Summary: According to the article, Yunnan province is accelerating the transformation of its resource advantages into industrial strengths, focusing on sectors like non-ferrous metals, green aluminum, and new energy batteries, in line with Xi Jinping's instructions during the Two Sessions and his visit to Yunnan in March 2025. The province is emphasizing technological innovation, establishing research institutions, and promoting collaboration between enterprises, universities, and research institutes to overcome key technological bottlenecks. Yunnan is also providing policy support, optimizing green electricity consumption services, and promoting industrial chain extensions to build a modern industrial system with local characteristics. Yunnan aims to develop resource-based industries by focusing on scientific and technological innovation to achieve high-quality development. Yunnan Party Secretary Wang Ning stated that Yunnan will continue to develop new productive forces in line with local conditions and strive to transform resource advantages into economic advantages.
Summary: President Xi Jinping and Pakistani President Zardari exchanged congratulatory messages on the 75th anniversary of diplomatic relations, with Xi emphasizing the unwavering friendship and all-weather strategic partnership between China and Pakistan. Xi expressed his desire to work with Zardari to strengthen strategic communication, deepen cooperation, and build a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future. Premier Li Qiang and Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif also exchanged messages, with Li stating China's willingness to work with Pakistan to upgrade the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor. Zardari affirmed Pakistan's commitment to supporting China on issues concerning its core interests. Neither message mentioned the United States.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang chaired a State Council executive meeting focused on advancing the construction of a unified national market to facilitate a new development pattern and high-quality development. The meeting emphasized the need to improve systems related to property rights, market access, fair competition, social credit, and market exit, while also stressing high-standard connectivity of market infrastructure and unified markets in key areas. The meeting also reviewed and approved in principle a draft amendment to the Law of the People's Republic of China on the People's Bank of China, aimed at improving the central bank system and strengthening financial rule of law. Furthermore, the meeting addressed the construction of a modern emergency system, emphasizing risk source control, monitoring, and prevention.
Summary: A nationwide study campaign is underway among Chinese Communist Party members to promote correct views on performance and governance. Local governments are addressing public concerns by improving infrastructure, streamlining services, and resolving past issues through mechanisms like public consultations and rapid-response systems for complaints. Provinces like Guizhou and Hubei are revising regulations and establishing new systems for auditing officials, overseeing safety and production, and clarifying jurisdictional boundaries to improve governance and reduce burdens on businesses. Guangxi is implementing programs to address labor shortages by connecting job seekers with companies. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: Since the implementation of the "Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy" in May 2025, over 180 supporting policies have been introduced to strengthen the legal guarantee system for private enterprises, including streamlining market access and promoting fair competition in bidding. These measures have led to increased private investment in major national projects and more efficient financial support, with private enterprises winning 76.2% of projects in 2025. The protection of the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises has been strengthened through fair judicial decisions, standardized law enforcement, and credit restoration mechanisms. This has resulted in a more optimized environment, with a 5.6% year-on-year increase in registered private enterprises and a 25.4% year-on-year increase in the total profits of private industrial enterprises above designated size in the first quarter of this year. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A county in Sichuan province, China, organized cultural performances in rural villages and communities with large elderly populations. These performances, conducted by volunteer artists, aimed to enrich the spiritual and cultural lives of the local people. A photograph shows a performance in Tongjiang County's Tiefo Township on May 21st. The article makes no mention of specific officials or the United States.
Summary: In April, China's civil aviation passenger traffic reached 61.199 million, a 0.4% year-on-year increase, according to the Civil Aviation Administration of China. International passenger traffic saw a more substantial rise of 5.8%, totaling 6.788 million. Overall, year-to-date passenger traffic reached 259.128 million, a 5% increase. Air cargo also experienced growth, with April's volume reaching 854,000 tons, a 6.9% year-on-year increase. International air cargo increased by 12.9%
Summary: According to a report from the Ministry of Natural Resources, China's marine economy experienced a strong start to the year, with first-quarter gross ocean product reaching 2.6 trillion yuan, a 5.4% year-on-year increase. Marine resource output increased, with crude oil and natural gas production rising 5.1% and 7.7% respectively. Traditional marine industries like transportation saw growth, as did emerging sectors such as marine engineering equipment, which experienced substantial order increases. The report signals an overall positive trend in the development of China's marine economy. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article includes sections on political theory, journalistic investigation, and rural affairs. The theory section emphasizes that Party spirit (党性) plays a decisive role in establishing and practicing a correct view of political achievements. The investigation explores how to make "city gifts" (城市礼物) must-buy items. Finally, the rural affairs section discusses the role of youth in the comprehensive revitalization of villages.
Summary: At the invitation of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin made a state visit to China from May 19th to 20th, where the two leaders agreed to extend the Sino-Russian Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation. The leaders signed a joint statement on further strengthening comprehensive strategic coordination and deepening good-neighborly friendship and cooperation, and witnessed the achievement of multiple bilateral cooperation agreements. Both countries issued a joint statement advocating for a multipolar world and a new type of international relations. Experts from both countries noted that this meeting made a new strategic plan for the development of relations and cooperation in various fields. As permanent members of the UN Security Council, China and Russia have made important contributions to maintaining international fairness and justice and promoting the construction of a new type of international relations.
Summary: During Russian President Putin's state visit to Beijing on May 20, he and Xi Jinping held "deep, friendly, and fruitful" talks, reaching new consensus on advancing the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership. The two countries agreed to extend the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation. Xi emphasized the need for "higher quality" political trust, mutually beneficial cooperation, people-to-people connectivity, and international collaboration. Both presidents signed a joint statement advocating for multipolarity and a new type of international relations, along with 20 other cooperation documents, affirming their commitment to global strategic stability and a fairer international order. The two countries are committed to deepening multilateral collaboration within the UN, SCO, BRICS and APEC.
Summary: Li Hongzhong, a member of the Politburo, visited Slovakia, meeting with President Pellegrini, Prime Minister Fico, and National Council Speaker Leško. Li stated that under the guidance of Xi Jinping and Slovak leaders, the strategic partnership between China and Slovakia has entered a new phase. He emphasized consolidating political trust, supporting each other's core interests, and enhancing cooperation in trade, investment, new energy, and the digital economy within the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and cooperation between China and Central and Eastern European countries. The Slovak side reaffirmed its commitment to the one-China policy and expressed interest in closer cooperation with China in various fields.
Summary: Croatian Ambassador to China Dario Mihelin highlighted China's ecological progress and international cooperation on biodiversity, noting continuous and effective collaboration between Croatia and China. He expressed particular interest in China's "15th Five-Year Plan" and the recently passed *Environmental Code*, emphasizing the importance of international cooperation for global biodiversity governance. He also mentioned that the EU views China as an important partner in biodiversity protection and addressing climate change, with ongoing high-level dialogues to promote cooperation in these areas. Croatia and China have existing collaborative projects focused on biodiversity in national parks, including the "Belt and Road" joint laboratory.
Summary: At the NPT review conference, China advocated for nuclear disarmament and peaceful uses of nuclear energy, submitting a report detailing its compliance. China reiterated its stance against the first use of nuclear weapons, maintaining a defensive nuclear strategy. It called for a treaty on the non-first use of nuclear weapons and criticized nuclear sharing arrangements, while also advocating for peaceful resolution of nuclear proliferation concerns. China also expressed concerns regarding the nuclear proliferation risks posed by the U.S.-UK-Australia submarine deal. China emphasized the need to avoid politicization of the peaceful use of nuclear energy by developing countries.
Summary: NPC Vice Chairman Cai Dafeng visited Pakistan from May 20-22 at the invitation of the National Assembly, meeting with President Zardari, Prime Minister Sharif, Speaker Sadiq, and Chairman Gilani, all of whom attended the 75th anniversary of Sino-Pakistani diplomatic ties. Cai stated that China is willing to strengthen cooperation, deepen exchanges between legislative bodies, and accelerate the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era. Pakistani leaders expressed gratitude for China's support, reaffirmed their commitment to the One China principle, and pledged to protect Chinese personnel and projects in Pakistan. They stated that Pakistan will continue to deepen exchanges and cooperation. The United States was not mentioned.
Summary: At the 79th World Health Assembly in Geneva, China, alongside several other nations, co-hosted a side event focused on leveraging digital technology for equitable healthcare. China's National Health Commission Director Lei Haichao emphasized the need to strengthen global health governance amidst global uncertainties. He detailed China's "Healthy China" strategy, focusing on digitalizing healthcare and building a resilient, efficient system. China and other participating nations jointly launched the "Creating the Future of Health Systems in the Digital Era" initiative. The event included representatives from various countries and international organizations.
Summary: CCP International Department Head Liu Haixing led a delegation to Egypt and Tanzania from May 17-20. Liu met with Tanzanian President Hassan, Egyptian Senate President Farid, and Arab League Secretary-General Gheit. He participated in the China-Egypt political party roundtable and the CCP-Southern African Six Sister Parties dialogue. Liu also attended unveiling ceremonies for research centers dedicated to Xi Jinping Thought in both Egypt and Tanzania, promoting Xi's ideology and image. The meetings also involved exchanges on important international and regional issues.
Summary: The Chinese Embassy in the UAE and the Chinese Cultural Center in the UAE co-hosted the "Tea for Harmony" event in Abu Dhabi. Ambassador Zeng Jixin stated that Chinese tea culture has become a bridge for cultural exchange, promoting harmony and understanding. The event, attended by Prince Nahayan, local government officials, and foreign diplomats, aimed to strengthen friendship between China and the UAE and promote dialogue between civilizations. The event showcased Chinese culture through activities such as Hanfu displays, Guzheng performances, calligraphy, and traditional crafts.
Summary: Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif will pay an official visit to China from May 23rd to 26th at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Qiang, according to a Foreign Ministry spokesperson. The announcement indicates a continued effort to strengthen ties between China and Pakistan. The visit suggests potential discussions on economic cooperation and strategic partnerships.
Summary: Li Shulei, a member of the Politburo and head of the Central Propaganda Department, delivered a keynote speech at the opening of the 2026 Cultural Power Construction Summit Forum in Shenzhen. Huang Kunming, also a Politburo member and Guangdong Party Secretary, attended and delivered a speech. Attendees emphasized the importance of cultural prosperity for national strength and modernization, referencing Xi Jinping's thought on culture and the need for cultural innovation. The forum highlighted leveraging digital technology to invigorate cultural development and expanding international cultural exchanges. The forum, themed "Inheritance of Cultural Heritage and Innovation of Culture", was hosted by the Central Propaganda Department and attended by officials from various central and local departments, cultural enterprises, and think tank experts.
Summary: Shanxi Province is committed to transforming from a major coal province to an energy powerhouse, focusing on energy security, green energy restructuring, and industrial upgrades, according to Governor Lu Dongliang. Shanxi aims to maintain coal production at approximately 1.3 billion tons per year while simultaneously increasing renewable energy capacity and developing industries like photovoltaic equipment. The province will also develop green electricity parks and zero-carbon parks to attract high-energy-consuming industries. Shanxi will optimize its computing power industry layout and integrate into the national integrated computing power network.
Summary: Heilongjiang Province is prioritizing high-quality development in its "15th Five-Year Plan" (2026-2030), focusing on food security, technological innovation, and tourism. Governor Liang Huiling stated the province aims to increase grain production by implementing new agricultural technologies and strengthening farmland protection, with a goal of 90% of permanent basic farmland meeting high standards. Vice Governor Cong Li emphasized shifting from resource-driven to innovation-led growth by focusing on key technologies, facilitating the commercialization of research, and supporting innovative enterprises. Heilongjiang also seeks to develop its winter tourism industry and expand it into a year-round attraction.
Summary: The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair opened, featuring over 6,312 exhibitors showcasing more than 120,000 cultural products. This year's fair includes a new APEC Economic Zone exhibition area to highlight cultural tourism development within the region, as well as a new cross-border e-commerce area. 65 countries and regions are participating, with 310 overseas exhibitors both online and offline. The fair emphasizes the digital empowerment of cultural industries and the cultivation of new quality productive forces.
Summary: Guangming Daily and Economic Daily jointly released the "2026 National Cultural Enterprise Top 30" and "2026 National Growing Cultural Enterprise Top 30" lists. Companies like China Publishing Group, China Film, Pop Mart, and Tencent were included in the "Top 30," demonstrating strong performance in revenue, profit, and assets. The "Growing Top 30" list included companies like China Oriental Performing Arts Group and Wuhan University of Technology Digital Communication Engineering, with average growth rates exceeding 25%, reflecting new trends in the cultural sector, including AI. The lists highlight the priority given to social benefit and the unification of social and economic benefits within these enterprises. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair opened on May 21st. The article includes a photograph of participants taking a group photo at the event.
Summary: Between January and April, China's service retail sales increased by 5.6% year-on-year, driven by strong cultural, tourism, and online consumption, with online service retail sales reaching over 2.4 trillion yuan, an 8.3% increase. The Ministry of Commerce sees service consumption as critical for expanding and upgrading overall consumption. The Ministry will work with relevant departments to expand high-quality service supply, promote service consumption business integration, and accelerate the cultivation of new growth points. The report does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A press conference held by the State Council Information Office on May 21st reported on the results of a year-long campaign targeting irregularities in law enforcement related to businesses. According to Vice Minister of Justice Hu Weilie, the campaign focused on rectifying issues like arbitrary fees, fines, inspections, and seizures, as well as irregular cross-regional and rent-seeking enforcement practices. The campaign recouped 30.7 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises and addressed over 100,000 practical concerns. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) stated they will focus on addressing key concerns of private enterprises. The Ministry of Justice is also working on regulations for administrative law enforcement personnel management.
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Summary: China's State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters convened a meeting on May 21st to address a new round of heavy rainfall expected to impact central and eastern provinces. The meeting, which included the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Water Resources, and the China Meteorological Administration, highlighted the severity and wide reach of the incoming storms, especially in areas already impacted by recent heavy rainfall. The meeting stressed the importance of implementing preventative measures and assigning responsibility for flood control and disaster relief. Currently, a Level IV emergency response for flood control is in effect for Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi. Working groups previously dispatched by the National Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters are continuing their work in affected areas.
Summary: The Pearl River basin has entered its "Dragon Boat Water" concentrated rainfall period, expected to last from May 21 to June 20. Rainfall is predicted to be slightly higher than usual, especially in the eastern and northern parts of the basin, with potential for major flooding in the Beijiang and Hanjiang rivers. The Ministry of Water Resources has pre-emptively assessed the flood situation, issued warnings, and urged local authorities to strengthen defenses against floods and other disasters. Measures include reservoir drawdown, prepositioning of emergency resources, and disaster preparedness drills.
Summary: The 2026 China Internet Civilization Conference was held in Nanning, Guangxi, focusing on promoting a positive and ethical online environment. Discussions centered on strengthening mainstream values and culture online, with examples given of leveraging the internet for popularizing traditional arts and promoting positive content creation, such as the movie "Love Letter to Grandma." A key theme was the need for comprehensive internet governance, including addressing AI ethics and combating misinformation, as highlighted by the release of the "AI Application Ethics Safety Guidelines 1.0" and examples of debunking pseudoscience. The conference also emphasized integrating online and offline efforts to foster civic engagement, with examples of online platforms facilitating communication between citizens and authorities. International communication was discussed, with speakers emphasizing the importance of showing the authentic lives and achievements of Chinese people.
Summary: The 8th Yangtze River Delta (YRD) Integration Development High-Level Forum was held in Shanghai on May 21st. The forum released the list of practical projects for YRD integration in 2026, covering areas such as mutual recognition of medical test results, food safety, talent cultivation, cross-provincial work injury insurance reimbursement, and joint cultural and sports events. A third batch of innovation consortiums were announced, focusing on technologies like high-temperature superconducting magnets and advanced medical imaging. The forum also unveiled an action plan for high-quality inter-provincial transportation connectivity, encompassing 44 key projects in railways, highways, and waterways. The reports did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The ongoing Party-wide education campaign on establishing and practicing correct views on performance evaluation is focusing on solving immediate problems and establishing long-term mechanisms to benefit the people. Various localities and departments are addressing issues such as road congestion, old elevator modernization, and employment difficulties by soliciting public input and implementing targeted policies. Provinces such as Guizhou and Hubei are revising regulations and establishing new mechanisms to streamline governance, enhance oversight of cadres, and reduce burdens on enterprises. Jiangxi province is using digital codes to collect feedback from residents and ensure that their complaints are quickly resolved. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
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Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of foresight and strategic planning for regional development in China, highlighting examples like Anhui's rise in automobile production and Qingyang's focus on AI computing. It argues that regions can overcome disadvantages by identifying unique strengths, differentiating themselves, and leveraging external resources. The piece also suggests that regions should adopt a broader perspective, considering both domestic and international markets to create new opportunities for growth. The article makes no mention of the United States.
Summary: This article discusses the revitalization of Chagan Lake in Jilin Province, highlighting the importance of a long-term, people-centered approach to governance. It emphasizes that tangible achievements ("real绩") are those that benefit the environment and the people, contrasting them with superficial accomplishments. The piece focuses on the "引松工程," a water diversion project initiated in the 1970s to replenish the shrinking lake, and the efforts to preserve and promote local fishing culture. It draws a parallel to Xi Jinping's "Zhejiang New Discourse" and cites examples like the South-North Water Transfer Project to illustrate the value of continuous effort across generations. The author argues that officials should focus on sustainable development and improving people's lives.
Summary: Ten departments, including the National Development and Reform Commission, jointly issued a notice regarding the 2026 grain purchase. The notice states that the minimum purchase price policy will continue in major production areas this summer, adhering to a "market-led, policy-backed" dual approach. Central enterprises, such as China Grain Reserves Corporation (CGRC) and COFCO, will enhance service efficiency through online appointments and offline purchases to ensure farmers' income. The policy aims to ensure that funds and storage are prepared for the grain harvest.
Summary: This article discusses the phenomenon of "cross-city food delivery" where individuals deliver home-cooked meals to those working far from their hometowns, evoking feelings of nostalgia and connection to home. It highlights how China's rapid development, including improved transportation and communication infrastructure, is easing the difficulties of being away from home. The piece emphasizes the contributions of young people in both urban and rural areas to China's development, as well as the efforts of cities to attract and retain talent by improving services and living conditions. It concludes that China supports its citizens' ambitions by easing their worries, supporting them in their goals, and allowing them to feel at home wherever they choose to be. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses efforts by a propaganda worker in Beijing's suburbs to address strained parent-child relationships, highlighting the broader connection between family education, social values, and effective grassroots governance. The worker, drawing on past experience and a psychology certificate, organized family education forums after identifying a common issue of parental neglect exacerbated by reliance on technology. The author argues that addressing family issues is crucial for preventing wider social problems and fostering talent for rural revitalization. They advocate for a proactive and collaborative approach to grassroots governance, emphasizing that serving the people transcends rigid job descriptions. This approach is seen as essential for building trust and achieving comprehensive governance.
Summary: The article discusses the rise of "new popular culture" (新大众文艺) in China, exemplified by trends like viral micro-dramas and grassroots artistic expression. It emphasizes the democratization of artistic creation, facilitated by digital technology and AI, allowing ordinary people to become both subjects and creators of art. This new form of art embraces everyday life, promotes mainstream values in accessible ways, and integrates traditional culture with contemporary spirit. By removing barriers to entry, it encourages widespread participation and taps into the creative potential of the masses.
Summary: This article is a call for submissions to various opinion and commentary columns in the People's Daily newspaper. The columns include "Everyone's Talk," "Heartwarming News and Hot Reviews," "The Chinese Road and the Chinese Dream," and "Incoming Essays." The piece specifies the email address for submissions and requests that authors not submit the same piece to multiple publications simultaneously. There is no mention of specific Chinese politicians, the United States, or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Wang Yongjun, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and president of Beijing Tiantan Hospital, has dedicated over 40 years to stroke research, developing new diagnostic and treatment methods. His team discovered that edaravone dexborneol, when combined with endovascular thrombectomy for acute ischemic stroke patients, improves neurological function and reduces disability. Wang's team also optimized dual antiplatelet therapy, finding a balance between effectiveness and safety, which led to updated stroke prevention guidelines in North America and Europe. Furthermore, his team expanded the thrombolysis window to 24 hours and developed a stroke imaging decision platform.
Summary: The article highlights Wang Yongjun's 40-year career dedicated to patient-centered medical innovation. He focuses on addressing patient needs by extending treatment windows, reducing recurrence rates, and improving drug accessibility. The piece emphasizes that innovation should stem from real-world clinical challenges and patient feedback, promoting collaboration between researchers and patients. It stresses the importance of translating research into accessible treatments and technologies to benefit public health. The article calls for more medical researchers to prioritize public health and dedicate themselves to advancements in medical science.
Summary: Peng Qinghua, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress Standing Committee, addressed the opening ceremony of the 3rd China-Uzbekistan Local Cooperation Forum and the 10th Silk Road International Exposition in Xi'an. He emphasized the forum's focus on openness, cooperation, and mutual benefit, with the expectation that it will deepen strategic alignment, upgrade connectivity, expand economic and trade cooperation, and promote cultural exchange between China and Uzbekistan. Peng also stated that these efforts would inject new momentum into the high-quality development of the Belt and Road Initiative and coordinated development between eastern and western China. The China-Uzbekistan Local Cooperation Forum is a mechanism to implement the consensus of the two countries' heads of state. The Silk Road International Exposition serves as an important platform to promote the high-quality development of the Belt and Road.
Summary: Fang Beisong, Director of the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center in Hubei Province, has been recognized as a "National Cultural Relics Craftsman" for 2025 due to his innovative techniques in decoloring and dehydrating bamboo slips (简牍). Over his 30-year career, Fang has restored over 100,000 bamboo slips excavated from sites like the Haihunhou Tomb in Jiangxi and Zoumalou in Changsha. His center handles over 80% of the nation's waterlogged bamboo slips. Fang's method involves a meticulous process of cleaning, decoloring using sodium dithionite, dehydrating using cetyl alcohol, and reinforcing the fragile slips. He emphasizes the importance of these slips as carriers of historical culture, believing that more hidden history will be revealed through the efforts of cultural relics restorers.
Summary: Since the implementation of the "Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy" in 2025, over 180 supporting policies have been introduced to create a more standardized legal environment, reduce barriers to market entry, and ensure fair competition in bidding processes. Private enterprises have seen increased participation in major projects and have benefited from more efficient financing support. Legal rights of private enterprises have been reinforced through fair judicial rulings and regulated law enforcement. These measures have contributed to a continuous increase in the number and improvement in the quality of private enterprises. The article does not contain discussions or allusions to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: A "University in the Village" project in Sichuan province brings educational resources to rural elderly populations, addressing the challenge of access to traditional learning environments. Sichuan Industrial and Commercial College provides teachers and courses in villages, while also inviting villagers to study on campus, with renovated facilities and transportation. The National University for the Elderly is also expanding, offering online courses and resources through its public service platform, aiming to address the unequal distribution of resources and meet the growing demand for accessible elderly education. The online platform offers a variety of courses, including practical topics such as rights protection and healthcare, and is adapted for ease of use for elderly learners. The effort seeks to build a multi-tiered and age-appropriate life-long education system.
Summary: The city of Hanchuan, located in Hubei province, is a major production hub for polyester sewing thread, accounting for half of China's total output. Originally established in the 1950s, the industry has undergone significant transformation through technological upgrades and policy support initiated in 2022. These upgrades include automation, smart factories, and innovation in materials like Tencel bamboo fiber, increasing production and product quality. Hanchuan now has 28 high-tech enterprises, 527 patents, and over 800 million RMB has been invested in R&D. The city is shifting from being a product supplier to a brand name in the textile industry, collaborating with universities to enhance its competitiveness.
Summary: China's National Meteorological Center has released its first special report for the summer harvest and planting season, predicting increased rainfall in major grain-producing areas in late May. The report warns of potential difficulties in harvesting and drying crops due to prolonged soil moisture, especially for rapeseed in the Jianghan and Jiangnan regions. However, the report anticipates that conditions in early to mid-June will be generally favorable for winter wheat harvesting in areas like eastern North China and most of the Huanghuai region, with slightly below-average precipitation. The China Meteorological Administration will collaborate with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs to provide weather forecasts for agricultural machinery operations. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Construction is underway on the Yunfan Avenue Grand Canal Bridge in Suqian, Jiangsu province. This key project on National Highway 235 is scheduled for completion by the end of 2026. No officials were mentioned as present, and the article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 8th China Western International Investment and Trade Fair (WCITF) opened in Chongqing with the theme "New Western, New Manufacturing, New Services," featuring the UK as the guest of honor country. Nearly 1,400 companies from 50 countries and regions participated, focusing on areas like manufacturing, digital economy, and regional collaboration. The WCITF hosted nearly 40 activities, including forums and trade talks, and facilitated the signing of 212 projects. Chongqing also released an "Investment Chongqing Opportunity List" of 277 projects totaling 580 billion yuan across five sectors. The event aims to attract domestic and foreign investment to Chongqing.
Summary: A press conference from the Hebei provincial government reported that the Xiong'an New Area to Daxing Airport express line is nearing completion, with the Hebei section finished and the Beijing section expected to be operational in the latter half of the year, enabling a 30-minute connection to Beijing Daxing International Airport. Transportation infrastructure projects such as the Beijing-Xiong'an Expressway Phase II and the S524 provincial highway have been completed to improve Xiong'an's external transportation network. Hebei plans to continue improving Xiong'an's road network and collaborate with Beijing and Tianjin to upgrade highway infrastructure through digitalization. The expansion of commuter express bus lines, including routes to Beijing, has also been reported.
Summary: Nanning, Guangxi has officially launched its international data cooperation pilot program, becoming one of China's first pilot cities in this field. The program will focus on data flow, computing power collaboration, and industrial empowerment between China and ASEAN, aiming to establish Guangxi as a hub for data openness and cooperation in the region. Infrastructure development will focus on reducing data transmission latency to ASEAN and constructing cross-border computing power service areas. Furthermore, Guangxi intends to promote mutual recognition of data governance rules between China and ASEAN, build a data transaction service network, and establish a comprehensive compliance service platform. The initiative will also cultivate a cross-border industrial ecosystem integrating R&D from major Chinese cities with Guangxi integration and ASEAN application, focusing on sectors like smart transportation and cross-border trade.
Summary: Shandong province is implementing a "1456" model to improve student mental health, focusing on physical activity and psychological resilience. Shandong Normal University is leveraging its resources to support this initiative through various programs, including parent-child exercise and psychological support services. The model aims to connect schools, families, and communities to promote student well-being, utilizing technology like apps and AI models. Wang Zhigang of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education stated that the province is entering a phase of collaborative innovation to deepen these initiatives at the grassroots level. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was found in the article.
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Summary: The Supreme People's Court released five model cases on estate administration under the Civil Code, addressing key issues in judicial practice. One case clarified that heirs cannot renounce inheritance while simultaneously possessing and disposing of the estate, preventing them from evading debt. Another case allowed non-heirs who provided significant support to the deceased to receive a portion of the estate. In a third case, the court designated a civil affairs bureau as estate administrator to manage the share of a missing heir, with a notary office holding the funds in escrow.
Summary: A village in Guizhou province has established "contract canteens" to combat extravagant spending on weddings and funerals. These canteens, governed by village rules, limit the types of banquets allowed and standardize costs, significantly reducing financial burdens on villagers. Beyond banquets, the canteens now serve as community centers for conflict resolution, cultural activities, and tourist engagement, promoting local tourism and economic development through "contract canteen +" models. The practice has expanded throughout the county and prefecture, with standardized management and promotion as a tool for rural revitalization. Yang Changyan, Deputy Secretary of the Tianzhu County Party Committee, stated that the goal is to expand the connotation of contract canteens and improve their management methods, so that they can become a means of cultivating new trends in rural civilization.
Summary: Chaisang district in Jiujiang, Jiangxi province has introduced "tidal markets" to address the conflict between residents' need for accessible vegetable vendors and traffic congestion caused by informal street vending. These designated areas along the river are open to vendors from 6 AM to 8 AM, after which they are cleared to accommodate the morning commute. The district manages the markets by adding signage and dynamically adjusting vendor locations to maintain order and manage pedestrian flow. Farmers like Xu Baozhen express relief at having a designated space to sell their produce without fees or concerns about violating regulations.
Summary: The PRC Ministry of Public Security (MPS) announced a crackdown on illegal hacking of drone flight control systems, citing national and public security risks. The MPS highlighted ten recent cases involving individuals who illegally profited from bypassing drone flight restrictions, such as geofencing and altitude limits. These actions enable "black flights" (黑飞), creating risks like collisions with civilian aircraft and potential espionage in restricted zones. The MPS will continue to target those who illegally modify drones, citing the potential for drones to become unstable and crash, resulting in public harm.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) and National Supervisory Commission (NSC) investigated Zhang Yaoxue, former Standing Committee Member of the Central South University Party Committee and President, for severe violations of discipline and law. The investigation revealed Zhang's violations, including resisting investigation, violating regulations on accepting banquets, seeking benefits for others in exchange for money and property, and engaging in corrupt practices, especially in academic fields. Zhang is accused of exploiting his power for personal gain, accepting vast amounts of bribes, and seeking benefits for others in promotions. Consequently, Zhang was expelled from the Party and removed from public office; his illicit gains were confiscated, and his case was transferred to the procuratorate for prosecution.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) has completed its investigation into Bi Baowen, former Deputy Governor of Heilongjiang Province and former Director of the Provincial Public Security Department, finding him guilty of severe violations of discipline and law. Bi is accused of abusing his power for personal gain, accepting bribes, and violating Party regulations, including those related to personnel decisions and accepting gifts and banquets. Consequently, Bi has been expelled from the Party, his benefits have been revoked, and he will be prosecuted for bribery and abuse of influence. The investigation revealed Bi's actions as particularly egregious given they continued after the 18th Party Congress.
Summary: The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) investigated Li Baian, the former Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Group, for serious violations of discipline and law. The investigation found Li guilty of, among other things, resisting investigation, violating regulations on lavish banquets, seeking benefits for others in personnel matters, engaging in "power-for-sex" transactions, and using his position for personal gain in construction projects. He was expelled from the Communist Party, his benefits were cancelled, and his case was handed over to the procuratorate for prosecution on suspicion of bribery. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article emphasizes Xi Jinping's assertion that strong Party spirit is the decisive factor in establishing correct performance evaluation (政绩观) for cadres. It argues that Party spirit, encompassing ideals, public-mindedness, pragmatism, responsibility, discipline, and work ethic, fundamentally shapes cadres' approach to performance and ensures achievements serve the people and the Party's goals. The author contrasts this with Western "partisanship," which is described as self-serving and short-sighted. The article advocates for continuous Party spirit cultivation through theoretical study, political discipline, practical experience, and institutional constraints to prevent corruption and promote genuine, people-centered achievements. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: China, as one of the world's most biodiverse countries, has been implementing systematic measures to strengthen ecological foundations and address biodiversity loss, guided by Xi Jinping's ecological civilization thought. The country has been actively promoting global biodiversity protection and acting as the president country of the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. The nation contributed to the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" and established the Kunming Biodiversity Fund to support developing countries in biodiversity conservation. China has also submitted the seventh national report on the implementation of the Convention to the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention. Looking ahead to the "15th Five-Year Plan," China aims to further strengthen its biodiversity governance capabilities and continue to contribute to global ecological efforts.
Summary: The Supreme People's Procuratorate released a white paper on prosecutorial services and guarantees for the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt during the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025), detailing the handling of 274,000 environment-related cases. Over the next five years, prosecutorial organs will focus on key areas of pollution control and strengthen law enforcement cooperation to promote ecological restoration and high-quality green transition in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. A special supervision activity on prosecutorial public interest litigation regarding water pollution prevention in the Yangtze River Economic Belt will be carried out from May 2026 to April 2027. The focus will be placed on the concentrated and specialized supervision of the key areas and outstanding problems of water pollution prevention based on the actual situation in the area. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: In the first quarter of 2024, China's newly installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity reached 41.19 GW, with distributed PV accounting for a larger share (21.57 GW) than centralized PV (19.62 GW). By the end of March, the nation's total installed PV capacity reached 1.24 TW, a 31.2% year-on-year increase. Total PV power generation in the first quarter was 275.9 billion kWh, an 18.5% increase year-on-year, with a PV utilization rate of 90.6%. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chongqing Fengjie county is developing a significant eyewear industry, aiming to become a leading base with over 160 companies producing frames, lenses, and eye health products that are sold to over 30 countries. The county has focused on building a complete industry chain by attracting companies specializing in missing links like mold processing and metal components. To foster growth, Fengjie is investing in innovation, encouraging enterprises to adopt automation and digital management, and building R&D capabilities. The local government is streamlining administrative processes and offering comprehensive support in logistics, labor, and finance to improve the business environment. The county is actively promoting the "Fengjie Glasses" brand through marketing and participation in international exhibitions.
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Summary: Liu Kaiwen, a 19-year-old from Guangdong, has been selected to represent China in the digital interactive media design project at the 48th WorldSkills Competition. He previously won a gold medal at the 3rd National Skills Competition in the same category. Liu, a student at Guangzhou Transportation Technician College, will compete against skilled individuals from around the world, aiming to showcase Chinese skills. His training involved intensive practice and expert guidance to enhance his technical abilities and mental fortitude. The competition includes tasks such as user needs analysis, graphic design, video production, and interactive animation, with a focus on creating immersive digital experiences.
Summary: According to experts cited in the article, the term "carb face" (碳水脸), which suggests carbohydrate consumption leads to facial unattractiveness, is a misnomer lacking scientific basis. They emphasize that facial structure is primarily determined by genetics and bone structure, and that weight loss, not carbohydrate restriction, leads to a more defined face. The experts warn against severely restricting carbohydrate intake, as it can lead to various health problems, advocating instead for a balanced diet with whole grains and complex carbohydrates. They also advise against consuming too many refined carbohydrates and recommend following the Chinese Dietary Guidelines for optimal health. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The China Communications and Transportation Association launched a comprehensive "driver service map" integrating over 2,100 taxi driver stations, truck driver homes, charging facilities, and service points nationwide. Accessible via Gaode Map, the digital tool aims to provide a unified, one-stop service platform for tens of millions of drivers. The map features five sections: driver stations, convenient energy replenishment, public services, policy consultation, and an AI assistant. The map will continue to expand services and promote standardized resource sharing for driver stations across different regions.
Summary: The article reports on Inner Mongolia's efforts to create local employment opportunities for farmers and herders in Ke'eryouyiqian Banner, Hinggan League. Initiatives include training programs, "micro-factories," and cooperatives focused on traditional crafts like horse tack, dairy products, and embroidery. These projects aim to provide stable income for rural residents near their homes. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Zhangzhou Food Safety Commission Office in Fujian Province issued a statement regarding the "soaked bayberry" incident exposed by the media. Following reports of illegal additive use at bayberry collection points in Longhai District, Zhangzhou initiated an emergency response, discovering five implicated locations. Authorities seized 225 kg of problematic bayberries and illegal additives, traced and recovered an additional 540 kg of bayberries, confiscated 20.1 kg of additives, and initiated legal proceedings, including criminal detentions. The city has launched a 45-day campaign to strengthen oversight of the bayberry supply chain and prevent tainted produce from entering the market.
Summary: Nine departments in Guizhou Province, including the Market Supervision Bureau and the Cyberspace Administration, jointly issued an "Opinion" to regulate "for-profit" professional claim and reporting behaviors. The document outlines 12 characteristics of such activities and establishes a database to manage complaints and reports, while emphasizing stricter scrutiny of profit-motivated claims. It clarifies that normal consumer rights protection, public interest reporting on food and drug safety, and internal corporate compliance reports are excluded from the definition of "for-profit" behavior. The "Opinion" emphasizes protecting legitimate consumer rights and cracking down on organized malicious claims involving potential illegal activities. This is all intended to improve the business and consumer environment in the province.
Summary: Xinjiang has issued new guidelines for vocational skills assessment to standardize procedures and promote quality employment. The guidelines address inconsistencies in assessment projects, institutions, and certificate management across the region. They standardize the entire assessment process, from project initiation to certificate issuance, and establish a quantifiable evaluation and traceability system. The aim is to align vocational training with market demands and enhance labor skills across Xinjiang.
Summary: A rural village in Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, has seen improved logistics thanks to Pinduoduo's "Thousand Billion Support" plan, which subsidizes shipping costs. Pinduoduo established county-level distribution centers and village-level collection points, consolidating deliveries from multiple carriers to reduce costs. The village now has a courier station located at a local convenience store, and Pinduoduo absorbs the secondary transportation costs from county to village. According to the director of the Market Economy Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council, Wei Jigang, the "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to improve the quality and efficiency of county commerce, and it is worthwhile to promote the integrated distribution mode to solve the problem of logistics and distribution in western rural areas and reduce costs and increase efficiency. The initiative aims to facilitate the flow of goods between urban and rural areas.
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Summary: The 43rd China International Sporting Goods Show (体博会) opened in Xiamen, Fujian, showcasing new achievements and trends in China's sporting goods manufacturing. The exhibition, the first of its kind in the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, features over 2,000 exhibitors across 200,000 square meters and anticipates over 120,000 visitors, including over 7,500 from 117 countries and regions. The event aims to help Chinese brands expand internationally and inject Chinese innovation into the global sporting goods industry. The exhibition included over 50 professional conferences and activities, including releases of industry reports.
Summary: Chinese parkour athlete Shang Chunsong won the gold medal in the women's freestyle event at the Parkour World Cup in Montpellier, France. Shang, formerly a gymnast, became the first woman to complete a "Yog杆720旋" in a world competition. This victory follows her previous gold medals at the 2024 Parkour World Championships and the 2025 Chengdu World Games. Shang hopes that parkour can be included in the Olympics before she retires, and she regularly posts videos of her training on social media. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 China Internet Civilization Conference held a forum in Nanning focused on cultivating internet civilization, simultaneously launching a sports culture works collection activity. The activity aims to promote Chinese sportsmanship and foster a strong cultural environment for building a leading sporting nation, focusing on themes such as the expression of Chinese sportsmanship and mass fitness. Submissions across six categories are open until August 31st, with AI-generated content restrictions. The initiative is jointly organized by multiple departments including the Central Propaganda Department's Civilization Cultivation Bureau and People's Daily, and builds upon a successful inaugural event in 2025.
Summary: This article reports on the efforts of Yinlong Elementary School in Qianxi City, Guizhou Province, to promote student health and well-being through regular physical activity. The school incorporates jump rope, running, and games into recess, fostering a fun and active environment. A photograph shows students participating in a long rope jumping activity. The article does not reference any specific Chinese officials or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has announced its third round of penalties related to corruption and match-fixing, sanctioning 65 individuals. Seventeen people, including Ding Yong and Wu Jingbo, received lifetime bans from all football-related activities after being convicted of crimes by the People's Court. Forty-eight others, including Gao Han and Wang Bo, were banned for up to five years based on the severity of their violations. Furthermore, the CFA penalized Meizhou Hakka Football Club, deducting six points from their 2026 league score and fining them 800,000 RMB, due to additional serious violations.
Summary: Xue Feng, vice chairman of the Gansu Aviation Sports Association and head coach of the Liujiaxia International Paragliding Camp in Yongjing County, Gansu, focuses on safety and technique in training paragliding pilots. Xue aims to dispel the notion of paragliding as a niche extreme sport, emphasizing its accessibility and appeal to a broader audience. He has trained over 500 paragliding pilots, including three national-level coaches. Xue highlights the favorable natural conditions of Liujiaxia, with its stable airflow and nearly 300 flyable days per year. There was no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: The article discusses the rise of "city gifts" in China as a means of promoting local culture, building city brands, and extending the cultural tourism industry chain, referencing a guideline issued by the Ministry of Commerce to promote the development of city gifts that integrate commercial innovation, cultural creativity, and technological empowerment. A collector of "Bing Dwen Dwen," the Beijing Winter Olympics mascot, emphasizes its cultural significance and continuous innovation. The designer of "Suan Niao," a popular Wuhan-themed toy, highlights the importance of quality and local dialect in creating a successful city gift. An operator of the "Zhuzhou Gift" brand discusses the need for innovative marketing and cooperation with local industries and educational institutions to create unique and appealing souvenirs.
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Summary: The Sandakan Memorial Park in Malaysia commemorates the Allied prisoners of war who perished under brutal Japanese captivity during World War II, including the infamous "Sandakan Death March." The park details the atrocities committed by the Japanese army, including forced labor, starvation, and mass executions, with only six prisoners surviving the march. The local population risked their lives to help the prisoners, and suffered greatly for doing so. A representative of the Sandakan Chinese Chamber of Commerce stated that memorizing history is not to continue hatred, but to warn the future. The article calls on the international community to recognize the historical facts of World War II written in blood and be vigilant against the resurgence of militarism.
Summary: Pakistan's automotive market is experiencing significant growth, with a 52% increase in cumulative sales from July 2025 to April 2026, driven by increased financing and production capacity. While historically dominated by Japanese automakers, Chinese companies like Great Wall, MG, Changan, Chery, BYD, and GAC are rapidly entering the Pakistani market. Pakistan aims for 30% of new car sales to be electric vehicles by 2030 and seeks localized battery production. Shakir Arshad of Pakistan's Ministry of Science and Technology stated that the Pakistani government welcomes Chinese NEV companies as partners in achieving green transformation of the automotive industry.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of global cooperation and local action in addressing biodiversity loss, highlighting the theme of this year's International Day for Biological Diversity: "From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity." It notes that current funding for conservation efforts remains insufficient to address the ecological crisis, exacerbated by factors like deforestation, pollution, and climate change. The article emphasizes the "30x30" target established in the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," and highlights various countries' efforts to achieve it. China is recognized for its commitment to biodiversity conservation and its role in transitioning global governance from consensus-building to concrete action. The UN Environment Programme also noted China's progress in the field of biodiversity conservation and its contribution to the global ecological governance.
Summary: The article discusses the negative impact of heavy social media use on the mental health and happiness of young people, particularly in countries like the U.S., Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, citing a recent "World Happiness Report." It attributes this decline to addiction, social comparison, and a sense of loneliness despite online interaction. The article highlights efforts in countries like Australia (which is the first country in the world to legislate minimum age for social media users), the U.S., France, New Zealand, the UK, Malaysia, and China to regulate social media use among minors, akin to setting a drinking age. Finally, the article touches upon the growing trend of "anti-operation" amongst some Gen Z individuals, who are beginning to engage with older analog hobbies in efforts to reject virtual mental exhaustion.
Summary: A new report by Germany Trade & Invest states that Chinese companies invested in 228 projects in Germany last year, a 14.6% increase year-on-year. China surpassed the United States for the first time since 2017 to become the largest source of foreign investment projects in Germany. These investments are concentrated in sectors such as electronics, automation, transportation, logistics, energy, raw materials, and digitization, with a significant proportion focused on production and R&D. According to the report's author, this indicates the sustained strength and diversification of Chinese investment in Germany, reflecting both Germany's attractiveness and the internationalization of Chinese firms.
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Summary: The article highlights Suzhou's success in attracting foreign investment, with over $170 billion utilized by the end of 2025 and numerous Fortune 500 companies investing in the city. Foreign companies are drawn to Suzhou due to its mature industrial ecosystem, access to the Chinese market, and evolving from manufacturing bases to R&D centers and global service hubs. Local government initiatives, such as dedicated service teams and streamlined approval processes, have created a favorable business environment. This has resulted in foreign enterprises viewing themselves not as transient "guests" but as long-term partners in Suzhou's development. The article does not discuss or allude to the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The APEC Business Community Partnership Dialogue and the 2026 Suzhou Global Investment Promotion Conference were held in Suzhou, focusing on building mutually beneficial partnerships within APEC. Over 200 executives from global and Chinese top companies discussed industrial cooperation and development plans. Executives from companies like 3M and Herrenknecht AG emphasized their commitment to investment and cooperation in China, citing the stable business environment. Discussions also highlighted the shift of foreign investment in China towards high-tech industries and the growth of R&D investment by foreign industrial enterprises.
Summary: The article highlights the efforts of Wujiang District in Suzhou to attract and retain foreign investment by providing efficient and comprehensive services. Suzhou Gaochuang Motion Control Technology Co., Ltd. signed an agreement to establish its headquarters and R&D manufacturing base in Wujiang after only 22 days of initial contact, citing government efficiency, industrial ecosystem, location advantages, and employee support. The district provides full life-cycle services to foreign-invested enterprises, including coordinating transitional factory buildings, talent apartments and policy declarations. Italian valve company Yi Fa (Suzhou) Valve Co., Ltd., which has been located in Wujiang for more than 20 years, has increased its investment in Wujiang due to the good business environment. Wujiang District has launched an action plan to build a first-class business environment and create an open ecology in the field of foreign investment and trade.
Summary: Zhangjiagang is attracting significant foreign investment, with a focus on high-end manufacturing and technology. Recent projects include a DIC automotive transmission project from South Korea and expansions by companies like Air Liquide and Jotun. Foreign investment is shifting from capacity expansion to value enhancement, with companies investing in R&D, technological upgrades, and green initiatives. A trend of industrial clustering is evident, with foreign companies forming collaborative supply chains with local Chinese firms like ShaSteel.
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Summary: This article discusses the recent re-publication of Ji Xianlin's "Sugar History" and its significance. The book explores the history of sugar and the cultural exchange between India and China, particularly regarding sugar production techniques. Ji Xianlin's research suggests that advanced Indian sugar-making techniques were introduced to China during the Tang Dynasty, and later, Chinese techniques were transmitted to India. The author emphasizes Ji's meticulous research methodology and his broader belief in the importance of cultural exchange for human progress. The author notes that the book serves as a reminder that humankind should be harmonious and cooperative with each other.
Summary: The article discusses the Russian city of Oryol, highlighting its rich literary history and significance as the birthplace or home to renowned writers like Turgenev, Leskov, Bunin and Bakhtin. It emphasizes how literature is ingrained in the city's daily life, with streets, museums, and gardens named after famous authors. The article mentions specific literary landmarks, such as the Turgenev Museum and the "Noble Nest" garden, connecting them to the authors' works and the city's cultural identity. Oryol's recognition as a "Literary Capital of Russia" in 2021 is portrayed as a confirmation of its long-standing cultural heritage. The article concludes with a reflection on the Oryol river as a carrier of history and memory, enabling the city to engage in dialogue with the world through its literature, making its way to book stores in Beijing, classrooms in Paris, and reading rooms in Buenos Aires.
Summary: A special exhibition titled "Dostoevsky: Man is a Mystery," showcasing 184 items including manuscripts and illustrations, opened at the Mu Xin Art Museum in Wuzhen on April 25th. The exhibition, which runs until August 23rd, aims to present a systematic view of the life and literary creation of the influential 19th-century Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, whose works have been widely read in China since the 1920s. Notable exhibits include items from the Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum and the Beijing Lu Xun Museum. The exhibition highlights Dostoevsky's significant impact on literature and culture. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Lake Tekapo, located in the central South Island of New Zealand, is known for its distinctive turquoise waters formed by glacial meltwater and the surrounding Southern Alps. The area is famous for its blooming lupines in spring and early summer, as well as being one of the world's largest International Dark Sky Reserves, offering exceptional stargazing opportunities at the Mount John Observatory. Residents of the nearby town actively minimize light pollution to preserve the night sky. The iconic Church of the Good Shepherd, a small stone and wood structure, overlooks the lake and mountains, serving as a popular landmark. The lake promotes a relaxed pace of life, inviting visitors to enjoy the natural beauty and tranquility.
Summary: This article provides contact information for the People's Daily, specifically an email address for international feedback. It also credits Cai Huawei for the page layout design. There is no political content, discussion of Chinese officials or actions, or mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article highlights the trend of young people returning to rural areas in China to contribute to rural revitalization, as emphasized by Xi Jinping. These young individuals are modernizing agriculture through technology, creating new rural industries like agritourism and e-commerce, and promoting new cultural values. By the end of 2025, over 15.1 million people had returned to their hometowns to start businesses. The piece emphasizes that these efforts are driving economic growth and improving quality of life in rural communities, narrowing the income gap between urban and rural residents, and changing the atmosphere in the countryside.
Summary: The article profiles three young agricultural professionals in China: Qiao Xin in Henan, Wang Yu in Zhejiang, and Gao Lu in Yunnan. Qiao Xin, a graduate of agricultural studies, returned to her hometown to establish an agricultural cooperative focused on high-yield grain techniques and drone-based crop protection. Wang Yu, after graduating from a logistics management program, developed expertise in vegetable cultivation, employing digital technologies and advanced seedling techniques. Gao Lu, a *fushu ji* from Tsinghua University, is stationed in Xishan village, Yunnan, where she promotes "small but refined" ecological agriculture and coordinates rural development projects with her university. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the growing trend of young people returning to rural areas in China to revitalize villages and address challenges in agriculture. These young people are using new technologies and methods, such as e-commerce, to modernize farming and boost rural economies. The article emphasizes the mutual benefit of this trend, as rural areas provide opportunities for young people to realize their ambitions while they contribute to rural development. The piece calls for creating more opportunities and support systems for young people to settle in rural areas, empowering them to play a crucial role in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. The article did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The article discusses the problematic trends in China's children's book market, including the proliferation of content promoting questionable values, distorted perspectives, and utilitarian goals. It criticizes the rise of books focused on interpersonal skills, manipulation, and quick success, often at the expense of genuine children's literature. The author calls for publishers to uphold their responsibilities, regulatory bodies to strengthen oversight, and parents to adopt rational reading habits to ensure children are exposed to wholesome and beneficial content. The piece argues for a return to prioritizing kindness, beauty, and imagination in children's literature. There is no explicit mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article reports on a car wash center in Qingdao, Shandong province, called "Angel's Car Wash", which provides employment opportunities for adults with intellectual disabilities such as autism and Down syndrome. The center was founded by Cui Yonglan, director of the Chunyu Disabled Persons' Assisted Employment Center, and has employed 15 people who have collectively washed over 7,000 cars. Employees like Wu Jilin, who has autism, have found purpose and increased confidence through their work, learning to perform tasks meticulously and earning customer appreciation. The center emphasizes a consistent service standard, with employees politely refusing tips to uphold the principle of "same speed, same cleanliness, same price." There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: An emergency team leader born in 1981 in Tibet's Rikaze Dingjie County, who joined the road maintenance team in 2000, recounts his experiences maintaining roads in harsh conditions. He describes the difficult early years with rudimentary tools, his efforts to learn how to operate and repair machinery, and leading his team through blizzards and other disasters. He emphasizes the importance of keeping roads open despite the challenges of the high-altitude environment. He trains younger team members, maintaining a high road safety record. He remains dedicated to his work, embodying the motto: "Only oxygen-lacking highlands, no unmaintained roads."
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Summary: The newly published *Modern Chinese Dictionary* (*Da Xian Han*), compiled over 20 years, is the first large-scale original dictionary of this century and a significant achievement in linguistics. With 157,000 entries and 12 million words, it surpasses existing dictionaries in size and originality, comprehensively depicting modern Chinese while incorporating historical context. The dictionary emphasizes both descriptive and normative approaches to Mandarin, systematically analyzing word formation, identifying morphemes, and documenting emerging language trends. It includes modern internet terms, showcasing its attention to evolving language and its role in standardizing their usage. The dictionary aims to guide the accurate interpretation and use of internet language, reflecting its focus on contemporary language while also guiding language norms.
Summary: The article reviews Lu Min's novel *At This Moment*, which focuses on the economic lives and choices of ordinary citizens in contemporary China. The novel explores themes of wealth, personal growth, and the complexities of human nature through characters facing economic challenges. The protagonist, Ai Shengchun, embodies resilience and a commitment to integrity, navigating a difficult path. The author commends Lu Min's ability to portray the nuances of economic life with a vivid and warm style, contributing a new perspective to Chinese contemporary literature. The review emphasizes the novel's focus on ordinary people striving for a better life amidst the everyday challenges of economics.
Summary: Dong Ningning's book, *“Bone” Past and Present: An Observation by an Animal Archaeologist*, uses animal remains to explore the interactions between humans and animals, revealing insights into ancient diets, customs, and the evolution of civilization. Examining sites like Qitai in Xinjiang, the book analyzes animal bones to understand Han dynasty military outposts and agricultural practices, including sheep breeding and seasonal feeding strategies. Archaeological finds in the Yangtze River Delta reveal the consumption of fish by ancient peoples, connecting the region's present-day reputation as a "land of fish and rice" to prehistoric times. The book highlights the emotional connections between researchers and the past, finding shared human experiences in the animal bones unearthed from ancient sites. It argues for a re-evaluation of the human-animal relationship, emphasizing the importance of co-existence and drawing lessons from past agricultural practices for sustainable development.
Summary: This article discusses the importance of eye health in China, focusing on preventative care and public awareness. It highlights a new book by ophthalmologist Tao Yong, "May Your Eyes Be Bright: An Eye Care Guide for the Whole Family," which aims to provide practical eye care advice for different age groups and address common misconceptions. The book emphasizes early intervention for myopia in children, managing eye strain in working adults, and promoting early screening for age-related eye diseases in the elderly. The author argues that high-quality popular science writing, such as this book, is essential for improving national eye health and promoting a culture of preventative eye care.
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Summary: Wang Jiangping argues for an "AI for Good" ("上善AI") governance concept, drawing on traditional Chinese wisdom to frame a human-AI relationship based on mutual adaptation rather than simple control. He proposes "human-machine alignment" as a central principle that must be embedded throughout the entire AI research and development lifecycle. The book advocates for a system that balances innovation with social stability, highlighting China's unique approach to AI governance through state guidance and market dynamism. It positions this as a uniquely Chinese solution rooted in the country's institutional advantages and cultural confidence. The book argues that this approach will help to solve the problem of how humans and machines can coexist.
Summary: This article provides contact information for a book review section of the People's Daily newspaper. It lists the email address (dushu@peopledaily.cn) for submissions and inquiries. Finally, it credits Zhao Siru for the page layout design.
By: 本报记者 杨文明 李茂颖
In early summer, in the Zhenxiong Phosphorus Chemical Industry Park (镇雄磷化工园区) in Zhaotong (昭通), Yunnan Province (云南省), excavators are working intensively, and dump trucks are shuttling back and forth. Infrastructure construction such as the initial water supply project and supporting industrial roads is in full swing. Next month, the Zhenxiong (镇雄) Phosphorus-based New Material Green and Low-Carbon Circular Economy Industrial Cluster Project will officially commence.
Today, Yunnan's (云南) industrial system of "phosphorus ore - wet-process phosphoric acid - purified phosphoric acid - cathode materials" has already taken shape, building an industrial development pattern with Kunming (昆明) and Qujing (曲靖) as the focus, and Yuxi (玉溪), Dali (大理), and Zhaotong (昭通) as coordinated and complementary areas.
During this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We should create new prospects in optimizing and upgrading traditional industries, cultivating and strengthening emerging industries, and proactively planning for future industries." In March 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Yunnan (云南): "Yunnan (云南) should strengthen and optimize resource-based industries with technological innovation as the guide, and actively develop strategic emerging industries and future industries."
Thoroughly implementing the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Yunnan (云南) is accelerating the transformation of resource advantages into industrial advantages, continuously strengthening and optimizing resource-based industries. In 2025, the added value of the non-ferrous metals industry, the green aluminum industry, and the new energy battery industry increased by 14.2%, 12.1%, and 75.9% respectively. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Yunnan (云南) will continue to focus on key industrial sectors such as the intensive processing of non-ferrous metals and new materials for rare and precious metals, and continue to promote the strengthening and optimization of resource-based industries with technological innovation as the guide.
Technological Innovation Leads the Breakthrough:
In the production workshop of Chalco Aluminum Foil (Yunnan) Co., Ltd. (中铝铝箔（云南）有限公司), rolls of aluminum foil as thin as cicada wings are slowly coming off the production line. This aluminum foil, prepared using the casting and rolling method, has internationally leading technology.
At the site of the Midamo Photovoltaic Power Generation Project (米达么光伏发电项目) of Huaneng Lancang River Company (华能澜沧江公司), continuous photovoltaic panels are spread out like silver waves. "The heterojunction battery modules we supply have a 95% ultra-high bifaciality and excellent weak light performance, which helps the project generate electricity," said Chen Maojun (陈茂钧), General Manager of Dali Huasheng New Energy Technology Co., Ltd. (大理华晟新能源科技有限公司).
In recent years, Yunnan (云南) has built an innovation system with enterprises as the main body and deep collaboration between industry, academia, and research, relying on 17 national-level and 505 provincial-level enterprise technology centers to overcome a number of "bottleneck" technologies. The Yunnan Precious Metals Laboratory (云南贵金属实验室), the Yunnan Tin Indium Laboratory (云南锡铟实验室), and the innovation consortiums for the copper, lead, and zinc industries, the tin and indium industries, and new energy materials continue to focus on tackling key core technologies.
Scientific and technological achievements are accelerating from the laboratory to the production line. The Yunnan Precious Metals Laboratory (云南贵金属实验室) has developed more than 10 new materials and new products; the waste lithium battery recycling technology of Kunming University of Science and Technology (昆明理工大学) has driven more than 10 enterprises to increase their output value by more than 2 billion yuan...
"Yunnan (云南) is closely focusing on resource-based industries such as aluminum, silicon, and phosphorus, promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation, implementing high-quality development actions for key industrial chains, and making new progress in promoting new industrialization," introduced Zhou Yong (周踊), Director of the Yunnan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (云南省工业和信息化厅).
Policy Empowerment Escorts:
Promotion of environmentally friendly and circular aluminum alloy ingot projects, layout of the entire indium phosphide industrial chain... During the 20th "Department and Bureau Directors' Consultation and Complaint Acceptance" activity in Yunnan Province (云南省第二十期“厅局长坐诊接诉”活动), enterprise representatives spoke, and departments such as the Yunnan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology (云南省工业和信息化厅) responded on the spot, promoting the resolution of bottlenecks in the development of resource-based industries.
Since the beginning of this year, Yunnan (云南) has strengthened policy empowerment, built a key enterprise support service mechanism that coordinates with prefectures (cities), promoted "one policy for each" of 11 key industries, established a 5 billion yuan advanced manufacturing equity investment fund of funds, and promoted the direct and rapid enjoyment of policies.
Continuously optimizing green electricity consumption services, Yunnan (云南) is escorting the integrated development of "green electricity + manufacturing," and the first batch of 4 green electricity direct connection projects will be announced by the end of 2025. "Yunnan (云南) took the lead in implementing the free transfer of green certificates for existing conventional hydropower, with a cumulative free transfer of over 300 million green certificates, equivalent to over 300 billion kilowatt-hours of green electricity, effectively supporting the development of the new energy industry," said Ding Wenjiao (丁文娇), head of the Green Electricity and Technological Innovation Department of Kunming Power Trading Center (昆明电力交易中心).
Extending and Strengthening the Chain is Becoming a Trend:
In the Funing Industrial Park (富宁产业园区) in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (文山壮族苗族自治州), Yunnan Shenhuo Aluminum Co., Ltd.'s (云南神火铝业有限公司) molten aluminum is directly supplied to downstream enterprise Yunnan Futai Aluminum New Material Technology Co., Ltd. (云南富泰铝业新材料科技有限公司) through dedicated transport vehicles. The 900,000-ton electrolytic aluminum project of Shenhuo Aluminum Company (神火铝业公司) has attracted 14 downstream enterprises, and the industrial chain from bauxite to auto parts has already taken shape.
"Recently, we have successively signed orders for nearly 1,000 tons of cast-rolled coils and 1,500 tons of cold-rolled coils, and we are now rushing to expedite production." Entering May, market orders continue to pour in, the production atmosphere is hot, and Song Zhen (宋振), General Manager of Futai Aluminum (富泰铝业), is full of energy.
Increase the on-site processing and conversion rate of aluminum and copper, and develop recycled aluminum and recycled copper industries; promote the growth and strengthening of new materials for rare and precious metals, and drive the clustered development of resource comprehensive utilization, intensive processing, and components; promote the efficient and high-value utilization of phosphorus resources... Yunnan (云南) has issued an action plan to accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system and promote the construction of a strong industrial province, promote the extension, supplementation, and strengthening of the non-ferrous metal industry chain, and industrial parks in Kunming (昆明), Qujing (曲靖), Wenshan (文山) and other places have formed characteristic resource industrial clusters.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, Yunnan (云南) will continue to develop new quality productive forces in accordance with local conditions, strive to transform resource advantages into economic advantages, promote industrial transformation and upgrading, accelerate the construction of a modern industrial system with Yunnan's (云南) characteristic advantages, and continuously create a new situation in Yunnan's (云南) high-quality development," said Wang Ning (王宁), Secretary of the Yunnan Provincial Party Committee (云南省委书记).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 21st. On May 21st, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Pakistani President Zardari exchanged congratulatory messages to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries.
Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that China and Pakistan are good friends linked by mountains and rivers, sharing a common destiny, and are all-weather strategic partners. Over the 75 years since the establishment of diplomatic relations, no matter how the international situation has changed, the friendship between China and Pakistan has always been as solid as a rock and 牢不可破 (láo bù kě pò - "unbreakable," describes a relationship or alliance that is extremely strong and cannot be easily destroyed). The two countries have long maintained high-level political mutual trust, high-level pragmatic cooperation, high-level security cooperation, and high-level international coordination, setting a model for state-to-state relations.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that he attaches great importance to the development of China-Pakistan relations and is willing to work with President Zardari to take the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to strengthen strategic communication, carry forward traditional friendship, deepen all-round cooperation, accelerate the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era, so that China-Pakistan relations can better benefit the two peoples and contribute to regional peace and development.
Zardari said that the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between Pakistan and China has stood the test of time and has become a firm pillar of regional peace, stability, and development. Pakistan highly appreciates the series of global initiatives with far-reaching significance proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平), and highly cherishes President Xi Jinping's (习近平) firm commitment to deepening Pakistan-China relations and promoting the building of a closer Pakistan-China community with a shared future in the new era. Pakistan sincerely thanks China for its firm support for Pakistan in safeguarding its sovereignty and territorial integrity and promoting economic and social development, and will continue to support China on issues concerning China's core interests, and further elevate Pakistan-China friendship to a new height.
On the same day, Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz (夏巴兹) exchanged congratulatory messages. Li Qiang (李强) said that China is willing to work with Pakistan to strengthen unity and cooperation, actively build an "upgraded version 2.0" of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, and promote the continuous development of the China-Pakistan all-weather strategic cooperative partnership.
Shehbaz (夏巴兹) said that Pakistan-China relations are based on mutual trust, sovereign equality, and the common pursuit of peace and development. Pakistan is firmly committed to promoting the construction of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor with high quality and constantly opening up new areas of Pakistan-China cooperation.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 21st (北京). Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强) presided over an executive meeting of the State Council on May 21st, studying and promoting the construction of a unified national market, reviewing and approving the "15th Five-Year Plan for the Construction of a Modern Emergency System," and discussing the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the People's Bank of China (Draft Revision)."
The meeting pointed out that building a unified national market is a requirement for building a new development pattern and promoting high-quality development. In recent years, the construction of a unified national market has achieved positive results and important progress, but it still requires continuous efforts and 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent efforts," persistent effort will lead to success). It is necessary to promote the construction of relevant systems in depth, further improve the systems of property rights protection, market access, fair competition, social credit, and market exit, so that there are rules to follow and laws to abide by. It is necessary to promote the high-standard interconnection of market facilities in depth, smooth economic circulation, and effectively reduce the logistics costs of the entire society. It is necessary to promote the unification of key areas of the market in depth, combining points and areas, so that the masses and enterprises can feel and reach it more easily. It is necessary to unblock bottlenecks with greater efforts, eliminate various explicit and implicit barriers, and fully release market vitality and potential.
The meeting pointed out that emergency management is related to the safety of people's lives and property, and to the overall situation of reform, development, and stability. It is necessary to adapt to the new situation and new requirements, accelerate the construction of a modern emergency system, deepen the reform and innovation of emergency management, improve the coordinated response mechanism, and promote the construction of a large safety and large emergency pattern. It is necessary to highlight the source control of risks, strengthen monitoring, forecasting, and early warning, improve the level of inherent safety, and accelerate the transformation of governance models to ex-ante prevention. It is necessary to optimize the layout of emergency forces, strengthen all-factor support, consolidate the foundation of grassroots emergency response, and coordinate the implementation of measures such as civil air defense, technical defense, engineering defense, and management defense. It is necessary to promote the safety rectification of key industries and fields in the entire chain, compact the responsibilities of all levels and all parties, and effectively form a good situation of joint management and coordinated linkage.
The meeting discussed and in principle approved the "Law of the People's Republic of China on the People's Bank of China (Draft Revision)" and decided to submit the draft to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) for deliberation. The meeting pointed out that revising the Law of the People's Bank of China (中国人民银行) is a basic project for improving China's financial legal system. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of financial rule of law, accelerate the improvement of the central bank system, and fully perform the duties of the central bank in accordance with the law.
The meeting also studied other matters.
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The study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance are being carried out in depth throughout the Party. All regions, departments, and units adhere to opening the door to ask for needs and implementing precise policies, handling the "heart matters" of the masses, while adhering to the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment," improving institutional mechanisms, and better benefiting the people.
Focusing on Problems to Grasp Rectification
The entrance and exit road of the south gate is narrow and has blind spots, resulting in low traffic efficiency... Residents of Lihe New Village in Gusu District (姑苏区), Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) used to have inconvenient travel. After understanding the situation, the party member cadres of Gusu District connected with the property management, conducted on-site investigation and demonstration, and promoted the implementation of the road widening project. Without changing the overall layout of the community, they solved the congestion problem and eliminated potential safety hazards through space "micro-transformation." In order to do more practical things for the masses and make them feel tangible benefits, Suzhou City has carried out a special action of "three services" to serve enterprises, serve projects, serve parks, and serve the grassroots, making good use of the "running once in another's shoes" and other working mechanisms to promote the implementation of people's livelihood projects.
Gansu Province (甘肃省) has studied and formulated a centralized rectification work plan at the provincial level, addressing eight prominent issues, including new officials ignoring old accounts, being eager for quick success and instant benefits, engaging in fraud, acting blindly and recklessly, making unrealistic decisions against the wishes of the masses, engaging in "image projects" and "vanity projects," "flipping pancakes" in policies and plans, and illegally increasing hidden debts of local governments, and proposed 25 work measures. The local area insists on combining study and education with ecological protection and high-quality development in the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域) and other work, and grasping the rectification and remediation of prominent problems.
Recently, the demand for electricity in tea gardens in Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) has been concentrated, and the guarantee requirements are high. State Grid Lishui Power Supply Company (国网丽水供电公司) has transformed the effectiveness of study and education into practical results in serving the masses and performing duties, relying on the "All-round Micro-grid" convenience service center and the "Heping Neighborhood" service station to add services such as agricultural electricity consultation and tea enterprise electricity safety guidance, and promote the "one-stop" centralized handling of convenience matters.
Open Education to Solve People's Worries
Since the launch of study and education, Baoxing County (宝兴县) in Ya'an City (雅安市), Sichuan Province (四川省) has adhered to open education, sorted out 157 "old account" problems involving multiple fields, and actively and steadily promoted the resolution of "old accounts." Among them, in response to the problems of scattered educational resources and poor connection between academic stages, the county widely listened to opinions and suggestions and decided to establish Baoxing County Education Group (宝兴县教育集团). The group adopts a close-knit school running model of "main school + member schools," opening up the primary, junior high, and senior high school stages, realizing the synchronization of curriculum, examinations, and teaching and research, so that children in mountainous areas can enjoy high-quality educational resources.
In Qujing City (曲靖市), Yunnan Province (云南省), leading cadres took the lead in conducting in-depth investigations and research at the front line, collecting public opinions through symposiums, the Internet, and other channels, and incorporating the opinions and suggestions into the list of problems to be investigated, and urging rectification item by item. The renovation and upgrading of old elevators is a practical matter for improving the quality of life of residents. In response to the difficulties and blockages in this regard, Qilin District (麒麟区) in Qujing City organized a "Consultation Meeting on Renovation and Upgrading of Old Elevators" to promote communication and coordination through policy publicity, supplier product display, and experience sharing from renovated communities. At present, more than 100 old elevators have been replaced.
Ganxian District (赣县区) in Ganzhou City (赣州市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) has implemented the "Raise Opinions with a 'Code' Immediately" and the "13357" rapid handling mechanism for public opinions. For the public demands collected, it strives to complete general consultation and assistance issues within 3 days, complete complex issues that need to be coordinated and resolved within 5 days, and complete difficult issues involving a wide range and significant impact within 7 days and reply, building a public service system of "masses scanning the code to raise demands - community online order taking - closed-loop handling and feedback." The district regularly sorts out and summarizes public demands to promote the implementation of various people's livelihood matters.
Institutional Construction for Long-Term Management
Nangming District (南明区) in Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), based on its actual work, combined with inspection and rectification, supervision and rectification, etc., comprehensively carried out self-inspection and sorting of documents and systems, and strived to build a complete, practical, and efficient system system. As of now, the district has cumulatively abolished 2 systems, plans to revise and improve 37 items, and newly established 52 items.
In order to strengthen the management and supervision of cadres and promote leading cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance, Huangshi City (黄石市), Hubei Province (湖北省) revised the economic responsibility audit and evaluation method for leading cadres to achieve an objective and fair quantitative evaluation of the overall performance of the audited leading cadres. It issued the "Implementation Measures for the 'Comprehensive Inspection Once' Joint Law Enforcement Inspection of Work Safety in Huangshi City (Trial Implementation)," building a linkage model of "leading unit + collaborative unit" to achieve "entering the door once, checking multiple items, and being in place at one time," reducing the burden on enterprises from the source. It issued a patrol supervision and illegal investigation and handling work mechanism in the field of natural resources, clarifying the approval supervision and law enforcement boundaries of grassroots units in the form of a list, and striving to solve the problems of overlapping functions and insufficient law enforcement personnel.
In the study and education, Jiangzhou District (江州区) in Chongzuo City (崇左市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) issued an action plan to improve the quality and efficiency of cadre work style construction, deepening the contact system of department-level cadres and the "service commissioner" system. Relying on the "service commissioner" outpost, it regularly collects enterprises' demands for employment, approval, financing, etc., and establishes a closed-loop mechanism of "instant response, list management, and cancellation of accounts." Among them, in response to the "employment difficulty" problem, Jiangzhou District established a "point-to-point" employment assistance and delivery mechanism, regularly organizing job seekers from 11 townships (街道) in the jurisdiction to take a bus directly to enterprises in the development zone to see production, discuss treatment, and sign agreements on the spot.
(Reporters Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Ma Yuefeng (马跃峰), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Wang Weijian (王伟健), Fan Haotian (范昊天), You Yi (游仪), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲) of this newspaper)
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Breaking through the clouds, hundreds of stars shine. On May 15th, the Zhongke Aerospace Lijian-1 Y13 carrier rocket (中科宇航力箭一号遥十三运载火箭) pierced the sky, successfully achieving "one rocket with five satellites." So far, the Lijian series has sent a cumulative total of one hundred satellites into space, engraving a brilliant mark of China's commercial aerospace in the vast starry sky.
Speeding fast, winning two championships again. On May 16th and 17th, the 2026 World Superbike Championship Czech Republic station roared with engines, and Zhang Xue's motorcycle (张雪机车) won the championship in two rounds, once again demonstrating the hardcore strength of Chinese private enterprises on the global arena.
On February 17, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the symposium on private enterprises: "The development prospects of the private economy in the new era and new journey are broad and promising, and it is the right time for the vast number of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs to **大显身手** (dà xiǎn shēn shǒu - "fully display one's abilities," to demonstrate great skill or talent)."
On May 20, 2025, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting the Private Economy" (中华人民共和国民营经济促进法) officially came into effect. Over the past year, what tangible gains has this law brought to private enterprises? How can we protect the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy?
More perfect system——
More than 180 supporting policies build a legal guarantee system
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The rule of law is an important support for the national governance system and governance capacity."
If the law is compared to the "design blueprint" of a magnificent building, then the supporting system is the specific "construction drawing." Since the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, various regions and departments have accelerated the construction of the "four beams and eight pillars," and more than 180 supporting policies have been introduced.
The negative list is "slimming down" again, and the access threshold is getting wider and wider.
Last year, the "Market Access Negative List (2025 Edition)" was released, and the number of list items was reduced from 117 in the 2022 edition to 106, a decrease of 11 items.
Shanghai Xingge Culture Media Co., Ltd. (上海兴格文化传媒有限公司) is one of the direct beneficiaries. In the past, to shoot TV series, it was necessary to apply separately for "Approval for the Establishment of TV Drama Production Units." Now, it is only necessary to apply for a "Radio and Television Program Production and Operation License" to start shooting smoothly. "Our new drama is preparing to be filmed in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东). The local cultural and tourism department provided very considerate services, promoting the simultaneous advancement and parallel approval of the application for the business license and the TV drama project, which greatly improved the efficiency of landing," said Yang Wenhong (杨文红), chairman of the company.
Various regions and departments have carried out in-depth clean-up and rectification actions on market access barriers. In 2025, a total of more than 38,000 documents were sorted and investigated, and more than 2,300 were revised or abolished, which effectively guaranteed the market access rights of business entities.
Bidding is more "sunshine," and market competition is fairer.
"Artificial intelligence is the referee. As a foreign private enterprise, I feel much more at ease," said the bidding leader of Ronghua Construction Group (荣华建设集团).
Recently, Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东) successfully completed the transaction of a general contracting project for an industrial park that applied artificial intelligence review for the first time. Compared with the traditional manual scoring, the review efficiency has increased by more than 40%, which greatly reduces the wrong and missed reviews.
Data is the best proof. In 2025, the number of projects won by private enterprises accounted for 76.2%, and the total amount of government procurement contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for more than 70% of the national government procurement scale.
Major projects open their doors, and private investment is more active.
Dadu River (大渡河), in the canyon, heavy dump trucks meander through, and the initial shape of the dam foundation excavation is beginning to appear. The construction of the Danba Hydropower Station (丹巴水电站) on the Dadu River (大渡河) in Sichuan (四川) is in full swing. In November last year, with the joint efforts of the "national team" and private enterprises, Guoneng Dadu River (Danba) Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. (国能大渡河（丹巴）水电开发有限公司) was formally established, with Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (宁德时代) holding 10% of the shares.
"The addition of Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (宁德时代) has broken the traditional investment pattern of large-scale hydropower projects. The 'national team' has capital, and Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (宁德时代) has technology. The strong alliance brings unlimited possibilities for project operation," said Jiang Yihang (蒋一行), general manager of the company, full of confidence.
Nuclear power, hydropower, and railways, private investment is accelerating into major national projects. As of the first quarter of this year, 20 private enterprises have been introduced to participate in 12 nuclear power projects, with a total investment of more than 55 billion yuan, and the share ratio of private enterprises has increased from the initial 2% to a maximum of 20%.
Financing support is more efficient, and financial living water is accurately dripped.
"From application to loan, it took less than a week, and the interest rate was low. I must give it a thumbs up!" Mao Haitao (毛海涛), production manager of Xitai Shoes (希泰鞋业) in Jinjiang (晋江), Fujian (福建), praised the "government-bank-enterprise guarantee" financing service mechanism.
This mechanism is an important measure for Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) to solve the financing difficulties of small and micro enterprises. "We regularly survey the needs of enterprises and report the list, banks simplify approval, and guarantee institutions provide credit enhancement. Multi-party linkage allows financial living water to be accurately dripped," introduced Ding Qingxiong (丁庆雄), a member of the Party Group of the Jinjiang Development and Reform Bureau (晋江市发展和改革局).
Setting up a 1 trillion yuan re-loan for private enterprises, establishing a 500 billion yuan special guarantee plan for private investment, and implementing interest subsidies for loans to small and medium-sized micro enterprises... A series of policies continue to increase financial support. As of the end of April this year, the balance of inclusive small and micro loans was 37.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year, injecting a constant stream of power into the development of private enterprises.
Execution is more in place——
The legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises are comprehensively strengthened
The rooting of the law should ultimately be reflected in the substantial protection of the rights and interests of private enterprises. Since the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, multiple departments have coordinated and worked together to protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises in every possible way.
——Build a "protective wall" of rights and interests with fair judgments.
Recently, a judgment on an administrative agreement dispute spanning many years has attracted attention.
In 2007, a local government signed a land development agreement with a construction company. Later, the terms of profit distribution were deemed invalid because they violated the law. The court made it clear in the trial that the government was primarily at fault for the invalidity of the terms, and the actual losses invested by the enterprise based on its trust in the government should be protected. Finally, the court ruled that the government should pay the enterprise more than 43 million yuan in compensation in accordance with the law.
"Implementing legal provisions in specific cases is not only to solve the specific problems of a private enterprise and an entrepreneur, but also to let the vast number of private enterprises and entrepreneurs **吃下法治的‘定心丸’** (chī xià fǎ zhì de 'dìng xīn wán' - "take the 'reassurance pill' of the rule of law," to feel secure and confident due to legal protection)," said Li Chao (李超), spokesperson of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
——Safeguard production and operation with standardized law enforcement.
"After the company was administratively punished, I was very worried, fearing that it would bring pressure to the operation," said Mr. Huang (黄先生), the operations director of an advertising company in Chaoyang District (朝阳区), Beijing (北京市). Not long ago, due to personnel handover omissions, the company failed to discover that the advertiser had illegally and privately changed the landing page content, misleading consumers, and was filed for investigation.
"We found in the verification that this company was a first-time violation and took the initiative to rectify after discovering the problem," introduced Ren Jiao (任娇), a staff member of the Advertising Section of the Chaoyang District Market Supervision Bureau (朝阳区市场监管局). Therefore, according to the recently released "List of Service-Oriented Law Enforcement Items in the Market Supervision Field of Chaoyang District, Beijing" (北京市朝阳区市场监管领域服务型执法事项清单), in accordance with 10% of the minimum fine amount, it was given a reduced penalty in accordance with the law, and the final fine was 30,000 yuan.
Standardized and benevolent administrative law enforcement reflects the temperature of the rule of law. In recent years, administrative organs at all levels have comprehensively promoted strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, greatly reduced inspection items, and resolutely put an end to "arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, and arbitrary inspections." In 2025, the total number of administrative inspections involving enterprises nationwide decreased by 34% year-on-year, while the proportion of problems found increased by 18.5 percentage points, and 6,431 cases of illegal and improper administrative law enforcement were corrected in a timely manner.
——Help enterprises "start again" with credit repair.
Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) a certain Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (化工科技有限公司) was punished by the Market Supervision Department of Wuxue City (武穴市), Hubei (湖北) for cross-provincial reasons, and urgently needed credit repair to apply for a loan. After learning about the company's difficulties, the Wuxue City Market Supervision Bureau (武穴市市场监管局) quickly launched the "Credit Repair Direct Train," and completed the entire process in only 1 working day through remote guidance by dedicated personnel and cross-provincial online joint review, realizing "zero trips for applications and cross-provincial access for repairs."
Carrying out credit repair can help enterprises unload their burdens and start lightly, and revitalize under the sunshine of the rule of law. The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) vigorously promotes the efficient handling of credit repair as "one thing." As of the end of March this year, it has cumulatively repaired the credit of 47.9224 million business entities.
The environment is more optimized——
The vitality of the private economy continues to burst forth
To promote the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy, we must rely on the rigid guarantee of the law and the continuous efforts of policies.
Visit to ask for advice, and open up a "through train" for demand response.
In Jianye High-tech Zone (建邺高新区), Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), a group of special "personal housekeepers" are active in every key building - "Xiao Mo" service specialists (小莫服务专员). Their slogan is simple and direct: "If you have a problem, find Xiao Mo!"
At the beginning of 2026, Jiangsu Bosida Law Firm (江苏博事达律所) reported to "Xiao Mo" service specialist Zhang Yu (张雨) that the law firm lacked a communication platform. She thoughtfully planned the "Mo Mo Afternoon Tea" for legal and commercial services to help companies expand resources.
This is just a microcosm. Nationwide, face-to-face communication and exchanges are building a "bridge of hearts" between government departments and private enterprises.
There is a mechanism for communication. The national, provincial, municipal, and county levels have established a normalized communication and exchange and problem-solving mechanism with private enterprises.
There is a platform for help. The comprehensive service platform for the development of the private economy is online, including "direct access to preferential policies for enterprises," "demands and suggestions," and "private investment development."
Create an ecology and promote the upgrading of corporate capabilities.
Dive 3,000 meters under the sea, and the operation accuracy reaches the centimeter level. In Guangdong (广东), a deep-sea cable operation robot named "Phoenix 600" (凤凰座600) won a 100 million yuan order in a global tender.
This hardcore equipment, which is 6 meters long and weighs 12 tons, has a localization rate of core components as high as 90%. It was created by a company that was only established 3 years ago - Deep Sea Zhiren (Guangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (深海智人（广州）技术有限公司).
"The company can develop so quickly, thanks to the all-round support of government departments from investment funds to talent recruitment assistance, and then to industrial positioning planning," said Ma Yiming (马亦鸣), the founder of the company. In particular, the deep-sea resource commercialization development system created by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center (粤港澳大湾区应用场景创新中心) allows companies to conduct tests in real sea areas, which greatly shortens the technology iteration cycle.
Shanghai (上海) is building a one-stop service platform for enterprises to go overseas, Guangdong (广东) is systematically building a five-level classification and cultivation system for key enterprises, and Hunan (湖南) is carrying out the "Enterprise Service Year" campaign... Various regions and departments are actively acting and vigorously improving the service system to make private enterprises more secure and comfortable in their development.
The rule of law escorts, and private enterprises set sail. Over the past year, the vitality of the private economy has continued to be stimulated.
Larger scale. As of the end of April this year, there were 61.022 million registered private enterprises nationwide, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year.
Better development. In the first quarter of this year, private industrial enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 430.53 billion yuan, an increase of 25.4% year-on-year, significantly leading other types of enterprises.
Higher quality. Among the 61.022 million private enterprises nationwide, there are 24.619 million "four new" private enterprises with new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models, accounting for 40.3% of the total number of private enterprises.
The rule of law is the best business environment. Looking forward to the future, in the broad stage of healthy and high-quality development, the vast number of private enterprises will be able to **乘风破浪** (chéng fēng pò làng - "brave the wind and the waves," to ride the wind and surge forward) and go steady and far, injecting a constant stream of surging momentum into the giant ship of the Chinese economy.
(Reporters Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), Wang Pei (王沛), You Yi (游仪), Shi Yu (施钰), and Bai Guangdi (白光迪) participated in the writing of this report)
Return to TopIn recent days, Tongjiang County (通江县) in Bazhong City (巴中市), Sichuan Province (四川省) has organized literary and art volunteers to go deep into villages and communities with a large elderly population to carry out centralized cultural performances to benefit the people and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses.
The picture shows literary and art volunteers performing literary and artistic programs for the masses in Hexi Village (河西村), Tiefo Town (铁佛镇), Tongjiang County (通江县) on May 21.
Photo by Cheng Cong (程聪) (China Photo)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 21st (Reporter Qiu Chaoyi (邱超奕)) - Reporters learned from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (中国民航局): In April, the civil aviation passenger traffic volume reached 61.199 million, an increase of 0.4% year-on-year, of which the international route passenger traffic volume was 6.788 million, an increase of 5.8% year-on-year. The cumulative passenger traffic volume of national civil aviation since the beginning of this year reached 259.128 million, an increase of 5% year-on-year.
In terms of cargo and mail traffic, in April, the civil aviation cargo and mail traffic volume reached 854,000 tons, an increase of 6.9% year-on-year. Among them, the domestic route cargo and mail traffic volume reached 456,000 tons, an increase of 2.1% year-on-year; the international route cargo and mail traffic volume reached 398,000 tons, an increase of 12.9% year-on-year.
Return to TopThis report Beijing (北京) May 21st (Reporter Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶)) -- The reporter learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部): In the first quarter, China's marine economy had a good start, with high-quality development moving towards new and better directions. Preliminary calculations show that the gross ocean product in the first quarter was 2.6 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.4%.
The capacity for allocating marine resources has steadily improved. The output of marine crude oil and natural gas increased by 5.1% and 7.7% year-on-year, respectively; the national output of marine aquatic products increased by 4.3% year-on-year.
Traditional marine industries are developing healthily. The marine transportation industry is growing steadily, with marine freight volume and freight turnover increasing by 6.8% and 9.4% year-on-year, respectively, and the total import and export value of marine transportation increasing by 7.2% year-on-year.
Emerging marine industries continue to grow. The value of new orders, deliveries, and outstanding orders for marine engineering equipment increased by 36.4%, 60.0%, and 8.9% year-on-year, respectively.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 屈 佩 隋 鑫
At the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), Russian President Vladimir Putin paid a state visit to China from May 19th to 20th. The two heads of state held in-depth, friendly, and fruitful talks, conducted strategic communication on a series of major issues, unanimously agreed to extend the "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between China and Russia," jointly signed a joint statement on further strengthening comprehensive strategic coordination and deepening good-neighborly and friendly cooperation between the two countries, and witnessed the conclusion of a number of important bilateral cooperation documents. The two countries also issued a joint statement on advocating for a multi-polar world and a new type of international relations.
Chinese and Russian figures interviewed by this newspaper stated that this summit between the heads of state made new strategic plans for the development of bilateral relations and cooperation in various fields. As permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and major world powers, China and Russia have made important contributions to maintaining international fairness and justice and promoting the construction of a new type of international relations.
"Further Consolidating and Developing the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Coordination for a New Era Between Russia and China"
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia strategic partnership of coordination and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the "Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between China and Russia." Unswervingly promoting the long-term, healthy, stable, and high-quality development of China-Russia relations is a strategic choice made by both sides, focusing on the fundamental interests of the two countries and the general trend of world development. The leadership of the heads of state is the fundamental guarantee for the steady and far-reaching development of China-Russia relations, and political mutual trust is the most distinctive feature of China-Russia relations. Since 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin have met on more than 40 occasions in different settings, providing direction and guidance for China-Russia relations.
Sergey Lukonin, Head of the Sector of Chinese Economy and Politics at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said: "The strategic leadership of the two heads of state provides a key guarantee for deepening cooperation between Russia and China in various fields. The meeting between President Putin and President Xi Jinping (习近平) allows the agenda of cooperation between Russia and China in various fields to be further formulated, coordinated, and expanded, which will further consolidate and develop the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era between Russia and China."
"The heads of state of China and Russia maintain close interaction and have forged a deep friendship." Li Ziguo, Director of the Institute of Eurasian Studies at the China Institute of International Studies, said that China and Russia have set a model for a new type of major-country relations. "The continued extension of the 'Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation Between China and Russia' means that China and Russia will continue to firmly adhere to the principle of 'non-alliance, non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties' to consolidate and develop bilateral relations. The stable development of China-Russia relations makes an important contribution to promoting the construction of a new type of international relations."
"No matter how turbulent the international situation may be, Russia-China relations have always moved forward steadily." Sergey Sanakoyev, Director of the Russian Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, said that Russia and China have always maintained strategic focus, adhered to independence and self-reliance, and continuously promoted the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era, continuously benefiting the people of both countries.
Ekaterina Zaklyazminskaya, Director of the Center for World Political and Strategic Analysis at the Institute of China and Modern Asia of the Russian Academy of Sciences, said that the two heads of state summarized the successful experience of bilateral relations development, set goals and grasped the direction for the development of bilateral relations. The signing of the joint statement and the conclusion of important bilateral cooperation documents send a firm message to the world that Russia and China are working together, demonstrating that the two countries are committed to promoting higher-quality development of bilateral relations from a new starting point.
"Greatly Promotes Mutual Understanding and Affinity Between the Peoples of the Two Countries"
China and Russia adhere to developing a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era based on equality, mutual respect, trustworthiness, and win-win cooperation. Political mutual trust is constantly deepening, and cooperation in economy and trade, investment, energy, science and technology, culture, and local areas is continuously advancing, and people-to-people connectivity is becoming more solid. China-Russia relations have entered a new stage of greater achievement and faster development.
On the afternoon of the 20th, President Xi Jinping (习近平) and President Putin jointly attended the opening ceremony of the "China-Russia Year of Education" at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing (北京). The "China-Russia Year of Education" is the tenth national-level theme year between the two countries. From national years and language years to tourism years and youth friendship exchange years, the areas of China-Russia cooperation are becoming wider and wider, and the forms are becoming more and more diverse.
"The 10 national-level theme year activities have greatly promoted mutual understanding and affinity between the peoples of the two countries." Li Ziguo said that China-Russia educational cooperation is rich in content, covering forms such as mutual visits between teachers and students, youth summer camps, and the "Chinese Bridge" competition. The launch of the "China-Russia Year of Education" will further promote the improvement and upgrading of educational cooperation between the two countries, drive more Chinese and Russian universities to establish joint research centers, and promote interaction in the field of scientific research.
Recently, the "Survey and Analysis Report on China-Russia Youth Friendship and Cultural Exchange," jointly launched by the Russian Education Council of the China-Russia Friendship, Peace and Development Committee and the Global Public Opinion Survey Center of Renmin University of China, shows that 87.5% of Russian youth believe that Russia-China relations are friendly, and 89% of Russian youth are willing to go to China in the future. Natalia Fediyuk, Principal of Moscow School 2120, said that the enthusiasm of the Russian and Chinese people, especially young people, to understand each other is high. The "Russia-China Year of Education" personally launched by the two heads of state provides a platform for cooperation in the field of education. "We are happy to see more rich and diverse educational cooperation projects implemented, becoming a window for young people from both countries to understand each other and forge friendships."
"'Russia-China Year of Education' grandly opened, and cultural exchanges between the two countries are surging with vitality. The 10th China-Russia Expo is being held in full swing in Harbin (哈尔滨), and the potential for local cooperation continues to be released." Russian international affairs expert Viktor Petrov said that the volume of bilateral trade between Russia and China has exceeded the US$200 billion mark for three consecutive years, and China has remained Russia's largest trading partner for 16 consecutive years. Deepening the alignment of Russia's development strategy until 2030 with China's "15th Five-Year Plan" will release momentum for cooperation between the two countries in energy, economy and trade, transportation, culture, and other fields.
"The Russian and Chinese sides have made thorough preparations for this meeting, and the signing of a series of important documents marks a new stage in bilateral cooperation, and pragmatic cooperation between the two countries in various fields is poised to take off." Sergey Savinsky, a senior researcher at the Financial Research Institute of the Russian Ministry of Finance, said that with the help of visa-free policies and other measures, the momentum of trade growth between the two countries is strong. In the future, both sides have broad prospects in strengthening cooperation in areas such as the digital economy.
"Injecting Powerful 'Russia-China Energy' into Building a Multi-polar World"
As permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and major world powers, China and Russia are firmly fulfilling their mission and responsibility as responsible major countries, carrying out higher-quality comprehensive strategic coordination, which will help promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
"As major countries and neighbors with global influence, China-Russia relations are not only related to each other, but also profoundly affect the world pattern." Li Ziguo said that China and Russia jointly shoulder the historical responsibility of safeguarding world peace and stability, defending international fairness and justice, and improving global governance. From a historical trend perspective, the collective rise of the Global South countries is an irreversible historical trend, and the development and growth of global South cooperation platforms such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRICS countries are examples. Strengthening coordination between China and Russia in regional and international affairs will help promote the multi-polarization of the world.
"Russia and China are constantly enhancing strategic coordination, which will not only benefit the people of both countries, but also contribute to promoting peace and progress for all mankind." Sanakoyev said that the four major global initiatives proposed by China are systematic responses to global challenges. The development-first concept, the principle of indivisible security, the advocacy of civilizational diversity, and the promotion of the transformation of the global governance system contained in the four major global initiatives have resonated strongly with all sectors of Russia. It is precisely based on the pursuit of these common values that "Russia and China maintain strategic coordination on the international stage, send out a powerful voice in safeguarding a just and reasonable international order, and will inject powerful 'Russia-China energy' into building a multi-polar world."
Zaklyazminskaya believes that the world is at a historical crossroads, and the era of single hegemony is coming to an end. Maintaining international fairness and justice is not only the common pursuit of Russia and China, but also the universal aspiration of the vast number of Global South countries. "Russia and China, together with the Global South countries, will jointly promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system."
Return to TopChina and Russia are fully seizing historical opportunities and comprehensively implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, which will surely promote the consolidation of the foundation of mutual trust between the two countries, the enrichment of cooperation, and the widening of the road of friendship, contributing to the maintenance of global strategic stability and international fairness and justice.
On May 20, President Xi Jinping (习近平) held in-depth, friendly, and fruitful talks in Beijing (北京) with Russian President Vladimir Putin (普京), who was in China for a state visit. They conducted strategic communication on a series of major issues and reached new important consensus on promoting the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination. As permanent members of the UN Security Council and major world powers, China and Russia, with a strategic and long-term perspective, will use higher-quality comprehensive strategic coordination to help their respective countries develop and revitalize, and promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system, which will inject valuable stability and certainty into a turbulent world.
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the China-Russia strategic partnership of coordination and the 25th anniversary of the signing of the "China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation" (《中俄睦邻友好合作条约》). Over the past 30 years, the two sides have continuously deepened political mutual trust and strategic coordination with the perseverance of 千磨万击还坚劲 (qiān mó wàn jī hái jiān jìng - "enduring thousands of grindings and hammerings," to remain firm and resolute despite all setbacks), expanded cooperation in various fields with the spirit of "reaching a higher level," and defended international fairness and justice and promoted the building of a community with a shared future for mankind with the courage of 乱云飞渡仍从容 (luàn yún fēi dù réng cóng róng - "remaining calm despite the turbulent clouds," to remain composed in the face of chaos), constantly upgrading the relationship and reaching the highest historical level of the comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era, setting a model for a new type of major-country relations. During the visit, the two heads of state unanimously agreed to extend the "China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation" (《中俄睦邻友好合作条约》). President Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out when jointly meeting with reporters after talks with President Putin (普京) that China and Russia should consolidate higher-quality political mutual trust and firmly support each other's strategies; empower higher-quality mutually beneficial cooperation and jointly promote their respective development and revitalization; promote higher-quality people-to-people connectivity and cultivate a solid foundation for generations of friendship between the two countries; and carry out higher-quality international cooperation and reform and improve global governance. These four "higher-quality" directions point the way for promoting high-quality development of China-Russia relations and pushing China-Russia relations into a new stage of greater achievements and faster development.
Unswervingly promoting the long-term, healthy, stable, and high-quality development of China-Russia relations is a strategic choice made by both sides with a view to the fundamental interests of the two countries and the general trend of world development. In recent years, China and Russia have adhered to developing a comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era based on equality, mutual respect, trustworthiness, and win-win cooperation. The two sides have continuously deepened political mutual trust, steadily promoted cooperation in various fields, and strengthened people-to-people connectivity. The two heads of state signed and issued the "Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Further Strengthening Comprehensive Strategic Coordination and Deepening Good-Neighborly Friendship and Cooperation" (《中华人民共和国和俄罗斯联邦关于进一步加强全面战略协作、深化睦邻友好合作的联合声明》) and witnessed the signing of 20 cooperation documents in the fields of economy and trade, education, science and technology, and other fields. Taking advantage of the momentum, the two sides will deepen the alignment of China's "15th Five-Year Plan" (十五五规划) with Russia's Development Strategy until 2030, which will promote the upgrading of practical cooperation in economic and trade investment, energy resources, transportation, science and technology innovation, and other fields, providing more opportunities for their respective development and revitalization.
Education is an important bridge connecting people's hearts and passing on friendship between countries, and it is a noble cause that benefits the present and the future. For a long time, China-Russia educational cooperation has continued to deepen and has achieved remarkable results, enriching the connotation of the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era. The next two years will be the 10th national-level theme year between China and Russia - the "China-Russia Year of Education" (中俄教育年), which is a strategic deployment made by the two heads of state with a view to the long-term development of China-Russia relations. The two heads of state jointly attended the opening ceremony of the "China-Russia Year of Education" (中俄教育年) and delivered speeches. Taking the "China-Russia Year of Education" (中俄教育年) as an opportunity, the two sides will consolidate cooperation consensus, expand cooperation fields, and improve cooperation levels, which will promote higher-quality people-to-people connectivity, cultivate a solid foundation for generations of friendship between the two countries, and create more favorable conditions for the high-quality development of China-Russia relations.
China-Russia comprehensive strategic coordination is of great significance for maintaining global strategic stability and safeguarding multilateralism and the international order. The world today is very unstable, unilateralism and hegemonism are deeply harmful, and the world faces the danger of regressing to the law of the jungle. The two sides issued the "Joint Statement of the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation on Promoting a Multipolar World and a New Type of International Relations" (《中华人民共和国和俄罗斯联邦关于倡导世界多极化和新型国际关系的联合声明》) and reached 20 other cooperation documents in other fields, demonstrating the two countries' determination to maintain the global balance of power and improve the international relations system. China and Russia will deepen multilateral cooperation, further strengthen coordination and cooperation in multilateral platforms such as the United Nations (联合国), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (上海合作组织), BRICS (金砖国家), and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (亚太经合组织), unswervingly safeguard the post-war international order and the authority of international law, unite the Global South, and lead the correct direction of the reform of the global governance system. With deeper strategic coordination and a more proactive role as major countries, the two countries will jointly make important contributions to safeguarding international fairness and justice and promoting the construction of a new type of international relations, becoming a key constant in the world's century of change.
The great cause of China-Russia friendship conforms to the general trend of history and the trend of the times. Looking to the future, China and Russia are fully seizing historical opportunities and comprehensively implementing the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, which will surely promote the consolidation of the foundation of mutual trust between the two countries, the enrichment of cooperation, and the widening of the road of friendship, contributing to the maintenance of global strategic stability and international fairness and justice.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Bratislava, May 20th. Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation of the National People's Congress to visit Slovakia from May 18th to 20th. In Bratislava (布拉迪斯拉发), Li Hongzhong met with Slovak President Peter Pellegrini (佩列格里尼), Prime Minister Robert Fico (菲佐), and Speaker of the National Council Peter Pellegrini (莱希) respectively, and held talks with Deputy Speaker of the National Council Gašpar (加什帕尔).
Li Hongzhong said that under the strategic guidance of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Slovak leaders, the development of the China-Slovakia strategic partnership has entered a new stage. The two sides should continue to consolidate political mutual trust, deepen traditional friendship, firmly support each other's core interests and major concerns, and continuously consolidate the cornerstone of bilateral relations. This year is the first year of China's "15th Five-Year Plan," and China's economy is in good shape. China will share development opportunities with all countries in the world through high-quality development, and is willing to strengthen the alignment of development strategies with Slovakia, deepen and expand pragmatic cooperation in trade and investment, new energy, digital economy and other fields, promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" and China-Central and Eastern European countries cooperation, and strengthen cultural exchanges to better benefit the people of both countries. The National People's Congress of China is willing to strengthen exchanges with the Slovak National Council at all levels and in all fields, give play to the functions of legislative bodies, and help China-Slovakia relations achieve greater development.
The Slovak side stated that it attaches great importance to China's status as a major country and the friendly relations between Slovakia and China, firmly adheres to the one-China policy, and is willing to strengthen exchanges and cooperation with China in economic, trade, cultural and other fields, welcomes more Chinese companies to invest and develop in Slovakia, strengthen exchanges between legislative bodies, and promote a more dynamic strategic partnership between Slovakia and China.
Li Hongzhong also held a discussion and exchange with representatives of Chinese-funded enterprises in Slovakia and watched the "70th Anniversary Photo Exhibition of the Founding of the China-Czechoslovakia Friendship Farm."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘仲华
May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity. Croatian Ambassador to China, Dario Mihelin (达里欧·米海林), recently stated in an interview with this newspaper that China is actively promoting ecological civilization construction while strengthening international cooperation to jointly protect biodiversity with various countries. Croatia and China have carried out continuous and fruitful cooperation in this regard. He looks forward to the two countries further strengthening scientific cooperation, promoting knowledge exchange, and coordinating policy paths to build a long-term, stable, and resilient cooperation framework, "which will not only be conducive to protecting their respective natural environments, but also make a positive contribution to global biodiversity conservation."
This year marks the beginning of China's "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Mihelin (米海林) said that he is particularly concerned about the "accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development" mentioned in the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline. He believes that the "Environmental Code of the People's Republic of China" passed in March this year is of great significance. "The code embodies the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (绿水青山就是金山银山理念), and also fits the content of building a beautiful China in the '15th Five-Year Plan' outline, which will effectively improve the quality of life of the Chinese people."
"I had the privilege of visiting Anji (安吉), Zhejiang (浙江), the birthplace of the concept that lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets (绿水青山就是金山银山理念), to gain an in-depth understanding of its profound meaning. When I travel around China, I always see this concept being put into practice. I believe that China's pursuit of high-quality development is always closely linked to ecological and environmental protection." Mihelin (米海林) said that China has made remarkable achievements in ecological protection and restoration, becoming an important global leader.
In 2021, Mihelin (米海林) attended the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) to the Convention on Biological Diversity held in Kunming (昆明), Yunnan (云南), and still clearly remembers the wonderful discussions on the concept of ecological civilization during the conference. He said that China played a key role in promoting the achievement of the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework," which has become an important guide for global biodiversity conservation actions.
Mihelin (米海林) said that Croatia is one of the most biodiversity-rich European countries and has a deep understanding of the importance of ecological protection. He said: "Through continuous cooperation, Croatia and China have the ability to demonstrate the important role of cross-regional cooperation in protecting biodiversity, addressing climate change, and supporting sustainable development, and jointly safeguarding the natural heritage belonging to future generations."
Mihelin (米海林) introduced that green is one of the main colors of Croatia-China cooperation, and the two sides have a long history of cooperation in protecting the biodiversity of national parks. Croatia's Plitvice Lakes National Park (普利特维采湖群国家公园) and China's Jiuzhaigou (九寨沟), Croatia's Krka National Park (克尔卡国家公园) and China's Huanglong National Nature Reserve (黄龙国家自然保护区) are the main research objects of cooperation between the two countries. The University of Zagreb (萨格勒布大学) in Croatia and the Chengdu Institute of Biology (成都生物研究所) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院) have long-term cooperation and established the China-Croatia Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services "Belt and Road" Joint Laboratory in 2019, which is the only "Belt and Road" joint laboratory in China and Europe with the theme of biodiversity conservation. Mihelin (米海林) said: "This has enhanced the international visibility of Croatia and China in biodiversity conservation, especially in the protection of world natural heritage."
Mihelin (米海林) believes that biodiversity loss is a global challenge, and all countries must share responsibility. "Substantive progress in biodiversity conservation cannot be achieved without solid and lasting international cooperation. Croatia and China both have rich and unique ecosystems, species, and genetic diversity, and strengthening bilateral cooperation is of great global significance and can provide a demonstration for global biodiversity governance." Mihelin (米海林) said that this area is also the most promising direction for cooperation between the European Union and China. The EU regards China as an important partner in biodiversity conservation, addressing climate change, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The EU and China have established a high-level dialogue mechanism on environment and climate, and are promoting the realization of cooperation visions in the fields of biodiversity and climate change.
Return to TopBy: 沈 健
The Eleventh Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is about to close at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (纽约). Against the backdrop of accelerated evolution of the world's centennial changes and profound adjustments in the global strategic security landscape, this conference has attracted much attention. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (古特雷斯) called on the international community to work together to protect humanity from the grave threat of nuclear destruction. Since the opening of the conference, the parties have engaged in fierce debates on hot issues such as the international security situation and nuclear disarmament, prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation, and peaceful use of nuclear energy. All parties have concerns about the international security environment and expectations for the outcome of the conference, and are also thinking about the future of security governance in the nuclear field.
China adheres to promoting the building of a community with a shared future for mankind as a guide, actively practices the Global Development Initiative, the Global Security Initiative, the Global Civilization Initiative, and the Global Governance Initiative, adheres to the concept of fair, cooperative, balanced, and effective arms control, and deeply participates in this round of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons review process, contributing Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to maintaining the authority, effectiveness, and universality of the treaty.
The Chinese government submitted a national report on implementation to the Review Conference, comprehensively and systematically introducing China's implementation measures, and elaborating on China's policy propositions on security governance in the nuclear field, demonstrating to the world with practical actions that China has always been an active promoter of the global nuclear disarmament process, a firm defender of the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and a pragmatic action faction in promoting the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
China has always advocated the complete prohibition and thorough destruction of nuclear weapons, strictly abides by the policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, pursues a self-defense nuclear strategy, always maintains its nuclear forces at the minimum level required for national security, does not engage in nuclear arms race with any country, maximizes nuclear transparency on the basis of not undermining national security, actively promotes measures to reduce nuclear risks, and makes due contributions to achieving the ultimate goal of a world without nuclear weapons.
China advocates peaceful resolution of nuclear weapons proliferation concerns through political and diplomatic means, and firmly opposes placing geopolitical self-interest above the international nuclear non-proliferation system. China attaches importance to the role of the International Atomic Energy Agency (国际原子能机构) in safeguards and supervision in preventing nuclear weapons proliferation and ensuring the peaceful use of nuclear energy by all countries, and respects and supports the efforts of relevant countries and regions to establish nuclear-weapon-free zones. China strictly fulfills its international nuclear non-proliferation obligations, is committed to promoting the construction of a fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory international non-proliferation export control order, and continuously promotes and improves the rule of law in the field of domestic non-proliferation export control.
China attaches importance to the role of nuclear energy in promoting social and economic development, and actively promotes technological research and industrial development and application of the peaceful use of nuclear energy. China is committed to making global nuclear energy governance more just and reasonable, development more inclusive and inclusive, and cooperation more open and orderly, advocates "atoms benefiting the Global South," actively expands the breadth and depth of bilateral and multilateral cooperation in the nuclear field, promotes the universal sharing of nuclear energy achievements, and helps achieve the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals.
In response to the severe and complex challenges of security governance in the nuclear field, the Chinese delegation put forward clear and pragmatic positions and propositions to this Review Conference: jointly prevent nuclear war and oppose the use or threat of force in international relations; adhere to the principles of "maintaining global strategic stability" and "undiminished security for all countries" to ensure that the international nuclear disarmament process is fair, reasonable, and orderly; nuclear-weapon states negotiate and conclude a "treaty on no first use of nuclear weapons" or issue a political statement on this; countries with the largest nuclear arsenals earnestly fulfill their special and priority responsibilities for nuclear disarmament; abolish arrangements such as "nuclear sharing" and "extended deterrence" that weaken the international nuclear non-proliferation system, and reduce the role of nuclear weapons in national and collective security policies; be highly vigilant and resolutely oppose Japan (日本) possessing nuclear weapons, and properly address the nuclear proliferation risks brought about by the nuclear submarine cooperation between the United States (美) , the United Kingdom (英) and Australia (澳); adhere to peaceful resolution of regional nuclear issues through dialogue and negotiation, and oppose resorting to force and illegal sanctions; safeguard the legitimate rights of developing countries to peaceful use of nuclear energy, and oppose politicizing the peaceful use of nuclear energy.
Nuclear weapons are the "Sword of Damocles" hanging over humanity, and nuclear arms control is an important guarantee for maintaining global strategic stability, which is related to human security and development interests. The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons is the cornerstone of the international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation system and a key pillar of the post-World War II international security order. China expects this Review Conference to achieve positive results. As a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, China will faithfully fulfill its obligations under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, take the Review Conference as an opportunity, strive to promote the balanced advancement of the treaty's three major goals of nuclear disarmament, prevention of nuclear weapons proliferation, and promotion of the peaceful use of nuclear energy, promote the improvement of security governance in the nuclear field, and make new contributions to building a world of lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and cleanliness and beauty.
(The author is the Deputy Representative of the Permanent Mission of China to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations in Switzerland, and Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs with Plenipotentiary Powers)
Return to TopIslamabad, May 21 (Reporter Zhao Yipu (赵益普)) – At the invitation of the National Assembly of Pakistan, Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, led a delegation to Pakistan from May 20th to 22nd. He met with Pakistani President Zardari (扎尔达里), Prime Minister Shehbaz (夏巴兹), Speaker of the National Assembly Sadiq (萨迪克), and Chairman of the Senate Gilani (吉拉尼), and jointly attended the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan with the above four Pakistani leaders.
Cai Dafeng (蔡达峰) stated that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Pakistan 75 years ago, the two countries have always maintained their original aspirations and helped each other. Under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries, the all-weather strategic cooperative partnership between China and Pakistan has become a model of state-to-state relations and is at the forefront of building a community with a shared future for mankind. China is willing to strengthen comprehensive cooperation with Pakistan, deepen exchanges between legislative bodies, and accelerate the building of a closer China-Pakistan community with a shared future in the new era.
The Pakistani side stated that the friendship between Pakistan and China is higher than the mountains, deeper than the sea, and sweeter than honey. Thank you for China's valuable support. Pakistan will adhere to the one-China principle, deepen exchanges and cooperation, fully protect the safety of Chinese personnel, projects, and institutions in Pakistan, and promote Pakistan-China relations to a new level. The two countries have 初心如磐 (chū xīn rú pán - "original intention like a rock," unwavering in one's original intention) and 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "keep watch and help each other," to defend and help each other).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Berlin, May 21st dispatch (Reporter Guo Ziyun (郭梓云)): Geneva News: The 79th World Health Assembly recently opened in Geneva, Switzerland. China, together with Brazil, Ethiopia, Oman, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Tanzania, and Thailand, jointly held a side event at the Palais des Nations in Geneva on the theme of "Building a More Equitable and Accessible Healthcare Service System in the Digital Age: From Vision to Practice." Representatives and experts from the World Health Organization and related countries spoke at the event, which was attended by nearly 300 representatives.
Lei Haichao (雷海潮), Director of the National Health Commission of China, attended the side event and delivered a speech. He pointed out that against the backdrop of the accelerated evolution of changes unseen in a century, global health development is in a period of increasing uncertainty and unpredictability, and global health governance needs to be strengthened and improved. The Chinese government adheres to the health-first development strategy, reflecting priority requirements in terms of concepts, planning, investment, factor guarantees, and performance output, accelerating the construction of a Healthy China, promoting the digital construction of national health and the construction of a high-quality and efficient medical and health service system, and striving to make the health system more equitable and accessible, systemically continuous, high-quality and efficient, and resilient.
Health officials, experts, scholars, and representatives of international organizations from participating countries introduced the practices of their respective countries and regions in promoting digital technology to empower the medical and health service system, and reached consensus and deepened cooperation with the Chinese delegation in the dialogue.
At the meeting, China and relevant countries jointly launched the "Initiative for a Shared Future of Health Systems in the Digital Age."
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Dar es Salaam, May 21 (Reporters Hua Hongli (华洪立) and Lin Guangyao (林光耀)) From May 17th to 20th, Liu Haixing (刘海星), Minister of the International Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央对外联络部), led a CPC delegation to visit Egypt and Tanzania. He met with Tanzanian Chama Cha Mapinduzi (坦革命党) Chairman and President Hassan (哈桑), Egyptian Senate Speaker Farid (法里德), Secretary-General of the Arab League Gheit (盖特), and others. He participated in the China-Egypt political party roundtable dialogue, the dialogue between the Communist Party of China and the six sister parties of Southern Africa, and attended the unveiling ceremony of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Diplomacy Research Department at the Egyptian Liberation International Research Center and the unveiling ceremony of the Xi Jinping (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era Research Center at the Nyerere Leadership Academy. He actively promoted the important thought and leadership image of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平), and exchanged views on important international and regional issues.
Return to Top(People's Daily, Abu Dhabi, May 21st) (Reporter Zhang Zhiwen (张志文)) The Chinese Embassy in the United Arab Emirates and the Chinese Cultural Center in the United Arab Emirates jointly hosted the "Tea for Harmony" event in Abu Dhabi (阿布扎比), the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on the evening of the 20th. Chinese Ambassador to the United Arab Emirates Zeng Jixin (曾继新), UAE Minister of Tolerance and Coexistence Sheikh Nahayan Mabarak Al Nahayan, high-level representatives of the local government, ambassadors from various countries to the UAE, and friendly people from all walks of life, totaling more than 130 people, attended.
Zeng Jixin (曾继新) said that Chinese tea culture has gone through thousands of years, spread to the world, and is loved by people in the United Arab Emirates and other countries, becoming a bridge for cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, conveying the value pursuit of harmony in diversity (和而不同). The "Tea for Harmony" event aims to use tea as a medium and a way to make friends with friends in the United Arab Emirates, enhance the friendship between the two peoples, and promote dialogue, tolerance, and mutual learning between civilizations in China, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries around the world.
The event featured Hanfu (汉服) displays, guzheng (古筝) performances, calligraphy experiences, sachet sewing, lacquer fan painting, and ceramic art displays, vividly presenting the unique charm of Chinese culture, attracting guests to stop and take pictures, while also feeling the beauty of traditional Chinese craftsmanship.
Return to TopBeijing, May 21st (Xinhua) - A spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 21st: At the invitation of Premier of the State Council Li Qiang (李强), Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif (夏巴兹·谢里夫) of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan will pay an official visit to China from May 23rd to 26th.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Shenzhen, May 21st. The 2026 Summit Forum on Building a Powerful Cultural Nation opened on the 21st in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东). Li Shulei (李书磊), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部部长), attended and delivered a keynote speech. Huang Kunming (黄坤明), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, attended and delivered a speech.
The participating guests believe that culture concerns the foundation and destiny of the country. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to the continuation of historical and cultural heritage and cultural innovation and creation, and has made a series of important expositions, providing fundamental guidance for promoting cultural inheritance and development. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th CPC Central Committee and the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline made arrangements for stimulating the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation and promoting the prosperity and development of socialist culture. We must deeply study and comprehend this, and fully implement it.
The participating guests stated that the prosperity and flourishing of culture is an important symbol of Chinese-style modernization. It is necessary to deeply study and practice Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Culture, promote the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation with the inheritance of culture, and consolidate the cultural foundation for building a strong country and realizing national rejuvenation. It is necessary to use digital intelligence to empower and stimulate the vitality of cultural reform and development, prosper new mass literature and art under the conditions of the Internet, and create a vigorous and prosperous cultural ecology. It is necessary to implement the principles of protection first and minimal intervention, and strengthen the systematic protection of cultural heritage. It is necessary to strengthen the concept of using culture to dialogue with the world and further expand international cultural exchange and cooperation.
The theme of this forum is "The Inheritance of Cultural Heritage and the Innovation and Creation of Culture," and it is hosted by the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部). Relevant leaders from central propaganda and cultural units, propaganda departments of provincial, autonomous region, and municipal party committees, relevant ministries and commissions of the central government, some cultural enterprises and institutions, and relevant think tank experts and scholars attended the forum.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 周人杰 郑洋洋
On May 21st, the "15th Five-Year Plan" Shanxi Special Press Conference was held in Taiyuan (太原). Lu Dongliang (卢东亮), Deputy Secretary of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Shanxi Province, stated that, bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest expectations, Shanxi is shouldering the responsibility of ensuring the supply of national coal for power generation, accelerating energy transformation, promoting the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries, and deploying emerging and future industries in accordance with local conditions, transforming the advantages of energy resources into development advantages, resolutely and orderly promoting transformation and development, and striving to write a new chapter in Shanxi's efforts to promote Chinese-style modernization.
Vigorously Promote Energy Transformation
Shanxi is a comprehensive reform pilot province for the national energy revolution. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanxi produced 6.5 billion tons of coal and transmitted more than 730 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity to 24 provinces. The cumulative production of unconventional natural gas was 75 billion cubic meters, making it a net exporter of natural gas. By 2025, the installed capacity of new energy and clean energy in Shanxi will account for more than 55%, and the amount of green electricity transmitted will rank among the top in the country.
"We must continue to deepen the energy revolution, build a new energy system, and accelerate the transformation from a large coal province to a strong energy province," said Lu Dongliang (卢东亮).
Emphasize safety and resilience, and consolidate energy security. Shanxi firmly shoulders the political responsibility of ensuring national energy security, promotes intelligent, green, and safe coal mining, maintains an annual output of about 1.3 billion tons, accounting for nearly 30% of the country. Promote the increase of reserves and production of unconventional natural gas, and strive to achieve an output of 30 billion cubic meters by 2030, with the output value of the entire industrial chain exceeding 100 billion yuan.
Emphasize green and low-carbon, and reshape the energy structure. During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, with large-scale base construction as the direction, and coal mining subsidence areas, saline-alkali land, and desertified land as the main battlefields, build a number of large-scale wind and solar power bases with a capacity of more than 500,000 kilowatts, and add 100 million kilowatts of renewable energy installed capacity. Strengthen geothermal utilization, and strive to add 100 million square meters of geothermal heating area in the next 5 years. Accelerate the development of methanol, hydrogen energy, biomass energy, etc., and promote the development of the entire hydrogen-ammonia-methanol industrial chain.
Emphasize chain clusters and strengthen the energy industry. Shanxi promotes the deep coupling of the new energy system and the modern industrial system. Vigorously develop key industrial chains such as photovoltaic and wind power equipment, and build 100 billion-yuan-level industrial chains such as new coal chemical industry and unconventional natural gas. Make good use of the 12 measures to optimize industrial and commercial electricity price mechanisms, build 13 green electricity parks and 2 national-level zero-carbon park pilots, and develop industries such as electricity-carbon-computing synergy, battery swapping heavy trucks, new energy metals, and semiconductor materials, so that high-energy-consuming industries can use cheap and green electricity.
Emphasize system integration and upgrade energy services. Focus on the coordinated development of "source-grid-load-storage," build a new power system, and achieve more stable power sources, stronger power grids, more flexible loads, and more sufficient energy storage. Strive to achieve a virtual power plant regulation capacity of 3 million kilowatts and a new energy storage installed capacity of 26 million kilowatts by 2030.
Focus on Promoting Industrial Upgrading
Shanxi has a relatively complete range of industrial categories, with 40 of the 41 major industrial categories, forming 16 provincial-level key industrial chains and 30 provincial-level key specialized towns.
Lu Dongliang (卢东亮) introduced that from the 0.015 mm extremely thin "hand-torn steel" to the 150 mm super-thick "nuclear power steel," from the "coal sea dragon" that broke the world record with a single-month excavation of 3088 meters, to the world's fastest circulating fluidized bed peak-shaving system, a number of high-precision and cutting-edge technologies have been successively broken through.
Make good use of platform carriers. Relying on industrial chains, specialized towns, development zones, green electricity parks, zero-carbon parks and other platform carriers, promote traditional advantageous industries such as coking, steel, and non-ferrous metals to deeply explore structural opportunities in subdivided markets, promote emerging industries and future industries to find the largest entry point for benefit increments, create new forms of intelligent economy, and actively build a modern industrial system that reflects Shanxi's characteristics and has comparative advantages.
Major project support. Focusing on industrial upgrading, cultivate and introduce a number of new material projects in the fields of special steel, synthetic biology, and non-ferrous metals, and cultivate and implement a number of "host + component collaboration" projects in the fields of intelligent coal machinery, rail transit, and information communication, to build a national important energy raw material base, a characteristic equipment and advanced manufacturing base.
Strengthen digital and intelligent empowerment. Continue to optimize the layout of the computing power industry, build a computing power corridor around Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北), and actively integrate into the national integrated computing power network. Actively build industrial Internet platforms such as modern coal chemical industry, comprehensively promote the "intelligent transformation, digital transformation, and network connection" of traditional advantageous industries, and promote the deep coupling of artificial intelligence and strategic emerging industries such as new materials and electronic information.
Accurately Promote Moderate Diversified Development
Shanxi has relatively abundant non-coal mineral, agricultural, cultural tourism and health care, and ecological resources, and the low-cost advantages of green electricity and other factors are prominent, and it has certain diversified development conditions. "Adhere to doing something and not doing something, give play to comparative advantages, and work hard to produce high-quality products," Lu Dongliang (卢东亮) introduced.
Give play to the advantages of non-coal minerals, and promote the rapid development of the new energy metal and semiconductor material industries throughout the entire chain. Promote a new round of mineral exploration and form a number of strategic succession areas for important mineral resources. Promote green smelting and strive to achieve "eating dry and squeezing clean" at the smelting terminal. Use green electricity parks and zero-carbon parks to promote the deep processing of raw materials, build industrial chains of new energy metals and semiconductor materials, and superimpose resource advantages, energy advantages, and technological advantages to cultivate industrial advantages.
Give play to the advantages of agricultural resources, and on the premise of shouldering the responsibility of ensuring national food security, promote the high-quality development of special and high-quality agriculture and build an organic dry farming base. Focus on doing a good job in the "local specialties" article, strengthen digital and intelligent empowerment, and use green as the bottom line to optimize quality and build special and high-quality agriculture into a modern large industry.
