of "artificial tornado" technology was a "from 0 to 1" leap, and also a concentrated reflection of the team's innovation capabilities.
"In large factories, traditional ventilation methods, whether natural ventilation or mechanical equipment ventilation, have defects: natural ventilation has no energy consumption and large air volume, but emissions are restricted due to environmental protection requirements; mechanical ventilation systems can purify indoor air pollution, but the efficiency is low and the energy consumption is high," Wang Yi (王怡) pointed out the dilemma of industrial building environment control - modern production has promoted the large-scale development of industrial buildings, but in giant factories hundreds of meters long and tens of meters high, pollutants diffuse disorderly like headless flies, and traditional methods are often 力不从心 (lì bù cóng xīn - "strength not following heart," inadequate ability to do what one intends to do).
The turning point came from a student-teacher exchange. Cao Zhixiang (曹智翔), who was still a doctoral student at the time, excitedly showed his tutor Wang Yi (王怡) a video of a tornado: "Teacher, look, the tornado can roll things near the ground into such high air, can we create an 'artificial tornado' in the factory to roll the pollutants from all directions together and then suck them away?"
"This idea is very bold and imaginative!" Wang Yi (王怡) recalled, "At that time, I told him that this matter was worth doing, so go do it."
Innovation never relies solely on a flash of inspiration. From the laboratory to the factory, Cao Zhixiang (曹智翔) experienced a long process of trial and error. The design that worked perfectly in the laboratory, when moved to a real factory that was more than ten meters high and tens of thousands of square meters in area, encountered various unexpected interference factors: people walking, equipment operating, air leaks from doors and windows, etc., often causing the "artificial tornado" to be difficult to form.
The team did not retreat, and repeatedly ran to the site, adjusted parameters, and revised the plan in response to various problems found in the project. Finally, this "artificial tornado" environmental control technology was successfully implemented. In a factory with a volume of 300,000 cubic meters in a new material enterprise in Chongqing (重庆), after the application of the "artificial tornado" technology, the water mist retention time dropped sharply from 10 minutes to less than 1 minute, the workshop visibility increased by more than 80%, and energy consumption also decreased significantly.
This "artificial tornado" environmental control technology, co-created by teachers and students, has not only been approved for a number of National Natural Science Foundation projects, but has also been written into national industry standards.
An Exploration of "Cross-Innovation"
After solving the problem of "whether pollution control is effective," the team turned its attention to a higher dimension: "We can reduce the concentration of pollutants very low, but for the emission of pollution sources with strong randomness, how can we achieve intelligent perception and intelligent regulation? How can we control pollutants with the lowest energy consumption and meet the needs of workers' health protection? How much should the pollutants be reduced to achieve the best balance point?" Wang Yi (王怡) raised the interdisciplinary problem. This goes beyond the scope of traditional engineering science and requires the intervention of medicine and information technology.
The team took the initiative to "join hands" with disease prevention and control institutions and experts. Occupational disease prevention and control experts understand pathology and diagnosis, but they need engineering methods to achieve "primary prevention." What Wang Yi's (王怡) team provides is precise engineering protection technology.
The two sides are currently exploring a collaborative mechanism for engineering protection and occupational health, jointly writing books on occupational hygiene engineering protection, jointly training engineering doctors, and helping to optimize occupational disease prevention and control standards. "Medical-engineering integration" allows technical services to move from "meeting standards" to humanistic care.
At the same time, the team has always kept a close eye on energy conservation and carbon reduction. The basic raw materials industry has thin profits. If an environmental protection technology is unaffordable or unsustainable for enterprises, it cannot be truly promoted.
In a steel company in Zhanjiang (湛江), Guangdong (广东), the team installed a "smart brain" for the coke oven process. Through video monitoring and sensors, combined with process signals, the amount of pollutants generated is perceived in real time, and the air volume of the ventilation system is dynamically adjusted to achieve "ventilation on demand." "As a demonstration project of the China Minmetals National Key Laboratory special fund project, a single coke oven can save 560 kWh of electricity per day, and a project can save 200,000 kWh of electricity per year. If it is promoted throughout the plant, the amount of carbon reduction is considerable," said Dr. Wang Hui (王珲) of China Metallurgical Group Corporation (中冶建筑研究总院有限公司).
The relevant person in charge of the Shaanxi Provincial Department of Science and Technology (陕西省科技厅) introduced that the Qin Chuangyuan (秦创原) "Scientist + Engineer" team construction project prioritizes supporting enterprises to jointly apply with high-level universities and research institutes outside the province, prioritizes supporting the transformation projects of scientific and technological achievements of the "three reforms," and prioritizes supporting projects that solve "bottleneck" technical shortcomings, develop domestic alternative products, and have high expected economic benefits. The successfully applied "Scientist + Engineer" teams are all included in the management of Shaanxi Province's (陕西省) key research and development plan project category, and are given certain financial science and technology funding support, and implement the "contract system" management of scientific research funds. "'Scientist + Engineer' team construction projects combine industry, academia, and research, help research results land, and enable universities and enterprises to achieve a win-win situation," said Huang Yanqiu (黄艳秋).
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When the daily necessities of millions of families are more secure, and the three meals a day and four seasons are warmer, the bustling atmosphere of "small homes" converges into the prosperity of "everyone."
In the summer of Beijing (北京), the "No. 7 Market (柒号市集)" in Xiangheyuan Subdistrict (香河园街道), Chaoyang District (朝阳区), is bustling with people. This wet market, transformed from an old supermarket, boasts a spacious and bright shopping environment, neatly arranged fresh produce stalls, and a variety of convenient services. This vivid picture is a microcosm of the quality improvement and upgrading of wet markets in many places.
In today's era of convenient and efficient e-commerce shopping, some old wet markets have lost their appeal to residents due to their cramped and messy conditions. However, the tactile experience of hand-picking ingredients is hard to replace with a swipe of the screen, nor does it bring the warmth of interpersonal interaction. Wet markets are not just places to buy and sell food; they are also a bond for neighborhood relationships and a vivid carrier of urban memory and nostalgia. How can traditional wet markets excel in transformation and upgrading? The key is to maintain affordability, provide convenience, and retain human touch.
Maintaining affordability is the foundation of wet market upgrades. Food is the paramount necessity of the people, and affordable prices and fresh ingredients are the simple expectations of residents for wet markets. If the renovation and upgrading of wet markets single-mindedly pursue decoration grades and stack up brand merchants, it may ultimately drive up food prices and deviate from the original intention of benefiting the people. "No. 7 Market (柒号市集)" adheres to the positioning of affordable prices for the benefit of the people in the transformation, and reduces operating costs through direct supply from the source, scientific layout, and intelligent management, realizing benefits for stallholders and residents. Good quality and low prices are the key for wet markets to take root in the community and get close to the people.
Providing convenience is the practical need for wet market upgrades. People's needs for wet markets have been upgraded from the basic guarantee of having vegetables to buy to diversified services with rich business formats. Many wet markets are transforming from single vegetable buying places to one-stop community service complexes: in addition to fresh food retail, there are also convenient service points for "small repairs and patching," such as electrical appliance repair and hemming pants, and the supporting food area can also meet dining needs. By focusing on the word "convenience" and providing services that resonate with residents, wet markets can win recognition.
Retaining human touch is the soul of wet market upgrades. The atmosphere of everyday life is most comforting to people's hearts. Stallholders giving customers a small discount, residents stopping to chat while buying vegetables—these seemingly ordinary details are precisely the precious emotional connections in urban life. Some renovated wet markets have become warm "community living rooms": providing free haircuts for the elderly, setting up stations for new employment groups to rest and drink water, and equipping them with book corners and childcare spaces. The protection of neighborhood warmth makes wet markets a public space that carries urban memory and condenses community belonging.
Wet markets are connected to the fields on one end and the people's dining tables on the other. They are not only related to people's livelihoods and well-being but also reflect the level of urban governance. When the daily necessities of millions of families are more secure, and the three meals a day and four seasons are warmer, the bustling atmosphere of "small homes" converges into the 蒸蒸日上 (zhēng zhēng rì shàng - "thriving day by day," to become more and more prosperous).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) May 13th dispatch (Reporter Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫)) The General Office of the Central Social Work Department (中央社会工作部) issued the "Basic Specifications for Volunteer Service Logos (Trial Implementation)," which stipulates the meaning, design, use, and management of volunteer service logos. The aim is to standardize the use of volunteer service logos, promote the institutionalization and standardization of volunteer services, and maintain the social credibility of volunteer services.
The volunteer service logo is a dedicated logo issued by Party and government agencies, enterprises, public institutions, people's organizations, and social organizations to identify volunteers, volunteer service organizations, volunteer service locations, and volunteer service activities. The specification lists the situations in which the volunteer service logo can and cannot be used. Relevant departments, units, groups, and social organizations should use the "China Volunteer Service Logo" when carrying out major volunteer service activities and foreign-related volunteer service activities.
Volunteer service industry organizations such as the Volunteer Service Federation should strengthen industry self-discipline and standardize the use of volunteer service logos.
Return to TopOn May 13th, at Jiaxing Nanhu Experimental School (嘉兴南湖实验学校) in Zhejiang Province (浙江省), doctors from the Coast Guard Hospital (海警医院) checked the oral hygiene of the children and explained health knowledge.
Jin Peng (金 鹏) (photographed) (Image China (影像中国))
The National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) recently issued the "Five-Year Action Plan for Supervision and Inspection of Medical Insurance Funds (2026-2030)," proposing the overall goals and tasks for medical insurance fund supervision in the next five years. This includes basically establishing a comprehensive, multi-level, and three-dimensional medical insurance fund supervision system that combines leniency and strictness, addresses both symptoms and root causes, and implements comprehensive measures. The aim is to further consolidate the deterrent posture, significantly improve intelligent supervision capabilities, improve the regulatory mechanism, improve the system, effectively enhance the initiative of the main body's self-management, further standardize the use of funds, deeply purify the fund operation environment, and significantly improve the modernization level of the medical insurance governance system and governance capabilities.
The relevant person in charge of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) stated that since its establishment, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) has actively explored and established a flying inspection mechanism, adhered to the combination of prevention and control, and effectively built a safety defense line for funds. However, the safe operation of funds still faces many challenges. On the one hand, the problem of fund "leakage" has not been completely eradicated, and fraud and **骗保** (piàn bǎo - "fraudulently obtain medical insurance benefits," engaging in fraudulent activities to obtain medical insurance payments) still occur from time to time. Fraudulent activities are becoming more concealed, professional, and complex, posing a direct impact on fund security. On the other hand, with the expansion of medical insurance coverage, the improvement of benefit levels, and the advancement of medical insurance payment method reforms, the main bodies using funds are becoming increasingly diverse, and the fund flow chain is constantly extending, further increasing the difficulty of risk prevention and control of medical insurance funds, and putting forward higher requirements for fund supervision.
The "Five-Year Action Plan" proposes the key tasks for medical insurance fund supervision during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, including focusing on treating the symptoms, continuously consolidating the high-pressure posture of "not daring to cheat," fully exerting the deterrent effect by strengthening flying inspections; empowering technology, and continuously weaving a **天罗地网** (tiān luó dì wǎng - "heaven and earth net," inescapable net, all-encompassing dragnet) of "not being able to cheat"; and treating the root causes, and continuously improving the long-term mechanism of "not wanting to cheat."
Regarding flying inspections, promote comprehensive coverage of supervision and inspection, covering all coordinated areas across the country, covering all subjects, types, natures, scales, scenarios, and insurance types. Through the three-level linkage of the national, provincial, and municipal levels, a three-dimensional regulatory pattern is constructed. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, efforts will be made to complete full on-site inspection coverage of national designated medical institutions. National flying inspections will cover all provinces every year, and cover prefecture-level cities in 5 years; provincial flying inspections will cover all prefecture-level cities (districts, counties) in the province every year, and cover all counties in 5 years; municipal and county medical insurance departments will combine with actual conditions to achieve full on-site inspection coverage of designated medical institutions and medical insurance management agencies in their jurisdictions in 5 years. For the first time, it is proposed to explore special flying inspections for long-term care insurance, and at the same time promote the carrying out of joint military-civilian flying inspections. Improve the closed-loop mechanism for problem handling and rectification, comprehensively use agreement management, administrative penalties, payment qualification management and other methods to strictly handle problems, and at the same time deepen multi-department collaborative governance to form a "inspection-handling-rectification-governance" connected supervision and management chain.
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In summer, the temperature is high, humidity increases, and mosquitoes and insects are active. How can you quickly distinguish the characteristics of different insect bites and find the correct treatment methods?
"The number of patients seeking medical attention for insect bites has increased significantly recently. Everyone can distinguish the type of insect bite quickly through intuitive morphology and symptoms, avoiding aggravation of the condition due to misjudgment or improper treatment," said Professor Zhang Jianglin (张江林), Director of the Department of Dermatology at Shenzhen People's Hospital (深圳市人民医院) in Guangdong Province (广东省). The common and easily confused "insect bites" in the current season include mosquito bites, mite bites, contact with Paederus fuscipes, and flea bites.
The characteristics of mosquito bites are the appearance of single or a few 2 to 5 mm round red spots, with a small bite point in the center, obvious itching, weak pain, and possible swelling and enlargement after scratching.
The characteristics of mite bites are scattered patches of red rash with severe itching. The red rash is mostly the size of rice grains to mung beans, pale red, with possible tiny bruises in the center, often appearing on clothing-fitting areas such as the waist, abdomen, back, and neck, in a "multi-area patch" shape. Itching will significantly worsen at night.
Contact dermatitis caused by Paederus fuscipes is characterized by the appearance of linear or patchy erosion and blisters, with obvious burning pain and secondary itching. Initially, it is a red rash, which quickly develops into blisters and pustules. Scratching will form linear ulcers, which are prone to leaving brown pigment marks after healing.
The characteristics of flea bites are the appearance of scattered small red dots, mostly on the lower limbs, often appearing in groups, with severe itching. The red rash is mostly distributed in groups of 3 to 5, with small bruises in the center, and is prone to redness, swelling, and small blisters after scratching.
What should be done after being bitten?
"There is a universal treatment formula: first clean the wound, then reduce swelling, avoid scratching, differentiate the situation, treat minor discomfort at home, and seek medical attention for severe symptoms immediately," said Zhang Jianglin (张江林).
If bitten by a mosquito, wash the bite with soapy water or clean water and apply calamine lotion to relieve itching. When itching is obvious, a weak topical corticosteroid ointment can be used for a short period.
If bitten by a mite, immediately wash the whole body with warm water and shower gel, and change into clean clothes. Do not scratch to avoid secondary infection. Apply calamine lotion or corticosteroid ointment to the red rash. If the itching is severe, oral antihistamines (such as loratadine) can be taken.
For Paederus fuscipes contact dermatitis, immediately rinse the contact area with plenty of clean water or soapy water, and then disinfect with iodine. If blisters or erosions appear, apply antibiotic ointment (such as mupirocin ointment) in time to prevent infection, and take oral antihistamines to relieve itching. If severe symptoms such as large-area erosion and fever occur, seek medical attention immediately. Avoid scratching, patting, or squeezing the affected area, otherwise it will accelerate the spread of venom and aggravate skin damage.
If bitten by a flea, wash the bite with soapy water and apply calamine lotion. If blisters or infections appear, apply antibiotic ointment. Deworm pets regularly and clean the home environment in a timely manner.
Avoid four common misunderstandings: First, scratching to relieve itching. Mosquito bites, especially after contact with Paederus fuscipes body fluid, scratching will accelerate the spread of venom and aggravate skin erosion.
Second, "randomly trying folk remedies." Some patients will directly apply toothpaste, soapy water, or toilet water to the red, swollen, and broken areas, or use a needle to break the small blisters formed by insect bites. This will not only fail to relieve the symptoms, but may also cause secondary infections, leaving scars and marks.
Third, ignoring the causes. Such as failure to wash clothes in time, failure to deworm pets, humid and dusty home environment, etc., leading to repeated insect bites.
Fourth, delaying medical treatment. Ignoring the slight swelling, oozing, fever, and other signals that appear after insect bites, mistakenly thinking that it will be fine if you endure it, until a large area of infection and aggravated allergies occur before seeking medical treatment, increasing the difficulty of treatment.
