Summary: Over the past decade, Chinese philosophy and social sciences have been guided by Xi Jinping Thought, particularly Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, to construct an independent knowledge system with Chinese characteristics. This effort involves integrating Marxism with Chinese culture and addressing China's unique challenges, such as promoting "Chinese-style modernization" and "new quality productive forces." The goal is to develop theories and concepts rooted in Chinese practice, contributing to the global community with Chinese wisdom and values. China is also promoting international exchanges and collaborations in fields like classical studies, including establishing a joint research institute with Greece. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: During a March inspection in Xiong'an, Xi Jinping emphasized the strategic importance of energy and the need for clean, low-carbon development. China is accelerating the construction of a clean, low-carbon, secure, and efficient energy system, with projects such as the world's first 650-degree ultra-supercritical coal-fired power unit in Zhejiang and the Lianghekou pumped storage power station in Sichuan. China's energy supply has been stable, with record high production of raw coal, crude oil, natural gas, and electricity in the first quarter. The country is also expanding renewable energy sources and promoting energy conservation and carbon reduction in key sectors. According to an official from the National Energy Administration, during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, China will further enhance energy development, construct new energy infrastructure, and promote high-level opening up of the energy sector to support the building of a strong energy nation.
Summary: Guizhou province is focusing on developing modern mountain agriculture by leveraging its unique geographical features and resources, with a focus on distinctive products like prickly pears and tea. Local officials highlight Xi Jinping's 2025 instruction to develop modern mountain agriculture based on local conditions as guidance for the province's agricultural development. The province aims to integrate primary, secondary, and tertiary industries to enhance the quality and efficiency of its agricultural sector through scientific and technological innovation, standardization, and branding. Guizhou plans to focus on key industries like tea, peppers, and beef cattle to develop competitive industrial chains during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period.
Summary: The Zhijiang Yangtze River Bridge in Hubei province successfully completed its closure on May 15th, paving the way for its opening. The bridge, spanning 1549 meters with an 890-meter main span, connects Zhijiang City and Bailizhou Town. Its completion will significantly reduce travel time for residents of Bailizhou, a large island in the Yangtze River, from hours to five minutes. The bridge will improve transportation and connectivity for local residents. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article discusses Beijing's efforts to improve employment services for informal workers ("零工") through the development of regulated "零工 markets." These markets, both physical and online, aim to replace the previous chaotic system of workers seeking jobs on the street, providing a more secure and efficient way to connect workers with employers. These markets also offer services such as skills training, legal aid, and insurance, addressing issues such as wage theft and workplace accidents. The goal is to create a more stable and secure environment for informal workers, shifting from "workers looking for work" to "work finding workers." There is no mention of the United States in the article.
Summary: Since its commencement, the South-to-North Water Diversion Project's first phase has transferred over 88 billion cubic meters of water, benefiting 195 million people across seven provinces and 48 cities. Water quality remains stable at or above Grade II in the central route and Grade III in the eastern route. Over 13 billion cubic meters of ecological water replenishment has been supplied to over 50 rivers, revitalizing ecosystems. Groundwater depletion in North China has been curbed, with overall water levels rising. Provinces along the project have implemented a river and lake management system at all levels of government.
Summary: China's Ministry of Commerce reports that the total value of service trade increased by 2.3% year-on-year in the first quarter, reaching 1.8229 trillion yuan. Exports rose by 11.2%, with knowledge-intensive service exports growing, particularly in personal cultural and entertainment services and financial services. Travel service exports saw the highest growth rate at 32.3%. Import of transportation services also grew by 22.8%. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Eight Chinese government departments, including the National Health Commission, jointly issued an "Implementation Opinion on Reforming and Improving the Supply Guarantee Mechanism for Children's Medicines," addressing issues like high R&D costs and limited availability of pediatric drugs. The initiative prioritizes innovative R&D support for pediatric drugs, including traditional Chinese medicine, and aims to improve clinical trial networks and data collection. The opinion also seeks to improve production capacity and supply chains, including patent term extensions and market exclusivity periods for eligible drugs. The initiative additionally aims to improve drug instructions and promote rational drug use by deepening dosage research and reducing vague language on drug instructions.
Summary: Tangshan's marine chemical industry in Hebei province is transforming from basic chemical production to high-end new materials, adding value to sea salt. Sanyou Group is extending the sea salt value chain into new energy with a large-scale battery-grade sodium carbonate production line. The company is also using concentrated seawater, previously waste, to produce refined salt water, saving freshwater and raw salt. Tangshan's marine chemical industrial cluster has over 100 enterprises with a revenue exceeding 30 billion yuan, forming a circular industrial chain through pipeline networks.
Summary: Baofeng County in Henan Province is actively promoting innovation and development in its Ru porcelain industry. The county boasts a significant number of Ru porcelain firing technique inheritors, production enterprises, and related personnel. They are focused on innovations in product design and application. There are over 5000 types of products, and annual output is over 10 million pieces.
Summary: Over the past decade, Chinese philosophy and social sciences have been guided by Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, solidifying Marxism's guiding role and promoting the creative transformation of traditional Chinese culture. Xi Jinping emphasized the importance of integrating Marxist principles with the essence of Chinese culture to develop new theoretical advantages. This has led to the construction of a Chinese-style philosophy and social science system, focusing on key concepts like "Chinese-style modernization" and "a community with a shared future for mankind". The goal is to address China's unique challenges and contribute to global discourse through original theories and academic evaluations. Exchanges with international scholars are underway to promote Chinese perspectives and values.
Summary: At the invitation of Xi Jinping, then-U.S. President Trump made a state visit to China, during which the two heads of state agreed to build a "constructive strategic and stable U.S.-China relationship." American interviewees emphasized the meeting's importance at a new historical starting point for U.S.-China relations. The two leaders agreed to maintain close contact through meetings, phone calls, or letters. Both sides expressed a willingness to conduct more exchanges in various fields, including diplomacy, military, economy and trade, health, agriculture, tourism, culture, law enforcement.
Summary: Foreign Ministry spokesperson announced that Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay a state visit to China from May 19-20 at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. The announcement did not include any information on the content or goals of the upcoming talks.
Summary: A delegation of approximately 180 representatives from over 20 countries, hosted by the International Department of the CCP Central Committee and the Hebei Provincial Party Committee, convened in Hebei's Xingtang County to discuss the CCP's people-centered governance. Delegates toured local businesses and heard grassroots accounts in the once impoverished county, which was lifted out of poverty in 2019 due to the persistent efforts of local cadres. Foreign dignitaries, including representatives from the British Communist Party, Lao People's Revolutionary Party, and the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua, praised China's development model and its focus on improving people's livelihoods. Several delegates mentioned the value of the Chinese model, and the benefit of potentially applying it to their own country, while one delegate noted how the products of one local enterprise were being sold in Europe and the US.
Summary: Following President Trump's state visit to China at the invitation of Xi Jinping, both leaders agreed to pursue a "constructive strategic and stable relationship," aimed at providing stability and certainty amidst global challenges. This new positioning acknowledges past lessons and rejects strategic competition as a defining feature of the U.S.-China relationship. The article emphasizes that the relationship should prioritize cooperation, manage competition, and control disagreements. Both sides need to demonstrate practical actions to achieve mutual success and prosperity, making the U.S.-China relationship a stabilizer for world peace and a driver for common development.
Summary: Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili will lead a delegation to China from May 18-20 at the invitation of Zhao Leji, Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. The Xinhua report focuses solely on the impending visit and doesn't elaborate on the trip's agenda or broader implications. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the report.
Summary: Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced that Liberian Foreign Minister Nyanati will pay an official visit to China from May 18th to 22nd at the invitation of Wang Yi, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs.
Summary: A Ministry of Commerce spokesperson addressed questions regarding the "overall balanced and positive results" of recent U.S.-China trade consultations. The spokesperson stated that trade teams met in Korea on May 13th to prepare for the leaders' meeting, engaging in "candid, in-depth, and constructive" discussions to resolve concerns and expand cooperation, guided by the consensus of the two heads of state. Preliminary outcomes included continued implementation of prior agreements and positive consensus on tariff arrangements. Both sides agreed to establish Trade and Investment Councils to discuss concerns, focusing on issues like tariff reductions and market access for agricultural products, with the U.S. addressing Chinese concerns about dairy and seafood detentions, and China addressing U.S. concerns about beef facility registration. The two countries agreed to expand trade, which include increasing the purchase of planes.
Summary: The Heihe-Blagoveshchensk border crossing on the Amur River has initiated international roll-on/roll-off (RORO) cargo transport. The inaugural voyage transported 174 tons of goods, including construction materials, machinery, and auto parts, to Russia. This new RORO transport method aims to improve cross-border logistics efficiency by allowing vehicles and cargo to travel together. It is expected to reduce logistics costs and invigorate Sino-Russian trade cooperation by providing a more efficient trade route between Heihe and Russia's Amur Oblast. This development provides businesses with a new method to transport goods, further strengthening the economic ties between China and Russia.
Summary: Seychelles' Foreign Minister Sylvestre Radegonde will pay an official visit to China from May 18th to 19th. The visit is at the invitation of Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi. The announcement was made by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson on May 16th. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 10th China-Russia Summer Youth Games will feature approximately 700 athletes from both countries, according to an announcement at a press conference in Moscow. Russian Sports Minister and President of the Russian Olympic Committee Mikhail Degtyarev highlighted the games as an opportunity to discover sporting talent. Natalya Ishchenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Sports of the Kaliningrad Region, expressed her pleasure at welcoming the Chinese athletes to Kaliningrad. The games will be held from May 24-31 in the Kaliningrad region.
Summary: The fifth roundtable meeting between the China Economic and Social Council and the African Union's Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) was held in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, focusing on "China-Africa cooperation driving Africa's structural transformation." Discussions centered on strengthening connectivity, jointly promoting high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, deepening practical cooperation in the digital field, and bridging the North-South digital divide. The themes reported suggest a focus on economic and digital development within the context of China-Africa relations. There was no mention of the United States in this report.
Summary: The article discusses the "Most Beautiful School Route" project in Ningbo's Yinzhou District, Zhejiang Province, which aims to improve infrastructure and public services around schools. These improvements include wider sidewalks, covered walkways with designated waiting areas, and the addition of self-service book kiosks. According to Tong Huabin, Deputy Minister of the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the city has constructed 189 such routes and will continue developing them based on school characteristics. The project has evolved to focus not only on safety, but also on functionality and cultural enrichment, such as incorporating museum exhibits and student artwork along the routes.
Summary: The article discusses Ningbo's initiative to transform school routes into "cultural corridors" that promote aesthetic education and cultural understanding. These routes incorporate historical displays, art installations, and opportunities to connect with nature. The aim is to make civilization a tangible and everyday experience for children, fostering a sense of cultural awareness. This approach exemplifies a new method of urban governance to improve living standards. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe is intensely rehearsing its new production, *Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling*, a youthful adaptation of the classic Three Kingdoms story featuring a young cast. Led by director and star Li Xiaoxu, the play focuses on Zhuge Liang's mission to solidify the Sun-Liu alliance after the Battle of Red Cliffs. The troupe's success is attributed to the city's support through initiatives like the "School-Enterprise Cooperation Training Program," which allows young performers opportunities to learn and perform. Young performers have been awarded and recognized, showcasing the promising future for the company. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Shenzhou-23 manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y23 carrier rocket assembly have been transferred to the launch area, according to a report by Liu Shiyao. The launch site's facilities and equipment are in good condition, and pre-launch functional checks and joint tests will be conducted. The launch is planned to take place in the coming days, according to the report. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The second domestically built large cruise ship, "Adora Magic City No. 2" (H1509), has begun its sea trial from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, marking a crucial step in China's large cruise ship industry. This trial combines the first ship's two trials into one, lasting 12 days and involving a 937-member international engineering team. The trial aims to comprehensively verify the safety, comfort, and reliability of the cruise ship through 149 test items. The "Adora Magic City No. 2," sister ship to "Adora Magic City," is scheduled for delivery on November 6th and will depart from Guangzhou Nansha International Cruise Homeport.
Summary: The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development announced that all cities above the prefecture level and county-level cities will comprehensively conduct urban physical examinations this year, aiming for full coverage across housing, communities, blocks, and districts. These examinations will employ statistical analysis and social surveys to identify critical issues and evaluate the quality of the urban environment and the effectiveness of urban planning, construction, and management. The goal is to modernize urban governance by promoting high-quality urban development. These physical examinations will be integrated with urban renewal projects, ensuring that renewal is preceded by and informed by the examination results.
Summary: During a March inspection in Hebei, Xi Jinping emphasized the strategic importance of energy and the need for clean, low-carbon development. China's energy sector has experienced stable supply and sufficient production, attributed to the construction of a "clean, low-carbon, secure, and efficient new energy system." The country is expanding renewable energy capacity, including projects like the Lianghekou pumped-storage power station and offshore wind farms. China is also focusing on technological innovation in areas such as fusion energy and energy storage. An official from the National Energy Administration stated that China will improve the energy development layout, accelerate the construction of new energy infrastructure, speed up the development of new energy productivity, and expand the high-level opening-up of energy to the outside world.
Summary: The article discusses Beijing's efforts to improve employment services for informal workers ("零工") by transitioning them from unregulated street-side job seeking to organized and regulated "零工市场" (informal worker markets). These markets offer services like job matching, skills training, and dispute resolution, alongside basic amenities. Technology plays a role, with online platforms connecting workers to jobs and providing insurance and payment solutions. The goal is to provide greater security and stability for informal workers, addressing issues like wage theft and lack of insurance.
Summary: This article reports the death of Xie Qingsheng, former Vice Chairman of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party (CPWDP) and former Vice Governor of Guizhou Province, at the age of 72. Xie held various positions including professor, university administrator, and official in Guizhou province. He was a member of the 10th National Committee of the CPPCC and the 12th National Committee of the CPPCC, contributing to the system of multi-party cooperation and political consultation under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party. Central leaders expressed condolences to his family. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Xia Guozhi, former Vice Minister and Party Member of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, passed away in Beijing at the age of 97. Central leaders expressed their condolences and sympathy to his family after his death. Xia's career included roles in various geological departments and leadership positions within the Ministry. He served as a member of the 7th and 8th National Committees of the CPPCC. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the growing role of AI in scientific research, highlighting its potential to accelerate discovery and transform traditional research methods. Experts note AI's ability to analyze vast datasets, predict material properties, and even generate new structures, but emphasize the importance of human oversight for critical thinking and ethical considerations. They also discussed the use of AI in deciphering ancient texts, specifically the use of AI in supplementing the work of human experts in piecing together fragments of oracle bone writings (甲骨文). The article also touches upon the development of AI platforms to facilitate collaboration and resource sharing, and the need for open access and clear guidelines for AI use in research to avoid risks such as false citations and data leaks. It also references a controversial writing competition requiring AI as the primary author, sparking debate about AI's role and ethical boundaries in academic research.
Summary: A recent "career education" event in Tianjin, involving visits to advanced industrial sites, aimed to improve university students' career planning and job-seeking skills. While most universities offer career development courses, some students find them ineffective, highlighting the need for better course design and practical application. Effective career education should help students understand their abilities, industry trends, and the needs of society, connecting them with real-world job opportunities through industry partnerships and practical exercises. The article suggests improving career education by linking academic study to practical application, better preparing students for their transition from education to employment.
Summary: The article discusses Fujian Normal University's efforts to improve the quality and impact of student social practice programs. The university is focusing on three key areas: enhancing student development, serving local development needs, and strengthening organizational structures for practical work. To make the programs more substantive, the university is sending over 10,000 students to various locations to address real-world problems, linking classroom learning with practical application and focusing on local needs. The university is also providing better guidance and support throughout the entire process, including pre-departure training and post-practice evaluation, to ensure that the experiences are more meaningful and academically valuable.
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Summary: The article discusses the increasing trend of Hong Kong residents traveling to Shenzhen for cultural performances, facilitated by improved transportation and cross-border convenience. Shenzhen theaters are increasingly hosting Hong Kong productions, with audiences from Hong Kong making up a large portion of the audience. Joint productions between Shenzhen and Hong Kong are also becoming more common, fostering cultural exchange and integration within the Greater Bay Area. The article also mentions measures to streamline customs processes for Hong Kong orchestras performing in Shenzhen. These developments contribute to the cultural fusion and closer ties between mainland China and Hong Kong, and the shows in Shenzhen are becoming increasingly popular.
Summary: A global mediation summit, hosted by the International Organization for Mediation, was held in Hong Kong, drawing representatives from over 60 countries to discuss international dispute resolution and the development of a global mediation ecosystem. The event highlights Hong Kong's ambition to become a global mediation hub, building on its existing strengths in legal services and arbitration. The article emphasizes the central government's support for Hong Kong to become an international legal and dispute resolution services center, contributing to China's high-level opening up and global governance participation. Hong Kong is uniquely positioned to connect the mainland and international legal systems, particularly within the Greater Bay Area, while acting as a platform for Chinese firms expanding overseas. The article also mentions Hong Kong's role in training legal talent and contributing to global governance with "Hong Kong solutions".
Summary: The 18th "Hong Kong Cup" Diplomatic Knowledge Competition, themed "Diplomacy for Mission, Youth Creates the Future," concluded in Hong Kong. The competition attracted over 80,000 students from 295 primary and secondary schools, marking a record high in participation. The event aimed to promote diplomatic knowledge among young people. The article did not report on the statements or actions of a specific official, nor did it mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article criticizes Lai Ching-te for expressing gratitude towards Hatta Yoichi, who is described as a facilitator of Japanese colonial exploitation of Taiwan. The author asserts that Lai's actions, including past acts like commemorating Hatta and supporting Japanese interests, are aimed at gaining support from external anti-China forces and severing Taiwan's historical ties with the mainland. Lai is accused of deliberately misinterpreting history to undermine the national identity of Taiwanese people in order to pursue Taiwan independence.
Summary: Macau is revitalizing its old districts to boost community economies and promote cultural heritage, as seen in the recent "Magao Slow Living Festival" which attracted 40,000 visitors. The event featured local businesses and activities aimed at showcasing the area's unique history. This initiative involves a new model of government oversight, enterprise investment, and community organization, according to Macau Special Government Region economic and financial Secretary Office consultant Mi Peng. Chen Jialiang of the Macau Federation of Neighborhood Associations emphasized the importance of these districts in telling the story of Macau's diverse history.
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Summary: An AI revolution is rapidly transforming China's "micro-drama" (微短剧) industry, lowering production costs and increasing output as companies like Qixiang Culture embrace AI-assisted content creation. However, traditional production companies like Tianqiao Short Drama are facing challenges in adapting, with significant personnel adjustments and concerns about the future of actors and other roles. While AI offers opportunities to explore new themes and potentially test market viability for larger productions, there are concerns about copyright, data compliance, and a need for clearer regulations to prevent "wild growth" and ensure high-quality content. Platforms like Hongguo Short Drama are increasing support for live-action dramas and working to improve censorship rules. The industry is expected to undergo restructuring, with some roles disappearing and the creation of new AI-related positions.
Summary: The article discusses the rise of AI-generated micro-dramas in China as a new avenue for disseminating traditional Chinese culture. These short videos, utilizing AI to overcome production barriers, are bringing historical scenes, myths, and regional art forms like Qinqiang opera to a wider audience. While acknowledging potential issues like content distortion, the piece emphasizes the importance of quality control and regulation to ensure these AI micro-dramas promote cultural heritage effectively. The author views these micro-dramas as a form of "new mass culture" that aligns with the "Fifteenth Five-Year Plan" and can revitalize traditional culture for the digital age. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Since 2016, multiple art exhibitions focusing on the Yangtze River have been held, showcasing its historical significance and contemporary transformations. These artworks reflect a shift towards ecological appreciation, embodying the concept of "green mountains are golden mountains." New artistic approaches are employed to creatively transform traditional imageries and represent regional cultures, highlighting the Yangtze's cultural heritage. Driven by national strategies like the Yangtze River Economic Belt development, artists depict the river's role as a vital link between inland China and the world. The construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park provides new narrative space for artists to engage with the river's evolving story.
Summary: A Chinese garden design, titled "New Winding Stream," won the top prize at the 2026 International Horticultural Therapy Expo in South Korea, showcasing the enduring appeal of Chinese garden art. The design team drew inspiration from classical Chinese gardens, particularly those of the Southern Song Dynasty and the art of stacking stones in Yangzhou gardens, and created a therapeutic garden utilizing artificial mountains, dry streams, and artistic installations to evoke the traditional "winding stream" experience. The garden's design includes features inspired by historical artwork and gardens, aiming to provide visitors with a space for relaxation and spiritual healing. The project highlights the enduring cultural significance of Chinese gardens while adapting them to contemporary aesthetics. There is no mention of the United States.
Summary: This article discusses the depiction of roses, Chinese roses (蔷薇), and monthly roses (月季) in traditional Chinese flower-and-bird paintings. It analyzes how each flower embodies different virtues: roses represent boundaries, Chinese roses represent inner self, and monthly roses represent time. The article highlights specific paintings and artists, like Wen Zhengming, Lu Zhi and Jiang Tingxi, to illustrate how these flowers were used to convey not only the physical likeness but also the essence and symbolic meanings of nature. The Song dynasty emphasis on accurately capturing the changing aspects of the monthly rose is also noted. Ultimately, the piece celebrates the Chinese flower-and-bird painting tradition that merges natural observation with philosophical ideals.
Summary: An exhibition at the National Centre for the Performing Arts showcases over 60 works by Pan Yuliang, highlighting her artistic journey and self-expression through self-portraits. Pan Yuliang, a pioneering female artist, blended Western techniques with Chinese traditions, creating a unique style evident in her oil paintings, ink works, and sketches. Her art reflects a shift from being the object of the gaze to a subject actively observing the world, particularly evident in her self-portraits which represent a broader pursuit of spiritual independence by Chinese female artists. Pan also played a key role in promoting cultural exchange between China and the West by exhibiting her works in multiple countries, and facilitating opportunities for other Chinese artists to showcase their work abroad. The exhibition underscores Pan Yuliang's contribution to modern Chinese art and her resilience in overcoming personal and societal challenges.
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Summary: The article discusses how artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things are transforming museums in China, making them more interactive and accessible. These technologies are being used to create immersive exhibitions, personalized educational experiences, and engaging digital content. For instance, museums are using AI-powered digital guides to answer visitors' questions and tailor their experiences, as well as employing AI to create digital short films that bring cultural relics to life. The article also warns against over-reliance on technology and the potential for a digital divide between large and small museums.
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By: 本报记者 张 贺 耿 磊 丁雅诵
"Doing scholarship for the people," "writing papers on the land of the motherland"... While Chinese-style modernization has achieved remarkable accomplishments in material civilization, the vast number of philosophy and social science workers are also making unremitting efforts and silently working hard to create even more abundant achievements in spiritual civilization.
On May 17, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a call at the symposium on philosophy and social science work to "accelerate the construction of a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics."
Responding to the call, they have been striving forward without stopping. Over the past 10 years, guided by Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Culture, the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social science has taken solid steps, and a development picture of philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese spirit is slowly unfolding.
Strengthening the Foundation and Protecting the Soul and Root
"Why can the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) do it, why is socialism with Chinese characteristics good? The fundamental reason is that Marxism works, and that Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times works." This profound assertion in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) resonates powerfully.
A century of searching, a history of hardship and glory. It is precisely because it possesses Marxist theory that the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the Chinese people have found the correct path to achieving national independence and rejuvenation.
"Effectively integrate the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of outstanding traditional Chinese culture, transform it into new theoretical advantages, and continuously climb new heights of thought." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s words are inspiring.
Over the past 10 years, philosophy and social science workers have applied the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods throughout the entire research process, promoted the high-quality development of Marxist theoretical research and construction projects in the new era through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and continuously consolidated the guiding position of Marxism.
Walking into the Beijing Book Building (北京图书大厦), works such as "Selected Readings from Xi Jinping (习近平)," "Xi Jinping (习近平) on Governance of China," "Selected Works on Economics by Xi Jinping (习近平)," and "Selected Works on the Rule of Law by Xi Jinping (习近平)" are neatly displayed, attracting many readers to stop and read.
"Reading authoritative works can enhance understanding and answer practical questions," said Guo Han (郭晗), a grassroots cadre from Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京). "In particular, studying in conjunction with 'A Study Outline of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Culture' and 'Questions and Answers on Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization' can provide a deeper understanding of the essence and rich content of the General Secretary's important thought."
On October 25, 2017, the campus of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) was filled with enthusiasm as the nation's first "Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center" was established here.
Today, 19 Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Centers (Institutes) have been established successively, building bridges between the Party's innovative theories and the general public.
"The Party's innovative theories have both epistemology and methodology, and are a rich treasure trove of thought," said Yin Jun (尹俊), director of the Economic Teaching and Research Office of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Institute at Peking University (北京大学).
"In the past 10 years, high-level research results have continued to emerge, with strong responses to 'Ma Zang' and the 'Theoretic and Rationalized Research Library of the Party's Innovative Theoretical System,' and a large number of high-quality research results have been launched, accurately serving the overall national situation." When talking about the past 10 years, scholars unanimously used four characters - "vigorous atmosphere."
Theoretical research continues to deepen, and theoretical publicity keeps pace with the times. A special publicity lecture was held in the small theater of the Jinhua Wuju Opera Theater (金华中国婺剧院) in Zhejiang (浙江), explaining the dialectical relationship between "an effective market and a capable government" through the reform practices of Yiwu (义乌); through observations on the overseas expansion of Hengdian (横店) micro-dramas, the understanding of "enhancing the communication and influence of Chinese civilization" was narrated... "The publicity lecture has allowed me to more deeply understand the content of the '15th Five-Year Plan' outline," said young cadre Fu Qianzhen (付千真).
"An important task of our philosophy and social sciences is to continue to promote the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, to continue to develop Marxism in the 21st century and contemporary Chinese Marxism," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly.
"Chinese-style modernization," "new quality productive forces," "whole-process people's democracy," "a community of the Chinese nation," "humanistic economics," and "a community with a shared future for mankind" and other concepts, viewpoints, and theories with Chinese characteristics shine with the light of innovation.
China's governance calls for China's theories, and China's theories explain China's governance.
"Based on Chinese practice, constructing a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics that is independent and original has become an important task," said Yang Fengcheng (杨凤城), Dean of the Institute of Party History and Party Building at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).
Before "May Day," in Hongqiao (虹桥) Street, Changning District (长宁区), Shanghai (上海), a popular science promotion of the Ecological Environment Code and a joint ideological and political course of Shanghai (上海) universities' law schools were launched. Teachers interpreted the essentials of the code and narrated the experience of its promulgation, and the students listened with great interest.
Hongqiao (虹桥) Street is one of the first grassroots legislative contact points established 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). On November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the Gubei (古北) Civic Center in Hongqiao (虹桥) Street to investigate and research, listened to the introduction of services for grassroots people to participate in legislative work, and proposed that "people's democracy is a whole-process democracy."
"Whole-process people's democracy vividly interprets the essence of the 'two integrations' and fully embodies independence and self-reliance," said Che Zongkai (车宗凯), a special researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Institute at Tsinghua University (清华大学).
To deepen theoretical interpretation, the Central Party School (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院)) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) have successively launched monographs such as "The Theory and Practice of Whole-Process People's Democracy" and "Whole-Process People's Democracy: A New Form of People's Democracy in the New Era," systematically interpreting a series of major theoretical and practical issues of whole-process people's democracy.
"In recent years, I have deeply felt that the consciousness of the vast number of theoretical workers to serve the Party's ideological and theoretical construction has been continuously enhanced," said Shen Zhuanghai (沈壮海), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Professor of the School of Marxism at Wuhan University (武汉大学).
A stream runs far when its source is deep; a tree flourishes when its roots are strong.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must pay special attention to exploring the essence of China's five thousand years of civilization, combine the promotion of outstanding traditional culture with the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods, and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
The philosophy and social science community adheres to the "two integrations" to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding traditional Chinese culture.
Heritage protection has yielded fruitful results. "Spring Festival" has been included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Beijing Central Axis (北京中轴线) has been successfully applied for World Heritage status, and the total number of Chinese World Heritage sites ranks among the top in the world.
Archaeological discoveries have brought frequent good news. The Liangzhu (良渚) Ancient City and the Yin Ruins (殷墟遗址) continue to be excavated, making the historical context of Chinese civilization clearer.
Classical books are published to continue the cultural heritage. Publication achievements such as "The Grand Series of Chinese Paintings Throughout the Ages," "The Gesar Library," and "The Confucian Canon" present cultural masterpieces and inherit the essence of thought.
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Beijing (北京), on the east side of the northern extension of the central axis, the Museum of the History of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党历史展览馆) stands majestically, with a constant stream of visitors. "History is the best textbook, and a modern history and a contemporary history of China's development fully prove that Marxism is the truth, and it is definitely right to unswervingly follow the Party," said Chen Shiyi (陈世义), a veteran party member from Hubei (湖北).
Gathering strength and casting the soul, cultivating the foundation and strengthening the foundation. Over the past 10 years, the entire Party and the entire society's belief in Marxism has become more firm, and cadres and the masses' political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional identification with the Party's innovative theories has become more firm.
The new journey is a long march full of glory and dreams. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the philosophy and social science community will grasp the historical initiative with theoretical initiative, and inspire the power of progress with the power of thought, which will surely make the truth of Marxism bloom with even more brilliant light.
