Summary: According to the article, Xi Jinping emphasized the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent at a symposium on strengthening basic research, stressing cultivation, recruitment, and utilization. He highlighted the need to align education with the demands of Chinese-style modernization, supporting science, technology, and talent development. Xi called for optimizing the collaborative education mechanism between science and education, and focusing on discovering and cultivating talent on the front lines of scientific research. The article underlines the importance of education, science and technology, and talent as fundamental and strategic pillars for building a modern socialist country. The piece also states that China aims to become a leading power in education, science and technology, and talent by 2035.
Summary: The Central Military Commission issued "Several Measures on Strengthening the Education, Management, and Supervision of Senior Military Cadres," guided by Xi Jinping Thought. These measures aim to comprehensively strengthen the Party's leadership over the military and to apply strict discipline in education, management, and supervision. The document contains 26 articles in 7 areas, focusing on ideological transformation, collective leadership, and stricter oversight of leading officers. The measures emphasize integrating stringent and consistent education, management, and supervision throughout the cadres' duties, powers, work and life, to forge a revolutionary senior cadre team. The goal is for senior cadres to lead the military modernization with a new political outlook.
Summary: Shandong Province is accelerating the construction of a "Green and Low-Carbon High-Quality Development Pilot Zone" in accordance with Xi Jinping's instructions from May 2024. The province aims to lead in the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development through technological innovation, industrial upgrading, and a focus on green and low-carbon initiatives. Shandong will promote the development of emerging industries such as new energy and new materials, while also upgrading traditional sectors like steel and chemicals. The province is also focusing on building clean energy bases and promoting ecological and environmental protection industries.
Summary: Premier Li Qiang, during a visit to Zhejiang Province, emphasized the importance of building a robust national reserve system for key commodities to enhance supply chain resilience and ensure economic stability. He called for optimizing reserve structures, promoting technological innovation in storage and management, and improving coordination between strategic and commercial reserves. He also urged the development of an integrated service platform for bulk commodities, connecting domestic and international markets and enhancing China's influence on commodity pricing. Li inspected infrastructure projects like the Yongzhou Railway and Ningbo Zhoushan Port, advocating for advanced technology, multi-modal transport, and smart upgrades.
Summary: During a visit to Kazakhstan, Zhao Leji met with President Tokayev and parliamentary leaders, conveying Xi Jinping's greetings and emphasizing the high level of the China-Kazakhstan relationship. Zhao called for strengthened mutual support on core interests, alignment of development strategies under the Belt and Road Initiative, and expanded cooperation in various sectors including new energy, digital economy, and AI. Tokayev affirmed Kazakhstan's adherence to the one-China principle and support for Xi's global initiatives, praising China's role in global governance. Both sides expressed commitment to deepening legislative cooperation and facilitating bilateral trade and investment, with Kazakhstan also affirming support for China's positions on Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong and Tibet.
Summary: The final bridge on the Chongqing-Wanzhou High-Speed Railway (渝万高铁), the Shituo Yangtze River Bridge, was completed on May 27th. The Shituo Yangtze River Bridge is located in Chongqing's Fuling District and is an innovative double-tower structure for both highway and railway. The completion of the 251-kilometer railway, designed for speeds of 350 km/h, marks a significant milestone in China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed rail network, specifically the Jingkun and Baohai corridors.
Summary: China's National Bureau of Statistics reports that profits for national-scale industrial enterprises increased by 18.2% year-on-year from January to April, an acceleration compared to the first quarter. Manufacturing profits saw a 20.4% increase during the same period, with equipment and high-tech manufacturing playing a leading role. Industrial operating income also grew steadily, while unit costs decreased. Profit growth was observed across various enterprise sizes and ownership types.
Summary: Vice Premier Liu Guozhong addressed the opening ceremony of the 2026 High-Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development in Beijing, highlighting China's poverty reduction achievements under Xi Jinping's leadership and its contributions to global poverty governance. Liu emphasized the importance of international cooperation in poverty reduction, proposing actions such as achieving the UN's 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, enhancing dialogue, promoting market and technological empowerment, and strengthening global governance systems. He noted China's initiative in establishing the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Partnership Alliance. Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Vongsey Vissoth, East Timor Deputy Prime Minister Sabino, and UN Secretary-General Guterres also participated in the opening ceremony. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: At a conference on deepening the study of Xi Jinping's military thought, Central Military Commission Vice Chairman Zhang Shengmin emphasized the need for the military to fully implement Xi's thought in preparation for the PLA's centennial anniversary. Zhang stressed solidifying ideological foundations, solving practical problems, and converting study into concrete action, including upholding the "Two Establishes" and the "Two Safeguards." He also called for improved methods of ideological education and strengthened propaganda. Leaders from various military departments and units participated in the meeting and exchanged research. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: At a State Council Information Office press conference, officials outlined plans for advancing the rule of law during the 15th Five-Year Plan period. Key initiatives include drafting laws on social assistance, medical security, and artificial intelligence, as stated by officials including Teng Jiguo, Huang Wei, Wu Zeng, Liu Guixiang, Yang Weilin, and Miao Shengming. Efforts to improve the business environment through standardized law enforcement and judicial oversight were emphasized. The development of legal service teams, including lawyers, will be accelerated to support economic and social development.
Summary: At a press conference on Chongqing's "15th Five-Year Plan," city officials emphasized the implementation of Xi Jinping's directives, aiming to establish Chongqing as a strategic pillar for western development and an inland hub for opening up. Chongqing plans to build a logistics hub economic zone, improve its transportation system to increase cargo volume through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), and explore breakthroughs in land trade rules. The city will also focus on advanced manufacturing, promoting technological innovation, and integrating manufacturing with modern services. The plan emphasizes improvements to employment, education, healthcare, and elderly and childcare services to improve the quality of life.
Summary: A recent meeting highlighted the importance of strengthening "six networks" including water networks, new power grids, computing power networks, and new generation communication networks to promote both economic development and security. China is accelerating the construction of a national water network by connecting national backbone networks with provincial, city, and county-level networks. These water network projects, including irrigation and water diversion, require large investments and create many jobs. The integrated water network is expected to promote water resource optimization, reduce economic operating costs, and support modern agriculture and ecological governance. By 2030, China aims to achieve a 98% penetration rate of tap water in rural areas nationwide.
Summary: The National Energy Administration has released the "China 'AI+' Energy Development Report 2026," the first annual report on the integration of AI and energy in China. The report highlights the rapid growth of electricity consumption driven by AI development and computing infrastructure. By 2025, China had established 42 large-scale AI computing clusters, with total electricity consumption of national computing centers reaching 170 billion kWh. The report notes that the eight major hub nodes of the national integrated computing network are the primary drivers of growth.
Summary: A Chinese poverty reduction project in Laos' Vientiane Prefecture, implemented by agricultural experts from Guangxi, has helped the village of Jinhua improve infrastructure and increase vegetable production through new farming techniques. The project introduced greenhouses, irrigation systems, and cold storage, and provided training to villagers, leading to increased incomes and improved living standards. Lao officials see the project as a model for poverty alleviation and seek continued cooperation with China in achieving national development goals. The project has helped solidify supply chains and sales relationships between the village and distributors. The good agricultural standards earned through the project has also helped improve export opportunities for the Lao farmers.
Summary: During his recent state visit to China, President Putin reaffirmed the high level of Russia-China relations under the strategic guidance of both heads of state. The visit included the release of a joint statement advocating for world multipolarization and a new type of international relations, emphasizing that their cooperation is aimed at maintaining global strategic stability rather than forming an alliance. Putin also met with someone he met in Beijing over 25 years ago. The author, the editor-in-chief of RT, highlighted the growing people-to-people ties and cultural exchanges, noting RT's expanding influence in China and various joint media projects. The leaders jointly attended the opening ceremony of the "Year of Russian-Chinese Education."
Summary: During a meeting in New York, Foreign Minister Wang Yi conveyed greetings from Chinese leaders to UN Secretary-General Guterres and expressed China's commitment to upholding the UN Charter and strengthening the UN-centered international system. Wang highlighted the significance of the high-level Security Council meeting initiated by China, emphasizing the need to reaffirm the UN's authority and multilateralism. Wang Yi also commended the UN's adherence to the One China Principle and invited Guterres to visit China later this year. Guterres thanked China for its support and expressed the UN's willingness to deepen cooperation with China in various areas, including international economic reform and climate change.
Summary: Politburo member Li Hongzhong met with a delegation from the European Parliament led by团长埃罗格鲁, stating that Xi Jinping's consensus with EU leaders last year provided direction for China-EU relations. Li expressed China's willingness to enhance communication, mutual trust, and mutually beneficial cooperation with the EU to address global challenges and promote the healthy development of China-EU relations. 埃罗格鲁 reciprocated, stating the EU's willingness to work with China to promote the development of EU-China relations. The meeting focused on strengthening cooperation between the two sides. The US was not mentioned.
Summary: To commemorate the 55th anniversary of diplomatic relations between China and Austria, the author, China's ambassador to Austria, highlights the deepening political trust, flourishing economic and trade cooperation, and active cultural exchanges between the two countries. Bilateral trade has increased over 400 times since the establishment of diplomatic ties, with over 650 Austrian companies investing in China. The article emphasizes that China and Austria, despite differences in ideology and development, can coexist harmoniously and achieve win-win cooperation, serving as partners in maintaining multilateralism. The ambassador expresses China's willingness to work with Austria to enrich their strategic partnership and further develop bilateral relations.
Summary: Politburo Member and Vice Premier He Lifeng met with German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Robert Habeck and German business representatives in Beijing. He Lifeng emphasized the strong foundation and potential of Sino-German economic and trade cooperation, urging both sides to strengthen traditional ties and explore new areas for collaboration. Habeck affirmed Germany's commitment to China as a reliable economic partner and expressed optimism about China's economic prospects and innovation. The meeting focused on deepening Sino-German economic and trade cooperation.
Summary: Central Political Bureau member and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission Chen Wenqing will attend the 14th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Affairs in Russia from May 27th to June 1st at the invitation of the Russian government. Following the conference, Chen will visit both Russia and Kazakhstan. The announcement was made by a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Summary: State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong met with Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov in Beijing on May 27th. Wang expressed China's desire to implement the consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen law enforcement and judicial exchanges, and enhance cooperation in combating transnational crime. He also highlighted the importance of close coordination on multilateral platforms to deepen law enforcement and judicial cooperation. Krasnov reciprocated, expressing willingness to consolidate practical cooperation in law enforcement and judicial fields to elevate bilateral relations. The two sides signed relevant cooperation documents.
Summary: A Chinese-Kyrgyz media cooperation forum was held in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, focusing on strengthening bilateral media ties for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation's (SCO) future. Approximately one hundred representatives from media, government, academia, and business discussed topics including trade, cultural exchange, and media cooperation. Participants emphasized the need for media to promote friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan. The forum also highlighted the role of SCO media in promoting the "Shanghai Spirit" and contributing to the SCO's development, including the Belt and Road Initiative. Agreements were signed between People's Daily and Kyrgyz media outlets to promote future cooperation.
Summary: National Committee of the CPPCC Vice Chairman Wang Dongfeng addressed Latin American and Caribbean ambassadors in Beijing, advocating for enhanced cooperation and the construction of a China-Latin America community with a shared future. He encouraged in-depth communication on strengthening cooperation and exchanges to promote the long-term development of China-Latin America relations. Ambassadors or representatives from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries participated in the event. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The fifth China-ASEAN People-to-People Friendship Organizations Leaders Meeting was held in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province on May 26th. The meeting focused on strengthening cooperation and friendship between China and ASEAN at the non-governmental level.
Summary: A "Red Study Tour" for Vietnamese youth, themed "Firmly Uphold Ideals and Work Together for Common Development," commenced in Yunnan's Honghe Prefecture on May 26th. The study camp, organized by the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League and Yunnan Normal University, with assistance from the Kunming and Honghe Youth League committees, hosts 200 young people from four Vietnamese provinces. The focus of the program is on ideals and collaborative growth. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: At a press conference, four representatives from immigration management discussed their work in maintaining border security and facilitating high-level opening up. Beijing border inspector Liu Yongqing highlighted the increasing recognition of China among foreigners due to expanded visa-free policies. Yunnan border police chief Zhang Qilei spoke on balancing border security with local development, while Guangzhou immigration official Wang Fan emphasized streamlining services for businesses. National Immigration Administration official Ouyang Yonggang discussed the implementation of smart technology like facial recognition to expedite border crossings, processing about 380,000 people daily.
Summary: Following extreme rainfall in Shimen County, Hunan, particularly affecting Jinjiahe Village, local officials and rescue teams mobilized to evacuate and assist residents. Township leader Liu Xin was among the first cadres to reach the isolated village, while firefighters from Changsha and Changde conducted search and rescue operations, including deploying drones and helicopters. Villagers were relocated to a temporary resettlement site in Dacheng Village, where they received food, shelter, and medical assistance. Party members from nearby villages also volunteered to help with disaster relief efforts. Local authorities are providing ongoing support to the affected population as they begin to recover from the disaster.
Summary: This article depicts villagers in Lujiang County, Hefei, Anhui Province, loading rice seedlings for mechanized planting. The scene highlights the use of technology and mechanization in rice cultivation, which is described as providing a guarantee for a plentiful harvest. The article focuses on domestic agricultural practices, and does not contain any mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Huawei's Director and President of the Semiconductor Business Department, He Tingbo, discussed the "Tao (τ) Law," a new principle focused on "time miniaturization" rather than geometric scaling in chip development, aiming to overcome the limitations of Moore's Law and external restrictions, which Huawei encountered earlier than its peers. He noted that Huawei has independently developed 381 chips under this principle in the past six years, with a new Kirin mobile chip set to be released this autumn, showing "leap" improvements and confidence in future advancements. He also mentioned that Huawei was essentially cut off from much of the global semiconductor industry, and had to return to fundamental sciences to innovate. He Tingbo emphasized Huawei's commitment to open collaboration and shared progress.
Summary: A State Council investigation team, led by Minister of Emergency Management Zhang Chengzhong, has been formed to investigate the "5.22" major gas explosion at the Shanxi Tongzhou Group Liushenyu Coal Mine in Changzhi, Shanxi. At the first plenary meeting, Zhang called for a thorough investigation into the causes of the accident, assigning responsibilities, and punishing violations according to the "four no-oversights" principle. The investigation will also focus on the implementation of the "eight hard measures" for mine safety and crackdown on illegal activities in key industries. The meeting participants observed a moment of silence for the victims of the explosion. Representatives from the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the National Supervisory Commission attended the meeting.
Summary: According to a report from the China Meteorological Administration, the National Early Warning Information Release System has issued 152,900 warnings this year as of May 25th, with a focus on severe weather events. The system, connecting national to county-level meteorological departments and over 20 other sectors, now delivers warnings within 3-8 minutes, utilizing targeted technology for faster delivery. Cao Zhiyu, chief expert at the Public Meteorological Service Center, stated that the system integrates GIS and multi-source location data for precise targeting of disaster-affected areas. To assist emergency response, six modules of weather information were integrated into the Ministry of Emergency Management's "Mobile Emergency" APP.
Summary: During a visit to Kazakhstan, Zhao Leji met with President Tokayev and parliamentary leaders, emphasizing China's commitment to strengthening the comprehensive strategic partnership, supporting each other's core interests, and advancing the Belt and Road Initiative. Zhao conveyed Xi Jinping's greetings and expressed China's desire to expand cooperation in various sectors, including energy, digital economy, and artificial intelligence. Tokayev affirmed Kazakhstan's adherence to the One China principle and support for Xi's global initiatives, highlighting the strong economic complementarity and potential for collaboration between the two countries. Zhao also discussed legislative cooperation with Kazakh parliamentary leaders, focusing on legal frameworks to support bilateral cooperation, and exchanged views on democratic governance and legislative quality. Kazakhstan expressed its support for China's position on Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet issues.
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Summary: The article discusses the structural changes in China's nearly 300 million-strong migrant worker population, as revealed in the 2023 monitoring survey, including shifts in age, region, and industry. It highlights the need for optimized policies and institutional innovation to protect migrant workers' rights, especially for the aging workforce, and to address structural imbalances in the labor force. The article suggests strengthening vocational training and public services to facilitate high-quality employment, while also promoting regional coordination. The article emphasizes that protecting the rights of laborers helps to modernize the industry, and make laborers happier and more productive. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
Summary: The article discusses the Chinese government's initiative to promote mutual-aid elderly care services, aiming to create a stable and reliable support network through refined institutional construction. The Ministry of Civil Affairs and 10 other departments jointly issued an "Opinions on Promoting the Development of Mutual-Aid Elderly Care Services," outlining goals, service models, and support systems. It highlights the importance of integrating community-based mutual assistance with professional support to address the challenges of an aging population, referencing examples such as Guizhou's three-tiered network and Guangzhou's "village party organization-led" mechanism. The initiative seeks to formalize informal support networks, ensuring sustainable and accessible elderly care services.
Summary: In the first quarter of this year, China saw a robust increase of 5.098 million new business entities. The service sector accounted for the vast majority of this growth, with 4.473 million new entities. This expansion signals strong market vitality and provides a solid foundation for the 15th Five-Year Plan. The agricultural and industrial sectors also saw increases, with 229,000 and 396,000 new entities respectively. The overall trend indicates stable and positive development for business entities in China.
Summary: This article discusses the concept of "cultural happiness" in Jilin Province, highlighting initiatives to make culture more accessible in both urban and rural settings. Examples include museums integrating cultural study with industry, orchestras performing in the streets, and farmers engaging in poetry. The piece emphasizes utilizing existing resources and public spaces to create accessible cultural spaces like libraries and community centers. It argues that integrating culture into daily life enhances people's sense of belonging and contributes to high-quality development. The article does not make mention of either the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing has implemented new regulations, the "Beijing Municipality Implementation Measures for the Filing and Management of Prepaid Funds for Single-Purpose Commercial Prepaid Cards," to prevent merchants from misusing customer prepayments. Businesses with prepaid card balances exceeding 200,000 RMB must register and manage funds in escrow, aiming to protect consumers from businesses closing or absconding with funds. This measure intends to foster trust between consumers and businesses.
Summary: The article emphasizes the importance of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance (政绩观) for cadres, focusing on ecological protection and the well-being of the people, not just economic figures. It criticizes instances of environmental negligence due to distorted performance evaluations and highlights the new "Meili China" (Beautiful China) assessment measures that link ecological achievements to cadre evaluations, promotions, and funding allocation. The article argues for life-long accountability for major decisions and incorporating public satisfaction into performance evaluations, especially in areas like healthcare, housing and environmental protection. The piece advocates for a system that aligns responsibility to superiors (对上负责) with accountability to the people (对下负责). There is no mention of the United States.
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Summary: The article highlights the socio-economic progress in Tibet since its "peaceful liberation" in 1951, referencing the People's Liberation Army's initial entry. It notes that in August 2025, Xi Jinping instructed the region to build a "united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modernized new Tibet". The report emphasizes economic development through specialized industries like tea and clean energy, improvements in healthcare access, and increased national unity, particularly in border regions. It quotes Wang Junzheng, the Party Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region, reaffirming the commitment to Xi's vision and high-quality development. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Sanjiang County in Guangxi is developing an "bamboo-for-plastic" industry, transforming local bamboo into automotive interior components. A local factory, Guangxi Kunyu New Materials Technology, processes bamboo into fiber for use in car parts. Sanjiang County is actively supporting this industry, constructing bamboo industrial parks and spurring local employment. SAIC-GM-Wuling has partnered with the International Center for Bamboo and Rattan to overcome technical challenges in using bamboo fiber. These bamboo-based components are now used in multiple vehicle models and are being exported to international markets such as Mexico and ASEAN.
Summary: China's transportation ministry reports steady growth in key economic indicators for the first four months of 2024. Cross-regional personnel flow increased by 2.1% year-on-year, reaching 23.21 billion trips. Commercial freight volume rose by 3.6% to 18.17 billion tons. Port cargo throughput grew by 3.1%, with foreign trade throughput experiencing a faster increase of 5.5%. Fixed asset investment in transportation remained high, driven by major projects.
Summary: The National Office for Water Conservation reports progress on national water budget management pilot programs, aiming to manage water resources with the same rigor as financial budgets. Twenty national and 78 provincial pilot programs are underway, with Ningxia and the Liao River basin leading the way. These pilots are establishing multi-tiered management frameworks and exploring market-based mechanisms for water conservation, such as water trading and "water banks." Financial incentives like subsidies and green finance are used to support water-saving initiatives in major water-consuming sectors. The initiative aims for more efficient allocation and finer management of water resources.
Summary: Li Guangdeng, a train driver on the China-Laos Railway, meticulously operates the "Lancang" bullet train, ensuring precise stops within a 20-centimeter margin. He developed a "station stop alignment operation method" and an "unconscious operation method" to manage the train's speed and stability across the railway's complex terrain. Li's techniques focused on minimizing passenger discomfort by carefully controlling traction and braking. He has received accolades for his skill and contributions to the safe operation of the China-Laos Railway. Li noted the railway has spurred tourism and development in his hometown.
Summary: A China-Central Asia freight train carrying nearly 1,000 tons of polyvinyl chloride departed from Xining, Qinghai, bound for Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. This marks the first time that goods produced on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have been directly transported to the ASEAN market by rail. The train will travel via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor, exiting through the Pingxiang port in Guangxi. The direct rail transport aims to reduce logistics time and costs, opening Southeast Asian markets for Qinghai's chemical and new materials industries.
Summary: Shanghai is aiming to become a hub for AI-assisted short video production ("AI+微短剧") through new policies from its Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism. These measures focus on strengthening the industry, improving services, and promoting industry clustering. The policies include building technical support systems, supporting script and content creation, attracting talent, optimizing review processes, and establishing industry alliances. A micro-drama export base will be established in Pudong, and AI micro-drama industrial clusters will be built in Xuhui, Yangpu, and Minhang districts.
Summary: China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has officially released two mandatory national standards, "Safety Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules" and "Nameplate Identification Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules." The "Safety Requirements" standard outlines safety specifications for photovoltaic modules, including electrical, mechanical, and fire safety, as well as restrictions on hazardous materials, aiming to reduce fire risks. The "Nameplate Identification Requirements" standard addresses power "over-labeling" by standardizing component nameplate electrical performance parameters and traceability. These standards are intended to standardize competition within the photovoltaic industry and promote industrial upgrading.
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Summary: China's industrial profits for firms above a designated size increased by 18.2% year-on-year from January to April, with a 24.7% increase in April alone, signaling a rebound in the industrial economy. Industries related to new energy, AI, and semiconductors experienced substantial growth, with companies like Hengtong Optic-Electric benefiting from strong demand for optical fibers driven by AI computing infrastructure. However, rising raw material and energy costs, partially driven by international factors, continue to impact downstream industries unevenly, requiring attention to industry-specific challenges and supply chain coordination. The article also mentions that international geopolitical conflicts have an uneven impact on different industrial enterprises in China. There is no discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese agricultural machinery exports to Central Asia are increasing due to their advanced technology and reliability, with companies like Weichai Lovol and China Yituo tailoring products to the region's needs. Weichai Lovol's Vice General Manager Dong Shukui noted that tractors and harvesting machinery have been improved to withstand high temperatures and dusty conditions, including the addition of BeiDou/GPS navigation systems. China Yituo is also expanding through component exports and overseas assembly, reducing delivery times to countries like Kazakhstan. According to China Yituo's relevant person, the company is also providing training and support to local workers in assembly plants, contributing to increased sales and job creation. China's agricultural machinery exports to Belt and Road countries increased by 30.4% year on year in the first quarter of this year.
Summary: Chinese agricultural machinery companies are expanding into new markets, particularly in Central Asia, by focusing on user needs and offering smart agricultural equipment. These companies are adapting to specific operational environments and user habits by enhancing power system adaptability and providing technical support. This approach involves both exporting complete machines and assembling components locally, transferring skills abroad, and fostering a mutually beneficial business philosophy. By addressing user demands and embracing diverse markets, Chinese manufacturers are expanding globally.
Summary: According to this article, China's "Private Economy Promotion Law" which came into effect in May 2025, is intended to stabilize market expectations and boost the confidence of private enterprises. The law aims to address issues like financing difficulties and encourage technological innovation through legal support and favorable policies. The author, Chairman of Seres Auto, highlights Seres' own increased R&D investment and collaboration with companies like Huawei as examples of how the law fosters innovation and development. The article suggests that the law creates a fair, transparent, and stable legal environment, encouraging private companies to invest in building a modern industrial system. The author advocates for continued investment in science and technology.
Summary: The second domestically built large cruise ship, "Adora Magic City," successfully completed its sea trial and docked in Shanghai, moving closer to its November 6, 2026 delivery date. The 12-day sea trial comprehensively verified the ship's handling performance, automated operation, safety, comfort standards, and environmental emissions. This trial achieved 149 items in one go, unlike the usual two-part trial of its kind. The construction of "Adora Magic City" saw a comprehensive upgrade in digitalization, improving overall construction efficiency by 20% compared to the first ship. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The 2026 Fifth China (Ganzhou) Permanent Magnet Motor Industry Innovation and Development Conference was recently held in Ganzhou, Jiangxi, co-sponsored by several organizations including the Jiangxi Science and Technology Association and the Ganzhou government. The conference aimed to foster cross-sector collaboration among enterprises, research institutions, and investment firms in the permanent magnet motor industry. Eleven projects were signed with a total value of 14.85 billion yuan, and four technology transfer projects were presented, covering fields like permanent magnet materials. The event sought to promote an open, shared, and innovative industrial ecosystem. There was no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A professor from South China Agricultural University, Wu Zhenxian, clarified that the practice of soaking lychees in water is a standard pre-cooling method to preserve freshness after harvesting, not a chemical treatment as speculated online. This pre-cooling process, often done with cold or ice water, helps reduce the fruit's temperature and slow down spoilage during transportation. Modern technologies like modified atmosphere storage and ultra-low temperature freezing have further extended the shelf life of lychees. Consumers are advised to purchase lychees from reputable sources and be wary of products priced significantly below market value, with local market regulators cracking down on false advertising and counterfeit products.
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Summary: A recent investigation across multiple Chinese cities reveals persistent issues with the management of shared bikes, including haphazard parking obstructing traffic and safety hazards. The problem is exacerbated by competition among companies leading to oversupply and insufficient maintenance personnel. Experts suggest that multiple management entities make coordination difficult, and that some cities are attempting to solve this problem by setting standards for companies' labor investment into maintenance. Some cities are also experimenting with technology-based solutions. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A hospital director details their institution's approach to medical assistance in Tibet's Ngari region and other areas. They emphasize a shift from simply providing medical services ("blood transfusion") to building local capacity ("blood generation") by training local doctors and improving hospital infrastructure. This includes customized training programs, remote diagnostics, and sending local doctors for further study. The goal is to create self-sufficient regional medical centers capable of treating common and major illnesses without requiring patients to travel long distances. The director also highlights similar efforts in other regions like Heilongjiang and Xinjiang.
Summary: A joint exercise led by the National Fire and Rescue Administration's Daqing Aviation Rescue Brigade was conducted in Daqing, Heilongjiang province, simulating disaster response scenarios with disrupted infrastructure. The exercise tested an integrated "air-space-ground" emergency communication system utilizing helicopter deployment, communication network setup, and drone reconnaissance. The drill aimed to improve cross-unit coordination in air-ground rescue operations. The exercise did not include discussion of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Beijing has launched the "Welcome Students Home 2026" initiative, inviting young talent back to the city with promises of extensive support. The initiative includes plans for 30,000 units of affordable housing for young professionals, a 30 billion yuan youth talent development fund, and the creation of a "Beijing Subway Line 10 Talent Vitality Ring." The city is offering financial rewards and services through the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition, start-up funds for student ventures, recognition of overseas professional qualifications, and subsidies for international students. Beijing aims to attract global youth through international talent forums, online recruitment events, and other activities.
Summary: The Neijiang city in Sichuan province has initiated "Sweet City Afternoon Tea" business service days, allowing entrepreneurs to freely attend, voice concerns, and leave as needed. Party Secretary Feng Faguei emphasized the importance of addressing business needs efficiently, without requiring attendees to stay for the entire meeting. The initiative includes video conferencing for remote participation and aims to streamline government services, exemplified by officials directly addressing concerns on-site, even arranging for officials to attend immediately if they are not present. This effort intends to improve the business environment and increase economic activity within the region. There is no mention of the U.S. or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Liaoning Province is implementing a three-year action plan to standardize and improve court enforcement work, including cross-execution across 127 intermediate and grassroots courts, involving 4,403 cases and 313 million RMB recovered. The plan includes operational guidelines covering 12 categories and 27 specific tasks to regulate law enforcement behavior. "Warm Winter Enforcement" and "Protecting Enterprises and Warming Hearts" campaigns resulted in 374 million RMB recovered in livelihood-related and wage arrears cases, and 2.902 billion RMB recovered in cases involving enterprises from January to April. These actions aim to ensure procedural transparency, substantive justice, and to support economic development.
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Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of establishing a scientific performance evaluation system for cadres, guided by a correct view of performance. It stresses aligning political standards, the people's interests, and high-quality development in the evaluation process. The piece advocates for a shift from solely focusing on economic growth to a more comprehensive assessment including innovation, environmental sustainability, and social welfare. Furthermore, it calls for differentiated evaluations based on regional and departmental contexts, incorporating both short-term and long-term achievements, and strengthening supervision to ensure fairness and prevent abuse of power. The article also underscores the need to link evaluation results to cadre promotion, training, and accountability, thus incentivizing cadres to pursue tangible and sustainable results that benefit the people and contribute to China's modernization.
Summary: Taicang, Jiangsu province, has become a hub for German companies, attracting over 560 firms since 1993, with many expanding their investments. The city's success is attributed to its Sino-German vocational training programs, which provide skilled labor, and its supportive business environment, with streamlined processes for foreign companies. Taicang is actively promoting itself as a model for Sino-German cooperation through enhanced exchanges in trade, environmental protection, culture and sports. The city has established German-themed cultural amenities and lifestyle options to attract and retain German professionals. The article does not mention the United States.
Summary: The article discusses the rising popularity of "micro-vacations" (微度假) in China, characterized by their proximity, short duration, and low cost. These short getaways, often within a 1-3 hour radius, cater to a desire for relaxation and immersive experiences closer to home, moving away from traditional "checklist tourism." Local governments are actively promoting "micro-vacations" through culturally integrated events and creative use of local spaces. The trend reflects a shift towards prioritizing relaxation and accessible travel within daily life. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Guangdong province has issued new standards for the construction of regional and local botanical gardens. Zhejiang province launched a city swimming league. Taiyuan, Shanxi announced a plan to construct numerous small "pocket parks" over the next five years. Ningdu County in Jiangxi has hired delivery drivers as food safety supervisors. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in this article.
Summary: China's first barbecue industry college, the Yueyang Barbecue Academy in Hunan, recently graduated its inaugural class of 30 students, selected from over 4,000 applicants, who received professional certifications after a month-long training program. The curriculum blends theoretical knowledge of barbecue techniques, business management, and new media operations with hands-on training from experienced chefs and practical experience in local barbecue restaurants. The academy aims to support the region's growing barbecue industry, which currently boasts over 3,000 establishments and an annual output exceeding 3 billion yuan. No mention was made of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Chinese researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China have developed a method using integrated digital technology and 3D printing to cast bronze artifacts in two days, significantly faster than the traditional two-month method. This technique replicates the ancient "mold-making" process digitally, offering higher precision and reduced reliance on high-temperature equipment. The resulting bronze artifacts retain key features like pouring gates and mold lines, crucial for understanding ancient techniques. The development was demonstrated by Dr. Fan Anchuang with a replica of a Shang Dynasty bronze ding.
Summary: Beijing's Beihai Park and other parks are adorning tree cavities with paintings of animals like pandas and owls to enhance the visitor experience. According to a senior engineer at Beihai Park, this initiative aims to provide "emotional value" to visitors without harming the trees. Experts claim that the process, when conducted properly, protects the tree while adding aesthetic value. Parks are ensuring that tree holes near the water which would be used by birds are left unpainted and unblocked.
Summary: This article profiles Zhang Shuqiong, a 55-year-old former hairdresser in Chongqing's Dadukou district, who provides affordable haircuts to elderly residents in the Sunshine Community. After closing her shop to care for her grandchild, Zhang began offering her services to homebound seniors at the request of the community, eventually settling on a fee of 5 yuan per haircut. She now serves many of the elderly residents of the community, who appreciate the service. She provides her services either in their homes or in the community garden.
Summary: The article addresses recurring consumer concerns regarding the safety and nature of watermelons. It clarifies that increased sweetness is due to optimized breeding and cultivation techniques, not artificial sweeteners. The article further debunks the myth that seedless watermelons are genetically modified, explaining they are a product of chromosome manipulation. Claims regarding watermelon consumed with peaches and overnight watermelon being lethal are also addressed as being scientifically unfounded. The article notes the origin of the watermelon is traced to Africa, and was first used for seeds and water.
Summary: A mango tasting and selection event was held in Sanya, Hainan, where 56 new mango varieties were evaluated by experts, growers, buyers, and local citizens. Four varieties – "Re Nong No. 5," "Re Nong No. 18," "Re Nong No. 37," and "Rui Hua No. 3" – were selected for their suitability for local cultivation and superior qualities. These new varieties are expected to support the upgrading of Sanya's mango industry, which covers 430,000 mu and produces 500,000 tons annually, valued at nearly 6 billion yuan.
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Summary: Tianjin University, in collaboration with multiple institutions, has developed a "digital fingerprint" technology to enhance the security and identification of cultural relics, addressing the challenge of ensuring "it is it". This technology creates a unique, non-detachable identifier by analyzing microscopic surface textures, moving away from reliance on expert judgment. The system has been piloted at museums like the Hunan Provincial Museum, which plans to record "fingerprints" for over 1000 relics. The technology also includes a "cultural relic doctor" function, which utilizes AI and visual technology to monitor the condition and changes in cultural relics over time, with applications in locations like the Mogao Grottoes. This system aims to provide a way to authenticate cultural artifacts, something that could become important as cultural exchanges with other countries, including the U.S., continue.
Summary: This article discusses the evolving approach to intangible cultural heritage (非遗) protection in China, moving from rescue and original preservation to a systematic approach. This systematic protection emphasizes the interconnectedness of non-material cultural heritage with its social, cultural, and natural environment, requiring interdisciplinary perspectives. The rise in popularity of "non-material cultural heritage" has led to the creation of relevant majors in universities, with the goal of fostering specialists who can support the continued vitality of non-material cultural heritage. The application of digital technologies is also emphasized for revitalizing and preserving non-material cultural heritage. The piece argues that this holistic, interdisciplinary approach is crucial for ensuring the continued relevance and dynamism of China's non-material cultural heritage.
Summary: The article reports that Shijiazhuang No. 45 Middle School in Hebei Province is implementing various stress-reduction activities to help senior high school students relax and maintain a positive attitude as the *Gaokao* approaches. These activities are intended to complement exam preparation efforts. A photograph shows students releasing paper airplanes on May 27th as part of these initiatives. The article makes no mention of specific officials accompanying these activities, nor does it discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Institute of Archaeology held a conference releasing numerous research findings, including 13 archaeological reports, 21 monographs, datasets, and popular science publications, and over 30 significant papers in authoritative journals. The publications covered various historical periods and highlighted discoveries such as the Zhenren family cemetery in Anyang, providing valuable primary data for researchers. A special monograph systematically reviews the high-quality development of Chinese archaeology over the past 10 years, summarizing achievements in various fields. CASS has also been actively involved in international joint archaeological projects in countries like Egypt, Honduras, and Uzbekistan, with a recent project launched in Greece.
Summary: The Dunhuang Research Academy's "Searching Dunhuang - Immersive Exhibition of Digital Dunhuang" is attracting visitors by using VR to allow them to explore the Mogao Grottoes, specifically Cave 285. The exhibit digitizes the cave, allowing visitors to examine details often missed during traditional tours. Han Xue of the Dunhuang Research Academy's team emphasizes that the goal is to help visitors "understand" rather than "decorate" Dunhuang, transforming the art into a more accessible visual language. Visitors can also create videos of themselves interacting with virtual cave settings and share AR photos on social media. Since its launch in September 2023, the exhibition has attracted over 80,000 participants.
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Summary: Kaojiang, a national catering brand known for its grilled fish and black bean curd, held a "Rural Revitalization Order Agriculture Signing Ceremony and Green Kernel Black Bean Planting Festival" with its partner, Li Chuanfang, in Inner Mongolia. The event involved experts from the Tongliao Academy of Agricultural and Pastoral Sciences and representatives from the local agricultural bureau. Kaojiang's order agriculture model aims to create a stable supply chain and support rural revitalization by directly connecting with black bean farmers. By guaranteeing purchase prices and quantities, Kaojiang helps farmers overcome sales concerns and optimize planting structures. Kaojiang plans to order 1,200 tons of black beans from 7,000 acres in 2026 to meet the demands of its restaurants.
Summary: The article discusses the "15th Five-Year Plan" and its emphasis on early screening and intervention for childhood myopia, obesity, autism, and other health issues. Zhu Gaohui from Chongqing Medical University's Children's Hospital highlights that childhood obesity is primarily caused by overeating and lack of exercise. Zhu Jianfeng from the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center notes the high prevalence and increasing severity of myopia among children, emphasizing environmental factors like insufficient outdoor time and excessive screen use. The article advocates for lifestyle changes, including diet and exercise, to combat obesity and myopia, as well as early detection and intervention to protect children's health. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: A graduate student at Lanzhou University, Feng Zidong, thanked the university's security department in his thesis defense for tacitly allowing elderly scavengers to enter the campus to earn a living. Feng noted that the elderly would often clean up around the trash cans and expressed hope to provide assistance to those in need in the future, inspired by this display of kindness and responsibility. He regards this scene as an important lesson taught by Lanzhou University. The article argues this teaches students about balancing rules and empathy, fostering social responsibility, and planting seeds of humanistic care. This small act of kindness represents a young person's commitment to society.
Summary: China's National Healthcare Security Administration (NHSA) has publicized six cases of pharmacies fraudulently using medical insurance funds, discovered during a nationwide inspection that began on May 14, 2026. The violations include substituting non-medical products for covered medications, reselling "returned drugs" (回流药) for profit, and improper use of social security cards. One pharmacy in Hainan even intentionally damaged network cables to obstruct investigators. The NHSA emphasized its commitment to cracking down on illegal activities involving medical insurance funds and urged participants to regulate their medical treatment. The report did not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Li Cang District Qingfeng Road Kindergarten in Qingdao, Shandong Province, held a "Fun Games to Welcome 'June 1st'" themed event. Children participated in traditional games such as touhu (pitch-pot), "beating the duck," and "chasing chickens into cages." The activities aimed to celebrate International Children's Day with joy and laughter. The event was captured in a photograph by Zhang Ying. There is no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations in the article.
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Summary: Chinese athlete Yan Ziyi set a new Asian record in women's javelin at the Diamond League meet in Xiamen with a throw of 71.74 meters. Other Chinese athletes, including Wang Shengjie and Liu Kai, gained valuable experience competing against top international athletes. The athletes are using these competitions to prepare for the upcoming Asian Games and future world championships, including the 2025 and 2027 events to be held in China. The team's ultimate goal is the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. The article did not mention the United States.
Summary: Capital University of Physical Education and Sports Professor Guo Jianjun cautioned against the indiscriminate use of sports supplements, emphasizing they are not necessary for everyone and should be used judiciously based on individual needs and exercise intensity. Guo stated that supplements should complement, not replace, a balanced diet. He highlighted the different types of supplements, such as protein powders and electrolyte drinks, and their appropriate usage scenarios, warning that supplements are not daily food and individuals with liver, kidney, or heart problems, or with chronic diseases, should consult a doctor before use. Guo advised that supplements should be taken at appropriate times, such as whey protein within 30 minutes after exercise, and that adolescents should be cautious about consuming energy drinks that contain caffeine. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: The Chinese paragliding team won the team championship at the 2026 Paragliding Accuracy World Cup in Prilep, North Macedonia. Chinese athletes also swept the top three spots in the individual competition. Kong Xiangyan secured a silver medal in the women's division. The team's victory was attributed to their tactical coordination, stable aerial control, and precise landing accuracy. The article makes no mention of the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Goldfish, a brand of Yihai Kerry Food Marketing Co., Ltd., has renewed its partnership with the Chinese Olympic Committee, becoming the official grain and oil product sponsor for the 2026-2029 COC and the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics Chinese delegation. Goldfish has been ranked first in edible oil, rice, and flour in the China Brand Power Index (C-BPI). The company emphasizes its commitment to quality and responsibility since becoming the exclusive edible oil supplier for the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Goldfish has supplied the Olympics for 20 years, and now provides specialized nutrition programs for national teams. They also utilize blockchain technology to ensure quality and traceability.
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Summary: The 2026 World Intelligence Expo, co-hosted by the Tianjin and Chongqing Municipal Governments, will focus on cutting-edge intelligent technologies and industrial development trends. Tianjin aims to promote AI technology breakthroughs and applications, focusing on areas like brain-computer interfaces and big data models. The expo will showcase advancements in intelligent manufacturing, including applications in logistics, port operations, and infrastructure inspection, as well as the integration of AI in healthcare, education, and daily life. Tianjin is also developing a complete information technology application innovation industry chain. The expo aims to present a comprehensive picture of AI's impact "from foundation to terminal, from industry to life".
Summary: Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA) is developing a humanoid robot industry cluster, aiming for a scale of 18 billion yuan by 2028, according to TEDA Administrative Committee Director Hong Shicong. TEDA focuses on attracting talent and projects to accelerate the industrialization of embodied intelligence, supported by policies outlined in the "TEDA Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Action Plan." Atom Robotics is developing the "Tianbing-1" robot with high load capacity and precision for industrial applications, according to Atom Robotics Chairman Liu Songtao. TEDA is building platforms, fostering ecosystems, and promoting applications in areas like industrial, underwater, inspection, medical, and humanoid robots, according to TEDA Policy Research Office Director Wang Bin. TEDA is also partnering with companies like Yu Shu Technology to establish joint innovation centers, aiming to bridge the gap between research and production.
Summary: Tianjin XinSong Intelligent Technology and DeKuang Jiuding (Tianjin) Technology are highlighted as examples of companies thriving in the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Science and Technology City due to its focus on innovation and support policies. XinSong, specializing in intelligent mining equipment, has developed a "Mining Power System Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Solution" that improves hazard detection and reduces maintenance costs. DeKuang Jiuding focuses on high-end mining cooling equipment and intelligent gas drainage systems, collaborating with universities for research and development. Both companies benefit from the coordinated development model between Beijing, Hebei, and Tianjin. The Science and Technology City has attracted over 2,000 business entities and is focusing on new-generation information technology, high-end equipment, and new materials.
Summary: Huahai Qingke, an integrated circuit equipment company in Tianjin's Jinnan district, is focusing on resolving challenges related to particle residue and defects on wafers post-processing, supported by local government policies and industrial park development. Jinnan district has established the Haihe Integrated Circuit Equipment Industrial Park, attracting companies in equipment manufacturing, materials research, and other related fields, creating a cluster around Huahai Qingke. The park achieved a total output value of 5.43 billion yuan in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 16.14%. Jinnan aims to further develop its manufacturing base and cultivate AI and intelligent connected industries by integrating the Haihe Education Park, Tiankai Jinnan Park, and Jinnan Economic Development Zone. Zhan Ting, Party Secretary and Director of the Jinnan District Industry and Information Technology Bureau, discussed the district's plans to build AI technology supply and intelligent network clusters.
Summary: The "Smart Robot Carnival," a concurrent event to the 2026 World Intelligent Industry Expo, will be held in Tianjin, showcasing various robotic technologies and applications across 20 scenarios including industrial logistics, elderly care, and underwater rescue. The carnival will feature robot competitions, interactive experiences like robot calligraphy and dog interaction, and a smart consumption market. Sixteen teams from universities and leading enterprises will compete in robot soccer, boxing, and obstacle courses. The event aims to provide an immersive "future journey" for citizens and tourists, emphasizing interactive experiences with robots and intelligent vehicles. The article does not contain any references to the United States or to U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: China Construction Bank (CCB) has launched the "Good Construction, Intelligent Manufacturing" service plan to support China's "15th Five-Year Plan" and strengthen the manufacturing sector. CCB will focus on six key areas: long-term financing, technological innovation, transformation and upgrading, industrial chains, industrial clusters, and cross-border development. The bank is actively supporting companies in equipment upgrades and technological innovation. CCB is also facilitating cross-border financing for companies like Geely and Singapore Golden Eagle Group, including overseas mergers and acquisitions. As of the first quarter of 2024, CCB's manufacturing loans exceeded 4 trillion yuan, with a year-to-date increase of nearly 600 billion yuan.
Summary: Trade between China and ASEAN reached 2.75 trillion yuan in the first four months of this year, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%. China has been ASEAN's largest trading partner for 17 consecutive years, and ASEAN has been China's largest for 6 consecutive years. China and ASEAN are focused on building a comprehensive interconnected network and improving cooperation mechanisms. The upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (FTA) 3.0 agreement includes digital and green economies, as well as supply chain connectivity, while RCEP provides a rules-based environment. ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn emphasized that the upgraded FTA supports new areas such as digital trade and e-commerce.
Summary: A surge of interest in rural China is trending on overseas social media, with foreign bloggers showcasing authentic scenes of rural life, countering Western narratives portraying China as backward or a threat. This trend highlights China's blend of modernization and traditional rural life, challenging pre-existing perceptions. International observers are noting China's success in rural development, offering a new development model compared to the challenges faced by some Western nations. Improved infrastructure and convenient access to rural areas are facilitating this shift in perception, promoting tourism and understanding. Media outlets are praising China's approach, emphasizing its potential for sustainable development and cultural preservation.
Summary: Here's a summary of the articles, tailored for analysts of Chinese politics: * **UN Secretary-General Guterres** warned that international law is being dangerously eroded, citing challenges to principles like sovereignty and territorial integrity at a UN Security Council meeting. * **Japan's parliament** passed a bill establishing the "National Intelligence Conference" to strengthen intelligence gathering under the Prime Minister's leadership, sparking social concerns about potential suppression of dissenting voices and restrictions on civilian exchanges with neighboring countries. * **NASA** unveiled a roadmap for building a lunar base in three phases, aiming for sustained human presence and resource utilization on the moon to facilitate future Mars missions.
Summary: The New Industrial Revolution Partnership City Network was officially launched at the BRICS Forum on the New Industrial Revolution in Xiamen, China. Initiated by 11 cities across BRICS nations and others, including Xiamen, Nanjing, and Wuhan, the network aims to foster cooperation in areas like green development, digital transformation, and talent cultivation. The network will establish a regular liaison mechanism and share innovative resources to create a new platform for transnational city cooperation. The forum, co-hosted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and the Fujian Provincial Government, focuses on building a smart manufacturing ecosystem and accelerating the new industrial revolution.
Summary: Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers presented the 2026-2027 federal budget to Parliament, focusing on energy security, inflation, and productivity amid global energy supply instability. The budget anticipates lower GDP growth (1.75%) and higher unemployment (4.5%) due to the impact of global oil supply fluctuations on the Australian economy. To combat these challenges, the government plans to invest A$14.8 billion in fuel security and supply chain resilience, as well as tax relief and infrastructure investments. Financial institutions have offered mixed reviews, with some highlighting potential benefits from tax and productivity reforms, while others expressed concerns that the budget could exacerbate inflation. The budget does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: This article summarizes insights from three CPPCC National Committee members (Guo Kunyu, Zhang Zhentao, and Yao Lijun) on strengthening basic research in China. The experts emphasized the need to focus on key strategic directions, encourage researchers to explore uncharted territories, and integrate education, technology, and talent development. They suggested optimizing the talent cultivation mechanism, promoting collaboration between universities and enterprises, and increasing support for young researchers. The experts also called for improved evaluation mechanisms that de-emphasize publication metrics, alongside a more tolerant environment for research failures to foster innovation. They stress that basic research should support the security and controllability of the industrial chain, in the face of global high-tech competition, and address "chokehold" technologies.
Summary: A member of the CPPCC National Committee, also the vice chief planner of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design, conducted research in Shanxi province on the preservation and revitalization of historical and cultural cities, blocks, and villages. The research found that local cadres and residents are increasingly aware of the need to protect cultural heritage, but contradictions exist between improving living standards and preserving historical character. The official suggests adopting tailored approaches that empowers residents, refines existing regulatory mechanisms and controls commercial density, particularly focusing on retaining original residents to preserve local culture and authenticity. The official emphasized the need to balance preservation with improving living conditions and offered suggestions for technological upgrades and community involvement in urban renewal projects. The official stressed that successful urban renewal should prioritize preserving local culture and authenticity for future generations.
Summary: The Chinese Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee (民革中央) has proposed a plan to synergize green computing power and electricity to promote the green transformation of the digital economy and achieve carbon neutrality goals. The proposal highlights issues such as mismatched power resources and computing power demand and suggests strengthening top-level design by creating a national plan for coordinated green computing and electricity development. It advocates for market-oriented reforms linking computing power and electricity prices, promoting green electricity consumption through carbon trading mechanisms, and establishing regional collaborative development via green computing clusters in western regions. The plan also calls for financial support, talent development, and improved security mechanisms.
Summary: CPPCC member and Yunnan Business College Executive Principal Li Xiaoxuan is advocating for deeper integration of vocational education with industry, emphasizing collaborative efforts between schools, businesses, and government. He submitted proposals during the Two Sessions focused on improving college graduate employment, including financial support for job search resources and reducing costs for students. Li proposes increasing financial support for college employment services, particularly in ethnic minority and underdeveloped areas, to better connect graduates with local opportunities and address structural employment issues. He highlighted the need for updated employment platforms and financial aid for travel and accommodation costs associated with job seeking. His research included surveys and interviews conducted across multiple provinces to understand challenges in higher education and employment.
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Summary: From March 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate initiated a nationwide campaign to supervise irregular law enforcement and profit-driven judicial practices, addressing concerns raised by businesses. One case involved the illegal freezing of over 80 million yuan in company funds across provinces, which was later rectified through prosecutorial oversight. Another case involved the quashing of a criminal case related to overdue loans after the prosecutor found that the loan was used for legitimate purposes. A foreign company was involved in a case where over detention of assets was supervised. These cases highlight efforts to protect business interests and promote a law-based business environment, focusing on issues like cross-regional enforcement, criminalization of civil disputes, and overzealous asset seizures.
Summary: The article discusses the importance of proactive judicial protection for minors in China, emphasizing prevention, intervention, and long-term solutions. It highlights the use of AI technology in schools to identify and address potential issues like bullying. Courts are encouraged to work with schools, families, and other organizations to create a comprehensive protective environment for children, including addressing family education and online risks. The article also mentions the establishment of specialized records for minors facing legal issues, which include growth trajectories and support plans. Ultimately, the article calls for optimized collaboration between families, schools, society, networks, and the government to create a protected environment for minors in China.
Summary: A Shanghai court ruled that an insurance company must compensate a cyclist, Pan, for damages caused when a car passenger, Du, opened a door into his path. The driver, Dong, was also held liable for failing to ensure passenger safety before Du exited the vehicle. The court determined that the insurance company was responsible for the full amount within the policy limits, rejecting their argument to only cover 50% of the damages based on shared responsibility between the driver and passenger. A forthcoming interpretation by the Supreme People's Court, effective June 30, 2026, will further clarify insurance liability in "dooring" accidents, ensuring that victims can claim from insurers up to policy limits before pursuing further damages from the passenger and driver. The article does not discuss the United States or U.S.-China relations.
Summary: Since 2025, the Ke'erqin branch of the Tongliao Public Security Bureau in Inner Mongolia has been using technology to innovate policing, constructing an integrated air-ground intelligent patrol and prevention system that includes drones, police patrol vehicles, and robotic dogs. This system is used for routine patrols, security at industrial parks, and even for large events such as the "Mengchao" soccer league, which has seen crowds exceeding 40,000. The smart policing system also integrates data to quickly solve criminal cases, such as a recent theft, and to identify potential safety hazards in industrial areas. The system integrates data to identify risks and allocate resources, significantly improving police efficiency. The article does not mention the United States or U.S.-China relations.
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Summary: The artistic director and lead actor of the TV series "Protagonist," Zhang Jiayi, along with director Li Shaofei, discussed the eight-year journey of adapting the novel for the screen. Zhang emphasized the importance of meticulous script development and the dedication to portraying each character authentically, regardless of screen time. Li highlighted the adjustments made to the script to enhance the narrative and character development. Both stressed the need for actors to immerse themselves in the lives of their characters to achieve genuine performances, and to avoid formulaic or "fake" acting.
Summary: The author, the head writer for the TV series "Family Business," discusses the show's focus on showcasing traditional Chinese culture, specifically the art of徽墨 ink making, within a family drama. The series aims to explore themes of family values and the impact of family traditions on both individual lives and wider society, set against the backdrop of mid-Ming Dynasty Huizhou. The author emphasizes the importance of presenting authentic cultural details, drawing from historical research and collaboration with cultural experts. The narrative also explores the consequences of differing family values, from integrity to opportunism, within a "家国同构" framework. The author aims to convey the enduring strength and warmth of traditional Chinese culture through the show.
Summary: The lyricist of the song "Brewing Tea under the Moon," popular after its feature in the film "An嬤's Love Letter," discusses the song's inspiration and success. The author, originally from Shantou, Guangdong, found inspiration in local culture and daily life after moving to Beijing. They emphasize the importance of authentic emotional expression and believe that local culture can resonate universally. The author also reflects on their work in promoting Chinese music internationally and highlights the need to revitalize traditional culture by connecting it with contemporary emotions and aesthetics.
Summary: The article discusses the transformative potential of AI in China's online literature and content creation industries, arguing it lowers barriers to visual adaptation and empowers individual creators. AI is portrayed as a tool that expands IP adaptation and facilitates the global dissemination of Chinese culture by overcoming translation limitations. However, the piece emphasizes the importance of maintaining human creativity and originality, clarifying the role of AI as an assistant rather than a replacement for human authors. It calls for addressing new challenges to the copyright system by AI, especially in data, ownership, and creator protection. The article frames AI as democratizing content creation, similar to the rise of online literature.
Summary: The dance drama "Wang Yangming" focuses on Wang Yangming's life, particularly his "Longchang Enlightenment," using dance to express his emotional and intellectual journey. The drama employs a narrative structure that intertwines the adult and teenage Wang Yangming to illustrate his transformation and philosophical development. Key scenes, such as his defiance at court and subsequent exile, are depicted through symbolic imagery and movement. The play aims to capture Wang Yangming's intellectual awakening amidst hardship and connection with the common people. The creators intend to tour the performance in areas of Wang Yangming's life.
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By: 本报记者 吴 丹
On April 30th, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out at the symposium on strengthening basic research: "We must promote the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent, and do a good job in cultivation, introduction, and utilization in all aspects," and "Optimize the collaborative education mechanism of science and education, and focus on discovering and cultivating talents on the front line of scientific research."
When "science and technology are the primary productive forces, talent is the primary resource, and innovation is the primary driving force" becomes a consensus, how can we promote its rooting and inject surging momentum into development?
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) profoundly understands the general trend of the times and made an important judgment: "In the new era and new journey, we must deeply grasp the needs of Chinese-style modernization for education, science and technology, and talent, strengthen the supporting role of education for science and technology and talent, and further form a vivid situation in which talents emerge in large numbers, everyone gives full play to their talents, and their talents are fully utilized."
Drawing a long-term vision, paying attention to consistency.
In "Getting Rid of Poverty," the relationship between the three is clarified: "The economy relies on science and technology, science and technology rely on talent, and talent relies on education." In the report to the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, education, science and technology, and talent were for the first time elaborated as a special chapter and deployed as a whole, pointing out the direction of development.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines the inclusion of "the basic formation of an integrated development pattern of education, science and technology, and talent" into the economic and social development goals and tasks during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, and proposes "promoting the integrated development of education, science and technology, and talent."