Give play to the advantages of cultural tourism resources and build the cultural tourism industry into a pillar industry, a people's livelihood industry, and a happiness industry. Adhere to the principle of protection first, comprehensively strengthen the effective utilization of cultural heritage, and transform more cultural heritage from "popular check-in places" to "in-depth experience places." Promote the two-way empowerment of "cultural tourism + hundreds of industries" and "technology + cultural tourism" to broaden the new growth path of the industry. Take the three No. 1 tourist highways as the link to build a road network for all-area tourism. Coordinate and promote the coordinated linkage of famous counties, famous towns, and famous villages to realize the transition from single-point tourism breakthroughs to all-area linkage. Continue to polish the service brand of "tourism satisfaction in Shanxi."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 崔 佳 方 圆
On May 21st, the "15th Five-Year Plan" Heilongjiang (黑龙江) special press conference was held in Harbin (哈尔滨). Liang Huiling (梁惠玲), Deputy Secretary of the Heilongjiang Provincial Party Committee and Governor of Heilongjiang Province, stated that in order to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and requirements for Heilongjiang's work, Heilongjiang will fully implement the Party Central Committee's strategic deployment to promote the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China in the new era, and refine the national "15th Five-Year Plan" development blueprint into a construction plan and task list for Heilongjiang, striving to create a new situation of high-quality development in the comprehensive revitalization.
Serving as a "ballast stone" for national food security.
As a major grain-producing province, Heilongjiang regards growing more grain and growing it well as an important political responsibility. In 2025, Heilongjiang's grain output reached a new historical high of 164.006 billion catties.
Liang Huiling (梁惠玲) said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Heilongjiang will implement a new round of the ten-million-ton grain production increase plan, promote the integrated efficiency of "five goods" (good fields, good seeds, good machinery, good methods, and good systems), focus on increasing yield per unit area and improving quality, strive to enhance comprehensive grain production capacity, and build a more stable, reliable, solid, and secure "granary."
Highlighting arable land protection and quality improvement. Adhering to the "three-in-one" protection of arable land quantity, quality, and ecology, implement a new round of black soil protection projects. Promote the integrated construction of high-standard farmland, erosion gully management, and farmland shelterbelt renovation, accelerate the construction of irrigation projects to enhance grain production capacity, and improve disaster prevention and mitigation capabilities. By the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan," more than 90% of permanent basic farmland will be built into high-standard farmland.
Strengthening agricultural technology empowerment. Cultivate and develop new quality productive forces in agriculture according to local conditions, seeking production capacity, yield, and quality from science and technology. Implement the seed industry revitalization action in depth, and accelerate the breeding of a number of breakthrough varieties. Strengthen the integrated promotion and application of advanced technologies, and continue to expand the application area of green, high-yield, and efficient technologies such as wide ridge dense planting and integrated water and fertilizer management. Strengthen artificial intelligence empowerment and build a number of large-scale smart farms.
Protecting and mobilizing farmers' enthusiasm for growing grain. Farmers can earn money by growing grain, and grain production is guaranteed. Improve the effectiveness of policies to strengthen agriculture, benefit farmers, and enrich farmers, fully implement the reward policy for major grain-producing counties, and strengthen policy support and coordination such as prices, subsidies, and insurance. Pay attention to playing a demonstrative role, continue to deepen "Ken-Di cooperation" (垦地合作), vigorously develop agricultural socialization services, promote moderate-scale operations, and promote large-scale balanced production increase.
Promoting the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation.
Heilongjiang has 81 universities and colleges and 120 scientific research institutes, with a profound foundation in science, education, and technology. "In the next five years, we will increase our efforts to shift the development mode from resource-driven to innovation-led," said Cong Li (丛丽), Deputy Governor of Heilongjiang Province.
Optimizing supply and achieving breakthroughs in scientific and technological research. Focusing on unique advantages, strive to create national laboratory bases and national-level innovation platforms in the fields of agriculture and marine science, do well in organized basic research, and produce more iconic original achievements. Focusing on the integration of science and industry, strive to break through more than 600 key core technologies in key fields such as energy equipment, aerospace, etc., and empower the cultivation of emerging industries and the upgrading of traditional industries.
Promoting transformation and making efforts in the implementation of results. Continue to implement the action of industrializing scientific and technological achievements. Deploy and build concept verification and pilot test platforms, reshape the incubator system, vigorously cultivate technology managers, and nourish the iterative maturation of achievements with a high-quality innovation ecosystem. Fully strengthen park carriers, promote the accelerated development of Harbin (哈尔滨), Daqing (大庆), and Qiqihar (齐齐哈尔) National Independent Innovation Demonstration Zones and Jiamusi (佳木斯) National Agricultural High-tech Industry Demonstration Zone, expand the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem, and promote the implementation of scientific research results with first-class platform carriers.
Strengthening enterprises and improving efficiency in innovation entities. Support enterprises to "play the leading role," significantly increase the proportion of provincial-level science and technology projects undertaken by enterprises, promote leading enterprises and chain-owner enterprises to form high-level industrial technology innovation alliances and other innovation consortia, and promote the integrated innovation of large, medium, and small enterprises. Support enterprises to "set benchmarks," carry out full coverage of R&D activities of industrial enterprises above designated size, select and dispatch thousands of "chief technology officers" to provide services in enterprises, and allow more enterprises to run out of "acceleration" in new fields and new tracks.
Cultivating talents and activating vitality in integrated development. Strengthen science and education coordination, deploy urgently needed and scarce majors such as artificial intelligence and biological breeding, and consolidate the talent supply. Strengthen industry-education coordination, build Heilongjiang Higher Research Institute and Excellent Engineer College, deploy future technology colleges and characteristic professional colleges, and forge practical talents. Strengthen full-chain coordination, enhance the talent gathering and training functions of scientific research institutions, innovation platforms, etc., and cultivate outstanding young talents and top-notch talents.
Better transforming green waters and green mountains and ice and snow into gold and silver mountains.
In recent years, Heilongjiang's ice and snow tourism has become popular and shown a sustainable development trend, bringing prosperity to the comprehensive revitalization of Northeast China. Liang Huiling (梁惠玲) said that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Heilongjiang will continue to adhere to market-oriented operation, standardized construction, standardized management, and intelligent empowerment, promote the sustainable and high-quality development of characteristic cultural tourism in the whole region and in all seasons, and accelerate the construction of a world-class ice and snow tourism and summer resort tourism destination.
Improving the new pattern of tourism in the whole region and in all seasons. Heilongjiang is accelerating the formation of a development pattern with Harbin (哈尔滨) as the hub and characteristic tourist cities as the support, stringing together high-quality routes and key scenic spots into chains, and promoting the expansion of characteristic cultural tourism to the whole region and in all seasons.
Innovating the supply of characteristic cultural tourism products and services. Promote the cross-border integration of "cultural tourism + hundreds of industries" and "hundreds of industries + cultural tourism," promote the deep integration of cultural tourism, commerce, and sports, and create new scenarios, new models, and new formats for service consumption. Improve tourism hardware and software infrastructure, accelerate the construction of smart cultural tourism platforms, and promote the "artificial intelligence + tourism" service model. Implement the inbound tourism promotion plan and improve the level of service convenience and internationalization.
Expanding the new engine of ice and snow economic development. Promote the development of the entire ice and snow economic industry chain, build a diversified industrial collaborative development pattern of "ice and snow +", create a trillion-yuan-level ice and snow economic industrial cluster, and accelerate the construction of an ice and snow economic highland and an ice and snow economic leading area with international influence.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shenzhen (深圳) May 21st dispatch (Reporters Wu Qiqiang (吴齐强) and Jiang Xiaodan (姜晓丹)) The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair, lasting five days, opened on the 21st at the Shenzhen (深圳) World Exhibition & Convention Center in Guangdong (广东). This year's ICIF features the first APEC Economies Exhibition Area, bringing together 6,312 exhibitors participating online and offline, showcasing over 120,000 cultural products.
Focusing on the digital empowerment of the cultural industry and the cultivation of new quality productive forces, and gathering global high-quality cultural industry resources, this ICIF concentrates on showcasing the high-quality development achievements of China's cultural industry. The main venue, located at the Shenzhen (深圳) World Exhibition & Convention Center, has a total of 8 exhibition halls, including 3 comprehensive halls and 5 professional halls. The comprehensive halls include Cultural Industry Comprehensive Halls A, B, and C, and the professional halls include the Fashion·Art Hall, the Global Cultural Trade Hall, the Cultural Heritage and Innovation Hall, the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Cultural Industry Innovation Hall, and the Cultural Technology Hall. Within each exhibition hall, 34 sub-category professional exhibition areas are set up, with nearly 300 exhibitors bringing their debut new products. During the exhibition, the main venue will hold more than 260 supply and demand matchmaking, project roadshows, and new product promotion activities. 51 sub-venues in Shenzhen (深圳) will simultaneously carry out ICIF consumer season order fairs and business negotiation meetings.
The APEC Economies Exhibition Area focuses on the development achievements of cultural tourism in the Asia-Pacific region, concentrating on showcasing highlights such as featured commodities, intangible cultural heritage and creative cultural products, and regional cuisine, creating a new window for cultural exchange and cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region. A new cross-border e-commerce exhibition area has been set up, bringing together dozens of cross-border e-commerce companies to participate in the exhibition, building a convenient channel for cultural products to go overseas.
At this ICIF, 65 countries and regions, and 310 overseas exhibitors are participating online and offline, of which 148 companies from 42 countries and regions are participating offline.
Return to Top*People's Daily*, Shenzhen, May 21 (Reporter Hu Xiaoyuan (胡笑源)) On the 21st, *Guangming Daily* and *Economic Daily* jointly released the list of "Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises 2026" (hereinafter referred to as "Top 30") and "Top 30 National Growing Cultural Enterprises 2026" (hereinafter referred to as "Growing Top 30") to the public.
China Publishing Group Corporation (中国出版集团有限公司), China Film Co., Ltd. (中国电影产业集团股份有限公司), Beijing Pop Mart Culture & Creative Co., Ltd. (北京泡泡玛特文化创意有限公司), Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (腾讯科技（深圳）有限公司), Chengdu Coco Bean Animation Film and Television Co., Ltd. (成都可可豆动画影视有限公司) and other 30 enterprises entered this year's "Top 30" list. The "Top 30" enterprises in this session adhere to putting social benefits first and unifying social and economic benefits, and their main business income, net profit, and net assets in 2025 all performed well.
China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. (中国东方演艺集团有限公司), Henan Sunshine Youth Media Co., Ltd. (河南阳光少年传媒有限公司), Wuhan University of Technology Digital Communication Engineering Co., Ltd. (武汉理工数字传播工程有限公司) and other 30 enterprises entered this year's "Growing Top 30" list. The average growth rate of main business income, net assets, net profit, and R&D expenses of the "Growing Top 30" enterprises in 2025 all exceeded 25%, covering some enterprises with outstanding performance in artificial intelligence enabling the cultural industry, reflecting a good trend of rapid and healthy development of new formats and new models in the cultural field.
List of "Top 30 National Cultural Enterprises 2026"
(30 in total, listed in no particular order)
China Publishing Group Corporation (中国出版集团有限公司)
China Education Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (中国教育出版传媒集团有限公司)
China Film Co., Ltd. (中国电影产业集团股份有限公司)
Huaxia Film Distribution Co., Ltd. (华夏电影发行有限责任公司)
China International Television Corporation (中国国际电视总公司)
Migu Culture Technology Co., Ltd. (咪咕文化科技有限公司)
Beijing Pop Mart Culture & Creative Co., Ltd. (北京泡泡玛特文化创意有限公司)
Beijing Weimeng Chuangke Network Technology Co., Ltd. (北京微梦创科网络技术有限公司)
Beijing Dianzhong Technology Co., Ltd. (北京点众科技股份有限公司)
Perfect World Co., Ltd. (完美世界股份有限公司)
Hebei Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (河北出版传媒集团有限责任公司)
Shanghai Film Group Corporation (上海电影（集团）有限公司)
Jiangsu Phoenix Publishing & Media Group Co., Ltd. (江苏凤凰出版传媒集团有限公司)
Jiangsu Broadcasting Cable Information Network Co., Ltd. (江苏省广电有线信息网络股份有限公司)
Zhejiang Publishing United Group Co., Ltd. (浙江出版联合集团有限公司)
Wasu Digital TV Media Group Co., Ltd. (华数数字电视传媒集团有限公司)
Songcheng Performance Development Co., Ltd. (宋城演艺发展股份有限公司)
Zhejiang Huace Film & TV Co., Ltd. (浙江华策影视股份有限公司)
Anhui Xinhua Distribution (Group) Holdings Co., Ltd. (安徽新华发行（集团）控股有限公司)
iFlytek Co., Ltd. (科大讯飞股份有限公司)
Jiangxi Publishing Media Group Co., Ltd. (江西省出版传媒集团有限公司)
Shandong Publishing Group Co., Ltd. (山东出版集团有限公司)
Zhongyuan Publishing & Media Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (中原出版传媒投资控股集团有限公司)
Changjiang Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. (长江出版传媒股份有限公司)
Mango Excellent Media Co., Ltd. (芒果超媒股份有限公司)
Hunan Publishing Investment Holding Group Co., Ltd. (中南出版传媒集团股份有限公司)
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. (腾讯科技（深圳）有限公司)
Guangdong Radio and Television Network Co., Ltd. (广东省广播电视网络股份有限公司)
Xinhua Winshare Publishing and Media Co., Ltd. (新华文轩出版传媒股份有限公司)
Chengdu Coco Bean Animation Film and Television Co., Ltd. (成都可可豆动画影视有限公司)
List of "Top 30 National Growing Cultural Enterprises 2026"
(30 in total, listed in no particular order)
China Oriental Performing Arts Group Co., Ltd. (中国东方演艺集团有限公司)
China Culture Media Group Co., Ltd. (中国文化传媒集团有限公司)
Daxingdao Culture Technology (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. (大行道文化科技（天津）有限公司)
Shanxi Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage Surveying, Mapping and Preservation (山西省文化遗产勘测与保护研究院有限责任公司)
Inner Mongolia Publishing Group Co., Ltd. (内蒙古出版集团有限责任公司)
Shenyang Chuangsi Jiaye Technology Co., Ltd. (沈阳创思佳业科技有限公司)
Jilin Northeast Asia Publishing Media Group Co., Ltd. (吉林东北亚出版传媒集团有限公司)
Harbin Ice and Snow World Co., Ltd. (哈尔滨冰雪大世界股份有限公司)
Shanghai Hehe Information Technology Co., Ltd. (上海合合信息科技股份有限公司)
Shanghai Siwei Culture Media Co., Ltd. (上海四维文化传媒股份有限公司)
Shanghai Jianwei Libao Technology Co., Ltd. (上海建为历保科技股份有限公司)
Jiangsu Xinhua Daily Media Co., Ltd. (江苏新华日报传媒有限公司)
Fujian Education Publishing House Co., Ltd. (福建教育出版社有限责任公司)
Fujian Changwan Network Co., Ltd. (福建畅玩网络有限公司)
Jiangxi Qiande Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (江西仟得文化传播有限公司)
Shandong Dazhong Information Industry Co., Ltd. (山东大众信息产业有限公司)
Henan Sunshine Youth Media Co., Ltd. (河南阳光少年传媒有限公司)
Wuhan University of Technology Digital Communication Engineering Co., Ltd. (武汉理工数字传播工程有限公司)
Shenzhen Kukan Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (深圳市酷看文化传播有限公司)
Guangdong Southern Zhimedia Technology Co., Ltd. (广东南方智媒科技有限公司)
Guangxi Shanhai Xingchen Media Group Co., Ltd. (广西山海星辰传媒集团有限公司)
Hainan Yuanyou Information Technology Co., Ltd. (海南元游信息技术有限公司)
Chongqing Daily Newspaper Group Industry Co., Ltd. (重庆日报报业集团产业有限责任公司)
Chongqing Dawa Hezhe Image Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆达瓦合志影像科技有限公司)
Guizhou Education Publishing House Co., Ltd. (贵州教育出版社有限公司)
Yunnan Performing Arts Co., Ltd. (云南演艺股份有限公司)
Yushang Hemei Cultural Tourism Co., Ltd. (域上和美文化旅游股份有限公司)
Yeahmobi (易点天下网络科技股份有限公司)
Reader's Publishing & Media Co., Ltd. (读者出版传媒股份有限公司)
Xinjiang Xinhua Bookstore Distribution Co., Ltd. (新疆新华书店发行有限责任公司)
The 22nd China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair opened on May 21st. The picture shows participants taking a group photo.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Mao Siqian (毛思倩) photo
Return to TopBeijing, May 21st (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) - The reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部): From January to April this year, the service retail sales increased by 5.6% year-on-year, with a virtuous cycle of supply and demand.
From the perspective of service consumption structure, cultural tourism and leisure consumption are active, residents have a strong willingness to travel, and service innovations such as cultural exhibitions and sports events are improving in quality, meeting consumers' personalized experiences; at the same time, online service consumption is performing well. With the vigorous development of online consumption and digital consumption, online service retail sales exceeded 2.4 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 8.3%, which is significantly higher than the growth rate of commodity retail sales.
Service consumption is an important starting point for expanding and upgrading consumption. The Ministry of Commerce (商务部) will work with relevant departments to expand the supply of high-quality services, promote the integration of service consumption formats, accelerate the cultivation of new growth points, and achieve a resonance between consumption growth and people's well-being.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张 璁
On May 21st, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办) held a press conference to introduce the relevant situation of the special action to regulate administrative law enforcement involving enterprises. "From the beginning of March last year to the end of March this year, a year's time, the special action focused on the prominent problems of 'arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, arbitrary inspections, arbitrary seizures' and 'illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement' for centralized rectification, and achieved obvious results," said Hu Weilie (胡卫列), Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice (司法部).
Recovering 30.7 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises and doing more than 100,000 practical things for enterprises.
"A total of more than 66,000 clues of prominent administrative law enforcement problems involving enterprises were investigated and corrected nationwide, recovering 30.7 billion yuan in economic losses for enterprises and doing more than 100,000 practical things for enterprises." Hu Weilie reported on the relevant achievements of the special action from four aspects.
Efforts were made to correct the problems of "four arbitraries and two enforcements." Focusing on arbitrary inspections, various localities carried out "one-time comprehensive inspection," graded and classified inspections, and "scanning codes to enter enterprises," etc. The total amount of administrative inspections decreased by 34% year-on-year, and the proportion of problems found increased by nearly 19 percentage points on average. Focusing on arbitrary fines, the assessment indicators related to illegally set fines and confiscation income were cleaned up, and the national administrative fines and confiscation income decreased significantly year-on-year. Focusing on arbitrary charges, more than 5,900 cases of illegal charges such as illegally establishing projects and setting up service fees were investigated and dealt with, and more than 1.3 billion yuan was returned to enterprises. Focusing on arbitrary seizures, more than 440 cases of arbitrary administrative seizures were corrected, releasing nearly 2 billion yuan in funds. Focusing on illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement, more than 600 cases of illegal off-site administrative law enforcement were investigated, and various localities issued more than 610 off-site law enforcement cooperation systems and mechanisms.
Efforts were made to solve the urgent and difficult problems of enterprises. The Ministry of Justice (司法部) selected 50 representatives from various fields as specially invited administrative law enforcement supervisors. In response to the difficulty in fulfilling administrative reconsideration decisions, a special supervision of the fulfillment of administrative reconsideration decisions involving enterprises was carried out.
Efforts were made to enhance the concept of law enforcement. The code of conduct for administrative law enforcement personnel was released, more than 7,000 administrative law enforcement entities that did not meet the statutory conditions were cleaned up, more than 300,000 administrative law enforcement personnel who did not meet the qualification conditions were adjusted and cleared, more than 400,000 unnecessary law enforcement matters were cleaned up, and business training directly to the grassroots level was carried out, training more than 1.2 million law enforcement personnel.
Efforts were made to improve the long-term mechanism. The Regulations on Administrative Law Enforcement Supervision were formulated and promulgated to improve the law enforcement supervision system and mechanism. Coordinate and solve the problem of inconsistent law enforcement standards. In response to the difficult problem of standard application that plagued enterprises and grassroots law enforcement, such as "whether to install rat guards in the back kitchen of restaurants," the State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局), the National Fire and Rescue Administration (国家消防救援局), the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), and the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) were consulted to issue regulatory opinions.
Actively respond to and solve the key concerns of enterprises and the public.
The special action has always taken enhancing the sense of gain of enterprises and the public as the starting point and foothold of the work.
Li Hui (李慧), Director of the Private Economy Development Bureau of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委), said that regulating law enforcement involving enterprises is an important part of the Private Economy Promotion Law, and the law focuses on the prominent problems existing in law enforcement involving enterprises and sets up a number of targeted clauses. The Development and Reform Commission (发展改革委) will increase the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, strengthen law enforcement coordination, improve the problem clue collection mechanism, and respond to and solve the key concerns of private enterprises.
Arbitrary fines are a problem that enterprises have strongly reflected. Liu Bo (刘波), Director of the Administrative Law Enforcement Coordination and Supervision Bureau of the Ministry of Justice (司法部), said that the special action will focus on the governance of arbitrary fines and profit-seeking law enforcement, and increase the investigation and handling of arbitrary fine cases. In particular, for problems such as different penalties for similar cases, arbitrary top penalties, and fines instead of management, all localities will discover one, investigate one, and correct one.
During the special action, more than 5,500 cases of arbitrary fines were investigated and dealt with nationwide, involving 790 million yuan. At the same time, the dynamic monitoring of abnormal growth of administrative fines and confiscation was strengthened. In the special action, the local judicial and administrative departments, in conjunction with finance, auditing and other departments, focused on places where the growth of fines and confiscation income exceeded 20%.
Transportation is related to the national economy and the people's livelihood, and serves thousands of households. "In view of the characteristics of small and micro enterprises and individual industrial and commercial households accounting for a high proportion in the field of transportation, and law enforcement work directly facing the general practitioners, we have formulated work guidelines for the discretion of high-frequency penalty items, strictly regulated the exercise of penalty discretion, and solved prominent problems such as 'heavy penalties for minor offenses' and 'disproportionate penalties'; we have issued a list of items that are legally exempt from penalties, and implemented the relevant work requirements of 'minor exemptions from penalties' and 'no penalties for first violations'," said Lin Qiang (林强), Director of the Legal Affairs Department of the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部). At the same time, reasoning law enforcement is also promoted, and compliance guidance to enterprises is strengthened in the process of law enforcement, prohibiting "one fine and the end," and helping enterprises to prevent risks and move forward steadily.
The special action has always emphasized strictly adhering to the principles of the rule of law, performing duties in accordance with the law within the framework of the rule of law, being strict when it should be strict, and being lenient when it should be lenient.
"Adhere to law enforcement for the people, and protect the ecological environment with the strictest system and the strictest rule of law." Shi Qingmin (史庆敏), head of the Ecological and Environmental Law Enforcement Bureau of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (生态环境部), said that focusing on key areas and key links, we will continue to strengthen ecological and environmental law enforcement, focus on handling key cases with serious illegal consequences and obvious subjective malice, severely crack down on environmental violations such as secretly setting up dark pipes or using karst caves and fissures to secretly discharge and release, tampering with and forging automatic monitoring data, and illegally transferring, dumping and disposing of hazardous waste, and promote the continuous improvement of ecological and environmental quality.
Improve the long-term mechanism for regulating law enforcement involving enterprises and strictly prevent problems from rebounding.
After the centralized rectification of the special action, the society is very concerned about how to strictly prevent the rebound of various law enforcement problems involving enterprises.
Hu Weilie (胡卫列) said that regulating law enforcement involving enterprises is not a temporary or phased work arrangement, but a major decision and deployment based on the overall situation and with a long-term perspective. In the next step, the Ministry of Justice (司法部) will focus on three aspects to improve the long-term mechanism for regulating law enforcement involving enterprises.
Strengthen the construction of the law enforcement team. Establish a normalized training mechanism and continuously improve the quality, pertinence and timeliness of training. At present, the Ministry of Justice (司法部) is studying and formulating the "Administrative Measures for Administrative Law Enforcement Personnel," which stipulates the qualification conditions, training and certification, code of conduct and accountability of administrative law enforcement personnel, and provides institutional guarantees for strengthening the management of administrative law enforcement personnel.
Strictly regulate administrative law enforcement behavior. Further promote the implementation and effectiveness of the three systems of administrative law enforcement publicity, full-process recording of law enforcement, and legal review of major law enforcement decisions, and manage administrative law enforcement from the source, process, and result. Improve the administrative discretion benchmark system, refine and quantify the scope, types and extent of discretion, strictly regulate the exercise of administrative discretion, and prevent excessive or insufficient penalties.
Strengthen the administrative law enforcement supervision mechanism and capacity building. Strengthen the error correction function of administrative law enforcement supervision, improve the normalized monitoring mechanism for abnormal growth of fines and confiscation income, and the rapid response mechanism for administrative law enforcement appeals, and promptly discover and correct illegal or improper administrative actions. Strengthen digital empowerment, strengthen the construction of an integrated administrative law enforcement supervision information platform, and realize accurate and effective supervision of administrative law enforcement. Improve the coordination and collaboration of administrative law enforcement supervision with various supervision mechanisms such as rule of law supervision, government supervision, administrative reconsideration, administrative litigation, and procuratorial supervision, strengthen the coordination and connection with the centralized rectification of unhealthy trends and corruption problems around the masses, and form a stronger and more effective supervision synergy.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 21st (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) On the evening of May 21st, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总) organized a special video conference and consultation on flood control, jointly consulting with the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部), and the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局). It dispatched personnel to key provinces such as Fujian (福建), Jiangxi (江西), Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), Guangdong (广东), Guangxi (广西), Sichuan (四川), Guizhou (贵州), Shaanxi (陕西), and Gansu (甘肃) to analyze and assess the development trend of a new round of large-scale rainfall in the central and eastern regions, and to arrange and deploy flood control and disaster relief work in key areas.
The consultation pointed out that the recent heavy rainfall process was the strongest rainfall process since the beginning of this year, with a wide range, high intensity, and obvious extremity. The new round of rainfall will affect many provinces in the central and eastern regions, with local areas experiencing heavy rain or torrential rain, accompanied by thunderstorms, strong winds, short-term heavy precipitation, and other severe convective weather. In particular, some areas have overlapping rainfall, high risk of disasters, and a severe and complex flood control situation. The meeting emphasized the need to strengthen and implement responsibilities for flood control and disaster relief, highlighting key areas and strictly implementing various prevention and response measures.
Currently, the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总) and the National Disaster Reduction Committee (国家防减救灾委) maintain a Level IV emergency response for flood control and a Level IV national disaster relief emergency response for Hubei (湖北), Hunan (湖南), and Guangxi (广西). The working groups dispatched earlier by the General Office of the State Flood Control and Drought Relief Headquarters (国家防总办公室) and the General Office of the National Disaster Reduction Committee (国家防减救灾委办公室) continue to work in key areas.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st (Reporter Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋)) that the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) announced: Today, the Pearl River (珠江) basin has entered the "Dragon Boat Water" (龙舟水) concentrated rainfall period. According to forecasts, during the "Dragon Boat Water" period (May 21st to June 20th), the overall rainfall in the Pearl River (珠江) basin will be slightly higher than normal, with the eastern and northern parts of the basin being one to two times higher, including the North River (北江), Han River (韩江), and East River (东江) being three to five times higher; the basin's temperature will remain high, strong convective weather activity will be vigorous, and localized extreme heavy rainfall will occur frequently and severely. Major floods may occur in the North River (北江) and Han River (韩江) of the Pearl River (珠江) basin, and numbered floods may occur in the West River (西江) and East River (东江). Close attention needs to be paid to the risks of floods in small and medium-sized rivers, the safe passage of small and medium-sized reservoirs through the flood season, and mountain torrent disasters and urban waterlogging that may be caused by localized extreme rainstorms.
The Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) conducted early consultations and assessments on the flood situation in the Pearl River (珠江) basin during the "Dragon Boat Water" period, closely monitored the development and changes in rainfall, water conditions, and flood conditions in the basin, promptly issued early warning information, and urged and guided local authorities to focus on inspecting and defending weak links such as river-related construction projects under construction, dilapidated reservoirs, small and medium-sized reservoirs, and dangerous sections of dikes, and to focus on preventing floods in small and medium-sized rivers, mountain torrent disasters, and localized waterlogging; the Pearl River Water Resources Commission (珠江水利委员会) of the Ministry of Water Resources (水利部) scientifically implemented the drawdown scheduling of key reservoirs in the basin. As of May 19th, the key reservoirs in the basin had accumulated a drawdown of 17.6 billion cubic meters, reserving flood control capacity to prepare for the "Dragon Boat Water." Guangdong Province (广东省) prepositioned emergency rescue materials and pre-positioned provincial water conservancy mobile emergency rescue teams; Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) organized 3,455 drills on reservoir emergency rescue and mountain torrent disaster prevention, and made every effort to prepare for emergency response and处置 (chǔ zhì - "handle," to manage or deal with a situation).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 金 歆
From May 19th to 20th, the 2026 China Internet Civilization Conference was held in Nanning (南宁), Guangxi (广西).
The conference, themed "Civilized Cyberspace, Inspiring Progress," was co-sponsored by the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办), the Central Spiritual Civilization Construction Office (中央精神文明建设办公室), the CPC Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Committee (中共广西壮族自治区委员会), and the People's Government of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区人民政府). At the conference, guests from all walks of life exchanged experiences in jointly building internet civilization, discussed cultivating a civilized atmosphere in cyberspace, and promoted the enhancement of internet civilization.
Strengthening Mainstream Values, Mainstream Public Opinion, and Mainstream Culture Online
Building internet civilization is inseparable from the supply of high-quality content. It is very important to allow the Party's innovative theories to reach ordinary people's homes through the internet.
At the sub-forum on the online dissemination of the Party's innovative theories, Nong Tao (农涛), editor-in-chief of the "Xuexi Qiangguo" (学习强国) learning platform, said that it is necessary to adhere to the unity of authoritativeness and youthfulness, and transform theoretical content into expressions that young people are willing to accept. It is not enough for the content to be "correctly explained," but also to make young people understand and be willing to listen, through short videos, infographics, audio, comics, and other methods, so that the theory shifts from "words and sentences" to "scenes, thinking, and insights."
In recent years, a series of excellent works with content, warmth, and strength have stimulated emotional resonance in cyberspace and promoted the in-depth and solid development of internet civilization.
At the main forum of the conference, Yue opera actress Chen Lijun (陈丽君) talked about the role of the internet in promoting Yue opera. "The internet is never a one-way display platform, but a co-creation field for actors and audiences," Chen Lijun said.
Recently, the movie "Love Letter to Grandma" (给阿嬷的情书) became popular online. At the conference, Luo Zhanhong (罗展宏), the producer of "Love Letter to Grandma," said that in the context of internet civilization exchange and mutual learning, he hopes that through this film, more audiences can see the emotions of overseas Chinese who cross mountains and seas and care about their homeland.
With the help of the internet, the development of new mass literature and art has attracted attention. At the sub-forum on the development of new mass literature and art, Shu Yong (舒勇), chairman of the Hunan Provincial Network Literature and Art Association (湖南省网络文艺家协会), said that the internet has transformed literary and artistic creation from one-way communication to multi-way interaction, and more people can use the internet and new technologies to participate in literary and artistic creation and achieve greater innovation.
Promoting the construction of international communication capabilities and telling Chinese stories to the outside world is also an important aspect of enriching the supply of high-quality internet content and jointly building internet civilization.
"Today, when various 'China Travel' videos are popular on overseas social platforms, we can find that those stories and clips that can break the circle and amaze the audience are actually in our usual daily life," Zhou Rui (周锐), editor-in-chief of China News Network (中国新闻网), shared his experience in doing overseas communication at the sub-forum on international exchange and mutual learning of internet civilization: To tell Chinese stories well, we do not need carefully cultivated "cultural bonsai," nor do we need pretentious "chicken soup for the soul," nor do we need to rely on "fan circle" culture to blow up traffic bubbles, we only need to look at the world equally and show the achievements of China's high-quality development and the vivid scenes of daily life.
Continuously Create a Clear and Upright Cyberspace
Promoting the construction of internet civilization requires strengthening comprehensive internet governance and creating a clear and orderly cyberspace.
Artificial intelligence governance is one of the most concerned topics at the conference. At the Artificial Intelligence Empowering Internet Civilization Construction Forum, one of the sub-forums of the conference, the "Ethical Safety Guidelines for Artificial Intelligence Applications 1.0" was released. The publisher introduced that the guidelines focus on the ethical safety issues in artificial intelligence applications, and clarify the safety guidelines for artificial intelligence application development, service provision, and application use, aiming to promote relevant entities to correctly understand and properly respond to the ethical safety impacts in application activities, and promote the healthy development of artificial intelligence applications on a standardized, orderly, safe, and controllable track.
Internet rumor-refutation has always been an important aspect of internet governance. "'Home exercise equipment' is clearly marked, but it claims to 'cure all diseases'?" "Replace milk powder with rice oil? Absolutely not."... At the internet rumor-refutation sub-forum, the Cyberspace Administration of China's Reporting Center (中央网信办举报中心) and the China Association for Science and Technology's Department of Popular Science (中国科协科普部) released the "Top Ten Cases of Resisting Pseudo-Science," covering health preservation, food safety, financial investment, and other fields.
Yuan Lanfeng (袁岚峰), associate researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学), said that pseudo-science often uses the public's vague understanding of professional fields to package false information with grand and vague concepts. The key is to tell stories in a way that the public can understand and is willing to listen to, so that true science can surpass pseudo-science in terms of communication power.
Tian Jiming (田济铭), head of Douyin's (抖音) hot topics, shared his platform's experience in dealing with misinformation and hype in social hot events. He said that rational voices and the truth should be seen earlier, and the rational expression of the parties involved should be protected and transmitted.
The construction of internet integrity deeply affects the construction of internet civilization. At the Internet Enterprise Social Responsibility Forum, the China Federation of Internet Societies (中国网络社会组织联合会) released the "China Internet Integrity Development Report (2026)."
"Cyberspace is not a place outside the law, nor is it a place for dishonesty," said the relevant person in charge of the China Federation of Internet Societies. With the development of the internet, the connotation of internet integrity has gradually expanded from basic integrity and collaborative integrity to full-domain integrity, showing a progressive logic from technical constraints and institutional norms to comprehensive coverage and high-quality development.
Promote Online and Offline Civilization Construction in an Integrated Manner
The construction of internet civilization is inseparable from the integration of online and offline, and widely gathering upward and good forces.
Taking the "Strive to Be a Good Chinese Netizen Project" (争做中国好网民工程) as a representative, in recent years, all industries and fields across the country have widely carried out online publicity of the most beautiful people and good people around us, shaping and purifying cyberspace with the new trends of the times.
At the China Good Netizen Cultivation Forum, the "Strive to Be a Good Chinese Netizen Initiative" (争做中国好网民倡议) was released. Representatives of good netizens from all walks of life shared their experiences. Among them, "Railway Good Netizen" representative, video blogger "Ying Laoban" (影老板) has popularized railway knowledge in a down-to-earth and humorous expression in recent years, and the account has gained more than 7 million fans. She said that she should be based on the front line to interpret the benefits for the people, adhere to outputting valuable content, and be a communication bridge between the railway and netizens.
At the Internet Enterprise Social Responsibility Forum, Ren Shaofeng (任少峰), vice president and editor-in-chief of Quwan Technology (趣丸科技), introduced that since 2020, Quwan Technology has established 71 "Yiqu Digital Intelligence Gas Stations" (益趣数智加油站) across the country, integrating digital reading, intelligent experience, and popular science education. At the same time, through related courses, children with zero foundation can use AI (artificial intelligence) music large models and smart instruments to create.
To build internet civilization, we must also attach importance to promoting "influencing offline from online," helping to follow the online mass line, and serving the overall situation of social governance, reform, and development.
In recent years, the Network Social Work Bureau of the Cyberspace Administration of China (中央网信办网络社会工作局) has continued to carry out the selection activity of "100 Accounts with Outstanding Achievements in Following the Online Mass Line." At the sub-forum on following the online mass line, representatives of 100 accounts with outstanding achievements in following the online mass line in 2025, such as "Customs Release" (海关发布) and "Leaders' Message Board" (领导留言板), told stories of listening to public opinion, responding to concerns, and serving the masses through the internet. Among them, the person in charge of the People's Daily Online Mass Work Department (人民网网上群众工作部) told the story of how various places discovered and solved the urgent problems of the masses such as "dead-end roads" through the "Leaders' Message Board," and established and practiced the correct view of political achievements, which was impressive.
Huang Liang (黄亮), associate professor of the Youth Ideological and Political Education Teaching and Research Department of the Central Communist Youth League School (中央团校青少年思想政治教育教研部), said after listening to the presentation that accurately capturing the reasonable opinions and suggestions of the people on the online platform, so that online and offline democratic participation can promote and complement each other, and the hearts of the Party and the people can truly achieve the same frequency resonance.
Return to TopThis newspaper Shanghai (上海) May 21st (Reporter Ju Yunpeng (巨云鹏)) The 8th Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Integration Development High-Level Forum was held in Shanghai (上海) on the 21st.
The 2026 Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Integration Development Practical Projects List was released at the forum, including jointly promoting mutual recognition of inspection and testing results among medical institutions in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, jointly building a food safety defense line in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, jointly cultivating professional and technical talents in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), enabling cross-provincial reimbursement of work-related injury insurance with electronic fiscal bills, deepening cross-provincial police situation handling in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, jointly boosting cultural tourism consumption in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and jointly holding sports events and activities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角).
The third batch of Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Innovation Consortiums was also released at the forum, including the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) High-Temperature Superconducting Magnet Technology Innovation Consortium, the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) High-End Medical Imaging Core Component Innovation Consortium, and the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) Autoimmune Disease New Drug Innovation Consortium.
During the forum, the High-Quality Interconnection Action for Inter-Provincial Transportation in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) was also released. The action focuses on three major areas: railways, highways, and waterways, and comprehensively promotes 44 key inter-provincial connection projects, covering 16 inter-provincial railways, 21 inter-provincial highways, and 7 inter-provincial high-grade waterways, to help the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region through deep inter-provincial transportation connections.
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The study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance are being carried out in depth throughout the Party. All regions, departments, and units adhere to opening the door to ask for needs and implementing precise policies, handling the "heartfelt matters" of the masses. At the same time, they adhere to the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment" to improve the system and mechanism, so as to better benefit the people.
Focusing on Problems to Grasp Rectification
The entrance and exit road of the South Gate is narrow and has blind spots, resulting in low traffic efficiency... Residents of Lihe New Village in Gusu District (姑苏区), Suzhou (苏州市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省) used to have inconvenient travel. After understanding the situation, the Party member cadres of Gusu District connected with the property management, conducted on-site investigation and demonstration, and promoted the implementation of the road widening project. Without changing the overall layout of the community, the congestion problem was solved and potential safety hazards were eliminated through space "micro-transformation." In order to do more practical things for the masses and make them feel accessible, Suzhou City has carried out a special action of "three services" to serve enterprises, projects, parks, and grassroots, making good use of the "running once in another's shoes" and other working mechanisms to promote the implementation of people's livelihood projects.
Gansu Province (甘肃省) has studied and formulated a centralized remediation work plan at the provincial level, addressing eight outstanding problems, including new officials ignoring old accounts, being eager for quick success and instant benefits, engaging in fraud, acting blindly and recklessly, making unrealistic decisions against the wishes of the masses, engaging in "image projects" and "vanity projects," "flipping pancakes" in policies and plans, and illegally increasing local government's hidden debts, and proposed 25 work measures. The local area insists on combining study and education with the ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin (黄河流域) and other work, and grasping the rectification and remediation of outstanding problems.
Recently, the demand for electricity in tea gardens in Lishui City (丽水市), Zhejiang Province (浙江省) has been concentrated, and the guarantee requirements are high. State Grid Lishui Power Supply Company (国网丽水供电公司) has transformed the effectiveness of study and education into practical results in serving the masses and performing its duties, relying on the "All-subject Micro-grid" convenience service center and the "Heping Neighborhood" service station to add services such as agricultural electricity consultation and tea enterprise electricity safety guidance, and promote the "one-stop" centralized handling of convenience matters.
Opening Education to Solve People's Worries
Since the launch of study and education, Baoxing County (宝兴县), Ya'an City (雅安市), Sichuan Province (四川省) has adhered to opening education, sorted out 157 "old accounts" problems involving multiple fields, and actively and steadily promoted the resolution of "old accounts." Among them, in response to the problems of scattered educational resources and poor connection between academic stages, the county widely listened to opinions and suggestions and decided to establish Baoxing County Education Group (宝兴县教育集团). The group adopts a close-knit school-running model of "main school + member schools" to connect the primary, junior high, and senior high school stages, realize the synchronization of curriculum, examination, and teaching and research, and allow children in mountainous areas to enjoy high-quality educational resources.
In Qujing City (曲靖市), Yunnan Province (云南省), leading cadres took the lead in conducting in-depth investigations and research at the front line, collecting public opinions through symposiums, the Internet, and other channels, and incorporating the opinions and suggestions into the list of problems to be investigated, and urging rectification item by item. The renovation and upgrading of old elevators is a practical matter for people's livelihood that improves the quality of life of residents. In response to the difficulties and blockages in this regard, Qilin District (麒麟区), Qujing City organized a "Consultation Meeting on Renovation and Upgrading of Old Elevators" to promote communication and coordination through policy publicity, supplier product display, and experience sharing in renovated communities. At present, more than 100 old elevators have been replaced with new ones.
Ganxian District (赣县区), Ganzhou City (赣州市), Jiangxi Province (江西省) has implemented the "Raise Opinions with a 'Code'" and the "13357" rapid handling mechanism for public opinions. For the public demands collected, it strives to complete general consultation and assistance issues within 3 days, complete complex issues that need to be coordinated and resolved within 5 days, and complete difficult issues involving a wide range and significant impact within 7 days and reply, building a "masses scan the code to raise demands - community online order receiving - closed-loop handling feedback" service system for the people. The district regularly sorts out and summarizes public demands to promote the implementation of various people's livelihood matters.
Institutional Construction for Long-Term Management
Nangming District (南明区), Guiyang City (贵阳市), Guizhou Province (贵州省), based on its actual work, combined with inspection and rectification, supervision and rectification, etc., comprehensively carried out self-inspection and sorting of documents and systems, and strived to build a complete, practical, and efficient system system. As of now, the district has cumulatively abolished 2 systems, plans to revise and improve 37 items, and newly established 52 items.
In order to strengthen the management and supervision of cadres and promote leading cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance, Huangshi City (黄石市), Hubei Province (湖北省) revised the audit and evaluation method for the economic responsibility of leading cadres to achieve an objective and fair quantitative evaluation of the overall performance of the audited leading cadres. It issued the "Implementation Measures for the 'Comprehensive Inspection Once' Joint Law Enforcement Inspection of Work Safety in Huangshi City (Trial Implementation)" to build a linkage model of "leading unit + collaborative unit" to achieve "entering the door once, checking multiple items, and being in place at one time," reducing the burden on enterprises from the source. It issued a patrol supervision and illegal investigation and handling work mechanism in the field of natural resources, etc., to clarify the approval supervision and law enforcement boundaries of grassroots units in the form of a list, and strive to solve the problems of overlapping functions and insufficient law enforcement personnel.
In the study and education, Jiangzhou District (江州区), Chongzuo City (崇左市), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (广西壮族自治区) issued an action plan to improve the quality and efficiency of cadre work style construction, and deepen the system of contact points for department-level cadres and the "service commissioner" system. Relying on the "service commissioner" outposts, it regularly collects enterprises' demands for employment, approval, financing, etc., and establishes a closed-loop mechanism of "instant response, list management, and cancellation of accounts." Among them, in response to the "difficulty in employment" problem, Jiangzhou District has established a "point-to-point" employment assistance and delivery mechanism, regularly organizing job seekers from 11 towns (街道) in the jurisdiction to take a bus directly to enterprises in the development zone to see production, discuss treatment, and sign agreements on the spot.
(Reporters Meng Xiangfu (孟祥夫), Ma Yuefeng (马跃峰), Wang Jintao (王锦涛), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Wang Weijian (王伟健), Fan Haotian (范昊天), You Yi (游仪), Zhu Jiaqi (祝佳祺), and Yang Yanfei (杨颜菲) of this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 龙国贻
Starting late can also mean arriving first; shortcomings can also become stepping stones for development. Identifying comparative advantages, competing in niche markets, and achieving differentiated development will give a region unique strengths.
Seemingly unrelated news, when viewed together, is thought-provoking.
"Blueberry freedom" has recently gone viral. Blueberries used to be expensive imported goods, but now China's production ranks first in the world, and prices are more affordable.
Looking at Chinese cars again, according to reports, in 2025, the cumulative global sales of Chinese car companies will approach 27 million vehicles, surpassing the approximately 25 million vehicles of Japanese car companies for the first time, winning the global championship.
Blueberries have made a big splash, and cars have broken into a big market. Looking back, such achievements have not been easy and are thought-provoking: How was the forward-looking layout achieved? Where does the forward-looking vision come from?
Foresight is often based on grasping trends. At the beginning of a trend, scientifically judge its direction; before a trend takes shape, predict future dynamics, 未雨绸缪 (wèi yǔ chóu móu - "prepare for rain before it comes," to plan ahead) and proactively lay out a plan, so that when the trend takes shape, you can naturally stand at the forefront.
Take Anhui (安徽) as an example. Its automobile production rose from eighth in the country in 2020 to first in the country in 2025. The Strategic Advisory Committee for the construction of the province's new energy vehicle industry cluster played an important role. From the beginning, it was given the responsibility of "looking at the present from the future and looking at today from the day after tomorrow," not only connecting resources such as universities and industries to devise strategies for automobile development, but also promoting the implementation and transformation of technological innovation and the iterative upgrading of products.
To seize the initiative, one must have a strategic vision. Maintain the sensitivity of "seeing the subtle and knowing the significant," cultivate the alertness of "一叶知秋" (yī yè zhī qiū - "one leaf knows autumn," from one small clue one can see what will happen in the future), and polish the "fiery eyes and golden pupils" to capture opportunities. By both focusing on the present, clarifying the immediate priorities, and looking to the future, planning long-term strategies, the momentum of development can be endless.
The foresight of vision is also reflected in the dialectical grasp of "strengths and weaknesses." The basic conditions such as resources and location in some places may be shortcomings from a conventional perspective, but from a different perspective, they may be potential boards and directions for future efforts.
Among the eight national hub nodes of the "Eastern Data and Western Calculation" project, Qingyang (庆阳), Gansu (甘肃) started the latest. Without the first-mover advantage, Qingyang changed its thinking and did not develop general-purpose computing power, but instead took a different approach and developed intelligent computing power. As a result, during the window period when domestic AI (artificial intelligence) large models were emerging intensively and the national demand for intelligent computing was growing rapidly, Qingyang seized the initiative. By the end of 2025, the intelligent computing scale of the Qingyang data center cluster reached 114,000 P (1P is approximately equal to 10 quadrillion calculations per second), becoming the hub node and data cluster with the largest incremental increase, the fastest growth rate, and the highest proportion of intelligent computing in the country.
Starting late can also mean arriving first; shortcomings can also become stepping stones for development. Identifying comparative advantages, competing in niche markets, and achieving differentiated development will give a region unique strengths.
Whether a vision has foresight also depends on the breadth of the vision.
For example, whether it is possible to look at a place from outside the place and form a trend of development with synergy. Huangshi (黄石), Hubei (湖北), as a medium-sized city in a central province, does not have outstanding advantages in scientific and educational resources and scientific and technological talents. How to break the situation? Borrowing brains for development and borrowing wisdom for innovation, turning external intelligence into Huangshi opportunities. Huangshi innovatively explored the path of "R&D in the enclave + local transformation," and laid out the construction of offshore science and technology innovation centers in Wuhan (武汉), Shanghai (上海), Shenzhen (深圳), and Beijing (北京), accumulating more than 400 enterprises.
For another example, whether it is possible to look at a place from the world map and open up new spaces with international markets. Wugong County (武功县), Xianyang (咸阳), Shaanxi (陕西), relies on the superimposed advantages of Yangling's (杨凌) "Free Trade Pilot Zone + Comprehensive Bonded Zone" 10 kilometers away to establish a "Wugong E-commerce Special Bonded Warehouse." In 2025, the county had more than 5,000 online stores and a cross-border e-commerce trade volume of more than 102 million yuan.
Others can also become a boost to their own development. Being brave enough to jump out of the limitations of one place and one corner, and looking at one place with a broader vision and a more open perspective, you can see more market opportunities, broader development space, and a more beautiful future.
Playing chess requires observing the overall situation, and making moves requires planning the overall situation. In chess, being able to see one more step ahead means one more chance of winning, and the same is true for development. Grasping the present and the long-term, identifying strengths and weaknesses, and coordinating oneself and others, finding the right track and seizing the initiative in a race of thousands of sails, one can firmly grasp the initiative of development.
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Whether it's repairing canals to divert water or seeking cultural roots, it's not the work of one person or one moment, but the result of generations of Party members and cadres adhering to the correct view of performance, deeply cultivating long-term potential achievements, and striving in succession. It is the achievement of the vast number of cadres and the masses uniting as one and working together with one heart and one mind.
True achievements are never empty words written on paper or hung on the lips, but solid achievements left in the green mountains and clear waters and engraved in the hearts of the people. True responsibility is the courage and determination to plan for the long term and to be willing to grasp unfinished matters.
Not long ago, I went to Chagan Lake (查干湖) again. In the past 20 years, I have lost count of how many times I have visited, and every time I can hear the local cadres and the masses grateful for the "Prairie Canal."
What kind of river is the "Prairie Canal"? In the 1970s, Fu Haikuan (傅海宽), then Secretary of the Party Committee of the Qian Gorlos Mongolian Autonomous County (前郭尔罗斯蒙古族自治县) in Jilin Province (吉林省), and the county Party committee team decided to launch the "Songhua River Diversion Project (引松工程)," which aimed to introduce the Songhua River (松花江) water into Chagan Lake (查干湖).
Why repair canals to divert water? Once, Chagan Lake (查干湖) severely shrank. "To eat a fish, you had to ride a horse dozens of miles into the lake to buy it." Later, digging with shovels and carrying on shoulders, shuttling through steep slopes of more than ten centimeters thick mud, everyone thought in one place and worked in one direction. After 8 years of hard work, they dug out a "Prairie Canal" with a total length of 53.85 kilometers. When the water came, all things were born, and Chagan Lake (查干湖) was rejuvenated.
Continuing to work hard allows a clear pool of water to benefit future generations, and also allows the ancient fishing and hunting culture to regain its vitality. Today's Chagan Lake (查干湖) is rippling with blue waves and is famous at home and abroad. The surrounding villages are rich because of the lake, and the people live a stable and prosperous life with this lake. This lake of clear water not only nourishes the local people, but also nourishes the future of this land.
Chagan Lake (查干湖)'s current vitality and fame cannot be separated from ecological water, and even more cannot be separated from the soul of culture. Cao Baoming (曹保明), a cultural scholar, has devoted decades of effort to rescuing, excavating, and inheriting the fishing and hunting culture of Chagan Lake (查干湖). Decades ago, in the freezing cold of minus twenty or thirty degrees Celsius, he sat in a horse-drawn carriage, visited villages door to door, and traveled all over the lakeside villages, bit by bit salvaging the nearly lost fishing and hunting stories, customs, and skills, and finally wrote "The Last Fishing and Hunting Tribe." It is precisely the persistence and efforts of Cao Baoming (曹保明) and others that have allowed the long-silent millennium fishing and hunting culture to be seen again, inherited, and promoted. Chagan Lake (查干湖), which has a lake of clear water and a long cultural root, is even more charming.
All of this cannot help but remind me of the profound discussion in "Zhejiang Xin Yu (之江新语)": "Leading cadres should be guided by the correct view of performance and do a good job in various tasks. 'Achieving success does not necessarily have to be me,' we must be willing to do groundwork and be willing to grasp unfinished matters." The South-to-North Water Diversion Project (南水北调) and the "Three-North" Shelterbelt Project (三北防护林) are all projects that have been consistently and successively fought for by generations. If personal selfishness is mixed in, and policies are changed frequently, it is impossible to complete these major events that benefit future generations.
The rebirth of Chagan Lake (查干湖) is also a vivid example of practicing this concept. Whether it's repairing canals to divert water or seeking cultural roots, it's not the work of one person or one moment, but the result of generations of Party members and cadres adhering to the correct view of performance, deeply cultivating long-term potential achievements, and striving in succession. It is the achievement of the vast number of cadres and the masses uniting as one and working together with one heart and one mind.
If you have ambition, you must also have perseverance. If you see it accurately, you must resolutely do it, persist in doing it, and firmly do it well. The attack on the "Songhua River Diversion Project (引松工程)" has also been criticized and questioned. Faced with these voices, the county Party committee team at that time insisted on serving the people wholeheartedly and being determined to do practical work, without the slightest hesitation, and wholeheartedly managed Chagan Lake (查干湖) well. Looking at history, in ancient times, Li Bing (李冰) and his son built the Dujiangyan Irrigation System (都江堰), which nourished the Land of Abundance; today, Gu Wenchang (谷文昌) led the masses to turn a barren island into a green island, and the Youyu County (右玉县) Party Committee in Shanxi (山西) took over the baton and led the cadres and masses of the entire county to turn the "barren land" into a "green oasis on the frontier." The spirit is inherited in one continuous line. The reason why achievements can transcend time and space and be recorded in history is precisely because those who do practical work have the people in their hearts and look to the long term, and are willing to do the groundwork of "planting trees for future generations to enjoy the shade."
Unity is strength, and practical work leads to the end. Walking in Chagan Lake (查干湖), looking at the clear water flowing in front of us and the people living in peace and happiness, listening to the comparison between the past and the present and the changes in development in the mouths of cadres and the masses, I cannot help but feel: True achievements are never empty words written on paper or hung on the lips, but solid achievements left in the green mountains and clear waters and engraved in the hearts of the people. True responsibility is the courage and determination to plan for the long term and to be willing to grasp unfinished matters.
To start well and take the first step well, "the view of performance must be correct." Anchoring long-term goals, uniting and striving together, doing more practical things that lay the foundation, benefit the long term, and benefit the people's livelihood, the people's lives will surely be like Chagan Lake (查干湖), "having fish every year."
(The author is a reporter from the Jilin Branch of this newspaper)
Return to TopNot long ago, the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委) and other 9 departments jointly issued a notice requiring the preparation for the 2026 grain purchase. During this year's summer grain purchase, the state will continue to implement the minimum purchase price policy in the main producing areas, adhering to the dual-drive approach of "market-led, policy backstop." China Grain Reserves Group (中储粮) and COFCO (中粮) and other central enterprises will improve service efficiency through "online reservation + offline purchase," achieving "money waiting for grain, warehouses waiting for grain," to protect farmers' income.
This is precisely:
Waves of wheat overlap a thousand layers,
Iron oxen gallop across the fields.
Good policies protect the foundation of agriculture,
Ten thousand families celebrate a bountiful harvest.
Wang Jingwen (王静文)
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【Keywords】The Taste of Hometown
【Event】Recently, a type of "cross-city food delivery" video has become popular online. Some video bloggers travel across mountains and seas, covering thousands of miles, to "secretly" deliver meals cooked by relatives in their hometowns to those who are working hard in other places. As the familiar taste enters their mouths, it brings surprise and evokes longing. The strong homesickness brings tears to the eyes of people both on and off the screen. What is delivered is home-cooked food, what is warmed is the hearts of those away from home, reflecting the enduring homesickness and deep emotions in a mobile China.
【Commentary】
What is a hometown? A passage from Shi Tiesheng (史铁生) may serve as an annotation: "A person's hometown is not just a specific piece of land, but a vast and boundless feeling, unrestricted by space and time; once this feeling is awakened, it means you have returned to your hometown."
Why do people's eyes moisten because of a bite of food? From sauerkraut dumplings in the Northeast to oily spicy noodles in the Northwest, from soft and glutinous qingtuan in Jiangnan to old-fire Cantonese soup in Lingnan, a familiar taste is a sense of security that can be immediately recognized no matter where you are, conveying the thoughts from beyond mountains and rivers.
Home is the root, but trees always grow upwards. Young people leave their hometowns, step onto bigger stages, and strive and grow. From new energy vehicles to the low-altitude economy, from artificial intelligence to humanoid robots, from advanced manufacturing to modern service industries... Whether it is the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries or the vigorous development of emerging industries, it is inseparable from the hard work and dedication of young people. It is precisely because generations of young people keep their hometowns in their hearts and shoulder their responsibilities, integrating the realization of their self-worth into the needs of national development, that they have achieved the bustling atmosphere of "small families" and supported the prosperity of "everyone."
The era is developing rapidly, and it also uses its unique way to smooth the brows of homesickness and support the travelers who go far away. In the past, the mountains were high and the roads were far, and the carriages were slow. A family letter would take weeks to arrive. Now, the Tianshan Mountains are connected, the roads to Sichuan are "leveled," the old revolutionary areas are connected to high-speed rail, and high gorges are spanned by horizontal bridges. The continuously improving three-dimensional transportation network has turned "returning from Jiangling in a day" from freehand to realistic. The nationwide "county-to-county gigabit, township-to-township 5G, and village-to-village broadband" and the leap in communication technology have made "the ends of the earth are as neighbors" a real experience. In recent years, "reverse Spring Festival" has become increasingly popular, with more and more parents reuniting with their children in the cities where they work. Unlike young people who return to their hometowns and become "children" again, when parents come to the city, they see their children's struggles and growth, and feel the pulse of the era that "each generation is stronger than the last."
At present, there are still many people looking into the distance, and some are on the road, with more diverse reasons for departure and destinations. This spring, tens of thousands of volunteers came to Minqin (民勤), Gansu (甘肃) to plant trees. Some people said, "As long as you feel that this thing is meaningful, you will do it without hesitation." Shen Yanfen (沈燕芬), a "post-90s new farmer," returned to her hometown from Shenzhen (深圳) to start a business, promoting advanced agricultural technology and leading her fellow villagers to cultivate the land well, grow good grain, and sell it at a good price. The flow is no longer one-way, and the seeds of ideals "fly with the heart," landing in bustling cities, landing in the Gobi desert, and also landing in rural fields, taking root, sprouting, and growing vigorously.
Wherever they go, there is fertile soil, as well as sunshine and rain. More and more cities are also innovating services to enhance the talent's sense of identity and belonging. Government services are "accessible through one network," and housing, medical care, education, and other supporting facilities are more complete, so that even "newcomers" can be calm and relaxed; the renovation and upgrading of large commercial districts, trendy markets, and other consumer scenes, and the opening of more urban parks, make the quality of life more secure; the neighborhood activities are rich and colorful, promoting communication between people and bringing people and the city closer... "'Coming here means you are a ×× person'," this is the slogan of many cities, and it is also a true reflection of gathering, retaining, cherishing, and loving talents. In the two-way rush between people and cities, the land of China is bursting with vitality, writing a new chapter of collaborative progress.
We always say, "Good children should aspire to be everywhere." When countless travelers are busy for their ideals, we also have reason to believe that this land, which is constantly growing, will surely support the homesickness and illuminate the way forward for every ambitious person, so that perseverance has a response and rushing has a reward. And this is the new interpretation of "where the heart is at peace is my hometown" in this era.
By: 北京市怀柔区 赵 岑
Working in publicity in a remote suburban township in Beijing (北京), I encountered several villagers seeking help, hoping to resolve strained parent-child relationships. Drawing on my experience as a university counselor and a psychology certificate, I tried to help them adjust their family communication methods and channel their emotions. Soon after, one mother sent a message: "My child took the initiative to talk to me, and I cried."
Our research found that this was not an isolated case. Many parents are busy with work, leaving their children to "electronic babysitters," and by the time they discover the problem, the parent-child relationship is already **千疮百孔** (qiān chuāng bǎi kǒng - "thousand holes hundred holes," riddled with problems; full of defects). So, we organized several family education symposiums in the town. The parents listened attentively and took detailed notes, and many families began to try to change.