Rooted in the Land, Constructing China's Independent Knowledge System
"Accelerating the construction of a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics ultimately means constructing China's independent knowledge system." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s earnest expectations have become a powerful driving force for philosophy and social science workers to forge ahead.
"If you want to know the great way, you must first study history." Bu Xianqun (卜宪群), former director of the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院古代史研究所), told his students, "We must use the independent knowledge system of Chinese history to deeply and thoroughly explain the development history of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and clearly explain the theme, mainstream, main line, and essence of contemporary Chinese history."
In 2018, the history major of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学) welcomed its first undergraduate students. A series of reforms were launched accordingly: opening special courses on obscure and unique subjects such as oracle bone studies, bamboo and wooden slip studies, and Dunhuang studies; constructing an integrated talent training system from undergraduate to doctoral levels; and deeply integrating scientific research with teaching...
A main line running through the reform is to jump out of the existing framework of Western historical theory, not to apply concepts, not to copy paradigms, but to start from the specific practice of Chinese history and tell Chinese stories using Chinese methods.
Outside the classroom, the team also created a 100-episode documentary "General History of China" and "A Concise Reader of Chinese History," guided by the Marxist materialist view of history, to disseminate correct views of history, the country, the nation, and culture... From the classroom to textbooks, from academia to the public, the roots of history are deeply rooted in the land of China.
The story of Bu Xianqun (卜宪群)'s team is a microcosm, reflecting the solid steps taken in the construction of China's independent knowledge system of philosophy and social science over the past 10 years, and the Chinese academic community is striving to cross from "explaining China" to "changing China."
This leap, looking deeply, is the scientific construction of the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system.
The discipline system is more solid. The foundation of basic disciplines is thicker, emerging disciplines are growing vigorously, interdisciplinary integration is deepening, and fields such as the history of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), Party building, discipline inspection and supervision, and regional and national studies are accelerating construction. At present, a philosophical and social science discipline system covering 29 first-level disciplines in all directions, all fields, and all elements has basically been formed.
The academic system is stronger. Focusing on major propositions such as Chinese-style modernization, urban development and governance, and artificial intelligence, the construction of new types of think tanks with Chinese characteristics continues to deepen, related research continues to deepen, and academic achievements pay more and more attention to proposing academic issues with subjectivity, and strive to form an original theoretical expression and academic evaluation system.
The discourse system is richer. Researchers in philosophy and social sciences in universities are more widely involved in various international exchanges, and more high-level research results are published in foreign academic journals... New expressions that integrate Chinese and foreign cultures demonstrate China's position, wisdom, and values, triggering thinking and resonance among scholars from different cultural backgrounds.
How can disciplines, academics, and discourse be transformed into achievements, enter the classroom, and nourish the growth of a new generation of scholars? Textbooks are an important carrier.
Starting in the spring semester of 2025, two Chinese economics textbooks compiled by Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) and Nankai University (南开大学) organized by the Ministry of Education will be piloted in more than 40 universities. "New quality productive forces," "new development concepts," and "supply-side structural reform"... Economic concepts rooted in the Chinese discourse system leap onto the paper.
"We focus on creating high-quality textbooks in the 'China Series,' 'New Era Series,' and 'Classic Series,' among which the 'China Series' includes textbooks on Chinese economics, Chinese law, Chinese journalism, and discipline inspection and supervision," introduced the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education.
Constructing a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, the key lies in people, and it must be done for a long time. Over the past 10 years, the number of personnel has increased from small to large, and the team has grown from weak to strong. The "five armies" of philosophy and social sciences - universities, philosophy and social science research institutions, Party schools (administrative colleges), research institutions affiliated to Party and government departments, and military academies - have worked together to form a good situation of mutual promotion and common development. At the same time, more young talents have joined the team constructing the independent knowledge system.
"We should shoulder the historical responsibility of strengthening China's academic consciousness, cultural consciousness, and practical consciousness." Striving to make progress and continuing to move forward, Lin Yi (林毅), a young scholar at Tsinghua University (清华大学), expressed the aspirations of the younger generation of philosophy and social science workers.
Oriented to Practice, Responding to the Questions of the Times
"Problems are the starting point of innovation and the source of innovation. Only by listening to the voice of the times, responding to the call of the times, and conscientiously studying and solving major and urgent problems can we truly grasp the historical context, find the laws of development, and promote theoretical innovation." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important exposition pointed out the direction for the philosophy and social science community.
Shanghai (上海), in a corner of the Fudan University (复旦大学) Development Institute, a huge screen displays numbers that are constantly jumping. The consumption heat of various regions in Shanghai (上海), the consumption flow between cities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the ups and downs of key industries are clearly presented.
This is also the Consumption Big Data Laboratory of the Ministry of Commerce. Under the leadership of Zhang Yina (张伊娜), director of the laboratory and professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Fudan University (复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院), the team combs through massive amounts of consumption data day after day to provide analysis and support for various decisions.
"A very important point of social science is to seek truth from facts," said Zhang Yina (张伊娜). The laboratory cooperates with government departments throughout the entire process, from pre-judgment before the introduction of policies to revisions during implementation, adjusting step by step to be more optimal.
The prosperity of philosophy and social science has never been a literary game in the study, nor a self-appreciation in the ivory tower. Its vitality lies in scientifically answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, and in responding to the topics of the times, leading social development, and solving practical problems.
Where does the confidence of theoretical innovation come from? In practice, the answer is clearly demonstrated - Chinese-style modernization is a broad road for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation, and it is also the broadest and deepest practical foundation for Chinese philosophy and social science in the new era.
98.99 million rural poor people have been lifted out of poverty after eight years of hard work, solving the global problem of eliminating absolute poverty; a new path of ecological governance has been taken with the new development concept, creating an ecological miracle with the most and fastest increase in greening; the concepts of "humanistic economics," "people's city," and "investing in people" have been proposed, allowing value rationality and humanistic care to be integrated into economic and social development...
"The great practice of contemporary China provides a strong impetus and broad space for theoretical creation and academic prosperity," said Hong Yinxing (洪银兴), professor at Nanjing University (南京大学).
The awareness of problems is constantly enhanced, the original ability is significantly improved, the historical foundation is deeper, and the research methods and paradigms have undergone profound changes... Behind the flourishing development of philosophy and social science is the continuous improvement of support and guarantee. Since 2012, the National Social Science Fund has invested a total of 26.5 billion yuan, funded approximately 100,000 projects, and supported more than 400,000 experts and scholars.
It is worth noting that organized scientific research in philosophy and social science has been further strengthened. The academic community has helped major cultural projects such as the protection of Dunhuang (敦煌) cultural relics and the exploration of Chinese civilization to be implemented; science and technology archaeology laboratories, digital humanities laboratories, and economic big data and policy evaluation laboratories have been built; the University Alliance for Constructing China's Independent Knowledge System, the Marxist Theory Discipline Independent Knowledge System Alliance, and the Industry-Characteristic University Philosophy and Social Science Alliance have developed in groups... The improvement of the platform matrix has allowed a large number of research results serving the "overall situation of the country, the major needs of the country, the major events of the country, and the major plans of the country" to emerge.
"Only by always resonating with the cause of the Party and the people and being closely connected with the development of the times can philosophy and social science continuously enhance its ability to explain reality, guide practice, lead the times, and shape the future," said Guo Yuewen (郭跃文), Secretary of the Party Group and Researcher of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences (广东省社会科学院).
In November 2024, on the shore of Yanqi Lake (雁栖湖) in Beijing (北京), a dialogue spanning time and space kicked off. The first World Congress of Classical Studies was held here.
Subsequently, China and Greece jointly established the Institute of Chinese Classical Civilization in Athens, which is the first classical civilization research institution established by an Asian country in Greece.
Without forgetting the original, absorbing the foreign, and facing the future, the vast number of philosophy and social science workers have a lot to offer.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the times have given the Chinese philosophy and social science community a greater mission - to illuminate the journey of rejuvenation with the light of theory, to build national self-confidence with the foundation of scholarship, and to transform the power of thought into the mighty force to promote historical progress.
Today's China is more confident and has more confidence to present the world with an academic China that is civilized and prosperous, and that is constantly innovating in the humanities. This is the echo of civilization and the call of the times.
Today's China is more confident and has a stronger foundation to present to the world an academically thriving and culturally innovative China. This is the echo of civilization and, even more so, the call of the times.
(People's Daily reporters Zhao Erna (赵婀娜), Wu Dan (吴丹), Jin Zhengbo (金正波), and He Zhaoyu (何昭宇) participated in the writing.)
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In March of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北): "Energy is a strategic issue in development" and "We must adhere to the path of clean and low-carbon development."
In the inaugural year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," affected by factors such as geopolitical conflicts, some countries have experienced drastic fluctuations in oil prices and supply shortages. In contrast, domestic energy resource supply is stable and orderly, and energy supply for production and daily life is sufficient. This is thanks to China's "accelerated construction of a new clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system," which provides solid support for building a strong energy nation.
One in the east and one in the west, two "mosts," witness the vivid picture of building a strong energy nation:
In Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江), the world's first 650-degree ultra-supercritical coal-fired power unit is under construction at Huaneng Yuhuan Power Plant (华能玉环电厂). The construction of more than 700 pile foundations in the main plant and boiler room areas has been completed, and the steel structure of the boiler is being hoisted.
"Not long ago, the core pressure-bearing component of the unit—the high-pressure inner cylinder—achieved a single casting of more than 50 tons of high-temperature alloy castings." Yuan Yong (袁勇), chief expert of Huaneng Xi'an Thermal Engineering Research Institute (华能西安热工院), introduced that this "steel heart" is expected to be offline and installed by the end of the year. After the unit is completed, it will greatly improve the clean and efficient utilization of coal power.
In Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan (四川), the world's largest hybrid pumped storage project, Lianghekou Pumped Storage Power Station (两河口抽蓄电站), is undergoing concrete pouring and electromechanical installation in the main plant. With the simultaneous advancement of the Kela Phase II Photovoltaic Power Station (柯拉二期光伏电站), Yaoniu Mountain Wind Power (牦牛山风电) and other projects, the construction "progress bar" of the Yalong River (雅砻江) basin's integrated hydropower, wind, and solar base is constantly refreshed.
"The integrated base has the advantages of multi-energy complementarity and multi-year regulation. During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the installed capacity will increase from nearly 23 million kilowatts to about 40 million kilowatts, and the annual power generation is expected to reach 130 billion kilowatt-hours." Zhang Dongming (张东明), on-site commander of the Lianghekou Pumped Storage Power Station (两河口抽蓄电站) of the State Development & Investment Corporation (国投集团) Yalong River (雅砻江), said.
"Deeply implement the new energy security strategy, accelerate the construction of a new clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system, and build a strong energy nation." The important deployment proposed in the "15th Five-Year Plan" is accelerating its implementation and becoming a reality—
Sufficient quantity and excellent quality, the resilience of energy security continues to increase.
Exceeding 4 billion cubic meters. Since the beginning of this year, more than 20 new wells have been drilled in China's largest coal-rock gas (deep coal seam gas) field, PetroChina Daji Gas Field (中国石油大吉气田), promoting a year-on-year increase of more than 30% in daily gas production and setting a new record for annual production capacity.
Nearly 4 billion kilowatts. This is the cumulative installed power generation capacity nationwide as of the end of March, a year-on-year increase of 15.5%.
In the first quarter, China's energy supply grew steadily, and the production of raw coal, crude oil, natural gas, and electricity all reached record highs for the same period in history.
More total volume, better layout. Since the beginning of this year, the Su-Wan-Yu Trunk Pipeline Project (苏皖豫干线管道工程), with a total length of more than 800 kilometers, has started construction. It will connect the "North Gas to South" energy artery and the West-East Gas Pipeline System (西气东输管道系统) to realize two-way supply of land gas and sea gas; the Panxi UHV AC Project (攀西特高压交流工程) with a total investment of about 23.2 billion yuan has started construction, which will significantly enhance the ability of the southwest region to transmit clean energy externally...
Optimizing the layout of energy backbone channels and the structure of import sources, and improving the complementary and mutual assistance capabilities of the power system have effectively improved the security, stability, and economy of energy supply. In the first quarter, China imported 150 million tons of crude oil, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%, a record high; both State Grid (国网) and China Southern Power Grid (南网) achieved double-digit growth in fixed asset investment.
Moving forward towards green, the transformation of the energy structure is advancing steadily.
The color of the supply side is greener. In February, the largest single photovoltaic base in a coal mining subsidence area in China—the Guoneng Ningxia Lingwu 4 million Kilowatt Photovoltaic Power Station (国能宁夏灵武400万千瓦光伏电站)—was completed and put into operation. After being put into operation, it can provide 6.8 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity annually, meeting the electricity needs of 4.5 million households for one year. In April, the offshore wind power project with the deepest water depth in China—the Huaneng Shandong Peninsula North L Site Offshore Wind Power Project (华能山东半岛北L场址海上风电项目)—was fully connected to the grid for power generation. China's cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of offshore wind power has ranked first in the world for five consecutive years.
Since the beginning of this year, the safe and reliable replacement of renewable energy has been accelerated. In the newly added power generation capacity in the first quarter, renewable energy accounted for 70%.
Electricity substitution on the consumption side. As fast as 5 minutes, charging can last for 400 kilometers! Not long ago, the largest vehicle-grid interaction supercharging demonstration station in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) was put into operation in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). "Currently, 23 vehicle-grid interaction charging piles have been set up. At most, more than 270 new energy vehicles are charged at the station in a day." Lin Chao (林超), deputy director of the Engineering Department of Shenzhen Guangming Power Supply Bureau (深圳光明供电局) of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), introduced that the canopy of the supercharging station is covered with about 600 square meters of photovoltaic panels, with an annual power generation of about 140,000 kilowatt-hours.
Actively encouraging "driving green cars and using green electricity" and building the world's largest electric vehicle charging network; carrying out the construction of national zero-carbon parks to manufacture green products with green energy; promoting the coordinated layout of green power and computing power... China is strengthening energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas such as industry, construction, and transportation, and improving the electrification level of terminal energy use. Nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity used are green electricity.
Innovation leads, and the strength of energy technology research is stronger.
In Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), the construction of the Compact Fusion Energy Experimental Device (BEST) is steadily advancing, and it is expected to achieve demonstration fusion power generation around 2030; in Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), China's first 500,000-ton biomass green methanol demonstration project has started construction, overcoming the technical problem of efficient synthesis of green methanol; in Yancheng (盐城), Jiangsu (江苏), the first independently developed new energy grid-connected stabilizer has been put into operation, which can effectively isolate the mutual influence of electrical faults between new energy and the power grid...
Focusing on key energy fields and major needs, China is accelerating the research and application of new-generation coal power, flexible DC power transmission and other technologies, carrying out major technology research on long-term energy storage, green electricity hydrogen production, ammonia and methanol, controllable nuclear fusion, and a number of new technologies and industries are booming.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will better coordinate development and security, and support the construction of a strong energy nation with a new energy system through measures such as improving the spatial layout of energy development, increasing the construction of new energy infrastructure, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces in energy, and expanding the high-level opening up of energy.'" The relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) said.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 马跃峰 黄 娴 陈隽逸
In May, the flowers of the prickly pear bloom in succession, adorning the mountains and fields of Guizhou (贵州). In Guizhou (贵州), the unassuming prickly pears are processed into products such as juice, lozenges, and jam, with a comprehensive output value of over 10 billion yuan. Currently, the prickly pear planting scale in Guizhou (贵州) has reached 1.52 million mu, with planting area, processing capacity, and product types accounting for more than 90% of the country.
Why can the prickly pear emerge from the mountains and fields? Xie Guofang (谢国芳), a professor at the Guizhou Prickly Pear Industry Research Institute (贵州省刺梨产业研究院), stated frankly: "The most fundamental thing is technological empowerment, cultivating new varieties, and making high-quality industrial products and healthy consumer goods." Guizhou (贵州) is mostly mountainous, and agricultural development is limited. But dialectically speaking, disadvantages are also advantages.
In March 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out during his inspection in Guizhou (贵州): "We must develop modern mountainous characteristic and efficient agriculture in accordance with local conditions and cultivate characteristic leading industries with lasting market competitiveness."
Based on resources such as mountains and climate, Guizhou (贵州) continues to promote the integration of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries, and strives to optimize modern mountainous characteristic and efficient agriculture. In the first quarter of 2026, the added value of the primary industry in the province was 49.933 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%.
Deeply explore resources to make characteristics more distinct.
In summer, when you come to Pu'an (普安), the tea mountains are verdant, and tourists flock to explore the ancient wild four-ball tea tree groups.
"‘Humanities + health’ is our greatest confidence," said Gu Zhongxiang (谷忠祥), director of the Pu'an County Tea Industry Development Center (普安县茶业发展中心). He introduced that there are archaeological discoveries of 1.64 million-year-old four-ball tea seed fossils, more than 20,000 wild ancient four-ball tea trees, and ecological advantages suitable for green planting.
Building tea culture exhibition halls and holding seminars highlight the influence of the tea seed fossil discovery site; the entire chain strictly controls quality to protect the "ecological tea, clean tea" background. In 2025, the comprehensive output value of the Pu'an (普安) tea industry reached 1.92 billion yuan, directly benefiting more than 80,000 tea farmers.
Not only Pu'an (普安) tea, Guizhou (贵州) has upgraded characteristic agricultural products into "messengers" carrying regional culture, ethnic skills, and traditional wisdom, carried out a general survey of famous, special, excellent, and new agricultural product resources, established 12 special classes for agricultural characteristic industries, and deeply bound agriculture with culture and tourism. In 2025, the output value of characteristic and advantageous agricultural industries in the province increased by about 4%.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Guizhou (贵州) will focus on developing characteristic and advantageous industries such as tea, chili peppers, and beef cattle, and cultivate 9 characteristic industrial chains with lasting market competitiveness.
The whole chain is connected, and technology is used to improve quality and efficiency.
In the sour soup microbial laboratory of the Guizhou Kaili Sour Soup Industry Research Institute (贵州凯里酸汤产业研究院), rows of conical flasks are sent into constant temperature incubators. The microorganisms inside proliferate and metabolize, brewing the unique sour aroma of Guizhou (贵州) sour soup.
Jiang Huiqian (蒋辉倩), head of the raw material research and development team of Kaili Sour Soup (凯里酸汤) in Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), introduced: "From planting to processing and production, we are changing from 'experience-led' to 'technology-unlocked'."
Cultivating varieties such as "Kaisuan No. 1 (凯酸1号)", the yield of hairy eggplant fruit has been increased from 800 jin per mu to 6,000 jin; the fully automated brewing production line of "Kaili Sour Soup (凯里酸汤)" has been put into use, and the fermentation cycle has been shortened from 1 year to 30 days... At present, the annual output value of Guizhou (贵州) sour soup has exceeded 8 billion yuan.
Focusing on modern mountainous characteristic and efficient agriculture, Guizhou (贵州) has established a provincial-level "mid-term germplasm resource bank for crops", established 18 modern agricultural industry technology systems, and built 13 national modern agricultural industrial parks and 10 advantageous industrial clusters. At the beginning of this year, the Guizhou Provincial Department of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (贵州省农业农村厅) focused on promoting 60 leading agricultural varieties and 66 main technologies, sending the latest scientific research results to the fields.
Standards come first, and development is promoted through norms.
How can good blueberries be sold at a good price? Long Xiaobo (龙晓波), deputy director of the Majiang County Blueberry Industry Development Service Center (麻江县蓝莓产业发展服务中心), revealed the secret: "70% processing and 30% fresh sales make Majiang (麻江) blueberries sell well at home and abroad."
Good sales come from standardization: In 2025, the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) released the "Quality Requirements for Geographical Indication Products Majiang Blueberries (地理标志产品质量要求 麻江蓝莓)". At present, Majiang County (麻江县) has introduced and cultivated 10 blueberry deep-processing enterprises, and the comprehensive output value of blueberries in 2025 exceeded 850 million yuan.
Adhering to the principle of "standards first," Guizhou (贵州) dynamically updates and releases the "Modern Mountain Characteristic and Efficient Agriculture Standard System (现代山地特色高效农业标准体系)", strengthens the construction of national agricultural standardization demonstration zones, and has issued 683 provincial-level local standards in the agricultural field. The province has cultivated 14 national agricultural brand boutiques such as Dafang Gastrodia elata (大方天麻) and Duyun Maojian (都匀毛尖).
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Guizhou (贵州) will implement a quality upgrade project for key production areas, and strive to create a brand system of "top boutiques + backbone famous products + characteristic single products".
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions, Guizhou (贵州) will focus on varieties, quality, and brands, promote 'strengthening the primary, connecting the secondary, and linking the tertiary industries', accelerate breakthroughs in the development of characteristic and advantageous industries, and develop modern mountainous characteristic and efficient agriculture in accordance with local conditions," said the main person in charge of the Guizhou Provincial Party Committee (贵州省委).
Return to TopThe Beijing (北京) May 16th dispatch from this newspaper (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)) – The Zhijiang Yangtze River Bridge (枝江长江大桥) in Zhijiang (枝江) Hubei (湖北) successfully closed on the 15th, laying an important foundation for the project's completion and opening to traffic.
The Zhijiang Yangtze River Bridge (枝江长江大桥) starts from Majiadian Street (马家店街道), Zhijiang City (枝江市) in the north and ends at Bailizhou Town (百里洲镇) in the south, with a total length of 1549 meters and a main span of 890 meters. Bailizhou (百里洲) is a large island in the middle of the Yangtze River (长江) Zhijiang (枝江) section. For a long time, residents on the island have faced the problem of inconvenient travel. After the bridge is completed and open to traffic, the time for people on both sides of the river to cross the river will be shortened from several hours to 5 minutes, effectively improving the travel conditions of local people.
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Opening Remarks
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Employment is the most basic livelihood" and "Promote high-quality and full employment."
College graduates find opportunities in school-enterprise collaboration, entrepreneurs grow continuously with policy support, and new employment groups are full of energy with guaranteed support... Various regions promote employment by adapting to local conditions and implementing precise policies, and more and more job seekers have found the starting point of their careers.
Starting today, this newspaper will launch a special column "Stable Employment: My Job Search Story" to listen to the stories and voices of workers, report on the experiences and practices of various regions in stabilizing and promoting employment, and showcase the effectiveness of policy implementation.
On an early summer morning, at the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Zero-Work Market in southern Beijing (北京), the zero-work bus has already started. Labor agent Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) holds the zero-work list and stands in front of the bus, counting the number of people and taking photos for records... After the process is completed, the zero-workers line up in an orderly manner to board the bus. About two years ago, at the same time, the zero-workers were still crowded on the curb of the old intersection, "lying down to find work" (趴活) grabbing jobs and bargaining, which was also Ba Hongbo's experience when he was looking for odd jobs and doing temporary work before becoming a labor agent.
The changes in how zero-workers find work reflect the continuous improvement of zero-work employment services in Beijing (北京).
From "lying down on the street to find work" (马路趴活) to "entering the market to find work," from "shouting to grab work" to "receiving orders at your fingertips"... In recent years, in accordance with the principles of "building according to needs, guiding according to the situation, and developing in a standardized manner," Beijing (北京) has woven a warm employment service network for the zero-work group through "online + offline" dual-wheel drive. The zero-work market is booming, the "street market" is gradually withdrawing from the historical stage, and good policies support an "umbrella of peace of mind" for workers who earn money by doing odd jobs.
Warm Service
Moving from the "Roadside" to the "Market"
Due to its proximity to economically active areas such as the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京经济技术开发区), the Majuqiao (马驹桥) area has many construction sites and park factories, spontaneously forming a zero-work gathering place on the roadside. Nine years ago, Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) came to Majuqiao (马驹桥) from other places to make a living and became one of the zero-work army.
"At that time, the recruitment car had not yet stopped, and everyone rushed up and scrambled." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) has worked as a logistics loader, landscaper, construction worker... "As long as I get paid that day, I will do any job." Even so, often while working here, the labor intermediary disappeared, and in the end, I didn't know who to ask for wages.
The change began in May 2024, when the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人力资源和社会保障局) and other 6 departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Standardizing the Construction of Zero-Work Markets (Trial Implementation)," which clearly proposed to gradually eliminate the "chaos" of occupying roads and streets and disorderly connecting the supply and demand of zero-work, and promote "retreating from the road and entering the market" and "retreating from the road and going online." Subsequently, the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Zero-Work Market opened for business, introducing more than 20 formal human resources agencies.
Thanks to years of zero-work experience, Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) was favored by a human resources company and became a labor agent. "The conditions are much better than before. The zero-work market can not only shelter from the wind and rain, but also provide many services." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) introduced the various functional areas to reporters: the warm service area provides free hot water and charging services; in the 24-hour intelligent cultural space "Micro-light Library," many workers read and "recharge" in their spare time; the "New Employment Friendly Classroom" training room and the diversified labor dispute mediation room provide zero-workers with a full chain of services such as employment consultation, order matching, skills improvement training, and rights protection maintenance guidance.
From the zero-work market operator sending buses to the zero-work gathering place every morning to pick up people, to more and more zero-workers spontaneously coming to the zero-work market, the once disorderly Majuqiao (马驹桥) zero-work gathering place is being replaced by a standardized and orderly market. "Workers sign up with their mobile phones, and after matching a suitable job, the next day there is a bus that takes them directly to the factory gate. Wages are settled on the same day, and there is no need to worry about arrears, deductions, etc." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) said that seeing everyone has work to do and money to earn, he, as an agent, is also at ease and down-to-earth.
Data shows that as of the end of April this year, the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Zero-Work Market has received a total of 291,300 zero-workers, successfully matching 223,800 people to jobs, with a matching success rate of 76.8%.
Digital Empowerment
Turning "People Looking for Work" into "Work Looking for People"
Offline entry, online bridging.
For zero-workers, information asymmetry is the biggest pain point. Where is the job? Is it reliable? Can the money be settled? These are all the concerns of Sun Donglian (孙东莲), a villager in Yuantian (园田) Team Village, Pinggu (平谷) District, Beijing (北京).
In Beijing (北京), digital empowerment has played a role in solving these problems.
"In the past, I relied on luck to 'lie down' on the roadside, but now I rely on my mobile phone." Sun Donglian (孙东莲) showed reporters a WeChat mini-program called "Green Valley Smart Work" (绿谷智工). Through online order taking, she found a job in a food factory.
Kang Chenhong (康晨红), the person in charge of the Pinggu (平谷) District Green Valley Zero-Work Market (绿谷零工市场) and the developer of the mini-program, introduced that on the mini-program, employers need to submit business licenses and other relevant supporting materials before they can settle in and release employment needs. Zero-workers can apply with one click after registering and filling in their resumes for the first time, and both parties choose each other. "Zero-workers can take jobs online without coming to the market, and accurately screen jobs by selecting time and location." Kang Chenhong (康晨红) said.
Soon, zero-workers found that there were more channels to find work and the cost was lower. "The online platform is our compass for finding work." Sun Donglian (孙东莲) said with emotion.
In Beijing (北京), the operators of the zero-work market are successively developing online service platforms, gradually realizing "one-stop" services such as supply and demand registration, online communication and connection, result confirmation, and online settlement, improving service convenience and accuracy.
Before each work, Sun Donglian (孙东莲) clicks on the location on the "Green Valley Smart Work" (绿谷智工) mini-program to check in. At the moment of check-in, accident insurance or employer liability insurance takes effect, and the real-time record of arrival begins. The number of hours Sun Donglian (孙东莲) works will also be recorded and used as a reference for wage settlement. After verification, the wages will be distributed to the designated account through the platform on the same day.
As of now, the "Green Valley Smart Work" (绿谷智工) online platform has released nearly 200,000 zero-work positions, and more than 150,000 zero-workers have been successfully employed, with an overall job satisfaction rate of 79%, realizing the transformation from "people looking for work" to "work looking for people."
Employment Security
From "Floating Work" to "Down-to-Earth Busyness"
Wage arrears, work injuries, no security... These are all the worries of zero-workers.
"It's good to rely on a big tree to enjoy the shade. The zero-work market makes it easy for us to find work and have security." Said Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) from Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东).
Next to the Aima Yu (爱玛裕) Building Decoration Market in Shijingshan (石景山) District, under the elevated highway bridge, there were previously many zero-workers engaged in home decoration "lying down" here. Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) was also here. In June 2025, the Jingshi (京石) Zero-Work Market was built and put into operation. Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) was among the first group of workers to enter the market to find work and became the first zero-worker in the market to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
The increase in income made Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) very motivated, but what made him feel more at ease was the insurance safety net.
Since its operation, the Jingshi (京石) Zero-Work Market has customized accident injury insurance for zero-workers, equipped with full-time insurance specialists, and provided a one-stop service for the entire process of insurance participation, renewal, and claims settlement. At the municipal level, Beijing (北京) is exploring the launch of "Zero-Work Insurance" (零工保), striving to give both zero-workers and employers a "reassurance pill."
What is even warmer is "teaching a man to fish." In the Jingshi (京石) Zero-Work Market, there is a room where you can see tiles repeatedly pasted and white walls repeatedly scraped. This is where zero-workers learn home decoration skills. The Jingshi (京石) Zero-Work Market hopes to solve the structural employment contradiction of the zero-work group with single skills and skills that do not match job needs.
Here, Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) became a teacher. The market operator asked him to use his spare time to explain skills such as tiling and water pipe modification to workers and students. Many people have graduated and their income has increased a lot.
