Summary: Following a major gas explosion in a Shanxi coal mine, Xi Jinping called for all-out efforts in rescue and recovery, a thorough investigation, and accountability. He emphasized the need for all regions and departments to learn from the accident, strengthen safety measures, and prevent major accidents. Li Qiang issued instructions for rescue, treatment, and investigation. Zhang Guoqing was dispatched to the site to oversee rescue and relief efforts.
Summary: Following a coal mine gas explosion in Shanxi Province's Changzhi City, the immediate priority is to implement Xi Jinping's instructions to prioritize rescue, recovery, and victim support. The incident serves as a reminder to strengthen safety protocols and risk management, especially during the flood season, and to shift away from prioritizing development over safety. The article emphasizes the need for comprehensive risk assessment and prevention measures to ensure public safety. It urges officials to view potential hazards as accidents waiting to happen. Strengthening accountability is necessary to ensure safety and development are balanced.
Summary: Following a gas explosion at the Shanxi Tongzhou Group Liushenyu Coal Mine in Qinshui County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province on May 23rd, rescue workers prepared to descend into the mine for search and rescue operations. The incident is the focus of the article, with accompanying photographs by Zheng Yangyang of People's Daily and Wang Fan of People's Online. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Since the launch of the education campaign on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, various regions and departments have been focusing on identifying and rectifying problems to meet the expectations of the masses. Local governments, such as Xuzhou, Zunyi, Ninghe, and Guangxin, are establishing problem lists and rectification systems, addressing issues ranging from traffic accident resolution to long-standing complaints. Regions are also focusing on long-term mechanisms like leadership transition systems in Tongliao and public housing management in Kezhou. Efforts are being made to deliver tangible benefits to the people through projects like road construction in Jinan and greenways in Xiangyang, with officials actively engaging with the public to identify and resolve their concerns.
Summary: A recent report highlights the success of China's "Special Action Plan to Boost Consumption" since its launch in March 2025. Retail sales have significantly increased, driven by policies like trade-ins for appliances and cars, and a shift towards service-oriented consumption in areas like elderly care, tourism, and cultural experiences. New consumption trends include the rise of domestic "trendy" products and the integration of artificial intelligence into consumer goods, such as smart glasses. The report notes the growth of inbound tourism and the expansion of service sector openings. Overall, the report emphasizes the role of consumption in driving high-quality development.
Summary: Liaoning province is implementing the "Spring Warmth in Liaoning" campaign for the next five years to promote employment and address structural employment contradictions by integrating market demand with worker aspirations. Shenyang's animation industry is highlighted as a successful example of industry and employment growth, with initiatives like free skills training and school-enterprise collaborations to address the growing need for animators. The Shenyang Animation Industry Association plays a key role in training and connecting graduates with companies. The goal is to retain talent by creating more local job opportunities through industry development and entrepreneurship support.
Summary: In the first four months of the year, China saw a 6.8% year-on-year increase in newly established foreign-invested enterprises, totaling 20,113. Actual use of foreign capital reached 287.69 billion yuan, with the manufacturing and service sectors receiving 78.88 billion yuan and 204.15 billion yuan respectively. High-tech industries experienced a 20.3% increase in foreign capital utilization, reaching 116.33 billion yuan. Over the past three years, the number of foreign-invested enterprises has steadily increased to over 530,000, with existing foreign capital exceeding $3.6 trillion.
Summary: In the first four months of this year, China's comprehensive bonded zones achieved an import and export value of 2.7 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 25.2%, accounting for 16.8% of the country's total. These zones are now a crucial platform for China's foreign trade development. New measures have been introduced to promote the expansion and quality improvement of comprehensive bonded zones. The goal of these measures is to shift the focus of the zones from traditional processing and logistics to a deeper integration of diversified and high-end production and services. The measures will also reposition these zones from the traditional "two ends outside" model to serving both domestic and international dual circulation.
Summary: As of the end of April, China's total number of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (charging outlets) reached 21.955 million, a 47.4% year-on-year increase. Public charging infrastructure accounted for 4.907 million outlets, a 29.6% increase, with a total rated power of 237 million kilowatts. Private charging infrastructure reached 17.048 million outlets, marking a 53.5% increase, with a registered electricity capacity of 149 million kVA. The data was obtained from the National Energy Administration's charging facility monitoring service platform. The report does not mention US-China relations.
Summary: Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing, acting on instructions from Xi Jinping and Li Qiang, visited the site of a coal mine gas explosion in Shanxi province. Zhang relayed Xi's emphasis on prioritizing the safety of the people, demanding thorough investigations and accountability. He stressed the need for scientific rescue operations, comprehensive medical treatment, and thorough investigations into the accident's causes, emphasizing accountability for responsible parties. Zhang also called for a comprehensive review of mine safety measures and a crackdown on illegal practices. There were no mentions of the United States or US-China relations.
Summary: A gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Mine in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, resulted in 82 confirmed deaths and two missing as of May 23rd. Changzhi Mayor Chen Xiangyang stated that the accident was severe, indicating potential major violations by the mine operator, and pledged a thorough investigation. Rescue efforts involving hundreds of personnel are ongoing, complicated by hazardous conditions in the mine. The mine, with a designed production capacity of 1.2 million tons per year, has been ordered to halt operations along with three other mines under the same group.
Summary: Following a coal mine accident in Liushanyou Coal Mine, Changzhi City, rescue teams including the Changzhi City Emergency Rescue Team and the Fenxi Rescue Team were deployed to search for missing miners and provide medical assistance. Multiple rescue teams worked in shifts to navigate the nearly 300-meter-deep mine, facing challenges such as power outages, to reach the trapped miners and carry the injured to the surface. Medical experts from Beijing and Shanxi Province were dispatched to assist in the treatment of the injured, with local hospitals also mobilizing resources. As of the evening of May 23rd, two miners remained missing, and rescue operations were ongoing.
Summary: Following an accident, Qinyuan County People's Hospital in Changzhi City, Shanxi Province mobilized 420 medical personnel and 86 ambulances to provide medical assistance. Mobile hyperbaric oxygen chambers were also deployed from surrounding areas. The article focuses on the local response to the accident. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The State Council has issued an opinion on providing basic public services based on permanent residence, aiming to equalize access for residents without local *hukou*. Experts, including Shi Yulong and Gao Guoli, emphasize the opinion's importance in matching public service allocation with population needs, particularly for migrant workers concerning employment, education, housing, and social security. The initiative seeks to enhance the sense of gain for permanent residents, optimize resource allocation in both inflow and outflow cities, and facilitate the portability of public services. The opinion focuses on financial support, land use, cross-regional collaboration in education and healthcare, and data sharing to improve service delivery. The experts discussed how to better the system, but the article does not touch on U.S. relations or policy.
Summary: Tibet is commemorating the 75th anniversary of its "peaceful liberation" with events across the region. In Lhasa, an international symposium was held, where experts discussed Tibet's achievements, including an increase in average life expectancy. Medical professionals offered free health services in Shannan, while volunteer services were provided in Changdu. A propaganda campaign was also held in Nagqu, highlighting the changes in Tibet under the leadership of the CCP.
Summary: China's "Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption," launched in March 2025, has shown positive results, with total retail sales exceeding 50 trillion yuan and final consumption contributing 52% to economic growth. The plan focused on stimulating spending through initiatives like trade-ins for appliances and cars, leading to increased sales in these sectors, particularly in new energy vehicles. Service consumption, including elder care, tourism, and cultural experiences, also saw significant growth, driven by optimized supply chains and innovative approaches like integrating AI into consumer products. The rise of "trendsetting" domestic brands and the emergence of "artificial intelligence + consumption" are highlighted as key drivers of this growth, demonstrating the potential of new quality productive forces in the consumption area. The plan did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A "2026 China-Europe Human Rights Seminar" was held in Paris, co-hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the French Academy of Overseas Sciences, with over 100 experts discussing the evolution of the international order and the future of human rights. Tang Jianjun, Secretary-General of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, stated that China's Four Global Initiatives inject new momentum into improving global human rights governance. Chinese representatives emphasized that human rights development should be tailored to national conditions, and that there is no superior model. Participants also discussed the challenges to human rights posed by unilateralism and protectionism, as well as the need for international cooperation. The seminar highlighted the importance of multilateralism in the face of global challenges and the need for dialogue between different civilizations.
Summary: According to the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and head of the Montenegro-China Friendship Group, Montenegro views China as an important partner, with bilateral relations serving as a model for mutually beneficial cooperation between countries of different sizes. Montenegro was one of the first countries to recognize Montenegro's sovereignty in 2006. Cooperation includes infrastructure projects like the Bar-Boljare highway, built with Chinese investment, and collaboration within the China-CEEC framework. He expressed that Montenegro will continue to deepen cooperation with China in various fields and sees the relationship as a positive force for a more just international order. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Politburo Member and Vice Premier He Lifeng addressed the APEC Trade Ministers Meeting in Suzhou, emphasizing mutual respect, win-win cooperation, and open development amidst global changes. He stated China's willingness to strengthen communication in emerging fields, support WTO reform, and advance regional economic integration. He Lifeng also expressed China's desire to contribute to Asia-Pacific and global economic development through Chinese-style modernization. During the meeting, He held talks with WTO Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Commerce Minister Phumtham Wechayachai on WTO and China-Thailand economic cooperation issues.
Summary: Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić will conduct a state visit to China from May 24th to 28th at the invitation of President Xi Jinping. Vučić, born in 1970, was elected president in 2017 and re-elected in 2022. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority Senior Researcher Melese Selamo praised China's biodiversity protection efforts, citing the successful conservation of flagship species like pandas and crested ibis as examples for the world. Speaking while attending a biodiversity protection workshop organized by the National Forestry and Grassland Administration, Selamo emphasized China's integrated approach to scientific decision-making and practice in ecological civilization construction. He highlighted the country's national park system and legal frameworks as models for systematic biodiversity conservation. Selamo also noted the growing cooperation between Ethiopia and China in areas like biodiversity research, wildlife protection, and combating illegal ivory trade, framing it as South-South collaboration for sustainable development.
Summary: A documentary titled "From Xi'an to Gwadar Port" Season 2, "The Greatness of Workers," co-produced by Shaanxi Zhongshan Culture Media Co., Ltd. and Pakistan National Television, premiered on Pakistan National Television on May 22nd. The documentary was simultaneously launched on major overseas social media platforms.
Summary: A joint Chinese-Nepalese scientific expedition successfully summited Mount Everest and extracted a full-depth ice core sample from the peak, a first in human history. The expedition, organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Kathmandu Center and Tianjin's Extreme Response to Climate Change Promotion Center, also collected samples at various altitudes during their descent. These samples aim to help scientists understand climate change in high-altitude regions, pollutant pathways, and climate differences between the north and south slopes of Everest. The entire team has safely returned to base camp.
Summary: Since the launch of the education campaign on establishing and practicing correct views on performance, various regions and departments have focused on addressing problems and delivering tangible results to meet the public's expectations by solving their problems. Regions have established problem lists and implemented销号 systems to ensure effective rectification. Local authorities have created mechanisms for problem-solving and long-term institutional improvements, such as streamlining accident procedures in Jiangsu and improving public housing allocation in Xinjiang. Cadres are encouraged to prioritize the people's well-being by addressing livelihood issues and resolving difficulties faced by the masses, as seen in infrastructure projects in cities such as Xiangyang and Jinan. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Lianyungang port in Jiangsu province is experiencing a surge in vehicle exports to Africa, operating 24/7 to meet demand. Multiple international ships are being loaded simultaneously with cargo, including engineering vehicles. The provided image, taken on May 22nd, depicts cargo ships loading engineering vehicles at the Lianyungang port. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liaoning province is implementing the "Spring Warmth in Liaoshen" campaign for five years to promote employment and address structural employment contradictions by aligning market needs with worker aspirations. As part of this effort, Shenyang's animation industry is upgrading through industry-employment synergy, exemplified by initiatives like the Shenyang Animators labor brand and vocational training programs. The Shenyang Animation Industry Association, in collaboration with vocational schools, trains animators and facilitates skills assessments, supported by government subsidies. This initiative involves university-enterprise cooperation, providing internships and job opportunities for students, with the aim of retaining talent and fostering growth in the local animation sector. No mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations was in the article.
Summary: The Shenzhou-23 mission, launching May 24, will consist of astronauts Zhu Yangzhu (commander), Zhang Zhiyuan, and Li Jiaying, with Li being the first astronaut from Hong Kong. The mission will conduct an in-orbit crew rotation with Shenzhou-21 and new scientific experiments, including one astronaut's one-year in-orbit stay. Li Jiaying emphasized the support of the motherland and the connection between Hong Kong and the mainland. China's space station is supporting the goal of putting astronauts on the moon by 2030.
Summary: The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced the Shenzhou-23 astronaut crew, including Lai Ka-ying, a payload specialist from Hong Kong. Hong Kong Chief Executive John Lee expressed gratitude to the central government and congratulated Lai, a Hong Kong native with a doctorate in computer forensics previously working for the police, on her selection. Lee emphasized the significance of this first instance of Hong Kong experts participating in manned spaceflight. Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry Sun Dong led a Hong Kong delegation, including experts, youth, and students to attend the launch ceremony at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center.
Summary: At the 2026 Cultural Powerhouse Construction Forum, speakers discussed cultivating high-caliber cultural talent in the age of AI, emphasizing the need for talent to understand both Chinese tradition and modern technology. Speakers stressed the importance of balancing knowledge with creativity, and of fostering a cultural environment that values diversity and innovation. It was mentioned that AI presents both opportunities and challenges for cultural development, requiring talent to uphold core values. Experts advocated for long-term evaluation systems and platforms for young talent to flourish.
Summary: A high-level forum on CCP history and Party construction, entitled "Telling the Story of the Chinese Communist Party," was held at Renmin University, emphasizing the construction of an independent knowledge system and innovation in discourse. Experts at the forum stressed the importance of studying the CCP's history, constructing narratives, and innovating theoretical methods to address questions facing China and the world. During the forum, the "Research Report on the Inheritance and Development of Red Culture (2025)" was released, and projects related to preserving the memory of the Long March were launched. The event was attended by figures such as Ouyang Song, Lu Xiaoqing, Wang Quanchun, Cui Shixin, Ma Huaide, and Chen Jin. There is no indication of discussion regarding the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing integration of AI into the Chinese workforce and its impact on young professionals. It notes how AI is transforming roles, boosting efficiency, and creating new job opportunities, such as prompt engineers and AI trainers. Companies are shifting hiring priorities to favor candidates with AI skills, while universities and government initiatives are supporting AI education and industry development. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is quoted as saying AI is a new work platform that will create more jobs. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the integration of AI into various industries and encourages young people to embrace human-AI collaboration rather than fearing job displacement. It highlights AI's potential to enhance human capabilities, create new career paths, and free up time for creative thinking. The piece references Renmin University's initiative to use AI to create a career development support system. It argues that future career success will depend on the ability to effectively use AI tools. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Zhang Xue's motorcycle team won another championship, prompting discussion of Zhejiang Venture Capital's (浙创投) earlier investment of 90 million yuan when the company was struggling. The article highlights the spirit of Chinese youth, exemplified by figures like Su Bingtian and the Chang'e-6 team, who demonstrate perseverance and a drive to overcome challenges. It emphasizes that today's youth are aiming for global leadership and connecting their personal goals with national development. The piece argues for long-term investment in young people and fostering an environment that allows them to take risks and innovate. It concludes that this spirit of striving and daring is essential for China's continued success and overcoming technological bottlenecks.
Summary: This article features an interview with a Chinese wheelchair curling athlete who won gold at the recent Winter Paralympics in Milan. The athlete describes her initial excitement joining the team in 2018 and the rigorous training required for the sport, focusing on precision and adapting to changing ice conditions. She emphasizes the pressure to improve and her dedication to extra practice and reviewing match footage with coaches and teammates. Finally, she recounts the pride she felt hearing the Chinese national anthem on the podium and her commitment to future training and competition. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: Wang Chen, a senior technician in the Air Force, leads a studio focused on technical innovation to solve practical maintenance problems, improving aircraft engine life and troubleshooting. Wang's studio has achieved over 30 innovations, some of which have been adopted by the Air Force. Wang emphasizes the importance of meticulous maintenance for flight safety. Wang also mentors younger technicians, passing on his skills and dedication to the next generation.
Summary: This article discusses the PLA's efforts to accelerate the development of advanced combat capabilities through improved personnel training, advanced equipment development, and realistic combat exercises. It emphasizes the need for cultivating talent, integrating technological advancements, and conducting joint training exercises to enhance combat readiness. The piece highlights the importance of advanced weaponry like unmanned systems, advanced tanks, fighter jets (J-16, J-20, J-35A) and missile systems. It also mentions a hypothetical joint exercise by the Eastern Theater Command near Taiwan in December 2025, testing rapid deployment and joint strike capabilities. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: This article recounts the experiences of a soldier, "Squad Leader Liang," stationed at the Sanmen Nuclear Power Plant. Liang describes his physical and mental development during his 15 years of service, emphasizing the importance of rigorous training and unwavering dedication to safeguarding the nuclear facility. He highlights the responsibility of ensuring the plant's security and the pride he feels in contributing to national energy security. The article focuses on the commitment of the soldiers to maintaining the safety and stability of the nuclear power plant.
Summary: An Eastern Theater Navy ordnance and technical support unit has rapidly modernized its missile support capabilities. The unit overcame initial challenges of lacking equipment and facilities by improvising training methods. They successfully completed a critical mission by leveraging resources from other units and have since transferred their accumulated experience and equipment to new facilities in the north. A new southern facility is under construction with enhanced capabilities, marking a shift from catching up to leading in technical expertise. The unit has achieved top rankings in military competitions, signaling readiness for future combat scenarios.
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Summary: China's micro-drama industry, with over 700 million users and projected market size exceeding 100 billion yuan by 2025, is shifting towards higher quality content. Industry insiders are focusing on value and emotional resonance rather than just fleeting entertainment, with mainstream media entering the field to promote narratives rooted in real life. AI technology is being used to enhance production, freeing creators to focus on storytelling and emotional depth while maintaining "human touch." Series and high-quality IPs are seen as important for sustainable growth, and government support is growing. The focus is on content that resonates with the audience and promotes positive values.
Summary: China's National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) has launched the "Micro-Drama+" initiative, promoting high-quality development in the rapidly growing short-form video drama sector. The initiative includes 116 recommended dramas across diverse categories like culture and tourism, law, and science, aiming to shift the industry from prioritizing traffic to emphasizing value and quality. The "Micro-Drama+" initiative emphasizes cross-sector integration, encouraging collaboration with industries like tourism, technology, and public services. The initiative seeks to improve the broader film and television industry by focusing on efficient storytelling and emphasizing real-world themes.
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Summary: The author, a professor at Nanjing Arts University, reflects on decades of oil painting, noting the influence of teachers Lin Fengmian and Su Tianci. They emphasize the importance of capturing the essence of Jiangnan's cultural and poetic spirit in their art, moving from objective representation to a more expressive and subjective style. The author details their artistic journey, including a shift from figure paintings to landscapes and still lifes, focusing on color and emotional expression. They underscore the need for constant self-improvement and a sincere desire to transcend one's limitations to create impactful art. The author does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The article discusses the increasing recognition and application of art therapy in China, highlighting its ability to address emotional and psychological needs through non-verbal creative expression. The author, the vice dean of the School of Arts Management and Education at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, recounts experiences of witnessing the healing power of art in clinical settings and community programs. She emphasizes the traditional Chinese cultural roots of art therapy, viewing it as a way to "nourish the heart" and promote inner peace. The formal inclusion of art therapy in the national university curriculum signals a new phase of development for the discipline. Finally, the author notes the growing importance of art therapy in the digital age, in its ability to create connections between individuals and their own selves.
Summary: The article discusses the "Grain Rain" (小满) solar term and its depiction in traditional Chinese "耕织图" (farming and weaving pictures). These pictures, originating from the Song Dynasty, illustrate agricultural practices and silk production, embodying the wisdom of adapting to the seasons and praying for good harvests. The article highlights specific examples like the Yuan dynasty's "Irrigation" which depicts the "搶水" (water grabbing) custom, and Qing dynasty's "Silkworm Moth" (蚕蛾) reflecting the process of silkworms breaking out of their cocoons and rural people praying to the silkworm god, while also mentioning the artistic and historical value of these depictions, capturing not only agricultural life but also the beauty and philosophy associated with the season. The author emphasizes the concept of "小满" (Xiaoman), which is "nearly full, but not quite", as embodying a philosophy of moderation and anticipation rather than extreme abundance. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: An exhibition co-organized by the Shenzhen Museum and the Liaoning Provincial Museum showcases 76 plaques from the Ming and Qing dynasties to the early Republic of China, primarily collected from Hakka-populated regions. These plaques, often made of durable wood, embody Chinese cultural traditions, family values, and social ethics through calligraphy, inscriptions, and artistic carvings. They reflect ideals such as pursuing scholarship and upholding filial piety. The plaques, with their diverse calligraphic styles and decorative motifs, represent both the aesthetic and moral values of traditional Chinese society.
Summary: Based on the provided title, the article likely discusses the Chinese painting "City of Sunlight" (日光之城) by Wang Jin (王进). Without the full article, it's impossible to provide more specifics. The piece likely analyzes the artistic merit, subject matter (perhaps relating to urbanization or specific locales), and potential symbolism within Wang Jin's painting. A more detailed summary would require access to the article's content.
Summary: A recent exhibition in Shandong highlights the contemporary resurgence of "Qinglu Shanshui" (青绿山水), a traditional Chinese painting style using azurite and malachite pigments. The exhibition, titled "New Era Exploration of Chinese-style Modernization in Qinglu Shanshui Painting," aims to re-establish color as a vital, tangible element in art amid the rise of virtual and AI-generated visuals. It emphasizes the unique qualities of this art form, including its historical roots, hand-crafted nature, and ability to express complex ideas and spiritual depth, which cannot be replicated by AI. The exhibition features three sections focusing on reconstructing the language of color, regenerating landscapes, and creating spiritual realms, demonstrating the art's innovative development rooted in tradition and reality. The author argues that Qinglu Shanshui offers a valuable, differentiated approach to art in an era dominated by AI homogenization.
Summary: This blurb identifies the email address for submissions to the "msfk" section of People's Daily (msfk@peopledaily.cn). It also credits Zhao Siru with the design of the title image for the section. There is no mention of any political figures, policy decisions, U.S.-China relations, or the United States in the provided text.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 23rd. At 19:29 on May 22nd, a gas explosion occurred underground at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of Shanxi Tongzhou Group Co., Ltd. in Qinshui County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, causing significant casualties.
After the accident, Xi Jinping (习近平), General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the People's Republic of China, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, attached great importance to it and issued important instructions, pointing out that a gas explosion occurred underground in a coal mine in Qinshui County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province, causing significant casualties. All-out efforts should be made to treat the injured, organize search and rescue operations scientifically, and properly handle the aftermath. The cause of the accident must be investigated and accountability must be seriously pursued in accordance with the law.
Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized that all regions and departments should learn from the accident, always keep the string of safety production tight, thoroughly investigate and rectify various risks and hidden dangers, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major and serious accidents. At present, it is the flood season, and emergency duty should be strengthened, flood prevention and disaster relief work should be carried out in a solid manner, and the safety of people's lives and property should be effectively safeguarded.
Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, issued instructions, pointing out that all-out efforts should be made to search for and rescue trapped personnel, treat the injured, do a good job in the aftermath, release information in a timely and accurate manner, and investigate the cause of the accident as soon as possible and hold those responsible accountable in accordance with laws and regulations. The Safety Committee of the State Council should further urge and guide all localities and relevant parties to strengthen the implementation of safety production responsibilities, effectively grasp the investigation and rectification of safety hazards in key industries and fields, and resolutely prevent the occurrence of major and serious accidents.
According to the important instructions of Xi Jinping (习近平) and the requirements of Li Qiang (李强), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, led responsible comrades from relevant departments to the scene to guide the rescue and disposal work. The main responsible comrades of the Shanxi Provincial Party Committee and the Shanxi Provincial Government are already at the scene directing the emergency response work, and Shanxi Province (山西省) and Changzhi City (长治市) are making every effort to treat the injured and carry out on-site rescue work. At present, relevant work is underway.
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A gas explosion occurred in a coal mine in Qinshui County (沁源县), Changzhi City (长治市), Shanxi Province (山西省), causing heavy casualties. The immediate priority is to implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions: "Go all out to treat the injured, scientifically organize search and rescue efforts, and properly handle the aftermath."
Every accident is a warning. All regions and departments must learn from these lessons, further strengthen bottom-line thinking and extreme-case thinking, and always keep the string of safe production taut. Currently, it is the flood season, so it is necessary to strengthen emergency duty and earnestly do a good job in flood prevention and disaster relief. More crucially, it is necessary to completely reverse the tendency of emphasizing development over safety and emphasizing post-event handling over peacetime prevention, and to prepare fully for any eventuality.
We must enhance the concept that "hidden dangers are accidents" and pay more attention to source prevention and systematic governance. The effectiveness of risk and hidden danger management tests the safety resilience of development, the work style and execution of cadres, and the degree to which the main responsibility of enterprises is fulfilled, and also directly affects the people's sense of security. Deeply investigating and rectifying various risks and hidden dangers, and strengthening the governance of the entire chain and the entire time period, can prevent problems such as not being able to recognize, not being able to think of, and not being able to manage.
"Consolidate safety in development, and seek development in safety," using a sense of responsibility that is always uneasy to safeguard every aspect of safe production, can protect the peace and happiness of thousands of households.
Return to TopFollowing the underground gas explosion at the Liushenyu Coal Industry Co., Ltd. of Tongzhou Group in Qinyuan County, Changzhi City, Shanxi Province (山西省) on May 23, rescuers prepared to go down the mine for search and rescue.
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Reporter Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋) of this newspaper, and reporter Wang Fan (王帆) of People's Daily Online (人民网) photographed and reported.
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Since the learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance has been carried out, all regions, departments, and units have conscientiously implemented the general requirements of "ruling for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and earnestly implementing tasks," making great efforts in genuinely investigating and rectifying problems, and responding to the people's expectations with practical work and results.
Adhering to Problem Orientation
All regions, departments, and units combined their actual situations to genuinely investigate and rectify problems, and at the same time established a problem list delisting system to promote the effectiveness of the investigation and rectification work.
"Minor accidents can be handled quickly by taking a video, without waiting for a long time on the roadside, which is very convenient." Mr. Wang (王先生), a car owner in Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), sincerely praised the new changes in traffic accident handling. In response to the time-consuming nature of traffic accident handling and other issues, the Xuzhou Public Security Bureau (徐州市公安局) innovated a video-based rapid handling model in accordance with relevant regulations.
In learning and education, Xuzhou (徐州) adhered to a problem orientation, established a "regularly sort out, dynamically supplement, and real-time update" work mechanism, combined with the progress of key tasks, and continued to deepen the investigation of problems; adhered to a people-centered approach, starting from small things around the masses and solving problems from the front line, and coordinated the systematic rectification of various prominent people's livelihood issues, tackling the blockages in people's livelihood with small breakthroughs.
Zunyi (遵义), Guizhou Province (贵州省), focused on outstanding problems, continued to focus on the rectification of problems fed back by inspections and audits, deepened the rectification of outstanding problems, and combined with the actual situation, broadened the channels for investigating problems from multiple aspects such as revitalizing and disposing of suspended and delayed construction projects, and updated the problem list dynamically on schedule. It urged and guided all regions and departments to clarify rectification measures, responsible persons, and completion deadlines for each problem identified, and persevered in rectifying them in place. At the same time, it adhered to "linkage between upper and lower levels, answering the same question together," and promoted the implementation of problem investigation and rectification with a correct view of performance, transforming the problem list into a list of achievements that the masses can feel and access.
Ninghe District (宁河区), Tianjin (天津), focused on key areas such as project construction and people's livelihood security, opened channels such as "sitting for diagnosis and accepting complaints," online inquiries, and hotlines for Party conduct and government conduct, opened its doors to find problems and listen to suggestions, and promoted the precise and specific investigation of problems; focused on in-depth problems such as disregard for people's livelihood debts and prolonged unresolved petitions, and carried out centralized rectification, and integrated it with the rectification of feedback from central inspections and ecological environmental protection inspections to ensure that one item is changed and one item is completed.