"If severe systemic allergic reactions occur, the local redness and swelling range expands rapidly, the pain is significantly aggravated, fever, fatigue, and swollen lymph nodes occur, and the bite site does not heal for a long time, with repeated redness, swelling, blackening, and hardening, seek medical attention immediately at the dermatology or emergency department of the hospital," Zhang Jianglin (张江林) reminded.
How to avoid being bitten by mosquitoes and insects? Zhang Jianglin (张江林) said, "By optimizing the environment, frequently drying clothes, closing windows, wearing long sleeves, etc., supplemented by the use of mosquito repellent and insecticides, most insect bites can be avoided."
Return to TopAccording to the "2025 Drug Review Report" released on May 13 by the Center for Drug Evaluation (CDE) (国家药监局药品审评中心) of the National Medical Products Administration (国家药监局), the number of drug registration applications accepted and concluded in China in 2025 both reached record highs.
In 2025, the CDE (国家药监局药品审评中心) accepted 20,149 drug registration applications of various types, an increase of 3% year-on-year; it concluded the review of 19,375 registration applications of various types, an increase of 6.11% year-on-year; it approved 76 Class 1 innovative drugs, including 11 new mechanism and new target drugs, both of which reached record highs; it approved 48 drugs for rare diseases and 138 drugs for children, and reviewed and approved 174 applications for drugs in short supply, solving the problem of medication for special populations and in scarce areas; it accepted 2,723 applications for traditional Chinese medicine registration, and the number of approved innovative traditional Chinese medicines, improved new drugs, and traditional Chinese medicine compound preparations based on ancient classic prescriptions steadily increased, with new drugs for respiratory, digestive, and other advantageous traditional Chinese medicine diseases continuing to emerge; the review standards for cell and gene therapy and innovative vaccines continued to improve, with a cumulative total of 8 CAR-T cell therapy drugs approved for marketing, and multiple new vaccines helping to prevent and control public health.
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A Short Biography of a Famous General
Xie Jun (谢军), born in Beijing (北京) in 1970, is China's (中国) first female world chess champion. She has been crowned world chess queen four times and led the Chinese (中国) women's team to win the International Chess Olympiad team championship three times. She is currently the Vice President of the International Chess Federation and the President of the Chinese Chess Association (中国国际象棋协会会长).
In 1991, Xie Jun (谢军) won the International Chess Women's Individual World Championship for the first time, taking the first step in China's (中国) international chess "four-step" goal to climb to the top of the world.
Not long ago, during the 8th SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation) International Chess Team Championship in 2026, Xie Jun (谢军), Vice President of the International Chess Federation and President of the Chinese Chess Association (中国国际象棋协会会长), came to Shanghai Qingpu Pinghe Bilingual School (上海青浦平和双语学校) to give a keynote speech to young enthusiasts entitled "Black and White 64 Squares Open a Wonderful Journey," sharing her understanding and experience of international chess.
Thirty-five years ago, Xie Jun (谢军), at the young age of 21, won the International Chess Women's Individual World Championship for the first time. Time flies, and now she has transformed from a chess player into an educator and project manager, working to popularize the sport of international chess. Recently, a reporter had a face-to-face exchange with Xie Jun (谢军), listening to her talk about her mental journey of role transformation.
"Victory or defeat is not obtained through indicator analysis, but through hard work in each game."
Q: How did you initially embark on the path of international chess?
A: I started playing Chinese chess at the age of 6 and won the Beijing (北京市) Children's Competition. Later, on the recommendation of my teacher, I started learning international chess and was selected into a professional institution for training.
Seeing a child's talent and being willing to give them opportunities, this experience has deeply resonated with me when I later became an educator and manager - selecting talent requires both discerning eyes and a willingness to be a ladder for others.
Q: Which game in your career impressed you the most?
A: In 1991, I participated in the World Championship for the first time. As a young chess player just starting out, competing against Chiburdanidze, who had held the world chess queen title for 13 years at the time, the outside world was not optimistic about me. The victory or defeat of competitive sports is not obtained through indicator analysis, but through hard work in each game.
I remember after the tenth game, the two sides were tied at 5:5, and a thought flashed in my mind: Persist, and the championship will definitely belong to China (中国). In the subsequent games, I played better and better, and finally broke the European chess players' 64-year monopoly on the world chess queen title. The day after winning the championship happened to be my 21st birthday, and the overseas Chinese in Manila (马尼拉), Philippines (菲律宾), where the event was held, even paid for a birthday greeting to be published in the newspaper for me, which I still remember vividly.
Q: You have experienced five "chess queen battles" and won world championships in both knockout and match formats. What are your feelings?
A: In the first World Championship, I was the challenger, and in the second, I was the defender. I lost the third time, and I was indeed confused for a while. The fourth time was the most difficult, and I finally won back the championship I had lost. The fifth time, I caught up with the new format, accepted the challenge, started all over again, and won the championship again. Having experienced various roles, looking back, they are all irreplaceable and valuable assets in life. As a chess player, I will always go all out and never fail this profession.
"Artificial intelligence cannot replace the training value of chess sports for human thinking."
Q: What is the reason that Chinese (中国) international chess has gone from a "desert" to achieving the "four-step" goal?
A: China's (中国) international chess started from scratch. Chen Zude (陈祖德), the then director of the Chinese Chess Academy (中国棋院院长), proposed the "four-step" goal: first win the women's individual world championship, then win the women's team world championship, then strive for the men's team world championship, and finally win the men's individual world championship. This goal is in line with the rules of the project and the development characteristics of international chess in our country.
In the early days, we concentrated superior resources and used methods such as "men helping women" to allow women's projects to achieve breakthroughs first. The achievement breakthrough of a world champion will boost the morale of the entire project development, and after this momentum rises, it will form a virtuous circle. The continuous breakthroughs in competitive performance have also driven more young people to participate in international chess projects, continuously consolidating the talent base. Now, when the Chinese (中国) team goes out to compete, even young chess players, foreign opponents dare not underestimate us.
Q: While being a chess player, you have never stopped your studies. What positive impact has this had on your career?
A: Playing chess is very happy, but life is more than just chess games. Before winning the world championship for the first time, I was already a student at Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学). In 16 years, I successively completed undergraduate studies in foreign languages and literature, a master's degree in sports science, a doctoral degree in psychology, and postdoctoral research in education. Learning and training in multiple disciplines have helped me think about the integration of sports and education from multiple perspectives, thereby promoting the development of international chess projects.
Q: How do you view the development prospects of international chess in the age of artificial intelligence? How should human chess players coexist with artificial intelligence?
A: Artificial intelligence cannot replace the training value of chess sports for human thinking. The logic, stress resistance, decision-making and other abilities cultivated by chess projects cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence. Of course, artificial intelligence makes training more efficient, lowers the learning threshold, and makes it possible for more international chess "desert" areas to produce masters, which is conducive to the popularization of the project. At the same time, the development of artificial intelligence also puts forward higher requirements for anti-cheating supervision of events.
"If you don't take the professional path, it's never too late to start playing chess."
Q: In recent years, you have experienced different role transformations. How do you define your responsibilities and mission?
A: No matter what kind of identity, it is a learning and growth in a position for me. Playing chess is what I love and am best at, but this is not a lifelong career, and subsequent career transitions are required. Whether it is working in the field of education, or doing project popularization and promotion, or participating in management work, I will do my best to contribute my share of strength. Roles are changing, but love never fades.
Q: After completing the "four-step" goal, how do you think Chinese (中国) international chess should develop next?
A: As an intellectual sport, international chess is not only a competition on the chessboard, but also has educational functions and cultural value. We must let this sport take root in national fitness and youth education, rather than just pursuing the cultivation of champions at the top of the pyramid. I hope to combine the thinking wisdom on the chessboard, the organization and management of the project, and cultural education to promote the development of intellectual sports from a broader level and better play the function of social service.
For example, studying the comprehensive educational value of chess in terms of brain training, will cultivation, and mental exercise for young people, and exploring the role of intellectual sports in addressing the challenges of aging. At present, the association's management and services must also keep pace with the times, be more scientific and standardized, and help more people understand, love and participate in international chess and become a part of life.
Q: How is your understanding of international chess different now from when you were a chess player?
A: Now when I play chess or watch chess, I no longer only care about winning or losing, but pay more attention to the cultural connotation and educational significance of chess projects. I think playing chess can calm down restless people, give weak people edges and corners, and make hesitant people more decisive. People of different personalities can benefit from it. If you don't take the professional path, it's never too late to start playing chess.
Q: What are the prospects for using international chess as a carrier of sports diplomacy?
A: International chess transcends language and culture and has a wide range of enthusiasts around the world. By holding bilateral or multilateral competitions, exchanges, and forums, chess players can learn from each other and enhance understanding and friendship between people from different regions. We should consciously incorporate international chess into the framework of cultural exchanges, create branded events, and make it a "soft power" card to showcase Chinese (中国) wisdom and promote people-to-people connectivity.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 13th (Reporters Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦) and Liu Shuoyang (刘硕阳)) At dawn on May 13th, Beijing time, the third round of Group B matches in the 2026 AFC U17 (under 17) Asian Cup was held in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. The Chinese U17 men's team defeated the Qatar team 2-0 and entered the quarterfinals. The advancing Chinese team qualified for the 2026 FIFA Qatar U17 World Cup. This is the first time the Chinese men's football team has entered the finals of the event in 21 years, since the 2005 Peru U17 World Cup.
The Chinese team's chances of qualifying were not optimistic before, as they lost to their opponents in the first two rounds and ranked at the bottom of the group. In the last round of the group stage against the Qatar team, the Chinese team needed to win by at least two goals to maintain the possibility of qualifying from the group.
The Chinese team went all out and He Sifan (何思凡)'s wonderful shot in the fourteenth minute of the first half helped the team take the lead. After that, the Chinese team maintained a one-goal lead until the end of the first half. In the second half, Zhang Bolin (张伯霖), who came on as a substitute, scored with a header to extend the lead. In the end, the Chinese team won 2-0.
After 3 rounds of matches, the Chinese team accumulated 3 points with 1 win and 2 losses, the same as the Qatar team and the Indonesian team in Group B. In the cycle comparison of the results between the 3 teams, the Chinese team ranked second in the group with a one-goal advantage and advanced to the quarterfinals. The Chinese team will face the first place in Group A, the host Saudi Arabia, on the 15th local time.
On the evening of May 11th, Beijing time, all four semi-finalists of the 2026 AFC U17 Women's Asian Cup were determined. In a quarter-final match held at the Suzhou Sports Center Stadium (江苏苏州体育中心体育场) in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏), the Chinese team defeated the Indian team 3-0 to enter the semi-finals, and also qualified for the FIFA U17 Women's World Cup to be held in Morocco this year. On May 14th, the Chinese team will face the North Korean team in the semi-finals, while the Japanese team will compete with the Australian team for the other final ticket.
In this year's series of Asian women's football events, the Chinese women's football team, the Chinese U20 women's football team, and the Chinese U17 women's football team have successively completed the important task of entering the finals of the 2027 Women's World Cup, the 2026 U20 Women's World Cup, and the 2026 U17 Women's World Cup.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing (北京) on May 13th (Reporter Fan Jianyuan (范佳元)) On the 13th, the 2025-2026 season CBA (Chinese Men's Basketball Professional League (中国男子篮球职业联赛)) playoffs 1/4 finals came to an end. The Shanghai Team (上海队), Beijing Team (北京队), Shenzhen Team (深圳队), and Guangsha Team (广厦队) successfully advanced to the semi-finals. The four strong teams are also the top four teams in the regular season, making the upcoming showdown highly anticipated.
This season's 1/4 finals adopted a new three-game two-win system, and the shortened schedule puts a greater test on the team's hard power and lineup depth. As the regular season champion, the Shanghai Team (上海队) demonstrated a very high level of competition. In the quarter-finals against the Shandong Team (山东队), they won the first game 84:79 to defend their home court, and won the second game 96:68 on the road, becoming the first team to secure a spot in the top four with a 2:0 score.
The Shenzhen Team (深圳队), facing the strong Zhejiang Team (浙江队), took the lead with a 108:95 victory in the first game, and withstood the opponent's counterattack with a 95:91 victory on the road in the second game, also advancing with a 2:0 score. The Shenzhen Team (深圳队) has high morale this season. Local players He Xining (贺希宁) and Wang Haoran (王浩然) have performed steadily, and the integration of foreign players with the whole team is becoming increasingly mature, which makes fans even more looking forward to the Shenzhen Team's (深圳队) performance in the upcoming semi-finals.
The Beijing Team's (北京队) advancement was full of suspense and twists and turns. Under the guidance of head coach Xu Limin (许利民), this team, which has well-known local players such as Zhou Qi (周琦), Zhao Rui (赵睿), and Zeng Fanbo (曾凡博), staged a wonderful showdown with their old rival, the Guangdong Team (广东队). In the first game, the Beijing Team (北京队) took the lead with a 102:94 victory, while in the second game, the Guangdong Team (广东队) relied on Zhang Haojia's (张皓嘉) decisive 3-pointer in overtime to tie the score at 102:99, dragging the series into a decisive game. In the third game, the Beijing Team (北京队) gave the opponent no more chances, relying on Zhou Qi's (周琦) strength in the paint and an offensive surge in the second quarter to establish an advantage, and finally successfully advanced to the top four with an 88:73 victory.
The last spot in the top four was generated between the defending champion Guangsha Team (广厦队) and the Shanxi Team (山西队). In the first game, the Shanxi Team (山西队) upset the Guangsha Team (广厦队) on the road with a 92:90 victory. In the second game, the Guangsha Team (广厦队) pulled back a game with an 86:81 victory on the road. In the decisive game, the Guangsha Team (广厦队) showed its overall advantage and finally won the game 91:67, securing the last ticket to the top four with some narrow escapes.
The semi-finals will begin on May 15th, and the matchups are already clear. In the upper bracket, the Shanghai Team (上海队) will face the Beijing Team (北京队), and in the lower bracket, the Shenzhen Team (深圳队) will face the Guangsha Team (广厦队).
This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 13th (Reporter Li Shuo (李硕)) The inaugural China Billiards Club Professional League (CBL), hosted by the Chinese Billiards Association (中国台球协会), recently held its launch ceremony in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东). The opening match will begin on May 20th, with 8 clubs competing for the overall championship over an 8-month season.
As the highest-level billiards club professional league in China, the league adopts a team competition system, divided into three stages: group stage, knockout stage, and finals, with a total of 432 matches. In terms of competition system, a combination of home-and-away double round-robin system and tournament system will be adopted in stages to enhance the competitiveness and viewing experience of the event.
"China's billiards sport has entered a golden period of high-quality development. Zhao Xintong (赵心童), Wu Yize (吴宜泽) and other players have successively won world championships, which is also the confidence to start the league." Jiang Shicai (姜世才), Chairman of the Chinese Billiards Association (中国台球协会), said, "The Chinese Billiards Association (中国台球协会) will continue to optimize and improve the league's operation, and work with the entire industry to promote China's billiards sport to a new level."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 季 芳
When the final buzzer sounded at the Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东), the members of the Chinese men's ice hockey team embraced each other on the ice, bursting into tears of joy. In the final match of the 2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship Division I Group B, the Chinese team battled to a shootout with the Estonian team. Ultimately, the Chinese team won with a total score of 4-3, and with a total record of 4 wins and 1 loss, they won the silver medal in this competition, breaking the best record of Chinese men's ice hockey since the International Ice Hockey Federation implemented the new grading system in 2001.
In the game that ended earlier that day, the Romanian team defeated the South Korean team 4-1, and the Chinese team's ranking temporarily slipped from third to fourth, and the situation for qualifying suddenly tightened. Facing the Estonian team, which had already secured the championship and had an advantage in overall strength, the Chinese team had to win to have a chance to reach the podium. To this end, the Chinese team actively attacked from the start, showing strong execution. In the fifth minute of the first period, forward Hou Yuyang (侯宇阳) seized the opportunity to score first, and then Yu Jilong (于纪龙) scored another goal, and the Chinese team ended the first period with a score of 2-0. In the second period, Hou Yuyang scored twice, continuing to expand the advantage. However, the Estonian team launched a counterattack in the third period, chasing the score to a 3-3 tie. At the critical moment, the Chinese team withstood the pressure and steadily defended, dragging the game into a penalty shootout. In the penalty shootout, 17-year-old goalkeeper Tu Yueran (涂越然) blocked the opponent's shot three times; Hou Yuyang, Guojia Ning (国家宁), and Zheng Mingju (郑明举) scored three key shots steadily. In the end, the Chinese team won the penalty shootout 3-2, successfully winning the silver medal. From an unfavorable start to a final comeback, the Chinese team has undergone transformation in terms of technical ability, mentality, and team cohesion.