Zero-workers can also become long-term workers. The Jingshi (京石) Zero-Work Market regularly conducts quarterly evaluations of "Zero-Work Stars" and "Good Review Stars" and actively connects with high-quality employers. As of April this year, a total of 21 people have signed long-term labor contracts with enterprises.
In Beijing (北京), various zero-work markets are using insurance as a safety net, mediation as a safeguard, training as empowerment, and job transfer as quality improvement as the starting point, allowing zero-workers to change from "**漂着干**" (piāo zhe gàn - "floating work," working without stability or security) to "**踏实忙**" (tā shi máng - "down-to-earth busy," working with stability and a sense of security), weaving an employment security "safety net."
This newspaper reported from Beijing on May 16th (Reporter Wang Hao (王浩)): Reporters learned from the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) and China South-to-North Water Diversion Group Co., Ltd. (中国南水北调集团有限公司) that since the commissioning of the first phase of the South-to-North Water Diversion East and Middle Routes Project, the cumulative water transfer has exceeded 88 billion cubic meters, benefiting 195 million people in 48 large and medium-sized cities in 7 provinces. The water quality of the Middle Route has remained stable at Class II or above, and the East Route has remained stable at Class III.
The South-to-North Water Diversion Project makes full use of surplus water during the flood season to carry out ecological water replenishment to more than 50 rivers along the route, with ecological water replenishment exceeding 13 billion cubic meters. A large number of rivers and lakes, such as the Hutuo River (滹沱河), the Daqing River (大清河), and Baiyangdian (白洋淀), have regained their vitality, the ecological environment of rivers and lakes has been significantly improved, and the downward trend of groundwater levels in North China for many years has been curbed, with the overall groundwater level rebounding. Provinces along the South-to-North Water Diversion route have comprehensively implemented the "River and Lake Chief System" for the South-to-North Water Diversion Project, constructing a five-level linkage system of province, city, county, township, and village.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) May 16th dispatch (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)): The Ministry of Commerce (商务部) released data showing that in the first quarter, China's (我国) total service import and export value was 1,822.9 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 2.3%. Among them, exports were 704.52 billion yuan, an increase of 11.2%.
Knowledge-intensive service exports maintained rapid growth. In the first quarter, the import and export of knowledge-intensive services was 793.71 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 1.6%, accounting for 43.5% of the total service import and export. Exports of knowledge-intensive services were 384.26 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 6.1%. Among them, personal cultural and entertainment services and financial services grew the fastest, with growth rates of 25.6% and 16.1% respectively.
Travel service exports and transportation service imports grew rapidly. In the first quarter, travel service exports were 105.35 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.3%, ranking first in terms of growth rate in various fields of service exports; transportation service imports were 230.21 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 22.8%.
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In recent days, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) and eight other departments jointly issued the "Implementation Opinions on Reforming and Improving the Supply Guarantee Mechanism for Children's Medicines," focusing on the difficulties of high R&D costs, small market size, and few varieties, dosage forms, and specifications of children's medicines. From R&D sources to clinical use, from production and supply to payment guarantees, the opinions aim to improve the ability to supply and use pediatric medicines and improve the children's medicine system.
How can we better meet the needs of children's disease prevention and treatment and protect children's health? The reporter interviewed the person in charge of the Drug Policy and Essential Medicines System Department of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委药物政策与基本药物制度司) and some experts.
Focusing on children's major diseases and medication burden, highlighting innovative R&D support
Children are not "miniature versions" of adults. Their organ development and drug metabolism have special characteristics, and they have higher requirements for clinical experience and pharmaceutical support in terms of drug varieties and dosages.
The person in charge of the Drug Policy and Essential Medicines System Department of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委药物政策与基本药物制度司) said that there are some urgent problems with children's medicines: there is a lack of suitable dosage forms and specifications for children's medicines, and the structure is unbalanced; there is a lack of information on children's medicines in the package inserts of marketed drugs, and it is not standardized; companies are not very motivated to develop and produce children's medicines; and the supply guarantee capacity for children's medicines that are clinically necessary but used in small quantities is insufficient. "For example, respiratory system diseases are the most common diseases in pediatrics, but there are very few antiviral drugs that are effective for children. Clinically, there are only anti-influenza virus drugs, and there are very few varieties," said Xu Baoping (徐保平), chief physician of Beijing Children's Hospital (北京儿童医院) affiliated to Capital Medical University (首都医科大学).
In order to make good medicines available to children, the opinion puts "highlighting innovative R&D support and strengthening encouragement and guidance" in the first place, including enriching clinical R&D models for children's medicines, standardizing children's medicine information in drug package inserts, and innovating R&D mechanisms for children's traditional Chinese medicines. This will promote the improvement of the R&D innovation mechanism for children's medicines.
Clinical trials are a necessary step before a drug is marketed, and medical institutions are the main battlefields for conducting research. However, children's clinical trials have problems such as difficulty in enrollment and high dropout rates, which affect the progress of clinical trials. The opinion proposes to explore the establishment of a national children's clinical trial collaboration network and a cross-institutional ethical review mechanism to concentrate resources, coordinate the recruitment of research participants, and improve the standardized management level of pediatric clinical trial institutions as a whole.
The difficulty of recruiting child subjects is far greater than that of adults, and it is often difficult for a single medical institution to complete. The establishment of a collaboration network will help solve the recruitment dilemma of children's clinical trials, promote coordinated recruitment, shorten the trial cycle, and also improve efficiency and achieve rapid ethical review, changing the status quo of medical institutions "fighting on their own" and repeated construction.
In addition, the opinion proposes to focus on children's major diseases and medication burden, and innovate the national science and technology major project for drug R&D to support the R&D of innovative varieties, multivalent vaccines, and suitable dosage forms for children's medicines for children's high-incidence diseases, encourage research on children's rare diseases and children's major disease prevention and treatment, and meet urgent clinical needs and fill the gaps in medication. At the same time, the opinion guides medical institutions to carry out collaborative research on drugs that are suitable for children but lack children's medicine information, extrapolate the safety of drugs with existing Chinese adult data to the Chinese pediatric population, improve medication information for the pediatric population, and guide clinical medication.
Strengthen the supply guarantee of commonly used children's medicines
Drug supply guarantee is a major livelihood project. Based on the unique physiological and pathological characteristics of children, the opinion proposes to "continuously improve production and supply capacity" to solve the deep-seated and structural problems in the field of children's medicines.
The enthusiasm of enterprises to develop and produce children's medicines is not high, which is related to the low input-output ratio and insufficient market expectations. The opinion provides patent term compensation for children's medicine-related patents that meet the regulations; new varieties of children's medicines, children's medicines using new dosage forms or new specifications, and drugs that increase children's indications will be given a market exclusivity period of no more than 2 years if they meet the conditions. Companies dare to develop and are willing to produce, clinical choices are more abundant, and children's medicines will be safer.
In response to the problems of small production batches, low profits, and unstable supply of children's medicines, the opinion proposes to "deepen the resilience of the children's medicine industry chain and supply chain." For example, continue to implement the high-quality development action of the pharmaceutical industry to enhance the supply capacity of children's medicines and suitable dosage forms and specifications. Support more children's medicines to be included in the designated production varieties of small-variety drug (shortage drug) centralized production bases, take relatively centralized production methods to ensure supply, improve procurement policies for clinically necessary and easily short-supplied children's medicines, and mobilize the enthusiasm of enterprises to produce and distribute.
The person in charge of the Drug Policy and Essential Medicines System Department of the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委药物政策与基本药物制度司) said that a cross-departmental information sharing, communication and consultation, and collaborative innovation mechanism will be established to promote the connection and coordination of the entire chain of policies for children's medicine R&D, registration, production, use, and reimbursement, and promote the solution of key and difficult problems in the industry from point to area.
Some parents of children reflect that it is difficult to buy medicines during the peak season of seasonal infectious diseases. The opinion proposes to enrich children's medicines in the central and local two-level reserves, strengthen the production monitoring of children's medicines and the guarantee of elements such as special excipients for children's medicines, and improve the supply guarantee capacity of children's medicines. Improve the collaborative monitoring, information sharing, early warning and response mechanism, and strengthen the supply guarantee of commonly used children's medicines such as antiviral and antipyretic analgesics. Enhance the resilience of the children's medicine supply chain and consolidate the bottom line of children's medicine supply guarantee.
Deepen the research on usage and dosage, improve dosage forms, and reduce the expression of "children's discretion"
"Medication depends on breaking, dosage depends on guessing," this is the helplessness of many parents and pediatric doctors in medication. Xu Baoping (徐保平) believes that there are shortcomings in the dosage form and specification design of children's medicines in China. For example, many drugs in clinical practice are tablets or capsules, but children, especially young children, have difficulty swallowing whole tablets or capsules, which poses safety hazards. For another example, the dosage form of the commonly used antibacterial drug ceftriaxone is 1 gram/branch, and children weighing 10 kilograms generally use half a branch at a time, and half of it is wasted each time.
The opinion proposes a series of measures to promote R&D and production for children's common diseases and major diseases, effectively expanding the varieties, dosage forms, and specifications of children's medicines. Deepen the research on usage and dosage, improve dosage forms, and reduce vague expressions such as "children's discretion" to allow children to use good medicines well.
The information on children's medicines in some drug package inserts is scarce. The opinion proposes to support qualified pediatric-related medical institutions and industry associations to propose to add and supplement important information such as children's indications, usage and dosage, etc., to the drug package inserts of listed chemical drugs and therapeutic biological products (excluding cell gene therapy products and blood products) in accordance with regulations... In the future, more drugs will have "children's version" package inserts to guide precise clinical medication.
The safe, effective, economical, and reasonable use of children's medicines also requires the joint protection of medical institutions and medical staff. Zhao Ruiling (赵瑞玲), chief pharmacist of Shanxi Children's Hospital (山西省儿童医院), believes that the importance of pediatric pharmaceutical services is becoming increasingly prominent in response to the "off-label drug use" and other problems that currently exist in the field of pediatric treatment. Clinical pharmacists should recommend safe, effective, and economical drugs for clinical treatment, and also need to provide scientific and easy-to-understand pharmaceutical services for children and their parents. The opinion mentions supporting medical institutions to provide pharmaceutical clinics, personalized inpatient medication monitoring, and other services for pediatric patients; encouraging pharmacists in tertiary hospitals to go to the grassroots level to guide the grassroots to provide continuous and standardized medication services for children who seek medical treatment; and strengthening children's medication publicity and popular science. This move will effectively improve the standardization and effectiveness of children's medication and build a solid safety line for children's medication.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 邵玉姿
A grain of sea salt can undergo "thousands of transformations."
White soda ash, colorful "Tang Silk" fiber, translucent PVC (polyvinyl chloride) particles, high-purity battery-grade sodium carbonate... Stepping into the exhibition hall of Sanyou Group (三友集团), located in Nanpu Economic Development Zone (南堡经济开发区), Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北), exhibits made from sea salt as raw material are dazzling. Bao Leilei (鲍雷雷), Deputy Minister of the Planning and Development Department of Sanyou Group (三友集团规划发展部), introduced, "Here, sea salt is not just a seasoning, but also a 'seed' of marine chemical industry."
From the traditional "**靠盐吃盐**" (kào yán chī yán - "relying on salt to eat salt," depending solely on salt production) to "increasing value from the sea," in recent years, Tangshan's (唐山) marine chemical industry has strived to break through, achieving a transformation from basic chemicals to high-end new materials.
Products are moving towards higher added value.
In 2025, Sanyou Group (三友集团) will build a large-scale battery-grade sodium carbonate production line, extending the sea salt value chain to the new energy field.
"In the past, we mainly produced industrial-grade soda ash. Now, through independent innovation, we can produce battery-grade sodium carbonate with a purity of 99.9%, which is a key raw material for the positive electrode material of sodium-ion batteries." In the intelligent control center of the battery-grade sodium carbonate project of Sanyou Group (三友集团) Soda Ash Branch, Zhang Runze (张润泽), the workshop director, stared at the real-time data on the large screen, repeatedly confirming system parameters.
Development is moving towards green recycling.
Walking into the soda ash production workshop of Sanyou Group (三友集团), the pipes with a diameter of about 1 meter are transporting concentrated seawater. "In the past, we used fresh water to dissolve salt, processed it into refined salt water, and then produced soda ash. Now we use the concentrated seawater that needs to be discharged after desalination to dissolve the raw salt." Li Qiuzhi (李秋志), the duty dispatcher of the Production Technology Department, introduced that this not only avoids the direct discharge of concentrated seawater into the sea, which raises the salinity of the sea area and affects the ecology, but also achieves more efficient use of resources. Now, every 1 ton of refined salt water produced can save 900 kilograms of fresh water and 40 kilograms of raw salt.
Not far away, the first phase of the concentrated seawater resource comprehensive utilization project of Sanyou Blue Ocean Technology Company (三友蓝海科技公司) is undergoing trial operation. The waste concentrated seawater is further separated into high-quality fresh water and refined concentrated salt water through the independently developed concentrated seawater disproportionation treatment and deep utilization technology, which are respectively supplied to water-using enterprises and chemical enterprises.
The "small cycle" constructed by Sanyou Group (三友集团) is being embedded into the industrial "big cycle" of Tangshan Caofeidian (唐山曹妃甸) area through the dense pipeline network of Nanpu Economic Development Zone (南堡经济开发区). For example, the by-product hydrogen chloride produced by Sanyou Group (三友集团) Chlor-Alkali Company is directly transported to the neighboring Tangshan Sanfu Silicon Industry Co., Ltd. (唐山三孚硅业股份有限公司) through dedicated pipelines.
"This hydrogen chloride is the key raw material for our production of trichlorosilane." Wang Baojie (王宝杰), Assistant General Manager of Sanfu Silicon Industry (三孚硅业), said. In the control center of Sanfu Silicon Industry (三孚硅业), a schematic diagram of the circular industrial chain shows the flow of materials: trichlorosilane is used for photovoltaics and semiconductors, and its by-product silicon tetrachloride can be purified and reused, and the waste heat and energy in production are also recycled.
In another dedicated pipeline not far away, the chlorine gas produced by Sanyou Group (三友集团) Chlor-Alkali Company is transported to Tangshan Jinshuo Chemical Co., Ltd. (唐山金硕化工有限公司), 3 kilometers away, through pipelines.
"With chlorine gas as the main raw material, our chlorophenol series products account for more than 50% of the national market share." Yuan Jinwang (袁金旺), General Manager of Jinshuo Chemical (金硕化工), said.
In the rectification workshop of Jinshuo Chemical (金硕化工), dichlorophenol, which is generated by the substitution reaction of chlorine gas and phenol, is transported to Tangshan Shenghong Chemical Co., Ltd. (唐山晟红化工有限公司) through dedicated pipelines and becomes the main raw material for the production of pesticide herbicides.
The interconnected pipelines allow the on-site conversion and closed-loop utilization of dangerous chemicals such as chlorine gas, promoting the upgrading from basic chemical products to high value-added fine chemical products.
"Pipeline transportation reduces logistics costs and risks, and realizes material support and resource recycling." Sun Yinghua (孙英华), Director of the Development and Reform Bureau of Nanpu Economic Development Zone (南堡经济开发区发展改革局), said, "The marine chemical industry system of 'upstream sea salt, midstream alkali and chemical, and downstream comprehensive utilization of chlorine gas' has been formed."
The Tangshan (唐山) marine chemical industry cluster is currently taking shape, gathering more than 100 industrial chain enterprises with operating income exceeding 30 billion yuan.
A grain of sea salt is giving rise to a new green, high value-added industrial chain.
Return to TopCultivating inheritors of Ru porcelain firing techniques, introducing advanced production technologies and equipment, innovating vessel shapes, and expanding application scenarios... In recent years, Baofeng County (宝丰县), Henan Province (河南省), has intensified its efforts to promote the innovative development of the Ru porcelain industry. The area boasts approximately one hundred inheritors of Ru porcelain firing techniques, over 200 production enterprises and research and development institutions, and more than 5,000 related employees, with over 5,000 product types and an annual output of more than 10 million pieces, the industry is experiencing a 勃勃生机 (bó bó shēng jī - "vigorous vitality," full of life and vitality).
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"Doing scholarship for the people" and "writing papers on the land of the motherland"... While Chinese-style modernization has made remarkable achievements in material civilization, the vast number of philosophy and social science workers are also making unremitting efforts and silently cultivating to create more abundant achievements in spiritual civilization.
On May 17, 2016, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a call at the symposium on philosophy and social science work to "accelerate the construction of a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics."
Responding to the call, they have been striving forward without stopping. Over the past 10 years, guided by Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, especially Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Culture, the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social science has taken solid steps, and a picture of the development of philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, and Chinese spirit is slowly unfolding.
Strengthening the Foundation and Protecting the Soul and Root
"The fundamental reason why the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) can succeed and why socialism with Chinese characteristics is good is that Marxism works, and that Marxism adapted to the Chinese context and the needs of the times works." This profound assertion in the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) resonates powerfully.
A century of pursuit, a glorious journey through suffering. It is precisely because of the Marxist theory that the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the Chinese people have found the right path to achieve national independence and rejuvenation.
"Effectively integrate the essence of Marxist thought with the essence of China's outstanding traditional culture, transform it into new theoretical advantages, and continuously climb new ideological peaks." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s words are inspiring.
Over the past 10 years, philosophy and social science workers have applied the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods throughout the entire research process, promoted the high-quality development of Marxist theoretical research and construction projects in the new era through upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground, and continuously consolidated the guiding position of Marxism.
Walking into the Beijing (北京) Book Building, works such as "Selected Readings from Xi Jinping (习近平)," "Xi Jinping (习近平) on Governance of China," "Selected Works on Economy by Xi Jinping (习近平)," and "Selected Works on Rule of Law by Xi Jinping (习近平)" are neatly displayed, and many readers stop to read them.
"Reading authoritative works can enhance understanding and answer practical questions," said Guo Han (郭晗), a grassroots cadre from Xicheng District (西城区), Beijing (北京). "In particular, studying in conjunction with 'A Study Outline of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Culture' and 'Questions and Answers on Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Ecological Civilization' can lead to a deeper understanding of the essence and rich content of the General Secretary's important thought."
On October 25, 2017, the campus of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) was filled with enthusiasm as the nation's first "Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center" was established here.
Today, 19 Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era research centers (institutes) have been established successively, building bridges between the Party's innovative theories and the general public.
"The Party's innovative theory has both epistemology and methodology, and is a rich treasure trove of thought," said Yin Jun (尹俊), director of the Economic Teaching and Research Office of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Institute at Peking University (北京大学).
"In the past 10 years, high-level research results have continued to emerge. 'Ma Zang' and the 'Theoretic and Rational Research Library of the Party's Innovative Theory System' have received strong responses, and a large number of high-quality research results have been launched to accurately serve the overall national situation." When talking about the past 10 years, scholars have unanimously used four words - "vigorous atmosphere."
While theoretical research continues to deepen, theoretical publicity keeps pace with the times. A special publicity lecture was held in the small theater of the Jinhua Wuju Opera Theater (金华中国婺剧院) in Zhejiang (浙江), explaining the dialectical relationship between "an effective market and a promising government" through the reform practice of Yiwu (义乌); through observation of the overseas dissemination of micro-dramas in Hengdian (横店), the understanding of "enhancing the influence of Chinese civilization" was narrated... "The publicity lecture has given me a deeper understanding of the content of the '15th Five-Year Plan'," said young cadre Fu Qianzhen (付千真).
"An important task of our country's philosophy and social sciences is to continue to promote the adaptation of Marxism to the Chinese context and the needs of the times, and to continue to develop Marxism in the 21st century and contemporary Chinese Marxism," General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out profoundly.
"Chinese-style modernization," "new quality productive forces," "whole-process people's democracy," "a community for the Chinese nation," "humanistic economics," and "a community with a shared future for mankind" are all innovative concepts, viewpoints, and theories with Chinese characteristics, shining with the light of innovation.
China's governance calls for China's theory, and China's theory explains China's governance.
"Based on Chinese practice, building a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics that is independent and original has become an important task," said Yang Fengcheng (杨凤城), Dean of the Institute of Party History and Party Building at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).
Before "May Day," a popular science promotion of the Ecological Environment Code and a joint ideological and political course of Shanghai (上海) universities' law schools was launched in Hongqiao (虹桥) Street, Changning District (长宁区), Shanghai (上海). Teachers interpreted the essentials of the code and told the story of its promulgation, and the students listened with great interest.
Hongqiao (虹桥) Street is one of the first grassroots legislative contact points established 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). On November 2, 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) visited the Gubei Civic Center (古北市民中心) in Hongqiao (虹桥) Street to investigate and research, listened to the introduction of services for grassroots people to participate in legislative work, and proposed that "people's democracy is a whole-process democracy."
"Whole-process people's democracy vividly interprets the essence of the 'two integrations' and fully reflects independence and self-reliance," said Che Zongkai (车宗凯), a special researcher at the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Institute at Tsinghua University (清华大学).
To deepen theoretical interpretation, the Party School of the Central Committee of C.P.C. (National Academy of Governance) (中央党校（国家行政学院)) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院) have successively launched monographs such as "The Theory and Practice of Whole-Process People's Democracy" and "Whole-Process People's Democracy: A New Form of People's Democracy in the New Era," systematically interpreting a series of major theoretical and practical issues of whole-process people's democracy.
"In recent years, I have deeply felt that the consciousness of the vast number of theoretical workers to serve the Party's ideological and theoretical construction has been continuously enhanced," said Shen Zhuanghai (沈壮海), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Professor of the School of Marxism at Wuhan University (武汉大学).
A long stream flows from a deep source, and luxuriant foliage grows from deep roots.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must pay special attention to excavating the essence of China's 5,000-year civilization, combine the promotion of outstanding traditional culture with the Marxist stance, viewpoints, and methods, and unswervingly follow the path of socialism with Chinese characteristics."
The philosophy and social science community adheres to the "two integrations" to promote the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese traditional culture.
Heritage protection has yielded fruitful results. "Spring Festival" has been included in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, the Beijing (北京) Central Axis has been successfully applied for World Heritage status, and the total number of China's World Heritage sites ranks among the top in the world.
Archaeological discoveries have brought frequent good news. The Liangzhu (良渚) ancient city and the Yin Ruins (殷墟遗址) continue to be excavated, making the historical context of Chinese civilization clearer.
Classical books are published to continue the cultural heritage. The publication results of "The Grand Collection of Chinese Paintings Through the Ages," "The Gesar Library," and "The Confucian Canon" present cultural masterpieces and inherit the essence of thought.
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Beijing (北京), on the east side of the northern extension of the central axis, the Museum of the History of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党历史展览馆) stands majestically, and visitors are in constant stream. "History is the best textbook. A modern history and a contemporary Chinese development history fully prove that Marxism is the truth, and it is absolutely right to unswervingly follow the Party," said Chen Shiyi (陈世义), a veteran party member from Hubei (湖北).
Concentrating the mind and casting the soul, cultivating the foundation and consolidating the foundation. Over the past 10 years, the entire Party and the entire society's belief in Marxism has become more firm, and the political, ideological, theoretical, and emotional recognition of the Party's innovative theories by cadres and the masses has become more firm.
The new journey is a long march full of glory and dreams. Under the guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, the philosophy and social science community will grasp the historical initiative with theoretical initiative, and inspire the power of progress with the power of thought, which will surely make the truth of Marxism bloom with more brilliant light.
Rooted in the Land, Constructing China's Independent Knowledge System
"Accelerating the construction of a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics ultimately means constructing China's independent knowledge system." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s earnest expectations have become a powerful driving force for philosophy and social science workers to work hard.
"If you want to know the great way, you must first study history." Bu Xianqun (卜宪群), former director of the Institute of Ancient History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院古代史研究所), told his students, "We must use the independent knowledge system of Chinese history to deeply and thoroughly explain the development history of more than 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and clearly explain the theme, mainstream, main line, and essence of contemporary Chinese history."
In 2018, the history major of the University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院大学) welcomed its first undergraduate students. A series of reforms were launched accordingly: opening special courses on unpopular subjects such as oracle bone studies, bamboo slip studies, and Dunhuang studies; constructing an integrated talent training system from undergraduate to doctoral studies; and deeply integrating scientific research and teaching...
A main line running through the reform is to jump out of the existing framework of Western historical theory, not to apply concepts, not to copy paradigms, but to start from the specific practice of Chinese history and tell Chinese stories with Chinese methods.
Outside the classroom, the team also created a 100-episode documentary "General History of China" and "A Concise Reader of Chinese History," etc., guided by the Marxist materialist view of history, to spread the correct view of history, country, nation, and culture... From the classroom to the textbook, from academia to the public, the roots of history are deeply rooted in the land of China.
The story of Bu Xianqun (卜宪群)'s team is a microcosm, reflecting the solid steps taken in the construction of an independent knowledge system of Chinese philosophy and social science in the past 10 years, and the Chinese academic community is striving to cross from "explaining China" to "changing China."
This cross-over, looking deeply, is the scientific construction of the discipline system, academic system, and discourse system.
The discipline system is more solid. The foundation of basic disciplines is thicker, emerging disciplines are growing vigorously, interdisciplinary integration is deepening, and the construction of fields such as the history of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党), Party building, discipline inspection and supervision, and regional and national studies is accelerating. At present, a comprehensive, all-round, and all-factor philosophy and social science discipline system covering 29 first-level disciplines has basically been formed.
The academic system is stronger. Focusing on major propositions such as Chinese-style modernization, urban development and governance, and artificial intelligence, the construction of new types of think tanks with Chinese characteristics continues to deepen, related research continues to deepen, and academic achievements pay more and more attention to proposing academic issues with subjectivity, and strive to form an original theoretical expression and academic evaluation system.
The discourse system is richer. Researchers in philosophy and social sciences in universities participate more widely in various international exchange activities, and more high-level research results are published in foreign academic journals... New expressions that integrate Chinese and foreign cultures demonstrate China's position, wisdom, and values, arousing the thinking and resonance of scholars from different cultural backgrounds.
How can disciplines, academics, and discourse be transformed into results, enter the classroom, and nourish the growth of a new generation of scholars? Textbooks are an important carrier.
Starting from the spring semester of 2025, two Chinese economics textbooks compiled by Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) and Nankai University (南开大学) organized by the Ministry of Education will be used in more than 40 universities. "New quality productive forces," "new development concepts," and "supply-side structural reforms"... Economic concepts rooted in the Chinese discourse system are vividly presented on paper.
"We focus on creating high-quality textbooks in the 'China Series,' 'New Era Series,' and 'Classic Series,' among which the 'China Series' includes textbooks on Chinese economics, Chinese law, Chinese journalism, and discipline inspection and supervision," introduced a relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education.
Building a philosophy and social science with Chinese characteristics, the key lies in people, and it must be done for a long time. Over the past 10 years, the number of personnel has increased from small to large, and the team has grown from weak to strong. The "five armies" of philosophy and social sciences - universities, philosophy and social science research institutions, Party schools (administrative colleges), research institutions affiliated to Party and government departments, and military academies - have worked together to form a good situation of mutual promotion and common development. At the same time, more young talents have joined the team building an independent knowledge system.
"We should shoulder the historical responsibility of strengthening China's academic, cultural, and practical consciousness." Striving to make progress and continuing to move forward, Lin Yi (林毅), a young scholar at Tsinghua University (清华大学), expressed the aspirations of the younger generation of philosophy and social science workers.
Facing Practice, Answering the Questions of the Times
"Problems are the starting point of innovation and the source of innovation's driving force. Only by listening to the voice of the times, responding to the call of the times, and conscientiously studying and solving major and urgent problems can we truly grasp the historical context, find the laws of development, and promote theoretical innovation." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important exposition pointed out the direction for the philosophy and social science community.
Shanghai (上海), a corner of the Institute of Development and Research of Fudan University (复旦大学), a huge screen shows numbers jumping non-stop. The consumption heat in various regions of Shanghai (上海), the consumption flow between cities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and the ups and downs of key industries are clearly presented.
This is also the Ministry of Commerce's Consumption Big Data Laboratory. Under the leadership of Zhang Yina (张伊娜), director of the laboratory and professor at the School of Social Development and Public Policy of Fudan University (复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院), the team sorts out massive amounts of consumption data day after day to provide judgment and support for various decisions.
"A very important point of social science is to seek truth from facts," said Zhang Yina (张伊娜). The laboratory cooperates with government departments throughout the entire process, from pre-judgment before the introduction of policies to revisions during implementation, step by step adjusting to be better.
The prosperity of philosophy and social sciences has never been a literary game in the study, nor a self-appreciation in an ivory tower. Its vitality lies in scientifically answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times, and in responding to the topics of the times, leading social development, and solving practical problems.
Where does the confidence of theoretical innovation come from? In practice, the answer is clearly demonstrated - Chinese-style modernization is a broad road to building a strong country and national rejuvenation, and it is also the broadest and most profound realistic foundation for Chinese philosophy and social sciences in the new era.
98.99 million rural impoverished people have been lifted out of poverty after eight years of hard work, solving the global problem of eliminating absolute poverty; a new path of ecological governance has been taken with the new development concept, creating an ecological miracle with the most and fastest increase in green; the concepts of "humanistic economics," "people's city," and "investing in people" have been proposed, allowing value rationality and humanistic care to be integrated into economic and social development...
"The great practice of contemporary China provides a strong impetus and broad space for theoretical creation and academic prosperity," said Hong Yinxing (洪银兴), professor at Nanjing University (南京大学).