Focusing on family education may seem far removed from grassroots governance, but in reality, it is not. Looking at it from a point to a surface, family education is related to family style, and family style is connected to village ethos and reflects social customs. Conflicts within the family may spread to a wider range, ultimately burying "reefs" for grassroots governance. In addition to commending the "most beautiful" and "best" families, we must also lend a hand to families caught in conflict and difficulties. Looking at the long term, today's seedlings are tomorrow's big trees. Buttoning the first button for the new generation in the countryside is also to reserve talents for the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Is it exceeding the scope of duty for someone doing publicity to run and do "mediation"? I think there are not so many "your business" and "my business" in grassroots work. The people's business is our business, our own business. Grassroots party members and cadres need to establish and practice a correct view of performance, and need to "**把小事当作大事来办**" (bǎ xiǎo shì dàng zuò dà shì lái bàn - "treat small things as big things," to take small matters seriously). As long as the masses come to us, we must have a sense of responsibility for the first handling, not shirk responsibility, and think of more ways. We must both **八仙过海** (bā xiān guò hǎi - "eight immortals cross the sea," each displaying their unique talents) and give full play to individual strengths, and also **蚂蚁抬食** (mǎ yǐ tái shí - "ants carrying food," work together as a team), and keep in step, so as to form a joint force for grassroots governance and win the trust and reputation of the masses.
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The unique value of new popular literature and art lies in breaking down creative barriers, allowing the people to be not only "characters in the play" but also "playwrights."
The micro-drama "Inside and Outside the Home" tells a heartwarming story of a blended family facing life's challenges together, resonating with audiences; the song "Jiahewanggang (嘉禾望岗)" successfully "broke the circle," with "one song making a city popular"...
The vigorous rise of new popular literature and art has become a bright landscape in the flourishing development of literature and art in the new era. What is its charm? Upon closer examination, this is not only a profound transformation of literary and artistic forms and creative methods but also a resonance of the spirit of the times and the voice of the people.
Wang Jibing (王计兵), a delivery driver and poet, adheres to his original intention of writing, using original poems such as "The Person in a Hurry" to show the unyielding and tenacious spirit of ordinary workers striving for life. The delivery box contains not only goods but also souls comforted by poetry. New popular literature and art follow the creative logic of life as art, focusing the camera and brush on everyday life, becoming a new form of literature and art for the people to observe life and express emotions. Because it is down-to-earth, it gathers popularity.
The unique value of new popular literature and art lies in breaking down creative barriers, allowing the people to be not only "characters in the play" but also "playwrights."
From poetry creation in the fields to short video recording in streets and alleys, from amateur original online novels to audio sharing with nationwide participation, literary and artistic creation has shed its mysterious halo, moving from professional stages to life scenes, and from niche circles to nationwide practice. This model of "everyone can create, everywhere can be disseminated, and the public can share" has stimulated the infinite creative vitality hidden among the people.
The vigorous vitality of new popular literature and art lies in upholding integrity and innovation, allowing mainstream values to enter the hearts of the people in a more vivid and relatable way.
Li Ziqi's (李子柒) short videos, with the unique narrative of "using pastoral scenery as paper and life as painting," construct an artistic conception of Eastern aesthetics, realizing the poetic translation and global dissemination of outstanding Chinese traditional culture. New popular literature and art use lightweight and down-to-earth expressions to integrate traditional culture with the spirit of the times, showcasing the development of contemporary China.
The lasting vitality of new popular literature and art lies in embracing the digital age and expanding creative boundaries with technological innovation. In the past, making movies and writing novels were professional matters for professionals; but today, a new generation of information technology represented by AI (artificial intelligence) provides new tools for literary and artistic creation, making "one person is a crew" possible.
Not long ago, the AI-assisted short film "Snow Mountain Rescues the Fox" unexpectedly became popular. "Have you ever saved a fox in the snow mountain? I am not a fox, I am that spiced duck!" These magical lines swept the internet, triggering secondary creations by many institutions and netizens. The new model of "human-machine collaboration" in creation allows more people to realize the entire process of creation from planning and production to editing, further refreshing the efficiency of creating literary and artistic works such as poetry, short videos, and online novels.
Literature and art beautify the era, and the journey is inspiring. Rooted in the people and closely following the times, new popular literature and art will bring more surprises.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 尹晓宇 申少铁
Biography
Wang Yongjun (王拥军), born in 1962 in Handan, Hebei (河北邯郸), is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of Beijing Tiantan Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京天坛医院), affiliated with Capital Medical University. His main research direction is intervention strategies for recurrent and disabling ischemic cerebrovascular diseases. His research results have been selected twice as one of the Top Ten Advances in Life Sciences in China and he has twice won the second prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award as the first person to complete the research; he has also won the first National Innovation and Competition Award Medal, the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Tan Jiazhen Clinical Medicine Award.
In the past 30 years, clinical scientists around the world have produced a total of 12 pieces of evidence of significant value in the field of stroke reperfusion therapy, five of which came from the team of Wang Yongjun (王拥军), an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院院士) and President of Beijing Tiantan Hospital (首都医科大学附属北京天坛医院), affiliated with Capital Medical University.
Wang Yongjun (王拥军) has been deeply involved in the field of stroke research for more than 40 years: developing new methods for stroke diagnosis and treatment, extending the optimal window for intravenous thrombolysis, and promoting the establishment of a stroke clinical research network... At the beginning of this year, Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team discovered that administering the neuroprotective agent edaravone dexborneol to patients with acute ischemic stroke during endovascular thrombectomy can increase the proportion of patients with independent neurological function at 90 days with good safety, significantly reducing disability rates. This achievement, published in an international medical journal, proves that adding a neuroprotective agent on the basis of thrombectomy can produce good prognostic effects.
Optimizing Dual Antiplatelet Therapy to Find a Balance Between Therapeutic Efficacy and Safety
In 2008, China launched the Major New Drug Discovery and Development Program, and Wang Yongjun (王拥军) became a member of the project expert group. At that time, some experts believed that China lacked a scientific clinical new drug evaluation mechanism for innovative drug research and development. Academician Sang Guowei (桑国卫), then the chief technical director of the Major New Drug Discovery and Development Program, hoped that Wang Yongjun (王拥军) could achieve some breakthroughs in the clinical new drug evaluation mechanism.
Wang Yongjun (王拥军) chose the direction of combining two antiplatelet drugs being superior to single drug use, which was a very challenging choice at the time.
"The vast majority of basic researchers believe that dual antiplatelet therapy is necessarily superior to single antiplatelet drugs, but the results of studies by three international top teams have shown that the ultimate outcome of 'dual antiplatelet' is to increase the patient's risk of bleeding. Where exactly is the problem? Our task is to solve this mystery," Wang Yongjun (王拥军) said. The first step the team took was to redesign the research ideas. "Previous drug research and development generally started from laboratory discovery and then clinical validation, while we adopted a reverse transformation method, looking for new drug intervention targets from clinical research and then driving research and development."
At each weekly meeting, the team would first propose hypotheses and then use data from nearly 90,000 patients collected from various sub-centers to verify them. After 8 months of effort, the team first proposed three prerequisites for dual antiplatelet therapy to be beneficial—within 24 hours of onset, continuous treatment for no more than 21 days, and mild stroke or transient ischemic attack. Finally, they found the "sweet spot"—the balance point between effectiveness and safety—for the combination of aspirin and clopidogrel, two antiplatelet drugs.
In 2013, Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team's research results were published in an international journal, attracting attention in the industry. Subsequently, North America, Europe, and other regions updated their stroke secondary prevention guidelines based on this latest research result.
"Can the recurrence rate be reduced a little more?" Through rapid gene testing, Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team further proved that using a new dual antiplatelet drug regimen for patients with a "specific genotype" can relatively reduce the risk of cerebral infarction recurrence within 90 days by another 23%. Currently, based on the regimen proposed by Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team, the recurrence rate of acute ischemic stroke patients has dropped from 11% to 6%.
Finding New Drugs and New Methods to Expand the Thrombolytic Window from 4.5 Hours to 24 Hours
Acute ischemic stroke accounts for about 80% of all strokes, and the key to its treatment lies in unblocking the blocked blood vessels as early as possible to save the ischemic penumbra.
Wang Yongjun (王拥军) introduced that for every 10 minutes that stroke treatment is shortened from onset to treatment, the probability of good recovery will increase by 10%; for every 10 minutes that thrombolytic therapy is delayed, the patient will lose about 2 months of healthy life. However, in the past nearly 30 years, the only intravenous thrombolytic drug has been imported alteplase. Due to limited production capacity and other reasons, there is often a shortage of drugs worldwide.
Wang Yongjun (王拥军) turned his attention to reteplase. From the perspective of drug principles, this drug should have a good effect on acute ischemic stroke, but it has never entered the research field of stroke drugs for many years. In 2017, from exploring the optimal dose to determining the final efficacy, Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team confirmed through a series of clinical trials that the effect of reteplase is better than that of alteplase.
In addition to exploring the potential of reteplase, Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team also led the clinical evaluation of another emerging thrombolytic drug, tenecteplase. The study found that the efficacy and safety of tenecteplase are not worse than those of alteplase, promoting the approval of tenecteplase for the treatment of ischemic stroke by drug regulatory authorities. Last year, the team completed the drug clinical evaluation of the fourth thrombolytic drug, recombinant human prourokinase. "The number of thrombolytic drugs has expanded from 1 to 4 in 30 years, which will greatly alleviate the shortage of thrombolytic drugs," Wang Yongjun (王拥军) introduced.
However, the traditional intravenous thrombolysis window is 4.5 hours, and many patients have sequelae or even lost their lives because they missed the best time.
"There is a key target in the treatment of ischemic stroke called the 'ischemic penumbra', which is the brain tissue that is ischemic but not completely infarcted. Reperfusion therapies such as thrombolysis and thrombectomy are to restore blood supply to the penumbra, while neuroprotective therapy is to 'lock' the penumbra and prevent it from deteriorating," Wang Yongjun (王拥军) said. Based on this theory, they conducted research and confirmed that expanding the intravenous thrombolysis window to within 24 hours is safe and effective.
During the process of conducting this research, the team independently developed an intelligent imaging decision-making platform for acute stroke, which can quickly analyze and evaluate head images and accurately identify the key penumbra. This means that 90% of acute ischemic stroke patients have the opportunity to receive thrombolytic therapy, and the disability rate of patients can be reduced by 8.8% without increasing the risk of intracranial hemorrhage.
Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team has made a series of breakthroughs in the field of drug therapy, helping patients race against time. So, how can the time be further compressed in the clinical process? Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team proposed the "emergency stroke unit" program. In a space of only 30 square meters in Tiantan Hospital (天坛医院), clinical assessment, imaging assessment, and treatment are organically integrated. The low-field magnetic resonance scanner independently developed by the team is not only lightweight and mobile, but also can quickly identify cerebral hemorrhage and cerebral ischemia with the assistance of the artificial intelligence image recognition system independently developed by the team, helping patients receive effective treatment in a timely manner.
Building a Large-Scale Clinical Research Platform Dedicated to Overcoming Difficulties in the Field of Stroke Research
"What drives research is always the expectation of patients." This is the concept that Wang Yongjun (王拥军) adheres to in clinical medical research. He also shared this idea with his partners. In Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team, researchers constitute a talent echelon of different ages and research directions.
Wang Chunjuan (王春娟), Deputy Director of the National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases Office, entered the new drug innovation project in 2008 and participated in several important projects. She said that the center office has developed from a few people 20 years ago into a large-scale clinical research platform with more than 100 full-time researchers and more than 2,000 member units of the national research collaboration network. "Under the leadership of Teacher Wang (王老师), the team promoted the establishment of the only National Clinical Research Center for Neurological Diseases in the country, established a standardized clinical research platform, and organically connected various links such as clinical research design, project operation management, image interpretation, data management, statistical analysis, and sample storage. The clinical research methodology platform and operation management platform have obtained ISO9001 certification, ensuring the efficient development of clinical trials," Wang Chunjuan (王春娟) introduced.
Based on such an experimental platform, the project is progressing faster and faster. It is understood that Wang Yongjun's (王拥军) team is conducting 5 clinical project studies at the same time, one of which is dedicated to overcoming the global problem that disabling mild stroke patients face "uncertainty of thrombolytic benefits," and has published 8 research papers in international medical journals.
Along the way, Wang Yongjun (王拥军) has received many honors. In recent years, he has become the first Asian winner of the "William M. Feinberg Award for Excellence in Clinical Stroke" and the highest achievement award of the World Stroke Organization. But Wang Yongjun (王拥军) has a greater vision: to carry out multi-center clinical trials globally, so that global textbooks in the field of stroke research have more Chinese chapters.
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What is the goal of medical innovation? Wang Yongjun (王拥军) has provided an answer through more than 40 years of dedication—to strive to respond to "patients' expectations." Extending the window period, reducing recurrence rates, increasing drug accessibility... Whether optimizing treatment plans, searching for new drugs, or formulating standards, his starting point is to solve the practical problems of patients.
Taking patients as the center is the key to better promoting medical innovation. Many breakthroughs in medicine initially stem from specific diagnostic and treatment challenges. Innovation is not researchers working behind closed doors, but a joint creation with patients. Behind every scientific research achievement, there is the testing, correction, and iteration based on patient feedback.
Technology is people-oriented, and medical innovation must be oriented towards people's life and health. Medical research results can only truly realize their value when they leave the laboratory and are transformed into more accessible drugs and more inclusive technologies.
We look forward to more medical researchers like Wang Yongjun (王拥军) who adhere to the concept of putting the people first and life first, are willing to dedicate themselves, bravely climb the peak of medicine, protect life and health, and create a better life.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Xi'an, May 21 (Reporter Wang Zehao (王泽昊)) The 3rd China-Uzbekistan Local Cooperation Forum and the 10th Silk Road International Exposition and China East-West Cooperation and Investment and Trade Fair opened in Xi'an (西安) on May 21. Peng Qinghua (彭清华), Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Peng Qinghua (彭清华) stated that this forum and the Silk Road International Exposition highlight the themes of openness, cooperation, and mutual benefit. He expressed hope that all parties would deepen strategic alignment, upgrade connectivity, expand economic and trade cooperation, and promote mutual learning among civilizations, so as to promote China-Uzbekistan local cooperation to a new level, jointly build the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and inject new impetus and make new contributions to the coordinated development of the east and west.
The China-Uzbekistan Local Cooperation Forum is a mechanism activity to implement the important consensus of the two heads of state. It is co-sponsored by the Chinese People's Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries, the People's Government of Shaanxi Province (陕西省人民政府), and the Ministry of Investment, Industry and Trade of Uzbekistan. More than 700 people from all walks of life in the two countries attended the meeting. The Silk Road International Exposition is an important platform to serve and promote the high-quality development of the "Belt and Road" initiative, and is hosted by the People's Government of Shaanxi Province (陕西省人民政府).
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Highlights
Fang Beisong (方北松), director of the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心) in Hubei Province (湖北省), was named a "National Cultural Relics Master Craftsman" for 2025. With over 30 years of experience, he has restored more than 100,000 bamboo slips excavated from sites such as the Haihunhou Tomb (海昏侯墓) in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西), and Zoumalou (走马楼) in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南), using his original decolorization and dehydration techniques for bamboo slips. He has overseen the protection of over 80% of the waterlogged bamboo slips in the country, revitalizing these millennia-old artifacts.
Cleaning, decolorizing, dehydrating, consolidating, shaping, sealing, packaging... restoring a small and precious bamboo slip requires more than 20 steps. Haihunhou Tomb (海昏侯墓) in Nanchang (南昌), Jiangxi (江西), Zoumalou (走马楼) in Changsha (长沙), Hunan (湖南)... For more than 30 years, Fang Beisong (方北松) (pictured left, courtesy of the interviewee), director of the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心) in Hubei Province (湖北省), has restored more than 100,000 bamboo slips excavated from various locations using his original decolorization and dehydration techniques.
The Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心) is responsible for processing more than 80% of the country's waterlogged bamboo slips. Many bamboo slips are transported here from all over the country, each slip sandwiched between two pieces of glass, carefully tied with thin thread, and layered in distilled water. Bamboo slips that are too decayed for long-distance transportation are handled by the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心), which has established several workstations in various locations, sending people to participate in the preliminary restoration and organization of bamboo slips at the site of the artifacts. Fang Beisong (方北松) spends at least half of the year on business trips, traveling to archaeological excavation sites across the country.
Walking into the bamboo slip restoration room of the Jingzhou Cultural Relics Protection Center (荆州文物保护中心), Fang Beisong (方北松) is providing technical guidance to the staff. They soak the bamboo slips in distilled water, carefully observing every crack and abrasion, and gently cleaning them with soft brushes. "The movements must be very gentle during cleaning, otherwise the writing may be damaged," says Fang Beisong (方北松). In front of each water basin is an enlarged infrared scan photo of the corresponding bamboo slip, displayed on a computer or mobile phone, where the writing is clearer and more distinguishable. Each touch of the soft brush must remove every tiny impurity from the bamboo slip while avoiding the writing. This process requires great patience, and one person can only clean about two slips a day.
"Decolorization and dehydration are key to restoration and protection," says Fang Beisong (方北松). Years ago, he had seen light-colored Qin slips (秦简) that had just been unearthed oxidize and turn black, making the writing on the slip surface blurred and indistinct. How to restore the color of the bamboo slips? In 1988, Fang Beisong (方北松) graduated from Wuhan University (武汉大学) with a degree in analytical chemistry and came to the Jingzhou Museum (荆州博物馆) to work in cultural relics protection. At that time, there were only two people in the entire museum engaged in cultural relics restoration, including Fang Beisong (方北松), and there was no ready-made experience to draw on.
Decolorizing bamboo slips requires analyzing and reducing the chemical groups that have changed due to oxidation after excavation, lightening the color, and ensuring that there are no side effects on the bamboo fibers and ink. Over several months, Fang Beisong (方北松) repeatedly compared and tested different materials and concentrations of reagents using blank bamboo slips and wood chips, finally identifying sodium dithionite, which has high reducing properties and causes little damage to the slip surface, from more than a dozen materials. The oxidized and blackened bamboo slips are gently immersed in the sodium dithionite solution, and after waiting for a while, the black color gradually dissipates, and the original color of the bamboo slip is restored, as if by a magic trick that reverses time.
The restored waterlogged bamboo slips are still extremely fragile. Fang Beisong's (方北松) invented dehydration method allows the water molecules in the bamboo slips to be replaced by another more stable molecule, making them easier to preserve for a long time. To find this chemical material molecule, Fang Beisong (方北松) spent several years conducting hundreds of experiments, finally finding a chemical substance: cetyl alcohol. "Cetyl alcohol is insoluble in water but easily soluble in ethanol, and it is also repeatable. Even if better technical means are found to protect the bamboo slips in the future, the cetyl alcohol filled inside will not be an obstacle," says Fang Beisong (方北松).
The dehydration process for each batch of bamboo slips is very precise, requiring multiple steps such as ethanol replacement, cetyl alcohol replacement, and surface cetyl alcohol removal. The ratio of the cetyl alcohol solution in which the bamboo slips are immersed varies depending on the results of the analysis of the bamboo slip components. The dehydration process for a batch of bamboo slips often lasts more than 20 days.
The two methods found by Fang Beisong (方北松) are still the main methods for decolorizing and dehydrating waterlogged bamboo slips; the bamboo slip series protection technology based on these two technologies won the second prize of the Hubei Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award (湖北省科技进步奖) in 2019.
After decolorization and dehydration, some damaged and broken bamboo slips need to be carefully glued together. The restored bamboo slips will be sealed and packaged in "custom-made" test tubes or boxes.
On the table in the restoration room, several bamboo slips from the *Jiujiu Shu* (《九九术》) from the Qinjiacui Chu slips (秦家咀楚简) in Jingzhou (荆州) that have just been decolorized are neatly arranged. The *Jiujiu Shu* (《九九术》), excavated in 2023, is more than 2,300 years old and is the earliest multiplication table artifact found to date.
"Bamboo slips are carriers of historical culture. I believe that with the joint efforts of cultural relics restorers, more **尘封的历史** (chén fēng de lì shǐ - "dust-laden history," long-buried history) will be revealed one by one," says Fang Beisong (方北松).
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Breaking through the clouds, hundreds of stars shine. On May 15th, the Zhongke Aerospace Lijian-1 Y13 carrier rocket (中科宇航力箭一号遥十三运载火箭) pierced the sky, successfully achieving "one rocket with five satellites." So far, the Lijian series has cumulatively sent hundreds of satellites into space, engraving a brilliant mark of China's commercial aerospace in the vast starry sky.
Speeding fast, winning two championships again. On May 16th and 17th, the 2026 World Superbike Championship Czech Republic station roared with engines, and Zhang Xue's motorcycle (张雪机车) won the championship in two rounds, once again demonstrating the hardcore strength of Chinese private enterprises on the global arena.
On February 17, 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the symposium for private enterprises: "The development prospects of the private economy in the new era and new journey are broad and promising, and it is the right time for the majority of private enterprises and private entrepreneurs to **大显身手** (dà xiǎn shēn shǒu - "fully display one's abilities," to demonstrate great skill or talent)."
On May 20, 2025, the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Promoting the Private Economy" (中华人民共和国民营经济促进法) officially came into effect. Over the past year, what tangible gains has this law brought to private enterprises? How can we protect the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy?
More perfect system——
More than 180 supporting policies build a legal guarantee system
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The rule of law is an important support for the national governance system and governance capacity."
If the law is compared to the "design blueprint" of a magnificent building, then the supporting system is the specific "construction drawing." Since the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, various regions and departments have accelerated the construction of the "framework," and more than 180 supporting policies have been introduced.
The negative list is "slimming down" again, and the access threshold is becoming wider and wider.
Last year, the "Market Access Negative List (2025 Edition)" was released, and the number of list items was reduced from 117 in the 2022 edition to 106, a decrease of 11 items.
Shanghai Xingge Culture Media Co., Ltd. (上海兴格文化传媒有限公司) is one of the direct beneficiaries. In the past, to shoot TV series, it was necessary to apply separately for "Approval for the Establishment of TV Drama Production Units." Now, it is only necessary to apply for a "Radio and Television Program Production and Operation License" to start shooting smoothly. "Our new drama is preparing to start shooting in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东). The local cultural and tourism department provided very considerate services, promoting the simultaneous advancement and parallel approval of the application for the business license and the TV series project, which greatly improved the efficiency of landing," said Yang Wenhong (杨文红), chairman of the company.
Various regions and departments have carried out in-depth clean-up and rectification actions on market access barriers. In 2025, a total of more than 38,000 documents were sorted out and investigated, and more than 2,300 were revised or abolished, which effectively guaranteed the market access rights of business entities.
Bidding is more "sunshine," and market competition is fairer.
"Artificial intelligence is the referee. As a foreign private enterprise, I feel much more at ease," said the bidding manager of Ronghua Construction Group (荣华建设集团).
Recently, Jinan (济南), Shandong (山东) successfully completed the transaction of the first industrial park construction general contracting project using artificial intelligence review. Compared with traditional manual scoring, the review efficiency increased by more than 40%, greatly reducing misjudgments and omissions.
Data is the best proof. In 2025, the number of projects won by private enterprises accounted for 76.2%, and the total amount of government procurement contracts awarded to small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for more than 70% of the national government procurement scale.
Major projects open their doors, and private investment is more active.
Dadu River (大渡河), in the canyon, heavy dump trucks meander through, and the initial shape of the dam foundation excavation is beginning to appear. The construction of the Danba Hydropower Station (丹巴水电站) on the Dadu River (大渡河) in Sichuan (四川) is in full swing. In November last year, with the joint efforts of the "national team" and private enterprises, Guoneng Dadu River (Danba) Hydropower Development Co., Ltd. (国能大渡河（丹巴）水电开发有限公司) was formally established, with CATL (宁德时代) holding 10% of the shares.
"The addition of CATL (宁德时代) has broken the traditional investment pattern of large-scale hydropower projects. The 'national team' has capital, and CATL (宁德时代) has technology. The strong alliance brings unlimited possibilities for project operation," said Jiang Yihang (蒋一行), general manager of the company, full of confidence.
Nuclear power, hydropower, and railways, private investment is accelerating into major national projects. As of the first quarter of this year, 20 private enterprises have been introduced to participate in 12 nuclear power projects, with a total investment of more than 55 billion yuan, and the share ratio of private enterprises has increased from the initial 2% to a maximum of 20%.
Financing support is more efficient, and financial living water is precisely dripped.
"From application to lending, it took less than a week, and the interest rate was still low. I must give it a thumbs up!" Mao Haitao (毛海涛), production manager of Xitai Shoes (希泰鞋业) in Jinjiang (晋江), Fujian (福建), praised the "government-bank-enterprise guarantee" financing service mechanism.
This mechanism is an important measure for Quanzhou (泉州), Fujian (福建) to solve the financing difficulties of small and micro enterprises. "We regularly survey the needs of enterprises and report the list. Banks simplify the approval process, and guarantee institutions provide credit enhancement. Multi-party linkage allows financial living water to be precisely dripped," said Ding Qingxiong (丁庆雄), a member of the party group of the Jinjiang Development and Reform Bureau (晋江市发展和改革局).
Setting up a 1 trillion yuan re-lending for private enterprises, establishing a 500 billion yuan special guarantee plan for private investment, implementing interest subsidy policies for small and medium-sized micro enterprise loans... A series of policies continue to increase financial support. As of the end of April this year, the balance of inclusive small and micro loans was 37.92 trillion yuan, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year, injecting a constant stream of power into the development of private enterprises.
Execution is more in place——
The legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises are comprehensively strengthened
The rooting of the law must ultimately be reflected in the substantial protection of the rights and interests of private enterprises. Since the implementation of the Private Economy Promotion Law, multiple departments have coordinated and worked together to protect the legitimate rights and interests of private enterprises in every possible way.
——Build a "protective wall" of rights and interests with fair judgments.
Recently, a judgment on an administrative agreement dispute spanning many years has attracted attention.
In 2007, a local government signed a land development agreement with a construction company. Later, it was determined to be invalid because the profit distribution clauses were illegal. The court clearly pointed out in the trial that the government was primarily at fault for the invalidity of the clauses, and the actual losses invested by the enterprise based on its trust in the government should be protected. Finally, the court ruled in accordance with the law that the government should pay the enterprise more than 43 million yuan in compensation.
"Implementing legal provisions in specific cases is not only to solve the specific problems of a private enterprise and an entrepreneur, but also to let the majority of private enterprises and entrepreneurs take the 'reassurance pill' of the rule of law," said Li Chao (李超), a spokesperson for the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
——Safeguard production and operation with standardized law enforcement.
"After the company was administratively punished, I was very worried, fearing that it would bring pressure to the operation," said Mr. Huang (黄先生), the operations director of an advertising company in Chaoyang District (朝阳区), Beijing (北京市). Not long ago, due to personnel handover omissions, the company failed to promptly discover that the advertiser had illegally and privately changed the landing page content, misleading consumers, and was filed for investigation.
"We found in the verification that this company was a first-time violation and took the initiative to rectify after discovering the problem," said Ren Jiao (任娇), a staff member of the Advertising Section of the Chaoyang District Market Supervision Bureau (朝阳区市场监管局). Therefore, according to the recently released "List of Service-Oriented Law Enforcement Matters in the Market Supervision Field of Chaoyang District, Beijing" (北京市朝阳区市场监管领域服务型执法事项清单), in accordance with 10% of the minimum fine amount, it was given a reduced penalty in accordance with the law, and the final fine was 30,000 yuan.
Standardized and benevolent administrative law enforcement reflects the temperature of the rule of law. In recent years, administrative organs at all levels have comprehensively promoted strict, standardized, fair and civilized law enforcement, greatly reduced inspection items, and resolutely put an end to "arbitrary charges, arbitrary fines, and arbitrary inspections." In 2025, the total number of administrative inspections involving enterprises nationwide decreased by 34% year-on-year, while the proportion of problems found increased by 18.5 percentage points, and 6,431 cases of illegal and improper administrative law enforcement were corrected in a timely manner.
——Help enterprises "start again" with credit repair.
Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏) Chemical Technology Co., Ltd. (某化工科技有限公司) was once punished by the Wuxue (武穴) Market Supervision Department (武穴市市场监管部门) in Hubei (湖北) for being across provinces, and urgently needed credit repair to apply for a loan. After learning of the company's difficulties, the Wuxue Market Supervision Bureau (武穴市市场监管局) quickly launched the "Credit Repair Direct Train," and completed the entire process in only 1 working day through remote guidance by dedicated personnel and cross-provincial online joint review, realizing "zero trips for applications and cross-provincial communication for repairs."
Carrying out credit repair can help enterprises unload their burdens and start lightly, and revitalize under the sunshine of the rule of law. The State Administration for Market Regulation (市场监管总局) vigorously promotes the efficient handling of credit repair "one thing." As of the end of March this year, it has cumulatively repaired the credit of 47.9224 million business entities.
The environment is more optimized——
The vitality of the private economy continues to burst forth
To promote the healthy and high-quality development of the private economy, we must rely on the rigid guarantee of the law and the continuous efforts of policies.
Visit the door to ask for advice and open up the "direct train" for responding to demands.
In Jianye High-tech Zone (建邺高新区), Nanjing (南京), Jiangsu (江苏), a group of special "personal housekeepers" are active in every key building - "Xiao Mo" service commissioners ("小莫"服务专员). Their slogan is simple and direct: "If you have a problem, find Xiao Mo!"
In early 2026, Jiangsu Boshida Law Firm (江苏博事达律所) reflected to Zhang Yu (张雨), a "Xiao Mo" service commissioner, that the law firm lacked a communication platform. She thoughtfully planned a "Mo Mo Afternoon Tea" for legal and commercial services to help companies expand resources.
This is just a microcosm. Across the country, face-to-face communication and exchanges are building a "bridge of hearts" between government departments and private enterprises.
There is a mechanism for communication. The national, provincial, municipal, and county levels have established a normalized communication and exchange and problem-solving mechanism with private enterprises.
There is a platform for help. The comprehensive service platform for the development of the private economy is online, including "Direct Access to Enterprise-Benefiting Policies," "Demands and Suggestions," and "Private Investment Development."
Create an ecology and promote the upgrading of enterprise capabilities.
Dive 3,000 meters under the sea, and the operating accuracy reaches the centimeter level. In Guangdong (广东), a deep-sea cable operation robot named "Phoenix 600" ("凤凰座600") won a 100 million yuan order in a global tender.
This hardcore equipment, which is 6 meters long and weighs 12 tons, has a localization rate of up to 90% for its core components. It was created by a company that was established only 3 years ago - Deep Sea Zhiren (Guangzhou) Technology Co., Ltd. (深海智人（广州）技术有限公司).
"The company can develop so quickly thanks to the all-round support of government departments from investment funds to talent recruitment assistance, and then to industrial positioning planning," said Ma Yiming (马亦鸣), the founder of the company. In particular, the deep-sea resource commercialization development system created by the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Application Scenario Innovation Center (粤港澳大湾区应用场景创新中心) allows companies to conduct tests in real sea areas, which greatly shortens the technology iteration cycle.
Shanghai (上海) is building a one-stop service platform for enterprises to go overseas, Guangdong (广东) is systematically building a five-level classification and cultivation system for key enterprises, and Hunan (湖南) is carrying out the "Enterprise Service Year" campaign... Various regions and departments are actively taking action to vigorously improve the service system, making private enterprise development more secure and comfortable.
The rule of law escorts, and private enterprises set sail. Over the past year, the vitality of the private economy has continued to be stimulated.
Larger scale. As of the end of April this year, there were 61.022 million registered private enterprises nationwide, an increase of 5.6% year-on-year.
Better development. In the first quarter of this year, private industrial enterprises above designated size achieved a total profit of 430.53 billion yuan, an increase of 25.4% year-on-year, significantly leading other types of enterprises.
Higher quality. Among the 61.022 million private enterprises nationwide, there are 24.619 million "four new" private enterprises with new technologies, new industries, new formats, and new models, accounting for 40.3% of the total number of private enterprises.
The rule of law is the best business environment. Looking forward to the future, on the broad stage of healthy and high-quality development, the vast number of private enterprises will surely **乘风破浪** (chéng fēng pò làng - "ride the wind and waves," to be ambitious and make progress) and **行稳致远** (xíng wěn zhì yuǎn - "travel steadily to go far," to proceed surely and steadily to achieve long-term goals), injecting a constant stream of surging power into the giant ship of the Chinese economy.
(Reporters Cheng Yuanzhou (程远州), Wang Pei (王沛), You Yi (游仪), Shi Yu (施钰), and Bai Guangdi (白光迪) participated in the writing of this report)
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In the summer season, the fields are filled with green waves. In a farmhouse courtyard in Yongfeng Village (永丰村), Dongpo District (东坡区), Meishan City (眉山市), Sichuan Province (四川省), a class on financial knowledge and preventing financial fraud is being taught.
The more than 40 "students" below the stage are all elderly people from the village. "They listen attentively and ask questions from time to time. The 'University in a Small Village' project has brought tangible help to the elderly," said Jing Zhizhong (景治中), a teacher from the School of Economics and Management at Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院) who is giving the lecture.
In September of last year, the "University in a Small Village" elderly education project was implemented in Yongfeng Village (永丰村). The project introduced teaching resources from Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院), with the town and village levels ensuring venues, and moved the classroom to the fields.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to expand the supply of elderly education resources, develop universities for the elderly, and meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the elderly. In 2023, the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学) was officially established and has now set up 82,000 grassroots learning points in various regions, gradually forming a three-dimensional, grid-based school service network. The National Elderly Education Public Service Platform (全国老年教育公共服务平台) has gathered 793,000 age-appropriate free course resources, totaling 7,295,000 minutes, and the number of registered users has exceeded 12.37 million. What new changes have taken place in the operating forms and teaching content of the "Silver Age Classroom"? What new expectations do people have for the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学)?
More Flexible Models, Classrooms Enter the Fields
In previous years, the distance between urban and rural areas was an obstacle for the elderly in Yongfeng Village (永丰村) to pursue new knowledge. Villager Zhang Sutao (章素桃) loves singing and dancing. She heard that an elderly university had been established in the city and excitedly wanted to go, but eventually gave up. "It's 10 kilometers from the village to the city, and it's quite tiring to travel back and forth often," said Zhang Sutao (章素桃).
"Can we change the fixed school model and run the elderly university in the village?" After visiting and researching, Wang Yulong (王玉龙), the head of the Elderly University of Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院), had this idea.
Equipped with teaching tools, using the fields as classrooms, teachers from Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院) taught Tai Chi on the ridges and organized tie-dyeing experience courses, and the elderly rushed to sign up. The village history museum and village library were used as classrooms, and courses such as traditional Chinese medicine diet and health care, and red film and television were also very popular.
"Not only do we study in the village, but we also come to the university campus as students," said Zhang Sutao (章素桃). Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院) is open to the Elderly University, and courses such as calligraphy, painting, baking, and tea art that require professional venues are carried out on campus, with students being picked up and dropped off by the school. The teaching space has been renovated to be age-appropriate, equipped with barrier-free facilities and first-aid equipment.
"Delivering education to the door combined with on-campus teaching, the flexible teaching model helps to optimize the allocation of urban and rural elderly education resources," said Tang Lin (唐琳), head of community education at Meishan Open University (眉山开放大学). "Universities have abundant resources and can meet the diverse learning needs of the elderly."
"In the past, we learned whatever was available, but now it's 'learn whatever you want to learn'," said Wang Yulong (王玉龙). Each secondary school of Sichuan Technology and Business University (四川工商学院) develops characteristic courses, and all teachers can contribute knowledge to the Elderly University. In addition to the fixed timetable, as long as more than 10 elderly people make a request, the school will develop new courses, which can be opened in as little as a month.
The rural elderly education path of "university empowerment, social collaboration, and delivering education to the home" is becoming more mature. In the past year or so, Meishan (眉山) has added 5 elderly education teaching points and 300 new degree places. "We will further increase the supply of elderly education degrees, encourage more colleges and universities to participate, and build a multi-level, age-appropriate lifelong education system," said Tang Lin (唐琳).
Running Schools with Warmth, Imparting Knowledge and Providing Services
"How to achieve a high-quality elderly life? The most important thing is to pay attention to your health." In Changchun City (长春市), Jilin Province (吉林省), in the classroom of Changchun Open University (长春开放大学) (Changchun Branch of the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学长春分部)), Wang Yuehui (王越晖), director of the Department of Geriatrics at the First Hospital of Jilin University (吉林大学第一医院), is sharing health knowledge.
Xu Guiyun (徐桂云), a 63-year-old student, listened attentively and took photos with her mobile phone from time to time to record. "The teacher led us to understand the three major chronic diseases that are common in the elderly: hypertension, diabetes, and coronary heart disease, and also gave personalized dietary, exercise, and nutritional supplement guidance," said Xu Guiyun (徐桂云). "The hospital's experts have become our teachers, and the content of the lectures is professional and practical."
At the end of 2025, Changchun Open University (长春开放大学) (Changchun Branch of the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学长春分部)) and the First Hospital of Jilin University (吉林大学第一医院) jointly established the Active Health College, which attracted many elderly people like Xu Guiyun (徐桂云) to actively participate, listen to offline lectures, and participate in public welfare free clinics, gaining a lot.
"For a long time, most elderly people only go to the hospital when they are sick. 'Active health' is to guide everyone to change their health concepts and actively pay attention to their health," said Wang Yuehui (王越晖). "Elderly universities focus on inclusive education, and hospitals have advantages in professional treatment and popular science. There is broad space for cooperation between the two sides." Meng Shasha (孟沙沙), deputy dean of the Elderly Education College of Changchun Open University (长春开放大学), introduced that the college is exploring how to run a "warm health service platform for the silver-haired group", actively building research and study bases, developing course resources, and has successively created 142 active health courses.
In Wang Yuehui's (王越晖) view, compared with routine grassroots free clinics, the courses of the Active Health College focus on problem-oriented approaches and are more targeted at the elderly. In the course design, Wang Yuehui (王越晖) will pay attention to which aspects of the elderly group consult more, "striving to make the content closely related to the real needs of elderly health."
Ming Xiaohui (明晓辉), president of Changchun Open University (长春开放大学), said that the next step will be to continuously enrich the curriculum system, optimize the service model, and regularly carry out health lectures, public welfare free clinics, and first-aid training activities, conveying the scientific concept of "active health, active exercise, active nutrition, active rescue, and active happiness" to help more elderly people master health skills and gain a happy old age.
Linking "Cloud" Resources, Massive Courses Benefit More Elderly People
After lunch break, Tang Wenjie (唐文杰), a 59-year-old citizen of Jingmen (荆门), Hubei (湖北), opened his computer and logged into the National Elderly Education Public Service Platform (全国老年教育公共服务平台).
"Look, I am an 'active student' on the platform." The lower right corner of the screen shows Tang Wenjie's (唐文杰) study time - more than 220,000 minutes.
More than 3 years ago, Tang Wenjie (唐文杰) heard on the radio that the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学) was established and the National Elderly Education Public Service Platform (全国老年教育公共服务平台) was launched, and immediately signed up online. Since then, studying for a few hours every day has become her habit, and she has listened to more than 100 online courses over the years. "The platform has a wealth of courses, and I have listened to the courses of many famous people; it is convenient to watch and can be replayed at any time; the time is free and flexible, and if I am tired of studying, I can pause and stretch," said Tang Wenjie (唐文杰).
There are many "students" who have similar experiences to Tang Wenjie (唐文杰). "In response to the problems of insufficient supply of offline classrooms and uneven distribution of resources, we focus on promoting the sharing of high-quality digital resources to promote the inclusive development of elderly education," said Fan Xianrui (范贤睿), a member of the Party Committee and Vice President of the National Open University (国家开放大学) (National University for the Aged (国家老年大学)).
What courses can you learn? Entering the platform and clicking on "Course Supermarket", five categories of courses, "Virtue, Learning, Health, and Happiness", come into view. There are not only art courses such as calligraphy and painting, but also practical courses such as the protection of the rights and interests of the elderly, family care, and intergenerational education. "We pay special attention to opening courses that are 'hard to get a seat' offline, so that high-quality courses can benefit more elderly people," said Tian Suxia (田素霞), director of the Teaching Affairs Center of the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学).
The content is constantly enriched, and the form is also innovating. In addition to browsing the massive resources already on the platform, students can also "follow up online" on the new courses each semester. For example, the "Cloud Classroom" series of courses is offered on a semester basis, and students can choose 5 courses each semester, with one lesson updated each week; in the "Happy Learning Live" class, teachers and students can also interact in the live broadcast room.
For elderly students, online learning requires a certain degree of digital literacy. How to make them understand, learn, and use it smoothly? The platform promotes age-appropriate transformation, and the barrier-free mode has functions such as adjusting the font size and screen reading. It has also set up a special area for digital assistance courses and launched a smart learning partner "Little Leaf".
"I have collected the WeChat mini-program of the 'National University for the Aged' (国家老年大学), and I can study by clicking on it; click on the golden 'Little Leaf' on the screen, which looks like a ginkgo leaf, and you can talk to the artificial intelligence assistant and ask it to recommend courses." Chen Mei (陈梅), a student living in Tianjin (天津), is already very familiar with the platform operation, and her study time ranks among the top.
In the process of using it, many elderly students have also put forward new expectations for online learning: "Can we establish a learning community so that everyone can supervise each other's learning?" "I really like a teacher's class, how can I find out about the teacher's other classes?"... These days, Zhang Xiangyu (张翔宇), deputy director of the Resource Platform Center of the National University for the Aged (国家老年大学), is sorting out the suggestions made by students in the questionnaire survey. "We will promote the iteration and upgrading of the platform, enrich the course matrix, and benefit more elderly people from it," said Zhang Xiangyu (张翔宇).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴 君
Walking into the workshop of Hubei Sunshine Textile Co., Ltd. in Makou Town (马口镇), Hanchuan (汉川), Hubei (湖北), the machines are running fast with a roar. After processes such as carding, spinning, and doubling, the fiber raw materials become rolls of white yarn. "The factory has 300 employees and a spinning scale of 50,000 spindles, producing 20 tons of yarn per day," said Wu Zhenhua (吴振华), the person in charge of the company. These yarns flow to downstream enterprises not far away, and after dyeing, drying and other processing, they become sewing threads.
Hanchuan (汉川) is located in the hinterland of the Jianghan Plain (江汉平原). The production scale of the yarn spindle industry reaches more than 3 million spindles. Among them, the output of polyester sewing thread single product processed from yarn spindles accounts for 1/2 of the country.
Hanchuan's (汉川) sewing thread industry started in the 1950s. In order to produce cotton, the then 3509 Factory of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军第3509工厂) (now Jihua 3509 Textile Co., Ltd. (际华三五零九纺织有限公司)) was founded in Hanchuan (汉川), laying the foundation for the sewing thread industry here. After the reform and opening up, China's (中国) garment industry developed rapidly, and a group of veteran employees "went to the sea" to set up factories. Sewing thread companies grew up in Hanchuan (汉川) like mushrooms after a rain.
"At that time, as long as a family bought a few machines and bought raw materials from other places, they could simply process them into sewing threads and make money," said Yu Hongjun (余红军), deputy mayor of Makou Town (马口镇). However, at that time, production was mainly based on family workshops, and all processes relied on manual labor. The thickness of the yarn was uneven, the quality was uneven, it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the profit margin was constantly compressed.
At this time, some neighboring counties and cities began to develop electronic processing and other industries, and the effect was good. Is it transformation or continue to stick to the main business?
"The textile industry adheres to innovation, and old trees can also sprout new branches," said Chen Lei (陈雷), secretary-general of Hanchuan (汉川) Textile Association. In 2022, Hanchuan (汉川) introduced a series of policies to support the transformation and upgrading of the sewing thread industry.
Increase the proportion of technological transformation subsidies, give digital transformation subsidies, establish a textile enterprise service platform and a quality inspection center... With policy encouragement, family workshops have gradually transformed, registered companies, purchased new machines, and built new production lines. "We have invested 120 million yuan before and after, introduced automated production equipment, and built a smart factory, which has increased production capacity by 45%," said Wu Jian'an (吴建安), head of Hubei Mingren Textile Technology Co., Ltd. (湖北名仁纺织科技有限公司).
Up to now, more than 90% of textile enterprises in Hanchuan (汉川) have implemented technological transformation, with a cumulative investment of more than 4 billion yuan, and the product qualification rate has remained stable at more than 98%.
In recent years, technological innovation in the production process has promoted the transformation of the sewing thread industry to upstream expansion.
In the R&D center of Jihua 3509 Textile Co., Ltd. (际华三五零九纺织有限公司), a technological breakthrough in "line" has been made. After half a year of repeated experiments, the company's technical team successfully developed Tencel bamboo fiber yarn fabric and flame-retardant sewing thread products, which not only solved the pain points of traditional thread materials that are flammable and have poor air permeability, but also opened up sales in the international market and became a "hot commodity" in overseas markets.
Innovation promotes development. Hanchuan (汉川) has 28 high-tech enterprises, 527 patents of various types, and R&D investment of more than 800 million yuan. "Hanchuan Sewing Thread" (汉川缝纫线) is the first batch of national key cultivation of 100 brand regional brands of textile and apparel, the first batch of Chinese consumer famous brand regional brands, and the industrial location has won national honors such as "China Sewing Thread Town" (中国制线名镇) and "Three Products" strategic demonstration city of consumer goods industry, and has a number of influential independent brands in the market.
"We are transforming from 'selling products' to 'selling brands'," Chen Lei (陈雷) said that the Textile Association promotes cooperation between enterprises and universities such as Wuhan Textile University (武汉纺织大学) to inject impetus into the long-term development of the industry.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st (Reporter Li Hongmei (李红梅)): A reporter learned from the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) that the Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) recently released this year's first "National Summer Harvest and Planting Meteorological Service Special Report," and the 2026 National Summer Harvest and Planting Meteorological Service officially launched.
The Central Meteorological Observatory (中央气象台) predicts that rainfall in summer grain producing areas will be higher than usual in late May. Before the 26th, there will be frequent rainfall in southern Jianghan, Jianghuai to northern Jiangnan, and the soil will be excessively wet for a long time, which is not conducive to harvesting and drying, and the risk of continuous rain during rapeseed harvesting is high. In early and mid-June, precipitation in eastern North China, most of Huanghuai, and northeastern Hubei (湖北) will be close to normal or slightly less, while southeastern Henan (河南), most of Anhui (安徽), and central and eastern Hubei (湖北) will be 20% to 50% less, which is generally favorable for the concentrated mechanized harvesting and drying of winter wheat.
This year, the China Meteorological Administration (中国气象局) will continue to work with the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (农业农村部) to provide meteorological services for agricultural machinery operations, and provide weather reports for key summer grain mechanized harvesting provinces for the coming week. The National Meteorological Center (国家气象中心) will optimize and improve agricultural meteorological disaster monitoring and forecasting products, and release the "National Summer Harvest and Planting Meteorological Service Special Report" twice a week to carry out refined meteorological services.
Return to TopOn May 21st, workers were working intensely at the construction site of the Grand Canal Special Bridge on Yunfan Avenue in Suqian City (宿迁市), Jiangsu Province (江苏省). The Grand Canal Special Bridge on Yunfan Avenue is a key project of the National Highway 235, and is expected to be completed and open to traffic by the end of 2026.
Photo by Lu Qihui (陆启辉) (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper Chongqing (重庆) May 21st dispatch (Reporter Liu Xinwu (刘新吾)) The 8th China Western International Investment and Trade Fair opened in Chongqing (重庆) on the 21st. The theme of this Western China Fair is "New West, New Manufacturing, New Services," inviting the United Kingdom as the guest of honor country, Sichuan Province (四川省) as the permanent guest of honor province, and Gyeonggi Province (京畿道), South Korea as the guest of honor city. Nearly 1,400 enterprises from 50 countries and regions are participating in the exhibition.
The Western China Fair has set up four major theme exhibition areas: comprehensive image, productive service industry, industrial integration and development, and international and regional cooperation. Nearly 40 activities will be held, including the opening ceremony, keynote forum, industrial matchmaking, and economic and trade negotiations. At the same time, focusing on the transformation of western industries, the development of the digital economy, and regional collaborative innovation, an efficient platform for government-enterprise docking, university-enterprise linkage, and supply-demand matching will be built, cumulatively promoting the signing of 212 projects.
This year's Western China Fair also released the "Investment Chongqing (重庆) Opportunity List" for the first time, covering 277 high-quality projects in five major areas: advanced manufacturing, technological innovation, smart economy, channel hubs, and urban construction, with a total investment of 580 billion yuan, drawing a clear "industrial investment map" for domestic and foreign companies to invest and layout in Chongqing (重庆).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Shijiazhuang (石家庄) dispatch on May 21st (Reporter: Ma Chen (马晨)) - This reporter learned from a series of thematic press conferences on the coordinated development of Beijing (北京), Tianjin (天津), and Hebei (河北) held by the Information Office of the Hebei Provincial Government that since 2025, the integrated transportation of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei has continued to expand in depth. The main structure and equipment installation of the Hebei section of the Xiong'an New Area (雄安新区) to Daxing Airport (大兴机场) Express Line have been completed. The Beijing section is currently in the final stage of tunnel construction and is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in the second half of this year.
The Xiong'an New Area to Daxing Airport Express Line is 86.3 kilometers long, starting from the urban terminal in the starting area of Xiong'an New Area, passing through Langfang City (廊坊市) and connecting to Beijing Daxing International Airport (北京大兴国际机场), connecting and operating through the existing Beijing Daxing Airport Line. The line reserves conditions for future access to the airport's South Terminal. After completion and operation, it will realize a half-hour direct access from Xiong'an New Area to Beijing Daxing International Airport and a one-hour access to Beijing Lize Business District (北京丽泽商务区).
The external road network of Xiong'an New Area has been densely optimized. The main structure of the second phase of the Beijing-Xiong Expressway (京雄高速) has been completed, and the S524 Xiong'an New Area to Baoding (保定) Highway has been completed and opened to traffic, further improving the external transportation network of Xiong'an New Area and enhancing its comprehensive carrying capacity. The customized commuter express bus routes have been expanded, with the Beijing-Xiong commuter customized express bus routes reaching 4, and the cumulative number of passengers transported exceeding 10,000.
This year, Hebei will continue to improve the external backbone road network of Xiong'an New Area, accelerate the construction of 2 projects including the Langzhuo Expressway (廊涿高速) reconstruction and expansion and the G228 Cangzhou (沧州) section of the national highway, start the construction of 6 projects including the second phase of the Tanglang Expressway (唐廊高速), and promote the preliminary work of 2 projects including the reconstruction and expansion of the Beijing-Shanghai (京沪) and Beijing-Taiwan (京台) Expressways; collaborate with Beijing and Tianjin to carry out digital transformation and upgrading of highway infrastructure on the Beijing-Harbin Expressway (京哈高速) and other highways; deepen the application of big data, and build a more efficient and comfortable commuter customized express bus service network; and make every effort to prepare for the opening and operation of projects such as the Beijing-Xiong Express Line and Beijing Subway Line 22, and continue to expand the coverage of the 1-hour commute circle.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanning (南宁) on May 21st (Reporter Pang Ge Ping (庞革平)) The international cooperation pilot program in the data field in Nanning (南宁) City, Guangxi (广西), was officially launched recently, making it one of the first pilot cities for international cooperation in the data field in the country. Guangxi (广西) will focus on the core needs of data circulation, computing power collaboration, and industrial empowerment between China and ASEAN, and build a highland for data opening and cooperation facing the ASEAN region.
In terms of data infrastructure construction, Guangxi (广西) will significantly reduce the latency of data transmission to ASEAN and build cross-border computing power service zones and other data cross-border flow service infrastructure facing ASEAN.
In terms of cross-border service ecosystem construction, Guangxi (广西) will focus on promoting mutual recognition of data governance rules between China and ASEAN, building a China-ASEAN data transaction service network, building a one-stop cross-border compliance service platform, and providing integrated services such as data export assessment, security audit, and compliance certification.
In terms of cultivating digital cooperation scenarios, Guangxi (广西) will build a cross-border industrial ecosystem of "R&D in Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), and Guangzhou (广州) + integration in Guangxi (广西) + application in ASEAN"; deeply cultivate key areas such as smart transportation, cross-border trade, and digital content going overseas, and cultivate a number of "small but beautiful" benchmark projects.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 黄 超
"Parents, let's exercise together!" At the Shandong Normal University (山东师范大学) playground, more than 50 children participating in the "Sunshine Youth" weight management program at the affiliated elementary school are skipping rope and playing hopscotch. Parents put down their phones and join their children, enjoying the fun of exercise.
In response to the current situation of "little fatty" and "little glasses" among teenagers, the Shandong Provincial Department of Education (山东省教育厅) adheres to the educational philosophy of "health first," relying on the professional advantages of the psychology discipline at Shandong Normal University (山东师范大学) to construct a "1456" provincial student mental health work model and create the "Guardian Growth" work brand.
Zhang Wenxin (张文新), director of the Shandong Provincial Student Mental Health Development Center (山东省学生心理健康发展中心), introduced that "1" is to implement the "health first" concept; "4" is to construct four systems: curriculum, practice, monitoring, and discipline; "5" is to weave a five-level "Guardian Growth" service station network at the provincial, municipal, county, school, and family levels; and "6" is to achieve six-party联动 (lián dòng - "linkage," coordinated action) among schools and off-campus entities, primary and secondary schools, local universities, multiple disciplines, families and schools, and online and offline resources to safeguard the healthy growth of students.
To enhance students' "psychological resilience," how can relevant teaching designs be integrated into physical education courses at different academic levels? In elementary school rope skipping classes, students frequently "get their ropes caught." Timely guidance is provided to "try again immediately after failure." In junior high school, cross-country running of about 1500 meters involves not sprinting too fast at the beginning, experiencing a "limit point" in the middle, and then sprinting at the end, which is similar to the process of learning cultural subjects. In the outdoor orienteering of the university stage, students are guided to find their way forward through环节 (huán jié - "links," specific steps) such as "getting lost" and "making choices."
Moreover, relying on the 366 "Guardian Growth" mental health service stations in Shandong Province (山东省), Shandong Normal University (山东师范大学) is carrying out an escort action involving ten thousand college students entering schools, villages, communities, and families. "Our exploration and practice are entering a stage of joint construction, collaborative innovation, and deep engagement at the grassroots level," said Wang Zhigang (王志刚), chief supervisor of the Shandong Provincial Department of Education (山东省教育厅).
When the body moves, the mood brightens. "In the past, my child often clamored to play on the phone on weekends. Now, the school encourages parent-child exercise, and I have also signed up for yoga classes. I feel like I have become younger," said Ms. Liu (刘女士), a parent of a third-grade student at the affiliated elementary school of Shandong Normal University (山东师大附小).
In addition, Shandong Province (山东省) extends "Guardian Growth" to after-school hours through hotlines such as 12355, designs APPs, develops large models for mental health verticals, and creates "intimate assistants" that are always online.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 魏哲哲
Can a person who has provided more support to the deceased than the heirs receive a share of the inheritance? How should the inheritance share of a missing heir be handled? What are the legal consequences of falsely renouncing inheritance? … May this year is the sixth "Civil Code Publicity Month." On the 21st, the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) released five typical cases of the Civil Code's estate administrator system, focusing on the key, difficult, and bottleneck issues of the estate administrator system in judicial practice, while also safeguarding the legitimate rights and interests of heirs, legatees, and creditors, and solving the problem of debt repayment after the death of the deceased.
Heirs May Not Possess and Dispose of the Estate While Renouncing Inheritance
If a debtor dies and the heir renounces inheritance, can the loan still be recovered? In a case released by the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院), Hua Company (华某公司) and Ma (马某) encountered such a problem.
Hua Company (华某公司) and Ma (马某) had lent 100,000 yuan to Yang Moujun (杨某君). After Yang Moujun (杨某君) passed away, Hua Company (华某公司) and Ma (马某), in order to recover the debt, sued the heirs in court, demanding that Yang Moujun's (杨某君) father, Yang (杨某), mother, Zhang (张某), and daughter, Cheng (程某), repay the loan.
However, all three heirs stated in writing that they renounced all of Yang Moujun's (杨某君) estate. Therefore, Hua Company's (华某公司) and Ma's (马某) claims were not supported. After the judgment, Yang (杨某) received Yang Moujun's (杨某君) estate. Subsequently, Hua Company (华某公司) and Ma (马某) appealed and separately applied to designate a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau as the estate administrator of Yang Moujun (杨某君).
After mediation by the court, the three heirs reached a mediation agreement with Hua Company (华某公司) and Ma (马某), promising to repay the principal of the loan and corresponding interest and attorney fees within the scope of the estate, and had already repaid 50,000 yuan.
How does the law evaluate the behavior of an heir who renounces inheritance but then possesses the estate?
The Civil Code stipulates that "if there are no heirs or all heirs renounce inheritance, the civil affairs department or village committee at the place of residence of the deceased before death shall serve as the estate administrator." This system aims to avoid the "failure" of estate management and should not become a "tool" for heirs to evade responsibility.
"Although the three heirs stated in writing that they renounced inheritance, they actually received and disposed of Yang Moujun's (杨某君) estate. Their behavior is completely contrary to the written statement of renouncing inheritance, indicating that they did not actually renounce inheritance. Therefore, they should bear corresponding obligations, and the creditor should directly file a lawsuit against the heirs as defendants to realize their rights in accordance with the law and in a timely manner." The trial court held that the case did not meet the statutory conditions for the Civil Affairs Bureau to serve as the estate administrator, preventing the heirs from using legal procedures to **两头占** (liǎng tóu zhàn - "occupy both ends," to gain advantages from both sides).
"Good faith is a fundamental principle of the Civil Code and an important part of the core socialist values. This case provides clear behavioral guidance for the public by negatively evaluating behaviors that violate the principle of good faith, such as heirs 'falsely renouncing inheritance and genuinely evading debt.'" said the relevant person in charge of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院).
Those Who Provide More Assistance to the Deceased Than the Heirs May Receive an Appropriate Share of the Estate
If you are not an heir but have provided more assistance to the deceased, can you receive a share of the estate?
In one case, Ge Jia (葛甲) and Li (黎某), as the deceased Ge Yi's (葛乙) cousins, are not within the scope of statutory heirs. However, since June 2019, the two have often visited Ge Yi (葛乙), who lived alone, and provided care and medical treatment when he had epileptic seizures. After Ge Yi's (葛乙) death, they handled the funeral and tomb sweeping.
Ge Yi (葛乙) did not make a will during his lifetime and had no heirs. Ge Jia (葛甲) and Li (黎某) believed that they had provided more support to Ge Yi (葛乙) and should receive a share of the estate. Therefore, the two filed a lawsuit against a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau at Ge Yi's (葛乙) place of residence before death, demanding a share of the entire estate.
Why is the Civil Affairs Bureau the defendant? According to the Civil Code, if there are no heirs or all heirs renounce inheritance, the civil affairs department or village committee at the place of residence of the deceased before death shall serve as the estate administrator. The trial court stated that both parties had no dispute that a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau legally served as Ge Yi's (葛乙) estate administrator. In this case, after clarification, the judgment designating the estate administrator can be listed together in the judgment of the inheritance dispute case, without requiring the parties to file a separate special procedure for applying for the designation of the estate administrator, reducing the litigation burden on the parties.
Can the two inherit the entire estate? According to the Civil Code, "those who provide more support to the deceased than the heirs may be given an appropriate share of the estate."
"The two are not legally obligated to support Ge Yi (葛乙), but voluntarily provided assistance and care out of kinship and morality, and can be given an appropriate share of the estate in accordance with the law." The trial court held that Ge Jia (葛甲) and Li (黎某) were not Ge Yi's (葛乙) heirs and had no legal obligation to support him. They provided more support and care to Ge Yi (葛乙) during his lifetime, and handled his funeral and offered sacrifices after his death. Considering the time of their support for Ge Yi (葛乙) was about three years, as well as the content, degree, amount of the estate, and other factors, it was determined that Ge Jia (葛甲) and Li (黎某) were not sufficient to receive the entire estate. The court ruled that the two would receive a total of more than 1.3 million yuan in bank deposits and insurance benefits under Ge Yi's (葛乙) name.
What about the rest of Ge Yi's (葛乙) property if he has no heirs or legatees? According to the Civil Code's provisions on the handling of estates with no heirs or legatees, after the judgment takes effect, according to the application of a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau, the rest of Ge Yi's (葛乙) estate, namely the property involved in the case, will be auctioned and sold by the court in accordance with the law, and the proceeds will be turned over to the state for public welfare, managed by the district's Civil Affairs Bureau.