Education, science and technology, and talent are the fundamental and strategic support for building a socialist modern country in an all-round way. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) constantly thinks and leads the construction of a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent in practice.
How to view and how to do the integrated promotion of education, science and technology, and talent development?
This is an inevitable move to seize the opportunities of a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation.
When visiting campuses and talking about innovation, the General Secretary earnestly exhorted - "Today, the development of the cause of the Party and the country needs higher education, scientific knowledge and outstanding talents more urgently than ever before." "Major original innovative achievements often sprout from profound basic research and arise in interdisciplinary fields, and universities have natural advantages in both of these aspects."
Entering workshops and watching production lines, the General Secretary is concerned about the long-term - "Modern manufacturing cannot be separated from the empowerment of science and technology. We must vigorously strengthen technological breakthroughs and take the road of independent innovation." "Talent is hope. Promoting the integration of industry, academia, and research, and cultivating a large number of high-quality talents, Chinese-style modernization can be truly realized."
From "running education, promoting science and technology, and cultivating talents with greater efforts" to "we must unblock the virtuous cycle of education, science and technology, and talent according to the requirements of developing new quality productive forces, and improve the working mechanism for talent cultivation, introduction, use, and reasonable flow" and "we must optimize the discipline settings and talent cultivation models of universities according to the new trends in scientific and technological development, and cultivate urgently needed talents for developing new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development"... A series of important expositions point to the same important goal: to build a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent by 2035.
This is the value orientation to meet the people's yearning for a better life.
In April 2019, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) came to Zhongyi Township Primary School in Shizhu Tujia Autonomous County (石柱土家族自治县) in Chongqing (重庆) for inspection. "We cannot make children suffer, and we cannot make education poor." The General Secretary's exhortations are like a spring breeze and rain, caring for the growth of young seedlings.
In November 2024, when General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) inspected Hubei (湖北), he came to the Wuhan Institute of Industrial Innovation and Development (武汉产业创新发展研究院). In the exhibition hall, scientific and technological workers and entrepreneurs from different universities, different disciplines, different regions, and different industries gathered together. The General Secretary said with emotion, "We must climb the peaks of science and technology and the peaks of industry by ourselves. I am optimistic about you, optimistic about China's innovative talents, and also optimistic about our innovation system."
"Education is not only the most important thing, but also a very complicated thing. It requires long-term efforts and is also an urgent task."
Better education means cultivating the foundation of people's happiness with the power of education and realizing the leap from "having access to education" to "having access to good education"; stronger science and technology means enhancing people's well-being with innovative achievements and allowing high-speed rail networks, Beidou navigation (北斗导航), and green energy to benefit thousands of households; a better talent environment means stimulating talent vitality with a good ecology and allowing people to achieve brilliant lives in their struggles.
Building education centers, science centers, and talent centers with global influence, accelerating the construction of national strategic talent forces around innovation needs, and unblocking the channels for talent exchange between universities, scientific research institutes, and enterprises... A series of measures are closely linked, behind which is condensed a deep insight into the construction of Chinese-style modernization: technological innovation relies on talent, and talent cultivation relies on education.
The "report card" has accumulated a lot: During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, higher education has cumulatively delivered 55 million talents to society, and vocational education has provided more than 70% of the newly added high-quality and highly skilled talents for modern industries; the number of high-level international journal papers and international patent applications has ranked first in the world for five consecutive years; and a number of major original achievements have been made in the fields of quantum technology, life sciences, material sciences, and space sciences...
Long-term efforts and perseverance. "Building a strong country in education, a strong country in science and technology, and a strong country in talent is the common responsibility of the entire Party and the entire society." General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) eyes are looking to a more distant future.
The principle remains unchanged, the ambition remains unchanged, and the goal will be reached. 久久为功 (jiǔ jiǔ wéi gōng - "achieve success through persistent effort," success comes from sustained hard work over time).
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 27th (Reporter). The Central Military Commission (中央军委) recently issued the "Several Measures on Strengthening the Education, Management, and Supervision of Senior Military Cadres" (《关于加强军队高级干部教育管理监督的若干措施》) (hereinafter referred to as the "Several Measures" (《若干措施》)).
The "Several Measures" (《若干措施》) adheres to Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era (习近平新时代中国特色社会主义思想) as guidance, thoroughly implements Xi Jinping's thinking on strengthening the military (习近平强军思想), comprehensively implements the new era's political military building strategy, summarizes and applies the practical experience and institutional achievements of comprehensively and strictly governing the Party and the military in the new era, implements the deployment requirements of carrying out ideological rectification and deepening political training, and truly establishes iron rules for strict education, strict management, and strict supervision.
The "Several Measures" (《若干措施》) consists of 26 articles in 7 aspects, focusing on strictly enforcing discipline to alert the mind and regulate behavior, strictly managing principal officers to lead by example, and strictly clarifying responsibilities to truly grasp implementation. It establishes rules and clarifies norms around enhancing the consciousness and thoroughness of ideological transformation, strengthening collective leadership of the Party committee, enhancing the principles and combat effectiveness of intra-Party political life, adhering to the Party's management of cadres and organization of personnel selection, and strengthening the supervision and management of principal leaders. It integrates strict and regular education, management, and supervision throughout the entire process of performing duties and exercising power, and in all aspects of work and life, to promote the revolutionary forging of the senior cadre team, lead officers and soldiers with a new political outlook to promote the high-quality modernization of national defense and the military, and shoulder the historical responsibility entrusted by the Party and the people.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李 波 侯琳良 李 蕊
In late May, the Bohai Bay (渤海湾) south coast is gradually turning green. This once barren saline-alkali land is now growing a "green" industrial chain.
In the Lingang Industrial Park (临港产业园) of Zhanhua District (沾化区), Binzhou City (滨州市), Shandong Province (山东省), photovoltaic arrays are spread out, and the generated green electricity is directly supplied to the 8 million-ton alumina production base in the park. Here, bauxite is transformed into alumina through processes such as leaching, sedimentation, and decomposition, and then "divided into multiple routes" for production and manufacturing in various fields.
A touch of "green" promotes the "lightweight advancement" of high-energy-consuming industries, and the development mode has been completely renewed.
In May 2024, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized during his inspection in Shandong (山东) to "accelerate the construction of a pilot zone for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development." The "15th Five-Year Plan" proposes to "deepen the construction of a pilot zone for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development."
To thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions, Shandong (山东) is promoting the construction of the pilot zone with greater efforts and more practical measures, striving to take the lead and shoulder the heavy responsibility in accelerating the comprehensive green transformation of economic and social development.
Accelerate technological innovation and empower high-quality development with new quality productive forces—
Stepping into Rizhao Steel Holding Group Co., Ltd. (日照钢铁控股集团有限公司), technological innovation is eye-catching.
On the production line, molten steel is transformed into steel coils in just 7 minutes 一气呵成 (yī qì hē chéng - "accomplish at one go," to do something in one smooth motion). This production line can not only stably roll ultra-thin hot-rolled strip steel with a thickness of only 0.6 mm, but also produce ultra-high-strength thin steel plates with a tensile strength of 1500 MPa. According to reports, this production line can save more than 50% of energy and more than 60% of water compared with traditional processes, and the amount of carbon emissions is also greatly reduced.
In Rizhao Steel's (日照钢铁) digital transformation and full-process intelligent manufacturing demonstration factory, more than 1 million data points are updated in real time on the industrial Internet platform. "In the past, the composition of molten iron depended on manual sampling and testing. Now, artificial intelligence models are used for automatic prediction and dynamic optimization, which is faster and more accurate," said Gao Xinyong (高新永), director of the company's information system department.
Focusing on increasing "intelligence" and improving "quality," during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Shandong (山东) will accelerate the construction of a system and mechanism that supports comprehensive innovation, promote the construction of a strong province in education, science and technology, and talent in an integrated manner, promote the deep integration of scientific and technological innovation and industrial innovation, improve the overall efficiency of the innovation system, and continuously develop new quality productive forces.
Deepen the conversion of new and old kinetic energy and build a modern industrial system—
The completion of a 100-megawatt-level perovskite solar cell pilot production line, with the actual verification of battery efficiency at the forefront of the industry, and the "embodied intelligent robot scenario laboratory" selected as the first batch of provincial-level scenario innovation laboratories in Shandong (山东)... Since its establishment in 2021, the Jinan (济南) New and Old Kinetic Energy Conversion Starting Area (新旧动能转换起步区) has accumulated a regional GDP of over 60 billion yuan, and the cumulative output value of newly cultivated high-end equipment industries has exceeded 100 billion yuan. "This year, we will focus on high-end, intelligent, and green development, plan and reserve a number of high-quality projects to strengthen weaknesses and increase kinetic energy, and form a virtuous circle," said Xu Lei (徐磊), Minister of the Industry, Information Technology and Science Department of the Starting Area Management Committee.
Not long ago, at the No. 1 General Assembly Plant of Shandong Kerui Oil & Gas Equipment Co., Ltd. (山东科瑞油气装备有限公司) in Dongying High-tech Zone (东营高新区), Shandong (山东), more than 20 trucks loaded with a new generation of intelligent drilling rigs set off to "go overseas." Through technological innovation, this traditional drilling rig company has increased the added value of its products by more than 50%. Dongying City (东营市) is accelerating the industrial adjustment of "reducing oil and increasing chemicals," extending the high-end chemical industry chain, and optimizing traditional industries such as petroleum equipment.
In the next 5 years, Shandong (山东) will promote the "old trees sprouting new branches" in industries such as steel, chemicals, and equipment, "new trees taking deep roots" in industries such as new-generation information technology, new energy and new materials, and biomedicine, and actively plan new tracks for future industries, shaping more new development advantages in promoting the smooth and continuous conversion of new and old kinetic energy.
Deepen the concept of green and low-carbon development and lead the transformation of development mode—
At the Qingdao (青岛) Haixiwan (海西湾) Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Industrial Base, a 319,000-ton ammonia-ready very large crude carrier was officially delivered to overseas customers some time ago. In the future, the ship can achieve near-zero carbon operation throughout the entire voyage, helping the green development of the global shipping industry.
A zero-carbon picture is slowly unfolding. In Yantai (烟台) Changdao (长岛) "International Zero-Carbon Island," the construction of a green, low-carbon, and circular development economic system is steadily advancing: on the island, wave energy and rooftop photovoltaics constitute a diversified and complementary clean microgrid; at sea, tens of thousands of acres of marine ranch and ecological fishing grounds jointly build a carbon absorption and sequestration system.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Shandong (山东) will continue to focus on the construction of clean energy bases such as nuclear power and offshore wind power, improve the provincial and municipal green manufacturing gradient cultivation system, promote the high-end quality improvement, digital empowerment, and green transformation of traditional advantageous industries such as metallurgy, chemicals, machinery, and light industry, build Jinan (济南), Qingdao (青岛), and Zibo (淄博) ecological and environmental protection industrial clusters, cultivate a number of ecological and environmental protection industrial characteristic parks and backbone enterprises, and create a demonstration zone for the green and low-carbon transformation of energy.
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) earnest entrustment, Shandong (山东) is firmly shouldering the major mission of accelerating the construction of a pilot zone for green, low-carbon, and high-quality development, and integrating the concept of green development into the entire process and all aspects of economic and social development, contributing Shandong's (山东) strength to the construction of a beautiful China," said the main responsible comrade of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee (山东省委).
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Xinhua News Agency, Ningbo, May 27th (Reporter Zou Wei) Li Qiang (李强), member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Premier of the State Council, conducted research in Zhoushan City and Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province from May 25th to 27th. He emphasized the need to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important exposition and instructions on building a reserve system for a major country, adhere to government leadership, social co-construction, and diversified complementarity, do a good job in the reserve regulation of bulk commodities and important materials, strengthen strategic security, macro-control, and emergency response functions, continuously enhance the resilience of the industrial chain and supply chain, accelerate the construction of a bulk commodity resource allocation hub, and provide a reliable guarantee for coordinating development and security.
Li Qiang (李强) visited the Zhoushan National Petroleum Reserve Base, the Bulk Agricultural Products Storage and Transportation Base, and the Ningbo Daxie Commercial Petroleum Reserve Project, listened to reports on the reserve work of petroleum, grain, etc., inspected reserve caverns and other facilities, and learned about the project construction and operation. Li Qiang (李强) pointed out that in the face of challenges brought about by changes in the external environment, "having food in hand makes one not panic." Doing a good job in the reserve of bulk commodities and important materials is of great significance to the stable operation of the economy and society. It is necessary to scientifically plan the layout, optimize the reserve structure, give full play to the role of various entities, vigorously promote the construction of various types of reserve facilities, accelerate the completion of shortcomings, and further expand the reserve capacity. It is necessary to increase scientific research efforts, promote technological innovation in reserves and management, and improve the level of informationization and intelligence. It is necessary to deepen the reform of the system and mechanism, promote the coordinated operation of strategic reserves, commercial reserves, etc., improve the rotation and mobilization and market regulation mechanism, and comprehensively improve the efficiency of collection, storage, management, and allocation. At the Zhejiang International Bulk Commodity Trading Center, Li Qiang (李强) learned about the progress of the construction of the bulk commodity resource allocation hub and inquired in detail about transaction conditions and price indices. He emphasized the need to focus on building an integrated service platform for bulk commodities, effectively connecting domestic and international markets, improving the multi-category, full-chain transaction service system, actively exploring futures and spot linkage operations, and enhancing the international influence of the bulk commodity price formation mechanism.
Li Qiang (李强) went to the Ningbo section of the Yongzhou Railway Jintang Subsea Tunnel and the Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港), inspected the construction plan of the Zhejiang transportation and logistics system, and learned about the transportation and processing of bulk commodities. At the tunnel construction site, Li Qiang (李强) inspected the tunneling and laying operations and fully affirmed the construction team's strengthening of equipment research and development and overcoming technical problems. He said that the completion of the Yongzhou Railway (甬舟铁路) will end the history of the Zhoushan Islands (舟山群岛) not having railways. The Jintang Subsea Tunnel (金塘海底隧道) has complex geological conditions and is difficult to construct. It is necessary to adhere to scientific construction, safe construction, and green construction, actively apply new technologies, new equipment, and new materials, and run quality control throughout the entire construction process to create a high-quality project that can withstand inspection. At the Meishan Port Area of Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港梅山港区), Li Qiang (李强) watched the unmanned operation of container loading and unloading and took a boat to inspect some key projects. He pointed out that Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) is an important node connecting rivers and seas, with outstanding comprehensive advantages and a strong radiation-driving effect. It is necessary to strengthen the construction of port infrastructure, actively develop multimodal transport, deeply promote the "four-port linkage" of seaports, land ports, airports, and digital trade ports, accelerate digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading, explore unmanned and intelligent transportation of goods on specific routes during special periods, innovate and optimize maritime services, continuously improve throughput capacity and operating efficiency, vigorously develop port-adjacent industries, cultivate and extend industrial chains, and build Ningbo Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) into a world-class strong port.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Astana, May 27 (Reporters Feng Xinran (冯歆然) and Zhang Jiye (张继业)) At the invitation of Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Speaker of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, paid an official goodwill visit to Kazakhstan from May 25 to 27. In Astana (阿斯塔纳), he met with the President of Kazakhstan, Tokayev (托卡耶夫), and held talks with Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫), Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament, and Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Speaker of the Mazhilis, respectively.
During the meeting with Tokayev (托卡耶夫), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) first conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes of President Xi Jinping (习近平). Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that under the strategic guidance and personal planning of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and Mr. President, China-Kazakhstan relations have achieved leapfrog development and reached a high level of permanent comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, further promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," consolidate cooperation in investment, energy, minerals, and connectivity, and create new growth points for cooperation in new energy, the digital economy, artificial intelligence, cross-border e-commerce, and smart cities. We should jointly organize the "China-Kazakhstan Cultural Exchange Year," expand cooperation in culture, education, science and technology, tourism, and other fields, and promote mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples. We should strengthen coordination and cooperation within multilateral frameworks such as the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the China-Central Asia mechanism to safeguard the common interests of the two countries and international fairness and justice.
Tokayev (托卡耶夫) asked Zhao Leji (赵乐际) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平). He said that Kazakhstan and China are truly good neighbors, good friends, and good partners. In 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the joint construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt" initiative during his visit to Kazakhstan, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between Kazakhstan and China has yielded fruitful results. The two countries have strong economic complementarity, and there is great potential for cooperation in various fields such as economic, trade and investment, transportation and energy, artificial intelligence, digitalization, and cultural exchanges. Kazakhstan adheres to the one-China principle and supports President Xi Jinping's (习近平) concept of building a community with a shared future for mankind and the four major global initiatives. China actively leads global governance and makes important contributions to maintaining world peace and stability, which Kazakhstan highly appreciates. The cooperation between the legislative bodies of the two countries continues to deepen, playing an important role in promoting Kazakhstan-China friendship.
After the meeting, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) accepted the "Friendship" Medal of the First Order awarded by President Tokayev (托卡耶夫).
During separate talks with Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫) and Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies are an important part of China-Kazakhstan relations. The two sides should fully implement the important consensus reached by the heads of state of the two countries, strengthen friendly exchanges between special committees, working bodies, bilateral friendship groups, deputies to the National People's Congress, and members of parliament, and promptly approve and revise relevant legal documents to provide legal guarantees for practical cooperation between the two countries. Zhao Leji (赵乐际) also introduced China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline and the Ecological Environment Code, the National Development Plan Law, and the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, stating that the legislative bodies of the two countries can carry out exchanges of experience on democratic and legal construction and improving the quality of legislation to help their respective national development.
Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫) said that China has become an important guarantee for global stability and a powerful engine for global economic growth. Last year, the trade volume between Kazakhstan and China reached a new high, moving towards the goal of doubling the trade volume set by the heads of state of the two countries. Kazakhstan will create favorable conditions for bilateral economic, trade, and investment cooperation. The Kazakh parliament is willing to strengthen cooperation with the National People's Congress of China and exchange experiences in legislative work.
Koshanov (科沙诺夫) said that developing a permanent comprehensive strategic partnership with China is crucial for Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan firmly supports China's position on issues related to Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet. The entry into force of the new version of the Kazakhstan-China Investment Protection Agreement will create new opportunities for investment cooperation between the two countries. We are willing to continuously strengthen friendly exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries, promote practical cooperation in various fields, and promote the development of Kazakhstan-China relations.
During his visit, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) inspected the China National Petroleum Corporation Central Asia Russia Company in Astana (阿斯塔纳), hoping to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and promote new achievements in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road." He also inspected the Luban Workshop at Eurasian National University, emphasizing the need to strengthen cultural exchanges and consolidate the public opinion foundation for friendship between the two countries.
Return to TopOn May 27th, the Shi沱 Yangtze River Bridge, a key control project of the newly built Chongqing-to-Wanzhou High-speed Railway (渝万高铁), was successfully closed, marking the completion of all 149 bridges along the entire Chongqing-Wanzhou High-speed Railway line. Located in Fuling District (涪陵区), Chongqing (重庆), the Shi沱 Yangtze River Bridge innovatively adopts a dual-tower structure for both highway and railway. The railway portion of the bridge was closed on May 27th, while the highway portion is expected to be closed before the end of this year.
The Chongqing-Wanzhou High-speed Railway is an important component of the Beijing-Kunming and Baotou-Haikou corridors within China's "eight vertical and eight horizontal" high-speed railway main channels. The main line is 251 kilometers long, with a designed speed of 350 kilometers per hour.
The picture shows the construction site of the Shi沱 Yangtze River Bridge.
Xinhua News Agency reporter Tang Yi (唐奕) photographed.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 27th (Reporter Liu Zhiqiang (刘志强)): The National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) released data: From January to April, the total profits of national-scale industrial enterprises increased by 18.2% year-on-year, 2.7 percentage points faster than from January to March. Among them, the profit of equipment manufacturing maintained double-digit growth, high-tech manufacturing played a significant leading role, and the profit of raw material manufacturing increased.
From January to April, the profits of manufacturing enterprises above the designated size increased by 20.4% year-on-year, 1.3 percentage points faster than from January to March. In April, the profits of national-scale industrial enterprises increased by 24.7%.
The operating income of industrial enterprises grew steadily. From January to April, the operating income of national-scale industrial enterprises increased by 5.2% year-on-year, 0.2 percentage points faster than from January to March. Among them, in April, the operating income of national-scale industrial enterprises increased by 5.7%, 1.3 percentage points faster than in March.
The unit cost of industrial enterprises decreased, and profitability continued to improve. From January to April, the cost per 100 yuan of operating income of industrial enterprises above the designated size was 84.94 yuan, a year-on-year decrease of 0.55 yuan. The cumulative unit cost of industrial enterprises has decreased for four consecutive months since the beginning of this year.
Profits of enterprises of different sizes and types grew rapidly. By size, from January to April, the profits of large, medium, and small industrial enterprises above the designated size increased by 19.7%, 21.3%, and 12.0% year-on-year, respectively; by enterprise type, from January to April, the profits of joint-stock enterprises, private enterprises, and state-owned holding enterprises increased by 24.0%, 23.7%, and 17.1%, respectively.
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Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporters Liu Hui (刘慧), Qu Pei (屈佩), Deng Jianyang (邓剑洋)) The 2026 High-Level Forum on Poverty Reduction and Development was held in Beijing (北京) on the 27th. Liu Guozhong (刘国中), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, attended the opening ceremony and delivered a speech.
Liu Guozhong (刘国中) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) personally planned, personally took command, and personally supervised the battle, successfully winning the battle against poverty, consolidating and expanding the achievements in poverty alleviation, and establishing a normalized mechanism to prevent returning to poverty, forging a path of poverty reduction with Chinese characteristics, and making significant contributions to global poverty governance. China's poverty reduction practices and experience have provided Chinese wisdom and Chinese solutions to the world.
Liu Guozhong (刘国中) emphasized that President Xi Jinping (习近平) attaches great importance to international exchanges and cooperation on poverty reduction, and proposed jointly building a community with a shared future for mankind that is free from poverty and enjoys common development. At present, it is urgent for all parties to build consensus and accelerate the global poverty reduction process. He put forward four suggestions: First, accelerate pragmatic actions and strive to achieve the poverty reduction goals of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Second, strengthen dialogue and exchanges, actively share poverty reduction experiences and deepen cooperation. Third, enhance endogenous动力 (nèi shēng dòng lì - "internal driving force," intrinsic motivation), and vigorously promote market empowerment and technological empowerment. Fourth, strengthen multi-party coordination and improve the global poverty reduction governance system.
Liu Guozhong (刘国中) stated that China's launch of the Global Poverty Reduction and Development Partnership Alliance has injected new impetus into accelerating the global poverty reduction process. China will actively support the alliance in playing its role, strengthening policy dialogue, technology demonstration and talent training, building a number of "small and beautiful" cooperation projects, and helping developing countries improve their poverty reduction capabilities.
Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister Vongsey Vissoth, and East Timor Deputy Prime Minister Sabino attended the opening ceremony and delivered speeches. United Nations Secretary-General Guterres sent a congratulatory letter.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 27th (Reporter Mei Changwei (梅常伟)) The thematic meeting on deepening the arming of minds with Xi Jinping's (习近平) thinking on strengthening the military was held in Beijing (北京) on the 27th. Zhang Shengmin (张升民), Vice Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委), attended the meeting and delivered a speech. He emphasized the need to unremittingly arm minds, guide practice, and promote work with Xi Jinping's (习近平) Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era, to comprehensively and accurately study and understand, and unswervingly implement Xi Jinping's (习近平) thinking on strengthening the military, and to promote the entire army to greet the centenary of the army's founding with a new political outlook.
Zhang Shengmin (张升民) pointed out that it is necessary to continuously deepen theoretical arming, adhere to the unity of arming the mind and transforming the mind, consolidate the foundation of ideals and beliefs, connect with reality to solve problems and promote development, and transform the effectiveness of learning into firm support for the "Two Establishments" and resolutely achieve the "Two Safeguards," and implement the actual actions of the Chairman of the Central Military Commission (中央军委) responsibility system. It is necessary to shoulder the political responsibility of managing ideology and grasping learning, improve the model of organizing and grasping learning, improve the quality and effectiveness of cultivating the soul and educating people, strengthen publicity and interpretation, and promote the deepening and solidifying of theoretical arming.
Relevant leaders from various departments and units of the army attended the meeting and conducted research and exchanges.
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On May 27th, the State Council Information Office held a series of thematic press conferences on "Starting the '15th Five-Year Plan'," introducing the relevant situation of advancing the rule of law in all respects.
Teng Jiguo (滕继国), Deputy Secretary-General of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission (中央政法委), stated that they will always adhere to Xi Jinping's Thought on the Rule of Law (习近平法治思想) as a guide, conscientiously implement the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline and the Plan for the Construction of a Rule of Law China (法治中国建设规划), strive to build a more complete socialist rule of law system with Chinese characteristics and a socialist rule of law country with a higher level, and create a new situation in the construction of a rule of law China.
Legislative Planning Advances Smoothly; Social Assistance Law to be Formulated
High-quality development requires high-quality legislation.
This year is the starting year of the "15th Five-Year Plan." The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (全国人大常委会) is implementing the "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline, scientifically preparing legislative plans, arranging for the continued deliberation of 15 draft laws and the initial deliberation of 19 draft laws, as well as some preparatory deliberation items. For example, strengthening the construction of systems to guarantee and improve people's livelihoods, formulating the Social Assistance Law (社会救助法), the Medical Security Law (医疗保障法), the Childcare Service Law (托育服务法), the National Fire and Rescue Personnel Law (国家消防救援人员法), and the Industrial Workers Team Construction Law (产业工人队伍建设法), and revising the Teachers Law (教师法), the Road Traffic Safety Law (道路交通安全法), and the Urban Real Estate Management Law (城市房地产管理法).
As of now, the legislative planning of the 14th National People's Congress Standing Committee (十四届全国人大常委会) is progressing smoothly. Of the 79 Category I projects planned to be submitted for deliberation during the term, 58 have been completed, with a completion rate of 73.4%, and other projects are being promoted in an orderly manner. In 2027, the National People's Congress Standing Committee will launch the preparation of the next legislative plan in due course. In this regard, Huang Wei (黄薇), Deputy Director of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee (全国人大常委会法工委), stated that legislative projects will be scientifically arranged by conducting research and demonstration, listening to legislative project suggestions from all parties, and sorting out and studying the opinions and suggestions of deputies to the National People's Congress (全国人大代表).
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the State Council (国务院) submitted 60 draft laws to the National People's Congress Standing Committee for deliberation and formulated and revised 165 administrative regulations. The Ministry of Justice (司法部) conducted the largest centralized review of all more than 600 existing administrative regulations, and around institutional reforms, transformation of government functions, and construction of a business environment, seven batches of package revisions were made to 58 laws and regulations, and 28 were abolished.
Wu Zeng (武增), Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Justice (司法部), stated that the Regulations on the Construction of a Unified National Market (全国统一大市场建设条例) will be formulated, the comprehensive legislation on the healthy development of artificial intelligence and the legislation on the low-altitude economy will be accelerated, and administrative regulations on water supply, pharmaceuticals, housing safety, medical care, and road transportation will be formulated and implemented. Laws and regulations such as the Customs Law (海关法) and the Regulations on the Administration of Foreign Labor Cooperation (对外劳务合作管理条例) will be revised to provide a strong legal guarantee for a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan."
Improving the Judicial Protection System for Innovation and Creating a Rule-of-Law Business Environment
Technological innovation is the engine for cultivating new quality productive forces and promoting high-quality development.
Focusing on key frontier areas of science and technology, strengthening judicial protection of intellectual property rights, and severely punishing malicious infringement and repeated infringement in accordance with the law; focusing on emerging industries, studying and formulating normative documents on judicial protection of artificial intelligence and data property rights... Liu Guixiang (刘贵祥), a part-time member of the Supreme People's Court Adjudication Committee at the vice-ministerial level (最高人民法院审判委员会副部级专职委员), stated that the people's courts always take legal protection, strict protection, and efficient protection as a clear guide, improve the judicial protection system for innovation, and build a solid legal foundation for the vigorous development of new quality productive forces.
The rule of law is the best business environment.
Since last year, public security organs have deployed and carried out special actions to standardize law enforcement involving enterprises, cumulatively investigated and corrected 57,000 law enforcement problems involving enterprises, cumulatively released sealed property worth 1.38 billion yuan, returned seized funds of 2.22 billion yuan, and legally changed or unblocked 199,000 frozen accounts, releasing funds of 8.98 billion yuan.
Public security organs continue to strengthen the strict law enforcement supervision and management system, promote the improvement of the quality and efficiency of law enforcement and case handling, and enhance the law enforcement capabilities of the public security team. 102,000 legal officers are equipped in grassroots law enforcement units to fully monitor police situations and cases, and build the "first line of defense" for law enforcement supervision and management. 3,266 law enforcement and case handling management centers have been built nationwide, forming a law enforcement and case handling model of "**一站式办案、合成化作战、智能化管理、全流程监督**" (yī zhàn shì bàn àn, hé chéng huà zuò zhàn, zhì néng huà guǎn lǐ, quán liú chéng jiān dū - "one-stop case handling, integrated operations, intelligent management, and full-process supervision"); the examination system for the level of law enforcement qualifications of public security police officers has been implemented, and currently 1.968 million and 77,000 police officers have obtained basic and advanced law enforcement qualifications, respectively. Yang Weilin (杨维林), Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), stated that they will comprehensively promote strict, standardized, fair, and civilized law enforcement, continuously improve the quality and efficiency of handling cases involving enterprises, continuously optimize measures to benefit the people and enterprises, and powerfully serve the high-quality development of the economy and society.
The legal supervision of the procuratorial organs is an important part of the legal supervision system. Miao Shengming (苗生明), Deputy Procurator-General of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (最高人民检察院), stated that the procuratorial organs will comprehensively strengthen the supervision of activities such as case filing, investigation, trial, and execution, strengthen the supervision of compulsory measures involving citizens' personal rights and compulsory measures such as "sealing, detaining, and freezing," the execution of criminal penalties, and the execution of civil judgments and rulings, and enhance the pertinence of supervision.
At the same time, Miao Shengming stated that it is necessary to carry out procuratorial investigations in accordance with the law, investigate and deal with crimes such as perverting the law for personal gain, illegal detention, and extorting confessions by torture committed by judicial staff using their powers, and severely punish judicial corruption.
Further Promoting the Construction of a Rule-of-Law Society and Accelerating the Development of Lawyers and Other Legal Service Teams
The comprehensive management center is an important platform for promoting the construction of a safe China and an important carrier for adhering to and developing the "Fengqiao Experience" (枫桥经验) in the new era. At present, 2,849 county-level comprehensive management centers have been built nationwide, achieving full coverage of county-level administrative divisions; in 2025, 9.764 million cases of resolving conflicts and disputes in accordance with the law will be promoted. Teng Jiguo (滕继国) stated that the construction of comprehensive management centers in townships (streets) will be accelerated, and the tentacles of comprehensive management work will be extended to villages (communities). Liu Guixiang (刘贵祥) introduced that the Supreme People's Court (最高法) has established and improved a diversified dispute resolution mechanism with 18 relevant central and state organs and national industry associations, deeply integrated into the standardized construction of comprehensive management centers, promoted the source resolution and substantial resolution of conflicts and disputes, and made every effort to maintain social stability.
The "15th Five-Year Plan" Outline puts forward clear requirements for further promoting the construction of a rule-of-law society and accelerating the development of lawyers and other legal service teams. Wu Zeng (武增) stated that the Ministry of Justice (司法部) will continue to strengthen the construction of the lawyer team, optimize the lawyer practice environment, and effectively play the functional role of the lawyer team in comprehensively governing the country according to law and promoting Chinese-style modernization. Improve lawyer practice norms, strengthen practice supervision, increase the intensity of disciplinary punishment, and guide the majority of lawyers to practice law in accordance with laws and regulations and with integrity.
For laws to play a role, the whole society needs to believe in the law and respect the rule of law. This year, the "Ninth Five-Year" Law Popularization Plan (“九五”普法规划) will be formulated and implemented, the action to improve citizens' legal literacy will be implemented in depth, and a good environment in which the whole society advocates the rule of law, abides by rules, respects contracts, and maintains fairness will be created. In addition, the reform of the lawyer system, the notary system, the arbitration system, the mediation system, and the judicial appraisal system will be further deepened to provide higher-quality, more efficient, and equally accessible legal services for economic and social development.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李增辉 姜 峰 沈靖然
On May 27th, the "15th Five-Year Plan" Chongqing (重庆) special press conference was held. Relevant officials from Chongqing (重庆) stated that they will thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) important instructions and requirements for Chongqing's (重庆) work. Chongqing (重庆) is striving to build an important strategic fulcrum for the large-scale development of the western region in the new era and a comprehensive inland open hub. It will play a supporting role in promoting the large-scale development of the western region in the new era, a driving role in promoting the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" ("一带一路"), and a demonstration role in promoting the green development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt. It will strive to promote the city to accelerate the presentation of a vivid picture of high-quality development, high-level opening up, high-quality life, and high-efficiency governance.
Cultivating New Advantages by Expanding High-Level Opening Up
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Chongqing's (重庆) total economic output exceeded 3 trillion yuan, and the per capita regional GDP exceeded 100,000 yuan. The city's foreign trade import and export volume increased by more than 40% compared with the "13th Five-Year Plan" period. One out of every three laptops in the world is made in Chongqing (重庆), and the export volume of motorcycles, mobile phones, and automobiles ranks first, second, and fifth in the country, respectively.
Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan," Chongqing (重庆) takes the construction of the Chengdu-Chongqing (成渝) dual-city economic circle as a traction, actively integrates into the large-scale development of the western region in the new era, the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, and the construction of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道). It amplifies the advantages of the channel hub, focuses on institutional opening up, and cultivates new advantages in expanding high-level opening up.
Efforts will be made to build a logistics hub economic zone and promote the growth of large industries from large channels and large platforms. Relying on the Chongqing (重庆) Hub Port Industrial Park and the "five-type" national logistics hub to lay out a number of hub economic functional areas, promote the deep integration of the "three zones" policies, elements, industries, and systems of the Free Trade Pilot Zone and the Comprehensive Bonded Zone, develop and expand leading industries such as intelligent networked new energy vehicles, advanced materials, and intelligent terminals, and actively cultivate incremental industries such as aviation manufacturing and the low-altitude economy. Efforts will be made to make the logistics hub economic zone a key support for inland opening up and an important engine for the city's economic growth.
Accelerate the improvement of the modern collection and distribution system and build an international logistics hub. Integrate and amplify the coordinated development effect of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道) with the China-Europe Railway Express and the Yangtze River Golden Waterway, smooth the micro-circulation of entering stations, ports, and parks, strengthen the construction of digital channel capabilities, enhance the competitiveness of the "Asia-Europe Express" and "Qianli Qingzhou," and strive to achieve "threefold increases" in the freight volume, freight value, and hub channel intermodal transport volume of Chongqing (重庆) via the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道).
Create a comprehensive foreign trade and foreign investment service system, promote the exploration and breakthrough of land trade rules, and steadily improve the level of inland institutional opening up. Highlight the scaled application of the "single bill of lading" bill of lading system, improve laws and regulations that connect with international conventions, and strengthen policy supply innovation in key links such as land trade transportation rules, customs clearance, finance, and dispute resolution. Continue to polish the brands of "Yu Trade Global" ("渝贸全球") and "Invest in Chongqing" ("投资重庆").
Building a Modern Industrial System with Advanced Manufacturing as the Backbone
Manufacturing is the foundation of Chongqing's (重庆) establishment and the basis for strengthening the city. Striving for the "15th Five-Year Plan," Chongqing (重庆) takes intelligence, greening, and integration as the main direction, and "four-side" coordination to promote "four-chain" integration as the key path, continues to shape the new competitive advantages of the "33618" modern manufacturing cluster system, and accelerates the construction of an advanced manufacturing center with international competitiveness and an industrial innovation center with national influence.
Promote the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation to enhance the core driving force for high-quality manufacturing development. Take the industrial innovation complex as a key starting point, open up the two cycles of "industry problems - scientific research topics" and "scientific research results - product solutions," promote the entire chain of "technology origination - comprehensive solutions - pilot verification - scenario application - system support," and build a nationally important source of industrial innovation.
Accelerate the deep integration of advanced manufacturing and modern service industries to help the industrial chain and supply chain climb to the high end of the value chain. Vigorously promote the expansion and quality improvement of producer services, deepen the construction of the Global Design Capital, and iterate and implement the "Full Sky Star" action. Guided by the development needs of the manufacturing industry, promote the clustered development of producer services such as technology services, industrial design, and inspection and testing; relying on manufacturing capabilities, cultivate new service-oriented manufacturing business forms.
Use the new model of "Industrial Brain + Future Factory" to lead the efficient coordination of the "four sides" and promote the deep integration of the "four chains." Relying on the construction of Digital Chongqing (数字重庆), explore the new model of "Industrial Brain + Future Factory," so that the resources and elements on the innovation chain, industrial chain, capital chain, and talent chain can achieve efficient allocation through cross-field, cross-level, and cross-industry "four-side" coordination, and better empower the construction of a modern industrial system.
Coordinating and Promoting the Upgrading of Key Livelihood Areas
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, Chongqing (重庆) adheres to putting the people first, takes the construction of a "15-minute high-quality life service circle" as a starting point, and coordinates the work of employment and income increase, education and medical care, and "one old and one young" security to make the lives of the people more secure and comfortable, and truly enhance their sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Promote high-quality and full employment and run education that satisfies the people. Chongqing (重庆) will coordinate the implementation of the "six major actions" of employment stabilization, entrepreneurship support, skills training, youth retention in Chongqing (重庆) and coming to Chongqing (重庆), migrant workers' employment nearby, and increasing the income of urban and rural residents, and strive to add more than 3.25 million new urban jobs during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. Further highlight fairness and quality, accelerate the construction of education modernization, and strive to build a high-quality basic education system with excellent childcare and education.
Deepen the Healthy China Chongqing (重庆) Action. Optimize the "doorstep" medical service system such as community medical care, strengthen the supply of high-quality and efficient smart medical services, so that high-quality medical resources revolve around the masses, and make the people healthier and live a higher quality life. Strive to reach the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan," and the city's per capita life expectancy and residents' health literacy level will reach a new level.
Carefully protect the "one old and one young." Continue to improve the elderly care service network, coordinate the promotion of institutional elderly care, community embedded elderly care, and family elderly care, and focus on the care of the elderly with advanced age, disability, and dementia. Optimize inclusive childcare services and strive to reduce the burden of childbirth and parenting. Strive to reach the end of the "15th Five-Year Plan," the proportion of nursing beds in the city's elderly care institutions will exceed 80%, and the enrollment rate of infants and young children aged 0-3 will increase by 6 percentage points compared with the end of the "14th Five-Year Plan."
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The Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee meeting held on April 28 pointed out the need to strengthen the planning and construction of water networks, new power grids, computing power networks, new-generation communication networks, urban underground pipe networks, and logistics networks.
These "six networks" cover both the upgrading of traditional infrastructure and the construction of new infrastructure; they can better coordinate economic development and security, and effectively solve pain points and difficulties in people's livelihoods.
Starting from today, this edition will launch a series of reports to see how various regions and departments can accurately focus their efforts to build the "six networks" well, empower production and life, and promote high-quality economic development.
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On May 18, the Xiaolangdi North Bank Irrigation Area Project in Henan Province (河南省) on the bank of the Yellow River (黄河) was completed and accepted. The Yellow River water can start from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir (小浪底水库) to irrigate farmland, "quench the thirst" of urban and rural areas, and replenish the ecology, solving the problem of "having no water to drink while guarding the Yellow River" in the northern Henan area, and building a modern water network on the north bank of the Yellow River with the Yellow River as the artery and the Xiaolangdi Reservoir as the hub.
Looking at the overall situation from one area, since the beginning of this year, from the national backbone network to the provincial, municipal, and county water networks, connecting networks, supplementing networks, and strengthening chains, the construction of the national water network has been fully accelerated. What kind of network is the water network? What benefits can it play? How to play the benefits? The reporter recently conducted an interview.
Strengthen connection and promote the "last kilometer" to access the main artery
"With a water network connected to the end, there is no need to worry about unstable water volume and pressure." Gao Shiwen (高世文), Party Branch Secretary of Kaiyuan New Village, Xingdong Street, Linyi County, Dezhou, Shandong (山东德州临邑县邢侗街道开元新村), said that the village now uses the same water source, the same pipe network, and the same service as the city.
Linyi County (临邑县) has innate deficiencies in water resources and is also in the Yellow River water resources control area, and development is "thirsty." Sun Guoqiang (孙国强), Director of the County Water Resources Bureau, introduced that the county diverts Yellow River water to protect people's livelihoods and diverts Tuhai River water to protect the ecology. "With planning connection, project interconnection, and coordinated scheduling, the county-level water network connects the city and provincial water networks, the water network is becoming denser and denser, and the water source is more guaranteed."
The "National Water Network Construction Plan Outline" proposes to strengthen the connection between the national backbone network and the provincial, municipal, and county water networks, promote interconnection, joint regulation and supply, and coordinated prevention and control, and gradually form a "single network" of the national water network. The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Water Resources introduced that the national backbone network is based on large rivers, large rivers, and large lakes, with major cross-basin and cross-regional diversion and drainage projects as channels, and key regulation and storage projects as nodes, to optimize the allocation of water resources from a macro level. The provincial water network is an extension and expansion of the national backbone network. The municipal and county water networks are the "last kilometer" of the water network, so that flood control, water supply, irrigation, ecology, and other functions can be effectively implemented. As of now, the national water network covers 80.3% of the country's land area.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, how will the construction of water networks at all levels be promoted in coordination?
In terms of the national backbone network, the water resources department will fully promote the high-quality development of the follow-up project of the South-to-North Water Diversion (南水北调) and promote the planning and construction of a number of major diversion and drainage, controlled regulation and storage, and key water source projects.
In terms of provincial, municipal, and county water networks, actively promote the coordinated and integrated construction of water networks at all levels, fully implement the modernization construction and transformation of irrigation areas, and comprehensively promote the "3+1" standardized construction and management model of urban and rural water supply integration, centralized water supply scale, small water supply standardization, and county-level unified management specialization, and strive to achieve a national rural tap water penetration rate of 98% by 2030.
The optimization of the national water network project layout structure and function, and the integrated promotion of engineering system integration, continue to enhance China's water security guarantee capabilities.
The project absorbs large investments, has a long industrial chain, and creates many jobs
Gaodian Town, Feixi County, Hefei, Anhui (安徽合肥肥西县高店镇), is where the water diversion project from the Yangtze River to the Huai River (引江济淮工程) and the Pi-Shi-Hang Irrigation Area (淠史杭灌区) "join hands," and the Hefei Water Source Project is waiting for the Yangtze River water. The project is expected to meet the unit start-up acceptance conditions by the end of June, when the Yangtze River water, Huai River water, Pi River water, and lake water will be interconnected, and the water network will be smoother.
From hubs to water networks, from main arteries to capillaries, the accelerated integration and coordinated construction of water networks at all levels contain broad space for stabilizing investment and expanding domestic demand. Since the beginning of this year, 17 major national water network projects have started construction. In the first quarter, 24,231 water conservancy projects of various types were implemented nationwide; completed water conservancy construction investment of 207 billion yuan, an increase of 4.1% year-on-year.
Li Yunling (李云玲), Deputy Dean of the Planning and Design Institute of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced that water network projects, especially national water network backbone projects, have the characteristics of absorbing large investments, having a long industrial chain, and creating many jobs. In the first quarter, water conservancy project construction absorbed 670,000 jobs, including 545,000 rural laborers.
At the construction site of the second phase of the Huaihe River into the Sea Waterway Project, in the concrete "cloud" factory, artificial intelligence "makes" concrete, accurately identifying 15 types of abnormal working conditions... The digital, intelligent, and networked level of water network projects is constantly improving. "The construction of water networks drives the coordinated development of upstream and downstream industries such as building materials and mechanical equipment such as cement and steel, promotes supply and demand docking, smooths economic circulation, and stimulates market vitality," said Li Yunling.
Zhao Dongxiao (赵东晓), Deputy Director of the Water Conservancy Project Construction Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, said that the construction of the national water network during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period has achieved a good start, and will guide local areas to accelerate the construction progress on the premise of ensuring project quality and safety, implement a number of major water conservancy projects ahead of schedule, and accelerate the formation of a modern water network.
Benefit people's livelihoods, promote development, and release the comprehensive benefits of the water network
On the bank of the Lishui River (澧水), the Xiangbei "granary." The Liyang Plain Irrigation Area (澧阳平原灌区) in Hunan (湖南), built in 1958, has been "renewed," which will increase annual grain production capacity by 52 million catties and save more than 10 million cubic meters of water. Xie Shi (谢石), Director of the Hunan Provincial Water Conservancy Project Management Bureau, introduced that after the completion of the project, the canal system will be smoother and irrigation will be more efficient.
At present, China's cultivated land irrigation area exceeds 1.09 billion mu. In the first quarter of this year, 5 large-scale irrigation area modernization construction and transformation projects, including the Liyang Plain Irrigation Area, started construction, and the implementation will add and restore improved irrigation area of more than 17 million mu.
During the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the Ministry of Water Resources will promote the modernization and transformation of a number of large and medium-sized irrigation areas. "The whole package means unified planning and contiguous promotion, from hardware such as water sources, canal systems, and pumping stations to software such as digital irrigation areas, water-saving transformation, and water rights reform, to continuously consolidate the comprehensive grain production capacity," introduced the relevant person in charge of the Department of Rural Water Conservancy and Hydropower of the Ministry of Water Resources.
Li Yunling said that the construction of water networks promotes the optimal allocation and spatial balance of water resources, enhances the carrying capacity of water resources and water environment, can reduce economic operating costs, and consolidate the foundation for industrial development. At the same time, some water network projects also have transportation, ecological environmental protection, tourism landscape, and other functions, which promote the development of new industries and new formats such as cultural tourism integration, and inject a steady stream of power into modern agriculture, industrial upgrading, ecological governance, and coordinated regional development.
Tian Heng (田恒), Director of the Yunzhou District Water Affairs Bureau of Datong, Shanxi (山西大同云州区水务局), said that as one of the key promotion areas of the Datong Modern Water Network Pilot Zone, Yunzhou District focuses on ecological rivers, characteristic tourism, characteristic industries, and beautiful villages to develop "water network + agriculture," "water network + ecology," and "water network + people's livelihood."
Yang Wei (杨威), Deputy Director of the Planning and Planning Department of the Ministry of Water Resources, introduced that during the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, the water resources department will accelerate the construction of national water network backbone projects, open up the "last kilometer" of the water network, improve the water resources allocation and water supply guarantee system, the modern water drought disaster prevention system, and the water ecological protection and governance system, accelerate the renewal and intelligent transformation of water conservancy infrastructure, and achieve the unity of economic benefits, social benefits, ecological benefits, and safety benefits of the national water network.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 27th (Reporter Wang Yunsong (王云杉)) - Recently, the "China 'Artificial Intelligence+' Energy Development Report 2026," compiled by the National Energy Administration (国家能源局), was released. This is the first annual report in China (中国) on the integrated development of artificial intelligence and energy in the energy sector.
Currently, the rapid development of artificial intelligence is driving a continuous increase in electricity demand for global computing power facilities. According to forecasts by the International Energy Agency, by 2030, global data center electricity consumption will nearly double compared to 2025.
The report shows that in 2025, China (中国) had built 42 intelligent computing clusters at the 10,000-card level, with the total electricity consumption of national computing power centers reaching 170 billion kilowatt-hours. The electricity consumption of the eight major hub nodes of the national integrated computing power network has become the main source of growth, with an average growth rate of approximately 39.5% in the past three years, far higher than the average growth rate of total social electricity consumption. Among them, the average growth rate of electricity consumption in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) hub node and the Inner Mongolia (内蒙古) hub node in the past three years reached 33.3% and 66.5% respectively, reflecting the accelerated concentration of computing power resources towards key hubs and energy resource-rich areas.
At the same time, the goal of ensuring that the proportion of green electricity in newly built data centers at national computing power hub nodes exceeds 80% is being accelerated through various methods such as green electricity trading, direct green electricity connections, inter-provincial and inter-regional trading, and integrated source-grid-load-storage.
In terms of the development of large industry models, dozens of dedicated large models for the energy industry have been implemented, covering fields such as power grids, new energy, hydropower, thermal power, nuclear power, coal, and oil and gas. The scenario adaptation capabilities of large models continue to be enhanced.
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Kim Hua Village (金花村) in Xaythany District (塞塔尼县), Vientiane (万象市), Laos (老挝), is nestled among mountains and rivers and is home to 128 families. Most villagers rely on rice cultivation for a living, depending on the weather, and the harvest is not very stable. In 2023, the village's per capita annual income was about 8.65 million Lao Kip (approximately 2,680 RMB). In June 2024, the China-Guangxi (广西) Aid Laos Technical Cooperation Poverty Reduction Demonstration Project was launched in Kim Hua Village (金花村). Agricultural experts from Guangxi (广西) are devising methods and strategies for farmers to help them embark on a distinctive poverty reduction path through vegetable cultivation.
Improving Infrastructure to Solve Pain Points and Difficulties
At 3:00 PM, the high-standard smart greenhouse in Kim Hua Village (金花村) starts its sprinkler irrigation mode on time. Irrigation water falls like a drizzle from the pipeline network set up on the roof of the greenhouse, sprinkling on vegetable seedlings and fertile soil. Vegetables such as Chinese lettuce, bok choy, and lettuce are growing well. "These are three newly built arch-top ventilated film greenhouses that we built for Kim Hua Village (金花村), equipped with an Internet of Things cloud platform, data acquisition terminals, and an intelligent water and fertilizer integration system, which can monitor soil moisture and nutrients in real time, and realize automatic control of precise irrigation and fertilization," Feng Min (冯敏), an agricultural expert stationed in Kim Hua Village (金花村), told reporters.
Next to the greenhouse are several farmhouses. Further in, more than twenty scaled ordinary greenhouses come into view. Inside the greenhouse, cucumber vines climb up the shelf, reaching the top of the greenhouse, with small cucumbers topped with golden flowers hanging on the vines.
"Considering the actual situation of Kim Hua Village (金花村), in order to facilitate villagers to get started, we have also built a batch of ordinary greenhouses," said Wang Shijie (王世杰), an agricultural expert stationed in Kim Hua Village (金花村). "We have optimized the design of ordinary greenhouses, and made adaptive modifications to the ventilation, drainage, and structure of the greenhouses in response to local high temperature, high humidity, and easy flooding during the rainy season, so as to improve disaster resistance and reduce the risk of pests and diseases."
"The village has 95 hectares of land, including 90 hectares of agricultural land, of which about 7 hectares are suitable for vegetable cultivation. However, restricted by relatively backward infrastructure conditions and planting technology, in the past, there were less than 10 vegetable growers in the village, with a planting area of less than 5 mu," said Su Ligong (苏立功), the village chief of Kim Hua Village (金花村). "With the help of Chinese experts, 62 households in the village are now engaged in vegetable cultivation."
Chinese agricultural experts have also built production supporting facilities such as greenhouse ditches, production roads, and reservoirs in Kim Hua Village (金花村), as well as a standardized acquisition point integrating sorting, refrigeration, and trading. A few months ago, the road from the vegetable planting area in Kim Hua Village (金花村) to the vegetable acquisition point was still a dirt road, with potholes and mud after rain; now, the dirt road has been hardened, and vehicles transporting vegetables are driving on a smooth asphalt road, which is smooth and fast.
Developing Characteristic Industries to Help Get Rid of Poverty and Become Rich
At 6:00 AM, Vongsavan Ongkongthong (旺萨万·翁贡通), a villager in Kim Hua Village (金花村), arrives at his vegetable greenhouse on time as usual to weed, sow, and harvest vegetables, starting a busy day.
"I get up early every day and work until lunch, and then go to the ground to work at two o'clock in the afternoon. When the weather is cool, I work a little longer, and when the weather is hot, I finish work earlier," Ongkongthong (翁贡通) told reporters that recently, the highest afternoon temperature in Laos (老挝) has reached 38 to 40 degrees Celsius, and the black shading net added to the greenhouse effectively reduces the temperature inside the greenhouse.
Ongkongthong's (翁贡通) greenhouse is planted with scallions, coriander, cucumbers, sawtooth coriander, peppers, etc. In the past, due to the use of traditional planting methods, coupled with a lack of professional knowledge related to pest and disease control, Ongkongthong (翁贡通) only dared to plant sawtooth coriander, with a single variety and low yield. "After the Chinese experts came to the village, they jointly organized many agricultural technology training courses with the Rural Development and Poverty Reduction Department of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry. I also went to the class and learned scientific planting methods, soil improvement technology, and pest and disease control knowledge, and introduced many vegetable varieties," Ongkongthong (翁贡通) said, "Vegetables such as cucumbers and peppers are very popular in the market, and my income is much more stable than before."
After the China-Guangxi (广西) Aid Laos Technical Cooperation Poverty Reduction Demonstration Project was launched in Kim Hua Village (金花村), Khaima Ongkapan (开玛·翁卡潘), the deputy village chief of Kim Hua Village (金花村), was among the first participants, learning practical skills and knowledge such as smart greenhouse operation, vegetable variety selection, and pest and disease prevention and control. Ongkapan (翁卡潘) has participated in more than 20 agricultural technology training sessions and has visited China (中国) twice to study, becoming a vegetable planting "leader" trusted by the villagers. "Last year, I started to try planting cucumbers in my own greenhouse, which can be harvested in 40 to 50 days, with a yield of more than 940 kilograms per crop and an income of 7 million Lao Kip (approximately 2,170 RMB), which is better than the income from planting leafy vegetables," Ongkapan (翁卡潘) said.
In 2025, Ongkapan's (翁卡潘) total household income increased by more than 30% compared to 2024. "In the past two years, my family has renovated the house, added an electric tricycle, and helped my daughter build a new house. Our family's life is getting better and better," he said happily.
Building an Industrial Chain to Promote Long-term Development
In the Kim Hua Village (金花村) Village Committee, a new round of operation and management training courses for village cadres and planting group backbones is underway. The course focuses on organizational operation, product marketing, brand building, and other content. "With planting technology, we also have to find ways to sell vegetables," Feng Min (冯敏) said.
"This is the Good Agricultural Practices standard certification that we just applied for last month," Ongkapan (翁卡潘) said. "With the certification and trademark, the vegetables grown by the villagers can be sold to farther places, and the price is more guaranteed." Ongkapan (翁卡潘) is wearing a T-shirt printed with the new trademark of Kim Hua Village (金花村) vegetables. The circular logo has the national flags of China (中国) and Laos (老挝) on both sides, and a simple drawing of farmers planting vegetables in the middle. The periphery is written in Chinese and Lao as "China-Laos Technical Cooperation Vegetable Planting". The Good Agricultural Practices standard is a Good Agricultural Practices certification system promoted and established by the Lao government, which aims to improve the safety level and export competitiveness of agricultural products through standardized production and quality traceability methods.
At present, Kim Hua Village (金花村) has established supply and marketing relationships with 10 distributors, and vegetables have a stable sales channel. The Kim Hua Village (金花村) vegetable acquisition point is only about 100 meters away from the vegetable planting area, and a cold storage has been newly built next to it. "After the villagers harvest the vegetables, they can directly load them into trucks and transport them here to connect with distributors and trade, which is very convenient. If the output is further increased in the future, the vegetables that cannot be shipped out on the same day can be temporarily stored in the cold storage for preservation," Ongkapan (翁卡潘) said.