Guangxin District (广信区), Shangrao (上饶), Jiangxi Province (江西省), regarded tackling petition issues as an important examination for establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and carried out a "carpet-like" thorough investigation of existing petition issues. District leaders went to the front line to supervise the battle, led teams to hold symposiums in each township, jointly consulted on difficult and key cases, and reviewed and approved resolution plans; they regularly received visits and dispatched personnel, took the lead in tackling urgent, difficult, and worrying matters for the masses, and effectively solved prominent problems in the field of people's livelihood.
Establishing a Long-Term Mechanism
All regions, departments, and units adhered to combining "immediate rectification" with "long-term establishment," identified institutional shortcomings, and improved the establishment of rules and regulations.
At the site of the second-phase expansion project of fine aluminum in Huolin Gol (霍林郭勒), Tongliao (通辽), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), construction is busy and orderly. As a key project for the quality improvement and upgrading of the aluminum industry in Huolin Gol (霍林郭勒), the expansion project is steadily advancing.
In learning and education, Tongliao (通辽) focused on improving the handover system for changes in leading cadres, and formulated and issued the "Measures for Handover of Leaving Office by Leading Cadres," produced a list of handover items for leaving office by field, clarified important matters such as Party building and cadre management, as well as key tasks such as major project construction and people's livelihood practical matters, and promoted the secretaries of Party committees (Party groups), administrative heads, and main leaders of enterprises and institutions to hand over everything that should be handed over, comprehensively and accurately.
In Artux (阿图什), Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), entering the new home of Gulinuer Taiwaikuli (古丽努尔·太外库力), a villager in Achik Village (阿其克村), in the urban area, the living facilities are complete. "Applying for public rental housing in the Anju Community (安居小区), our couple doesn't have to run back and forth every day!"
In learning and education, the Kizilsu Prefecture (克州) Party Committee focused on the problems strongly reflected by the masses in the field of public rental housing, launched a special rectification, adhered to the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment," urged functional departments to strengthen the review and control of public rental housing applications, allocations, and other links, promptly investigate abnormal households, and verify and clear out illegal housing.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) comprehensively sorted out the school's existing system, conducted a systematic "physical examination" of the trial, temporary, and long-standing systems, and promptly abolished and revised inapplicable and imperfect systems. At the same time, it deepened the reform of education evaluation, continued to promote "breaking the five onlys" (破五唯) (pò wǔ wéi - "break five onlys," refers to abandoning the sole reliance on academic qualifications, titles, papers, awards, and projects in evaluating talent), adhered to the correct employment orientation, improved the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, improved the mass evaluation mechanism, and improved the pertinence and scientific nature of the assessment.
Striving to Benefit the People
All regions, departments, and units educated and guided Party members and cadres to keep in mind that benefiting the people is the greatest achievement, do more things that benefit the people's livelihood, solve the people's worries, and warm the people's hearts, so that the masses can see changes and get benefits.
Early in the morning, before the thin mist had completely dissipated, Zhu Hanrong (朱汉荣), a citizen of Xiangyang (襄阳), Hubei Province (湖北省), embarked on a mountain climbing trip with his friends. "There are both bluestone roads and asphalt roads on the mountain, which are easy to walk and safe. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the green mountains and clear waters, I feel open-minded!" Zhu Hanrong (朱汉荣) said with emotion.
In learning and education, Xiangyang (襄阳) adhered to open education, promoted leading cadres to take the lead in going to the front line to collect opinions, grasp the real situation, and solve problems, and led the handling of a number of practical matters for the people's livelihood, such as the urban water source replacement project, the "dismantling walls and merging courtyards" of the ancient city, and the environmental improvement of the Xianshan Greenway (岘山绿道), so that the masses could feel and access them.
"After waiting for so long, this road is finally going to be opened!" At the construction site at the southern end of the planned road on the west side of Quanxue Lane (劝学里), Jinan High-tech Zone (济南高新区), Shandong Province (山东省), Mr. Zhang (张先生), a resident, could not hide his joy as he watched the road surface being paved. Since the launch of learning and education, Jinan (济南) has comprehensively identified problems in the view of performance through audit supervision, petition reflections, and investigation and research. Relevant aspects of Jinan High-tech Zone (济南高新区) went to the front line to listen to the opinions of the masses, and listed this "dead-end road" as a key task to tackle, coordinated in many ways, and jointly solved the problems of cross-regional coordination and land acquisition.
"Thanks to the Party members stationed in the enterprise for helping to coordinate and handle relevant matters, the project was able to start construction four months ahead of schedule," said Ren Weidong (任卫东), general manager of Zhejiang Jinhaiwan Holding Co., Ltd. (浙江金海湾控股有限公司). Shangyu District (上虞区), Shaoxing (绍兴), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), selected Party members and cadres to serve as agents, and improved the long-term working mechanism of "on-site discovery - follow-up handling - closed-loop return visit" to solve the development problems of enterprises in a practical way.
"Many villagers go out to work, and the elderly in the village have a weak awareness of prevention. Can our border police station go to the village more often to talk about new fraud prevention knowledge?" "A special legal publicity session will be arranged in the village next week, specifically for the elderly." In Longba Town (陇把镇), Longchuan County (陇川县), Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (德宏傣族景颇族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), an open police evaluation activity was held in a warm atmosphere. Dehong Prefecture (德宏州) promoted cadres to go to the front line on a regular basis, established and improved a closed-loop management system of "masses propose, cadres handle, and everyone evaluates," and integrated the establishment and practice of a correct view of performance into the entire process of serving the people.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Ma Yuefeng (马跃峰), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Li Yanan (李亚楠), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟), Li Rui (李蕊), Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋), and Su Bin (苏滨) of this newspaper)
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General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Deepen the implementation of special actions to boost consumption," "Adapt to changes in consumption structure, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, optimize the implementation of 'two new' policies, give local governments more autonomy, clean up unreasonable restrictions in the consumption field, and release the potential of service consumption in culture, tourism, sports events, catering, and healthcare."
To vigorously boost consumption and comprehensively expand domestic demand, in March 2025, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption" (《提振消费专项行动方案》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") for external release. More than a year has passed, what are the results?
Data is the most powerful proof. In 2025, China's total retail sales of consumer goods exceeded 50 trillion yuan for the first time; final consumption expenditure contributed 52% to economic growth, and the "ballast stone" role of consumption was significant.
From January to April this year, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 16494.1 billion yuan, an increase of 1.9% year-on-year. Online retail sales of goods and services reached 6530.8 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6% year-on-year, of which online retail sales of goods was 4118.5 billion yuan, an increase of 5.7%; online retail sales of services was 2412.3 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3%.
From replacing old cars and buying new home appliances to improve daily life, to going out for tourism and concerts to gain a good mood; from the new experience of paying by facial recognition and drone delivery, to foreign tourists coming to China with empty suitcases to "sweep goods"... Over the past year, many changes have taken place in the consumption field in terms of goods, services, and new types of consumption.
Steady Increase in Goods Consumption
Trade-ins are intensified and expanded, and automobile consumption extends the chain
"The old TV has been used for more than ten years. Taking advantage of the subsidy policy, I replaced it with an 85-inch smart TV. With the government subsidy and the old machine recycling offset, I saved nearly 2,000 yuan in total," said Li Jianying (李建英), who lives in Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan (河南) Province.
For many families, buying a car and adding home appliances and furniture are big expenses. With the intensification and expansion of trade-in policies, bulk consumption such as home appliances, automobiles, and digital products has ushered in significant growth.
What is the key? The "real money" given by the policies and the "profit concessions" made by businesses.
In 2025, the retail sales of household appliances and audio-visual equipment, communication equipment, and furniture by units above the designated size increased by 11.0%, 20.9%, and 14.6% year-on-year, respectively. This is not only an increase in numbers, but also an activation of the stock market. In 2025, the sales of trade-ins of consumer goods reached 2.61 trillion yuan, benefiting 366 million people. From January to April this year, trade-ins of consumer goods have cumulatively driven sales of related commodities to exceed 600 billion yuan, benefiting more than 82 million people; in April, the domestic retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles exceeded 60% for the first time. This shows that the policy effect continues to appear and the market potential is continuously released.
The upgrading of bulk consumption is not only reflected in increasing support for trade-ins of consumer goods, but also in extending the consumption chain.
In April this year, a car owner in Zhongshan (中山市), Guangdong (广东) Province, sold his old car to a buyer in Shenyang (沈阳市), Liaoning (辽宁) Province through Guazi Used Car's "personal direct sale" channel. Both parties completed the car viewing, price negotiation, and confirmation with only mobile phone operations, which was labor-saving and worry-free. Wang Xiaoyu (王晓宇), senior vice president of Guazi Used Car, introduced that the platform strives to solve the problem of opaque car conditions in personal transactions and help policy dividends to be implemented.
With the support of policies such as off-site transaction registration, the vitality of the used car market has been released. Data from the China Automobile Dealers Association shows that in 2025, China's cumulative transaction volume of used cars reached 20.108 million vehicles, a record high.
Rapid Growth in Service Consumption
Strong demand for elderly care and childcare, buying "experience" becomes a new fashion
Over the past year, a prominent feature of changes in the consumption structure has been the significant increase in experience-based consumption. In 2025, China's service retail sales increased by 5.5% year-on-year, 1.7 percentage points faster than the retail sales of goods; the retail sales of services such as cultural, sports and leisure, tourism consulting and leasing, and transportation and travel all maintained double-digit growth; the proportion of service consumption expenditure in per capita consumption expenditure of residents reached 46.1%. From January to April this year, service retail sales increased by 5.6% year-on-year. The rapid growth of service consumption reflects that the consumption structure of residents is shifting from mainly commodity consumption to a combination of commodity and service consumption.
Since the implementation of the "Plan," there have been frequent highlights in the service market, and new consumption vitality has been accelerated.
The supply of services for the elderly and children is continuously optimized. At noon, in Hejiawan Community (贺家湾社区), Danjiang Street (丹江街), Anyuan District (安源区), Pingxiang (萍乡) City, Jiangxi (江西) Province, the canteen of Changtian Songkang Danjiang Elderly Care Service Center is filled with the aroma of food. The elderly sit around a table, eating and chatting about their daily lives. This "elderly care station at the doorstep," which was transformed from idle shops, has 12 rooms and 1 day care room, providing professional care for semi-disabled, disabled, and elderly people living alone in the community.
In the childcare service center of Anyuan District Maternal and Child Health Hospital, professional nannies are assisting children in using soft climbing frames. "Bao Ma" Chen Xia (陈霞) said: "It's close to home and the cost is not high, so I'm very relieved." Anyuan District has built 20 childcare institutions, providing 1,820 childcare places.
All parties are working together to promote the integrated development of elderly care and childcare with housekeeping, medical care, etc., release the potential of silver-haired consumption and childcare consumption, and consolidate the foundation of people's livelihood security. Invoice data from the State Taxation Administration shows that in 2025, consumption of elderly care, social care and assistance, and sanatorium services increased by 24.9%, 23.1%, and 15.4% year-on-year, respectively, and sales revenue of nursery services increased by 5.4% year-on-year.
Cultural and tourism consumption is full of vitality. On May 1, the 2026 Zhuzhou (株洲) Prairie Music Carnival was held in Huahugu (花湖谷) Scenic Area, Chaling (茶陵) County, Hunan (湖南) Province. As night fell, the stage lights on the Huahugu Prairie were dazzling and the melody was flying. Tourists gathered in groups of three or five, either boiling tea around the stove or barbecuing themselves, singing along with the music. The Huahugu during the day has a unique charm: bathing in the warm sunshine, tourists can fully relax their body and mind - in the pet paradise, children are accompanied by their families to get close to small animals; in the crape myrtle flower sea, jungle crossing, colorful slides and other projects attract children to bravely challenge. During the "May Day" holiday, the total number of tourists received by Huahugu Scenic Area reached 180,000.
Over the past year, a significant feature of cultural and tourism consumption has been the accelerated shift from "**走马观花**" (zǒu mǎ guān huā - "riding a horse and looking at flowers," to gain a superficial understanding through cursory observation) to "quality experience." In 2025, the number of domestic tourist trips reached 6.522 billion, an increase of 16.2% year-on-year; tourism expenditure was 6.30 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.5% year-on-year, both hitting record highs.
Ice and snow consumption is in full swing. During the 2025-2026 snow season, China's ice and snow leisure tourism reached 360 million people; inbound consumption is strongly booming. Last year, the number of overseas tourists who applied for departure tax refunds and the sales of goods increased by 305% and 95.9% respectively; housekeeping service consumption is running at an "accelerated speed." Taking 58.com as an example, the platform has integrated millions of merchants and more than 10,000 high-quality housekeeping companies to build a shared network of more than 4 million workers, and intelligent order dispatch can reach service personnel within 5 kilometers in 3 seconds; the opening up of the service industry is advancing steadily, and pilot projects in the fields of medical care and telecommunications are expanding in an orderly manner...
The warming of service consumption benefits from the continuous optimization of the supply side. From promoting age-appropriate transformation to supporting scenic spots to extend business hours, from building a 15-minute convenient living circle in the city to simplifying performance approvals, a series of measures have cleared the blockages restricting service consumption. When high-quality supply meets stimulated demand, markets such as culture, sports, housekeeping, and health care naturally rejuvenate, better meeting people's needs for a better life.
Release of New Consumption Potential
Domestic "trendy products" are popular, and "artificial intelligence + consumption" is gaining popularity
The spillover effect of technological innovation is significantly transmitted to the consumption side. This change is not only the iteration and upgrading of products, but also the landing and transformation of new quality productive forces in the consumption field. New consumption is releasing considerable growth potential with technology as the traction and scenarios as the stage.
Domestic "trendy products" are rising rapidly. On May 15, the 2026 China's First New Cultural and Creative Market opened in Chaoyang Park (朝阳公园), Beijing (北京). The local trendy toy brand HERE Qimeng Island (HERE奇梦岛) made its debut with 18 IP matrices, integrating traditional techniques into modern design in an innovative model of "trendy toys + intangible cultural heritage."
"Trendy toys can bring emotional value. I like the IP of WAKUKU very much. Different colors match different bags. I often play with it, and my mood will improve," said Wang Wenrong (王文蓉), a consumer born after 2000.
"Solid originality is the moat of cultural and creative enterprises. Domestic 'trendy products' are becoming a new engine for driving domestic demand, and more importantly, an important carrier for conveying Chinese aesthetics and cultural confidence to the world," said Li Peng (李鹏), founder and chairman of HERE Qimeng Island Group.
In 2025, the retail sales of cultural and office supplies by units above the designated size increased by 17.3%, and the retail sales of sports and entertainment products increased by 15.7%. From "The Three-Body Problem" (《三体》) and "Only Green" (《只此青绿》) to the "Nezha" series (《哪吒》系列) and "Chang'an San Wan Li" (《长安三万里》), China's excellent IPs are becoming well-known "famous trendy products." Trendy toy brands such as Qimeng Island, Pop Mart, and Miniso are accelerating their global layout, and the international influence of Chinese consumer brands is continuously increasing.
"Artificial intelligence + consumption" is booming. "Wearing smart glasses, navigation information is directly projected in front of you, and you don't need to look back and forth at your mobile phone while driving." After experiencing the latest smart glasses, Chen Hao (陈昊), a programmer in Shenzhen (深圳), immediately placed an order to buy them. In the first quarter of this year, the sales of smart glasses on key platforms increased by 4.6 times, and wearable smart devices have become a new consumer favorite.
The low-altitude economy has emerged as a dark horse and is rapidly integrated into people's lives. Relying on the low-altitude network, drones in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) can deliver emergency equipment to the scene of sudden incidents in 4 minutes, buying valuable time for life rescue; drones in the Yangtze River (长江) basin can deliver living materials to cargo ships, which is efficient and convenient and saves logistics costs; border towns in Yunnan (云南) use drones to deliver mail and materials, shortening the 3-hour land delivery to 40 minutes, and scenarios such as low-altitude logistics, low-altitude tourism, and aviation sports are gradually becoming mature.
The effectiveness of the special action to boost consumption is visible and tangible. From the vigorous development of the first-release economy to the continuous warming of inbound consumption, from the innovative breakthroughs in digital consumption to the prevailing trend of green consumption, China's consumer market continues to expand and improve in quality, the structural optimization trend is obvious, and the advantages of a strong domestic market are prominent.
Looking to the future, the fundamental role of consumption in economic development will become more prominent. With the continuous efforts of more proactive and promising macro policies and the continuous consolidation of the advantages of a super-large-scale market, China's consumption will surely inject surging momentum into high-quality development and add a brilliant color to the people's beautiful life.
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Located in Shenhe District (沈河区), Shenyang (沈阳) City, Liaoning (辽宁) Province, the Wanhong Digital Science and Technology Innovation Incubation Base is home to more than 10 personal studios and small entrepreneurial teams related to the animation industry, such as illustration and animated films, which are booming.
Since 2022, Liaoning (辽宁) has implemented the "Chun Nuan Liao Shen (春暖辽沈)" (Warm Spring in Liaoning) action for five consecutive years to ensure employment, promote employment, and help revitalize the province. It organically combines market employment orientation, economic transformation and upgrading needs, and the employment and entrepreneurship aspirations of workers, focusing on resolving structural employment contradictions and creating a high-quality and sufficient employment ecosystem with a complete policy "full cycle," talent recruitment "full carrier," and skills enhancement "full chain." The quality improvement and upgrading of Shenyang's (沈阳) animation industry is a vivid example of the mutual promotion of industry and employment.
Training Increases Skills——
"Scene description: Xiao A's (小A) mobile phone suddenly vibrates wildly, buzzing in his pocket. He takes out his phone, and the number of fans on the screen soars. Emotion: Ecstatic. Duration: 13 seconds..." In front of the computer, Hai Yanni (海艳妮), an AI (artificial intelligence) comic drama animator, uses text to describe the animation content and effects she wants to generate. A few minutes later, the AI software generates the animation.
In January of this year, Hai Yanni (海艳妮) officially joined Shenyang Fengqishe Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd. (沈阳风奇社文化创意有限公司). Last spring, she was still very confused as she was about to graduate from university. "I majored in software in university, and I wanted to change careers after graduation, but I didn't know what I could do," said Hai Yanni (海艳妮). Catching up with the 2025 Liaoning (辽宁) "Chun Nuan Liao Shen (春暖辽沈)" action in Shenyang (沈阳), she was attracted by the "Shenyang Animator (沈阳动漫师)" labor brand booth at the event site: vocational skills training schools provide free skills conversion training.
"With the rise of original domestic trendy animation, the employment gap for Shenyang (沈阳) animators is constantly increasing," said Wu Zhe (吴喆), chairman of Wanhong Culture Development Holding (Liaoning) Co., Ltd. (万泓文化发展控股（辽宁）有限公司) and president of the Shenyang Animation Industry Association (沈阳市动漫产业协会). "Under the suggestion of the competent authorities, we had the idea of establishing an association and running a vocational skills training school."
In 2023, the Shenyang Animation Industry Association (沈阳市动漫产业协会) was established, building a cluster development model of "park + association," and the vocational skills training school trains more than 100 students every year. "The human resources and social security department guides the association to carry out vocational skill level evaluation for animation production staff, and provides free professional conversion and skill improvement training for unemployed college graduates in the graduation year, and also provides corresponding training subsidies," said Wu Zhe (吴喆).
School-Enterprise Strong Linkage——
As a junior, Guo Xinyi (郭鑫怡), a student majoring in animation production technology at Liaoning Communication University (辽宁传媒学院), came to Fengqishe (风奇社) for an internship under the organization of the school.
"The school has established cooperation with the Animation Industry Association (动漫产业协会) and jointly explores suitable positions with the association's enterprises to organize student internships," said Shi Guang (石光), vice president of Liaoning Communication University (辽宁传媒学院). "School-enterprise collaborative education not only expands students' employment opportunities but also helps to supplement the employment needs of enterprises."
Focusing on the needs of social development, Liaoning (辽宁) improves the linkage mechanism between employment and enrollment and training, and expands the number of youth employment internship positions.
Guo Xinyi (郭鑫怡) said: "During the internship, I participated in enterprise projects under the guidance of enterprise mentors, understood the industry, and adapted to the work. Some time ago, the original AI comic drama project I participated in was officially launched, and I also formed a team to participate in a short film competition."
"Through school-enterprise linkage, we help graduates to open up the 'last mile' of employment," said Sun Zhe (孙哲), director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (辽宁省人力资源和社会保障厅). This year's "Chun Nuan Liao Shen (春暖辽沈)" action plans to carry out no less than 300 public employment service activities in schools and raise and release no less than 25,000 youth employment internship positions.
Multi-Party Aggregation of Forces——
Thanks to the association's "blood production" and "blood transfusion" of animation talents, Fengqishe (风奇社) has grown from the initial 3 people to more than 30 people since its establishment in June last year. "Many of them are college graduates who have entered the industry after receiving vocational training or internships," said Wan Jun (万军), head of Fengqishe (风奇社).
"I remember when we first started the training school, half of the trainees were attracted by some employment opportunities in other places," said Wu Zhe (吴喆). "We realized that only by continuously developing our own industry and creating more good positions can we retain talents."
Since 2023, the Wanhong Digital Science and Technology Innovation Incubation Base (万泓数字科创孵化基地) has successively incubated more than 10 animation-related industrial teams. "Young people grow up through project training and finally start their own businesses independently. This not only retains talents and creates more employment positions but also provides new impetus for industrial development," Wu Zhe (吴喆) introduced that 4 of the association's member companies participated in the production of the film *Ne Zha*.
Lei Aijun (雷爱军), deputy director of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Shenyang Employment and Talent Service Center (沈阳市就业和人才服务中心), introduced, "At present, Shenyang (沈阳) has built 51 entrepreneurship workstations, and will expand to 110 by the end of 2026."
"The better the industry develops, the more job opportunities there are. For me, this is not just about finding a job, but also about choosing a future," said Hai Yanni (海艳妮).
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 23rd (Reporter Luo Shanshan (罗珊珊)) that the reporter learned from the Ministry of Commerce (商务部): In the first four months, 20,113 new foreign-invested enterprises were established nationwide, an increase of 6.8% year-on-year; the actual use of foreign investment amounted to 287.69 billion yuan.
From an industry perspective, the actual use of foreign investment in manufacturing was 78.88 billion yuan, and the actual use of foreign investment in services was 204.15 billion yuan. The actual use of foreign investment in high-tech industries was 116.33 billion yuan, an increase of 20.3% year-on-year. Among them, the actual use of foreign investment in R&D and design services, computer and office equipment manufacturing, and electronic and communication equipment manufacturing increased by 108.4%, 22.9%, and 20.2% year-on-year, respectively.
In the past three years, the number of foreign-invested enterprises in China has increased year by year, exceeding 530,000, and the stock of foreign investment has exceeded 3.6 trillion US dollars. In 2025, more than 8,000 foreign-invested enterprises increased their investment in China, an increase of more than 10% year-on-year; in the first four months of this year, more than 3,000 foreign-invested enterprises have increased their investment.
Return to TopBeijing, May 23rd (Reporter Ouyang Jie (欧阳洁)) - Reporters learned from the General Administration of Customs (海关总署) that in the first four months of this year, the national comprehensive bonded zones achieved an import and export value of 2.7 trillion yuan, an increase of 25.2% year-on-year, accounting for 16.8% of the country's total import and export value, and have become an important platform for serving China's foreign trade development.
At present, there are 174 special zones in China, including 168 comprehensive bonded zones, 4 bonded zones (Shanghai Waigaoqiao (上海外高桥), Dalian (大连), Ningbo (宁波), and Futian (福田) bonded zones), 1 cross-border industrial zone (Zhuhai (珠海) Park of the Zhuhai-Macao Cross-border Industrial Zone (珠澳跨境工业区珠海园区)), and 1 bonded port zone (Yangpu (洋浦) Bonded Port Zone).
Not long ago, the "Several Measures on Promoting the Expansion and Quality Improvement of Comprehensive Bonded Zones" was introduced, promoting the transformation of the industrial form of comprehensive bonded zones from traditional processing and logistics to a deep integration of diversified and high-end production and services, and the development positioning from the traditional "both ends abroad" to serving the domestic and international dual circulation.
Return to TopThis reporter learned from the National Energy Administration (国家能源局): As of the end of April this year, the total number of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (guns) in China reached 21.955 million, and the service capacity of charging facilities has been further improved.
According to data from the National Charging Infrastructure Monitoring Service Platform, as of the end of April this year, the total number of electric vehicle charging infrastructure (guns) in China increased by 47.4% year-on-year. Among them, the number of public charging facilities (guns) was 4.907 million, an increase of 29.6% year-on-year, and the total rated power of public charging piles reached 237 million kilowatts, with an average power of approximately 48.38 kilowatts; the number of private charging facilities (guns) was 17.048 million, an increase of 53.5% year-on-year, and the installed power capacity of private charging facilities reached 149 million kVA.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, May 23rd. According to the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the requirements of Premier Li Qiang (李强), Zhang Guoqing (张国清), a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, representing the Party Central Committee and the State Council, rushed to the scene of the coal mine gas explosion accident in Qinshui County (沁源县), Changzhi City (长治市), Shanxi (山西) on the 23rd to guide emergency response work, leading responsible comrades from relevant departments.
After arriving, Zhang Guoqing (张国清) immediately went to the coal mine accident site, Qinshui County People's Hospital (沁源县人民医院), and Changzhi City People's Hospital (长治市人民医院) to convey the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives to rescue personnel and grassroots cadres, and to convey General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) concern to the injured. He then convened a meeting at the on-site command center to study and deploy rescue and treatment, consolation and aftermath, and accident investigation. He stated that General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) has repeatedly emphasized putting the safety of people's lives and property first. After the accident, he gave important instructions, requiring all-out efforts to treat the injured, scientifically organize search and rescue, properly handle the aftermath, ascertain the cause of the accident, seriously hold those responsible accountable according to law, and deeply learn from the accident. Premier Li Qiang (李强) issued instructions, requiring all-out efforts to search for and rescue trapped personnel, treat the injured, do a good job in the aftermath, and ascertain the cause of the accident as soon as possible and hold those responsible accountable according to law and regulations. Shanxi Province (山西省) and all localities and relevant parties must resolutely implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and directives and Premier Li Qiang's (李强) requirements, always keep the string of safety production tight, implement safety production responsibilities and measures in detail, and resolutely prevent and curb the occurrence of major and serious accidents.
Zhang Guoqing (张国清) emphasized the need to mobilize professional forces to carry out all-out scientific search and rescue to avoid secondary casualties. It is necessary to verify the number of missing persons to ensure that no one is left behind. It is necessary to organize high-level medical experts to carefully treat the injured and reduce disability caused by injuries. It is necessary to do a solid and meticulous job in comforting and handling the aftermath, and to release information in a timely and accurate manner to respond to social concerns. The State Council's accident investigation team must conduct a serious and tough accident investigation, thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident, thoroughly investigate the territorial management, industry supervision, and corporate responsibility, and severely punish them according to law and regulations. All regions and relevant parties must comprehensively review the implementation of the "eight hard measures" for mine safety, launch a heavy blow to "crack down on illegal activities and rectify violations," strictly investigate and severely punish problems such as concealed working face operations in coal mines, falsification of safety monitoring, unclear number of people working underground, and illegal subcontracting and transfer, to ensure that hard measures are implemented hard. The Safety Committee of the State Council and all localities should immediately redeploy the investigation and rectification of safety hazards in key industries and fields such as coal mines and hazardous chemicals, strengthen the implementation of safety production responsibilities, effectively improve the quality and efficiency of hazard investigation and rectification, strictly enforce supervision and law enforcement, strengthen the connection between administration and criminal justice, resolutely and forcefully punish violations of safety production laws and regulations, and focus on improving the level of intrinsic safety.
Return to TopThis newspaper Changzhi (长治) May 23rd (Reporter Zhou Renjie (周人杰), Liu Wenxin (刘温馨), Zheng Yangyang (郑洋洋)) At 19:29 on May 22nd, a gas explosion occurred at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of Shanxi Tongzhou Group (山西通洲集团) in Qinshui County (沁源县), Changzhi City (长治市), Shanxi Province (山西). The reporter learned from the press conference held on the evening of the 23rd that 247 people were working underground at the time of the accident. As of the press conference, 82 people have died, and 2 people are still missing and are being searched for with all efforts. Another 128 people were injured and hospitalized for treatment, and 35 people were not injured and returned home on their own.
After the accident, Changzhi (长治) quickly launched a Level 1 response to municipal coal mine production safety accidents, assembled and invested 335 professional rescue personnel and 420 medical personnel, and mobilized surrounding mobile hyperbaric oxygen chambers and 86 ambulances to carry out emergency rescue, medical treatment and other related work, to maximize the golden time for rescue and race against time to search for trapped people.