"The trial court ruled that the two would receive an estate commensurate with their support behavior, reflecting the principle of consistency between rights and obligations." The relevant person in charge of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) said that the case also demonstrates the inheritance of traditional virtues and promotes the socialist core values of harmony, justice, the rule of law, and friendship.
The Inheritance Share of a Missing Heir Can Be Managed by the Civil Affairs Department as the Estate Administrator and Deposited in a Special Account by the Notary Office
If the heir is missing, how is the estate administrator determined?
In one case, after the elderly Xu Moufang (许某芳), who lived alone, passed away, her nephew Xu Mouhua (徐某华) applied for the designation of an estate administrator. The court found that Xu Moufang's (许某芳) only heir was her brother Xu Mousen (许某森), who had lived in Hong Kong since 1951 and is now missing.
In order to avoid the risk of damage or loss of the estate, the court referred to Article 1145 of the Civil Code, which stipulates "if there are no heirs or all heirs renounce inheritance," and the civil affairs department or village committee at the place of residence of the deceased before death shall serve as the estate administrator. Therefore, the court ruled to designate a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau as the estate administrator.
How should multiple people claiming to inherit the estate on the grounds of providing more support to the deceased be handled?
Xu Moufang's (许某芳) "god-daughter" Shen Mouhong (沈某红) filed a lawsuit claiming that Xu Moufang (许某芳) had stated during her lifetime that the house under her name would belong to Shen Mouhong (沈某红) after her death, and requested to inherit the house involved in the case. Xu Mouhua (徐某华) objected and submitted a will written on his behalf.
"Shen Mouhong (沈某红) failed to submit sufficient evidence to prove that she provided more support to Xu Moufang (许某芳), so her claim to inherit Xu Moufang's (许某芳) estate was not supported. The will provided by Xu Mouhua (徐某华) does not meet the formal requirements for a will written on his behalf as stipulated in the Civil Code, so the validity of the will was not recognized." After on-site visits and inquiries, the trial court confirmed that the only heir, Xu Mousen (许某森), did not take care of Xu Moufang (许某芳), so he should receive a smaller share of the estate. From 2001 to Xu Moufang's (许某芳) death in 2015, she was always taken care of by Xu Mouhua (徐某华), who also helped with medical treatment, daily life, and funeral arrangements. Xu Mouhua (徐某华) can be given an appropriate share of the estate as a person who provided more support to the deceased than the heirs.
What happens to the inheritance share of a missing heir?
Although the heir is missing, he still has the right to inherit the estate in accordance with the law. While ruling on his inheritance share, it can be determined that the estate administrator is responsible for managing the estate.
Ultimately, the court ruled that Xu Mouhua (徐某华) would inherit the house involved in the case and pay Xu Mousen (许某森) 300,000 yuan as a share of the estate. The share that Xu Mousen (许某森) should inherit was determined to be managed by a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau at Xu Moufang's (许某芳) place of residence before death as the estate administrator, and subsequently deposited by the notary office.
"The judgment in this case, which ruled that Xu Mouhua (徐某华) would inherit the house and pay Xu Mousen (许某森) a portion of the estate, which was handed over to a certain district's Civil Affairs Bureau for management and deposited by the notary office because Xu Mousen (许某森) was missing, solved the inheritance problems such as estate management when the heir is missing." The relevant person in charge of the First Civil Division of the Supreme People's Court (最高人民法院) said that the Civil Affairs Department, as the estate administrator, enhances the quality and credibility of estate processing and provides convenience for the parties while fully utilizing the effectiveness of the estate. The notary office's "one case, one account" special deposit is independent of the interested parties and prevents risks such as the misappropriation of the estate. The Civil Affairs Department and the notary office perform their duties in accordance with the law, building a legal, stable, fair, and transparent estate management framework, which is conducive to ensuring property safety and maintaining social order.
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Walking into Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) in Gonghe Village (共和村), Duma Town (渡马镇), Tianzhu County (天柱县), Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州), Guizhou Province (贵州省), a two-story wooden-tiled house comes into view. This is the Ganxi Dong Village Contract Canteen. The spacious and bright hall, clean and tidy floor, neatly arranged tables and chairs, operating table, cleaning sink, refrigerator, disinfection cabinet, and other facilities are all available.
"A wedding banquet costs 33,000 yuan, and a year's hard work empties your wallet!" In Qiandongnan Prefecture (黔东南州), the trend of extravagance and comparison in weddings and funerals used to be prevalent. The burden caused by excessive banquets and gift-giving under the guise of alcohol made the masses miserable.
In early 2015, after discussion, Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) decided to raise funds to build a canteen, named "Contract Canteen," and agreed through village rules and regulations that all villagers' banquets should be held at the Contract Canteen. Except for weddings and funerals, other banquets are prohibited. This is the first village-level contract canteen in Guizhou Province (贵州省).
The wedding banquet of Yuan Mengmei's (袁孟梅) grandson was held in this canteen. Speaking of her grandson's wedding banquet, Yuan Mengmei (袁孟梅) blurted out a string of numbers: 20 yuan per kilogram of alcohol, 8 yuan per pack of cigarettes, plus nine dishes and one soup, the cost per table was less than 150 yuan.
In the past, when Yuan Mengmei's (袁孟梅) son got married, she had to prepare five or six days in advance, taking care of everything from hiring a chef to cleaning up. Now, according to the regulations of Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨), she only needs to fill out a collective meal application form for the Contract Canteen, submit it to the village for review and approval, pay a 200 yuan management fee, and prepare the ingredients as required. She doesn't have to worry about anything else.
Yang Jianqiang (杨建强), Secretary of the Party Branch of Gonghe Village (共和村), introduced: "The village uniformly manages the food safety, environmental hygiene, and fire safety of the Contract Canteen. It also stipulates the number of banquet days, tables, dishes, cigarettes, alcohol, and gifts, which are all included in the village rules and regulations. Villagers who violate these rules will be directly blacklisted."
In half a day, the banquet ended successfully. Yuan Mengmei (袁孟梅) estimated that the 20-table banquet cost less than 10,000 yuan, saving more than 3,000 yuan on cigarettes and alcohol alone. In Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨), there used to be forty to fifty banquets a year. After the Contract Canteen was built, the number has been sharply reduced to seven or eight, and the village customs and folk customs have greatly improved.
With the Contract Canteen built, new problems followed.
"The canteen that was so hard to build is only used a few times a year. Will it be a waste of resources?" Yang Jianqiang (杨建强) wondered, looking at the two-story wooden house with a total investment of 400,000 yuan. Gonghe Village (共和村) has six villages under its jurisdiction, covering an area of nearly 10 square kilometers. Due to deep valleys and ravines, the villages are far apart, making it inconvenient for the masses to go to the village committee. How can the Contract Canteen, built based on the concept of "joint consultation, joint construction, joint governance, and shared benefits," enrich its functions?
Some time ago, two villagers in Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) had a conflict over the boundary of the mountain forest. Hearing about this, Yang Jianqiang (杨建强) rushed over and, after several parties conducted an on-site investigation, went to the Contract Canteen nearby for mediation. The two parties shook hands and made peace on the spot, in less than two hours.
Taking this as an opportunity, Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) explored and implemented a new governance model of "Contract Canteen +". "We have set up a merit book and a red and black list in the Contract Canteen to promote civilized models and good deeds, expose uncivilized behavior, and at the same time open a moral lecture hall to educate people through things around them," said Yang Jianqiang (杨建强). Since then, three contract canteens have been built in the village, which have been jointly built into village cultural activity rooms, leisure and entertainment rooms, and small lecture halls for popularizing knowledge. This "Contract Canteen +" model has become a bridge for the Party committee and government to connect with the masses. Through "Contract Canteen + Industry" and "Contract Canteen + Tourism," a number of farmhouses, homestays, and specialty products have emerged in Gonghe Village (共和村).
On the square next to the Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) Contract Canteen, a Dong opera attracted onlookers. Tourists watched with great interest, and applause rang out from the crowd from time to time. Near meal time, many tourists went straight to the Contract Canteen to check in and taste Dong village cuisine.
When holding banquets, it is a "restaurant"; when idle, it is a farmhouse. In recent years, Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) introduced capital to renovate and upgrade the Contract Canteen. Yang Guoxian (杨国先), a villager who had been working outside for many years, returned to his hometown and won the operating rights of the Contract Canteen through bidding. In one year, he expanded the Contract Canteen into a tourist reception center and a rural farmhouse. The Party Branch of Gonghe Village (共和村) also seized the opportunity to lead the village to successively improve kung fu experience, water experience, and farming experience, and explore the integration of agriculture and tourism. Last year, Ganxi Dong Village (甘溪侗寨) received more than 10,000 tourists, with tourism revenue exceeding 2 million yuan, and the turnover of the Contract Canteen alone exceeded 600,000 yuan.
Today, the Contract Canteen has become a characteristic brand of Tianzhu County (天柱县) for building a harmonious and beautiful countryside. 105 contract canteens have been established in the county, with a cumulative total of more than 1,800 banquets held, saving an average of more than 10,000 yuan per banquet. "We must expand the connotation of the Contract Canteen, improve its operating methods, and make it a tool for cultivating new trends in rural civilization," said Yang Changyan (杨长燕), Deputy Secretary of the Tianzhu County (天柱县) Party Committee.
At present, the Contract Canteen has been promoted throughout Qiandongnan Prefecture (黔东南州), with more than 300 established. In September 2024, Qiandongnan Prefecture (黔东南州) issued the "Contract Canteen Management Standard" to comprehensively standardize the management model, system construction, types of banquets held, food safety, and application procedures, and promote the orderly development of the Contract Canteen.
Return to TopIn Chaisang District (柴桑区), Jiujiang City (九江市), Jiangxi Province (江西省), there is a small "tidal market."
"In the past, I was always worried about occupying the road and violating regulations when setting up a stall. Now there is a dedicated place, and there is no stall fee. We feel much more at ease selling vegetables," vegetable farmer Xu Baozhen (许宝珍) told reporters.
Once, urban management faced a dilemma: on one hand, there was the need for residents to buy vegetables nearby, and on the other hand, there was the traffic chaos caused by stalls occupying the road. To solve this problem, in recent years, Chaisang District (柴桑区) has innovatively launched the "tidal market." The market is located on a road by the river, and every day from 6:00 am to 8:00 am it is designated as a stall area. After 8:00 am, when the commuting peak begins, the site is completely cleared and restored to a normal traffic road.
To optimize the business environment, management personnel also maintain order on site and flexibly guide the flow of people by adding signs and dynamically adjusting operating areas.
All of the above pictures were taken by Xinhua News Agency reporter Wan Xiang (万象).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部): In recent years, some individuals have illegally cracked the flight control systems of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), removing safety restrictions such as no-fly zones, restricted-fly zones, and flight altitude limits. "Black flight" behavior occurs from time to time, seriously disrupting aerial order and posing potential risks and hidden dangers to public and national security. Public security agencies' cybersecurity departments have consistently maintained a strict crackdown and high-pressure stance on UAV "black flight" behavior, especially hacking activities that illegally crack UAV flight control systems, to comprehensively curb the spread of illegal activities.
Recently, the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) announced 10 typical cases of illegal and criminal activities involving the illegal cracking of UAV flight control systems. In these 10 typical cases, some lawbreakers used technical means to help others crack restrictions such as UAV altitude limits and no-fly zones, or to tamper with the UAV's factory payload parameters, etc., to assist others in carrying out "black flight" and other behaviors, from which they sought illegal profits, bringing risks to public and national security. The personnel involved in the above 10 cases have been subjected to criminal compulsory measures by public security organs in accordance with the law, and the cases are under further investigation.
The relevant person in charge of the Cybersecurity Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部) stated that privately providing UAV owners with services to remove no-fly zones, altitude limits, and other restrictions, and evading safety supervision, is an illegal and criminal act. UAVs with removed altitude limits that intrude into civil aviation routes are prone to collisions, causing serious consequences; UAVs with removed flight area restrictions that fly into no-fly zones such as military management areas may leak state secrets; UAVs with altered factory performance parameters such as payload are extremely prone to loss of control and crashes during flight, which will directly infringe on the lives and property safety of the people. Public security organs will continue to severely crack down on illegal activities such as illegally cracking UAV flight control systems and carrying out "black flight" in accordance with the law.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st that, with the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委) have filed a case for investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Zhang Yaoxue (张尧学), former member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and President of Central South University (中南大学).
The investigation found that Zhang Yaoxue (张尧学) had lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original aspiration and mission, and resisted organizational review. He violated the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定精神) by accepting banquets in violation of regulations. He did not truthfully explain his problems when the organization inquired, and sought benefits for others and accepted money and property in cadre selection and appointment, granting academic titles, and honoring commendations, which fueled unhealthy tendencies and corruption in the academic field. He lost his bottom line of integrity, illegally accepted gifts and gift money. He had no bottom line of discipline and law, alienated public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, wantonly collected money and property, and used his position to seek benefits for others in business operations, promotion, and other aspects, and illegally accepted huge amounts of property.
Zhang Yaoxue (张尧学) seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and life discipline, constituted a serious violation of duty and was suspected of bribery crimes, and after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) he did not restrain himself or stop his actions. The nature of his actions was serious, and the impact was bad, and he should be dealt with seriously. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China" (《中国共产党纪律处分条例》), the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国监察法》), the "Public Officials' Political Disciplinary Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国公职人员政务处分法》) and other relevant regulations, with the approval of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委常委会会议) and reported to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) for approval, it was decided to give Zhang Yaoxue (张尧学) a punishment of expulsion from the Party; the National Supervisory Commission (国家监委) gave him a punishment of dismissal from public office; his illegal gains from violations of discipline and law were confiscated; his suspected criminal problems were transferred to the procuratorial organs for investigation and prosecution in accordance with the law, and the property involved was transferred together.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st that, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission have filed a case for investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Bi Baowen (毕宝文), former member of the Party Group of the Heilongjiang (黑龙江) Provincial Government, former Vice Governor, former Party Secretary and Director of the Provincial Public Security Department.
The investigation found that Bi Baowen (毕宝文) had lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original aspiration and mission, disregarded the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee, and accepted banquets that might have affected the impartial execution of his official duties. He sought benefits for others and accepted money and property in the work of selecting and appointing cadres; he lost his bottom line of integrity, used his power to seek benefits for others, his relatives accepted money and property, he connived at and acquiesced in his relatives using his power or influence to seek personal gain, and he illegally accepted gifts; he illegally issued motor vehicle license plates; he was greedy, corrupt, and violated the law while enforcing it, using his public security powers as a tool for seeking personal gain, using his position to seek benefits for others in case handling and project contracting, and illegally accepting huge amounts of money and property.
Bi Baowen (毕宝文) seriously violated the Party's organizational discipline, integrity discipline, work discipline, and life discipline, constituted a serious violation of duty and was suspected of bribery and using influence to accept bribes, and after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, he did not restrain himself or 不收敛、不收手 (bù shōu liǎn, bù shōu shǒu - "not restrain, not stop," refusing to cease corrupt activities despite warnings), his nature was serious, and his impact was vile, and he should be severely punished. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China," the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China," the "Public Official Political Disciplinary Law of the People's Republic of China" and other relevant regulations, after research by the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and reported to the CPC Central Committee for approval, it was decided to give Bi Baowen (毕宝文) a punishment of expulsion from the Party; to cancel the treatment he enjoyed as stipulated; to confiscate his illegal gains from violations of discipline and law; and to transfer his suspected criminal problems to the procuratorial organs for investigation and prosecution in accordance with the law, and the property involved shall be transferred together.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st. With the approval of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央), the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission (中央纪委国家监委) conducted a case review and investigation into the serious violations of discipline and law by Li Baian (李百安), former member of the Party Committee and Deputy General Manager of China Merchants Group Co., Ltd. (招商局集团有限公司).
The investigation found that Li Baian had lost his ideals and beliefs, abandoned his original aspirations and mission, and resisted organizational review. He violated the spirit of the Eight-Point Regulation of the Central Committee (中央八项规定精神), and accepted banquets and entertainment arrangements in violation of regulations. He sought benefits for others and accepted money and property in employee recruitment and promotion. He lost his bottom line of integrity, accepted gifts and money in violation of regulations, and engaged in power-for-sex transactions. He had no bottom line of discipline and law, transformed the power in the field of engineering construction into a tool for seeking personal gain, engaged in large-scale power-for-money transactions, used his position to seek benefits for others in project contracting and payment settlement, and illegally accepted huge amounts of money and property.
Li Baian seriously violated the Party's political discipline, organizational discipline, integrity discipline, and life discipline, constituted a serious violation of duty and was suspected of bribery crimes, and after the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (党的十八大) he did not restrain himself or stop his actions, 不收敛、不收手 (bù shōu liǎn、bù shōu shǒu - "not restrain, not stop," to continue misbehaving despite warnings), his nature was serious, and the impact was bad, and he should be severely dealt with. In accordance with the "Regulations on Disciplinary Sanctions of the Communist Party of China" (《中国共产党纪律处分条例》), the "Supervision Law of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国监察法》), the "Law on Administrative Disciplinary Actions for Public Officials of the People's Republic of China" (《中华人民共和国公职人员政务处分法》) and other relevant regulations, with the approval of the Standing Committee of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (中央纪委常委会会议) and reported to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央) for approval, it was decided to give Li Baian a punishment of expulsion from the Party; cancel the treatment he enjoyed as stipulated; confiscate his illegal gains from violations of discipline and law; and transfer his suspected crimes to the procuratorial organs for investigation and prosecution in accordance with the law, and transfer the property involved along with him.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Establishing and practicing a correct view of performance is decisively determined by Party spirit." This important assertion profoundly reveals the inherent relationship between Party spirit and the view of performance from the height of the law of Marxist party building, and clarifies the core position and key role of Party spirit in the formation of a correct view of performance. A deep understanding of the scientific connotation of this important assertion will help Party members and cadres deeply grasp the fundamental position, value orientation, and inherent requirements of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, which is of great and far-reaching significance for Party members and cadres to strive for the "15th Five-Year Plan" with a full spirit, excellent work style, and scientific working methods.
The decisive role of Party spirit in the view of performance is a manifestation of the unique advantages of a Marxist party.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The strong Party spirit of Chinese Communists is an important guarantee for our Party to maintain its advanced nature and purity and improve its leadership and governance capabilities." As the spiritual gene of a Marxist party, Party spirit plays a systematic function of internal dominance and directional leadership in the entire process of establishing, practicing, and testing the correct view of performance, and constitutes the decisive factor in the correct view of performance.
A strong and pure Party spirit is the unique spiritual gene of a Marxist party. Marxist classical writers revealed the scientific connotation of Party spirit from the height of the essence of the party. Marx and Engels clearly pointed out in the "Communist Manifesto" that Communists "have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole," and "do not set up any sectarian principles of their own, by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement." This establishes the fundamental position that the Party has no special interests other than the interests of the people. Chinese Communists have developed the Marxist theory of Party spirit to a new level. Comrade Mao Zedong (毛泽东) pointed out at the Seventh National Congress of the Party: "Party spirit is a common nature, a universal nature, a nature that everyone in the Party has," "consistent action, consistent opinions, collectivism, is Party spirit," clarifying the connotation of Party spirit from both the overall organization and individual Party members. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly pointed out: "Party spirit is ultimately a matter of position," "Party spirit is the cornerstone for Party members and cadres to establish themselves, their careers, their words, and their morality," and "the most fundamental thing about talking about politics is to talk about Party spirit." These important discourses have elevated Party spirit to the height of the Party's long-term governance and the foundation of the political life of Party members and cadres, providing fundamental guidelines for Party members and cadres in the new era to strengthen Party spirit cultivation and establish a firm and correct view of performance.
In summary, Party spirit contains two inseparable levels: for a Marxist party, Party spirit is the concentrated embodiment of the nature of the vanguard of the working class and the Party's fundamental purpose, and is the fundamental symbol that distinguishes it from bourgeois parties and all other political organizations; for individual Party members, Party spirit is a conscious identification and lifelong adherence to the Party's nature, purpose, and mission, an absolute loyalty and obedience to the organization, and a political character that cannot be shaken under any circumstances. The specific manifestations of Party spirit are not immutable, but are constantly enriched and developed with the development of the times and the changes in the Party's tasks. In the years of revolutionary war, Party spirit was mainly manifested in the fearless sacrifice and heroic struggle for national independence and people's liberation; in the period of peaceful construction, Party spirit was more embodied in the hard work and pioneering innovation for national prosperity and people's happiness. Today, the strength of Party spirit of Party members and cadres is mainly measured by the following points: first, whether the political position is firm and whether they can always maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee; second, whether the awareness of the purpose is firm and whether they can put the interests of the people first; third, whether the work attitude is correct and whether they can seek truth from facts and be responsible; fourth, whether the integrity and self-discipline are strict and whether they can stick to the bottom line and not touch the red line.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "for leading cadres, Party spirit is the greatest virtue," profoundly revealing the political and moral connotation of Party spirit. To achieve a strong Party spirit, Party members and cadres are required to transcend personal utilitarian calculations, establish a self-restraint mechanism through internalizing value identity, and fulfill their mission and responsibility to the Party, the people, and the country. The Party spirit of Chinese Communists is essentially different from "party identification" in Western political science: party affiliation in the Western context is mainly a preference for electoral behavior based on instrumental rationality and interest calculation, serving the short-term game of specific groups, subject to the short-termism of the election cycle, and has narrowness, utilitarianism, and term limitations. The Party spirit of Chinese Communists requires Party members to have distinctive mission-oriented characteristics and lofty value pursuits, possess excellent qualities such as selflessness, pragmatism, and responsibility, and realize personal value in serving the broadest masses of the people. Therefore, a strong and pure Party spirit is the spiritual gene of the Communist Party of China and its unique contribution to human political civilization.
As the core component of the subjective world of Party members and cadres, Party spirit is the internal cause affecting the view of performance. The Party spirit of a Marxist party determines that the achievements of Party members and cadres can only be achievements created for the people, not capital accumulated for personal promotion. Party spirit determines the value pursuit and behavioral orientation of Party members and cadres, and value identity has a more fundamental dominant position and more lasting binding force because it is deeply rooted in the subjective world. Among the many factors that affect the view of performance, such as subjective motivation, ability and quality, institutional norms, assessment mechanisms, and the external environment, Party spirit, as the core component of the subjective world, is the dominant independent variable; other factors, especially external causes, can only play a role through internal causes. A strong Party spirit means that the direction is correct, the position is stable, and the behavior is upright; a weak Party spirit means that the understanding is biased, the actions are crooked, and the bottom line is lost. This internal-to-external dominance has an immutable characteristic. From ideological understanding to practical action, from the establishment and practice of the view of performance to the acceptance of inspection, Party spirit always plays a fundamental role in establishing coordinates, grasping direction, and building a solid foundation, and is the value main line running through the entire process of performance creation.
Ensuring that Party members and cadres establish and practice a correct view of performance through tempering Party spirit is an important part of the Party's self-revolution. The Party spirit cultivation of Chinese Communists ensures that Party members and cadres make decisions that conform to the fundamental interests of the people by internalizing value identity. The Party spirit cultivation internalized in the heart can realize uninterrupted self-restraint and self-supervision. This is a huge advantage of our Party compared with other political parties, and it is also an effective guarantee for our Party's long-term governance.
Party spirit determines the connotation and embodiment of the view of performance.
Party spirit is not an abstract political concept, but is embodied in the following interconnected core elements: firm ideals and beliefs, correct public and private concepts, scientific ideological line, responsible practical character, strict discipline awareness, and pragmatic work style. These elements determine whether a correct view of performance can be established and practiced, and whether the performance can stand the test of practice, the people, and history, from the aspects of political direction, people's position, cognitive methods, practical actions, disciplinary boundaries, and style forms.
Ideals and beliefs, as the political soul of Party members and cadres, fundamentally lead the direction of performance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Faith in Marxism and belief in socialism and communism are the political soul of Communists and the spiritual pillar for Communists to withstand any test." Ideals and beliefs are the core of Party spirit cultivation, dominate the value orientation and practical direction of the view of performance, and fundamentally determine how Party members and cadres understand performance, what kind of performance they pursue, and how to create performance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Ideals and beliefs are the 'calcium' in the spirit of Communists. If Communists do not have ideals and beliefs, they will be 'calcium deficient' in their spirit and will suffer from 'osteomalacia'." Once ideals and beliefs are shaken, Party members and cadres are very likely to lose the baseline for judging public and private, lose the defense against temptation, and alienate public power into a tool for seeking personal gain, and the view of performance will inevitably be distorted. Only by firmly guarding the political soul of ideals and beliefs can we fundamentally ensure that the direction is not deviated and the original intention is not changed, so as to establish and practice a correct view of performance. The reason why ideals and beliefs can determine the correct view of performance is specifically reflected in the following aspects:
First, ideals and beliefs strengthen the sense of mission and responsibility. Today, to measure whether a cadre's ideals and beliefs are firm, we must see whether he can adhere to the fundamental purpose of serving the people wholeheartedly, and whether he can adhere to the original aspiration and mission of seeking happiness for the Chinese people and rejuvenation for the Chinese nation. If ideals and beliefs are firm, we will always put the interests of the people first, create performance for the purpose of meeting the needs of the masses and increasing the well-being of the people, and take the initiative to take responsibility and overcome difficulties when encountering reform problems, development bottlenecks, and people's livelihood difficulties, and strive and fight for the realization of ideals and beliefs.
Second, ideals and beliefs provide spiritual support. Ideals and beliefs are the internal determination for Party members and cadres to cope with risks and challenges. In the face of various tests and temptations of interests under the conditions of a market economy, only by building a spiritual defense line with ideals and beliefs can we maintain political sobriety in doing business and starting a business, and not act blindly and recklessly for the sake of personal fame or temporary gain.
Third, ideals and beliefs shape the overall situation awareness. With firm ideals and beliefs, Party members and cadres "have a higher position, a broader vision, and a more open mind," and can plan the development of a department or a place in the strategic overall situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and the overall situation of the development of the Party and the country, truly understand what the Party Central Committee is concerned about and emphasizing, and deeply understand what is the most important interest of the Party and the country and what is the position that needs to be firmly maintained, so as to consciously jump out of the trap of utilitarianism and avoid falling into the narrow pattern of considering problems only from the perspective of departmental interests and local interests. Ideals and beliefs fundamentally stipulate the political attributes of performance, ensuring that the exercise of power always serves the interests of the Party and the people rather than personal will.
The correct concept of public and private, as the value core of Party spirit, fundamentally determines the position of the view of performance. If ideals and beliefs solve the direction problem of the view of performance, then the concept of public and private solves the position problem of the view of performance - whether to strive for the cause of the Party and the people and create performance for the people, or to seek personal gain and create performance for individuals. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The fundamental yardstick for measuring the strength of Party spirit is the word 'public' and 'private'." This important assertion establishes a fundamental value criterion for the view of performance. In our country, all state power belongs to the people, and cadres at all levels are entrusted by the people to exercise state power on behalf of the people. The strength of Party spirit directly determines whether cadres can always take the increase of the people's interests as the fundamental purpose of creating performance, rather than regarding the power given by the Party and the people as the private property of individuals or small groups.
A strong Party spirit requires the establishment of a fundamental understanding that power belongs to the public. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Our power is given by the Party and the people, and it is used to do things for the Party and the people. It belongs to the public, not to the private, and can only be used to share worries for the Party, do things for the country, and seek benefits for the people. We must exercise power correctly, use power according to law, use power impartially, and use power honestly, and ensure that statutory powers must be exercised and powers not authorized by law must not be exercised." This important discourse clarifies the view of power and the view of performance that Chinese Communists should establish. True performance should be the development results shared by the people, not the capital for the promotion of individual cadres. Yang Shanzhou (杨善洲), the former secretary of the Baoshan (保山) Prefectural Committee in Yunnan (云南), gave up a comfortable life in the provincial capital after retirement and rooted himself in Daliang Mountain (大亮山) for 22 years to plant trees and afforest, and handed over the forest farm worth hundreds of millions of yuan to the state free of charge, and never sought benefits for his relatives. His performance shone because of "public". On the other hand, some cadres, in order to seek personal promotion, borrowed money to engage in landscape projects and misappropriated people's livelihood funds, resulting in high debts and long-term arrears in people's livelihood. The so-called "performance" became a bargaining chip for their power to be realized. The positive and negative comparison further highlights the decisive role of the concept of public and private in establishing and practicing a correct view of performance.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) especially criticized the argument that "selflessness is outdated," and emphasized: "As Party cadres, we must serve the people wholeheartedly, we must sincerely strive for the cause of the Party and the people, and we must talk about selflessness, distinction between public and private, putting the public before the private, and forgetting the private for the public." For Party cadres, selflessness will never be outdated. Only by being selfless and doing everything out of public interest can we have a correct view of right and wrong, a view of righteousness and benefit, a view of power, and a view of career, can we put the masses in our hearts, and can we be open and honest and use power cautiously. The concept of public and private, as the value core of Party spirit, directly tests the purity of the view of performance: those with a strong Party spirit regard creating benefits for the people as the greatest performance, and wholeheartedly do more good and practical things for the people; those with a weakened Party spirit and a private character regard performance as a tool for individuals to gain political capital, and are keen on "creating momentum for a while" rather than "creating benefits for one side," and even slide into the abyss of using power for personal gain. The public-private concept, as a value filtering mechanism, is the gate to prevent the alienation of the view of performance.
Seeking truth from facts, as the ideological foundation of Party spirit, fundamentally corrects the cognitive performance. Seeking truth from facts is an important part of our Party's ideological line and is our Party's basic ideological method, working method, and leadership method. The core manifestation of Party spirit at the epistemological level lies in adhering to seeking truth from facts. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "We must adhere to seeking truth from facts and being pragmatic, plan our careers and work from reality, and make the ideas, policies, and plans put forward conform to the actual situation, conform to objective laws, and conform to the scientific spirit, so as to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee with creative work." Party members and cadres adhering to seeking truth from facts must know the truth, abide by the laws, and base their performance on scientific cognition and rational decision-making.
Adhering to seeking truth from facts requires Party members and cadres to go through the cognitive process of investigation and research before making decisions, establish a sense of awe and follow the laws of professional knowledge and objective laws in decision-making, and accept the test of time and practice after decision-making. This cognitive mechanism is essentially a process of correcting the source - abandoning the subjective idealism of "thinking for granted" and "patting the head," facing the complexity of objective reality, and preventing decisions from being alienated into blind command divorced from reality. In reality, some misplaced views of performance often begin with cognitive biases. Some Party members and cadres do not subjectively want to do nothing, but fall into the misunderstanding of subjectivism. For example, in the poverty alleviation campaign, some places, in order to pursue "zeroing first," blindly shortened the construction period in violation of the law, resulting in worrying quality of relocation houses; some places blindly borrowed money to build "landmarks" regardless of the actual financial situation, resulting in unfinished projects and high debts. The so-called "performance" eventually became a wasteful farce. The reason why the views of performance of these Party members and cadres are misplaced is that they put subjective wishes above objective reality and lack basic awe of the law.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Communists are materialists, and pragmatism is an essential quality. We must seek truth from facts, be pragmatic, and do practical work." When Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) served as the secretary of the Zhengding (正定) County Party Committee in Hebei (河北), he rode his bicycle to all 25 communes and more than 220 brigades in the county. On the basis of finding out the bottom line, he proposed the economic development path of "semi-suburban type," and Zhengding (正定) achieved remarkable development results. This is a model of adhering to seeking truth from facts, being pragmatic, and creating excellent performance through hard work. Party members and cadres with a strong Party spirit will deeply realize that creating performance is not a subjective wishful thinking, but a dialectical unity of subjective initiative and objective regularity in practice. Whether there is a scientific understanding directly determines whether Party members and cadres can resist the temptation of "quick-acting performance": in the face of the requirement to promote high-quality development, should we choose the "visible achievement project" of quick success and instant benefit, or the "potential achievement paving" that lays the foundation for long-term benefit? Adhering to seeking truth from facts requires Party members and cadres to abandon short-term behavior and maintain the historical patience of "achieving success does not have to be me." General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the need to create "real achievements that can stand the test of practice, the people, and history." This requires Party members and cadres to not only consider the feasibility of the present when making decisions, but also to consider the long-term sustainability; not only to pay attention to local growth indicators, but also to assess the systemic effects of the overall situation. Only in this way can we prevent performance from being alienated into subjective fantasies divorced from reality and ensure that every decision is rooted in the "soil" of objective laws.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Communists are materialists, pragmatism is an essential quality, and we must seek truth from facts, be pragmatic, and work hard." When Comrade Xi Jinping (习近平) served as the County Party Secretary in Zhengding (正定), Hebei (河北) Province, he rode his bicycle all over the county's 25 communes and more than 220 brigades. Based on a clear understanding of the situation, he proposed a "semi-suburban" economic development path, and Zhengding (正定) achieved remarkable development results. This is a model of adhering to seeking truth from facts, being pragmatic, and creating outstanding achievements through hard work. Party members and cadres with strong Party spirit will deeply realize that creating achievements is not a subjective wishful thinking, but a dialectical unity of subjective initiative and objective regularity in practice. Whether there is a scientific understanding directly determines whether Party members and cadres can resist the temptation of "quick-fix achievements": facing the requirements of promoting high-quality development, should they choose "high-profile projects" with quick success and instant benefits, or choose "potential achievements" that lay the foundation for long-term benefits? Adhering to seeking truth from facts requires Party members and cadres to abandon short-term behavior and maintain the historical patience of 功成不必在我 (gōng chéng bù bì zài wǒ - "achieving success need not be me," meaning one should not be impatient for success and should be willing to work for the long-term benefit of the people, even if one does not see the immediate results). General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized the need to create "real achievements that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history." This requires Party members and cadres to not only consider the current feasibility when making decisions, but also to consider long-term sustainability; not only to focus on local growth indicators, but also to evaluate the overall systemic effects. Only in this way can we prevent achievements from being alienated into subjective fantasies divorced from reality, and ensure that every decision is rooted in the "soil" of objective laws.
Taking responsibility and working hard as a practical character of Party spirit fundamentally guarantees the effectiveness of achievements. The correct view of achievements must ultimately be transformed into real results through practice. The role of Party spirit at the practical level is reflected in the externalization of internal values and cognitive principles into continuous action, the core of which is the dialectical unity of a sense of responsibility and a pragmatic style. Taking responsibility and working hard is a clear practical expression of Party spirit. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that "leading cadres should dare to take responsibility, be in their position, seek their politics, and fulfill their responsibilities, and take the initiative to shoulder heavy and difficult tasks within their responsibilities," emphasizing that "responsibility and action are integrated, inaction is irresponsibility, and action must be accompanied by responsibility." True achievements are achieved by rising to difficulties and overcoming difficulties, and are achieved by working hard in a down-to-earth manner. Only by adhering to the practical character of Party spirit of taking responsibility and working hard can achievements stand the test of practice, the people, and history.
To take responsibility and work hard, it is necessary to promote the spirit of "achieving success need not be me, but achieving success must have me." The development of the cause of the Party and the country is a relay race, not a "solo show." Party members and cadres must run their own lap well and do their best to serve the people. Correctly understand the relationship between "high-profile achievements" and "potential achievements." Do not think that if you cannot achieve results during your tenure, you will be passive and slack, or 躺平无为 (tǎng píng wú wéi - "lying flat and doing nothing," a passive and disengaged attitude). Nor can you engage in short-term behavior that 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch the fish," to seek short-term gain at the expense of long-term interests). Instead, you must always dare to take responsibility and strive for progress with a strong sense of historical responsibility and mission, and use long-term thinking to do more things that lay the foundation, benefit the long term, and benefit people's livelihoods. In Youyu (右玉) County, Shanxi (山西) Province, for more than 70 years, successive county party committees have insisted on leading cadres and the masses to plant trees and afforest the land, turning "barren land" into an "oasis beyond the Great Wall." In Saihanba (塞罕坝), Hebei (河北) Province, three generations of forest farm builders have worked together for more than 60 years to plant forests, creating a million acres of forest on the desert sandy land, jointly building an ecological monument that benefits future generations. From the cadres in these places, we have seen the ideological realm and sense of responsibility of Communists who believe that "achieving success need not be me, but achieving success must have me."
To achieve practical work and responsibility, it is necessary to promote the spirit of nailing nails, doing one thing after another, one year after another, and turning the established action program into a real scene in a down-to-earth manner. In reality, some Party members and cadres "new officials ignore old accounts" and are keen on being innovative and starting anew; some are eager to turn around as soon as their work shows signs of improvement, leaving "half-finished projects" unattended; some engage in "rain over the skin of the earth," engaging in "packaged" implementation and "labeled" implementation. These erroneous views of achievements are rooted in the weakening of the concept of Party spirit, the interference of selfish ideas, and the lack of a spirit of practical work and responsibility. Party members and cadres with strong Party spirit know that taking responsibility and working hard means facing contradictions and solving problems, rather than covering up contradictions and going around problems; it means doing practical work and working hard, rather than engaging in flashy moves and not doing practical things. Only with a strong Party spirit can we practice our original aspirations and fulfill our mission with the power of responsibility and pragmatic actions, and transform the concept of benefiting the people into solid achievements.
The Party's discipline, as a rigid constraint of Party spirit, fundamentally defines the boundaries of achievements. The embodiment of Party spirit at the disciplinary level lies in safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, and strictly abiding by political discipline. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that leading cadres at all levels should start from the realization of the Party's mission and tasks, establish and practice a correct view of achievements, and see whether their thoughts and actions "deviate from the Party's line, principles, policies, and the Party Central Committee's major decisions and deployments." Resolutely safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership is the highest principle of adhering to the Party's leadership. It is Party spirit, it is the overall situation, and it concerns the future and destiny of the Party, the nation, and the country. It cannot be ambiguous or wavered at any time or under any circumstances. Only by resolutely safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, and effectively implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, can we ensure that the direction of achievements does not deviate.
Safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership is not abstract, but concrete. As Party members and cadres, no matter where they work or in what position, they must enhance their Party spirit and political awareness, and must maintain a high degree of consistency with the Party Central Committee at all times and under all circumstances. They must never deviate or deviate from the political direction. We must carry out our work based on the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, resolutely respond to what the Party Central Committee advocates, resolutely follow what the Party Central Committee decides, and resolutely refrain from what the Party Central Committee prohibits. We must form harmony in the ensemble of unified command, and never 荒腔走板 (huāng qiāng zǒu bǎn - "out of tune," to be inconsistent or deviate from the norm) or change the tone. The practice of poverty alleviation in the new era fully illustrates this point: millions of Party members and cadres obeyed the organization's arrangements, stationed in villages to provide assistance, implemented precise policies, united and led the masses to work hard, and nearly 100 million rural poor people were all lifted out of poverty, and all 832 poverty-stricken counties were removed from the list. We have historically solved the problem of absolute poverty. It is the strict organizational discipline that ensures the unity of will and action of the entire Party, gathers strong synergy, and creates great achievements that change history.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must enhance the concept of the overall situation, firmly establish the idea of the whole country as one game, adhere to calculating the big accounts and calculating the long-term accounts, not play small abacuses or engage in petty cleverness, and integrate the work of regions and departments into the overall situation of the Party and the country." Resolutely safeguarding the authority of the Party Central Committee and its centralized and unified leadership, and effectively implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, we must enhance the concept of the overall situation. Party members and cadres must consciously stand at the height of the overall situation and strategy to think about problems and handle affairs, and the planning and promotion of the work of their regions and departments must be based on the premise of implementing the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and find the "benchmark" for creating achievements. Consciously subordinate local interests to overall interests, creatively carry out work, and achieve both adding glory to one region and adding color to the overall situation.
A strict and solid work style, as an external manifestation of Party spirit, fundamentally corrects the ecological environment of achievements. Work style is the external symbol of Party spirit, directly shaping the practical form of achievements from decision-making to implementation. The masses look at Party members and cadres, not at slogans but at work style. Through work style, they can see whether the Party spirit is strong and whether the original intention is firm. Through the dual constraints of "strictness" and "solidity," prevent abuse of power, eliminate empty talk, and ensure that achievements are real, tangible, and benefit the people. Among them, "strictness" emphasizes the rigid constraint on self-behavior and defines the boundaries of power operation; "solidity" emphasizes the pursuit of effectiveness of execution results and eliminates formalism. The combination of the two makes it impossible for cadres to seek personal gain when creating achievements, nor can they engage in fancy tricks, thereby continuously squeezing the living space of false achievements.
In practice, the weakening of Party spirit will lead to an unhealthy work style, and an unhealthy work style will directly distort the form of achievements: some Party members and cadres do not put their heart into, are not pragmatic, and do not do their best to implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee. The slogans are loud, but the actions are light; some require that everything be traceable, and regard "traces" as achievements. Some grassroots units devote a lot of energy to filling out forms and reporting numbers in order to cope with assessments, and have no time to take care of people's livelihood; some have repeatedly tossed urban infrastructure projects, causing strong dissatisfaction among the masses. These behaviors deviate from the spirit of nailing nails and the requirement of drawing a blueprint to the end emphasized by the Party Central Committee. Since the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation has been thoroughly implemented, the Party's work style and political style have been renewed. Cadres have moved from meeting places to factories, fields, and alleys, and the administrative resources freed up have been concentrated on economic construction and people's livelihood. This shows that once a strict and solid work style becomes the norm, the form of achievements will shift from "visible forms" to "tangible benefits." To correct the ecological environment of achievements, we must take the spirit of the Central Eight-Point Regulation as an iron rule and a hard constraint, and promote the construction of work style for a long time, promote the majority of Party members and cadres to bravely shoulder the responsibility of reform and be good at innovative moves under the premise of strictly abiding by discipline and rules, promote practical work and responsibility with the transformation of work style, and make true achievements stand out.
Continuously Strengthen Party Spirit Cultivation, Establish and Practice a Correct View of Achievements
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Only with a strong Party spirit and abandoning selfish ideas can we ensure that the view of achievements does not deviate." "Everyone must keep in mind that the purpose of creating achievements is to seek benefits for the people, and truly put their minds and energy on doing business and starting a business for the Party and the people." Party members and cadres establish and practice a correct view of achievements, and ultimately must continuously strengthen Party spirit cultivation, and continuously enhance Party spirit awareness in strengthening theoretical arming, undergoing political training, strengthening practical training, and consciously accepting institutional constraints, to ensure that the creation of achievements always proceeds in the correct direction.
Consolidate the theoretical foundation and ensure the firmness of Party spirit with theoretical firmness. Theoretical firmness is the foundation of political maturity and Party spirit firmness. The Party spirit of Chinese Communists is built on the basis of scientific and clear theoretical cognition. A strong Party spirit is not innate, nor will it naturally improve with the increase of Party membership or position. It must be continuously learned from theory, drawn from the Party's innovative theories to nourish Party spirit, and consolidate the foundation of faith and replenish the calcium of the spirit. We must adhere to using Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era to condense the soul, deeply study and thoroughly understand General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important expositions on Party spirit, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平)'s important expositions on establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements, deeply understand the value connotation of "serving the people is the greatest achievement," deeply grasp the era requirements of the new development concept and high-quality development for the creation of achievements, and deeply understand the practical requirements of achieving achievements with practical work. Deeply study the classic works of Marxism, grasp the internal connection between Party spirit and the view of achievements from the theoretical source, and comprehensively understand and grasp the requirements of Party spirit. Through theoretical arming, deeply understand the source and direction of power that is given by the people and used for the people, deeply grasp the practical requirements that "achievements are all made by doing, and true work can produce true achievements and true achievements," consciously stand on the position of the Party and the people to handle the relationship between public and private, gain and loss, and hardship and happiness, and guard the spiritual highland of Communists.
Seriously carry out intra-Party political life and cultivate Party spirit in strict tempering. We must strengthen political discipline and political rules, and implement the "two safeguards" throughout the entire process of creating achievements. Intra-Party political life is a "melting pot" for tempering Party spirit. We must strictly implement the systems of "three meetings and one lesson," democratic life meetings, and organizational life meetings, use the weapon of criticism and self-criticism well, and often compare ourselves with the Party Constitution and Party regulations to examine deviations in the view of achievements, focusing on investigating whether there are problems such as eagerness for quick success and instant benefits, data fraud, and image projects, and abandon the erroneous tendencies of "emphasizing high-profile achievements and neglecting potential achievements" and "emphasizing short-term and neglecting long-term." Strictly implement democratic centralism, which is the Party's fundamental organizational principle and an important institutional guarantee for preventing deviations in the view of achievements. Before making decisions, the leading group and leading cadres must conduct thorough investigations and research, listen to the opinions of the masses, and conduct expert demonstrations to prevent achievement impulses caused by personal arbitrariness; after making decisions, they must be collectively responsible and grasp to the end to prevent the short-term behavior of "new officials ignoring old accounts."
Strengthen practical tempering and demonstrate the purity of Party spirit in taking responsibility and making achievements. Practice is the "touchstone" of Party spirit and the "testing ground" for establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements. We must consciously temper Party spirit in major struggles, and take the front line of reform and development and the forefront of major struggles as the examination room for creating achievements, and create true achievements that "cannot be blown away by the wind, cannot be washed away by the rain, and have no moisture" in promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, ecological environmental protection, and improvement of people's livelihood. Test Party spirit in solving practical problems, adhere to problem orientation, focus on the urgent and difficult problems of the masses, and take solving practical problems and improving people's livelihood as an important standard for evaluating achievements. Deepen the roots of Party spirit in long-term efforts, adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, do one thing after another, dare to do paving work, be willing to grasp unfinished things, strive to overcome formalism and bureaucracy, do not engage in "half-finished projects," do not leave "sequelae," and persistently achieve the cause.
Improve the institutional mechanism and ensure the implementation of Party spirit requirements with rigid constraints. Compared with the soft guidance of ideological education, the system is a more direct rigid grasp to ensure the implementation of Party spirit requirements. We must transform Party spirit requirements into quantifiable, assessable, and accountable institutional norms, and form a positive incentive mechanism that promotes practical work, encourages responsibility, and cheers for encouragement. Improve the scientific achievement assessment and evaluation system, highlight the requirements of high-quality development, increase the weight of mass satisfaction, eliminate the erroneous guidance of "GDP only" and "speed only," implement differentiated assessment, and prevent formalism caused by "one size fits all." Improve the mechanism for tolerating errors and correcting errors, adhere to "three distinctions," protect the enthusiasm of cadres to do business and start a business, let those who dare to take responsibility put down their burdens and start lightly, and create more real achievements.
Party spirit is the foundation for Party members and cadres to establish themselves, and it is also the decisive factor in the correct view of achievements. The majority of Party members and cadres must take enhancing Party spirit as the fundamental, continuously calibrate the coordinates of the view of achievements, adhere to the original intention of serving the people, adhere to seeking truth from facts, and strengthen practical work and responsibility. At present, the entire Party is carrying out in-depth study and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements. We must take study and education as an important opportunity to temper a strong Party spirit, deeply grasp the basic principle that Party spirit plays a decisive role in establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements, adhere to taking Party spirit training as a lifelong topic, and continuously consolidate the cornerstone of establishing oneself, establishing a career, establishing words, and establishing virtue, and lead the establishment and practice of a correct view of achievements with a strong Party spirit, and promote high-quality development with the establishment and practice of a correct view of achievements, and strive to create new achievements worthy of history, worthy of the times, and worthy of the people.
(The author is a special researcher at the Beijing (北京市) Research Center for Xi Jinping (习近平)'s Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era)
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China is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world, occupying a key position in the global biodiversity landscape and playing an important supporting role. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s ecological civilization thought, China systematically planned and steadily promoted a series of fundamental, pioneering, and long-term measures. The determination, intensity, and effectiveness were unprecedented, further consolidating the ecological foundation for the construction of a beautiful China. At the same time, China has always adhered to the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind, and worked with all parties to actively respond to the severe challenges of accelerated global biodiversity loss. It has demonstrated the responsibility of a major country with practical actions, and continued to play an important role as a participant, contributor, and leader in global ecological civilization construction, contributing Chinese wisdom, Chinese solutions, and Chinese strength to the construction of a community of life on Earth.
Taking multiple measures to continuously improve the biodiversity governance system
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Biodiversity is related to human well-being and is an important foundation for human survival and development." This inspires us to accelerate the construction of a scientific, efficient, and coordinated biodiversity protection and governance system, which points out the direction and provides the fundamental basis for promoting the development of biodiversity protection.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China continued to strengthen the coordination mechanism for biodiversity protection, and jointly promoted the transformation of biodiversity governance from decentralization to overall planning, and from the end to the entire process. It formulated and implemented a new round of biodiversity protection strategies and action plans, as well as major project implementation plans, taking into account all elements of the natural ecology, promoting the overall protection, systematic restoration, and comprehensive management of ecosystems, and focusing on improving the diversity, stability, and sustainability of ecosystems.
The legal system for ecological security is constantly improving. The *Environmental Code of the People's Republic of China* (中华人民共和国生态环境法典) was approved by the Fourth Session of the 14th National People's Congress (十四届全国人大四次会议). As the world's first code named "Environmental Code," it systematically integrates more than 30 environmental protection laws, more than 100 administrative regulations, and more than 1,000 local regulations, and sets up a separate "Ecological Protection Compilation," highlighting the concept of systematic protection, and building a stronger legal foundation for achieving the modernization of harmonious coexistence between man and nature. China continues to carry out central ecological and environmental protection inspections, focusing on solving outstanding regional ecological damage problems, and effectively promoting problem rectification; carrying out special law enforcement actions such as "Green Shield" (绿盾), "Net Shield" (网盾), "Qingfeng" (清风), and "China Fishery Administration Bright Sword" (中国渔政亮剑), and cracking down on illegal and criminal acts that damage important ecological spaces and biodiversity in accordance with the law.
Ecosystems are effectively protected. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China organized and implemented a number of landmark projects such as major biodiversity protection projects and major ecological system protection and restoration projects, completed 36.6 million hectares of land greening and over 5.4 million hectares of ecological protection and restoration, becoming one of the few countries in the world with a net increase in mangrove area. It promoted the construction of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body, and integrated and optimized various types of nature reserves. It strengthened the supervision of nature reserves by using remote sensing monitoring and other means, accelerated the rectification of key ecological problems in national nature reserves, and focused on solving problems such as cross-overlap, unclear boundaries, and conflicts between protection and development. It established and improved a cross-regional ecological protection coordination and cooperation mechanism in the Qinling Mountains (秦岭地区), and promoted the construction of a new pattern of ecological protection at the regional and basin levels.
The level of biodiversity governance continues to improve. It promoted the transformation of national biodiversity protection actions from preventing danger and stopping losses to systematic restoration, effectively protecting terrestrial ecosystems and wild animal and plant populations. Endangered species in China have regained vitality, ecological spaces have regained vitality, the threat level of nearly 500 species of wild animals and plants has decreased, and the population of more than 300 species of rare and endangered wild animals and plants has steadily increased. It unswervingly promoted the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔), and strictly implemented the fishing ban system in the seven major inland river basins and four major sea areas. From 2021 to 2025, a total of 351 species of native fish were monitored in the Yangtze River Basin, an increase of 43 species compared with the period before the fishing ban (2017-2020). The natural population of Yangtze finless porpoises (长江江豚) has achieved a historic reversal of decline, becoming a vivid footnote to the continuous improvement of the Yangtze River ecology. It coordinated the protection and sustainable utilization of biological germplasm resources, and continuously improved the mechanism for obtaining and sharing benefits from biological genetic resources.
The ability of scientific and technological support has been effectively improved. Focusing on the shortcomings and weaknesses of biodiversity loss and mitigation, intelligent monitoring and evaluation, and endangered species protection, it promoted scientific and technological research on biodiversity protection, and carried out in-depth research on basic theories, key technologies, and practical methods. It strengthened the construction of platforms such as the National Genomic Science Data Center, the China Biodiversity Monitoring and Research Network, and the Shenzhen National Gene Bank (深圳国家基因库), and systematically and scientifically preserved and managed genetic resource information. Intelligent equipment such as infrared cameras, radar cameras, and bird acoustic monitoring instruments were widely used to accurately record the living habits of species. The innovative application of environmental DNA technology has realized efficient, non-invasive, and accurate identification of aquatic organisms.
The whole society's awareness of protection is constantly increasing. It successfully held theme publicity activities such as the International Day for Biological Diversity and the National Ecology Day, widely carried out public science popularization and practical participation, and promoted the concept of protection to enter the grassroots, integrate into life, and penetrate into people's hearts. It strengthened departmental coordination, regional linkage, and public supervision, and guided business entities, public welfare organizations, and grassroots people to actively participate in biodiversity protection practices. It promoted the upgrading of demonstration zones for ecological civilization construction and practice and innovation bases for "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (“绿水青山就是金山银山”), actively explored the realization path of ecological product value and sustainable utilization models, and truly transformed lucid waters and lush mountains into invaluable assets.
Working together to build and share a community of life on Earth
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) issued a proposal at the United Nations Biodiversity Summit: "We must work together, act quickly, protect in development, develop in protection, and jointly build a beautiful home where all things are in harmony." It called on all parties to further strengthen cooperation to address global challenges such as biodiversity loss, demonstrating the responsibility of a major country in building a community of life on Earth.
Human beings are a community with a shared future where everyone prospers or suffers together. As the president of the 15th Conference of the Parties to the *Convention on Biological Diversity* (生物多样性公约) (hereinafter referred to as the *Convention*), China promoted the achievement of the milestone "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔全球生物多样性框架) (hereinafter referred to as the "Kunming-Montreal Framework"), which drew a blueprint for global biodiversity governance and opened a new chapter in global biodiversity governance.
Conscientiously fulfilling international responsibilities and fully demonstrating the responsibility of a major country. In recent years, China has become the largest donor to the core budget of the *Convention* and its protocols, and is also the largest developing country donor to the Global Environment Facility. In 2021, China announced the establishment of the Kunming Biodiversity Fund (昆明生物多样性基金) (hereinafter referred to as the "Kunming Fund") to support biodiversity protection in developing countries. At present, it has funded two batches of 31 projects, benefiting 45 developing countries, effectively promoting global biodiversity protection, and winning wide praise from the international community.
Actively participating in global governance and effectively building international consensus. In the past negotiations and meetings of the *Convention*, China has insisted on being an active promoter and constructive coordinator, and promoted the achievement of positive results in the multilateral governance process. It promoted the updating of national biodiversity strategies and action plans by the parties to the "Kunming-Montreal Framework" to help mainstream biodiversity. This year, it officially submitted the Seventh National Implementation Report to the Secretariat of the United Nations *Convention*, comprehensively summarizing China's biodiversity protection achievements and practical experience.
Continuously strengthening exchanges and cooperation and continuously sharing governance experience. It held an international seminar on the implementation initiative of the "Kunming-Montreal Framework." Under the framework of jointly building the "Belt and Road" (“一带一路”), it has widely carried out cooperation and shared experience with co-construction countries on biodiversity protection, and provided capacity-building support. The China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development has formed a series of policy research results on biodiversity protection, providing important reference for domestic and foreign policy formulation. During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, China signed cooperation agreements with many countries and jointly carried out more than 30 cross-border scientific expeditions with relevant countries, effectively promoting the sharing of international biodiversity governance experience and capacity building.
Making persistent efforts to create a new situation in biodiversity protection during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period
The "15th Five-Year Plan" period is a key period for the construction of a beautiful China to build on the past and usher in the future, and to achieve a fundamental improvement in the ecological environment. Under the scientific guidance of Xi Jinping (习近平)'s ecological civilization thought, we must firmly establish the concept that "lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets" (“绿水青山就是金山银山”), comprehensively promote the construction of a nature reserve system with national parks as the main body, implement major biodiversity protection projects, build a modern biodiversity monitoring and supervision system, improve the realization mechanism of ecological product value, and continuously improve the ability and level of biodiversity governance, so as to provide solid support for building a community of life on Earth with Chinese governance.
Continue to deepen the optimization of ecosystems. Adhere to the integrated protection and systematic management of mountains, rivers, forests, fields, lakes, grass, and sand, and coordinate the promotion of major projects for the protection and restoration of important ecosystems. Strictly abide by the ecological protection red line, establish and improve the nature reserve system, implement hierarchical management and zoning control, and carry out national ecological condition change surveys and assessments. Strengthen the systematic management and ecological protection of important rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, improve the diversified ecological compensation mechanism, and expand the channels for realizing the value of ecological products in accordance with local conditions.
Continuously strengthen biodiversity protection. Continue to promote the special investigation of ecological and environmental problems in important ecological spaces under the "Green Shield" (绿盾) program, and severely crack down on illegal hunting and trading of wild animals. Implement the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River (长江十年禁渔) well. Strengthen the systematic protection and sustainable utilization of germplasm resources, accelerate the establishment of a management system for obtaining and sharing benefits from biological genetic resources, and protect the national treasure house of biological genetic resources. Strengthen the monitoring and control of alien invasive species, and resolutely guard the bottom line of national biosecurity. Continue to lead global biodiversity governance, promote the selection of global projects for the Kunming Fund (昆明基金), and promote the realization of the goals of the "Kunming-Montreal Framework" (昆明—蒙特利尔框架).
Strengthen unified supervision of ecological protection and restoration. Strengthen the overall coordination and supervision and management of ecology and environment. Taking the implementation of the Environmental Code as an opportunity, continue to improve biodiversity protection policies and systems, improve the investigation, monitoring, and evaluation system, and establish a supervisory evaluation mechanism. Carry out effectiveness evaluations of ecological protection and restoration, and promote the optimization of ecological protection and restoration plans. Strengthen scientific and technological support and empowerment, continue to carry out various forms of publicity and education activities, continuously gather the joint efforts of the whole society, and steadily improve the effectiveness of biodiversity protection.
All things in heaven and earth coexist and prosper, and human beings and nature are interdependent. We must adhere to Xi Jinping (习近平)'s ecological civilization thought as a guide, build a solid ecological foundation of lucid waters and lush mountains, jointly build a beautiful home where all things are in harmony, so that the Chinese land will always have green mountains, clear waters, fresh air, and all things will thrive, and make new and greater contributions to building a beautiful China where man and nature coexist in harmony and building a clean and beautiful world!
(The author is the Minister of Ecology and Environment)
Return to TopYibin, May 21 (Reported by Ni Yi (倪弋) of this newspaper) – This reporter learned from the 2026 Symposium on Procuratorial Organs Serving and Guaranteeing the High-Quality Development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt that the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) has released a white paper on the work of procuratorial organs serving and guaranteeing the development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
The white paper shows that in the past five years, procuratorial organs in the Yangtze River Economic Belt have handled a total of 274,000 environmental resource cases of various types. Among them, they have accepted and reviewed the arrest of 18,000 cases involving 32,000 people for crimes of destroying environmental resources, and reviewed and prosecuted 93,000 cases involving 169,000 people; handled 15,000 civil and administrative procuratorial supervision cases related to ecological and environmental protection; and filed 148,000 public interest litigation cases in the field of ecological environment and resource protection. By constructing a specialized case-handling mechanism for environmental resource cases, improving the norms of ecological environment restoration procedures, and promoting innovative measures such as "one case, two investigations" and "administrative and criminal justice connection," the ecological environment protection and restoration of the Yangtze River has been steadily advanced. This has urged the protection of 347,000 mu of polluted cultivated land, forest land, grassland, and wetlands, urged the recovery and cleaning of 15,408,000 tons of production-related solid waste, and promoted the resolution of a number of ecological environment governance problems.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, procuratorial organs will continue to strengthen pollution control in key areas, adhere to the unwavering strict tone, punish illegal and criminal acts such as illegal discharge of industrial wastewater and illegal dumping of solid waste in accordance with the law, and carry out special supervision activities for procuratorial public interest litigation on water pollution prevention and control in the Yangtze River Economic Belt. Adhering to a systematic concept, we will coordinate and promote the restoration and governance of the Yangtze River's ecological environment, focus on maintaining the ecological security of the Yangtze River, unswervingly promote the ten-year fishing ban in the Yangtze River, and strengthen biodiversity protection. We will comprehensively improve the quality and efficiency of law enforcement and judicial cooperation in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and promote the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development in the Yangtze River Economic Belt in accordance with the law.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院) has decided to carry out special supervision of procuratorial public interest litigation on water pollution prevention and control in the Yangtze River Economic Belt from May 2026 to April 2027, requiring procuratorial organs in the Yangtze River Economic Belt to focus on carrying out special supervision work in key areas and prominent problems of water pollution prevention and control based on their local realities.