Anosa (阿诺萨), Deputy Director of the Rural Development and Poverty Reduction Department of the Lao Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, often comes to Kim Hua Village (金花村) to conduct on-site inspections and participate in technical guidance, witnessing the transformation of the village and the lives of the villagers. "Since the project was launched, the infrastructure conditions in Kim Hua Village (金花村) have been significantly improved, and the agricultural technology level mastered by the villagers has been greatly improved," Anosa (阿诺萨) said, adding that under the leadership of the Village Committee, vegetable growers in Kim Hua Village (金花村) are assigned to grow different categories of vegetables. "Villagers cooperate with each other, which is very helpful for the long-term development of Kim Hua Village (金花村)."
The China-Guangxi (广西) Aid Laos Technical Cooperation Poverty Reduction Demonstration Project is coming to an end. Soon, the Chinese agricultural experts will leave Kim Hua Village (金花村). "During this period, we will focus on work such as handover with the Village Committee, continue to expand vegetable sales channels, help the Village Committee improve the management system, clarify the management and maintenance process, standards, and division of responsibilities, further improve the production system, ensure the sustainable development of the Kim Hua Village (金花村) vegetable planting industry, and allow villagers to continue to benefit from it," Feng Min (冯敏) said.
This year, Laos (老挝) launched the Tenth Five-Year Plan, which takes getting rid of the least developed country status as its core goal, and plans to achieve a per capita GDP of US$3,104 by 2030. Anosa (阿诺萨) said that Laos' (老挝) poverty alleviation work cannot be separated from Laos-China (老中) cooperation, and China's (中国) targeted poverty alleviation experience is very worthy of Laos (老挝) to learn from. "We look forward to continuing to strengthen cooperation with China (中国) and working hard to achieve Laos' (老挝) goal of getting rid of the least developed country status."
(Reported from Vientiane (万象) on May 27 by this newspaper)
Return to TopBy: 玛格丽塔·西蒙尼扬
Russian President Vladimir Putin (弗拉基米尔·普京) recently paid a state visit to China (中国). This visit yielded many results, which once again demonstrates that, under the strategic guidance of the two heads of state, Russia-China relations have always maintained a high level of development, demonstrating the stability, maturity, and crucial importance of Russia-China relations in a changing world.
In 2000, during President Putin's (弗拉基米尔·普京) first visit to China (中国) as President of the Russian Federation, he took a group photo with Peng Pai (彭湃), a 12-year-old Chinese boy, in Beihai Park (北海公园) in Beijing (北京). Peng Pai (彭湃) later studied in Russia (俄罗斯) and now works as an engineer in a Chinese company. During this visit, President Putin (弗拉基米尔·普京) reunited with him in Beijing (北京). This reunion, spanning more than a quarter of a century, is touching and also reflects the deep social foundation of Russia-China relations from one perspective, becoming an important support for the steady and long-term development of bilateral relations.
During this visit, the two countries issued a joint statement on advocating world multipolarization and a new type of international relations. Currently, the world has entered a new period of turbulence and change, and the international community faces many challenges and crises. Russia (俄罗斯) and China (中国) have always adhered to true multilateralism, committed to promoting world multipolarization and the democratization of international relations, and safeguarding international fairness and justice. The two countries work closely together in international affairs, not to form an alliance, but to maintain global strategic stability and promote the construction of a more just and reasonable global governance system.
The connotation of Russia-China relations goes far beyond cooperation in diplomacy, economy, trade, security, and other fields, and is more embodied in the increasingly close emotional ties and cultural exchanges between the people of the two countries. More than 100,000 people in Russia (俄罗斯) are learning Chinese, including my three young children. Chinese audiences show great enthusiasm for Russian ballet, drama, and opera, and performances are often packed; Chinese food is very popular in Russia (俄罗斯); every Chinese Lunar New Year, streets in many parts of Russia (俄罗斯) are decorated with lanterns and colors, filled with a festive atmosphere. Practical exchanges in education, tourism, youth exchanges, and media cooperation continue to deepen, constantly consolidating the public opinion foundation of Russia-China relations, which is a lasting guarantee of the stability of bilateral relations.
The media is an important bridge to promote Russia-China exchanges, and RT (今日俄罗斯电视台) is honored to play a unique role in it. Since the launch of the Chinese channel in 2021, RT's (今日俄罗斯电视台) brand influence in China (中国) has continued to expand. Statistics from several Chinese social media platforms show that, in just a few years, RT (今日俄罗斯电视台) has performed prominently among foreign media stationed in China (中国) in terms of Chinese audience engagement and fan growth. In 2025 alone, video views on Chinese social media accounts exceeded 3 billion.
In recent years, RT (今日俄罗斯电视台) has carried out several cooperation projects with the Chinese side. In 2025, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory of the World Anti-Fascist War, we jointly produced the music program "Melody Across Time and Space" with Jiangxi Radio and Television (中国江西广播电视台). Under our coordination, Russian bands and Chinese artists performed on the same stage at the Hunan TV Spring Festival Gala (湖南卫视春晚), and Russian figure skaters performed at the Dragon TV Gala (东方卫视晚会). Related programs have accumulated hundreds of millions of views on TV and new media platforms, playing a positive role in enhancing mutual understanding between the people of the two countries and stimulating interest in each other's culture, history, and contemporary life.
During this visit, the two heads of state jointly attended the opening ceremony of the "Russia-China Year of Education". As part of the "Year of Education" related work, our reporters entered top Chinese universities such as Peking University (北京大学) and Tsinghua University (清华大学) to hold lectures and business exchange activities for journalism students, sharing professional experience and knowledge. We have more ambitious plans for future work in China (中国), and the Chinese side has always warmly welcomed efforts to promote exchanges between the two countries.
As the people of Russia (俄罗斯) and China (中国) continue to deepen mutual understanding and respect, our cooperation will become closer, and the foundation of the Russia-China comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era will be more solid, thereby providing a guarantee for building a more stable, fair, and multipolar world.
(The author is the editor-in-chief of RT (今日俄罗斯电视台) and the "Russia Today" International Media Group)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from the United Nations on May 26th (Reporter Li Zhiwei (李志伟)) On the 26th, Wang Yi (王毅), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs, met with United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres (古特雷斯) in New York during the United Nations Security Council High-Level Meeting.
Wang Yi (王毅) conveyed the cordial greetings of Chinese leaders to Guterres (古特雷斯), stating that the current international situation is chaotic, regional conflicts are erupting in many places, and the United Nations is facing severe challenges and is also receiving higher expectations. As the rotating president of the Security Council this month, China has proposed holding a high-level meeting of the Security Council on the theme of "Upholding the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter and Strengthening the International System with the United Nations as the Core," hoping to work with all countries to review the original intention of the Charter and revitalize the authority of the United Nations, thereby building the broadest consensus. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the restoration of the lawful seat of the People's Republic of China in the United Nations. China highly appreciates the Secretariat's firm adherence to the one-China principle and its adherence to UN General Assembly Resolution 2758. China is willing to continue to hold high the banner of multilateralism, firmly safeguard the international system with the United Nations as the core, and continuously deepen cooperation with the United Nations in promoting South-South cooperation, reforming the international economic and financial system, addressing climate change, artificial intelligence, regional hotspots, and other fields, and continuously empower global governance with China's governance, injecting stronger impetus into promoting the building of a human community with a shared future.
Wang Yi (王毅) stated that since taking office, Secretary-General Guterres (古特雷斯) has adhered to the concept of multilateralism, worked for peace, and spoken out for justice, which has been recognized by the international community. China expresses its appreciation for this and invites Guterres (古特雷斯) to visit China within the year.
Guterres (古特雷斯) asked Wang Yi (王毅) to convey his cordial greetings to the Chinese leaders, appreciated China's proposal to convene a high-level meeting of the Security Council, and thanked China for its consistent maintenance of the UN Charter and international law. The United Nations appreciates the series of global initiatives proposed by China in the fields of security, peace, and development. The United Nations firmly adheres to UN General Assembly Resolution 2758, which embodies the one-China principle. It is willing to continue to deepen cooperation with China in areas such as the reform of the international economic and financial system, sustainable development, climate change, and artificial intelligence, and promote the balanced development of the three pillars of the United Nations: peace, development, and human rights.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 27th. Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, met in Beijing on the 27th with a delegation from the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with China, led by delegation head Ismail Ertug.
Li Hongzhong (李鸿忠) stated that President Xi Jinping (习近平) reached important consensus with EU leaders last year, pointing the direction for the development of China-EU relations. China is willing to work with the EU to strengthen communication, enhance mutual trust, deepen cooperation, achieve mutual benefit and win-win results, jointly address global challenges, strengthen exchanges at all levels and in various fields between legislative bodies, and jointly leverage the role of exchange mechanisms to promote the healthy and stable development of China-EU relations.
Ertug stated that the European side is willing to work with the Chinese side to jointly contribute to promoting the development of EU-China relations.
Return to TopBy: 亓 玫
This year, May 28th marks the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Austria. For more than half a century, the two sides have adhered to the spirit of mutual respect, equality, and mutual benefit, and have explored a path of friendship that transcends mountains and seas and achieves win-win cooperation.
High-level exchanges lead the way, and political mutual trust continues to deepen. On May 28, 1971, the two countries officially established diplomatic relations, opening a new chapter in exchanges. In April 2018, at the invitation of President Xi Jinping (习近平), Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen (范德贝伦) paid a state visit to China. The heads of state of the two countries unanimously decided to establish a Sino-Austrian friendly strategic partnership, marking a new stage in Sino-Austrian relations. In the turbulent international situation, China and Austria are not only partners in bilateral cooperation, but also fellow travelers who firmly uphold multilateralism and promote global governance. The two sides have demonstrated with political wisdom, vision, and action that countries with different ideologies, social systems, and stages of development can coexist harmoniously and achieve win-win cooperation.
Economic and trade exchanges are close, and pragmatic cooperation has yielded fruitful results. China and Austria have long been important trade and investment partners to each other. Since the establishment of diplomatic relations, the volume of bilateral trade between China and Austria has increased more than 400 times, achieving leapfrog development. In 2025, China has become Austria's third largest trading partner. To date, more than 650 Austrian companies have invested and operated in China, with more than 1,500 joint venture and cooperation projects, covering high value-added fields such as semiconductors, fine chemicals, and auto parts. At the same time, an increasing number of Chinese-funded enterprises are also using Austria as a bridgehead to expand into the Central and Eastern European markets, with more than 50 Chinese-funded enterprises settling in Austria, covering industries such as machinery, automobiles, communications, and finance. Chinese new energy vehicles are assembled in Styria (施蒂里亚州), and Chinese-made trains travel between Vienna (维也纳) and Salzburg (萨尔茨堡), injecting new development vitality into the local area. The complementary economic advantages and deep integration of China and Austria constitute an important part of the global industrial chain and supply chain, which is a model of mutual benefit and win-win results, and also conforms to the interests of the two peoples.
Cultural exchanges are active, and the foundation of popular support is deep. China and Austria both have a long history and splendid culture, and cultural exchanges are a bridge connecting the hearts of the two peoples. China has the grandeur of the Forbidden City (故宫) and the Great Wall (长城), while Austria has the elegance of Schönbrunn Palace (美泉宫) and Salzburg (萨尔茨堡); China has the freehand brushwork of Peking Opera (京剧) and calligraphy (书法), while Austria has the exquisite opera and waltz. The Forbidden City (故宫) held a special exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (维也纳艺术史博物馆), which attracted a large audience. In May 2025, the giant pandas "He Feng" (荷风) and "Lan Yun" (兰韵) from China officially appeared at the Schönbrunn Zoo (维也纳美泉宫动物园) in Vienna (维也纳), becoming a new generation of "panda stars" in Austria. The Confucius Institutes in Vienna (维也纳) and Graz (格拉茨) continue to be popular with the Austrian people. The "Chinese language craze" continues to heat up in Austria, and many Chinese students are also going to Austria for further studies. There are direct flights to Vienna (维也纳) from Beijing (北京), Shanghai (上海), Chengdu (成都), Shenzhen (深圳), Xi'an (西安) and other places, and China's unilateral visa-free policy for Austrian citizens continues to show its benefits, with active personnel exchanges between the two sides. Non-governmental exchanges and local cooperation between China and Austria are flourishing, and more than 20 pairs of friendly provinces/states and cities have become a vivid footnote to the friendship between the two countries. The enthusiasm for two-way tourism, trade, and investment remains unabated, and the ties between the hearts of the two peoples are becoming closer and closer.
Those with common aspirations do not regard mountains and seas as distant. A friendly strategic partnership is the most accurate positioning of the relations between the two countries, and it is also a true reflection of the Sino-Austrian relations that have withstood the test of international storms. Looking back on the past, Sino-Austrian relations are like a stream in the Alps, originating from a high place and rushing forward all the way; looking forward to the new journey, the friendship between the two countries is like the rolling waves of the Yangtze River, crossing mountains and seas and flowing endlessly. Standing at a new starting point of building on the past and opening up the future, China is willing to work with Austria, under the strategic guidance of head-of-state diplomacy, to take the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations as an opportunity to continuously enrich the connotation of the strategic partnership between the two countries and jointly draw a new chapter in bilateral relations.
(The author is the Chinese Ambassador to Austria)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 27th (Xinhua) - He Lifeng (何立峰), member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Vice Premier of the State Council, met with German Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy Robert Habeck (赖歇) and representatives of some German entrepreneurs at the Great Hall of the People on the afternoon of the 27th. The two sides exchanged views on deepening Sino-German economic and trade cooperation and other issues.
He Lifeng (何立峰) said that China and Germany are important economic and trade partners to each other. The two countries have a solid foundation, great potential, and strong complementarity in economic and trade cooperation. He hopes that both sides will further consolidate the foundation of traditional cooperation, tap the potential for cooperation in emerging fields, and promote the sustained and healthy development of bilateral economic and trade relations with high-level cooperation.
Habeck (赖歇) said that Germany is a trustworthy economic and trade partner of China. The German economic community is optimistic about China's economic prospects and innovation capabilities and will continue to deepen cooperation with China.
Return to TopThe People's Daily, Beijing, May 27th (Reporter Li Anqi (李安琪)) Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announced on the 27th: Chen Wenqing (陈文清), Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission, will visit Russia and Kazakhstan from May 27th to June 1st at the invitation to attend the 14th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Matters in Russia.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporter Zhang Tianpei (张天培)) State Councilor and Minister of Public Security Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) met with Russian Federation Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov in Beijing on the 27th.
Wang Xiaohong (王小洪) stated that China is willing to work with Russia to implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen exchanges in the field of law enforcement and justice, strengthen cooperation in combating transnational crime, strengthen coordination and cooperation on multilateral platforms, and continuously deepen law enforcement and justice cooperation between the two countries, to make new contributions to promoting the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination for a new era to 站得更高、走得更稳、行得更远 (zhàn dé gèng gāo, zǒu dé gèng wěn, xíng dé gèng yuǎn - "stand higher, walk more steadily, go further," to reach a new level of development and stability).
Igor Krasnov stated that he is willing to continuously consolidate and deepen practical cooperation with China in the field of law enforcement and justice, and promote the relations between the two countries to a higher level.
The two sides signed relevant cooperation documents.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Bishkek on May 27th (Reporters Xu Hangyan (徐杭燕) and Li Qiang (李强)) The 2026 China-Kyrgyzstan Media Cooperation Forum, themed "Deepening China-Kyrgyzstan Media Cooperation and Creating a Better SCO Future," was held in Bishkek (比什凯克), Kyrgyzstan (吉尔吉斯斯坦) on May 27th. Nearly one hundred media representatives, relevant department heads, experts, scholars, and business representatives from both countries attended the forum to conduct in-depth exchanges and discussions on topics such as economic and trade development, cultural exchange, and media cooperation.
Participating guests stated that the connotation of China-Kyrgyzstan relations in the new era is constantly being enriched and deepened. Media outlets from both countries should demonstrate their responsibility, consolidate common values, gather the common aspirations of the people of both countries for a better life, and work together to tell the story of good-neighborly friendship and mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Kyrgyzstan.
Participating guests believe that this year marks the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (上海合作组织). The SCO upholds the "Shanghai Spirit" of mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality, consultation, respect for diverse civilizations, and pursuit of common development, maintaining a vigorous momentum of development. Media outlets from SCO countries should give full play to their role as bridges and ties, promote the "Shanghai Spirit," strengthen pragmatic cooperation, enhance people-to-people connectivity, and contribute wisdom and strength to building a better SCO home.
The forum was co-hosted by the People's Daily (人民日报社) and the Kyrgyzstani "Flag" Newspaper Information Publishing Group (《旗帜报》信息出版集团). The forum included keynote speeches, roundtable dialogues, and other sessions. It released the "SCO Member States Youth Focus Trends Report," held the launching ceremony of the China-Kyrgyzstan media high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road" joint interview, and the "Mountains and Rivers Depend on Each Other, People's Hearts are Close - China and Kyrgyzstan Join Hands Towards the Future" photo exhibition and the Global Times ("环球时报") "Overseas China Week" Kyrgyzstan Station event. The People's Daily (人民日报社) and the "Flag" Newspaper Information Publishing Group (《旗帜报》信息出版集团) signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation, and the Global Times ("环球时报") and the Kyrgyzstani "Argumenty i Fakty" ("吉尔吉斯斯坦言论报") signed a cooperation agreement.
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Beijing, May 27th (Xinhua) - Wang Dongfeng (王东峰), Vice Chairman and Secretary-General of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), attended the "Entering the CPPCC" event for diplomatic envoys from Latin American and Caribbean countries to China and delivered a speech in Beijing on the 27th. He expressed the hope that everyone would engage in in-depth communication on "strengthening cooperation and exchanges to promote the building of a China-Latin America community with a shared future" to help the long-term development of China-Latin America relations. Diplomatic envoys or representatives from 24 Latin American and Caribbean countries to China participated.
Return to TopAccording to our newspaper in Nanchang on May 27th (Reporter Zhou Huan (周欢)), the 5th China-ASEAN People-to-People Friendship Organizations Leaders Meeting was held in Jingdezhen (景德镇), Jiangxi (江西) on May 26th.
Return to TopThis newspaper Honghe, May 27th (Reporter Ye Chuanzeng (叶传增)) On May 26th, the Vietnam Youth to China "Red Study Tour" "Ideal Light" study camp was launched in Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture (红河哈尼族彝族自治州), Yunnan.
The theme of the study camp is "Strengthening Ideals and Beliefs, Working Together for Common Development," and it is organized by the Yunnan Provincial Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团云南省委) and Yunnan Normal University (云南师范大学), and co-organized by the Kunming Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团昆明市委) and the Honghe Prefectural Committee of the Communist Youth League (共青团红河州委). 200 young people from the four provinces of Lai Chau, Lao Cai, Tuyen Quang, and Dien Bien in Vietnam came to China to participate in the study.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 张天培
The border is the first line of defense in safeguarding national security and an important window for showcasing the national image. The safety and stability of the border cannot be separated from the loyal performance of the vast number of immigration management police. On May 27, the State Council Information Office (国务院新闻办公室) held a meeting with Chinese and foreign journalists on "Strivers on the New Journey," inviting four representatives from the field of immigration management to exchange views on "Maintaining National Border Security and Stability and Serving High-Level Opening-up and High-Quality Development."
A small seal represents a civilized image and embodies the weight of security. Liu Yongqing (柳永清), a first-level senior police officer from the First Enforcement Team of the First Enforcement Brigade of the Beijing Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station (北京出入境边防检查总站), joined the police in 1987. From the 1990 Beijing Asian Games (北京亚运会) to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics (北京冬奥会), he has been a participant, witness, and guardian.
As an immigration management police officer who has long been rooted in the front line of the port, Liu Yongqing has developed the ability to identify fake documents in just a few tens of seconds.
With the continuous expansion of the country's visa-free "circle of friends" and the continuous promotion of a series of facilitation measures, more and more foreigners are entering China and falling in love with China. "I feel that foreign friends have an increasingly high degree of recognition of China," said Liu Yongqing.
Liu Yongqing has witnessed the process of the motherland's expanding opening up and rapid development. In front of the national gate, these changes are tangible and accessible. Liu Yongqing said with emotion: "As the guardians of the national gate, the immigration management police, on the new journey, serving high-level opening up and high-quality development is both a responsibility and an honor."
Guarding border security and helping the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. Dulongjiang Township (独龙江乡), Gongshan Dulong and Nu Autonomous County (贡山独龙族怒族自治县), Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture (怒江傈僳族自治州), Yunnan Province (云南省), has continuous snow-capped mountains and steep canyons, with more than 280 days of rainfall every year, and landslides, rockfalls, and mudslides occur from time to time.
Zhang Qilei (张启雷), director of the Dulongjiang Border Police Station (独龙江边境派出所) of the Nujiang Border Management Detachment (怒江边境管理支队) of the Yunnan Entry-Exit Border Inspection Station (云南出入境边防检查总站), participated in many natural disaster rescues and snow mountain rescues, and experienced border patrols during his three years of guarding the border in Dulongjiang.
"Generations of border guards have kept the border as their hometown under extremely difficult conditions, keeping in mind the purpose of serving the people," Zhang Qilei introduced.
In recent years, the police station has adhered to the simultaneous focus on stabilizing the border and prospering the border, and the simultaneous progress of consolidating defense and enriching the people. On the one hand, it resolves conflicts and disputes, investigates safety hazards, and deeply cultivates grass-roots social governance to create a harmonious and peaceful development environment for the jurisdiction. On the other hand, it actively connects with the local government to help the masses develop characteristic industries, so that the traditional Dulong blanket's handicraft skills are combined with modern red cultural tourism.
As one of the core engines of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区) and an international commercial and trade center, Guangzhou (广州) has consistently led the country in the number of entry-exit permits processed, handling more than 10 million citizen entry-exit permits and foreigner residence permits every year. Wang Fan (王璠), captain of the Second Brigade of the Entry-Exit Management Detachment of the Guangzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau (广州市公安局), Guangdong Province (广东省), introduced that in recent years, the Guangzhou Public Security Entry-Exit Management Department has adhered to service-oriented principles, used technology to break the situation, and used innovation to accelerate while firmly guarding the bottom line of safety.
"When the masses are in urgent need of certificates during holidays, we accept, approve, and produce the certificates in one go; when enterprises are in a hurry to go overseas to seize business opportunities, we work overtime and speed up the approval; we have more than 200 24-hour service points in the city, and we send dedicated personnel to be on duty to fully ensure data operation," said Wang Fan.
Thinking about what the masses think and being anxious about what enterprises are anxious about. Wang Fan said: "We must answer every question well, handle every certificate well, serve every enterprise well, and guard every departure well."
In recent years, in the face of high-volume customs clearance pressure, the National Immigration Administration (国家移民管理局) has introduced intelligent customs clearance measures, providing convenience for the majority of entry-exit personnel. Up to now, about 380,000 people pass through customs by "scanning their faces" every day at ports across the country, significantly shortening waiting times.
Behind the technological empowerment is a group of immigration management police officers who have worked hard to overcome difficulties and made painstaking efforts. Ouyang Yonggang (欧阳永刚), director of the Application Management Division of the Information Technology Department of the National Immigration Administration, is one of them.
Staying up late to debug code, just to ensure the stable operation of every program; emergency handling of technical faults in the early morning, just to ensure the normal operation of front-line equipment... "In my more than 20 years of police service, I have been fortunate to personally witness the rapid development and progress of immigration management work under the empowerment of information technology, from the past manual inspection to today's 'face-scanning' intelligent customs clearance, from the past window certificate processing to today's 'full online processing'. We use technology to make the national gate safe, orderly, warm, and convenient," said Ouyang Yonggang.
Although the four representatives from the field of immigration management are struggling in different positions, with different work content, work objects, and work environments, the loyalty, dedication, and sense of mission of the immigration management police are the same. It is their efforts that have made entry and exit safe, smooth, convenient, and fast.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 孙 超
On the evening of May 26th, a reporter walked into the Changsheng Homestay temporary resettlement site in Dacheng Village, Nanbei Town, Shimen County (石门县), Changde (常德), Hunan (湖南), and the aroma of food wafted from the rooms. Residents of Jinjiahe Village (金家河村) and Dacheng Village (大城村) who were displaced by the rainstorm were living here. Two people shared a room, and the rooms were clean and tidy. At dinner time, several round tables were lined up, and everyone sat around them, eating and chatting.
"Living here is reassuring, and the food is delicious. I'm slowly feeling at ease," said Jia Haibo (贾海波), a villager from Jinjiahe Village (金家河村). He still had a wound on his face, which he accidentally scratched a few days ago during the emergency evacuation. After treatment by volunteer medical staff at the resettlement site, it was no longer a problem.
Since May 17th, Shimen County (石门县) has experienced extreme heavy rainstorms, and the rainfall at several weather stations has exceeded historical extremes. Jinjiahe Village (金家河村) was one of the most severely affected villages, with landslides everywhere, and houses on both sides of the river were flooded. By the 18th, communications, roads, and electricity were cut off locally, and it became an "isolated island" for a time.
In the critical moment, the villagers gathered in safe areas according to the pre-arranged routes. Young people used wooden sticks to tie chairs together to make simple stretchers, carrying out the elderly with mobility problems. High school student Shu Zhigao (舒梽高) heard abnormal sounds of mountain floods in the middle of the night, and rushed out of his house with his father to wake up the neighbors one by one. Wang Yuming (王育明), a party member from the neighboring Yaji Village (雅吉村), heard that Jinjiahe Village (金家河村) was affected by the disaster and took the initiative to come and report: "At critical moments, the Party organization is the fighting force."
Liu Xin (刘欣), Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Mayor of Nanbei Town (南北镇), was among the first cadres to enter the village on foot. He crossed several landslides and found the trapped people in the Hongyao (红耀) area, gathering the team while comforting everyone's emotions. "The people feel more at ease when they see us; I also feel more at ease when I am with everyone," said Liu Xin (刘欣).
At the same time, professional rescue forces also rushed from Changsha (长沙市), Changde (常德市), and other places.
On the 19th, 21 officers and soldiers from the Changsha Fire Rescue Mobile Detachment (长沙消防救援机动支队) were ordered to rush to Jinjiahe Village (金家河村). "Stepping down, the mud submerged the knees, even up to the thighs," recalled Sun Hao (孙浩), the detachment leader. The team members' combat boots were repeatedly trapped in the viscous mud...
At dawn on the 20th, 88 fresh troops from the Changde Fire Rescue Detachment (常德市消防救援支队) continued their expedition, "leaving no one behind," which was the task they received.
"Our group has 7 party members, and we request to be the first group to go to the most dangerous area!" said Xiong Weifang (熊卫芳), the captain of the war support brigade with 23 years of party membership, who volunteered.
Four hours later, they found 11 trapped villagers, the oldest of whom was 92 years old. The team members supported the villagers as they moved outwards, and the roar of landslides was constantly heard behind them. At more than 11 pm on May 20th, the first group of people finally arrived in a safe area.
Above their heads, the reconnaissance drone of the Changsha Fire Rescue Mobile Detachment (长沙消防救援机动支队) took off, continuing to conduct thermal imaging reconnaissance and shouting for rescue. Various types of rescue helicopters that came to support roared and flew deeper into Jinjiahe Village (金家河村)...
At 3:55 pm on the 22nd, all the trapped people safely arrived at the resettlement site. Walking at the back of the team was Liu Xin (刘欣).
On the TV at the resettlement site, the villagers saw what the village looked like after the disaster. "The houses are almost gone," said one villager. Liu Xin (刘欣) comforted: "The most difficult moment has passed, as long as people are still here, they can start all over again."
As night fell, Han Caiyu (韩才宇), a mobile film projectionist from Shimen County (石门县), came to the resettlement site and played a movie for everyone. The screen lit up, making everyone's eyes brighter.
(Xu Hongyu (徐虹雨) participated in the writing)
Return to TopOn May 27th, in the factory seedling raising base of Baihu Town (白湖镇), Lujiang County (庐江县), Hefei City (合肥市), Anhui Province (安徽省), villagers are loading seedling trays onto vehicles, preparing to transport them to the fields for machine transplanting. The widespread use of technology and mechanization provides a guarantee for a bumper harvest.
Photo by Li Hongbing (李红兵) (People's Vision)
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 于 洋 谷业凯
On May 25th, He Tingbo (何庭波), Director of Huawei and President of the Semiconductor Business Unit, published a signed paper titled "Time Miniaturization Theory for Multi-Level Electronic Systems" on the pre-publication platform for scientific papers of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院), specifically interpreting the "Tau (τ) Law" proposed at the 2026 International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, and disclosing part of the roadmap planning for Huawei's Kirin (麒麟) and Ascend (昇腾) series chips.
Recently, a reporter from this newspaper conducted an exclusive interview with He Tingbo (何庭波). In May 2019, she triggered widespread attention with an open letter announcing the transition of the chip "backup plan" to formal status and adhering to "scientific and technological self-reliance." After 7 years, she returned to the public eye again.
"Huawei Encountered This 'Wall' Earlier Than Its Peers"
Q: As a new law, what is new about the "Tau Law"?
A: When it comes to new laws, we must first return to Moore's Law. For more than 60 years since its proposal, Moore's Law, as a "contract" or industrial agreement, has led practitioners in the electronics industry to focus on the "geometric miniaturization" of chips in space. As Moore's Law approaches its physical limits and economic costs skyrocket, its evolution has shown a slowdown trend. This requires returning to the origin of science and finding another path.
The "Tau Law" uses "time miniaturization" instead of "geometric miniaturization" as a new guiding principle for the evolution of semiconductors and electronic systems—by continuously compressing signal propagation delays through innovative technologies such as logic folding, and continuously increasing transistor density, thereby achieving the continuous evolution of semiconductors and electronic systems.
Q: What considerations are behind the proposal of this law?
A: As far as Huawei is concerned, there are two key constraints on chips. One is a necessary constraint: Moore's Law will encounter the "wall" of physical boundaries in the next 10 years. The other is an accidental constraint: restricted by the external environment, Huawei encountered this "wall" earlier than its peers. This made me think that the essence of Moore's Law is not to compress space, but to achieve faster speeds, more functions, and more affordable prices. For example, a city wants to build more parks, schools, and hospitals, but the city will be crowded and the commute time to work will become longer. How to solve this? A key technology of the "Tau Law" is logic folding, which is to "fold" one area of the city onto another area. Millions of elevators are installed between the two areas according to logical relationships, so that the direct distance is not too far, the time is saved, and more functions can be provided.
Q: Guided by the "Tau Law," what innovations and explorations has Huawei made?
A: In the past 6 years, guided by this law, we have independently developed 381 chips. In optical communications, data communications, wireless, 5G, mobile phones, autonomous driving, as well as general computing and AI (artificial intelligence) computing in Kunpeng (鲲鹏) and Ascend (昇腾), we have redesigned chips, which also allows Huawei's important products to return to consumers and customers.
Q: Can the "Tau Law" point out a new direction for the global chip industry?
A: This is a breakthrough in Huawei's basic theoretical research, which is not only important for the chip itself, but also for the entire semiconductor industry. In the next 5 to 10 years, the semiconductor industry will encounter obstacles and will definitely seriously consider the path of the "Tau Law." It took 10 years for Moore's Law to be fully accepted by the industry from its proposal. As an engineer, of course, I don't want what I do to always be a bottleneck. We are generally confident in announcing the practice and planning of the "Tau Law," more confident than at any time in the past 6 years. Some people may join our ranks in 3 days, and some people may have to wait three to five years. We welcome everyone and need more practice to prove it. We hope everyone can work together to do this better.
"As Long as the Direction is Right, It Doesn't Matter If It's Slower"
Q: The outside world is very concerned about what nanometer level Huawei's current chips can reach?
A: I think that concern is still influenced by Moore's Law. Under the "Tau Law," the evolution of chips can have "accelerated" development. This autumn, Huawei will release a new Kirin (麒麟) mobile phone chip, which is the first complete "Tau chip." From the perspective of performance, integration, and transistor density, the improvement compared to last year is "leap-forward." In the next 5 to 10 years, we are confident that we can steadily move forward under the "Tau Law." This "acceleration" can be compared with another path, and it will not get farther and farther, but only better and better.
Q: Innovation is a marathon, especially basic theoretical research. What do you think is the most important thing to persevere?
A: Facing various difficulties, we did not retreat and struggled with all our strength. What we are proud of is our stupid beliefs and stupid efforts. As long as the direction is right, it doesn't matter if it's slower. If we keep moving forward, we can always find bridges and roads. The result is that relying on the persistence and practice of basic theoretical research, we have not only opened up roads, but also built highways.
We are a company mainly composed of engineers, and the job of engineers is to solve various problems. External environmental restrictions have set very harsh constraints for us, but they have also given us a purer working motivation. Most of the time, the team is firm, quiet, and calmly working. Because only when we are calm, focused, and eliminate interference can we find a path to solve problems by sincerely, openly, and deeply discussing problems.
Q: Do you think the most difficult time has passed?
A: Sometimes easy moments are the most difficult moments, because it is easy to relax, be complacent, and ignore competition. Now I can only say from a technical and engineering perspective that the most difficult time has passed, and other difficult factors still need to be overcome.
"Openness, Cooperation, and Win-Win, Let's Work Together to Do This Better"
Q: The last time you appeared in the public eye was in 2019. In a letter to employees, you said that Huawei's creation of chip "backups" was a tragic Long March. Do you still think so now?
A: The night I wrote the letter, I didn't sleep. I was thinking about how to survive if there was a supply cut. After May 2020, the various cages customized for Huawei were far more cruel than imagined. I often said that we were beaten back to the "primitive society" overnight. We only have a common language with foreign counterparts in Maxwell's equations, Schrödinger's equations, and the periodic table of elements, and the rest are separated. I can only return to the first principles of science and think about our path from the origin of science.
Q: Seven years have passed. Do you think you have handed in a satisfactory answer sheet?
A: I should say that I have handed in a good answer sheet, and we are very confident. Seven years ago, we didn't know where the road was. "**没有退路是胜利之路**" (méi yǒu tuì lù shì shèng lì zhī lù - "no retreat is the road to victory," having no way out forces one to succeed) is a very big determination and vision, but having a vision also requires a technical path. The "Tau Law" is one of the answers we are seeking.
Q: On the road to catching up and surpassing, what will this new path bring to the millions of users around the world and to the industry?
A: I haven't thought so much about it yet. First, at least for Huawei, it can fulfill its commitment to customers and provide better products and services; second, we have also enjoyed the achievements of the global academic and industrial circles before. Now, as a Chinese scientific and technological group, we actively share good practices and jointly respond to the challenges faced globally, and develop together under this new path. In this way, it will bring better benefits to the entire industry, customers, and society.
Openness, cooperation, and win-win, let's work together to do this better, because no one company can complete all the answers.
(Reporters Lin Yuan (林渊) and Wang Jingyuan (王靖远) of this newspaper participated in writing)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporter Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) At approximately 7:29 PM 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. To earnestly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and following the instructions of Premier Li Qiang (李强) and other central leaders, in accordance with relevant national laws and regulations, the State Council has established an accident investigation team. This team is led by the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部), with participation from the Ministry of Public Security (公安部), the Ministry of Natural Resources (自然资源部), the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (全国总工会), the National Energy Administration (国家能源局), the National Mine Safety Administration (国家矿山安监局), and the People's Government of Shanxi Province (山西省人民政府), to investigate the "5·22" extraordinarily serious gas explosion accident at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of Shanxi Tongzhou Group Co., Ltd. in Changzhi, Shanxi.
On the evening of May 27th, the investigation team of the State Council for the "5·22" extraordinarily serious gas explosion accident at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of Shanxi Tongzhou Group Co., Ltd. in Changzhi, Shanxi, held its first plenary meeting. Zhang Chengzhong (张成中), head of the State Council's accident investigation team and Minister of Emergency Management (应急管理部部长), presided over the meeting, announced the investigation arrangements, and put forward work requirements.
Before the meeting began, all participants stood in silence to mourn the victims of the "5·22" extraordinarily serious gas explosion accident at the Liushenyu Coal Mine of Shanxi Tongzhou Group Co., Ltd. in Changzhi, Shanxi.
The meeting emphasized that the accident investigation team should earnestly implement the important instructions of General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) and the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, and carry out the accident investigation in a serious and uncompromising manner. In accordance with the principles of "scientific rigor, legal compliance, seeking truth from facts, and focusing on practical results" and "four no-oversights," the team should thoroughly investigate the cause of the accident and the responsibilities of local management, industry supervision, and enterprises, and severely punish them in accordance with laws and regulations. At the same time, the meeting called for deeply learning from the lessons, comprehensively examining the implementation of the "eight hard measures" for mine safety, launching a heavy blow against illegal activities in key industries and fields of safety production, conducting a comprehensive investigation and rectification of safety risks and hidden dangers by 举一反三 (jǔ yī fǎn sān - "infer the rest from one case," draw inferences about other cases from one instance), and resolutely preventing and curbing major and extraordinarily serious accidents.
All members of the State Council's accident investigation team and responsible comrades from relevant departments of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection and the State Supervision Commission attended the meeting.
Return to TopAccording to the China Meteorological Administration, as of May 25 this year, 152,900 warning messages have been issued nationwide through the National Early Warning Information Release System for Sudden Disasters. In May, 32,600 warning messages were issued, of which gale, lightning, rainstorm, severe convective weather, and heavy fog warning messages accounted for 93.08%.
Since the beginning of the flood season this year, the Public Meteorological Service Center (National Early Warning Information Release Center) of the China Meteorological Administration has made significant progress in promoting new technology applications, improving the efficiency of warning releases, and promoting cross-departmental collaboration by using the National Early Warning Information Release System for Sudden Disasters, helping to build the first line of defense for meteorological disaster prevention and mitigation.
At present, the National Early Warning Information Release System for Sudden Disasters has been vertically connected to the national, provincial, municipal, and county-level meteorological departments, and horizontally connected to more than 20 industry departments such as emergency management, water resources, and natural resources, gathering 220 types of warning information from 22 industries. The average time from the generation of warning information to its delivery to the public is only 3 to 8 minutes, which is more than 3 minutes shorter than last year's flood season. The "targeted release + flash message" technology uses full-screen pop-up windows on mobile phones to force display, effectively improving the reading and perception of warnings by emergency responsible persons, and using technology to empower and promote more accurate warning information "calling."
Cao Zhiyu (曹之玉), chief expert of the Public Meteorological Service Center (National Early Warning Information Release Center) of the China Meteorological Administration, introduced that since the flood season, provinces across the country affected by meteorological disasters can achieve accurate locking and directional reach of warning information to disaster-affected areas by integrating GIS (Geographic Information System) spatial analysis and multi-source location data. In the recent response to multiple rounds of heavy rainfall, combined with the needs of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部), the integration of 6 modules including warning, typhoon, temperature, precipitation, radar, and satellite cloud images into the "Mobile Emergency" APP of the Ministry of Emergency Management (应急管理部) was completed to provide support for emergency command.
(Reported by Li Hongmei (李红梅) from Beijing (北京) on May 27)
Return to TopXinhua News Agency, Astana, May 27 (Reporters Feng Xinran (冯歆然) and Zhang Jiye (张继业)) At the invitation of Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Speaker of the Mazhilis of the Parliament of Kazakhstan, Zhao Leji (赵乐际), Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, paid an official friendly visit to Kazakhstan from May 25 to 27. In Astana (阿斯塔纳), he met with the President of Kazakhstan, Tokayev (托卡耶夫), and held talks with Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫), Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament, and Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Speaker of the Mazhilis, respectively.
During the meeting with Tokayev (托卡耶夫), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) first conveyed the cordial greetings and best wishes of President Xi Jinping (习近平). Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that under the strategic guidance and personal planning of President Xi Jinping (习近平) and the President, China-Kazakhstan relations have achieved leapfrog development and reached a high level of permanent comprehensive strategic partnership. China is willing to work with Kazakhstan to firmly support each other on issues involving each other's core interests, strengthen the alignment of development strategies, further promote high-quality joint construction of the "Belt and Road," consolidate cooperation in investment, energy, minerals, and connectivity, and create new growth points for cooperation in new energy, the digital economy, artificial intelligence, cross-border e-commerce, and smart cities. We will jointly host the "China-Kazakhstan Cultural Exchange Year," expand cooperation in culture, education, science and technology, tourism, and other fields, and promote mutual understanding and affinity between the two peoples. We will strengthen coordination and cooperation within the multilateral frameworks of the United Nations, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and the China-Central Asia mechanism to safeguard the common interests of the two countries and international fairness and justice.
Tokayev (托卡耶夫) asked Zhao Leji (赵乐际) to convey his sincere greetings to President Xi Jinping (习近平). He said that Kazakhstan and China are truly good neighbors, good friends, and good partners. In 2013, President Xi Jinping (习近平) first proposed the joint construction of the "Silk Road Economic Belt" initiative during his visit to Kazakhstan, and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" between Kazakhstan and China has yielded fruitful results. The two countries have strong economic complementarity, and there is great potential for cooperation in various fields such as trade and investment, transportation and energy, artificial intelligence, digitalization, and people-to-people exchanges. Kazakhstan adheres to the one-China principle and supports the concept of a community with a shared future for mankind and the four major global initiatives proposed by President Xi Jinping (习近平). China actively leads global governance and makes important contributions to maintaining world peace and stability, which Kazakhstan highly appreciates. The cooperation between the legislative bodies of the two countries continues to deepen, playing an important role in promoting Kazakhstan-China friendship.
After the meeting, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) was awarded the Order of Friendship of the First Class by President Tokayev (托卡耶夫).
During separate talks with Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫) and Koshanov (科沙诺夫), Zhao Leji (赵乐际) said that exchanges and cooperation between legislative bodies are an important part of China-Kazakhstan relations. The two sides should fully implement the important consensus reached by the two heads of state, strengthen friendly exchanges between special committees, working bodies, bilateral friendship groups, deputies to the National People's Congress, and members of parliament, and promptly approve and revise relevant legal documents to provide legal guarantees for practical cooperation between the two countries. Zhao Leji (赵乐际) also introduced China's "15th Five-Year Plan" outline and the Ecological Environment Code, the National Development Planning Law, and the Law on Promoting Ethnic Unity and Progress, stating that the legislative bodies of the two countries can conduct exchanges of experience on the construction of democracy and the rule of law and improving the quality of legislation to help their respective countries develop.
Ashimbayev (阿希姆巴耶夫) said that China has become an important guarantee for global stability and a powerful engine for global economic growth. Last year, the trade volume between Kazakhstan and China reached a new high, moving towards the goal of doubling the trade volume set by the two heads of state. Kazakhstan will create favorable conditions for bilateral economic, trade, and investment cooperation. The Kazakh parliament is willing to strengthen cooperation with the National People's Congress of China and exchange experiences in legislative work.
Koshanov (科沙诺夫) said that developing a permanent comprehensive strategic partnership with China is crucial for Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan firmly supports China's position on issues related to Taiwan, Xinjiang, Hong Kong, and Tibet. The entry into force of the new version of the Kazakhstan-China Investment Protection Agreement will create new opportunities for investment cooperation between the two countries. We are willing to continuously strengthen friendly exchanges between the legislative bodies of the two countries, promote practical cooperation in various fields, and promote the development of Kazakhstan-China relations.
During his visit, Zhao Leji (赵乐际) inspected the China National Petroleum Corporation Central Asia-Russia Company in Astana (阿斯塔纳), hoping to deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and promote new achievements in the joint construction of the "Belt and Road." He also inspected the Luban Workshop at Eurasian National University, emphasizing the need to strengthen people-to-people and cultural exchanges and consolidate the public opinion foundation for friendship between the two countries.
Return to TopBy: 李铁林
To further understand, grasp, and stimulate people's value, role, vitality, and potential, the goal is to enable all workers to better achieve all-round development.
The migrant worker group, which has emerged with economic transformation and changes in social structure, is an important window for observing economic and social development. Not long ago, the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) released the "2025 Monitoring and Survey Report on Migrant Workers," in which three structural changes have attracted much attention.
In terms of age structure, the average age has increased, the proportion of new-generation migrant workers with college degrees or above has increased, and the characteristics of differentiation have become prominent.
In terms of regional structure, the number of cross-provincial flows has decreased, the number of intra-provincial flows has increased, and the growth in the number of employees in the central and western regions is faster than that in the eastern region.
In terms of industrial structure, the proportion of employment in the tertiary industry has further increased on the basis of surpassing the secondary industry.
The changes in the nearly 300 million migrant worker groups reveal the deep pulse of China's economy. Creating more employment opportunities for them and protecting their vital interests are related to the development and dignity of workers, as well as the overall situation of industrial transformation and upgrading, the release of domestic demand potential, and the realization of common prosperity. Optimizing policy supply in response to changing times and promoting institutional innovation in response to changing trends are essential to helping migrant workers more fully enjoy the dividends of development.
New changes bring challenges to the protection of labor rights and interests, requiring governance to take a step forward and think more deeply. Over-age migrant workers who want to contribute their remaining energy need to ensure their basic rights and interests such as labor remuneration, labor safety and health; some migrant workers have insufficient pension insurance contributions, which need to be guaranteed through flexible forms; migrant workers who intend to return to their hometowns need to ensure that the transfer and continuation of their social security relationships are smoother... Refining policy granularity for specific needs is undoubtedly an important step in promoting the protection of workers' rights and interests from "surface coverage" to "point-to-point precision."
Taking over-age migrant workers as an example, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security (人力资源社会保障部) and other four departments recently jointly issued the "Interim Provisions on Guaranteeing the Basic Rights and Interests of Over-age Workers" (超龄劳动者基本权益保障暂行规定), and many places across the country are also promoting the expansion of relevant guarantees to cover over-age groups. Introducing "customized" measures for over-age workers and relying on mobile party organizations, trade unions, etc. to make services more precisely accessible will help to weave a denser safety net.
Solving the problem of structural imbalance in the labor force pointed to by new changes also requires strengthening policy guidance. At present, the real economy is moving towards new and better directions, and advanced manufacturing and modern service industries are rising rapidly. How to balance the high-quality employment of migrant workers with the high-quality development of regional economies?
In addition to strengthening vocational skills training and improving public employment services and other conventional measures, it may also be possible to find solutions "across borders." For example, in the Yangtze River Delta (长三角) region, Shanghai Songjiang (上海松江) and Anhui Lu'an (安徽六安) jointly built an industrial park to promote the precise connection between Shanghai's scientific and technological innovation resources and Anhui's labor advantages, making it easier for workers to work nearby. Creating more high-quality employment opportunities and improving the efficiency of human capital allocation are not only the focus of employment policies, but will also provide assistance for promoting industrial transformation and upgrading and giving play to the advantages of the industrial system.
New changes also reflect the development dividends of the new urbanization strategy. With the continuous advancement of equalization of basic public services, the increase in local employment opportunities, the increasing protection of the rights and interests of migrant workers, and the improvement of life, the "urbanization of people" is steadily advancing.
Playing a good game of east-west cooperation, writing a good article on urban-rural integration, and building a unified national market will help to better solve a series of problems such as employment, treatment, and housing for migrant workers. Zhenxiong, Yunnan (云南镇雄) is building "employment workshops at the doorstep" and building a "park + workshop + workshop" platform; Xiapu, Fujian (福建霞浦) encourages exploring the "short video + live broadcast e-commerce" model to drive yellow croaker farmers to broaden their sales channels and promote local employment... Coordinating the cultivation of local industries and undertaking the transfer of foreign industries, and improving the employment absorption capacity of central and western regions, small and medium-sized cities, and counties will help all types of workers, including migrant workers, to move towards a better life.
The essence of modernization is the modernization of people. To further understand, grasp, and stimulate people's value, role, vitality, and potential, the goal is to enable all workers to better achieve all-round development. It is believed that workers with more guaranteed rights and interests will be able to use their sweat to build more glory and brilliance.
Return to TopBy: 伍小兰
Through refined institutional construction, spontaneous goodwill and scattered support are woven into a stable and reliable support network.
Helping someone brings you closer. Mutual care in daily life and mutual support in times of difficulty are cultural traditions of Chinese society. In today's context of smaller family structures and the normalization of population mobility, this tradition is also a valuable resource for solving elderly care issues.
Not long ago, 11 departments, including the Ministry of Civil Affairs (民政部), jointly issued the "Opinions on Promoting the Development of Mutual Elderly Care Services" (关于推进互助性养老服务发展的意见), which for the first time clarified what mutual elderly care services are at the national level, and made arrangements on how to promote the development of mutual elderly care services. From development goals to service models, from service positions to support guarantees, the systematically integrated institutional framework provides a clearer development roadmap for mutual elderly care.
Institutional empowerment is crucial for the healthy development of mutual elderly care. The advantage of mutual elderly care lies in its low cost and practicality, which can combine the convenience of home-based care, the inclusiveness of community-based care, and the closeness of local communities. However, it also faces realistic challenges such as ambiguous division of responsibilities, unstable service quality, and insufficient sustainability.
To further promote the sustained and healthy development of mutual elderly care, it is necessary to weave spontaneous goodwill and scattered support into a stable and reliable support network through refined institutional construction.
The vitality of mutual elderly care lies in effectively stimulating neighborhood goodwill and voluntary participation. To explore a new path for elderly care that is low-cost, sustainable, and warm, we should strengthen the standardization and systematization of service guarantees, and combine them with practical improvements in the suitability of elderly care services.
To incorporate flexible mutual assistance into the institutional framework, we need to continuously optimize mechanisms, continuously address shortcomings, aggregate strength, and increase efficiency. For example, Meitan County (湄潭县) in Guizhou (贵州) has built a three-level network of "county-level overall planning, town-level regional coverage, and village-level service to households," relying on village-level mutual elderly care charity fund guarantee mechanisms to integrate resources and achieve precise and diversified service supply and long-term effective operation of service stations.
Sustainable mutual elderly care is a combination of local service and professional support. This does not mean that service providers must be professionals, but rather that the bottom-line and long-term nature of service support must be strengthened.
From the explorations in various regions, it is a common practice for younger, healthy elderly people to help older elderly people. This is valuable social participation, but the former have limited energy and weaker risk resistance, and can only assume care responsibilities within their capabilities.
To develop mutual elderly care, we should revitalize resources and remove obstacles from the height of improving the elderly care service system. Whether it is common living needs such as meal assistance, mobility assistance, and recreational assistance, or professional and high-risk service needs such as rehabilitation care and emergency assistance, community mutual assistance is only a service outlet. Its long-term operation requires the leadership of grassroots organizations, the support of professional forces, and the backing of public resources.
Conghua District (从化区) in Guangzhou (广州), Guangdong (广东) has built a mechanism of "village Party organization leadership, mutual assistance specialist docking, and silver-age organization participation," connecting social resources extensively and activating the endogenous power of the community to clear the "last mile" of mutual elderly care services. To further improve the service level and attractiveness of mutual elderly care, we should take the community as a platform and long-term effectiveness as the goal, adapt to local conditions, provide convenient access, widely link personnel, facilities, funds, services, technology, etc., actively explore diversified development models, and steadily support the basic needs of the elderly.
Being in a familiar community environment and enjoying harmonious neighborhood relations is a warm way of elderly care that many elderly people prefer. In today's accelerating aging of the population, effectively activating the traditional wisdom of "neighborhood watch" and combining it with modern elderly care services and integrating it into the urban and rural community governance system will allow more people's later years to not only have careful care around them and precise responses to their needs, but also a two-way emotional connection.
Return to TopBusiness entities are the source of vitality for promoting high-quality economic development. In the first quarter of this year, 5.098 million new business entities were established nationwide. Among them, the number of new business entities established in the primary, secondary, and tertiary industries were 229,000, 396,000, and 4.473 million, respectively. The steady and positive development of business entities provides strong support for a good start to the "15th Five-Year Plan," demonstrating the vigorous vitality of the market.
This is precisely:
Silent drizzles fall,
Green shoots sprout in order.
When they stretch and soar into the sky,
All trees compete in lushness.
By Xu Zhiwen (徐之文)
Return to TopBy: 孟海鹰
Not long ago, I revisited Jilin City (吉林市), Jilin Province (吉林省). I was deeply impressed not only by the enchanting scenery of the lakes and mountains and the deliciousness of the freshly caught river fish, but also by the tangible sense of cultural happiness.
Cultural happiness is hidden in the leisurely atmosphere of calligraphy and books and integrated into the warmth of folk customs. Material abundance is the cornerstone of happiness, and cultural richness is its highlight. Only by influencing and educating people with culture can we warm the spiritual world and cultivate cultural identity.
Cultural happiness begins with breaking down boundaries and entering the ordinary.
The Jilin Official Ginseng Bureau Museum (吉林官参局博物馆) connects cultural heritage with industry, realizing the integration of study tours, sightseeing, and consumption. The symphony orchestra of the Jilin Provincial Concert Hall (吉林省音乐厅) took to the streets, and free performances allowed symphonic and folk music to linger in the streets and alleys. A hot pot restaurant in Jilin City (吉林市) staged a historical drama, bringing culture and life closer together. When historical context is integrated into the marketplace and elegant art steps out of traditional spaces, culture becomes a daily part of life that everyone can access, feel, and participate in.
From the Guofeng Market in Xi'an (西安), Shaanxi (陕西), to the open-air performances along the Liangma River (亮马河) in Beijing (北京), cultural spaces everywhere are working hard to eliminate the sense of distance and deliver spiritual food to the people. Public culture is like the sunshine and rain of a happy life. As the warm services that everyone can enjoy increase, the branches and leaves of happiness can grow luxuriantly.
Cultural happiness is even more rooted in the countryside and permeates the fields.
Two interview experiences are still fresh in my memory. Once, it happened that a city theater troupe was bringing a show to the countryside. Villagers from all around came early, and many children gathered around. That pure joy was direct and moving. Another time, I walked into Baji垒 Town (巴吉垒镇) in Nongan County (农安县), Jilin (吉林), known as the "Poetry Township." The farmers there write poetry in spring planting and autumn harvest, and the inspiration for their creations during work breaks comes from their daily farming life. The villagers make friends through literature, enjoy reading and writing poetry, integrate creation into their daily lives, stretch their spirits in the cultivation of writing, and harvest inner abundance in a poetic life.
Whether urban residents walk into museums to touch history and listen to music on the streets, or rural farmers recite poetry in the fields, people are pursuing a way to place their emotions, entrust their love, and gain resonance in cultural immersion. When there is poetry, music, and literature in life, ordinary days become bright, and ordinary people can also have their own spiritual high ground.
Enhancing cultural happiness does not necessarily require high investment; the key is to be attentive and affectionate. Revitalizing idle resources and making good use of public spaces are also feasible paths. For example, open-air theaters transformed from abandoned quarries, revitalized and open old venues, and urban study rooms and community stations blooming everywhere can make cultural positions more accessible.
The "14th Five-Year Plan" ( “十五五”规划纲要) proposes: "Relying on urban study rooms, community cultural stations, cultural corridors, and other development of new public cultural spaces to provide more cultural services around the masses." Data shows that there are currently more than 40,000 new public cultural spaces nationwide. These accessible, participatory, and shareable cultural spaces are important carriers for meeting the people's growing spiritual and cultural needs and a vivid reflection of social progress.
Cultural happiness is a lasting spiritual enjoyment, as well as a strong sense of belonging and bursting vitality. When cultural resources are integrated into everyday life, when historical context is close to life, and when the poetry of writing is rooted in the countryside, we can better discover that culture is not far away, and happiness is in everyday life. This cultural nourishment, which is immersed in the heart and flowing on the land, is the warm background color of high-quality development, enriching everyone's spiritual world and illuminating every happy journey.
(The author is a reporter from the Jilin Branch (吉林分社) of this newspaper)
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Beijing (北京) recently introduced a new measure to prevent businesses from treating customers' prepayments as freely disposable slush funds. This measure is called the "Implementation Measures for the Filing and Pre-received Funds Management of Single-Purpose Commercial Prepayment Cards in Beijing (北京市单用途商业预付卡备案及预收资金管理实施办法)," and it will be implemented from the date of its promulgation. Businesses that offer prepayment cards must complete filing and funds escrow as long as the balance of pre-received funds reaches 200,000 yuan. Businesses that have previously issued cards must also file or escrow funds within one month if they reach 200,000 yuan.