At the same time, closely monitor the underground gas and carbon monoxide concentration, and strictly prevent secondary accidents. Tongzhou Group (通洲集团)'s four coal mines were ordered to suspend production for rectification, and control measures were immediately taken against the actual controllers, persons in charge and other relevant personnel of the enterprise.
The national, provincial and municipal emergency management departments and mine safety supervision departments immediately dispatched emergency rescue experts and the Fenxi Team (汾西队) and Huayang Team (华阳队) of the National Mine Emergency Rescue Team, as well as specialized mine rescue teams from Huozhou Coal and Electricity (霍州煤电), Changzhi City (长治市), and Lu'an Chemical Group (潞安化工集团) to rush to the accident site for rescue. Health, fire, transportation, civil affairs and other departments dispatched vehicles and personnel to participate in the accident rescue and support work.
"Preliminary judgment is that the coal mining enterprise involved has major illegal acts. We will spare no effort to search and rescue the missing persons. The specific cause of the accident is under further investigation," said Chen Xiangyang (陈向阳), Deputy Secretary of the Changzhi Municipal Party Committee (长治市委) and Mayor.
The Liushenyu Coal Mine (留神峪煤矿) is designed to produce 1.2 million tons per year and is a high-gas coal mine. After the accident, various professional rescue teams went deep into the well to carry out rescue, but in the process of on-site search and rescue, due to the complex system, large search area, and long-term excessive toxic and harmful gases, there is a risk of secondary disasters, and the search and rescue work faces certain difficulties.
Medical treatment strictly follows the principle of "serious before light, graded classification, and precise rescue." All 124 minor injuries have been transferred to tertiary Grade A hospitals for close observation of their condition and symptomatic treatment; 2 severely injured and 2 critically injured patients are implementing "one person, one special team, one person, one plan," and the provincial and municipal medical treatment expert groups are making every effort to carry out rescue work to minimize the risk of casualties. As of now, the vital signs of the treated injured are stable, and the condition is generally under control.
"This accident caused heavy casualties, and its nature is extremely bad and the lessons are extremely painful," said Chen Xiangyang (陈向阳). We will learn from the pain, reflect deeply, 引以为戒 (yǐn yǐ wéi jiè - "take as a warning," to draw a lesson from something), 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "raise one know three," to draw inferences about other cases from one instance), focus on coal mines, carry out a major investigation and rectification of safety production risks and hidden dangers in the city, further tighten and consolidate responsibilities, comprehensively strengthen various measures, and resolutely prevent and curb all kinds of safety accidents.
Chen Xiangyang (陈向阳) said that the follow-up will be to properly handle the aftermath, actively contact and carefully do a good job in emotional comfort and accident compensation for each family member of the deceased and injured personnel. Actively cooperate with the accident investigation, seek truth from facts, respect science, carry out investigation and verification, further verify and clarify the cause of the accident, and give a responsible explanation to the deceased and their families and the public.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘鑫焱 郑洋洋 刘温馨
On the morning of May 23, reporters rushed to the scene of the accident and saw ambulances, fire trucks, and emergency rescue vehicles scattered within a few hundred meters of the Liushenyu Coal Mine (留神峪煤矿) entrance. At the inclined entrance of the air intake roadway, the Changzhi City Emergency Rescue Team for Safe Production (长治市安全生产应急救援队), the Fenxi Rescue Team (汾西救援队), and others were preparing to go down the well, and medical staff were on standby in front of the ambulance at the wellhead.
After the accident, Changzhi City (长治市) went all out to carry out personnel search and rescue, and emergency rescue work. Emergency rescue experts and professional mine emergency rescue teams rushed to the scene to provide assistance. Departments such as health, fire protection, transportation, and civil affairs dispatched vehicles and personnel to participate in the rescue and support work.
At 1 p.m., Li Chongzhen (李重镇), a member of the Changzhi City Emergency Rescue Team for Safe Production (长治市安全生产应急救援队), ascended from the well, marking his second return from the rescue operation. "We received the news at around 8 p.m. last night, and we arrived at the scene as soon as possible, and we were equipped and went down the well at 10:30 p.m.," Li Chongzhen (李重镇) said, adding that at least four rescue teams arrived at the scene one after another at that time. The team was divided into several small teams, which went down in batches, about nine people in each batch.
At the same time, a new batch of team members, carrying stretchers on their backs and 16-kilogram 4-hour positive pressure oxygen respirators and gas detectors in their hands, gathered at the inclined well entrance and went down the well by "monkey car." "Many areas below are without power, so we rely on the headlights on our heads for lighting. The journey down the well is long, and we carry out relay rescue in different areas."
Li Chongzhen (李重镇), who has worked in the rescue team for 30 years, recalled that in the nearly 300-meter-deep well, it took the team members nearly half an hour to see the trapped people. With the help of the mine workers, four team members used stretchers to relay the injured to the wellhead. "Our first batch of people went down the well and walked for 9 hours." "Seize the time to search and rescue, not a moment can be delayed!"
Reporters learned that as of 11 p.m. on May 23, two people were still missing.
At 1:30 a.m. on the 24th, Duan Yu-yun (段玉赟), director of the emergency department of Qinyuan County People's Hospital (沁源县人民医院), was still busy. "At 9 p.m. on the 22nd, I had just started my night shift when I received several trauma patients, and the initial judgment was that they may have carbon monoxide poisoning." Duan Yu-yun (段玉赟) said that after learning about the situation, he estimated that the situation was urgent, and the whole hospital activated the emergency mechanism.
Emergency departure, rushing to aid overnight. On the 23rd, the National Health Commission (国家卫生健康委) dispatched three experts from the Respiratory Intensive Care Unit of Peking Union Medical College Hospital (北京协和医院) and the Department of Burns and Traumatic Orthopedics of Beijing Jishuitan Hospital (北京积水潭医院) to the scene to provide support and participate in the treatment; Shanxi Province (山西省) urgently transferred a team of provincial medical experts to the front line to guide and assist Changzhi City (长治市) in carrying out injury identification, emergency rescue and life support; the People's Hospital of Licheng County, Changzhi City (长治市黎城县人民医院) equipped all emergency equipment and medicines and rushed to the scene...
Late at night, at the inclined entrance of the air intake roadway, the rescue and search work was still in full swing.
Return to TopIn the early morning of May 24th, doctors and nurses were making rounds at Qinyuan County People's Hospital (沁源县人民医院) in Changzhi City (长治市), Shanxi Province (山西省).
After the accident, the local government deployed 420 medical personnel, mobilized surrounding mobile hyperbaric oxygen chambers, and dispatched 86 ambulances to carry out medical treatment and related work.
Photo by Chen Bin (陈斌), reporter of this newspaper.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强
The State Council recently issued the "Implementation Opinions on Promoting the Provision of Basic Public Services at the Place of Permanent Residence" (hereinafter referred to as the "Opinions"), proposing that basic public services be provided by the place of permanent residence to promote equal access to basic public services for the non-registered permanent population and the registered population. Regarding the significance and main measures of the "Opinions," reporters invited relevant experts to interpret them.
It will play an important role in promoting the equalization of basic public services and implementing the new urbanization strategy in depth.
"The 'Opinions' are conducive to promoting the allocation of public service resources to better match the size, structure, and needs of the permanent population, promoting the integration of the agricultural transfer population into cities, and enabling them to better stabilize employment, live with peace of mind, and develop equally in their places of permanent residence." Shi Yulong (史育龙), Director of the Xi Jinping Economic Thought Research Center (习近平经济思想研究中心), believes that the "Opinions" focus on the urgent needs and concerns of the non-registered permanent population in terms of education, housing, social security, medical insurance, employment, and social assistance, and propose a series of measures and requirements, which will play an important role in promoting the equalization of basic public services and implementing the people-oriented new urbanization strategy in depth.
"By the end of 2025, there will be 130 million migrant workers living in towns. Together with their accompanying children and elderly, there will be about 170 million migrant workers and their accompanying family members in cities. The most concerning issues for this group are stable employment, children's education, housing security, and social insurance." Gao Guoli (高国力), Director of the China Center for Urban Development (中国城市和小城镇改革发展中心), said.
Shi Yulong (史育龙) said that the "Opinions" promote the supply of basic public services to better adapt to the actual needs of the permanent population, which will effectively enhance the sense of gain for the non-registered permanent population.
"By the end of 2025, China's permanent population urbanization rate reached 67.89%, and about 3/4 of the 81 service items stipulated in the current national basic public service standards are provided at the place of permanent residence. It should also be noted that there is still a large gap between China's registered and permanent population urbanization rates, and a large number of 'separated household' populations work and live in cities for a long time." Gao Guoli (高国力) believes that ensuring that the non-registered population fairly enjoys basic public services in their places of permanent residence is an important task to improve the quality of urbanization.
"Children of migrant workers will have more guaranteed education, housing security coverage will steadily expand, social security and medical insurance will be more smoothly connected, employment and entrepreneurship services will be more accessible, and mobile population families will have more stable expectations for the future." In Shi Yulong's (史育龙) view, the implementation of the "Opinions" is conducive to allowing more people to "settle down, take root, and have a future" in their places of permanent residence, and transform the development vitality brought by population mobility into a driving force for expanding domestic demand.
Standardize the gradient supply of scarce public services in cities and counties with population inflows.
China has a large number and variety of cities and counties, including both population inflow areas and population outflow areas. The supply and demand of basic public services corresponding to different types of cities and different counties (cities) within cities are also different. To this end, the "Opinions" propose to promote the provision of basic public services at the place of permanent residence in a scientific, orderly, and localized manner.
On the one hand, it is necessary to standardize the gradient supply of scarce public services in cities and counties with population inflows.
The "Opinions" propose that for basic public services with prominent supply-demand contradictions, local authorities can adopt gradient supply methods with employment, residence, and other time factors as the main conditions for a certain period through methods such as the point system.
"Cities and counties with population inflows usually have a better economic foundation and more employment opportunities. They not only have a large number of migrant workers entering the city, but also a large number of inter-city mobile populations. These areas have a large demand for public services such as basic education and housing security, but the supply is relatively tight." Gao Guoli (高国力) believes that this requires areas with concentrated population inflows to coordinate fairness, accessibility, and sustainability, and steadily implement the gradient supply of scarce public services with employment and residence years as the main conditions.
On the other hand, it is necessary to optimize the allocation of basic public service resources in cities and counties with stable or outflowing population totals.
The "Opinions" propose that cities and counties with stable or outflowing population totals should optimize the allocation of public service resources based on the number and structure of the actual resident population.
"These types of cities and counties usually have a weak industrial base, insufficient employment absorption, continuous outflow of young people, and prominent phenomena of low birth rates and aging, mainly distributed in the western and northeastern parts of China. Some population outflow areas face the risk of idle public service resources." Gao Guoli (高国力) said that these areas should conduct forecasts of the total resident population, structure, flow trends, and public service needs, comprehensively consider the requirements of reasonable service radius, moderate scale, functional applicability, and strong guarantee, and continuously optimize the construction and operation management of service facilities to ensure reasonable and efficient allocation of resources.
Optimize and improve the policy support and factor guarantee system for public services to "follow the people."
Promoting public services to "follow the people" is a major policy orientation to adapt to the laws of population mobility and optimize the design of the people's livelihood security system. "The 'Opinions' coordinate efforts at three levels: factor allocation, co-construction and sharing, and collaborative handling, and continue to optimize and improve the policy support and factor guarantee system for 'following the people.'" Liu Xu (刘旭), Director of the Institute of Social Development of the China Macroeconomic Research Institute (中国宏观经济研究院社会发展研究所), said.
Promote the matching of public resource allocation with the size of the permanent population.
The "Opinions" focus on breaking through the bottleneck of factor guarantees and accelerating the reform of the system and mechanism for linking people, land, and money.
For example, improve the fiscal transfer payment mechanism to promote the linkage of financial resource allocation with the permanent population. "With the continuous inflow of population, there is still a certain gap between the financial security capacity and the public service expenditure needs of some places." Liu Xu (刘旭) told reporters that for this reason, the "Opinions" propose to improve the practice of considering permanent population factors in the distribution of relevant transfer payments based on the progress of basic public service coverage of the permanent population, so that population inflow areas can "accept and afford" when accepting foreign permanent residents.
Another example is optimizing the allocation of urban construction land and promoting the linkage of land use indicators with the increase or decrease of the permanent population.
"The further improvement of factor guarantee mechanisms such as finance and land is conducive to promoting the timely follow-up of public resource allocation to population mobility changes and effectively enhancing the public service carrying capacity of population inflow areas." Shi Yulong (史育龙) said.
Promote the connection of public service systems with cross-regional population mobility.
Promote mutual recognition of residence permits and point conversion to achieve "enjoying qualifications following the people." In the past, there were relatively few institutional arrangements for mutual recognition and connection of residence permits between different cities. "The 'Opinions' propose to promote the mutual recognition of residence permits, the conversion of permanent residence years or permanent residence points, and other experiences, which is conducive to promoting the gradual realization of cross-regional accumulation and conversion according to rules of the residence time, social security payment years, and tax records of the non-registered permanent population, and eliminating the pain points of 'mobility is reset' for groups such as migrant workers and flexible employment personnel from the system." Liu Xu (刘旭) said.
Promote cross-administrative region cooperation in running schools and hospitals to achieve "sharing of high-quality resources." The "Opinions" propose to promote cross-administrative region cooperation in running schools and hospitals in urban agglomerations and metropolitan areas, and encourage the construction of school communities and the creation of medical consortia. Liu Xu (刘旭) believes that these measures can effectively alleviate the public service carrying pressure of central cities and help people in surrounding areas enjoy high-quality services at their doorsteps without changing the administrative division affiliation.
Promote service handling methods to adapt to the requirements of continuous service enjoyment.
"The core of collaborative handling of public service matters is to solve the problems of 'information is not shared, processes are not connected, and matters are not coordinated.'" Liu Xu (刘旭) said that the "Opinions" improve the system design from two aspects: promoting cross-regional and cross-departmental data sharing and promoting full-process online handling, which will promote the realization of "more data runs and less people run."
Promoting the provision of basic public services at the place of permanent residence is a systematic and gradual reform. Shi Yulong (史育龙) proposed that the scale of population inflow, the foundation of public services, and the financial affordability of various places are different. In the process of promotion, we must not only be proactive, but also be stable and orderly, and adhere to doing our best and acting according to our capabilities.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Lhasa on May 23rd (Reporters Xu Yuyao (徐驭尧) and Qiongda Zhuoga (琼达卓嘎)) On the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet, from the canyons of eastern Tibet to the Qiangtang (羌塘) grasslands, from the foot of Mount Everest (珠峰) to the banks of the Xiangquan River (象泉河), various commemorative activities are being carried out in various parts of the autonomous region.
In Lhasa (拉萨市), the international academic seminar "Development Achievements and Enlightenment of the 75th Anniversary of the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet" was held, with more than 40 experts and scholars gathering to discuss the important achievements of the 75th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Kemaikai (柯马凯), Chairman of the China International Committee for the Promotion of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (中国工合国际委员会), introduced that the average life expectancy in Tibet has jumped from about 35 years before the peaceful liberation to more than 72 years today. This is not just an abstract number, but a completely changed life experience.
In Yumai Township (玉麦乡), Longzi County (隆子县), Shannan City (山南市), 18 medical experts from the Shannan City People's Hospital (山南市人民医院) and the Anhui Aid-Tibet Medical Team (安徽援藏医疗队) provided local people with free multi-disciplinary consultations and health check-ups in orthopedics, cardiovascular medicine, and other departments. "Going deep into the front line to serve, so that the masses can truly feel the care of the Party and the government," said Wu Qiang (吴强), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and President of the Shannan City People's Hospital. The event served more than 200 people.
At the Qamdo Tea Horse Square (昌都市茶马广场), the Propaganda Department of the Qamdo Municipal Committee (昌都市委宣传部) and the Municipal Committee Social Work Department (市委社会工作部) jointly carried out the "Red Qamdo · Revitalization and Progress" New Era Civilization Practice Volunteer Service Activity. The site set up diverse service sections such as policy publicity, science and technology popularization, national reading, legal aid, and convenient medical consultation, receiving a total of more than 5,700 consultations and more than 900 free medical consultations.
The Tibet Autonomous Region Propaganda Group (西藏自治区宣讲团) went to Baqing County (巴青县), Nagqu City (那曲市) to hold a lecture meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the peaceful liberation of Tibet. Tsering Kyi (次吉), associate professor of Tibet University of Traditional Tibetan Medicine (西藏藏医药大学), vividly told the story of the tremendous changes that have taken place in Tibet under the leadership of the Party, using detailed historical materials and vivid examples.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 齐志明
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "Deepen the implementation of special actions to boost consumption," "Adapt to changes in the consumption structure, expand the supply of high-quality goods and services, optimize the implementation of 'two new' policies, give local authorities more autonomy, clear unreasonable restrictions in the consumption field, and release the potential of service consumption such as culture and tourism, sports events, catering, health and wellness."
To vigorously boost consumption and comprehensively expand domestic demand, in March 2025, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (中共中央办公厅) and the General Office of the State Council (国务院办公厅) issued the "Special Action Plan for Boosting Consumption" (《提振消费专项行动方案》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan") for external release. More than a year has passed, what are the results?
Data is the most powerful proof. In 2025, China's total retail sales of consumer goods exceeded 50 trillion yuan for the first time; the contribution rate of final consumption expenditure to economic growth reached 52%, and the "ballast stone" role of consumption was significant.
From January to April this year, the total retail sales of consumer goods was 16494.1 billion yuan, an increase of 1.9% year-on-year. Online retail sales of goods and services were 6530.8 billion yuan, an increase of 6.6% year-on-year, of which online retail sales of goods were 4118.5 billion yuan, an increase of 5.7%; online retail sales of services were 2412.3 billion yuan, an increase of 8.3%.
From replacing old cars and buying new home appliances to improve daily life, to going out for tourism and watching concerts to gain a good mood; from the new experience of paying by face-scanning and drone delivery, to foreign tourists coming to China with empty suitcases to "shop"... Over the past year, many changes have taken place in the consumption field in terms of goods, services, and new types of consumption.
Steady Increase in Goods Consumption
Trade-ins are intensified and expanded, and automobile consumption extends the chain and expands the surface.
"The old TV has been used for more than ten years. Taking advantage of the subsidy policy, I replaced it with an 85-inch smart TV. With the government subsidy and the old machine recycling offset, I saved nearly 2,000 yuan in total," said Li Jianying (李建英), who lives in Zhengzhou (郑州市), Henan (河南) Province.
For many families, buying a car and adding home appliances and furniture are big expenses. With the intensification and expansion of trade-in policies, bulk consumption such as home appliances, automobiles, and digital products has ushered in significant growth.
What does it rely on? The "real money" given by the policy and the real "profit concessions" from merchants.
In 2025, the retail sales of household appliances and audio-visual equipment, communication equipment, and furniture by units above the limit increased by 11.0%, 20.9%, and 14.6% year-on-year, respectively. This is not only an increase in numbers, but also an activation of the stock market. In 2025, the sales of consumer goods trade-ins reached 2.61 trillion yuan, benefiting 366 million people. From January to April this year, consumer goods trade-ins have cumulatively driven sales of related goods to exceed 600 billion yuan, benefiting more than 82 million people; in April, the domestic retail penetration rate of new energy vehicles exceeded 60% for the first time. This shows that the policy effect continues to appear, and the market potential is constantly released.
The upgrading of bulk consumption is not only reflected in increasing support for consumer goods trade-ins, but also in extending the consumption chain.
In April this year, a car owner in Zhongshan (中山市), Guangdong (广东) Province, sold his old car to a buyer in Shenyang (沈阳市), Liaoning (辽宁) Province, through Guazi Used Car's "personal direct sales" channel. Both parties completed the car viewing, price negotiation, and confirmation only by operating their mobile phones, which was labor-saving and worry-free. Wang Xiaoyu (王晓宇), senior vice president of Guazi Used Car, introduced that the platform strives to solve problems such as opaque car conditions in personal transactions and help policy dividends to be implemented.
With the support of policies such as off-site transaction registration, the vitality of the used car market has been released. Data from the China Automobile Dealers Association shows that in 2025, China's cumulative transaction volume of used cars reached 20.108 million vehicles, a record high.
Rapid Growth in Service Consumption
Strong demand for elderly care and childcare, buying "experience" becomes a new fashion
Over the past year, a prominent feature of changes in the consumption structure has been the significant increase in experience-based consumption. In 2025, China's service retail sales increased by 5.5% year-on-year, 1.7 percentage points faster than retail sales of goods; service retail sales of cultural, sports and leisure, tourism consulting and leasing, and transportation travel all maintained double-digit growth; service consumption expenditure accounted for 46.1% of residents' per capita consumption expenditure. From January to April this year, service retail sales increased by 5.6% year-on-year. The rapid growth of service consumption reflects that residents' consumption structure is shifting from mainly commodity consumption to a combination of commodity and service consumption.
Since the implementation of the "Plan," there have been frequent highlights in the service market, and new consumption vitality has been accelerated.
The supply of services for the elderly and children is constantly optimized. At noon, in Hejiawan Community (贺家湾社区), Danjiang Street (丹江街), Anyuan District (安源区), Pingxiang (萍乡) City, Jiangxi (江西) Province, the canteen of Changtian Songkang Danjiang Elderly Care Service Center is filled with the aroma of food. The elderly sit around a table, eating and chatting about their daily lives. This "elderly care station at the doorstep," which was transformed from idle shops, has 12 rooms and 1 day care room, providing professional care for semi-disabled, disabled, and elderly people living alone in the community.
In the childcare service center of Anyuan District Maternal and Child Health Hospital, professional nannies are assisting children in using soft climbing frames. "Mom" Chen Xia (陈霞) said: "It's close to home and the cost is not high, so I'm very relieved." Anyuan District has built 20 childcare institutions, providing 1,820 childcare places.
All parties work together to promote the integrated development of elderly care and childcare with housekeeping, medical care, etc., release the potential of silver-haired consumption and childcare consumption, and consolidate the foundation of people's livelihood security. Invoice data from the State Taxation Administration shows that in 2025, consumption of elderly care, social care and assistance, and sanatorium services increased by 24.9%, 23.1%, and 15.4% year-on-year, respectively, and sales revenue of nursery services increased by 5.4% year-on-year.
Cultural and tourism consumption is full of vitality. On May 1, the 2026 Zhuzhou Prairie Music Carnival was held in Huahugu Scenic Area (花湖谷景区), Chaling County (茶陵县), Hunan (湖南) Province. As night fell, the stage lights on the Huahugu Prairie were bright and the melody was flying. Tourists gathered in groups of three or five, either boiling tea around the stove or barbecuing themselves, singing along with the music. The Huahugu during the day has a unique charm: bathing in the warm sunshine, tourists can fully relax their body and mind - in the pet paradise, children are accompanied by their families to get close to small animals; in the crape myrtle flower sea, jungle crossing, colorful slides and other projects attract children to bravely challenge. During the "May Day" holiday, the total number of tourists received by Huahugu Scenic Area reached 180,000.
Over the past year, a significant feature of cultural and tourism consumption has been the accelerated shift from "seeing flowers on horseback" to "quality experience." In 2025, the number of domestic tourist trips reached 6.522 billion, an increase of 16.2% year-on-year; tourism spending was 6.30 trillion yuan, an increase of 9.5% year-on-year, both hitting record highs.
Ice and snow consumption is in full swing. During the 2025-2026 snow season, China's ice and snow leisure tourism reached 360 million people; inbound consumption is strongly booming. Last year, the number of overseas tourists who handled departure tax refunds and the sales of goods increased by 305% and 95.9% respectively; housekeeping service consumption is running at an "accelerated speed." Taking 58.com as an example, the platform has integrated millions of merchants and more than 10,000 high-quality housekeeping companies to build a shared network of more than 4 million workers, and intelligent order dispatch can reach service personnel within 5 kilometers in 3 seconds; the opening of the service industry is steadily advancing, and pilot projects in the fields of medical care and telecommunications are expanding in an orderly manner...
The warming of service consumption benefits from the continuous optimization of the supply side. From promoting age-appropriate transformation to supporting scenic spots to extend business hours, from building urban 15-minute convenient living circles to simplifying performance approvals, a series of measures have cleared the blockages restricting service consumption. When high-quality supply meets stimulated demand, markets such as culture, sports, housekeeping, and health and wellness naturally rejuvenate, better meeting people's needs for a better life.
Release of New Consumption Potential
Domestic "trendy products" are popular, and "artificial intelligence + consumption" is becoming popular
The spillover effect of technological innovation is significantly transmitted to the consumption side. This change is not only the iteration and upgrading of products, but also the landing and transformation of new quality productivity in the consumption field. New consumption is releasing considerable growth potential with technology as the traction and scenarios as the stage.
Domestic "trendy products" are rising rapidly. On May 15, the 2026 China's First New Cultural and Creative Market opened in Chaoyang Park (朝阳公园), Beijing (北京). The local trendy toy brand HERE Qimeng Island (HERE奇梦岛) made its debut with 18 IP matrices, integrating traditional skills into modern design with an innovative model of "trendy toys + intangible cultural heritage."
"Trendy toys can bring emotional value. I like the WAKUKU IP very much. Different colors match different bags. I often play with it, and my mood will improve," said Wang Wenrong (王文蓉), a consumer born after 2000.
"Solid originality is the moat of cultural and creative enterprises. Domestic 'trendy products' are becoming a new engine for driving domestic demand, and are also an important carrier for conveying Chinese aesthetics and cultural confidence to the world," said Li Peng (李鹏), founder and chairman of HERE Qimeng Island Group.
In 2025, the retail sales of cultural and office supplies by units above the limit increased by 17.3%, and the retail sales of sports and entertainment supplies increased by 15.7%. From "The Three-Body Problem" (《三体》) and "Only Green" (《只此青绿》) to the "Nezha" series (《哪吒》系列) and "Chang'an San Wanli" (《长安三万里》), China's excellent IPs are becoming household "famous trendy products." Trendy toy brands such as Qimeng Island, Pop Mart, and Miniso are accelerating their global layout, and the international influence of Chinese consumer brands is continuously increasing.
"Artificial intelligence + consumption" is booming. "Wearing smart glasses, navigation information is directly projected in front of you, and you don't have to look back and forth at your mobile phone while driving." After experiencing the latest smart glasses, Chen Hao (陈昊), a programmer in Shenzhen (深圳), immediately placed an order to buy them. In the first quarter of this year, the sales of smart glasses on key platforms increased by 4.6 times, and wearable smart devices have become a new favorite of consumers.
The low-altitude economy has emerged as a dark horse and is rapidly integrating into people's lives. Relying on the low-altitude network, drones in Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) can deliver emergency equipment to the scene of sudden events in 4 minutes, buying valuable time for life rescue; drones in the Yangtze River (长江) basin can deliver living materials to cargo ships, which is efficient and convenient and saves logistics costs; border towns in Yunnan (云南) use drones to deliver mail and materials, shortening the 3-hour land delivery to 40 minutes, and scenarios such as low-altitude logistics, low-altitude tourism, and aviation sports are gradually becoming mature.
The effectiveness of the special action to boost consumption is visible and tangible. From the booming first-release economy to the continuous warming of inbound consumption, from the innovative breakthroughs in digital consumption to the growing trend of green consumption, China's consumer market continues to expand and improve in quality, the structural optimization trend is obvious, and the advantages of a strong domestic market are prominent.
Looking to the future, the fundamental role of consumption in economic development will become more prominent. With the continuous efforts of more proactive and promising macro policies and the continuous consolidation of the advantages of a super-large-scale market, China's consumption will surely inject surging momentum into high-quality development and add brilliant colors to the people's beautiful life.
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Local time, May 21, the "2026 China-Europe Human Rights Seminar" was held in Paris, France. The conference was hosted by the China Society for Human Rights Studies and the French Academy of Overseas Sciences. More than 100 experts and scholars from China and about 20 European countries and the United Nations conducted in-depth discussions on the theme of "Evolution of the International Order and the Future of Human Rights," jointly exploring the path of human rights development under the once-in-a-century changes and looking forward to China and Europe working together to promote the development of global human rights.