Return to TopBeijing, May 21st (Reporter Wang Yunshan (王云杉)) - The reporter learned from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局): In the first quarter of this year, the newly installed grid-connected photovoltaic capacity nationwide was 41.19 million kilowatts, of which 19.62 million kilowatts were centralized photovoltaic power, and 21.57 million kilowatts were distributed photovoltaic power. As of the end of March, the national photovoltaic power generation installed capacity reached 1.24 billion kilowatts, a year-on-year increase of 31.2%, of which 686 million kilowatts were centralized photovoltaic power, and 554 million kilowatts were distributed photovoltaic power. In the first quarter, the national cumulative photovoltaic power generation was 275.9 billion kilowatt-hours, a year-on-year increase of 18.5%, and the national photovoltaic power generation utilization rate was 90.6%.
Return to TopThe Yangtze River surges, and the Qutang Gorge (夔门) is magnificent. Fengjie County (奉节县), Chongqing (重庆), located in the heart of the Three Gorges (长江三峡) of the Yangtze River (长江), meticulously prepares "a pair of glasses," writing a new answer sheet for the high-quality development of the county's economy.
Stepping into the Fengjie Ecological Industrial Park (奉节生态工业园区), standardized factory buildings stand in rows, and in the clean and bright workshops, production lines operate at high speed, with lenses and frames being produced in an orderly manner, ready to be packaged and shipped to all parts of the country.
Fengjie County (奉节县) is one of the important eyewear industry clusters in western China. Since officially introducing the first eyewear company in 2015, to now gathering 162 upstream and downstream companies in the industrial chain, Fengjie (奉节) has focused on the overall goal of "building a leading hundred-billion-level eyewear industry base in the west with global influence," with an emphasis on cultivating the entire industrial chain, promoting the chain-like clustering and leap-forward improvement of the eyewear industry chain. Currently, Fengjie (奉节) has formed a production capacity of 200 million frames, 300 million lenses, and 50 million sets of eye health products annually, with products sold to more than 30 countries and regions.
Gathering Chains into Momentum: From "Fighting Alone" to "Group Development"
In 2025, Chongqing Jiuyang Tiantian Industry and Trade Co., Ltd. (重庆九扬田田工贸有限公司) was successfully put into production in the Fengjie Ecological Industrial Park (奉节生态工业园区), injecting new impetus into the development of the Fengjie (奉节) eyewear industry cluster, and more accurately filling the key gap in "metal accessories" in the Fengjie (奉节) eyewear industry chain. The arrival of this enterprise allows frame production companies in the park to achieve "one-stop" matching without having to go to Zhejiang (浙江), Guangdong (广东) and other places to purchase accessories.
Such a "chain-filling" story is not an isolated case in Fengjie (奉节). In the past, the park lacked relevant enterprises in key links such as mold processing, metal accessories, and surface treatment. Enterprises often needed to transport semi-finished products to coastal provinces to complete processes such as electroplating, which took as long as half a month, increasing costs accordingly. Focusing on this "pain point," Fengjie (奉节) carried out precise chain-filling investment promotion, and successively introduced supporting enterprises such as mold manufacturing, accessory production, and electroplating treatment, making up for the key shortcomings of the industrial chain and achieving a 100% localization rate for the entire industrial chain.
In 2025, Fengjie (奉节) newly signed 22 eyewear projects, including 3 projects with investments of more than 100 million yuan, such as Jiangsu Aishangmei Contact Lens (江苏艾尚美隐形眼镜) and Danyang Longteng Optical Lens (丹阳龙腾光学镜片), which have been successfully implemented, filling the gap in the production of contact lenses and mid-to-high-end lenses. At the same time, an eyewear industry base integrating research and development, design, and certification was built, and a product quality testing center and a professional exhibition center were put into use, building an integrated ecosystem of "research and development—production—testing—sales."
Scientific and Technological Innovation: From "Traditional Manufacturing" to "Innovative Intelligent Manufacturing"
In the production workshop of Chongqing Musheke Optical Technology Co., Ltd. (重庆目奢克光学科技有限公司), three modern production lines for sheet metal, metal, and titanium frames are operating in an orderly manner. Technicians are debugging new material formulas, and CNC equipment is precisely processing frames, with errors controlled within millimeters. In April 2026, Musheke Optics (目奢克光学) was successfully rated as the 2025 municipal-level industrial design center, becoming the only enterprise in the Yudongbei (渝东北) area to receive this honor.
The transformation and upgrading of Musheke Optics (目奢克光学) is a microcosm of the Fengjie (奉节) eyewear industry moving towards "intelligent manufacturing." In recent years, Fengjie (奉节) has focused on making up for the shortcomings in the research and development design of the eyewear industry, relying on innovation and entrepreneurship bases, big data industrial parks and other carriers, actively creating municipal-level industrial design centers, guiding enterprises to jointly build joint laboratories with scientific research institutes, focusing on tackling cutting-edge technologies such as lightweight lenses, high refractive index optical materials, and functional coatings, and further promoting the intelligent transformation and upgrading of the industry.
Today, 32 eyewear companies have routinely applied automated production lines and digital management systems, the CNC rate of key processes and the popularization rate of digital tools have been greatly improved, and 6 national high-tech enterprises and 31 science and technology-based SMEs in the field of eyewear manufacturing have been cultivated, and a total of 146 patents related to the eyewear industry have been obtained.
Optimizing the Environment: From "Enterprises Running Errands" to "Services Delivered to the Door"
The business environment is the soil for the survival and development of enterprises, and it is also one of the core competitiveness for promoting the high-quality development of the regional economy. In order to promote the rapid development of the eyewear industry, Fengjie (奉节) adheres to the principle of putting enterprises first and service first, vigorously promotes the "handling affairs without leaving the park" reform, integrates resources from the Economic and Information Technology Commission (经信), the park, and investment promotion departments, decentralizes approval authority, and builds a service system of one-window acceptance, time-limited completion, and full agency, reducing the approval time limit by more than 50%, allowing enterprises to "run fewer errands and handle affairs well."
Faster approvals are only the first step. Fengjie (奉节) is making all-round efforts in employment, logistics, and financing support after the enterprise is settled, helping enterprises to develop well. In terms of logistics, special lines have been opened from Fengjie (奉节) to industrial intensive areas such as Taizhou (台州), Wenzhou (温州), and Shenzhen (深圳), connecting to the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) and the China-Europe Railway Express (中欧班列), reducing logistics costs by 10%; in terms of employment, Fengjie (奉节) regularly holds special recruitment fairs and conducts skills training. Since 2025, it has assisted enterprises in recruiting more than 1,400 people, effectively ensuring the employment needs of enterprises; in terms of finance, a government-bank-enterprise docking platform has been built to promote the establishment of special eyewear loans, helping enterprises to finance more than 500 million yuan; in terms of supporting facilities, 1,026 sets of employee turnover housing and 536 sets of resettlement housing have all been put into use, making it a reality for enterprise employees to "move in with their bags" ......
The guarantee of factors has solved the "urgent needs" of enterprises, while brand cultivation has allowed enterprises to see a longer-term "poetry and distance." Fengjie (奉节) is committed to building the "Fengjie Eyewear" (奉节眼镜) regional public brand, integrating the poetry of the Three Gorges (三峡诗词) and the culture of navel oranges (脐橙文化), and has laid out a number of directly-operated stores across the country. At the same time, it organizes enterprises to participate in the Milan International Eyewear Exhibition and the ASEAN International Eyewear Exhibition, allowing "Fengjie Eyewear" (奉节眼镜) to go from a county brand to a national brand and enjoy a global reputation.
Data source: Publicity Department of the CPC Fengjie County Committee of Chongqing (中共重庆市奉节县委宣传部)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王云娜 洪秋婷
The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently announced the list of Chinese contestants for the 48th WorldSkills Competition, and Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文), a 19-year-old from Guangdong (广东), successfully qualified for the Digital Interactive Media Design project. In September 2025, he won the gold medal in the Digital Interactive Media Design project at the 3rd National Skills Competition.
Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) is a student in the Information and Digital Creative Industry Department of Guangzhou Transportation Technician College (广州市交通技师学院) in Guangdong Province (广东省). Over the past four years since entering the school, he has continuously improved his skills, showcasing his talent on the highest stage of skills competition in China, and will compete with skilled experts from around the world in the future. "At a new starting point, I will do my best to let Chinese skills be seen by more people," said Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文).
Excellence Comes from Continuous Improvement
"After re-knocking the last code, the game screen switching is no longer stuck. I did it!" Recalling the scene of the final of the National Skills Competition Digital Interactive Media Design project, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) still could not hide his excitement. At that time, in the interactive animation production module, he found that the VR (virtual reality) interactive game screen switching he produced had a 2-second response delay. In order to improve the smoothness of user interaction, he decided to rewrite the key interactive logic code. 50 minutes before the end of the competition, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) successfully optimized the response time to 0.5 seconds. This seemingly small improvement allowed him to get the highest score in this module.
The Digital Interactive Media Design project final took the museum as the theme and provided contestants with materials such as pictures, color blocks, patterns, photos, and text task descriptions. Contestants need to complete four module tasks, including user needs analysis, graphic image design, video production, and interactive animation production, within a limited time, focusing on the needs of virtual customers.
"Simply put, it is to develop a mobile game APP in the museum by writing code, and use smart glasses to present the game screen," Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) explained. Users can wear smart glasses and operate the APP to see the virtual ancient scenes and museum exhibits superimposed on the screen, and get an immersive experience.
"Interactive animation production examines the programming ability of the contestants, which is not easy," said Liu Haibo (刘海波), Vice President of Guangzhou Transportation Technician College (广州市交通技师学院). A 2-second delay in screen switching is a minor flaw, but Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) was not satisfied and insisted on rewriting the code to make his work stand out.
In addition to interactive animation production, video production is also a key part of the competition, testing the contestants' comprehensive video production capabilities. "There are massive materials in the material library. In order to save time, you need to quickly select materials that meet the theme, and complete the details such as the effects and connection of the screen," Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) said. This is his advantage. "I have studied animation professional courses, and I am familiar with animation post-production software. There is a set of animation special effects material library in my mind. Professional advantages also make me more comfortable in the competition."
The Digital Interactive Media Design project final was held for 3 days, with a total time of 17 hours. "The video production and interactive animation production module competitions each require 5 hours. At that time, I buried myself in the competition, and I just gnawed a few bites of bread when I was hungry," Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) said, "When I learned that I had won the championship, the fatigue and pressure were swept away!"
Turn Operation into Muscle Memory
One minute on the stage, ten years of hard work off the stage. The shining moment on the field condenses the hard work of Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) and the coaching team.
"During the preparation for the competition, the school provided Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) with a special training venue and high-performance equipment, and adopted a three-stage training program of 'foundation consolidation, special breakthrough, and comprehensive exercise'," Liu Haibo (刘海波) introduced.
The foundation consolidation stage focuses on design software, programming foundation and interaction principles to solve problems such as unskilled software operation and weak theoretical foundation; the special breakthrough stage conducts high-intensity special training for the competition modules, including user needs analysis and sorting training to solve problems such as unclear interactive logic; the comprehensive exercise stage simulates the real competition environment to exercise Liu Kaiwen's (刘铠文) time management and stress coping ability to ensure that he can output efficiently on the field.
In the past year or so of preparation, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) trained for more than 10 hours a day. At the most intense time, he stayed in the training room for 3 consecutive days, napping on the table when he was sleepy, and continuing to debug the code when he woke up. Initially, it took Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) half an hour to draw an icon with design software. Through high-intensity training, he can complete the same icon in just 5 to 10 minutes.
"Through standardized training, he turned basic operations into muscle memory, which saved him valuable time in the competition," said Liu Haibo (刘海波).
After the National Skills Competition, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) and the coaching team quickly devoted themselves to the training of the Chinese training team for the WorldSkills Competition.
At the centralized assessment and test competition of the Chinese training team for the 48th WorldSkills Competition held in Shanghai (上海) on April 10, 2026 (hereinafter referred to as the "Top Ten to One" selection competition), the UNITY (一款编程软件) programming interaction competition was cancelled, and only the H5 project was retained; and the competition adopted the form of drawing questions from the question bank, and all the competition questions and scoring standards were fully disclosed one month in advance. With a large number of questions and tight time, the training task was very heavy, and Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) was under increased pressure.
"It is impossible to train all the questions in just one month. In the last two weeks, we can only focus on the key and difficult points and carry out targeted practice. Since we have come to this point, we must sprint with all our strength. And I am not fighting alone. The school has invited outstanding experts to provide me with physical, psychological and professional guidance," said Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文).
Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) was very happy when he learned that he was selected into the list of Chinese contestants for the 48th WorldSkills Competition. He knows that the responsibility is heavy, but he is also full of confidence - from the selection and preparation for each stage of the competition to the intensive training and the key "Top Ten to One" selection competition, it has not only solidly improved his skills, but also tempered a strong psychological quality. "After the 'Top Ten to One' selection competition, his training state has been very good, and his mentality is also very relaxed. I hope he can bring this state to the final competition in Shanghai (上海)," said coach Huang Yanrong (黄嬿蓉).
Growth Benefits from Deep Accumulation
"Focus on design concepts, enjoy the process of challenges and growth." This is the school's message to Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文), and it is also his motto since entering the school.
When he first entered the school, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) had to repeatedly ask the teacher for even the basic effects of processing pictures. He was a veritable "novice". "It took three times as long as other students to complete the first assignment assigned by the teacher," he said.
What made him progress so quickly?
"It comes from interest and love," Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) said. He has loved animation and comics since he was a child. After graduating from junior high school, he learned that the Information and Digital Creative Industry Department of Guangzhou Transportation Technician College (广州市交通技师学院) offered related majors. With the support and encouragement of his family, he signed up, dreaming of one day opening his own studio and designing animation works. "Even if I have encountered various difficulties, I have never thought of giving up," said Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文).
Professional training courses such as programming added confidence to Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文). He has loved mathematics since he was a child, has a strong logical thinking ability, and loves to study technical details, so he is always faster than other students when designing interactive animations. In this field, through continuous study and practice, he opened the door to a new world step by step.
"Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) started from 'zero foundation', and his rapid growth is inseparable from hard work," said Shi Wenzan (石汶瓒), a teacher at the school. In order to overcome problems such as unfamiliarity with technology, Liu Kaiwen (刘铠文) diligently took notes, recorded the operation steps in detail, and often flipped them out to repeatedly study. He is also the "little teacher" in the class, always enthusiastically helping students solve various technical problems. In the process of teaching others, he also deepened his understanding of knowledge.
Liu Kaiwen's (刘铠文) growth is also backed by the school's years of deep accumulation in digital media-related majors.
According to Liu Haibo (刘海波), the school has built a composite teaching team composed of professional teachers, industry experts, and technical experts to ensure that students can receive all-round training from theory to practice and from technology to art.
In terms of curriculum setting, from the second academic year, the main courses of students in this department are almost all centered around real or highly simulated projects.
"Relying on the powerful electronic information manufacturing and Internet service industries in the Pearl River Delta (珠三角), we have carried out school-enterprise cooperation with many leading enterprises to continuously obtain real project resources and understand the needs of cutting-edge talents," said Liu Haibo (刘海波). Under this model, the school directly introduces the "living water" of the industry into the classroom, allowing students to grow in the same frequency resonance with the industry, and ultimately become high-quality talents that enterprises can "use, do well, and retain".
"In summary, the talents we want to cultivate are architects who build a 'dialogue bridge' between people and the digital world. The key technology is to make the communication and interaction between users and digital products such as mobile phones and VR devices efficient and intuitive, greatly improving people's experience of using digital products," said Wen Guobiao (温国标), director of the Information and Digital Creative Industry Department of Guangzhou Transportation Technician College (广州市交通技师学院). Driven by new technologies such as artificial intelligence, the curriculum continues to expand, incorporating cutting-edge content such as VR/AR (augmented reality) interaction and intelligent terminal experience, so that talent training keeps pace with the times.
Return to TopBy: 生命时报记者 徐梦莲 健康时报记者 韩金序
The term "carb face" has recently sparked heated discussions online. Some short video bloggers pinch their cheeks and say, "This is the 'carb face' from eating steamed buns every day." Some netizens also posted their jawlines after cutting off carbohydrates, saying that "facial lines have become clearer." For a time, staple foods such as rice, noodles, and steamed buns were forcibly linked to "becoming ugly" and "lack of self-discipline." Many people are worried: Will eating carbohydrates affect health?
"‘Carb face’ is a stigmatization of carbohydrates. This simple attribution logic not only lacks rigorous evidence, but may also mislead the public to form irrational dietary concepts and cause anxiety." Zhu Yi (朱毅), associate professor of the College of Food Science and Nutritional Engineering at China Agricultural University (中国农业大学), said, "The contour of the human face is mainly determined by genetic genes and bone structure. The so-called 'clearer facial lines after cutting off carbohydrates' is a natural result of systemic body fat reduction and facial fat reduction caused by reduced calorie intake."
Brain development cannot be separated from the stable glucose provided by starchy foods. Zhu Yi (朱毅) reminded that it is not advisable to blindly pursue "carb cutting" or "extremely low carbohydrates." Long-term severe restriction of carbohydrate intake may lead to inattention, emotional instability, menstrual disorders in women, and even affect liver and kidney metabolism. Moderate intake of high-quality carbohydrates rich in dietary fiber and micronutrients, such as whole grains, miscellaneous beans, and potatoes, not only helps stabilize blood sugar, but also has a positive effect on intestinal health and antioxidant defense.
How to scientifically consume carbohydrates?
"In daily life, we must consider the dual balance of carbohydrate quality and quantity, and do not consume refined rice and flour without restraint." Zhu Yi (朱毅) said, "Long-term excessive intake of high-glycemic index refined carbohydrates and added sugar may induce insulin level fluctuations and chronic mild inflammation."
Cui Jun (崔军), director nutritionist of the Nutrition Department of Beijing Electric Power Hospital (北京电力医院), suggested clarifying the intake amount. According to the "Dietary Guidelines for Chinese Residents (2022)" (《中国居民膳食指南（2022）》) recommendation, carbohydrates should account for 50%-65% of daily total energy intake. Adhere to a balanced diet model based on grains, and use whole grains (such as oats, brown rice, quinoa), miscellaneous beans (such as red beans, mung beans, chickpeas) and potatoes (such as sweet potatoes, yams, taro) to replace some refined rice and flour. Consume 200-300 grams of grains per day, and increase dietary fiber content and reduce the rate of glycemic increase by "mixing and matching" staple foods.
Cui Jun (崔军) reminded to optimize the way of eating, adhere to a combination of coarse and fine grains, and avoid cooking staple foods too soft; match staple foods with sufficient fresh vegetables and protein to reduce the rate of blood sugar increase. Avoid consuming large amounts of refined staple foods on an empty stomach, and do not concentrate carbohydrates in one meal. Evenly distributing them in three meals is more conducive to metabolic stability.
"Respecting the body's natural needs and practicing the dietary principles of balance, diversity, and moderation is the fundamental way to protect long-term health," Zhu Yi (朱毅) said.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 21st (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)): On the 21st, at the "Driver Service Map Release and Driver Rights Protection Seminar," the China Communications and Transportation Association (中国交通运输协会) and other organizations jointly released the first national comprehensive driver service map. This map integrates information on over 2,100 taxi driver stations and truck driver homes, charging and refueling facilities, and convenience service points across the country, providing a one-stop service guide for tens of millions of drivers nationwide. Drivers can access nearby service information by opening the Amap (高德地图) and searching for "driver services."
In recent years, various regions have continuously invested in the construction of driver stations, improved energy replenishment facilities, and streamlined rights protection channels. The launch of the driver service map is the first time that the service resources continuously built in various regions are presented to drivers in the form of a unified digital entry point, realizing a leap from "building offline stations" to "an online network," allowing service resources to change from "building and waiting for people to come" to "accurately delivering to drivers."
The driver service map has five major sections: driver stations, convenient energy replenishment, convenience services, policy consultation, and AI assistant. The driver station section is displayed by taxi drivers and truck drivers, and more than 2,100 service stations across the country realize visual navigation. The convenient energy replenishment section integrates charging piles, gas stations, and battery swap stations, and drivers can intelligently compare them by distance and price. The convenience service section introduces the "firework small shop" list and basic service points such as restrooms and parking lots. The AI assistant can verbally answer drivers' daily inquiries about routes, service point details, etc.
The driver service map will continue to expand service scenarios, connect more security measures and service resources for new employment groups, and at the same time rely on the service map to promote the mutual recognition of service standards and resource sharing of driver stations in various places.
Return to TopIn Horqin Right Front Banner (科尔沁右翼前旗), Hinggan League (兴安盟), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), efforts are being made to broaden employment and entrepreneurship channels for farmers and herders. By cultivating local talents, organizing skills training, establishing casual labor markets, and offering shareholding dividends, the region is developing various labor-intensive "micro-factories" and specialized cooperatives, such as traditional equestrian gear, dairy product production, and handmade embroidery. These initiatives enable farmers and herders to secure stable employment and increase their income near their homes. The picture shows local herders drying cowhide strips used for making equestrian gear on May 20.
Wang Zheng (王 正) photo (Image China)
Return to TopThis newspaper Fuzhou (福州) May 21st (Reporter Fu Wen (付文)) - The Zhangzhou (漳州) City Food Safety Committee Office of Fujian (福建) Province issued a situation report on May 20 regarding the recent media exposure of the "soaked bayberry" incident.
The report stated that after media reports reflected the problem of some bayberry purchasing points in Longhai (龙海) District, Zhangzhou (漳州) City, illegally using additives to soak bayberries, Zhangzhou (漳州) City immediately launched an emergency response, established a special working group, and organized multiple departments to rush to relevant towns and townships to carry out joint law enforcement. They verified the involved bayberry purchasing points one by one, and found that there were actually 5 purchasing points involved. They seized 225 kilograms of problematic bayberries and a batch of illegal additives. Through continuous tracing, 540 kilograms of problematic bayberries were recovered, 20.1 kilograms of illegal additives were seized, 12 administrative cases were filed, 2 criminal cases were filed, and 5 people were criminally detained. The investigated problematic bayberries and seized illegal additives have all been destroyed.
Starting from May 15, Zhangzhou (漳州) City organized a 45-day special rectification action, with the time period covering the entire cycle of bayberry picking and marketing. Strictly implement the systems of selling bayberries after they have passed inspection, commitment to standard qualification certificates, outbound transportation reporting, and a "blacklist" of purchasers, comprehensively strengthen the supervision of bayberries from purchase and storage to sales, and resolutely prevent problematic bayberries from entering the market.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Guiyang (贵阳) on May 21st (Reporter Cheng Huan (程焕)) - The Guizhou Provincial Administration for Market Regulation (贵州省市场监管局), the Cyberspace Administration of the CPC Guizhou Provincial Committee (省委网信办), and eight other departments recently jointly issued the "Opinions on Governing Profit-Driven Professional Claims and Professional Reporting Behaviors in Accordance with the Law," regulating profit-driven professional reporting behaviors, governing profit-driven professional claims and professional reporting behaviors that "use cracking down on counterfeiting as a name, but actually seek profit," protecting the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, and creating a good market environment, business environment, and consumption environment.
The opinions listed 12 behavioral characteristics of profit-driven professional claims and professional reporting, and proposed the establishment of a complaint and reporting directory database and its application methods, etc., to strictly review and regulate the disposal of profit-driven demands in accordance with the law. It clarifies that five types of situations, including normal consumer rights protection, public interest reporting on food and drug safety, and enterprise internal compliance reporting, do not fall under profit-driven behavior and are given normal protection.
The opinions emphasized that it is necessary to resolutely safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers, legally protect the normal, reasonable, and compliant rights protection demands of the masses, urge operators to operate legally, honestly, and in a standardized manner, and effectively consolidate the responsibility of operating entities. For company-based and organized malicious claims suspected of illegal and criminal activities, crack down on them in accordance with the law to form a deterrent 震慑 (zhèn shè - "deterrence," to frighten and subdue).
Return to TopThis newspaper Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), May 21st (Reporter Shang Rongzheng (尚嵘峥)) -- The Human Resources and Social Security Department of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区) recently issued the "Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region Special Vocational Ability Assessment Work Guidelines," aiming to solve the problems of inconsistent standards and non-standardized processes in various parts of Xinjiang (新疆) in terms of assessment project development, institution selection, assessment organization, and certificate management, and to promote high-quality and full employment for workers by mastering a skill.
The guidelines clarify the definitions of special vocational ability, assessment specifications, and special vocational ability assessment; standardize the project establishment principles, development processes, and review and filing procedures for assessment projects; strictly control the selection conditions of assessment institutions, quantitative evaluation standards, and dynamic management requirements; unify the entire process standards for assessment organization and implementation; and ensure that certificates are uniformly coded and styled throughout the region. Certificate holders can query certificate information through the skilled personnel evaluation supervision and service platform. The guidelines are closely aligned with market demand, achieving full-process, standardized management, while also establishing a quantitative evaluation and file traceability system, and publishing and dynamically updating the directory of assessment institutions and projects to the public.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贾丰丰
In early summer, at 4 p.m., a truck with a logistics logo arrives on time at the edge of a field in a village in Wujing Town, Fufeng County (扶风县), Baoji (宝鸡), Shaanxi (陕西). The crisp sound of the horn breaks the tranquility of the village. Villagers walk out of the fields and courtyards in twos and threes, heading to the small shop of villager Li Zongming (李宗明)—which is the express delivery station for the entire village.
"Express horses leap thousands of miles, delivering express delivery to the village; the spring breeze warms thousands of homes, repairing home appliances at the door," the couplet on the door of villager Li Zongming's (李宗明) house is very eye-catching. "Besides running the small shop, I also repair home appliances for the villagers. At the end of 2025, the Pinduoduo (拼多多) village-level station was set up in my small shop. The staff at the county transfer warehouse taught me how to operate it step by step. Now the truck arrives on time at 4 p.m. every day. I notify everyone to come and pick up their express deliveries, and I deliver them to those who have difficulty moving around," said Li Zongming (李宗明).
High logistics costs and difficulties in shipping for merchants in remote rural areas have always been a bottleneck for development. In April 2025, Pinduoduo (拼多多) launched the "100 Billion Support" plan, stepping up efforts to promote the "E-commerce Westward" campaign, so that residents in western regions can also enjoy free shipping services. Since November 2025, Pinduoduo (拼多多) has established county-level transfer warehouses and village-level collection points in many parts of the country, weaving a dense rural last-mile delivery network.
"The platform achieves free shipping in western regions such as Inner Mongolia (内蒙古), Tibet (西藏), Gansu (甘肃), and Ningxia (宁夏) through segmented transportation, two-stage centralized transportation, and exemption of transfer fees. This mature model is now being extended to the 'last mile' in rural areas, with remarkable results. Rural orders are first centrally sent to the county-level transfer warehouse, and then uniformly distributed to the villages. The platform bears the cost of the secondary transfer from the transfer warehouse to the village points," said the relevant person in charge of Pinduoduo (拼多多).
Walking into the Pinduoduo (拼多多) village entry transfer warehouse in Fufeng County (扶风县), the sorting belt rotates at a uniform speed, packages flow in an orderly manner, and Luo Heqing (罗何清), the head of the transfer warehouse, is busy scanning codes, sorting, and stacking. "In the past, each express delivery company delivered its own packages, and villagers had to run to the township and county to pick up their packages, taking up most of the day; farmers were afraid of high prices and long distances when shipping goods, and good products were hidden deep in the mountains, unknown to anyone," Luo Heqing (罗何清) said with emotion. Now, with resource integration and process reshaping, rural logistics has been completely renewed. At the beginning of the opening, there were only a few hundred orders per day, but now the peak period exceeds 6,300 orders per day. At 10 a.m. every day, each express delivery company concentrates at the warehouse; the sorting is completed at 2 or 3 p.m., and 7 trucks depart on 7 routes. The farthest route is 80 kilometers round trip. It is difficult for large vehicles to travel on the rugged mountain roads, so they are replaced with small van trucks. By 7 p.m. that evening, all the packages of the day are delivered, achieving "**日清日结**" (rì qīng rì jié - "clear daily settle daily," to clear all tasks on a daily basis).
For the villagers of this village, picking up packages used to be a troublesome task. "In the past, we had to make a special trip to the town, take a half-hour bus ride, and find the stations one by one. If we missed the time, we would have made the trip for nothing," said villager Liu Lai (刘来). "Now the express delivery station is located at the entrance of the village, and we can pick up our packages at any time."
Fufeng County (扶风县) has integrated the township business of 11 express delivery companies, and the village-level stations cover all administrative villages in the county, with each station serving more than 100 pieces per day on average. In 2025, the Fufeng County (扶风县) county-level logistics joint distribution center sent 2.774 million pieces upward and received 9.6397 million pieces downward, making the two-way flow of urban and rural goods smoother. In April of this year, the "100 Billion Support" plan entered its second year, and Pinduoduo (拼多多) continued to expand the free shipping coverage in remote villages, allowing more good urban products to reach the countryside directly, and also allowing more special mountain products to enter the cities at low cost and high efficiency.
"The '15th Five-Year Plan' proposes to promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of county commerce and strengthen the short-board facilities such as logistics warehousing and rural delivery," said Wei Jigang (魏际刚), Deputy Director of the Market Economy Research Institute of the Development Research Center of the State Council. "Solving the problem of logistics and distribution in western rural areas, centralized transportation and distribution methods help reduce costs and increase efficiency, and are worth promoting. With the continuous improvement of rural logistics, express delivery, and distribution network systems, the construction of terminal outlets will be continuously strengthened, creating conditions for the two-way efficient flow of urban and rural materials."
Return to TopThis newspaper reports from Xiamen (厦门) on May 21st (Reporter Fan Jiayuan (范佳元)) The 43rd China International Sporting Goods Show (hereinafter referred to as "China Sport Show") opened in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建) on the 21st. As the first sports industry exhibition held in the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the exhibition scale of this China Sport Show has exceeded 200,000 square meters, with over 2,000 exhibitors, setting a new historical record.
The China Sport Show has attracted global attention. Data shows that the total number of pre-registered visitors is approximately 33,000, including over 7,500 overseas visitors from 117 countries and regions. It is estimated that the exhibition will receive over 120,000 visitors, both of which are new historical highs. This China Sport Show presents a panoramic view of the new achievements, new business forms, and new trends in China's sporting goods manufacturing industry, which not only helps domestic brands expand their international market presence but also injects China's intelligent manufacturing innovation vitality and high-quality supply into the global sporting goods industry.
The exhibition is divided into the Asia-Pacific Fitness Exhibition, Sports Venue Facilities and Equipment Exhibition, and Sports Consumption and Service Exhibition areas. The three major exhibition areas work together to expand the scale and upgrade the quality. From technological fitness and sports rehabilitation to artificial intelligence ski systems and outdoor intelligent physical testing and fitness integrated machines, all kinds of cutting-edge equipment are dazzling.
At the same time, lightweight equipment that fits the outdoor trend and artificial intelligence venue energy consumption management systems have also been unveiled. This exhibition cleverly integrates the two major engines of "experience" and "first release," allowing visitors not only to learn about the latest industry trends at close range but also to immerse themselves in the new sports modes reconstructed by technology, turning the exhibition into an interesting interactive carnival.
The service model of this China Sport Show has also been upgraded. During the exhibition, more than 50 professional conferences and activities, such as the Sports Venue Facilities Industry Conference and the Digital Sports Industry Conference, will be held intensively, and authoritative information such as fitness industry reports will be released here for the first time, providing the industry with accurate weather vanes.
In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the China Sport Show has already surpassed the transaction itself. The exhibition has not only carefully created vertical exhibition areas such as the Asia-Pacific Fitness Exhibition but also linked overseas industry associations and international companies to build a precise global stage for Chinese brands. Luo Jie (罗杰), Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the China Sporting Goods Federation, said that with the help of the new policies released by the state to unleash the potential of sports consumption, the China Sport Show is focusing on promoting the "first release economy" and helping China's sporting goods industry accelerate on the track of high-quality upgrading.
In addition, this China Sport Show also arranges the Fujian (福建) Provincial Roller Skating Open, the National Fitness Championships and World Fitness Championships Selection Competition, the CBBA PRO China Fitness and Bodybuilding Elite Professional League (Xiamen Station) (厦门站), the 2026 National Fitness and Bodybuilding Newcomer Competition and other events, providing the majority of sports enthusiasts with opportunities to experience sports programs and sports consumption scenarios at close range.
Return to TopBy: 陶相安 彭春雨
The milestone moment of Chinese parkour arrived again on May 17 in Montpellier, France.
In the women's freestyle final of the 2026 Parkour World Cup, Shang Chunsong (商春松) stunned the audience with a set of movements with a difficulty score of 15.60, successfully winning the gold medal in the event. Her "Yoyog 720 Spin" movement in the preliminary round made her the first female athlete to complete the movement in a world competition.
In Shang Chunsong's (商春松) eyes, Montpellier (蒙彼利埃), France is her lucky place. In May 2024, Shang Chunsong (商春松) won the first World Cup gold medal for the Chinese parkour team here. Since then, Shang Chunsong (商春松) has successively won gold medals at the 2024 Parkour World Championships and the 2025 Chengdu World Games. Talking about the experience of winning the championship in her old place, Shang Chunsong (商春松) appeared particularly confident, "I firmly believe that I can defend my title, and I want to applaud myself," she said.
From Gymnastics to a New Track
Before "entering" the parkour arena, Shang Chunsong (商春松) was an excellent gymnast. Born in 1996, she entered the Chinese Gymnastics Team (中国体操队) in 2010 and served as the captain of the women's team. In her gymnastics career, Shang Chunsong (商春松) stood on the podium of the World Cup series many times and also had a gymnastics movement named after her - "Shang Chunsong (商春松) Vault". At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Shang Chunsong (商春松) and her teammates won a bronze medal in the women's team gymnastics event, ushering in her highlight moment. However, the failure at the 2017 Tianjin National Games made her think of retiring.
"At that time, the results were not very good, and I couldn't accept the reality. I felt like I had fallen to the bottom," Shang Chunsong (商春松) said. Like many retired athletes, Shang Chunsong (商春松), who bid farewell to the arena, also encountered a period of confusion. "During that time, I was very decadent and felt that I couldn't do anything except gymnastics." Despite this, she still paid attention to the performance of her teammates on the world stage. In 2018, when she saw her teammates achieve excellent results at the World Gymnastics Championships, Shang Chunsong (商春松), who refused to admit defeat, decided to fight again.
After her comeback, Shang Chunsong (商春松) still maintained a good competitive state. At the 2019 National Gymnastics Championships, she won the gold medal in the women's floor exercise. In the following years, she was also a frequent visitor on the podium of national competitions. Although the results were good, Shang Chunsong (商春松) was very clear-headed: "The competition in gymnastics is very fierce. As I get older, no matter how well my body recovers, there are not many opportunities to participate in world competitions."
By chance, Shang Chunsong (商春松) was attracted by the free, individual, and challenging characteristics of parkour and tried to switch to the sport. Although she had many years of gymnastics foundation, the transition process was not easy. "It's like using your right hand before, and now you have to switch to your left hand," Shang Chunsong (商春松) explained. "Unlike gymnastics, parkour doesn't need to be so standardized. It's more about giving play to individuality. I need to overcome the muscle memory of practicing gymnastics in training and form my own style." Although the transition process was full of challenges, the spirit of not admitting defeat prompted Shang Chunsong (商春松) to constantly break through herself. Falling down, starting over, falling down again, starting over again... She competed with herself again and again and also found her own way in parkour.
Dream Fulfilled in a Different Way
Walking into the gymnastics hall of the Training Bureau of the State General Administration of Sport (国家体育总局训练局), a champion wall displaying photos of world championship and Olympic champion athletes is particularly eye-catching. Being able to leave their names on this wall is the dream of every member of the Chinese Gymnastics Team (中国体操队), and Shang Chunsong (商春松) is no exception.
In her many years of gymnastics career, she has attacked the World Championship title several times, but has never been able to achieve her wish. However, this dream was fulfilled in a different way in 2024. In November of that year, the Kitakyushu (北九州) Parkour World Championships in Japan (日本) kicked off as scheduled. Affected by sudden weather, the final could not be held normally. The organizing committee finally decided to determine the final ranking according to the athletes' qualifying rankings. Shang Chunsong (商春松), who went all out and steadily fought in the qualifying stage, ranked first in the qualifying stage with her excellent and stable performance, successfully winning the women's freestyle title. This gold medal is not only the first World Championship gold medal in the history of the Chinese parkour team, but also the first World Championship title Shang Chunsong (商春松) has won in her career.
From her first appearance at the Gymnastics World Championships in 2013 to winning the Parkour World Championships in 2024, Shang Chunsong (商春松) has silently persisted for 11 years on the long road to chasing her dream. Talking about the moment of winning the championship, she still remembers it vividly: "When I stood on the podium and heard the national anthem being played, I had an unspeakable feeling in my heart. When I practiced gymnastics, I always wanted to stand on the highest podium of the World Championships, but fate seemed to be playing a joke on me, and my dream was suddenly realized in parkour."
In 2025, she also won the Chengdu World Games (成都世运会) parkour women's freestyle champion, successfully achieving a Grand Slam in parkour. Successive championships have made her determination to deeply cultivate parkour more firm, and she has also developed greater expectations in her heart. She frankly said that parkour is still a non-Olympic sport, and she hopes that this sport can be successfully selected for the Olympic Games before she retires.
Let More People Fall in Love with Parkour
Winning the Chengdu World Games (成都世运会) has special significance for Shang Chunsong (商春松). "I am very eager to win this championship, which can make more people know about parkour." With her love for parkour, Shang Chunsong (商春松) has put forward more requirements for herself. How to better show the charm of parkour and let more people participate in it has become a new direction for her efforts.
Shang Chunsong (商春松) publishes various parkour training videos on her personal social media. Each video is accompanied by carefully edited text, and the content combines fitness science and inspirational messages. Talking about the original intention of frequently sharing training videos, she said: "I hope to let more children see this sport." Parkour is a street running extreme sport, and it has always had the label of "flying over walls". In recent years, with the continuous development of social sports clubs, parkour has become increasingly popular among young people. However, parents generally have safety concerns, which has also caused many children to miss the opportunity to try this sport. For this reason, Shang Chunsong (商春松) has been using various opportunities to change the public's perception of parkour.
In Shang Chunsong's (商春松) view, parkour can bring many positive effects, not only can it enhance physical fitness and temper resilience, but also can improve self-protection ability. "The entry threshold for parkour is actually not high. In training, you will also learn fall protection skills to avoid sports injuries, and at the same time, it can also effectively improve the flexibility and coordination of the body," she said.
On the wall of the training hall that Shang Chunsong (商春松) often goes to, there is an encouraging slogan - "If you are afraid of falling, you will inevitably fall because of fear." She also often encourages young people with this: "Be brave to try, don't back down before you even start." This sentence is also a vivid portrayal of Shang Chunsong's (商春松) career. From crossing over from gymnastics to parkour, she has always dared to try and challenge, writing her own wonderful life in one jump after another.
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What is Parkour
Parkour originated in Europe and is an extreme sport of running fast in the streets. It takes the daily living environment as a place and relies on its own physical fitness and skills to control known and unknown environments. In 2022, parkour made its debut at the World Games. With the hosting of the Chengdu World Games (成都世运会) in 2025, parkour has been further popularized in China.
Parkour competition venues are usually composed of platforms, tracks, obstacles, and scaffolding. World Championships, World Cups, and other events generally have two events: speed and freestyle. The speed race is in the form of a time trial. Athletes start at the same time on parallel and identically arranged tracks, and the first athlete to reach the finish line wins. Different from the speed race, the freestyle event is more abundant. This event requires athletes to use obstacles to show parkour skills, style, and creativity within a specified time interval, and the referees will score based on the athlete's completion and difficulty.
For most people, parkour is a low-threshold sport that can be tried anytime and anywhere. If you want to improve further, you need to receive professional training.
(Reported by Tao Xiang'an (陶相安), reporter of this newspaper)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Nanning (南宁) on May 21st (Reporter Tao Xiang'an (陶相安)) The 2026 China Internet Civilization Conference Network Civilization Cultivation Sub-Forum was held in Nanning, Guangxi (广西南宁) on the 20th. As one of the important parts of the forum, the "Sports Culture Works Collection Activity" was launched simultaneously, aiming to promote the Chinese sports spirit and create a strong cultural atmosphere for accelerating the construction of a strong sports country.
The event revolves around six themes: the concrete expression of the Chinese sports spirit, major events and the city's civilized image, mass sports and national fitness, the construction of sports field civilization, youth health and sports literacy, and the inheritance and innovation of traditional sports culture. The collection of works covers six categories including text, graphics, video, micro-documentaries, animation, and micro-dramas, encouraging diverse expressions and innovative presentations. AI (artificial intelligence) generated content must be marked, and text-based works must not use AI generation. The collection time is from May 20 to August 31, 2026. Creators can submit their works through the event page of People's Daily Online (https://tiyuzhengji.people.cn) and sign a copyright commitment letter as required.
The first Sports Culture Works Collection Activity was launched in 2025, collecting more than 8,000 works in total, with 120 outstanding works 脱颖而出 (tuō yǐng ér chū - "stand out from the crowd," to rise above others; to distinguish oneself). It achieved a good social response. This event will further gather high-quality sports culture creations, tell the story of Chinese sports well, and let the Chinese sports spirit shine in the cyberspace.
This collection activity is jointly organized by the Bureau of Civilization Cultivation of the Central Propaganda Department (中宣部文明培育局), the Department of Physical, Health and Arts Education of the Ministry of Education (教育部体育卫生与艺术教育司), the Propaganda Department of the General Administration of Sport (体育总局宣传司), and the Media Organization Management Department of the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局传媒机构管理司), and co-organized by China Spiritual Civilization Network (中国精神文明网), the Sports Department of People's Daily (人民日报社体育部), the Sports Department of Xinhua News Agency (新华社体育部), the Sports and Youth Program Center of China Media Group (中央广播电视总台体育青少节目中心), and the China Advertising Association (中国广告协会), and undertaken by People's Daily Online (人民网) and Beijing Sport University (北京体育大学).
Return to TopYinlong Elementary School in Zhongshan Town, Qianxi City, Guizhou Province (贵州省黔西市钟山镇银龙小学) routinely carries out a variety of colorful sunshine sports activities, integrating distinctive programs such as rope skipping, running, and games into breaks between classes, allowing students to grow happily and healthily through sports.
The picture shows children jumping long ropes.
Photo by Zhou Xunchao (周训超) (People's Vision)
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 21st (Reporter Chen Chenxi (陈晨曦)) The Chinese Football Association (中国足协) announced the third batch of industry penalty lists on the 21st. This penalty involves 65 people, of whom 17 were given a lifetime ban from engaging in any football-related activities, and 48 were given a ban from engaging in any football-related activities for five years or less.
The Chinese Football Association (中国足协) stated in its announcement on the third batch of industry penalties that recently, the Disciplinary and Ethics Committee of the Chinese Football Association (中国足协) systematically sorted out and carefully studied the case materials of the "fake gambling and black" issues in the football industry that it has now grasped. In accordance with the "Disciplinary Guidelines of the Chinese Football Association (中国足协)" and other relevant regulations, it completed the industry penalty review work for the personnel and clubs involved in the case. Ding Yong (丁勇), Wu Jingbo (吴静博), and other 17 practitioners who have been identified by the People's Court as constituting crimes, were given a lifetime ban from engaging in any football-related activities. Gao Han (高寒), Wang Bo (王波), and other 48 practitioners who seriously violated industry discipline were given a corresponding ban from engaging in any football-related activities for five years or less, depending on the nature of their behavior, the amount of money involved, the frequency of violations, and their subjective malice.
According to the latest criminal judicial judgment materials, it was discovered that Meizhou Hakka Football Club (梅州客家足球俱乐部) also had other serious violations of discipline. With reference to the past industry penalty principles for clubs involved in the case, it is now decided to impose an additional deduction of 6 points from the 2026 professional league points and a fine of 800,000 RMB on Meizhou Hakka Football Club (梅州客家足球俱乐部).
Previously, the Chinese Football Association (中国足协) announced two batches of industry penalty lists in September 2024 and January 2026, respectively.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
"Control your speed! Apply even pressure with both hands, ease into the brakes, and pay attention to adjusting your takeoff posture!" Nearing noon, the peak time for paraglider takeoffs at the camp, Xue Feng (薛峰) was busy instructing trainees on takeoff.
Xue Feng (薛峰) is the vice chairman of the Gansu Provincial Aviation Sports Association (甘肃省航空运动协会) and the head coach of the Liujiaxia International Paragliding Camp (刘家峡国际滑翔营地) in Yongjing County (永靖县), Gansu Province (甘肃省). Born in Lanzhou (兰州), Gansu (甘肃), he is 55 years old this year. Standing on the mountaintop and looking down at the earth has been a passion of his since childhood. "Sometimes, I dream of soaring in the sky," Xue Feng (薛峰) said.
The realization of his dream began with a chance encounter. Twenty-eight years ago, Xue Feng (薛峰) was taking a walk in the square when a shadow quickly flashed before his eyes. Following the sight, he discovered it was a paraglider performing a low-altitude flight demonstration. This encounter filled Xue Feng (薛峰) with excitement: it turned out there really was a way to soar in the blue sky. Since then, Xue Feng (薛峰) followed a professional coach and began training in paraglider control, cultivating an environmental awareness of airflow changes, and dedicating himself wholeheartedly to paragliding.
Unfortunately, an accidental injury ended Xue Feng's (薛峰) career as a paragliding athlete. However, Xue Feng's (薛峰) connection with paragliding unfolded in another form. "For professional athletes, wanting to refine their skills and achieve breakthroughs naturally involves certain risks. But for recreational sports enthusiasts, paragliding is suitable for all ages," Xue Feng (薛峰) said. "I want to break everyone's stereotype of paragliding as a 'niche extreme sport' and let more people experience the joy of soaring in the blue sky."
In 2007, after passing the assessment, Xue Feng (薛峰) became a national-level paragliding coach, thus starting a new career. "The tandem paragliding coaches commonly seen at scenic spots should professionally be called 'tandem paragliding pilots.' A paragliding coach needs to have both tandem flight ability and flight teaching ability." Transitioning from athlete to coach, Xue Feng (薛峰) pays more attention to cultivating the trainees' operational standardization. "It takes five or six years to train a tandem paragliding pilot, guiding them on how to fly higher, farther, and longer, but the most important thing is to ensure that they have the ability to ensure the safety of the participants when they independently fly in the future," Xue Feng (薛峰) said.
"The wind direction and speed that a paraglider faces in the sky are different every moment. This is both the charm of the sport and the important challenge that pilots must face. Therefore, coaches need to strictly guide trainees to master key technical details such as the angle of the parachute ropes and the number of steps to take off, so that they can better adapt to the airflow environment," Xue Feng (薛峰) introduced. "In Liujiaxia (刘家峡), the unique natural landform creates stable airflow conditions, with nearly 300 days a year suitable for flying, providing favorable conditions for more tourists to soar in the blue sky." In addition, the camp also uses professional satellite weather software to add security to the paragliding experience.
Xue Feng (薛峰) often interacts with tourists from all over the country, enthusiastically explaining paragliding techniques, helping tourists overcome their inner fears, and allowing them to fully enjoy the fun of flying under safe conditions. "As long as the physical conditions meet the requirements, anyone can come here to experience it." Xue Feng (薛峰) recalled that an elderly man from Qinghai (青海) who was blind came to Yongjing County (永靖县) specifically to experience paragliding, just to feel the beauty of the Yellow River (黄河) outside of sight. "The old man said that in the sound of the wind and the sound of the Yellow River (黄河) during the flight, he felt inner peace. This makes me feel that my career is very meaningful."
"I met Coach Xue (薛教练) when I was 18 years old, and his enthusiasm for paragliding has always infected me," said Wang Xiwen (王喜文), a post-90s tandem paragliding pilot at the Liujiaxia International Paragliding Camp (刘家峡国际滑翔营地). "Every time after a tandem flight, Coach Xue (薛教练) organizes us to review the flight, encouraging everyone to exchange experiences, which has benefited me a lot."
Now, Xue Feng (薛峰) has trained more than 500 paragliding pilots, three of whom have become national-level coaches, and many trainees have opened their own paragliding camps. "I hope that every trainee I take into the sky can be like the wind in this gorge, blowing the dream of flying to a farther place," Xue Feng (薛峰) said with anticipation.
Return to TopEndearing "Bing Dwen Dwen" (冰墩墩), humorous "Garlic Bird" (蒜鸟) dolls, industrial cultural creations symbolizing "Zhuzhou Manufacturing" (株洲制造)... Each city gift is a bright city business card, carrying the city's culture, inheriting the city's memory, and creating new consumption scenarios, business forms, and models.
In October 2023, the Ministry of Commerce (商务部) issued the "Guiding Opinions on Strengthening Brand Construction in the Commercial Field," proposing to "promote the formation of a batch of 'must-buy and must-bring' city gifts integrating commercial innovation, cultural creativity, and technological empowerment." In recent years, many places have regarded city gifts as an important carrier for spreading city culture, shaping city brands, and extending the cultural tourism industry chain.
"Enriching the supply of high-quality tourism products" is written into the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline. May 19 this year is the 16th China Tourism Day. How to create "city memories that can be taken away" and allow consumers to buy more and better city gifts? Not long ago, reporters visited Beijing (北京), Wuhan (武汉), Hubei Province, and Zhuzhou (株洲), Hunan Province, and interviewed city gift collectors, product designers, and brand operators to hear their stories about the exploration and thinking of the characteristic, high-quality, and systematic development of city gifts.
"Deeply explore city characteristics and avoid 'a thousand cities with one face'"
Zhang Wenquan (张文全)
When it comes to the top-tier "Beijing Gifts" (北京礼物), I personally recommend "Bing Dwen Dwen" (冰墩墩).
Guess how many "Dwen Dwen" themed cultural creations I have at home? More than 1,000! In addition to the basic models, there are also various limited edition products such as the astronaut version of "Bing Dwen Dwen" and the hidden models of "Dwen Dwen" blind boxes. My family and I joke that I am "the person with the most 'Dwen Dwen' collections in the country."
To be honest, collecting so many "Dwen Dwen" really took a lot of effort. I first bought "Bing Dwen Dwen" in December 2021. At that time, the online official flagship store was sold out every time it was put on the shelves. I set an alarm clock to wait, and I didn't get it after grabbing it for a week in a row. Later, I went to the official licensed merchandise flagship store of the Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会) to snap up the goods. Early in the morning, there was a line of hundreds of meters at the door, and everyone waited in the cold wind wrapped in thick down jackets. It was not easy to buy a basic plush "Bing Dwen Dwen" and two badges, and the feeling of joy is still unforgettable.
Why is "Bing Dwen Dwen" so popular? I love its appearance. The combination of the adorable "national treasure" giant panda image and the ice crystal shell is soft, cute, and full of technology. I love its connotation even more. For example, the flowing bright color lines come from the National Speed Skating Oval "Ice Ribbon" (冰丝带), which symbolizes the ice and snow sports track and also represents modern high technology such as 5G, reflecting the deep integration of winter ice and snow sports and modern technology. Who doesn't love such a mascot with both internal and external qualities?
There are also many foreign fans who love it. During the Beijing Winter Olympics, I met a foreign friend and gave him an astronaut version of "Bing Dwen Dwen." A city gift allowed us to cross language and cultural barriers. Now, he has collected more than 300 "Dwen Dwen."
The Beijing Winter Olympics have been over for a few years, but "Bing Dwen Dwen" has not become outdated. The designer combines it with the zodiac culture and constantly launches new products: "Rabbit Dwen Dwen" (兔墩墩), "Dragon Dwen Dwen" (龙墩墩), "Horse Dwen Dwen" (马墩墩)... Why is the "Dwen Dwen" series of cultural creations "always popular"?
Rely on continuous innovation and intensive cultivation. The constantly "changing" "Dwen Dwen" always makes people feel refreshed. Rely on life-like expression, kind and natural. From collectible ornaments to daily pendants, refrigerator magnets, etc., the categories are constantly expanding and flying into ordinary people's homes. The most important thing, I think, is that it carries the city's memory and characteristics, so that it is truly remembered and widely spread.
From "Pan Pan" (盼盼), the mascot of the 1990 Beijing Asian Games (北京亚运会), to "Fuwa Jingjing" (福娃晶晶) of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games (北京奥运会), to "Bing Dwen Dwen" of the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the cultural symbol of the giant panda has witnessed the development of China's sports industry and also witnessed Beijing shining on the world stage time and time again. As a native of Beijing, in my opinion, "Dwen Dwen" as a city gift has long surpassed ordinary cultural and creative products, but is a kind of emotional sustenance, carrying the collective memory of Beijing, the "Dual Olympic City" (双奥之城).
In addition to the "Dwen Dwen" series of cultural creations, I have also bought many other "Beijing Gifts," including cultural creations with Beijing landmarks such as the Forbidden City (故宫), the Great Wall (长城), and the Temple of Heaven (天坛) as creative elements, such as Forbidden City ridge beast ornaments, Great Wall relief bookmarks, and Temple of Heaven aromatherapy, as well as Beijing intangible cultural heritage cultural creations, such as Tu'er Ye (兔儿爷) figurines, Jing embroidery (京绣) pendants, and cloisonné (景泰蓝) small ornaments. I collect some of these "Beijing Gifts" myself, and others are given to relatives and friends. They like them very much, saying that they can learn about Beijing's history and culture through these objects.
To be honest, it was quite worrying to prepare souvenirs for relatives and friends in other places in the early years. At that time, what you could buy were mostly simple postcards, landmark models, etc., with simple styles, weak designs, and insufficient practicality and appreciation.
If city gifts want to be taken away and remembered, they must deeply explore city characteristics and avoid 千城一面 (qiān chéng yī miàn - "a thousand cities, one face," describing a lack of individuality or distinctiveness). In 2008, the Beijing Olympic Games were successfully held, and products such as the "Fuwa" series sold well. From then on, I began to collect cultural creations from sports events and give them to relatives and friends as city gifts. In recent years, "Beijing Gifts" has been built into a well-known IP brand. While deeply exploring local cultural resources such as the Forbidden City, the central axis, and intangible cultural heritage, it pays attention to diversified design expressions. A series of handicrafts and cultural and creative products that reflect Beijing's urban characteristics and cultural characteristics have emerged one after another. There are both large-sized cultural creations that demonstrate the demeanor of a great power and the atmosphere of an ancient capital, as well as small and exquisite objects suitable for daily use, integrating history and reality, and combining atmosphere and exquisiteness.
For example, the Beijing bus stop sign refrigerator magnets, which have been quite popular in recent years, are painted with old-fashioned bus patterns and popular bus routes, which are both nostalgic and modern. Many citizens and tourists take refrigerator magnets to landmarks such as the Drum Tower (鼓楼) to check in and take photos. At that moment, history and the present are linked.
It should also be noted that quality is behind the characteristics. As a loyal fan, I deeply know that it is not easy for "Beijing Gifts" to become famous. This brand, which was created in 2011 and registered its trademark in 2014, has gradually established unified certification standards and evaluation specifications, and is no longer a traditional tourist souvenir.
Characteristics are built by ingenuity. In those days, "Bing Dwen Dwen" was born after tens of thousands of manuscripts were revised. Today, the towering and ancient Great Wall, the newly revitalized hutong alleys... After the design and ingenuity of craftsmen, they have become "Beijing Gifts" that convey hearts between you, me, and him.
The tide of the times is surging forward, paving the way for the richest innovation scenarios and the most splendid creative stage for city gifts.
(The author is a collector of cultural and creative products, interviewed and compiled by Shi Fang (施芳), a reporter from this newspaper)
"Traffic brings attention, quality wins people's hearts"
Li Mangguo (李芒果)
"Garlic Bird" (蒜鸟), a cute little yellow bird cultural and creative doll with a green "garlic" on its head, has become popular in the past two years - it was selected as one of the "Top Ten Souvenirs" in the second Hubei Wuhan (湖北武汉), and more than 1 million pieces have been sold since its launch in October 2024, with a terminal sales of about 50 million yuan. As a designer, I am especially proud.
The design inspiration comes from my marriage. In 2016, I came to Wuhan to work and met my wife. She is a local of Wuhan, with a cheerful and easy-going personality. When she has disputes with family and friends, she always likes to say "Suan le" (算了), which sounds very much like "Garlic Bird" (蒜鸟). This word is a local dialect, conveying the open-minded and optimistic temperament of Wuhan people.
After being together for a long time, she and I inevitably quarreled. I majored in advertising design in college. Once, when we quarreled, in order to make peace, the word "Garlic Bird" provided inspiration, and I designed a "Garlic Bird" doll - the upper body is like garlic, dyed light green; the lower body is like a bird, painted light yellow.
With the image, it still lacks "vitality." So, I recorded a passage of myself saying "Suan le, suan le, dou bu rong yi" (算了，算了，都不容易 - "Forget it, forget it, it's not easy for anyone"), and embedded the sound into the doll's built-in press-type sound device. After making it, I showed it to my wife. Not only did we reconcile, but she also recorded a video of the doll and shared it on the short video platform, gaining millions of views, and many netizens left messages asking to buy it.
Why not start a business from this? I checked policies, looked at the market, and compared competitors online, and found that although there are many doll products, there are very few derived from dialects. The entry of "Garlic Bird" into the market will surely "take off." My wife and I formed a team and started a business.
At that time, who would have thought that it would be spread as a city gift? Looking back now, I am filled with emotion: for a good city gift, traffic brings attention, and quality wins people's hearts. Pursuing quality, every effort you make will not be in vain.
Quality is reflected in the details. First of all, the sound. I can't speak Wuhan dialect. The dialect of the first version of the doll was not authentic. Locals found it awkward, and outsiders couldn't understand it. So I asked my wife to record it many times, and also used professional software to adjust the pitch to form the current timbre, which is natural and humorous; secondly, the color. I increased the contrast between green and yellow, which is more eye-catching; and then there is the production. We asked Wuhan tailors to sew it by hand, making 1,000 pieces a month, with real embroidery skills. The product was sold out a few days after it was launched, and more than 3,000 orders were received.
Quality comes from the confidence of manufacturing. If the product is popular, in order to ensure quality and deliver goods in time, it must be mass-produced. I found a doll factory and signed a batch production contract. Don't look at the "Garlic Bird" which is only 10 centimeters high, but it involves more than 10 processes such as embroidery, hardware, and printing, and it is not easy to make it well. But in the same month, the factory mass-produced about 10,000 dolls. Acceptance of delivery: each clove of garlic on the doll is individually filled with cotton, the fabric has no burrs, the printed label is clear, and the built-in battery is mercury-free... The visible quality is marked with the hard power of Made in China.
Not long after, the first batch of products was sold out, followed by the second batch, the third batch... Supply fell short of demand. In February 2025, I founded a company and developed a series of dolls such as Sakura "Garlic Bird" and Bianzhong (编钟 - ancient Chinese chimes) "Garlic Bird."
"Garlic Bird" takes off, and quality escorts the whole process. Later, some imitations appeared on the market. We sued the relevant companies to the court. The court impartially adjudicated and cracked down on shoddy "fake Garlic Birds." Relevant departments also put our products on official channels such as the "Wuhan Gift" brand flagship store and "Wuhan Gift" vending machines to support the "real Garlic Birds."
At the beginning of this year, we opened the first "Garlic Bird" series theme store in Wuhan, displaying all styles of "Garlic Bird" dolls. Although the area is only 10 square meters, it is crowded with people every day and has become an important platform for promoting the copyright of "Garlic Bird." I also added a golden chip to the newly developed "Garlic Bird" doll label, which is equivalent to its "electronic ID card." As long as customers see it, they will know that it is a product made by our company.
Good quality wins a big market. Nowadays, more and more city gifts derived from dialects are emerging. Lanzhou (兰州) dialects "Zan Jin" (攒劲 - energetic) and "Liang Huo" (亮豁 - bright and cheerful) are printed on mobile phone cases, clothes, and other products. Changsha (长沙) dialect "Cao Yazi" (草伢子 - naughty boy) is made into blind boxes, and Nanchang (南昌) dialect "Qia Ga Ya" (恰噶鸭 - just right duck) is made into plush dolls... These local accent symbols with regional cultural characteristics are leaping into memories of nostalgia and cultural movements in the exchange of gifts between people.