What are consumers most afraid of when applying for a card? They fear that businesses will suddenly close down and run away with the money. 200,000 yuan, even if each card is charged with 500 yuan, 400 customers will reach the threshold, which means that supervision can cover most of the shops that consumers often go to. According to the requirements for funds escrow, the money received must enter a special account, which the merchant cannot touch. In case of closure, the account balance will be used to pay off consumers.
For businesses, the procedures for filing, opening a special account, and bookkeeping are indeed more complicated. But from another perspective, these procedures are exchanged for customers daring to spend money. Previously, many training institutions ran away, and later, various places strongly promoted funds escrow and "one class, one sale." Consumers were less worried, and those institutions with standardized management and competitive courses actually obtained higher enrollment rates.
The principle is very simple: whoever reassures consumers, their business will be at ease.
The reason why Beijing's (北京) new measures have attracted attention is that this exploration has demonstrative significance.
Prepayments range from a few hundred yuan to several thousand or tens of thousands of yuan, which are an important source of cash flow for businesses and a powerful tool for driving consumption. Precisely because the amount is not small, consumers pay more attention to the safety of funds. Before trust is established, consumers would rather give up discounts than apply for cards, which affects the business of merchants and prevents the consumption cycle from turning around.
Conversely, as long as effective trust is established, there is an opportunity to form a win-win situation. The prepayment card model offers convenience and discounts for consumers, while bringing stable customer flow and cash flow for businesses.
This time, Beijing (北京) has given existing businesses a 30-day transition period. After that, when you go to local restaurants, barbershops, beauty salons, etc., if the merchant promotes card applications, you may wish to ask: "Have you done the filing and escrow?" If you can produce proof, it is not too late to consider consumption. In case of hesitation, it is best to keep an eye out. If the merchant looks quite large and meets the 200,000 yuan threshold, you can also call 12345 or 12315 to let the regulatory authorities come to check. This is not nitpicking. The new regulations provide a legal basis for enforcement, and implementation in place can help all consumers clear mines and force businesses to operate in a standardized manner.
If more people ask, merchants who do not file for escrow will not be able to sell cards. In the future, filing and escrow themselves will also be a selling point, which is a merchant telling consumers loudly: My family operates in a standardized manner, so come with confidence. Asking "Have you filed?" in advance is better than asking "Where did the boss go?" afterwards.
(Excerpted and compiled from "Economic Daily (经济日报)," originally titled "Prepayments Cannot Be a Merchant's Slush Fund")
Return to TopBy: 刘 青
Blue skies and clear waters, willows shading flowers, are visible achievements. From the white walls and black tiles of the water towns in Jiangnan to the melodious herding songs of the grasslands in northern China, the continuous improvement of the ecological environment is not only a vivid reflection of a correct view of achievements, but also demonstrates the governance effectiveness of "protecting the ecological environment with the strictest system and the most stringent rule of law."
Recently, media reports have exposed that some places still have problems with lax environmental protection and ineffective pollution control. A 12-kilometer-long ditch in a certain place, which should have been responsible for farmland irrigation and flood drainage during the flood season, was flowing with black and smelly sewage. More than two years after "completing the rectification," the problem of illegal sewage discharge by local small workshops has still not been completely resolved.
The absence of supervision and the deviation of rectification, which lead to ecological damage, reflect an incorrect view of achievements. The reason why the view of achievements deviates is not only due to the weakening of the sense of purpose and the lack of a sense of the overall situation, but also related to the inaccurate assessment and evaluation and the lack of institutional constraints.
The more accurate and powerful the command baton, the more solid the correct view of achievements. When talking about establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements, Xi Jinping (习近平) General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized "to improve the differentiated assessment and evaluation system and improve the pertinence and scientific nature of the assessment." Scientific assessment and evaluation, and rigorous supervision and accountability, are important guarantees for stimulating the motivation to work hard and start a business. Not long ago, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued the "Measures for Assessing the Effectiveness of Building a Beautiful China" (hereinafter referred to as the "Measures"), which clearly stated that the assessment results of the effectiveness of building a Beautiful China will be used as an important reference for the comprehensive assessment, evaluation, rewards and punishments, appointment and removal of relevant leading cadres, and also as a reference basis for the allocation of ecological and environmental protection-related financial funds. This institutional design highlights the application of assessment results, adheres to the combination of assessment and application, and promotes work through assessment, which helps to better consolidate the main responsibility for ecological and environmental protection.
The assessment results are an important basis for supervision and accountability. Through supervision to discover malpractices in work style and shortcomings in the system, it is also conducive to optimizing assessment indicators and improving the assessment mechanism. Under the leadership of the Leading Group for Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Inspection Work, the assessment of the effectiveness of the battle against pollution has been carried out for seven consecutive years. The assessment work has "gone from nothing to something, from good to excellent," and has become a powerful tool for consolidating the "Party and government with the same responsibility, one post with dual responsibilities" for ecological and environmental protection, and promoting the continuous improvement of ecological and environmental quality. The "Measures" is a summary of successful experience, an "upgraded version" of the assessment of the effectiveness of the battle against pollution, and an important measure to improve the ecological and environmental governance system.
For party members and cadres, benefiting the people is a lifelong career. As we all know, "making decisions by patting your head" will lead to image projects and unfinished projects. In this regard, we should further improve the system of lifelong accountability for major decisions. No matter whether cadres are transferred, promoted or retired, as long as they cause major losses, they must be held accountable. For example, Shangrao City (上饶市), Jiangxi Province, has introduced a commitment system for major leading cadres to fulfill their economic responsibilities, so that those who leave office can clear their accounts and those who take over can clarify their responsibilities, which is of great benefit to solving the stubborn problems of "reckless work by patting their chests" and "new officials ignoring old accounts." Strong accountability and lifelong accountability will effectively curb the impulse to act recklessly and strengthen the determination to achieve achievements through hard work.
Real achievements are never a cold accumulation of numbers, but the people's real sense of gain, happiness, and security. The people have the most say in whether achievements are good or not. Especially in the fields of people's livelihood such as elderly care, medical care, housing, education, and environmental protection, the people have personal experiences. Incorporating "the degree of public satisfaction" into the assessment indicators and breaking the 见物不见人 (jiàn wù bù jiàn rén - "seeing things but not people," focusing on material things while neglecting people's needs) mindset can withstand the scrutiny and inspection of the people.
Establishing and practicing a correct view of achievements requires not only the cadres' heartfelt political consciousness, but also the indispensable scientific, rigorous, and closely linked institutional guarantees. Consolidating responsibilities with hard constraints and encouraging responsibility with good guidance, and achieving the unity of "being responsible to superiors" and "being responsible to subordinates," the vast number of party members and cadres will surely create more outstanding achievements that live up to the times and the people.
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 徐驭尧 琼达卓嘎
On the banks of the Jinsha River, in Gangtuo Village (岗托村), Jiangda County (江达县), Changdu City (昌都市), Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区), the red characters "西藏" on a giant cliff face shine brightly, and the viewing platform below is filled with tourists taking photos.
On October 6, 1950, the 18th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (中国人民解放军第十八军) fired the first shot in the advance into Tibet here. On May 23, 1951, the *Agreement between the Central People's Government and the Local Government of Tibet on Measures for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet* (《中央人民政府和西藏地方政府关于和平解放西藏办法的协议》) was signed in Beijing (北京), proclaiming the peaceful liberation of Tibet.
"A few short decades, spanning over a thousand years." Seventy-five years have passed, and Gangtuo Village (岗托村) is showing a new face everywhere—
At the entrance of "Bema Jinzhu Red Guesthouse" ("贝玛金珠红色民宿"), Deng Miao (邓淼), a Sichuan (四川) girl who started her business here, is enthusiastically attracting tourists, "Our red culture here is unique, and it's worth staying to experience it!"
In the Memorial Hall of the 18th Army Crossing the River Battle in the village, Zha Xi Quzhen (扎西曲珍), a 36-year-old staff member, is emotionally telling the story of the liberation of Tibet: "Without the Jinzhu Mami (金珠玛米) (Tibetan, meaning "Liberation Army"), where would we be today?"
Over the past seventy-five years, the people of Tibet, together with the people of the whole country, have ushered in a great leap from standing up, becoming prosperous, to becoming strong.
In August 2025, General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) earnestly instructed when listening to the work report of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) Party Committee and Government: "Strive to build a united, prosperous, civilized, harmonious, and beautiful socialist modern new Tibet."
"Bearing in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's (习近平) instructions, we must fully implement the Party's strategy for governing Tibet in the new era, solidly promote high-quality development, improve people's living standards, maintain social harmony and stability, and strive to build a socialist modern new Tibet even better," said Wang Junzheng (王君正), Secretary of the Tibet Autonomous Region (西藏自治区) Party Committee.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," Tibet's development stands at a new historical starting point. People of all ethnic groups are working together with one heart and one mind to strive to write a new chapter of long-term peace and stability and high-quality development on the snowy plateau.
Focusing on unique advantages, we will take the road of high-quality development in accordance with local conditions.
In Gelin Village (格林村), Motuo County (墨脱县), Linzhi City (林芝市), villager Ciren Cuomu (次仁措姆) entered the tea garden and bent down to carefully observe the growth of the tea leaves, "Now is the golden season for picking, we have to hurry up and get started, we can earn tens of thousands of yuan!"
The former "isolated island on the plateau" is now filled with the fragrance of tea. Motuo's (墨脱) tea industry has achieved an output value of over 100 million yuan and a tea picking volume of over 1 million jin for two consecutive years. The tea is sold far and wide, driving an average household income increase of more than 5,000 yuan in 2025.
Tibet (西藏) adheres to stabilizing grain, revitalizing animal husbandry, and strengthening unique characteristics, and continues to develop plateau characteristic agricultural and animal husbandry industries such as yak, highland barley, and tea, so that more local specialties are transformed from good plateau products into hot-selling products in the market.
Since the beginning of this year, the world's highest altitude trough-type solar thermal power station project has started construction in Tibet (西藏), and the construction of Tibet's (西藏) first tower-type solar thermal project is progressing in an orderly manner... As the region with the most solar radiation energy in China, Tibet (西藏) develops clean energy industries in accordance with local conditions. The installed capacity of clean energy power in the region has exceeded 13 million kilowatts, and the cumulative external transmission of clean energy has exceeded 17.2 billion kilowatt-hours.
People's livelihood is strongly guaranteed, and people's living standards have been significantly improved.
In Chadang Township (查当乡), Nierong County (聂荣县), Nagqu City (那曲市), the sun is shining brightly. 92-year-old Ciren Laga (次仁拉加) gets up and opens the door, his movements are slow but calm.
Previously, Ciren Laga (次仁拉加) had great difficulty moving due to severe knee pain. In March of this year, the Nagqu City People's Hospital (那曲市人民医院) performed a knee replacement surgery for him. A few days after the operation, the old man was able to get out of bed on his own.
Since 2025, the Nagqu City People's Hospital (那曲市人民医院) has performed more than 100 joint replacement surgeries, and patients have solved their long-standing pain problems at their doorsteps.
Before the peaceful liberation, Tibet (西藏) only had 3 official Tibetan medicine institutions with simple equipment and small scale, and a small number of private clinics. Today, Tibet (西藏) has built a five-level medical and health service system covering urban and rural areas, and there are a total of 7,436 health institutions (including village health rooms) in the region.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Tibet's (西藏) financial investment in the field of people's livelihood has exceeded 1 trillion yuan, and the people of all ethnic groups have continuously enhanced their sense of gain, happiness, and security.
Ethnic unity and progress, working together to build a happy homeland.
Walking into Yumai Township (玉麦乡), Longzi County (隆子县), Shannan City (山南市), the five-star red flags flutter in the wind on the roofs of every household.
The "three-person township," which was once only guarded by Sangjie Quba (桑杰曲巴) and his two daughters Zhuoga (卓嘎) and Yangzong (央宗), has now developed into a "well-off township" with 67 households and more than 250 people.
"On the high green mountains, daylily flowers are blooming..." In Yumai Township Primary School (玉麦乡小学), the children's singing is melodious. Yang Dandan (杨旦旦), a post-00s girl from Gansu (甘肃), was moved by the story of the Zhuoga (卓嘎) and Yangzong (央宗) sisters in high school. After graduating from university, she chose to come to Yumai Township (玉麦乡) and become a primary school teacher.
"Home is Yumai (玉麦), the country is China," people of all ethnic groups are jointly building a happy homeland. In 2020, the asphalt road in Yumai (玉麦) was fully opened, ending the history of snow blocking the mountains for half a year every year. Today, 5G signals have covered the entire township, and villagers have also started using mobile phone payments.
Lhasa (拉萨), the Barkhor (八廓) ancient city is crowded with tourists. Qusu Courtyard (曲苏大院), located in the ancient city, is home to people of various ethnic groups such as Han (汉族), Tibetan (藏族), and Hui (回族)—sending dumplings during the Lunar New Year and highland barley wine during the Tibetan New Year, everyone is closely united like pomegranate seeds.
"Everyone helps each other and jointly safeguards a better life," said Ci Cheng (次成), Secretary of the Party Branch of Barkhor Community (八廓社区).
As of now, all 7 cities (prefectures) in Tibet (西藏) have been created as national demonstration cities (prefectures) for ethnic unity and progress, 38 counties (districts, cities) have been created as national demonstration counties (districts, cities) for ethnic unity and progress, and 69 units have been named national demonstration units for ethnic unity and progress; 154 collectives and 204 individuals have been awarded the title of national model for ethnic unity and progress.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 庞革平 本报通讯员 黎寒池
In early summer, in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County (三江侗族自治县), Liuzhou (柳州) City, Guangxi (广西), lush bamboo forests line both banks of the Xun River (浔江), with continuous bamboo seas covering the mountains, and the bamboo forest area exceeds 190,000 mu.
In the past, most of these bamboos were processed into primary products such as bamboo chopsticks and bamboo skewers, with low added value and limited sales channels. Today, with the rise of the "bamboo-for-plastic" industry in automobiles, a green bamboo has embarked on a wonderful journey from the depths of the mountains to automotive interior parts.
In the Sanjiang County (三江县) Ecological Industrial Park, the production workshop of Guangxi Kunyu New Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (广西坤钰新材料科技有限公司) Sanjiang Factory is filled with the roar of machines. Workers are feeding bundles of bamboo raw materials into the production line. After processes such as crushing, loosening, softening, cleaning, dewatering, and drying, the hard bamboo is extracted into soft and fluffy bamboo raw fiber.
"Currently, the production line is operating stably, with an estimated annual production capacity of 3,000 tons, requiring about 10,000 tons of bamboo, and an annual output value exceeding 16 million yuan," said Chang Nianfu (常年富), the production manager of the Sanjiang Factory. This industrial chain is rooted in the tens of thousands of mu of bamboo forests in Sanjiang (三江) at one end and connected to the global automotive market at the other, injecting green momentum into the development of the automotive industry.
He Ying (贺莹), Secretary of the Sanjiang County (三江县) Party Committee, introduced that in recent years, the local government has listed the "bamboo-for-plastic" industry in automobiles as a key support direction, promoted the construction of the bamboo and wood industrial park to a high standard, and promoted the accelerated landing of the green and low-carbon bamboo material industrial park. Relying on the entire industrial chain of "bamboo-for-plastic" for auto parts, the agglomeration effect of the bamboo industry has initially emerged, driving more than 1,000 bamboo farmers to achieve employment and income at their doorstep.
Walking into Liuzhou Furuit Automotive Components Co., Ltd. (柳州福瑞特汽车零部件有限公司), which is downstream of the industrial chain, bamboo fiber is processed here through processes such as loosening, mixing, and hot pressing into bamboo fiber felt and composite panels, and finally made into parts such as headliners, back panels, and tailgate trim panels, which are used for the complete vehicle assembly of SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱).
It is not easy to get bamboo "on the car." Bamboo fiber is hydrophilic, and plastic is hydrophobic. The two are "incompatible," and direct mixing will greatly reduce the performance of the material. To this end, SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱) joined the International Center for Bamboo and Rattan (国际竹藤中心) to carry out technical research, focusing on solving this common problem in the industry.
The team used interface toughening technology to establish hundreds of millions of solid "piers" between the materials to ensure the long-term reliability of the composite material under complex conditions such as vehicle vibration and temperature changes. At the same time, it broke through the special-shaped deep molding technology of bamboo fiber, making the bamboo fiber content as high as 75% or more, and the molding depth of complex parts exceeding 25 cm, meeting the three-dimensional modeling needs of automotive interiors.
From bamboo forest to carriage, from raw materials to complete vehicles, a green intelligent manufacturing full link has realized the "bamboo-for-plastic" in the automotive industry. He Yibo (何逸波), Deputy General Manager of SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱), introduced that related interior parts have been expanded to more than 10 categories, installed in nearly 20 main models, and entered international markets such as Mexico and ASEAN with the company's overseas business expansion.
Currently, Liuzhou (柳州) City relies on 850,000 mu of high-quality bamboo forest resources to continuously broaden the "bamboo-for-plastic" application track, accelerate the layout of key projects such as bamboo winding, bamboo fiber new materials, and high-end bamboo-based degradable materials, and promote bamboo processing from primary utilization to new material research and development and high-end manufacturing. "Liuzhou (柳州) City will further develop the 'bamboo-for-plastic' industry for automobiles and expand it to daily necessities, industrial production, and green building materials," introduced Li Lihua (李丽华), Chief Engineer of the Liuzhou (柳州) Municipal Forestry and Landscaping Bureau.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫)): Reporters learned from the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) that in the first four months of this year, the transportation economy operated generally smoothly, and major indicators such as freight volume, port cargo throughput, and cross-regional personnel mobility continued to grow.
The volume of personnel mobility is steadily increasing. In the first four months, China completed 23.21 billion person-trips of cross-regional personnel mobility, an increase of 2.1% year-on-year. Among them, highway personnel mobility was 21.31 billion person-trips, an increase of 1.7% year-on-year; waterway passenger volume was 82.2 million person-trips, an increase of 7.4% year-on-year.
Freight volume is growing steadily. From January to April, 18.17 billion tons of commercial freight were completed, an increase of 3.6% year-on-year. Among them, highway freight volume was 13.68 billion tons, an increase of 3.4% year-on-year; waterway freight volume was 2.75 billion tons, an increase of 5.2% year-on-year.
The growth rate of port foreign trade cargo throughput is relatively fast. From January to April, 5.93 billion tons of port cargo throughput were completed, an increase of 3.1% year-on-year, of which domestic and foreign trade throughput increased by 2.0% and 5.5% year-on-year, respectively. 120 million TEUs of container throughput were completed, an increase of 7.2% year-on-year.
Transportation fixed asset investment maintained a high level of operation. Driven by a series of major projects such as the Pinglu Canal (平陆运河) and the Shiziyang Passage (狮子洋通道), from January to April, transportation fixed asset investment reached 894.4 billion yuan, maintaining a high level, of which highway and waterway completed investments of 600.4 billion yuan and 65 billion yuan respectively.
Return to TopAccording to reports from our newspaper in Beijing on May 27th (Reporter Li Xiaoqing (李晓晴)), the reporter learned from the National Office for Water Conservation that since the launch of the national water budget management pilot program in 2024, the Ministry of Water Resources has coordinated and promoted the construction of 20 national and 78 provincial pilot projects, forming a number of replicable and scalable experiences and practices. The core of water budget management is to integrate the concept of fiscal budgeting into the entire life cycle management of water resources, "managing water like managing money," to achieve refined management and efficient allocation of water resources.
As one of the first provincial-level water budget management pilot areas in the country, the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (宁夏回族自治区) took the lead in incorporating relevant clauses on water budget management into local legislation, and carried out water budget management at the three levels of the district, city, and county according to the process of "preparation-review-issuance-execution-adjustment-final accounts," promoting a significant increase in water use efficiency.
As the first cross-provincial river basin water budget management pilot in the country, the Liao River Basin (辽河流域) has established a four-level management framework of "basin-provincial-prefecture-county," achieving full coverage of water budget management in 18 prefecture-level administrative regions and 60 county-level administrative regions in 4 provinces (autonomous regions) within the basin.
Pilot areas have also actively explored market-oriented approaches and methods to revitalize existing water reserves. For example, Dezhou (德州市), Shandong Province (山东省), explored the establishment of municipal and county-level "water banks" to collect, store, and integrate surplus water from agriculture and enterprises, and optimize allocation between regions and industries. Wuhai (乌海市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), guided enterprises with surplus water budget quotas to conduct water rights transactions, stimulating the vitality of the water market. Many other places have also supported major water users in carrying out water-saving renovations through financial subsidies, green finance, and other means.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
At Kunming Station (昆明站) in Yunnan (云南), the "Lancang号" (Lancang Hao) EMU train on the China-Laos Railway is about to enter the station. In the driver's cab, Li Guangdeng (李光登), an EMU driver from the Kunming Locomotive Depot (昆明机务段) of the China Railway Kunming Bureau Group Co., Ltd. (国铁昆明局集团有限公司), keeps a close eye on the instrument panel, holds the control lever, and slowly reduces speed.
The train enters Platform 1, and the carriage door is precisely aligned with the carriage markings on the platform, coming to a smooth stop. Looking out from the side window, Li Guangdeng's line of sight is level with the parking sign erected on the platform, completing another precise stop.
"A precise stop makes it easier for passengers to get on and off the train." The "Lancang号" (Lancang Hao) EMU train driven by Li Guangdeng is 232 meters long. Each time it enters the station, he can precisely stop the train within an error of no more than 20 centimeters on the platform. The EMU train has a long body and high speed. How is the "embroidered skill" of precise stopping achieved?
"Before entering the station, the driver must accurately grasp the braking timing and braking level to reduce speed according to the conditions such as the train model, line slope, and number of passengers. When entering the station, it is necessary to continuously observe the distance between the train and the parking position mark and the speed reduction of the train control and vehicle-mounted equipment, and adjust the speed in time in combination with ground reference objects." Li Guangdeng (李光登) said that this process requires close cooperation and linkage between the eyes, brain, and hands, and requires high driving skills and experience from the driver.
Precise parking is not achieved in a day. After each duty, Li Guangdeng (李光登) records the parking error value and reviews the operation process with his colleagues. He repeatedly practiced thousands of times in the simulation driving cab and adjusted it in combination with actual operations, and finally summed up a set of "in-station parking alignment operation methods," which were promoted and used throughout the line.
It is necessary to stop accurately and drive steadily. The China-Laos Railway passes through mountains and valleys, and the proportion of bridges and tunnels is as high as 87.3%. The line has many curves and slopes, and the geographical situation is complex, making the operation extremely difficult. "The core of smooth driving lies in the precise control of traction." Li Guangdeng (李光登) introduced that excessive increases and decreases in traction will cause a sense of frustration and shaking in the train, causing discomfort to passengers. This requires the driver to control the control lever with the feeling of "pinching tofu with fingertips" and smoothly load the traction force.
Faced with the intricate line conditions, Li Guangdeng (李光登) led the team to carefully analyze the operating data of each slope, tunnel, and curve, summarize the rules, accurately study the operating techniques of each section, and overcome the operating difficulties of 34 slope change points, 34 electrical phase separation points, and 7 speed change points on the line one by one. After hundreds of tests and nearly 10,000 kilometers of operation verification, he took the lead in formulating the "International Train Imperceptible Operation Method." By precisely controlling the traction force, braking level, and speed change timing, he effectively suppressed train shaking and achieved the stability of "a cup of water does not shake" on complex lines.
In more than 10 years of work, with his excellent driving skills, Li Guangdeng (李光登) was named a national railway technical expert and a national railway system advanced individual, won the "Locomotive Medal," and also won the first place in the China Railway Kunming Bureau (国铁昆明局) driver operation competition, with more than 3,000 safe trips and nearly 600,000 kilometers of safe driving mileage.
"I come from a Hani (哈尼族) village along the China-Laos Railway. I am the first train driver to come out of the village. The opening of the China-Laos Railway has allowed my hometown to eat tourism and have new development. Now, there are new changes everywhere outside the driving window." Li Guangdeng (李光登) said that he is very proud to contribute to the safe operation of the China-Laos Railway in this ordinary position.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 27th (Reporter Li Xinping (李心萍)): The reporter learned from China Railway Qinghai-Tibet Group Co., Ltd. (国铁青藏集团公司) that on the morning of the 27th, a 75164/3 Central Asia train (Xining (西宁) - Ho Chi Minh City (胡志明市)) loaded with nearly a thousand tons of polyvinyl chloride slowly departed from Shuangzhai Station (双寨站) in Xining (西宁), Qinghai (青海), marking a 零的突破 (líng de tū pò - "zero breakthrough," achieving something for the first time) for the direct railway transportation of goods produced on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (青藏高原) to the ASEAN market.
It is reported that the train departs from Shuangzhai Station (双寨站), passes through the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor in western China, exits the country via the Pingxiang (凭祥) port in Guangxi (广西), and finally arrives in Ho Chi Minh City (胡志明市), Vietnam (越南). The train consists of 35 container cars and adopts a full railway transportation mode, which not only greatly reduces logistics time but also effectively reduces the comprehensive logistics costs for enterprises, building a stable and efficient cross-border logistics channel for Qinghai (青海) Salt Lake Chemical Industry, new materials, and other advantageous products to explore the Southeast Asian market.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shanghai on May 27th (Reporter Cao Lingjuan (曹玲娟)) - The Shanghai Municipal Administration of Culture and Tourism (上海市文化和旅游局) recently released "Several Measures of Shanghai Municipality to Accelerate the High-Quality Development of AI-Empowered Short Dramas," making every effort to build a "AI + Short Drama" industry highland.
The measures revolve around the three main lines of "strengthening industry, strengthening services, and strengthening agglomeration," carrying out an all-round strategic layout. Constructing an "AI + Short Drama" technical support system, optimizing the supply of core elements such as computing power, algorithms, and corpora, supporting the creation of AI short drama skill libraries and intelligent agents, supporting the creation of high-quality scripts and excellent content, and attracting and cultivating broadcasting platforms, creative brands, and various creative entities; building a one-stop service center, improving review efficiency, forming an AI short drama industry alliance, and building a short drama overseas base in Pudong New Area (浦东新区) to promote cultural exports; building AI short drama industry clusters in Xuhui (徐汇), Yangpu (杨浦), and Minhang (闵行) districts. At the same time, strengthen the talent introduction and development support system, and support AI short drama talents to participate in the relevant professional title evaluation of the art series and engineering series.
Return to TopBeijing, May 27th (Reported by Wang Zheng (王政) and Liu Wenxin (刘温馨)) The two mandatory national standards, "Safety Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules" and "Nameplate Marking Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules," organized and formulated by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部), have been officially released recently. These standards will play an important role in regulating the competitive order of the photovoltaic industry and promoting industrial upgrading and development.
"Safety Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules" specifies the electrical safety, mechanical safety, fire safety, and hazardous substance restrictions of photovoltaic modules, and describes the corresponding test methods. Especially in terms of fire prevention, the standard not only clarifies the fire protection level and combustion performance of photovoltaic modules, but also puts forward rigid indicators for the flame retardancy of component materials, aiming to comprehensively reduce the risk of photovoltaic module fires.
"Nameplate Marking Requirements for Photovoltaic Modules" aims to eliminate the phenomenon of power "false labeling" by specifying the maximum allowable tolerance and verification judgment value of electrical performance parameter values in the component nameplate, clarifying measurement methods, stipulating measurement traceability requirements, and making measurement results traceable.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘志强 王伟健 刘温馨
From January to April, the profits of national industrial enterprises above designated size increased by 18.2% year-on-year, accelerating by 2.7 percentage points compared with January to March, with an increase of 24.7% in April. Data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局) on the 27th showed that the profit growth of industrial enterprises accelerated in the first four months, and the efficiency of industrial enterprises continued to improve. What signals can be read from this? What are the real feelings of enterprises on the front line of the real economy? The reporter conducted interviews.
Looking at the overall situation, the profitability of the industrial economy has rebounded, and the momentum of recovery has increased.
Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. (亨通光纤科技有限公司), located in Wujiang District (吴江区), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, is busy with production. As soon as a transparent optical fiber preform weighing hundreds of kilograms comes off the production line, it is loaded onto a truck and sent to all parts of the world.
"I haven't seen such a hot market situation for several years. The demand intensity and sustainability of this artificial intelligence computing power and data center far exceeds the past." Meng Xiaofeng (孟晓峰), director of the office of Hengtong Optic-Electric Co., Ltd. (亨通光纤科技有限公司), said that in the first quarter of this year, the company's overall output increased by 35% year-on-year, and profits increased significantly.
Looking at the whole country from one enterprise, from January to April, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size grew rapidly, and the operating income of industrial enterprises steadily improved, and the growth rate of monthly revenue continued to rise. "This series of signals reflects that the profitability of the industrial economy has rebounded and the momentum of recovery has increased," said Fu Baozong (付保宗), deputy director of the International Cooperation Center of the National Development and Reform Commission (国家发展改革委).
In the first four months, the energy crisis pushed up the costs of raw materials, energy, etc. Against this background, why did the profits of industrial enterprises improve? There are many reasons.
For example, rising prices of energy and other commodities.
Fu Baozong (付保宗) believes that this round of energy price increases directly benefits upstream energy and raw material enterprises, the revenue increase exceeds the cost increase, the gross profit margin expands significantly, and releases the price increase dividend.
"The sharp rise in international commodity prices has driven the domestic oil and gas exploitation, metal smelting and chemical products industries to improve. For example, the profit growth rate of the non-ferrous metal mining and dressing industry, the chemical raw materials and chemical products manufacturing industry, and the chemical fiber manufacturing industry is relatively high," said Zou Yunhan (邹蕴涵), deputy director of the Macroeconomic Research Office of the Economic Forecasting Department of the State Information Center (国家信息中心).
Another example is the continuous efforts of new kinetic energy.
Zou Yunhan (邹蕴涵) noted that driven by strong exports and good domestic demand, the overall situation of industries related to artificial intelligence is good. For example, the total profit of the computer, communication and other electronic equipment manufacturing industries increased by 1.1 times in the first four months.
"Since the beginning of this year, the demand for emerging industries such as new energy, artificial intelligence, and semiconductors has continued to grow, promoting the simultaneous increase in the quantity and price of high-tech manufacturing, driving rapid profit growth." Fu Baozong (付保宗) believes that many companies have partially offset cost pressures by reducing costs and increasing efficiency.
The optimization of industry competition order has also brought about a rebound in profits. Data show that from January to April, the profit rate of operating income of industrial enterprises above designated size was 5.43%, an increase of 0.6 percentage points year-on-year, and the revenue profit rate reached the highest level in the same period since 2023. Zou Yunhan (邹蕴涵) believes that with the continuous effectiveness of the comprehensive rectification of "involution" competition policies, the situation of low-price vicious competition has been gradually reversed, the market environment is returning to value competition, and the ex-factory prices of industrial producers have rebounded, which has played an important role in the improvement of corporate profits.
Looking at the structure, new kinetic energy industries and raw material manufacturing contribute significantly.
From January to April, the profits of equipment manufacturing, high-tech manufacturing, and raw material manufacturing above designated size increased by 15.4%, 44.8%, and 88.1% year-on-year, respectively, driving the profit growth of all industrial enterprises above designated size by 5.4, 7.8, and 10.3 percentage points, respectively. Overall, new kinetic energy industries such as equipment manufacturing and high-tech manufacturing and raw material manufacturing contribute significantly.
Looking closely at high-tech manufacturing, the rapid development of semiconductor-related industries has driven the profit growth of electronic special material manufacturing, optical fiber manufacturing, and optoelectronic device manufacturing industries by 601.7%, 347.6%, and 51.0%, respectively.
"The strong demand for optical fibers is mainly due to the comprehensive recovery of the optical fiber and cable industry, especially under the pull of artificial intelligence computing infrastructure, which has achieved simultaneous increases in quantity and price." Meng Xiaofeng (孟晓峰) told reporters. An industry organization analysis believes that the optical fiber demand of an ultra-large-scale intelligent computing center will reach 5 to 10 times that of a traditional data center, and huge market demand has promoted the continuous rise of optical fiber prices. Market supply is in short supply, and corporate profits are also rising.
In terms of raw material manufacturing, the demand for non-ferrous metals such as aluminum, copper, gold, and lithium has increased significantly, driving the profit of the non-ferrous industry to increase by 117.8% year-on-year from January to April.
Henan Mingtai Aluminum Industry Co., Ltd. (河南明泰铝业股份有限公司), an aluminum processing enterprise, has a clear feeling about the development momentum of the non-ferrous industry. "In the past two years, emerging industries such as new energy, robots, and artificial intelligence have flourished, bringing many new growth points to the aluminum processing industry." He Zhigang (贺志刚), sales manager of the company, said that since October 2025, the company's products have been in short supply. "Since the beginning of this year, although international aluminum prices have risen, the company has sufficient inventory, and the price of aluminum alloy plates shipped is stable."
Looking at the trend, there are many positive factors, but we must also pay attention to the problem of industry differentiation.
The profit growth of industrial enterprises accelerated in the first four months. What will be the next trend?
On the one hand, we must see the positive factors.
"Artificial intelligence, new energy storage, new energy vehicles, humanoid robots, low-altitude economy and other fields are booming, effectively offsetting the pressure of slowing demand in traditional fields, driving the continuous improvement of demand for battery materials such as nickel, cobalt and lithium, copper and aluminum foil, and high-end copper materials, and the industrial intelligence and green upgrading are also accelerating." Chen Xuesen (陈学森), vice president of the China Nonferrous Metals Industry Association (中国有色金属工业协会), believes that it is expected that in the first half of this year, the operating income and profits of non-ferrous metal industrial enterprises above designated size will continue to maintain growth.
"Since the beginning of this year, the potential of the new display industry has continued to be released. In the first quarter, the company's AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) panel shipments were about 19 million pieces, an increase of 20.3% year-on-year." Zhang Deqiang (张德强), chairman of Visionox Technology Co., Ltd. (维信诺科技股份有限公司), said that benefiting from the steady upgrading of technology and the release of high-end demand, the capacity utilization rate and shipment structure of the new display industry are continuously optimized.
"Since the beginning of this year, macro policies have been precisely implemented, effectively stimulating market vitality, promoting smoother economic cycles, and helping companies convert more revenue into profits," Zou Yunhan (邹蕴涵) believes.
On the one hand, we must also pay attention to the problem of industry differentiation.
"At present, the impact of international geopolitical conflicts on industrial enterprises in different industries in my country is not balanced, showing that the situation in the upstream industry is improving, and the impact of cost transmission on mid- and downstream enterprises is deepening." Zou Yunhan (邹蕴涵) suggested strengthening industrial chain collaboration and price dredging, improving the monitoring and early warning of commodity prices, guiding industry associations to play a coordinating role, standardizing the upstream market order, curbing unreasonable price increases, and at the same time considering measures such as phased financing tilt to help mid- and downstream enterprises cope with cost pressures and stabilize profit expectations.
Yu Weining (于卫宁), chief statistician of the Industrial Statistics Department of the National Bureau of Statistics (国家统计局), said that from January to April, the profits of industrial enterprises above designated size grew rapidly, but it should also be noted that the external situation is complex and volatile, and the contradiction between strong domestic supply and weak demand is still prominent, and some enterprises have difficulties in production and operation. In the next stage, it is necessary to further strengthen macro policy regulation, continue to expand domestic demand, optimize supply, and promote the sustained and healthy development of the industrial economy.
(Reporter Han Xin (韩鑫) of this newspaper participated in writing)
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"Click, clack..." In Weifang, Shandong (山东潍坊), at the Weichai Lovol Intelligent Agriculture intelligent tractor manufacturing base, robotic arms operate with precision, data flows in real-time, and automated production lines are efficient and orderly. Outside the workshop, newly produced intelligent agricultural machines are neatly arranged, ready to embark on their journey.
"This batch of orders will be shipped to countries such as Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) and Uzbekistan (乌兹别克斯坦)," said Dong Shukuai (董淑奎), Deputy General Manager of Weichai Lovol Overseas Marketing Company. With advanced technology and reliable quality, Chinese agricultural machinery is increasingly favored by customers in Central Asia.
The Central Asian region is an important dryland agricultural production zone, currently facing problems such as outdated agricultural machinery equipment, which affects further agricultural production increases.
In order to adapt to the special operating environment and usage habits of the Central Asian region, Weichai Lovol has made a number of targeted improvements to tractors, harvesting machinery and other products. "We have enhanced the adaptability of the power system, optimized the engine intake system and cooling system to ensure stable operation of the equipment in high temperature and dusty conditions; we have added Beidou/GPS (北斗/GPS) (Global Positioning System) dual-mode navigation systems to some models to support unmanned driving and precision operations; and we have strengthened the sealing of key components such as air filters and hydraulic systems to extend the service life of the equipment," Dong Shukuai (董淑奎) said.
Customized agricultural machinery is more in line with local needs and has become an important driving force for the upgrading of agricultural mechanization in Central Asia. "Taking Turkmenistan (土库曼斯坦) as an example, the local government provides a number of preferential measures for foreign-funded enterprises," Dong Shukuai (董淑奎) said. The projects Weichai Lovol has achieved locally not only help reduce operating costs, but also significantly increase crop yields and overall economic benefits.
Murat (穆拉特) is the head of a farm in Kostanay Region (科斯塔奈州), Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). After using Lovol tractors, the wheat sowing efficiency of his farm has increased by 40%, and annual income has increased by more than 15%. "These devices are easy to operate and maintain, which is very suitable for our agricultural needs here," he said. "The service team also provides on-site support, so we have no worries."
With high-quality products and services, Weichai Lovol's sales in the Central Asian market have maintained a growth rate of more than 30% for many years. "The reliability of Chinese agricultural machinery has surpassed some traditional advantageous brands, and it is also more cost-effective," said Jinar (吉纳尔), head of a Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) distributor. "Chinese companies not only provide products, but also provide us with training, after-sales and financial support. This full cooperation model gives us more confidence to develop the market."
In Henan Dongfanghong (Luoyang) International Land Port (河南东方红（洛阳）国际陆港), a Central Asia train slowly pulls out. In the containers, export-oriented tractor parts and other products produced by China Yituo (中国一拖) are neatly placed and will be transported to Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) for assembly and sales.
"In the past, we had to send the equipment to Zhengzhou (河南郑州), Shaanxi Xi'an (陕西西安) and other places, and then take the train to the destination. Now, the products can go directly to the train after leaving the production line, saving at least 10 days in delivery time," said Shan Chunyu (单春雨), Deputy General Manager of China Yituo (中国一拖) Guomao Company. "Like this batch of products, it will arrive in Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦) via Horgos (霍尔果斯), Xinjiang (新疆), and the whole process will take no more than 20 days, including customs clearance time."
From complete machine sales to component assembly, more and more Chinese agricultural machinery companies are actively expanding new development space. Kokshetau (科克舍套市) is located in northern Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦). In 2021, with the help of China Yituo (中国一拖), a modern tractor assembly plant was built here. "After the parts arrive, the production line will be running at full capacity to assemble the tractor parts that have arrived," said Savin Vladimir (萨文·弗拉基米尔), production supervisor of the assembly plant.
The new cooperation model achieves mutual benefit and win-win results. "In the past, when selling complete machines, we only sold one or two hundred units a year. After adopting the cooperation model of exporting parts and assembling overseas, we export thousands of products every year, with models covering 90 to 280 horsepower," Shan Chunyu (单春雨) said. The new model has driven the company's rapid growth in international business and provided more employment opportunities for the local area.
Nursultan (努尔苏丹), a post-00s youth from Kazakhstan (哈萨克斯坦), has become an installation engineer at an assembly plant after participating in technical training at China Yituo (中国一拖). "I have mastered the assembly technology of engines, transmissions and other equipment, and can assemble more than 100 agricultural equipment every month," he said.
"In addition to online training, we also adopt a two-way model offline. The company dispatches employees to guide assembly, operation and maintenance; we also invite foreign students to Luoyang (洛阳) to conduct theoretical and practical training in the Yituo (一拖) factory and issue graduation certificates," said Ding Xinling (丁新岭), Deputy Manager of the Product Technology Department of China Yituo (中国一拖) Guomao Company.
"Dongfanghong (东方红) tractors have been exported to more than 100 countries and regions, contributing to increased agricultural production," said the relevant person in charge of China Yituo (中国一拖). The next step will be to launch more overseas best-selling models by optimizing the industrial layout and accelerating product research and development, so that Chinese agricultural machinery can drive to a wider world.
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China is the only country in the world with the ability to manufacture all categories of agricultural machinery
China is a major agricultural machinery manufacturing country, with more than 2,200 agricultural machinery manufacturing enterprises above designated size and producing more than 4,500 kinds of agricultural machinery products. It is the only country in the world with the ability to manufacture all categories of agricultural machinery. In recent years, China's agricultural machinery has continued to make breakthroughs in product quality, performance and efficiency, and its international competitiveness has been increasing year by year, gradually becoming popular overseas.
The scale is growing steadily. In the first quarter of this year, China's total import and export volume of agricultural machinery equipment and parts reached US$6.28 billion, a year-on-year increase of 27.9%. Among them, exports were US$5.94 billion, a year-on-year increase of 28.9%.
The structure continues to be optimized. China's agricultural machinery exports are shifting from low-cost to high-value-added and knowledge-intensive, and intelligentization, greening and customization have become core competitiveness.
The market is becoming more diversified. In the first quarter of this year, China's agricultural machinery exports to countries jointly building the "Belt and Road" increased by 30.4% year-on-year.
Entering the high-end market. In the first quarter of this year, China's agricultural machinery exports to the European market increased by 30.8% year-on-year, and motorized lawn mowers suitable for lawns, parks or sports fields were selling well.
There are highlights in domestic large-scale high-end agricultural machinery equipment, but there are also gaps with international advanced products. Fan Jianhua (范建华), President of the China Agricultural Machinery Circulation Association, suggested that leading agricultural machinery manufacturing enterprises should be the chain owners to build industrial clusters of important agricultural machinery equipment, form industrial technology innovation alliances, promote collaborative innovation between complete machine enterprises and parts suppliers, and establish an industrial pattern with stable upstream and downstream supporting facilities and collaborative participation of related enterprises.
(This reporter Li Xinping (李心萍) interviewed and compiled)
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Equipping agricultural machinery with "smart brains" to support unmanned driving and precision operations; enhancing the adaptability of power systems to suit special operating environments and user habits; extending the service chain to provide on-site technical support to customers... How are Chinese agricultural machinery companies breaking into new markets? Sincerity is one of the secrets.
Sincerity stems from continuous attention to user needs. On one hand, there is strong demand from customers in Central Asia for intelligent agricultural machinery products, and on the other hand, there is significant progress in China's agricultural machinery industry in areas such as agricultural equipment research and development and manufacturing, achieving a good match between supply and demand. Chinese agricultural machinery companies are constantly addressing shortcomings and strengthening advantages, forging a path that combines cost-effectiveness and adaptability.
Sincerity is rooted in a win-win business philosophy. From exporting complete machines to assembling spare parts, from exporting products to exporting skills, Chinese agricultural machinery companies embrace the world with an open attitude. In this process, companies have not only strengthened their capabilities but also injected new meaning and enhanced recognition for Chinese brands.
By connecting with user needs, embracing diverse markets, and wholeheartedly exploring new spaces for development, the globalization story of "Made in China" is writing a new chapter. The key is to 走心 (zǒu xīn - "go heart," to be sincere and attentive).
Return to TopBy: 张正萍
A fair, transparent, stable, and predictable rule of law is also a growth channel for private enterprises to operate with perseverance, encouraging them to invest in the construction of a modern industrial system.
The Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy officially came into effect on May 20, 2025. Over the past year, this fundamental law specifically concerning the development of the private economy has effectively stabilized market expectations and strengthened development confidence. With the accelerated release of policy dividends, private enterprises are accelerating their development.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out that it is necessary to resolutely eliminate various obstacles to the equal use of factors of production and fair participation in market competition in accordance with the law. Sound laws and good governance, building a market environment of fair competition, can stabilize the foundation and promote development. A fair, transparent, stable, and predictable rule of law is also a growth channel for private enterprises to operate with perseverance, encouraging them to invest in the construction of a modern industrial system.
In the past, some private enterprises faced problems such as difficulty and high cost of financing. The Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy directly addresses these pain points, providing legal support for solving funding problems. Various national departments have intensively introduced supporting policies, increased credit support, and guided resource opening and sharing. Financial resources are precisely allocated, effectively alleviating the financial pressure on private enterprises, enabling them to calmly plan long-term research and development, cultivate advanced production capacity, and deepen industry-university-research cooperation. Taking Seres (赛力斯) as an example, the company has fully utilized equity financing, mergers and acquisitions, etc., to continuously enhance its research and development innovation capabilities and advanced manufacturing level. In 2025, it successfully listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (香港联交所), raising funds mainly for research and development and channel service system construction.
The Law on Promoting the Development of the Private Economy has a special chapter on "Technological Innovation," encouraging private enterprises to expand into new tracks in legal form. In 2025, Seres's (赛力斯) research and development investment reached 12.51 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 77.4%. The certainty of the rule of law gives private entrepreneurs more stable expectations for the future and provides sunshine and rain for cultivating new quality productive forces.
The rule of law is the best business environment. The rule of law "supports" legitimate business operations, allowing private enterprises to unleash their hands and feet and innovate and create. Seres (赛力斯) has always been rooted in the real economy, focusing on its main business, and putting all its energy into core technology breakthroughs and product quality polishing, anchoring the main track of high-end intelligent electric vehicles to accelerate development, and winning market recognition with high-quality products. We actively respond to the "Artificial Intelligence +" action to make cars smarter and travel more interesting.
In the era of the Internet of Everything, strengthening cooperation is essential. Seres (赛力斯) is constantly deepening its cooperation with partners such as Huawei (华为), integrating resources to tackle key technologies, and transforming the advantages of intelligent and electric integration into user-perceptible driving experience and safety trust, adhering to the direction of intelligence, greening, and integration, and contributing to the promotion of the construction of a modern industrial system.
Under the sunshine of the rule of law, innovation seeds break ground and gradually become lush. We will firmly grasp the growth opportunities, continue to increase investment in science and technology and industry, and strive to be pioneers on the magnificent journey of Chinese-style modernization.
(The author is the chairman of Seres Automobile (赛力斯汽车), interviewed and compiled by Jiang Feng (姜峰), a reporter from this newspaper)
Return to TopThe Shanghai (上海) report on May 27th (Reporter Shen Wenmin (沈文敏)) The second domestically built large cruise ship "Adora Magic City (爱达·花城号)" successfully completed its sea trial on the 27th and smoothly docked at the Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (上海外高桥造船) wharf, marking another step closer to the delivery date of November 6, 2026.
The sea trial lasted 12 days and 11 nights. Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding (外高桥造船) broke industry practice by completing the sea trial tasks, which usually require two trips and a total of 14 days for the first ship, in one efficient go. All 149 sea trial items on the ship passed rigorous verification, comprehensively verifying the ship's handling performance, automated operation, safety and comfort standards, and environmental emissions, among other core indicators.
The construction of "Adora Magic City (爱达·花城号)" has achieved a comprehensive digital upgrade, with an overall construction efficiency increase of 20% compared to the first ship, accurately ensuring the high-quality construction of this "city at sea" carrying over 25 million parts and 4,700 kilometers of cables.
Return to TopThis newspaper's Ganzhou dispatch, May 27th (Reporter Wang Dan (王丹)) The 2026 5th China (Ganzhou (赣州)) Permanent Magnet Motor Industry Innovation and Development Conference was recently held in Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi (江西). This conference was co-sponsored by the Jiangxi (江西) Provincial Science and Technology Association, the Chinese Society of Rare Earths, the Ganzhou (赣州) Municipal People's Government, and the Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, aiming to build a cross-border exchange platform for permanent magnet motor industry-related enterprises, scientific research universities, venture capital institutions, etc., and promote the industry to jointly build an open, shared, cooperative, and innovative industrial ecology.
At the conference, a centralized signing ceremony was held for 11 projects, with a total contract value of 14.85 billion yuan, and 4 technology achievement transformation project roadshows were conducted, covering fields such as permanent magnet materials and solid-state hydrogen storage materials.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 贺林平
In late May, when lychees are on the market in large quantities, some videos of lychees soaking in water online have attracted attention, and some netizens speculate that this is "soaking in potion," raising concerns about food safety.
In response, Wu Zhenxian (吴振先), a post expert of the National Lychee and Longan Industry Technology System and a professor at the College of Horticulture of South China Agricultural University (华南农业大学), said in an interview with reporters: Lychee soaking in water has nothing to do with medicine, but is a conventional physical pre-cooling preservation method taken after picking from the branches.
Lychee is sweet and delicious, but it is a very perishable fruit, and preservation has been a problem since ancient times. The film and television work "Lychee of Chang'an (长安的荔枝)" vividly demonstrated the characteristics of lychee changing color one day after leaving the branch, changing fragrance the second day, and changing taste the third day.
In long-term planting practice, lychee farmers have explored the method of field pre-cooling. When lychees mature, Lingnan (岭南) is often already in midsummer, and the ambient temperature is high. Freshly picked fruits carry a lot of "field heat," and if they are not cooled down in time, the peel will quickly turn brown. By soaking in cold water or ice water, the lychees are naturally cooled, which slows down the frequency of cell respiration to a certain extent; then they are placed in cold storage and enter cold chain transportation, which can effectively delay the deterioration of lychee quality and prolong the preservation time.
Therefore, timely pre-cooling after picking is the first and most critical step in lychee preservation. This process belongs to physical cooling, not chemical treatment, and has nothing to do with the "soaking in potion" hyped by some people online.
With the continuous development of science and technology, lychee preservation technology is also being upgraded: from traditional ice water pre-cooling to pressure difference pre-cooling, controlled atmosphere storage, and ultra-low temperature frozen fresh-locking technology, the storage period of lychees has been extended from a few days to several months or even a year, and the color and flavor retention rate has been greatly improved.
These advanced technological means, coupled with a developed and efficient logistics system, not only allow consumers everywhere to "freshly enjoy" the delicious lychees, but also support the lychees to cross the ocean and sell globally. Taking Maoming (茂名), the largest lychee producing area in Guangdong (广东), as an example, it has achieved delivery to major cities in China within 24 hours.
Consumers who love to eat lychees should choose regular supermarkets and e-commerce platforms when purchasing, and it is best to choose branded products; at the same time, ask the merchants about the delivery time and logistics speed, and receive and eat the goods in time. For the processing videos circulating on the Internet, the interpretation of authoritative departments and experts should prevail, so as to avoid missing this seasonal Lingnan (岭南) delicacy due to misunderstanding.
Lychee is a classic representative of "Guangdong goods (广货)". The lychee planting area in Maoming (茂名), Guangdong (广东) reaches 1.42 million mu, and 1 out of every 5 lychees in the world is produced here. Lychee has become a pillar industry for the comprehensive revitalization of the local countryside, driving millions of fruit farmers to increase their income and become rich.
In order to protect the golden signboard of Maoming (茂名) lychees, the local market supervision departments at all levels, on the one hand, conduct surprise inspections of key lychee producing areas and key business entities, and investigate and deal with illegal acts such as counterfeiting the place of origin, false advertising, and unfair competition in accordance with the law; on the other hand, they unblock complaint and reporting channels, encourage social supervision, and effectively safeguard consumer rights, the legitimate rights and interests of business entities, and the brand reputation of Maoming (茂名) lychees.
The market supervision department reminds consumers to carefully check the origin and packaging identification of the fruit when purchasing lychees, be alert to imitation and counterfeit products, and never buy lychees whose prices are significantly lower than the normal market level. If you accidentally purchase counterfeit or shoddy products, please properly keep shopping receipts, payment records, and relevant vouchers such as problematic fruits, and call the 12315 consumer complaint and reporting hotline in time to protect your legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law, and jointly participate in safeguarding a safe and secure consumption environment.
Return to TopBy: 人民网记者 胡 虹 高飞跃 王郭骥
Shared bikes (including shared e-bikes) are convenient to use and have become rapidly popular since their introduction, effectively solving the "last mile" travel problem for the public. However, for some time, the contradiction between them and urban governance has become increasingly prominent. Random parking affects traffic, unreasonable placement blocks roads, and it's easy to ride but difficult to return bikes... Multiple problems are intertwined, testing urban governance.
Recently, reporters conducted on-site investigations in Shanghai (上海), Anhui (安徽), Hubei (湖北), Guangdong (广东), Chongqing (重庆), Sichuan (四川), and other places, and found that the management problems of shared bikes in the "last mile" remain to be solved.
Random parking obstructs traffic and affects safe travel.
Shared bikes occupying sidewalks and other public spaces, hindering pedestrian traffic, as well as occupying motor vehicle lanes and affecting vehicle traffic, are prominent problems reflected by the public in many places.
Not long ago, Chongqing (重庆) citizen Mr. Zhang (张先生) reported through the People's Network "Leaders' Message Board" that shared bikes were parked randomly for a long time around Section 6, No. 25-40, of Daxuecheng Middle Road (大学城中路) in Shapingba District (沙坪坝区). Under the guidance of Mr. Zhang (张先生), the reporter came to the section of Daxuecheng (大学城) near Shapingba District (沙坪坝区). On the sidewalk, which is less than two meters wide, many shared bikes were parked in a disorderly manner. "There are more bikes during off-work hours, which seriously affects pedestrian traffic and traffic safety," said Mr. Zhang (张先生).
In many places, this phenomenon is widespread. Wei Xu (魏旭), a citizen of Hefei (合肥), Anhui (安徽), reported that near Exit D of Yaogongmiao Station (姚公庙站) on Metro Line 4, some bikes are even parked in motor vehicle lanes, and motor vehicles pass by almost touching the parked personnel, posing a safety hazard; in Jiefang District (解放区), Jiaozuo (焦作), Henan (河南), the problem of "random parking of shared bikes leading to narrower motor vehicle lanes" has also caused some citizens to worry about road safety.
From January 2024 to May 2026, the People's Network "Leaders' Message Board" received more than 4,600 messages about shared bikes. Netizens reported that random parking of shared bikes created various "problems": unreasonable setting of parking areas, parking with safety hazards; parking spots at subway station entrances are full of old shared bikes, and there is no place to park new bikes; shared bikes are piled up every night, blocking the entrance of the community; and so on.
In recent years, due to the increasingly fierce competition in the shared bike market, various operating companies have increased their investment. According to the Beijing Municipal Transportation Commission (北京市交通委员会), in 2025, the city's cumulative cycling volume of internet rental bicycles was 1.138 billion person-times, with an average daily cycling volume of 3.1164 million person-times. Each operating company invested an average of 2,940 people and 238,400 vehicles per day for operation and maintenance; in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川), the cycling population exceeded 2 million, and the average daily number of users of shared bikes exceeded 2.2 million.
"The contradiction between limited public space resources and the rapid expansion of shared bike operating companies has intensified, leading to the problem of shared bike parking," said Guo Chunfu (郭春甫), professor at Southwest University of Political Science & Law (西南政法大学) and deputy director of the Chongqing Institute of Urban Governance and Development (重庆城市治理与发展研究院). The capacity of public spaces on both sides of urban roads and around subway entrances is relatively fixed, and at the same time, it must meet multiple functions such as traffic, rest, and landscape. The placement of shared bikes involves various factors such as the company's business model and operation and maintenance costs, and consumer travel needs. Once out of order, it will trigger more governance problems.
Multiple management entities, difficult coordinated management
"Random parking by others leads to vehicle accumulation, and I have no way to return the vehicle in the designated area, forming a vicious circle." Chongqing (重庆) citizen Mr. Liu (刘先生) helplessly pointed to the piled-up bikes on the roadside and said, "The last time I returned the bike, the system prompted 'not parked in the frame', but there was no space around, so I could only park next to it."
The relevant person in charge of Hello Bike (哈啰单车) said that although the shared bike parking area uses high-precision electronic fence technology to ensure that users clearly know the allowed parking area, there are still a few users who have non-standard parking and damage to vehicles, which increases the pressure on road operation and maintenance.