"Human rights are not unique or exclusive to any one civilization"
On the eve of the seminar, the China Society for Human Rights Studies jointly released the think tank report "Evolution of the International Order and the Future of Human Rights" with a number of Chinese and European human rights research institutions. The report is divided into four parts: "Where Are We?", "Is Cross-Civilizational Consensus on Human Rights Possible?", "What New Human Rights Challenges Do We Face Together?", and "How Can We Jointly Build a Future for Human Rights?" It reviews and refines the current situation of global human rights governance. The seminar set up four sub-topics: "Human Rights Challenges and Responsibilities Faced by China and Europe Together," "Sovereignty and Human Rights under Multilateralism," "Historical Value and Modern Development of Traditional Human Rights Concepts," and "Fraternity, International Solidarity, and a Community of Human Destiny."
Tang Jianjun (唐建军), Secretary-General of the China Society for Human Rights Studies, said at the opening ceremony of the seminar that under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, China's human rights cause has made historic achievements. The four global initiatives proposed by China have injected new impetus into improving the global human rights governance plan. Looking to the future, China and Europe should firmly be advocates of dialogue on human rights civilization, defenders of true multilateralism, maintainers of international human rights rule of law, and actors in global human rights governance, and jointly promote the progress of world human rights development.
Dominique Barjot, Permanent Secretary of the French Academy of Overseas Sciences and Professor at the Sorbonne University, believes that in the continuous evolution of the relationship between human rights and sovereignty, Southern countries and developed countries, wealth creation and distribution, the effectiveness of Western-style liberal democracy is increasingly being reflected by the international community. In this context, Europe, China, and the vast number of Southern countries can do a lot to maintain multilateralism, work together to establish peace and pluralistic democracy, and jointly open up a path of comprehensive development.
Shen Gang (沈钢), Minister of the Chinese Embassy in France, said, "People's happy life is the greatest human right. Talking about human rights cannot be separated from a country's social and political conditions and historical and cultural traditions." China's human rights development is jointly participated in and benefited by all the people. Its success lies in adhering to the combination of the universality principle of human rights and China's reality, adhering to the people-centered development thought, and following a path of human rights development that suits its own national conditions. The diversity of human civilization determines the diversity of paths to realize human rights, and there is no distinction between the human rights development paths chosen by various countries according to their own realities.
Former Greek Prime Minister Papandreou said in a video address, "Human rights are not unique or exclusive to any one civilization, nor are they an achievement that has already been completed." Facing global challenges such as climate change, the gap between the rich and the poor, and the digital divide, no one can cope alone. From Confucius to Aristotle, the wisdom of Eastern and Western sages shines together. Different civilizations should respect each other, conduct candid dialogues, and explore governance paradigms and cooperation paths that truly benefit mankind and benefit the public welfare.
"Human rights cannot exist in isolation from realistic development conditions"
The experts attending the meeting believe that the current international order is undergoing the most profound changes since the end of World War II. The process of multi-polarization is accelerating, and the global South is rising as a group. At the same time, unilateralism, protectionism, and hegemonism are surging, regional conflicts continue, and human rights governance faces new challenges.
Adam Wielomski, Professor of the Department of History of Political Thought at Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw, Poland, and former advisor to the Prime Minister, said that for decades, the West has launched wars and implemented unilateral sanctions in the name of defending human rights by virtue of its political, economic, and military hegemony. Today, Asia is rising as a leading force in global development, a multi-polar pattern is gradually taking shape, and the West's ideological hegemony is difficult to sustain.
Chen Baifeng (陈柏峰), Vice President of Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, believes that the contemporary reinterpretation of traditional human rights concepts lies in promoting the transformation of human rights protection from "legally recognized subjects of rights" to "individuals who can truly enjoy rights in reality." Human rights not only mean the negative freedom from infringement, but also mean that the state and society assume positive obligations to ensure the ability of individuals to truly exercise their rights through public services, social security, and judicial relief. Taking China's practice as an example, reserving non-digital service channels for the elderly and setting up green judicial channels for people with disabilities reflect that human rights construction is moving from formal equality to "substantial accessibility."
Adrian Severin, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Romania, said that to protect human rights, we must first protect people's rights to survival and development in terms of material, cultural, ecological, and technological aspects. "Human rights should not become a slogan of division or a weapon of confrontation, but should be a common language about justice, solidarity, and common humanity."
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on the Right to Development. This declaration formally establishes the right to development as a human right. Hussein Askari, Deputy Director of the Swedish "Belt and Road" Institute, said that in the past few decades, about 800 million people in China have been lifted out of poverty, creating a milestone in human history. China shares development results with the world through the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, providing a pragmatic path for countries to achieve economic development.
Fabio Marcelli, former Director of the Institute of International Law of the National Research Council of Italy, said, "Human rights cannot exist in isolation from realistic development conditions." Human rights issues are not only legal or ideological issues, but also social, economic, and development issues. "China's experience in protecting human rights is worth studying and learning from."
"The future of human rights must be built on the basis of international cooperation, shared responsibility and shared values"
The "China-Europe Human Rights Seminar" was founded in 2015 and is a mechanism platform for in-depth exchanges and cooperation between China and Europe in the field of human rights.
Eleni Vlassi, Cultural Counselor of the Region of Crete, Greece, and President of the Klizia Cultural Center, said, "If there is a lack of dialogue between great civilizations, the future of human rights cannot be truly established." Facing global issues such as poverty, humanitarian crises, wars, and inequality, strengthening dialogue between Europe and China has become a common responsibility.
Tian Feilong (田飞龙), Vice Dean of the School of Law of Minzu University of China, believes that the China-Europe human rights dialogue and institutional interaction reflect the long-term historical dialogue, competition, and integration between the human rights views of the global South and the human rights views of the West. This interaction actually constitutes an important microcosm of the global human rights movement and global human rights governance.
Hasan Bakırcı, Registrar of the Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights, said that the current international conflicts are intensifying and global tensions are escalating, and the international legal order established after World War II is facing severe challenges. At the same time, issues such as artificial intelligence, digital technology, immigration, and climate change are constantly emerging. In this context, the importance of human rights issues has further increased. Although Europe and China have differences in legal traditions, political systems, and philosophical foundations, they still share a basic recognition of international law, the UN Charter, and multilateral cooperation mechanisms. "The future of human rights must be built on the basis of international cooperation, shared responsibility and shared values."
Hao Luyi (郝鲁怡), a researcher at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, believes that climate change has had an adverse impact on the full realization of various human rights. In this context, the China-Europe Green Partnership has become an important practical platform for empowering climate justice with the right to development. From the Paris Agreement to the China-EU Leaders' Joint Statement on Climate Change, China and Europe have continuously strengthened cooperation in green transformation, just transformation, and global climate governance, which will have a profound impact on future human rights protection.
Peter Huerlimann, former Swiss military attaché to China and sinologist, said that Chinese civilization has continued for thousands of years, and the concept of 和而不同 (hé ér bù tóng - "harmony but not uniformity," seeking harmony without necessarily demanding sameness) is deeply rooted in Chinese historical traditions. China never seeks to dominate the world, and has always actively and firmly supported and safeguarded the authority of the United Nations, and actively advocated multilateralism. The four global initiatives proposed by China continue to enrich the contemporary connotation of the concept of "harmony but not uniformity."
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In the ever-changing international landscape, the partnership between Montenegro and China, characterized by equality, mutual benefit, mutual assistance, and 守望相助 (shǒu wàng xiāng zhù - "keep watch and help each other," to maintain vigilance and offer mutual support), is an important and positive force in promoting the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes, with the accelerated development of science and technology overlapping with various global challenges. A major proposition concerning the future of mankind is placed before the international community: What kind of international order should we build in the coming decades? Will the world fall into a predicament of confrontation and division, or will it move towards dialogue, cooperation, and common development? Against this backdrop, the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind has gained increasingly broad recognition and support from the international community. This also confirms that in the era of globalization, no country can detach itself from the world, be self-sufficient, or develop in isolation.
As the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the head of the Montenegro-China Friendship Group, I believe that the concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind is highly compatible with Montenegro's social development practice. Montenegro has a limited land area, but long-term development practice has proven that openness, inclusiveness, equal dialogue, and pragmatic cooperation are the fundamental paths for national survival and development. Montenegro is located in the Balkan geopolitical intersection zone, where various ideas converge and various challenges gather. We have always been committed to creating a social pattern in which all ethnic groups live in harmony and share weal and woe. Adhering to a development path centered on mutual respect and mutually beneficial cooperation is the solid foundation for Montenegro to achieve national stability and people's prosperity.
In the past few decades, China has steadily transformed from a "world factory" and grown into an important leading force in global innovation development, technological progress, and infrastructure construction. Modern urban landscapes, extensive high-speed rail networks, and vibrant science and technology innovation parks demonstrate China's development vision of facing the future and forging ahead. China's development is not only a miracle of economic growth, but also reshapes the world's understanding and practice of modernization development paths and international interconnection. Deepening cooperation with China is of great strategic significance to Montenegro's development.
The development of Montenegro-China relations is a vivid example of countries of different sizes transcending development differences and achieving mutual benefit and win-win results. After Montenegro's independence in 2006, China was one of the first countries to recognize Montenegro's sovereign status. This is a vivid reflection of the political mutual trust and traditional friendship between the two countries, which has laid a solid foundation for the new era of diplomatic cooperation between the two sides and opened a new chapter of friendly cooperation. The pragmatic cooperation between the two countries has yielded fruitful results. The priority section of the Montenegro North-South Expressway, which opened to traffic in 2022, is a landmark project, which not only effectively improves the level of regional interconnection, but also creates new opportunities for the economic revitalization of the northern region of Montenegro. At the same time, within the framework of the China-Central and Eastern European Countries cooperation mechanism, the two countries have also maintained close cooperation with remarkable results. The two countries regularly carry out cultural exchanges, exchange students, and academic cooperation between universities, and continue to consolidate the mutual understanding and friendly feelings between the two peoples. Many Montenegrin youths who study Chinese and Chinese culture have become an important link in inheriting the traditional friendship between the two peoples and deepening bilateral exchanges.
The current international situation is complex and volatile, and peace and development remain the themes of the times. Frequent regional conflicts and various crises fully demonstrate the fragility and preciousness of peace. The international community needs to adhere to dialogue and consultation and deepen international cooperation more than ever before. Peace requires all countries to actively enhance understanding, tolerate differences, and seek solutions that take into account the legitimate interests of all parties. Montenegro has a deep understanding of safeguarding the authority of international law and maintaining the stability of the international order. Montenegro adheres to the concept of multilateralism, adheres to the diplomatic principles of mutually beneficial cooperation and equal national sovereignty, and firmly believes that this is the only way to build a just and reasonable international order. Replacing zero-sum games, confrontation, and antagonism with the concept of partnership is an important consensus in the development of contemporary international relations. Faced with global issues such as climate change and global economic fluctuations, countries can only overcome difficulties by uniting and cooperating, sharing responsibilities, and responding in coordination.
Looking to the future, Montenegro will give full play to its geographical advantages at the intersection of the Balkans and the Mediterranean, build a cooperation bridge connecting different regions and integrating diverse civilizations, and continue to deepen pragmatic cooperation with China in various fields. The two sides can sustainably expand cooperation space in tourism, science, education innovation, emerging industries, and other fields, and deeply tap cooperation potential. The development of Montenegro-China relations fully proves that international cooperation can only go far and steadily by adhering to the principles of mutual respect, dialogue and exchange, and shared vision. In the ever-changing international landscape, the partnership between Montenegro and China, characterized by equality, mutual benefit, and mutual assistance, is an important and positive force in promoting the development of the international order in a more just and reasonable direction.
(The author is the Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Montenegro and the head of the Montenegro-China Friendship Group)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Nanjing, May 23rd. On May 23rd, He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended and addressed the APEC Trade Ministers' Meeting in Suzhou.
He Lifeng (何立峰) pointed out that the current once-in-a-century changes are accelerating. Only by adhering to the principles of mutual respect and mutual trust, and win-win cooperation, can APEC members promote common prosperity and achieve open, high-quality, balanced, and secure development. China is willing to work with all parties to strengthen communication and dialogue in emerging fields, jointly support the reform of the World Trade Organization, pragmatically and flexibly promote the process of regional economic integration, and inject more positive energy into the economic development of the Asia-Pacific region and the world with new achievements in Chinese-style modernization.
During the meeting, He Lifeng (何立峰) successively held talks with World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Thai Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Commerce Phumtham Wechayachai (素帕姬), exchanging views on issues related to the WTO and China-Thailand economic and trade cooperation.
Return to TopAt the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping (习近平), Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić (阿莱克桑达尔·武契奇) will pay a state visit to China from May 24 to 28.
Aleksandar Vučić (阿莱克桑达尔·武契奇) was born in Belgrade (贝尔格莱德), Serbia, in March 1970 and holds a Bachelor of Laws degree. He was elected President in April 2017 and re-elected in May 2022.
He is married and has two sons and one daughter.
(Xinhua News Agency, Beijing (北京), May 23)
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"The Chinese government attaches great importance to biodiversity conservation and actively explores a path of coordinated and unified economic development and ecological protection." Melesse Salema, a senior researcher at the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority, said in an exclusive interview with this reporter recently. "The successful protection and restoration of flagship species such as giant pandas and crested ibises demonstrate extraordinary wisdom and provide a successful model for the world."
Salema has represented Ethiopia in a number of international biodiversity convention-related work, and in 2022 visited Kunming (昆明) as a member of the Secretariat of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. That year, the "Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework" was formally adopted, establishing a new blueprint for global biodiversity governance.
Recently, Salema came to China to participate in the "Biodiversity Conservation Training Course for 'Belt and Road' Countries under the Background of 'Dual Carbon'" organized by the Management Cadre College of the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (中国国家林业和草原局). Salema said that this training has given him a more comprehensive understanding of China's ecological civilization construction practices, "The uniqueness of China's practice lies in the close integration of scientific decision-making and practice."
Salema cited the example of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species downgrading the giant panda's threat level from "endangered" to "vulnerable," proving China's success in promoting harmonious coexistence between humans and nature. "While protecting giant pandas and their habitats, China has protected thousands of associated species. Protecting giant pandas is like 'holding up a big umbrella,' protecting the biodiversity of the entire ecosystem." Salema learned that China has also applied a variety of technical means in wildlife monitoring and protection, and the artificial breeding and rewilding of giant pandas have the deep participation of the Chinese government and scientific community.
China has established the Giant Panda National Park (大熊猫国家公园), integrating dozens of nature reserves. "This kind of national-led, overall systematic protection action has improved the connectivity of giant panda local population habitats and effectively mobilized the broad participation of social forces." Salema said that China's national park system construction has also been extended to the protection of other important ecosystems. China has also promulgated the National Park Law, marking a new stage of legalization and standardization in the construction of a nature reserve system dominated by national parks. "China's practice of systematically promoting biodiversity conservation is worth learning."
"China has abandoned the development model of 'pollute first, treat later' and has embarked on a path of green development in which economic development and ecological protection go hand in hand." Salema said that China's path of green development is very in line with Ethiopia's needs. "We strive to cherish Ethiopia's unique biodiversity as we protect our eyes while developing our economy."
The Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority (埃塞俄比亚野生动物保护局) is responsible for the overall management of the country's 87 protected areas, focusing on protecting endemic species such as the Ethiopian wolf and the Walia ibex. Salema introduced that the Ethiopian Wildlife Conservation Authority continues to increase its cooperation with China, including strengthening personnel exchanges and bilateral training with the National Forestry and Grassland Administration of China (中国国家林业和草原局) to promote talent capacity building and jointly combat illegal ivory trade.
Salema said that non-Chinese parties have carried out a series of cooperation in biodiversity research, wildlife protection, marine ecological protection, forestry and desertification prevention and control, and climate change response, which not only deepened the friendship between the people, but also became a vivid practice for the Global South to jointly explore sustainable development paths. "Facing a common future, we can carry out more exchanges around genetic diversity research, cross-border species protection, and renewable energy development, work together, and promote the continuous deepening and consolidation of non-Chinese green development cooperation," said Salema.
Return to TopThe second season of the documentary "From Xi'an (西安) to Gwadar Port (瓜达尔港)" titled "The Greatness of Workers (工者伟业)," co-produced by Shaanxi Zhongshan Culture Media Co., Ltd. (陕西仲山文化传媒有限公司) and Pakistan National Television (巴基斯坦国家电视台), premiered on Pakistan National Television (巴基斯坦国家电视台) on the 22nd and was simultaneously launched on major overseas social media platforms, according to a report from our Islamabad (伊斯兰堡) correspondent Zhao Yipu (赵益普) on May 23rd.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency Kathmandu, May 23rd (Reporter Zhang Ping (张平)), the China-Nepal Joint Scientific Expedition Team of Mount Everest's "Peak Core" recently successfully summited Mount Everest from the Nepalese side and carried out scientific sampling work such as ice core drilling, completing the first human drilling of ice core samples from the summit of Mount Everest. Currently, all members of the scientific expedition team have safely descended to the South Base Camp of Mount Everest, and have carried out multi-altitude gradient ice core and snow core sample collection during the descent.
The "Peak Core" project was jointly initiated by the Kathmandu Center for Research and Education of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Tianjin Extreme Response to Climate Change Promotion Center (Polar Future). According to the expedition team, obtaining the summit-to-bottom ice core is an important breakthrough in this scientific expedition; and continuously carrying out multi-altitude gradient sample collection along the descent route is a key link in establishing a complete high-altitude climate environment evidence chain. Related samples will help scientists further understand key scientific issues such as climate and environmental changes in extremely high-altitude areas, the transmission paths of pollutants to high-altitude areas, and the differences in climate response between the north and south slopes of Mount Everest.
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Since the learning and education on establishing and practicing a correct view of performance has been carried out, all regions, departments, and units have earnestly implemented the general requirements of "ruling for the public, benefiting the people, making scientific decisions, and earnestly doing practical work," making great efforts in conducting genuine investigations and making practical changes, and responding to the expectations of the masses with practical work and practical results.
Adhering to Problem Orientation
All regions, departments, and units have conducted genuine investigations and made practical changes in light of their actual conditions, and have also established a problem list cancellation system to promote the effectiveness of investigation and rectification work.
"Minor accidents can be handled quickly by taking a video, without having to wait for a long time on the roadside, which is very convenient." Mr. Wang (王先生), a car owner in Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu Province (江苏省), sincerely praised the new changes in traffic accident handling. In response to the problem of time-consuming traffic accident handling, the Xuzhou Public Security Bureau (徐州市公安局) innovated the video quick-handling model in accordance with relevant regulations.
In learning and education, Xuzhou (徐州) adhered to problem orientation, established a "regularly sort out, dynamically supplement, and real-time update" working mechanism, combined with the progress of key tasks, and continued to deepen the investigation of problems; adhered to a people-centered approach, starting from small things around the masses and solving problems from the front line, and coordinated the systematic rectification of various outstanding people's livelihood problems, tackling the pain points of people's livelihood with small breakthroughs.
Zunyi (遵义), Guizhou Province (贵州省), focused on outstanding problems, continued to do a good job in rectifying the problems fed back by inspections and audits, deepened the rectification of outstanding problems, and combined with the actual situation, broadened the channels for investigating problems from multiple aspects such as revitalizing and disposing of suspended and delayed construction projects, and updated the problem list dynamically on schedule. It urged and guided all regions and departments to clarify rectification measures, responsible persons, and completion deadlines for each problem identified, and persevered in rectifying them in place. At the same time, it adhered to "linkage between higher and lower levels, answering the same question," and promoted the implementation of problem investigation and rectification with a correct view of performance, turning the problem list into a list of achievements that the masses can feel and access.
Ninghe District (宁河区), Tianjin (天津), focused on key areas such as project construction and people's livelihood security, opened channels such as "sitting for diagnosis and accepting complaints," online consultation, and party conduct and government conduct hotlines to find problems and listen to suggestions, and promoted accurate and specific investigation of problems; focused on in-depth problems such as ignoring people's livelihood debts and protracted unresolved complaints, and carried out centralized rectification, and integrated it with the rectification of feedback opinions from the central inspection and the rectification of feedback problems such as ecological environment protection supervision to ensure that one thing is changed and one thing is accomplished.
Guangxin District (广信区), Shangrao (上饶), Jiangxi Province (江西省), regarded tackling petition problems as an important examination hall for establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, and carried out a "carpet-like" comprehensive investigation of existing petition problems. District leaders went deep into the front line to supervise the battle, led teams to hold symposiums in each township, jointly consulted on key and difficult cases, and reviewed and approved resolution plans; they regularly received visits and dispatched, took the lead in tackling urgent, difficult, and worrying matters for the masses, and effectively solved outstanding problems in the field of people's livelihood.
Establishing a Long-Term Mechanism
All regions, departments, and units insisted on combining "immediate rectification" with "long-term establishment," finding institutional shortcomings, and improving the establishment of rules and regulations.
At the site of the second-phase expansion project of fine aluminum in Holingol (霍林郭勒), Tongliao (通辽), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), construction is busy and orderly. As a key project for the quality improvement and upgrading of the aluminum industry in Holingol (霍林郭勒), the expansion project is steadily advancing.
In learning and education, Tongliao (通辽) focused on improving the handover system for changes in leading cadres, and formulated and issued the "Measures for Handover of Leaving Leading Cadres," produced a list of handover items in different fields, clarified important matters such as party building and cadre management, as well as key tasks such as major project construction and people's livelihood practical matters, and promoted the secretaries of party committees (party groups), administrative heads, and main leaders of enterprises and institutions to hand over everything that should be handed over in a comprehensive and accurate manner.
In Artux (阿图什), Kizilsu Kyrgyz Autonomous Prefecture (克孜勒苏柯尔克孜自治州), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), entering Gulnur Tawaikul's (古丽努尔·太外库力) new home in the city in Achik Village (阿其克村), all living facilities are available. "After applying for public rental housing in the Anju Community (安居小区), we don't have to run back and forth every day!"
In learning and education, the Kizilsu Prefecture (克州) Party Committee focused on the problems strongly reflected by the masses in the field of public rental housing, launched a special rectification, adhered to the combination of "immediate rectification" and "long-term establishment," urged functional departments to strengthen the review and control of public rental housing application, distribution, and other links, promptly investigated abnormal households, and verified and cleared out illegal housing.
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications (北京邮电大学) comprehensively sorted out the school's current system, conducted a systematic "physical examination" of the trial, temporary, and long-standing systems, and promptly abolished and revised inapplicable and imperfect systems. At the same time, it deepened the reform of education evaluation, continued to promote "breaking the five onlys" (破五唯 (pò wǔ wéi - "break five onlys," refers to abandoning the sole emphasis on academic qualifications, titles, papers, awards, and projects in evaluating talent)), adhered to the correct employment orientation, improved the differentiated assessment and evaluation system, improved the mass evaluation mechanism, and improved the pertinence and scientificity of the assessment.
Aspiring to Benefit the People
All regions, departments, and units educated and guided party members and cadres to keep in mind that benefiting the people is the greatest political achievement, do more things that benefit the people's livelihood, solve the people's worries, and warm the people's hearts, so that the masses can see changes and get benefits.
Early in the morning, before the thin mist had completely dissipated, Zhu Hanrong (朱汉荣), a citizen of Xiangyang (襄阳), Hubei Province (湖北省), embarked on a mountain climbing trip with his friends. "There are both bluestone slab roads and asphalt roads on the mountain, which are easy to walk and safe. Standing on the top of the mountain and looking at the green mountains and clear waters, I feel open-minded!" Zhu Hanrong (朱汉荣) exclaimed.
In learning and education, Xiangyang (襄阳) insisted on open education, promoted leading cadres to take the lead in going to the front line to collect opinions, grasp the real situation, and solve problems, and led the handling of a number of practical matters for the people's livelihood, such as the urban water source replacement project, the "demolishing walls and merging courtyards" of the ancient city, and the environmental improvement of the Xian Mountain (岘山) greenway, so that the masses could feel and access them.
"After waiting for so long, this road is finally going to be opened!" At the construction site at the southern end of the planned road on the west side of Quanxue Lane (劝学里) in Jinan High-tech Zone (济南高新区), Shandong Province (山东省), Mr. Zhang (张先生), a resident, could not hide his joy as he watched the road surface being laid. Since the launch of learning and education, Jinan (济南) has comprehensively identified problems in the view of performance through audit supervision, petition reflections, and investigations and research. Relevant aspects of Jinan High-tech Zone (济南高新区) went deep into the front line to listen to the opinions of the masses, and listed this "dead-end road" as a key task to tackle, coordinated in many ways, and jointly solved the problems of cross-regional coordination and land acquisition.
"Thanks to the party members stationed in the enterprise for helping to coordinate and handle relevant matters, the project was able to start construction 4 months ahead of schedule," said Ren Weidong (任卫东), general manager of Zhejiang Jinhaiwan Holding Co., Ltd. (浙江金海湾控股有限公司). Shangyu District (上虞区), Shaoxing (绍兴), Zhejiang Province (浙江省), selected party members and cadres to serve as agents, and improved the long-term working mechanism of "on-site discovery - follow-up handling - closed-loop return visit" to solve the difficulties in the development of enterprises in a practical manner.
"Many villagers go out to work, and the elderly in the village have a weak awareness of prevention. Can our border police station go to the village more often to talk about new fraud prevention knowledge?" "A special legal publicity event will be arranged in the village next week, specifically for the elderly." In Longba Town (陇把镇), Longchuan County (陇川县), Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture (德宏傣族景颇族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), an open police evaluation activity was in full swing. Dehong Prefecture (德宏州) promoted cadres to go down to the front line on a regular basis, established and improved a closed-loop management system of "masses propose, cadres handle, and everyone evaluates," and integrated the establishment and practice of a correct view of performance into the entire process of serving the people.
(Reporters Li Linwei (李林蔚), Ma Yuefeng (马跃峰), Yang Wenming (杨文明), Liu Junguo (刘军国), Li Yanan (李亚楠), Fan Haotian (范昊天), Gong Xiangjuan (龚相娟), Li Rui (李蕊), Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔), Zhao Jingfeng (赵景锋), and Su Bin (苏滨) of this newspaper)
Return to TopIn recent days, Lianyungang Port (连云港港) in Jiangsu Province (江苏省) has seen a peak in the loading of vehicles exported to Africa at its port terminals. The port operates 24 hours a day, with several international ships loading simultaneously, and gantry cranes operating efficiently.
The picture shows cargo ships loading engineering vehicles for export to Africa at the Lianyungang Oriental Port (连云港港东方港务分公司) Terminal on May 22.
Photo by Wang Chun (王春) (China Photo)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 胡婧怡
Located in Shenhe District (沈河区), Shenyang (沈阳) City, Liaoning (辽宁) Province, the Wanhong Digital Science and Technology Innovation Incubation Base is home to more than 10 personal studios and small start-up teams related to the animation industry, such as illustration and animated films, which are booming.
Since 2022, Liaoning (辽宁) has implemented the "Spring Warmth in Liaoshen" (春暖辽沈) action for five consecutive years to ensure employment, promote employment, and help revitalize the economy. It organically combines market employment orientation, economic transformation and upgrading needs, and the employment and entrepreneurship intentions of workers, focusing on solving structural employment contradictions and creating a high-quality and sufficient employment ecosystem with a complete policy "full cycle," talent recruitment "full carrier," and skills improvement "full chain." The quality improvement and upgrading of Shenyang's (沈阳) animation industry is a vivid example of the mutual promotion of industry and employment.
Training Increases Skills——
"Screen description: Xiao A's (小A) mobile phone suddenly vibrates wildly, buzzing in his pocket. He takes out his phone, and the number of fans on the screen soars. Emotion: Ecstatic. Duration: 13 seconds..." In front of the computer, Hai Yanni (海艳妮), an AI (artificial intelligence) comic drama animator, uses text to describe the animation content and effects she wants to generate. A few minutes later, the AI software generates the animation.
In January of this year, Hai Yanni (海艳妮) officially joined Shenyang Fengqishe Cultural and Creative Co., Ltd. (沈阳风奇社文化创意有限公司). Last spring, she was still very confused as she was about to graduate from university. "I majored in software in university, and I wanted to change careers after graduation, but I didn't know what I could do," said Hai Yanni (海艳妮). Catching up with the 2025 Liaoning (辽宁) "Spring Warmth in Liaoshen" (春暖辽沈) action in Shenyang (沈阳), she was attracted by the "Shenyang Animator" (沈阳动漫师) labor brand booth at the event site: vocational skills training schools provide free skills conversion training.
"With the rise of original Guochao (国潮) animation, the employment gap for Shenyang (沈阳) animators is constantly increasing," said Wu Zhe (吴喆), chairman of Wanhong Culture Development Holding (Liaoning) Co., Ltd. (万泓文化发展控股（辽宁）有限公司) and president of the Shenyang Animation Industry Association (沈阳市动漫产业协会). "Under the suggestion of the competent department, we had the idea of establishing an association and running a vocational skills training school."