(The author is the designer of the "Garlic Bird" doll, interviewed and compiled by Wu Jun (吴君), a reporter from this newspaper)
"Let city gifts 'grow' into consumers' journeys"
Shan Qiuxiang (单秋香)
In 2022, the cultural tourism department of Zhuzhou City (株洲市), Hunan Province, convened major cultural and creative enterprises in the city to plan and launch Zhuzhou's characteristic cultural and creative products. At that time, many city gifts had already made a name for themselves. Everyone was holding back a lot of energy, wanting their city to be seen, liked, and remembered.
After competition, our company became the brand operator of "Zhuzhou Gifts" (株洲礼物). In the blink of an eye, four years have passed, and I have tasted all the joys and sorrows. One experience is becoming more and more profound: to make city gifts well, we must improve the operating system and achieve sustainable development.
To make city gifts, we must first take stock of our assets. Yan Emperor Mausoleum Scenic Area (炎帝陵景区), Liling porcelain (醴陵瓷器), high-speed trains... Which one is not a well-known city business card of Zhuzhou? Taking the Zhuzhou rail transit equipment industry cluster as an example, about 30% of the domestic rail transit equipment comes from here. Isn't this the best industrial cultural and creative theme? But when I plunged into it, I realized that if I directly printed the logo of the high-speed train manufacturing enterprise, it would infringe on the copyright, but if I didn't reflect the enterprise, I would lose the "soul" of industrial cultural and creative products. To this end, we cooperated with CRRC Zhuzhou Electric Locomotive Research Institute Co., Ltd. (中车株洲电力机车研究所有限公司) to open a cultural and creative coffee shop called "Chenxiangju" (沉香居). The "Chenxiangju" brand is registered by CRRC Zhuzhou Institute. As the entrusted operator, we can develop peripheral products around CRRC's industrial culture.
In the coffee shop, the aroma is permeated, and groups of two or three guests are talking softly. Next to them are refrigerator magnets in the shape of high-speed trains and coffee cups printed with high-speed train elements. Industrial elements and life atmosphere are cleverly integrated. Each product here has been approved by the enterprise, "one thing, one authorization," which not only protects intellectual property rights, but also transforms the originally cold industrial elements into cultural and creative expressions that can be perceived, consumed, and spread.
To make city gifts well, creativity is only the first step. What is more difficult is how to open up the market.
At first, we also wanted to take the old road of traditional consignment and put products in scenic spots, business districts, and other places with large traffic. But as soon as we contacted, our hearts were half cold - the industry channel fees were relatively high, and most of them adopted the "first consignment, then settlement" model, selling them before sharing the money, and the pressure on capital turnover was high.
What to do? Instead of simply copying the old road, we explored product activities and experiences, and promoted them along the cultural tourism consumption chain.
For example, sachets, we don't sell finished products directly, but prepare medicinal materials and fabrics, so that tourists can make them by hand and learn about traditional Chinese medicine culture in the experience; Liling ceramic production experience is very popular, we provide plain blanks, tourists can draw freely, and the works are sent back to the kiln for firing and mailed to their homes, so that a porcelain cup becomes a carrier of city memory... Products are no longer cold commodities placed in the window, but small surprises that grow naturally during the journey.
It is also necessary to be deeply bound to characteristic activity spaces. There is a saying in Zhuzhou that "you can collect tens of thousands of parts to produce a locomotive in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee." We concretize this sentence - when drinking coffee in the "Chenxiangju" cultural and creative coffee shop, we use the locomotive-shaped cup we developed; we carry out youth talent salons and art research activities, and string together industrial science popularization and cultural and creative consumption with the story of a cup of coffee... Looking back now, when we operated city gifts, we never thought that we would open a coffee shop and do research, but we have a deep feeling after taking this road: the integration of culture and tourism is not simply bundling city gifts and scenic spots for sale, but letting city gifts "grow" into consumers' journeys - as long as you come to Zhuzhou for business trips and research, you may encounter "Zhuzhou Gifts" in every link such as accommodation and dining, and every encounter is deepening your understanding of this city.
Isn't this exactly what the "15th Five-Year Plan" outline emphasizes, "leading new supply with new demand and creating new demand with new supply"? The market reputation of "Zhuzhou Gifts" "grows" in new scenarios.
Jumping out of the single scenic spot consumption model, we also explore various ways such as enterprise souvenirs and talent gift packages. Although they seem scattered, they open up a broad market for "Zhuzhou Gifts." For example, this year we customized talent gift packages for CRRC Zhuzhou Institute, incorporating high-speed train shapes into designs such as necklaces and bracelets, which are very popular among employees.
Breaking away from the single scenic spot consumption model, we also explore various avenues such as corporate gifts and talent packages. Although seemingly scattered, these open up a broad market for "Zhuzhou Gifts." For example, this year we customized a talent package for CRRC Zhuzhou Institute (中车株洲所), incorporating the shape of high-speed trains into necklace and bracelet designs, which are very popular among employees.
For city gifts to remain consistently popular, continuous innovation is needed. However, Zhuzhou (株洲) lacks local creative and design talent. What should we do? Last year, we collaborated with several universities, including Taiyuan University of Technology (太原工业学院), to conduct art research programs. Students visited rail transit production lines, experienced traditional Chinese medicine culture, and listened to us explain how city gifts are transformed from ideas into products. Subsequently, they created products based on their own understanding, retaining the original copyright. We selected the best ones to promote for sale, obtaining exclusive operating rights for a certain period. In this way, we not only made up for the talent shortage, but also expanded our "external brain," achieving multiple benefits in one fell swoop.
By deeply exploring new scenarios, we have established five directly-operated "Zhuzhou Gifts" stores and more than ten authorized stores, and have also formed three major product matrices: "Industrial Civilization," "Intangible Cultural Heritage Craftsmanship," and "City Impression." Looking to the future, with the improvement of the operating system and the enhancement of capabilities, one "Zhuzhou Gift" after another will carry the city's warmth and enter more new consumption spaces.
(The author is the head of Hunan Sanyuan Weidu Brand Integration Co., Ltd. (湖南三圆惟度品牌整合有限公司). This article was compiled from an interview with Sun Chao (孙超), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopLayout design: Zhang Fangman (张芳曼), Shen Yiling (沈亦伶)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 章念生 白元琪
During World War II, more than 2,700 Australian and British prisoners of war were escorted to Sandakan (山打根) by the Japanese army, where they suffered long-term labor and torture. In early 1945, as the Allied forces won victory after victory, the Japanese army forcibly drove most of the prisoners of war into the tropical rainforest, forcing them to begin a march of more than 260 kilometers, with only 6 survivors, historically known as the "Sandakan Death March." The memorial park in front of the reporter is the site of the former prisoner-of-war camp and the starting point of the "Death March." Although overgrown with vegetation, the history of Japanese militarism's crimes against humanity has never gone away and should not be forgotten.
The Suffering of the Camp –
"We and the dogs swarmed to grab food"
Walking into the Sandakan Memorial Park (山打根纪念园), a three-dimensional map model at the entrance recreates the layout of the prisoner-of-war camp: surrounded by barbed wire and lined with low barracks. Since 1942, many batches of prisoners of war transferred to Sandakan (山打根) have become "slave laborers" for the Japanese army to build airports.
"They cleared dense forests and excavated rocks in the scorching sun, working 6 days a week and more than 10 hours a day," explained guide Iggi. The construction geology is mostly light-colored tuff, which reflects dazzling light in the sun, causing corneal burns to many prisoners of war.
The living conditions of the prisoners of war were equally harsh. On-site data shows that they were crowded into attap houses built of palm leaves, with more than 60 people living in each room, and rats and lice were rampant inside. In addition, in order to strictly prevent Australian and British prisoners of war from contacting each other privately, the Japanese army shaved the hair of one side - if people with different hairstyles were found whispering, they would be severely punished.
Most of the facilities in the former camp have been burned down by the Japanese army, and a rusty excavator is particularly eye-catching. "The prisoners of war were unwilling to work for the invaders, so they delayed the construction period and expressed their anger through various 'small sabotages'," Iggi said. A prisoner of war who was an engineer secretly poured sand into the engine oil pan, which completely paralyzed the excavator.
In order to tame the prisoners of war, the Japanese army invented a torture called "the cage": a narrow wooden cage was placed on wooden stakes, and the surroundings were spliced with wooden strips a few centimeters wide, less than one meter high. The imprisoned could not stand and stretch, but could only curl up in it, exposed to the sun and rain. Exhibition board data shows that 19-year-old Private Keith Botterill was imprisoned in this way for 40 days. "There were 17 people in the cage. There was no water for the first 3 days, and on the third night, the soldiers would force you to drink dirty water until you vomited; there was no food for the first 7 days, and talking was forbidden. Every evening, we would be beaten in a 'physical exercise'. When the cook poured swill into the trough to feed the dogs, we and the dogs swarmed to grab food."
Prisoners of war were also often subjected to collective abuse. Survivor Bill Stipevich recalled an atrocity called "flight practice": "We were ordered to stand with our arms outstretched horizontally, exposed to the sun. Japanese soldiers took turns beating our armpits and ribs. If someone whimpered or flinched in pain, they would be beaten again."
In a corner of the ruins, the reporter saw a restored cement storage room, which was the site of the Japanese army's kitchen. In stark contrast to the inhuman lives of the prisoners of war, the Japanese guards had ample supplies. World War II historian Lynette Silver said that as the war situation took a sharp turn for the worse, the prisoners of war's rations were further reduced. By the end of 1944, they could only survive on stale rice full of maggots, and in extreme hunger, they even caught slugs and skewered them on iron wires to roast and eat.
The Death March –
"The so-called 'strategic transfer' proved to be an organized massacre"
A simple and solemn imitation wooden pavilion stands high in the park. The marching route and oral history materials displayed in the pavilion reveal the tragic history of the "Sandakan Death March (山打根死亡行军)."
"In the first half of 1945, in order to prevent the Allied forces from rescuing them, the Japanese army transferred the prisoners of war to Ranau (兰瑙) in three batches to the west. The so-called 'strategic transfer' proved to be an organized massacre. The hundreds of kilometers of tropical rainforest march became the end of the lives of most prisoners of war," said Iggi.
On January 28, 1945, the first batch of more than 450 prisoners of war with better physical strength were divided into 9 groups and set off first. "At that time, it was the rainy season. In order to cross the swamp, the prisoners of war were forced to walk on a broken bamboo plank road only about one meter wide. Anyone who slipped and broke a leg would be executed on the spot," Iggi introduced.
The prisoners of war carried the Japanese army's rice and equipment, walking barefoot in tree roots, rocks and swamps, without enough to eat. Pencil-thick leeches and mosquitoes carrying malaria parasites bit from time to time, and Japanese soldiers drove them with bayonets behind them. Keith Botterill wrote in his testimony: "During the march, we constantly witnessed our companions falling and being executed, and the air was filled with the stench of the bodies of the victims of the advance team." In the end, about 350 people barely arrived in Ranau (兰瑙), but under worse living conditions, most of them soon died of labor, disease and hunger.
On May 29, 1945, the second batch of more than 500 prisoners of war set off. Long-term hunger and disease made them extremely weak, and malaria, dysentery and skin diseases spread. Lynette Silver said: "The ulcers on many prisoners of war were so severe that even the tibia was clearly visible... Even so, they were forced to continue walking." About a month later, only more than 180 people arrived in Ranau (兰瑙). When they arrived, they found that only 6 of their companions who had arrived in the first batch were left.
As the "Death March" came to an end, the Japanese army completely lost its humanity, set fire to most of the camp area, and abandoned nearly 300 seriously ill prisoners of war who could not walk in the wilderness. On June 9, 1945, the last batch of about 70 prisoners of war were forced to set off, and this time, no one reached the end.
"During the march, a total of 6 prisoners of war successfully escaped with the help of local residents," Iggi told reporters. The joint testimony of these 6 survivors and local people finally sent the main leaders of the Japanese army to the gallows of justice, and also completely exposed the atrocities of the "Death March."
The electronic photo wall in the memorial pavilion scrolls through the images of the victims, and many visitors stop and remain silent. After the war, investigators traveled all over the original site of the Sandakan (山打根) camp, the surrounding jungle, hundreds of kilometers of trails, and Ranau (兰瑙), and finally unearthed more than 2,100 remains of Australian and British prisoners of war. Looking at the young faces in the photos, British tourist Steve exclaimed: "The Japanese army completely lost the basic human bottom line. This was not an ordinary march, but a complete death expulsion."
A Lesson from History –
"The international community should face up to the historical facts of World War II written in blood"
In the northern part of the memorial park, there is a circular platform with a black granite monument in the center. The monument is engraved with Malaysian hibiscus, Australian waratah, and English roses, and the characteristic flowers of the three countries are intertwined, symbolizing the collective memory of different ethnic groups fighting against Japan together.
During the Japanese occupation, the people of Sandakan (山打根) secretly formed underground organizations to transport food and medicine to the prisoners of war. Historical records show that Kulong, the person in charge of the Paginatan area, risked his life many times to rescue prisoners of war, and in June 1945, he successfully rescued Gunner Owen Campbell, one of the 6 survivors of the "Sandakan Death March (山打根死亡行军)."
However, due to the betrayal of informants, the secret rescue network was unfortunately exposed, and the Japanese army immediately launched a frenzied revenge. A large number of organization members were arrested and subjected to torture such as waterboarding, hanging, and nail pulling. Important members Matthews, Wells, and Wetton heroically sacrificed after being severely tortured. This is the tragic "Sandakan Incident (山打根事件)" in history.
Exhibition materials record the self-report of organization member Johnny Fung, who suffered all kinds of torture in the month after his arrest: "They made me kneel on a wooden board covered with thorns, with a heavy wooden bar placed horizontally in the popliteal fossa, and two soldiers repeatedly pressed down on both ends like playing on a 'seesaw'. There were also so-called 'judo masters' who arbitrarily threw and twisted my limbs in the room. I was twisted and stuffed into a specially made chair, allowing them to continue beating my head."
David Leeson, a descendant of a prisoner of war, commented on the memorial park's website: "This memorial park not only belongs to those prisoners of war who did not return home, but also to the citizens of Sandakan (山打根) who risked their lives to help. This is an important historical warning site."
According to statistics, about 16% of civilians in Sabah (沙巴州), Malaysia, died from the atrocities of the Japanese army. At that time, the Japanese army placed a large number of informants in the towns and forcibly plundered, making the local people live in extreme fear for a long time. Dorisson told reporters that young Japanese tourists often asked her: "Are these all true? Why have our textbooks never talked about such content?" She always firmly replied: "These relics and the stories of the survivors are ironclad evidence of the Japanese army's aggression!"
The Monument to Martyred Overseas Chinese in Sandakan (山打根) city center witnesses the loyalty of the overseas Chinese martyrs who fought against Japanese militarism during the Japanese occupation. Xie Heyi, chairman of the Sandakan Chinese Chamber of Commerce (山打根中华商会), said that remembering history is not to continue hatred, but to warn the future. "The international community should face up to the historical facts of World War II written in blood, be vigilant at all times against the resurgence of militarism 死灰复燃 (sǐ huī fù rán - "dead ashes rekindle," to revive something that has died out), and jointly build a solid foundation for peace."
(Reported from Sandakan (山打根), Malaysia by this newspaper)
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By: 本报记者 赵益普
According to the latest data released by the Pakistan Automotive Manufacturers Association, from July 2025 to April 2026, Pakistan's cumulative auto sales exceeded 127,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 52%, with sales of all segments increasing. In April of this year, the country's auto sales exceeded 17,000 vehicles, a year-on-year increase of 117%.
Pakistan has a population of nearly 260 million, with a household car ownership rate of about 1%, and the auto market has huge growth potential. According to Pakistan's "The News" newspaper, in March of this year, Pakistan's auto industry financing reached its highest level in 42 months, helping many car companies expand production capacity and launch more car purchase subsidies, accelerating market expansion.
For a long time, the Pakistani auto market, especially the family car market, has been dominated by Japanese automakers. In recent years, Chinese automakers Great Wall (长城), MG (名爵), Changan (长安), Chery (奇瑞), BYD (比亚迪), GAC (广汽), and others have accelerated their entry into the Pakistani market. Hassan Mansha, CEO of Nishat Automotive, a Pakistani auto manufacturer and dealer, said that diversified and healthy competition will help improve the overall level of Pakistan's auto manufacturing industry and meet consumers' different needs for auto prices and functions.
Pakistan is committed to promoting the electrification of the auto industry to help reduce its dependence on fossil fuels. The recently announced "Pakistan New Energy Vehicle Plan 2025-2030" proposes to achieve the goal of new energy vehicle sales accounting for 30% of total auto sales by 2030. The government calls for the simultaneous localization of energy storage battery production while producing and selling new energy vehicles. The government has also decided to introduce electric buses and electric motorcycles into the public transportation system nationwide.
Affected by the situation in the Middle East, the price of gasoline and diesel in Pakistan has risen, and the local people's demand for new energy vehicles has increased. "Developing new energy vehicles is the future direction of Pakistan's auto industry. Chinese car companies such as Chery (奇瑞) and BYD (比亚迪) have rich experience in the research and development and production of new energy vehicles, which is exactly what the Pakistani market needs," said Shakil Arshad, Director of the Local R&D Bureau of the Pakistan Ministry of Science and Technology (巴基斯坦科学技术部), to reporters. The Pakistani government will further promote the full-chain production of Chinese new energy vehicles in Pakistan, help Pakistan achieve a green transformation of the auto industry faster, and also welcomes car companies from China and other countries to deeply cultivate the Pakistani market.
(Reported by our newspaper from Islamabad (伊斯兰堡) on May 21)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 禹丽敏
May 22nd is International Day for Biological Diversity. This year's theme is "From Agreement to Action: Build Back Biodiversity". This theme emphasizes that global biodiversity conservation not only requires international cooperation, but also the joint participation of local governments, businesses, communities, and the public in various countries.
According to the latest research released by the United Nations Environment Programme, current global investment in nature conservation and nature-based solutions is still far below the level required to address the ecological crisis. Forest degradation, marine pollution, habitat fragmentation, and frequent extreme climate events have increased the pressure on ecosystems, and global biodiversity governance still faces challenges. Multiple assessments by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) indicate that land use change, overexploitation of resources, pollution, climate change, and invasive alien species remain the main causes of the deterioration of global biodiversity problems. Related research shows that a large amount of funds continues to flow to industries that cause forest destruction, land degradation, and marine ecological degradation, while the investment actually used for ecological protection and restoration is still significantly insufficient.
Protecting biodiversity is protecting the future of mankind. The "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" reached in 2022 proposed the "30×30" target, that is, by 2030, 30% of the world's land and oceans will be included in protected areas or other effective area-based conservation measures. Many countries continue to promote the updating of national action plans, the construction of nature reserves, and ecological restoration projects around this goal, and global ecological governance is gradually shifting from setting goals to implementing actions. At the resumed meeting of the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity to be held at the end of February 2025, the parties reached a consensus on important issues such as the financing plan for global biodiversity conservation.
Biodiversity governance cannot be separated from the concerted efforts of the international community, and many countries and regions have taken positive actions and made progress. In 2020, the Brazilian government established the Amazon Council and implemented the "Green Brazil" plan to strengthen law enforcement protection in the Amazon rainforest, and the deforestation rate has declined continuously. In 2024, the European Union passed the Nature Restoration Law to accelerate the restoration of wetlands, forests, and pollinating insect habitats. Many African countries have promoted the construction of transboundary ecological protected areas to strengthen the protection of large wild animal migration corridors. More and more countries have begun to carry out natural capital accounting, incorporate ecological value into the economic and social development system, and promote green and low-carbon transformation.
China is one of the first countries to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, and has always firmly fulfilled its commitments and obligations, explored the path of harmonious coexistence between man and nature, and promoted global biodiversity governance to a new level. The international community generally believes that China has played an important role in promoting the global biodiversity governance from "forming consensus" to "implementing actions." Inger Andersen (英格·安德森), Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (联合国环境规划署), said that China's progress in the field of biodiversity conservation is impressive and provides useful experience for global ecological governance.
Return to TopBy: 车 斌
"Social media is something people enjoy using, but after reflection, find useless or worthless. We call it a waste-of-time commodity." This quote comes from a recently released "World Happiness Report," revealing the common dilemma of contemporary people using social media.
The 2026 "World Happiness Report," led by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network, jointly compiled by the Oxford University Wellbeing Research Centre, and Gallup, specifically focuses on the impact of social media on the mental health of young people. The results show that in the past 10 years, the happiness of young people under the age of 25 in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and other countries has declined sharply. An important reason is the heavy use of social media. The data intuitively shows that people who are addicted to social media for more than 7 hours a day have a much lower sense of happiness than those who use it for less than 1 hour a day on average. Whether it is the data analysis of scholars or the subjective feelings of parents, the conclusion is consistent: heavy use of social media is eroding the happiness and mental health of young people.
Why is social media addictive, yet quietly stealing happiness? The answer lies in three realistic dilemmas.
First, the more you scroll, the more numb you become. Passive browsing social platforms are particularly problematic, easily causing loss of control over screen time and falling into addictive browsing. Relying on algorithms, platforms accurately feed fragmented and interesting content, continuously providing instant gratification, making people unconsciously fall into mindless "blind scrolling," consuming a lot of time in meaningless information streams.
Second, the more you scroll, the more mentally draining it becomes. Social platforms are filled with exquisitely packaged personas and perfect lives filtered through lenses, constantly amplifying young people's comparison mentality and growth anxiety. At the same time, online malicious comments, circle antagonism, and other chaos occur frequently, continuously eroding young people's mental health and value cognition. Instant pleasure is fleeting, but the accumulated mental drain is constantly increasing.
Third, the more you scroll, the more lonely you become. Online interaction ultimately cannot replace real social interaction. Multiple studies have confirmed that the loneliness of heavy social media users is much higher than that of the general population. Frequent online likes and interactions cannot fill the void of real emotions, but instead make people fall into a vicious cycle of the more they scroll, the more lonely they become, and the more lonely they become, the more they scroll.
Essentially, this is a battle for "attention." To help young people win back their attention, we need the joint efforts of the government, schools, families, and platforms. Not long ago, the Canberra (堪培拉) Municipal Government in Australia held the "Wonderland Carnival" event, where joyful scenes composed of music, dance, giant balloons, and carousels appeared in every corner of the city. Here, simple scenes create face-to-face encounters and interactions, and the real happiness they bring cannot be provided by social media.
Australia is the first country in the world to pass legislation restricting the minimum age of social media users. The law prohibits minors under the age of 16 from registering for mainstream social media accounts. Many other countries are also taking action: more than 10 states in the United States have introduced restrictions, and France, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom are also promoting relevant bills. Malaysia plans to implement similar policies this year. China has also introduced a series of measures, including drawing red lines on content, pressing responsibility on platforms, and upgrading protection on models, to prevent young people from becoming addicted to the Internet. The logic behind the measures is very simple, as Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese (阿尔巴尼斯) said: Setting a minimum age for social media use is the same as setting a drinking age. First, give children a clean growing environment, and then let them face the complex online world when they have self-control and judgment.
It is worth noting that some Generation Z are also awakening and starting "reverse operations." Slow-paced lifestyles such as knitting and needlework are becoming increasingly popular, and a "grandma style" has even swept overseas. Young people actively embracing simple and authentic lifestyles is actually a gentle counterattack against the virtual mental drain of social media. In the end, technology is not the enemy. Social media can be a window to see the world, or it can be a quagmire that devours time. The key is how to use it: active and restrained, it can empower you; passive and addicted, you will be swept away by the torrent. After all, in this digital age, 守住本心 (shǒu zhù běn xīn - "guard the original heart," to maintain one's original aspirations and principles) is the only way to maintain happiness.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Berlin (柏林) May 21st dispatch (Reporter Liu He (刘赫)) The German Federal Agency for Foreign Trade and Investment (德国联邦外贸与投资署) released the "2025 Foreign Companies Investing in Germany Report" on the 21st, showing that the number of Chinese companies' investment projects in Germany last year reached 228, an increase of 14.6% over the previous year. For the first time since 2017, it surpassed the United States, making China the largest source country for foreign investment projects in Germany.
The report shows that Chinese companies' investments in Germany last year were mainly concentrated in electronics and automation, transportation and logistics, energy and raw materials, and digitalization. More than 1/5 of the projects involved production and research and development, a proportion higher than the overall average level of foreign companies' investment projects in Germany.
The author of the report, Thomas Bohjan (托马斯·博扬), an expert at the German Federal Agency for Foreign Trade and Investment (德国联邦外贸与投资署), said that in recent years, Chinese companies' investment activities in Germany have continued to expand, showing very strong performance, and the investment layout shows a high degree of diversity, covering industrial applications, cutting-edge technologies, and knowledge-intensive services. More and more Chinese companies are further integrating production and research and development into their German business systems. "This not only reflects the long-term attractiveness of the German market to Chinese investors, but also reflects that Chinese companies are continuously accelerating their internationalization layout and global expansion pace."
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 王伟健
In May, the 32nd APEC Ministerial Meeting on Trade was held in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province. Openness has become one of the most distinctive labels of this ancient city with a thousand-year history.
As an important window for China's opening up to the outside world, by the end of 2025, Suzhou's cumulative actual use of foreign capital exceeded US$170 billion, with 185 Fortune Global 500 companies investing in 508 projects, and 238 companies recognized as provincial-level multinational regional headquarters and functional institutions.
Over the decades, foreign companies have taken root and thrived here. Why has Suzhou become a fertile ground for foreign investment? What is the development environment here like?
Many development opportunities—
"New friends" continue to join, and "old friends" continue to increase investment
Walking into the project site of Bruckner's Asia-Pacific headquarters base in Suzhou Industrial Park (苏州工业园区), the project plan clearly shows a modern park integrating high-end manufacturing, R&D innovation, sales settlement, and supply chain procurement. This new project, with a total investment of approximately US$100 million, is Bruckner's largest single investment outside of Germany, and will become one of the group's important strategic hubs for expanding its market after completion.
When Bruckner established a company in Suzhou Industrial Park in 2011, it was just an assembly plant with only dozens of employees. Over the past 15 years, with the transformation and upgrading of China's manufacturing industry and the continuous improvement of Suzhou's industrial ecology, the company has developed rapidly. "Now, half of our global sales come from the Chinese market," said Tan Liwen (谭礼文), CEO of Bruckner Machinery (China) Co., Ltd. "Customers are nearby, and the market is within reach." Hengli Group (恒力集团), headquartered in Suzhou, is an important customer of Bruckner. Bruckner has tailored nearly 40 high-end film production lines for it, and many production lines cost more than 100 million yuan each.
Also growing together with Suzhou is the Finnish company Kone Elevator. "When we started in Kunshan (昆山) 30 years ago, we were just a small factory with dozens of people. We never thought we could reach today's scale," said Anti Paavola, Senior Vice President of Supply Line, Kone Elevator Greater China. The Kone Kunshan Industrial Park (通力昆山工业园) already has 4 modern factories, and has shipped 1.8 million elevators and escalators to more than 100 countries and regions. Kunshan has also become one of the Kone Group's largest production bases and supply centers in the world.
Suzhou's openness is not only the openness of the market, but also the openness of the industrial ecology. Here, companies can not only find a broad market, but also find mature upstream and downstream supporting facilities, forming a unique advantage of "the upper and lower floors are the upstream and downstream, and the industrial park is the industrial chain."
In the early morning, on Nanjing Road (南京路) in Taicang (太仓) City, Suzhou, a blue and white No. 103 bus departs from the station on time. This ordinary bus, known locally as the "industrial bus," passes dozens of German-funded companies such as Kern-Liebers, Schaeffler, Tox Pressotechnik, and Trumpf along the way, connecting a dense cluster of German-funded manufacturing industries.
In Taicang, 70% of the parts for a car can be found from suppliers in the city. This "door-to-door" supply ecology greatly reduces the logistics costs and time costs for companies. "One out of every three cars on the road uses our parts. China's large market brings many opportunities," said Mr. Ye Sen (叶森), head of the German Herrenknecht Group, expressing the sentiments of many foreign-funded companies. This German company, which has been rooted in Taicang for 20 years, has grown 20 times in size, and its precision parts have been integrated into the global automotive industry chain.
It is this "market + industrial chain" advantage that makes Suzhou's foreign-funded enterprises show a scene of "new friends" constantly joining and "old friends" continuing to increase investment: Siemens has upgraded from a manufacturing plant to a "dual headquarters and one center"; Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) will invest another US$150 million in 2025 to build a 100,000-level air separation unit, which is a leading scale in the global steel industry... Multinational companies are using real money to show their confidence in Suzhou's open development.
Strong innovation atmosphere—
Foreign companies are not "migratory birds" that fly away at any time, but "big trees" with deep roots
In Suzhou, the development path of foreign companies is changing: instead of "production in China, R&D overseas," they are placing R&D centers, innovation headquarters, and even key nodes of the global R&D network here. Foreign companies are not "migratory birds" that fly away at any time, but "big trees" with deep roots.
As a global leading manufacturer of rail transit braking systems, the development trajectory of Knorr-Bremse (德国克诺尔) in Suzhou High-tech Zone (苏州高新区) is a vivid microcosm of this change. When Knorr-Bremse came to Suzhou in 2004, it only built a production plant, mainly engaged in the assembly and processing of braking system parts. In 2022, Knorr-Bremse invested hundreds of millions of yuan to launch a new R&D center, focusing on the research and development of cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous driving and intelligent steering for commercial vehicles, and formed an R&D team of more than 300 people. In 2025, Knorr-Bremse increased its investment again, gradually migrating global finance, human resources and other functions to Suzhou.
Over the past 22 years, Knorr-Bremse has completed multiple transformations in Suzhou from a production base to an R&D center and then to a global service hub. "Suzhou High-tech Zone has become the most important strategic pillar for the company outside of its Munich headquarters in terms of investment density and business scope," said the head of Knorr-Bremse China.
More and more multinational companies are deeply rooting their innovation in the open fertile land of Suzhou. Walking into Philips Healthcare (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (飞利浦医疗（苏州）有限公司) in Suzhou Industrial Park, in the laboratory, engineers are conducting electromagnetic compatibility tests on a new product that is about to be shipped to Europe. In the past, this was mainly a manufacturing base, and product R&D was completed at the headquarters in the Netherlands or other branches. Today, Suzhou has become one of Philips' three major comprehensive production and manufacturing bases in the world, forming an integrated ecosystem of "R&D-manufacturing-service."
For a long time, traditional magnetic resonance equipment has relied on a large amount of liquid helium supply. How to overcome the liquid helium-free magnetic resonance technology has become a challenge facing the industry. Liu Ling (刘令), President of Philips Greater China, said: "China's needs present the challenges that the global healthcare system will face in the future earlier and more concentratedly. At the same time, China's complete supply chain system has formed a comprehensive competitiveness in multiple dimensions such as innovation, quality, speed, and cost." Thanks to the complete innovation supply chain and the superior innovation environment, liquid helium-free magnetic resonance has achieved a comprehensive innovation in safety, accessibility, and sustainability, and has gone from Philips Suzhou to the world, providing a guarantee for the efficiency and resilience of the healthcare system.
By the end of 2025, Suzhou had accumulated 317 foreign-funded R&D centers, accounting for 60% of the total in Jiangsu Province (江苏省), and nearly 30% of the R&D results were exported globally. From Knorr-Bremse's "three-level jump" to Philips' "global premiere," Suzhou is proving with vivid stories that it is not only a highland of global manufacturing, but also a hotbed of global innovation.
Good business environment—
Foreign companies are not hurried "passengers," but "partners" who share weal and woe
The market-oriented, rule-of-law, and internationalized business environment is the most solid foundation for Suzhou's open road. Here, foreign companies are not hurried "passengers," but "partners" who share weal and woe.
In the "future factory" of the Danish Grundfos Group (丹麦格兰富集团) in Changshu High-tech Zone (常熟高新区), robotic arms are precisely waving, and automated production lines are operating in an orderly manner. On the roof of the factory, large photovoltaic power generation panels are lined up, which can support up to 50% of the electricity consumption of the entire factory. This world-renowned manufacturer of pump products has invested in the construction of a 34,000-square-meter intelligent low-carbon factory here, with a total investment of US$100 million.
However, it took only 396 days from the foundation laying to the completion of such a large project. Before the opening ceremony, the project had been put into production for 3 months, achieving nearly 140 million yuan in invoiced sales.
"From signing the contract to settling down to completion and production, Changshu's service guarantee at all stages is impressive," said Markmann, President of Grundfos China. In order to get the project to land and put into production as soon as possible, Changshu High-tech Zone established a service team, implementing "one project, one team, and one grasp to the end." From land leveling to construction permits, from power access to environmental protection approvals, the special team intervened in each link in advance, turning "serial approval" into "parallel promotion," and compressing the project construction cycle to the greatest extent.
Suzhou is carrying out the "three services" special action of serving enterprises, serving projects, and serving parks and grassroots, establishing and improving a closed-loop mechanism for problem discovery, assignment, supervision, and feedback, and solving various difficulties in the production and operation of enterprises in a timely manner, so that foreign-funded enterprises can invest with confidence, operate with peace of mind, and grow bigger and stronger in Suzhou.
State Grid Suzhou Power Supply Company (国网苏州供电公司) innovated its service model in the "three services" special action, implemented a project chief mechanism, and provided "one-to-one" exclusive services for major foreign-funded projects. According to the plan, the Swire Coca-Cola (太古可口可乐) Kunshan factory, with a total investment of 2 billion yuan, will be put into use on May 26 this year. During the construction of the project, State Grid Suzhou Power Supply Company took the initiative to connect with the project's needs, formed a special service team, and provided one-to-one tracking services to realize the user's "only one trip." It formulated a personalized power supply plan for it, ensuring seamless connection between power supply support and construction progress, and successfully completed the power transmission work of the 110 kV Taigu Substation, providing a key guarantee for subsequent equipment debugging and production preparation.
In the opening year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," standing on a new starting point, open Suzhou opens its arms and moves forward with its head held high.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Nanjing (南京) May 21st dispatch (Reporter Wang Weijian (王伟健)): As the 32nd APEC Ministerial Meeting is about to be held, on May 21st, the APEC Business Community Partnership Dialogue and the 2026 Suzhou (苏州) Global Investment Promotion Conference were held in Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏).
The event focused on the theme of "Building a Mutually Beneficial and Win-Win APEC Business Partnership," attracting more than 200 executives and guests from Fortune Global 500 and China 500 companies, who engaged in exchanges and interactions through on-site dialogues, video sharing, and other forms, to discuss industrial cooperation and development plans. It is understood that foreign-funded enterprise guests accounted for more than 55% of the participants in this exchange meeting, and global-level executives of multinational companies exceeded 60.
At the meeting, the heads of more than 10 well-known Chinese and foreign companies exchanged views on topics such as intelligent manufacturing, innovative development, and win-win cooperation. Ding Hongyu (丁泓禹), Global Senior Vice President and President of 3M China, said that 3M uses intelligent manufacturing to help the digital transformation of industries in China, and will increase its local production capacity and innovation investment in China in the future to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results with China. Recipient of the Chinese Government Friendship Award and Chairman of the German Herrenknecht Group, Juergen Herrenknecht (尤根·海瑞恩), recommended the city of Suzhou (苏州) to business friends around the world in a video exchange, and believes that China's stable and professional business environment is an important prerequisite for foreign-funded enterprises to dare to invest for the long term and develop with peace of mind. Cui Genliang (崔根良), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Suzhou (苏州) private enterprise Hengtong Group Co., Ltd. (亨通集团有限公司), said in the exchange that Hengtong Group will work with global partners to promote the interconnection of new global optical fiber network infrastructure.
It is understood that foreign investment is climbing from traditional manufacturing to high-tech industries, and investment returns in China remain stable. Over the past 10 years, the R&D investment and effective invention patent numbers of foreign-funded industrial enterprises above a certain scale in China have increased significantly.
Return to TopBy: 姜 明
The High-Tech High-End Transmission System Headquarters and R&D Manufacturing Base Project in Wujiang District (吴江区), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) is under intense preparation for commencement. "From initial contact to formal signing, it only took 22 days," said Qian Weinan (钱伟男), Operations and Human Resources Director of Suzhou High-Tech Motion Control Technology Co., Ltd. (苏州高创运动控制技术有限公司). This speed is a vivid illustration of Wujiang District's empowerment of foreign-funded enterprises through full-cycle services and its forging of a first-class business environment.
The clock turns back to mid-January this year. Through the introduction of Soochow Venture Group (苏创投集团), the High-Tech Transmission team visited Wujiang (吴江) for the first time. At that time, the company held seven site selection plans in other cities in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角), and Wujiang (吴江) was only one of the alternatives. What attracted the High-Tech Transmission team from "alternative" to "first choice" in Wujiang (吴江)? Qian Weinan (钱伟男) answered with four keywords: the government's efficiency and sincerity, the agglomeration effect of the industrial ecology, the advantages of location and talent, and the support of employee willingness.
"After the district leaders held a special meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, they convened a meeting with the company on the second day to discuss the implementation plan, which was very efficient," said Qian Weinan (钱伟男). After that, the two sides quickly entered into high-frequency interaction - multiple rounds of exploration, docking programs, and communication during the Spring Festival was not interrupted. On February 27, the project with a total investment of 1.5 billion yuan was officially signed and settled.
Signing is not the end, but the starting point of full life cycle service. As soon as the project landed, a special team was quickly formed: coordinating transitional factory buildings, implementing talent apartments, and assigning special personnel to connect with policy declarations, with services running ahead of demand. "The cultural relic exploration was compressed from 40 days to 20 days, and there are special personnel to coordinate the review of drawings, temporary electricity, and environmental assessment, with a green channel throughout the process," said Qian Weinan (钱伟男).
Generoso Polito, General Manager of Yival (Suzhou) Valve Co., Ltd. (意阀（苏州）阀门有限公司), which has been rooted in Wujiang (吴江) for more than 20 years, also has a deep feeling for the business environment of Wujiang (吴江). In 2005, when this Italian company settled in Wujiang (吴江), the investment amount was only 1.425 million euros. "In the past 20 years, I have felt Wujiang's (吴江) service of 有求必应、无事勿扰 (yǒu qiú bì yìng, wú shì wù rǎo - "respond to every request, don't disturb when there's nothing to do," describes a helpful and non-intrusive service approach)." Generoso Polito said. It is this business environment that has prompted the Yival Group (意阀集团) to determine to increase its investment in Wujiang (吴江). In 2025, Yival Group (意阀集团) will invest 15.65 million euros to build a sample factory and plans to set up a purchasing center. The new factory is expected to be put into operation in 2027.
"From the sprint of signing and landing in 22 days to the long-term commitment of rooting deeper and deeper for more than 20 years, it is the result of Wujiang District's (吴江区) deep cultivation of foreign investment services and the cultivation of fertile soil for the business environment," said Chen Yuehong (陈月红), Director of the Investment Promotion Bureau of Wujiang Development Zone (吴江开发区招商局局长). In April this year, Wujiang (吴江) issued an action plan to build a first-class business environment and promote a comprehensive upgrade of the business environment. In the field of foreign investment and foreign trade, Wujiang (吴江) has built an open ecology in multiple dimensions: strengthening the construction of foreign-funded headquarters echelon and R&D centers; implementing a three-year action plan for cross-border e-commerce, supporting enterprises to unite to explore emerging markets; and simultaneously promoting the enterprise overseas escort action, establishing a foreign-related risk early warning and overseas intellectual property rights protection cooperation mechanism, to provide support for enterprises to "go global."
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On May 18th, the signing ceremony for the South Korean DIC (株) automotive intelligent transmission manufacturing project took place, marking the fourth foreign investment project signed in Zhangjiagang City (张家港市), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) this year. Currently, nearly a thousand foreign-funded enterprises are deeply rooted and developing in Zhangjiagang (张家港), with 42 Fortune 500 companies establishing 69 projects. This demonstrates characteristics such as the concentration of foreign-funded enterprises, collaboration between upstream and downstream industries in the supply chain, and a shift in investment focus towards the high end of the value chain.
Stepping into the As氟乐 (Āsīfúlè) project construction site in Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇), Zhangjiagang City (张家港市), a modern semiconductor factory is "breaking ground." On January 16th, the As氟乐 (Āsīfúlè) semiconductor equipment ultra-clean module and system integration project, with a total investment of US$150 million, commenced construction here. Five days later, the Nexbay (纳克斯贝) semiconductor atomic layer deposition equipment project was established here, with a total investment of over US$20 million, becoming the first major foreign investment project signed in Zhangjiagang City (张家港市) this year. After more than 30 years, Fenghuang Town (凤凰镇) has more than 40 South Korean-funded enterprises with a total investment of US$1.5 billion, becoming a gathering place for South Korean-funded enterprises in the Yangtze River Delta region.
In Zhangjiagang Metallurgical Industrial Park (Zhangjiagang Yejin Yuan) (锦丰镇), the Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) energy storage air separation project is under construction. Xu Ping (徐平), Business Manager of Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) China Large Industries East China Region, introduced that since Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) settled in Zhangjiagang (张家港) in 2004, it has invested hundreds of millions of US dollars to build three factories, supplying key gases for high-end industries such as semiconductors, advanced manufacturing, and medical care. Not far from the Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) energy storage air separation project, the national key foreign investment project - Ruihua Technology (锐华科技) new energy intelligent cockpit, medical intelligent bed and precision structural parts production base is accelerating, with a total project investment of 10.5 billion yuan, and the annual revenue is expected to exceed 10 billion yuan after reaching production.
"Foreign investment in Zhangjiagang (张家港) has shifted from manufacturing to technology, and cooperation is closer," said the relevant person in charge of Zhangjiagang City (张家港市) Bureau of Commerce. "The Air Liquide (法国液化空气集团) energy storage air separation project can provide industrial gas guarantee for local metallurgical enterprises such as Shagang (沙钢), and Shagang (沙钢) steel is directly supplied to Ruihua Technology (锐华科技), forming a 'gas supply - metallurgical production - precision manufacturing' industrial chain collaborative development, effectively improving supply chain efficiency and resilience."
Foreign companies investing in Zhangjiagang (张家港) are showing a new trend from capacity expansion to value enhancement, investing in innovation research and development, technological transformation, green and low-carbon, and intelligent upgrades. In December last year, Jotun Group (挪威佐敦集团) added US$330 million in investment to build a new high-performance coating factory project and a liquid coating research and development center. Since Dow Chemical (陶氏化学) settled in Zhangjiagang (张家港) in 1998, it has built 19 major projects with a total investment of US$3 billion, making the Zhangjiagang (张家港) base its largest production base in China. Benecke Changshun (贝内克长顺), Honeywell (霍尼韦尔) and other foreign-funded research and development centers are accelerating their gathering, forming an innovation matrix with new projects.
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Mr. Ji Xianlin's (季羡林) scholarship was as vast as the halls of a temple. As an example, one can cite "The History of Sugar" (糖史). Recently, the standalone edition of "The History of Sugar" (糖史) (see picture, data image) has been meticulously proofread and published by Peking University Press (北京大学出版社), giving us the opportunity to take a closer look and even share our insights.
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Sugar is a very common thing. Why did Mr. Ji, despite his old age, painstakingly choose to write a history of it that is 800,000 words long? This is the question of the origin of writing "The History of Sugar" (糖史).
The beginning of the matter seems somewhat accidental, although upon deeper reflection, it has its inevitability. Mr. Ji noticed early on that the words related to sugar in many European languages all originated from the Sanskrit words sarkara and khandaka. Thus, he gradually developed a guess: the West may not have originally had sugar, and the earliest sugar there most likely came from India. Later, a fragment of a Dunhuang (敦煌) scroll fell into his hands. The fragment was taken from Dunhuang (敦煌) by Paul Pelliot in the early 20th century and passed through the hands of many Chinese and foreign scholars for decades, but it was always difficult to decipher. The main obstacle to understanding the fragment was not knowing what the term "煞割令" (shā gē lìng) referred to. After much thought, Mr. Ji revealed its meaning, pointing out that it was a Chinese transliteration of the Sanskrit word sarkara. The crux of the problem was thus resolved, and the fragment was easily understood. What was recorded in the scroll was originally a manual for sugarcane production.
The interpretation of the fragment allowed Mr. Ji to further see the spread of material culture with sugar as the carrier. For decades, Mr. Ji focused on the study of world, especially ancient Chinese and Indian culture, and always maintained a keen sense of the interaction and influence between different cultures. Now, he discovered that sugar, which seemed insignificant, actually "hides a very complex and very vivid history of cultural exchange." Mr. Ji's interest in it naturally became strong. Later, as his horizons broadened, his "interest became even greater," and in addition to being "moved," he vowed to study the history of sugar and eventually completed the great work we see. This may be destiny, the inevitability mentioned above.
The writing of "The History of Sugar" (糖史) went through a long process, from the publication of the first paper in 1981 to the publication of the second volume, "International Compilation," in 1998, spanning 17 years. During these 17 years, Mr. Ji did different kinds of research work, but the writing of "The History of Sugar" (糖史) was always on his mind and never forgotten. In particular, 1993 and 1994 were completely devoted to consulting classics and collecting materials in the Peking University Library (北京大学图书馆), "regardless of wind or rain, heat or cold," except on Sundays.
In order to write "The History of Sugar" (糖史), Mr. Ji chose to use, in addition to all relevant works by contemporary scholars, ancient Chinese official histories, unofficial histories, dictionaries, encyclopedias, science and technology books, agricultural books, specialized treatises on sugar refining, materia medica and medical books, Buddhist scriptures including biographies of monks and phonetics, Dunhuang (敦煌) scrolls, collections of poetry and prose, local chronicles, notes, newspapers, Chinese and foreign travel notes, geographical works, private diaries, various miscellaneous works, foreign pharmacopoeias, ancient languages (Sanskrit, Pali, Tocharian), and Western literature in English, German, and other languages. He made every effort to find and read all ancient and modern classics that he considered useful, exhaustively searching and researching until he felt at ease.
In Mr. Ji's own words, "The History of Sugar" (糖史) was written using "the most primitive, the most clumsy, but the only way: to search the books you want to consult, no matter how thick or heavy, page by page, line by line." Sifting through a huge amount of books was "like looking for a needle in a haystack, extremely difficult." This was a long and arduous survey process, and even an emotional journey full of ups and downs. He examined a total of no less than hundreds of thousands of pages of books, and whenever he gained something, he was "as happy as if he had found a treasure." But of course, it was also possible to spend half a day and gain nothing. But when this happened, he had to "feel lost, dejected, and drag his heavy old legs home." If you ask about Mr. Ji's (季先生) academic path, this scene is a portrayal.
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In order to understand Mr. Ji's (季先生) specific methods of researching problems, we might as well take one of his most valued topics—the study of white sugar—as a specimen, and make a close observation around it to see how he obtained materials, analyzed, and summarized the issue of Sino-Indian cultural exchange involved in it.
In this example, Mr. Ji (季先生) first listed for us the Sanskrit names of five kinds of sugar with different purities in the important ancient Indian medical book "Sushruta Samhita" (妙闻本集) (before the 4th century AD), among which the purest sarkara was relatively white. In the 16th century AD, another medical book, "Bhavaprakasa" (有光), had two more sugar names: puspasita and sitopala. Here, sita and its phonetic variant sito both mean "white," indicating that the quality of these two kinds of sugar had improved and was very white and clean. According to the Indian scholar Rai Bahadur, puspasita is also called padma-cini and phul-cini in the Bengal region. cini means China. At this point, Indian white sugar became connected with China, with the possibility that the product or technology came from China.
Looking back at China, regarding the sugar-making situation from the 4th to the 16th century AD, Mr. Ji (季先生) believes that two things are worth noting:
The first thing is that advanced Indian sugar-making technology was introduced to China in the Tang Dynasty. According to the records of the "New Book of Tang" (新唐书), "Tang Huiyao" (唐会要), "Cefu Yuangui" (册府元龟), and Wang Zhuo's (王灼) "Sugar Frost Spectrum" (糖霜谱), Mr. Ji (季先生) tells us that Emperor Taizong of Tang (唐太宗) once sent envoys to Magadha (摩揭陀国) in India to "obtain the method of boiling sugar." Soon after, the color and taste of sugar produced in China improved. In addition, Mr. Ji (季先生) also cited the legend of Monk Zou (邹和尚) recorded in Wang Zhuo's (王灼) "Sugar Frost Spectrum" (糖霜谱) as collateral evidence that India possessed advanced sugar-making technology at that time. The legend says that during the Dali (大历) period of Emperor Daizong of Tang (唐代宗), a monk named Zou (邹和尚) lived on a mountain in Suining (遂宁), Sichuan (四川). One day, Monk Zou's (邹和尚) donkey went down the mountain and destroyed the sugarcane fields of the local people. As compensation, Monk Zou (邹和尚) taught the field owner how to make good sugar. Soon after, this person made 10 times the profit by selling sugar. The "Tiangong Kaiwu" (天工开物) of the Ming Dynasty also recorded this saying, calling Monk Zou (邹和尚) a "Western monk." According to this record, Mr. Ji (季先生) believes that Monk Zou (邹和尚) undoubtedly came from India. In this way, in the Tang Dynasty, not only did China send people to India to learn sugar making, but also Indians brought advanced sugar-making technology to China.
The second thing is that China's sugar-making technology made great progress in the hundreds of years after the Tang Dynasty. The evidence given by Mr. Ji (季先生) is that a method of making high-quality white sugar is frequently mentioned in Ming Dynasty classics such as "Min Shu Nan Chan Zhi" (闽书南产志), "Wu Li Xiao Shi" (物理小识), "Zhu Yu Shan Fang Za Bu" (竹屿山房杂部), and "Tiangong Kaiwu" (天工开物), called the "yellow mud water leaching" method. This is a decolorization technology that can significantly improve the appearance of sugar products, to the point of being "exceptionally white." Mr. Ji (季先生) believes that the yellow mud decolorization method "is another great technological contribution of the Chinese people," and its invention and improvement provided a technical basis for the large-scale manufacture of white sugar before the Ming Dynasty. After a series of arguments, Mr. Ji (季先生) concluded that "the technology of manufacturing white granulated sugar in China was introduced to India in the second half of the 13th century AD, and the place of introduction was Bengal."
The above is an example given by Mr. Ji (季先生) to us of how a production technology is disseminated and improved between different countries. Mr. Ji (季先生) used such examples to prove to us his belief: different cultures of mankind need and can learn from each other. Whether it is close to neighboring countries or far away in different customs, as long as there is such exchange, people's lives will be improved.
Mr. Ji (季先生) left us a rich academic legacy with his lifelong efforts, among which the largest "History of Sugar" (糖史) should be the most precious and typical. The academic spirit manifested in the writing of "History of Sugar" (糖史) undoubtedly has many aspects of influence on us, and the most prominent and enlightening of them is his extraordinary diligence and perseverance. Therefore, when reading Mr. Ji's (季先生) works, we can enjoy his elegant and fluent writing and chew on the principles revealed by the writing, but what we must not forget is the hard work and hardship hidden behind them. Mr. Ji's (季先生) knowledge is not something that everyone can understand, but his attitude towards learning is something that ordinary people can understand and learn. Mr. Ji (季先生) is exceptionally talented and has a generally smooth life, often with no shortage of opportunities. Even so, he still unhesitatingly entrusted his career to diligence. Only those who are diligent and persevering can be rewarded by heaven. This is the life principle that Mr. Ji (季先生) revealed to us with his tireless academic practice.
(The author is a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院). For the convenience of printing, the writing style of Sanskrit cited in this article does not include diacritical marks.)
Editor's Note
A View of Civilization in a Grain of Sugar
Reading and editing "After Reading 'The History of Sugar'" is a process of constant emotion and self-reflection. The magnificent 800,000-word "History of Sugar" (糖史) initially originated from the puzzling term "煞割令" (shā gē lìng) on a Dunhuang (敦煌) fragment. Since then, Mr. Ji Xianlin (季羡林) has spent seventeen years as one day, identifying clues to civilization exchange in the vast sea of ancient books, reconnecting and carefully deducing the historical materials that were separated from each other, reasonably reserving doubts, not rushing to reach conclusions, not deliberately making shocking remarks, and using the heavy "History of Sugar" (糖史) to show the right way of scholarship.
"The History of Sugar" (糖史) writes about world civilization from an Eastern perspective. Looking back in the context of "global history" which has become a prominent discipline, it takes the lead. Its moving part lies in always holding a gentle and profound view of civilization. Mr. Ji (季先生) looked at the world from his study, and wrote about the common destiny of mankind from a grain of sugar: "Human beings always support each other, help each other, carry each other, and depend on each other. No one can do without anyone." "Human beings should live in harmony and work together to enter the harmonious and happy Datong (大同) realm that will inevitably come one day." When the world once again shows tendencies of closure, confrontation, and "decoupling," opening "The History of Sugar" (糖史), we can better understand a scholar's heart of "taking the world as his responsibility" (以天下为己任 (yǐ tiān xià wéi jǐ rèn - "take the world as one's responsibility," to feel responsible for the fate of the world)).
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More than 300 kilometers south of Moscow (莫斯科), the capital of Russia (俄罗斯), the Oka River (奥卡河) and its tributary, the Orlik River (奥尔利克河), converge. In 1566, Tsar Ivan IV (沙皇伊凡四世) ordered the construction of a fortress on the banks of the two rivers to protect the southern border, marking the beginning of the city of Oryol (奥廖尔). Today, the fortress has become the skeleton of the city, while the rivers have become its blood vessels. Oryol (奥廖尔) means "eagle" or "falcon," derived from the legend of the city's founding. This beautiful land surrounded by rivers and forests is worthy of its name - from the 19th century to the present, "literary eagles" have taken flight from here, leaving a profound mark on the world's literary sky. This small city with a population of only 300,000, although without the prosperity of Moscow (莫斯科) or the grandeur of St. Petersburg (圣彼得堡), guards Russia's (俄罗斯) deep literary memory with an almost stubborn tranquility.
In Oryol (奥廖尔), literature is not a specimen in a showcase, but the air that permeates daily breathing. Strolling here, one can always encounter streets, theaters, schools, and museums named after famous writers... The land of Oryol (奥廖尔) has nurtured writers and literary theorists famous in literary history such as Turgenev (屠格涅夫), Leskov (列斯科夫), Andreyev (安德烈耶夫), and Bakhtin (巴赫金). Russia's (俄罗斯) first Nobel laureate in literature, Bunin (布宁), also devoted himself to creation here, becoming an indispensable part of Oryol's (奥廖尔) literary landscape.
Turgenev (屠格涅夫) is Oryol's (奥廖尔) most famous cultural icon. Today, on the outer wall of a building at the intersection of Turgenev Street (屠格涅夫街) and Saltykov-Shchedrin Street (萨尔蒂科夫—谢德林街), there is a commemorative plaque inscribed with the writer's birth here on October 28, 1818, according to the Russian calendar. In 1918, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the writer's birth, the National Turgenev Literary Museum (国立屠格涅夫文学博物馆) opened in Oryol (奥廖尔). In this light yellow ancient building, precious relics, books, portraits, and daily necessities of the writer are displayed. What is preserved here is not only the relics of a writer, but also a city's confirmation of its own cultural genes.
Another literary landmark related to Turgenev (屠格涅夫) is the "Noble Nest" (贵族之家) garden on the bank of the Orlik River (奥尔利克河) - named after the writer's novel of the same name. The trees planted by Turgenev (屠格涅夫) with words still whisper in the wind: on the garden bench is Lavretsky's (拉夫列茨基) confession, in the riverside house is Lisa's (丽莎) final hesitation, and the bells of the monastery put an end to this love that ended without a result.
Lenin Street (列宁街) is the city's main pedestrian street, and locals often jokingly call it "Oryol's Arbat Street (奥廖尔的阿尔巴特街)," comparing it to the famous historical pedestrian street Arbat Street (阿尔巴特街) in the center of Moscow (莫斯科). The history of this street in Oryol (奥廖尔) dates back to the end of the 18th century. It has been renamed several times and has always attracted nobles and merchants. The buildings on both sides of the street have been preserved to this day, with the remnants of classicism and the charm of Baroque intertwined, and every brick is filled with the weight of time. Building No. 19 on this street was once the "Jordan Hotel (约旦旅馆)," where Turgenev (屠格涅夫) stayed; the same building also housed the library of the editorial department of the *Oryol Gazette* (*奥廖尔导报*), which Bunin (布宁) also frequented.
The "young" Bakhtin Museum (巴赫金博物馆) is located in a quiet neighborhood. This museum, founded in 2005, commemorates the scholar who profoundly influenced 20th-century literary theory. The exhibits in the museum do not win by grandeur, but by the density of thought. Bakhtin's (巴赫金) theory of dialogue and carnivalized poetics, concepts that once caused a sensation in the academic hall, return here to the daily context of a small city. Bakhtin (巴赫金) believed that the essence of language is not an isolated monologue, but a two-way or multi-way dialogue. Meaning is not given by a single subject, but is generated in the interaction, response, and debate of different voices. Oryol (奥廖尔) is precisely such a scene where countless voices are still talking - the chats on the riverbank, the reading on the benches, and the greetings at the theater door constitute the city's unique humanistic temperament.
Literature, for Oryol (奥廖尔), has never been the cause of a few people, but the common spiritual background of the entire city. This city, which once received the "City of the First Salute (第一礼炮城市)" and "City of Military Glory (军事荣耀城市)" medals, was awarded the title of "Russian Capital of Literature (俄罗斯文学之都)" in 2021. This is not an accidental gift, but a formal confirmation of hundreds of years of cultural accumulation.
Watching the Orlik River (奥尔利克河) flow slowly, I suddenly realized that this river carries not only water, but also history, memory, and eternal nostalgia. It has seen the beacon fire of the fortress era, the salons of the noble era, and the trauma of the war years, and now it witnesses a small city engaging in dialogue with the world in the name of literature with composure - Russian literature researchers from all over the world translate the words of Turgenev (屠格涅夫), Leskov (列斯科夫), Bunin (布宁), and others into different languages, allowing the story of Oryol (奥廖尔) to flow in bookstores in Beijing (北京), classrooms in Paris (巴黎), and reading sessions in Buenos Aires (布宜诺斯艾利斯).
Return to TopFyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky (费奥多尔·米哈伊洛维奇·陀思妥耶夫斯基) is one of the most important Russian writers of the 19th century. The Austrian writer Zweig said, "Two people have had a profound impact on the literature and culture of our time: one is Kierkegaard, the founder of existentialism, and the other is the Russian novelist Dostoevsky (陀思妥耶夫斯基)."
Around the 1920s, Dostoevsky's (陀思妥耶夫斯基) works were translated and introduced to China. Over the past century, his works have had many readers in China. Taking the novel "Crime and Punishment" as an example, there are currently more than 10 Chinese translations. On April 25th, the special exhibition "Dostoevsky (陀思妥耶夫斯基): Man is a Mystery" opened at the Mu Xin Art Museum (木心美术馆) in Wuzhen (乌镇). The exhibition features 184 precious cultural relics, including the writer's handwritten letters, illustrations of major works, paintings and statues related to the writer, and family history photos, systematically presenting the writer's life experiences and literary creation. The exhibition will last until August 23rd.
The above pictures are all provided by the Mu Xin Art Museum (木心美术馆). The "Poor People" monthly magazine is collected in the Beijing Lu Xun Museum (北京鲁迅博物馆) (Beijing New Culture Movement Memorial Hall (北京新文化运动纪念馆)), and the rest of the exhibits are collected in the Vladimir Dahl Russian State Literary Museum (弗拉基米尔·达尔 俄罗斯国立文学博物馆).
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In the central South Island of New Zealand, Lake Tekapo, formed by glacial meltwater from the Southern Alps, has distinct seasons and unique scenery. Glacial meltwater often carries fine rock powder. When these silt-sized particles, produced by the friction of glaciers moving against bedrock, dissolve into the pure lake water and are illuminated by sunlight, the lake surface displays distinctive colors such as milky blue, powder blue, and turquoise, which are dazzling and mesmerizing.
The beauty of Lake Tekapo goes far beyond this. Every year, from late spring to early summer, boundless, colorful lupines bloom in competition, outlining a long landscape painting with the magnificent lake water and verdant trees. A gentle breeze blows, and the tall, slender, densely packed pagoda-shaped lupines sway gently, like strings of wind chimes playing the song of summer on the earth.