In this World Championship, the veterans of the Chinese men's ice hockey team were brave and tenacious, and the new stars shined on the field. Forward Hou Yuyang won the top scorer and scoring leader of the event with an excellent performance of 7 goals, 5 assists, and a total of 12 points, and was also named the best player of the Chinese team. "After a season of experience, coupled with the national team's systematic preparation, this result shows the results of training," he said.
Wang Haoxi (王浩西), who is under 19 years old, won the best defender of the tournament with his steady offensive and defensive performance throughout the tournament. This young player, who plays in overseas professional leagues, is representing the Chinese team for the first time in the World Championships. "I am very proud to be able to achieve a breakthrough with my teammates at home," he said. Tu Yueran supported the team's "last line of defense" with a save success rate of 94.44%. In this competition, the average age of the Chinese team players is 24 years old, and players born after 2000 have become the backbone of the team.
Wang Xuan (王玄), chairman of the Chinese Ice Hockey Association (中国冰球协会), said that the breakthrough achieved by the Chinese team this time was not accidental, but a reflection of the systematic construction and long-term investment in China's ice hockey program, and it is a practice of consolidating and expanding the results of "driving 300 million people to participate in ice and snow sports" and promoting the Beijing Winter Olympic spirit.
Since the IIHF implemented the new grading system in 2001, the Chinese men's ice hockey team had long lingered in Group B. The Beijing Winter Olympics became an important turning point in the development of Chinese ice hockey. In 2022, the Chinese men's ice hockey team won the Group A championship in the World Championship Division II, successfully promoted to Group B in Division I, and completed the group leap. In 2023, the team steadily improved and won the third place in Group B of Division I, standing on the podium of this group for the first time. After that, the Chinese men's ice hockey team experienced a major adjustment of the lineup, a new and old transition, and ranked fourth for two consecutive sessions, missing the medal.
From achieving a breakthrough in promotion to winning the silver medal at home in this World Championship, the Chinese men's ice hockey team has gone through an undulating but firm path of advancement in a few years. "The Chinese team's runner-up in this World Championship has greatly boosted the confidence of the whole team and played an important role in promoting the development of the project," said Wang Xuan.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changsha (长沙) May 13th (Reporter Yang Xun (杨迅)) The 2026 Hunan Province High School "Three Big Ball" League recently opened at the Hunan Vocational Institute of Sports (湖南体育职业学院). Nearly 600 high school student-athletes from 14 cities and prefectures in Hunan Province (湖南省) participated in the opening ceremony.
In recent years, Hunan Province (湖南省) has focused on the integration of sports and education, delivering a "combined punch" of policies, competitions, technology, and hardware. It has constructed a four-level league system of "school, county, city, and province" to ensure "every class participates, every school organizes, and it is carried out every year." It is exploring "complete system enrollment," and the province has created 2,548 national youth campus football characteristic schools, 300 basketball characteristic schools, and 50 volleyball characteristic schools. It has issued implementation measures for coach positions, giving priority to the employment of retired athletes. In the "Xiang Super" League, it has innovatively implemented the rule of "no less than 3 middle school students playing at the same time in each game," breaking down the barriers between campus sports and social sports.
Return to TopRecently, at the opening round of the 2026 FIA TCR WORLD TOUR held at the Misano World Circuit in Italy, the Geely China Star Racing Team debuted with the new Geely Xingrui TCR car and immediately topped the podium. Chinese driver Ma Qinghua (马青骅) drove the Geely Xingrui TCR car to win the championship in the second round of the race. This victory is not only another championship breakthrough for Chinese drivers and domestically produced race cars in the world arena, but also a concentrated demonstration of Geely's technological accumulation, manufacturing capabilities, and brand confidence, adding another vivid footnote to the high-quality development of China's automotive industry.
The international racing arena has always been a touchstone for testing the comprehensive strength of car companies. High-intensity track racing and strict vehicle performance balance comprehensively test the vehicle's overall power, chassis control, aerodynamic design, and extreme durability quality. The Xingrui TCR race car is based on Geely's CMA technical architecture for forward development and is equipped with a Howse Power 2.0T turbocharged engine. The vehicle's power calibration, chassis tuning, and aerodynamic design are all independently controlled throughout the entire chain. It can continuously and stably output under extreme track conditions, standing out with precise handling, reliable durability, and comprehensive performance, and reaching the top in one fell swoop. In this World Tour, the Geely China Star Racing Team demonstrated its hardcore strength: Ma Qinghua (马青骅) won the championship in the second round, Thed Björk (比约克) won the third place, Yann Ehrlacher (小扬) reached the podium in the first round, and Santiago Urrutia (大圣) created the fastest lap in the second round. The dazzling achievements of multiple points blooming have made domestically produced race cars shine on the international track.
Prior to this, Geely and its brand Lynk & Co have been deeply involved in international events for many years, continuously polishing the name card of Chinese racing. Since the Lynk & Co 03 race car joined the Cyan Racing team in the WTCR (World Touring Car Cup) in 2019, the Lynk & Co brand has achieved a brilliant record of 7 championships in 9 years, and has long been in the first echelon of world touring car events. From Lynk & Co's 7 championships in 9 years to Xingrui TCR's first victory, the inherited racing glory constantly refreshes the achievements of domestically produced race cars on the global racing stage. This is a powerful testimony to the leap in the strength of China's automotive industry, and a vivid interpretation of the industrial confidence and cultural confidence of Chinese automotive brands.
The Geely Xingrui TCR race car's first finish is by no means accidental, but rather the result of Geely's long-term deep cultivation of core technologies and sustained efforts to accumulate strength. As one of the earliest Chinese car companies to systematically lay out automotive events, Geely has built a clear, well-established localized event matrix and track technology accumulation system: using the Super Geely League for the public to open up the popularization channel of racing, using professional formula events to consolidate the talent reserve of young drivers, and using top international events to complete technology verification and brand breakthroughs. After more than 20 years of continuous accumulation, Geely has refined leading technologies such as power, chassis, and safety structure on the track, and continuously applied them to civilian mass-produced models, forming a virtuous cycle development path of "**以赛促研、以赛促产**" (yǐ sài cù yán, yǐ sài cù chǎn - "promoting research and production through racing," using racing to improve research and production). The Geely Xingrui TCR race car is based on Geely's China Star flagship model - the Xingrui mass-produced model. The latter's product strength and market share are among the top in the industry, with cumulative global sales exceeding 760,000 units, which has provided solid data support for race car research and development. Mass-produced cars and race cars empower each other, and Geely continues to forge the ability to deeply integrate civilian technology and competitive technology, serving the high-quality development of China's automotive industry.
The Misano station is just the prelude to the 2026 FIA TCR World Tour. The Geely China Star Racing Team drivers and race cars will strengthen their cooperation and increase their tacit understanding, accumulate greater potential energy for subsequent races, and strive to make "China Star" shine on each track.
Recently, from international touring car events to world motorcycle racing, Chinese automotive and motorcycle brands have begun to emerge in many international events. Behind these breakthroughs, there are pioneering explorations and accumulated strength, witnessing the maturity of China's automotive and motorcycle industry chain, and also demonstrating the transformation and upgrading of Chinese manufacturing to Chinese intelligent manufacturing and Chinese creation.
Currently, the global automotive industry is undergoing profound changes. Geely will adhere to innovation leadership, deeply cultivate core technologies, and strive to continue to tell brand stories and convey Chinese power on the international stage. In the future, deeply rooted in a constantly improving manufacturing system, Geely is willing to gallop on the global track with more Chinese automotive brands, strive forward, and continuously break through, jointly writing a brilliant chapter of China's automotive industry in the wave of the world's automotive industry.
Data source: Geely Automobile Group
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张朋辉 许海林
In the digital age, the internet and electronic products have deeply integrated into people's daily work and life. However, minors' premature and excessive exposure to electronic products and social media leads to excessive distraction and increasingly prominent internet addiction, raising widespread concerns in the international community and various countries about the physical and mental health and development of minors. International organizations such as the United Nations Children's Fund (联合国儿童基金会) are calling for governments, platforms, schools, and families to build a collaborative governance system, listen to the voices of minors, guide them to improve their digital literacy, regulate online behavior, and jointly protect the healthy growth of minors in the digital world.
The problems of internet addiction and excessive use of electronic products and social media are becoming increasingly prominent.
The United Nations Children's Fund's (联合国儿童基金会) "Childhood in the Digital World: Screen Time, Digital Skills, and Mental Health" report released in 2025 shows that while countries are improving adolescents' digital skills and promoting the narrowing of the digital divide, minors' internet addiction and excessive use of electronic products and social media have also become global issues that cannot be ignored. The report covers survey data from more than 40 countries and regions around the world. The survey shows that adolescents who excessively use the internet and social media and are exposed to harmful internet information have a significant increase in the risk of mental health problems such as depression and anxiety, and also face multiple problems such as early-onset myopia, sleep disorders, cyberbullying, and inattentiveness in the classroom.
"Generation Z" and younger adolescents are known as "digital natives." They are surrounded by electronic products from birth, and the trend of younger and longer internet use is becoming more and more obvious. A Singapore (新加坡) study of 725 children under the age of two showed that 88.2% of children aged 18 to 24 months had screen time every day, with televisions and mobile devices being the main carriers. A survey by the American non-profit organization "Common Sense Media" shows that American children aged 8 to 12 use screens for nearly 5 hours a day on average, and adolescents use them for nearly 7.5 hours a day on average. 72% of minors seek companionship through artificial intelligence chat, social networks, etc. Data also shows that the types of electronic products owned and used by American minors continue to increase, and the length of time spent watching videos online is on the rise. A related report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (经合组织) also pointed out that the length of time that minors in its member countries spend using electronic products and the internet is increasing year by year.
The physical and mental health damage caused to minors by excessive use of electronic products has become a common challenge faced by various countries. Many empirical studies have shown that excessive use of electronic products and social media can affect the development of minors' cognitive, language expression, and social skills, and even lead to serious public health problems. After integrating multiple authoritative studies, the American Academy of Pediatrics (美国儿科学会) concluded that excessive exposure to screens, especially at a young age, is closely related to sleep disorders, obesity, depression, low self-esteem, attention deficits, declining academic performance, increased aggression, and increased incidence of high-risk behaviors. In addition, excessive screen time also squeezes out time for parent-child interaction, outdoor play, and other activities, which is not conducive to the all-round development of minors.
Implement online and offline measures to protect the physical and mental health of minors.
The United Nations Children's Fund (联合国儿童基金会) emphasizes that all online products and services for minors, including artificial intelligence, should strictly follow the principle of "best interests of minors," and create an inclusive, safe, and beneficial online environment for minors by improving the digital literacy of parents and guardians, strengthening government supervision and law enforcement, and establishing online reporting and remedy mechanisms. Recently, many countries around the world have intensively introduced the latest control measures to address the problem of minors' excessive use of the internet, and are working hard to promote the formation of an integrated online and offline protection pattern.
In March of this year, a jury in the Los Angeles County (洛杉矶县) Superior Court (高等法院) in California (加利福尼亚州), USA (美国) ruled that Meta (元) and Google (谷歌) were responsible for the psychological damage to a minor user, and ordered the two companies to pay a total of 6 million US dollars in compensation. This is the first time that an American jury has ruled that large technology platform companies should bear corresponding responsibility for adolescent social media addiction. In recent years, the United States (美国) has introduced the "Children's Online Privacy Protection Act" (《儿童在线隐私保护法》) and the "Children's Internet Protection Act" (《儿童互联网保护法》), focusing on the protection of minors' privacy and the filtering of harmful information, respectively. The U.S. (美国) Federal Department of Health and Human Services (联邦卫生与公众服务部) has also issued health warnings and scientific guidelines regarding minors' excessive exposure to screens.
The European Union (欧盟) adheres to the concept of "integrated online and offline protection," believing that the digital world is an important part of minors' lives and that online and offline lives cannot be treated separately. In recent years, the European Commission (欧盟委员会) has launched multiple investigations into large social media platforms, urging platforms to effectively fulfill their regulatory responsibilities, prevent inducing minors' internet addiction and spreading harmful information, and strengthen the protection of minors' privacy. The EU's (欧盟) "General Data Protection Regulation" (《通用数据保护条例》) clearly proposes the concept of "digital adulthood age" to define clear boundaries for the online protection of minors. France (法国), Portugal (葡萄牙) and other countries have passed legislation to restrict children and adolescents of specific age groups from accessing online platforms and social media. Recently, French (法国) President Emmanuel Macron (马克龙) said at a video conference of European leaders that regarding the currently discussed issue of banning adolescents from using social media, he suggested directly taking measures to ban platforms from being used by adolescents under the age of 15, rather than prioritizing the parental consent mechanism. Macron (马克龙) said that France (法国) had tried the parental consent mechanism, but the effect was not good, especially for parents who lack digital literacy and regulatory capabilities. He believes that platforms should ensure that they provide a variety of reliable age verification solutions, and Europe (欧洲) should also have its own solutions.
Australia (澳大利亚) officially implemented a social media ban for people under the age of 16 in December last year, becoming the first country in the world to set a minimum age limit for social media through legislation. The ban covers 10 mainstream social media platforms including Facebook (脸书), YouTube (优兔), Instagram (照片墙), and the Australian (澳) local platform Kick, involving approximately 1 million minor users. According to relevant regulations, the list of platforms covered by the ban will be dynamically adjusted, and companies that do not cooperate with the implementation will face a fine of up to 49.5 million Australian dollars (1 Australian dollar is approximately 4.94 yuan).
Smartphones, due to their portability and comprehensive functions, have become one of the most frequently used electronic products by minors. Since the beginning of this year, Singapore (新加坡), South Korea (韩国), Chile (智利) and other countries have successively implemented "campus mobile phone bans" to strictly control minors' use of electronic products on campus; previously, the African Union (非盟) had passed the "African Union Policy on Online Safety and Empowerment of Children" (《非盟儿童在线安全和赋权政策》). Although these measures take different forms, their goal is the same: to govern minors' internet addiction, protect children's legitimate rights and interests, and help adolescents grow up physically and mentally healthy.
Better guide minors to establish a sense of rules and regulate the use of electronic products.
Currently, strengthening platform supervision, refining the management of online content, and strictly implementing minor protection measures are gradually becoming a global consensus. The effectiveness of various control measures introduced by various countries in the actual operation process still needs to be observed for a long time.
Data released by the Australian (澳大利亚) government shows that before the ban took effect, 86% of Australian (澳大利亚) adolescents aged 8 to 15 used social media. A joint survey conducted by the Molly Rose Foundation (莫莉玫瑰基金会) in the United Kingdom (英国) and the Australian Youth Insight Organization (澳大利亚青年洞察组织) in March this year showed that among 12 to 15-year-old minor users who had registered for YouTube (优兔) accounts before the ban was implemented, 61% were still able to log in to at least one original account, indicating that some social media platforms have not strictly implemented account clearing and banning responsibilities. However, positive changes are also emerging - about 60% of parents said that after the ban was implemented, their children's offline social activities increased significantly. At the same time, about 40% of parents reported that some minors have begun to turn to alternative platforms with more relaxed supervision, bringing new challenges to the control work.
Better guiding minors to establish a sense of rules and regulate the use of electronic products is the key to protecting their healthy growth. Some medical institutions in the United States (美国) have clearly stated that it is not recommended for infants under 18 months to use electronic products; when children aged 18 to 24 months are exposed to electronic products, it is necessary to ensure that the content is of high quality and accompanied by adults to avoid using them alone; the average daily time for children aged 2 to 5 to watch high-quality programs should be controlled within 1 hour. For older adolescents, parents and schools should jointly formulate clear usage rules, set reasonable time limits, and strengthen online literacy education to guide them to identify the authenticity of online information and learn to use the internet safely, reasonably, and responsibly.