In 2023, the Shenyang Animation Industry Association (沈阳市动漫产业协会) was established, building a cluster development model of "park + association," and the vocational skills training school trains more than 100 students every year. "The human resources and social security department guides the association to carry out vocational skill level evaluation for animation production staff, and provides free professional conversion and skill improvement training for unemployed college graduates in the graduating year, and also provides corresponding training subsidies," said Wu Zhe (吴喆).
School-Enterprise Strong Linkage——
As a junior, Guo Xinyi (郭鑫怡), a student majoring in animation production technology at Liaoning Communication University (辽宁传媒学院), came to Fengqishe (风奇社) for an internship under the organization of the school.
"The school has established cooperation with the Animation Industry Association (动漫产业协会) and jointly explores suitable positions with the association's enterprises to organize student internships," said Shi Guang (石光), vice president of Liaoning Communication University (辽宁传媒学院). "School-enterprise collaborative education not only expands students' employment opportunities but also helps to supplement the employment needs of enterprises."
Focusing on the needs of social development, Liaoning (辽宁) improves the linkage mechanism between employment and enrollment and training, and expands the number of youth employment internship positions.
Guo Xinyi (郭鑫怡) said: "During the internship, I participated in enterprise projects under the guidance of enterprise mentors, understood the industry, and adapted to the work. Some time ago, the original AI comic drama project I participated in was officially launched, and I also formed a team to participate in a short film competition."
"Through school-enterprise linkage, we help graduates to open up the 'last mile' of employment," said Sun Zhe (孙哲), director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Liaoning Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security (辽宁省人力资源和社会保障厅就业促进处). This year's "Spring Warmth in Liaoshen" (春暖辽沈) action plans to carry out no less than 300 public employment services entering campuses and raise and release no less than 25,000 youth employment internship positions.
Multi-party Aggregation of Forces——
Thanks to the association's "blood production" and "blood transfusion" of animation talents, Fengqishe (风奇社) has grown from the initial 3 people to more than 30 people since its establishment in June last year. "Many of them are college graduates who have entered the industry after receiving vocational training or internships," said Wan Jun (万军), head of Fengqishe (风奇社).
"I remember when we first started the training school, half of the trainees were attracted by some employment opportunities in other places," said Wu Zhe (吴喆). "We realized that only by continuously developing our own industry and creating more good positions can we retain talents."
Since 2023, the Wanhong Digital Science and Technology Innovation Incubation Base (万泓数字科创孵化基地) has successively incubated more than 10 animation-related industrial teams. "Young people grow up through project exercises and finally start their own businesses independently. This not only retains talents and creates more employment positions but also provides new impetus for industrial development," Wu Zhe (吴喆) introduced that among the association's member companies, 4 participated in the production of the film *Ne Zha*.
Lei Aijun (雷爱军), deputy director of the Entrepreneurship Department of the Shenyang Employment and Talent Service Center (沈阳市就业和人才服务中心创业部), introduced, "At present, Shenyang (沈阳) has built 51 entrepreneurship workstations, and will expand to 110 by the end of 2026."
"The better the industry develops, the more job opportunities there are. For me, this is not just about finding a job, but also about choosing a future," said Hai Yanni (海艳妮).
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘诗瑶 李君强
On the morning of May 23, a press conference for the Shenzhou-23 manned spaceflight mission was held at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (酒泉卫星发射中心). Zhang Jingbo (张静波), spokesperson for the China Manned Space Engineering Project (中国载人航天工程) and Director-General of the Comprehensive Planning Bureau of the Engineering Office, introduced the relevant situation.
After research and determination, the Shenzhou-23 manned spacecraft is scheduled to launch at 23:08 Beijing Time (北京时间) on May 24. The flight crew consists of Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱), Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远), and Li Jiaying (黎家盈), with Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) serving as the commander. The three astronauts are a flight engineer, a space pilot, and a payload expert, covering the three types of astronauts currently in service in China. Astronaut Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) has previously performed the Shenzhou-16 manned spaceflight mission. Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) and Li Jiaying (黎家盈) are from the third and fourth batches of Chinese astronauts, respectively, and are performing their first flight missions. Before being selected, Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) was an air force pilot, and Li Jiaying (黎家盈) worked for the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香港特别行政区) Government Police Force.
Highlight 1: To complete the in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-21 crew, one astronaut will conduct a one-year in-orbit stay experiment.
This mission is the seventh manned flight mission in the application and development phase of the space station, and the fortieth flight mission of the manned space program. The main objectives of the mission are: to complete the in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-21 crew, to continue carrying out space science and application work, to carry out extravehicular activities and cargo in and out of the cabin, to carry out tasks such as the installation and recovery of extravehicular payloads and facilities and equipment, to carry out science popularization education and public welfare activities, as well as space-based experiments, and to continue to give full play to the comprehensive application benefits of the space station. In addition, one astronaut in the crew will conduct a one-year in-orbit stay experiment.
According to the plan, after the Shenzhou-23 manned spacecraft enters orbit, it will adopt an autonomous rapid rendezvous and docking mode, docking at the radial port of the Tianhe core module (天和核心舱), forming a three-ship, three-module complex. The Shenzhou-21 astronaut crew will return to the Dongfeng Landing Site (东风着陆场) after completing the in-orbit rotation with the Shenzhou-23 astronaut crew.
According to the plan, the Shenzhou-23 astronaut crew will carry out more than 100 new science and application projects during their time in orbit, mainly focusing on in-depth research and verification of cutting-edge scientific and technological issues in the fields of space life science, space materials science, microgravity fluid physics, aerospace medicine, and aerospace new technologies.
Zhang Jingbo (张静波) said that this mission will arrange for one astronaut to perform a one-year in-orbit stay experiment. The one-year stay in space will: first, implement China's first space human body research program, comprehensively obtain longer-term flight data of astronauts, and enrich mission implementation experience; second, verify the astronaut's long-term flight health protection capabilities and improve the in-orbit medical and protection system; and third, provide longer-term continuous research opportunities for scientific projects and related technology verification. According to the plan, the candidates to perform the one-year in-orbit stay experiment will be determined based on the specific in-orbit mission execution.
Highlight 2: This mission involves Li Jiaying (黎家盈), an astronaut from Hong Kong, who has completed more than 200 training subjects in 8 major categories.
Zhang Jingbo (张静波) introduced that astronaut Li Jiaying (黎家盈) joined the team in August 2024 and has completed more than 200 training subjects in 8 major categories, totaling more than 1,700 class hours, and passed the flight qualification assessment with excellent results. According to the mission arrangement, she has completed enhanced training in flight missions such as space science research and technology experiments, space station complex management, and manned spacecraft and space robotic arm operation, meeting the various requirements for performing flight missions. As a payload expert for the Shenzhou-23 flight mission, she is currently in good overall condition and has a good working relationship with the crew.
Zhang Jingbo (张静波) said that in recent years, Hong Kong's scientific research forces have actively integrated into the overall development of the national aerospace industry. The Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft (天舟十号货运飞船), which was just launched this month, carries a lightweight greenhouse gas point source detection payload developed by Hong Kong universities. At the same time, there are some projects that are being deeply demonstrated and promoted.
In addition, during this year's "China Space Day (中国航天日)," two Pakistani astronauts entered the China Astronaut Research and Training Center (中国航天员科研训练中心) to participate in mission training with Chinese astronauts. According to the plan, one Pakistani astronaut will perform a short-term flight mission as a payload expert and is undergoing basic training and aerospace professional technical training in accordance with the training program, focusing on practical operation ability training. Currently, all work is progressing smoothly.
Highlight 3: The space station strongly supports China's goal of achieving manned lunar landing before 2030, and China's lunar exploration project is progressing smoothly.
Zhang Jingbo (张静波) introduced that the China Space Station (中国空间站), as a national-level space laboratory, mainly supports lunar exploration in three aspects. First, the space station mission has cultivated a team of astronauts who have performed space missions and have rich space flight experience, which can provide a solid talent reserve for the selection of astronaut crews for subsequent manned lunar landing missions; second, the space station has been operating stably in orbit for nearly 4 years, and has deployed and verified a series of key technologies for manned lunar landing; third, the new generation of near-Earth manned round-trip transportation system composed of the Long March 10A carrier rocket (长征十号甲运载火箭) and the Mengzhou spacecraft (梦舟飞船) in the space station mission adopts an integrated design and development with the Long March 10 carrier rocket (长征十号运载火箭) and the Mengzhou lunar landing spacecraft system (梦舟登月飞船系统) required for lunar exploration. In the next two years, through multiple space station flight missions, its technical maturity and mission reliability will be comprehensively improved, laying a solid foundation for the first manned lunar landing. In addition, the long-term in-orbit operation of the space station can also provide more and larger space in-orbit platform services for future lunar scientific research and development and deep space exploration missions.
In order to make full use of the technical accumulation and practical experience accumulated over decades by the manned space program and the Chang'e project (嫦娥工程), China has integrated the existing manned lunar landing and unmanned lunar exploration in terms of mission, resources, and teams. The integrated project is collectively referred to as the "Lunar Exploration Project (月球探测工程)."
In the early stage, after the Long March 10 carrier rocket and the Mengzhou manned spacecraft completed the tethered ignition test and the zero-altitude escape flight test, the relevant products were subjected to reusable adaptation modifications. On this basis, at the beginning of this year, China successfully implemented the low-altitude demonstration and verification of the Long March 10 carrier rocket system and the maximum dynamic pressure escape flight test of the Mengzhou manned spacecraft system, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent reusable manned round-trip transportation system and manned lunar landing.
In April of this year, the Chang'e-7 probe (嫦娥七号探测器) has been transported to the China Wenchang Space Launch Site (中国文昌发射场). Currently, the pre-launch testing and preparation for the Chang'e-7 mission are underway, and all work is progressing in an orderly manner according to the plan. It is planned to launch at an opportune time in the second half of the year. The Chang'e-7 mission will adopt a comprehensive exploration method of orbiting, landing, patrolling, and leaping to conduct lunar south pole environment and resource exploration and carry out international cooperation. Subsequently, important tasks such as the Long March 10 carrier rocket technology verification flight and the first flight of the Mengzhou manned spacecraft and the Lanyue lander will be organized and completed according to the plan, striving to achieve the goal of Chinese people landing on the moon for the first time before 2030 as scheduled.
Commander Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) -
"Eat one bite at a time, take one step at a time"
Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱), commander of the Shenzhou-23 crew, is China's first aerospace flight engineer to fly into space. After the triumphant return of the Shenzhou-16 mission, he is about to rush to Tiangong (天宫) again, leading the crew to challenge multiple "first" missions, such as "one astronaut will perform a one-year in-orbit stay experiment."
"Although I was surprised when I received the appointment, I was more determined." Zhu Yangzhu's (朱杨柱) confidence comes from day-to-day rigorous training, five months of in-orbit combat accumulation, and more importantly, the valuable flight experience and excellent flight qualities inherited from the first and second batches of astronauts. In China's first astronaut cave training, Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱), as the first group of participating team members, faced the extreme challenges of the unknown environment and tempered his psychological endurance to cope with extreme environments.
As the commander, Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) encourages everyone to try boldly and allow trial and error, and grow in practice. "The growth of the team is not about one person being excellent, but everyone being excellent." Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) understands that it is necessary to tightly twist the advantages of different batches of astronauts and the strength of different backgrounds into one rope, and give full play to everyone's strengths to maximize the overall strength beyond the sum of individuals.
"Eat one bite at a time, take one step at a time." Zhu Yangzhu (朱杨柱) said that in space, he will strive to do everything to the extreme. Because even the most ambitious goals require down-to-earth persistence.
Q&A
Q: As the commander, how do you view the challenges brought by the multiple "firsts" in this mission?
A: Facing so many "firsts," we deeply feel that the mission is glorious and the responsibility is great! What I think about most is how to make all preparations and lead the team to complete the flight mission perfectly with **零失误、零差错** (líng shī wù, líng chā cuò - "zero mistakes, zero errors," to ensure perfection and accuracy). We will definitely treat each "first" as an exam, stick to our original aspirations, and go all out.
Q: As China's first flight engineer to serve as commander, how will you lead the team to complete this flight mission?
A: Although the three of us have different professional backgrounds, experiences, and qualifications, we are of similar age and have similar personalities, and we have many common languages. We focus on making great efforts to improve the team's ability and flight quality, practice cooperation, practice habits, and practice methods to achieve improvement in all aspects.
Space pilot Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) -
"Polishing myself, bit by bit, into a 'brick'"
Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远), astronaut 02 of the Shenzhou-23 crew, was born in 1986 and is a member of China's third batch of astronauts.
Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) was born in a small town on the banks of the Yellow River (黄河). After the college entrance examination, he entered the Air Force Aviation University (空军航空大学) and grew into a pilot.
When the third batch of astronauts was selected, Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) signed up without hesitation. "Since Shenzhou-5 (神舟五号), I have been very concerned about manned spaceflight, but I never dared to think that I would have the opportunity to become an astronaut." Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) said.
Entering the astronaut team, starting from scratch to learn basic theory, asking instructors, asking teammates, and checking materials; 72 hours of sleep deprivation training, eyelids as heavy as if filled with lead; desert training with scarce materials, scorching sun, and extreme water shortage... Every time he gritted his teeth, he got closer to his dream.
Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) admitted that manned space missions emphasize "stability" and "accuracy" more. "I am polishing myself, bit by bit, into a 'brick' to serve the manned space program."
**功夫不负有心人** (gōng fū bù fù yǒu xīn rén - "effort does not betray the painstaking," hard work pays off). He was selected for the Shenzhou-23 astronaut crew. Steady, reliable, and reassuring are the unanimous evaluations of him by his teammates. Before the mission training begins, he will go through all the procedures in his mind first, and then strictly follow the manual; every once in a while, he will summarize the rules and think about precipitation.
With a brave and exploratory heart, Zhang Zhiyuan (张志远) will embark on a space journey and reach unprecedented heights.
Q&A
Q: As an astronaut flying for the first time, can you talk about how to realize your dream based on your personal experience?
A: From having a dream to realizing a dream is a long journey paved with faith and perseverance. I have three feelings: first, root the dream in the land under your feet; second, turn love into the confidence to fight against difficulties; and third, closely link personal dreams with the needs of the motherland. As long as you have love in your heart and never give up, you can realize your dream.
Q: What are your biggest expectations and wishes for entering the Chinese space station?
A: My biggest expectation is to complete all the in-orbit tasks and hand in an excellent answer sheet to the Party and the people. At the same time, I also brought some family letters, which are full of family blessings and children's questions. I hope to answer them after personally experiencing the mysteries of space.
Payload expert Li Jiaying (黎家盈) -
"The motherland has always been supporting us"
Li Jiaying (黎家盈), astronaut 03 of the Shenzhou-23 crew, is China's fourth female astronaut and the first astronaut from Hong Kong.
Li Jiaying (黎家盈) was born in Tsuen Wan (荃湾), Hong Kong. After obtaining a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Hong Kong (香港大学), she joined the Technical Services Division of the Hong Kong Police Force (香港警务处技术服务部). This experience honed Li Jiaying's (黎家盈) will and cultivated her qualities of perseverance and carefulness.
In 2022, the selection of the fourth batch of reserve astronauts in China was officially launched. "Seeing the application notice for payload experts, I felt that this was a rare opportunity." Li Jiaying (黎家盈) said.
After being selected as a member of the fourth batch of reserve astronauts in the country, Li Jiaying (黎家盈) initially arrived in the mainland and spoke Mandarin with a Hong Kong accent, which made communication difficult. However, with the company of teachers and teammates, she made progress day by day and felt the warmth of home in the collective.
From entering the astronaut team to successfully being selected for the Shenzhou-23 manned spaceflight mission crew, Li Jiaying (黎家盈) only took more than a year. Although the cycle is short, the training standards and assessment requirements have not been reduced at all. Li Jiaying (黎家盈) endured more intensive training in a limited time, but she showed optimism and tenacity.
For Li Jiaying (黎家盈), flying into space is not only a personal dream, but also a vivid testimony of Hong Kong and the motherland working together in the same direction. "Hong Kong has always shared weal and woe and is connected by blood with the motherland. As long as we have the country in our hearts and insist on doing our best, everyone can shine their own light! The motherland has always been supporting us." Li Jiaying (黎家盈) said.
Q&A
Q: As the first astronaut from Hong Kong, how do you feel?
A: As an ordinary Hong Konger, I am full of gratitude and honor to be able to join the astronaut team and be selected for this crew to perform the mission. I also deeply feel that the mission is glorious and the responsibility is great. I sincerely thank the motherland for providing me with a stage to realize my dream, and I will definitely go all out to complete all the work.
Q: What words of encouragement do you have for Hong Kong youth?
A: I grew up in Hong Kong. The spirit of the Lion Rock (狮子山精神), which is to overcome adversity and never give up, is the same as the spirit of manned spaceflight. We also need to be brave to challenge and persevere to the end. Only when young people develop can Hong Kong have a future. I especially want to say to the young people in Hong Kong: Dreams are not far away. We must contribute wisdom and strength to Hong Kong and the motherland.
(Astronaut stories and Q&A compiled by reporters Li Junqiang (李君强) and Liu Shiyao (刘诗瑶) of this newspaper, with Zhan Kang (占康) participating in the writing; all astronaut photos are taken by reporter Zhang Wujun (张武军) of this newspaper)
Layout design: Shen Yiling (沈亦伶)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Hong Kong on May 23rd (Reporter Wang Yao (王尧) and Li Xia (李霞)) The China Manned Space Engineering Office announced on the 23rd the Shenzhou-23 astronaut crew, which includes payload expert Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈) from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, John Lee (李家超), thanked the country for its support and trust in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and congratulated Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈) on becoming the fourth batch of astronauts through rigorous selection and training, contributing Hong Kong's strength to the country's aerospace endeavors.
John Lee (李家超) said that this year is the opening year of the country's "15th Five-Year Plan," and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region welcomes the historic moment of its space dream. It is extraordinarily meaningful that a Hong Kong expert has become an astronaut participating in a flight mission for the first time, and we are deeply encouraged. He sincerely thanked the country for giving Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's scientific and technological talents the valuable opportunity to participate in the country's aerospace endeavors.
John Lee (李家超) stated that this is the first time Hong Kong has had scientific researchers participate in a flight mission, which is not only an affirmation of her personal abilities, but also fully demonstrates the country's high recognition of Hong Kong's innovation and technology talents, development, and achievements, and even more fully reflects the country's high regard, concern, and support for Hong Kong's scientific and technological development. He warmly congratulated Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈) and sincerely wished her a successful completion of the flight mission.
Lai Ka-ying (黎家盈) was born and raised in Hong Kong and obtained a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Computer Forensics. Before being selected, she worked in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government Police Force.
According to news from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, Sun Dong (孙东), Secretary for Innovation, Technology and Industry of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, led a delegation from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region to the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center to participate in the expedition ceremony and witness this historic moment. The delegation members included representatives from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government, experts from the innovation and technology sector, youth, and students.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李林蔚 王 坎
At the 2026 Cultural Powerhouse Construction Summit Forum's sub-forum on cultivating high-level cultural talent, scientists, renowned cultural artists, and frontline practitioners from related fields focused on the cultivation of high-level cultural talent in the era of artificial intelligence and the path to cultural talent development, expressing their opinions and sharing their understanding and experiences.
Demonstrating the Cultural Subjectivity of the Chinese Nation
To promote cultural prosperity, it is crucial to have leading cultural figures who can shoulder the responsibility. Only by safeguarding the "root" and "soul" of outstanding Chinese traditional culture can innovation and creation flourish.
Kang Zhen (康震), a member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee and Vice President of Beijing Normal University (北京师范大学), believes: "To actively promote the construction of socialist culture with Chinese characteristics in the new era, we need a large number of innovative cultural talents with higher levels who can engage in dialogue with the world, fully demonstrate the cultural subjectivity of the Chinese nation, and promote the cultural confidence of the Chinese nation. This is a major task of the times placed before every educator."
Xie Youshun (谢有顺), Chairman of the Guangdong Writers Association (广东省作协) and Professor of the Chinese Department of Sun Yat-sen University (中山大学), has long been deeply involved in the cultivation of cultural talent. "The cultural talents cultivated in universities now place more emphasis on knowledge and less on ability, more on norms and less on individuality, and more on research and less on creation," he said. "We should not only let cultural talents accumulate a large amount of knowledge, but also cultivate their perception, imagination, and creativity."
Gong Ke (龚克), Executive Dean of the Chinese Institute for New Generation Artificial Intelligence Development Strategies, attaches great importance to the cultivation of talents who integrate arts and sciences. "Cultural talents should have scientific literacy, and technical talents should also have humanistic literacy. They should have their own feelings about history and culture and form a unique cultural experience."
In recent years, a series of domestic animated films based on outstanding Chinese traditional culture have received widespread attention from audiences. "For cultural talents, to tell Chinese stories well, it is necessary to balance the relationship between inheritance and innovation, history and the present," said Yu Zhou (于洲), President of Light Chaser Animation Studios (追光动画文化传播（北京）有限公司).
Stimulating the Cultural Innovation and Creativity of the Entire Nation
"The Fourth Plenary Session of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed to 'stimulate the cultural innovation and creativity of the entire nation'," said Gao Shiming (高世名), a member of the Party Committee and Vice Chairman of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles (中国文联). "Our mission is not to make a few people masters, but to make most people better versions of themselves."
As a representative of new mass literature, Wang Jibing (王计兵), a food delivery rider and poet, spoke about his creative experience: "I have always insisted that life is my true self, and writing is my hobby. I am being noticed by everyone precisely because I am a member of the masses."
"To write honest things that can touch people's hearts depends on real-life experiences," said Xie Youshun.
"Cultural development should be both popular and produce high-quality works. The two are not opposed to each other but are complementary," in Gong Ke's view. "Diversity is an important value of culture. Different people have different life experiences and social roles, and therefore have different feelings about cultural works and different needs for cultural life. With peaks rising from the plateau, we have more confidence and are more determined."
Technology is the Propeller of Cultural Innovation and Creativity
What kind of cultural talent needs to be cultivated in the AI (Artificial Intelligence) era?
"We should pursue knowledge that AI cannot replace," said Chen Pingyuan (陈平原), a professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University (北京大学). "As humanities scholars, we must strive to cultivate unique thinking habits and stylistic sensibilities, and consciously maintain and train this aspect of our abilities."
"It is human thought and emotion that inject life into cultural innovation," said Li Pan (李攀), Editor-in-Chief of the "Zhejiang Propaganda" Editorial Department ("浙江宣传"). "To uphold integrity and innovate, we must do a good job of content with our hearts and emotions, and make full use of technical means, follow the laws of Internet communication, so that better content enters the Internet and the Party's innovative theories enter the minds and hearts of the people."
Technology is the propeller of cultural innovation and creativity, and it is allowing more cultural talents rooted in the grassroots to be seen and appreciated. "We are very pleased to see that the dividends brought by technology are not only reflected in the popularization of culture and art, but also in the artisticization of the masses. Countless people have found platforms in the Internet ecosystem and can more easily carry out self-expression with a certain quality," said Gao Shiming.
"AI changes the cultural ecology, but it does not change the core of culture, let alone change the value orientation of goodness and beauty. In the AI era, what we need to cultivate most is cultural talent who can adhere to their original intentions, master tools, and establish virtue and words," said Gong Ke.
Making Respect for Talent and Respect for Creation a Prevailing Trend
The growth of cultural talent has its own laws. Systematic improvements and upgrades in concepts, policies, systems, and mechanisms are needed to make respect for talent and respect for creation a prevailing trend.
"Cultural talents have their own particularities. It is definitely not appropriate to measure them all with the same yardstick," said Xie Youshun. "We cannot simply use quantity as an indicator for evaluation. It is impossible to evaluate real talent by simply using how much they have published, how many books they have published, or how many awards they have won. We must give cultural talents a more relaxed and tolerant environment and establish a more long-term evaluation system so that cultural talents can continue to emerge."
Jin Dong (靳东), head of the China Coal Mine Art Troupe (中国煤矿文工团), believes: "We must use the greatest patience to create platforms and opportunities for young talents to slow down and calm down, so that the cultivation of cultural and artistic talents can return to its original essence."
Today, more and more young people are becoming a new force in cultural undertakings and cultural industries.
Chang Hongji (常宏基), a principal dancer at the Shenzhen Opera and Dance Theater (深圳歌剧舞剧院) born in 1999, plays Ip Man in the dance drama "Wing Chun" and has toured more than 300 times to date. He said: "The fact that more young people like our stage art is due to the tolerant cultural atmosphere of Shenzhen (深圳). This also provides us with a broad platform to realize our ambitions."
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 23rd (Reporter: Yan Yiqiao (闫伊乔)) On May 23rd, the 2026 Red Gene Inheritance High-End Forum, themed "Telling the Story of the Communist Party of China: Construction of an Independent Knowledge System and Discourse Innovation in the Study of CPC Party History and Party Building," was held at Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).
Participating experts and scholars stated that in the new era and on the new journey, in-depth research should be conducted on the experience, narrative system construction, and theoretical and methodological innovation surrounding the centennial history of the Party, fully exploring the ideological connotation and spiritual lineage of red culture, so that the independent knowledge system can 焕发勃勃生机 (huàn fā bó bó shēng jī - "radiate with vigorous vitality," to be full of life and vigor) in answering the questions of China, the world, the people, and the times.
On the same day, the joint construction leading group meeting of the National Red Gene Inheritance Research Center was held simultaneously. The meeting released the "Research Report on the Inheritance and Development of Red Culture (2025)," launched the filming of the historical micro-documentaries "The Long March Story in Cultural Relics" and "A Single Spark Starts a Prairie Fire - Remembering the Glorious Years of the Centennial Journey," and held the unveiling ceremony of the "National Red Gene Inheritance Research Center Zunyi Branch Center (全国红色基因传承研究中心遵义分中心)."
Ouyang Song (欧阳淞), Consultant of the Central Marxist Theory Research and Construction Project, and former Director of the Central Party History Research Office (原中央党史研究室), Lu Xiaoqing (卢小青), Standing Committee Member of the Jiangxi Provincial Committee of the CPC (中共江西省委) and Minister of the Propaganda Department, Wang Quanchun (王全春), Deputy Director of the Institute of Party History and Literature of the CPC Central Committee (中央党史和文献研究院), Cui Shixin (崔士鑫), Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the People's Daily (人民日报社), Ma Huaide (马怀德), President of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学), Chen Jin (陈晋), former Deputy Director of the Central Literature Research Office (原中央文献研究室), and others attended the meeting.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 吴储岐
Currently, AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology is iterating and accelerating, profoundly impacting the future landscape of career development. AI is gradually becoming a "partner" in the work of young people, and the boundaries of professional value are constantly being reconstructed. The career development of young people faces both new opportunities and some challenges.
Faced with AI technology changes, many young people are proactively seeking change and constantly adapting to new trends in career development. At the same time, they also have new expectations for the talent selection and employment models of enterprises. Under the changing circumstances, how can young people hone their core competencies? How should governments, universities, and enterprises pave the way for them? Our reporter went deep into the front lines to conduct research.
——Editor
At 8:00 PM, the R&D center of Li Auto (理想汽车) in Shunyi, Beijing (北京), is brightly lit. The behavioral ability iteration of the autonomous driving VLA (Visual Language Action) large model is entering a critical stage. Wang Yue (王越), a young engineer from the base model team, sits in front of the screen, breaking down complex R&D tasks into multiple sub-tasks such as scene data mining, training configuration generation, and failure case analysis. As instructions are issued, several AI agents quickly "take their positions": some select typical scenes from massive road test data, some retrieve historical experimental results to compare anomalies, and others automatically organize experimental conclusions. Work that originally required a team to work hard for two or three days to complete is now completed in less than an hour with human-machine collaboration.
"I am now more like a commander than a simple code worker," said Wang Yue (王越). "AI frees me from repetitive mechanical labor, allowing me to focus on problem definition and system architecture design, which require more human intelligence."
This is not a scene from a science fiction movie, but the daily life of many young professionals. Currently, AI is penetrating all walks of life at an unimaginable speed, becoming a professional "partner" that young people accompany and fight alongside day and night. Opportunities and challenges arise together, and those who actively adapt will win the first opportunity. How to proactively embrace technological changes, reshape job value in human-machine collaboration, and broaden career paths in cross-border integration has become a new issue facing many young people today.