Lake Tekapo at night is a place for contemplation. As the rhythm of the lake water lapping against the shore continues to soothe tired minds, the sky above the lake presents a magnificent scene of twinkling stars. This is one of the world's largest "International Dark Sky Reserves." The Mount John Observatory (约翰山天文台) on the west side of the lake provides professional telescopes for stargazing, and there are stargazing tour guides to explain the constellations to visitors. Due to the high percentage of clear days, low light pollution, and stable atmospheric activity, the town of Lake Tekapo (特卡波小镇) next to Lake Tekapo is one of the best places in the Southern Hemisphere to observe the stars. The Southern Cross, the Magellanic Clouds, which are not visible in most parts of the Northern Hemisphere, can be observed here. To maintain this hard-won beauty, since 1981, the town's residents have voluntarily reduced lighting and scientifically installed lamps, using a combination of sodium lamps and lampshades in public areas to direct the light downwards, minimizing light pollution as much as possible, so that people and the starry sky can coexist more harmoniously.
Although the population is only a few hundred, the town of Lake Tekapo has a well-known Church of the Good Shepherd (好牧羊人教堂). This church, which "grows out of the cracks in the stones," was designed by architect Richard Harman and built in 1935. The Gothic wood and stone structure was relatively rare at the time. With an area of only twenty or thirty square meters, it is known as one of the smallest churches in New Zealand. Next to the church stands a statue of a sheepdog with its ears perked up, gazing into the distance, said to be in praise of the pioneers' hard work in opening up the pasture. Looking out from the church altar, the Southern Alps (南阿尔卑斯山) are majestic and magnificent, with the snow-capped peaks in full view.
Lake Tekapo seems to have the magic to slow down time. Local residents either sit by the lake with a cup of coffee, meditating and daydreaming, or take their fishing gear and quietly wait for rainbow trout to "willingly take the bait," or take a small boat and slowly row into the heart of the lake. At Lake Tekapo, there is no rush to do anything. Slow down, empty your mind, and let your soul ripple gently with the lake water.
Perhaps everyone needs a Lake Tekapo in their life—it could be a cup of tea, a book, or a period of time to slow down and empty your mind. There, we are not travelers rushing on the road. We stand in the quiet world, rippling with the lake water, shining with the stars.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Rural revitalization provides a place for young people to show their talents. I hope more young people will play an active role in rural revitalization."
A lively "two-way rush" is being staged in the vast countryside.
The countryside needs young people, and young people also need the countryside. More and more young people are setting their life coordinates on the fields of hope. By the end of 2025, the cumulative number of various types of return-to-hometown entrepreneurs across the country exceeded 15.1 million.
How cool is this cross-urban-rural rush?
It's cool that new farmers are playing with new agricultural tools, reshaping the technological style of agriculture. In the past, "old hands" relied on the weather; today's new farmers seek benefits from technology. They have turned the internet into a new agricultural tool and data into a new agricultural resource.
In Handan (邯郸), Hebei (河北) Province, Du Xiaoyi (杜晓义), who resigned from a state-owned enterprise in Beijing (北京) and returned to his hometown, built a 5G smart agriculture platform, using weather stations and spectral analyzers to precisely cultivate the land, increasing the annual income per mu by more than 300 yuan.
In Suixian (睢县), Henan (河南) Province, Wang Maoyang (王茂阳), a young man born in the 1990s, skillfully operates drones, spraying pesticides evenly and quickly, and was selected into the national list of "local experts" in the front line of agricultural machinery use.
In Mianyang (绵阳), Sichuan (四川) Province, Zhang Yi (张怡), who majored in dance, has taken root in farmland, introduced a smart agriculture system, and provides "one-stop"托管 (tuō guǎn - "trusteeship," comprehensive management) services to surrounding farmers, increasing the average benefit per mu of land by more than 20%.
Doing agriculture cannot be rushed. It takes a year to understand the agricultural seasons, three years to understand diseases, five years to master skills, and ten years to truly enter the industry. Shedding bookishness and becoming covered in the fragrance of soil, these young people use their true skills to answer the era's questions of "who will farm and how to farm."
It's cool that new occupations are connecting with the big market, playing out new patterns of industrial crossover. With the deepening of industrial integration, homestay managers, rural planners, and others are constantly emerging. Young people who understand the market and are good at management are turning the countryside's "local specialties" into "hot-selling goods" across the internet.
In Xiangjiang New District (湘江新区), Hunan (湖南) Province, the youth entrepreneur Liao Hong (廖红)'s team planned a "killing New Year pig" farmhouse banquet, integrating agricultural product sales, live streaming, and agricultural tourism experiences, with daily sales exceeding 100,000 yuan.
In Rongxian (荣县), Sichuan (四川) Province, "village broadcaster" He Jiandong (何建东) has nearly 2 million followers. He connects with enterprises to improve segmented packaging, allowing the special snack "Ye'erba" (叶儿粑) to remain soft, glutinous, and fresh even after traveling thousands of miles, with annual live streaming sales exceeding 5 million yuan.
New rural industries and new business formats are booming. In 2025, the national rural online retail sales exceeded 3 trillion yuan for the first time. They not only enrich themselves, but also drive the income of their fellow villagers.
It's cool that new ideas are activating a pool of spring water, renewing the cultural foundation of the countryside. Rural revitalization requires both shaping and casting the soul. The arrival of young people not only fills pockets but also enriches minds.
In Zaozhuang (枣庄), Shandong (山东) Province, Wang Hao (王浩), a village party secretary born after 2000, posted the "most earthy year-end summary." The sunshine tanned his skin, but he showed off the most dazzling report card and warmed the hearts of the villagers.
In Hebi (鹤壁), Henan (河南) Province, Zhang Guifang (张桂芳), a village party secretary born after 1995, went door-to-door to do work and change villagers' ideas, allowing projects such as elderly meal assistance to be implemented one after another.
In Tonglu (桐庐), Zhejiang (浙江) Province, young teacher Dong Shi (董莳) transformed into a cultural special envoy, inheriting local culture in a "culture + space + industry" manner.
The integration of the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries in rural areas is accelerating. The ratio of urban-rural residents' income has narrowed from 2.56:1 in 2020 to 2.31:1 in 2025, and the face of the countryside has undergone earth-shaking changes.
The rural world is vast, and agriculture has great potential. This "two-way rush" forges personal youthful ideals with the grand blueprint of Chinese-style modernization. We look forward to more young people taking root in the fields of hope, starting businesses, promoting new trends, and injecting more vigorous youthful power into the revitalization of rural civilization.
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Qiao Xin (乔鑫), head of the Wantanliang Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Tanghe County, Henan Province:
Learning agriculture for agriculture, youth shines in the grain fields
Dangpo Village (党坡村), Chengguan Township (城郊乡), Tanghe County (唐河县), Nanyang City (南阳市), Henan Province (河南), wheat sways in the wind, and new harvests are being nurtured in the fields.
"Some time ago, in order to prevent hot and dry winds from affecting the wheat, we supplemented the wheat with some nutrients. The 1,700 mu of wheat in the cooperative is growing well, and we hope it will be another bumper year," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫), head of the Wantanliang Agricultural Machinery Agricultural Professional Cooperative in Tanghe County (唐河县万担粮农机农业专业合作社).
Field inspections, pest and disease prevention... It is the busy farming season, and Qiao Xin (乔鑫) always runs to the fields. "I can't help but worry about these wheat plants. Whenever I have time, I want to go to the fields to see them. When the wheat grows well, I also feel a great sense of accomplishment and pride."
Born in 1992, Qiao Xin's (乔鑫) feelings for the land and grain have been planted since childhood.
"When I was a child, my father would start to get busy every farming season. The image of my father farming and threshing grain is deeply imprinted in my mind, and it is also a commitment to and love for the land," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
With her passion for agriculture, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) chose to apply to Henan Agricultural University (河南农业大学) after the college entrance examination and obtained a bachelor's degree in agronomy. In 2016, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) resigned from her job in Shanghai (上海) and returned to her hometown of Tanghe County (唐河县) to establish a cooperative. "I come from an agricultural background, and my family is also engaged in agriculture. The countryside is vast, and I hope to make more contributions to rural development," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
New farmers take on the "golden carrying pole." In 2017, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) participated in a drone aerial spraying operation training organized by the county and mastered the drone operation skills. Qiao Xin (乔鑫) also became the first batch of female agricultural drone pilots in the county.
"That year, the situation of wheat stripe rust was severe. After I learned how to operate the drone, I sprayed medicine with the drone for a month, and also helped nearby farmers spray medicine for prevention and control. At that time, the drone did not have automatic operation and other functions, and it all relied on manual operation, which was also a challenge," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
With this experience in operating drones, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) deeply realized the important role of new agricultural tools such as drones. She took the lead in forming a professional aerial spraying team. Currently, the team has more than a dozen members, providing professional plant protection services to surrounding growers.
Whenever she has free time, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) always likes to participate in various agricultural technology trainings, constantly mastering new agricultural technologies, and applying them in practice, gradually becoming a grain growing expert. "Participating in various trainings and exhibitions is a good opportunity for me to recharge and learn. The key is to use the new technologies I have learned," Qiao Xin (乔鑫) said frankly.
How to grow grain better? "The older generation of grain growers mainly relied on manual labor to farm, but now we mainly rely on technology to farm," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫). "The cooperative has introduced green, high-yield, and high-efficiency wheat planting technology to promote the implementation of good techniques and methods, and also encourages other farmers to use this technology, which effectively improves the quality and efficiency of wheat planting."
New farmers have become "field nannies." "Large-scale and specialized farming is the trend of future agricultural development," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫). "The cooperative provides farmers with customizable agricultural socialization services. Farmers can choose full托管 (tuō guǎn - "trusteeship," comprehensive management) or semi-托管 (tuō guǎn - "trusteeship," partial management) services to grow good land and produce more grain."
In order to make the service more considerate, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) introduced grain dryers. "After the wheat is harvested, timely drying can effectively avoid the risk of mold. At that time, the cooperative was short of funds, but I still insisted on introducing dryers. Later, when we encountered 'rotten field rain,' it played a big role, drying up to more than 10 million kilograms of grain at most," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
Up to now, the cooperative managed by Qiao Xin (乔鑫) has托管 (tuō guǎn - "trusteeship," manages) about 20,000 mu of farmers' land. The cooperative also drives surrounding farmers to increase their income and become rich through order agriculture and other methods. "We also often conduct technical training and guidance for farmers to help them farm scientifically. It makes me very happy to see everyone's harvest getting better and better," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
Learning agriculture for agriculture, knowing agriculture and loving agriculture, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) was elected as a representative of the 7th People's Congress of Nanyang City (南阳市第七届人大代表). She gives full play to her own expertise and advantages, goes deep into the fields, chats with the masses, asks about their well-being, and speaks out for promoting high-quality agricultural development and comprehensive rural revitalization. Qiao Xin (乔鑫) said: "I was born in the countryside and work hard in the countryside, so I must speak out for the farmers in a down-to-earth manner, so that everyone has more hope in farming."
In the wheat field, Qiao Xin (乔鑫) is still busy. "As long as you work hard, you will definitely have a good harvest. A good life can be made from the soil, and the confidence of us grain growers is getting stronger day by day," said Qiao Xin (乔鑫).
Wang Yu (王瑜), a post-90s new farmer in Qingliangfeng Town (清凉峰镇), Lin'an District (临安区), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江):
From a vegetable planting "novice" to a field expert
Inside the modern multi-span greenhouse, the green pepper seedlings are blooming and setting fruit, and the continuous green is full of vitality. Wang Yu (王瑜), a post-90s new farmer in Qingliangfeng Town (清凉峰镇), Lin'an District (临安区), Hangzhou City (杭州市), Zhejiang Province (浙江), took out her mobile phone and tapped the screen lightly. The roof of the greenhouse slowly opened, and fresh air poured into the greenhouse.
"In the past, vegetable planting relied on the weather, but now the greenhouse can 'breathe.' You can also check data such as air temperature and humidity, and soil temperature and humidity on your mobile phone. Vegetable planting is smarter, and the peppers are growing better and better." While speaking, Wang Yu (王瑜) bent down, gently pinched the stems, touched the leaves, and carefully checked the growth of the peppers.
In 2012, after graduating from Jiaxing Vocational and Technical College (嘉兴职业技术学院) with a major in modern logistics management, Wang Yu (王瑜) chose to return to her hometown of Qingliangfeng Town (清凉峰镇) to become a vegetable farmer. "Qingliangfeng Town (清凉峰镇) is located in the western mountainous area of Lin'an (临安). The unique natural conditions create good conditions for the development of mountain vegetables. The mountain vegetable industry has great potential, and I also like the atmosphere of the countryside, so I decided to return to my hometown and take root in the fields," said Wang Yu (王瑜).
At that time, Wang Yu (王瑜) was almost a vegetable planting "novice" and lacked experience in vegetable planting and farming. Relying on persistence and love, Wang Yu (王瑜) achieved a change in vegetable planting "from 0 to 1."
"I run to the fields almost every day. At first, there were indeed many things I didn't understand, so I bought professional books, 'made up lessons' while reading, and asked experts and teachers for advice. Slowly, I accumulated experience in vegetable planting," said Wang Yu (王瑜). "Treating vegetable planting as a career, although farming is hard, it is also enjoyable."
Germination, sowing, emergence... Wang Yu (王瑜) constantly pondered the technology of vegetable planting, and various farm works became more and more handy. Today, Wang Yu (王瑜) manages a vegetable area of about 120 mu, covering crops such as peppers, eggplants, and tomatoes, with an annual vegetable output of more than 500 tons.
How to grow higher quality vegetables? Seedling raising is a key link. Wang Yu (王瑜) built a vegetable seedling raising center and improved seedling raising technology in practice. After long-term efforts, from eggplant "casing" to tomato grafting, Wang Yu (王瑜) has mastered the intensive soilless seedling raising technology and diverse grafting seedling raising technology.
"Compared with traditional seedling raising methods, factory-based intensive seedling raising can save 30% of seeds, increase the survival rate of seedling transplanting by more than 10%, and increase the average benefit per mu by 9.5%," said Wang Yu (王瑜). "At present, our vegetable seedling raising center produces more than 2 million vegetable seedlings annually, providing high-quality vegetable seedlings for more than 300 large vegetable growers in the Hangzhou (杭州) area."
The quality and efficiency of planting are improving. Wang Yu (王瑜) has introduced more than 10 new varieties such as "Hangqie 2010 (杭茄2010)" and "Zheyingfen No. 1 (浙樱粉1号)," and promoted the construction of digital agriculture to continuously improve the level of industrial development. She actively promotes standardized vegetable production and jointly participates in the compilation of the "High Mountain Pepper Production Technical Regulations" to promote the application of related technologies.
In the past, there was a lack of suitable varieties and planting models for mountain vegetables, and there were also cases of continuous cropping. Wang Yu (王瑜) was determined to change this situation. "After experiments, we explored planting methods such as rice-upland crop rotation. Efficient rotation of rice and vegetables effectively reduces the occurrence of soil-borne diseases," said Wang Yu (王瑜). She also participated in scientific research projects such as the "Green Comprehensive Prevention and Control Technology Research and Demonstration of Vegetable Soil-borne Diseases" to promote the solution of soil-borne disease prevention and control problems in solanaceous vegetables.
At the end of 2023, Wang Yu (王瑜) obtained the professional qualification of senior agronomist. From a vegetable planting "novice" to a field expert, Wang Yu (王瑜) sprinkled her sweat on the fields of hope and wrote a youthful answer sheet with practical work. "In recent years, I have found that more and more young people are investing in the agricultural field. These new farmers are a vital force for rural development, and I also hope to make greater contributions to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside through practical actions," said Wang Yu (王瑜).
In order to promote new agricultural technologies, Wang Yu (王瑜) has provided professional training to thousands of farmers by establishing farmer field schools and organizing field observation meetings, so that more new technologies can take root in the fields and be transformed into real productivity.
Up to now, the annual output value of the mountain vegetable industry in Qingliangfeng Town (清凉峰镇) has reached 50 million yuan, with more than 500 employees. "Planting mountain vegetables is a delicate job, and technology is a key to improving agricultural quality and efficiency. By continuously opening up the 'last mile' of agricultural technology promotion, I hope to drive more farmers to use new agricultural technologies, grow bumper fields, and embark on the road to prosperity," said Wang Yu (王瑜).
Gao Lu (高璐), the first secretary stationed in Xishan Village (西山村), Nanjian Yi Autonomous County (南涧彝族自治县), Yunnan Province (云南):
Exploring "small but refined" characteristic planting
In the early summer morning, Xishan Village (西山村), Nanjian Town (南涧镇), Nanjian Yi Autonomous County (南涧彝族自治县), Yunnan Province (云南), is surrounded by green mountains and lush vegetation.
Along the country path, Gao Lu (高璐), the post-90s first secretary stationed in the village, walks hurriedly and turns into a monitoring household's home with familiarity, starting a day of visiting households in the village.
"Regular assistance and monitoring and identification of objects to prevent returning to poverty are our daily key tasks," said Gao Lu (高璐). "At present, there are 7 key monitoring households in the village. Through multiple rounds of visits, we must ensure that the 'two no worries and three guarantees' and safe drinking water are implemented."
Last year, Gao Lu (高璐), who worked in the Academy Management Center of Tsinghua University (清华大学书院管理中心), was selected by the school to come to Xishan Village (西山村) to serve as the first secretary stationed in the village and the captain of the work team. "When I was at school, I paid more attention to 'agriculture, rural areas, and farmers' work and often learned about this aspect. Coming to Xishan Village (西山村) is to make practical contributions to rural development within my capacity," said Gao Lu (高璐).
When she first arrived in the countryside, facing an unfamiliar environment, Gao Lu (高璐) prioritized visiting households and chatting with villagers to ask about their well-being. "After arriving in the village, I first visited all the monitoring households in the village. In this process, I deepened my understanding of the village and became more aware of the needs of the villagers," said Gao Lu (高璐).
"Now, through data comparison and system monitoring, we can identify villagers who may be at risk of returning to poverty. After receiving the early warning information, we promptly conduct household surveys and conduct risk assessments, and include farmers with relevant risks in the monitoring," said Gao Lu (高璐). Targeted assistance measures such as minimum living security and rural public welfare jobs are taken for monitoring households to ensure early detection, early intervention, and early assistance.
After understanding the situation of the village, how should we develop the rural industry? "Xishan Village (西山村) has a large temperature difference between day and night and fertile soil, but there are many mountains and few contiguous fields. Based on this, we are exploring 'small but refined' characteristic planting, and further improving the added value of agricultural products by developing ecological organic planting," said Gao Lu (高璐).
With a goal, Gao Lu (高璐) introduced an agricultural technology company to Xishan Village (西山村) to jointly carry out ecological organic planting pilots and promotion. At present, the village has mobilized 6 farmers to trial plant high-quality rice, corn, soybeans, tomatoes and other organic crops. After trial planting and finding suitable varieties, the planting scale will be gradually expanded.
Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Workstation Nanjian Station (清华大学乡村振兴工作站南涧站) is located here. The workstation integrates various functions such as a public welfare library, a social practice base, and village-level public services. In 2019, Tsinghua University (清华大学) and the People's Government of Nanjian Yi Autonomous County (南涧彝族自治县人民政府) signed an agreement to establish the Tsinghua University Rural Revitalization Workstation Nanjian Station (清华大学乡村振兴工作站南涧站) to explore new paths for rural development. After arriving in the village, Gao Lu (高璐) also served as the head of the workstation and actively played the role of the platform.
Social practice, industrial empowerment, cultural exchange... Gao Lu (高璐) actively coordinated and connected with teachers and students of the school to come to Xishan Village (西山村) to jointly participate in rural development practice. "The countryside is an important stage for young people to display their talents," said Gao Lu (高璐). The software college student team of the school took the digital governance needs of Xishan Village (西山村) as the graduation design topic for undergraduates and launched the "Nanjian County Xishan Village Digital Rural Management System (南涧县西山村数字乡村管理系统)" to promote smarter rural governance.
Up to now, the workstation has organized and carried out more than 80 activities such as education lectures for primary and secondary school students, rural legal lectures, and rural talent training, benefiting more than 3,000 villagers in various lectures and training activities.
"We are renovating the workstation, promoting the industrial development of Xishan Village (西山村) through the renewal and upgrading of the building," said Gao Lu (高璐). The design and renovation are in charge of the Tsinghua University Architectural Design and Research Institute (清华大学建筑设计研究院), and it is planned to transform Building C into a rural homestay to enrich rural business formats, and transform Building D into a coffee-themed research and study center to promote the integration of agriculture, culture and tourism, and drive more villagers to increase their income and become rich.
"Xishan Village (西山村) is my second hometown. Taking root in the countryside requires being down-to-earth and making persistent efforts, treating the 'small things of people's livelihood' as 'major things in the heart,' promoting rural industrial development in accordance with local conditions, and solidly promoting comprehensive rural revitalization, so that the lives of villagers will get better and better," said Gao Lu (高璐).
By: 邓剑洋
On the internet, the topic of "young people 'revamping' the countryside" is trending. More and more young people are returning to or entering rural areas, writing vivid footnotes in the tremendous changes of the countryside, and unlocking more possibilities for rural development.
Facing the difficulties of "who will farm" and "who will revitalize the village," young people have found good solutions. From "relying on the weather" to scientific farming, from "selling with baskets" to live-streaming sales, armed with new agricultural technologies and mastering new agricultural work, young people returning to or entering rural areas are working hard on the front lines of the countryside, redefining the countryside with their youth in practice.
Why is there a "two-way rush" between youth and the countryside? The rural world is vast, and agriculture has great potential. The vast countryside is full of unlimited vitality and provides a broad stage for young people to display their talents and realize their ideals. New farmers, agricultural entrepreneurs, cultural commissioners... young people, based on their own advantages, empower rural development, drive villagers to increase their income and become rich, and realize their life values in this process.
The key to the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside lies in people. To unlock new vitality for rural development, it is necessary to guide more talented and idealistic young people to take root in the countryside and become the main force in promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. On the one hand, it is necessary to provide opportunities and conditions for young people returning to or entering rural areas to start businesses and give full play to the role of young people as "backbones." On the other hand, it is also necessary to strengthen service guarantees, solve their worries, and allow young people and the countryside to grow together.
With youth as the pen and fields as the scroll, we look forward to more and more young people pursuing their dreams in the fields and painting a more beautiful landscape of youth on the vast land.
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The best children's books are never about fancy packaging or utilitarian principles, but rather the kindness, beauty, and imagination hidden between the lines.
As night deepens, many parents take some time to flip through picture books and read a short story with their children. A good book is the gentlest companion of childhood and a window for children to understand the world and nourish their souls.
However, children's books, which should be clean, pure, and full of childlike innocence and fun, are now showing some chaotic phenomena, quietly eroding children's reading world, and making many parents worried. In some campus comics, stories about reporting classmates, wanting to cheat on exams, wanting to divide up things they find, and using clever tricks to do homework are told openly; some low-age picture books have grotesque illustration styles, demonstrating dangerous details such as eating soap and playing with knives... These contents and pictures not only lack kindness and warmth, but also convey radical and distorted values. Over time, it is inevitable that children will form wrong perceptions. Some children's books emphasize packaging over content, becoming "face-saving readings." With only a few dozen pages, sparse text, and thin stories, they rely on hardcover binding, three-dimensional mechanisms, and gift box sets to raise their value, violating the original meaning of children's books to spread beauty.
More noteworthy is that, I don't know when, books on worldly wisdom, Machiavellian tactics, and quick success have become increasingly "popular," with endless content teaching people to be smooth and anxious about involution. In a certain children's book sales chart, "Those Who Achieve Great Things: My Fate is Up to Me" (《成大事者：我命由我不由天》), "The Way of the Wolf" (《狼之道》), and "Winning with Breakthrough Thinking" (《赢在破局思维》) ranked at the top, and the first children's literature work did not appear until the fifty-seventh place on the list. Behind the change in the children's book bestseller list, there are factors of parents' utilitarian book-buying cognition. Some parents only look at whether books are "useful" when choosing books, blindly pursuing score improvement and learning tactics, turning reading into a utilitarian task. There is also the intention of publishers to abandon high-quality originals and instead make short, quick, and utilitarian books for profit, which ultimately squeezes the living space of pure literature and interest reading.
Children's minds are like a blank sheet of paper, highly malleable, and their ability to distinguish right from wrong is still insufficient. Day after day of reading subtly shapes children's cognition and character. The chaos in the children's book market is not caused by a single factor, and rectification cannot rely on individuals. It requires the joint efforts and coordinated governance of all parties.
Publishing institutions must shoulder the main responsibility and strictly guard the first gate of content publishing. It is necessary to improve internal review processes, form a review team of experts in education, psychology, literature, moral education, and other fields, and formulate unified, detailed, and scientific children's book review standards to prevent bad values and adult negative content from being put on the shelves. At the same time, abandon the operating thinking of traffic supremacy and short-sighted profit-seeking. They must neither arbitrarily delete or tamper with classics, nor deliberately cater to utilitarian trends, but must adhere to carefully polishing the text content, return to the child-centered creation orientation, and balance the practicality and humanistic nature of children's books.
Regulatory authorities need to strengthen rigid supervision and improve the system and governance mechanisms. It should be noted that matching picture analysis and adding pinyin to facilitate reading are not the only criteria for judging the appropriate age for children's books. A scientific and complete graded reading system should be established, combined with the cognitive abilities, psychological characteristics, and comprehension levels of children of different age groups, and refined grading should be carried out from multiple dimensions such as content depth, text difficulty, and value orientation. It is also necessary to increase the intensity of inspections and spot checks on the children's book market, forcibly remove and recall readings with bad content, and severely crack down on pirated books and inferior compiled books.
The majority of parents should build a solid family defense line and establish a scientific and rational reading concept. Spend a little more thought when choosing books, carefully read the content, and distinguish the value orientation, and do not blindly pursue popular online products and luxury gift boxes. On the road of parenting, pursue less quick success and tactics, and accompany children to read classics and feel the beauty of words; have less "useful" anxiety and more patience for growth, and not be kidnapped by the utilitarian parenting trend.
Reading is a gentle growth. The best children's books are never about fancy packaging or utilitarian principles, but rather the kindness, beauty, and imagination hidden between the lines. May all parties work together to protect and abandon impetuosity and chaos as soon as possible, so that the children's books that enter children's lives are upward, kind, and sunny.
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"Wash your car?" At 1 p.m., a car slowly drove into the Xi Han Er Car Wash Center (喜憨儿洗车中心) in the Shibei District (市北区) of Qingdao City (青岛市), Shandong Province (山东省), and was immediately surrounded by staff. They were tall, with innocent smiles and clear eyes, revealing a childlike purity and anticipation. When work came, 26-year-old Wu Jilin (吴继麟) silently and skillfully picked up a rag and worked enthusiastically with his colleagues.
"These children have intellectual disabilities and are special people suffering from cerebral palsy, autism, or Down syndrome. Although they are in their 20s, their mental age is only five or six years old," said Cui Yonglan (崔永兰), director of the Chunyu Disabled Persons Assisted Employment Center (春雨残疾人辅助性就业中心) in Shibei District (市北区), Qingdao City (青岛市), as she walked to the side to introduce: "Everyone is worried about how they will live in the future, but after training, they found work at Xi Han Er (喜憨儿)."
In 2023, Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) founded the first Xi Han Er Car Wash Center (喜憨儿洗车中心) in Qingdao (青岛), allowing adults with intellectual disabilities to step out of their homes, into society, and onto employment positions. In less than three years, 15 employees have been hired here, and the rolling electronic screen at the entrance of the store shows that more than 7,000 cars have been washed.
Seeing new possibilities in life, "It is a blessing to have something to do and be able to do it."
Wu Jilin (吴继麟) was diagnosed with childhood autism at the age of 4, and the whole family felt like "the sky had fallen." Children with autism cannot establish or maintain emotional relationships with others. They are immersed in their own world, and have obstacles in language development, interpersonal communication, and other areas.
"Although it is very heavy, we can only accept it. We must be stronger to be the strongest backing for our children." Mother Li Dongmei (李冬梅) was sad, blamed herself, and was confused. She and her husband searched through the information and learned that although this disease cannot be completely cured, the earlier the intervention, the better. Li Dongmei (李冬梅) simply quit her job and accompanied her son to a special education school.
"They have to put in more effort than healthy children to learn a skill." Li Dongmei (李冬梅) said that even the simplest thing like putting on clothes is a "big project": first use a doll to demonstrate, and teach him how to distinguish the front and back, put it over his head, and stretch out his sleeves, hand in hand, over and over again. The same action has to be repeated dozens of times every day. "Sometimes he gets irritable and tears his clothes off while crying, so I have to slow down and teach him again and again." She said that what ordinary children might master in a few days, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) has to put in dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of days to finally complete independently.
"If he is not independent, what will happen when he grows up? What will happen when we leave?" Li Dongmei (李冬梅) has rehearsed each question in her mind many times, which is also a common problem faced by all parents of children with autism.
"Do your best and leave the rest to fate." Li Dongmei (李冬梅) said that after Wu Jilin (吴继麟) graduated at the age of 18, she thought about going out to find a job, but she had to take her child with her because she "didn't dare to let go." She never thought that Wu Jilin (吴继麟) could also find a job.
By chance, Li Dongmei (李冬梅) met Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) at an event at the Chunyu Disabled Persons Assisted Employment Center (春雨残疾人辅助性就业中心). From this, she saw new possibilities for her son's work and life.
At the Chunyu Center (春雨中心), Wu Jilin (吴继麟) started with threading ropes and folding envelopes, finding a job that suits him in repeated labor. Seeing her son's work getting better and better, Li Dongmei (李冬梅) not only felt relieved, but also joined the Chunyu Center (春雨中心) and became a training teacher to help people with intellectual disabilities find employment.
Wu Jilin (吴继麟) has liked cars since he was a child. He often squats by the roadside to observe, watching cars shuttle on the road and listening to the roar of the engine. As soon as the Xi Han Er Car Wash Center (喜憨儿洗车中心) was established, he became one of the first employees, full of interest.
"I never dared to dream that he could have a job and be able to support himself." Li Dongmei (李冬梅) said, "I don't ask him to earn much money, it is a blessing to have something to do and be able to do it."
Learning to wash cars hand in hand, "I wipe the car brightly."
"Left, right," Wu Jilin (吴继麟) muttered the formula taught by the master while washing the car. It only takes two or three times for a healthy person to learn this action, but Wu Jilin (吴继麟) practiced it repeatedly for three months.
In order to prevent scratching the customer's car, at the beginning, the master arranged for Wu Jilin (吴继麟) to practice on a tile wall, using tape to divide it into grids. He only needed to manage one of the grids, and repeatedly practice the left and right movement with a rag.
"They have a strong ability to repeat an action. The car washing job has many processes. We divide the car washing area into 8 areas and let them cooperate. Each person is responsible for a fixed area, and muscle memory is formed through repeated training," said Cui Yonglan (崔永兰).
When learning, the master held his wrist and took him through it once: lift the arm, drop the rag, move horizontally from left to right, with even force. Then, return the same way from right to left, turning the cloth over. "Remember, always parallel, don't draw circles, don't shake it up and down. Just left, right, left, right."
At first, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) could only drag crooked water marks on the wall, with varying degrees of force. But he always knew that the blue tape was the boundary and could not be wiped "out of bounds."
Soon, the master discovered that each child was only "spinning around" in the middle, and the edges of the grid had become a "gray area." "This shows that they will abide by the established rules and only need patient guidance," said Cui Yonglan (崔永兰). Under the guidance of the master, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) began to practice "full coverage": each trip from left to right must start from the edge of the tape, and each wipe must be close to the track of the previous trip.
Here, from turning on the water gun to rinsing the tires, from wiping the car door to cleaning the interior, the master patiently breaks down each process into several steps, guiding the children to repeat the practice over and over again.
Once they are proficient, they can wipe the car. "We are also worried about scratching the customer's car, but it is difficult for them to get started directly without practicing with real objects." With this worry, Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) and her colleagues took out their own cars for the children to practice on. "If it gets scratched, it gets scratched, as long as they can learn it."
"Mom, I wiped the steering wheel today and didn't honk the horn." "I wiped the car brightly." "I washed 10 cars today." After Wu Jilin (吴继麟) learned to wipe the car, he would go home and share it with his mother after get off work. Seeing her child becoming more and more confident, Li Dongmei (李冬梅) was very happy. "After the child went out to work, his expression ability is much stronger than before, and he is especially willing to share with me," she said.
Realizing value through labor, "Rules are rules."
Sometimes, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) would have emotional outbursts while working. Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) would let him go back to the Chunyu Center (春雨中心) to relieve his emotions, do some manual labor, and adjust his state before continuing. The center is a few hundred meters away from Xi Han Er (喜憨儿) and was established by Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) in 2014.
Speaking of the original intention of its establishment, she held out a defective and deformed hand: "I became a disabled person due to a work injury when I was 25 years old. It was a big blow, and I cried almost every day for 3 years." She said that she later contacted the Disabled Persons' Federation and felt that she could also do something to help these children.
For people with intellectual disabilities, employment has always been a pain point. "If they are alone in a company, it is difficult for them to integrate, so most people stay at home after they grow up, and it is also difficult for them to communicate and contact outsiders," said Cui Yonglan (崔永兰). "Can we gather them together and do some work ourselves?"
In order to solve this problem, the Chunyu Center (春雨中心) has been exploring employment models suitable for them, contacting more than a dozen corporate projects, and tailoring positions to their special circumstances.
Walking into the center, some children are folding envelopes under the guidance of teachers, some are packaging, and some are threading ropes. These are simple and repetitive manual labor that is suitable for them and found in cooperation with enterprises. The center currently has more than 20 teachers and more than 100 people with intellectual disabilities.
Over the years, Cui Yonglan (崔永兰) has not stopped looking for projects. She learned about the model of a Xi Han Er Car Wash Center (喜憨儿洗车中心) in Shenzhen (深圳) on the Internet. After many on-site inspections, she felt that it was suitable for the children.
With the support of the Qingdao Municipal Government (青岛市政府), the Municipal Disabled Persons' Federation (市残联), and social welfare organizations, the Xi Han Er Car Wash Center (喜憨儿洗车中心) officially opened on October 21, 2023. Dou Yunfeng (窦云峰), the manager of the cooperative car wash center, admitted: "Although I really wanted to help them, I was still worried about whether they could do well because they had to face customers directly." Three months later, Dou Yunfeng's (窦云峰) doubts were dispelled: "They learn faster than I thought, and they are very serious about their work. They are required to wipe the wheels three times, and they must do it three times. They can't do it even once less. They are very simple, and customers like them. Many people come from far away to wash their cars."
Soon, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) and his colleagues washed the car brightly. He picked up a pen and carefully wrote a stroke of the character "正" (zhèng) in the notebook, meticulously. When the customer paid extra as a tip, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) shook his head and said slowly: "No, rules are rules."
It turns out that Xi Han Er (喜憨儿) has an unwritten rule: the same speed, the same cleanliness, and the same price. Extra tips are always gently and firmly rejected by the children, and the children realize their self-worth through labor.
"With a job, they have dignity. This is a bridge for them to communicate with society," said Cui Yonglan (崔永兰). This is the first social-oriented job position in the Chunyu Center (春雨中心), and the children are trained here with full confidence.
As the vehicle left, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) and his colleagues waved their hands and smiled sincerely to say goodbye to the customer: "Thank you, drive safely." They wash an average of more than 10 cars a day, which increases to more than 30 on weekends, and can reach a peak of more than 50 on holidays.
"I like washing cars, I want to wash the cars brightly." Wu Jilin (吴继麟) said. In this small car wash, between the clear water and foam day after day, Wu Jilin (吴继麟) and his colleagues are using their own way to brighten their lives inch by inch.
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One evening this spring, I took seven members of the emergency team up to the Nila Pass.
The weather forecast said there would be a blizzard at the pass that night, with winds of force 7-8. In the afternoon, the section held a dispatch meeting and decided to move people and machinery to the pass in advance to be on standby, lest the snow be too heavy at night to get up there. I am the captain of the emergency team, so this matter is under my control. After 5 p.m., loaders, snowplows, and rotary sweepers started one after another, and the convoy drove along the mountain road towards the pass, all in place before dark.
I chose a relatively leeward position and parked the machinery in a row. I had everyone check their cotton-padded coats, dry food, thermos bottles, and walkie-talkies. The fuel tanks were full, and the anti-skid chains were already on the tires. The eight of us divided the work, with two people taking turns on duty to monitor road conditions and weather, and the rest napping in the vehicles wrapped in their coats.
As night fell, the traffic police had already closed the road based on the meteorological department's notification. But I still went out to patrol from time to time to see if any vehicles were trapped in the wind and snow. A bright light in the distance caught our attention—a car had entered the section before the road closure, and the driver had accidentally driven the car into a ditch beside the road and was anxious. The team members immediately stepped forward to comfort him, and I went back to drive the engineering vehicle and pulled the vehicle that had overturned off the road back onto the road. "The weather is bad today, wait until the road traffic is better before you set off." After saying that, I left him a pot of hot water for him to keep warm at night.
At about 8 a.m. the next morning, it was almost completely light. I called the teammates over and arranged the work process: first use the loader to push away the snow ridges and thick snow, the snowplow followed behind to clear the road surface, and finally the rotary sweeper to clean the remaining snow and thin ice that had been compacted on the road surface. Three steps, in order.
Three machines, three processes, connected one after another. After more than 4 hours of snow removal, the road was restored to traffic conditions. From the night before to the end of work, the eight of us stayed on the mountain for more than ten hours.
I have fought such hard battles for more than 20 years.
I was born in 1981 in a rural area of Dingjie County (定结县), Shigatse (日喀则), Tibet (西藏). In the past, it was difficult for people in the village to go out. The roads were bad, and they would be cut off as soon as it rained. In winter, the snow would block the roads for ten days or half a month. In 2000, the Dingjie Maintenance Section (定结养护段) recruited road maintenance workers, and I, at the age of 19, signed up and entered the road maintenance team.
In the early years of joining the road maintenance team, the conditions were really difficult. There was no machinery, and the tools were shovels and pickaxes. Materials were transported by wooden handcarts. Clearing landslides, repairing potholes, and dredging side ditches all depended on physical strength. At the end of the day, I couldn't straighten my back, and my hands were covered in blood blisters, but I went back to work the next day.
Later, the team gradually got more equipment. Loaders, bulldozers, road rollers... Every time new equipment came, I was among the first to learn how to use it. I only had a junior high school education, and sometimes I couldn't understand the instruction manual, so I listened to the师傅 (shī fu - "master," respectful term for skilled worker) explain and explored it little by little myself. When others rested, I squatted next to the machinery to feel the pipes and check the parts. Over the past ten years, I have learned to operate all the commonly used equipment in the section.
Later, the section had the opportunity to go to Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川) for further study, and I was the first to sign up. At school, the teacher explained the mechanical structure and equipment principles one by one, and many things that I didn't understand before suddenly became clear. After the training, not only did my operating skills improve, but I could also handle simple repairs myself.
After becoming the captain of the emergency team, I was in charge of more than 100 kilometers of road. Dingjie County (定结县) is located in southern Shigatse (日喀则), with a long border line, high altitude, and harsh climate. Snow disasters, landslides, and mudslides occur frequently.
In the winter of 2021, Provincial Highway 514 (514省道) suffered a heavy blizzard. I led the team to rush to the scene and carried out road maintenance work overnight, shoveling snow and removing snow, and spreading salt to melt ice. We worked for several days. Everyone endured hunger and cold, fell down and got up to continue working, until all sections of the road were restored to safe traffic.
Over the years, my mobile phone has been on 24 hours a day, and I carry a walkie-talkie with me. No matter when I receive a dangerous situation, I am always the first to go out.
I train the young team members one by one. How to level the ground when starting the machine, how to layer the snow removal, how to deal with hidden ice, there is no textbook, I teach them all by squatting on the roadside and gesturing. Now every member of the emergency team can operate independently, and the integrity rate of road facilities has remained above 98% for many years.
Some people ask me, aren't you tired after working for so many years? I said, I'm used to it. If I really take a break, I feel uneasy.
My work clothes are hanging behind the door of the duty room. That orange work clothes has been washed many times, and the color is no longer so bright. Next time it snows, it will still be worn by me, and I will go to that pass at an altitude of more than 4,800 meters with the loader.
Among us road maintenance workers in Shigatse (日喀则), there has always been a saying: "There is only oxygen-deficient plateau, but no poorly maintained highway." I always keep this sentence in mind.
(Interview and compilation by Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧), reporter of this newspaper)
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The *Modern Chinese Dictionary* (《现代汉语大词典》) (hereinafter referred to as *Daxian Han*) has finally been officially published after 20 years of compilation. This is the first large-scale original dictionary of this century and one of the most important research achievements in the field of linguistics and applied linguistics. *Daxian Han* deserves the evaluation of "first" and "most important." *Daxian Han* contains 157,000 words and a total of 12 million words, which are more than twice and three times the number of words in the *Modern Chinese Dictionary* (《现代汉语词典》), respectively. However, it is not just an expanded version of the *Modern Chinese Dictionary*, but also has originality and has achieved transcendence in dictionary compilation concepts and methods.
"Modern Chinese" began with the implementation of vernacular Chinese in written Chinese. For more than 100 years, the spoken language of Chinese dialects has been in a complex state of "scattered points and multiple lines," while the modern Chinese written language recorded by Chinese characters has only a theoretical definition. What the actual appearance is has not been comprehensively and systematically described. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there were no newly compiled large-scale dictionaries. The *Ciyuan* (《辞源》) and *Cihai* (《辞海》), which were revised successively later, were the initial achievements of the Republic of China era. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the *Hanyu Da Cidian* (《汉语大词典》) and the *Hanyu Da Zidian* (《汉语大字典》) have been compiled. These large-scale dictionaries are both ancient and modern or mainly based on classical Chinese words. *Daxian Han* is the only dictionary in the current era that combines "standardization and descriptiveness" and only includes modern Chinese. The collection of characters and words has also reached a certain scale, comprehensively presenting the real appearance of modern Chinese that is being used and developed. What is even more rare is that it integrates a diachronic perspective into synchronic description, allowing us to glean microscopic memories of social changes over the past 100 years from this dictionary. It can be said that *Daxian Han* not only increases the number of words collected, but also has an **当仁不让** (dāng rén bù ràng - "not decline to shoulder a responsibility," willing to undertake what one ought to do) pioneering nature; it not only provides shape, sound, and meaning checks of individual words, but also helps us to comprehensively understand modern Chinese. It is a linguistic code with epoch-making significance.
*Daxian Han* takes "meaning + grammar + word order" as the model, systematically sorts out the word formation rules of modern Chinese itself, refines the word-forming morphemes of modern Chinese, improves the lexical system in which single and double sounds coexist, and excavates a batch of high-frequency morphemes originating from modern language life and unrelated to classical Chinese, demonstrating the maturity and independence of modern Chinese. *Daxian Han* has made remarkable achievements in the excavation of modern morphemes. For example, during the Republic of China period, "jìduì" (挤兑) had two meanings: "rushing to withdraw money" and "making trouble for others." *Daxian Han* not only includes these two meanings, but also adds the word "jítí" (挤提), clarifying that "tí" (提) is a single-sound morpheme meaning "withdrawal, cash withdrawal"; another example is "xīng" (星), which is no longer limited to the original meaning of "stars." After a large number of words such as "gēxīng" (歌星) (singing star), "tóngxīng" (童星) (child star), and "zhuīxīng" (追星) (star chasing) appeared, it is summarized as a high-frequency morpheme meaning "celebrity" and "star." The reverse retrieval function of *Daxian Han* provides important support for summarizing this type of single-sound morpheme and is also a major highlight in its compilation.
In the process of using Chinese, some new words often appear and disappear quickly. Normative dictionaries may not include these words, but as long as these words need to be checked, descriptive dictionaries should include them. For example, in the works of famous writers such as Zhu Ziqing (朱自清) during the Republic of China period, some compound words that failed to be passed down later often appear, such as "yōupì" (幽僻) and "yùnxù" (蕴蓄). After *Daxian Han* included them, it gave definitions and annotated the original source for reference and provided language examples.
*Daxian Han* has put a lot of effort into searching for and explaining words from spoken language, especially in carefully collecting modern online terms that tend to be stable. I made a statistic that the word "shùzhìhuà" (数智化) (digital intelligence) included in the dictionary has gone through the process of being a niche term, an official term, and then a national term in 8 years. From 2017 to 2019, it just emerged as a professional term, and the vast majority of people had never heard of it or used it; from 2020 to 2021, its circulation and use in consulting software and Internet circles increased rapidly, but the public and traditional industries still rarely used it. From 2022 to 2023, national official documents used this term, and governments, enterprises, institutions, and media began to use it on a large scale and frequently. "Shùzhìhuà" (数智化) began to become a national term. *Yao Wen Jiao Zi* (《咬文嚼字》) including "shùzhìhuà" (数智化) in the "Top Ten Popular Words of 2024" also played a role in promoting the importance of this new word in the linguistic community. *Daxian Han* cut off in 2022 and has already included this word, which not only reflects the accurate judgment of stable words, but also plays a leading role in language standardization, proving that its word collection has both academic and application value.
In order to allow some new online words to enter the dictionary, the editors did a lot of sorting work and standardized them through "four determinations" (determining the standard writing, determining the definition, determining the pronunciation, and determining the direction). Their approach is to first summarize the semantics of the word according to multiple use cases, and then, according to the semantics, use the methods of seeking the original character and determining the function to unify the confusing pronunciation and writing forms of the real morphemes and virtual morphemes, and then use matching examples to establish reasonable and optimized usage, giving positive guidance to the stable and healthy development of the word. This shows that *Daxian Han* pays close attention to the folk language life and is extremely sensitive to the linguistic phenomena with the characteristics of the times. At the same time, it also shows that this dictionary has a very high position in word collection. Generally speaking, dictionaries lag behind the language status quo, but after entering the Internet era, due to the rapid and open information dissemination, the development of language carriers will inevitably lead to a situation of **泥沙俱下** (ní shā jù xià - "mud and sand flow together," the good and bad are mixed together). *Daxian Han* not only faces this reality and attaches importance to the creation of the people, but also guides the accurate explanation and reasonable use of online language through dictionaries, setting an example.
*Daxian Han* has been revised for more than ten years and has finally been published. However, language is still developing, and a dictionary cannot be mature and perfect at one time. With such a good foundation, as long as the country attaches importance to it, the people support it, and the academic community works hard, and revises it in a timely manner, the leading role of *Daxian Han* will continue to expand and strengthen until it becomes a cross-era masterpiece.
(The author is a senior professor at the School of Literature, Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学).)
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Since "Bo Qing Shu" (《博情书》) in 2007, Lu Min (鲁敏) has successively created more than 10 novels. Based on the four or five I have read, I feel that she is a "restless" writer. Her two most recent works have begun to focus on the economy, an area closely related to daily life—which is also a stage suitable for showing character, complex human nature, and destiny stories. Five years ago, "Golden River" (《金色河流》) wrote about the extraordinary entrepreneurial journey of private entrepreneurs; the newly released "At This Moment" (《此时此刻》) focuses on the daily lives of a group of ordinary citizens, portraying their choices, experiences, and growth in the face of wealth, injecting new vitality into the writing of economic life in current serious literature.
In this work, researchers, company employees, domestic helpers, and other various characters will face complex economic elements that they have to deal with. When they encounter the temptation of wealth and the ups and downs of returns, the individual's fate and psychological ups and downs are depicted dramatically and delicately. The protagonist, Ai Shengchun (艾胜春), has a cheerful personality, with gentleness within strength. Relying on her personal unremitting efforts, she rises to the "wealth comfort zone." Xu Zhantu (徐展图), a scholar who has mutual affection with her, has a delicate heart and patiently reasons and builds confidence when difficulties arise. There is also the warm-hearted Bai Xiang (百香), the young and upright Jiu Yue (久月)... A story that directly faces challenges slowly unfolds.
Objectively speaking, using a "drama" like a wealth story as the main theme of a novel is quite a challenge for writers. The reason is simple: there are indeed many vivid examples. We often hear warnings in news reports such as "financial management is risky, investment needs to be cautious," and we have heard many such stories in folk tales. Choosing a life familiar to the public as the subject matter requires some degree of "defamiliarization," which is certainly a test of the writer's creativity and an opportunity to demonstrate confidence and ability.
If "At This Moment" (《此时此刻》) stopped here, it would inevitably be unremarkable. Fortunately, the writer clearly knows what she should do: after depicting the various aspects of society, the image of Ai Shengchun (艾胜春) stands out. Logically and emotionally, this "leader" bears the greatest pressure. It is at such a crossroads in life that Lu Min (鲁敏) insists on leading Ai Shengchun (艾胜春) into an "险道" (xiǎn dào - "dangerous path") of not admitting defeat—voluntarily giving up the legal non-liability, starting from scratch, little by little, and finally seeing a turning point. At first glance, it seems a bit "pretentious" and a bit "silly," but who can deny that there is ultimately resilience and self-growth factors in human nature, and that there is affection, commitment, and friendship. The "翘尾" (qiào wěi - "upturned tail") and "reversal" of the novel's ending are actually the norm in life: no matter what, we must persevere and move forward.
In terms of reading experience, the language of the work is full of Jiangnan (江南) urban characteristics, adding a bit of worldly atmosphere to the ups and downs of the story, rendering a bright and warm literary texture. Whether it is the "碎碎念" (suì suì niàn - "muttering," constant talking to oneself, often repetitive) of the protagonist encouraging herself, or the lively and back-and-forth dialogues between the characters, they all make us feel as if we are in the city streets of a land of fish and rice, listening to lively people telling vivid stories around us.
The network narrative structure unfolded with Ai Shengchun (艾胜春) as the hub connects many characters and stories with different identities. Through montage-style cross-narration, it converges into a vivid picture of economic life. As the writer said, "The relationship between citizens and the economy is like the relationship between farmers and the land, with ups and downs and four seasons, equally solemn, and worthy of writing." In the map of contemporary Chinese literature, this type of writing is both a piece to be supplemented and a blue ocean with broad space. The timely appearance of "At This Moment" (《此时此刻》) undoubtedly anchors a new coordinate for this—ordinary people, ordinary days, and the smoke and fire of life. Firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, clothing, food, housing, and use are all knowledge, and what is reflected behind them is the ordinary you and me who are striving for a better life and full of resilience.
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Who would have thought that an ordinary bowl of winter melon and bone soup could spark countless connections in zooarchaeology? The book "From 'Bone' to the Present: Observations of an Animal Archaeologist" uses the interaction between humans and animals as a thread, integrating rigorous archaeological evidence into everyday life, dissecting the changes of time from pieces of bones, and unfolding a civilization picture with both warmth and philosophical thinking.
The book breaks away from the general framework of academic works, opens the door to animal archaeology from a life-oriented perspective, and glimpses the survival methods, dietary preferences, etiquette traditions, and even the evolutionary trajectory of the entire civilization of the ancients through the fragments of remains. The author, Dong Ningning (董宁宁), graduated from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and has both traditional morphological identification skills and modern scientific and technological archaeological capabilities. She tries to integrate first-line field experience and cutting-edge testing methods into writing, so that each conclusion has the dual support of bone evidence and scientific analysis, and practices the academic essence of archaeology of "seeing people through objects."
In the study of the Qitai Stone City Site (奇台石城子遗址) in Xinjiang (新疆), the author used enamel multi-stable isotope analysis to sort out the livelihood model of the Han Dynasty military fortress from the mottled sheep bones: based on animal husbandry, taking into account military supply, and then figured out the complete strategy of ancient people's sheep breeding, transhumance grazing, and seasonal supplementary feeding, and restored the landing details of the Han Dynasty's Western Regions (西域) garrison policy. Sections of broken animal bones have become valuable historical materials for interpreting the economy, ecological environment, etc. of the Han Dynasty frontier, providing an animal archaeological perspective for verifying the formation of the pluralistic and integrated pattern of Chinese civilization.
In the archaeological excavations in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江) region, the author unlocked the mystery of a large number of fine fish bones through soil screening and flotation. The sea bream, mullet, and catfish eaten by the ancestors in eastern Zhejiang (浙东) 5,000 years ago are still regulars in the Jiangnan (江南)菜 markets today. The reputation of "land of fish and rice" was originally rooted in prehistoric times. These scattered archaeological details connect the continuous historical axis of Chinese civilization, and also make the pluralistic and integrated civilization picture clear and perceptible.
The emotional connection contained in the words becomes the most moving part of the book. The author missed the sweet and sour pork ribs from her hometown in Xinjiang (新疆) due to acclimatization. This homesickness spans 2,000 years: the soldiers guarding the border in the Han Dynasty may have also remotely missed the taste of their homeland when roasting mutton in the cold night. Researchers and those being researched meet in history and reach a wonderful resonance. This homesickness with the atmosphere of daily life is being witnessed by the animal bones unearthed from the site. "Seeing people through objects" does not always mean seeing a grand blueprint of civilization, but can also be the taste buds and thoughts of ordinary people.
This book is not only a review of the past, but also strives to learn from the past and illuminate the present. Nowadays, we often simply regard animals as food, pets or tools, and gradually forget the original source of symbiosis. This book reminds readers through historical remains that the relationship between humans and animals is not a one-way demand and being demanded. Every step forward in human civilization is inseparable from the company of animals. For example, the fish bone evidence from the Tianluoshan Site (田螺山遗址) in Yuyao (余姚), Zhejiang (浙江), reveals the historical depth of the rice-fish farming model. This agricultural practice that has lasted for thousands of years is still the key to green agriculture in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River (长江) region. The ancient agricultural wisdom of human-animal symbiosis is providing oriental experience for global ecological sustainable development.
For non-professional readers, this book is not only a popular science book on animal archaeology, but also a co-existence meditation record of humans and all things. It allows us to re-examine the way humans and nature get along, and when we look at the daily dining table and the creatures around us, we will naturally have awe of nature in our hearts.
(The author is a professor in the Department of Cultural Relics and Museology and Dean of the Institute of Scientific and Technological Archaeology at Fudan University (复旦大学))
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Eyes are the most precise, fragile, and important organs in the human body, bearing the function of perception. Within the square inch of the eyeball, billions of nerves are condensed, carrying the light and scenery of the four seasons. After decades of clinical and scientific research, I have always firmly believed that in ophthalmology, prevention is more important than treatment, popular science is prior to clinical practice, and universal care is better than individual cases. The reason is that the structure of eye diseases in China has undergone profound changes. Acute blinding eye diseases have been greatly reduced, while myopia at a younger age, dry eye at a younger age, and chronic fundus diseases in middle-aged and elderly people have become prominent public health problems that affect the visual health of all people, restrict the quality of life of the masses, and affect the physical fitness of the next generation.
Dr. Tao Yong's (陶勇) new book, "May Your Eyes Be Bright: An Eye Care Guide for the Whole Family," is an excellent popular science book based on the needs of the times, in line with China's national conditions, and adapted to family scenarios. The author has been deeply involved in the front line of clinical ophthalmology for many years, not only focusing on diagnosis and treatment in the clinic and surgical treatment, but also focusing on the front line of the family, the front end of prevention, and the most urgent eye care needs of ordinary people, transforming professional ophthalmological knowledge into practical family eye care programs that the public can understand, remember, use, and adhere to.
The book has a clear structure and precise targeting, closely following the core logic of "eye care for all ages, all families, and the entire life cycle." For children and adolescents, it focuses on early warning, early intervention, and early control of myopia, and scientifically corrects parents' misconceptions about prevention and control. For middle-aged and young working people, it focuses on visual fatigue, dry eye, and eye pressure fluctuations caused by staying up late and working at a desk, and provides feasible coping suggestions. For the elderly, it strengthens early screening, early diagnosis, and early treatment of chronic diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma, and breaks the old notions of "presbyopia does not need to be managed, and eye diseases do not need to be checked." The book takes into account the physiological characteristics, eye use scenarios, and risk of disease of different groups of people, implements classified policies, and provides precise popular science, so as to achieve systematic and normalized eye care.
To do a good job in eye health, we must not only rely on high-precision technology to overcome difficult eye diseases, but also rely on high-quality popular science to guard the national defense line. Clinical ophthalmologists are the main force in medical treatment and also an important force in health popularization. Tao Yong (陶勇) uses solid medical experience to do popular science, writes common sense with a rigorous attitude, and transforms professional knowledge into family habits, demonstrating the professional responsibility and social feelings of medical workers in the new era.
It is hoped that more eye care guidebooks and health bedside books will emerge to promote the formation of a good atmosphere in the whole society that attaches importance to eye care, scientific eye care, and adherence to eye care, so that the beautiful vision of everyone enjoying clear vision and everyone enjoying a bright life can become a reality.
(The author is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (中国工程院))
Return to TopBy: 胡一峰
Amidst the accelerating iteration of AI (Artificial Intelligence) and its profound impact on social development, how should humanity position itself, and how should AI be governed? Answering this question requires strategic and systemic thinking. Wang Jiangping (王江平), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Director of the Electronic Information Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), drawing on long-term observation, practice, and reflection, and drawing nourishment from traditional Chinese wisdom, proposes the "Supreme Good AI" governance concept. This concept constructs a multi-dimensional framework from governance philosophy to technological paths, from industrial practice to humanistic care, culminating in the book "Supreme Good AI: Humane Artificial Intelligence Governance," providing a human-machine collaboration outline that embodies Chinese wisdom.
The author points out that human-machine alignment is the central issue of the intelligent era and the basic framework of AI governance. The essence of human-machine alignment is to build a dynamic balance mechanism between AI and human value systems. This is not a purely technical problem and must be infused with cultural dimension thinking. The author specifically proposes that human-machine alignment must become a design principle throughout the entire life cycle of AI research and development, which determines whether humanity can maintain the dominant position in civilizational development in the intelligent era.
Here, the author transcends the concept of completely regarding AI as a "tool," abandons the one-way thinking of "making AI obedient," and advocates establishing a dynamic, mutually beneficial relationship of understanding and adaptation between AI and humans. This shows that human-machine alignment is essentially a "two-way alignment," that is, "we need AI aligned with human values, and we also need the ability to maintain autonomy, critical thinking, and core values in an environment where AI is ubiquitous." The two are not unidirectional constraints but are mutually adapted and developed together. This means shifting the relationship between humans and AI from "master-slave control" to "partner-style co-evolution."
The prospect is bright, but the road to arrival is full of challenges. As the book points out, "When AI strictly follows human-preset rules and values, although it is safe and controllable, it may lose its ability to respond flexibly; and when we give AI more autonomy to enhance its creativity, we face the risk of AI going out of control." In seeking a way to break the deadlock, the author draws AI governance wisdom from traditional philosophies such as "supreme good is like water" (上善若水 (shàng shàn ruò shuǐ - "supreme good is like water," the highest good is like water, benefiting all things without contention)), "being and non-being produce each other" (有无相生 (yǒu wú xiāng shēng - "being and non-being produce each other," existence and nonexistence give rise to each other)), and "knowing the white, guarding the black" (知白守黑 (zhī bái shǒu hēi - "knowing the white, guarding the black," understanding brilliance while embracing simplicity)), and proposes views such as "establishing transparent and credible rules" and "AI governance needs to grasp the rhythm of technological development," providing a personal perspective on answering the AI question.
As an important force in promoting global AI development, China's AI development path is rooted in unique institutional advantages. Through the collaborative innovation system of "government, industry, academia, research, and application" (政产学研用), it realizes the organic unity of national strategic leadership and market vitality driving. "Embedding technological development deeply into the national AI governance framework to form a unique model of mutual promotion between technological evolution and social stability," this book, based on respecting the diversity of AI governance solutions, makes a convincing explanation of the advantages and prospects of the Chinese solution, demonstrating cultural confidence in the AI context.
As a book that combines theory and speculation, this book shows realistic concern and transforms it into a readable writing style. For example, when elaborating on the core concept of "human-machine alignment" throughout the book, the author uses the familiar Sun Wukong (孙悟空) as an analogy: "When AI shows extraordinary power like the 'Digital Great Sage,' humans are also creating a 'tightening spell' for it—human-machine alignment technology. This is not only a constraint but also a guide; it is not suppression but giving it the ability to do good," explaining this original concept in an easy-to-understand way. As artificial intelligence becomes a "prominent discipline," the significance of human-machine relationship research is further highlighted. These reflections provide inspiration for improving AI governance and will contribute Chinese wisdom to solving the human-machine symbiosis issue.
(The author is the Director of the Network Literature and Art Communication Center of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联).)
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