At the same time, adults' online behavior has a direct demonstration effect on minors. A survey of parent-child interaction in fast food restaurants conducted by the Boston (波士顿) Medical Center (医疗中心) in the United States (美国) showed that among 55 caregivers (whose children were between infancy and 10 years old), 40 used mobile phones during meals, of which 16 focused on their mobile phones throughout the entire process, ignoring interaction with their children. From the perspective of practical effects, parental companionship and guidance are crucial to solving the problem of minors' internet dependence. Transferring children's attention through high-quality parent-child interaction is an effective way to reduce screen dependence.
The protection of minors in the digital age is an important governance issue for various countries and a common responsibility of the international community. Only by the joint efforts of governments, platforms, schools, and families to improve governance measures and strengthen rule guidance can we better solve the dilemma of minors' internet addiction and build a solid defense line for the healthy growth of minors in the digital world.
Return to TopBy: 麦克·奥杜罗
Recently, a message has been trending in my African circle of friends: China has fully implemented zero tariffs on 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with it! As an African journalist living and working in China, I have a more genuine and profound understanding of the significance of the zero-tariff policy.
Ethiopian coffee, Ghanaian shea butter, Kenyan tea... Nowadays, African specialties have long crossed mountains and seas and integrated into the daily lives of many Chinese people. From e-commerce platforms to offline supermarkets, these products with the aroma of sunshine and soil are winning the favor of more and more Chinese consumers. The full implementation of the zero-tariff policy further clears the "capillaries" of Sino-African trade. By reducing trade costs and broadening market access, China is building a broad platform directly connecting African farmers, businesses, and entrepreneurs to the world's second-largest consumer market.
As Africans, we deeply know how difficult it is for African specialty products to explore the global market. For a long time, Africa's foreign trade has been constrained by structural bottlenecks: high tariff barriers, cumbersome customs clearance procedures, and cross-border logistics shortcomings... Many high-quality products have not yet left the African continent, and profit margins have been compressed at every level. China's full implementation of zero tariffs on 53 African countries that have diplomatic relations with it is like bringing a development accelerator to the African continent, which will help African goods reach the Chinese market more quickly and conveniently.
In the past few years of studying and working in China, I have participated in many Sino-African economic, trade, and cultural exchange activities, and I have felt that the willingness of both sides to respect each other and cooperate hand in hand is becoming stronger. Last year, I participated in the reporting work of the 8th China International Import Expo (中国国际进口博览会), and I was particularly impressed by the special zone created for the products of the least developed countries for the first time. Featured products from many African countries gathered together, attracting countless attention. Many African entrepreneurs said that relying on the platform of the Expo, African local products have received unprecedented attention, and they are full of expectations for the development opportunities brought about by the full implementation of the zero-tariff policy. Today, this beautiful expectation has been transformed into tangible orders, making many African farmers smile.
2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the official establishment of diplomatic relations between Africa and China. Zero tariff is a concrete manifestation of China's adherence to the concept of genuine affinity, sincerity and good faith towards Africa and the correct concept of righteousness and benefit, demonstrating China's open mind and the responsibility of a major country. Of course, policy dividends will not automatically translate into development results. African countries must take the initiative, seize opportunities, improve cross-border logistics systems, benchmark Chinese market quality standards, and create characteristic products that meet the preferences of the Chinese consumer market. Africa needs to take concrete actions to transform policy advantages into tangible economic benefits.
In the past few years of on-the-ground observation in China, I have truly seen the "pioneering spirit" of African entrepreneurs in facing challenges. They have taken the initiative to lay out the Chinese market, adapt to consumer demand, and expand production capacity supply... A large number of African entrepreneurs are full of development enthusiasm and are doing their best to transform Chinese opportunities into practical results that benefit the livelihoods of the people of African countries. The zero-tariff through train has been launched, which is a historic opportunity for African countries, and the stage for African entrepreneurs will be broader. It is believed that relying on the friendly accumulation and mature cooperation mechanism between Africa and China, African countries are fully capable of seizing the advantages of the zero-tariff policy and promoting their respective economic and social development.
The future has come, and Africa is also accelerating forward.
Return to TopUNESCO Report:
Global Higher Education Student Enrollment More Than Doubles in 20+ Years
According to Xinhua News Agency, Paris, May 12 (Reporter Luo Yu (罗毓)) The first "Global Trends in Higher Education" report released by UNESCO on the 12th shows that in the past 20 years, the number of students enrolled in higher education worldwide has more than doubled, but inequalities in access to education in terms of region, gender, and disadvantaged groups remain prominent.
The report, based on the latest data from 146 countries, shows that the number of students enrolled in higher education globally has increased from approximately 100 million in 2000 to 269 million in 2024, accounting for approximately 43% of the higher education-eligible population. However, there are significant differences between regions, with higher education enrollment rates for young people in Western Europe and North America at approximately 80%, Latin America and the Caribbean at 59%, South Asia and West Asia at 30%, and sub-Saharan Africa at only 9%.
The report also shows that enrollment in private higher education institutions accounts for 1/3 of total global higher education enrollment. At the same time, the rate of increase in global higher education graduation rates is slower than the rate of enrollment, with the gross graduation rate for higher education increasing only from 22% in 2013 to 27% in 2024.
In terms of the number of women in global higher education, all regions except sub-Saharan Africa have now achieved gender balance. However, women still account for a relatively low proportion at the doctoral level, and only about 1/4 of senior leadership positions in universities.
In addition, only 1/3 of countries worldwide have implemented relevant projects to support disadvantaged groups in receiving higher education. Refugees still face significant barriers to accessing higher education, one key issue being the lack of or inability to verify educational qualifications, especially in countries of the Global South. To address this issue, UNESCO has launched an "Educational Passport" to certify the academic, professional, and skills qualifications of refugees and forcibly displaced persons, and the project has now been implemented in several countries.
Nissan Motor Suffers Huge Losses for Two Consecutive Fiscal Years
According to Xinhua News Agency, Tokyo, May 13 (Reporters Li Shimeng (李诗萌) and Liu Chunyan (刘春燕)) Nissan Motor Co. (日产汽车公司) of Japan announced on the 13th that due to factors such as sluggish global sales, the impact of US tariff policies, and increased inflationary pressures, the company has suffered huge losses for two consecutive fiscal years.
The financial report shows that in fiscal year 2025 (April 2025 to March 2026), Nissan Motor's net loss was 533.1 billion yen (calculated at the average exchange rate for fiscal year 2025, approximately 151 yen per US dollar), and global sales, sales revenue, and operating profit all decreased year-on-year. In fiscal year 2024, the company's net loss was 670.9 billion yen.
To improve profitability, Nissan Motor is implementing large-scale structural reforms, including reducing the number of global vehicle assembly plants and reducing labor costs through layoffs. Nissan Motor stated that in addition to reform-related expenses, the US government's tariff policy also had a serious impact on the company's performance in fiscal year 2025, resulting in a reduction in operating profit of approximately 286 billion yen.
Nauru Parliament Approves Constitutional Amendment to Change Country Name
According to Xinhua News Agency, Sydney, May 13 (Reporters Nie Xinyu (聂新宇) and Qi Zijian (齐紫剑)) The government of Nauru (瑙鲁) said on the 12th that the country's parliament passed a constitutional amendment that day to change the country's name from "Nauru (瑙鲁)" to "Naoero (瑙埃罗)." The amendment still needs to be approved by a national referendum.
The Nauru government announced the news on social media platforms on the 12th and stated that a national referendum will be held next. If the name change is approved by the referendum, the new country name will be used in national official records and symbols, as well as regional and international official identity designations, including the official designation in the United Nations.
The renaming proposal was originally put forward by President David Adeang (阿迪昂) in January. The Nauru government previously stated that the name "Naoero" better reflects Nauru's national heritage, language, and identity. The government explained that the current country name "Nauru" originates from a foreign language that makes it difficult to accurately pronounce "Naoero."
Return to TopMay 12th is International Nurses Day. This year's theme is "Our Nurses. Our Future. The economic power of care." The International Council of Nurses recently released its 2026 State of the World's Nursing report, which points out that global health systems and nurses face unprecedented pressures, such as severe nursing shortages, continuously growing and increasingly complex public health needs, escalating conflicts, a prominent climate crisis, and regional development imbalances. The report calls on countries to take urgent action to achieve universal health coverage and the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, further empowering nurses and promoting the transformation of healthcare systems towards care models based on "prevention, continuity, and community."
(People's Daily reporter Bai Yuanqi (白元琪))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 莽九晨
Data released by the Bank of Korea on May 12 showed that South Korea's economic growth rate in the first quarter of this year was 1.694%. Previously, foreign investment data released by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea showed that in the first quarter, foreign direct investment in South Korea increased by 0.1% year-on-year, reaching US$6.41 billion, ranking second in total amount in the first quarter of previous years. The Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea believes that it is very rare to achieve this result in the context of increasing global economic uncertainty. The "2026 Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index" report recently released by Kearney Management Consulting also shows that South Korea's foreign direct investment confidence index ranking has significantly improved. Currently, the South Korean government is intensively introducing preferential policies and strengthening investment promotion measures.
In January of this year, South Korean President Lee Jae-myung (李在明) held a symposium with representatives of foreign-invested enterprises, clearly releasing a signal to optimize the investment environment. According to a report by South Korea's Newsis News Agency, Lee Jae-myung (李在明) said that South Korea will promote industrial upgrading with artificial intelligence and renewable energy as the core, implement policies related to regional development and youth employment, and expects foreign-invested enterprises to actively participate in investment in related fields. Lu Hangu (吕翰九), head of the Office of Trade Negotiations of the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea, said that South Korea will focus on four major areas: advanced manufacturing, supply chains, artificial intelligence, and green industries, select 30 strategic investment projects, and provide preferential policies such as cash subsidies, R&D support, and human resource guarantees for resident companies; for foreign-invested enterprises that invest in areas other than Seoul (首尔) and Gyeonggi Province (京畿道), cash subsidies will be increased by at least 10 percentage points on the existing basis, and supporting measures such as rent reduction and exemption and R&D center supply will be provided.
In recent years, South Korea has continued to increase its efforts to attract investment. According to the "2025 Foreign Direct Investment Trends in South Korea" released by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy of South Korea, foreign direct investment in South Korea in 2025 increased by 4.3% year-on-year, reaching US$36.05 billion, a record high, and has maintained growth for five consecutive years since 2021. By industry, manufacturing and service industries have become the main areas attracting foreign investment, with manufacturing attracting foreign investment of US$15.77 billion, an increase of 8.8% year-on-year.
Data released by the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) shows that in order to attract foreign investment, the South Korean government provides a number of preferential policies in different industries, such as tax reduction and exemption, site selection subsidies, cash subsidies, and R&D center supply. For example, foreign-invested enterprises that invest more than US$20 million in the tourism industry and more than US$10 million in the logistics industry can enjoy tax reduction and exemption; cash subsidies can be enjoyed for investing in advanced manufacturing and multinational companies setting up regional headquarters in South Korea. In order to further expand the effectiveness of investment promotion, the Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency (KOTRA) has opened 36 overseas investment promotion trade halls in countries such as China, the United States, Germany, and France as a docking window for overseas potential investors, providing Korean investment information to potential investors and organizing investment promotion activities. Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone (釜山镇海经济自由区) is one of the special economic zones designated by the South Korean government to attract foreign investment, mainly attracting foreign investment in high-end manufacturing, port logistics, leisure tourism and other industries. Data released by the Busan-Jinhae Free Economic Zone (釜山镇海经济自由区) shows that the zone attracted a total of US$453 million in foreign direct investment in 2025, a record high.
However, domestic public opinion in South Korea also pointed out that in order to attract more foreign investment, South Korea still needs to promote a number of reforms. The Korea Economic Daily recently published an editorial stating that foreign-invested enterprises have made important contributions to the South Korean economy in creating jobs and earning foreign exchange, but it is also necessary to think deeply about the reasons why "the trend of multinational companies' regional headquarters entering South Korea is still weak," and it is necessary to focus on solving obstacles in terms of systems and the investment environment. Analysts believe that the government also needs to ensure the consistency and predictability of policies, and issues such as the labor system also need to be vigorously reformed.
(Reported by the Seoul (首尔) Office of this newspaper on May 13)
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Social assistance concerns people's livelihood and connects with people's hearts. It is a systematic arrangement to provide a safety net, address urgent needs, protect people's livelihood, and promote fairness. It plays a crucial role in ensuring the basic living standards of people in need.
On April 30 this year, the 22nd session of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee passed the Social Assistance Law, which will come into effect on July 1, 2026.
As a fundamental law in the field of social security, the promulgation of the Social Assistance Law marks a new and significant progress and achievement in China's key areas of legislation. "The formulation of the Social Assistance Law summarizes China's successful experience in social assistance, consolidates and expands the achievements in poverty alleviation, improves the social assistance system, and strengthens the safety net for basic livelihood security," said Gao Lina (高莉娜), Deputy Director of the Social Law Office of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee.
What are the highlights of the Social Assistance Law? What sense of gain can it bring to the people? The reporter conducted an interview.
Appropriately Expand the Scope of Assistance Recipients and Strengthen the Basic Guarantee Function of Social Assistance
"My child's medical treatment cost a lot of money. I thought I wouldn't be eligible for assistance because my income exceeded the standard. I didn't expect the government to take the initiative to come to my door and help us apply for expenditure-based minimum living security, and the medical reimbursement ratio has also increased!" Social assistance has solved the urgent needs, said Ms. Li (李女士) from Puzhou Street (蒲州街道), Longwan District (龙湾区), Wenzhou (温州市), Zhejiang (浙江), adding that it has added confidence to the family.
The "expenditure-based minimum living security" in Ms. Li's mouth is a positive exploration of the local area to break the traditional limitation of "poverty based on income."
Such heart-warming assistance measures have also been confirmed in the Social Assistance Law. According to the Social Assistance Law, in addition to people in extreme poverty and families receiving minimum living security, social assistance recipients also include families on the edge of minimum living security and families with difficulties in rigid expenditures.
"Appropriately expanding the scope of assistance recipients is a major highlight of the Social Assistance Law legislation," said Zhang Haomiao (张浩淼), a professor at the School of Public Administration of Sichuan University (四川大学). Families with difficulties in rigid expenditures are different from traditional social assistance recipients such as low-income families and people in extreme poverty. Although their family members have a certain income, their family life will also have actual difficulties due to large rigid expenditures in medical care, education, disability rehabilitation, etc. Including families with difficulties in rigid expenditures in the scope of social assistance coverage demonstrates the temperature of the rule of law and allows the people to share the fruits of reform and development.
At the same time, the Social Assistance Law clarifies that the state establishes and improves a hierarchical and classified social assistance system, scientifically identifies social assistance recipients, and provides timely and targeted social assistance according to the type of assistance recipient and the degree of difficulty.
For example, the Social Assistance Law stipulates that for families on the edge of minimum living security whose per capita household income is lower than the local minimum living security edge family standard and whose property status meets the regulations, the social assistance management department shall provide corresponding medical, educational, housing, employment and other social assistance according to actual needs.
"The scope of assistance has expanded from the traditional low-income group to the low-income group. At the same time, a hierarchical and classified gradient assistance system is established around basic survival, relative poverty, and emergency situations to provide targeted and differentiated assistance, adapt to the new changes in the needs of people in need in China, respond to the diversity of assistance needs of people in need, and is conducive to improving the quality and efficiency of assistance," said Lin Mingang (林闽钢), professor of the Department of Social Security, School of Government Management, Nanjing University (南京大学), Vice President of the China Social Security Society (中国社会保障学会) and President of the Social Assistance Branch. The Social Assistance Law promotes assistance from "ensuring survival" to "ensuring basic needs, preventing risks, and promoting development" to ensure a solid bottom line.
Highlight "Material + Service" to Maximize the Comprehensive Effect of Social Assistance
Based on the positioning of social assistance to ensure basic needs, provide a safety net, and address urgent needs, the Social Assistance Law improves the scope and measures of social assistance recipients and promotes increased social assistance efforts, while also focusing on ensuring that relevant system designs are adapted to the level of economic development.