The awareness of problems has been continuously enhanced, the ability to create originality has been significantly improved, the historical foundation has become deeper, and the research methods and paradigms have undergone profound changes... Behind the prosperous development of philosophy and social sciences is the continuous improvement of support and guarantee. Since 2012, the National Social Science Fund has invested a total of 26.5 billion yuan, funded approximately 100,000 projects, and supported more than 400,000 experts and scholars.
It is worth noting that organized scientific research in philosophy and social sciences has been further strengthened. The academic community has helped major cultural projects such as the protection of Dunhuang (敦煌) cultural relics and the exploration of the origin of Chinese civilization to land; science and technology archaeology laboratories, digital humanities laboratories, and economic big data and policy evaluation laboratories have been built; university alliances for constructing an independent knowledge system of China, alliances for an independent knowledge system of Marxist theory disciplines, and alliances of philosophy and social sciences in industry-characteristic universities have developed in groups... The improvement of the platform matrix has allowed a large number of research results serving the "overall situation of the country, the major needs of the country, the major events of the country, and the major plans of the country" to emerge.
"Only by always resonating with the cause of the Party and the people and being closely connected with the development of the times can philosophy and social sciences continuously enhance their ability to explain reality, guide practice, lead the times, and shape the future," said Guo Yuewen (郭跃文), Secretary of the Party Group and Researcher of the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences (广东省社会科学院).
In November 2024, a dialogue across time and space opened on the shore of Yanqi Lake (雁栖湖) in Beijing (北京). The first World Congress of Classical Studies was held here.
Subsequently, China and Greece jointly established the Chinese Classical Civilization Research Institute in Athens (雅典), which is the first classical civilization research institution established by an Asian country in Greece.
**不忘本来** (bù wàng běn lái - "do not forget the origin," do not forget the original intention; stay true to the original aspiration), absorbing foreign cultures, and facing the future, the vast number of philosophy and social science workers have a lot to offer.
Standing at a new historical starting point, the times have given the Chinese philosophy and social science community a greater mission - to illuminate the journey of rejuvenation with the light of theory, to build national self-confidence with the foundation of scholarship, and to transform the power of thought into the mighty force to promote historical progress.
Today's China is more confident and has more confidence to present the world with an academic China with flourishing culture and a new humanistic outlook. This is the echo of civilization and the call of the times.
Today's China is more confident and has a stronger foundation to present to the world an academically thriving and culturally innovative China. This is the echo of civilization and, even more so, the call of the times.
(People's Daily reporters Zhao E'na (赵婀娜), Wu Dan (吴丹), Jin Zhengbo (金正波), and He Zhaoyu (何昭宇) participated in the writing.)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李志伟
At the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平), US President Donald Trump paid a state visit to China from May 13 to 15. Mutual respect, cherishing peace, and exploring cooperation have always been the keynote running through the meeting between the two heads of state. The two heads of state agreed that building a "constructive strategic and stable China-US relationship" is the most important political consensus. In addition, the two sides are also willing to carry out more exchanges in various fields such as diplomacy, military, economy and trade, health, agriculture, tourism, culture, law enforcement, etc., injecting new impetus into the next stage of exchanges between the two countries.
American people interviewed by this newspaper said that this is an important meeting at a new historical starting point in US-China relations. They expect the two countries to move towards building a "constructive strategic and stable relationship," find a correct way for major countries to get along in the new era, benefit the people of both countries, and bring more peace, prosperity, and progress to the world.
Providing Strategic Guidance for the Future Development of Bilateral Relations
Based on the trend of the times and grasping common interests, the heads of state of China and the United States reached a consensus on building a "constructive strategic and stable China-US relationship." This historic meeting sent an important message to the world: realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can go hand in hand, mutually achieve, and benefit the world.
Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Chairman of the Kuhn Foundation in the United States, said that the most important political consensus of this meeting is that the heads of state of the two countries agreed to build a "constructive strategic and stable China-US relationship." This new expression undoubtedly reflects the results of in-depth communication and negotiation between the two sides and is the biggest highlight of this meeting. The new positioning of US-China relations provides strategic guidance for the future development of bilateral relations, and it is expected that all levels of both sides will take active actions and earnestly implement the consensus of the two heads of state.
Garanh Hui Chennault, curator of the Chennault Aviation Military Museum in the United States and granddaughter of General Chennault, said that this meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China provided an important opportunity for in-depth exchanges and interactions between the world's two largest economies. Direct dialogue at the head-of-state level is the key to maintaining stability, enhancing mutual trust, and properly handling various issues in US-China relations, which not only concerns the United States and China but also affects the whole world.
"The meeting between the two heads of state in Beijing (北京) laid a very good foundation for future exchanges between the two sides." Sourabh Gupta, a senior researcher at the US-China Research Center, said that the two heads of state interacted for nearly 9 hours and agreed to continue to maintain close contact through meetings, phone calls, or mutual letters. The two sides maintained a positive attitude, demonstrated outstanding wisdom, and interacted harmoniously. It is expected that the United States and China will continue to create a good atmosphere, accumulate results, and promote the steady development of US-China relations in a more stable, solid, and certain direction.
Jim Sutter, CEO of the US Soybean Export Council, said that the heads of state of the world's two largest economies held a meeting and had fruitful exchanges and interactions. This meeting allowed the world to see the efforts of the two major countries to move towards each other and jointly maintain world peace and stability. "I very much look forward to President Xi Jinping's (习近平) visit to the United States again. Face-to-face exchanges between the two heads of state are of great significance and will encourage both sides to work together to promote more pragmatic cooperation."
Fanta Aw, CEO of NAFSA: Association of International Educators, said that it is of great significance for the heads of state of the United States and China to maintain regular communication. Continuous dialogue creates space for both sides to manage differences and strengthen cooperation. This meeting showed the world that the United States and China attach great importance to bilateral relations. In a world full of uncertainties, continuous dialogue between major countries is essential to maintaining world peace, stability, and development.
"This meeting between the heads of state has played a positive role in improving US-China relations." Kenneth Hammond, a professor at New Mexico State University in the United States, said that this will help promote the smooth and positive development of US-China relations.
"The meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China is of great significance to both countries and the world. The mutual respect and friendly attitude shown by the two heads of state have laid a good foundation for strengthening cooperation in economy and trade, science and technology, culture, and maintaining international and regional stability in the future. I look forward to this meeting opening a new chapter in US-China relations and promoting the long-term stable development of bilateral relations," said Lawrence Freeman, an expert on international issues in the United States.
Looking Forward to Making the Pie of Common Interests Bigger
The interests of China and the United States are deeply intertwined. The heads of state of China and the United States had in-depth communication and reached rich results. The people of both countries know that working together to make the pie of common interests bigger will benefit the people of both countries and the world.
"The essence of US-China economic and trade relations is mutual benefit and win-win." Kuhn said that the heads of state of the two countries had in-depth discussions on bilateral economic and trade relations and clarified the direction for economic and trade cooperation between the two countries. "The stability of politics, society, and geopolitics is a prerequisite for economic development and the implementation of commercial cooperation. President Trump's visit to China with executives from well-known American companies is enough to show that strengthening economic and trade exchanges is one of the long-term goals of the meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China." Kuhn said that he looks forward to the two countries earnestly implementing the consensus of the heads of state and actively promoting exchanges and cooperation in various fields such as science and technology, medical care, culture, and media to achieve more mutual benefit and win-win results.
In Sutter's view, the United States and China have natural opportunities for cooperation in the agricultural field. China has a large population, continuous economic development, and a huge consumer market. The United States can provide Chinese consumers with high-quality and green agricultural products. "The in-depth communication between the heads of state of the two countries on agricultural cooperation has released a positive signal, which makes us feel very excited."
Michael McLaenny, a farmer from South Dakota in the United States, said that US-China soybean trade is a successful example of pragmatic cooperation between the two countries, and many American agricultural practitioners, including him, have benefited a lot. "As the world's two largest economies, we are indispensable to each other. I am very optimistic about closer cooperation between the two countries in the global economic landscape, which will bring more benefits to the people of both countries."
Garanh Hui Chennault said that as the world's two largest economies, the decisions made by the United States and China not only concern the well-being of the people of both countries but also affect global markets and international trade. It is hoped that this meeting between the heads of state will promote the establishment of a more stable and constructive economic and trade relationship between the United States and China. "Maintaining a responsible cooperative attitude and maintaining smooth communication between the two countries will help reduce uncertainty and help global innovation and development."
Christopher McNally, a professor at the East-West Center in Honolulu, said that the United States and China agreed to establish a trade council and an investment council to address each other's concerns about agricultural product market access and promote the expansion of two-way trade under the framework of reciprocal tax cuts. An equal and mutually beneficial economic and trade relationship will help promote the institutionalization of exchanges and interactions in important areas between the two countries, enhance the certainty of their respective development, and inject more certainty and vitality into the development of the global market.
Continuing to Write More Stories of China-US People-to-People Friendship
During this meeting, the heads of state of the two countries both mentioned the importance of promoting cultural exchanges. President Xi Jinping (习近平) specifically mentioned the story of people-to-people exchanges, pointing out that 55 years ago, China and the United States launched "ping-pong diplomacy," which opened the door to more than 20 years of ice between China and the United States and became a major event in the history of contemporary international relations. President Trump also reviewed the history of exchanges between the people of the two countries, saying that the American people and the Chinese people appreciate and respect each other, and their friendship has a long history.
"Deepening cooperation between the United States and China in the fields of education and culture is of great benefit to both countries. Student exchanges and academic exchanges help build trust, enhance understanding, and build a long-lasting friendly relationship." Fanta Aw said that the United States and China are cooperating in a constructive manner, which not only creates opportunities for economic cooperation between the two sides but also builds a platform for educational exchanges, scientific research cooperation, and people-to-people mutual trust. The youth of the United States and China will benefit from this. "This will promote their mutual learning, mutual understanding, inheritance of friendship, better hand in hand, and make contributions to promoting world progress."
Jim Sutter said that the US Soybean Export Council will fund 20 young leaders in the US agricultural field to visit China in June this year, which is the second consecutive year they have carried out this activity. "The American youth who visited China last year responded very positively. They said that the real China surprised them, and they also established friendships with Chinese youth. We are confident that this year's event will achieve more positive results."
Jeffrey Sullivan, Director of the Sports Department of the Montgomery County Board of Education in Maryland, said that he looks forward to the United States and China further expanding investment channels and creating more opportunities for cultural exchanges, so that the people of the United States and China can understand each other, exchange and interact, and forge long-lasting and deep friendships. "Although there are differences in national conditions and culture between the United States and China, the two sides have many things in common and have many opportunities to establish friendships and enhance exchanges."
"Encouraging young people from both countries to learn from each other and facilitating people-to-people exchanges are conducive to the long-term development of US-China relations." Klaus Larres, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said that the continuous deepening of people-to-people exchanges between the United States and China will help consolidate the foundation of bilateral relations.
Faculty and students from Pepperdine University in Los Angeles are visiting China. Tonia Eddihomo from Brentwood, California, said that their group of 25 people visited the Flying Tigers historical site in Guilin (桂林), Guangxi (广西). "This history makes me deeply aware that the United States and China can create unlimited possibilities by working together with common goals." She firmly believes that the meeting between the heads of state of the United States and China is an important opportunity to stabilize and strengthen US-China relations. "Dialogue can help rebuild trust and open the door to more constructive exchanges."
(Reported from Washington (华盛顿) by this newspaper on May 16)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 16th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 16th: At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), Russian President Vladimir Putin (普京) will pay a state visit to China from May 19th to 20th.
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The "People First: The Mission and Responsibility of Political Parties" China-Foreign Political Parties Thematic Dialogue, co-sponsored by the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部) and the Hebei Provincial Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共河北省委), was held recently in Xingtang County (行唐县), Shijiazhuang City (石家庄市), Hebei Province (河北省), at the eastern foot of the Taihang Mountains (太行山). Approximately 180 representatives from political parties, parliaments, and governments from more than 20 countries visited this former national-level poverty-stricken county to conduct on-the-ground investigations of enterprises, listen to grassroots stories, and discuss the Communist Party of China's people-centered governance philosophy.
Xingtang County (行唐县) has "five mountains, two slopes, and three parts farmland," and its poverty incidence rate once reached 24.5%. Thanks to the unremitting efforts of local party members and cadres, the county was lifted out of poverty in 2019 and achieved "double zeroing" of impoverished villages and impoverished populations in 2020. In this process, several generations of cadres made continuous efforts like **钉钉子** (dīng dīng zi - "nailing nails," to work persistently and meticulously), implemented counterpart assistance measures, helped build the world's largest single-unit egg-laying breeder industry park, college students who returned to their hometowns established cooperatives, turning barren hills and poor ridges into oases of prosperity for the people by relying on local specialty jujubes, and rural women developed specialized skills and became leaders in branded domestic services.
"The Communist Party of China (中国共产党) serves the people wholeheartedly, and the fundamental interests of the people are the key to every decision," said Mace Riley, head of the European and American Young Cadres Delegation and National Chairman of the Young Communist League of Britain. "We want to bring the inspiring story of Xingtang County's (行唐县) development back to the UK to help people better understand the profound significance of China's development path."
Sisouphan Chobanthong, a member of the Party Committee and Inspector General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Laos, once studied at Peking University (北京大学). This return visit to China has greatly shocked him by the economic and social development changes in China. He said, "The valuable experience accumulated from China's comprehensive victory in poverty alleviation provides important reference and inspiration for Laos. The people-centered development thought is worthy of in-depth study by political parties of all countries and should be applied in light of their own national conditions."
Reynold Rueda, leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front of Nicaragua (尼加拉瓜桑地诺民族解放阵线) and Mayor of Managua (马那瓜市), said that although there are differences in national conditions between Nicaragua and China, they share common development goals, and "China is a role model for Nicaragua to learn from."
Hebei Boer Electric Technology Co., Ltd. (河北博柯尔电气科技有限公司) has absorbed more than 150 local employees, and its products are sold to Europe and the United States; Qiangda Pump Industry Group (强大泵业集团), an old factory with a 78-year history, has been transformed into a "National Green Factory," providing product services to more than 60 countries; Shijiazhuang Yujing Glass Co., Ltd. (石家庄玉晶玻璃有限公司) has a large-tonnage ultra-thin glass production line... The foreign guests investigated three enterprises in Xingtang (行唐), gaining a deeper understanding of China's high-quality development.
Nichita Iliescu Riga, a member of the Executive Bureau of the Romanian Socialist Party, said that the greatest achievement of a political party is to help the country and the people achieve development, "which is inseparable from the leadership of the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) and the dedication of party members and cadres."
"China's achievements in poverty reduction show that fundamental changes can be achieved when national governance is truly people-centered," said Lord Speaker of the Legislative Assembly of Tonga, Fatafehi Fakafanua. "**全国一盘棋** (quán guó yī pán qí - "the whole nation as a single chess game," coordinated national effort) and **上下一条心** (shàng xià yī tiáo xīn - "upper and lower levels with one heart," unity between leaders and the people), China's success provides a reference for the world. We look forward to continuing to maintain a partnership with China, strengthen cooperation, and work together to improve the lives of the people."
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Both China and the United States should take practical actions to meet each other halfway, transforming the "mutual achievement and common prosperity" of China and the United States into a tangible reality, and making China-U.S. relations a source of stability for world peace and an engine for common development.
At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), U.S. President Donald Trump recently paid a state visit to China. The two heads of state conducted constructive and strategic communication on major issues concerning China-U.S. relations and world peace and development, which is of great strategic significance for the direction of China-U.S. relations and the current world order.
At present, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, the international situation is intertwined with turbulence and change, the momentum of world economic growth is insufficient, and conflicts and confrontations are emerging one after another. As the world's two largest economies and permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, the face-to-face meeting between the two heads of state to exchange in-depth views on major issues concerning the two countries and the world and reach a series of consensus not only promotes the smooth progress of the China-U.S. relationship but also injects much-needed stability and certainty into the world. The two sides jointly established the new positioning of "China-U.S. Constructive Strategic Stability Relationship," providing strategic guidance for China-U.S. relations for the next three years or even longer. This new positioning accurately grasps the historical orientation of the current China-U.S. relationship, clarifies the direction of correct interaction between China and the United States in various fields in the future, and points out the principled path for promoting the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral relations.
Building a "China-U.S. Constructive Strategic Stability Relationship" is a profound summary of the experience and lessons of China-U.S. interaction over the past period and a clear judgment on the historical position of the current China-U.S. relationship. Strategic competition does not conform to the general trend of history and the theme of the times, nor can it define the overall situation of China-U.S. relations. Taking strategic competition with China as the starting point of policy is both a misreading of China's development and a misjudgment of China-U.S. relations. It cannot fundamentally solve the respective problems of China and the United States, the problems of bilateral relations, let alone cope with global challenges. Instead, it will undermine the stability of bilateral relations and make it difficult for both sides to obtain the good external environment needed for development. Since last year, China and the United States have adhered to the spirit of equality, respect, and mutual benefit, and have conducted seven rounds of economic and trade consultations, reaching a series of consultation results. The two sides should jointly maintain the current hard-won good momentum and promote China-U.S. relations to inherit the past and forge ahead, and move steadily and far.
Specifically, "constructive strategic stability" should be positive stability with cooperation as the main focus, benign stability with competition within limits, constant stability with manageable differences, and lasting stability with peace in sight. These "four stabilities" further clarify the correct way for China and the United States to interact in different fields. In areas where both sides believe they have broad common interests, China and the United States should take the big picture into account and look to the long term, adhere to the principles of mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and win-win cooperation, and continue to lengthen the cooperation list and enlarge the cooperation pie. China and the United States have different national conditions, and contradictions and differences are inevitable, but the competition between the two sides must be moderate, and it is by no means a zero-sum game of you lose and I win, but should be a benign competition that enhances oneself and illuminates each other. Under the premise of maintaining strategic stability in bilateral relations, China and the United States continue to strengthen mutually beneficial cooperation, carry out moderate competition, and effectively manage differences, which will help promote the stable, healthy, and sustainable development of bilateral relations and bring more peace, prosperity, and progress to the world.
Building a "China-U.S. Constructive Strategic Stability Relationship" requires both sides to meet each other halfway and take action. Strategic competition or strategic stability? Which scenario is more in line with the interests of China and the United States and more conducive to the development of China-U.S. relations? Both China and the United States have a clear understanding and have established a new positioning of "China-U.S. Constructive Strategic Stability Relationship." Based on this understanding and choice, both China and the United States should take practical actions to meet each other halfway, answer the questions of history, the world, and the people, transform the "mutual achievement and common prosperity" of China and the United States into a tangible reality, and make China-U.S. relations a source of stability for world peace and an engine for common development.
(The author is the Vice President of the National Academy of Development and Strategy of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) and a professor at the School of International Relations.)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 16th. At the invitation of Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Georgian Parliament Speaker Shalva Papuashvili will lead a delegation to visit China from May 18th to 20th.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing, May 15th (Reporter Li Xinyi (李欣怡)) - A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on May 15th: At the invitation of Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nyanati Tuan (尼安蒂), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Liberia, will pay an official visit to China from May 18th to 22nd.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京) May 16th - A spokesperson for the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) answered reporters' questions on May 16th regarding the preliminary results of China-U.S. economic and trade consultations.
A reporter asked: On May 14th, the heads of state of China and the United States held a meeting and announced that the Chinese and U.S. economic and trade teams had reached an overall balanced and positive outcome. Can the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) provide more information on the results of the economic and trade consultations?
The spokesperson stated that the heads of state of China and the United States held a meeting in Beijing (北京), deeply discussed economic and trade issues, and further pointed out the direction and provided strategic guidance for the development of economic and trade relations between the two countries.
The spokesperson said that on May 13th, the Chinese and U.S. economic and trade teams held economic and trade consultations in South Korea to prepare for the meeting between the two heads of state in the economic and trade field. During the consultations, guided by the important consensus of the 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 and consultations on resolving economic and trade issues of mutual concern and further expanding pragmatic cooperation. Subsequently, the two sides conducted intensive consultations on the specific content of the results and reached positive consensus.
The spokesperson introduced that the preliminary results achieved by the two sides in the economic and trade field mainly include the following aspects:
First, the two sides will continue to implement the results of previous consultations and have reached a positive consensus on relevant tariff arrangements.
Second, the two sides agreed to establish a Trade Council and an Investment Council to discuss their respective concerns in the fields of trade and investment. The two sides will discuss issues such as tariff reductions on relevant products through the Trade Council, and agreed in principle to reduce tariffs on products of equal scale of mutual concern.
Third, the two sides will resolve or substantially promote the resolution of some non-tariff barriers and market access issues for agricultural products. The U.S. side will actively promote the resolution of China's (中国) long-term concerns regarding automatic detention of dairy and aquatic products, the export of medium-sized bonsai to the United States, and the recognition of Shandong (山东) as an avian influenza-free zone. The Chinese side will also actively promote the resolution of U.S. concerns such as beef facility registration and the export of poultry meat from some states to China (中国).
Fourth, the two sides agreed to promote the expansion of two-way trade in areas including agricultural products through arrangements such as mutual tariff reductions on a certain range of products.
Fifth, the two sides reached relevant arrangements on China's (中国) purchase of aircraft from the United States and the U.S. guarantee of the supply of aircraft engines and parts to China (中国), and agreed to continue to promote cooperation in related fields.
The spokesperson stated that the positive results achieved in the China-U.S. economic and trade consultations show that the two sides, adhering to the spirit of mutual respect, equality and mutual benefit, can find solutions to problems by carrying out dialogue and cooperation. Currently, the two sides are still consulting on the details of the relevant results. The economic and trade teams of both sides will, in accordance with the direction of consensus determined by the heads of state of the two countries, lock in the results as soon as possible, jointly do a good job in implementation, and inject more certainty and stability into the next stage of China-U.S. economic and trade cooperation and the world economy.
Return to TopOn May 14th, international roll-on/roll-off (RORO) cargo transportation at the Heihe (黑河) water transport port in China achieved its maiden voyage, adding an efficient transportation method to the China-Russia boundary river waterway transportation channel. On the day of the maiden voyage, Heihe Port (黑河港) transported a total of 174 tons of goods, including PVC (polyvinyl chloride) flooring, tires, and loaders, covering various categories such as building materials, machinery, and auto parts. The RORO transportation method allows vehicles and goods to be on the same ship, with the entire ship arriving directly, greatly improving cross-border logistics efficiency. This maiden voyage provides a convenient freight option for Chinese and Russian enterprises, further facilitating trade and economic exchanges between Heihe (黑河), China, and the Amur Oblast (Амурская область) of Russia. With the normalization of RORO ferry operations, logistics costs will be effectively reduced, helping to improve the quality and efficiency of trade in border areas, and injecting new vitality into China-Russia economic and trade cooperation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 16th. Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on May 16th: At the invitation of Wang Yi (王毅), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Tourism of Seychelles, Sylvestre Radegonde, will pay an official visit to China from May 18th to 19th.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Moscow, May 15th (Reporters Liu Kai (刘恺) and Huang He (黄河)) – This reporter learned from the press conference for the 10th China-Russia Summer Youth Games on the 15th: Approximately 700 Chinese and Russian youth athletes will participate in the competition.
The press conference was held that day at the All-Russia Exhibition Center located in Moscow (莫斯科). Russian Minister of Sport and President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Mikhail Degtyarev (米哈伊尔·杰格佳廖夫), stated that approximately 700 Chinese and Russian youth athletes will participate in this Games, which is also an excellent opportunity for both sides to discover sporting talent. Many Russian athletes who achieved good results in previous Games have now grown into leading figures in related sports in Russia.
This Games will be held in Kaliningrad Oblast (加里宁格勒州), Russia, from May 24th to 31st, and athletes will engage in exchanges in competitions across 12 events.
Deputy Chairman of the Government of Kaliningrad Oblast (加里宁格勒州) and Minister of Sport, Natalia Ishchenko (纳塔利娅·伊先科), who has won 5 Olympic gold medals in synchronized swimming, said that she is very happy to welcome Chinese youth athletes to Kaliningrad (加里宁格勒) and believes that they will achieve good results and gain new friendships here.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Yaoundé, May 15th (Reporter Wang Ze (王泽)) Malabo News: The 5th Roundtable Meeting of the China Economic and Social Council and the African Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) and Similar Organizations Alliance was held recently in Malabo (马拉博市), Equatorial Guinea. The theme of this roundtable meeting was "China-Africa cooperation drives Africa's structural transformation: economic diversification, interconnectivity and digital inclusion."
The participants had in-depth discussions on strengthening interconnectivity, jointly promoting high-quality construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, deepening practical cooperation in the digital field, and bridging the North-South intelligence divide and digital divide.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 窦 皓
Perfect the layout of infrastructure and public service facilities.
——Excerpt from the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline
At a little after 7 a.m., with rain in the air, at the entrance of Huifeng Academy (惠风书院) in Yinzhou District (鄞州区), Ningbo City (宁波市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), two corridors extended from both sides of the school gate. Children walked into the campus through the corridors in an orderly manner. Oncoming and outgoing vehicles stopped briefly and left in front of the opened tidal lane, greatly alleviating the previous congestion.
"Goodbye, Mom." Lin Changrong (林昶荣), a sixth-grader, didn't use an umbrella and walked a few steps to the nearby corridor.
Lin Changrong's (林昶荣) mother recalled the previous route to school: "The sidewalks were narrow, and some of the surfaces were uneven. On rainy days, everyone was crowded with umbrellas, and you could easily get splashed with mud."
However, since September of last year, this route to school has undergone renovation and refurbishment, bringing new changes:
The renovated sidewalk outside the school is much wider than before, and the original non-motor vehicle parking spaces have been moved further away, leaving space for parents to pick up and drop off their children.
The corridor is equipped with anti-collision guardrails and a translucent rain canopy, and is divided into corresponding waiting areas according to classes and grades.
"In the past, traffic congestion was the norm. With children coming and going on the road, we were always worried. Now that the roads are clear and the facilities are complete, parents and teachers are at ease," said Yan Shasha (严莎莎), a teacher at Huifeng Academy (惠风书院).
In order to improve the "last 100 meters" of the commuting environment for children going to school, Yinzhou District (鄞州区) has invested more than 47 million yuan cumulatively by 2025 to renovate and upgrade the sidewalks around schools, creating the "Most Beautiful School Route" with safety, function, culture, and aesthetics integrated. In 2020, the construction of the "Most Beautiful School Route" was included in the top ten livelihood projects at the Yinzhou District (鄞州区) level.
"At the beginning of the 'Most Beautiful School Route' construction, we focused more on 'safety issues' such as separating people and vehicles and preventing slippery surfaces. Now, while doing a good job in these areas, we pay more attention to functional expansion and cultural empowerment," said Zheng Lei (郑磊), full-time deputy director of the Yinzhou District (鄞州区) Civilization Office.
"Beep—" With the sound of a machine, Lin Changrong (林昶荣) took out the "Diary of Beautiful Butterflies" that he had finished reading from his schoolbag, returned it to the self-service reading bookcase in the corridor, and then borrowed a copy of "Water Margin" (《水浒传》).
Taking a closer look, it is a person-high "square box" with various books neatly arranged inside according to serial numbers. "I especially like this 'mobile bookshelf'. I can borrow and return books by swiping my student card, which is very convenient," said Lin Changrong (林昶荣).
The changes in the route to school at the entrance of Huifeng Academy (惠风书院) are a microcosm of Yinzhou District's (鄞州区) continued promotion of the "Most Beautiful School Route" construction. By the end of 2025, Yinzhou District (鄞州区) had completed the renovation and upgrading of 69 "Most Beautiful School Routes".
At a little after 4 p.m., it was dismissal time, and it was still drizzling. In front of Huifeng Academy (惠风书院), the blue and cyan pedestrian paths separated people and vehicles, and the children walked orderly from the school gate to the corridor. At the corner, the public welfare painting wall displayed the children's creations. The flowers in the green plant garden beside the road were delicate and charming, and a group of children squatted by the garden, carefully admiring them and making "friends" with the flowers and plants. Celadon glass bottles from the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋), Yue kiln celadon (越窑青瓷), ivory carvings with double birds facing the sun... In the corridor, the cultural relic exhibition boards from the Ningbo Museum (宁波博物院) were updated again, and Lin Changrong (林昶荣) stopped to watch carefully in the corridor.
"Ningbo City (宁波市) has built a total of 189 'Most Beautiful School Routes' with increasingly complete functions and richer connotations," said Tong Huabin (童华斌), Deputy Minister of the Ningbo Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department (宁波市委宣传部) and Director of the Municipal Civilization Office (市文明办). In the future, the construction of the "Most Beautiful School Route" will continue to advance according to the school's characteristics and architectural style, smoothing the way for students to study and enriching the new cultural connotation.
"Mom, the Yue kiln celadon (越窑青瓷) introduced on the exhibition board is very beautiful. Let's go to the museum to see it this weekend," Lin Changrong (林昶荣) said to his mother while walking, talking about what he saw and heard today. He said that although today was not a sunny day, this route home from school was still very beautiful.
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Each "Most Beautiful School Route" transforms the school commute, which originally only served a transportation function, into a "cultural corridor" that showcases cultural content and exerts aesthetic educational value.
Along this route, children can converse with history, encounter art, and get close to nature. When children unexpectedly meet cultural relic display boards and stop to borrow books in front of "mobile bookshelves," civilization is no longer an abstract concept but becomes a tangible part of daily life. These seemingly insignificant details allow the seeds of civilization to take root and sprout in the hearts of children.