"The bike company's operation and after-sales departments are relatively independent. After citizens are charged for random parking, they complain on the APP, and the after-sales department directly refunds the charge in order to retain customers, making the electronic fence **形同虚设** (xíng tóng xū shè - "exist in name only," to exist in name only; to be nominal)." A person in charge of the Chengyun Center (城运中心) in Pudong New Area (浦东新区), Shanghai (上海), told reporters helplessly, "In December last year, in order to rush performance, a bike company removed all the electronic fences it had set up, and the phenomenon of random parking became more serious."
In the interview, many experts said that from the data disclosed by the companies, shared bike companies have generally not achieved stable profitability. In order to compete for market share or complete KPIs (Key Performance Indicators), they often place user growth and activity above compliance management. In this process, the deposit model has shifted to a credit score model, which on the surface solves the user's pain point of "fear of deposit refunds," but in reality also transfers some of the company's costs and risks.
How to solve the problem? Some cities have already made attempts. Guo Chunfu (郭春甫) introduced that some cities have set quantitative standards for operation and maintenance investment through administrative means, linking operation and maintenance labor input with vehicle scale. For example, Chengdu (成都), Guangdong Dongguan (广东东莞) and other cities have clearly stipulated that operating companies should establish a full-time operation and maintenance team in accordance with the standard of no less than one operation and maintenance personnel for every 300 internet rental bicycles. At the same time, some cities have established an assessment mechanism that links operation and maintenance quality with placement quotas, binding operation and maintenance investment with market interests. This approach can, to a certain extent, force companies to increase operation and maintenance investment.
"On the other hand, areas such as transportation hubs, business districts, hospitals, and schools have a high concentration of people, and shared bikes are prone to disorderly parking and even accumulation. Insufficient fixed parking piles and the all-time flow of vehicles make it difficult for traditional fixed-point management models to fully cover," said Dong Hexuan (董贺轩), professor at the School of Architecture and Urban Planning of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (华中科技大学). The management of shared bikes involves multiple parties such as transportation, urban management, streets, communities, and operating companies. There are many management entities, and the coordination is difficult.
In response to the problems of dispersed companies, inconsistent standards, and difficult regulatory coordination, in May of this year, the Jiangsu Bicycle Electric Vehicle Association (江苏省自行车电动车协会) took the lead in establishing the Shared Electric Bicycle Professional Committee, bringing together operating companies, production companies, and research institutions, industry experts, and other parties to build a collaborative governance pattern of "operation end + production end + technology end." Taking Xuzhou (徐州), Jiangsu (江苏) as an example, the local area takes "AI (Artificial Intelligence) precise vehicle return + total amount control + battery replacement safety closed loop + government-enterprise grid co-governance" as the core, forming a characteristic model of technology empowerment, refined governance, and safety bottoming, which has certain reference significance.
Multiple parties exert joint efforts, and solving difficulties requires precise policies.
In August 2017, the "Guiding Opinions on Encouraging and Regulating the Development of Internet Rental Bicycles" jointly issued by the Ministry of Transport (交通运输部) and other 10 departments clarified that Internet rental bicycles are non-motor vehicles for time-sharing rental operation, a component of the urban green transportation system, and a transportation service method that facilitates short-distance travel and public transportation connection and transfer for the public.
Since then, some regions have successively issued relevant documents. For example, Shenzhen (深圳), Guangdong (广东) issued the "Several Regulations on the Management of Internet Rental Bicycles in the Shenzhen Special Economic Zone (深圳经济特区)" in 2021, which clarified the regulatory responsibilities of departments and established a vehicle placement and filing mechanism. Haikou (海口), Hainan (海南), Wuhan (武汉), Hubei (湖北) and other places have also successively issued corresponding management measures, clarifying the responsibilities and obligations of the government, enterprises, and users.
Some regions have also explored management methods in combination with local conditions. At Exit C of the Maying Road (马鹦路) subway station in Hanyang District (汉阳区), Wuhan (武汉), a row of shared bikes are neatly parked in the conspicuous sidewalk marked area. "We feel the benefits of standardized parking most directly." Ms. Li (李女士), a citizen who often commutes by bike, said, "Everyone consciously parks in the designated area, and riding and returning bikes is no longer as chaotic as before. Following the mobile phone navigation into the electronic fence to park seems to take a few more steps, but it is actually convenient for yourself and others, and the appearance of the city has also improved."
In addition to setting up designated parking areas, various operating companies are also gradually strengthening technical hard constraints: no entry, no settlement; establishing cross-enterprise credit linkage, and restricting the use of vehicles by users who violate regulations; promoting "grid + enterprise" joint quick response, responding to key areas in 15 minutes and handling them in 30 minutes; launching citizens' "casual shooting" supervision to form a co-construction and co-governance atmosphere.
"Good experience is worth learning from, but ultimately it must be implemented in institutional construction," said Guo Chunfu (郭春甫).
Guo Hua (郭桦), head of the Facility Management Department of the Urban Construction Affairs Center of Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区城市建设事务中心), introduced that in the governance of shared bikes, public governance costs such as road parking line marking and digital supervision platform construction are guaranteed by the government's financial coordination; the vehicle violation removal work is uniformly entrusted to a third-party operation and maintenance company by the four shared bike companies in the jurisdiction, and the relevant removal and disposal costs are borne and paid directly by the companies themselves, and the government is responsible for daily supervision. "The High-tech Zone has not yet established a special subsidy for shared bikes, nor has it introduced relevant tax adjustment policies," said Guo Hua (郭桦).
In response to the implementation contradiction between the industry's "no entry, no settlement" and the return of violation deductions, Chongqing High-tech Zone (重庆高新区) resolves it by refining regulatory rules and standardizing company contracts and user agreements. "At present, the High-tech Zone has not yet implemented real-time pricing management mechanisms such as AI traffic prediction, peak-valley time intelligent scheduling, and additional scheduling fees for illegal parking," Guo Hua (郭桦) introduced. The existing "Shared Electric Bicycle Supervision One Thing" digital platform is continuously iterating and upgrading, and related intelligent prediction and precise scheduling functions are being developed and improved. In the future, it will rely on intelligent means to improve vehicle tidal governance and refined control capabilities.
(Zhu Hong (朱虹), Wang Jiliang (王继亮), Li Xueshan (李学山), and Ge Junjun (葛俊俊) participated in the writing)
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From "giving blood" to "making blood," leaving behind a "medical team that cannot be taken away" to better serve the local people – this is the greatest value of medical assistance work.
At 6:30 in the morning, my phone screen lit up, showing a WeChat message containing an image review report. The Tibetan-aid doctor who sent the message said, "Gesang, the Tibetan elder you met during your free clinic last year, is recovering well after lung cancer treatment and can have follow-up examinations at his doorstep." Staring at the photo, my thoughts drifted back to that snowy plateau.
Treating Gesang was in August last year.
At that time, I led a team to the Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区) of Tibet (西藏), visiting local hospitals and seeing Tibetan-aid doctors. Standing on the "roof of the roof of the world," I truly understood the hardship of medical treatment for the people on the plateau. During the free clinic, a Tibetan elder who had been experiencing chest tightness for a long time had an argument with his daughter. The translator said that the elder meant "the road is too far, and it's too much trouble to go back and forth, so I won't get treatment." That elder was Gesang.
The Tibetan-aid doctor told me in a low voice that the local hospital's imaging examination capabilities were severely inadequate – although there was advanced equipment, there was a lack of standardized management and skilled doctors, and people had to wait in long lines and had difficulty seeing a doctor.
At that moment, I suddenly understood: no matter how skilled a doctor is, they can only cover a limited number of outpatients; but cultivating a local medical team can continuously protect the health of the local people.
After returning, the hospital quickly formulated a support plan. At the front, the Tibetan-aid team tailored personalized growth plans for young doctors in local departments, conducted special lectures, practical teaching, case discussions, and on-site technical guidance. At the same time, a radiology emergency rapid response team was formed to optimize processes and standardize standards. In less than a year, CT enhanced examinations in Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区) have achieved routine daytime operation, and the number of MRI examinations has increased from a few people per day to nearly 20. At the end of 2025, the People's Hospital of Ngari Prefecture (西藏阿里地区人民医院) successfully advanced to a tertiary Grade A comprehensive hospital.
At the same time, the Affiliated Hospital of North China University of Technology (华北理工大学附属医院) is simultaneously promoting 5G remote teaching and sending Tibetan doctors to the hospital for further study, changing "point-to-point assistance" to "systematic co-construction." Today, the People's Hospital of Ngari Prefecture (阿里地区人民医院) has built a regional medical center integrating medicine, education, research, prevention, and rehabilitation, and 760 common and major diseases can be effectively treated without leaving the region.
On another occasion, I led a team to participate in the special training expert service at the People's Hospital of Durbert Mongolian Autonomous County (杜尔伯特蒙古族自治县人民医院) in Heilongjiang (黑龙江), and received an elderly man with crutches. We carefully inquired about his condition, examined him, and adjusted his medication plan. Before leaving, the old man held my hand tightly and said, "It's reassuring to have experts see me at my doorstep."
The old man's words made me think a lot. The patient's sense of security comes from the doctor's superb skills, sincere attitude, and warm service, as well as the convenience of being able to see a doctor and get good treatment at their doorstep.
Hierarchical diagnosis and treatment is not simply about keeping patients at the grassroots level, but about building capacity at the grassroots level, keeping talent at the grassroots level, and strengthening the system at the grassroots level. Since 2011, we have sent more than 20 medical talents to support Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture (巴音郭楞蒙古自治州) in Xinjiang (新疆) and other places; in Tangshan (唐山), Hebei (河北), we have signed medical association agreements with nearly 100 grassroots hospitals in 3 years, and a digital remote diagnosis and treatment and online teaching and training integrated platform has continued to sink to the front line of rural areas, and has cultivated nearly 10,000 grassroots medical and management talents.
In the process of assistance, I deeply realized that medical assistance is not a 100-meter sprint, but a long-distance race. Its value is reflected in the improvement of the quality of each imaging report, as well as the healthy growth of each local backbone, and the iterative upgrading of each grassroots hospital. From "giving blood" to "making blood," leaving behind a "medical team that cannot be taken away" to better serve the local people – this is the greatest value of medical assistance work.
(The author is the Vice President of North China University of Technology (华北理工大学) and the President of the Affiliated Hospital, compiled by Zhang Tengyang (张腾扬), reporter of this newspaper)
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Return to TopOn May 26th, the Daqing Aviation Rescue Detachment of the National Fire and Rescue Administration, together with multiple rescue units, conducted a pre-flood season emergency communication support joint live exercise in Daqing (大庆), Heilongjiang Province (黑龙江省).
The exercise simulated complex situations such as road interruptions, public network paralysis, and power outages during flood disaster rescue. Through practical subjects such as helicopter rappelling delivery, forward communication networking, and drone reconnaissance and mapping, the exercise comprehensively tested the construction effectiveness of the "air-space-ground" integrated emergency communication support system, and established and improved a cross-unit air-ground coordinated rescue mechanism. The picture shows firefighters conducting rappelling training on May 26th.
Photo by Yan Antong (闫安童) (Xinhua News Agency (新华社) issued).
Return to TopThis newspaper's Beijing (北京) dispatch on May 27th (Reporter: Pan Junqiang (潘俊强)) - Planning nearly 30,000 sets of youth talent apartments, establishing a 30 billion yuan youth talent development fund, and creating the "Beijing (北京) Line 10 Talent Vitality Ring"... Recently, the "Just a Young Student, Full of Vigor - 2026 Welcome Students Home" campaign was launched, and Beijing (北京) extended a "homecoming" invitation to the vast number of students.
Beijing (北京) focuses on attracting, cultivating, retaining, and utilizing young talents, launching comprehensive support policies, a full-chain service system, and a global exchange platform. In terms of policy support, relying on the HICOOL Global Entrepreneurship Competition, it provides award-winning talents with up to 2 million yuan in rewards and full-chain services such as landing, promotion, and investment and financing. Through the policy of overseas students' entrepreneurship parks, it provides student entrepreneurial enterprises with up to 500,000 yuan in start-up capital and preferential office space. Beijing (北京) recognizes 68 overseas professional qualifications, opens up high-quality internship positions, and provides living allowances for students coming to Beijing (北京) for exchanges. The municipal talent plan establishes three types of youth talent projects, links up with the Beijing (北京) Natural Science Foundation to fully empower the projects, and at the same time establishes a 30 billion yuan youth talent development fund, launches a series of talent financial products, and provides a 50% interest subsidy for intellectual property pledge loans.
In terms of service guarantee, Beijing (北京) promotes the policy of youth talent innovation and entrepreneurship ecological zones, provides nearly 30,000 sets of youth talent apartments in a coordinated manner, and lays out 20 youth talent vitality blocks, equipped with 3,000 exclusive service stewards to provide one-on-one services for start-up enterprises, establishes the "Capital Talent Award," and simultaneously provides convenient government services such as entry and exit and file management for overseas students. In terms of exchange and talent introduction, it releases 3,000 high-quality employment positions, regularly carries out five types of "Beijing (北京) Trip" brand activities, and continuously holds various international talent forums, online recruitment events, global talent summits, and other activities to attract young talents to Beijing (北京) for innovation and entrepreneurship and to take root and develop.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 李凯旋
"Come if you want, leave when you're done, no need to sit through the whole thing and waste your time." Recently, the first "Sweet City Afternoon Tea" enterprise service day event was held in the conference room on the 5th floor of the Neijiang Municipal Government Service Center (内江市政务服务中心) in Sichuan Province (四川省). A remark from Feng Faguei (冯发贵), Secretary of the Neijiang Municipal Party Committee (内江市委书记), at the opening surprised the more than 20 entrepreneurs in attendance.
"To be honest, I didn't quite believe it when I first heard it," recalled Zhu Daoqi (朱道奇), Deputy General Manager of Sichuan Mingtai Microelectronics Co., Ltd. (四川明泰微电子有限公司), "Wouldn't it be inappropriate to leave a government meeting early?"
Many shared Zhu Daoqi's sentiment. In the minds of entrepreneurs, attending government meetings is somewhat "entangling": on the one hand, listening to the resolution of corporate demands and conveying important policies and regulations is genuinely helpful; on the other hand, some leading cadres are accustomed to reading scripts, and the meeting time is repeatedly extended. Entrepreneurs are waiting to connect with customers and plan production, and although their minds have already flown out of the venue, they are embarrassed to move their feet.
Without a rostrum or prepared speeches, leading cadres from relevant departments in Neijiang (内江) sat side-by-side with entrepreneurs, chatting over tea, from the company's current situation to the industry's prospects. Many entrepreneurs, seeing this scene, also dispelled their concerns.
When it was Tang Yi's (唐毅) turn to speak, the General Manager of Sichuan Bingji Technology Co., Ltd. (四川并济科技有限公司), he quickly reflected the financial pressure his company faced in upgrading its technology, and the relevant负责人 (fù zé rén - "person in charge") of the Neijiang Municipal Development and Reform Commission (内江市发展改革委) responded on the spot. Seeing that the problem had been solved, Feng Faguei (冯发贵) turned and said with a smile, "If you have something to do at the company, you can leave first." Tang Yi (唐毅) hesitated for a few seconds, stood up, and walked out through the side door, "The cadres are so candid, I don't have any burden."
"Your time is very valuable, no need to sit through the whole thing," Feng Faguei (冯发贵) reminded again. The atmosphere in the venue relaxed, and less than half of the meeting had passed when most of the entrepreneurs left.
Some left decisively, while others were reluctant to leave.
You Yong (游勇), Chairman of Sichuan Jin Sifang Fruit Industry Co., Ltd. (四川金四方果业有限责任公司), raised issues and demands such as insufficient raw materials and the construction of a production base, and cadres from the Neijiang Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (内江市农业农村局) discussed "problem-solving ideas" with him on the spot. After leaving the venue, You Yong (游勇) was still full of enthusiasm: "This is the first time I've attended a government meeting, and I didn't expect the atmosphere to be so relaxed and practical." Worried about taking up the speaking time of other companies, he deliberately held back, "I want to participate next time."
Qin Jiyue (覃霁月), Chairman of Sichuan Xia Yue Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (四川夏月文化传播有限公司), originally did not intend to speak, but seeing the atmosphere on the scene becoming more and more enthusiastic, she plucked up the courage to describe her predicament in 5 minutes and also received a response from relevant departments. "The cadres are thinking of ways to solve problems for our small and micro enterprises, and we are more confident in starting our businesses," Qin Jiyue (覃霁月) said excitedly.
The enterprise service day event also opened a video connection, and entrepreneurs who could not attend in person could also participate in real time through the "cloud." On that day, four companies from Beijing (北京), Hangzhou (杭州) in Zhejiang (浙江), Shenzhen (深圳) in Guangdong (广东), and Chongqing (重庆) participated in the meeting via video link, two of which are in negotiations to settle in Neijiang (内江). On the other end of the video, a person in charge of a company tentatively asked, "We haven't settled yet, will the policies be different?" Feng Faguei (冯发贵) responded frankly: "Policies emphasize continuity, and promises emphasize fulfillment. No matter who comes or when they come, the same standard will be applied to the end."
As the political-business exchange was in full swing, a small episode occurred: a company raised a medical insurance demand, and it happened that the person in charge of the Neijiang Municipal Medical Insurance Bureau (内江市医保局) was not on the scene. Feng Faguei (冯发贵) immediately contacted the person in charge to rush to the venue and answer in detail face-to-face. "In the future, if the persons in charge of various departments cannot attend, they can be connected via video link, and companies cannot be kept waiting," Feng Faguei (冯发贵) said.
As the service day event drew to a close, only a few entrepreneurs remained in the venue. Companies that left early had all expressed their demands and received clear answers and promises – "Service day events will be organized regularly every month at fixed locations. If you have any demands at ordinary times, you can call the 12345 hotline at any time, and we will handle them immediately."
In recent years, Neijiang (内江) has promoted a practical-oriented mechanism of "frontline work method, closed-loop work system, and benchmarking to create first-class," and innovative practices such as "bureau chiefs running the process" and "I find orders for enterprises" have penetrated into the grassroots, jointly constituting a system matrix for optimizing the business environment. Through process reengineering, material simplification, and collaborative optimization, Neijiang's (内江) "efficient handling of one matter" has reduced the average number of links by 58.2%, reduced the time limit by 62.5%, reduced materials by 54.1%, and reduced runs by 72.3%, and the efficiency of local government services has been significantly improved.
In 2025, the added value of Neijiang's (内江) private economy was 125.58 billion yuan, an increase of 5.3% year-on-year, accounting for 61.2% of GDP. In the first quarter of 2026, the added value of the private economy was 30.39 billion yuan, an increase of 6.4% year-on-year; the number of business entities reached 241,000, an increase of 8.7% year-on-year, and economic vitality continued to be released.
In this "Sweet City Afternoon Tea" in Neijiang (内江), entrepreneurs have tasted the inclusiveness of "come if you want, leave when you're done," the flexibility of "meet offline when you have time, talk remotely when you're busy," and the strictness of "on-the-spot answers and closed-loop feedback." The government puts enterprises in its heart and puts services into practice. Leaving the venue, the entrepreneurs sighed: "Who wouldn't want to come to such a meeting?"
(Xu Yanmei (徐艳梅) participated in the writing)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Shenyang (沈阳) on May 27th (reporter Liu Hongchao (刘洪超)). The reporter learned on the 27th from the press conference held by the Liaoning Provincial High People's Court (辽宁省高级人民法院) on the three-year action plan to standardize and improve the enforcement work of Liaoning courts: Liaoning (辽宁) will implement cross-execution covering 127 intermediate and primary courts throughout the province, initiating 4,403 cross-execution cases, with an enforcement amount of 313 million yuan.
In order to further standardize law enforcement work, Liaoning (辽宁) has compiled operational guidelines for the three-year action plan to standardize and improve court enforcement work, covering 12 major categories and 27 specific tasks, so that every law enforcement action of front-line police officers has rules to follow and regulations to rely on. At the same time, it has issued the "Operating Procedures on Standardizing the Application of Seizure, Detention, and Freezing Measures" to ensure substantive justice with procedural standardization and transparency.
The Liaoning (辽宁) court system has launched a special "Warm Winter Enforcement" campaign, focusing on tackling cases involving people's livelihoods and addressing wage arrears. During the 70-day concentrated effort, the enforcement amount for cases involving people's livelihoods and wage arrears throughout the province reached 374 million yuan. A special "Protecting Enterprises and Warming Hearts" campaign was launched to focus on tackling enforcement cases in which enterprises are parties. From January to April this year, the enforcement amount for enterprise-related cases throughout the province was 2.902 billion yuan, helping enterprises overcome difficulties and serving economic development.
Return to TopBy: 陈家喜
"The fundamental solution lies in obtaining the right people; obtaining the right people lies in careful selection; careful selection lies in verifying the truth." Performance evaluation and assessment are the foundational work of cadre management, an important institutional arrangement for observing and identifying cadres, motivating them to take responsibility, and calibrating policy orientation, playing an important role as a command stick, weather vane, and booster. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Improve the cadre evaluation and assessment system, guide cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance" and "It is necessary to improve the differentiated evaluation and assessment system, improve the pertinence and scientific nature of the assessment, and make the assessment command stick truly effective." General Secretary Xi Jinping's important exposition profoundly clarifies the inherent connection between a correct view of performance and a scientific evaluation and assessment system, providing fundamental guidance for improving a scientific performance evaluation and assessment system in the new era.
There is an internal relationship of mutual influence and mutual shaping between the view of performance and the performance evaluation and assessment system. On the one hand, the view of performance, as a value orientation, stipulates the fundamental direction of "why to assess, what to assess, how to assess, and how to use" the assessment and evaluation. Educating and guiding party members and cadres to establish and practice a correct view of performance requires the evaluation and assessment system to adhere to a people-centered approach, be guided by high-quality development, and be based on standards that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history. On the other hand, the evaluation and assessment system, as an institutional arrangement, profoundly affects and shapes cadres' administrative behavior and work orientation. Wherever the assessment command stick points, cadres' energy and resources will be invested. If the system design is scientific, the correct view of performance can be consolidated and strengthened; if the system design is improper, the wrong view of performance may grow and spread. Therefore, improving a scientific performance evaluation and assessment system is essentially transforming the correct view of performance from a principle requirement into an institutional norm, and implementing political requirements, the people's position, and development orientation into rigid evaluation standards and long-term mechanisms, making it the basic guideline for cadres at all levels to think about problems, make decisions, and handle affairs.
At a time when the whole party is deeply carrying out the study and education of establishing and practicing a correct view of performance, further improving the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system has important and urgent practical significance. The more critical the stage of heavy development tasks, many risks and challenges, and difficult reforms, the more necessary it is to establish a clear orientation, calibrate behavioral coordinates, strengthen institutional constraints, and form positive incentives through improving the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system, so as to effectively transform the assessment orientation into a work orientation, transform institutional advantages into governance effectiveness, and guide the majority of party members and cadres to create practical results that can withstand the test of practice, the people, and history.
Taking the Correct View of Performance as the Guide, Establishing the Value Coordinates of the Performance Evaluation and Assessment System
If the measuring scale is correct, the direction will not be biased; if the guidance is clear, the assessment can truly play the role of encouraging the advanced, spurring on the backward, standardizing behavior, and promoting development. To improve the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system, the first thing to solve is the question of "what kind of scale to measure performance." Only by organically unifying political standards, the people's position, high-quality development requirements, and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can we establish scientific, stable, and implementable value coordinates for the performance evaluation and assessment system.
Political standards are the primary yardstick for performance evaluation and assessment. Performance is a comprehensive reflection of political stance and governing ability in practice, and performance evaluation is first and foremost a political evaluation. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "The decisive factor in establishing and practicing a correct view of performance is party spirit. Only with a strong party spirit and abandoning selfish thoughts can we ensure that the view of performance does not deviate." In practice, some cadres are keen on creating project projects within the "visible range" of superiors, and tying their careers to personal fame and fortune. On the surface, this is a problem of work methods and assessment methods, but in essence, it reflects a deviation in political stance, insufficient party spirit cultivation, and a weakening of the purpose consciousness. To measure cadres' performance, the first thing to look at is whether they firmly support the "two establishments" and resolutely achieve the "two maintenances," whether they unswervingly implement the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee, and whether they are good at looking at problems, grasping work, and planning development from a political perspective. Political standards are not abstract and empty, nor are they divorced from business work, but run through the entire process of cadres performing their duties, and are reflected in the implementation of the new development concept, the implementation of major national strategies, the coordination of development and security, the maintenance of social stability, the promotion of people's well-being, and the prevention and resolution of risks. Therefore, it is necessary to establish clear political standards in the evaluation and assessment, and run political loyalty, political determination, political responsibility, political ability, and political self-discipline through the entire assessment process.
The people's position is the value position of performance evaluation and assessment. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The Communist Party of China regards serving the people and creating benefits for the people as the most important performance, and regards how many good and practical things have been done for the people as an important standard for testing performance." To improve the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system, we must adhere to the people-centered development thought, take the people's sense of gain, happiness, and security as an important measure, and take solving the urgent difficulties and anxieties of the masses, improving public services, maintaining fairness and justice, and improving governance effectiveness as important evaluation contents. Since the new era, all regions and departments have continued to work hard to improve people's livelihoods. For example, reform measures such as "running at most once," "one network for all," and "cross-provincial handling" have focused on solving outstanding problems such as difficulty in handling affairs, slow handling, running back and forth, and repeated running, which have greatly improved the convenience and satisfaction of the masses in handling affairs and won the recognition of the masses. The performance evaluation and assessment system must adapt to this change, shifting from focusing on "visible images" to focusing on "perceptible effectiveness," and from focusing on superiors' evaluations to paying more attention to the people's reputation, and truly making creating benefits for the people the greatest performance.
High-quality development is the era orientation of performance evaluation and assessment. High-quality development is the primary task of building a socialist modern country in an all-round way, and constitutes the clear theme of performance evaluation and assessment in the new era. Entering a new stage of development, China's development environment, development conditions, and development tasks have undergone profound changes, and the assessment method of simply judging heroes based on speed and scale is no longer suitable for the requirements of modernization construction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "At no time can we take the path of quick success, 竭泽而渔 (jié zé ér yú - "drain the pond to catch the fish," to seek short-term benefits at the expense of long-term interests), or GDP-only." This determines that performance evaluation cannot stay at simply looking at economic aggregates, investment scales, and project numbers, but should pay more attention to development quality, structural optimization, innovation capabilities, green benefits, safety resilience, and common prosperity progress. For example, in recent years, some places have formed new advantages in new energy, high-end manufacturing, the digital economy, biomedicine, artificial intelligence, and other fields, which have not only driven economic growth, but also optimized the industrial structure, improved the quality of employment, and enhanced the momentum of development. This type of development can better reflect the requirements of high-quality development. For example, some regions adhere to water management and pollution control, ecological restoration, and industrial structure adjustment, which may increase governance costs and affect some indicators in the short term, but in the long run, they improve the development environment, enhance sustainable development capabilities, and improve the quality of life of the masses, which should also be fully affirmed in the evaluation and assessment. This profoundly inspires us that the performance that truly reflects the requirements of the times is not simply to make the "quantity" bigger, but to institutionalize, standardize, and concretize the requirements of high-quality development, and form new development advantages in promoting quality change, efficiency change, and power change.
Seeking truth from facts is the basic principle that must be adhered to in performance evaluation and assessment. The correct view of performance embodies both value positions and practical methods. China has a vast territory, and different regions have great differences in resource endowments, development foundations, main functional positioning, historical conditions, and governance tasks, so it is necessary to adhere to seeking truth from facts for evaluation and assessment. If we engage in "one-size-fits-all" assessment regardless of reality, it will be difficult to assess accurately and realistically, and it will easily form a wrong orientation, inducing blind comparisons, repeated construction, and performance impulses. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "All regions should comprehensively implement the new development concept according to their own conditions and possibilities, and focus on promoting shortcomings and weaknesses. They must not work hard regardless of reality, let alone do everything they want for the sake of performance, regardless of conditions, and end up accomplishing nothing." Adhering to seeking truth from facts requires the performance evaluation and assessment system to consider objective conditions, historical foundations, and realistic possibilities in a unified manner, and to grasp the obvious achievements and potential achievements, the present and the long-term, and the local and the overall in a unified manner. Those works that are not obvious in the short term, but can lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term, should be fully affirmed in the evaluation. Only by adhering to seeking truth from facts can the performance evaluation and assessment system truly play an important role in calibrating direction and guiding development.
Taking Precise and Practical Use as the Orientation, Optimizing the Index System of Performance Evaluation and Assessment
After establishing the value coordinates, the key lies in transforming the correct view of performance into measurable, comparable, and applicable institutional content, and effectively answering the question of what to assess in performance evaluation. Whether the setting of assessment content is scientific and accurate directly determines whether the evaluation and assessment can truly play a guiding role. Only by closely focusing on creating benefits for the people and promoting high-quality development to improve content design can we make "what to assess" and "what to do" more consistent, and make institutional arrangements better reflect the people's position, development orientation, and practical standards.
Focusing on key indicators, enhancing the traction and binding force of the assessment. A scientific performance assessment is not about having more indicators, but about being more precise and more effective. In practice, some places have too many assessment items, too many forms, and too detailed indicators, and even repeatedly assess similar items. On the surface, it covers everything and requires meticulousness, but in reality, it increases the burden and breeds formalism, causing cadres to spend a lot of time and energy on "matching indicators," "making materials," and "running reports," instead of using it to grasp implementation, solve problems, promote development, and benefit people's livelihoods. To improve the content design of the performance evaluation and assessment system, we must adhere to being few but refined, accurate and practical, and effective, highlighting key, leading, and binding indicators. In terms of political construction, focus on examining the implementation of the Party Central Committee's decisions and deployments, the implementation of major national strategies, and strict compliance with political discipline and political rules; in terms of high-quality development, focus on scientific and technological innovation, industrial upgrading, business environment, green transformation, risk prevention and control, etc.; in terms of people's livelihood security, focus on examining employment, education, medical care, elderly care, housing, social security, public service supply, etc.; in terms of ecological civilization, focus on examining pollution prevention and control, resource conservation, ecological restoration, green and low-carbon development, etc.; in terms of safety and stability, focus on examining safety production, debt risks, social governance, emergency response, grassroots stability, etc. By optimizing the index system, we can promote the performance evaluation and assessment from a single economic assessment to a comprehensive governance assessment, and from focusing on short-term results to paying more attention to the unity of process and effectiveness.
Based on differentiated classification and implementation of policies, improve the pertinence and scientific nature of the assessment. Differentiated assessment is not about lowering standards, but about improving the compatibility between standards and objects; it is not about relaxing requirements, but about seeking truth from facts and accurately evaluating according to local conditions. Only by truly matching standards and objects can we fully mobilize the enthusiasm of different regions, different departments, and different positions. China has large regional differences, different development situations, and different main functional positioning. If we simply use the same set of standards to measure regions with different resource endowments, development foundations, ecological environment carrying capacity, and governance tasks, it may lead some places to deviate from their own functional positioning in order to "meet the standards." Therefore, to improve the index content of the performance evaluation and assessment, we must run classified assessment through it. At the regional level, economically developed regions should focus more on innovation leadership, transformation and upgrading, institutional opening up, and governance modernization; underdeveloped regions should focus more on making up for shortcomings, strengthening the foundation, increasing momentum, and improving people's livelihoods; ecological function zones should focus more on ecological protection, green development, and basic public service security; agricultural main production areas should focus more on food security, comprehensive rural revitalization, and agricultural modernization; and so on. At the department and post level, it is also necessary to reasonably set assessment priorities and index weights according to different responsibilities such as comprehensive management, economic development, people's livelihood services, professional technology, and grassroots frontline. Only by unifying the evaluation standards with the job responsibilities, development stage, and realistic conditions can we truly achieve accurate, realistic, and guiding assessment.
Coordinate obvious achievements and potential achievements, and incorporate the work of laying the foundation and benefiting the long term into the assessment vision. Performance has time dimensions and structural levels, including both obvious achievements that are visible and felt by the masses during the term of office, and potential achievements that lay the foundation, increase momentum, and benefit the long term. To improve the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system, we must prevent cadres from only focusing on short-term work that is easy to be brilliant, easy to produce numbers, and easy to be seen, while ignoring basic, strategic, and long-term work. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must not only do obvious achievements, but also do potential achievements, not care about personal fame, and pursue the good reputation of the people and the true evaluation after historical precipitation." In reality, some cadres pay more attention to work that is easy to "appear on camera," and are not enthusiastic about work that is slow to take effect, has a long cycle, and is basic. One reason is that the potential achievement identification mechanism is not sound. For example, pollution control, underground pipe network renewal, grassroots medical capacity building, and education quality improvement are often difficult to form a "sensational effect" in the short term, but they are directly related to the long-term development of the region and the vital interests of the masses. If the evaluation and assessment system does not pay enough attention to and identify these works, it is easy to cause cadres to value obvious achievements over potential achievements, value "landscaping" over "underpinning," and value "short, flat, and fast" over "long cycle." Therefore, we must unify obvious achievements and potential achievements into the performance evaluation and assessment system. We must not only look at the visible and tangible work results during the term of office, but also look at the continuous investment in laying the foundation, benefiting the long term, and benefiting the people's livelihood; we must not only look at how well the current problems are solved, but also look at how the historical problems are resolved. Improve the potential achievement identification, confirmation, evaluation, and incentive mechanism, and incorporate major projects, major reforms, and major basic works that are launched during the term of office and continue to be effective into the tracking evaluation, and promote cadres to not only do practical things that are perceptible and accessible at the moment, but also do good things that will empower the future.
Adhere to the Unity of Knowing Things and Recognizing People, and Improve the Methods of Performance Evaluation and Assessment
Whether the performance evaluation and assessment is scientific depends not only on whether the content design is accurate, but also on whether the methods used can truly, comprehensively, and deeply identify performance. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must combine the study of people and the study of things, avoid going from abstract to abstract, and draw conclusions based on feelings." To improve the scientific performance evaluation and assessment system, we must focus on the core requirement of knowing things and recognizing people, improve the daily assessment, close-range assessment, special assessment, and mass participation mechanisms, and improve the authenticity, penetration, and credibility of the evaluation and assessment.
Strengthen daily assessment and grasp the real performance of cadres in regular understanding. The formation of performance has process, continuity, and accumulation. It is difficult to accurately grasp the real state and consistent performance only by relying on a centralized assessment at the end of the year and an inspection before the change of term. Only by putting effort into normal times and integrating assessment into the whole process of daily management can we truly grasp the long-term performance and continuous actions of cadres. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) criticized the assessment work in some places: "Some places do not assess if they are not promoted, do not assess if they are not changed, and do not assess until the end of the year, and they do not know enough about the daily work and usual performance of cadres." This "no assessment if not used" approach makes the assessment a "surprise action" at a specific node, which is not only difficult to fully understand the consistent performance of cadres, but also easily leaves room for "temporary packaging," "surprise landscaping," and "pre-exam sprint." We must grasp daily assessment as a basic project. The focus is not simply on increasing reports and ledgers, but on dynamically grasping the political performance, mental state, work methods, and actual effectiveness of cadres in daily work through work records, tracking of key tasks, records of major events, periodic analysis and research, and observation of usual performance. In particular, we must see whether cadres are conscientious and responsible in normal times, whether they can rush forward at critical moments, whether they can withstand complex situations, and whether they can continue to work hard in the long-term task promotion. For cadres who have been working in the grassroots frontline, difficult areas, and complex environments for a long time, we must strengthen daily tracking and long-term observation to prevent them from being ignored due to "low exposure." The more solid the daily assessment, the more basic the annual assessment, the more basis for selecting and employing people, and the stronger the authenticity and authority of the evaluation and assessment system.
Strengthen close-range assessment and identify the quality of achievements on the front line. The assessment and evaluation of achievements cannot stay at listening to reports, reading materials, and checking ledgers, but must go deep into the front line, close to the scene, and close to the masses to observe cadres in real situations. Practice shows that the most common deviation in the assessment of achievements is to leave reality, detach from the scene, and hang in the air, eventually forming a "looking at flowers in the fog" judgment. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must bring 'telescopes' and 'microscopes' to contact cadres at close range and inspect them from multiple angles." The so-called "telescope" is to look at trends, look at stamina, and look at long-term impact, to prevent only looking at the present and not considering the long term; the so-called "microscope" is to look at details, look at the end, and look at the real landing situation, to prevent only listening to summaries and not observing the truth. The core of close-range assessment lies in extending the assessment tentacles from the conference room to the work site, project front line, grassroots community, rural fields, service windows, and the masses, to grasp first-hand information through on-site inspection of project progress, on-site understanding of policy implementation, and face-to-face interviews with grassroots cadres and the masses. At the same time, we must be good at using multiple channels and multi-dimensional information for cross-validation, and organically combine the results of inspections, audits, special supervision, letters and visits, and media supervision to construct a three-dimensional and penetrating assessment method.
Improve the mechanism for mass participation and use mass reputation to calibrate the evaluation of achievements. The masses are the most direct recipients and judges of policy effects, and they are also the most convincing testers of the authenticity of achievements. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "Cadre performance is in practice, and cadre reputation is among the people." "To measure whether a cadre's performance is good or not, the key is to see whether the reputation of the people is good or not." This profoundly shows that mass evaluation is not an auxiliary link in the assessment of achievements, but an important measure to identify achievements. The key to mass evaluation playing a real role lies in ensuring its authenticity and effectiveness through scientific system design. On the one hand, we must unblock channels for mass participation, improve mechanisms such as public opinion surveys, satisfaction evaluations, random interviews, squatting research, on-site visits, and network public opinion research and judgment, expand the scope of random sampling, and ensure anonymous evaluation and truthful feedback. For work closely related to the vital interests of the masses and business entities, such as people's livelihood security, public services, grassroots governance, and the business environment, we should reasonably increase the weight of mass evaluation and service object evaluation. On the other hand, we must prevent simply replacing mass evaluation with network popularity and public opinion volume, and prevent mechanically equating individual opinions and immediate emotions with overall judgments. We must analyze and judge the realistic feelings of the masses in unity with long-term interests, individual experiences with overall effectiveness, and immediate feedback with continuous observation, so that mass evaluation can avoid becoming a formality and truly become an important measure for the assessment of achievements.
Adhere to the combination of strict management and deep love, and improve the supervision and correction mechanism for the assessment and evaluation of achievements.
The vitality of the system lies in execution, and the credibility of the assessment lies in supervision. No matter how accurate the value coordinates, how scientific the system content, and how precise the methods, if there is a lack of effective supervision and correction mechanism, the assessment and evaluation system may still be deformed in execution. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The problem of the view of achievements is highly correlated with the arbitrary abuse of power, and power must be locked in the cage of the system." We must run supervision and correction through the entire process of assessment, discover and correct deviations in execution in a timely manner, and earnestly safeguard the seriousness, fairness, and credibility of the assessment and evaluation.
Construct a comprehensive supervision system to form a system synergy. Deviations in the view of achievements are often hidden and gradual, not formed overnight, but gradually accumulated in multiple links such as decision-making, execution, statistics, assessment, and employment, and a single supervision channel is difficult to effectively identify and prevent. We must establish and improve a supervision and correction mechanism covering the entire process, and incorporate the supervision of achievement assessment into the systems of discipline inspection and supervision, inspection and supervision, organizational supervision, audit supervision, and statistical supervision to achieve information sharing, joint governance of problems, and shared results. For the discovered problems of seedlings and tendencies, we should discover and correct them early through methods such as conversation reminders, feedback supervision, and special rectification to prevent small problems from evolving into systemic deviations. Explore the establishment of a negative list, early warning list, and rectification ledger for the view of achievements, especially for problems such as "half-finished projects," illegal debt raising, data falsification, false reports and exaggeration, repeated policies, and layer-by-layer escalation, implement full-process monitoring and dynamic management. The key to supervision and correction is not simply post-event accountability, but to move risk identification forward, pre-position problem handling, and block loopholes in the mechanism to reduce the space for the breeding and spread of erroneous views of achievements from the source.
Explore cross-cycle evaluation to solve the problem of short-term behavior. The formation, manifestation, and impact of achievements often have a long cycle. Some work does not show obvious results in the short term, but will show value in subsequent development; some work is "lively" and "successful" at the moment, but leaves debt burdens, ecological damage, project unfinished, and governance disorder after the cadres leave. If the assessment and evaluation only looks at short-term results, it will be difficult to accurately identify the quality of achievements, and it is also easy to induce short-sighted behaviors of quick success, overdrawing the future, and draining the pond to catch fish. Therefore, we must explore the establishment of a cross-cycle evaluation mechanism, promote the institutionalization and normalization of the effect evaluation system for major decisions, major projects, and major reform matters, and conduct continuous tracking of their long-term effects, social impact, mass evaluation, risk consequences, and sustainability. This is not only conducive to identifying potential achievements that lay the foundation and benefit the long term, but also conducive to restraining behaviors that are quick to start and eager for success. Especially in the period when the adjustment and reshuffle of local leadership teams are relatively concentrated, it is even more necessary to give play to the correction function of cross-cycle evaluation, guide cadres to enhance historical patience, adhere to drawing a blueprint to the end, and prevent phenomena such as "new officials ignoring old accounts," 翻烧饼 (fān shāo bǐng - "flipping sesame seed cakes," making drastic changes) and "changing tracks."
Adhere to accurate accountability to encourage cadres to act. Accountability is an important means of supervision, and to use this means well, we need to grasp the "degree." Too loose accountability will condone wrong behavior; generalized accountability will dampen enthusiasm and suppress creativity, both of which will damage the credibility of the assessment and evaluation and the institutional orientation. The key to accurate accountability is to achieve clear basis, clear objects, and clear procedures. Clear basis means that there must be clear institutional regulations and factual identification, and accountability cannot be initiated based on impressions, public opinion, or emotions; clear objects means that it is necessary to accurately distinguish between leadership responsibility, direct responsibility, and indirect responsibility to prevent generalized responsibility and layer-by-layer escalation; clear procedures means that we must adhere to holding accountable for responsibility and strictly holding accountable, and at the same time strictly carry out in accordance with regulations, disciplines, and laws. In particular, we must grasp the boundaries between mistakes and errors and violations of discipline and law, exploration and innovation and violations of regulations and reckless actions, subjective intention and objective factors, and we must not be too lenient or too harsh, and effectively protect the enthusiasm of cadres to start businesses.
Adhere to the combination of examination and use, and strengthen the incentive and guidance role of the results of achievement assessment and evaluation.
Achievement assessment, examination is the foundation, and use is the key. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must establish a scientific and reasonable assessment and evaluation system, and the assessment results should be used as an important basis for rewards and punishments and promotion and use of leading bodies and leading cadres at all levels." If the examination is not used or the use is not real, the assessment system is easy to fall into "empty rotation." Only by truly using the assessment results and closely combining "how well the examination is done" with "how cadres are used, how work is changed, and how the orientation is established" can we form a good situation of promoting work through examination, promoting reform through examination, and promoting excellence through examination.
Guide the correct employment orientation with the assessment results. Selecting and employing people is the most powerful "weathervane." What kind of cadres are given importance, the vast number of cadres will strive in what direction. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "The greatest incentive for cadres is the correct employment orientation, and using one person well can inspire a large group." Applying the results of achievement assessment to selection and appointment, the core is to establish a systemized connection channel of "actual performance - evaluation - use" to allow cadres who truly do things, accomplish things, accomplish difficult things, and accomplish things that lay the foundation and benefit the long term to stand out. For outstanding cadres who are politically qualified, have outstanding achievements, have a pragmatic style, and are recognized by the masses, we must accurately identify them and boldly use them. In particular, for cadres who have been rooted in the grassroots for a long time and have withstood the test in urgent, difficult, and dangerous tasks, we must discover and boldly use them in a timely manner. Those cadres who do not take responsibility and do not act, are keen on showing off and creating momentum, and engage in projects that waste money and hurt the people, we must not let them take advantage of "knowing how to package," "knowing how to report," and "knowing how to create momentum." Through the two-way efforts of "up" and "down" and the organic linkage of "reward" and "punishment," we will promote the formation of a clear orientation of advocating practical work, paying attention to actual results, and encouraging responsibility.
Drive precise capacity improvement with assessment results. Assessment should not only identify people, but also cultivate people. The shortcomings and weaknesses discovered in the assessment process are also the focus of cadre training. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "If it is a lack of ability, we must strengthen training, strengthen practical exercise, and strengthen summarization and improvement; if it is a lack of a sense of responsibility, we must clarify responsibilities and strengthen supervision; if it is inaction, we must seriously criticize and educate and conscientiously enforce discipline and accountability." This requires transforming the assessment results into targeted training measures. For those whose political stance needs to be improved, strengthen theoretical arming and political training; for those who lack professional skills, strengthen special training and practical experience; for those who do not master and use mass work methods enough, strengthen the purpose of education and grassroots exercise; for those who are not strong in reform and tackling capabilities, pay attention to pressing burdens and planting seedlings in major tasks. By applying the assessment results to education and training, the assessment becomes not only a "diagnosis" for discovering problems, but also a "construction map" for promoting capacity improvement, promoting the continuous growth of cadres.
Create a political ecology of taking responsibility and acting with assessment results. A scientific achievement assessment and evaluation system should not only spur on the backward, but also protect the advanced; it should not only prevent passivity and slackness, but also encourage active progress. The more the reform is advanced in depth, the more it is necessary to encourage exploration, support innovation, and tolerate mistakes. General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized: "We must distinguish between the mistakes and errors made by cadres in promoting reform due to lack of experience and pioneering trials, and the violations of discipline and law that are knowingly committed; we must distinguish between the mistakes and errors in exploratory experiments that are not clearly restricted by the higher authorities, and the violations of discipline and law that are still done in one's own way after the higher authorities have explicitly prohibited them; we must distinguish between unintentional mistakes for promoting development and violations of discipline and law for seeking personal gain." This clearly requires us to improve the scientific achievement assessment and evaluation system, we must unify positive incentives with tolerance for errors and corrections. For cadres who are out of public interest, comply with procedures, are diligent and responsible, and do not seek personal gain, even if there are mistakes in reform exploration, we must objectively evaluate and prudently handle them, and we must not demand perfection and simply deny them; for cadres who are misunderstood because of daring to grasp and manage, are ignored because of hard work, and bear pressure because of untrue reports, the organization should clarify and justify them in a timely manner and support them. At the same time, we must strictly grasp the policy boundaries and never allow tolerance for errors and corrections to be transformed into a "shield" for violations of discipline and law. Only by unifying encouraging responsibility, encouraging exploration, protecting practical work, and strictly enforcing discipline can we form a political ecology that is conducive to cadres letting go of their work and being enterprising.
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) pointed out: "If we do things and work, if we achieve that it is beneficial to the country above and beneficial to the people below; it meets the requirements of the immediate interests of the country and the people, and it meets the requirements of the long-term interests of the country and the people; it can promote economic and social development, and it can promote national prosperity and people's happiness, then we have made the real achievements needed by the Party and the people." This important exposition profoundly reveals the complete connotation of achievements and provides a fundamental yardstick for improving the achievement assessment and evaluation system. Real achievements are neither "short, flat, and fast" that only seek superficial sensation and disregard long-term consequences, nor are they "achievement shows" that are divorced from the needs of the masses and self-circulating, but adhere to the people-centered approach, follow the laws of economic and social development, conform to the inherent requirements of Chinese-style modernization, and can stand the test of practice, the people, and history. To improve the achievement assessment and evaluation system, we must combine the establishment and practice of a correct view of achievements with the complete, accurate, and comprehensive implementation of the new development concept, the promotion of high-quality development, the promotion of common prosperity for all the people, and the maintenance of security and stability. Continuously improve the assessment content, optimize the assessment methods, strengthen supervision and correction, and make the results of the application real, so that the assessment baton truly points to the places most needed for the construction of Chinese-style modernization, the fields of greatest concern to the people, and the most critical links for cadres to take responsibility and act, so that seeking truth and being pragmatic and doing practical work become a trend.
(The author is a special invited researcher of the National Party Building Research Association)
By: 太仓日报记者 阚亚方
On Nanjing Road in Taicang City (太仓市), Suzhou (苏州), Jiangsu (江苏) Province, boarding bus No. 103 will take you past stations named after German companies such as Tox Pressotechnik, TRUMPF, and Kern-Liebers. These station names form a special "mobile industrial chain": taking this bus makes it easy to assemble a complete set of core components for new energy vehicle electric drives.
Recently, the 18th German "Taicang Day" event was held in Munich (慕尼黑), Germany. The German "Taicang Day" event, held for 18 consecutive years, reflects the increasingly close exchanges and interactions between China and Germany in various fields.
Taicang's cooperation with Germany began in 1993. Over the past 33 years, Taicang has gathered more than 560 German companies, with over 90% of the early-settled German companies completing capital increases and production expansions, achieving a leap from "one company" to "one street" and then to "one area."
"In the last decade or so, the number and investment scale of German companies in Taicang have grown rapidly," said Zhang Luoyin (张罗银), Deputy Director of the Management Office of the Sino-German (Taicang) SME Cooperation Demonstration Zone (中德（太仓）中小企业合作示范区管理办公室). It took Taicang 14 years to attract the first 100 German companies, but since then, the agglomeration effect of German companies has become more and more obvious, taking only 2 years to go from the 400th to the 500th.
Currently, Taicang has formed advantageous industrial clusters such as high-end equipment, advanced materials, aerospace, and medical health, and has built a collaborative industrial ecosystem. More than 800 local Taicang companies have established in-depth cooperation with German companies, realizing an upgrade from supply chain support to innovation chain integration, and cooperation is moving from one-way attraction to two-way interaction.
How does this small Jiangnan (江南) city with a permanent population of only 800,000 attract German companies to frequently "increase their investment"?
Talent is one of the key factors.
In 2001, with the joint promotion of the Chinese and German governments, the Taicang German-funded Enterprise Professional Worker Training Center (太仓市德资企业专业工人培训中心) was established, opening the way for the localization of the dual system education in Taicang, "one end connected to vocational schools, and the other end connected to practical training enterprises." Over the past 20 years, this training method has cultivated more than 10,000 management and professional technical talents. The Sino-German Industry-Education Integration Industrial Park (中德产教融合产业园) in Taicang High-tech Zone (太仓高新区) can train 5,000 skilled workers annually.
"The localization practice of the dual system requires corporate funding and human investment, the support of the manufacturing industry, and the integration of education methods. German companies with longer industry cycles have seen the benefits that Taicang's dual system education brings to their companies," said Ye Sen (叶森), General Manager of Hejian Precision Technology (Taicang) Co., Ltd. (海瑞恩精密技术（太仓）有限公司).
Taicang continues to create a comfortable and high-quality international business environment, providing all-round support for various business entities.
In January of this year, Rhein Technology (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. (莱茵技术（苏州）有限公司) encountered problems related to employment procedures. After learning about the situation, relevant departments in Taicang quickly coordinated and actively sought policy support from higher-level departments. Five days later, the problem was successfully resolved. The person in charge of the company said with deep feeling: "Solving the employment problems of foreign-funded enterprises allows companies to truly feel the warmth of Taicang's services."
"In Taicang, we can complete the research and development process in 4 to 8 weeks, and we can also directly and quickly put it into production here," said Fu Lan (福兰), General Manager of BSH Home Appliances China (德国威赛家用电器中国区), praising Taicang's industrial environment.
Accompanying German companies are increasingly rich and diverse life scenes.
Red brick and pink walls, tower spires, and stone roads winding around German Bavarian-style buildings, with German signs visible everywhere... This is the street scene of the Rothenburg (罗腾堡) Style Street on the Taicang Seaport Dike (太仓海运堤罗腾堡风情街). There is also an immersive Beethoven (贝多芬) music-themed living room and a Bayern Munich (拜仁慕尼黑) exhibition hall, which is one of the most popular "check-in" destinations for tourists visiting Taicang.
Harald (哈拉尔德), Global Production President of Bode Group (宝得集团), often walks on Rothenburg Style Street. The 50-year-old has been working and living in China for 21 years. The atrium of the Bode Group's Taicang factory has a Suzhou-style garden, with pavilions and rockeries scattered, hanging springs falling, and the sound of water gurgling, and koi carps swimming leisurely. "I like this garden very much. Every day when I come back from the factory, I spend a few minutes feeding the koi," Harald said, without concealing his love for Chinese culture.
A German bakery called "Brot" has become a place for Germans in Taicang to find the taste of their hometown. "Brot" means "bread" in German. The owner, Owen (欧文), came to Taicang in 2012. Over time, he missed his hometown food very much, so he and his wife opened a traditional German bakery. For more than 10 years, Owen's "bread dream" has continued to ferment in this small city, and now he has 1 workshop and 3 small shops.
Huo An (霍安), General Manager of EGE Electronic Devices (China) Co., Ltd. (益技欧电子器件（中国）有限公司), settled his home in Taicang 8 years ago and actively promoted it to his "German fellow villagers." "Working and living in Taicang is not much different from being in Germany," said Huo An. "Taicang has authentic German food, as well as rich Chinese food; there are many German compatriots, and there are rich German-style life scenes."
In recent years, Taicang has taken building a model city for Sino-German cooperation as its goal, continuously strengthening exchanges and interactions in economic, trade, green, cultural, sports and other fields, striving to become an important window for China's opening up to the outside world, and continuing to serve as a bridge and link for the steady and long-term development of Sino-German exchanges and cooperation.
Return to TopBy: 张孝宇
The time-honored food market is bustling, and parent-child picking in suburban farmland is in full swing... More and more people are using leisure methods that are close in distance, short in time, and low in cost to relax their bodies and minds. This "micro-vacation" has become a new trend in cultural tourism.
Recently, many places have launched "micro-vacation" related cultural tourism activities. For example, Miyun District (密云区) in Beijing (北京) has linked scenic spots and rural check-in locations to launch "micro-vacation" themed routes. Pizhou City (邳州市) in Jiangsu (江苏) Province allows tourists to immerse themselves in nature through village cafes equipped with fishing areas and camping areas... "Micro-vacations" are no longer a travel embellishment, but are gradually becoming a normalized lifestyle.
Why is the "micro-vacation" attracting attention?
It is close in distance, mostly within the "1-hour to 3-hour travel circle"; short in time, it can be done in half a day; and low in cost, with relatively small overall expenses. Without the need for complex strategies or heavy luggage, people have found a readily available place to relax in their fast-paced lives.
In addition to convenience, the popularity of "micro-vacations" is also due to a change in people's mentality. Some social media discussions show that people are no longer satisfied with "being there for the sake of being there" or "check-in style tourism," but are paying more attention to the relaxation and healing aspects of travel. The charm of "micro-vacations" lies in allowing travel to return to life itself, allowing the beauty in ordinary streets and alleys to be better "seen."
To promote the continued healthy development of "micro-vacations," it is also necessary to focus on the word "refined." On the one hand, it is necessary to adapt to local conditions and deeply cultivate local culture. For example, Jinping County (锦屏县) in Guizhou (贵州) Province deeply integrates "village badminton" competitions with folk song festivals and riverside concerts, allowing tourists to immerse themselves in the Miao (苗族) and Dong (侗族) ethnic customs while watching the games. On the other hand, it is necessary to make good use of creative scenes to create a unique atmosphere. For example, Chachong Village (茶冲村) in Baozi Town (堡子镇), Huitong County (会同县), Hunan (湖南) Province, has transformed a long-abandoned old primary school site into a fairytale-like "Rice Dream Town," which is very popular.
"Micro-vacations" are injecting new vitality into cultural tourism in various places with their light and agile posture. May more places be able to see scenery in the "micro" and have distant places in the "near," so that people can find that comforting poetic life at their doorstep.