For example, according to the Social Assistance Law, local people's governments at all levels shall reasonably arrange social assistance funds in combination with the level of economic and social development and financial resources; qualified places may orderly promote the application for relevant social assistance in the place of residence by people holding residence permits.
"Adhering to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities can ensure that the social assistance cause will go far and steadily," Gao Lina (高莉娜) introduced that while clarifying the government's social assistance responsibilities, it also focuses on giving play to the enthusiasm of social assistance recipients themselves and the role of social forces in participation, and stipulates that people's governments at all levels shall take measures to encourage, support and guide social assistance recipients with labor capacity to help themselves and get out of poverty.
How to help self-reliance and get out of poverty?
The "People's Livelihood Warm Heart House" (民生暖心屋) in Caojiadu Street (曹家渡街道), Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海), this service-oriented social assistance entity service space "empowers" people in need.
Xiao Le (小乐) (pseudonym), who lives in Baoshan Road Street (宝山路街道), Jing'an District (静安区), Shanghai (上海), is a beneficiary of service-oriented social assistance. "The child suffers from autism, and the parents have disabilities." After Xiao Le's father lost his job, the family fell into difficulties. Community assistance consultants carried out precise assistance: training Xiao Le's father to help him find a security job; letting Xiao Le study in a special education school; and providing continuous psychological support to the elderly at home.
From "sending warmth" to "strengthening ability," from "passive assistance" to "active development"... One policy for one person, precise drip irrigation, service-oriented social assistance better responds to diverse demands and stimulates the internal driving force of people in need.
The Social Assistance Law stipulates that the state establishes and improves the social assistance system and legally guarantees citizens' right to obtain material assistance and assistance services from the state and society. The state actively develops service-oriented social assistance.
With the development of the economy and society, the needs of assistance recipients are not limited to maintaining basic living standards, but have expanded to multiple dimensions such as employment and income increase, education and growth, and psychological comfort. "Realizing the diversification, combination, specialization and personalization of social assistance methods through non-material assistance forms and maximizing the comprehensive effect of social assistance is an important means to achieve social equity," said Lin Mingang (林闽钢). Maintaining and guaranteeing the master status of the people through service-oriented assistance and creating family-like care and warmth in social assistance is a new look of social assistance in the new era.
"Service-oriented social assistance implements the concept of 'investing in people'," said Zhang Haomiao (张浩淼). Material assistance focuses on solving the urgent needs of people in need, and various service-oriented assistance such as medical care, education, and employment can help recipients enhance their abilities, which is a "blood-making" means, and helps vulnerable groups get rid of their vulnerable status and share the development results of the economy and society.
Improve Assistance Procedures and Guarantee Measures to Ensure Convenient, Beneficial, Fair and Just
"One list" manages to the end, "one form application" reduces the burden, and "data sharing" reduces proof. In Wuxi (无锡市), Jiangsu (江苏), it is more convenient for people in need to seek help.
"My son passed away, my wife has a first-degree limb disability, and the family life is very difficult." In January this year, Zhou Ping (周平) (pseudonym), a villager in Qinxin Village (勤新村), Donggang Town (东港镇), Xishan District (锡山区), submitted a comprehensive application form for caring and helping people in need to the village committee, and also applied for multiple caring and helping items such as minimum living security and trade union assistance for workers in difficulty. Soon, Zhou Ping (周平) received the assistance money.
In recent years, various places have continued to make efforts to facilitate social assistance, so that people in need are no longer confused or running around when taking the first step in seeking help.
Focusing on improving assistance efficiency and ensuring convenient and timely assistance, the Social Assistance Law requires that social assistance management departments shall optimize work processes in accordance with the law and improve the level of convenience in combination with the actual situation of social assistance work. The county-level people's government shall establish a "one-window acceptance, coordinated handling" mechanism for social assistance. Township people's governments and street offices shall set up a unified window for accepting social assistance applications and promptly accept and forward application matters.
"In the assistance application process, convenience should be provided to people in need," said Zhang Haomiao (张浩淼). The Social Assistance Law improves the efficiency of social assistance through information sharing and departmental linkage, and emphasizes the convenience, accuracy and timeliness of assistance services.
It is necessary to accurately include people in need in the scope of protection, and also to ensure the accurate distribution of assistance resources. The Social Assistance Law stipulates that the state promotes the informatization of social assistance, strengthens the construction of a dynamic monitoring information platform for low-income people, realizes the accurate identification and normalized assistance for low-income people, and improves the management service capacity and level of social assistance.
"Conducting risk prevention monitoring and early warning of dynamic changes in family conditions for urban and rural residents, establishing and improving an early warning indicator system, and building an integrated system for routine monitoring, timely early warning, and rapid response for low-income people will make assistance for low-income people more accurate and proactive," said Lin Mingang (林闽钢).
How to ensure that social assistance is open, fair and just is a high concern of society.
In this regard, the Social Assistance Law strengthens assistance supervision. "The law stipulates social supervision clauses, clarifying that people's governments at or above the county level shall open social assistance service hotlines to accept and refer consultations, reports and complaints, and accept social supervision. At the same time, it stipulates government supervision-related clauses, such as clarifying that the financial departments of people's governments at or above the county level shall supervise the management and use of social assistance funds and materials in accordance with the law," Gao Lina (高莉娜) introduced. In addition, the law also stipulates the legal responsibilities for relevant illegal acts, which will effectively guarantee the implementation of the social assistance system.
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In Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), the bustling Hubin (湖滨) business district by West Lake (西湖) hides a studio called "Hubin Qingyu" (湖滨晴雨). Citizens and tourists can freely enter and exit at any time to inquire about issues and reflect demands. This is the only grassroots legislative contact point established in a community social organization by the Standing Committee of the Zhejiang Provincial People's Congress (浙江省人大常委会).
During the "May Day" holiday, I made a special trip to the studio while strolling around West Lake (西湖) and happened to find many citizens and tourists coming one after another. Ms. Wang (王女士), a tourist from Beijing (北京), said bluntly that although there are staff and volunteers to dissuade the "wild tour guides" around West Lake (西湖), there is a lack of substantive disposal and punishment. Yan Jun (闫军), a civil sentiment observer and head of the Taobao Flash Sale Station (淘宝闪购站长) on duty that day, took notes carefully while patiently answering, and quickly formed a suggestion for business district governance.
Just like the scenery of West Lake (西湖) changes with the weather, the "weather vane" of the "Hubin Qingyu" (湖滨晴雨) studio also moves with the public sentiment - "sunny days" record the "golden ideas" of suggestions and advice, and "rainy days" collect the "worries" of the neighborhood. Up to now, it has participated in the opinion solicitation activities of 152 draft laws and regulations, gathering public sentiment and wisdom of governance.
In Zhejiang (浙江), grassroots legislative contact points have become a key hub connecting national legislation and grassroots governance. In 2020, the Standing Committee of the Yiwu (义乌) Municipal People's Congress of Zhejiang (浙江义乌市人大常委会) was established as the second batch of grassroots legislative contact points by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委). Exploring "one station for multiple purposes, multi-point integration," Yiwu (义乌) deeply integrates grassroots legislative contact points with People's Congress representative liaison stations, grassroots contact points for financial and economic work, and social governance centers. The city's 37 legislative liaison stations, 47 consultation units, and more than 12,000 information collectors have built a social sentiment collection network covering the entire region. Relying on these legislative "through trains," community neighborhood suggestions and enterprise development demands can be heard and responded to. This practice of open legislation and seeking advice from the people has become a "golden key" to answering governance problems.
In March of this year, more than 20 representatives of the masses from markets, enterprises, and communities gathered at the Yiwu Choucheng (义乌稠城) Street Legislative Liaison Station to discuss the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline. They spoke one after another: "Can the tax policy for cross-border e-commerce be further optimized?" "How to solve the problem of financing difficulties for small and medium-sized enterprises?"... These voices were recorded one by one and became an important reference for the next legislative proposal. The "through train" that goes to market stalls, community corridors, and the doorsteps of the people allows the whole-process people's democracy to take root in the deepest social soil and feel the most real temperature of governance.
The vitality of grassroots legislative contact points lies in always being with the masses and resonating with practice. By the end of 2025, the number of grassroots legislative contact points of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会法工委) will increase to 60, driving the establishment of more than 7,800 contact points at the provincial and municipal levels. Every legislative opinion solicitation is a vivid legal practice. As legislative tentacles extend to the grassroots and legal thinking integrates into people's lives, the quality of legislation and governance effectiveness are also doubly improved.
Legislation is not only a solemn deliberation in the Great Hall of the People, but also related to the daily necessities of ordinary people's homes. These "through trains" all over China carry the expectations of the people and condense the wisdom of grassroots governance, so that every law and regulation can better carry public sentiment and let the whole-process people's democracy burst forth with vigorous vitality in the hot soil of the grassroots, injecting inexhaustible power into promoting the modernization of the national governance system and governance capabilities.
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Before dawn, Ma Changzhai (马长翟), a National People's Congress representative and head of the sanitation team of Xinhua District (新华区), Shijiazhuang (石家庄) City, Hebei (河北) Province, puts on her orange work uniform, picks up her cleaning tools, and takes to the streets with her colleagues.
The streets and alleys are where Ma Changzhai (马长翟) works and also where she conducts her research.
"Whether the roads are clean, whether the people are satisfied, whether the workers are tired, and whether their treatment is good or not, all must be seen on the front line and heard in person." During each work break, Ma Changzhai (马长翟) always stops to chat with the shopkeepers and residents along the street. After work, she sits with her colleagues in the sanitation rest room, chatting, asking about difficulties, and recording demands. "Every simple word contains sincere expectations." Ma Changzhai (马长翟) said that the streets and alleys, the front line of work, and the rest stops are all her classrooms for listening to the people's voices and collecting public opinion.
"Collecting public opinion also requires finding answers." This year, Ma Changzhai (马长翟) has been to many cities for research. Each time, she walks into the streets and alleys, not to see the scenery but to learn from experience, focusing on understanding the sanitation operation models, team building, and treatment guarantees in various places, and carefully sorting out good practices that can be learned from.
A notebook records the footsteps and voices during the research, which she carries with her during daily cleaning, team inspections, and equipment debugging.
"Sanitation workers are the beauticians of the city, guarding the clean lives of thousands of households, but this group faces many practical difficulties." Rooted in the front line for a long time, Ma Changzhai (马长翟) found in her research that the sanitation team is obviously aging, the labor intensity is high, the treatment guarantee is insufficient, the attractiveness of the position is not strong, young people are unwilling to join, and the sustainable development of the team is facing pressure.
With the urgent needs and concerns of her colleagues, and after a year of visits and research, Ma Changzhai (马长翟) brought two related suggestions to this year's National People's Congress: one focusing on technology empowering sanitation operations, and one focusing on the wages and benefits of sanitation workers.
"We should promote the mechanization transformation and upgrading of sanitation operations according to local conditions, use technology to empower and reduce labor intensity, improve cleaning quality and refinement, so that the city is cleaner, the workers are more worry-free, and the people are more at ease." Ma Changzhai (马长翟) said that according to the actual situation of different positions, the welfare benefits of sanitation workers should also be appropriately improved, and the welfare subsidies, social security, and occupational care systems should be further improved, so as to effectively enhance the sense of gain and happiness of sanitation workers, so that more young people are willing to join, and continue to inject fresh blood into the sanitation worker team.
Every suggestion comes from solid research. "Only by accurately grasping the voices and demands of front-line workers can the suggestions put forward be down-to-earth and in line with public opinion." Ma Changzhai (马长翟) said that since taking office, her suggestions have received a positive response from relevant departments, which makes her feel very excited and also makes her feel a greater responsibility on her shoulders.
Ma Changzhai (马长翟) said that as a representative from the front line of sanitation, she must not only guard the clean background color of the city, but also be a collector of opinions and suggestions from the grassroots. Only by throwing herself into the streets and alleys, listening more to the workers' hearts, observing the people's true feelings, and solving the urgent needs and concerns of the grassroots, can she live up to the trust and expectations of the people.
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During the "May Day" holiday, Gao Chunyan (高春艳), a National People's Congress (全国人大) representative and former director of the Muleng City (穆棱市) Agricultural Technology Extension Center in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省), shuttled through the fields, personally guiding farmers in selecting improved varieties, standardizing field management, explaining conservation tillage techniques, and listening to farmers' needs in terms of agricultural materials, policies, and technology.
Typical black soil arable land in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) accounts for 56% of the country's total. In order to nourish and utilize the black soil and help the people achieve bumper harvests, the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会) attaches great importance to leveraging the advantages of People's Congress representatives in professional fields to better protect the black soil.
"Every spring plowing season, we organize People's Congress representatives and experts in the agricultural field to come to the fields to guide farmers in plowing and answer questions about planting and sales. At the same time, People's Congress representatives discover problems and put forward suggestions on the front line, so as to better promote the two-way interaction between policies and technologies," said Liu Yang (刘洋), director of the Proposals and Suggestions Division of the Representative Work Committee of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会代表工委议案建议处).
"'Kedou 91' (克豆91) seeds are a new high-protein and high-yield soybean variety independently developed by us. We provide them to farmers free of charge so that farmers can truly enjoy the benefits," said Chen Yuhui (陈宇辉), a National People's Congress (全国人大) representative and president of the Heilongjiang Academy of Agricultural Sciences (黑龙江省农业科学院), who led scientific and technological personnel to conduct research in the fields and delivered the academy's high-quality soybean varieties and other scientific research results to farmers as soon as possible, helping scientific research results truly translate into increased grain production and increased farmer income.
"In the past, farming relied entirely on old experience, and the yield was low and the quality could not be improved. Now, with People's Congress representatives who understand agriculture providing good varieties and teaching techniques hand-in-hand, the harvest has increased all of a sudden," said Jiang Yanchao (蒋彦超), secretary of the Party branch of Houping Village (后平村), Meris Daur District (梅里斯达斡尔族区), Qiqihar City (齐齐哈尔市). Watching the soybean seeds in his own field grow and develop in the spring breeze, Jiang Yanchao (蒋彦超) couldn't help but be overjoyed and gave a happy thumbs up.
Guarding the national "rice bag" and enriching the farmers' "money bag." Under the active promotion of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会), People's Congress representatives at all levels in Heilongjiang (黑龙江) listened to farmers' appeals and transformed the difficulties of agricultural development and the expectations of farmers into proposals and suggestions with warmth and weight.
"It is recommended to strengthen the support for high-quality agricultural product brands, focus on promoting the breeding of high-quality grain varieties, quality improvement, brand building, and standardized production, increase the supply of green and high-quality grain, and promote the transformation from 'good planting' to 'good selling'," said Yang Yanjie (杨艳杰), a representative of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大代表) and professor at Harbin Medical University (哈尔滨医科大学). During the legislative research on the Regulations on the Evaluation and Promotion of Climate Quality of Agricultural Products in the province, she visited more than 20 planting cooperatives to collect opinions, and some of the suggestions she compiled were adopted by the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会).
In the early morning, the first ray of sunshine broke through the mist on the river and sprinkled on Heixiazi Island (黑瞎子岛), the easternmost point of the motherland's land in Fuyuan City (抚远市). The Heilongjiang River (黑龙江) and the Ussuri River (乌苏里江) slowly embraced each other, rendering this border city full of vitality.
Wu Guilan (吴桂兰), a Hezhe (赫哲族) villager living in Nangang Village (南岗村), Heixiazi Island Town (黑瞎子岛镇), Fuyuan City (抚远市), Jiamusi City (佳木斯市), drove a small fishing boat to break through the sparkling waves, and fresh river fish tumbled and jumped in the cabin.
"We Hezhe people rely on fishing for food and rely on the fishing industry to pass on culture. We feel very at ease that our suggestions can be heard by the legislative body," said Wu Guilan (吴桂兰), who has been fishing on the Ussuri River (乌苏里江) with her parents since she was a child, and now runs a fishing and hunting cultural tourism business with her fellow villagers.
Last year, the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会) guided the Standing Committee of the Fuyuan Municipal People's Congress (抚远市人大常委会) to establish a cultural tourism industry People's Congress representative studio on Heixiazi Island (黑瞎子岛) to solicit relevant legislative opinions from villagers. After hearing about it, Wu Guilan (吴桂兰) took the initiative to come to the door: "Clearly protect the river fish in the legislation, so that the fishing and hunting skills of our ancestors can be better passed on, and our business can also be booming!"