The practice in Ningbo (宁波) provides a new idea for the refined governance of cities: while micro-renovations of cities improve the livability of cities, they can also create "cultural immersion" urban spaces through functional expansion and cultural empowerment, making the city's civilized foundation more distinct and the city more warm.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 姚雪青
High boots, long pleats, a cloak, a white feather fan in hand, sharp glints in her gentle eyes, and when she opens her mouth, a clear, bold, and distinct singing voice emerges, "I was originally a commoner, tilling the fields in Nanyang (南阳)..." It's past 8 p.m., and the rehearsal hall of the Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe (南京市越剧团) in Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) is brightly lit, as the new play "Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling" ("虎踞龙盘") is in intense rehearsal.
Li Xiaoxu (李晓旭), born in 1987, plays Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮) in the play. She is also the head of the Yue Opera Troupe and the lead actress and director of the new play. She carefully observes everyone's performance, stopping them from time to time, "Wrong expression," "Too fast," "Do it again"...
During the intermission, Li Xiaoxu (李晓旭) told reporters that "Tiger Crouching, Dragon Coiling" ("虎踞龙盘") tells the story of Zhuge Liang (诸葛亮) going to Jiangdong (江东) alone after the Battle of Red Cliffs (赤壁之战) to discuss borrowing Jingzhou (荆州) and continuing the Sun-Liu alliance. It will meet the audience during the Dragon Boat Festival. "We also call it 'Zhuge Liang's Challenge Map' ('诸葛亮闯关图'), which is a youthful interpretation of a classic story—the average age of the actors in the play is less than 25, and half of them were born after 2005." Li Xiaoxu (李晓旭) said that this new play has entered the stage of polishing details, and rehearsals often last until midnight.
Wang Ke Bian (王柯边), born in 2005, plays Sun Shangxiang (孙尚香) in the play, and has many roles in which she disguises herself as a man, requiring her to wear high boots and show the feeling of a military general. After rehearsing all day, she keeps her high boots on, gradually stabilizing her steps and practicing the performance details.
"Come on, listen to me call the rhythm—1, 2, 3, 4, pose!" Li Xiaoxu (李晓旭) stood opposite Wang Ke Bian (王柯边), holding her hand and leading her forward. The little girl raised her foot to show off her boots, walked out of the stage, and her eyes were fixed with the movement of her hand, heroic and playful.
Why is everyone so motivated?
"First, it's love, and second, it's cherishing such a good platform." Wang Ke Bian (王柯边) introduced that, benefiting from the Nanjing Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department's (南京市委宣传部) "School-Enterprise Cooperation Training Program" ("校企合作委培计划"), she studied at Zhejiang Vocational Academy of Art (浙江艺术职业学院) for 6 years, and then entered the Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe (南京市越剧团) as an intern. In 2024, she stayed in the troupe and got the opportunity to play Xue Baochai (薛宝钗) in the major play "Weaving House" ("织造府"). Not long ago, at the age of 20, she won the Best Supporting Newcomer Award at the 34th Shanghai Magnolia Drama Performance Arts Awards (上海白玉兰戏剧表演艺术奖), the youngest winner in this year's awards.
Smooth training channels and broad development prospects attract more and more young people to turn their love into a career.
"Even if we sweat and shed tears, we have to wipe them dry and continue, because we are being cultivated as successors." Yin Chunlei (殷春蕾), who was born in the same year as Wang Ke Bian (王柯边), said that she not only received personal instruction from famous artists during rehearsals, but also played leading roles in plays such as "Weaving House" ("织造府"). "We all say that as long as you are willing to work hard, the spotlight will shine on you sooner or later."
Their teacher, Li Xiaoxu (李晓旭), also followed a similar growth path. From continuously improving her performance under the support of Nanjing's (南京) "Famous Teachers Guiding Apprentices" policy (名师带徒), to receiving project funding and training from a series of central and local policies, she constantly welcomes new challenges and won the 30th China Theatre Plum Blossom Award (中国戏剧梅花奖) in 2021.
With the policies building the bridge, just keep moving forward, and the road under your feet will become wider and wider. Young actors go out for training, famous teachers are invited in to teach, old plays are revived, and new plays are created... In recent years, the Nanjing Yue Opera Troupe (南京市越剧团) has become more vibrant. In 2025, there will be more than 400 performances.
At 10 p.m., the rehearsal is still in progress. Even if their voices are hoarse, everyone still turns on the video and sits together, reviewing each sentence and adjusting each movement little by little. 台上一分钟，台下十年功 (tái shàng yī fēn zhōng, tái xià shí nián gōng - "one minute on stage, ten years of practice off stage," great performance requires long practice). "See you on the stage!" the young Yue opera performers said with a smile.
Return to TopThis newspaper Beijing (北京) May 16th electric (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) Beijing (北京) time on May 16th, the Shenzhou-23 (神舟二十三号) manned spacecraft and the Long March-2F Y23 (长征二号F遥二十三) carrier rocket combination have been transferred to the launch area.
Currently, the launch site facilities and equipment are in good condition. Subsequent to this, various functional checks and joint tests before launch will be carried out according to plan. Launch is planned to be implemented in the near future at an opportune time.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shanghai (上海) dispatch on May 16th (Reporter Shen Wenmin (沈文敏)): On the 16th, the second domestically built large cruise ship, "Adora Magic City (爱达·花城号)" (H1509 ship), set sail for its sea trial from the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (上海外高桥造船) dock, marking a crucial leap for China's large cruise ship industry from building "1" to building "N" in batches.
This sea trial is the final critical step before delivery. Innovatively, the sea trial combines the first ship's two sea trials into one, shortening the cycle to 12 days. An engineering and technical team of 937 people from 12 countries is participating in this sea trial, which will complete 149 test items including propulsion, power station, and automation, comprehensively verifying the cruise ship's safety, comfort, and reliability.
As a sister ship to the "Adora Magic City (爱达·魔都号)," the "Adora Magic City (爱达·花城号)" is 341 meters long, has a gross tonnage of 141,900 tons, and has 2,130 guest rooms, with a full capacity of 5,232 guests. The ship is fully equipped, with comprehensive upgrades in space design, intelligent technology, and cruise experience.
The ship is scheduled to be delivered on November 6th this year, at which time it will set sail from the Guangzhou Nansha International Cruise Home Port (广东广州南沙国际邮轮母港) in Guangdong (广东), creating a maritime cultural exploration journey that is "more beautiful, more technological, and more Chinese."
Return to TopAccording to reports from our newspaper on May 16th in Beijing (北京) (Reporter: Li Xinping (李心萍)), the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) announced that prefecture-level and above cities, as well as county-level cities, will comprehensively conduct urban physical examinations this year to accelerate the full coverage of physical examinations in four dimensions: housing, communities, blocks, and urban areas.
It is reported that the urban physical examination takes the high-quality development of the city as the goal. By establishing an indicator system, using statistics, big data analysis, and social surveys to collect relevant urban information, identifying urgent problems that concern the masses, and conducting regular analysis, evaluation, monitoring, and feedback on the quality of the urban living environment and the effectiveness of urban planning, construction, and management, the activity aims to grasp the status of urban construction and development and promote the modernization of the urban governance system and governance capabilities.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development (住房城乡建设部) stated that all regions should promote urban physical examinations and urban renewal in an integrated manner, adhere to the principle of "physical examination first, then renewal" and "no renewal without physical examination," strengthen the connection between the application of urban physical examination results and the urban renewal planning and implementation system, and carry out special physical examinations in accordance with local conditions in combination with key urban renewal tasks, and improve the working mechanism of discovering problems, solving problems, evaluating effects, and consolidating improvements.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 丁怡婷
In March of this year, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区), Hebei (河北): "Energy is a strategic issue in development" and "We must adhere to the path of clean and low-carbon development."
In the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," affected by factors such as geopolitical conflicts, some countries have experienced drastic fluctuations in oil prices and supply shortages. In contrast, domestic energy resource supply is stable and orderly, and energy supply for production and daily life is sufficient. This is due to China's "accelerating the construction of a new clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system," providing a solid foundation for building a strong energy nation.
One in the east and one in the west, two "mosts," witness the vivid picture of building a strong energy nation:
In Taizhou (台州), Zhejiang (浙江), the world's first 650-degree ultra-supercritical coal-fired power unit is under construction at Huaneng Yuhuan Power Plant (华能玉环电厂). The construction of more than 700 piles in the main plant and boiler room areas has been completed, and the steel structure of the boiler is being hoisted.
"Not long ago, the core pressure-bearing component of the unit—the high-pressure inner cylinder—achieved a single casting of more than 50 tons of high-temperature alloy." Yuan Yong (袁勇), chief expert of Huaneng Xi'an Thermal Power Research Institute (华能西安热工院), introduced that this "steel heart" is expected to be offline and installed by the end of the year. After the unit is completed, it will greatly improve the clean and efficient utilization of coal power.
In Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (甘孜藏族自治州), Sichuan (四川), the world's largest hybrid pumped storage project, Lianghekou Pumped Storage Power Station (两河口抽蓄电站), is undergoing concrete pouring and electromechanical installation in the main plant. With the simultaneous advancement of the Kela Phase II Photovoltaic Power Station (柯拉二期光伏电站), Yak Mountain Wind Power (牦牛山风电) and other projects, the construction "progress bar" of the Yalong River (雅砻江) basin's integrated hydro-wind-solar base is constantly being refreshed.
"The integrated base has the advantages of multi-energy complementarity and multi-year regulation. During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, the installed capacity will increase from nearly 23 million kilowatts to approximately 40 million kilowatts, and the annual power generation is expected to reach 130 billion kilowatt-hours." Zhang Dongming (张东明), on-site commander of the Lianghekou Pumped Storage Power Station (两河口抽蓄电站) of State Development & Investment Corp (国投集团) Yalong River (雅砻江), said.
"Deeply implement the new energy security strategy, accelerate the construction of a new clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient energy system, and build a strong energy nation." The important deployment proposed in the "15th Five-Year Plan" is accelerating its implementation and becoming a reality—
Sufficient quantity and excellent quality, the resilience of energy security continues to increase.
Breaking through 4 billion cubic meters. Since the beginning of this year, more than 20 new wells have been drilled in China's largest coal and gas (deep coal seam gas) field, PetroChina Daji Gas Field (中国石油大吉气田), promoting a year-on-year increase of more than 30% in daily gas production, and annual production capacity has reached a new high.
Close to 4 billion kilowatts. This is the cumulative installed power generation capacity nationwide as of the end of March, a year-on-year increase of 15.5%.
In the first quarter, China's energy supply grew steadily, and the production of raw coal, crude oil, natural gas, and electricity all reached record highs for the same period in history.
More total volume, better layout. Since the beginning of this year, the Su-Wan-Yu trunk pipeline project (苏皖豫干线管道工程), with a total length of more than 800 kilometers, has started construction. It will connect the "North Gas to South" energy artery and the West-East Gas Pipeline system (西气东输管道系统) to realize two-way supply of land gas and sea gas; the Panxi UHV AC project (攀西特高压交流工程) with a total investment of approximately 23.2 billion yuan has started construction, which will significantly enhance the ability of the southwest region to transmit clean energy to other regions...
Optimizing the layout of energy backbone channels and the structure of import sources, and enhancing the complementary and mutual assistance capabilities of the power system have effectively improved the safety, stability, and economy of energy supply. In the first quarter, China imported 150 million tons of crude oil, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%, a record high; the fixed asset investments completed by State Grid (国网) and China Southern Power Grid (南网) both achieved double-digit growth.
Moving forward towards green, the transformation of the energy structure is advancing steadily.
The color of the supply side is greener. In February, the largest single photovoltaic base in a coal mining subsidence area in China—the 4 million kilowatt photovoltaic power station in Lingwu (灵武), Ningxia (宁夏) of China Energy (国能宁夏灵武400万千瓦光伏电站)—was completed and put into operation. After being put into operation, it can provide 6.8 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity annually, meeting the electricity needs of 4.5 million households for one year. In April, the offshore wind power project with the deepest water depth in China—the Huaneng Shandong Peninsula North L Site Offshore Wind Power Project (华能山东半岛北L场址海上风电项目)—was fully connected to the grid for power generation. China's cumulative grid-connected installed capacity of offshore wind power has ranked first in the world for five consecutive years.
Since the beginning of this year, the safe and reliable replacement of renewable energy has been accelerated. In the newly added power generation capacity in the first quarter, renewable energy accounted for 70%.
Electricity substitution on the consumption side. As fast as 5 minutes, charging can provide a range of 400 kilometers! Not long ago, the largest vehicle-grid interaction supercharging demonstration station in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) was put into operation in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). "Currently, 23 vehicle-grid interaction charging piles have been set up. At most, more than 270 new energy vehicles charge at the station in a single day." Lin Chao (林超), deputy director of the Engineering Department of Shenzhen Guangming Power Supply Bureau (深圳光明供电局) of China Southern Power Grid (南方电网), introduced that the carport of the supercharging station is covered with approximately 600 square meters of photovoltaic panels, with an annual power generation of approximately 140,000 kilowatt-hours.
Actively encouraging "driving green cars and using green electricity," building the world's largest electric vehicle charging network; carrying out the construction of national-level zero-carbon parks to manufacture green products with green energy; promoting the coordinated layout of green electricity and computing power... China is strengthening energy conservation and carbon reduction in key areas such as industry, construction, and transportation, and improving the electrification level of terminal energy use. Nearly 4 out of every 10 kilowatt-hours of electricity used is green electricity.
Innovation leads, and the strength of energy technology research is stronger.
In Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), the construction of the Compact Fusion Energy Test Device (BEST) is steadily advancing, and it is expected to achieve demonstration fusion power generation around 2030; in Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), China's first 500,000-ton biomass green alcohol and oil demonstration project has started construction, overcoming the technical problem of efficient synthesis of green alcohol and oil; in Yancheng (盐城), Jiangsu (江苏), the first independently developed new energy grid-connected stabilizer has been put into operation, which can effectively isolate the mutual influence of electrical faults between new energy and the power grid...
Focusing on key energy fields and major needs, China is accelerating the research, development, and application of new-generation coal power and flexible DC power transmission technologies for power grids, and carrying out major technology research on long-duration energy storage, green electricity hydrogen production, ammonia and alcohol, and controllable nuclear fusion. A number of new technologies and new industries are booming.
"'During the '15th Five-Year Plan' period, we will better coordinate development and security, and support the construction of a strong energy nation through measures such as improving the spatial layout of energy development, increasing the construction of new energy infrastructure, accelerating the development of new quality productive forces in energy, and expanding the high-level opening up of energy to the outside world." The relevant person in charge of the National Energy Administration (国家能源局) said.
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Opening Remarks
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized, "Employment is the most basic livelihood" and "Promoting high-quality and full employment."
College graduates find opportunities in school-enterprise collaborations, entrepreneurs grow continuously with policy support, and new employment groups are full of energy with guaranteed support... Various regions promote employment by adapting to local conditions and implementing precise policies, and more and more job seekers have found the starting point of their careers.
Starting today, this newspaper will launch the "Stable Employment: My Job Search Story" column to listen to the stories and voices of workers, report on the experiences and practices of various regions in stabilizing and promoting employment, and showcase the effectiveness of policy implementation.
On an early summer morning, at the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Odd Job Market in southern Beijing (北京), the odd job bus has already started. Labor broker Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) holds the odd job list, stands in front of the bus, counts the number of people, and takes photos for records... After the process is completed, the odd job workers line up in an orderly manner to board the bus. About two years ago, at the same time, the odd job workers were still crowded on the curb of the old intersection, "lying down to find work," bargaining, which was also Ba Hongbo's experience when he was looking for odd jobs and doing odd jobs before becoming a labor broker.
The changes in how odd job workers find work reflect the continuous improvement of odd job employment services in Beijing (北京).
From "lying down on the street to find work" to "entering the market to find work," from "relying on shouting to grab work" to "receiving orders at your fingertips"... In recent years, in accordance with the principle of "building according to needs, guiding according to the situation, and developing in a standardized manner," Beijing (北京) has woven a warm employment service network for the odd job group through "online + offline" dual-wheel drive. The odd job market is booming, the "street market" is gradually withdrawing from the historical stage, and good policies support the workers who earn money by doing odd jobs with an "umbrella of peace of mind."
Warm Service
Moving from the "Roadside" to the "Market"
Due to its proximity to the Beijing Economic-Technological Development Area (北京经济技术开发区) and other economically active areas, the Majuqiao (马驹桥) area has many construction sites and park factories, spontaneously forming a gathering place for roadside odd job workers. Nine years ago, Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) came to Majuqiao (马驹桥) from other places to make a living and became one of the odd job seekers.
"At that time, the recruitment vehicle had not yet stopped, and everyone rushed up, fighting for it." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) has worked as a logistics loader, landscaper, construction worker... "As long as you get paid that day, I'll do anything." Even so, often while working here, the labor intermediary runs away, and in the end, you don't know who to ask for wages.
The change began in May 2024, when the Beijing Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau (北京市人力资源和社会保障局) and other six departments jointly issued the "Guiding Opinions on Standardizing the Construction of Odd Job Markets (Trial Implementation)," which clearly proposed to gradually eliminate the "chaos" of occupying roads and streets and disorderly connecting the supply and demand of odd jobs, and promote "retreating from the road and entering the market" and "retreating from the road and going online." Subsequently, the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Odd Job Market opened for business, introducing more than 20 formal human resources agencies.
Thanks to years of odd job experience, Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) was favored by a human resources company and became a labor broker. "The conditions are much better than before. The odd job market can not only shelter from the wind and rain, but also provide many services." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) introduced the various functional areas to reporters: the warm service area provides free hot water and charging services; in the 24-hour intelligent cultural space "Micro Light Library," many workers read and "charge" in their spare time; the "New Employment Friendly Classroom" training room and the diversified labor dispute mediation room provide odd job workers with a full chain of services such as employment consultation, order matching, skills upgrading training, and rights protection and maintenance guidance.
From the odd job market operator sending buses to the odd job gathering place every morning to pick up people, to more and more odd job workers spontaneously coming to the odd job market, the once disorderly Majuqiao (马驹桥) odd job gathering place is being replaced by a standardized and orderly market. "Workers sign up with their mobile phones, and after matching a suitable job, the next day there will be a bus directly to the factory gate. Wages are settled on the same day, and there is no need to worry about arrears or deductions." Ba Hongbo (巴洪波) said that seeing everyone has work to do and money to earn, he, as a broker, is also at ease and down-to-earth.
Data shows that as of the end of April this year, the Majuqiao (马驹桥) Odd Job Market has received a total of 291,300 odd job workers, successfully matched 223,800 people to jobs, and the matching success rate is 76.8%.
Digital Empowerment
Turning "People Looking for Work" into "Work Looking for People"
Offline entry, online bridging.
For odd job workers, information asymmetry is the biggest pain point. Where is the job? Is it reliable? Can the money be settled? These are all the concerns of Sun Donglian (孙东莲), a villager in Yuantian (园田) Team Village in Pinggu District (平谷区), Beijing (北京).
In Beijing (北京), digital empowerment has played a role in solving these problems.
"In the past, I relied on luck to 'lie down' on the roadside, but now I rely on my mobile phone." Sun Donglian (孙东莲) showed reporters a WeChat mini-program called "Green Valley Smart Worker." Through online order taking, she found a job in a food factory.
Kang Chenhong (康晨红), the person in charge of the Pinggu District (平谷区) Green Valley Odd Job Market and the developer of the mini-program, introduced that on the mini-program, employers need to submit business licenses and other relevant supporting materials before they can settle in and release employment needs. Odd job workers can apply with one click after registering and filling in their resumes for the first time, and both parties can choose each other. "Odd job workers can take jobs online without coming to the market, and accurately screen jobs by selecting time and location." Kang Chenhong (康晨红) said.
Soon, odd job workers found that there were more channels to find work and the cost was lower. "The online platform is our compass for finding work." Sun Donglian (孙东莲) said with emotion.
In Beijing (北京), the operators of the odd job market are successively developing online service platforms, gradually realizing "one-stop" services such as supply and demand registration, online communication and connection, result confirmation, and online settlement, improving service convenience and accuracy.
Before each job, Sun Donglian (孙东莲) clicks on the location on the "Green Valley Smart Worker" mini-program to check in. At the moment of check-in, accident insurance or employer liability insurance takes effect, and the real-time record of arrival begins. The number of hours Sun Donglian (孙东莲) has worked will also be recorded and used as a reference for wage settlement. After verification, the wages will be distributed to the designated account through the platform on the same day.
As of now, the "Green Valley Smart Worker" online platform has released nearly 200,000 odd job positions, and more than 150,000 odd job workers have been successfully employed. The overall job satisfaction rate has reached 79%, realizing the transformation from "people looking for work" to "work looking for people."
Employment Security
From "Floating Work" to "Solid Busyness"
Wage arrears, work injuries, lack of security... These are all the worries of odd job workers.
"It's good to rely on a big tree. The odd job market makes it easy for us to find work and have security." Said Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) from Dezhou (德州), Shandong (山东).
Next to the Aima Yu (爱玛裕) Building Decoration Market in Shijingshan District (石景山区), under the elevated highway bridge, there were many odd job workers engaged in home decoration "lying down" here before. Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) was also here. In June 2025, the Jingshi (京石) Odd Job Market was built and put into operation. Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) was among the first group of workers to enter the market to find work and became the first odd job worker in the market to earn more than 10,000 yuan a month.
The increase in income made Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) very motivated, but what made him feel more at ease was the insurance safety net.
Since its operation, the Jingshi (京石) Odd Job Market has customized accident injury insurance for odd job workers, equipped with full-time insurance specialists, and provided one-stop service for the entire process of participation, renewal, and claims settlement. At the municipal level, Beijing (北京) is exploring the launch of "Odd Job Insurance," striving to give both odd job workers and employers a "reassurance pill."
What's even warmer is "teaching a man to fish." In the Jingshi (京石) Odd Job Market, there is a room where you can see tiles repeatedly pasted and white walls repeatedly scraped. This is where odd job workers learn home decoration skills. The Jingshi (京石) Odd Job Market hopes to solve the structural employment contradiction of the odd job group with single skills and skills that do not match job needs.
Here, Liu Yanhui (刘延辉) became a teacher. The market operator asked him to use his spare time to explain skills such as tiling and changing water pipes to his fellow workers and students. Many people have graduated and their income has increased a lot.
Odd job workers can also become long-term workers. The Jingshi (京石) Odd Job Market regularly conducts quarterly evaluations of "Odd Job Stars" and "Praise Stars" and actively connects with high-quality employers. As of April this year, a total of 21 people have signed long-term labor contracts with enterprises.
In Beijing (北京), various odd job markets are using insurance as a safety net, mediation as a safeguard, training as empowerment, and job transfer as quality improvement as a starting point, turning odd jobs from "floating work" into "solid busyness," weaving an employment security "safety net."
Xinhua News Agency, Guiyang, May 15th (Xinhua) -- Comrade Xie Qingsheng (谢庆生), an outstanding leader of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, a close friend of the Communist Party of China, Vice Chairman of the 15th Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, former Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress, former Vice Governor of Guizhou Province, and former Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, passed away in Guiyang (贵阳) on May 12, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 72.
After the death of Comrade Xie Qingsheng (谢庆生), relevant central leading comrades expressed their condolences in various ways and expressed their condolences to his relatives.
Xie Qingsheng (谢庆生) was born in Guiyang (贵阳), Guizhou (贵州), in October 1954. He started working at the Guiyang Railway Bureau of the Chengdu Railway Administration in 1970. He studied at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Southwest Jiaotong University, the Department of Agricultural Machinery of Shihezi Agricultural College, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Leeds Metropolitan University in the United Kingdom. From 1988 to 1996, he served as a teacher and lecturer in the Basic Department of Guizhou Institute of Technology, Deputy Director of the Computer Center, and Director of the CAD Research Institute. From 1996 to 2008, he served as Director of the Scientific Research Department and Vice President of Guizhou University of Technology, Deputy Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, Vice President of Guizhou University (贵州大学), and Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party. From 2008 to 2017, he served as Vice Governor of Guizhou Province (贵州省), Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Association for Science and Technology, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party, Chairman of the Guizhou Provincial Committee, and Deputy Director of the Standing Committee of the Guizhou Provincial People's Congress.
Comrade Xie Qingsheng (谢庆生) joined the Chinese Peasants and Workers Democratic Party in March 2001. He was a member of the 10th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and a member of the Standing Committee of the 12th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, making positive contributions to upholding and improving the multi-party cooperation and political consultation system under the leadership of the Communist Party of China. He was a member of the expert group in the modern manufacturing field of the National 863 Program and a national-level middle-aged and young expert with outstanding contributions.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 13th. Comrade Xia Guozhi (夏国治), former Vice Minister and member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources, passed away in Beijing (北京) on April 28, 2026, due to illness, at the age of 97.
After the death of Comrade Xia Guozhi (夏国治), relevant central leading comrades expressed their condolences in different ways and expressed their condolences to his family.
Xia Guozhi (夏国治) was born in June 1928 in Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北) Province. He joined the Communist Party of China (中国共产党) in January 1949 and participated in revolutionary work. From January 1949 to September 1952, he served successively as the Secretary of the Student Party Branch of the Second High School of Beiping Municipality, the Secretary of the Party Branch of the School of Science of Tsinghua University (清华大学), and the Secretary of the General Branch of the Communist Youth League. From September 1952 to March 1969, he served successively as a student in the Geophysical Prospecting Training Class of the Ministry of Geology, and the Chief Engineer of the Technology Division of the Science and Technology Department. From March 1969 to September 1970, he was sent to the "May Seventh" Cadre School of the Ministry of Geology for labor. From September 1970 to July 1974, he served successively as a geophysical prospecting engineer and head of the geological team of the Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Provincial Bureau of Geology. From July 1974 to March 1979, he served successively as the Deputy Director and Director of the Geological and Mineral Resources Department of the Beijing (北京市) Bureau of Geology. From March to November 1979, he served as the person in charge of the Science and Technology Bureau of the National Bureau of Geology. From November 1979 to March 1982, he served successively as a member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Geology, and a member of the Party Group and Director of the Science and Technology Bureau of the Ministry of Geology. From March 1982 to June 1990, he served as Vice Minister and member of the Party Group of the Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources. He retired in May 2001.
Xia Guozhi (夏国治) was a member of the 7th and 8th National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (政协).
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Currently, AI (Artificial Intelligence) is involved in scientific research with unprecedented breadth and depth, from predicting protein structures to discovering new materials. AI seems to have become a "universal engine" for accelerating science, demonstrating the enormous potential of the scientific intelligence paradigm.
As a new "partner" for researchers, how does AI change the path and pace of scientific research? How can AI be used reasonably and responsibly? How can the role of open platforms for scientific intelligence be stimulated? In this issue of the Education Edition, we invite several experts and scholars to discuss these questions together.
1 How is the path of scientific discovery changing?
Traditional scientific research begins with "hypothesis-verification," but now the path of scientific discovery is gradually shifting to "data-pattern discovery-intelligent generation-closed-loop iteration."
Wang Xijun (王翕君), Specially Appointed Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学): In traditional scientific research, researchers often propose questions based on experience and intuition, starting with "hypothesis-verification." Now, for some disciplines, AI can proactively discover patterns in massive amounts of data. The path of scientific discovery is gradually shifting to a new paradigm of "data-pattern discovery-intelligent generation-closed-loop iteration." AI can even precisely design the desired substance according to target requirements.
Taking the framework materials I study as an example, these materials can create massive structures through the combination of different metal nodes, organic ligands, and connection methods, with a scale of up to trillions, far exceeding the limits of human exploration. In this context, AI provides a breakthrough. On the one hand, machine learning can quickly predict the performance of materials, saving a lot of trial-and-error costs in real experiments; on the other hand, AI can extract patterns from data, turning the past "intuition" based on experience into a calculable and transferable model, making material design more rational.
On this basis, generative AI can further promote scientific research from "screening the known" to "creating the unknown"—directly generating new material structures outside the training data, achieving "reverse design" around target performance. This means that AI is not only accelerating the solution of problems but also, to some extent, expanding the boundaries of the problems themselves.
Thus, AI's role in scientific research is also continuously evolving: from an initial calculation tool to a research tool that assists in analyzing patterns, and then to a "research partner" that can participate in and even drive autonomous exploration.
Of course, AI will not replace scientists. Understanding key scientific questions and mechanisms still requires human judgment and insight. It can be said that humans are responsible for raising questions and grasping directions, while AI searches for possible answers in vast data and complex spaces. The synergy between the two will provide a more solid and broad space for future scientific innovation.
2 Has the efficiency of scientific innovation improved?
AI is particularly good at handling tasks with clear answers that require a lot of repetitive calculations.
Mo Bofeng (莫伯峰), Professor at the Oracle Bone Inscriptions Research Center of Capital Normal University (首都师范大学): AI greatly improves the efficiency of scientific research in completing literature reviews, experimental designs, and data analysis. Even when facing oracle bone inscriptions from more than 3,000 years ago, AI can play a significant role. In the past, tasks such as oracle bone joining (拼合, putting broken oracle bones together) and restoration (补合, restoring damaged images) relied entirely on the experience of a few experts. Now, AI provides new solutions.
To make AI truly helpful, the key is to choose the right point of integration. As unearthed documents, the core research goal of oracle bone inscriptions is to restore textual materials and information, and AI is particularly good at handling tasks with clear answers that require a lot of repetitive calculations. It can identify subtle features that are difficult for humans to detect, such as the curvature of fractures and the angle of strokes, providing key clues for joining and restoration.