Return to TopGuangdong Releases Two Group Standards for Botanical Garden Construction
Southern Daily, Guangzhou, May 27 (Reporter Zeng Liangke (曾良科) and Peng Lin (彭琳)) The Guangdong Association of Forestry recently released two group standards, "Construction Guidelines for Regional Botanical Gardens" and "Construction Guidelines for Native Plant Botanical Gardens," which took effect simultaneously on May 15 this year. Based on Guangdong's biodiversity endowment and the needs of greening and beautifying Guangdong's ecological construction, the two standards fill the gap in the construction specifications of regional and native plant botanical gardens, providing technical support for Guangdong to build a clear, complementary, and widely covered plant ex-situ conservation network.
Zhejiang Launches City Swimming League
According to Xinhua News Agency, May 26, the Zhejiang Provincial City Swimming League officially launched. This is another mass sports event created by Zhejiang after the city leagues for basketball, football, and tennis, and it is also Zhejiang's first provincial-level city swimming league. The event adheres to the principle of "professional, popular, widespread, and diverse" and insists on "running amateur events professionally" to create a professional competition experience for swimming enthusiasts. The event is open to individuals and groups across the province, with participating ages ranging from 6 to 66 years old.
Taiyuan, Shanxi Releases "Taiyuan Pocket Parks" Construction Plan
Shanxi Daily, Taiyuan, May 27 (Reporter Wang Jianke (王建科)) Recently, Taiyuan City (太原市), Shanxi Province, released the "Implementation Plan for Promoting the Construction of 'Taiyuan Pocket Parks' in Taiyuan City." In the next 5 years, Taiyuan City will build small but beautiful, exquisite, and evenly distributed "Taiyuan Pocket Parks," with the goal of building at least 36 new pocket parks each year.
Ningdu, Jiangxi Food Delivery Riders Hired as Food Safety Supervisors
This newspaper, Ganzhou, May 27 (Correspondent Wen Julin (温居林)) Recently, Ningdu County (宁都县), Ganzhou (赣州), Jiangxi Province, hired 60 food delivery riders as food safety supervisors. As of now, Ningdu has cumulatively hired 110 riders as supervisors. They "take photos on the go" during meal pickups, focusing on investigating potential hazards in kitchen hygiene, food safety, and other aspects. The local market supervision department has provided the riders with food safety training and practical exercises, and established a closed-loop mechanism of "riders reporting, departments handling, and merchants rectifying."
Guizhou's First Batch of Tour Guide "Legal Experts" Certified
Guizhou Daily, Guiyang, May 27 (Reporter He Yongli (何永利)) Recently, 100 outstanding tour guides from 9 cities (prefectures) in Guizhou (贵州) passed pre-job special training and were certified, becoming the first batch of tour guide "legal experts" in Guizhou's cultural tourism industry. This special training closely focuses on high-frequency issues in the tourism industry, systematically explains laws and regulations closely related to the cultural tourism industry, focuses on analyzing typical cases, and conducts targeted teaching.
Shaanxi Zhouzhi Kiwi Science and Technology Small Courtyard Unveiled
Shaanxi Daily, Xi'an, May 27 (Reporter Zhang Mei (张梅)) The Shaanxi Zhouzhi Kiwi Science and Technology Small Courtyard was recently unveiled, focusing on issues of concern to fruit farmers such as scientific guidance, standardized management, and promotion of ready-to-eat kiwi production technology. Experts and students from Northwest Agriculture and Forestry University (西北农林科技大学) will be stationed in villages and locations to promote the development of the kiwi industry.
Yunnan "Gaoligong Mountain Biodiversity Series" Released
Yunnan Daily, Kunming, May 27 (Reporter Wang Shujuan (王淑娟)) Recently, the "Gaoligong Mountain Biodiversity Series" was released in Kunming City (昆明市), Yunnan (云南). The book comprehensively records for the first time the 1,245 species of vertebrates and 500 common agricultural and forestry insects in Gaoligong Mountain (高黎贡山), making it one of the most systematic compilations of results in the Gaoligong Mountain area to date.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 李金贵
Recently, at China's first barbecue industry college, Hunan Yueyang Barbecue College (湖南岳阳烧烤学院), 30 students selected from more than 4,000 applicants successfully passed the graduation practical training assessment after one month of systematic training and were awarded the "Chinese Cook (Barbecue Chef)" vocational skill level certificate.
The college officially started enrolling students in March of this year. The first batch of students came from 8 provinces including Qinghai (青海), Hebei (河北), and Zhejiang (浙江). Among them were young people with undergraduate degrees, as well as uncles in their 50s who wanted to change careers; there were professional chefs from hotels, as well as "newbies" who had never worked in catering.
The highlight is the whole-chain training model of "learning theory in the morning, practicing in the afternoon, and fighting in stores in the evening." In theoretical classes, students systematically learn barbecue techniques, business management, and new media operations. In the practical operation session, master chefs from more than 30 leading stores teach them hand-in-hand, covering the selection of materials, marinating, and fire control techniques for charcoal grilling and teppanyaki grilling. In the evening, students go deep into the front lines of stores to experience the operation methods during peak customer flow. Meng Yinshuai (孟引帅), president of the Yueyang Barbecue Industry Association (岳阳市烧烤行业协会), introduced that Yueyang (岳阳) currently has more than 3,000 barbecue stores with an annual output value of more than 3 billion yuan.
Return to TopBy: 本报通讯员 张洪金
"Using the traditional piece-mold casting method to create this bronze Ding cauldron would take at least 2 months; using integrated digital technology, combined with 3D printing, we can cast this artifact with the characteristics of the piece-mold method in just 2 days!" On May 26, at the Scientific Archaeology Laboratory of the University of Science and Technology of China (中国科学技术大学) in Hefei (合肥市), An Chuan (范安川), a doctoral supervisor, introduced a cast "Shang Dynasty Beast Mask Pattern Ding" while holding it.
Piece-mold casting is an important manufacturing technique of the Chinese Bronze Age. When ancient craftsmen cast bronze ware, they first needed to make inner and outer molds separately with pottery clay, and then inject molten bronze alloy into the cavity between the inner and outer molds to cool. The laboratory uses digital technology to reproduce the geometric logic of ancient "mold-making and mold-copying," completes digital "mold-division" and "mold-copying" based on three-dimensional models, and combines simulation parting and casting experiments to realize the manufacturing process from digital models to physical artifacts.
Compared with the piece-mold casting process, this method is less time-consuming, more accurate, and reduces the dependence on high-temperature equipment and manual experience. At the same time, the obtained bronze ware can still retain key traces such as the gate and mold lines, which is crucial for judging and restoring ancient technology.
Return to TopBy: 北京日报记者 任 珊
"Look! There's a 'lesser panda' hiding in the tree hole!" Recently, at Beihai Park (北海公园) in Beijing (北京), a little girl pointed to a depression on a tree trunk and said. A furry "lesser panda" was seen peering out through the tree hole, its eyes bright.
Not long ago, Beihai Park (北海公园) completed eight tree hole paintings on the willow trees along the west bank of the lake, with content mainly featuring the White Pagoda (白塔), the lake surface, mandarin ducks, and lesser pandas. "In the past, after repairing tree holes, we only applied a protective color similar to the bark. This year, we wanted to provide tourists with more emotional value without harming the trees," said Gao Sulan (高苏岚), a senior engineer in the Horticulture Department of Beihai Park (北海公园).
In Beijing Nanhaizi Park (北京南苑森林湿地公园) and other parks, there are also such tree hole paintings. The cross-sections left by pruning branches and natural tree holes are carefully painted with cute cartoon images such as owls and squirrels, filling the trails with a fairy-tale atmosphere and allowing citizens to receive unexpected warmth and beauty when getting close to nature.
Will painting on trees harm the trees? Gu Lei (顾垒), a director of the China Wild Plant Conservation Association (中国野生植物保护协会) and a science writer, believes that parks carrying out tree hole painting according to professional procedures is an artistic beautification on the basis of protection. Standardized operation will not affect the growth of trees and can make the ecological landscape more warm. Moreover, parks do not take a **一刀切** (yī dāo qiē - "one knife cut," to impose a uniform solution; to treat everything the same) approach when repairing tree holes. Any tree holes near the water surface that may be used by waterfowl for nesting and laying eggs are not blocked or painted.
Return to TopBy: 重庆日报记者 张 莎
In a residential building in Yangguang Community (阳光社区), Chunhui Road Subdistrict (春晖路街道), Dadukou District (大渡口区), Chongqing (重庆), 90-year-old He Shuizhen (何水珍) stood in front of the mirror, looking left and right, her newly cut silver hair neat and tidy, looking particularly energetic. Zhang Shuqiong (张术琼), the community hairdresser, reached out to tidy up the old woman's temples and nodded with satisfaction.
55-year-old Zhang Shuqiong has been working with this pair of scissors for half her life. In the 1990s, she and her sister learned hairdressing skills and opened a "Sisters Hair Salon" for nearly 20 years. At that time, a haircut cost 5 yuan, and all the neighbors came. She closed the shop a few years ago when her grandson was born.
In 2020, a staff member of Yangguang Community (阳光社区) sent a message in the grid group: Granny Hao (郝婆婆), who is over 90 years old, cannot go out, and her hair is too long. Is there anyone who can help her at home? Zhang Shuqiong (张术琼) immediately replied: "I can go." She put down her phone, found her toolbox, the scissors, comb, and electric clippers were still there, and she found the apron and shook it out, feeling at ease.
Once she started, she couldn't stop. Zhang Shuqiong (张术琼) initially refused to accept money, but the community cadres felt bad about it and discussed it with her for a long time, finally settling on a price of 5 yuan, which was the price she charged when she opened her shop many years ago.
Over time, the elderly in Yangguang Community (阳光社区) all knew about this hairdresser. For those who couldn't walk, she went upstairs to cut their hair; for those who could walk, they made appointments in the community's sky garden, where the elderly waited while basking in the sun. She also paid for better electric clippers and sharpened her scissors quickly.
"I'm happy to help the elderly with their hair, and they are happy, and I am happy too," said Zhang Shuqiong (张术琼).
Return to TopBy: 新华社记者 张申博
"Watermelons are getting sweeter because they are injected with sweeteners," "Seedless watermelons are genetically modified fruits"... As early summer arrives and watermelons hit the market, some so-called "safety reminders" also make a timely return. Are these claims, which are recycled year after year, true?
A reporter's investigation found that consumers feel watermelons are sweeter due to the combined effect of continuous variety optimization and improved cultivation techniques. Ma Jianxiang (马建祥), chief expert of the Shaanxi (陕西) Province Watermelon and Melon Industry Technology System, said: "Compared to older varieties, the central sugar content of today's watermelons can generally reach 13%, and some varieties can reach 14% or even 15%, so they naturally taste sweeter. Injecting a solution into a watermelon with a needle, even if it's just water, will cause the fruit to rot quickly."
As for seedless watermelons, their creation relies on chromosome engineering and has nothing to do with genetic modification. Ma Jianxiang (马建祥) explained that ordinary watermelons are diploid, meaning they contain two sets of normal chromosomes, while the breeding path of seedless watermelons is to first treat ordinary diploid watermelons with colchicine to obtain "tetraploid" watermelons with doubled chromosomes, and then use tetraploid watermelons to cross with diploid watermelons to breed triploid varieties. The chromosomes of this type of watermelon are disordered in pairing, so they cannot produce normal seeds and grow into seedless watermelons.
In addition, claims such as "eating watermelon and peaches together is fatal" and "overnight watermelon cannot be eaten" have also been disproven. Ma Jianxiang (马建祥) said that the theory of food incompatibility lacks scientific basis, and moderate consumption is fine; watermelons should be refrigerated and kept fresh in a timely manner, and the rind and utensils should be washed before cutting, so there is no need to panic.
Watermelons originated in Africa. Scientists have discovered through gene sequencing that the watermelons grown in ancient Egypt had white flesh and were mainly used to extract seeds or store water. After thousands of years of domestication and hybridization, they have become the sweet and refreshing summer delicacy they are today.
(According to Xinhua News Agency (新华社))
Return to TopBy: 海南日报记者 刘 杰
"This variety has a rich aroma and a mouth full of fruity fragrance," "This one has moderate sweetness and delicate, fiber-free flesh"... Recently, the Hainan Sanya (海南三亚) Mango New Variety (Line) Exhibition and Tasting Meeting was held, with 56 new mango varieties (lines) making a concentrated appearance, undergoing joint tasting and evaluation by experts, scholars, large growers, purchasing merchants, and ordinary citizens. After several rounds of blind testing and deliberation, four high-quality mango varieties suitable for local cultivation in Sanya (三亚) stood out.
At the tasting meeting, 56 new mango varieties were neatly arranged, with long, round, and oval fruit shapes each having its own characteristics. The fruit peels ranged from light yellow to orange-red, bright and full, with a rich and mellow fruity aroma wafting over. More than a hundred tasters gathered at the exhibition stand, tasting one by one, observing carefully, and discussing enthusiastically. After multiple rounds of blind testing, item-by-item scoring, and comprehensive evaluation on site, the final results were officially announced: ReNong No. 5 (热农5号), ReNong No. 18 (热农18号), ReNong No. 37 (热农37号), and Ruihua No. 3 (锐华3号), these four new varieties, with their excellent qualities of clear, sweet, and mellow flavor, delicate and firm flesh, and refreshing and lingering aftertaste, coupled with their suitability for local cultivation in Sanya (三亚), were unanimously recognized by all the tasters.
As a characteristic pillar industry of Sanya (三亚) agriculture, at present, the mango planting area in Sanya (三亚) reaches 430,000 mu, with an annual output of about 500,000 tons and an annual output value of nearly 6 billion yuan. Relevant officials from Sanya City (三亚市) stated that the high-quality new varieties selected this time are the "new confidence" for the iterative upgrading of the Sanya (三亚) mango industry.
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By: 本报记者 龚相娟
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The security of cultural relics collected by museums is crucial. Besides relying on "keen eyes," what else can ensure the safety of cultural relics' identities and sense their health status?
Tianjin University (天津大学), in collaboration with multiple institutions, is conducting technological innovation research to establish a "digital fingerprint" database for cultural relics, safeguarding their security with hardcore technology.
Recently, the National Cultural Heritage Administration (国家文物局) deployed and promoted a special action for the safety management of cultural relics in national state-owned museums nationwide, comprehensively carrying out inventory counts of state-owned museum collections and investigating and rectifying safety hazards.
China is a major country in terms of cultural relics. The massive number of movable cultural relics covers various materials such as pottery, porcelain, bronze, lacquerware, calligraphy and painting, jade, etc., with diverse shapes and forms. With the increasing frequency of cultural exchanges at home and abroad, the circulation, loan, and exhibition of cultural relics have become commonplace. In the past, the management of cultural relics in museums during preservation and exhibition mainly relied on manual marking for entry and exit from storage. In recent years, the use of electronic tags has provided clear records for the entry and exit of cultural relics, but these tags can be separated from the relics, posing potential risks.
To ensure that a cultural relic "is what it is" and solve a common problem faced by museums worldwide, Tianjin University (天津大学), in collaboration with multiple institutions, is conducting technological innovation research to establish unique "digital fingerprints" for cultural relics, shifting the identification of cultural relic identities from subjective human judgment to objective technical verification, thereby safeguarding their security.
A non-detachable identifier needs to be created to ensure "it is what it is."
In the entire process of business management of museum-collected cultural relics, every step is inseparable from identity security assurance. The needs mainly focus on two aspects: first, credible identification to counter professional forgery and **以假乱真** (yǐ jiǎ luàn zhēn - "pass fake imitations for genuine articles," to substitute the fake for the real); second, efficient identity confirmation required for diversified cultural relic circulation operations.
"These all point to the same issue: determining the identity consistency between the cultural relic itself and its identifier. Simply put, it's about ensuring 'it is what it is,'" said Professor Feng Wei (冯伟), head of the Visual Intelligence Laboratory at Tianjin University (天津大学).
Traditional cultural relic identity identification and management heavily rely on expert experience and human eye judgment, supplemented by physical identifiers such as paper labels and sealing wax, but these physical identifiers are separate from the cultural relic itself, and human judgment is prone to errors. Meanwhile, in scenarios with frequent cultural relic circulation, manual inventory and identity confirmation during handover are time-consuming and laborious, making it difficult to meet the demands of efficient management.
With technological iteration, cultural relic identity identification has successively gone through stages of external digital labels such as QR codes and radio frequency identification, as well as digital acquisition stages such as multispectral (hyperspectral) and terahertz imaging, overall presenting a trend of digitization and intelligence. Among them, radio frequency identification involves attaching a miniature "electronic ID card" with a chip to the cultural relic, which is read wirelessly and non-contactly, essentially still "attaching" a digital label to the cultural relic, which can be physically separated from the relic itself.
"Multispectral (hyperspectral) and terahertz imaging technologies can directly extract the material and internal structural characteristics of the cultural relic itself, achieving the goal of binding the identifier to the object and making it impossible to detach," said Dr. Li Nan (李楠), a member of the Visual Intelligence Laboratory at Tianjin University (天津大学). "Their shortcomings are the lack of dedicated acquisition devices and matching technical systems; general-purpose equipment is bulky, costly, and has a narrow range of application."
Enlarging cultural relics to the micron level to compare their unique surface texture features
Is it possible to create a non-detachable identifier for cultural relics while also being able to quickly identify their identity, balancing security and efficiency?
Relying on the national key research and development project "Key Technologies for Digital Fingerprint Extraction, Identification, and Intelligent Identity Management of Museum Collections," the cultural relic fingerprint extraction and identification technology and equipment system jointly developed by Tianjin University (天津大学), in collaboration with universities, cultural heritage institutions, and other units, has overcome this challenge. It establishes "digital fingerprints" for cultural relics in a non-destructive and non-contact manner.
The "fingerprint" here is not the fingerprint left by craftsmen when making objects, but rather the unique surface texture features of cultural relics at the micron level, on a microscopic scale.
Walking into the Visual Intelligence Laboratory at Tianjin University (天津大学), a robotic arm in a glass enclosure is flexibly moving angles to photograph images of a porcelain vase. Staff members lightly tap the computer keyboard outside the glass enclosure to issue instructions, and the probe at the end of the robotic arm automatically aligns with a key point on the vase body. After a few minutes, a set of acquired microscopic texture images is further extracted for features, securely encoded, and stored in the database—the "digital fingerprint" of the cultural relic is thus generated.
The next time the cultural relic returns from an outbound exhibition, simply place it on the equipment's loading platform, and the artificial intelligence algorithm will automatically find the original "fingerprint" point, re-photograph it, extract features, and compare it with the database. Single-point identification takes no more than 3 minutes, with an accuracy of over 99.99%.
"The principle is that at the microscopic scale, the surface of an object exhibits random characteristics. The physical randomness of the material at this observation scale is similar to the principle of human fingerprints, possessing uniqueness, stability, universality, and cannot be copied," Feng Wei (冯伟) explained. As long as a local point on an object is magnified a hundred times, down to the micron level, it will be found that each object has its own physical characteristics.
The specific operation method is to use equipment to photograph images and use artificial intelligence algorithms to further collect and extract the visual features in these images. The system will automatically select key points for encoding, generating the cultural relic's "digital fingerprint."
After the cultural relic's "digital fingerprint" identifier is generated, how can it be ensured that the same point is selected for the next comparison?
"In the initial application, it was through manual in-situ comparison. The innovation now lies in achieving autonomous in-situ comparison," Feng Wei (冯伟) introduced. Now, simply place the cultural relic on the equipment's loading platform, and the equipment and algorithm will automatically search for the corresponding fingerprint area, photograph images, extract features, and compare and identify, quickly and accurately determining "it is what it is."
Since 2023, cultural relic fingerprint extraction and identification technology has been demonstrated and verified at the Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物馆) and the Linping Museum (临平博物馆) in Hangzhou (杭州), Zhejiang (浙江).
"By comparing the microscopic visual characteristics collected before and after, high-precision identification of cultural relic identities can be achieved. This will provide strong technical support for the security of cultural relic identities in cultural relic outbound, exhibition, and other circulation operations, and will play an important role in strengthening the safety management of museum collections," said Duan Xiaoming (段晓明), curator of the Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物馆). The Hunan Provincial Museum (湖南省博物馆) will complete the "fingerprint" entry for over 1,000 cultural relics.
"Cultural relic doctors" accurately capture state changes
This set of "digital fingerprint" technology did not emerge out of thin air. Its predecessor is a set of spatiotemporal intelligent visual perception technology and equipment system, which is also a "cultural relic doctor" that can accurately sense the state and evolution of cultural relics.
Most cultural relics have undergone hundreds or even thousands of years of history. Problems such as material aging, structural degradation, and environmental erosion are common. The vast majority of cultural relic diseases are not "acute and severe illnesses" that erupt instantly, but rather "chronic diseases" that accumulate over a long period and develop slowly.
Taking ancient murals as an example, diseases such as surface blistering, hollowness, alkali efflorescence, and flaking are often the result of long-term cumulative fluctuations in temperature and humidity, the migration of salt within the wall, and the slow growth of microorganisms. The entire process is hidden and lengthy.
Is it possible to establish an all-weather, high-precision, and dynamic monitoring system for cultural relics, just like routine physical examinations? The research team at the Visual Intelligence Laboratory at Tianjin University (天津大学) developed "artificial intelligence + vision" technology to allow machines to "remember" what cultural relics looked like in the past, and then accurately reproduce and compare them in the same position, at the same angle, and under the same lighting conditions.
It sounds simple, but it's difficult to do. "The difficulty of conducting long-cycle precision measurements and accurately sensing changes in cultural relics in a complex or even extreme environment is higher than in standardized industrial scenarios," Li Nan (李楠) explained. Industrial scenarios are generally constant temperature and humidity, with regular environments and unified standards, making it easy to debug and operate equipment. The environments in which cultural relics are located vary greatly, ranging from caves and warehouses with drastic temperature and humidity fluctuations, darkness, humidity, and air tightness, to open places exposed to the elements, wind, and rain. There are many environmental interferences.
The team developed a set of spatiotemporal intelligent visual perception technology and equipment system for complex cultural relic scenarios. Simply put, for a certain cultural relic, only a clear image recorded in past monitoring needs to be provided, even a photograph from a hundred years ago. With artificial intelligence algorithms, the camera position and lighting conditions at the time of shooting can be interpreted, and it can be accurately reproduced in the current scene and compared in the same spatiotemporal coordinates. Through this technology, the "cultural relic doctor's" perception accuracy of changes on the surface of cultural relics can reach 10 micrometers, with a fineness equivalent to 1/7 of the average diameter of a hair.
This achievement has been applied to more than 50 important heritage sites and museums, including the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang (敦煌), the Palace Museum (故宫), the Summer Palace (颐和园), the Terracotta Army of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum (秦始皇陵兵马俑), and the Maijishan Grottoes (麦积山石窟), continuously providing key technical support for cultural relic protection.
From the unforgeable "digital fingerprints" of cultural relics to the "cultural relic doctors" that can monitor the health status of cultural relics, modern technology makes the identities of precious cultural relics searchable and their health perceptible, allowing thousands of years of civilization to be passed down forever and remain new under the protection of technology.
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Rooted in the soil of practice and embedded in daily life, intangible cultural heritage (ICH), as a living cultural organism, presents people's thoughts, actions, and capabilities.
From the popularity of videos of young people "hand-crafting" ICH cultural and creative products online to the establishment of ICH majors in many universities, the professional term "ICH" has gradually entered the public eye. Behind the popularity and rising interest in ICH is a continuous deepening of people's understanding of the concept of ICH.
From the initial rescue protection to authentic protection, productive protection, and now systematic protection, in the 20-plus years since joining the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, China's innovation and iteration in ICH protection theory is a process of continuously integrating Chinese experience and wisdom into specific ICH protection practices.
ICH has unique value and positioning in traditional Chinese culture. From the Hundred Schools of Thought (诸子百家) to Tang poetry and Song lyrics, the main carrier is Chinese characters; from folk tales to local operas, the main carrier is language, which is what we call oral culture. Intangible cultural heritage combines these two characteristics. It is based on the understanding of its laws that systematic protection has become a keyword in the field of ICH today.
The generation and development of intangible cultural heritage are closely related to the social, cultural, and natural environment of a specific region. Systematic protection is a reflection of respecting the inherent laws of ICH and the logical starting point of ICH protection, requiring us to pay attention to the holistic characteristics of ICH and the integrity of protection measures, so as to achieve a balance between ICH protection and economic society, ecological environment, and cultural development.
The systematic protection of ICH calls for interdisciplinary thinking. ICH projects include folk literature, traditional music, traditional dance, traditional drama, folk customs and other categories, and the various categories covered are intertwined and integrated, which is interdisciplinary and cross-field in itself. For example, traditional drama includes folk cultural elements such as literature, music, art, and traditional sports, while folk customs include rich content such as social customs and etiquette. The integration of art and science is becoming a trend, and ICH, which carries rich historical and traditional cultural elements, urgently needs digital technology empowerment.
From the perspective of protection and research methods, clarifying the ICH "family assets" is inseparable from field investigations, which involve professional techniques such as oral history interviews, data archive collection and organization, and requires the comprehensive application of research methods from disciplines such as history, folklore, and even experimental archaeology. ICH revitalization involves disciplines such as informatics, communication, museology, and design. The construction and repair of folk traditional crafts often requires the application of knowledge and technology in fields such as chemistry, physics, metals, and smelting techniques. Only by possessing interdisciplinary thinking can practitioners understand ICH and related cultural systems as comprehensively as possible and carry out protection and research in an orderly manner.
In recent years, many colleges and universities have launched pilot programs for ICH undergraduate majors and postgraduate discipline construction, cultivating compound talents through interdisciplinary integration. Nanjing University of the Arts (南京艺术学院) and other institutions have established ICH undergraduate majors, Tianjin University (天津大学) and other institutions have established specialized disciplines for ICH protection at the postgraduate level... A group of cross-field and interdisciplinary compound talents have emerged, giving ICH inheritance sufficient confidence and full of vigor.
Rooted in the soil of practice and embedded in daily life, as a living cultural organism, intangible cultural heritage presents people's thoughts, actions, and capabilities. Facing the future, by opening up new horizons for systematic protection with interdisciplinary thinking and stimulating traditional charm with the vitality of the times, we will surely let ICH bloom with more charming brilliance.
(The author is the Dean of the School of Humanities and Museums, Nanjing University of the Arts (南京艺术学院))
Return to TopAs the National College Entrance Examination (高考) approaches, Shijiazhuang No. 45 Middle School (石家庄市第四十五中学) in Hebei Province (河北省) is not only focusing on review and preparation for senior high school students, but also carrying out various stress-reduction activities to help them relax and face the exam with a peaceful and optimistic attitude.
The picture shows senior high school students at the school releasing paper airplanes on May 27th.
Liang Zidong (梁子栋) / Photo China (影像中国)
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporter Yang Xuemei (杨雪梅)) Archaeology is an important part of philosophy and social sciences. Archaeologists excavate in the field while researching and interpreting unearthed cultural relics and sites. The "From Civilization Exploration to Civilization Mutual Learning Archaeological Research Institute Achievement Release Conference and Key Laboratory Collected Works Launching Ceremony" was held on the 27th at the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院中国历史研究院). The Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院考古研究所) centrally released a number of research results, including 13 archaeological reports, 21 monographs, datasets, popular science books, and atlases, and more than 30 important papers in authoritative Chinese and English journals.
The quality and quantity of archaeological reports reflect a country's level of archeology. This conference focused on launching 13 archaeological reports, including *Xinmi Xinzhai (II): Field Archaeological Excavation Report 2002-2010*, *Anyang Wangyukou South Site 2009 Archaeological Excavation Report*, and *Luoyang City of Sui and Tang Dynasties: Archaeological Excavation Report 2001-2010*, covering prehistoric, Xia and Shang dynasties, and multiple historical periods of ancient times. In 2009, the Anyang Working Team of the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院考古研究所安阳工作队) excavated at the Wangyukou South Site (王裕口南地), exposing an area of more than 9,000 square meters and obtaining rich cultural remains. In particular, the discovery of the tomb of the diviner family provided the most direct information for studying the origin and status of the diviner group during the Yin Ruins period. *Anyang Wangyukou South Site 2009 Archaeological Excavation Report* fully publishes this batch of materials, providing researchers with valuable first-hand materials.
The monograph *Ten Years of Chinese Archeology (2016-2026)* systematically sorts out the high-quality development process of Chinese archeology in the past 10 years, comprehensively summarizes the landmark achievements in discipline construction, field excavation, theoretical innovation, scientific and technological archeology, and overseas archeology, and centrally demonstrates the breakthrough progress made by Chinese archeology in proving a million years of human history, ten thousand years of cultural history, and more than five thousand years of civilization history.
*China Archaeological Carbon-14 Dating Dataset 1992-2018* is a continuation of the previously published *China Archaeological Carbon-14 Dating Dataset 1965-1991*, encompassing 1,400 data points, providing key "time coordinates" for multidisciplinary research.
In the past 10 years, the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院考古研究所) has continuously carried out joint archeological work in countries such as Egypt, Honduras, Uzbekistan, Romania, and Pakistan, and jointly launched the "Angelokastro" archeological project in Greece with the Institute of Classical Civilizations of China (中国古典文明研究院) in April this year. The *Avenue Dongfeng - Overseas Archaeological Achievements of the Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences* released this time is the first book in the "World Archeology Series" of the Institute of Archeology, presenting a panoramic view of the Sino-foreign archeological cooperation projects carried out by the Institute of Archeology with valuable pictures and detailed materials.
The Key Laboratory of Scientific and Technological Archeology and Cultural Heritage Protection of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (中国社会科学院科技考古与文化遗产保护重点实验室) launched the first collection of *Scientific and Technological Archeology Collected Works* and the first collection of *Cultural Heritage Protection Collected Works*. The two collections focus on cutting-edge methods of scientific and technological archeology, key technologies for cultural relic protection, and the inheritance and utilization of cultural heritage, advocating originality, advancement, and exploration, and building a new academic platform for scientific and technological archeology and cultural heritage protection.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 曾亦辰
Ascending, soaring through the clouds, rotating, exploring the details of the cave in 360 degrees can be achieved in a VR (virtual reality) experience area of less than 1 square meter.
In the Mogao Grottoes (莫高窟) in Dunhuang (敦煌), Gansu (甘肃) Province, the "Searching Dunhuang: Immersive Exhibition of Digital Dunhuang" launched by the Dunhuang Academy (敦煌研究院) is popular among visitors. The exhibition transforms poetic scenes such as dancing with the Flying Apsaras and soaring with the Music God into an experienceable "reality." Wearing VR glasses, visitors seem to push open a door through time and space, stepping into the illusory world of Dunhuang.
As the first in-depth cultural knowledge interaction project of the Digital Dunhuang Resource Library, "Searching Dunhuang" focuses on Mogao Grotto No. 285, digitally recreating the physical cave in all aspects. Cave No. 285 is the earliest existing cave in Mogao Grottoes with a clear record of its construction year. It integrates Chinese and foreign artistic styles in terms of cave shape and mural content, and has high aesthetic and artistic value. "We must not only protect the beauty of the grottoes, but also show its beauty," said Han Xue (韩雪), a member of the cultural relics digitization protection team of the Dunhuang Academy (敦煌研究院).
In "Searching Dunhuang," following intelligent guidance, tourists "step into" the murals. By lightly pressing the handle, the details of the murals are instantly enlarged, and the pauses and frustrations of the brushstrokes and the layering of mineral pigments are clearly visible. By changing the perspective, visitors can freely explore and appreciate every detail of the cave. "A major feature of 'Searching Dunhuang' is to provide an enhanced and detailed experience," Han Xue (韩雪) introduced. "Many details that are easily overlooked in traditional visits can be closely observed through digital restoration."
In the digital visual design, the team's key principle is not to "modify" Dunhuang (敦煌) with modern aesthetics, but to guide the audience to "understand" Dunhuang (敦煌). One visitor exclaimed after experiencing "Searching Dunhuang": "In the real cave, I felt the ancient and profound nature of Dunhuang (敦煌) culture. And here, I saw its elegant and solemn unique beauty."
"Transforming the patterns, colors, and artistic conception of Dunhuang (敦煌) art into beautiful visual language is equivalent to building a bridge between Dunhuang (敦煌) art and contemporary communication. Young people are first attracted by this beauty, and then they are willing to explore the stories and culture behind the caves, so that the ancient heritage of Dunhuang (敦煌) can 'live' in the digital age," said Han Xue (韩雪).
After the experience, with the help of artificial intelligence matting and virtual camera tracking, tourists can also instantly shoot a video of themselves interacting with the virtual scene of the cave in the virtual studio. Many tourists make online reservations, learn about background knowledge, immerse themselves in the offline experience, and then share AR (augmented reality) photos on social platforms, completing an in-depth cultural check-in and emotional connection.
Since its launch in September 2023, "Searching Dunhuang" has attracted more than 80,000 participants. "In the future, we will continue to break through around 'high-dimensional restoration, dynamic interpretation, multi-sensory connection, and intelligent deepening,' so that Dunhuang (敦煌) art will change from 'being watched' to 'being understood, participated in, and co-created,' and truly realize the digital and living inheritance of cultural heritage," said Han Xue (韩雪).
Return to TopAs a national catering brand originating from the Sichuan and Chongqing area, KAOJIANG Spicy Grilled Fish (烤匠麻辣烤鱼), or "KAOJIANG" for short, has won wide consumer favor with its classic combination of "handmade black bean curd + spicy grilled fish." Its traditional craftsmanship of black bean curd spicy grilled fish has been successively recognized as representative intangible cultural heritage projects in Wuhou District of Chengdu City, Sichuan Province, and the former Jiangbei District of Chongqing City.
In order to refine the superior taste and ensure product quality, KAOJIANG has undergone multiple rounds of product research and development optimization, finalizing the classic combination of handmade black bean curd and spicy grilled fish. After more than 8 months and screening dozens of types of beans, it finally selected Northeast green kernel black beans with high nutritional value and firm taste. To ensure the supply of high-quality raw materials, KAOJIANG has reached in-depth cooperation with Liaoning Lichuanfang Black Bean Food Co., Ltd. (辽宁李传芳黑豆食品有限公司) (referred to as "Lichuanfang"), relying on the order agriculture model to directly connect to the source of origin located in Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner (科尔沁右翼中旗), Hinggan League (兴安盟), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
On May 20, 2026, KAOJIANG, together with its partner Lichuanfang, held the "Rural Revitalization Order Agriculture Signing Ceremony and Green Kernel Black Bean Launch Festival" in Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner (科尔沁右翼中旗). Experts from the Tongliao Academy of Agricultural and Animal Sciences (通辽市农牧业科学院), representatives from the Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner Agriculture and Animal Husbandry and Science and Technology Bureau (科尔沁右翼中旗农牧和科技局), founders of KAOJIANG and Lichuanfang, and representatives of black bean farmers gathered together to witness KAOJIANG's practical exploration of empowering rural industrial revitalization with the order agriculture model.
Against the backdrop of promoting the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside, KAOJIANG uses practical actions to connect a stable supply chain from the field to the table, demonstrating the responsibility and commitment of catering brands to deeply cultivate the industry and give back to the countryside.
Joint Academy Selects Superior Products
Building a Solid Foundation for Source Quality with High Standards
Solid product strength is the foundation for the development of the catering industry, and high-quality raw materials are the support for the company's product strength. KAOJIANG adheres to quality first, moving the quality control checkpoint forward, extending from the kitchen to the front end of the supply chain, implementing year-round procurement lock-in for key raw materials, driving the quality improvement and upgrading of the supply chain with high-standard procurement needs, and safeguarding product quality and safety from the source.
Horqin Right Wing Middle Banner (科尔沁右翼中旗) has a temperate continental climate with an annual rainfall of about 400 mm, an accumulated temperature of over 3000 degrees Celsius, simultaneous rain and heat, and the soil is black soil mixed with a small amount of sandy soil, with good air permeability, and there is no heavy industrial pollution within 200 kilometers around. The unique geographical environment is conducive to the accumulation of nutrients such as protein and fat in black beans. The area has a profound black bean planting heritage, laying a solid foundation for industrial development.
In order to further improve the quality of raw materials, KAOJIANG has established long-term cooperation with Lichuanfang and the Tongliao Academy of Agricultural and Animal Sciences (通辽市农牧业科学院), adhering to market demand as the guidance, and is committed to selecting and breeding high-quality Northeast green kernel black bean varieties with moderate production period, excellent taste, high protein, high yield, large grain size, and strong disease resistance. During the selection and breeding process, scientific researchers optimize the seed quality year by year from selecting flowers, selecting leaves to selecting plant types, which not only improves the quality of black beans from the seed source, but also effectively improves the planting income rate of farmers. The iteration and upgrading of varieties not only enhances the adaptability of black beans to local climatic conditions, but also lays a solid foundation for subsequent deep processing and standardized production.
In the planting process, scientific researchers combine the growth law of black beans and formulate a scientific and reasonable drug and fertilizer control plan for different growth cycles of black beans, strictly controlling the risk of pesticide residues while ensuring yield. Fine intervention is carried out in the whole process from seed screening, soil testing to sowing and harvesting to ensure the safety and consistency of raw material quality.
In terms of full-link control, KAOJIANG has built a closed-loop management system from "seed to table," with layers of checks. Northeast green kernel black beans are sown in May and harvested in October every year. After harvesting, pesticide residue and heavy metal testing are carried out uniformly, and they can only be put into storage after passing the test; Lichuanfang factory screens, grades, and packages black beans according to the annual order plan, and provides a factory quality inspection report at the same time as distribution; KAOJIANG will also regularly ask manufacturers for relevant qualification certificates and third-party type inspection reports to form a full-process supervision mechanism. At the same time, KAOJIANG has established a complete origin traceability system to realize "one thing one code" for the whole process traceability, so that consumers can clearly understand the whole process of black bean planting and processing.
In 2026, KAOJIANG plans to order the planting of 7,000 mu of Northeast green kernel black beans, with an estimated total output of 1,200 tons, which can stably meet the annual raw material needs of more than 80 stores nationwide and future new stores, providing a solid guarantee for supply chain stability.
Order Support Strengthen Production and Enrich Farmers
Broaden Farmers' Income Increase Paths with Stability
The order agriculture model promoted by KAOJIANG effectively solves the problem of farmers "not daring to plant and unwilling to plant," and provides farmers with predictable and guaranteed income support. Before the start of each planting season, KAOJIANG signs a formal purchase contract with local planting entities based on annual operating needs, clarifying the purchase price and quantity, so that farmers can get rid of the worries of "worrying about selling in the autumn harvest."
At the same time, order agriculture effectively promotes the market-oriented optimization of the local coarse grain planting structure. Compared with the traditional agricultural model, order agriculture is a sales contract with legal effect signed between farmers and enterprises, clarifying the rights and obligations of both parties, realizing the connection between agricultural product production and sales, and "finding the market first, then determining production," which is conducive to reducing production costs, promoting standardized production, and thus promoting farmers' income increase by stabilizing sales channels and locking in purchase prices for farmers. With the vigorous promotion of black bean curd series products by KAOJIANG, Lichuanfang and other brands, the market demand for black beans is also increasing year by year, and the planting area of black beans in eastern Inner Mongolia has expanded rapidly, and the income increase effect has continued to appear, allowing farmers to obtain more dividends from industrial development.
The promotion of order agriculture has also accelerated the local agricultural industrialization and large-scale operation process. Farmers can choose to work nearby to achieve "employment and income increase at the doorstep."
From "relying on the weather" to "stable income increase," KAOJIANG's order agriculture model has given local farmers a "reassurance pill" and has become an innovative practice for agricultural industrialization to drive strong villages and enrich people.
Extend the Chain and Supplement the Chain Promote Mutual Promotion between Production and Agriculture
Build a New Pattern of Industrial Integration and Development
The value of a Northeast green kernel black bean is far more than the raw material itself. The in-depth cooperation between KAOJIANG and Lichuanfang has promoted the Northeast green kernel black bean industry from primary raw material supply to intensive processing, building a new paradigm of industrial integration and development of "primary industry supporting secondary industry and secondary industry driving primary industry," making rural industries more dynamic and more resilient.
In the past, Northeast green kernel black beans were mostly sold in the form of raw materials, with short industrial chains and low added value, and farmers' income space was limited. Today, relying on KAOJIANG's stable and large-scale raw material demand, Lichuanfang and other enterprises have increased investment in intensive processing, processing Northeast green kernel black beans into black bean curd, black bean frozen tofu, black bean thousand sheets and other products, continuously enriching the product matrix and expanding market coverage. With the accelerated development of the industry, the number of black bean deep processing factories across the country continues to grow, and the industrial agglomeration effect has initially emerged, and a regional characteristic agricultural product processing cluster dominated by Northeast green kernel black beans is accelerating its formation.
The extension of the industrial chain has effectively activated the development vitality of the rural economy. Local supporting industries such as agricultural material supply, agricultural machinery services, packaging and printing, cold chain logistics, and catering services are booming, continuously injecting strong impetus into local economic development.
KAOJIANG and its partners' large and stable procurement demand has rapidly promoted the research and development and promotion of black bean varieties, which is not only an innovative practice for rural industrial revitalization, but also a typical landing case of order agriculture, providing replicable and scalable experience for the high-quality development of regional agricultural industries.
Brand Linkage Value Upgrade
Empower High-Quality Development of Origin with Brand Power
The brand is a bridge connecting agricultural products and the market, and it is also the key to improving the added value of agricultural products. KAOJIANG gives full play to the advantages of a nationally renowned catering brand, joins hands with Lichuanfang, which has a deep foundation of processing technology, to promote the transformation of origin advantages into industrial advantages, allowing Northeast green kernel black beans to go out of the countryside and to the whole country.
In the terminal market, KAOJIANG relies on the national store layout and brand influence to let more consumers understand the quality advantages and origin characteristics of Northeast green kernel black beans.
The improvement of brand influence ultimately gives back to the source of the industry. Higher market recognition gives enterprises stronger procurement bargaining power and a more stable price system, further consolidating the virtuous cycle of stable production and stable prices in order agriculture, and realizing the virtuous development of "brand driving the market, the market driving the industry, and the industry enriching farmers." Today, Northeast green kernel black beans have grown into a regional characteristic agricultural product with high quality, traceability, and stories, continuously improving the added value and market competitiveness of agricultural products.
From the prosperous business districts of Sichuan and Chongqing to the vast fields of Inner Mongolia, KAOJIANG has always adhered to the concept of "quality-based, responsibility first," deeply integrating the construction of the source supply chain with the practice of comprehensive rural revitalization, and empowering rural development with industrial strength.
This "Rural Revitalization Order Agriculture Signing Ceremony and Green Kernel Black Bean Launch Festival" is a new starting point for KAOJIANG to deeply cultivate the supply chain and help the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside. In the future, KAOJIANG will continue to root in the countryside, adhere to the craftsmanship, and work with all parties to deepen the order agriculture model, continuously improve the supply chain and enhance the value chain, and contribute greater brand strength to painting a picture of industrial prosperity and farmers' prosperity in the comprehensive revitalization of the countryside.
Data source: KAOJIANG
Return to TopThe "15th Five-Year Plan" outline proposes to promote early screening and early intervention for children's myopia, overweight obesity, and autism.
Children are the future of the motherland and the hope of the nation. To protect children's health, give them bright eyes and healthy bodies, and allow them to thrive in the sun, parents need to step out of cognitive misunderstandings and raise their children scientifically. In response to the high incidence of childhood obesity and the trend of myopia showing high incidence, younger age, and high degree, on the occasion of the "June 1st" International Children's Day, this edition has prepared this health guide for you and your children.
——Editor
Don't Be a "Little Fatty," Remember This Health Guide
Our reporter Shen Jingran (沈靖然)
"In recent years, the number of children seeking medical treatment for obesity has increased significantly. Many parents have misunderstandings about childhood obesity, which has led to a failure to intervene in time," said Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧), deputy director of the Department of Endocrinology at the Children's Hospital Affiliated to Chongqing Medical University (重庆医科大学附属儿童医院).
How to correctly judge whether a child is fat or thin?
Many parents are accustomed to using adult eyes or subjective feelings to measure their children's weight, which is often inaccurate. Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧) pointed out that judging childhood obesity requires relying on the body mass index (BMI), but because children are in a period of growth and development, adult obesity standards cannot be directly applied.
"The standards are different for different genders and ages," said Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧). China's screening standards for overweight and obesity in school-age children and adolescents are finely divided according to gender and age, and the overall cut-off values show a clear increasing trend with age. For example, at the age of 6, the overweight cut-off values for boys and girls are 16.4 and 16.2, respectively, and the obesity cut-off values are 17.7 and 17.5, respectively; by the age of 18, the overweight cut-off values have increased to 24.0, and the obesity cut-off values have increased to 28.0. Parents can make scientific assessments based on their children's age and gender. Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧) introduced that overweight and obesity are not distinguished in terms of treatment methods, but the intensity of specific measures is somewhat different.
What is the problem with childhood obesity?
What are the main causes of childhood obesity? Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧) introduced that the etiology of most childhood obesity in clinical practice can be attributed to "eating too much and moving too little." However, there are also some special cases. If some children develop the disease very early and are extremely obese, genetic problems need to be considered. The most common of these is Prader-Willi syndrome, a genetic problem that makes patients feel like they are not full and constantly want to eat, which is usually difficult to control.
In addition, don't think that obesity only affects appearance. Its harm to children's physical and mental health is comprehensive and will manifest itself in childhood. Excessive weight in girls can lead to early development, which may lead to precocious puberty and affect ovarian health and menstrual cycles; excessive weight in boys can lead to delayed development and even incomplete development of reproductive organs. At the same time, many children who are overweight can also lead to advanced bone age, which affects height. In addition, obesity can also lead to psychological problems.
How to help children lose weight scientifically?
"Children are in a critical period of growth, and they must not simply rely on starvation to lose weight. They must ensure the energy needed for growth, development, and daily life and study," Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧) reminded. The important principle of intervening in childhood obesity is to balance "growing body" and "controlling weight." The most effective way is to change lifestyle. Establishing a lifestyle suitable for children to lose weight should pay attention to the following points:
Scientifically control total calories. Doctors will accurately calculate the daily calorie intake based on the child's age group, height, and weight. In daily diet, it is important to reduce the intake of meat and high-calorie foods to ensure a balanced diet.
Exercise can effectively consume energy, but avoid blindly pursuing exercise intensity. Obese children should try not to increase the load on their upper and lower limbs in the early stage, and avoid exercises with greater impact on the joints, such as rope skipping, in the early stage. It is recommended to start with 20 minutes of low-intensity exercise each time to adapt, and gradually increase the time and amount. Running, spinning, and swimming are good choices.
Although staying up late and lack of sleep do not directly lead to obesity, they will affect the body's metabolic function, which in turn indirectly causes and aggravates obesity. Therefore, intervening in obesity must ensure adequate sleep and avoid staying up late.
In the process of helping children not to be "little fatties," parents play the most critical role. Zhu Gaohui (朱高慧) reminded that parents should focus on avoiding the following four common misunderstandings in daily life:
First, blindly believe that "gaining weight has strong resistance, and growing up will naturally be thin." Many parents have this misconception. In fact, childhood obesity not only does not enhance resistance, but also causes the above-mentioned developmental and metabolic problems. It is necessary to correctly understand and actively intervene.
Second, believe that you can rely on drugs or surgery. At present, China has not approved any drugs for childhood weight loss. Clinically, only some traditional Chinese medicine decoctions can be used to help "reduce appetite." At the same time, it is not recommended to treat with weight loss surgery before puberty. Only children who have reached severe obesity and are accompanied by complications will doctors consider surgery after evaluation.
Third, focus on "treatment" and ignore "prevention." Many parents only start to worry when their children are already excessively obese. In fact, the most important work for parents should be on prevention in peacetime, starting with a balanced diet and healthy routine.
Fourth, allow weight to get out of control and refuse to seek medical treatment. When parents find that it is difficult to control the trend of their children being overweight or obese through daily diet and exercise, they must not delay. Be sure to take your child to a regular hospital for a comprehensive specialist assessment in a timely manner to avoid irreversible physical damage to the child.
Don't Be "Little Glasses," Collect This Prevention Guide
Our reporter Jiang Hongbing (姜泓冰)
"The myopia of students continues to show a trend of high incidence, younger age, and high degree, which affects the physical and mental health of adolescents," said Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋), director of the Optometry Center of the Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Center (上海市眼病防治中心). In Shanghai, the myopia rate of 6-year-old children increased from 8.5% in 2018 to 14.3% in 2024; the myopia rate of high school students is about 85%, of which people with high myopia of 600 degrees or more account for more than 20%.
Monitoring data from the National Disease Control Bureau (国家疾控局) shows that the overall myopia rate of children and adolescents in the country in 2022 was 51.9%. Although the overall level of myopia has slightly declined, it is still at a high level.
How to scientifically prevent myopia in children?
"Myopia is caused by the combined effects of heredity and environment, with acquired environmental factors playing a dominant role. This is the conclusion we have reached after years of clinical research," said Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋). Heredity only determines the innate susceptibility of the eyeball and does not directly cause myopia. If both parents have mild myopia within 300 degrees, the genetic influence is even weaker. The environment is the main cause of myopia and the deepening of the degree, and the main risk points include insufficient daily outdoor activity time of 2 hours, continuous near-distance eye use overtime, excessive daily use of electronic products, non-standard reading and writing posture, disordered sleep routine, and unreasonable diet structure.
"To scientifically prevent myopia in children, the key points of eye protection are to protect reserves, strengthen outdoor activities, control near use, and establish files," said Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋). Specific methods include several aspects:
Ensure 2 hours of natural light outdoor activities every day. Natural light can stimulate the secretion of dopamine in the eyes, effectively inhibit the elongation of the eye axis, and is the most cost-effective and evidence-based prevention and control method. It is recommended to go out of the classroom during class breaks to look into the distance and relax.
Strictly control near-distance eye use and follow the 20-20-20 eye use rule: every 20 minutes of eye use, look at a scene 6 meters (about 20 feet) away for at least 20 seconds. Children under 6 years old are prohibited from using electronic products, and children aged 6 to 12 should not use them for more than 15 minutes at a time, and the cumulative daily time should not exceed 1 hour. Adhere to the "one fist, one foot, one inch" eye use standard: the chest is one fist away from the edge of the table, the eyes are 33 centimeters away from the book, and the fingertips holding the pen are 3 centimeters away from the pen tip. Do not read or view things in dim light, shaking car bodies, or lying down.
Establish a personal refractive development file and regularly monitor the hyperopia reserve value. If the child is found to have a low reserve value after cycloplegic refraction in a regular ophthalmology institution, intervention measures need to be taken in time. Families where both parents have high myopia of more than 600 degrees should monitor, intervene, and strictly control early, especially to avoid advanced early education and long-term near-distance eye use. Children under 3 years old should avoid high-intensity eye use and maximize the retention of hyperopia reserves.
Maintain a regular routine and a balanced diet. Daily sleep time is 9-11 hours, and the younger the age, the longer the sleep time required; reduce the intake of high-sugar snacks and sugary drinks, and supplement more foods containing lutein, vitamin A, and calcium.
0-6 years old is the golden period for myopia prevention, 6-12 years old is the high-incidence breakthrough period for myopia, and 13-16 years old is the period when the risk of high myopia increases sharply. If the hyperopia reserve of preschool children aged 3-6 is lower than +0.75D (diopter, that is, 75 degrees of hyperopia), the risk of myopia within two years exceeds 60%. The average annual increase in myopia in primary school can reach 75-100 degrees. Therefore, 3-6 years old can be regarded as the core window period for myopia prevention and control.
How to judge the authenticity of myopia? How to scientifically prescribe glasses and wear them reasonably?
If the child has symptoms such as squinting to see things, tilting the head to see things, watching closely, and frequently rubbing the eyes, Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋) suggests going to the hospital ophthalmology department for a cycloplegic examination immediately and not delaying.
At the beginning of myopia, there is a saying of "true and false." Pseudomyopia is a problem of eye adjustment spasm, which is more common in preschool and lower primary school children; true myopia is axial myopia, and the eye axis has undergone irreversible growth, which cannot be completely restored and cannot be cured spontaneously.
The only criterion for judging true and false myopia is cycloplegic medical refraction. Vision chart self-testing, computer refraction, and looking into the distance to relax cannot distinguish between true and false myopia.
For children with myopia, glasses must follow the principle of "cycloplegia + comprehensive refraction + full correction." Do not simply insert lenses based on computer refraction. Strictly implement the medical refraction process. Children who are diagnosed for the first time need cycloplegic refraction and comprehensive visual function examination at the same time. In addition to refractive power, it is also necessary to detect eye position, adjustment force, convergence function, pupil distance, pupil height, astigmatism axis, and rule out amblyopia and strabismus risks. According to research, children have strong visual adjustment ability, and the error of computer refraction can reach 100-200 degrees. It is necessary to adhere to the principle of full correction glasses, correct vision to 1.0, and eliminate low-degree undercorrection glasses. Because blurred vision will increase eye fatigue, accelerate the growth of the eye axis, and promote the deepening of the degree.
Common misunderstandings in children's glasses prescription and wearing include: no need to prescribe glasses if the degree is low, prescribing glasses will make the degree higher and higher; only wear glasses when looking far away, and take them off when looking close; blindly believe that physiotherapy instruments and eye massage can cure myopia, etc. Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋) emphasized that frequent removal and wearing of glasses will only cause the eyes to repeatedly adjust and adapt, increase fatigue, and accelerate the increase in degree. It is recommended that school-age children wear them throughout the day; at present, there is no effective non-surgical method that can shorten the elongated eye axis.
Already myopic, how to control it?
Zhu Jianfeng (朱剑锋) introduced that to control the further development of myopia, a three-dimensional degree control plan can be adopted to strive to control the annual increase in myopia within 50 degrees:
The first is basic behavioral intervention, with no less than 2 hours of outdoor activities every day, strictly controlling the duration of near-distance eye use, standardizing reading and writing posture, ensuring adequate sleep, and reasonably matching diet. The second is to take precise optical correction as a key intervention. For low myopia within 300 degrees, select peripheral defocus frame glasses, and the effect of controlling myopia is improved compared with ordinary frame glasses; for moderate myopia of 300-600 degrees, or children with a faster progression of more than 75 degrees per year, orthokeratology lenses (OK lenses) can be fitted for children over 8 years old. They must be fitted in professional institutions, worn at night, and can restore clear uncorrected vision during the day. The degree control effect is the best, which can reduce the increase by 40%-50%. The third is drug intervention, which is suitable for high-risk children and children with rapid myopia progression. It must be used under the guidance of a doctor after evaluation by a professional doctor. At the same time, regular monitoring and closed-loop management are required, and re-examination is performed every 3-6 months to dynamically adjust the intervention plan.
This issue is coordinated by: Fu Mingli (付明丽)
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This small act of kindness is precious, representing a young person's responsibility to society and promising a warmer future for the world.
In the acknowledgements of a thesis, we usually thank the mentor for their guidance, the family for their support, friends for their companionship, and even the wind on the playground, the lights in the library, and the food in the cafeteria. Recently, Feng Zidong (冯紫东), a master's student at Lanzhou University (兰州大学), thanked the university's security department in the acknowledgement section of his thesis defense: "The security guards of Lanzhou University (兰州大学) always tacitly allow elderly scavengers to enter, giving them space to make a living... I often see the elderly picking up brooms next to the trash cans and carefully cleaning the garbage on the ground. I think this sincerity is mutual... I hope that in the future, I can use today's academic path as a foundation to become someone who is slightly capable... to provide as much help as possible to those in need. This is an important lesson that Lanzhou University (兰州大学) and the Lanzhou University Security Department (兰州大学保卫部) have taught me."
This is a more profound education than the classroom.
It allows students to see that rules and warmth can coexist. The rules are clear: reservations are required to enter the school. However, the elderly woman has been scavenging at the school for many years. Long before reservations were required, the security guards were familiar with her behavior and knew that she was only there to scavenge, never rummaging or moving things around, and would even help clean up the area around the trash cans, so they have always tacitly allowed her to enter the school. This tacit permission allows students to see that the system is rigid, but the people who implement the system can do so with warmth; the elderly woman's proactive cleaning allows students to see that those who are cared for can also reciprocate kindness with dignity.