This good suggestion, which is close to the actual needs of the people, was sorted out by the staff of the Heixiazi Island (黑瞎子岛) grassroots legislative liaison point and reported to the Legislative Affairs Committee of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会法工委), becoming an important legislative reference.
"When the masses have needs, the representatives take action." Let People's Congress representatives give play to their professional expertise, listen to the voices of the people on the front line, and gather the wisdom of the people in fulfilling their duties.
"It is recommended to give greater support to the construction of high-standard farmland in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省)"; "It is hoped that the on-site rate of agricultural production technology in Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省) will be further improved"; "Rural e-commerce development should be used to help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside"; "Support the high-quality development of the soybean intensive processing industry chain"... One by one, the true insights that carry the public opinion, the good strategies and practical measures that are full of people's livelihood expectations, and the pragmatic measures that help revitalize development, the People's Congress representatives promote problem-solving with legal thinking and respond to the concerns of the masses with true feelings.
The relevant person in charge of the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会) introduced that in recent years, the Standing Committee of the Heilongjiang Provincial People's Congress (黑龙江省人大常委会) has taken a series of solid measures to make the positions for People's Congress representatives to perform their duties more solid, the mechanisms more sound, and the activities more abundant. The representatives took the initiative to go deep into the fields, community workshops, and market squares to widely listen to and promote the solution of the urgent and difficult problems of the masses, and practiced the promise of "the people elect me as a representative, and I will be a representative for the people" with practical actions, and continued to contribute the power of the People's Congress to enhance the well-being of the people and help the high-quality development of Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省).
(Yin Dong (尹栋) participated in the writing)
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Scanning a code to enter for inspection – this is a new change felt by many business leaders in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) today. After implementing "scan code to enter enterprises" based on the "Min Zhifa" platform (闽执法), law enforcement officers must first register through the platform and generate an exclusive inspection code before entering enterprises for inspection, with the entire process leaving traces and being traceable.
This change is an epitome of Xiamen's in-depth promotion of the construction of a government under the rule of law. In April of this year, Xiamen issued the "Several Measures of Xiamen City on Further Strengthening the Construction of a Government under the Rule of Law" (厦门市关于进一步加强法治政府建设的若干措施), systematically planning from four dimensions: administrative legislation, decision-making in accordance with the law, administrative law enforcement, and resolution of administrative disputes, forming a high-level system for promoting the construction of a government under the rule of law.
"The construction of a government under the rule of law is related not only to the level of government construction itself, but also to the quality of urban development, governance effectiveness, and future competitiveness," said Xu Junqiang (许俊强), Director of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局). Xiamen is using this set of institutional matrix as a traction to transform the resources of the rule of law into development advantages, and to serve and guarantee the overall situation of reform and development of the city with the construction of a high-standard government under the rule of law.
Precise Legislation –
Providing institutional support for urban transformation and industrial upgrading
A difficult problem of rights protection has spawned a legislative innovation.
Li (李) is a rider for online food delivery, and has been running errands in Xiamen for nearly 4 years. He registered to take orders on a certain platform APP. Although he has not signed a labor contract, he is online for 12 hours a day, and the routes and times are all determined by algorithms. He basically cannot refuse orders, and he will be fined for overtime.
One day, Li was hit by a car while delivering food and fractured his calf. He asked the platform for work-related injury compensation, but was rejected by the platform: "You are not our employee, we are only in a cooperative relationship." To make matters worse, Li also faces difficulties in safeguarding his rights, such as difficulty in obtaining proof of income, rapid clearing of platform data, and unclear algorithms. This is not an isolated case, but a true dilemma for many online delivery riders in the area.
In August last year, the Standing Committee of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress (厦门市人大常委会) voted to pass the "Several Regulations of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone on the Protection of Labor Rights and Interests of Online Delivery Riders" (厦门经济特区网约配送员劳动权益保障若干规定), which came into effect on January 1 this year.
This "small incision" legislation with a total of 22 articles is one of the earliest local regulations in the country specifically targeting the protection of the rights and interests of online delivery riders, focusing on pain points such as algorithm rule transparency, full payment of salaries, right to rest, and multi-level occupational injury protection, building a legal protection network for tens of thousands of food delivery riders.
The second personal bankruptcy-related regulation in the country was implemented in Xiamen; Xiamen took the lead in carrying out legislation on "commitment-based entry" for market access, consolidating the reform experience of "commitment-based entry" and breaking hidden barriers to market access; focusing on cutting-edge legislation in the cell industry, using legal means to solve the development bottlenecks of emerging industries... Since 2025, Xiamen has continued to explore legislative innovation, submitting 14 draft regulations for review and enacting 1 regulation.
"Making full and good use of the legislative power of the special economic zone and scientifically arranging legislative projects closely following the overall framework of the '15th Five-Year Plan' (十五五) development and urban transformation and upgrading is a clear guide for our legislative work," said the person in charge of the Xiamen Municipal People's Congress Legal Affairs Committee (厦门市人大法制委). Xiamen's local legislation focuses on highlighting the two dimensions of serving industrial upgrading and emerging business forms, and responding to people's concerns and social development needs.
"At present, the legislative review work of Xiamen's Territorial Space Planning Regulations and Private Economy Promotion Regulations is progressing steadily, reserving new institutional supply for Xiamen's urban function reshaping and business environment construction," said the person in charge of the Legislation Division of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局立法处).
Decision-making in Accordance with the Law –
Installing a "legal filter" on every policy document
The faster the city develops and the more intensive the major decisions, the more necessary it is to move the "legal gate" forward and install a "legal filter" on every policy document.
In 2025, a department in Xiamen planned to introduce measures for the supervision of private schools during and after the event. The draft document stipulated that private technical schools should report their enrollment brochures and advertisements to the human resources and social security department for approval before they can be released to the public. The Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局) reviewed and found that the regulation had no legal basis and was an illegal setting of administrative permission. After the review opinions were fed back, the department actively adopted them and corrected the clause in a timely manner.
In November 2024, Xiamen implemented a unified review system for policy documents. The document clarified that when drafting policy documents, the drafting unit should conduct self-assessment of consistency in macroeconomic policy orientation, self-review of legality in accordance with laws and regulations, self-review of fair competition involving the economic activities of operators, and self-assessment of trade policy compliance involving trade policies.
This means that the rule of law is no longer just the "last gate" before a decision is made, but is more deeply embedded in the front-end links of policy formation. Since 2025, the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局) has reviewed a total of 7 major administrative decisions, 233 policy documents, and 429 specific matters, involving core areas such as urban function positioning transformation, economic structure upgrading, and spatial pattern adjustment.
"The review cannot stay at checking boxes and stamping seals, but must truly become a rigid constraint in the government's decision-making and operation," said the relevant person in charge of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局).
In recent years, Xiamen has formed an expert pool of government legal affairs, selecting 20 senior legal workers from Xiamen University (厦门大学), Jimei University (集美大学), and the lawyer team to participate in the review; established a pre-notification, communication feedback, and major disagreement consultation mechanism. When encountering controversial matters, the General Office of the Municipal Government (市政府办公厅) convenes the drafting unit and the review department, and invites the People's Court (人民法院) and government legal advisors to jointly study and form decision-making reference opinions when necessary.
"From major administrative decisions to policy documents, Xiamen is forming a clearer, more rigid, and more practical decision-making mechanism in accordance with the law," said the relevant person in charge of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局). For a city with a fast pace of development, many reform matters, and intensive project promotion, such an institutional arrangement is itself an important ability to stabilize expectations, reduce risks, and improve the quality of development.
Standardized Law Enforcement –
Using "no disturbance" to free up more development space for business entities
The most direct feeling of enterprises about the government under the rule of law often comes from front-line law enforcement.
At the end of last year, after a health equipment manufacturing enterprise in Tong'an District (同安区) entered the "whitelist" of administrative inspections involving enterprises, the person in charge of the enterprise quickly felt the change: except for special inspections involving safety production, they have hardly received other on-site inspections. "We can focus more on product research and development and production."
In April last year, the "Several Measures of Xiamen City on Strictly Standardizing Administrative Inspections Involving Enterprises" (厦门市严格规范涉企行政检查若干措施) was issued and implemented. Starting from 31 measures, it clarified the four principles of "no disturbance, no investigation without evidence, minimal interference, and inclusive and prudent", requiring administrative law enforcement entities, inspection items, inspection plans, and basis to be actively disclosed to the public and included in the "Min Zhifa" platform (闽执法); administrative inspections shall not be implemented without being announced.
The institutional changes were quickly transformed into the personal feelings of enterprises. Relying on the "Min Zhifa" platform (闽执法), the city has sorted out a list of 3,559 administrative inspection items involving enterprises, dynamically managed 16,320 "whitelist" enterprises and 1,287 "no disturbance" lists; 10 departments including public security, ecological environment, and urban management have established an economic impact assessment system for administrative law enforcement cases involving enterprises. Since 2025, the number of administrative inspections in the city has decreased by 45% year-on-year.
The decrease in the number of inspections does not mean that supervision has been "relaxed", but that the inspection methods and inspection logic are more scientific.
The goal of administrative law enforcement is not to make enterprises exhausted, but to invest limited regulatory resources in truly risky links.
The person in charge of the Law Enforcement Supervision Division of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局执法监督处) introduced that Xiamen is adjusting the past more decentralized law enforcement activities into a more intensive, more precise, and more transparent regulatory method through the "no disturbance" list, "whitelist" management, "one comprehensive inspection", and economic impact assessment.
Data shows that since 2025, the city has made 495,000 decisions on not imposing penalties, imposing lighter or reduced penalties, etc. based on the "four lists", reducing or exempting penalties of more than 100 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 75.9%, effectively stimulating market vitality.
Resolving Disputes –
Systematically improving the entire chain mechanism for resolving administrative disputes
Huang (黄) suffered damage to his compensation benefits after the house he inherited was included in the expropriation scope due to an error in the registration of the property ownership certificate, and filed for administrative reconsideration. The administrative reconsideration agency did not just discuss the case, but held a hearing to actively find out the historical facts and directly revoked the original compensation decision and changed the compensation content in accordance with the law.
A historical dispute that lasted for decades was completely resolved at the administrative reconsideration stage – at the beginning of this year, this case was written into the white paper on administrative reconsideration work of the Ministry of Justice (司法部).
In recent years, Xiamen has continuously improved the administrative reconsideration and administrative litigation system, and systematically improved the entire chain mechanism for resolving administrative disputes. In 2025, Xiamen City substantively concluded 3,648 reconsideration cases, with a case resolution rate of 92.1%; the attendance rate of heads of administrative organs in court to respond to lawsuits remained at 100%, and the administrative defeat rate was 4.52%.
"'Reconsideration mediation + territorial linkage' dual-track model is an important innovation in Xiamen's promotion of the substantive resolution of administrative disputes," said the person in charge of the Administrative Reconsideration Division of the Xiamen Municipal Bureau of Justice (厦门市司法局行政复议处). Mediation runs through the entire reconsideration process, and relevant departments are jointly used to handle cases in a classified manner in accordance with the law, promoting more cases to be "resolved and conflicts resolved". "In 2025, 618 reconsideration cases were closed through mediation in the city. Hundreds of reconsideration applications for a certain expropriation project were resolved at the reconsideration stage after joint classified disposal."
Correcting errors is not just about dealing with the matter at hand, but also about promoting "handling a case and standardizing an area". When handling the administrative reconsideration case of a certain oral company in Xiamen that refused to accept the administrative penalty of the Municipal Bureau of Ecology and Environment (市生态环境局), the administrative reconsideration agency found that the case involved cross-departmental collaborative supervision issues, so it organized the ecological environment department and the health department to conduct consultations. Aiming at the pain points such as "uncoordinated approval connection and insufficient policy awareness" in practice, it promoted relevant departments to establish an information sharing mechanism for radiological diagnosis and treatment approval, and actively screened out a number of unlicensed clinics, guiding them to obtain permits, realizing the extension of individual case handling to industry standardization.
"Every step in the construction of a government under the rule of law will ultimately return to a question: Does it have practical significance for urban development, enterprise operation, and the rights and interests of the people?" Xu Junqiang (许俊强) said that facing the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五), Xiamen will continue to promote more precise legislation, more standardized decision-making, more effective law enforcement, and more efficient dispute resolution, so that the rule of law becomes an important part of Xiamen's core competitiveness.
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When families are harmonious, society is stable; when families are happy, society is peaceful; when families are civilized, society is civilized.
The Xixia District (西夏区) of Yinchuan (银川市), Ningxia (宁夏) carries out parent-child study tours for families with disadvantaged children; Horgos (霍尔果斯市), Xinjiang (新疆) carries out legal education activities such as the Civil Code and the Anti-Domestic Violence Law in communities to improve the self-protection awareness and legal rights protection capabilities of women and children... May 15th is the 33rd International Day of Families. In recent days, many places have been doing practical and meticulous work in caring for women and children, safeguarding family safety and happiness with the power of the rule of law, and helping to promote harmony and stability at the grassroots level of society.
As a micro-unit of national governance, the construction of family civilization is related to the integrity and simplicity of the Party's conduct, government conduct, and public customs. The lack of family civilization construction will lead to frequent internal family disputes. When these disputes cannot be properly resolved, they may evolve into more acute conflicts, which not only lead to family breakdown, but may also escalate into illegal and criminal activities.
The establishment of the International Day of Families is to make the world pay attention to family issues and enhance family well-being. The United Nations has identified "Families, Inequality and Child Well-being" as this year's theme, which coincides with the concerns of China's Anti-Domestic Violence Law - to ensure that every family member is free from violence and fear, and that every child grows up in a dignified environment. In 2016, China's first special and comprehensive law against domestic violence, the Anti-Domestic Violence Law, was implemented, using the system to respond to "the deepest harm in the most intimate relationship."
In the 10 years since the implementation of this law, the concept that "domestic violence is not a family affair" has taken root in people's hearts, and more and more victims are bravely saying "no" to domestic violence. In the typical cases of anti-domestic violence recently released by the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), the "Zhao v. Zhang divorce dispute case" clarified that long-term verbal abuse, defamation, and insult of personality against a spouse constitute domestic violence; the "Chen application for personal safety protection order case" determined that economic control constitutes domestic violence, and the court also cooperated with relevant departments to provide employment assistance to the victims, fundamentally improving their self-protection capabilities. This series of judicial practices has continuously expanded the scope of identification of domestic violence, exposing the "hidden corners" to the sunshine of the rule of law.
"When families are harmonious, society is stable; when families are happy, society is peaceful; when families are civilized, society is civilized." From the Anti-Domestic Violence Law clarifying that "the state carries out publicity and education on family virtues," to the Civil Code creatively incorporating "good family traditions" into legal norms, and putting forward specific normative requirements for spousal loyalty and respect for the elderly and love for the young, to the Family Education Promotion Law requiring that "state functionaries should take the lead in establishing good family traditions and fulfilling family education responsibilities"... In recent years, China's legal system has been continuously improved, building a solid legal foundation for family civilization construction, and also providing clear guidance for family trial.
As far as anti-domestic violence work is concerned, some hidden domestic violence, psychological violence, economic control and other issues have not been completely resolved, and problems such as insufficient enforcement in some grassroots areas and difficulty for victims to provide evidence still exist, and continuous efforts are also needed to eliminate outdated concepts. Strengthen legal publicity so that "rejecting domestic violence and safeguarding rights in accordance with the law" becomes a consensus of the whole society. Refine the detailed rules for the implementation of the law, lower the threshold for safeguarding rights, and improve the rules of evidence, so that victims dare to speak out and are good at safeguarding their rights. Continue to deepen the multi-departmental coordination mechanism, promote the deep integration of family governance and social governance, and form a strong synergy of joint management.
A family is the smallest country, and the country is made up of thousands of families. Use the rigidity of the rule of law to protect the temperature of the family, use civilized consensus to unite the strength of the family, let love and responsibility return, let violence and fear retreat, and the "small climate" of thousands of families can warm the "great civilization" of society.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
In an industrial park in Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), Chongqing Shaanxi-Yu Lingang Thermal Power Co., Ltd. (重庆陕渝临港热电有限公司) is operating at full capacity. While ensuring the existing annual power supply capacity of 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours, it also improves environmental protection standards and is preparing to add a new generator unit to enhance the company's productivity. However, before May 2023, this company had once stagnated in production and was on the verge of bankruptcy.