Human-Machine Collaboration: Improving Work Efficiency and Releasing Personal Potential
"In the past, we looked at the speed and accuracy of writing code when recruiting people. Now, we look at whether they can use AI human-machine collaboration to solve complex problems. The standards for employing people have changed," said Zhan Kun (詹锟), head of the base model at Li Auto (理想汽车). His words reveal the profound changes in the logic of enterprise employment. In the hundred-person technical team he leads, proficiently mastering AI tools is a necessary skill for all members. An excellent young engineer can contribute the productivity of 3 to 5 people with the empowerment of AI.
The exploration at the forefront of the industry goes a step further. Top young technical talents can now flexibly schedule more than 10 AI agents to collaborate. "This is true human-machine collaboration. It is not simply replacing a single link with AI, but building an intelligent work system with humans as the main body and AI as the support," Zhan Kun (詹锟) said frankly. AI is good at repetitive mechanical and procedural work, while the advantage of humans lies in strategic judgment, creative conception, and complex problem decomposition. What companies crave is composite talents who can coordinate multiple intelligent agents to complete complex projects.
Today, this talent employment orientation is spreading to more fields. Rolling AI Business Consulting is a consulting company focused on the commercial implementation of generative AI. Wei Jin (魏晋), its senior manager, also regards AI collaboration ability as an important indicator when recruiting. "We will focus on examining whether candidates can use AI to solve practical business problems," said Wei Jin (魏晋). "In the future workplace, not being able to use AI will be like not being able to use a computer now, and it will become a shortcoming in ability."
Changes are permeating all walks of life silently. On the front lines of news gathering and editing, young journalists use AI to organize interview recordings and generate data charts. In the past, it took half a day to transcribe and listen to recordings, but now it takes only a few minutes to convert text and mark key points. In the field of cultural and creative design, designers use AI to quickly generate drafts, focusing their energy on aesthetic refinement and user experience optimization. In campus research scenarios, young students use AI to sort out the context of literature and delve into experimental design and data analysis.
"My biggest concern is that we have scared everyone with those 'science fiction stories,' so that everyone is afraid of AI, resists AI, and ultimately does not participate in it at all," said Jensen Huang (黄仁勋), CEO of NVIDIA, recently. "AI is a new type of work platform that will create more jobs."
Some experts said that when facing the AI wave, mentality is very important. Do not regard AI as a workplace opponent that may replace you, but regard it as a reliable partner to improve work efficiency and release personal potential, so as to usher in better career development prospects.
Cross-border Growth: AI Opens Up Multiple Possibilities for Career Imagination
"In the past, when doing commercial compliance, most of the time was spent on contract review and material organization. Now, AI can help me complete 80% of the basic work." Gao Mengyuan (高梦圆), a young lawyer at a law firm in Beijing (北京), has deep feelings about this. Relying on AI tools to batch screen compliance risks and sort out legal provisions, she puts more energy into commercial architecture research, customized compliance solution design, and government-enterprise docking and communication. "AI allows us to undertake more complex and higher-value businesses, and the ceiling for career development is higher," she said.
The popularization of AI technology not only reconstructs the working mode of traditional positions, but also opens up the boundaries of career imagination, giving birth to a batch of unprecedented emerging tracks. Prompt word engineers, AI trainers, multilingual corpus labelers, digital human designers, large model post-training engineers... New occupations are emerging, becoming popular directions for young people seeking jobs.
Professional boundaries are being broken, and the composite growth of "AI + professional" has become the norm. Liu Daqi (刘大奇), a graduate of Beijing Foreign Studies University (北京外国语大学), originally prepared to engage in translation or education work. However, this spring's campus recruitment found that many technology companies are in urgent need of foreign language professionals to participate in the semantic training and cross-language scene optimization of multilingual large models. "Many companies have made it clear that graduates who understand foreign languages and can use AI have salaries that are more than 30% higher than those of pure foreign language majors," Liu Daqi (刘大奇) said with emotion. AI has not eliminated traditional liberal arts majors, but has given professional advantages a new space to display.
In Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), AI is empowering "one-person companies" to achieve single-person operations, and entrepreneurs can independently complete the entire commercial closed loop. To catch this wave of innovation, Hangzhou (杭州) is making efforts from both policy and ecological ends: the Market Supervision Bureau has introduced measures to promote "workstation registration" and complete licenses in half a day, and is exploring inclusive and prudent "sandbox supervision"; Shangcheng (上城) and Xiaoshan (萧山) districts have established one-person company communities, which not only provide free workstations, but also introduce technology into real industries through scene docking.
"Facing this profound change brought about by artificial intelligence, we must not only see the unprecedented opportunities, but also face the challenges that come with it," said Liu Xuezhi (柳学智), president of the Chinese Academy of Personnel Science. This cross-border integration growth model means that young people need to step out of the traditional professional comfort zone and actively learn AI-related knowledge and skills while delving into their own major. "In the next few decades, it will not be AI replacing people, but people who can use AI replacing people who cannot use AI," said Pu Muming (蒲慕明), academic director of the Brain Science and Intelligent Technology Excellence Innovation Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Multi-party Support: Building a Solid Ladder for Youth Growth
"Please help me design several sets of outfits suitable for the spring workplace. The style is simple and capable, suitable for business meetings and daily commuting." In the morning, young fashion designer Zhang Meng (张萌) said to her mobile phone. Ten seconds later, the AI assistant generated 5 different styles of matching schemes based on her instructions and the existing clothes in her wardrobe, and attached accessory suggestions. Today, such scenes are being staged in the lives of more and more young people.
"AI is reshaping the entire process of clothing design, from inspiration capture and style development to pattern making, revolutionary changes have taken place," said Guo Ruiliang (郭瑞良), professor at the School of Fashion Art and Engineering of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (北京服装学院). "When conducting curriculum design, we actively integrate AI technology elements and specially opened a fashion digital intelligence design innovation experimental class to enable students to master cutting-edge skills such as AI-assisted design and 3D virtual fitting, and cultivate composite talents who can lead the future development of the fashion industry."
"This is not only teaching us to use AI to save time, but also teaching us how to use AI to open up the boundaries of creativity," said Li Zihan (李梓涵), a student at the School of Fashion Art and Engineering of Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (北京服装学院), with deep feelings. "We use AI to generate many drafts of designs in different directions, collide with inspiration and screen directions in the massive possibilities, and then concentrate on further polishing and production. Improving efficiency is just a natural result. More importantly, we have more time to think about the connotation and expression of the design itself."
This enthusiasm for actively embracing the AI era is backed by the collaborative efforts of all parties to consolidate the foundation for youth career development.
At the national level, strategic arrangements have been made. The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to fully implement the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, and the "Opinions of the State Council on Deeply Implementing the 'Artificial Intelligence +' Action" clarifies the need to better leverage the role of leading talents, give young talents greater space to display their talents, and encourage active exploration of the "no-man's land" of artificial intelligence.
Various regions have built AI talent supply and demand docking platforms to accurately match young job seekers with enterprise job needs. Beijing (北京) released the Embodied Intelligence Technology Innovation and Industrial Cultivation Action Plan, with the goal of cultivating a trillion-level industrial cluster by 2027 and breaking through no less than 100 key technologies; Shanghai (上海) launched the "Model Shanghai" implementation plan for artificial intelligence, focusing on large models, intelligent driving, and intelligent medical care to create a world-class industrial ecosystem; Guangdong (广东) issued an action plan to accelerate the high-level application of artificial intelligence in all fields, all times, and all industries, focusing on key directions such as "artificial intelligence +" scientific research, agriculture and rural areas, traditional industries, emerging industries, service industries, governance capabilities, and people's livelihood and well-being, and promoting artificial intelligence to empower thousands of industries and enter thousands of households.
As the main front for talent cultivation, universities actively adapt to the needs of AI era education and accelerate professional adjustment and teaching reform. Communication University of China (中国传媒大学) has added emerging interdisciplinary majors such as intelligent image art and intelligent audio-visual engineering; Tsinghua University (清华大学) has opened AI general education courses, Beijing Institute of Technology (北京理工大学) has launched the "Artificial Intelligence + X" interdisciplinary training program, and Zhejiang University (浙江大学) has jointly built an artificial intelligence security joint laboratory with Alibaba (阿里巴巴). A number of universities are embedding AI content into the teaching and research system to inject new impetus into student growth.
As the main body of talent employment and practical training, enterprises are also actively empowering young people. Li Auto (理想汽车) provides young engineers with exclusive mentor guidance and is also equipped with unlimited token usage rights. "We hope that through this method, everyone can adapt to the new AI competitive environment as soon as possible and grow rapidly in actual combat," said Zhan Kun (詹锟). In the Internet field, companies such as ByteDance (字节跳动) and Meituan (美团) jointly build industrial colleges and internship training bases with universities; in traditional manufacturing, many equipment manufacturing companies conduct AI empowerment training for all employees.
Standing at the crossroads of the era of human-machine collaboration, a new career landscape with both opportunities and challenges is slowly unfolding. "AI is reshaping the form and value of work with unprecedented power. It will not replace humans, but it will reshape the way humans work; it opens up unlimited career imagination space for young people, and also requires young people to embrace changes and continue to grow in a more proactive manner," said Guo Ruiliang (郭瑞良).
(At the request of the interviewees, Gao Mengyuan (高梦圆), Liu Daqi (刘大奇), Zhang Meng (张萌), and Li Zihan (李梓涵) are pseudonyms)
Return to TopBy: 丁莉婷
AI (Artificial Intelligence) is integrating into all walks of life with an irreversible momentum. Faced with intelligent technologies that can quickly generate code and efficiently process massive amounts of data, some young people inevitably feel a sense of "skill panic" and unease. However, when we take a longer view and look at the evolution of human productivity, we will find that the reshaping of traditional production methods by each major technological change is essentially about using more advanced tools to liberate human labor and empower innovation. Facing the surging tide of the times, instead of hesitating and wandering in the worry of the unknown, it is better to actively integrate into the vast world of human-machine collaboration, seize opportunities, and ride the momentum.
Human-machine collaboration is not a zero-sum game, but a joint effort. Penetrating the superficial fog of AI's rapid iteration, we should see its essence more clearly: this is a profound tool innovation, and an infinite extension of the boundaries of human ability. For contemporary youth, AI is becoming a powerful partner on the road to career growth. It breaks through the spatial and temporal barriers to knowledge acquisition, giving learning and improvement an "accelerator"; it spawns new professional tracks such as artificial intelligence trainers and digital twin engineers, giving job choices a "new blue ocean"; it undertakes repetitive and mechanical labor, releasing valuable creative space, giving deep thinking an "incubator." This complementary advantage of humans and machines not only does not weaken the subject status of humans, but also gives career development unprecedented possibilities and diversity.
To embrace the era of "intelligent" change, young people need to actively embrace change, but also need the careful guidance and strong support of universities. Renmin University of China (中国人民大学) has launched the Smart Career Development Center platform, based on AI technology, to create a "digital empowerment, full-chain service, human-machine collaboration" career development support system. Through intelligent algorithms, it accurately draws human-job matching portraits and provides personalized services such as digital human simulated interviews and intelligent resume optimization to help students find suitable career directions more efficiently and accurately.
Standing at the historical intersection of technological innovation and career transformation, actively embracing change is the only smooth path to the future. The future of career competition is no longer a simple competition of knowledge stock, but a contest of the ability to make good use of intelligent tools. Let us embrace the era of human-machine collaboration with an open and inclusive mind, a rational and pragmatic attitude, and a proactive attitude, find our life coordinates in the tide of the times, run hard on our respective tracks, and bloom our own unique brilliance.
(The author is the Director and Associate Professor of the Student Employment and Entrepreneurship Guidance Center of Renmin University of China (中国人民大学).)
Return to TopBy: 观 源
Zhang Xue's motorcycle team has won another championship, and the five-star red flag is once again flying in the top arena that has been monopolized by European, American, and Japanese brands for decades. Previously, the story of Zhejiang Venture Capital Group (浙江省创业投资集团) (hereinafter referred to as "Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投)") investing 90 million yuan when the company was at its most difficult was also "unearthed." Some say Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投) was "lucky," but understanding Zhang Xue's (张雪) entrepreneurial journey reveals that this investment was precisely because they saw Zhang Xue's (张雪) spirit of daring to be embarrassed, refusing to admit defeat, and being willing to work hard.
In those days, Zhang Xue's (张雪) motorcycle company was almost universally unpromising in the investment world. It had been established for more than a year and had a book loss of more than 20 million yuan. Zhang Xue (张雪) once raised funds everywhere, and even paid 7 million yuan out of his own pocket to pay employees' salaries. Most investors saw cold financial statements and unpredictable risks, but Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投) saw the figure chasing the motorcycle in the rain, and the look in his eyes vowing "to make Chinese motorcycles run faster than the world." It was this spirit of not turning back even after hitting a wall and daring to start over even after losing everything that made Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投) determined to give him a hand in the coldest winter.
This spirit does not only belong to Zhang Xue's (张雪) motorcycle team, which is speeding on the track, but also to every Chinese youth who is working hard in their respective fields. Su Bingtian (苏炳添), 32, broke the prejudice that "yellow people cannot run under 9.90 seconds" with scientific training when he was considered to be "long past the golden age of sprinting." He ran an Asian record of 9.83 seconds at the Tokyo Olympics and became the first Chinese athlete to stand on the Olympic men's 100-meter final track. Jiang Mengnan (江梦南), a post-90s girl, lost her hearing in both ears at the age of half a year due to medication, but she learned to speak and attend classes by relying on the perseverance of reading lips, "practicing one word tens of thousands of times," and went all the way from the depths of the mountains to the doctoral classroom of the School of Life Sciences at Tsinghua University (清华大学). The Chang'e-6 (嫦娥六号) scientific research team, with an average age of over 30, experienced many failed experiments and overcame a number of world-class problems such as lunar retrograde orbit design and intelligent sampling on the far side of the moon, and finally realized the first lunar far side sampling return in human history. These Chinese youths are in different tracks, but they have the same spiritual background: changing their destiny through struggle and creating miracles through hard work.
This spirit is engraved with the distinct imprint of the new era. Today's young people have not experienced the difficult years of material scarcity, but in the ever-changing development wave of the country, they have inherited the spirit of hard work and self-improvement from their predecessors in their bones. They stand in the center of the stage of globalization, no longer satisfied with following others step by step, but dare to compete with the world's top level on the same stage and have a head-on contest. Their goal has long shifted from "following and running in parallel" to "leading and striving for the first." What is even more commendable is that they actively link their personal life pursuits with the future and destiny of the country, and integrate the struggle of youth into the historical trend of national rejuvenation.
The success of Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投) is not only a commercial success, but also a success in understanding the spirit of youth and supporting the dreams of youth. Today's China has no shortage of young people who dare to venture and fight. Cultivating the growth of young people is not about planning every step of their lives, but about giving them room for trial and error and soil for growth. We cannot use the short-sighted logic of "making quick money" to measure the value of young people, and we cannot ask them to hand in perfect answers from the beginning. We should have more long-term patience and less impetuousness for quick success; more help in times of difficulty and less blind following after success. We might as well be like Zhejiang Venture Capital (浙创投), invest more in the dreams of young people, untie the innovation of young people, and let young people let go and venture with full trust. Only in this way can more young people's talents be brought into play, and more youth power can be transformed into a powerful driving force for national development.
The background color of youth is always struggle, and this spirit of daring to venture and fight is the most valuable asset of Chinese youth. Today's China is in a critical period of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. There are still many "bottleneck" technologies waiting to be broken through, and countless "no man's land" waiting to be explored. When more young people like Zhang Xue (张雪) act in person, and when more responsible and visionary forces support young people, we will surely write more legends belonging to China on the new journey.
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It has been more than two months since the closing of the Milan Winter Paralympics, but I still occasionally recall the moment of winning the championship. At that time, I was immersed in the tense atmosphere of the competition until the coach rushed over and told me, "You can shout now!" Only then did I suddenly come back to my senses—we won! The wheelchair curling mixed doubles event was a new addition, and I won the first gold medal in the history of this event at the Winter Paralympics.
In April 2018, I officially joined the Beijing Wheelchair Curling Team (北京市轮椅冰壶队) and began my career as an athlete. When I first stepped into the training ground, I was only 17 years old, full of unconcealable excitement and enthusiasm, pure and fervent. There were many excellent seniors around me. Their composure when delivering the stone, their keenness on tactics, and the tenacity engraved in their bones deeply attracted me. In the daily training, I began to look forward to one day being able to catch up with them and shine on the Olympic arena.
Wheelchair curling does not allow sweeping. The strength, angle, and rotation must be perfect in one go, allowing no room for error. The ice surface is "alive" and constantly changes with the temperature. We can only capture the patterns through the feedback of the stone delivery and make adjustments in time. The thickness and curvature of the handle will affect the feel of the hit. On the ice rink, I dare not have any distractions. The only thing I can do is focus on myself, focus on the ice surface, and do my best to complete every delivery.
The deeper the training, the clearer my goals became, and the pressure continued to increase. Sometimes, when the training did not meet my expectations, I would feel anxious. Therefore, whenever I had free time, I would give myself extra practice. In the middle of the night, the arena was filled only with the sound of the curling stone sliding and my own breathing. During breaks, I often watched game videos with my coach and teammates, discussing tactics while watching, and "analyzing" the important games several times.
Singing the national anthem on the highest podium has always been my dream. When the "March of the Volunteers" (义勇军进行曲) rang in my ears, and when the Five-Star Red Flag (五星红旗) fluttered above the arena, tears welled up in my eyes, and I felt extremely proud.
Physical limitations are not the shackles of life. The belief in self-improvement is the light that illuminates the way forward. In the future, I will continue to carry this perseverance and passion, hone my skills in every training session, go all out in every competition, and move steadily and firmly towards my dream, using hard work to write a more exciting life.
(The author is a Chinese wheelchair curling athlete, interviewed and compiled by Yi Shuran (易舒冉) and Li Lingyi (李令仪), reporters of this newspaper)
By: 本报记者 任彤彤
As dusk settles, a quiet serenity descends upon the barracks of a certain regiment within the Air Force Harbin Flight Academy (空军哈尔滨飞行学院). Looking down the corridor, the light in one office remains on, the sign on the door particularly eye-catching – "Wang Chen Studio (王臣工作室)."
Pushing open the door, Wang Chen (王臣), the regiment's special equipment technician and a first-class sergeant major, is bent over his desk, intently studying a circuit board, his brow slightly furrowed. "The positions of these two lines can be adjusted further," he whispers to a team member beside him.
Looking around, the small studio is filled with various instruments, equipment, and repair tools. One innovative idea after another, closely aligned with combat readiness, is emerging from blueprints through day and night dedication and research, taking root and becoming a new force safeguarding the war eagles.
Wang Chen (王臣) is the head of this studio. Rooted in the front line for 28 years, he has been awarded a first-class merit once, a second-class merit once, and a third-class merit three times. He has also received a third-class award for outstanding talent among Air Force sergeants, been recognized as a technical backbone of the Air Force combat troops, an Air Force "Best Aviation Maintenance Personnel," and honored as a "National Technical Expert" and "Excellent Army Sergeant"... Facing a thick stack of certificates, he says, "Being able to watch the planes I have repaired take off smoothly and return safely time and time again is the greatest recognition for me."
"We research whatever difficulties we encounter in actual support"
On the desk directly in front of the entrance to Wang Chen Studio (王臣工作室) sits a slightly outdated piece of equipment, its silver-gray casing covered in rust. Wang Chen (王臣) introduces it: "This is the first piece of equipment I made; it can be considered the beginning of my innovation."
That was in Wang Chen's (王臣) second year after joining the army. As a maintenance soldier specializing in special equipment, he encountered an accident while repairing a plane with his master – a comrade, while draining oil from the plane, accidentally burned the connector when the plug was improperly connected, and his hand was also burned. "From that time on, I thought about whether I could make a device to reduce the possibility of human error and avoid such dangerous situations," Wang Chen (王臣) recalls.
Without funding or blueprints, he rummaged through the warehouse for discarded equipment and tried to make it himself. After repeated experiments, he created this aircraft oil drain control device, which not only safely controls the on and off of the oil pump but also monitors voltage and current in real-time. From then on, Wang Chen (王臣) took the first step in technological innovation.
On the road of innovation, Wang Chen's (王臣) starting point was not considered high, but he firmly believes: "The starting point cannot determine the ending point; if you don't know, then learn; there is nothing you can't do."
During the period when he first joined the company, Wang Chen (王臣) always felt that he was behind others. After the lights went out at night, while others rested, he was still "gnawing" on professional books in the corridor, using the dim light. "To understand the symbols of aviation components as soon as possible, I could only work overtime to 'make up for the lessons'," Wang Chen (王臣) says with a smile.
To understand a complex circuit diagram, he searched through all the materials he could find, studying the function of each component; to improve the detection efficiency of a component, he compared the equipment operation cards with the factory's instructions one by one, repeatedly verifying them, and summarized a set of safe and efficient "optimization processes"... Over time, Wang Chen's (王臣) professional skills became more and more solid, and new technological achievements were born one after another, and he became a technical backbone in the unit.
Once, a project Wang Chen (王臣) applied for was approved for scientific research, with the hope of quickly locating the fault point when the aircraft starting system failed. Leaders and experts attached great importance to it. However, the research and development process was full of twists and turns. The equipment operated normally during testing, but when it was tested on the aircraft, it failed to start.
Wang Chen (王臣) said, "At that time, the pressure was very high, and I was worried that the project would not be able to continue." But he was not discouraged. After repeated investigations, he found the root cause. Without an existing solution, he used relays and timers to manually build a control circuit, first realizing the function, and then optimizing it step by step. After 3 years, the project was successfully completed, and the equipment was applied and promoted in a wider range.
In 2018, Wang Chen Studio (王臣工作室) was officially established, and a group of technically skilled business backbones joined it. "We research whatever difficulties we encounter in actual support; wherever the efficiency of maintenance support needs to be improved, we tackle it." This sentence, repeatedly emphasized by Wang Chen (王臣), is also the consensus of all members of the studio.
Inventions and creations are not wild imaginations, but originate from the pain points that urgently need to be solved in daily support. Wang Chen (王臣) said, "Don't underestimate these small inventions. Over the years, our technological innovation achievements have effectively extended the service life of aircraft engines and eliminated some potential flight failure hazards."
In the past few years, Wang Chen Studio (王臣工作室) has handed over a brilliant report card: it has successively achieved more than 30 innovation achievements, many of which have been promoted and applied by the Air Force, published more than 20 papers, and won many awards... Numbers are silent, but they witness the fiery practice of grassroots officers and soldiers rooted in their positions and daring to innovate, condensing their persistent pursuit of improving combat effectiveness.
"We don't fly the planes, but we must wholeheartedly ensure the safety of every flight"
"Wang Chen (王臣) is a 'treasure master'. No matter how difficult the equipment is to repair, he can solve it." When it comes to Wang Chen (王臣), the officers and soldiers who know him often evaluate him this way.
Hearing this, Wang Chen (王臣) smiled: "I have been fascinated by electrical appliance repair since I was a child. It is a lucky thing that my hobby has become a career."
Wang Chen's (王臣) childhood memories are inseparable from his uncle's electrical repair shop. He often played in the shop, and thus became familiar with multimeters and soldering irons. In his early teens, he was already able to make battery boxes and knife switches with wooden boards and aluminum sheets.
Once, he disassembled his father's electric shaver, took out the motor inside, and cut out a "propeller" shape from a pull-tab can, tied it to the motor, and was determined to build a helicopter. As a result, the "propeller" turned smoothly, but the "plane" still failed to fly.
Later, Wang Chen (王臣) came to the army and stood in front of a real warplane for the first time, repairing it with his own hands. "At that moment, the dream of my childhood seemed to come true," Wang Chen (王臣) said with emotion.
To continue this love, Wang Chen (王臣) constantly improved his skills and perfected his abilities. He stayed on the front line of maintenance during the day and stayed in the studio for scientific research at night, treating every failure as a topic to study. From aircraft-specific oil extraction equipment to in-situ inspection instruments for starting systems, to exhaust temperature detectors, the technological achievements he invented have been implemented in practice, reducing the task time that originally required several hours to tens of minutes.
In the eyes of Fan Michen (范米辰), a third-class sergeant major and a member of the studio team, Wang Chen (王臣) is not only technically comprehensive, but also has a rare spirit of perseverance. He never easily lets go of problems, but patiently finds ways to solve them.
During a repair, a generator failed. The officers and soldiers present tried all the methods in the factory's instruction manual, but they couldn't solve it. Wang Chen (王臣) became stubborn: "I don't believe it can't be detected." After repeated measurements and verifications, he finally found a flaw in an inconspicuous position. After the fault was eliminated, the voltage and frequency immediately stabilized.
Wang Chen (王臣) said that maintenance soldiers have a common creed: "Extremely responsible, meticulous maintenance." He engraved this sentence in his heart. "We don't fly the planes, but we must wholeheartedly ensure the safety of every flight." Wang Chen (王臣) said to his apprentices, "Maintenance work is a matter of conscience and must be highly responsible. Every wire we hold in our hands, every screw we tighten, is related to the lives of our comrades and the property of the country."
One winter, before dawn, Wang Chen (王臣) received an emergency troubleshooting mission. When he arrived at the outer field, the cockpit was chilling. Without saying a word, he took off his coat and gloves and tightened the screws one by one. There was no place to put the removed screws, so he immediately took off his hat and used it as a parts box. He said: "If the screws accidentally fall into the cockpit, they must be found, otherwise they may jam the control system, and the consequences would be disastrous." In the cockpit at minus ten degrees Celsius, he worked for more than an hour. After troubleshooting, the plane successfully caught up with the flight batch of the day.
At the 2025 Air Force Aviation Open Day, Wang Chen (王臣) looked up at the war eagles he had maintained, roaring across the sky, and his heart was surging. He turned to his comrades and said: "Seeing so much advanced equipment in our Air Force, I am even more motivated to research and innovate!"
"The door of the studio is always open, so that craftsmanship can be passed down"
In a corner of the honor room, there is an old-fashioned multimeter on display, the scale on the dial is a bit blurred. It was given to Wang Chen (王臣) by his master when he first joined the army.
That day, the master handed the multimeter to Wang Chen (王臣), while teaching him the repair operation hand-in-hand, and said: "When doing maintenance, you must be careful and rigorous, your hands must be accurate, and your heart must be in awe."
This multimeter has accompanied Wang Chen (王臣) from a recruit to a first-class sergeant major, witnessing his 28 years of military service. During his spare time, Wang Chen (王臣) took his apprentice Xue Chang (薛昶) to the honor room, picked up the multimeter, and said to him: "Although this meter is old, it can still be used normally. Putting it here is to remind us that we must not be impetuous and careless when we are busy with work, and we must maintain the true colors of our maintenance personnel."
What Xue Chang (薛昶) felt most deeply about Wang Chen (王臣) was his "a little bit is not good" attitude in his work.
Once, when testing an aircraft, a copper fuse needed to be made. According to Wang Chen's (王臣) requirements, the first turn needed to be 120 degrees, and the following turns needed to be 60 degrees. At that time, Xue Chang (薛昶) took a chance: "Such a small fuse, as long as it is made, it can play a role, and it doesn't matter if the angle is not enough." Unexpectedly, Wang Chen (王臣) saw his problem at a glance and sternly asked him to operate again.
Afterwards, Wang Chen (王臣) patiently said to Xue Chang (薛昶): "Never ignore the details. Sometimes the subtle points are the key to success or failure."
This strict requirement for work has become the "sense of security" in the mouths of the studio members. They said: "As long as Master Wang Chen (王臣) is around, we feel particularly confident."
Fan Michen (范米辰) recalled that not long after he joined the studio, when he was developing a bomber circuit inspection instrument, he encountered a tricky signal interference problem that he couldn't find out. Wang Chen (王臣) helped him sort out the work steps and then said: "Analyze from simple to difficult. If the surface is running normally, then check the machine itself for problems." Under Wang Chen's (王臣) "guided" teaching, Fan Michen (范米辰) found the "disease" and solved the problem after targeted treatment.
"He didn't just handle things himself, but told me his ideas step by step - where to start when encountering problems and how to solve them." Fan Michen (范米辰) exclaimed, "Benefiting from Master Wang Chen (王臣), after joining the studio, my technical level in power supply systems, circuit board welding, and other aspects has been improved."
A good leader can not only take on the tough bones of technology, but also bring out a team that can fight tough battles.
Today, Wang Chen Studio (王臣工作室) has more than a dozen members, involving ordnance, special equipment, machinery, and other majors. There are both experienced maintenance veterans and newly graduated graduate students. They cooperate and give full play to their strengths. Li Hongliang (李洪亮) of the non-destructive testing major proposed using artificial intelligence to detect images, and Wang Chen (王臣) helped him design the circuit; young soldiers wanted to engage in software innovation, and he actively coordinated resources and imparted all the experience he had explored. Wang Chen (王臣) said: "The door of the studio is always open, so that craftsmanship can be passed down, and officers and soldiers who want to learn knowledge and are good at innovation can join in."