It allows students to shift their perspective on the world. We are used to considering issues from our own perspective. It is normal to want better order while on a university campus. However, when students repeatedly see elderly scavengers and feel curious and concerned about their lives, it is the beginning of learning to see others and to see the lives and world outside of their own daily lives. This shift in perspective will also nurture the growth of social responsibility.
It sows the seeds of humanistic care in students. A student who witnesses this kind of warmth is more likely to become someone who is willing to think a little more, take an extra step, and pass on a little more kindness in addition to the "required actions" in their work. If they are receiving people at a window service unit who have not brought all the necessary documents, they will not throw out a cold "incomplete information" but will tell the person what is missing and try to minimize the number of trips they have to make; if they become urban management officers and encounter vendors selling vegetables on the street, they will not just say "no stalls are allowed here" but will help point out a suitable place. Saying one more sentence and taking one more step is precisely the warmth that society needs.
What students can do now, perhaps as Feng (冯) said, is just leave empty bottles and express delivery cardboard boxes for the elderly, but this small act of kindness is precious, representing a young person's responsibility to society and promising a warmer future for the world.
Return to TopThe National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) conducted special on-site inspections nationwide of designated retail pharmacies suspected of illegally using medical insurance funds, starting May 14, 2026. To strengthen cautionary education, the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) announced six typical cases discovered during the special on-site inspections on the 27th.
Among the cases, two pharmacies were suspected of swapping drugs to obtain medical insurance funds.
Based on reports, the special on-site inspection team of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) conducted a surprise inspection of the Jiyang Branch of Linhaitang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (林和堂医药有限责任公司) in Sanya (三亚), Hainan Province (海南省), confirming that the store swapped items such as toilet water for antiviral oral solutions and other drugs within the medical insurance catalog and used the insured's medical insurance personal account to complete the settlement.
Big data screening by the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) showed that some drugs within the medical insurance catalog of Jianminkang Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (健民康药业有限公司) in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (新疆维吾尔自治区), had abnormal records of multiple settlements. The special on-site inspection team of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) found during a surprise inspection that the pharmacy swapped concealer foundation, baby diapers, and other items for vitamin E soft capsules, Astragalus granules, and other drugs within the medical insurance catalog and used the insured's medical insurance personal account to complete the settlement.
Linhaitang also maliciously resisted inspection. During the process of the inspection team retrieving data from the store's inventory system and medical insurance terminal settlement data, the network signal was suddenly interrupted. Subsequently, on-site investigation by telecommunications staff confirmed that the network line was deliberately damaged. During normal questioning of the legal representative of the store, he suddenly fainted and woke up on his own about 10 minutes after being sent to the hospital. Relevant medical examinations found no abnormalities. Both companies have now been transferred to the local medical insurance department for further in-depth verification and handling.
Two typical cases involved suspected reselling of "returned drugs" to obtain medical insurance funds.
Big data screening by the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) found that in Urumqi (乌鲁木齐), Xinjiang (新疆), the same traditional Chinese medicine (2 boxes) of Zukamu granules had two settlement records at different times and in different pharmacies. The special on-site inspection team found during an on-site inspection that the first drug purchaser, Wang Moujun (王某俊), was the store manager of Urumqi Yirentang Yangxin Heda Pharmacy (乌鲁木齐市颐仁堂养心和大药房). Wang Moujun (王某俊) used his insured status to purchase drugs, reimbursed most of the drug costs through medical insurance, and then sold the drugs at a higher price in his own pharmacy to earn the price difference. The medical insurance fund covered most of Wang Moujun's (王某俊) purchase costs, and the pharmacy profited by reselling.
Similarly, big data screening found that a box of Xinkeshu pills had two settlement records at different times and in different pharmacies in Chengdu (成都), Sichuan (四川). This box of medicine was "sold" twice by two pharmacies whose legal representative was the same person, Ren (任). During a surprise on-site inspection of the involved Zhengxing Liyuan Pharmacy of Tianfu New Area Tai'antang Pharmaceutical Chain Co. (天府新区泰安堂医药连锁公司), the pharmacy could not provide the accompanying delivery note and invoice for the drug.
Currently, the two pharmacies involved have been transferred to the local medical insurance department for further in-depth verification and handling.
The publicly disclosed cases also include: the case of Haikou Qianfang Pharmacy Chain Co., Ltd. Dongfeng Branch (海口市千方大药房连锁经营有限公司东风分店) in Hainan Province (海南省) swiping social security cards to obtain medical insurance funds, and the case of Kanghuitang Pharmacy (康惠仁堂药店) in Chengdu (成都市), Sichuan Province (四川省) illegally retaining social security cards and assisting in obtaining medical insurance funds.
The amounts involved in the typical cases disclosed this time are not large, but such exposure reflects the medical insurance department's firm determination to crack down on illegal and irregular behaviors involving funds 露头就打 (lòu tóu jiù dǎ - "strike as soon as they appear," to resolutely crack down on something as soon as it emerges). The relevant person in charge of the National Healthcare Security Administration (国家医保局) stated that designated retail pharmacies defrauding or obtaining medical insurance funds through reselling "returned drugs," empty swiping, and swapping violate relevant medical security laws and regulations. The majority of insured persons should also consciously regulate their medical treatment and drug purchase behaviors and use medical insurance funds in compliance with regulations.
Return to TopOn May 27th, at Qingfeng Road Kindergarten in Licang District, Qingdao City, Shandong Province (山东省青岛市李沧区青峰路幼儿园), children participated in the "Catch the Chicken into the Cage" game.
On that day, Qingfeng Road Kindergarten (青峰路幼儿园) launched the "Fun Games to Welcome 'June 1st'" theme activity, organizing children to participate in games such as Pitch-Pot, "Hitting Ducks," and "Catch the Chicken into the Cage," allowing the children to welcome "June 1st" International Children's Day in laughter.
Zhang Ying (张鹰) photographed (Image China (影像中国)).
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A beautiful parabola cut through the sky above the Egret Stadium (白鹭体育场) in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建). Under the gaze of the entire audience, Yan Ziyi (严子怡)'s javelin landed firmly, 71.74 meters! On May 23rd, this young girl from Zhejiang (浙江) celebrated her birthday with a new Asian record.
On this very day at the 2026 World Athletics Diamond League Xiamen (厦门) Station, two intercontinental records and seven world-leading season results were born, and Yan Ziyi (严子怡)'s 71.74-meter throw was undoubtedly one of the most dazzling achievements.
On May 16th, the 2026 Yangtze River Delta International Athletics Diamond Race (Shanghai/Shaoxing Keqiao) (2026长三角国际田径钻石赛（上海/绍兴柯桥）) kicked off at the China Textile City Sports Center Stadium (中国轻纺城体育中心体育场) in Shaoxing (绍兴), Zhejiang (浙江). The Xiamen (厦门) station, seven days later, was the second race. The two races attracted top track and field athletes, including Duplantis, Kipyegon, and Warholm, all world record holders. As the highest-level single-day event in the world of athletics, the opening of the Diamond League also marks the beginning of this year's outdoor season. Young Chinese athletes are accumulating courage and confidence in their competition with world-class athletes, preparing for this year's Asian Games.
Young athletes bravely achieve good results and gain confidence.
Previously, the Asian record for women's javelin was 67.98 meters, held by Chinese athlete Lyu Huihui (吕会会), while the world youth (U20) record was 65.89 meters, created by Yan Ziyi (严子怡). The score of 71.74 meters not only significantly improved these two records but is also the second-best result in the history of the event, only 54 centimeters short of the world record of 72.28 meters created by Czech star Spotakova in 2008. 18-year-old Yan Ziyi (严子怡) became the fourth female javelin thrower in history to break the 71-meter mark. "Actually, today's original goal was just to open 65 meters," said Yan Ziyi (严子怡). "With the steady improvement of my results, I think I can imagine the world record in the future."
Yan Ziyi (严子怡) improved her personal best by more than 5 meters in the first official competition of the season. Her coach, Lu Xiurong (卢秀荣), was not surprised. "The child still has a lot of room for development. If her shoulder injury can fully recover and she can give her full strength without any worries during the competition, I believe she can create better results in the future," said Lu Xiurong (卢秀荣).
Feng Bin (冯彬), a female discus thrower, also gained confidence in the Diamond League. In the Xiamen (厦门) station competition, this 2022 Oregon World Championships champion broke through 65 meters in the second competition of the season, winning a silver medal with a score of 65.03 meters. "I look forward to continuing to find my competitive state in the later competitions this year," said Feng Bin (冯彬). This year, she will work hard to stabilize her results and aim for this year's Asian Games and next year's Beijing (北京) World Championships.
"Dialogue" with top players, face the gap
"In fact, there are still many flaws in this throw. For example, everyone can clearly see that my body was crooked in the last step before throwing the javelin." Although she broke the Asian record, the first thing Yan Ziyi (严子怡) did was to review her movements through video and find shortcomings. The two Diamond League stations are valuable experiences for many Chinese athletes, allowing them to discover shortcomings in direct "dialogue" with the world's top athletes. In the May 16th competition, 18 Chinese athletes failed to reach the podium, but still gained a lot.
As the main member of the Chinese men's 4×100m relay team, Wang Shengjie (王胜杰) rushed to the Diamond League Xiamen (厦门) station after finishing the 4th "Belt and Road" Athletics Invitational Tournament held in Changshou (长寿), Chongqing (重庆) on the 18th, and finally ranked tenth in the men's 100m event with a score of 10.33 seconds. "Competing with these world-class players who run in the 9-second range, I definitely didn't run as relaxed," Wang Shengjie (王胜杰) admitted after the game. He originally expected to achieve good results under the leadership of the masters, but he couldn't get into the rhythm and didn't run smoothly enough.
20-year-old Liu Kai (刘凯) is the national record holder in the men's 400m and represented China (中国) in the 2025 Tokyo (东京) World Championships and two World Athletics Relays. However, facing world-class players such as new world champion Kobinachibi at the Egret Stadium (白鹭体育场), the young man still felt strenuous. "I still lack experience in major competitions. I need to constantly accumulate experience in world competitions to grow up," said Liu Kai (刘凯).
Train yourself through major competitions, paving the way for the future
On the Diamond League stage, the Asian Games, which will open in September this year, is a topic that Chinese athletes unanimously talk about. At the Hangzhou (杭州) Asian Games three years ago, the Chinese delegation achieved 19 gold, 11 silver, and 9 bronze medals in track and field, ranking first in the gold medal list and also creating the best historical record since the 1994 Asian Games. As the Asian Games come again, people have more expectations for Chinese track and field. However, in the rapidly developing and changing world of track and field, maintaining an advantage is by no means easy.
Entering the Los Angeles (洛杉矶) Olympic cycle, the Chinese track and field team has entered a large-scale transition period for new and old players: famous players such as Su Bingtian (苏炳添) and Gong Lijiao (巩立姣) have left the field, Zhao Jie (赵杰), Liu Junqian (刘俊茜) and other players have reached the podium of world competitions, and younger players such as Chen Yujie (陈妤颉), Zhang Jiale (张家乐), and Yan Ziyi (严子怡) are gradually emerging.
What is gratifying is that today's young track and field athletes have more opportunities to train themselves in international and continental competitions. In 2025, China (中国) will host two major events, the Indoor World Championships and the World Athletics Relays, and will successively welcome the Asian Championships and the World Championships in 2027. So far this season, including women's javelin, national records in 6 events including men's marathon, men's pole vault, men's shot put, men's indoor heptathlon, and women's hammer throw have been broken one after another.
"Our main goal is still to aim at the 2028 Los Angeles (洛杉矶) Olympics." As Lu Xiurong (卢秀荣) said, Chinese track and field has set its sights on the more distant future.
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Sports and fitness have become an integral part of many people's lives. Some sports and fitness enthusiasts blindly purchase and use sports supplements in pursuit of better results. In response to this phenomenon, Guo Jianjun, a professor at the Capital University of Physical Education and Sports' (首都体育学院) Sports Medicine Integration and Innovation Center, said in an interview with reporters that sports supplements are not needed by everyone at all times and should be supplemented as needed. Moreover, they cannot replace basic diet, and even if used, a regular and nutritionally balanced diet should be ensured.
Guo Jianjun introduced that sports supplements are generally used to help athletes ingest various nutrients needed by the body, which helps to improve athletic performance, accelerate physical recovery, or supplement nutritional needs. According to function, they are mainly divided into amino acid supplements, protein supplements, fatty acid supplements, vitamin supplements, etc. Common sports supplements include protein powder and electrolyte water. Among them, protein powder is used to quickly supplement protein, while electrolyte water is used to replenish water, salt, electrolytes and other substances during prolonged exercise.
Daily light exercise generally does not require the use of sports supplements. For 30 minutes of moderate-intensity exercise per day, such as jogging or brisk walking, daily meals can meet the body's energy needs, and drinking water or light salt water is sufficient during exercise. Drinking sports drinks can instead increase the metabolic burden due to the intake of high sugar and high salt, and even offset the calories consumed by exercise. If you are engaged in high-intensity training with a large amount of exercise, exceeding 2 hours, such as marathons or long-distance cycling, or if you have a clear need to increase muscle mass, you can consider taking appropriate sports supplements.
There is a trick to the timing of sports supplement intake. Protein powder should be supplemented within 30 minutes after exercise. This is the "golden window" for muscle synthesis, and it is best to supplement whey protein powder with fast absorption speed. The specific dosage should be individually adjusted according to the training intensity and muscle mass. Electrolyte water can be ingested during and after exercise. When the exercise time exceeds 2 hours and the amount of sweating is large, isotonic sports drinks can be appropriately supplemented to maintain blood sugar and electrolyte balance.
Special populations must be cautious when ingesting sports supplements. Guo Jianjun said that sports supplements are not daily food and should be evaluated for exercise intensity and physical condition before use. People with impaired liver and kidney function must consult a doctor before using creatine and protein powder, and blind supplementation will increase the burden on organs. Patients with chronic diseases need to continuously monitor blood pressure and blood sugar indicators during use, and consult a doctor for scientific adjustments. Some energy drinks contain a large amount of caffeine, and long-term intake may increase the burden on the heart. Adolescents should not drink too much or for a long time, and people sensitive to caffeine need to use it with caution.
Return to TopThis newspaper reported from Beijing on May 27th (Reporter: Zeng Huafeng (曾华锋)) Recently, the 2026 Paragliding Accuracy World Cup North Macedonia Prilep Station was held. The Chinese team won the team championship and swept the top three places in the individual event.
Chinese team members Chen Yang (陈洋), Yu Xu (余旭), Dong Wenkai (董文凯), and Xiong Gang (熊刚) participated in the team competition. Relying on tacit tactical cooperation, stable aerial control, and precise landing positioning, they won the team championship with absolute advantage. In the individual event, Chinese team members Yu Xu (余旭), Chen Yang (陈洋), and Xiong Gang (熊刚) swept the top three places. In the women's competition, Kong Xiangyan (孔祥燕) won the silver medal, adding another medal to the Chinese team.
Return to TopOn May 25th, the Chinese Olympic Committee and Yihai Kerry Food Marketing Co., Ltd.'s brand Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) officially announced their renewed partnership, with Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) becoming the grain and oil product sponsor for the Chinese Olympic Committee from 2026 to 2029 and the Chinese sports delegation at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. On May 8th, Chnbrand (中企品研（北京）品牌顾问股份有限公司), a brand consulting company in Beijing, released the China Brand Power Index (C-BPI), with Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) topping the list in the edible oil, rice, and flour categories. Since becoming the exclusive edible oil supplier for the 2008 Beijing Olympics in 2006, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) has adhered to quality as its foundation, practiced long-termism, demonstrated responsibility and national sentiment, and won widespread consumer trust.
Twenty Years of Pursuing Champion Quality, Building a Nutritional Defense Line for Olympic Athletes
Over the past 20 years, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) has deeply cultivated Olympic support, growing from a competition partner to a long-term health partner of the Chinese Olympic Committee, and is the only domestic grain and oil brand that has served both the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. In 2006, it joined hands with the Olympic Games for the first time, opening the road to sports empowerment; in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, it became the first grain and oil category partner in Olympic history; in 2019, it jointly launched the "National Team Sports Nutritionist Resident Team Project" with the Institute of Sports Medicine of the State General Administration of Sports and the Chinese Nutrition Society, providing all-weather, refined dietary nutrition support for 55 national teams; in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, it became the first domestic "Dual Olympic" grain and oil brand; and continued to provide professional grain and oil support for the Chinese sports delegations at the Tokyo Olympics and the Paris Olympics.
During the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) innovatively launched the "Six Specials" Olympic supply standard of "dedicated raw materials, dedicated personnel in charge, dedicated production lines, dedicated storage, dedicated transportation, and dedicated escort," establishing a strict quality control system with closed-loop management throughout the entire process and traceability throughout the entire chain, building a nutritional defense line for Olympic athletes, and providing important support for athletes to strive hard and win glory for the country.
Multiple Honors Demonstrate Strength, Strict Standards Guarantee Product Quality
The 2026 China Brand Power Index (C-BPI) list shows that Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) edible oil has ranked first for 16 consecutive years with a score of 704.7; rice and flour have won the category championship for 3 consecutive years. The list covers 170 industries, more than 10,000 mainstream brands, and more than 100 cities in 28 provinces (autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the central government), fully demonstrating consumers' recognition of Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) products.
Over the past 20 years, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) has always adhered to its commitment and built all products to Olympic standards. To fulfill its commitment, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) introduced the AIB Food Safety Unified Standard, and 90 factories have passed the audit; applied the "Four Alls and One New" quality and safety management model, and by 2025, it had completed a cumulative total of 5.28 million self-inspection samples and 30.77 million tests, with more than 50,000 various spot checks and a pass rate of 100%. It has laid out 75 transparent factories, invited Olympic champions and consumers to serve as "quality supervisors," and opened up the entire production process; it uses blockchain traceability technology to achieve full traceability from the field to the table, effectively ensuring quality transparency.
In recent years, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) has launched the big health brand Jinlongyu Fengyitang (金龙鱼丰益堂), adhering to the concept of oriental food nourishment, developing a series of health products, and building a full-chain big health service system.
Firmly Practice Responsibilities and Missions, Integrate into the Overall Development Situation, and Safeguard the Well-being of Thousands of Families
Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) adheres to patriotic genes, deeply integrates enterprise development into the overall development situation, and escorts Olympic glory and safeguards the well-being of thousands of families with high-quality and safe products.
In serving the construction of a strong sports country, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) uses excellent quality to escort Chinese Olympic athletes, improve the Olympic support system, and promote the specialization and refinement of competitive sports dietary support; in serving the construction of a healthy China, relying on its own 40 China National Accreditation Service for Conformity Assessment (CNAS) accredited laboratories and more than 100 patented technologies, it transforms the dietary nutrition experience of the national team into national health knowledge, and promotes the deep integration of national fitness and national health; in serving the construction of a strong agricultural country, it pioneered the rice circular economy model, relying on the "6-step fresh rice precision control technology" to save grain and reduce losses; promote the resource utilization of by-products, and use green development to help modernize agriculture and consolidate the foundation of national food security.
Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) has used 20 years of Olympic support service to precipitate the quality control capabilities of the entire chain, condense the five core brand values of "innovation, quality, excellence, peace of mind, and health," consciously integrate enterprise development into the overall development situation, and safeguard the national table and serve the well-being of thousands of families with Olympic standards and full industrial chain strength.
With twenty years of mission on its shoulders, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) is committed to long-term development. Standing at a new starting point, Jinlongyu (金龙鱼) will continue to escort the Chinese sports delegation at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, while adhering to quality, using technology and green services to serve people's livelihoods, and writing a new chapter in helping the construction of a healthy China.
Data source: Yihai Kerry Food Marketing Co., Ltd.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 龚相娟
From May 28th to 31st, the 2026 World Intelligence Congress, co-hosted by the Tianjin Municipal People's Government (天津市人民政府) and the Chongqing Municipal People's Government (重庆市人民政府), will be held in Tianjin (天津). With the theme of "Intelligence Leading the World, Enabling the Future," this year's expo adheres to the concept of "high-end, international, professional, and market-oriented," focusing on the forefront of intelligent technology and industrial development trends. It will comprehensively showcase new technologies, new products, and new scenarios in the field of intelligence, and jointly discuss new paths for the deep integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the economy and society.
The accelerated iterative evolution of artificial intelligence technology is profoundly transforming human production and lifestyles and reshaping the global industrial landscape. Tianjin (天津) adheres to promoting innovation through openness, anchoring the forefront of global intelligent technology industry development, promoting breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology, scenario implementation, and ecosystem construction, and using intelligent technology to help high-quality economic and social development.
Laying out future tracks, scientific and technological achievements accelerate industrialization.
As competition in intelligent technology intensifies, Tianjin (天津) relies on scientific research platforms as support, a full-chain system as the framework, and the transformation of achievements as the starting point, focusing on strengthening future tracks such as brain-computer interfaces, information technology application innovation, and large models. Innovative achievements are accelerating towards the front lines of application.
In the field of brain-computer interfaces, Tianjin (天津) relies on the Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration (脑机交互与人机共融海河实验室) to continuously produce innovative achievements in cutting-edge directions such as neural decoding and closed-loop regulation. Three indicators, including brainwave recognition accuracy, the number of control instructions, and information transmission rate, are at the international first-class level. The MetaBCI open-source software platform, jointly built by Tianjin University (天津大学) and China Electronics Cloud Brain (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd. (中电云脑（天津）科技有限公司), serves as an important basic tool in the field of brain-computer interfaces in China, laying a solid foundation for the improvement of the industrial ecosystem and the widespread application of technology.
In September 2025, China's first dedicated brain-computer interface testing platform was launched in Tianjin (天津), jointly built by the Haihe Laboratory of Brain-Computer Interaction and Human-Machine Integration (脑机交互与人机共融海河实验室) and the Tianjin Medical Device Quality Supervision and Inspection Center (天津市医疗器械质量监督检验中心). It focuses on conducting third-party testing and evaluation of brain-computer interface algorithms, devices, systems, and materials to accelerate the transformation of cutting-edge scientific research achievements into clinical medical and intelligent rehabilitation scenarios. In March of this year, Tianjin (天津) relied on the Haihe Laboratory (海河实验室) to establish a brain-computer interface industry group with a registered capital of 1 billion yuan, accelerating the construction of a fully autonomous and controllable industrial system covering the entire chain of "chips-equipment-platform-application."
A batch of innovative achievements are accelerating from laboratories to industrial and life scenarios. The "Shengong" series of brain-computer interaction medical devices, which rely on local scientific research achievements for transformation and implementation, delve into the needs of disability rehabilitation and neurological disease intervention, and have served more than 3,000 patients. China Electronics Cloud Brain (中电云脑) has launched a sleep brain-computer interface headband, which integrates multi-modal sensors for brain waves, heart rate, blood oxygen, and body movement. Through Bluetooth linkage with a mobile phone APP, it accurately assesses various sleep indicators and relies on sleep-aiding sound waves and transcranial microcurrent stimulation to achieve closed-loop sleep intervention, providing digital soothing solutions for people with sleep disorders.
In the field of information technology application innovation and large models, Tianjin (天津) has built a complete information technology innovation industry chain from central processing units and operating systems to servers and supercomputing. Leading enterprises such as Phytium (飞腾), Kylin (麒麟), and Sugon (曙光) are gathered and developed, consolidating the computing power and technology base for the development of the intelligent industry.
This year's expo focuses on hot topics such as embodied intelligence, the low-altitude economy, and the information technology innovation industry, setting up an embodied intelligence theme pavilion, gathering more than 80 companies, and displaying nearly 150 types of complete robot products; setting up a "Smart Tianjin (智汇天津)" exhibition area to centrally present Tianjin's (天津) future industrial innovation achievements. At the same time, relevant think tank institutions will release more than 200 research reports and innovation achievements, outlining a new blueprint for future industrial development.
Digital intelligence empowers industrial upgrading, and intelligent operations cover multiple production processes and scenarios.
Tianjin (天津) empowers new industrialization with artificial intelligence, deeply cultivates the entire process of industrial manufacturing scenarios, and promotes the development of industrial robots and intelligent equipment industries.
In the headquarters factory of FAW Toyota Tianjin Base (一汽丰田天津基地) in Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区), intelligent logistics robots are widely used in parts warehousing, storage, and return box and other links, and intelligent operations cover multiple production processes.
In recent years, Tianjin (天津) has focused on the production and operation scenarios of enterprises in research and development, manufacturing, warehousing, and logistics, and has compiled industry digital and intelligent upgrade reference guidelines based on the principle of "**一业一策** (yī yè yī cè - "one policy for each industry," tailored policies for specific industries)," promoting the digital transformation of key industries in a scenario-based and map-based manner. Accelerate the selection and promotion of typical application scenarios of "artificial intelligence + manufacturing," and extract more than 1,000 benchmark scenarios that have been successfully applied. There are 528 intelligent factories in Tianjin (天津), including 17 national-level excellent intelligent factories. Some typical scenarios of "artificial intelligence +" will be displayed at this expo.
In Tianjin Port (天津港), the "AI Intelligent Body Development Platform" developed based on the "360 Zhinao (360智脑)" of 360 Group (360集团) has been put into port business scenarios. Through the path of "**小切口、大纵深** (xiǎo qiē kǒu, dà zòng shēn - "small incision, large depth," starting with specific problems and delving into deeper solutions)," intelligent bodies are engaged in auxiliary scheduling, safety inspection, and other operations.
In the underground cable tunnel, the robot dog deployed by State Grid Tianjin Electric Power (国网天津电力) can autonomously cross obstacles and measure temperature with infrared. A single inspection covers 2 kilometers of tunnel, and the operation efficiency is 5 times that of manual work, which can replace 80% of conventional inspection work. Unmanned intelligent patrol vehicles, digital twin systems, and panoramic monitoring platforms are put into use simultaneously, building a smart defense line for the safe operation of industrial infrastructure.
In the field of heavy-duty unmanned transportation, Langyu Robot (朗誉机器人) relies on real-time data perception and dynamic model calculation to achieve high-precision autonomous navigation and collaborative operations in complex environments. Its products are sold to 16 countries and regions, and sales in 2025 exceeded 300 million yuan. It was awarded the title of national-level specialized, refined, and new key "little giant" enterprise and manufacturing single champion enterprise.
Artificial intelligence not only empowers robot terminals but also deeply participates in the core processes of industrial manufacturing. The "Reasoning and Numerical Integration" thermal processing intelligent regulation technology of Hebei University of Technology (河北工业大学) reduces the process deviation rate by 9.38%, achieving a 100% first-time flaw detection pass rate for major national equipment, and promoting industrial manufacturing from "experience manufacturing" to "precision intelligent calculation."
Technology integrates into people's livelihood, and smart life services expand to the whole domain.
In May 2025, the "Tianjin (天津) Action Plan for Promoting the Innovative Development of Artificial Intelligence (2025-2027)" was released, comprehensively implementing the "Artificial Intelligence +" action, deeply empowering medical care, elderly care, urban governance, culture and tourism, education, commerce and trade, and other fields, so that intelligent technology can be fully integrated into people's daily lives.
Smart elderly care safeguards the bottom line of people's livelihood. Tianjin Binhai New Area (天津滨海新区) has created a smart scenario for visiting and caring for elderly people with special difficulties. It uses home intelligent terminals to sense the elderly's activity status. Once an abnormality occurs, it immediately triggers an early warning and automatically contacts emergency contacts, using technological power to protect elderly people living alone and those with special difficulties.
Artificial intelligence empowers the construction of healthy campuses. "Ready, start!" With the instructions of the electronic announcer, students squat, jump, take off, and land. "2 meters 03!" The long jump score is immediately broadcast live by the voice system and uploaded to the teacher's machine of the physical education teacher in real time. This is a scene from a physical education class at Tianjin No. 2 Xinhua Middle School (天津市第二新华中学). The smart sports system launched by iFlytek (科大讯飞) records movement trajectories in real time, analyzes training data, identifies non-standard movements, and forms personal growth files.
Intelligent terminals and service robots are accelerating their popularity and becoming new entrances to smart life. China Telecom (中国电信) has launched the "AI Wukong (AI悟空)" family desktop humanoid robot, which has multi-modal capabilities such as visual perception and voice interaction. It can realize functions such as storytelling and knowledge Q&A, and can also be used as an intelligent home control hub to link and control multiple household appliances.
Large models and artificial intelligence computing power platforms continue to consolidate the underlying support. The "360 Zhinao (360智脑)" general large model has completed filing in Tianjin (天津). The Nano AI platform for individual users gathers more than 50,000 intelligent bodies, which can build a "multi-intelligent body swarm" to collaboratively complete tasks such as video creation and website construction. The platform has created an industrial-grade AI comic intelligent body production platform "Nano Comic Production Line," injecting intelligent new power into the content creation industry.
Artificial intelligence is accelerating its penetration into scenarios such as commerce and trade, education, and families. One of the highlights of this year's expo is that it closely focuses on the main line of "Artificial Intelligence +," from the underlying chips, computing power, large models, and operating systems to the terminal robots, intelligent connected vehicles, and deep-sea equipment, and then to smart medical care and smart homes that are close to people's lives, conducting a comprehensive display and presenting a complete picture of "from the base to the terminal, from industry to life."
With the platform built by the 2026 World Intelligence Congress, Tianjin (天津) will fully build a source of innovation for underlying artificial intelligence technology and a leading area for empowering applications, and continue to empower high-quality economic and social development with intelligent technology.
(An Yueyao (安玥瑶) participated in writing)
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"You see, the upper body of this robot is humanoid, and the lower body is a wheeled chassis, which can simultaneously achieve high load, high flexibility, and high precision in industrial applications—these three aspects are engineering goals that traditional serial humanoid robots struggle to balance." In the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区), Liu Songtao (刘松涛), chairman of Tianjin Atom Robot Co., Ltd. (天津阿童木机器人股份有限公司), introduced to reporters the embodied intelligent humanoid robot "Tianbing-1 (天兵一号)" independently developed by the company.
Atom Robot has taken a different approach by introducing a parallel waist structure and a wheeled chassis to "Tianbing-1 (天兵一号)." "Humanoid robots can do things that humans find inconvenient, impossible, or difficult to do well," Liu Songtao (刘松涛) explained. "Tianbing-1 (天兵一号)" has reconstructed the force transmission path and motion degree-of-freedom allocation method of humanoid robots, with a maximum waist load capacity of up to 200 kilograms. At the same time, the waist of "Tianbing-1 (天兵一号)" can achieve multi-dimensional micro-motion and posture adjustment, allowing it to both transport large loads and quickly move, bend over for inspection, or perform precise operations in confined spaces.
As an important carrier area for manufacturing in Tianjin (天津), the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) is using embodied intelligence technology to break through traditional industrial upgrade bottlenecks, cultivate new industrial growth points, and comprehensively enhance the competitiveness of the embodied intelligence industry. Currently, the scale of embodied intelligence-related industries in the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) is nearly 13 billion yuan, initially forming a prototype of the embodied intelligence industrial ecosystem.
Building platforms to create a high-standard embodied intelligence industry theme park. The Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) is creating an embodied intelligence industry development theme park, giving full play to the park's industrial base and spatial resource advantages in the field of unmanned equipment and intelligent robots, and building an important carrier area for the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) embodied intelligence industry cluster. The theme park currently houses nearly 40 robotics companies. At the same time, the Economic-Technological Development Area (经济技术开发区) is continuously cultivating and introducing new enterprises and projects around the existing enterprise innovation resources in the park, such as underwater robots, parallel robots, drones, and industrial automation, and continuously building and improving the industrial development platform.
Gathering ecology to make up for industrial shortcomings. Relying on the manufacturing base, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) focuses on the three main lines of "main body enterprises, key components, data and computing power," continuously cultivates related projects, and simultaneously strengthens the innovation chain, industrial chain, and application chain to form a closed-loop ecosystem from achievement screening to enterprise cultivation. On May 27, the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) and Unitree Robotics Co., Ltd. (宇树科技股份有限公司) officially signed a contract to jointly build an embodied intelligence joint innovation application center project. The project will create a comprehensive industrial innovation platform integrating R&D innovation, achievement transformation, scenario adaptation, talent cultivation, and maintenance, closely connect with the needs of industrial transformation and upgrading, and accelerate the transition of cutting-edge technologies from the laboratory to the production line. At the same time, the project will also deepen the integration mechanism of industry and education, accurately connect with university resources, and cultivate a high-quality talent team in the field of embodied intelligent robots through school-enterprise collaborative education and joint training, and promote the transformation of university scientific and technological achievements.
Strengthening applications and introducing special policies to support them. The "Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area Embodied Intelligence Industry Development Action Plan (天津经开区具身智能产业发展行动方案)" proposes four major development goals: to achieve a substantial leap in industrial scale, a steady increase in the localization rate of the supply chain, accelerated landing of achievement transformation, and increasingly improved innovation ecosystem. By 2028, the scale of the embodied intelligence industry will exceed 18 billion yuan. The Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) will build a full-chain development support system from five major areas: the introduction and cultivation of business entities, the construction of innovative public platforms and manufacturing bases, application pilot demonstrations, multi-dimensional element support, and industrial ecosystem optimization. "We will focus on three levels to work together: the hardware layer, focusing on key components; the software layer, focusing on operating systems and data sets; and the scenario layer, focusing on vertical fields, with a focus on developing industrial robots, underwater robots, inspection robots, medical robots, and humanoid robots," said Wang Bin (王斌), director of the Policy Research Office of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) Management Committee.
"The Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区) will further leverage its comprehensive advantages in advanced manufacturing, scientific research resources, and application scenarios, and continuously attract more high-level talents and high-quality projects to land through policy guidance, platform support, scenario-driven approaches, and ecosystem construction, accelerate the local transformation and industrial application of embodied intelligence technology achievements, and strive to build the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei (京津冀) embodied intelligence industry cluster and the Tianjin (天津) embodied intelligence industry development pioneer zone," said Hong Shicong (洪世聪), Secretary of the Party Committee and Director of the Management Committee of the Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (天津经济技术开发区).
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"Stepping on" four specially made rubber wheels, "wearing" two millimeter-wave radars, and covered with high-definition cameras and radar-vision fusion sensors... In the production workshop of Tianjin Xinsong Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd. (天津新松智能科技有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "Xinsong Intelligent (新松智能)") in the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Science and Technology City (京津中关村科技城), Baodi District (宝坻区), Tianjin (天津), staff are debugging an underground operation robot.
"This robot can realize real-time capture of cable temperature by infrared thermal imager, and quickly transmit data to the ground with the help of 5G signals." Guan Tengteng (关腾腾), head of Xinsong Intelligent (新松智能), introduced that this "Intelligent Operation and Maintenance Solution for Mine Power System" independently developed by the company adopts "laser + ultrasonic + vision" fusion navigation and has been demonstrated and applied in many large coal bases. The active discovery rate of hidden dangers has increased by more than 60%, and the operation and maintenance cost has been reduced by about 40%.
Xinsong Intelligent (新松智能) is headquartered in Shenyang (沈阳), Liaoning (辽宁), and has a research and development center in Beijing (北京). In 2019, the company selected the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Science and Technology City (京津中关村科技城) as the site for the industrialization base of its achievements. "As an intelligent equipment manufacturing enterprise, what we value is the innovation gene here," said Guan Tengteng (关腾腾).
Since Zhongguancun Development Group (中关村发展集团) cooperated with Baodi District (宝坻区) in 2013, the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Science and Technology City (京津中关村科技城) has cumulatively introduced 55 supporting policies. Xinsong Intelligent (新松智能) and Tianjin University (天津大学) have established a joint laboratory to overcome key technologies such as "dynamic obstacle avoidance."
De Kuang Jiuding (Tianjin) Technology Co., Ltd. (德矿九鼎（天津）科技有限公司) (hereinafter referred to as "De Kuang Jiuding (德矿九鼎)"), also located in the Science and Technology City, mainly produces high-end mine cooling equipment and intelligent gas drainage systems. In the factory building, large-scale intelligent pressure coupling equipment is being assembled and debugged and will soon be sent to various places.
Under the promotion of the Science and Technology City, De Kuang Jiuding (德矿九鼎) has cooperated with North China Electric Power University (华北电力大学), Tianjin University (天津大学) and other universities to form a joint production, education, research and application entity of "theoretical research and development - equipment development - underground application."
"Our headquarters is in Zhongguancun (中关村) in Beijing (北京), and we also have a production base in Yanjiao (燕郊), Hebei (河北)," introduced Ma Guixia (马桂霞), head of De Kuang Jiuding (德矿九鼎). Beijing (北京) is responsible for research and development, Yanjiao (燕郊) is responsible for mature products, and Baodi (宝坻) is responsible for high-end intelligent manufacturing. Collaboration has enabled the company to achieve leapfrog development.
The growth of the two companies is a microcosm of the Beijing-Tianjin Zhongguancun Science and Technology City (京津中关村科技城) building an innovation chain. As of the end of 2025, the Science and Technology City has cumulatively introduced more than 2,000 business entities and more than 200 physical enterprises, including 31 national high-tech enterprises and 14 specialized and new small and medium-sized enterprises. The Science and Technology City focuses on three leading industries: a new generation of information technology, high-end equipment, and new materials, and builds a regional industrial supporting ecosystem from "bringing in" to "linking up."
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Walking into Hwatsing Technology Co., Ltd. (华海清科股份有限公司), located in Jinnan District (津南区), Tianjin (天津), key integrated circuit equipment for chemical mechanical polishing, ultra-precision thinning, and ion implantation are being systematically assembled in modules, integrated into complete machines, and undergoing performance testing.
"We are conducting research on key technologies and mechanisms for cleaning after chemical mechanical polishing, optimizing cleaning process parameters, and solving the problems of particle residue and defects on the wafer surface after polishing, focusing on improving the stability and consistency of the cleaning effect," said the person in charge of the postdoctoral research workstation at Hwatsing Technology.
Since settling in Jinnan District (津南区) in 2013, Hwatsing Technology's products have been widely used in domestic integrated circuit production lines, providing important support for the independent and controllable development of China's (中国) integrated circuit industry.
The growth of a company is inseparable from a region's deep cultivation of the industrial chain. "We have created the Haihe Integrated Circuit Equipment Industrial Theme Park (海河集成电路设备产业主题园区) and introduced relevant supporting policies," said Zhan Ting (詹珽), Party Secretary and Director of the Jinnan District (津南区) Bureau of Industry and Information Technology. In recent years, chain enterprises such as Xinghua Qingke (兴华清科), Dijing Semiconductor (帝京半导体), and Ruijie Robotics (锐洁机器人) have accelerated their gathering, covering multiple fields such as equipment manufacturing, material research and development, vacuum systems, semiconductor devices, automation equipment, and packaging and testing equipment, forming an integrated circuit equipment industry pattern with Hwatsing Technology (华海清科) as the leader and upstream and downstream enterprises developing collaboratively. In 2025, the park's total output value reached 5.43 billion yuan, an increase of 16.14% year-on-year.
"Within the park, there are suppliers of key components such as robotic arms and complex structural machined parts. The complete industrial chain saves us the trouble of 东奔西跑 (dōng bēn xī pǎo - "running east and west," rushing about busily) and enhances our industrial competitiveness and market initiative," said the relevant person in charge of Hwatsing Technology (华海清科).
In recent years, Jinnan District (津南区) has focused on building leading theme industrial parks, creating distinctive industrial clusters, promoting the concentration of key industries in key parks, focusing key parks on characteristic industries, combining chains and parks, and gathering chains with parks to form a "multiplication effect." In 2024, the Haihe Education Park (海河教育园), Tiankai Jinnan Park (天开津南园), and Jinnan Economic Development Zone (津南经开区) were "integrated into one" (三园合一), driving the aggregation of factors through institutional innovation and cultivating fertile ground for the development of the intelligent industry.
"We will give full play to the advantages of the manufacturing foundation, build an artificial intelligence technology supply area and an intelligent connected vehicle industry cluster, accelerate the introduction and cultivation of artificial intelligence discipline talents, cultivate high-quality enterprises and platform carriers, and adopt a 'incubation + service + introduction and cultivation + recommendation' (孵化+服务+引育+推荐) diversified path to promote the agglomeration of the intelligent industry," said Zhan Ting (詹珽).
(Lian Lian (连莲) and Dong Yingying (董莹莹) participated in writing)
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As one of the concurrent events of the 2026 World Intelligence Congress, the "Intelligent Robot Carnival" will be held at the Tianjin Cultural Center (天津文化中心) in Hexi District (河西区), Tianjin (天津), injecting new vitality into the summer nights of Tianjin (津城).
A major highlight of the 2026 World Intelligence Congress is "Zero-Distance Experience." Through the "indoor immersive experience + outdoor dynamic exhibition" model, citizens and tourists can interact with various robots, test ride the latest intelligent connected vehicles, and enjoy live performances by robot orchestras. The "Intelligent Robot Carnival," themed "Gathering Wisdom in Hexi (河西), Infinite Intelligence," is launched simultaneously, breaking through the traditional indoor exhibition format. Relying on urban public spaces, it creates a leading-edge display platform for embodied intelligence, bringing an immersive "Journey to the Future" to citizens and tourists through robot competitions, intelligent interactions, and scenario experiences.
The "Intelligent Robot Carnival" includes robot scenario exhibitions, robot challenge competitions, robot-themed study tours, and intelligent consumer markets, integrating technology display, competitive events, interactive experiences, cultural performances, and science education.
The robot scenario exhibition includes 20 application scenarios such as industrial logistics, elderly care at home, underwater robot rescue, and robot sorting. Nearly 300 robots of various types are concentratedly displayed, covering humanoid robots, underwater robots, industrial sorting robots, and service robots, presenting innovative achievements in different technology routes and application fields, and helping Tianjin (天津) build an international exchange and cooperation hub for the intelligent industry.
In addition to stage performances, challenge competitions will also be set up on-site, covering three major confrontation events: robot soccer, boxing, and obstacle running. The competitions are highly watchable. Currently, the event has gathered 16 participating teams, and players from universities such as Tsinghua University (清华大学), Tianjin University (天津大学), Nankai University (南开大学), and Tianjin University of Finance and Economics (天津财经大学), as well as leading companies in the industry, will compete on the same stage.
At the same time, the event creates a diversified experience section. Six interactive experience areas are set up on-site, where citizens can participate in fun projects such as robot calligraphy, table curling, and robot dog interaction, and intuitively feel the fun of human-computer interaction.
During the event, intelligent technology-themed study tours will also be launched, organizing primary and secondary school students to experience intelligent education scenarios and popularize intelligent knowledge. The intelligent consumer market will also be launched simultaneously, integrating diversified business formats such as technology exhibitions, intelligent car exhibitions, and convenience services, setting up 50 market stalls and supporting intelligent car exhibition areas, allowing citizens to experience the cutting-edge charm of intelligent technology up close.
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Return to TopThe real economy is the foundation of a country's economy, the fundamental source of wealth creation, and an important pillar of national strength. The "15th Five-Year Plan" outlines important deployments for "accelerating the construction of a manufacturing powerhouse" and "building a modern industrial system with advanced manufacturing as its backbone." As a large state-owned commercial bank, China Construction Bank (建设银行) closely follows the deployment of the "15th Five-Year Plan" and has launched the "Good Construction, Intelligent Manufacturing" ("善建智造") service plan to support new industrialization. Focusing on six key scenarios—"long-term financing, technological innovation, transformation and upgrading, industrial chain, industrial clusters, and cross-border development"—it is accelerating the construction of a financial service system that is compatible with new industrialization and high-quality manufacturing development, injecting a continuous stream of financial impetus into the advancement of new industrialization. In the first quarter of this year, China Construction Bank's manufacturing loans outstanding exceeded 4 trillion yuan, an increase of nearly 600 billion yuan from the beginning of the year, with a growth rate of nearly 17%, providing financial support for solidly advancing new industrialization and strengthening, optimizing, and expanding the real economy.
Long-term companionship, escorting enterprises through their entire life cycle.
In the face of the long cycles and heavy asset characteristics of manufacturing enterprises, China Construction Bank is based on the "Building 'Industry' Long-term Financing" action, using the "certainty" of medium- and long-term funds to hedge against the "volatility" of manufacturing development, helping enterprises navigate cycles and move forward steadily.
Hunan Zhongchuang Aerospace New Materials Co., Ltd. (湖南中创空天新材料股份有限公司) is a high-tech enterprise established under the leadership of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of Hunan Province (湖南省国资委), deeply involved in the field of aerospace new materials. Due to delays in equipment delivery, some production lines of the company's industrialization base construction project failed to be put into operation as scheduled, but the loan had already entered the repayment period. After learning about this, the Hunan Branch of China Construction Bank (建行湖南省分行) quickly formed a "one-to-one" flexible team to provide on-site service, proactively connecting with departments such as the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工信) and the Ministry of Finance (财政), and tailored a debt swap plan for the enterprise. Ultimately, it successfully helped the enterprise swap loans of 240 million yuan, extend the loan term by 4 years, and reduce financing costs, helping the enterprise overcome difficulties.
With the continuous increase in demand for high computing power scenarios such as artificial intelligence large models, it is imperative to enhance the independent and controllable capabilities of domestic servers. SuperFusion Digital Technology Co., Ltd. (超聚变数字技术股份有限公司), as a leading enterprise in China's server industry, has consistently ranked among the top in the industry in terms of market share. Jianxin Financial Asset Investment Co., Ltd. (建信金融资产投资有限公司), a subsidiary of China Construction Bank, successfully invested in the company's related projects through the Jianyuan Beigong Fund (建源北工基金) and the Henan Asset Jianyuan Fund (河南资产建源基金), promoting all-round cooperation through "commercial investment banking integration" and injecting solid financial impetus into the manufacturing of domestic computing power infrastructure.
Empowering technological innovation, igniting the main engine of enterprise innovation.
Technological innovation is the core driving force of new industrialization. China Construction Bank has built a systematic technological finance service system, deeply promoted the "Building 'Industry' Science and Technology Innovation" action, supported manufacturing enterprises in playing the main role in technological innovation, and promoted the deep integration of technological innovation and industrial innovation.
China Construction Bank leverages the advantages of the Group's comprehensive operation, lays out the technological finance track, and actively builds a technological industry fund ecosystem covering key regions across the country. By the end of 2025, it has cumulatively registered 28 financial asset investment company (AIC) pilot funds in 17 cities, with a subscribed scale of nearly 70 billion yuan, and has successfully landed social security science and technology innovation funds in many places. At the leading end of the industrial chain, China Construction Bank and a number of leading industrial enterprises such as China National Chemical Corporation (中国中化) jointly initiated the establishment of equity investment funds to support the construction of national strategic scientific and technological forces; at the source end of innovation, it has established strategic cooperative relationships with leading institutions such as Shanghai State-owned Capital Investment Co., Ltd. (上海国有资本投资有限公司) to guide financial resources to gather at the forefront of technological industrial development.
In Jiangsu, the Jiangsu Branch of China Construction Bank (建行江苏省分行) and Jiangsu High-Tech Investment Group (江苏高科技投资集团) jointly launched the "High-Tech Strategic Emerging Loan" ("高投战新贷"). Targeting early-stage technology companies with strong capabilities, high recognition, and core intellectual property systems invested in by the Jiangsu Strategic Emerging Industries Mother Fund, they created a credit measurement model that balances the "growth" of enterprises with the "soft power of equity," allowing credit resources to be precisely dripped. As of the end of March this year, the Jiangsu Branch of China Construction Bank has provided credit support to 12 Jiangsu Strategic Emerging Industries Fund cluster investment enterprises, with a total credit line of nearly 800 million yuan and a loan balance of 230 million yuan.
Providing proactive service to help with large-scale equipment upgrades.
China Construction Bank thoroughly implements the national decision-making arrangements on promoting a new round of large-scale equipment upgrades and comprehensively promotes the "Renewal Leadership" special action ("焕新领航"专项行动). As of the end of March this year, China Construction Bank has supported more than 1,400 national equipment upgrade and re-lending projects, with a fixed asset loan balance of more than 130 billion yuan.
BOE Technology Group (京东方科技集团) is a leading global semiconductor display panel enterprise. The 6th generation new semiconductor display device production line project invested and constructed by the Group was selected as a key project of Beijing's "3 100s" ("3个100") program. The Beijing Branch of China Construction Bank (建行北京市分行) has cumulatively disbursed more than 1 billion yuan for the project and actively assisted customers in applying for equipment upgrade and renovation re-lending and interest subsidies after the disbursement. In 2025, it will implement more than 15 million yuan in interest subsidies, reducing the financial costs of enterprises and providing strong financial support for the high-quality development of China's new generation of display panel industry.
CALB (中创新航科技集团股份有限公司) is deeply involved in power battery and energy storage system products. The CALB Xiamen project landed in Xiamen is gradually being built into an industry-leading green and intelligent benchmark base. The Xiamen Branch of China Construction Bank (建行厦门市分行) proactively provided on-site service and customized a "re-lending + fiscal interest subsidy" combination plan for the enterprise, successfully landing a 600 million yuan project early-stage loan. It is expected to save the enterprise 18 million yuan in financial expenses during the 2-year interest subsidy period, transforming policy dividends into a strong driving force for the enterprise's production line to be upgraded to intelligent and green with "CCB speed."
One chain, one policy, strengthening supply chain financial services.
China Construction Bank takes "chain owner" enterprises as the fulcrum, matches diversified financial products, and creates a "one chain, one policy" comprehensive service plan, allowing financial living water to accurately nourish each industrial link and release the multiplier effect of supply chain finance.
In Hainan, the petrochemical industry is accelerating towards a trillion-yuan-level cluster. In response to the characteristic business model of "production and sales separation, profit retention" of key park enterprises Jingbo (Hainan) New Materials Co., Ltd. (京博（海南）新材料有限公司) and its downstream sales company Haiyun (Hainan) Materials Technology Co., Ltd. (海韵（海南）材料科技有限公司), the Hainan Branch of China Construction Bank (建行海南省分行) innovatively launched the "Production and Sales Separation + Supply Chain Financing" characteristic service. Relying on supply chain financing products, it realizes closed-loop control of information flow and capital flow, accurately solving the pressure of capital occupation at the production end. Since the beginning of this year, the Hainan Branch of China Construction Bank has cumulatively disbursed 24 supply chain financing loans totaling 300 million yuan through the "e-Sales Pass" business.
Sany Group (三一集团), as one of the world's top 50 construction machinery manufacturers, is the world's largest concrete machinery manufacturer. The Hunan Branch of China Construction Bank (建行湖南省分行) actively responded to Sany Group's digital transformation and upgrading and centralized supply chain management needs, built a customized supply chain financial service platform—the "Sany Gold Ticket Platform" ("三一金票平台")—to realize all-round services from "financing" to "financial intelligence" and integrate financial products and services into Sany Group's industrial chain. As of now, it has cumulatively disbursed more than 30 billion yuan to upstream and downstream customers in Sany Group's industrial chain, serving more than 2,000 enterprises, with a financing balance of 3.2 billion yuan, helping Sany Group expand the global construction machinery market.
Innovative products, precisely serving manufacturing clusters.
China Construction Bank focuses on national-level advanced manufacturing clusters, comprehensively launches the "Hundred Clusters Competing for the Lead" special action ("百群争先"专项行动), innovatively launches the "Cluster Fast Loan" exclusive product ("集群快贷"), builds an intelligent risk control model, provides small and medium-sized enterprises with higher-amount and faster-efficiency financing services, and promotes financial services from "single-point breakthroughs" to "batch coverage." As of the end of April this year, pilot branches have disbursed loans of more than 5.3 billion yuan to more than 640 small and micro enterprises within the clusters.
The Shenzhen Branch of China Construction Bank (建行深圳市分行) focuses on five national-level advanced manufacturing clusters: new-generation information and communication, intelligent connected new energy vehicles, intelligent equipment, high-end medical devices, and advanced battery materials. By cooperating with local government authorities, industrial development associations, leading enterprises, and other units, it analyzes and judges the development of clusters from multiple dimensions, formulates differentiated financial service plans, and relies on the "Cluster Fast Loan" exclusive product to solve the development problems of small and micro enterprises. As of the end of April this year, it has measured and approved more than 7 billion yuan for nearly 900 target customers, provided credit support to nearly 400 enterprises, with a loan balance of nearly 2.5 billion yuan, strongly supporting the development of Shenzhen's "20+8" industrial clusters.
The Zhejiang Branch of China Construction Bank (建行浙江省分行) has established a provincial, municipal, and branch linkage mechanism, connected with local economic and information departments, explored the industrial layout and enterprise financing pain points of clusters, customized exclusive comprehensive service plans, and efficiently completed the approval of a 4.5 billion yuan special credit line. In terms of credit evaluation, it integrates "technical flow" rating and its self-developed Zhejiang Technology Enterprise Comprehensive Evaluation System, judges from multiple dimensions such as R&D strength, and sorts out a list of more than 3,800 target customers. It jointly carries out policy publicity and product promotion with local economic and information departments to compress financing time costs. As of the end of April this year, the amount measured within the clusters exceeded 180 households, with a cumulative loan disbursement of more than 700 million yuan, and a "Cluster Fast Loan" balance of approximately 640 million yuan.
Cross-border financing and integration, unblocking "going out" and "bringing in."
China Construction Bank gives full play to its global layout and cross-border financial service advantages, accurately focuses on the overseas scenarios of enterprises, and serves as a trustworthy partner for enterprises "going out" and "bringing in" with professional, agile, and follow-up responses.
Geely Holding Group (吉利控股集团) is a leading enterprise in China's independent automobile brand. In recent years, the Zhejiang Branch of China Construction Bank (建行浙江省分行) has closely followed Geely Holding Group's globalization layout and overseas capacity expansion pace, providing full-cycle cross-border financial services: In March 2025, in conjunction with the Amsterdam Branch of China Construction Bank (建行阿姆斯特丹分行), it joined hands with international peer institutions to jointly complete the Volvo Trucks cross-border M&A refinancing international syndicated loan project, with domestic and foreign branches underwriting a total of 600 million yuan; in the fourth quarter of the same year, in conjunction with CCB Asia (建行亚洲), it actively participated in Geely Holding Group's cross-border M&A club financing for the privatization of Zeekr, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, issuing M&A loans of 560 million yuan, strongly supporting Geely Holding Group's global resource integration and industrial upgrading.
Singapore Golden Eagle Group (新加坡金鹰集团) is a manufacturing and energy enterprise based on bio-based resource development. The Guangdong Branch of China Construction Bank (建行广东省分行) provides Singapore Golden Eagle Group with integrated financial services for the entire industrial chain and multiple scenarios, including commercial investment banking integration and integrated RMB and foreign currency services. It successfully landed Singapore Golden Eagle Group's M&A privatization project of Vinda International (维达国际) in Hong Kong stocks, with a transaction scale of more than 28 billion Hong Kong dollars; it led the application for Singapore Golden Eagle Group's Indonesian regional international syndicated loan, which was successfully approved for cross-border collaborative credit within the China Construction Bank system and became the first cross-border collaborative loan led by a domestic branch within the system; it launched the system's first online banking version of the global payment factory project for Singapore Golden Eagle Group, realizing integrated management of domestic online banking for overseas account inquiries and payments. After more than half a year of joint debugging and testing, the entire process was opened up, significantly improving the Group's capital turnover efficiency and risk control capabilities.
Striving forward in the "15th Five-Year Plan," China Construction Bank will anchor the goal of building a manufacturing powerhouse, continue to deepen the "Good Construction, Intelligent Manufacturing" service plan, further increase credit issuance, improve service accuracy, and expand the breadth of industry-finance cooperation. In the next step, China Construction Bank will continue to irrigate the fertile soil of manufacturing with financial water, stimulate industrial vitality, and work hand in hand with the vast number of manufacturing enterprises to show greater achievements and contribute stronger forces in the magnificent journey of advancing new industrialization.