The predecessor of Chongqing Shaanxi-Yu Lingang Thermal Power Co., Ltd. (重庆陕渝临港热电有限公司) was Chongqing Zhongji Longqiao Thermal Power Co., Ltd. (重庆中机龙桥热电有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司)"), which mainly engaged in thermal power generation, heating, port operations and other businesses.
In June 2020, the actual controller of Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司) experienced a shortage of working capital and occupied a large amount of funds from Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司). At the same time, the actual controller also assumed guarantee responsibilities to the outside world through Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司). As a result, the capital chain of Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司) was broken, production and operation were once stopped, and eventually it reached a state of insolvency. Under this vicious cycle, some of the company's management even had the idea of **躺平** (tǎng píng - "lying flat," to do the bare minimum to get by), feeling that it would be better to simply go bankrupt.
In September 2022, Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司) applied to the Fifth Intermediate People's Court of Chongqing (重庆市第五中级人民法院) for bankruptcy reorganization. According to the "Minutes of the National Court Bankruptcy Trial Work Conference," the people's court should strengthen communication with the administrator or debtor, guide them to analyze the reasons why the debtor is in trouble, and formulate a draft reorganization plan in a targeted manner to promote the company to regain profitability. At the same time, Zhongji Longqiao Company (中机龙桥公司) is of great significance to local economic development. To successfully reorganize, the primary factor is to accurately identify the reasons why the company is in trouble.
The company's dual public thermal power plant meets the requirements of the national industrial policy, and the company's production and operating conditions are actually good. The court held that the company's predicament was caused by the debt risk transmission of the controlling shareholder, not by its own operational capabilities. Therefore, as long as the debt transmission risk of related companies is cut off in time, the normal production and operation of the power plant can find a "radical cure." After consideration, the court deliberately broke the original classification according to the nature of the assets, and divided the assets into operating and non-operating sectors according to the company's own situation.
The operating sector seeks investors for disposal. Compared with the traditional equity debt-bearing reorganization, the investor only takes over the operating sector, is responsible for asset management and operation, and does not become a shareholder of the company as a whole, which cuts off the potential debt risks related to the original company, eliminates investment concerns, and is conducive to finding investment. Soon, through public recruitment, under the guidance of the court, the bankruptcy administrator introduced Chongqing Shaanxi-Yu Lingang Thermal Power Co., Ltd. (重庆陕渝临港热电有限公司) for strategic investment.
Now, the company's bankruptcy reorganization has been successfully completed, fully ensuring the stability of employees' employment and the continued operation of upstream and downstream coal and electricity users without being affected.
The judge said that this case provides a good demonstration for companies in financial distress to be reborn quickly. This can not only encourage debtors to change from "lying flat debt" to actively repaying debts, and revitalize enterprises, but also help promote the healthy development of the local economy and society, and achieve a win-win, common win, and multi-win situation.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 倪 弋
In early summer, in the Xihai Wetland Park (西海湿地公园) in Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京市), the sound of birdsong came from the Huitong Ancestral Hall (汇通祠), breaking the silence of the early morning. The Xihai Wetland Park (西海湿地公园) has now become a key "service area" for migratory birds.
The "Xihai Wild Duck Island (西海野鸭岛)" sign on the lake island is particularly eye-catching. Behind the sign is an ecological restoration that "spans thousands of miles."
Zhang Yajie (张雅杰), a prosecutor's assistant at the Xicheng District People's Procuratorate (北京市西城区人民检察院), introduced that in 2025, the Xicheng District People's Procuratorate (北京市西城区人民检察院) discovered during its duties that the park department, while imposing an administrative penalty on the parties involved in an illegal trade of helmeted hornbill products, was preparing to initiate compensation for ecological environment damage.
"Every illegal product means a reduction in the wild population and a hidden loss of biodiversity. Administrative penalties and compensation for ecological environment damage should be advanced on two tracks, and 'punishment for violations' and 'damage restoration' should be carried out simultaneously." Wu Xinhua (吴新华), the prosecutor handling the case, said that the procuratorial organ legally accepted and filed the ecological environment damage compensation in this case as a civil public interest litigation support prosecution case, providing support to the park department in terms of legal application and coordinated consultation.
"The most conventional path for ecological damage compensation is to turn over the compensation to the national treasury. In order to make ecological restoration better implemented in practice from the 'books,' we tried to explore more direct and visible ecological restoration methods." Wu Xinhua (吴新华) said that considering that the habitat of the helmeted hornbill, the object of damage in this case, is located in the tropical rainforest thousands of miles away, the conditions for in-situ restoration are not available. According to relevant regulations, "off-site restoration" is a feasible solution.
The procuratorial organ turned its attention to the Xihai Wetland (西海湿地). "Considering that the object of damage in this case is bird resources and biodiversity, and the Xihai Wetland (西海湿地) is a local ecosystem that needs to improve biodiversity and is a key node for migratory birds, this plan is in line with the institutional purpose and practical feasibility of 'off-site restoration' of ecological environment damage." Wu Xinhua (吴新华) explained.
With the support of the procuratorial organ, the Xicheng District Landscaping and Greening Bureau (西城区园林绿化局) and the parties involved in the case conducted legal consultations on compensation for ecological environment damage. After consultation, the parties involved in the case agreed to carry out ecological "off-site restoration" in the Xihai Wetland (西海湿地) to fulfill their responsibility for ecological environment damage compensation.
The prosecutors, together with personnel from the park department, the street, and the maintenance unit, measured every section of the shoreline with their footsteps. In order to measure the amount of vegetation replanting on the lake island, they boarded a boat to the island and measured it inch by inch with a rolling ruler in the cold spring. After multiple rounds of demonstration and research, the plan was finally finalized: replanting hundreds of meters of reeds along the north bank of the Xihai (西海), densely planting forsythia bushes on the lake island, and building dozens of artificial nests on the small hill of the Huitong Ancestral Hall (汇通祠). The parties involved in the case paid the relevant fees.
Standing on the North Bank Viewing Platform, the lake island on the opposite bank is full of flowers. "This is one of the restoration results," Wu Xinhua (吴新华) said, pointing to the flower bushes. Through the telescope, several wild ducks were seen lying quietly in their nests, with gray and white eggshells underneath them. "Planting flowers is to create a safe breeding environment close to nature for them," Zhang Yajie (张雅杰) explained.
As early as 2023, the Xicheng District People's Procuratorate (西城区人民检察院) created the first public interest litigation procuratorial workstation in the jurisdiction - "Jian Ai Escort Shichahai Workstation (检爱护航什刹海工作站)", taking "Seaside Public Interest Dialogue" as a platform, taking the performance of public interest litigation procuratorial duties as a starting point, and innovatively integrating into grassroots governance. In 2025, it further launched the "Rule of Law Deputy Director" (法治副主任) entering the street mechanism, with a focus on promoting the extension of procuratorial duties from "case handling" to "system governance."
"Choosing the restoration site in the Xihai Wetland (西海湿地) stems from the grassroots perspective of the 'Rule of Law Deputy Director (法治副主任).'" Wu Xinhua (吴新华) said that the mechanism requires prosecutors stationed in various streets to deeply participate in grassroots governance. "When we worked with the park department to find a suitable restoration site, as the Rule of Law Deputy Director (法治副主任) of Shichahai Street (什刹海街道), I immediately thought of this wetland located in the 'heart and lung' of the city."
"From case handling to system governance, we will always practice the 'Red Wall Awareness' (红墙意识), and wholeheartedly protect the green waters and mountains of the core area of the capital." Zhang Jun (张军), the procurator general of the Xicheng District People's Procuratorate (西城区人民检察院), said.
Return to TopYang Kenan (杨科南) (micro-drama director)
Hou Chao (侯超) (micro-drama producer)
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇) (producer, screenwriter, director)
Zhao Hui (赵晖) (professor at the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学))
Wang Jin (王瑨) (reporter for this newspaper)
As one of the important forms of new mass literature and art under the Internet conditions, micro-dramas bring new inspiration for enriching the supply of cultural products and enhancing the ability of cultural originality. In 2025, the market size of micro-dramas in China exceeded the 100 billion yuan mark, with nearly 700 million domestic users. Many places regard micro-dramas as an important project for laying out the digital economy and shaping cultural business cards. With the iterative upgrade of video large models, a large number of micro-drama companies are facing a transformation from live-action shooting to digital generation.
The micro-drama industry is ushering in a profound "dramatic change." What do practitioners think, and what should they do in the future? Recently, this newspaper's reporter interviewed industry insiders.
Q1: Will AI steal the jobs of live-action short dramas?
Reporter: Lower production costs and faster completion speeds have made the concentrated outbreak of AI (artificial intelligence) content a common "anxiety" in the industry. How should we view the way AI technology is reshaping the content ecosystem of micro-dramas? What is AI eliminating?
Zhao Hui (赵晖): AI is not eliminating practitioners, but rather low-end production capacity with low quality, homogeneity, and pure formulaic approaches. Production methods that rely on template replication and shoddy workmanship will be replaced, and creators with original ability, aesthetic judgment, and value orientation will have more advantages.
Yang Kenan (杨科南): Some new positions have emerged, such as AI screenwriters and AI tuners... This is a new creative ecosystem, and new content will grow out of it. AI is forcing creators to upgrade. If short dramas used to rely on "human wave tactics," AI is now prompting us to transform to "technology + creativity."
Hou Chao (侯超): Yes, the micro-drama industry is at an inflection point from traffic carnival to value cultivation. User demand is greater, and the creative space for audiovisuals is also broader.
Reporter: In the 2026 Spring Festival, the number of live-action dramas launched was about 1/50 of that of AI dramas, but the total number of views reached 25 times that of AI dramas. What are the respective development spaces for AI short dramas and live-action short dramas?
Hou Chao (侯超): AI progress has brought about technological empowerment. When one-click generation of gorgeous images is no longer difficult, showing off skills is worthless. Live-action dramas will have more dimensions to connect with the audience.
Yang Kenan (杨科南): The emotional temperature and down-to-earth atmosphere of live-action short dramas are barriers that AI short dramas cannot currently overcome. Compared to the "correct" performances of AI actors, live-action actors will collide with things that have a "living person feel" on set. In the long run, AI and live-action are not mutually exclusive, but rather a differentiated coexistence.
Zhao Hui (赵晖): Computing power has become a core production factor, but the cost of human wisdom cannot be ignored—a lack of aesthetics will produce data garbage. The real value of AI lies not in replicating existing reality, but in unleashing imagination and expressing the feelings of the heart.
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇): Whether it's AI or live-action, it ultimately points to the way we tell stories. Audiences need innovative and creative stories. The superposition of computing power and content will enable the industry to achieve an efficiency leap.
Q2: Can algorithms always calculate hits?
Reporter: Some creators lament that "making short dramas is like doing math problems." When creators face the same "algorithm game," what exactly did the works that stand out do right?
Yang Kenan (杨科南): All traffic passwords will become obsolete. It can tie down the lower limit of traffic, but the top works must have something that leads by half a step.
"Inside and Outside the Home" was born out of "uncertainty," and it does not conform to the hit formula. It captures emotions. In order to let love flow naturally, we actively deleted many more "refreshing" plots. Whether or not you put emotions into creation determines the granularity of the creation. Many short dramas use stacked elements to present a sense of the times: pasting a few old posters and playing a few old songs as background music, while we integrate the elements of the times into the story. The broadcast effect of "Inside and Outside the Home" is very good, which shows that this "anti-routine" precisely corresponds to the deep change of short drama audiences from "relying on refreshing feelings" to "emotional resonance."
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇): Whether you make short dramas according to the "mathematics department" thinking or the "art department" thinking, the starting point is different. A large product volume will drive the overall prosperity of creation.
"Lion City Mountain and Sea" and "Horseback Cradle" are both horizontal-screen short dramas. We spent more effort on polishing the script, and each episode must have a touching point. Short dramas can't "slack off" either. Its single-episode content is very large, and it must release more information and emotions in a limited time. Don't 因噎废食 (yīn yē fèi shí - "stop eating for fear of choking," to give up something important because of a minor problem) because it is "short." The things that algorithms can calculate look very "right," but they are not necessarily "beautiful." Creation must have a personalized foundation.
Zhao Hui (赵晖): Algorithms precisely control the rhythm, refreshing points, and user attention. The hit formula can improve efficiency, but it cannot create classics. Algorithms understand data, but they do not understand people's hearts. A team that can stably produce hits not only needs a mature process system and data analysis system, but also needs to add unique aesthetic expression and long-term thinking.
Reporter: If long dramas are compared to football matches, short dramas are highlight reels, and dramatic moments are ranked as the highest priority. Do long dramas and short dramas have their own content moats?
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇): Long dramas pay attention to foreshadowing, while short drama creation must follow a line all the way, giving up large openings and closings, and finding small cuts. In the IP series, vertical-screen short dramas can completely become a supplement and derivative of long dramas. For example, we made a derivative short drama of "Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝诡事录)," with the main story in a system placed in the long drama and the sub-story placed in the short drama.
Yang Kenan (杨科南): Short dramas are not a miniature version of long dramas, nor are they a simple film and television adaptation of online novels. We need to build a set of audiovisual language, composition logic, and narrative rhythm that belongs to short dramas. When filming "Inside and Outside the Home," we specifically looked for real scenes with a strong sense of vertical extension, such as old Chengdu (成都) family courtyards, red brick walls, and staircase slopes, to adapt to the 16:9 aspect ratio.
Hou Chao (侯超): The refinement of short dramas is to find a balance between "fast pace" and "good-looking." For example, the short drama "Midsummer Fendella" has a slow pace and a cinematic feel, and each episode is very short, and the response is very good. The short drama market can withstand "slow," and you can use more time to render more delicate emotions, but don't blindly pursue "I want to be advanced," and end up messing up the narrative rhythm.
Q3: What other possibilities are there for micro-dramas in the future?
Reporter: Content that fits daily life and down-to-earth expressions give micro-dramas a natural gene for attracting fans. Today, micro-dramas are constantly welcoming new audiences in iteration. How do you view the changes in the audience of micro-dramas?
Hou Chao (侯超): The needs of the audience have changed. In the past, they pursued "refreshing," but now they also need to be logical, have aftertaste, and be able to savor it after watching.
Zhao Hui (赵晖): The age range of micro-drama audiences is continuing to expand, advancing towards all ages, and the proportion of young people and urban groups has increased significantly. Audiences have higher requirements for picture quality, narrative logic, and character shaping, and they will actively choose high-quality content.
Yang Kenan (杨科南): Many details that we thought the audience would not care about will be analyzed by the audience with "microscopes" and "magnifying glasses" after the broadcast. In the past, when people talked about what to watch, they would always distinguish between short dramas and non-short dramas. Now, they distinguish by the type and quality of the work. Micro-dramas are undergoing a "de-labeling" process.
Reporter: From the initial grassroots entertainment to the explosive growth driven by professional teams, and then to the standardization and refinement under policy guidance, the micro-drama industry can only go steady and far with high-quality development. What other shortcomings in the current development of the micro-drama industry cannot be ignored?
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇): There is a lack of creators who can write original stories, and the problem of content homogenization is still serious. The short drama "Enemy" that recently went viral in Moments tells the story of the War of Resistance against Japan in Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北), and the angle and rhythm are well grasped. Micro-dramas bring more young people opportunities for growth, training, and fair competition. As long as they have talent, the Internet will not bury them.
Yang Kenan (杨科南): The micro-drama industry is bidding farewell to the speculative approach of single-episode hits and moving towards IP serialization and brandization. High-quality content is deeply cultivated in series, and traffic fluctuations are resisted by word of mouth and IP assets. However, for original works, copyright protection is still relatively difficult, and there are many phenomena of plagiarism, plagiarism, and AI infringement.
Hou Chao (侯超): Now a large number of micro-drama screenwriters are still piecing together jokes and copying hits. There are too few people with a literary background and too few compound talents. In the future, the development of micro-dramas will definitely be verticalized, specializing in niche tracks. Micro-dramas can completely become a "means of communication," using the short drama form to lower the cognitive threshold of professional fields and industries, and there is a lot of space.