"I am crossing the river by feeling the stones, and now I want to build a bridge for future generations so that they can walk more smoothly." In the past two years, Wang Chen (王臣) has sorted out the operating mechanism of the studio into writing one by one. He hopes that through the power of the system, the development of the studio will no longer be tied to a certain person. He said: "I believe that even if I retire in a few years, this flame of innovation will not be extinguished."
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Machine wolf packs collaborate and strike efficiently, unmanned swarm rapidly deploys and autonomously attacks, unmanned boats flexibly form formations and precisely intercept... In recent years, the "unmanned legion" of our army has accelerated its development, and scenes of extremely impactful images reflect the pulse of the accelerated generation of advanced combat capabilities.
Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and our domestic and international security environment is undergoing profound changes. The Fourth Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (党的二十届四中全会) clearly proposed "accelerating the construction of advanced combat capabilities." Like a mountain command, like a drum urging the expedition. Where does "advanced combat capability" come from? Professional talents, advanced equipment, and realistic combat training are indispensable.
The way to strengthen the army lies in obtaining talent. No matter how the form of war evolves, people are always the decisive factor. Unmanned combat is by no means "unmanned," but a new contest of high coordination between people and weapons and intelligent game playing. A certain campus of the Army Branch University (陆军兵种大学) actively explores and walks out a new three-in-one training path of "school system energy storage, troop precision shaping and strengthening, and vocational education on-demand empowerment" for air defense soldiers, precisely meshing the talent training chain with the combat capability generation chain. Now, the graduates who come out of here have greatly shortened their job adaptation period, and the qualification rate of their first job has risen sharply.
This inspires us that to accelerate the forging of advanced combat capabilities, we must promote the deep coupling of the talent training supply side and the future battlefield demand side. We must adhere to the guidance of advanced combat capabilities, optimize military human resources policies and systems, open up talent channels with a more forward-looking vision and a broader pattern, and allow compound talents who understand combat, are proficient in technology, are good at management, and understand joint operations to emerge continuously.
Weapons and equipment are an important symbol of the modernization of the army. In recent years, a large number of strategic and cutting-edge equipment have been successively installed, continuously thickening the material foundation of advanced combat capabilities. At the parade commemorating the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the World Anti-Fascist War, many scenes were exciting: 99B tanks, 100 tanks, and 100 support vehicles formed a steel torrent, roaring forward; J-16 (歼—16), J-20 (歼—20), and J-35A (歼—35A) lined up in the sky, whistling sharply; cruise missiles, hypersonic missiles, and nuclear missile series made a shocking appearance, deterring all directions. At that moment, the thunderous applause and cheers in the stands were the people's most ardent recognition of strengthening the army through science and technology.
The army prospers with science and technology, and the army is strong with science and technology. We must firmly seize the historical opportunity of the vigorous development of new quality productive forces, aim at the gaps in actual combat, strive to make breakthroughs in key core technologies, accelerate the transformation of cutting-edge scientific and technological achievements into real combat capabilities, and forge more "trump cards" that make the enemy tremble.
The key to sharpening troops lies in realistic training. In December 2025, the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军) organized the army, navy, air force, and rocket force to conduct a joint exercise codenamed "Just Mission-2025" (正义使命—2025), with ships and aircraft approaching Taiwan Island (台岛) from multiple directions, and various military services jointly launching assaults. Under the support of the Eastern Theater Command's (东部战区) joint operations system, the theater troops implemented maritime and air combat readiness patrols, seized comprehensive control, and further tested their rapid maneuverability, three-dimensional deployment, and system blockade capabilities. The close integration with actual combat on the training ground is the prelude to defeating the enemy on the battlefield.
We must tightly twist technology empowerment and system integration into one rope, highlight joint training, confrontation training, and technology-based military training, so that officers and soldiers can temper their ability to win battles in the smoke of simulated actual combat, and sharpen the blade of victory even more sharply.
A strong country must have a strong army, and a strong army can ensure national security. On the journey towards building a world-class army, the People's Army's (人民军队) pace of forging advanced combat capabilities is proceeding day and night, never stopping.
(Author's unit: National Defense University (国防大学))
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The sea breeze of Sanmen Bay (三门湾) wraps the sound of the tide, skimming over the silver dome of the Sanmen Nuclear Power Station (三门核电站). Since enlisting in 2011, I have walked countless times on the road from the barracks to the nuclear power plant sentry post.
When I first arrived at the unit, I was thin and small, my physical fitness couldn't keep up, and my training was always a step behind.
Once, during a formation, the instructor patted me on the shoulder, his voice not loud, but full of expectation: "Xiao Liang (小梁), it's not enough to just follow along with the training, you have to harden your muscles and toughen your bones. If the foundation is not solid, you can't shoulder the responsibility of a 'nuclear power plant guardian'!"
From that day on, I set a rule for myself: to add basic strength training every night. Push-ups, sit-ups, squats, 5 sets a round, and then go directly to duty after finishing. After a year, calluses had formed on my hands, and my arms and legs had also thickened. At the beginning of the second year, the squadron recommended me to participate in the winter training competition organized by the higher authorities. I won first place and was awarded a third-class merit at the end of the year.
The real test is not in training competitions, but in sudden emergencies. That year, on New Year's Eve, a fierce mountain fire suddenly broke the festive atmosphere, and the mountain outside the south gate of the plant was ablaze. When we arrived, half the mountain was red, and my comrades and I rushed to the top of the mountain, chopping trees and grass to create a firebreak. After more than two hours of fighting, the fire was finally extinguished. When I went down the mountain, I realized that my hands and face were blackened. When I received the towel handed over by the villagers and saw their distressed expressions, I suddenly realized the weight of this uniform.
As "nuclear power guardians," our core responsibility is to ensure the absolute safety of the Sanmen Nuclear Power (三门核电), a major national instrument, and there is no room for any mistakes. In our daily duty, we strictly verify the credentials of personnel entering and leaving the nuclear power plant, and handle emergencies properly in accordance with the plan. Every time I see nuclear power plant staff concentrating on their work, and the nuclear power units operating safely and stably, continuously transmitting clean energy, I feel that all the hardship and fatigue are worth it.
Every joint exercise, we treat as a real-life "live ammunition rehearsal." One night, the alarm suddenly sounded, I grabbed my equipment and rushed out of the dormitory, quickly boarded the vehicle, and urgently issued instructions to the soldiers in the carriage: "Check the equipment, confirm that the channels are clear! Group one is responsible for the east side, group two follow me..." After arriving at the scene, we quickly launched the operation according to the plan, searching, sealing off, and coordinating the advance, tense and orderly. When the exercise mission ended, the sky was already dawning. Looking at the dome outline of the nuclear power plant in the distance, I understood even more: the mission has long been integrated into the blood in the day-to-day tempering.
As time passed, I went from "Xiao Liang (小梁)" to "Squad Leader Liang (梁班长)." Looking back on my 15-year military career, batches of comrades have come and gone, and the equipment on the sentry post has been updated, but my commitment to this position has never changed. I know that Sanmen Nuclear Power (三门核电) is related to national energy security. I will continue to stick to my post, and with the loyalty and responsibility of a "nuclear power guardian," I will stand guard on every shift and guard every gate for the safe and stable operation of this major national instrument.
(The author is a first-class sergeant of a certain unit of the Taizhou Detachment (台州支队) of the Zhejiang Armed Police Corps (武警浙江总队), compiled by Ren Tongtong (任彤彤) and Qi Jinbiao (齐晋标))
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Deep inside the cave, the password commands are short and forceful. A missile is slowly pushed out, its metal casing gleaming coldly under the lights. The soldiers move with fluid precision, completing the pre-exercise checks and preparations for the missile.
On the technical position of a certain ordnance technical support brigade of the Navy under the Eastern Theater Command (东部战区), such scenes have become routine. But few people know that just a few years ago, this unit was still exploring while starting from scratch 白手起家 (bái shǒu qǐ jiā - "start with empty hands," to build up from nothing).
That spring, officer Hu Yichao (胡艺超) and his comrades returned from their studies, their hearts filled with enthusiasm. But the newly formed brigade had nothing—no dedicated position, no actual equipment, not even a decent operating line. Missile support, this high-tech profession, became a case of "no rice to cook."
Waiting is not an option for soldiers.
The basketball court in the camp became the most special "tactical position." The officers and soldiers used chalk to draw squares on the ground for "testing stations" and "transfer vehicles," and placed discarded cardboard boxes at key nodes as simulated equipment. First-Class Sergeant Yao Xianbao (姚现宝) recalled those days, not talking about the hardship, but the anxiety: "I felt anxious whenever I was idle, afraid that the skills I had just learned would rust, and even more afraid that I would become an 'outsider' in future battles."
Soon after, the unit had its first own missile technical support position, as well as precious training missiles. When the camouflage tarpaulin was lifted, the cold metal casing revealed its luster, and many people quietly turned away to wipe the corners of their eyes.
Now that the conditions are in place, they must charge forward.
In a major mission, the unit's warehouse did not have the conditions for storing live ammunition. "Borrow!" The brigade's Party committee decided: Rely on the positions of fraternal units to complete its own support mission. Behind the words "borrowing a stage to perform" 借台唱戏 (jiè tái chàng xì - "borrow a stage to perform opera," to use someone else's resources to achieve one's own goals) was a heavy burden—performing an error-free "battle song" on someone else's territory, using someone else's "instruments."
The advance team moved in 20 days in advance. During the day, they acted as "apprentices," familiarizing themselves with every piece of equipment; at night, they acted as "researchers," studying the other party's procedures and their own plans together. On the day of the mission, when the missile smoothly slid into the launch box and the reassuring "click" sound was heard, everyone was overjoyed.
Yao Xianbao (姚现宝) used an analogy: "In those years, the team was like a seventeen or eighteen-year-old young man, who could truly feel himself growing taller and stronger."
On the road to growth, they ran all the way. When the newly built modern cave depot in the north was completed and debugged, the brigade's Party committee made a decision: "We can no longer let our comrades start from scratch like they did back then. We must transplant the experience accumulated over the years to the past."
Those training equipment that had accompanied the officers and soldiers for many years and had been polished to a shine by countless hands were carefully maintained, packaged, and sent to the new position in the north. Senior Sergeant Han Di (韩迪) gently wiped the dust off the nameplate with a flannel: "I feel reluctant, like saying goodbye to an old friend. But when I think that the new position in the north is waiting for them to start training, I feel at ease." The convoy heading north also carried a whole set of "soft assets": standardized operating procedure manuals, "error books" of typical failure cases, a database of assumed operating plans for different battlefield environments...
At the same time, another new cave depot in the south was also under construction. Second-Class Sergeant Meng Weidong (孟维栋) pushed open the heavy protective door, and the exposed ventilation pipes and mottled cement walls came into view. In a trance, he seemed to return to that basketball court. But the next second, the trance was replaced by certainty: "It's completely different. This time, we have 'blueprints' in our hands and 'confidence' in our hearts."
Taking a few newly graduated intern cadres, Meng Weidong (孟维栋) pushed the several-ton testing container to the predetermined position and wiped his sweat: "In the future, every line here will be a guarantee of victory!"
Today, the northern cave depot is becoming increasingly robust, and the southern cave depot is ready to take off. In military-level competitions, officers and soldiers have repeatedly won first place in both team and individual events. This new support force has used several years to complete a charge from "following" to "leading." Their eyes are already set on the next battle.
(Chen Nan (陈楠) and Lin Qinggang (林庆港) participated in the writing)
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As a "light cavalry" in the form of online audio-visual content, micro-dramas have rapidly risen in recent years to become one of the most distinctive and dynamic forms of "new mass art."
The latest data is sufficient to illustrate its scale: the number of micro-drama users in China has exceeded 700 million, and its market size will exceed 100 billion yuan in 2025, doubling that of 2024. In addition to volume and speed, a question arises: Does a market of 100 billion yuan necessarily bring social value that matches it?
When making "Shuang (爽) points" becomes a creative formula, and when plot "routines" replace narrative sincerity, relying solely on the superficial logic of "killing time" and "emotional stimulation" obviously cannot carry more expectations. On one side, it connects the screen time of 700 million people, and on the other side, it carries the real life and spiritual needs of the people. How can micro-dramas better surge with great energy? Let "traffic" settle into "retention," let "internet celebrities" continue to "grow red," and forge "boutiques" in "blockbusters"—from the competent authorities to the platform, from production companies to ordinary users, the path to high-quality micro-dramas is gradually becoming clear through the joint efforts of all parties.
Value Leadership—
From Emotional Stimulation to Emotional Resonance
The development of micro-dramas has experienced "barbaric growth."
Compared with traditional dramas, micro-dramas have a short production cycle, low cost, and low threshold. In order to cater to users' fragmented and fast-food consumption needs, a large number of works have fast-paced plots and strong reversals, and elements such as domineering presidents, sweet pets, counterattacks of rookies, and time-travel revenge have become mainstream. The successful models of blockbusters have been simply copied, resulting in similar plots and a lack of innovation.
"In the past few years, I often held meetings with the team late at night to study and judge. One ear listened to the distribution colleagues' feedback that 'this drama will definitely be a hit,' while the other ear heard reminders from content security review—'There may be risks after it is launched,'" recalled Hu Chaoqing, vice president and editor-in-chief of Rongliang Short Drama. "The team repeatedly discussed and confirmed the same question: What is a good work?"
Hu Chaoqing believes that if you want to go steady and far in this industry, you must have persistence and trade-offs.
Rongliang Short Drama, located in Xihu District (西湖区), Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江), was established in 2020. It took the lead in exploring the diversified integration of "micro-drama + " in the early stage, and has launched a number of innovative works in the fields of cultural tourism, science popularization, legal popularization, and intangible cultural heritage in recent years, such as "I'm a Swordsman in Paris," "The Little Noble from the Song Dynasty," and "New Year's Eve Limited in the Year of the Horse." In Hu Chaoqing's view, high-quality micro-dramas are an organic unity of social value, cultural value, and commercial value. "The key is to fit the public's preferences and have the potential to spread, and on this basis, strictly abide by the technical and production bottom line, while appropriately integrating mainstream value orientation." He admitted that most of the content is still far from being high-quality. "There are very few benchmark works that are both popular and praised. The creation of high-quality works and good dramas that lead in a positive direction are still on the road, and need continuous exploration and deep cultivation."
Hu Chaoqing has a simple methodology: to do cultural communication, you must be fast and slow. Fast means to follow the investment logic and production rhythm of micro-dramas, and decision-making, research and judgment, and publicity and launch must be efficiently accelerated; slow means that creation cannot be achieved overnight and eager for quick success, and truly telling a good story is the fundamental thing. "When the creator's intentions are seen, the audience's inner feelings are different."
In 2026, micro-dramas were written into the "15th Five-Year Plan" as a new type of cultural industry, and the industry ushered in an unprecedented period of strategic opportunity. But if micro-dramas want to go further, they must ultimately rely on content and quality. With the natural genes of being close to daily life and close to the people, micro-dramas should aim their cameras at the people, root their creations in real life, and depict the various aspects of ordinary people's lives. "Micro-dramas are no longer just fast-growing content under the logic of traffic, but are gradually growing into an important narrative carrier with independent aesthetic character, closely echoing the pulse of the times, and deeply integrated into the social and cultural life texture," said Lu Xiangao, vice president of the China News Culture Promotion Association.
If the high-quality exploration of commercial platform companies is to calibrate the direction in the market logic, then the entry of mainstream media provides another sample for the high-quality exploration of micro-dramas.
A Jun porcelain (钧瓷) piece led to a family story spanning the Taiwan Strait; a Tang poem deleted from textbooks triggered a time-space encounter... At the regular press conference of the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council at the end of April this year, "Tongmai Shixin (同脉诗心)" created by Henan Daxiang Theater—the Henan series of micro-dramas exploring Taiwan textbooks was praised for its ideological, artistic, and dissemination power, and was praised for "helping the young generation on both sides of the strait appreciate the depth of Chinese history in the rhyme of poetry."
Henan Radio and Television Station laid out the micro-drama track earlier, and established Daxiang Theater (大象剧场) in January 2024. "Daxiang Theater is the first professional short drama team in the national radio and television system covering the entire industry chain of 'script creation-film and television production-copyright operation'. At present, it has produced and produced more than 60 self-made high-quality short dramas, mainly female-frequency dramas," said Guo Liga, head of Daxiang Theater. Mainstream media actively create and build influential micro-drama products, which will powerfully promote the industry to transform in the direction of solid narrative, exquisite production, rich in warmth and value leadership. "'High-quality' is not just a production upgrade, but a value leadership and emotional resonance," said Su Wenlong, chief director of Daxiang Theater.
Since August 2025, Daxiang Theater has launched the large-screen broadcast of micro-dramas in the prime time of Henan Radio and Television News Channel, allowing high-quality short dramas to reach a wider audience. "From the premiere of high-quality dramas on the large screen to the real-time barrage interaction on the mobile terminal, Daxiang Theater is building a new drama-chasing model," said Guo Liga.
In the square inch screen, there should be both the warmth of human fireworks and the thickness of the spirit of the times. From the "Home Inside and Out" series of dramas that restore the texture of the times with vivid dialects and real-life shooting, to "Midsummer Fendela" that wins the double recognition of the micro-drama market and audience reputation with delicate narrative, the emergence of phenomenal works of micro-dramas confirms a truth—high-quality is the inherent requirement of industry transformation and upgrading, and it is also the only way.
Technology Empowerment—
Let AI Serve High-Quality Content Creation
In the Rixin Yueyi Vertical Screen Film and Television Base in Zhengzhou (郑州), Henan (河南), three actors in ancient costumes are filming in the "Tibetan Scripture Pavilion" scene. Following the director's scheduling, the actors finish one scene and then start preparing the lines for the next scene.
Like the "Tibetan Scripture Pavilion," there are a total of 138 shooting scenes designed according to the vertical screen ratio in the base, covering ancient costumes and modern themes. "The base can accommodate up to 20 crews filming at the same time, but due to the impact of AI (artificial intelligence) technology, many crews did not rush to start work after the Spring Festival. At that time, only 2 to 3 crews entered the base a day. Through continuous analysis of platform data, we increased our investment in live-action dramas again at the end of April, and now there are eight or nine crews filming every day," said Ma Xiaobing, head of Rixin Yueyi Xinxiang (新乡) area.
As a leading production company in the industry, Rixin Yueyi's business strategy has also been adjusted accordingly. The monthly output has been reduced from a maximum of 300 last year to about 100. "We are transforming from a 'mass production' model to a 'high-quality' model, reducing the number and improving the quality of single works to adapt to the new requirements of the market and platform," said Si Yuxiang, the project leader of the base. The company's team of more than 120 screenwriters focuses on two major directions: original scripts and adaptation of big IPs, adheres to live-action shooting, and takes the road of differentiated development. "The advantages of live-action shooting in terms of emotional expression are irreplaceable. This is the feedback from the market, and it is also our original intention." Si Yuxiang also has a clear plan for future development. The shooting mode of live-action actors with virtual backgrounds will become the focus of exploration.
In Hengdian World Studios (横店影视城) in Dongyang (东阳), Zhejiang (浙江), the micro-drama industry is also affected by AI technology, but practitioners have not passively responded, but actively embraced new technologies to promote the high-quality upgrade of live-action shooting.
"In the past, it took half a day to shoot action scenes. Now, with the help of AI, basically no foreground is needed. The actors only need to shoot from various angles and then hand it over to the later stage. The original workload of 8 days can be saved by 3 days." In Tu Guanghao's view, the head of Deyu Film and Television, with the help of AI technology, enterprises can reduce costs and improve efficiency, and at the same time, have more energy to invest in script polishing, actor performance, and other links, and further improve the quality of works.
On the basis of adhering to live-action shooting, how to realize the organic integration of AI technology and live-action creation has become the key to the industry's breakthrough. The micro-drama "Chang Le Chang Ge (长乐长歌)" created by Xi'an Xiying Media provides a valuable answer—the drama focuses on the Changleyuan Anti-Japanese War Industrial Site (长乐塬抗战工业遗址) in Baoji (宝鸡). The production team used AI technology to restore historical scenes such as the railway station and enemy plane bombing, so that the AI lens and the live-action picture are seamlessly connected, and was evaluated by drama critics as "building a new paradigm of serious theme short dramas."
"AI technology can help us present some large scenes that we didn't dare to think about or do before, expand the creative boundaries of screenwriters, provide more inspiration for plots and thinking, and bring audiences richer visual spectacles and divergent thinking space," said Zhang Qijingzi, the producer of "Chang Le Chang Ge."
In the AI era, what is the core competitiveness of live-action micro-dramas?
"Living person feeling" is a word that many industry practitioners have mentioned. "The shaping of vivid characters, the real and delicate life narrative, and the natural flow of emotional temperature between people, these contents that cannot be quantified by algorithms or replicated by technology are the unique advantages of live-action creation," said Zhou Rong, deputy secretary-general of the Film and Television Art Professional Committee of the China Television Art Exchange Association.
In addition, some practitioners also said that technology is not the opposite of content. The significance of AI to the industry is empowerment rather than substitution. Using AI to complete repetitive tasks such as scene synthesis, group performance supplementation, and post-editing can liberate the productivity of creators and allow them to focus more on artistic expression and emotional transmission. Realizing the division of labor and complementarity of "AI does efficiency, live-action does temperature" and letting technology serve content is the key to the coordinated development of AI and live-action creation.
"It is difficult for AI to become the mainstream track to replace live-action shooting in one step. It is more likely to form a characteristic track, encourage industry practitioners to carry out more innovative attempts, and promote the industry to develop in the direction of diversification and high-quality," said Yang Chenghu, vice president and professor of the School of Art and Media of Beijing Normal University.
Content is King—
Reach the Audience's Heart with Good Stories
Open the social media platform, in the relevant posts of the "Yipin Buyi (一品布衣)" series of dramas, the audience left comments: "Do not delete the complex and simplify, willing to tell stories and shape characters in a down-to-earth manner", "I watched 3 episodes in a row, my blood was boiling, there was no fast forward throughout the whole process, the theme is great", "Very excellent group portrait drama, the acting skills are very delicate and natural, many highlight moments are supporting roles"... Solid narrative, rich characters, and deep family and country feelings have made this male-frequency drama a phenomenal hit, and explored the path of IP serialization of micro-dramas, building a content universe with vitality.
Serialization is an effective way to explore high-quality micro-dramas at present. Wu Yuming, content director of Jubao Interactive Entertainment, said that short dramas are limited by the length of a single episode, and a drama often cannot present the story completely. "Looking at market feedback, if the audience likes it, we will expand in the direction of series dramas and fully show the whole story."
Serialization solves the problem of "telling the story completely," but another prerequisite is "having a story to tell."
Tong Zhilei, chairman and president of Chinese Online Group, said bluntly: "The first thing to do for the high-quality of micro-dramas is to tell the story well. From creative ideas to the twists and turns of the rhythm and the polishing of the bridges, good stories are always scarce."
High-quality works ultimately depend on the supply of high-quality content. "IP is not only text, but also a story seed with development potential, which can provide the best raw materials for various forms of content adaptation and creation," said Ma Liyong, general manager of Migu Digital Media Co., Ltd. Migu has accumulated more than 20,000 full-copyright high-quality IPs, covering more than 200 categories of themes, and will open up full IP adaptation rights to industry partners in the next step.
With a good story and a good IP, how to make it go further? Yang Chenghu observed: "The life cycle of micro-dramas is getting longer. The original life cycle of micro-dramas was 3 days. The 72-hour recharge period was over, but now micro-dramas have stamina." Why is there stamina? He analyzed: "Micro-dramas are shifting from traffic-driven to quality-driven and content-driven, and there is a trend of IP and branding."
Good content also needs a good mechanism. In mid-April, the micro-drama platform Hongguo Short Drama released the third list of high-quality short dramas of the "Guoran Plan," covering major historical themes, small-cut realistic masterpieces, classic IP adaptations, and other dimensions. "As of now, the plan has invested in and established more than 130 short dramas, leading the industry to explore the thematic boundaries of micro-dramas, and linking up with high-quality creators to jointly create high-quality short dramas that are 'both popular and praised,'" said Wei Qintao, head of Hongguo High-Quality Short Dramas.
Since 2025, the State Administration of Radio and Television has continued to improve the management of the micro-drama industry. The goal is to basically build a high-quality creation support system for micro-dramas by the end of 2026, improve the whole-process support mechanism, continue to launch excellent works that integrate thought and art, and combine online sense and aesthetics, and continue to support and cultivate excellent creative subjects to form typical experiences that can be replicated and promoted. The upcoming "Micro-Drama Development Management Measures" will draw a bottom line and leave room for the industry—"let it be lively" and "manage it well."
It is understood that 11 provinces, including Beijing (北京), Liaoning (辽宁), Shanghai (上海), Jiangsu (江苏), Zhejiang (浙江), Fujian (福建), Jiangxi (江西), Henan (河南), Hunan (湖南), Guangxi (广西), and Shaanxi (陕西), will arrange special support funds, and at the same time, introduce supporting policies and measures such as script creation, shooting and production, and online broadcasting to support and encourage the creation of high-quality micro-dramas. "There are nearly 1,400 micro-drama companies in Henan. We will strengthen topic planning and creation guidance to promote the content upgrade, connotation deepening, and thematic innovation of micro-dramas," said Lu Shan, director of the Network Audio-Visual Department of the Henan Provincial Radio and Television Bureau.
"The high-quality of micro-dramas is a content upgrade and industrial transformation based on respecting and meeting users' emotional needs and cognitive needs. High-quality is by no means elitism, let alone thousands of troops squeezing a single-plank bridge, but should be **万类霜天竞自由** (wàn lèi shuāng tiān jìng zì yóu - "all kinds of things compete for freedom in the frosty sky," a vibrant and diverse ecosystem where different entities thrive). " Yang Chenghu said that every platform and production organization should give play to its expertise in dialogue with users and discovering users, and find breakthroughs in themes, content, forms, and value tonality.
Micro-dramas are changing, the creative ecology is changing, but the benchmark of high-quality is never traffic data, nor the level of clothing, makeup, and props production, but the inner choice of the most broad audience. A work can trigger ideological resonance and can truly enter the user's heart—this is the new era connotation of high-quality.
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Network literature and art are an important emerging force in socialist literature and art. Micro-dramas, with their distinct characteristics of lightweight dissemination, down-to-earth expression, and full-circle coverage, have become an important part of the public's spiritual and cultural life. They are also an emerging literary and artistic carrier that empowers cultural dissemination, leads social trends, and helps industrial upgrading. At the Micro-drama High-Quality Development Forum of the 13th China Network Audiovisual Conference, the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) released the first batch of 116 "Micro-drama +" Action Plan recommended dramas for 2026, covering seven units: culture and tourism, popularization of law, popular science, classics, intangible cultural heritage, sports, and AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content). This sets a benchmark and defines the direction for the industry, injecting strong momentum into the high-quality development of network literature and art in the new era.
Micro-dramas, with their advantages of short duration, fast pace, and strong fragmentation adaptability, firmly occupy the main position of mobile internet cultural consumption. However, behind the rapid expansion, industry shortcomings and chaos are becoming increasingly prominent: formulaic plots are piled up, and homogeneous involution is serious; some works are of low taste and the content is superficial; the industrial end relies too much on advertising and paid unlocking single mode, most works have a short life cycle, and are reduced to "digital fast-moving consumer goods," which are difficult to carry the mission of cultural inheritance, social governance, and spiritual nourishment. In this context, the "Micro-drama +" Action Plan launched by the State Administration of Radio and Television (广电总局) in 2025 will undoubtedly help the industry move from barbaric growth to standardized development and high-quality advancement.
Taking value as the guide, use high-quality creation to build a solid foundation for literature and art. The "Micro-drama +" Action Plan first advocates that the industry shift from "chasing traffic" to "casting value" and from "extensive" to "high-quality." The popular law unit "Anti-Fraud: Honey Hunters" focuses on new types of cybercrime, interpreting the law through cases in a subtle way; the classic unit "The Impersonated Langya" restores the demeanor of the Wei and Jin dynasties with solid historical knowledge and meticulous details of life; the culture and tourism unit "The Secret of the Bei Family Garden" shapes the scenery with drama and conveys culture with scenery, showing the regional cultural heritage; the sports unit "ZheBA Basketball Fire" draws on real events and stimulates public enthusiasm for sports participation; the popular science and AIGC units "I'm a Construction Foreman on the Moon" and "Xihe Opens the Spring Equinox" integrate aerospace knowledge, solar term culture, and digital creation, opening up a new path for technology to empower literature and art. The above works are all from 116 recommended dramas, carrying big themes with small cuts, conveying positive energy with micro-narratives, continuously purifying the industry ecology, and consolidating the value base for the healthy development of network literature and art.