But AI is not a panacea. The total number of oracle bone inscriptions exceeds 160,000 pieces, with a total of over one million characters. This number may seem large, but it is still not enough to train large AI models. Therefore, human experts are still needed to oversee deep semantic judgments. A more effective approach is human-machine collaboration: treating AI as an acceleration tool and using expert judgment to review and correct its results.
Currently, joining and restoration are just the beginning of AI-assisted oracle bone inscription research. With technological development, the classification, aggregation, and translation of oracle bone inscriptions will gradually make breakthroughs. In the future, researchers will not only need to understand professional knowledge but also improve their data processing capabilities and be good at using technology to amplify their research advantages.
3 Will scientific judgment be affected by AI?
While lowering some research barriers, risks such as false citations and erroneous reasoning deserve attention.
Yang Yaodong (杨耀东), Researcher at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Peking University (北京大学): AI is not just helping researchers write code, read literature, and draw charts, but is changing the entire research process: from a linear process of humans proposing hypotheses, conducting experiments, and then analyzing results, it is gradually moving towards a closed-loop system of human-machine collaboration, model prediction, automated experiments, and feedback iteration.
This change brings several benefits. First, efficiency is greatly improved. In fields such as materials, medicine, and energy, there are many candidate solutions, and traditional methods are difficult to exhaust. AI can quickly screen them, freeing researchers from repetitive trial and error and allowing them to focus on solving key problems. Second, it promotes interdisciplinary integration. A scientific problem often involves physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, and computation, and AI can establish connections between multi-source data. Third, it lowers some research barriers. With open-source models and tool platforms, small teams can also do big projects.
It should be noted that AI is not equivalent to true scientific understanding. Scientific research should not only predict accurately but also answer "why." If the model is a black box, the data source is unclear, and the experimental process is not reproducible, the conclusions given by AI may bring new risks. In particular, false citations, erroneous reasoning, low-quality papers, data leakage, and unclear academic responsibilities brought about by generative AI may all impact research norms.
A deeper problem is that scientific judgment cannot be replaced by the logic of tools. AI is good at finding the optimal solution in existing data, but what problems are worth studying and what results are scientifically significant still need to be determined by humans.
4 How can resources be effectively integrated?
Connecting scientists, AI engineers, and industrial forces to shift innovation from single-point breakthroughs to systematic acceleration.
Wu Libo (吴力波), Assistant President of Fudan University (复旦大学) and Chairman of the Shanghai Scientific Intelligence Research Institute (上海科学智能研究院): Scientific intelligence is moving from the "technology-centered" 1.0 era to the "scientist-centered" 2.0 era. The 2.0 era is about making scientists in more fields the protagonists, allowing AI to truly permeate the entire research process. The Xinghe Qizhi (星河启智) Scientific Intelligence Open Platform, jointly created by the Shanghai Scientific Intelligence Research Institute and Fudan University, is designed to respond to this shift.
The primary role of the platform is to lower the threshold for scientists to use AI. It has built a complete set of infrastructure covering data, models, computing power, experiments, intelligent agents, and collaborative communities around the real research path. Currently, the Xinghe Qizhi Scientific Intelligence Open Platform has gathered more than 400 scientific models and tools, 22PB (petabytes) of high-value data, and 500 million literature patents. Scientists can conduct research using cutting-edge models without delving into technical details.
We have also launched a research intelligent agent system with "Dasheng (大圣)" as the carrier. It can understand scientific problems and assist in completing the entire process from literature analysis and hypothesis generation to experimental verification. Recently, "Dasheng" launched a custom laboratory function, allowing scientists to build exclusive toolchains according to their research directions.
The second role of the platform is to promote interdisciplinary, cross-regional, and cross-field integration. In traditional scientific research, the data, models, and methods of different disciplines are often not interconnected, making collaboration difficult. The Xinghe Qizhi Scientific Intelligence Open Platform allows the achievements of different fields to be shared, reused, and combined through a unified model repository and data infrastructure.
From a deeper perspective, the platform plays the role of a hub in the scientific intelligence ecosystem. It connects scientists, AI engineers, and industrial forces, allowing data and methods to flow and be reused within the system, shifting innovation from single-point breakthroughs to systematic acceleration, and providing sustainable institutional support for the AI-driven research paradigm shift.
5 How to build and use intelligent platforms well?
Encourage openness and sharing to bridge the gap between industry and research.
Liu Tieyan (刘铁岩), Dean of Zhongguancun College (中关村学院) and Chairman of the Zhongguancun Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (中关村人工智能研究院): Having many platforms does not mean they are sufficient, easy to use, or truly useful. Last year, Zhongguancun College surveyed more than 30 material companies in Beijing (北京) and identified 100 "bottleneck" problems. The survey found that only 20% of the problems are expected to be solved using current mainstream scientific intelligence technologies. The rest are temporarily unsolvable due to low levels of corporate digitization, data loss, and insufficient algorithm accuracy. This makes us clearly see that "AI empowering scientific research" cannot just be a slogan or platform building. Infrastructure deficits, technical limitations, and the gap between industry and research all truly exist.
Let's talk about the open sharing of scientific intelligent agents and intelligent tools. On the surface, this is a technical issue, but at a deeper level, it is not that there are no means to connect, but that there is a lack of motivation to connect. Why should an institution open up its data and platform? If this question is not answered institutionally, "open sharing" can only remain at the level of advocacy.
To break the situation, it is recommended to start from three aspects: First, vigorously promote industrial digitization and use real industrial needs to drive the direction of scientific research. Scientific research cannot remain in the "research first, then transformation" model. Industrial feedback should enter the research cycle to fill the "last mile." Second, build an open and shared incentive mechanism to make sharing a recognized scientific contribution to a certain extent, such as making it a condition for project approval and completion, and establishing a measurement system similar to paper citations. Third, public forces should take the lead in building the underlying infrastructure for interdisciplinary collaboration. Users of scientific intelligent agents and intelligent tools are highly specialized and scattered across various disciplines. Due to insufficient market size, national strategic investment can be considered first, and then market mechanisms can be gradually introduced.
In short, connecting data and intelligent agent interfaces is the surface layer, reconstructing the incentive mechanism is the middle layer, and making scientific research truly oriented towards national needs and real industrial problems is the fundamental.
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The essay contest with "AI must be the first author" sparks heated discussion.
"AI must be the first author." In 2025, a call for papers issued by East China Normal University (华东师范大学) sparked a thousand waves in the academic community. This social experiment, which requires AI to be the main body of scientific paper writing, guides us to face a question in an almost "extreme test" way: When AI deeply intervenes in knowledge production, where are the ethical boundaries of AI-assisted writing, and where should the bottom line of academic research be drawn?
"We hope to study the public acceptance, technical feasibility, quality science, and academic norms of AI writing through this method," said Yuan Zhenguo (袁振国), a lifelong professor at East China Normal University and the initiator of the experiment.
After the call for papers was released, controversy followed. Supporters believe that this is a "breakthrough experiment" in academic norms in the AI era, while opponents worry that this is a "voluntary abdication" of humans in scientific research. "The AI penetration rate of current papers is high. Many students use AI to assist in writing but dare not mark it. This 'underground state' is a greater destruction of academic norms," said Zhang Zhi (张治), director of the Intelligent Education Laboratory of East China Normal University. "Instead of turning a blind eye, it is better to respond positively."
The experiment collected 820 "AI first author" research papers. The review found that AI showed good capabilities in topic planning, outline generation, data analysis, literature speed reading, and logical reasoning. However, limitations cannot be ignored: large models are good at "fragment recombination and cross-domain migration" in existing data and can generate "seemingly true" innovative texts, but lack true creative desire and value judgment.
"Based on this underlying logic, the reasonable application scenarios of AI in scientific writing should still focus on non-core links," Zhang Zhi said. In paper writing, humans should assume the roles of problem proposer, tool selector, instruction designer, and quality controller.
"The bottom line of AI use is essentially the bottom line of academic integrity and responsibility attribution. The bottom line of originality cannot be broken, and the bottom line of transparency must be adhered to—all AI usage behaviors should be fully disclosed, and the tool name, application scope, and manual review process should be clearly stated in the paper. In addition, the bottom line of responsibility attribution cannot be blurred. Regardless of the degree of AI participation, human authors should be fully responsible for the final results," Zhang Zhi said.
The significance of this experiment may not lie in drawing conclusions but in promoting the formation of a consensus: When the collaboration between humans and AI becomes a new phenomenon in paper writing, only by making good use of AI to empower and adhering to academic integrity can we safeguard the true value of academic research.
"Humans using AI to assist in paper writing is by no means a transfer of subjectivity but an exploration of a new scientific division of labor, that is, letting AI handle the breadth of data and letting humans guard the depth of thought and the temperature of value," said Chu Xiaobo (初晓波), Vice President of Peking University (北京大学).
(Reported and compiled by Ding Yasong (丁雅诵), reporter of this newspaper)
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Visiting the Tianjin Port (天津港) Smart Zero-Carbon Terminal, communicating with technical backbones to improve job competency; entering the Tiankai Higher Education Science and Technology Innovation Park (天开高教科创园), talking with young entrepreneurs to understand industry trends... Not long ago, during the finals of the 3rd National College Student Career Planning Competition, the "Mountains and Seas Seeking Dreams" career-themed practice activity was held in Tianjin (天津), opening a vivid career education class on the front lines of industry.
Nowadays, participating in career education is a common experience for college students. Statistics from the Ministry of Education (教育部) show that approximately 98% of universities nationwide have established career development and employment guidance courses, with 90% of universities making them compulsory. At the same time, on social media, some students say that the career education courses they have taken are somewhat "watered down" and they have not gained much from learning.
Is career education a "water course"? In terms of its positioning and significance, it should not have such a label—upon graduation, everyone wants to find an ideal job. Students' discussions reflect their expectations for career education. To make this course better, it requires careful design and innovative teaching.
Good career education can help students break through cognitive limitations, objectively view personal conditions and social needs, and accurately identify career development positioning. The excavation of interests and the establishment of goals do not rely on the "final kick" of the job search season, but rather require spring breeze-like nurturing. This kind of nurturing is often not achieved by lecturing on grand principles or simply doing a few sets of personality tests, but rather based on a deep insight into the industry and an accurate understanding of oneself.
In the curriculum teaching track of the Career Planning Competition, the author "sat in" on many courses, and much of the content directly addressed students' confusion. What can I do in the future if I study textiles? In Donghua University's (东华大学) "Freshman Career Navigation" course, teachers lead students to study the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline, read industry research reports, and explore the application of textiles in strategic emerging materials, big health, and other fields. What impact do changes in population demographics have on the teaching profession? In the career education course at Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学), normal school students see both challenges and opportunities brought about by small-class teaching. By solving the confusion of career development and cultivating correct employment and career choices, students can be guided to combine personal goals with national needs and social development, 志存高远、脚踏实地 (zhì cún gāo yuǎn, jiǎo tà shí dì - "have lofty ambitions and be down-to-earth," to have great aspirations and work diligently), and realize their life ideals.
Gaining more skills that can be applied to practical use is also what students are calling for in the course. How to stand out in a group interview? Which job is more suitable for me? Career education may not directly provide jobs, but the methodology learned in class is the foundation of job-seeking confidence.
Skill learning does not rely on 纸上谈兵 (zhǐ shàng tán bīng - "discussing strategies on paper," theoretical discussion that is divorced from practice), but on actual combat training, which places higher demands on the practicality of the course. Many schools have set up links such as recruitment fair observation, mock interviews, and career figure interviews, which help students improve their job-seeking success rate in rich career experiences and employment practices.
Good career education should also cross the boundaries of traditional classrooms, connecting the campus on one end and the workplace on the other, becoming a bridge for students to enter society. In reality, some teachers go from school gate to school gate and have less job-seeking experience; the external professional world is changing rapidly, which also forces the course to iterate quickly. In this regard, breaking down the "walls" of the campus, introducing off-campus resources, and strengthening supply-demand docking and school-enterprise cooperation can effectively unite the forces of education. For example, Tsinghua University (清华大学) has launched an alumni mentor program, where senior students provide consultation to current students; Shenzhen Polytechnic (深圳职业技术大学) not only invites experts from companies such as BYD (比亚迪) and Huawei (华为) into the classroom, but also leads students out of the campus to hone their skills in real-world scenarios.
"I want to become an energy storage system developer," "My career goal is a cyberspace security specialist"... In the Career Planning Competition, students' confident narratives and the letters of intent they received are proof of the effectiveness of career education. "Measuring mountains and seas with footsteps, forging ahead with practical work, and writing a youthful professional chapter in struggle," their career development action initiative is full of expectations for the future.
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The growth and development of young students cannot be separated from the nourishment of classroom theory, nor from the tempering of social practice. Many students reflect that they like to participate in social practice activities, but they do not like cursory visits and photo-taking check-ins. How to make social practice more "real"? Our answer is: focus on the three key links of growth, service, and organization.
Helping students grow more "real." Contemporary college students are energetic and patriotic. Schools should use practice as a bridge to bring the classroom to the fields and the front lines of production, so that young people can be educated, develop their talents, and make contributions while walking. In 2025, Fujian Normal University (福建师范大学) formed a thousand social practice teams, with more than 10,000 teachers and students rushing to all parts of the country to carry out practice around 8 key practice directions and 11 key special activities. From red visits to teaching assistance, from intangible cultural heritage inheritance to ecological protection, students use their footsteps to measure the motherland, observe social conditions in interviews and investigations, learn true knowledge and understand the true meaning in solving practical problems, and transform book knowledge into the ability to serve society.
Serving local development more "real." Social practice cannot be "self-entertainment," it must be rooted in the grassroots and serve the grassroots. When schools organize practice activities, they should guide teachers and students to pay attention to the practical and difficult issues in local development, and strive to make research results where the grassroots are in urgent need. For example, relying on People's Daily Online's "Qingping Program (青苹计划)," the student practice team of Fujian Normal University (福建师范大学) spent half a year tracking and investigating "returning volunteers," sorting out their development status and the difficulties they face, and proposing a "project-based operation + local mentor system + policy package" solution. Students have developed hard skills in solving the urgent needs and difficulties of the grassroots, and the local area has also gained real help from these pragmatic results.
The organization of practical work is more "real." Doing a good job in social practice cannot be separated from scientific organization and whole-process guidance. The school builds a full-chain, whole-process practical education system, so that teachers and students can carry out practice with direction, guidance, and guarantee. In the early stage, make thorough arrangements, hold social practice training courses, and compile the "Social Practice Handbook"; the school's Communist Youth League Committee (校团委) links various colleges to form key characteristic practice teams, and promotes the deep integration of classroom teaching and social practice, so that practice becomes a supplement to professional learning. In the mid-term, provide precise guidance, adopt the "key team + decentralized practice" model, create school-level key projects, and give play to the role of demonstration and leadership to ensure the orderly development of practical activities. In the later stage, summarize and improve, carry out "talking about growth after returning from practice" exchange and sharing activities, select advanced models of social practice, promote excellent results, and at the same time promote the transformation of practical results into academic papers and competition works, so that the value of practice continues to be demonstrated.
Turning social practice from 走过场 (zǒu guò chǎng - "going through the motions," doing something perfunctorily) into a "real classroom" is a response to the expectations of young people and a vivid answer sheet for practical education. The background color of youth is struggle. In the next step, the school will continue to deepen the reform of practical education, and continuously improve the effectiveness, academic nature, and long-term effectiveness of social practice, and guide more young students to integrate their personal growth into the overall situation of national development and write a youth answer sheet in practice.
(The author is a social practice guidance teacher of the Communist Youth League Committee (团委) of Fujian Normal University (福建师范大学), compiled by Wu Dan (吴丹), a reporter from this newspaper)
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As night falls, the Coastal Art Center in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) is brightly lit. "It only takes half an hour by high-speed rail to Shenzhen (深圳). I can shop during the day, watch a show in the evening, and then return to Hong Kong (香港). This weekend is so relaxing!" Chen Shuyu (陈书瑜), a Hong Kong (香港) audience member, carried Cantonese dim sum in one hand and used a mobile app to buy tickets. The crowd was bustling, with Cantonese and Mandarin intermingling.
The "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区发展规划纲要)" clearly proposes to "jointly build a cultural Greater Bay Area." Geographical proximity and cultural affinity make culture and art an important link for the people of Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门) to connect with each other. With the formation of the "Greater Bay Area on Rails," the continuous upgrading of customs clearance facilitation, and the deep linkage of performing arts resources, "going to Shenzhen (深圳) to see a show on the weekend" has become a new fashion in the Greater Bay Area. "Currently, the proportion of audiences from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) is steadily above 30%," said Chen Shuai (陈帅), general manager of Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center.
Cross-border Viewing
From "Occasional Taste" to "Daily Life"
Not long ago, the large-scale historical drama "Zhang Juzheng (张居正)," created and performed by the Beijing People's Art Theater (北京人民艺术剧院), was performed at the Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center, and many audience members made a special trip from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) to see it. After the show, Li Wenbin (李文彬), an audience member from Macao (澳门), clutched his ticket stub, his excitement still lingering: "I went to see a show in Hong Kong (香港) a few days ago, and this time I came to Shenzhen (深圳) to see it again."
Convenience is the key to cross-border viewing being a **说走就走** (shuō zǒu jiù zǒu - "say go then go," to take off on a trip without prior planning) experience.
The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Rail Link (广深港高铁) has shortened the travel time between Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港) to as little as 14 minutes; Huanggang Port (皇岗口岸) is open 24 hours a day, allowing for a smooth return journey even after late-night shows; Qianhai (前海) has opened multiple cross-border bus routes to Hong Kong (香港), multiple subway lines provide convenient transfers to Hong Kong (香港), and passenger ferry routes reach the core area of Hong Kong (香港) in 1 hour... The "one-hour cultural life circle" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) is becoming increasingly convenient.
"Going to Shenzhen (深圳) on weekends to see performances and shop has become a lifestyle habit for more and more residents of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门)," said Zhou Yin (周茵), deputy director of the Border Inspection Department of the Shenzhen (深圳) General Station of Immigration Inspection. During the "May Day" holiday this year, the flow of consumption and cultural tourism overlapped, and Shenzhen (深圳) ports cumulatively inspected 2.282 million inbound and outbound residents from Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾), and on May 2, a new daily record of 1.098 million inbound and outbound passengers was set; in 2025, a total of 171 million inbound and outbound residents from Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and Taiwan (台湾) were inspected, an increase of 9.2% year-on-year.
Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center, Nanshan (南山) Cultural and Sports Center, Shenzhen (深圳) Grand Theater, Shenzhen (深圳) Poly Theater... In recent years, many performing arts venues in Shenzhen (深圳) have gradually become important stages for high-quality Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) productions to enter the mainland, and cross-city viewing by Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) residents has changed from "occasional taste" to "daily life."
Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center is a major theater in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) for introducing Hong Kong (香港) performance projects. Since 2023, it has launched the "Arts" Greater Bay Area Performance Season every year, with more than 70 performances and over 100,000 audience members, with Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) projects accounting for a stable 70% or more, and diverse performance formats such as dramas, musicals, and concerts. Among them, the Cantonese version of "The No. 1 Restaurant in the World (天下第一楼)," revived and restaged by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (香港话剧团), and "Skylight," performed by powerful actors, were sold out for every show, with Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) audiences accounting for more than 30%.
At the Shenzhen (深圳) Poly Theater, the Cantonese version of "Mr. Donkey (驴得水)" resonated with audiences from Guangdong (广东), Hong Kong (香港), and Macao (澳门) with its strong Lingnan cultural elements. The play toured more than 20 cities across the country for 40 performances. After attending the meet-and-greet with the main creators and actors, Guo Xinyi (郭欣怡), who came from Hong Kong (香港) to "chase the show," was very excited: "The performance was wonderful, and the sharing by the creative team was even more wonderful. This trip to Shenzhen (深圳) was worth it!"
Even in the Pingshan (坪山) Grand Theater, far from the main urban area of Shenzhen (深圳), a batch of Hong Kong (香港), Macao (澳门), and international productions have been introduced, and the number of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) audiences continues to increase. "We have cooperated with Hong Kong (香港) ticketing platforms to launch joint sales of performance tickets + cross-border bus tickets, innovating a one-stop cultural tourism model of watching performances + sightseeing, attracting Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) student tour groups and family groups to come and watch the show," said Wu Pengfei (吴鹏飞), operations director of Pingshan (坪山) Grand Theater.
Not long ago, the 6th Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Chinese Drama Culture Festival (粤港澳大湾区中国戏剧文化节) set up a Shenzhen (深圳) venue for the first time, and the Pingshan (坪山) Grand Theater staged excellent plays such as "It's All the Dragon Robe's Fault (都是龙袍惹的祸)" by the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (香港话剧团) and "Hide-and-Seek (捉迷藏)" by the Macao Xiaojiao Drama Research Advancement Society (澳门晓角话剧研进社), which made theater fans exclaim that it was a great experience.
Co-creation of Masterpieces
Let Cultural Roots Be Reborn in Integration
Recently, the new Cantonese opera "Hero's Choice (英雄抉)," jointly created and performed by Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港), opened for ticket sales online, allowing traditional Cantonese opera to be reborn in cultural integration through a dual-city performance linkage between Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港). The play is jointly produced by the Shenzhen (深圳) Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department (深圳市委宣传部) and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Leisure and Cultural Services Department (香港特区政府康乐及文化事务署), with Mao Junhui (毛俊辉), artistic director and playwright of the Hong Kong Repertory Theatre (香港话剧团), serving as artistic director, screenwriter, and director, and artistic masters from both places jointly forming the creative team.
"This is a vivid proof of the common cultural roots and artistic unity between Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港)," said Peng Qinghua (彭庆华), the lead actor of "Hero's Choice (英雄抉)" and head of the Shenzhen (深圳) Cantonese Opera Troupe (深圳市粤剧团). From script polishing to stage presentation, the two teams learned from each other's strengths, highlighting the charm of Cantonese opera while incorporating modern aesthetics, allowing intangible cultural heritage to live in the present.
The 11 cities in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) have their own unique cultural heritage, but they are rooted in the common bloodline of Guangfu, Chaoshan, and Hakka cultures. This provides rich material and emotional consensus for performing arts collaboration, and constantly produces popular and well-received literary and artistic masterpieces.
Since the beginning of this year, the symphony "Mountains, Seas, and Bays (山海湾)," jointly commissioned by the Shenzhen (深圳) Symphony Orchestra (深圳交响乐团) and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (香港管弦乐团), has been performed successively in multiple theaters such as the Shenzhen (深圳) Grand Theater, Shenzhen (深圳) Art Museum, and Guangming (光明) Culture and Art Center, and each performance has been met with enthusiastic responses and thunderous applause.
"The familiar Lingnan flavor in the 'Guangcai Nanfeng (粤彩南风)' movement and the passionate and surging sound of the times in the finale 'Tide Rises Between Mountains and Seas (潮起山海间)' made me unable to hold back my tears," said Chen Ziwen (陈梓玟) from Hong Kong (香港) at the Shenzhen (深圳) Grand Theater, unwilling to leave her seat long after the end of the song.
This work was selected into the Ministry of Culture and Tourism's "Symphony of the Times" creation support program and was rated as a National Arts Fund-funded project. In order to complete this benchmark work of Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港) performing arts collaboration with high quality, the creative team went to Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港) to collect materials, turning the dependence of Wutong Mountain (梧桐山) and Lion Rock (狮子山), and the sound of the South China Sea and Hong Kong (香港) into notes, integrating national musical instruments and symphony, which not only shows the gentle background color of Lingnan music, but also shows the magnificent atmosphere of the era's movement.
At the Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center, after the performance of the musical "Always a Couple (从来是一对)," Yao Runmin (姚润敏), artistic director of the Hong Kong Family Theatre (香港演戏家族剧团), emotionally thanked the audience: "I hope to tell the audience through this play that the culture of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) is connected, just like the characters in the play, whether they are in Hong Kong (香港) or the mainland, they have a common emotional connection."
This is a musical funded by the Foshan (佛山) Municipal Government of Guangdong (广东) for script creation. The Hong Kong (香港) creative team has visited Foshan (佛山) many times to collect materials, invited local intangible cultural heritage inheritors to serve as cultural consultants, and specially absorbed Luo Shi (罗诗), a local actor from Guangzhou (广州), to play the heroine. "After a long time of discussing acting skills and studying the play with Hong Kong (香港) actors, I feel that I am growing rapidly," Luo Shi (罗诗) said with emotion.
During the "Arts" Greater Bay Area Performance Season, the Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center successively planned activities such as Cantonese-Hong Kong-Macao drama dialogues, a theater alliance youth performing arts talent support program, and a Shenzhen (深圳)-Hong Kong (香港) musical creation and performance workshop. Among them, the musical "When the House Cat Meets the Cat (当家猫遇上猫)," jointly adapted and produced by the Hong Kong Family Theatre (香港演戏家族剧团) and the Shenzhen (深圳) Reversal Stage Theater (深圳反转舞台剧团), toured 30 performances in Shenzhen (深圳) and was invited to participate in the Aranya Drama Festival.
"In the future, we will focus on introducing relevant Hong Kong (香港) theater groups, providing a full-chain service from creation space, technical support to market promotion, and are committed to building a Shenzhen (深圳)-Hong Kong (香港)-Macao (澳门) cooperative art first release center," said Chen Shuai (陈帅).
Common Rules
Let Art and Cultural Exchanges "Pass Without Obstacles"
Cultural connection requires service connection first.
The difficulties in purchasing tickets and inconvenient payment methods that once plagued Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) audiences, as well as the high cost of cross-border performances and the long and cumbersome customs clearance process for musical instruments that restricted performing arts collaboration, are now being resolved one by one.
In April last year, the Shenzhen (深圳) Coastal Art Center launched an official seat selection and ticket purchase function on social platforms, and simultaneously connected to the Hong Kong (香港) ticketing platform, which can complete ticket purchase in 30 seconds. According to statistics, since the beginning of this year, nearly 40% of the theater's ticket-buying audiences are from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门). At present, many theaters in Shenzhen (深圳) have launched social platform ticket purchase functions, making it convenient for Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) audiences to purchase tickets.
In January this year, the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (香港管弦乐团) went to Shenzhen (深圳) to hold the 2026 New Year's Concert. This was the first time that the orchestra moved its New Year's Concert to the mainland, becoming the first落地 case of facilitating cultural and artistic exchanges between Shenzhen (深圳) and Hong Kong (香港) in the "Customs Further Supports the Reform and Opening-up Measures of the Qianhai (前海) Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone (海关进一步支持前海深港现代服务业合作区改革开放措施)."
"Musical instruments have complex and precise structures and are sensitive to the transportation environment. It is a challenge for the customs to complete safety verification in a short time," said Chen Yunhui (陈云辉), chief of the Baggage and Goods Supervision Section of the Shenzhen (深圳) Customs Postal Supervision Department. Shenzhen (深圳) Customs completed the pre-review of musical instrument lists and other materials in advance, and after the musical instruments arrived at the port, it opened a green channel, arranged special personnel to guide them, and guaranteed "zero delay" customs clearance for the entire chain of musical instruments.
Ren Xiaolong (任小珑), deputy chief executive of the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (香港管弦乐团), said that the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (香港管弦乐团) will take this convenient customs clearance as an opportunity, take "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Art and Culture Tour" as the starting point, and promote the normalized performance layout of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区).
With the increasing frequency of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) theater groups touring north, theaters in Shenzhen (深圳) are also taking the initiative to provide services, assisting in solving problems such as entry and exit, copyright registration, and cross-border work visas for technical personnel, so that Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) teams can come in, perform smoothly, and integrate.
More policy guarantees are being launched one after another—
In May last year, the "Several Policy Measures on Promoting the High-Quality Development of the Guangdong Performing Arts Market (关于推动广东演艺市场高质量发展的若干政策措施)" issued by Guangdong (广东) proposed to optimize the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Cultural Cooperation Conference mechanism, explore the establishment of a regular joint performance mechanism and an annual release mechanism, promote the establishment of the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Theater Alliance (粤港澳大湾区剧院联盟)" and the "Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Performing Arts Alliance (粤港澳大湾区演艺联盟)," and promote the mutual communication of performing arts resources and the tour landing of performing arts activities in the three places.
In September last year, the Qianhai (前海) Administration issued several measures on promoting the high-quality development of the cultural industry, proposing to reward eligible Hong Kong (香港) performing arts groups for performing in the Qianhai (前海) Cooperation Zone, and encouraging Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) colleges, universities, and art groups to establish incubation institutions in the Qianhai (前海) Cooperation Zone for the innovation and entrepreneurship development of Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) art talents and other Hong Kong (香港)-Shenzhen (深圳) cultural cooperation support measures.
This year, taking advantage of the opportunity of the 33rd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting being held in Shenzhen (深圳), Shenzhen (深圳) is planning to hold the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Performing Arts Industry Conference, building a comprehensive platform of "performance season + exhibition + transaction + forum + incubation," highlighting the vigorous vitality of the cultural Greater Bay Area.
Go to Shenzhen (深圳) to see a show. This new fashion is continuing to write a vivid story of cultural integration and people-to-people affinity in the new era's practice of "one country, two systems."