Zhao Hui (赵晖): The "micro-drama +" space is vast, and it can be deeply integrated with cultural tourism, intangible cultural heritage, public welfare, urban promotion, and other fields. However, we must also face up to the current industrial chain shortcomings of micro-dramas: some places lack top original content engines, professional publicity and operation, and mature IP incubation and commercial realization systems. In the future, we need to shift from "building venues" to "strengthening content, cultivating talents, and optimizing the ecology."
Reporter: As one of the "new three items" of cultural going overseas, in 2025, the market size of Chinese micro-dramas accounted for nearly 78% of the global market size. How do you view the potential of micro-dramas going overseas?
Guo Jingyu (郭靖宇): In the past, we considered whether our works could be on Netflix and Disney. Now, our short video platform is going overseas, giving our works greater autonomy. The overseas dissemination of "Strange Tales of the Tang Dynasty (唐朝诡事录)" mostly came from iQiyi's overseas station.
Thoroughly studying China's excellent traditional classics, with our own cultural characteristics and national character, is the advantage of Chinese micro-dramas in overseas dissemination. As long as you write about true human feelings and friendship in the world, it is an international expression, and there is a "common aesthetic denominator."
Return to TopBy: 谢 涛
The cultivation of opera talents has always been a "slow work." Long growth cycles and low success rates are recognized problems within the industry. Looking back at the 65 years of the Taiyuan Jin Opera Art Research Institute (太原市晋剧艺术研究院), from the older generation's legacy of "Three Passes Pointing the Commander" ("三关点帅"), "Phoenix Pavilion" ("凤仪亭"), and "Beating the Golden Branch" ("打金枝"), to our productions of "Fu Shan Entering Beijing" ("傅山进京"), "Yu Chenglong" ("于成龙"), "Under Rotten Ke Mountain" ("烂柯山下"), and "Shangma Street" ("上马街") in the past 20 years... behind each popular and critically acclaimed play, the main support has always been "people."
However, we have always faced a worrying team structure: more than half of the established staff are over fifty years old, and young actors are scarce.
About 10 years ago, we were performing in the Lüliang Mountain area (吕梁山区) of Shanxi (山西). A group of "little bald heads" watching the play under the stage caught my attention. They were children from the Lüliang Opera School (吕梁戏校). To make their practice more agile, the boys shaved their heads and the girls cut their hair short. Their eyes were full of sincerity, just like us when we were studying hard. Out of pity for the children, I blurted out at the time: "If you don't have a good place to go after graduation, come to Taiyuan (太原) and find me." But when I fulfilled my promise four years later and received these 125 grassroots students, I realized the difficulty. Most of these students came from poor families in remote mountainous areas. Some were left-behind children who could not even afford basic daily necessities. How could we make them feel at ease and settle down? With the support of the Municipal Party Committee and the Municipal Government, we explored a "bottom-line" guarantee method for logistics.
We found an abandoned old club from the 1950s in Jiancaoping District (尖草坪区) and transformed it into a training base integrating food, lodging, and rehearsal. In terms of living, we actively sought support from the city to implement living allowances for each person. At the same time, we allocated more than 100 sets of brand-new bedding that were idle from the Taiyuan National Games (太原全运会) – before that, many children could only sleep on a thin mat spread on cardboard boxes. Recruiting these children was not only to find a way out for them, but also to find vitality for the opera genre.
The growth of opera talents has a "cruel" gene. Some children are unable to stand on stage again after experiencing puberty or physical development. We did not "abandon them after one dismissal," but planned diversified development paths for them: either subsidizing them to complete junior college education, or having senior masters teach them "one-on-one," transferring them to backstage positions such as lighting and sound... Only when they have a firm grip on the "rice bowl" of opera can they find their own professional dignity.
The only way to make young talents stand out is to hone them in practice. We carefully rehearsed nearly 20 major plays for young actors, such as "Generals of the Yang Family" ("杨门女将"), "Three Passes Pointing the Commander" ("三关点帅"), "King Qi Pulling the Horse" ("齐王拉马"), and "Beating the Golden Branch" ("打金枝"), as well as more than 30 excerpts of martial arts plays that focus on skills, such as "Zhong Kui Marrying His Sister" ("钟馗嫁妹"), "Panchang Battle" ("盘肠战"), and "Eighteen Arhats Subduing the Roc" ("十八罗汉收大鹏"), creating an exclusive platform for reporting performances, and actively inviting experts to comment and diagnose. More importantly, there is a breakthrough in the mechanism – in order to completely break the previous predicament in which young actors had long served as "soldiers and palace maids" and their potential was difficult to release, in 2024, the academy broke the original establishment, reorganized, and established an experimental troupe mainly composed of established backbones and a youth troupe mainly composed of students from the training base.
The "new shoots" face difficulties when they first enter the market. The children lack popularity. If they go to the grassroots to take on commercial performances on their own, the price of the plays will be severely reduced, and there will be very few performance opportunities. We adopted a market strategy of "famous actors escorting, old leading the new," in which established actors promised to participate in a small number of performances, and mature backbones with a certain social influence were arranged to take the lead, allowing more children to take the lead in the vast majority of performances. "Help them get on the horse and see them off for a journey" (扶上马，送一程), which stimulated the amazing explosive power of the youth troupe. Last year, the youth troupe had 243 commercial performances, which were quite popular with the audience.
Now, the experimental troupe and the youth troupe support each other. When the youth troupe lacks leading actors in major plays such as "Pointing the Commander to Break the Formation" ("点帅破阵"), the mature backbones of the experimental troupe will help wholeheartedly; when the experimental troupe needs large-scale martial arts scenes with tumbling and fighting, the children of the youth troupe will work hard to reinforce them. This "two-troupe interaction, resource sharing" model not only enriches the stage presentation, but also vividly demonstrates the "one vegetable" spirit of mutual achievement in our academy.
The inheritance of opera has a "skeleton" supported by mechanisms, and it also needs the "flesh and blood" of oral instruction. Since the moment I officially accepted apprentices in 2010, I have felt that the burden on my shoulders has become heavier. Teaching hand-in-hand and heart-to-heart is only to impart the traditional classic plays I learned from my mentor Li Yuexian (李月仙), word by word and move by move. We will also gradually create youth versions of the classic plays created and inherited over the years, and hand them over to the younger generation. Teaching Ren Shujing (任舒静), Hao Xiaohui (郝晓辉) and other three pairs of young actors to rehearse the youth version of "Under Rotten Ke Mountain" ("烂柯山下"), I carefully demonstrated every look from singing to body movements. When I first took the stage for a dress rehearsal, watching them grow from former supporting roles to leading actors who could stand alone on the stage, I couldn't stop my tears.
Good seedlings who love opera are equally precious all over the world. As long as the younger generation has a sincere heart that respects the stage and loves art, the concept of门户之见 (mén hù zhī jiàn - "sectarian bias," prejudice between different schools or factions) and the boundaries of opera genres should be dissolved. A few years ago, Dian Opera (滇剧) young actors Li Yulong (李俞龙) and his wife traveled to Taiyuan (太原) to learn "Under Rotten Ke Mountain" ("烂柯山下"), bringing their drummer and qin player. These young people relied solely on videos to grind out decent music across genres, and Li Yulong himself even "扒" (bā - "copy," to painstakingly copy or transcribe) the video frame by frame, and this perseverance moved me. I explained the play to them, and in order to digest and absorb it, they hardly slept all night, and the next day they were able to present a qualitative change that amazed me. Moved by this spirit of 死磕 (sǐ kē - "fight to the death," to work extremely hard on something), at the beginning of this year, I exceptionally formally accepted this male actor from another genre as my disciple.
There is no shortcut to opera talent cultivation. Only by adhering to the original intention and doing our best can we support every love.
(The author is the Dean of Taiyuan Jin Opera Art Research Institute (太原市晋剧艺术研究院), interviewed and compiled by Zhou Renjie (周人杰), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 秦海燕
"How can love be narrow when this land is so vast?" In the TV series "Kashgar Love Song," I had the parents of the female lead, Xia Zi (夏孜), who was aiding Xinjiang, say this line. Recalling over 20 years of screenwriting, and in recent years integrating directing, I have written about various characters and stories. What remains unchanged is the love for this hot land, the in-depth field research into reality, and the creation of heartwarming stories.
After interviewing for two or three years, I finally met the prototype for the movie "Homecoming," an ordinary translator. He went thousands of miles away, without firing a shot, using communication and faith to bring tens of thousands of compatriots home. Ultimately, he touched the audience with a genre-based narrative approach. This time, when creating "Kashgar Love Song," the writing team also conducted interviews and research for as long as two or three years during the script stage, eventually focusing on the growth of three young women with Kashgar Old City as the main setting.
Xia Zi (夏孜), a Shanghai drifter who returned to her hometown, is an epitome of contemporary urban youth. She returned to her hometown from Shanghai after losing her job, was warmed by relatives and friends, and understood that setbacks and failures are also gifts of life, strolling on the land of Kashgar (喀什), marveling at the fact that grains and weeds grow calmly together. Returning to her hometown, she seemed to be fully charged and set off again. Healing is not about escaping reality, but about facing difficulties and self-awakening; growth is not just about rushing to distant places, but also about rediscovering the direction of life on familiar land. The ending subtitle "This film is dedicated to us who are setting off again" has this meaning.
Minawar (米娜娃尔) is the daughter of the family at the Tuoling Post Station, the main scene. She loves to dance and has transformed from a dependent to a brave creator. Laili (莱丽) is the representative of truth, goodness, and beauty. As the child of a pottery family, she gave new life to the ancient craft of pottery.
The three women in the play have different personalities and circumstances, supporting each other with deep friendship. They help each other in times of adversity, have disputes and misunderstandings, but always have love as the foundation, supporting each other with feminine delicacy and resilience.
In terms of narrative expression, this drama follows the true logic of life, presenting the growth of characters in a slice-of-life manner. The plot originates from everyday life, rather than deliberate plot twists. In order to organically integrate the real-life details of Kashgar, the rich local customs, and the profound cultural heritage into the film, "Kashgar Love Song" often puts fictional characters and dramas into real scenes during filming.
We filmed in the real bazaar, and a local pigeon seller, who was found on the spot, contributed a textbook-like and highly infectious performance, causing the surrounding men, women, and children to laugh heartily. In a small shop scene, we happened to encounter several Tajik youths playing the piano and singing, which also became a side view of the play. All of this can be seen everywhere in the film. The children of the old city have become regulars in our shots. They jump rope, run with the three female leads in the play, and play football with the male actors. Women water and sprinkle water on flowers in the morning sun. Thanks to them, the audience can see another broader dimension of the drama besides the narrative, which is more down-to-earth.
In Kashgar, singing and dancing are a ubiquitous reality. Under the scorching sun here, everything becomes passionate and unrestrained. Kashgar is ancient, but also young, full of vitality. The old city, teahouses, streets, men, women, and children playing the Dutar and Rewap, singing folk songs, and the Meshrep that combines singing and dancing... All of this is truthfully filmed in the drama. We have also incorporated many young and modern musical elements, which has become a major highlight of the film, with both inheritance and innovation.
Almost every friend who has seen "Kashgar Love Song" says - this is the most colorful and vibrant drama they have ever seen. This color comes from the reality of Kashgar and from sincere creation. In the colorful Kashgar Old City (喀什古城), three young women found their own brilliant selves.
The original intention of creating "Kashgar Love Song" was to give the audience a warm embrace. Although the filming process was hard, it felt like a fulfilling and long vacation in our hearts. Facing the gentleness of the ancient city, the fireworks of the neighborhood, the unrestrained singing and dancing, the Milky Way in the desert, the sunrise in the snow-capped mountains, and the meadows on the plateau, we were all moved to tears. May this place become a new coordinate in our lives, warmly embracing life and embracing life.
(The author is the director of the TV series "Kashgar Love Song")
Return to TopBy: 书 云
The documentary film "Success Upon Arrival" ("Madao Gongcheng") was recently specially screened at the giant screen theater of the China Science and Technology Museum (中国科技馆), taking the audience on a cinematic journey of humans and horses together. The birth of the film's concept stemmed from a personal experience. One year during the Spring Festival, at a family dinner, I suggested that the whole family talk about their zodiac signs, but the family was uninterested. At that moment, I suddenly realized that we know very little about the zodiac—this cultural totem integrated into our blood, the original nature of these creatures, their relationship with nature, and the spiritual power they support.
For the past 10 years or so, I have been engaged in the international co-production of wildlife documentaries. I decided to look at it from a natural history perspective: what kind of super survival skills do these 12 creatures possess?
After having the idea, the first person I contacted was my old friend Mark Brownlow. As the executive producer of "Blue Planet II" and "Frozen Planet II," Mark is one of my most respected partners. When I threw the idea of the "Zodiac Series" to him, the filmmaker was very excited. Mark told me that he hadn't heard such a self-contained and globally valuable idea in a long time. In his view, the world is currently in a state of anxiety due to global warming, and the Chinese cultural concepts of "unity of things and self, harmony between man and nature" (物我为一、天人合一) and the Eastern philosophy of "harmonious coexistence between man and nature" that I introduced to him provide a solution and wisdom.
If wildlife documentaries are the "space shuttle of documentaries," then three-dimensional giant screen movies are the "spaceship" advancing into the unknown. This decision not only meant a surge in costs, but also a challenge to audio-visual standards. Finally, "Success Upon Arrival" ("Madao Gongcheng"), led by China Media Group (中央广播电视总台) and the Shanghai Science and Technology Museum (上海科技馆), and exclusively supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (香港赛马会) as a public service, became China's first giant screen nature film. We hope that China's natural stories can stand shoulder to shoulder with the world's excellent works in this posture.
The filming of the film lasted 3 years and spanned 6 countries. The filming of each horse was a "tough battle." We used the growth story of 8-year-old Zhula (珠拉), a Mongolian girl from Inner Mongolia, and her Mongolian horse "Tulai" (兔来) jointly challenging the 18-kilometer endurance race to connect the life epics of 8 horses in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. In the vast wilderness of Nevada (内华达州) in the United States, 3 film crews "ambushed" for more than a month, with wind and sand accompanying loneliness, just to capture the thrilling original battle of the American wild horses defending their families.
Filming Przewalski's horses (普氏野马) was undoubtedly the most challenging part of the entire production. As the only horse species in the world that has never been domesticated, it was completely extinct in the wild. Its rescue is a miracle of global species protection. In the Kalamaili Mountain Ungulate Wildlife Nature Reserve (新疆卡拉麦里山有蹄类野生动物自然保护区) in Xinjiang (新疆), the tenacious vitality of Przewalski's horses embodies the dedication of several generations of protectors and is a top-notch story and image material. After coordination from various parties, the smooth filming of the crew was facilitated. In the end, the story of 5 Przewalski's horses returning to nature not only became an impressive ending to the film for the audience, but also a Chinese story that the world can understand.
Too many people love horses. At the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History (沃斯堡科学与历史博物馆) in Texas (得克萨斯州), the curator was deeply touched by the shocking visuals in the film and arranged 500 screenings, breaking with convention. At the Vincennes Hippodrome de Paris (万森赛马场), the oldest racetrack in France, the promotional film was broadcast simultaneously on giant screens and hundreds of screens, and the whole audience cheered. In Trafalgar Square (特拉法加广场) in London (伦敦), England (英国), more than 600,000 people encountered these galloping elves in a strong Spring Festival atmosphere.
Many years ago, when I first had the idea for the creation, I asked myself: What is the most important thing this series wants to bring to the audience? At the North American premiere, a family of three generations of Americans surrounded me, and they gave me the answer. The grandmother took out her mobile phone and showed me photos of her daughter and granddaughter riding horses, her eyes full of tenderness; the little granddaughter excitedly said to me that the story of Zhula (珠拉), a young rider from Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), China (中国), was actually her story. At that moment, I felt that I had an answer: With common emotions as the cornerstone and excellent production as the bridge, the ancient and profound Eastern wisdom will naturally cross mountains and seas. With the language of images, the Chinese zodiac can become a window for the world to understand China.
For the "Twelve Zodiac Signs Film Series," led by the horse, the gallop has just begun.
(The author is the executive producer of "Success Upon Arrival" ("Madao Gongcheng"))
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