Taking integration as the path, use cross-border linkage to broaden the industrial space. The essence of "Micro-drama +" lies in "plus," which is essentially breaking down industry barriers, realizing cross-border empowerment, and reconstructing the entire chain ecology of "content + industry." General dramas, including long dramas, have relatively closed creation and dissemination. The strong network attributes of micro-dramas have opened a window for empowering thousands of industries. The action plan promotes the deep coupling of micro-dramas with culture and tourism, the rule of law, popular science, intangible cultural heritage, sports, and technology, making two-way empowerment and mutual benefit and win-win a reality. In the field of culture and tourism, many works such as "Midsummer Fendera" and "A Gui's 'Village Evening'" are rooted in real-life shooting, forming a complete closed loop of "short drama drainage - cultural tourism consumption - industrial feedback"; in the field of technology, AIGC technology empowers scene modeling, special effects rendering, and post-production, promoting the industrial upgrading of the industry; in the field of public services, popular law, popular science, and national fitness short dramas have become a new lightweight carrier for grassroots publicity and education. Cross-border integration has spawned diversified profit models such as IP authorization, cultural tourism cooperation, cultural and creative development, and public service procurement, extending the life cycle of content, allowing micro-dramas to get rid of short-term traffic dependence, and grow into a sustainable new form of literary and artistic business.
Taking demonstration as radiation, use short drama quality improvement to help optimize and upgrade the film and television industry. The value of "Micro-drama +" is not only limited to its own track, but also forms a positive spillover effect to a certain extent, providing useful references for TV long dramas, network long dramas, and even the entire film and television industry. Micro-dramas have the characteristics of tight plots, strong emotions, and national co-creation and sharing, which to a certain extent affect long dramas to pay more attention to narrative efficiency, realistic texture, and creative concepts. At the same time, the "feature film + short video fragment dissemination" publicity model of micro-dramas has also been borrowed by many long dramas, which helps to achieve a new pattern of film and television development in which long and short content complement each other. Traditional film and television companies and platforms are also actively laying out the short drama track, such as Shanghai's "Blossoms Shanghai Plan (繁花计划)," iQiyi's "Yunteng Plan (云腾计划)," and Mango's "Spark Plan (星火计划)." Some film and television companies simply adopt the joint development of long and short series. All kinds of measures inject continuous vitality into the industry, fully reflecting the industry's own value of micro-dramas and the "Micro-drama +" Action Plan.
The "Micro-drama +" Action Plan is an important measure based on the development of new mass literature and art, in line with the development law of network literature and art, and responding to the spiritual and cultural needs of the people. Facing the future, the micro-drama industry should aim at high-quality development, move from the emotional value level to the continuous pursuit of the spiritual value and ideological value of works, and continue to create more excellent works that are **有筋骨** (yǒu jīn gǔ - "have muscles and bones," strong and substantial), **有道德** (yǒu dào dé - "have morality," morally sound), and **有温度** (yǒu wēn dù - "have warmth," empathetic and touching), injecting a continuous stream of audiovisual power into the prosperity of new mass literature and art and the construction of a strong cultural country.
(The author is the vice chairman of the China Television Artists Association (中国电视艺术家协会) and a first-level director.)
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Going out to gather inspiration and sketch at different times of the year always excites me and fills me with anticipation, especially when I am in Jiangnan (江南) where the four seasons are distinct. If you observe carefully, you will feel a special atmosphere in those days of seasonal transition. The main significance of gathering inspiration and sketching for painting creation lies in enriching and enriching the creator's inner feelings. Directly facing natural objects, sketching on the spot can sometimes mobilize the author's creative passion and enhance the vividness of the picture. After precipitation and deliberation, the works completed in the studio, especially large-scale works, often present a profound and enduring aesthetic feeling. Different methods can create good works.
Looking back on my decades of creative career, I have always been constantly choosing, including the choice of different themes and different expressions. In 1978, I became the first graduate student majoring in oil painting at Nanjing University of the Arts (南京艺术学院), studying under Mr. Su Tianci (苏天赐). During my studies, I completed a number of thematic creations, including historical themes such as "For the Reunification of the Motherland" (《为了祖国的统一》), and realistic life themes such as "Coach and Team Members" (《教练与队员》). The most important and representative work should be "Early Market in Yueqiao Town" (《月桥镇的早市》). This work was the beginning of my creation of Jiangnan (江南) genre paintings of figures, and later I successively painted dozens of works such as "Spring in a Small Town" (《小镇春深》), "Fine Rain at the Ferry" (《渡口细雨》), and "Jiangnan in April" (《四月江南》), gradually forming the focus of my creation.
My choice at that time was natural. I lived, studied, and worked in Jiangnan (江南). At that time, I often went to southern Jiangsu (苏南), western Zhejiang (浙西), and southern Anhui (皖南) to gather inspiration and sketch. The unique humanistic atmosphere of Jiangnan (江南) influenced me. In my heart, Jiangnan (江南) is not only a geographical concept, but also a representation of a cultural character with poetic connotation. It should be said that after studying Mr. Su Tianci's (苏天赐) works, I became more certain of this understanding. He painted many landscapes and figure paintings with the theme of Jiangnan (江南) towns. His teacher, Mr. Lin Fengmian (林风眠), also painted works in this area. However, the influence of the predecessors' painting art on me is not mainly reflected in the choice of the subject matter of the works, but more importantly in the spiritual connotation and expression of their painting art, that is, the poetry and freehand brushwork contained in the works.
Painting contains poetry, and poetry is incorporated into painting, which is a Chinese artistic tradition. Mr. Lin Fengmian (林风眠) and Mr. Su Tianci (苏天赐) both have profound traditional cultural accomplishments, and have taken firm and solid steps in their journey of exploring Chinese and foreign art. Their works are imbued with a consistent Chinese artistic spirit. I remember that in the early 1960s, the magazine "Fine Arts" ("美术") published Mr. Lin's (林) works. They were so charming and extremely poetic, leaving a deep impression on a young painting student like me. I had no chance to meet Mr. Lin (林), but I was fortunate enough to become a student of his student. Mr. Su (苏) is not only an outstanding oil painter, but also an excellent art educator. His unique insights on oil painting gave me great inspiration. He once wrote: Art comes from the deepest emotions and is achieved through perseverance. It can be said that the lyrical and image-based expression of the works is a common characteristic of the two predecessors' art, and it is also the main feature of their poetic expression of painting, which has a subtle influence on me.
In the mid-1990s, my works such as "Autumn Sunny" (《秋晴》), "Spring Warmth" (《春暖》), and "Neighbors" (《乡邻》) were still Jiangnan (江南) genre paintings of figures, but I had begun to try to paint in a way that paid more attention to the formal sense and expressiveness of the picture, no longer limited to objective reproduction, but to allow the emotional expressiveness of colors and shapes, textures and brushstrokes to be fully exerted, so that the "artistic conception" of the works would be richer. At the same time, I felt that in landscape and still life creation, the graphic processing of the picture could be more free, and sometimes it could more fully reflect the creator's aesthetic pursuit.
Since then, my creative focus has shifted from figures to landscapes and still lifes. The ancients said, "When climbing a mountain, one's emotions are filled with the mountain, and when watching the sea, one's thoughts overflow with the sea." My creation also starts from emotions and thoughts. In recent years, I have created many landscape works, such as "Blue Jiangnan Landscape" (《蓝色的江南风景》), "Spring Serenade" (《春之曲》), and "Snowy Village in the Mountains" (《山村雪霁》). I try to use my brush to express my inner feelings, hoping that the works can present a higher cultural character. "Spring Serenade" (《春之曲》) has symbolic significance in my landscape oil painting creation. The scene depicted in this work can be said to be the most common scene in Jiangnan (江南) in spring. Perhaps because of its ordinariness, it is not easy to paint a touching effect. The creation process of this painting has several characteristics: First, at the beginning of the conception, there was a bit of self-challenging meaning. The fields with blooming rapeseed flowers are beautiful but not necessarily very picturesque. Choosing such a subject matter is also to "know the difficulty and go up"; second, although there are some sketches, materials, and sketches, the specific composition and painting are completed in the studio, after repeated deliberation; third, it tests the sense of proportion in the use of color. The yellow saturation of rapeseed flowers is extremely high, especially the combination with green is not easy to paint well, and you must pay close attention to the "micro distance" of the color and master the progression of the color levels.
In many years of oil painting creation practice, I have gradually realized that, in terms of the formal language of painting, my attention is obviously biased towards color. I have always believed that, compared with other types of painting, the color expression of oil painting is particularly moving, and the overall tone of the picture is often the concentrated embodiment of the color expression of oil painting. Organizing the tone of the picture well not only requires the creator to have a keen observation and perception of natural light and color, but also tests the creator's color imagination. Whether it is shape or color, under the image-based expression, the creator must fully expand the subjective imagination space, rather than stop at the objective reproduction of natural scenes. With continuous practice, I increasingly feel that painting is not just a depiction, but more like a recitation, a poetic expression.
After experiencing various attempts, what I feel most deeply is that no matter what choice is made in creation, it ultimately stems from the creator's inner emotional needs, from a sincere desire to constantly surpass oneself. When painting is presented in a poetic way, it means that the difficulty of painting is greater, and the creator's mind and ability face more challenges. From this, I deeply realize that only by constantly enriching oneself, improving one's knowledge and cultivation, and always maintaining a progressive attitude can one create more artistically infectious works.
(The author is a professor at Nanjing University of the Arts (南京艺术学院))
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Not long ago, the news that "the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院) has added an art therapy major" received widespread attention from society. The Ministry of Education (教育部) officially included "art therapy" in the "Undergraduate Professional Catalog of Ordinary Institutions of Higher Education," marking a new stage of systematic and standardized development for this discipline.
Having cultivated the field of art therapy for many years, looking back on the path I've taken, there are many unforgettable moments. I still remember in 2022, the Beijing Today Art Museum (北京今日美术馆) held a special art exhibition. Most of the creators were long-term hospitalized patients with schizophrenia. As the curator, I was touched by one young patient. During the co-creation process with the artist, he first drew a few crooked lines on the paper, and then put a small blob of blue in the middle of the paper—like a drop of solidified tear, and then he suddenly looked up and said: "I finally don't have to explain, you will understand when you see my paintings." At that moment, we realized more clearly that there are too many traumas and oppressions of human beings that cannot be accurately expressed in words, and painting, music, dance, and performance—these non-verbal art media, precisely bypass the barriers of language and externalize the indescribable psychological state into visible and tangible symbols. On the opening day of the exhibition, the young patient's mother stood in front of his paintings and did not leave for a long time. She said that this was the first time in 10 years since her son fell ill that she truly "saw" his heart. This work became a medium connecting each other's emotions, and a warm current melting each other's hearts.
The ultimate goal of art therapy is not short-term relaxation, but deep psychological integration: helping individuals see their own emotions, correct negative cognitions, regulate emotional patterns, enhance psychological resilience, reconstruct a stable and peaceful inner order, improve psychological state and social adaptability, and achieve long-term healing from emotional relief to personality growth. In the following years, I and the professional team of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院) entered the hospital many times, turning the ward corridor into a "living gallery." I often quietly observed the state of the patients when they were painting—at first they were just mechanically smearing, and gradually, their breathing slowed down, their shoulders relaxed, and their eyes changed from scattered to focused. When a patient undergoing chemotherapy drew a tree on paper, she said: "The tree will sprout in spring, and so will I." When a person changes from passively enduring emotions to actively sorting out and reconstructing the inner order, anxiety quietly calms down at the tip of the pen, and depression is slowly released with the color. Therefore, the occurrence of healing is often not at the moment when the work is completed, but in the free, safe, and non-judgmental creative process, completing a self-acceptance and emotional repair.
Art therapy uses the creativity, inclusiveness, and aesthetic qualities of art to make up for the shortcomings of verbal psychotherapy, and to achieve mass, barrier-free, and flexible psychological healing and aesthetic nourishment. Tracing back to the source, Chinese culture has always had the tradition of "nourishing the heart with art" (以艺养心). Confucianism emphasizes self-cultivation and regards art as a way to cultivate the mind. Taoism emphasizes the unity of body and mind, and believes that true health is the harmonious resonance between man and nature. In traditional folk music, the five tones enter the five viscera, and the rhythm can harmonize emotions. In intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, every stitch and thread, every carving and engraving, is a practice of concentration and tranquility. Just as traditional Chinese medicine focuses on nourishing the heart rather than focusing on pathological analysis like Western medicine, China's art therapy is rooted in a more gentle traditional cultural soil—"treating the disease" is not as good as "nourishing the heart." The good medicine for repairing the body and mind is the awakening of the inner self and the growth of resilience.
Today, the tentacles of art therapy extend from hospitals to a broader social life. In rural primary schools in Wuyuan, Jiangxi (江西婺源), children learned for the first time that emotions can be painted; in Biyun Community (碧云社区) in Pudong, Shanghai (上海浦东), residents rebuilt connections through painting and drama therapy workshops; in the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院美术馆), 40 young people from all walks of life put down their mobile phones and relearned "encounter" with their dancing bodies. One touching moment after another connects the warm bonds between people, between people and themselves, and between people and life.
A few days ago, I passed by the Today Art Museum (今日美术馆) again, and I thought of the small blob of blue under the patient's pen. Many years have passed, and that touch of blue may have faded, but the healing power it conveys has never diminished. In this digital age where the screen is getting brighter and brighter, but people are getting farther and farther away from each other, the role of art therapy is becoming more and more prominent. It uses art to "unwind" the soul, allowing people to find lasting peace and tranquility in their hearts.
(The author is the Vice Dean of the School of Art Management and Education of the Central Academy of Fine Arts (中央美术学院艺术管理和教育学院))
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During the Lesser Fullness (小满) season, the wheat ears in the north are nearly full but not yet fully ripe, while in the south, rainfall increases and rivers gradually fill, marking a good time for rice planting in rice-growing areas. Folk activities also become richer with the arrival of the solar term, including eating bitter herbs, worshiping the God of the Wheel, water grabbing, and holding silkworm praying festivals. These customs carry the ancient people's wisdom of adapting to the seasons and also express the beautiful wish for a bumper harvest. Visual records of the Lesser Fullness solar term are mainly concentrated in the "Geng Zhi Tu" (耕织图) of past dynasties.
The "Geng Zhi Tu" (耕织图) is not a specific work by a particular painter, but a general term for a series of paintings recording farming and silkworm activities. Its prototype can be traced back to agricultural and mulberry gathering and hunting patterns on bronzes in the Warring States period. In the third year of Shaoxing (绍兴) in the Southern Song Dynasty (1133), Lou Shu (楼璹), the magistrate of Yuqian County (於潜县), created the "Geng Zhi Tu" (耕织图) based on his detailed observations of the local agricultural and mulberry production process. This set of works consists of 45 small paintings, including 21 "Geng Tu" (耕图) depicting the steps of field farming in detail, and 24 "Zhi Tu" (织图) fully displaying the process of silkworm rearing and silk reeling. Each picture is accompanied by poems and texts for explanation, which is not only beneficial to encouraging farming and mulberry cultivation, but also plays a practical role in promoting agricultural technology. Since then, the style of "Geng Zhi Tu" (耕织图) integrating poetry, calligraphy, and painting has continued. During the Yuan (元), Ming (明), and Qing (清) dynasties, painters created many sets of "Geng Zhi Tu" (耕织图) with similar content but different styles through copying, imitation, rubbing, and re-creation. Its influence even reached the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Among the handed-down works, the more famous and well-preserved ones are the "Mo Lou Shu Geng Zuo Tu" (摹楼璹耕作图) and "Mo Lou Shu Can Zhi Tu" (摹楼璹蚕织图), which are said to be made by Cheng Qi (程棨) of the Yuan Dynasty. Among them, "Guan Gai" (灌溉) from "Mo Lou Shu Geng Zuo Tu" (摹楼璹耕作图) depicts the custom of "water grabbing" - people cooperate to compete with the sky for time and with the land for water. In the middle of the picture, four farmers are treading on a waterwheel to draw water to irrigate the fields; in the upper right of the picture, a farmer is using a shaduf to draw water; in the upper left of the picture, a poem reveals the difference in the objects to which these two irrigation tools are applicable - "Shaduf takes from wells, waterwheel takes from ponds." The small painting clearly records the use scenarios and methods of the two ancient water conservancy machines, and also demonstrates the wisdom and culture of the ancients, possessing both historical and artistic value.
Around the time of Lesser Fullness (小满), most spring silkworms in the Jiangnan (江南) area have spun cocoons and are waiting to be boiled and reeled into silk. "Can E" (蚕蛾) (partial view in the picture) from the "Geng Zhi Tu Ce" (耕织图册) painted by Chen Mei (陈枚), a court painter in the Qing Dynasty, records the process of silkworms breaking out of their cocoons. The picture "Si Xie" (祀谢) shows an important part of silkworm farming - villagers worship the silkworm god to express their gratitude and pray for a good harvest in the coming year. The whole set of paintings is meticulously painted and beautifully colored, inheriting the traditional Chinese painting style and influenced by the techniques of the Western painting school. The painting style is delicate and elegant, and it is a superior work in the same kind of subject matter.
More than just the atmosphere of busy farming in the fields, Lesser Fullness (小满) also contains the natural beauty of all things in a leisurely manner. Ouyang Xiu (欧阳修) of the Northern Song Dynasty once wrote a poem, "The nightingale sings in the green willows, and the bright moon awakens the long sky. I love the wheat on the ridges the most, welcoming the wind and laughing at the fallen red," vividly describing the scenery of Lesser Fullness (小满). Zhang Ruo'ai (张若霭), a court painter in the Qing Dynasty, condensed the characteristics of the Lesser Fullness solar term into small freehand brushwork and incorporated it into the "Mo Miao Zhu Lin (Mao) Ce" (墨妙珠林（卯）册). In the picture, the lush trees with flourishing branches, the vibrant rice fields, and the people picking bitter herbs together constitute a visible solar term poem. The author also wrote words such as "Bitter herbs show, fine grass dies, wheat autumn arrives" next to the painting to supplement the characteristics of the Lesser Fullness solar term. The combination of pictures and texts fully demonstrates the unique seasonal charm of Lesser Fullness (小满).
Interestingly, among the twenty-four solar terms, "Lesser Heat" (小暑) is followed by "Greater Heat" (大暑), and "Lesser Snow" (小雪) is followed by "Greater Snow" (大雪), but "Lesser Fullness" (小满) is not followed by "Greater Fullness" (大满). This reflects the wisdom of the ancestors, "The moon wanes when it is full, and water overflows when it is full." Just as Wu Cheng (吴澄) of the Yuan Dynasty annotated "Lesser Fullness" (小满) in "Yueling Qishier Hou Jijie" (月令七十二候集解): "Lesser Fullness means that things have reached this point and have gained a small amount of fullness." The true beauty of life is not the ultimate "Greater Fullness," but the wonderful expectation of the imminent harvest of things, and the state of "almost full but not yet full" and "full but not overflowing" is just right.
(The author is an associate professor at the School of Fine Arts, Henan University (河南大学))
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The lintel hangs a plaque, wood and stone hide words.
The plaque is a unique cultural symbol of the Chinese nation, a spiritual coordinate engraved on wood and stone, and even more a measure of civilization engraved between architecture and time. Its origin can be traced back to the pre-Qin period, gradually rising in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and reaching its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Plaques are often hung high above the gates and halls, integrating calligraphy, lacquer art, seal carving, and folk customs, carrying the inheritance code of Chinese civilization for thousands of years.
The Shenzhen Museum (深圳博物馆) has a collection of more than 500 plaques, mainly collected from Hakka-populated areas such as Fujian (闽), Guangdong (粤), and Jiangxi (赣). The plaques span from the late mid-Ming Dynasty to the early days of the People's Republic of China, experiencing four hundred years of vicissitudes and witnessing the evolution and inheritance of Hakka culture. Recently, the "Zhengan Biaowei: Thematic Exhibition of Plaque Cultural Relics" jointly organized by the Shenzhen Museum (深圳博物馆) and the Liaoning Provincial Museum (辽宁省博物馆) features 76 selected plaques from the Ming and Qing Dynasties to the Republic of China from the collection of the Shenzhen Museum (深圳博物馆), unfolding a 400-year-long scroll of Chinese humanistic art, making the scale of civilization touchable, readable, and sensible.
"Zhengan" refers to high-quality wood that is solid and durable. Plaques in the past dynasties were mostly made of hardwood, which is not perishable after wind and rain, just like the roots of Chinese civilization, deeply rooted in the countryside and clan, and stretching endlessly. Hall name plaques, such as "Qingbai Chuanjia" (清白传家) and "Gengdu Shidi" (耕读世第), condense family traditions and ancestral instructions into four characters, hung high on the lintel, warning descendants, and becoming the spiritual totem of the family. The "Imperial Decree Plaque Conferred to the Grandparents and Parents of Xiao Jinyang by Emperor Xianfeng" (咸丰封赠萧晋扬 (Xiao Jinyang) 之祖父母、父母敕书匾) is a physical testimony to the conferral etiquette system of the Qing Dynasty, interpreting the filial piety culture of "establishing oneself and practicing morality to honor one's parents." A plaque records the value adherence of respecting culture and education and valuing clan relatives, marking the cultural genes and ethical order of rural China.
The "Biaowei" in "Zhengan Biaowei" means to highlight, and "Wei" means profound meaning in simple words, meaning that the plaque carries profound thoughts with extremely simple words. Fame and article plaques, such as "Mingbo Zhexi" (名播浙西) and "Wen Kui" (文魁), are the ideal marks of scholars who "study well and then become officials," and even more so the epitome of the era when society respected talent and learning. Longevity plaques "Qimei Qingrui" (齐眉庆瑞) and commendation plaques "Leshan Haoshi" (乐善好施), either praise the virtue of filial piety or commend good deeds, condensing Confucian ethics and social morality into the pen, becoming a spiritual benchmark for educating the countryside and leading the fashion. Each plaque is a concrete spiritual civilization and a vivid reflection of the value orientation of traditional society.
Plaques contain both humanistic beauty and artistic wonder. The calligraphy on the plaques includes all styles of seal, official, regular, running, and cursive scripts, especially running regular script, with vigorous strokes and dignified layout, mostly from the hands of literati, elegant scholars, officials, and famous families. The wording is refined and rich in meaning, and the allusions are profound and fit the situation. The imposing "bangshu" is not only the "eye" of the building, adding the finishing touch to pavilions and towers; it is also the "mirror" of history, leaving traces for the vicissitudes of time. From a decorative point of view, the richness of red characters on a gold background, the solemnity of gold characters on a black background, and the elegance of gold characters on a green background each have their own charm, fully demonstrating the aesthetic taste and hall style of the ancients. The surroundings of the plaques are mostly carved with auspicious patterns such as flowers, birds, and auspicious beasts, with rich colors, flexible decoration, and exquisite carving, with the characters, seals, carvings, and colors blending together. A plaque carries the ultimate pursuit of Chinese aesthetics and marks the aesthetic height of traditional art.
A plaque carries a history, and a character contains a rhyme. On the plaque, every wood grain tells the vicissitudes of the past, and every carving condenses the persistence of ingenuity. I hope that the audience can appreciate the artistic elegance of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the plaques and experience the timeless appeal of outstanding traditional Chinese culture.
(The author is the curator of the Shenzhen Museum (深圳博物馆))
By: 牛克诚
Currently, we live in an era of excessive yet impoverished color: the pixel colors on mobile phone screens number in the billions, yet they lack the memory of the earth and the sentiments of history. In blue-green landscape painting, however, mineral particles such as azurite and malachite, which have existed since geological times, are awakened by the painter's brush, becoming mountains, water, and a spiritual space where one can dwell. It connects the painter's hand, eye, and heart, as well as the era in which he is situated. Why revisit blue-green landscape painting today? The "Chinese-style Modernization Exploration Exhibition of New Era Blue-Green Landscape Painting" currently held at the Shandong Art Museum (山东美术馆) provides the answer: in this era of rampant virtual visuals, color will reveal its material, manual, and vibrant luster; the painting language of blue-green landscape, with its millennium-long lineage, will add brilliance to the era with its vigorous artistic vitality and powerful spiritual appeal.
The concept of "blue-green landscape" ("青绿山水") only emerged after the Song (宋) and Yuan (元) dynasties. Before that, it was always called "colored landscape" ("着色山水"), meaning to touch the world with color and endow objects with life through pigments. Its painting practice already existed in murals and scroll paintings of the Wei (魏) and Jin (晋) dynasties. Therefore, blue-green landscape is not limited to the two hues of "blue" and "green," but is a painting practice that uses color as a means, mental imagery as a medium, and natural life as an object. It includes the coloring experience of "using color to resemble color," the expressive principle of "assigning colors according to category" ("随类赋彩"), and the colored landscape creations of Gu Kaizhi (顾恺之), Zhan Ziqian (展子虔), and others. After the Song and Yuan dynasties, literati painting rose, and the tradition of colored painting was marginalized, only to continue with difficulty in the narrow lineage of blue-green landscape.
Our revitalization of blue-green landscape today is not about archaism or nostalgia, but a return of artistic language across thousands of years—returning to the original intention of "colored landscape," returning to the moment when color served as direct expression, and returning to the more open and splendid tradition of Chinese painting before it was disciplined by "ink divided into five colors" ("墨分五色"). This return, in the present day when AI (artificial intelligence) technology is increasingly involved in visual production, unexpectedly stimulates a contemporary expression full of tension. The exhibition systematically sorts out the creative practices and academic context of blue-green landscape in the past 10 years, presenting the artistic attitudes of contemporary blue-green landscape painters towards tradition, reality, and spirit, as well as their way of interacting with the world, reflecting the innovative development path of Chinese painting starting from tradition, based on reality, and nurturing spirit.
The contemporary exploration of blue-green landscape demonstrates the value of Chinese painting in the AI era from at least three levels: at the language level, through the activation and reconstruction of the classical color system, blue-green landscape provides Chinese painting with a painting language coding system composed of the granularity of pigments, the layering of hand-painting, and the precipitation of time, which AI cannot reproduce and carries traces of physical presence; at the experience level, through the absorption and transformation of real landscapes, blue-green landscape enables the traditional color language to intervene in contemporary life, and this kind of creation rooted in reality cannot be replicated by AI; at the conceptual level, blue-green landscape, as a color system that transcends "representation," carries complex conceptual and spiritual expressions, providing the possibility for Chinese painting to maintain its quality as "thoughtful" painting in the AI era. Blue-green landscape is rooted in culture, body, and perception; it cannot be simplified into algorithms, nor can it be completely captured by data.
The three sections of the exhibition take color as the theme, reconstructing the contemporary grammar of blue-green landscape in different dimensions: "Paradigm Reconstruction" repairs the linguistic foundation of color, "Landscape Regeneration" expands the application scenarios of grammar, and "Supra-Realm Construction" constructs the spiritual territory of grammar. The three together complete an ontological reconstruction from language to meaning. At the same time, these three sections are different: "Paradigm Reconstruction" follows the historical logic of language and salvages deep into the language; "Landscape Regeneration" follows the logic of real-world intervention and expands to the breadth of reality; "Supra-Realm Construction" follows the logic of spiritual transcendence and climbs to the height of spirit. The three sections coexist, complement each other, and nourish each other: "Paradigm Reconstruction" contributes language resources and traditional gestation, "Landscape Regeneration" contributes experiential soil and real landscapes, and "Supra-Realm Construction" contributes spiritual space and ideological enlightenment.
Today's blue-green landscape can be meticulous brushwork (gongbi), or freehand brushwork (xieyi); it can be traditional, or contemporary; it can be representational, or conceptual. In the context of AI creation tending towards homogenization, being able to safeguard differences, respect heterogeneity, and allow different modern solutions to coexist on the same soil, may be precisely the ecological environment of the Chinese painting garden that is particularly worthy of cherishing.
(The author is the Dean of the Chinese Painting Institute of the Chinese National Academy of Arts (中国艺术研究院国画院) and the editor-in-chief of *Fine Arts Observation* (*美术观察*).)
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Title image design: Zhao Siru (赵偲汝)