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On May 8th, the Global Mediation Summit, hosted by the International Organization for Mediation, was held in Hong Kong, attracting representatives from political, business, legal, and academic circles from more than 60 countries and regions around the world. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on the effective use of mediation to peacefully resolve international disputes and build a global mediation ecosystem, marking a new height for legal services in Hong Kong under the "One Country, Two Systems" framework. This grand event not only further polished Hong Kong's "golden brand" of the rule of law but also clearly outlined the trajectory of Hong Kong's legal services industry advancing from an Asia-Pacific regional platform to an international hub.
Strength is a powerful language. More than 1,700 barristers and 11,900 solicitors provide Hong Kong with solid legal talent support. In addition, more than 1,700 registered foreign lawyers from 31 jurisdictions, like a trickle of living water, introduce a broader international perspective. About 70% of international law firms worldwide have service organizations in Hong Kong, and more than half of the world's top 100 law firms conduct business in Hong Kong, promoting the integration and mutual learning of diverse legal wisdom. This not only demonstrates the vigorous vitality of Hong Kong's legal services market but also reflects the global competitiveness of Hong Kong's legal services industry.
Trust is a weighty footnote. Hong Kong's rule of law index ranks among the top in the world, and some precedents have been cited by other common law jurisdictions. Reports from international authoritative organizations show that Hong Kong has become the second most popular arbitration location in the world. In 2025, the number of cases accepted and the amount in dispute by the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (香港国际仲裁中心) both reached record highs, with international arbitration cases accounting for 84.3%. In the same year, the headquarters of the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院) settled in Hong Kong. Currently, Hong Kong is focusing on building a "global mediation capital." The Hague Conference on Private International Law, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law, the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law, and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization, among many other well-known international legal organizations, regard Hong Kong as an important strategic fulcrum and partner.
From "Asia-Pacific region" to "international," a change of words brings about a myriad of changes. The "14th Five-Year Plan" (十四五规划)綱要 proposed to support Hong Kong in building an Asia-Pacific international legal and dispute resolution service center; the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划)綱要 further proposed to support Hong Kong in deepening the construction of an international legal and dispute resolution service center. This is not only an expansion of the service radiation range but also a new coordinate and new positioning given by the country to Hong Kong's legal services industry. As the country promotes high-level opening to the outside world, Hong Kong needs to bravely shoulder the heavy responsibility in the field of foreign-related rule of law construction and provide strong foreign-related rule of law assistance. As the country participates in the formulation of international rules and promotes the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, Hong Kong also needs to provide a more diverse and broader international platform window.
As the "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) unfolds slowly, the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特区) will also formulate its first five-year plan, and Hong Kong's legal services industry is ushering in a once-in-a-lifetime historical opportunity. Hong Kong can, on the solid foundation of the International Organization for Mediation (国际调解院) and the Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre (香港国际仲裁中心), draw on international advanced experience and deeply build a diversified international commercial dispute resolution system integrating litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Hong Kong can rely on the unique pattern of "One Country, Two Systems, and Three Jurisdictions" in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) to deepen the connection of rules and the docking of mechanisms with the mainland, transform the "difference in systems" into "the advantage of systems," and serve as a bridge for internal and external communication in the field of legal services. As the only jurisdiction in the world that implements common law in both Chinese and English, Hong Kong can become a preferred legal service platform for serving the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" (一带一路) and helping mainland enterprises set sail overseas. Relying on the three excellent law schools in Hong Kong, coupled with the International Legal Talent Training Academy established by the SAR government, Hong Kong can become a "cradle" for the country to cultivate high-end foreign-related rule of law talents. Hong Kong can also propose "Hong Kong solutions" in cutting-edge fields such as international commercial affairs, maritime affairs, finance, digital economy, and green economy, and contribute Hong Kong's wisdom to the country's participation in the reform and construction of the global governance system.
Seizing the opportunity and sailing far away. From "Asia-Pacific region" to "international," the new coordinate has been anchored. This is a historic convergence point of Hong Kong's strengths, the country's needs, and global expectations. Riding the mighty east wind of the times and relying on the solid foundation of "One Country, Two Systems" (一国两制), Hong Kong's legal services industry will surely inject strong impetus into writing a new chapter in the development of the rule of law in Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems" (一国两制).
Return to TopRecently, the 18th "Hong Kong Cup" Diplomatic Knowledge Competition finals and award ceremony were held in Hong Kong (香港). With the theme of "Diplomacy Undertakes Missions, Youth Creates the Future," this year's competition attracted over 80,000 participants from 295 primary and secondary schools, setting a new record in scale. The picture shows the final scene.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Chen Duo (陈铎) photographed.
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Recently, Lai Ching-te (赖清德) openly kowtowed to Hatta Yoichi (八田與一), who was active during the Japanese occupation period, in Tainan (台南), absurdly claiming to "remember the source of the water" from Japan. This has refreshed the lower limit of the Democratic Progressive Party (民进党) authorities' pro-Japanese stance, exposing their ugly faces of 数典忘祖 (shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ - "forget one's ancestors," to forget one's origins or heritage) and betraying the nation.
Hatta Yoichi (八田與一) was by no means the so-called "benefactor" in Lai Ching-te's (赖清德) words, but rather a pawn in Japan's colonial plunder of Taiwan. During the Japanese occupation period, Japanese colonialists implemented bloody suppression, resource plunder, and a "Japanization" movement in Taiwan, plunging Taiwanese compatriots into dire straits. Hatta Yoichi (八田與一) presided over the construction of water conservancy projects, serving Japan's colonial plunder strategy of "agriculture in Taiwan, industry in Japan." The project greatly increased Taiwan's rice production, but the vast majority of the grain was shipped to Japan, and the Taiwanese people were unable to feed themselves adequately, and could only fill their stomachs with sweet potatoes. The so-called "water conservancy construction" was nothing more than a tool for the colonialists to extract the wealth of the Taiwanese people, stained with the blood, sweat, and tears of Taiwanese compatriots.
Lai Ching-te (赖清德) and his ilk disregard the towering crimes committed by Japanese militarism against the Chinese people, including Taiwanese compatriots, and recognize the thief as their father. From worshiping Hatta Yoichi (八田與一) every year since serving as the mayor of Tainan (台南), to naming a road "Hatta Yoichi Avenue (八田與一大道)," to lifting the ban on Japanese nuclear food and glorifying Japanese militarism's invasion of Asia as "East Asian Co-prosperity," Lai Ching-te's (赖清德) various pro-Japanese and colonial-loving evil deeds have been criticized by all sectors of Taiwan, who have condemned him for 数典忘祖 (shǔ diǎn wàng zǔ - "forget one's ancestors," to forget one's origins or heritage), "insulting compatriots, and acting against heaven."
Lai Ching-te's (赖清德) absurd performance is by no means simple historical ignorance, but a naked political calculation. For a long time, he has stubbornly adhered to the "Taiwan independence" separatist stance, attempting to win the support of external anti-China forces by kowtowing to Japanese right-wing forces. He deliberately beautifies Japanese colonial history, attempting to sever the historical and cultural connection between Taiwan and the mainland of the motherland, dissolve the national identity of Taiwanese compatriots, and stubbornly go down the dead end of splitting the country.
Taiwan is China's Taiwan, and the anti-Japanese struggle of Taiwanese compatriots is an important part of the national War of Resistance Against Japan. Countless revolutionary martyrs defended national dignity with their blood and lives. This history cannot be tampered with, and national sentiments cannot be desecrated. Lai Ching-te (赖清德) and his ilk are moving against the tide of history, relying on foreign forces, betraying the country, and betraying the nation. Their ugly acts will inevitably be judged by history and justice.
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During the "May Day" holiday, Mr. Lin (林先生), a resident of Macao (澳门), invited two close friends to visit the old district of the Barra Square (妈阁塘) area, which he rarely frequents on weekdays. They checked in for photos, savored delicacies, and visited exhibitions. The Maritime Workshop No. 1 and No. 2 and the outdoor plaza in the area were bustling with tourists. "I heard about the 'Barra Slow Living Festival' before the holiday, and the word 'slow' attracted me. It emphasizes individual experiences, allowing people to 偷得浮生半日闲 (tōu dé fú shēng bàn rì xián - "steal half a day of leisure from a busy life," to find a moment of peace and relaxation in a hectic schedule), feel the charm of culture, and enjoy a rare slow time," Mr. Lin (林先生) told reporters.
Located next to the A-Ma Temple (妈阁庙) and near the Inner Harbour Ferry Terminal (澳门内港码头), the Barra Square (妈阁塘) area was once a bustling place with countless boats competing. With the changes of the times, only the pond and a few old buildings remained, which were once used as slaughterhouses. Later, they gradually faded out of practical use, and few people visited. "But the nautical culture and historical memories it carries are often recalled by the older generation of residents, and it also contains the indispensable cultural core of Macao (澳门) as a world tourism and leisure center," said Chan Ka-Leong (陈家良), Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Macao Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (澳门街坊会联合总会) Area Development Center.
A "Slow Living Festival" has revitalized the area. From May 1st to 3rd, the "Barra Slow Living Festival" took "A Moment of Tea × Intangible Cultural Heritage Light" as its theme, deeply exploring the slow-paced life of the Barra Square (妈阁塘) area. "Enjoying a cup of tea, listening to a piece of music, seeing an exhibition, and tasting a meal, I didn't expect the content to be so rich," Mr. Lin (林先生) said with emotion.
It is reported that this event brought together more than 70 exhibitors, with more than 120 market stalls and experience activities such as "Water Mirror Tea Seats" with tea masters serving tea, "Tea Art Feast" managed by chefs, bamboo shed craft space music performances, master lectures, and design exhibitions. It also linked up with surrounding community businesses to inject new momentum into the innovative development of the area.
Mr. Chan (陈先生), a Macao (澳门) resident living nearby, brought his family to enjoy the bamboo shed craft space music performance. "The Barra Square (妈阁塘) has changed a lot in recent years. It used to be full of old docks and abandoned factories, and there were few tourists. Now there are often exhibitions, markets, and parent-child activities, and the environment is much cleaner. There are more good places for the neighborhood to relax," he said.
Statistics show that the "Barra Slow Living Festival" attracted a total of 40,000 visitors in 3 days, and 40% of the exhibitors were local Macao (澳门) businesses.
"This is a brand new attempt," said Mi Peng (米鹏), consultant of the Office of the Secretary for Economy and Finance of the Macao Special Administrative Region Government (澳门特区政府). In 2023, the Macao Special Administrative Region Government (澳门特区政府) launched the revitalization of six old districts. Based on the previous six leisure enterprises being responsible for one district each, a new model of "government supervision and coordination + enterprise investment in resources + non-governmental planning and organization" was recently launched. The Macao Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (澳门街坊会联合总会) established an area development center to coordinate and be responsible for the revitalization of the six districts. "The Special Administrative Region Government (特区政府) plays the role of supervision and coordination to ensure that the revitalization of the area serves the general direction of promoting community economic development, supporting the transformation and upgrading of small and medium-sized enterprises, and helping youth entrepreneurship; leisure enterprises provide financial support." Mi Peng (米鹏) said that the new model combines efforts to form a joint force, giving full play to the comprehensive benefits of "1+1+1>3".
"There will be constant surprises in the future," Chan Ka-Leong (陈家良) revealed that the Macao Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (澳门街坊会联合总会) Area Development Center will hold the "Fong Long Micro-Drunk Weekend" event in the near future. "Rua do Cunha (福隆新街) is one of the streets with a century of history in Macao (澳门). The event will inject vitality into the traditional street in a way that young people like, and activate the community economy in the Rua do Cunha (福隆新街) area."
Lin Xiaowen (林小雯), director of the Macao Federation of Neighbourhood Associations (澳门街坊会联合总会) Area Development Center, introduced that the event will use local ingredients as inspiration to create themed cocktails, and also invite musicians from Hong Kong (香港) and Macao (澳门) to "weave" a beautiful time where music and wine complement each other, allowing people to immerse themselves in the unique historical stories and cultural heritage of the old street.
Why spend so much effort to revitalize old districts? "As a world tourism and leisure center, Macao (澳门) not only has historical and cultural attractions such as the Ruins of St. Paul's (大三巴牌坊) and large-scale tourism and leisure resorts, but also communities full of human touch and fireworks," Chan Ka-Leong (陈家良) said in detail. For example, Rua do Cunha (福隆新街) has completely preserved the appearance of a Chinese commercial district in Macao (澳门) in the 19th century, together with the Western-style arcade buildings on both sides of Avenida de Almeida Ribeiro (新马路) in the early 20th century and the Inner Harbour trading area around Pier 16 (16号码头), jointly showcasing the port city commercial history of Macao (澳门)'s multicultural integration.
Revitalizing old districts helps to better tell the Chinese story and the Macao (澳门) story to the world. "The Lai Chi Vun Shipyards (荔枝碗船厂) in Coloane (路环) and the Iec Long Firecracker Factory (益隆炮竹厂) in Taipa (氹仔) have been closed for decades, but the old sites have been completely preserved, showing the development history of Macao (澳门)'s once glorious handicraft manufacturing industry," Chan Ka-Leong (陈家良) said. The innovative revitalization of old districts helps Macao (澳门)'s economic diversification, can drive Macao (澳门)'s community economic development, help local youth entrepreneurship, promote the development of small and medium-sized enterprises, and make the people's livelihood areas outside the tourist areas also prosperous.
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"Medium shot, eye-level, fixed slightly downward angle, protagonist A facing the left side of the frame, lips slightly moving, and speaking. Suddenly, his expression changes drastically, furrowing his brows and clenching his teeth, looking alert." In a corner of the Qixiang Culture (奇想文化) office in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), storyboard artist Chen Tianyuan (陈天源) is facing two computers, giving instructions in the workflow, which generates a video. Previously, completing such animation keyframes required several working days, but with the assistance of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology, a smooth video can now be generated in less than 60 seconds...
In the age of artificial intelligence, technological developments often exceed expectations. Earlier this year, AI technologies represented by Seedance2.0 rapidly iterated, bringing tremendous changes to the micro-drama industry in a short period of time.
In this transformation, the vast majority of micro-drama companies have either deployed or completely transitioned to the AI micro-drama track. Some wonder if AI micro-dramas will replace live-action dramas and monopolize the market. Others worry if the industry will overheat. Where will those practitioners whose "rice bowls" have been snatched away by artificial intelligence go? With these questions in mind, our reporter went to the front lines of the micro-drama industry.
What Changes Has AI Brought to the Industry?
"Now, a project team only needs four types of roles: director, storyboard artist, asset manager, and animation editor," Li Yuan (李渊) said enthusiastically. Five years ago, Li Yuan and a friend founded their company, Qixiang Culture (奇想文化), in Zhengzhou (郑州). Initially, the company was crammed into a small office, with seven or eight people buried in creating anime, animation, and comics.
In 2023, Li Yuan (李渊) keenly captured a new trend—the age of artificial intelligence was coming, and the micro-drama industry was rapidly rising. He actively promoted the company's transformation, introducing AI tools for assisted animation creation. In 2025, AI micro-dramas ushered in an explosive period, and Qixiang Culture's (奇想文化) employees rapidly expanded to more than 200 people, with the office expanding to three entire floors.
From anime series to AI comic dramas, in Li Yuan's (李渊) view, this transformation was very "smooth." "The change is driven by technology. We actively embraced it, and efficiency immediately increased." In 2025, the company produced 10,000 minutes of AI comic dramas; in 2026, this number is expected to reach 100,000 minutes.
"Production capacity has increased, and costs have decreased. In the past, the cost of making a drama was about 300,000 yuan, but with the emergence of Seedance2.0, a drama can be made for 50,000 yuan," Li Yuan (李渊) said, adding that technological development is much faster than expected. "We originally thought that the problem of video fluency would be solved by large models later, but it was solved in the first quarter of this year."
In Li Yuan's (李渊) view, the current AI's "from 0 to 1" generation capability has reached 60 points, and the work of people—selection, judgment, decision-making, and optimization—adds points to the work in every aspect. "Technology iterates monthly, and no one knows what the industry will look like in a few months," Li Yuan (李渊) said.
Currently, AI micro-dramas are experiencing an unprecedented explosive growth, relying on low cost, high efficiency, and large-scale advantages to become the main force of micro-drama content production.
More and more companies are injecting AI capabilities into the micro-drama industry: in script creation, AI excels in script expansion; in visual style, different creators can "play" with completely different styles for the same script. Technology is gradually lowering the "threshold of imagination."
Unlike companies like Qixiang Culture (奇想文化) that inherently possess technological genes, some micro-drama companies with heavy assets are also actively adapting to the trend and striving to transform into producing AI micro-dramas, but inevitably with growing pains.
Standing at this current juncture, Zhou Yuqing (周钰晴) may find it difficult to imagine in which direction her company, Zhengzhou Tianqiao Short Drama (郑州天桥短剧), will develop in the coming months.
At the end of April, walking into the filming base of Tianqiao Short Drama (天桥短剧), there was not a single crew filming in the huge base. And in another building nearby, there was a new base under construction—during the Spring Festival, they were still working overtime to rush the project, but in the blink of an eye, the situation changed.
"In April this year, the entire industry's production capacity took a sharp turn towards AI micro-dramas," said Zhou Yuqing (周钰晴), Director of Public Affairs at Tianqiao Short Drama (天桥短剧).
Tianqiao Company (天桥公司) was founded in 2012, starting with online literature and focusing on content creation. In 2022, Tianqiao Short Drama (天桥短剧) was established and has now transformed into a short drama platform ranking among the top in the country in terms of comprehensive strength, with its business covering the entire industrial chain of micro-drama production and a team of approximately 2,000 people.
Zhou Yuqing (周钰晴) introduced that Tianqiao Short Drama (天桥短剧) has been closely following the development trend of AI technology since 2024. At that time, the industry was undergoing a transformation from traffic-driven to content-driven, and users' requirements for the quality of micro-dramas were getting higher and higher, and the cost and efficiency bottlenecks of traditional production models were gradually emerging. At the same time, the country vigorously promoted the cultural digitalization strategy, encouraging the integration of AI and the cultural industry.
Driven by the triple forces of market demand, policy guidance, and technological iteration, Tianqiao Short Drama (天桥短剧) established its first AI project team in early 2024, and the full transformation officially began after the Spring Festival this year. Previously, they filmed more than 100 live-action dramas a month, but now they may only film a few, with production basically reduced by 80% to 90%.
"Our transformation is full-link, and we have carried out technological reconstruction from script creation to post-production distribution," Zhou Yuqing (周钰晴) said. "The biggest challenge is talent—people who understand both AI technology and film and television creation are too scarce. We can only reserve talent through 'internal training + external introduction'."
This round of industry change based on AI has had a huge impact on cities such as Zhengzhou (郑州) and Xi'an (西安), which are dominated by heavy assets such as filming bases. However, industry insiders believe that technology brings not only disruption, but also boundary expansion. In the past, male-oriented dramas could not be separated from gods of war, live-in sons-in-law, and fantasy; female-oriented dramas could not avoid domineering CEOs, sweet romances, and wealthy daughters... "AI may open up new themes such as reality, science fiction, and traditional culture. In the future, the categories of Chinese stories will increase several times," said Zhao Hui (赵晖), a professor at the Communication University of China (中国传媒大学).
Some practitioners have also proposed that AI micro-dramas can first be used as a "touchstone"—to test the market for a certain type of theme or story at a low cost, and if the market feedback is good, then invest more funds to film live-action dramas.
Zhao Hui (赵晖) pointed out that micro-dramas are an important form of new mass art. "Only by reducing costs and increasing efficiency can the reduced costs and increased efficiency be infinitely expanded in tools and intelligence, so that the micro-drama industry can achieve an overall historical transformation."
Will AI Micro-Dramas Replace Live-Action Dramas?
In Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) in Dongyang (东阳), Zhejiang (浙江), a film and television town that has been dominated by live-action shooting for many years, actor Wang Yuxi (王玉玺) has recently had deep feelings.
"In the past, I could take on several dramas every month, but in the past few months, the workload has decreased sharply, and many actors like me have felt the risk of unemployment. Can AI really completely replace live-action shooting?"
Wang Yuxi's (王玉玺) question almost represents the general mentality of the entire micro-drama industry, and everyone is watching and thinking.
Xi'an Zhuoyuan Film and Television Culture Media Co., Ltd. (西安卓渊影视文化传媒有限公司) entered the micro-drama industry in 2022, with its business covering the entire industrial chain, and also built a 15,000-square-meter filming base in Xi'an (西安). "We originally planned to build another 130,000 square meters this year," Wang Tao (王涛), head of content at Zhuoyuan (卓渊), sighed, "I didn't expect AI to come so quickly."
Now, the AI sector is already Zhuoyuan's (卓渊) main track, but Wang Tao (王涛), who started as a director, does not plan to completely abandon live-action shooting. "AI simulation dramas cannot replace live-action shooting," Wang Tao (王涛) said with certainty. "Live-action actors have warmth, and AI-made products lack this aspect."
At its peak, Zhuoyuan's (卓渊) monthly production of live-action micro-dramas exceeded 100. But now, the production of live-action shooting has been drastically reduced. But Wang Tao (王涛) is not too anxious, "It just allows us to calm down and think about what we should do in the face of the current market and users."
In Hangzhou (杭州), Jiuzhou Culture (九州文化), a leading company in the industry, is also accelerating its deployment in the AI micro-drama track. In the view of Duan Peng (段鹏), the company's editor-in-chief, no matter how fast technology runs, it still cannot replace live-action dramas in a short period of time.
"AI has brought about changes in the entire field, but the performance skills of live-action actors—such as hesitating to speak, and wanting to say but stopping—are still difficult for AI to achieve," he said. "AI simulation dramas or AI comic dramas will definitely produce high-quality products in the future, but they are not the same as the live-action track, and the audience will also be divided. The two are parallel or intersect with each other."
No matter how strong the technology is, it is ultimately a tool. What really sets the difference is people's overall control and perception of a drama—aesthetics and judgment, which are still the wall that AI cannot temporarily overcome in the micro-drama industry. Micro-dramas must grow towards the "heart" and give full play to the role of people, so that good works can resonate and good content can truly enter the hearts of users.
Shen Yang (沈阳), a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication and the School of Artificial Intelligence at Tsinghua University (清华大学), pointed out that in the AI era, the value of people is mainly manifested in three aspects, "One is how you ask questions, and the other is how you choose from the answers," Shen Yang (沈阳) said. "The most important thing is aesthetics and taste. With aesthetics, the results of technology will be a huge wealth of human imagination."
At the same time, major micro-drama platforms have unanimously stated that they will focus on increasing support for live-action dramas. At the 13th China Internet Audio-Visual Conference (中国网络视听大会) held in April this year, Hongguo Short Drama (红果短剧) announced that it would invest 500 million yuan to support the creation of live-action micro-dramas.
The implementation plan for the creation and dissemination of high-quality micro-dramas released by the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) on May 14 shows that six platforms, including Hongguo (红果), Tencent (腾讯), Mango TV (芒果TV), Migu (咪咕), Kuaishou (快手), and Dianzhong (点众), will invest a total of at least 6 billion yuan specifically for supporting excellent live-action micro-dramas.
"From the background playback and discussion data, we believe that the market is actually over-worried or over-interpreting the impact and influence of AI micro-dramas on live-action dramas," said Wei Qintao (魏钦涛), head of high-quality short dramas at Hongguo (红果). "Live-action dramas are still our basic foundation, and we don't think it has reached the end or the stage of decline. On the contrary, it is still in a stage of vigorous development, and we must find ways to bridge or resolve the market's misunderstanding of it and support the better development of live-action dramas."
Since its emergence, the micro-drama industry has provided an average of 2 million to 3 million jobs every year, but under the impact of AI micro-dramas, the future of traditional jobs such as mid-waist actors, costumes, props, lighting, and photography is full of variables. "These jobs are of great significance to driving social and economic development, so increasing support for live-action dramas is not only based on the industry's own considerations, but also on social benefits," Wei Qintao (魏钦涛) said.
Under the impact of AI, will micro-drama practitioners be replaced? The answer from many practitioners is: it will change, but it will not disappear. While some types of practitioners may face unemployment, post-production staff related to AI technology have gained a large number of job opportunities, and the industry's practitioners are undergoing structural adjustments, showing a trend of ebb and flow.
Expect New Regulations to Be Introduced as Soon as Possible
Currently, extreme themes in the AI micro-drama track are gradually fading away, and the industry is exploring and broadening the boundaries of creation for new themes such as reality, science fiction, and traditional culture, and striving to move towards high-quality products. Although there are no phenomenal hits yet, the track advantages of AI micro-dramas are very obvious, and the popularity of top works can already compete with top live-action dramas.
"The development of AI micro-dramas is still in its early stages," in Li Yuan's (李渊) view, "the characteristics of the mid-term stage should be more subdivided themes, and creators and audiences reach a consensus on quality standards, rather than blindly pursuing eye-catching content, and becoming both popular and acclaimed should become the norm." He believes that on the one hand, technology is rapidly iterating, and on the other hand, users' aesthetic cognition is also adjusting, and everything is in the process of development, "Only when the market is relatively stable can creators and platforms provide users with better content products."
At the same time, AI micro-dramas are accompanied by new governance challenges such as the definition of copyright ownership, compliance with data training, and protection of portrait rights. For example, after a celebrity authorizes production, whether their image can be used in any scenario, a series of issues and boundaries remain to be clarified.
In addition, regulatory lag is also one of the reasons for the current "barbaric growth" of the AI micro-drama industry. Technology greatly reduces production costs, resulting in most content relying on platform self-review, and there is still a lack of clear regulatory basis for controlling the content boundaries. Some practitioners have pointed out that the current regulatory rules lag behind, making the cost of trial and error lower. Some AI micro-dramas have an investment of only a few thousand yuan, but they rely on eye-catching speculative operations to make a lot of money in the market. This distorted logic of "low cost, high return" poses a great problem to the healthy development of the industry.
The State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) has issued policies requiring AI micro-dramas to be included in the micro-drama management sequence and maintain the same review standards as live-action dramas, further urging the introduction of detailed regulatory review rules. "From the risk warning of creation from the producer to the platform, normative policies will definitely be introduced, which is an inevitable trend in historical development," Zhao Hui (赵晖) said.
In April this year, Hongguo Short Drama (红果短剧) continued to carry out large-scale governance of AI micro-drama content on the platform, disposing of more than 10,000 low-quality content.
"The production methods of AI micro-dramas and live-action dramas are different, resulting in different content and rules for the review of the two tracks. With the rapid iteration of AI technology, the content and rules of review are constantly changing, and the complexity of review is higher," Wei Qintao (魏钦涛) said. "We are also constantly increasing manpower and investment. At present, what we hope to achieve is to continuously improve the review rules to be more refined."
Many practitioners are optimistic about the healthy development of the industry. Duan Peng (段鹏) believes that with the iteration of technology and the improvement of audience aesthetics, after the **大浪淘沙** (dà làng táo shā - "big waves wash sand," after a great storm, the strong survive), the leading AI micro-drama companies will definitely emerge this year. The industry expects relevant review rules and management measures to be introduced as soon as possible to correct the direction for the development of the new track.
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Opening a mobile phone, the story of Chang'e flying to the moon is recreated in AI (Artificial Intelligence) images; seasonal legends and ancient myths unfold one after another on the small screen; the singing of Qin腔 Opera transcends geographical boundaries with the help of AI, igniting the curiosity of young people thousands of miles away. Behind these scenes, AI micro-dramas are opening up new spaces for cultural dissemination.
In recent years, micro-dramas have evolved from rapid, unregulated growth to meticulous cultivation. High-quality dramas such as "Inside and Outside the Home" and "No Small Matters in Xicheng" are deeply rooted in real life, reflecting the spirit of the times in everyday family matters and responding to people's concerns in the mundane world, continuously enhancing the content quality and social influence of live-action micro-dramas. At the same time, the rapid iteration of AI technology has opened up another path for micro-dramas—historical scenes, mythical realms, and ancient times that are difficult to achieve through live-action shooting have the possibility of being realized in AI images.
We have never lacked good stories; what we lack is a way to make the stories reach the audience. With thousands of years of accumulation, the volume of stories in outstanding traditional Chinese culture far exceeds the imagination of any generation. However, most of the content in this rich mine has long been dormant in classics and memories, and has not been transformed into images that are easily accessible to contemporary audiences. Due to the high threshold, high cost, and long production cycle of traditional film and television content production, resources are concentrated only on leading IPs. A myth, an intangible cultural heritage item, or an anecdote cannot independently support a theatrical film or a long series. The cultural value of content and the logic of industrialized production have long been misaligned.
The emergence of AI micro-dramas has changed this structural dilemma. Its short length is naturally in line with the large number of fragmented narrative units in traditional culture. They were once materials waiting for large-scale productions to "summon"; now they themselves can stand alone within the framework of micro-dramas. The mismatch in volume has disappeared, and a large amount of dormant high-quality content has the opportunity to be directly visualized.
In addition, the intervention of AI technology has greatly reduced the production threshold from idea to finished product. "Chinese Mythology" allows Nüwa (女娲) mending the sky and Jingwei (精卫) filling the sea to reappear on the screen with brand-new audio-visual language; "The Mystery of Majiayao: The Password of the Divine Staff" combines AI technology with archaeological data to restore the tribal scenes of 5,000 years ago, driving the topic of "wanting to go to Gansu (甘肃) for archaeology" to continue to ferment on social platforms; "Chang'an (长安) Kitchen God: Good Show Immediately" allows the century-old Qin腔 Opera to break through the boundaries of the stage with the help of AI images... The imagination of myths, the context of classics, the profundity of archaeology, and the richness of opera are no longer daunting thresholds for ordinary audiences in the face of vivid images.
The application of new technologies brings both opportunities and challenges. The phenomenon of "AI remixing" the Four Great Classical Novels and distorting historical figures has emerged. During the special governance period of the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局), nearly 23,000 illegal videos were cleaned up; the "Measures for the Identification of Artificial Intelligence Generated Synthetic Content" was officially implemented, making AI-generated content traceable. Supervision purifies the soil; and what truly nourishes the ecology and shapes the industry's aesthetic standards is the high-quality content itself. When audiences become accustomed to AI micro-dramas with cultural depth, visual quality, and emotional resonance, the living space for inferior content will naturally disappear. Good content is always the most powerful driving force for cultural inheritance.
Cultural inheritance has new carriers in every era. Woodblock printing allowed classics to be circulated, and radio and television allowed local operas to cross dialect boundaries. Today, AI micro-dramas are, to some extent, playing a similar role—allowing traditional cultural content that has long been difficult to visualize to find contemporary viewers. When the century-old Qin腔 Opera walks out of Northwest China with the help of AI images, and when the myths of the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" (山海经) regain life in new audio-visual language, a new understanding is forming between technology and humanity.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to "prosper new mass literature and art under the conditions of the Internet." To let the millennium-old culture find new ways of dissemination in the digital age in a form that the people love to see, this is the era responsibility that new mass literature and art should have, and it is also the inherent vitality of Chinese civilization to continue endlessly under new technological conditions.
(The author is a professor at the School of Humanities and Public Administration, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics (北京航空航天大学), and a young contracted commentator of the Beijing Federation of Literary and Art Circles (北京市文联).)
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Both the magnificent scenery along the Yangtze River (长江) and the ordinary daily life of the city, as well as the continuous flow of thousands of years of cultural heritage... Since this year, a number of Yangtze River (长江)-themed art exhibitions have been held successively in Beijing (北京), Yichang (宜昌), Hubei Province (湖北省), Guangyuan (广元), Sichuan Province (四川省), and other places. One after another, traditional Chinese paintings are slowly unfolding, fully displaying the ancient charm and modern brilliance of the Yangtze River (长江), and also allowing people to re-understand the Yangtze River (长江) through the brush and ink.
The Yangtze River (长江) is a magnificent natural wonder and an important civilizational umbilical cord. It has shaped the thousand-year cultural heritage from Bashan Shushui (巴山蜀水) to the water towns of Jiangnan (江南), and is a symbolic symbol of Chinese civilization. From Zhao Fu's (赵黻) "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River (长江万里图)" in the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋), Xie Shichen's (谢时臣) "Wuxia Cloud Waves (巫峡云涛图)" in the Ming Dynasty (明代), to Zhang Daqian's (张大千) "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River (长江万里图)" and Fu Baoshi's (傅抱石) "Three Gorges (三峡)" in modern times, many classic art works depicting the Yangtze River (长江) have appeared in the history of Chinese painting. In the new era, especially since the symposium on promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带) was held in 2016, the "Yangtze River (长江) in art" has been continuously endowed with new connotations of the times.
The Yangtze River (长江)-themed art creation in the new era has experienced a profound aesthetic turn and spiritual reconstruction, that is, from the conquest and transformation of nature to the poetic praise of the community of life. Behind this transformation is the moving echo of the concept of "green waters and green mountains are golden mountains and silver mountains (绿水青山就是金山银山)" in the field of visual art. Looking back at the Yangtze River (长江)-themed art creation during the industrial construction period of the last century, it was often based on striving for production. Nowadays, art workers have begun to consciously listen to the sound of the river and actively depict the increasingly beautiful Yangtze River (长江) ecology. For example, Chang Lei's (常磊) oil painting "The Lingering Charm of the Three Gorges (三峡余韵)" focuses on the improvement of the water ecology in the Yangtze River Basin (长江流域). The calm lake after the water storage in the Three Gorges Reservoir Area (三峡库区) is sparkling, as if telling the story of the rebirth of the river. Dong Jining's (董继宁) "Good Spring in Xiliang Wanqing (西梁万顷春光好)" shows the beautiful spring scenery of the wetlands along the Yangtze River (长江), giving the traditional Chinese painting "walkable and livable" artistic conception a new ecological connotation. These works together constitute a visual history of the ecological restoration of the Yangtze River (长江). The creators interpret the same concept with their brushes - the beauty of ecology is not only an aesthetic object, but also the cornerstone of the sustainable development of Chinese civilization.
As the cradle of Chinese civilization, the Yangtze River (长江) also carries important cultural significance that transcends geographical space. The excavation of the Yangtze River (长江) cultural gene in the new era art creation is also reflected in a dual path: one is the creative transformation of traditional images, and the other is the in-depth combing and modern expression of regional culture.
The creative transformation of traditional images focuses on showing the profound cultural connotation of the Yangtze River (长江). The typical representative is the Yangtze River (长江) under Zhou Shaohua's (周韶华) pen. As he himself said, the Yangtze River (长江) is one of the most profound parts of his artistic life. From completing the "Ten Thousand Miles of the Yangtze River (长江万里行)" twice in the 1980s to visiting the Three Gorges (三峡) in his old age, Zhou Shaohua (周韶华) felt the magnificence of the Yangtze River (长江) while walking, and combined the magnificence and grandeur of the Yangtze River (长江) with the "momentum" in traditional landscape painting, creating a series of paintings full of powerful spiritual power. The intervention of digital technology has opened a new window for the contemporary translation of the Yangtze River (长江) cultural gene. Zhang Wenchao's (张文超) video work "Dike City-X (大堤城—X)" uses interactive programs, data visualization and other technologies to digitize the real-time movement trajectory of independently searching for the Yangtze River (长江), and uses drones to expand the perspective, transforming the historical sites and new features along the Yangtze River (长江) into traversable digital landscapes. The new art form inspires us that the inheritance of cultural genes should not be limited to the continuation of styles and patterns, but should pursue the contemporary transformation of cognitive methods.
In recent years, in the systematic creation projects of local painting academies, there is no lack of in-depth tracing and artistic expression of the Yangtze River (长江) cultural gene. The Hubei Provincial Academy of Fine Arts (湖北省美术院) has organized painters to deeply explore the contemporary value of the Yangtze River (长江) culture for many times, and explore the use of visual art to express the Chu culture (楚文化) spirit contained in it. The Chinese painting "A Panoramic View of Jing Mountain and Chu Water (荆山楚水揽胜图)" created by Xu Yongmin (徐勇民), Fan Feng (樊枫), Wang Xinyao (王心耀), and Yu Xingang (余信钢) juxtaposes the dangerous peaks of the Three Gorges (三峡) with Yunmengze (云梦泽), highlighting the magnificence and fantasy of the Chu culture (楚文化). The Jiangsu Provincial Academy of Chinese Painting (江苏省国画院) organized 31 painters to conduct field sketches along the Yangtze River (长江), and completed the large-scale painting "Spring in the Yangtze River (长江春色图)" (partial view in the picture) in one year, artistically interpreting the cultural spirit and new features of the Yangtze River (长江). These art creations together constitute a new era Yangtze River (长江) picture scroll, in which the Yangtze River (长江) cultural gene is constantly renewed, and the ancient and modern styles are intertwined.
Under the drive of national strategies such as "accelerating the construction of a maritime power" and "promoting the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt (长江经济带)", the Yangtze River (长江) has been given a new era role. It is not only China's inland golden waterway, but also an important bridge connecting the inland with the ocean and China with the world. The new era art creation also timely captures this transformation. Fan Di'an's (范迪安) oil painting "New Look of the Times (时代新貌)" integrates the images of busy waterways, ecological corridors, and smart cities into one volume with bright colors. Natural landscapes and human landscapes resonate harmoniously like a symphony, implying the coordinated progress of economic development and ecological protection. Yang Canjun (杨参军) and Wang Leqi's (王乐其) oil painting "Ode to Azure - Launching the Construction of Zhejiang Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zone (致蔚蓝——开展浙江海洋经济发展示范区建设)" artistically shows the magnificent picture of strengthening the country through the sea in the form of a triptych. The bright colors and dynamic brushstrokes are full of vigor and vitality.
The continuous advancement of the construction of the Yangtze River National Cultural Park (长江国家文化公园) has provided a new narrative space for the Yangtze River (长江)-themed art creation. Art workers have also gradually transformed from observers and describers to builders of cultural space. In 2024, the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院) held the "Smooth Sailing (风正一帆悬)" Yangtze River (长江) theme creation practice activity, organizing artists to conduct field investigation-style sketches along the Yangtze River (长江). Different from previous field trips, this activity emphasizes "process creation". Artists not only have to complete their works, but also record the discoveries and thoughts about the Yangtze River (长江) civilization and the Yangtze River National Cultural Park (长江国家文化公园) through video diaries, manuscript documents, community interviews, and other forms. This kind of research and display activity that focuses on the creation ecology itself has become a part of the three-dimensional narrative of the National Cultural Park.
There are also some important exhibitions, such as the "New Elephant Yangtze River (新象长江)" themed art exhibition, which focuses on guiding artists to place their creation and thinking in the overall narrative space of the Yangtze River Cultural Belt (长江文化带), so that art creation is closely linked to the pulse of the times. The "Blue Water Flows East - Exhibition of Yangtze River (长江) Theme Art Masterpieces from the Collection of the National Art Museum of China (碧水东流——中国美术馆藏长江主题艺术精品展)" takes time as a clue to sort out the century-old evolution of Yangtze River (长江) theme art creation. In the "Future Yangtze River (未来长江)" digital art section, viewers can use VR (virtual reality) equipment to see the beautiful Yangtze River (长江) ecological scenery after the carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals are achieved.
Looking at the Yangtze River (长江)-themed art creation in the new era, it is a profound artistic creation unfolded under the joint drive of ecological concepts, cultural consciousness and national strategies. Art workers sing the way of heaven and earth, the source of civilization and the dream of great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation to their heart's content, and inject endless visual power into the national cultural narrative with the ancient and young Yangtze River (长江). When more people approach the Yangtze River (长江), understand the Yangtze River (长江), and praise the Yangtze River (长江) through traditional Chinese paintings, the resonance of countless hearts will converge into a magnificent symphony of the spirit of the times.
(The author is the deputy director of the Institute of Fine Arts of the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院美术研究所))
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Chinese gardens are a treasure of outstanding Chinese traditional culture. As a model of Chinese lake and mountain gardens, the Hangzhou West Lake (杭州西湖) garden construction paradigm spread to the Korean Peninsula and Japan as early as 1,000 years ago, not only nourishing local garden art but also radiating throughout Southeast Asia, and influencing the creation of British natural landscape gardens.
Over the years, in the present era of diversified cultural integration and co-existence, Chinese traditional garden art has developed through inheritance, increasingly demonstrating a refined and unique oriental charm. It is not limited to the spatial creation of stacking rocks and managing water but is also transformed into a spiritual dwelling place that soothes the heart and cultivates emotions, blooming with new vitality in the process of meeting the spiritual and cultural needs of modern people.
Recently, the 2026 International Horticultural Therapy Expo was launched in Taean County (泰安郡), South Korea. This grand event not only covers themed environments such as forests, oceans, and emotional healing gardens but also features a special international competition unit to recognize outstanding innovations and designs from around the world. The Chinese Garden, themed "New Winding Stream Party" (新曲水流觞), stood out among many works and won the highest award.
Water features are an important part of Chinese traditional garden art, possessing a special charm that other landscapes with fixed images, such as mountains and rocks, and buildings, do not have. "Winding Stream Party" (曲水流觞) is a special water feature in Chinese classical gardens, originating from the ancient ritual of banquets by the water to ward off misfortune. The Lanting Gathering (兰亭雅集) can be regarded as the most famous "Winding Stream Party" activity in Chinese history. Since then, "Winding Stream Party" has become a symbolic cultural symbol integrating garden water features, literati elegance, and spiritual artistic conception. More than 400 years later, the Silla (新罗) royal family of the Korean Peninsula also began to popularize winding stream banquets. Today, the ruins of Poseokjeong (鲍石亭) in Gyeongju (庆州市), South Korea, still exist.
The rich cultural connotation of "Winding Stream Party" brings rich inspiration to the design of the Chinese Garden. The design team has devoted themselves to studying the art of Jiangnan (江南) gardens for many years, paying particular attention to the exploration of the aesthetics of West Lake (西湖) gardens in the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋); in recent years, they have also studied the traditional garden rock stacking techniques from Mr. Fang Hui (方惠), a provincial-level representative inheritor of Yangzhou (扬州) garden construction techniques. Therefore, in the design, the team strives to integrate the humanistic heritage of "Winding Stream Party" with previous research results to create a healing garden with Chinese characteristics. Limited by the site and maintenance management, the design team did not use real water but created an abstract "New Winding Stream Party" space through rockeries, dry streams, and art installations, allowing people to relax and heal themselves in the "landscape."
The shape of the garden entrance comes from the thatched pavilion built by Su Shi (苏轼) in "The Second Ode on the Red Cliff" (后赤壁赋图) painted by Qiao Zhongchang (乔仲常) of the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋). Stepping into the garden and walking on the path paved with pine needles, the rustling sound under your feet and the sound of the wind passing through the forest together constitute a movement of nature. A "Huifeng" (惠风) landscape stone stands quietly, taking the artistic conception of "gentle breeze and pleasant air" from the "Preface to the Poems Composed at the Orchid Pavilion" (兰亭集序). Among the bamboo forests, the suspended "winding stream" landscape installation has its own refreshing coolness. In order to restore the state of water flow, the design team used parametric design techniques to carve water wave textures on the surface of the fiberglass. When the sunlight falls on it, it reflects a hazy light and shadow. 3D-printed ear cups are scattered among them, adding a bit of leisure. Above the "winding stream" is a natural bamboo pavilion, formed by the surrounding bamboo. Its design inspiration comes from the Fishing Hermitage in "Picture of the Garden of Solitary Enjoyment" (独乐园图) painted by Qiu Ying (仇英) of the Ming Dynasty (明代). The Garden of Solitary Enjoyment (独乐园) was a private garden built by Sima Guang (司马光) of the Northern Song Dynasty (北宋). The wonderful idea of using bamboo as a hermitage hides his feelings of returning to the mountains and forests. More than 900 years later, sitting quietly in the pavilion, accompanied by the breeze and bamboo shadows, holding ear cups with friends, reciting poems and drinking freely, what knots cannot be let go of?
Tracing up the "stream," the rockery "Little Kuaiji" (小会稽) forms a scene of its own. The design team adapted to local conditions and used local dark gray granite in South Korea as the material for stacking the mountains, mainly placing them, combining placement and stacking, and fully applying traditional rock stacking techniques such as "staggered splicing," "taking yin," and "joining shapes and patterns" to create a scene of streams flowing out of the mountains in a small space. After passing through a bamboo forest path, you return to the entrance. This design is taken from the artistic conception of Su Shi's (苏轼) "Ding Feng Bo" (定风波), hoping that everyone who enters the garden can learn a sense of composure in the landscape and face life with an open-minded attitude. This is also the unfinished meaning of the entire garden.
This presentation of oriental garden scenery across mountains and seas not only demonstrates the lasting charm of Chinese garden art but also conveys deep cultural confidence. Based on retaining the essence of Chinese traditional garden art, the design is carried out in line with contemporary aesthetic concepts and spiritual needs. Outstanding Chinese traditional culture will radiate new brilliance in the mountains, rivers, forests, and springs.
(The author is a professor at the China Academy of Art (中国美术学院) and the chief designer of the Chinese Garden at the 2026 International Horticultural Therapy Expo)
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In the early summer season, a profusion of flowers bloom in competition. Roses, Chinese roses, and monthly roses, all belonging to the Rosaceae family but with distinct forms and spirits, are particularly eye-catching. Ancient flower-and-bird painters often included these three flowers in their works, from which one can appreciate the sketching methods and the beauty of natural life in Chinese flower-and-bird paintings.
The rose has a straight and sturdy stem, dense and sharp thorns, and a single flower at the top. Its fragrance is clear and cool, making it a highly recognizable flower in the Rosaceae family. The anonymous "Bees and Flowers" scroll from the Qing Dynasty (清代) (partial view in the picture) meticulously depicts yellow and pink roses using the realistic sketching method of the court style: the petals are layered and spread out, the colors are naturally rendered, the veins of the branches and leaves are carefully drawn, and bees travel among them. Every stroke originates from observation, and every posture captures the essence of the object, which is a vivid embodiment of the traditional flower-and-bird painting's pursuit of truth in depicting objects.
Roses in paintings also bring a sense of tranquility and charm of classical gardens. Wen Zhengming (文徵明)'s "Famous Gardens of Jinchang (金阊)" and Qian Gu (钱穀)'s "Seeking Ambition Garden (求志园图)" from the Ming Dynasty (明代) both record the elegant scenes of Suzhou (苏州) gardens using roses as screens and building environments around flowers. That rose flower wall is a fragrant enclosure and a self-sustaining boundary. Creating a realm with flowers and guarding the heart with thorns perfectly matches the rose's nature of being "beautiful yet reserved, not to be lightly desecrated."
The Chinese rose, on the other hand, conveys its spirit through gentleness and grace. Its branches are slender and flexible, and the flowers are mostly clustered in groups of six to seven, with a light and elegant fragrance. Lu Zhi (陆治)'s "Chinese Rose Fan Painting (蔷薇扇面)" from the Ming Dynasty (明代) fully captures the unique elegance and vitality of the Chinese rose. Lu Zhi (陆治) was a famous painter of the Wu School (吴门画派), a student of Wen Zhengming (文徵明), skilled in poetry and prose, and particularly adept at painting. This work, painted on gold paper, cleverly utilizes the fan-shaped layout to create a sparse and ethereal artistic conception with light ink and simple strokes, and large areas of blank space. In the painting, the branches droop gently, and the flowers are lightly dyed with light pink, not seeking richness, but only capturing a delicate tenderness that seems to exist and yet not exist. In the upper left corner of the painting, Lu Zhi (陆治) inscribed a five-character quatrain: "The little sister melts spring wine, her face is like a crimson jade plate. She tries on a thin silk dress for the first time, leaning on the railing with a smile." The interplay of poetry, calligraphy, painting, and seals further reveals the interest of literati.
Elegant scholars depict Chinese roses, not focusing on the details of complex branches, but on vitality and temperament. The Tang Dynasty (唐代) poet Du Mu (杜牧) described Chinese rose flowers as "leaning idly against the wild wind, not收 (shōu - "stop/gather")," praising its soft branches for being able to maintain themselves against the wind. In the tradition of flower-and-bird painting, the beauty of the Chinese rose lies in its gentleness without fragility, and its support without dependence. Growing along the wall is a symbiosis of following the trend, and being gentle yet firm is not losing one's original heart. Lu Zhi (陆治) captures the spirit with simple strokes, without deliberately outlining the shape of the flower, but vividly portrays the life and emotions of the Chinese rose, which is the high realm of the Wu School's (吴门) sketching, using simplicity to control complexity and using form to convey spirit.
Roses guard boundaries, Chinese roses guard their original hearts, and monthly roses guard time. The monthly rose has a straight and low stem, short and thick thorns, large and beautiful flowers, and blooms in all four seasons, hence the beautiful name of "everlasting flower." In the history of painting, the monthly rose is a touchstone for testing a painter's sketching skills. Deng Chun (邓椿)'s "Painting Continued (画继)" from the Southern Song Dynasty (南宋) records: Emperor Huizong (徽宗) of Song (宋徽宗) generously rewarded a young painter because he accurately depicted the "midday in spring" state of the monthly rose. Emperor Huizong (徽宗) said: "Few can paint the monthly rose well, because the flowers, stamens, and leaves are different at all times of the day and night in the four seasons. This work depicts the midday in spring without the slightest error, so it is generously rewarded." The reason why the monthly rose is difficult to paint is that it does not have a fixed "most beautiful moment," but its beauty lies in every opening and falling in the changing of day and night and the constancy of the four seasons. This anecdote is the ultimate embodiment of the Song Dynasty's (宋代) flower-and-bird painting's pursuit of principle and nature. The Song people's unification of principle and form not only integrated the great achievements of the sketching tradition of the Tang (唐) and Five Dynasties (五代), but also opened up a new pattern of flower-and-bird painting in the Yuan (元), Ming (明), and Qing Dynasties (清) that paralleled freehand brushwork and the investigation of things.
Jiang Tingxi (蒋廷锡)'s "Sketching Flowers Album - Monthly Rose (写生花卉册之“月季”)" from the Qing Dynasty (清代) has clear and beautiful colors, with the flower crown painted realistically and the branches and leaves responding virtually, further enhancing the moist and translucent effect; his brushstrokes subtly conceal strength in the softness of boneless painting, and between the front and back of the flowers and leaves, the rigor and law of the Song people's investigation of things are faintly visible. The painter captures the tenacious vitality of the monthly rose that does not change with the four seasons through daily observation, writing "constancy" with profound meaning and painting "eternity" into a realm.
Plants and trees have their original hearts, and paintings convey deep emotions. From objects to heart, from form to spirit, from skill to Tao, Chinese flower-and-bird painting melts the properties of plants and trees, the ideals of personality, and the vitality of heaven and earth into one furnace. Three flowers, three qualities, three paintings, three realms, what is inherited in one continuous line is the cultural tradition of Chinese flower-and-bird painting that emphasizes observation, sketching, and vitality.
(The author is a professor at Zhejiang University of Media and Communications (浙江传媒学院))
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The figure in the painting is wearing a cheongsam, with her dark hair lightly styled into a bun. She sits upright in a chair, her expression calm. The entire painting highlights a classical artistic conception... Stepping into the "Jade Carving Radiance - Exhibition of Fine Art by Pan Yuliang from the Anhui Museum," co-hosted by the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院) and the Anhui Museum (安徽博物院), more than 60 pieces (sets) of oil paintings, colored ink paintings, line drawings, and related historical documents present Pan Yuliang's (潘玉良) artistic life from multiple perspectives. Several self-portraits displayed side-by-side in the exhibition hall are particularly eye-catching, directly reflecting the creative journey and artistic breakthrough of this legendary female painter.
Self-portraits are a unique art form that proactively examines and expresses the self. Among the few pioneers in the 20th century, Pan Yuliang's self-portrait creations are particularly prominent, with a total of 19 extant oil self-portraits. From the early years of gentle and bewildered expressions to the later years of firm gaze, Pan Yuliang no longer depicted herself with a "being scrutinized" perspective, but instead looked directly outside the painting with a daily, completely self-aware posture. This direct gaze signifies a crucial shift – she established herself as the subject watching the world, rather than the object being watched. In the history of painting, female images in traditional Chinese figure paintings are mostly created by male painters and are always in a position of being gazed upon, while Pan Yuliang, through decades of self-portrait practice, completed the transformation from "being seen" to "self-examination." This group of works has also become a vivid footnote to the active self-expression and pursuit of spiritual independence of Chinese female artists in the context of the integration of Chinese and Western art in modern times.
In the early 20th century, with the eastward spread of Western learning, Chinese artists generally faced the era's proposition of "how to learn from the West and how to position oneself." Pan Yuliang gave her own answer through decades of practice. Around the 1920s, she successively entered the Shanghai Art Academy (上海图画美术院), the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts (法国巴黎国立高等美术学院) in Paris, France, and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma (意大利罗马美术学院) in Rome, Italy, for further study. During her first period of studying in France, she deeply cultivated classical academic techniques and also adopted the light and color processing techniques of Impressionism. After returning to China, she turned to painting with a brush on rice paper, creating Western nude subjects with the Chinese line drawing tradition, and condensing the "Yuliang Iron Wire" that combined strength and softness with the meaning of calligraphy. During her second stay in France, Pan Yuliang's Chinese painting ushered in a new transformation – a full turn to colored ink. She absorbed Western modernist nutrients such as Fauvism and Post-Impressionism, and integrated Chinese lines and Western painting colors on rice paper. By the 1950s, her exploration of Chinese-Western integration had reached its peak. The series of works on the theme of folk dance exhibited this time reflects this achievement. The ink lines in the paintings retain the fluidity of "writing" and also undertake the function of shaping forms; the paintings incorporate New Year picture colors and mural patterns, and folk elements naturally flow into the brushstrokes. Pan Yuliang's Chinese-Western integration practice has always been committed to completing reconstruction and rebirth deep within the art language.
Another value of Pan Yuliang to modern Chinese art lies in her personal participation in the breakthrough of many art systems. She was the first Chinese woman to hold a solo Western painting exhibition and the first female head of the Western painting department in Chinese higher art colleges. During her decades of stay in France, her works were exhibited in many countries and collected by important institutions, and she also served as the president of the Chinese Art Association in France (中国留法艺术学会会长). With her leadership and assistance, the works of many Chinese artists were exhibited in France, building a bridge for artistic exchanges between the East and the West.
In the early 20th century, against the backdrop of the integration and collision of Chinese and Western cultures, Pan Yuliang boldly practiced and walked her own creative path, internalizing the ups and downs of life into the foundation of her brush and ink and her spiritual cultivation, and finally broke through the dual predicament of the times and the individual, entered the international art scene, and achieved a generation of artistic legends. "Jade" is not only her name, but also, as the exhibition theme "Jade Carving Radiance" suggests, it implies that her artistic achievements originate from years of self-cultivation and artistic refinement, as well as the life determination to always stand towards the light and adhere to her original intention in difficult situations. This is a valuable inspiration she has left for today's artistic creation.
(The author is a curator in the Art Department of the National Centre for the Performing Arts (国家大剧院).)
Return to TopBy: 杨 玲
The 2026 International Museum Day is approaching with the theme "Museums: Bridges for Connecting the World." Currently, digital and intelligent technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and the Internet of Things are booming, injecting new impetus into strengthening the "connection" role of museums. From exhibition language and aesthetic education methods to forms of communication, digital and intelligent forces are constantly promoting the beauty of museums to enter thousands of households in new forms.
The continuous iteration of technology is profoundly reshaping the exhibition forms and visual language of museums. For a long time, Chinese museums have mostly relied on showcases, display boards, and lighting to construct aesthetic spaces, often adopting a static layout with independent zones to create a quiet and solemn viewing atmosphere. In the digital and intelligent era, diverse techniques such as digital projection, virtual restoration, and dynamic narration are constantly being integrated into exhibition design, making exhibition halls gradually become composite spaces that blend virtuality and reality, flexible movement lines, and immersive scenes. The Shaanxi History Museum (陕西历史博物馆) VR (virtual reality) large-space immersive digital experience project "The Tang Dynasty Beyond the Murals" uses "artificial intelligence + 3D" technology as its foundation, allowing visitors to "drill" into the murals to view the exhibition. Similar new technologies have broken the standardized presentation of isolated cultural relics, gradually dissolving the physical space boundaries of exhibition halls, replacing traditional linear viewing paths with diverse narrative paths, and transforming the audience from passively receiving information to deeply experiencing culture.
The wave of digitalization and intelligence is surging, bringing more possibilities for museum aesthetic education innovation. Traditional museum public education models are mostly one-way output, with weak interactivity and insufficient personalization. However, the deep intervention of artificial intelligence is reconstructing the interaction model between museums and audiences, promoting museum aesthetic education from standardized explanations to heuristic, personalized, and immersive spiritual nourishment. At present, exploring the application of artificial intelligence digital human guides to achieve two-way intelligent interaction between people and objects has become one of the important trends in the upgrading of museum aesthetic education. Taking the high-precision artificial intelligence smart guide system of the Capital Museum (首都博物馆) as an example, relying on the museum's touch screens and the audience's smartphones, the digital human "Jinghui" (京慧) can answer questions in real-time in the fields of cultural relics, exhibitions, and services. Its key advantage lies in breaking the constraints of fixed explanation scripts. The audience is no longer passively listening, but can freely ask questions, and the system will intelligently adjust the explanation focus according to the content of the dialogue and interest preferences. In this process, the public's curiosity about cultural relics, history, and art is aroused, and the aesthetic education value of the museum is fully extended.
Digital and intelligent technologies not only reshape the offline viewing experience but also broaden the communication boundaries of museums. The rise of generative artificial intelligence has driven the revitalization of cultural relics and the restoration of scenes, and digital short films incorporating anthropomorphic narratives have set off a wave of communication. Not long ago, the Nanjing Museum (南京博物院) combined with a special exhibition to launch the theme film "Tianma Yingrui" (天马应瑞), more than 80% of which was created by generative artificial intelligence. Based on the museum's collection "Eight骏图" (Eight骏图), the film allows the steeds in the handed-down ancient paintings to gallop in the digital landscape, with the traditional charm of brush and ink coexisting with modern digital aesthetics, giving the cultural relics a new visual expression and contemporary vitality. With the assistance of digital and intelligent technologies, "online planting, offline viewing" has become a new way to "open" museums, and the beauty of museums is entering the daily lives of the public through digital traffic.
While embracing technology, we also need to maintain rationality and prudence. If museums rely too much on technical special effects to pursue sensory stimulation, it will lead to superficial cultural interpretation. The procurement and operation and maintenance costs of intelligent equipment are high. If there is a lack of corresponding financial and talent support, it may further exacerbate the digital divide between small and medium-sized museums and large museums, restricting the balanced development of public cultural services. Facing the future, we should always adhere to content as the foundation and technology as the tool, so that museums can truly become bridges connecting the world.
(The author is the Deputy Director of the Exhibition Art Committee of the Chinese Museums Association (中国博物馆协会))
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