Data source: China Construction Bank (中国建设银行)
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According to data from the General Administration of Customs of China (中国海关总署), in the first four months of this year, the total value of trade between China and ASEAN reached 2.75 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 15.7%. China has remained ASEAN's largest trading partner for 17 consecutive years, while ASEAN has maintained its position as China's largest trading partner for 6 consecutive years, demonstrating the resilience of bilateral economic and trade cooperation. Following the official signing of the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (中国—东盟自贸区) 3.0 version protocol, both sides are focusing on enhancing connectivity, deepening practical cooperation in various fields, strengthening technological innovation, and continuously consolidating the economic foundation of the China-ASEAN comprehensive strategic partnership, so that the fruits of cooperation can benefit more people on both sides.
Improving the Quality and Upgrading Connectivity and Economic and Trade Cooperation
In late January of this year, a hydrogen-powered cross-border highway shuttle carrying Chongqing (重庆)-made laptop products departed from Chongqing, passed through Guizhou (贵州), arrived at the Youyiguan Port (友谊关口岸) in Guangxi (广西), and was successfully delivered to customers in Nghe An (义安), Vietnam (越南) on January 31. This was the first cross-border transportation after the extension of the "Hydrogen Corridor" Chongqing-Guizhou-Guangxi trunk line of the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor (西部陆海新通道), opening up a new green and efficient path for bilateral cross-border logistics. Channel connectivity is an important foundation for economic and trade exchanges between China and ASEAN, and a sound cooperation mechanism is a solid guarantee for the long-term healthy development of bilateral economic and trade relations. Currently, China and ASEAN are focusing on the construction of a three-dimensional land, sea, and air connectivity network, and simultaneously improving multi-level and all-round cooperation mechanisms to ensure smooth bilateral trade.
As a flagship project of mutually beneficial cooperation between China and Laos (老挝) and the joint construction of the "Belt and Road" initiative, the China-Laos Railway (中老铁路) is expected to transport over 24.5 million tons of goods in 2025, a year-on-year increase of 24%, of which 5.47 million tons are cross-border goods, a year-on-year increase of 14%, and the types of transported goods have expanded to more than 3,800, covering 19 countries and regions. Lao Deputy Prime Minister Kikeo Khaykhamphithoune (吉乔) said that the Laos-China Railway not only broadens the scope of cooperation and promotes investment, but also drives the development of passenger and freight transportation and cross-border tourism, creating new development opportunities for Laos and serving as a model for the application of China's advanced technology in developing countries. Lao Minister of Public Works and Transport Lattanamy Khotphouthone (列莱·西维来) said that the Laos-China Railway connects Laos and China and has become an important regional trade artery, powerfully promoting the development of the hub economy along the route into a new stage.
China and ASEAN continue to improve bilateral economic and trade cooperation mechanisms, establishing a dialogue and cooperation mechanism covering multiple levels such as leaders' meetings, ministerial meetings, and senior officials' meetings. The upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 version protocol conforms to the new trends in international economic and trade development. In addition to legal and institutional chapters, the main upgrade content covers nine major areas, including customs procedures and trade facilitation, standards and technical regulations and conformity assessment procedures, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and economic and technical cooperation, as well as emerging fields such as the digital economy, green economy, and supply chain connectivity for the first time. Over the past four years since the high-quality implementation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), the level of trade and investment liberalization and facilitation in the region has continued to improve. The China-ASEAN Expo (中国—东盟博览会) and the China-ASEAN Business and Investment Summit (中国—东盟商务与投资峰会) accurately connect the cooperation needs of both sides, attract Chinese and ASEAN companies to participate in exhibitions, and effectively expand market space.
ASEAN Secretary-General Kao Kim Hourn (高金洪) said that the new round of ASEAN-China Free Trade Area upgrades focuses more on new areas such as digital trade, digital services, e-commerce, and digital payments, which will help make free trade arrangements closer to the needs of enterprises and the market. In the context of rising global economic uncertainty, predictability and certainty are particularly important for enterprises. "The Free Trade Area upgrade and the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) jointly provide ASEAN and Chinese enterprises with a clear, transparent, and rules-based cooperation environment, injecting confidence into long-term economic cooperation."
Agricultural Products and Manufacturing Cooperation Release More Dividends
"In the future, your family's mangoes can be sold to China." Souda Phon Kongthavong (苏达彭·空塔翁), Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Luang Prabang Province (琅勃拉邦省), Laos, whose family is engaged in mango cultivation, was told this by the Governor of Luang Prabang Province after the first batch of fresh mangoes from Laos were transported to China via the China-Laos Railway in June last year. In recent years, China and ASEAN have continuously deepened practical cooperation in agricultural products, manufacturing, and other fields, promoting the results of cooperation to benefit the people of both sides more and more fairly.
ASEAN is a major tropical fruit producing area in the world. Specialty fruits such as durian, mangosteen, and mangoes continue to enter the Chinese market, which not only enriches the "fruit basket" of Chinese families, but also makes the pockets of farmers in ASEAN countries increasingly full. Data shows that in the first 10 months of 2025, the trade volume of agricultural and food products between China and ASEAN reached 51.3 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 8.9%. Among them, China's imports of dried and fresh melons and fruits from ASEAN exceeded 10 billion US dollars, accounting for more than 2/3 of the total imports. ASEAN has maintained its position as China's largest trading partner for agricultural and food products for 9 consecutive years. With the continuous release of policy dividends from the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), both sides continue to implement rules of origin and simplify trade procedures, and the level of trade facilitation continues to improve.
China's industrial cooperation with ASEAN presents a good pattern of multi-point breakthroughs and coordinated development. At the 22nd China-ASEAN Expo in 2025, the miniature new energy vehicles produced by SAIC-GM-Wuling (上汽通用五菱) received widespread attention from Southeast Asian merchants. The company established its first wholly-owned overseas production base in Indonesia (印度尼西亚) in 2017, with a cumulative total investment of over 1 billion US dollars. It has driven 17 Chinese industrial chain companies to "go global" and established cooperation with more than 60 Indonesian local suppliers. Chinese car companies such as Changan (长安), BYD (比亚迪), and Geely (吉利) are also accelerating their layout in the ASEAN market, realizing the leap from product export to industrial chain overseas expansion. Indonesian Minister of Investment and Downstream Industry Bahlil Lahadalia (罗山·鲁斯拉尼) said that Indonesia's cooperation with China in new energy vehicles will help enhance the added value of related industries in Indonesia and accelerate the green transformation process in Indonesia.
China and ASEAN are steadily advancing cooperation on livelihood projects. In December 2025, the smart vegetable greenhouse and its ancillary facilities of the Guangxi (广西) Aid Cambodia (柬埔寨) Modern Agricultural Technology Cooperation Poverty Reduction Project were officially handed over in Uta Sey Village (乌塔赛村), Rolea B'ier District (罗列巴尔县), Kampong Chhnang Province (磅清扬省), Cambodia. The project directly led 30 households to participate in planting, with an average direct income of over 3,000 yuan per household per year, while radiating and driving 60 villagers to develop vegetable planting on more than 150 mu.
Huge Potential for Cooperation in Scientific and Technological Innovation and Emerging Industries
In December 2025, the Ningbo-Zhoushan Port (宁波舟山港) to Ho Chi Minh City Port (胡志明港), Vietnam "Container Shipping Punctual Cost Reduction" route was officially opened, marking the first time that a precise and low-cost sea route has reached ASEAN. China and ASEAN are targeting circulation bottlenecks and industry pain points, and using technological innovation and model upgrades to promote economic and trade cooperation towards digitalization, intelligence, and efficiency.
Technological empowerment makes trade in specialty agricultural products smoother. At the 8th China International Import Expo, the "Durian Detective" durian quality sorting system received widespread attention. The system uses computed tomography scanning and artificial intelligence algorithms to achieve non-destructive testing, generating a "quality ID card" for each durian, accurately displaying its maturity and pulp quality. Currently, this technology has been applied to cross-border durian transportation on the China-Laos Railway, effectively reducing losses, improving customs clearance efficiency, and helping high-quality fruits from ASEAN better enter the Chinese market.
Scientific and technological innovation and emerging industry cooperation between the two sides continue to deepen. In November 2025, the China-Indonesia (中印尼) "Two Countries, Two Parks" Science and Technology Innovation Center was unveiled in Fuzhou (福州), Fujian (福建), focusing on the integration of industry, academia, and research, and deeply cultivating cooperation in the digital economy and green economy; in January 2026, the 6th China-ASEAN Digital Ministers' Meeting adopted the Hanoi Declaration on Digital Cooperation (河内数字合作宣言), clarifying the establishment of a digital academy and an artificial intelligence industry innovation center within the year. In the field of new energy, the CATL (宁德时代) Indonesia battery energy storage project and the CNGR Advanced Material (中伟新材料) battery material base have been successively launched, helping to improve the quality and upgrade the new energy industry in ASEAN.
Tang Zhimin (汤之敏), Director of the China-ASEAN Research Center of Panyapiwat Institute of Management (泰国正大管理学院), Thailand, said that the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 version protocol focuses on the digital economy and green economy, which will promote more companies to deploy intelligent manufacturing in the "China + ASEAN" model and create more development opportunities for regional youth. Chen Guangyan (陈光炎), Professor of Economics at Nanyang Technological University (新加坡南洋理工大学), Singapore, believes that the signing of the upgraded China-ASEAN Free Trade Area 3.0 version protocol reflects China's positive attitude in promoting South-South cooperation through institutional opening-up, providing ASEAN with a cooperation platform that takes into account diversified balance and strategic autonomy, and helping ASEAN stabilize its main line of development in a complex international situation.
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Recently, a "China countryside craze" is sweeping overseas social media. More and more foreign bloggers are no longer satisfied with climbing the Great Wall or strolling along the Bund, but are instead immersing themselves in China's terraced fields, ancient villages, and farm courtyards. Their lenses capture not cool special effects, but rather the labor in the fields, the smoke from farmhouses, and the smiles of villagers. These simple and authentic scenes have warmed the hearts of many overseas netizens.
What secrets lie behind this craze? Only one word: authenticity.
"Authenticity" is the true color after the filters fade away. For a long time, the China narrative constructed by the West has either been about discrediting and smearing, portraying backwardness and isolation; or hyping up threats, creating prejudice and division. Many foreigners, separated by a fog of information, have never been able to see the real China clearly. And this wave of "countryside craze" precisely uses the simplest way to open a new window for the world to observe China's development.
As observed by the American magazine *Global Traveler*, international perceptions of China are changing—China is not only about skyscrapers and industrial achievements, but also about a rural landscape where modern facilities and traditional life coexist. Quiet mountain villages, tea gardens, traditional architecture, and local lifestyles are presenting an image of China to international audiences that is different from the past. Once the cognitive barriers shaped by the Western narrative are broken, entering China, getting close to China, and understanding China become a matter of course.
"Authenticity" lies in the accessible beauty. China already has 19 villages selected as "Best Tourism Villages" by the United Nations World Tourism Organization, ranking first in the world. The Huizhou-style ancient buildings in Xidi Village (西递村), Yixian County (黟县), Anhui Province (安徽), the Longji Terraces (龙脊梯田) in Dazhai Village (大寨村), Longsheng (龙胜), Guangxi (广西), the Dong ethnic group's Grand Chorus (侗族大歌) in Huanggang Village (黄岗村), Liping (黎平), Guizhou (贵州)... Whether you love mountains and rivers or are fascinated by humanities, foreign tourists can always find surprises in the Chinese countryside.
Buses go directly to the village entrance, the network signal covers everything, and the bridges across mountains and rivers make foreign tourists exclaim "shocking." A German blogger, titled "Someone Warned Me Not to Go to Rural China," released a "promotional video" for rural tourism in China. In the lens, the rural public security is well-ordered, the infrastructure is convenient and modern, and the villagers are particularly enthusiastic. He used his own eyes to directly refute those sensational rumors. This down-to-earth and stable atmosphere allows foreign tourists to confidently enter those so-called remote and closed places that have been labeled.
"Authenticity" stems from the contrast of international comparisons. When some Western countries are deeply mired in the predicament of social division, wealth disparity, and chaotic public security, China is steadily moving forward on the road of urban-rural integration, common prosperity, and sustainable development. This stark contrast makes the world's curiosity about the Chinese countryside gradually rise to a deeper level of thinking: How exactly did China do it?
*Pakistan Today* exclaimed: In China, the countryside is not a burden but a potential, "The Chinese model has opened up a new path of development for the world"; the Italian website "Traveler" discusses how Chinese rural tourism can promote agriculture and cultural protection; the British website "Dialogue Earth" focuses on bird watching tourism in rural China, believing that it promotes a deep connection between people and nature, and people and environmental protection concepts.
Some scenery can only be truly understood by walking through it personally. As China's entry policies become more convenient and service levels become more optimized, I believe that more foreign friends will enter the Chinese countryside and see and experience firsthand what is the "vivid appearance of Chinese-style modernization." At that time, what they bring back will not only be likes and traffic, but also authentic, three-dimensional, and lively Chinese stories.
Return to TopUnited Nations Secretary-General: International Law is Suffering Dangerous Erosion
Xinhua News Agency, United Nations, May 26 (Reporter Shang Xuqian (尚绪谦)) UN Secretary-General António Guterres (古特雷斯) warned on the 26th that international law is suffering dangerous erosion.
Guterres (古特雷斯) issued the above warning at a high-level Security Council meeting. He said that core principles such as sovereign equality, territorial integrity, political independence, and the prohibition of the use of force are being challenged or ignored, violations of principles are not being condemned, and impunity is spreading.
Guterres (古特雷斯) said that the UN Charter remains humanity's greatest hope for peace. He urged all members of the Security Council to always defend the UN Charter and strive to ensure that the UN and the Security Council truly play their due roles.
The theme of the high-level Security Council meeting on the 26th was "Maintaining the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter and Strengthening the International System with the United Nations as the Core."
Japanese Diet Passes "National Intelligence Conference" Establishment Bill; Social Concerns Continue
People's Daily, Tokyo, May 27 (Reporter Liu Wenzhang (刘文璋)) The plenary session of the Japanese Diet (日本国会) Upper House passed the "National Intelligence Conference" establishment bill on the 27th. This bill was promoted by the Sanae Takaichi (高市早苗) government and aims to integrate and strengthen intelligence capabilities. The bill was passed by the Japanese Diet (日本国会) Lower House in April. Related developments continue to cause concern in Japanese society.
According to the bill, Japan plans to build an intelligence system with the "National Intelligence Conference" as the core and the "National Intelligence Agency" as the executive body, strengthen intelligence work and unify management, and strengthen "leadership by the Prime Minister's Office (首相官邸主导)." The "National Intelligence Conference" will be chaired by the Prime Minister, and members will include the Chief Cabinet Secretary, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defense, and other cabinet ministers. The "National Intelligence Agency" will be given the power to comprehensively coordinate the intelligence work of various government departments.
The Takaichi (高市) government's move to strengthen intelligence work continues to cause concern. Some Japanese citizens have recently held rallies in Tokyo on multiple occasions to protest the establishment bill of the "National Intelligence Conference."
Japanese military journalist and former Air Self-Defense Force officer Makoto Konishi (小西誠) believes that one of the purposes of the Japanese government's promotion of a new intelligence system is to suppress those who are anti-war and call for peace. Atsushi Koketsu (纐缬厚), a visiting researcher at Meiji University (明治大学), told reporters that the construction of a new intelligence system may subject civilian exchanges between Japan and neighboring countries to surveillance and restrictions.
The Takaichi (高市) government's move has also reminded Japanese public opinion of the Japanese "Special Higher Police (特高课)" before and during World War II. The full name of "特高 (Tokkō)" is "Special Higher Police." The "Special Higher Police (特高课)" was a special agency responsible for suppressing domestic social movements in Japan and implementing ideological monitoring. The Ryukyu Shimpo (琉球新报) previously published an editorial on the Takaichi (高市) government's adjustment of the intelligence system, pointing out that the Japanese military police and "特高 (Tokkō)" once implemented surveillance and suppression of anti-war people, and this historical lesson must not be forgotten.
NASA Releases Roadmap for Lunar Base Construction
Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, May 26 (Reporter Tan Jingjing (谭晶晶)) The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) released a roadmap for lunar base construction on the 26th, further detailing the development goals and implementation paths for building long-term residence facilities in the lunar south pole region in the future.
According to this roadmap, the United States will promote the construction of a lunar base in three stages, promoting the realization of long-term human residence on the moon through robotic exploration, technology verification, and manned missions, and laying the foundation for future Mars exploration missions.
The first stage will last until 2029, focusing on robotic exploration and key technology verification; the second stage will be from 2029 to 2032, deploying early residence facilities and infrastructure such as energy and communication; the third stage will be from 2032 and beyond, with the goal of achieving long-term human residence on the moon and gradually carrying out lunar resource utilization and normalized scientific research activities.
NASA said that the lunar base will support scientific research, commercial activities, and deep space exploration missions, and accumulate experience for future manned Mars missions.
Return to TopAccording to Xinhua News Agency, Xiamen (厦门), May 27th (Reporter Zhou Yuan (周圆)) On the 27th, at the BRICS Partnership on New Industrial Revolution Forum 2026 held in Xiamen (厦门), Fujian (福建), the New Industrial Revolution Partnership City Network was officially launched.
As a practical measure to implement the "Initiative for International Cooperation on New Industrialization," the New Industrial Revolution Partnership City Network was initiated and established by 11 cities including Durban (德班), South Africa, Lagos (拉各斯), Nigeria, Belgrade (贝尔格莱德), Serbia, Almaty (阿拉木图) and Astana (阿斯塔纳), Kazakhstan, Koprivnica (考普堡), Hungary, and Xiamen (厦门), Nanjing (南京), Wuhan (武汉), Yinchuan (银川), and Changzhou (常州), China.
The New Industrial Revolution Partnership City Network focuses on areas such as green and low-carbon development, digital transformation, industrial chain collaboration, and talent cultivation. By establishing a regular liaison mechanism, carrying out industrial docking, and sharing innovative resources, it aims to create a new platform for transnational city cooperation. This will effectively open up multi-level cooperation channels between "country-city-enterprise" and further enrich the BRICS cooperation system.
The forum, themed "Building a Smart Manufacturing Ecosystem and Accelerating the New Industrial Revolution," was co-sponsored by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (工业和信息化部) and the People's Government of Fujian Province (福建省人民政府). It included opening ceremonies, main forums, sub-forums, and other related sessions. A series of activities such as competitions, exhibitions, and training will also be held concurrently.
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 车 斌
Recently, Australian Treasurer Jim Chalmers (吉姆·查默斯) formally submitted the 2026-2027 fiscal year federal budget to the Federal Parliament. Currently, against the backdrop of the Middle East situation triggering global energy supply turmoil, the Australian economy is facing the dual challenge of "high inflation and low growth." This budget focuses on important issues such as ensuring energy security, addressing inflation, and improving productivity, aiming to solve the economic dilemma. Its policy direction and implementation effects have attracted much attention.
The budget shows that the Australian economy, which is highly dependent on energy imports, has been significantly impacted by fluctuations in global oil supply and related fertilizer, plastics, aluminum, and other industrial chains. Affected by this, the Australian government has lowered its real gross domestic product (GDP) growth forecast for the 2026-2027 fiscal year to 1.75%, the consumer price index (CPI) is expected to fall back to 2.5%, and the unemployment rate will rise to 4.5%. Chalmers (查默斯) bluntly stated that the Middle East situation has pushed up prices and dragged down economic growth, and Australia is paying a heavy price for this.
Currently, high inflation is a prominent problem facing the Australian economy. The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that in the 12 months to March 2026, the country's CPI rose by 4.6%, higher than the central bank's target range of 2% to 3%, and the highest level since September 2023. In the week before the budget was announced, the Reserve Bank of Australia (澳央行) announced its third interest rate hike of the year on May 5, raising the benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.35%. Inflation is the main reason for this round of interest rate hikes.
To cope with the oil supply shock, the Australian government plans to invest A$14.8 billion (approximately RMB 4.84 per Australian dollar) to ensure fuel supply, strengthen supply chain stability, and support the construction of electric vehicles and charging facilities to alleviate the pressure of rising fuel prices. In terms of reducing the cost of living for the public, measures such as tax cuts, reducing medical burdens, and investing in new housing infrastructure construction have been introduced. In terms of enhancing economic resilience, the budget plans to implement tax system reforms, adjust capital gains taxes, etc. to make taxation fairer, reduce corporate tax burdens to stimulate investment, and increase investment in key industries.
Several Australian financial institutions have given different evaluations of this budget. Westpac (西太平洋银行) analysts believe that in the short term, the budget is slightly expansionary and is "walking a tightrope in an inflationary environment." In the medium and long term, housing-related tax reforms are of great significance. If productivity reform measures can be fully implemented, they will effectively promote the country's productivity improvement. The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (澳大利亚联邦银行) believes that Australian inflation will remain high in the 2026-2027 fiscal year, and the government's new policies will inject approximately A$6.5 billion into the market, which will expand the fiscal year's deficit by A$3.2 billion compared to the previous year. This will not only be detrimental to curbing inflation, but will also compress the Reserve Bank of Australia's (澳大利亚央行) monetary policy buffer space. In addition, some reform measures are difficult to implement in practice. If supporting legislation cannot be promoted on time, it will bring huge loopholes to budget execution.
The Reserve Bank of Australia (澳大利亚央行) stated that in addition to the direct impact of fuel shortages, higher energy costs may have been widely transmitted to the prices of goods and services, so this round of inflation cannot be regarded as a temporary shock. ANZ (澳新银行) analysis believes that the Australian economy is facing the challenge of "slow growth and inflationary pressure coexisting," and the central bank may have to make a difficult trade-off between curbing inflation and stabilizing economic growth in the future.
(Reported by this newspaper from Canberra (堪培拉) on May 27)
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Return to TopBy: 本报记者 刘博通 杨 昊
General Secretary Xi Jinping (习近平) emphasized at the symposium on strengthening basic research: "Basic research is the source of the entire scientific system and the general mechanism for all technical problems. We must strengthen basic research with greater efforts and more practical measures, enhance our country's original innovation capabilities, and further consolidate the foundation for building a strong country in science and technology."
Currently, the world is undergoing profound changes unseen in a century, and a new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation is developing in depth. How can we further strengthen original innovation support and promote high-quality development of basic research? Recently, reporters interviewed three members of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) in related fields.
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Dialogue Guests:
Guo Kunyu (郭坤宇), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Distinguished Professor of Fudan University (复旦大学)
Zhang Zhentao (张振涛), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Senior Engineer at the Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院理化技术研究所)
Yao Lijun (姚力军), Member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员), Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Ningbo Jiangfeng Electronics Materials Co., Ltd. (宁波江丰电子材料股份有限公司)
Anchoring the "Sky-High and Down-to-Earth" Main Direction, Encouraging Researchers to Bravely Venture into the "No Man's Land"
Reporter: To complete original innovation "from 0 to 1," how can we optimize the system layout and open up the innovation chain of basic research, application development, and achievement transformation?
Guo Kunyu (郭坤宇): There are many high-level research universities in China with a wide distribution of advantageous disciplines, which is conducive to nurturing original innovation and cultivating talents. Universities should, based on their disciplinary advantages, anchor the "Sky-High and Down-to-Earth" main direction, focusing on cutting-edge-oriented basic research and discipline-interdisciplinary-driven frontier exploration. Suggestions:
Condense major frontier issues in basic disciplines, and gather the strength of similar advantageous disciplines from various universities to collaborate on tackling key problems. In the field of basic research, do not count papers or excessively look at impact factors, implement international peer review, evaluate the research depth and originality of representative works, and evaluate the leading role of representative works in the development of disciplines.
With demand and problems as the guide, encourage professors to be jointly appointed across schools, departments, and industries, allowing professors to go to enterprises to understand real problems and "bottleneck" problems, bring them back to the school for basic research, form theories, and solve real problems. Extract scientific problems from major national needs (such as carbon neutrality, brain science and brain-like intelligence, medical and health, artificial intelligence, etc.), give full play to the multidisciplinary advantages of universities, and form interdisciplinary research teams. Select outstanding undergraduates to enter laboratories, teams, and projects early, and cultivate students' learning ability and innovation ability in solving real scientific problems.
Yao Lijun (姚力军): Basic research is the source of vitality for scientific and technological innovation. However, for scientific research to truly transform into results, it must not only start from scientific logic, but also focus on the "real needs" of applications, and also pay attention to solving the "current urgent problems" of the industry, deeply integrating to form an innovation chain.
Basic research should start from reality, follow the laws of development, and grasp the development trend of the new round of scientific and technological revolution. Industrial topics should stand at the height of the overall strategic development to clarify the main direction, plan ahead, adhere to long-termism, and increase R&D investment; actively integrate into the global basic research pattern, and forge and improve the technical level of researchers. Encourage researchers to bravely venture into the "no man's land" and continuously form the ability to break through "from 0 to 1." Focus on the actual needs guided by industrial development, promote researchers to enter factories and go deep into production lines to deeply understand the technical problems of enterprise production and application, and carry out scientific research along the path of "market demand - technology research and development - production line construction."
In the face of the industrial shortcomings and technological gaps in the country's global high-tech competition, basic research needs to closely focus on the national development strategy and strengthen the supporting role for the safety and independent control of the industrial chain. Adhere to long-term technical research, break the blockade, and transform the "bottleneck" shortcomings into long boards to win the competition.
Promote the Development of Education, Science and Technology, and Talent in an Integrated Manner, and Optimize the Mechanism of Collaborative Education and Talent Cultivation between Science and Education
Reporter: Education, science and technology, and talent are inherently consistent and mutually supportive. How can we strengthen the basic research talent team, discover and cultivate talents on the front line of scientific research, and fully stimulate the internal motivation and innovation vitality of scientific researchers to devote themselves to basic research?
Zhang Zhentao (张振涛): In basic research, talent is the primary resource. As a scientific researcher who has been engaged in basic research for a long time, I deeply realize that strengthening basic research must adhere to the integrated promotion of education, science and technology, and talent development, and continuously deliver high-level reserve forces.
After investigation, I found that there are still shortcomings in the current basic research talent training: basic disciplines are not attractive enough, emphasis is placed on application and less on theory, and phenomena such as the omnipotence of "hats" (帽子, referring to prestigious titles or awards) remain to be changed. The integration of science and education is not deep enough, the cutting-edge resources of scientific research institutes are difficult to connect with teaching, and students lack early scientific research practice opportunities, and their innovative thinking and hands-on ability are insufficient.
It is recommended to focus on the major strategic needs of the country, use demand to drive academic innovation to condense scientific research topics, guide scientific researchers to focus on the basic theoretical problems behind "bottleneck" technologies, and use ideological innovation as the benchmark to allow creative young talents to undertake important scientific research tasks, cultivate compound basic research talents with both theoretical depth and application capabilities, and realize the organic combination of talent training and scientific research, tackling key problems, and industrial development. Try to closely integrate education, talent training, and scientific research, so that young scientific and technological workers, including graduate students, can directly undertake scientific research tasks, understand the forefront of disciplines in undertaking specific scientific research tasks, strengthen the innovative role of graduate students, and complete the education and training of talents in scientific research work, and strengthen the entire chain of training system.
Guo Kunyu (郭坤宇): Young people are active in thinking and courageous in innovation, and are the new force in scientific and technological development. To optimize the collaborative education and talent cultivation mechanism between science and education and cultivate more young scientific and technological talents, the key lies in breaking the barriers between scientific research and cultivation, improving abilities through scientific research, promoting growth through innovation, and truly integrating cultivation and scientific research.
To enable young people to grow rapidly in scientific research practice, it is recommended to let young people go to the front line of scientific research to deal with complex problems. Increase the number of special projects for young people, allocate a certain percentage of funds in key R&D programs to support young backbones under the age of 35, and encourage them to "take the lead" and form teams independently. At the same time, promote the integration of industry and education, transform the problems on the front line of the industry into graduate student projects, and implement the model of "enterprises proposing questions, universities answering questions, and teachers and students researching together," so that talent training is closely combined with industry needs.
Improve the mechanism of old leading the new. Academic leaders should not only impart technical methods, but also inherit scientific spirit and scientific research norms. Implement the "mentor group" system, in which an academic leader and several middle-aged and young backbones jointly guide young talents to form a tiered team. At the same time, encourage young people to dare to question and propose new ideas, forming a virtuous interaction situation of "old generals pointing the way and guarding the pass, and new talents charging forward."
Vigorously support young talents. In terms of职称评审 (zhicheng pingshen - "professional title evaluation," evaluation of professional titles), the use of experimental platforms, etc., we should lean towards young backbones on the front line, reduce their administrative burden, and allow them to devote themselves to learning and innovation without distraction. In addition, promote the sharing of resources on science and education platforms, and universities and scientific research institutes and leading enterprises should jointly build joint laboratories, so that young talents can broaden their horizons in the flow and realize the closed-loop training of "production, learning, research, and application."
Strengthen Support and Guarantee, and Give Scientific Researchers More "Trial and Error Space" and "Bench Time"
Reporter: Basic research has the characteristics of long cycles, high difficulty, and great uncertainty. How can we strengthen support and guarantee efforts and create a good social atmosphere and innovation environment?
Yao Lijun (姚力军): Scientific research is often accompanied by many unknowns and variables, and it is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the new type of national system to provide a solid guarantee for basic research. It is recommended to orderly organize and efficiently coordinate the national scientific research forces, and continue to build an innovation ecosystem with industrial demand as the traction, major practical applications as the driving force, and coordinated allocation of resources; increase special investment in basic research to support high-risk, long-cycle original innovation exploration. Give full play to the leading and driving role of leading enterprises in the industry, and jointly form more innovation consortia with upstream and downstream enterprises in the industrial chain to promote the rapid verification and continuous iterative optimization of basic research results in real and complex industrial application scenarios.
Major scientific and technological infrastructure is a "national heavy weapon" to support original innovation and break through key core technologies, and it is an important platform to promote multidisciplinary cross-integration and spawn disruptive technologies. Systematic layout can effectively integrate scattered scientific research resources and avoid duplication of construction and inefficient investment. It is recommended to increase efforts to build intelligent scientific research platform systems, deeply integrate information technologies such as artificial intelligence, big data, and cloud computing, realize intelligent analysis of scientific research data and process reasoning, and use intelligent algorithms to deeply mine massive scientific research literature, experimental data, and industrial needs to assist scientific researchers in identifying potential research directions and technological breakthroughs, and promote the achievement of more basic research results.
In addition, it is also necessary to further improve the evaluation mechanism and incentive mechanism, give scientific researchers more "trial and error space" and "bench time," tolerate the uncertainty and stage failures in scientific research exploration, encourage deep cultivation of basic research and original tackling of key problems, and fully stimulate the innovation vitality and long-term tackling determination of scientific researchers.
Zhang Zhentao (张振涛): At present, the basic research evaluation system still has problems such as "one-size-fits-all," excessively relying on indicators such as the number of papers and impact factors, and ignoring original value and long-term contributions. The amount of funding often becomes the focus of assessment for scientific researchers, but it is difficult for young scientific researchers to apply for scientific research projects. Scientific researchers' energy is scattered in "running projects," making it difficult to focus for a long time. The salary and benefits of young scientific researchers are not high, and the pressure of life is high. The fault-tolerant mechanism is not sound, and innovation vitality is limited.
It is recommended to build a classified and diversified evaluation system. Resolutely break the "only paper, only hat" approach, implement long-cycle evaluation for basic research, highlight originality, academic influence, and long-term value, and strengthen peer review. Strengthen the universal benefit mechanism with stable funding support, and while concentrating efforts on large projects, allow more scientific researchers to have the opportunity to undertake projects. Improve the fault-tolerant and error-correcting mechanism, clarify the boundaries between scientific research exploration failure and dereliction of duty, tolerate non-subjective errors, and treat failures due to exploring the unknown and pursuing originality with a realistic attitude; encourage interdisciplinary collaboration and academic debate, and create an open and inclusive innovation atmosphere and ecology that encourages exploration and tolerates failure.
Strengthen guarantee measures for young talents. It is recommended to continue to improve supporting guarantee policies such as housing, medical care, and children's education to help young scientific researchers solve practical difficulties; increase support for non-consensus projects, encourage scientific researchers to boldly explore "niche" fields, and protect scientific researchers' curiosity and desire to explore.
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The "15th Five-Year Plan" clearly proposes to "promote urban renewal with high quality." Urban renewal is not only the transformation and upgrading of physical space, but also the continuation and rebirth of cultural memory. How to retain nostalgia while improving people's livelihoods through urban renewal is a topic I have long been concerned about and thinking about.
In late March of this year, I went to Shanxi (山西) with a delegation to conduct research on "strengthening the effective protection and living heritage of historical and cultural cities, blocks, and villages." Along the way, I saw gratifying progress, but also discovered some problems worthy of attention.
First, let's talk about the achievements. More and more local cadres and the masses realize that the cultural heritage left by our ancestors is invaluable and should be protected. In recent years, the Ancient City of Pingyao (平遥古城) has not engaged in large-scale demolition and construction, but has instead done "micro-renewal" with the skill of embroidery. The living scenes of the original residents of the Ancient City of Taigu (太谷古城) have been deliberately preserved, so that tourists can not only see the architecture, but also feel the vibrant traditional culture - the smoke from the chimneys in the morning, the chats in the streets, and the sounds of old craftsmen hammering. A grassroots cadre told me: "In the past, I thought about demolishing old houses and building new ones, but now I understand that keeping the old houses is keeping our roots."
However, the problems are also quite prominent. One contradiction that is frequently reflected is: how to balance the improvement of people's livelihoods with the protection of the landscape? In my research, I saw that a large number of traditional dwellings are of wood or brick-wood structure, and have long exceeded their reasonable service life. Residents are very eager to improve their living conditions, but are restricted by the requirements of landscape protection, and dare not move themselves, nor do they have the ability to move. At the same time, the phenomenon of "demolishing the real and building the fake" in some places has not been eradicated, which not only destroys the real historical heritage, but also severs the emotional ties between residents and their homeland.
Urban renewal cannot ignore people's livelihoods in the name of protection, nor can it destroy cultural heritage in the name of improving people's livelihoods. Combining research and thinking, I believe that the key to solving the problem lies not in how much money is invested, but in finding the right method and streamlining the mechanism.
Summarize and promote effective protection and renewal models in various places, and use technological breakthroughs to solve renewal problems. The difficulty in protecting and renewing traditional dwellings lies in: the appearance must strictly follow the historical style, and the interior must meet the needs of modern life. This is not unsolvable. It is recommended that the housing and construction departments summarize mature cases in various places, compile technical guidelines for the protection and renewal of traditional dwellings, and standardize practices such as "reversible transformation" and "hidden pipelines." At the same time, carry out special technical research to solve common problems such as poor sound insulation and difficulty in moisture prevention of wood structures.
Change "government package" to "resident subject" and explore and improve the co-governance mechanism based on courtyards. In the past, some protection projects were undertaken by the government, which spent a lot of money, but the residents did not buy it. The reason is simple: the renovation plan was not chosen by the residents themselves. It is recommended to establish a "Courtyard Protection and Renewal Council" composed of resident representatives, community cadres, and professional designers, with the courtyard as the basic unit. The government is responsible for formulating guidelines for the protection and repair of the landscape and providing financial subsidies. What to change and how to change it are negotiated and decided by the residents within the scope of the guidelines. This method seems slow, but it is actually fast - because residents participate in decision-making, the subsequent cooperation is high, and there are fewer contradictions.
Establish a "positive list + negative list" dual control mechanism, and replace "one-size-fits-all" with refined management. The problem with the protection and management of many historical blocks is that they are either "too tightly controlled" or "too loosely controlled." It is recommended that various places combine their actual conditions to formulate clear and easy-to-understand positive and negative lists, and simplify the approval process simultaneously. The advantage of this management method is that it not only protects the bottom line, but also gives residents reasonable autonomy.
Strictly control commercial density, and use the retention rate of original residents as a key indicator of protection effectiveness. After the development of tourism in many famous towns and villages and historical and cultural blocks, a large number of original residents have moved out, the local atmosphere of life has disappeared, and the snacks, souvenirs, and homestays are all the same, and eventually become "scenery boards with streets but no people." It is recommended to include the retention rate of original residents as a key indicator in the protection assessment of famous towns and villages and historical and cultural blocks. At the same time, implement access management and total control of commercial formats - give priority to introducing non-heritage inheritance, traditional handicrafts, time-honored brands and other formats that are compatible with local culture, and strictly control formats that are prone to causing disturbance to the people and homogenization.
Urban renewal is a long-term undertaking. Let the residents of the old city live in better houses, and let the historical and cultural blocks become beautiful spaces suitable for living and traveling. Nostalgia will not only remain in memory, but also exist in the atmosphere of life and be passed down from generation to generation.
(The author is a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Deputy Chief Planner of the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design. This report was compiled by Liu Botong (刘博通), a reporter from this newspaper.)
Return to TopProposer: The Central Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang (民革中央)
Motion: The coordinated development of green computing power and electricity is an important path to promote the green transformation of the digital economy and achieve the goals of carbon peaking and carbon neutrality. However, it also faces some problems in its development, such as the mismatch between power resources and computing power demand, the low proportion of green electricity use, and the insufficient level of integration between the green standard system and the industry.
Suggestions: Strengthen top-level design and build a coordinated development pattern of green computing and electricity. Formulate a national green computing power and electricity coordinated development plan to promote the formation of a cross-regional pattern of "eastern computing power demand driving, western green power support." Establish an inter-ministerial coordinated promotion mechanism to strengthen policy coordination among multiple departments. Improve the national integrated computing power standard system and refine data center construction standards.
Deepen the reform of systems and mechanisms, and improve the market-oriented linkage system of computing and electricity. Establish a two-way linkage mechanism of "computing power price - electricity price" and explore dynamic pricing models. Improve the green certificate and carbon trading mechanisms, promote computing power companies to obtain carbon emission reduction benefits through green electricity consumption, form a virtuous cycle of "green electricity use - carbon revenue - technological upgrading," and increase the proportion of green electricity use. Accelerate the construction of a computing and electricity coordinated dispatching platform, and use artificial intelligence and big data to achieve dynamic matching of computing power load and power supply.
Promote industrial agglomeration and technological innovation, and build a new pattern of regional coordinated development. Accelerate the construction of green computing power clusters in the western region, support Qinghai (青海), Gansu (甘肃) and other areas rich in clean energy to build low-carbon and efficient data centers and integrated demonstration zones of "computing power clusters + green power parks," and create national-level green computing power centers.
Improve the supporting guarantee system and improve the supply of financial and talent policies. Establish a national-level green computing power development fund, and encourage financial institutions to develop green credit, green bonds, environmental insurance and other products. Improve the safety management system for computing power and power facilities, and strengthen data security and risk prevention and control mechanisms. Promote universities to open compound majors such as "computing and electricity coordinated engineering" and build an integrated talent training system of industry, academia and research.
(Compiled by Wen Tong (文 通))
Return to TopBy: 本报记者 叶传增
In April of this year, when the list of winners of the 10th Huawei ICT Competition Practice Competition China National Final was announced, the team from Yunnan Technology and Business University (云南工商学院) instantly erupted in cheers—they bravely won the first prize in the basic software track nationwide, becoming the only undergraduate institution in Yunnan Province (云南省) to receive this honor.
"This is the result of the school's integration of industry and education, and the collaborative education between schools and enterprises." Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩), a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (全国政协委员) and Executive President of Yunnan Technology and Business University (云南工商学院), believes that promoting the deep and solid integration of industry and education cannot rely on the school's "fighting alone," nor can it rely on the enterprise's "charitable help," but must form a multi-party community.
Combining the characteristic flower e-commerce industry of Songming County (嵩明县), Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) moved the classroom into the flower fields, allowing students to immersively participate in practical training such as live streaming sales and supply chain management; facing the shortage of grassroots talents in areas such as Wenshan (文山) and Nujiang (怒江), he promoted the development of targeted talent training to accurately deliver adaptable talents. "The identity of a CPPCC member allows me to better listen to grassroots voices, reflect real demands, and promote policy improvements, so that the integration of industry and education changes from 'important to talk about' to 'effective to do,' and the results of vocational education benefit every student," said Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩).
At this year's National People's Congress (全国两会), Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) continued to focus on the field of employment for college graduates and submitted proposals. "A college employment office teacher told me that they wanted to upgrade the smart employment platform so that students could accurately match positions, but the construction and maintenance costs of the platform were high, so they had to postpone it. Some graduates also reflected that the transportation and accommodation expenses for seeking jobs in other places were not small, which was a burden for students from families with financial difficulties." These voices from the front line were recorded by Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) one by one and written into the proposal.
In the past year, Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) conducted research in more than 10 locations in 6 provinces, from universities in Yunnan (云南) to vocational colleges in Guizhou (贵州), from enterprise recruitment sites to graduate symposiums, collecting hundreds of research questionnaires and interview records. Relying on the research offices for participating in and deliberating on state affairs established in 8 universities, he actively carried out independent research and analyzed the bottlenecks and difficulties in college employment work.
On the basis of thorough research, Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) put forward specific suggestions: increase the financial inclination towards college employment work, focusing on supporting projects such as visiting enterprises to expand job opportunities, connecting school-enterprise resources, building smart employment platforms, and providing transportation and temporary accommodation subsidies for graduates seeking jobs; optimize the fund disbursement process and improve the efficiency of fund use and students' sense of gain.
"Employment subsidy funds should not only 'infuse blood' but also 'create blood'." Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) said that on the one hand, it is necessary to reduce the burden on graduates seeking jobs, and on the other hand, it is also necessary to encourage colleges and universities to deepen the integration of industry and education, solve structural contradictions in employment, and make talent training more in line with market needs.
As a member residing in Yunnan (云南), Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) pays particular attention to the employment issues of college graduates in ethnic minority areas. "Graduates from some ethnic minority areas in Yunnan (云南) hope to find employment at their doorstep or nearby. These colleges and universities need more support in connecting with local enterprise resources and carrying out characteristic employment services." Therefore, he suggested giving policy inclination to colleges and universities in ethnic minority areas and underdeveloped areas to help them improve their employment service capabilities. "In recent years, new industries and new business formats can create more job opportunities. Colleges and universities should simultaneously carry out relevant skills training to help graduates adapt to market demands," said Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩).
This year, Li Xiaoxuan (李孝轩) plans to conduct follow-up research on important issues of concern to the majority of students. "I will continue to 'build ladders and pave roads' for the growth and success of young people, promote the optimization and improvement of employment policies, and enable more college graduates to achieve high-quality employment and shine on the stage of life."
By: 本报记者 倪 弋
From handling a batch of cases with typical profit-seeking characteristics in accordance with the law, to strengthening supervision of illegal seizures, detentions, and freezing of compulsory measures involving enterprises in accordance with the law; from supervising the clearing of criminal "pending cases" involving enterprises in accordance with the law, to correcting the intervention of civil and economic disputes by criminal means... Since March 2025, the Supreme People's Procuratorate has deployed a "special supervision of illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices" in procuratorates across the country. Local procuratorates have focused on rectifying prominent problems of illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices that enterprises strongly reflect, giving full play to the functions of legal supervision, and protecting the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities equally in accordance with the law.
The reporter interviewed four typical cases of supervising illegal off-site law enforcement and profit-seeking law enforcement and judicial practices, showcasing the vivid practice of procuratorial organs safeguarding the peace of mind of enterprises and promoting the construction of a rule-of-law business environment through legal supervision.
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Supervising Illegal Off-site Law Enforcement——
Unfreezing More Than 80 Million Yuan of Enterprise Funds Frozen Off-site
A logistics company in Province A and two companies in Province B respectively established Company A and Company B through cooperation, with the logistics company dispatching a general manager to be responsible for operations. In 2024, Company A and Company B were criminally filed by the investigation authorities of Province B on suspicion of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices. During the handling of the case, 17 accounts of the logistics company in Province A and its five affiliated companies, totaling more than 80 million yuan, were fully frozen by the investigation authorities of Province B through off-site online methods.
"The phone was ringing off the hook, suppliers were blocking the door for payment, and employees were waiting for their salaries, but we couldn't move a penny from our accounts..." After the funds were frozen, the supply chain was broken and the warehouse was overstocked, and the logistics company was once in trouble. In 2025, the logistics company reported clues of illegal freezing of accounts to the procuratorial organs of Province A.
After accepting the case, the procuratorial organs immediately conducted substantive review focusing on the necessity of freezing and the amount of freezing. "Without thoroughly investigating the amount of funds involved and the nature of the funds in the associated accounts, off-site online full freezing measures were taken simply because there were fund transactions between the three parties. In addition, the office collaboration counterpart department in the place where the frozen account was opened was not notified in writing within seven days after the funds were frozen." The handling prosecutor believed that this violated both the principle of proportionality and the statutory procedures, and should be corrected in accordance with the law.
Because it involved cross-provincial off-site law enforcement, the case-handling procuratorial organ reported the case to the People's Procuratorate of Province A, which promptly communicated and strengthened cooperation with relevant procuratorial organs in Province B to clarify the scope of accounts and ascertain the amount involved. Finally, under the legal supervision of the procuratorial organs, the investigation authorities promptly lifted the freeze on more than 80 million yuan of funds in 17 accounts involved in the case.
"Strictly distinguish between property involved in the case and legal assets, strengthen the review of 'seizure, detention, and freezing' of property involved in the case that exceeds authority, scope, amount, and time limit, identify the necessity of 'seizure, detention, and freezing', and take multiple measures to promote the solution of off-site law enforcement supervision problems, and legally protect the normal production and operation of enterprises," said the handling prosecutor.
Accurately Determining Guilt and Innocence——
Withdrawing a Criminal "Pending Case" Caused by Overdue Debt
From 2012 to 2018, Chen Jie (陈杰) (pseudonym) used the land of a real estate project developed by the company he actually controlled as collateral to obtain a total of more than 89 million yuan in loans from the bank for real estate project construction. In 2022, the loan became overdue, and the bank filed a civil lawsuit. Chen Jie (陈杰) reached a repayment agreement with the bank: agreeing that the bank would cooperate with the pre-sale of the project's properties, and the proceeds from the sale would be used to repay the loan.
However, in June 2023, Chen Jie (陈杰) was suddenly filed criminally on suspicion of loan fraud. More than 280 properties in the project were sealed up, with a value of more than 110 million yuan. "This is obviously a civil breach of contract, how did it become a criminal offense?" Chen Jie (陈杰) was puzzled and filed an application for case filing supervision with the procuratorial organs in June 2025.
After accepting the case, the procuratorial organs immediately launched an on-site investigation and visit. The handling prosecutor keenly grasped several key details: "Although Chen Jie's (陈杰) loan was overdue, the funds were all used for real estate project construction, and the value of the project land and completed houses was sufficient to cover the loan principal, and he still had the ability to repay the loan, and did not cause significant losses to the bank." The handling prosecutor said that according to the current criminal law, the only standard for convicting loan fraud is "causing significant losses to the bank or other financial institutions." In this case, the collateral was authentic and valid, and the bank could completely recover the loan by executing the collateral, and Chen Jie (陈杰) should not be found guilty of loan fraud.
The procuratorial organs also found that there was obvious "excessive seizure" in the case. The court had already taken property preservation measures on the land of the real estate project involved, but still sealed up properties worth more than 110 million yuan, which exceeded the outstanding loan principal of more than 89 million yuan. In addition, after the criminal case was filed, Chen Jie (陈杰) was not subjected to compulsory measures, and it had been more than two years since the case was transferred for prosecution or withdrawn, which had already formed a typical "pending case."
In July 2025, under the supervision of the procuratorial organs, the case was withdrawn in accordance with the law, and the sealed properties were unsealed.
"When handling 'criminal-civil intersection' cases such as loan fraud, we supervise the withdrawal of cases and the unfreezing of 'seized, detained, and frozen' property involved in the case in accordance with the law for those who do not constitute a crime; we supervise the clearing of criminal 'pending cases' that have been formed in accordance with the law to protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and related parties," said the handling prosecutor.
Correcting Illegal Preservation Actions——
Lifting the Overdue Seizure of Enterprise Property Involved in the Case
In October 2023, the B District (B区) Court of A City (A市) in a certain province accepted a financing lease contract dispute case between Jia (甲) and a financial company, and made a civil ruling on the pre-litigation property preservation application filed by the financial company, sealing up an excavator involved in the case worth more than 2 million yuan.
The real owner of the sealed excavator was actually a foreign-funded enterprise. It was not until the excavator was sealed by the court that the foreign-funded enterprise belatedly realized that it had been "taken over": Jia (甲), as the lessee of the excavator, actually used forged ownership certificates to apply for financing leases to the financial company. The foreign-funded enterprise submitted a car purchase contract, invoice, payment voucher, etc. to the court to prove that it was the owner of the excavator. After hearing the case, the court once ruled to lift the seal.
However, in December of the same year, the financial company filed a review application on the grounds of "bona fide acquisition." After accepting the case, the court held that the ownership still needed to be ascertained, revoked the original unsealing ruling, and continued to seal the excavator. In January 2024, although the court rejected the financial company's lawsuit in the financing lease contract dispute case and transferred the clues of Jia's (甲) suspected crime to the public security organs, the excavator involved in the case was never unsealed. During this period, the foreign-funded enterprise submitted multiple unsealing applications, but the court did not adopt them.
After that, the foreign-funded enterprise applied to the B District (B区) Procuratorate for civil procuratorial supervision. After review, the handling prosecutor believed that "the court failed to promptly lift the preservation measures after rejecting the lawsuit, which violated Article 166 of the Interpretation of the Supreme People's Court on the Application of the Civil Procedure Law of the People's Republic of China." In March 2025, the B District (B区) Procuratorate issued a procuratorial suggestion to the B District (B区) Court, urging it to promptly lift the sealing measures on the excavator involved in the case and further standardize the review and execution of pre-litigation property preservation cases. In May of the same year, the B District (B区) Court replied that it had adopted all the contents of the procuratorial suggestion and ruled to lift the seal on the excavator involved in the case.
The B District (B区) Procuratorate also issued a social governance procuratorial suggestion to the financial company based on the problem reflected in this case that the financial company did not carefully verify the ownership of the leased property in the financing lease business, which led to litigation, to help plug loopholes and build systems, and improve the enterprise's risk prevention and control capabilities.
"Focusing on the problems of easy initiation and difficult lifting of property preservation in civil litigation, strengthen the supervision and correction of illegal preservation actions of 'seizure, detention, and freezing' of enterprise property that exceeds the time limit, adhere to equal treatment of domestic and foreign-funded enterprises, and protect the legitimate rights and interests of various business entities equally in accordance with the law," said the handling prosecutor.
Punishing False Litigation in Accordance with the Law——
Uncovering a Debt Scam of More Than 8.9 Million Yuan "Out of Thin Air"
In May 2022, the land under the name of a private school in B District (B区), A City (A市) in a certain province was auctioned by the court, with a transaction price of more than 14 million yuan. This was supposed to be the money used to pay off the wages owed to faculty and staff and foreign debts. However, a carefully planned conspiracy was quietly staged in the dark.
As soon as the auction hammer fell, Yi (乙), Bing (丙) and others, partners of Jia (甲), the legal representative of the school, suddenly filed four civil lawsuits against the school as the defendant in succession, with the amount involved in the lawsuit reaching more than 8.9 million yuan. What is surprising is that these cases all reached mediation agreements in a short period of time. Subsequently, Yi (乙) used the company he controlled to apply for the school's bankruptcy. After the court ruled, the execution of the school's related cases was terminated, and the 8.9 million yuan in claims was included in the bankruptcy distribution.
"As soon as the auction is over here, there is a 'one-stop' lawsuit, mediation, and bankruptcy over there. How can there be such a coincidence?" In September 2024, other legitimate creditors of the private school filed a complaint with the B District (B区) Procuratorate.
The procuratorial organs initially reviewed and believed that this was very likely a false lawsuit using bankruptcy proceedings. "These four lawsuits are concentrated on the key node after the land auction, the mediation process is unusually smooth, lacking the adversarial nature of normal litigation, which is obviously unreasonable." After investigation, the school's land auction proceeds were more than 14 million yuan, and the verified liabilities were more than 19 million yuan; and these four suddenly emerging debts amounted to more than 8.9 million yuan. After deducting this money, the school did not constitute the bankruptcy condition of "insolvency." Even more suspicious is that the plaintiffs are all school operators and their related parties.
After in-depth investigation, the procuratorial organs found many flaws: in the decoration contract dispute, the evidence showed that the school's property area was only more than 1,300 square meters, but the settlement statement recorded a construction area of nearly 2,600 square meters; in the lease contract dispute, the construction time of the leased property was earlier than the construction date stated in the contract... In the face of conclusive evidence, Yi (乙) and others finally admitted the fact of forging contracts and fabricating debts.
In June 2025, the B District (B区) Procuratorate issued a retrial procuratorial suggestion to the court at the same level. The court adopted all of them and rejected the litigation requests in the four cases. In September of the same year, Yi (乙) and others were filed for investigation on suspicion of false litigation.
In order to achieve "handling a case and governing an area," the B District (B区) Procuratorate, together with the court, public security, judicial administration, human resources and social security departments, and the bankruptcy administrator association, jointly signed the "Opinions on Establishing a Connection Mechanism for Preventing False Litigation in Enterprise Bankruptcy Cases" to further enhance the working synergy in combating false litigation in the bankruptcy field.
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Facts have proven that judicial protection, by "addressing issues at the forefront and preventing problems before they occur," focusing on pain points and difficulties to accurately exert efforts and solve problems, can effectively help build a safe haven for children's growth.
In reality, some children, after experiencing harm, have concerns and are afraid to confide, which may turn small conflicts into major injuries. The Mentougou District People's Court (门头沟区人民法院) in Beijing (北京) is using technological means to broaden the boundaries of protection, deploying human-computer interaction AI digital humans in schools to provide interactive legal education for children on a regular basis, while simultaneously intelligently assessing and dynamically identifying and investigating risks. For example, a local primary school student once used the device to confide about being bullied by classmates. The system captured keywords such as "bullying" and issued a timely warning. The court quickly linked up with the school to intervene in advance, effectively resolving the dispute and successfully eliminating the potential risk in its infancy.
What other good preventive measures are there for similar problems? How can the legitimate rights and interests of minors be better protected? The protection of minors has always been a matter of great concern. Facts have proven that judicial protection, by "addressing issues at the forefront and preventing problems before they occur," focusing on pain points and difficulties to accurately exert efforts and solve problems, can effectively help build a safe haven for children's growth.
To protect the healthy growth of children, it is necessary to move the gate forward and earnestly grasp front-end prevention. Judging from judicial practice, many incidents of harm are not discovered until it is too late, and timely intervention is not possible, resulting in serious consequences. Behind minors who go astray, there are often problems such as lack of family education and absence of guardians. The protection of minors cannot stop at post-event punishment, but also needs to promote governance to move forward to source prevention. At present, judicial organs in various places, in the trial of cases involving minors, are taking a step forward to prevent problems before they occur, actively linking up with education departments, women's federations and other relevant parties, and strengthening front-end "dike building" prevention through activities such as community lecture halls and the release of typical cases. This not only helps minors to clarify the boundaries of their behavior and understand self-protection, but also urges parents to shoulder their responsibilities and compress the space for the breeding of infringements from the root.
To protect the healthy growth of children, it is necessary to implement precise policies and do a good job in mid-term intervention. The protection of minors must adhere to the core principle of "the best interests of the minor" and run the protection of the legitimate rights and interests of minors through the entire process of handling cases. In judicial practice, the people's courts have solidly carried out special work such as social investigations, social supervision, and post-judgment return visits, taking into account both the scale of legal principles and humanistic care. For example, in response to the characteristics of juvenile trials, the Hebei (河北) court has explored and implemented a "one case, two files" mechanism, establishing a minor protection and prevention file in addition to the trial file, recording growth trajectories, customizing assistance plans, and integrating the extension of protection work in a standardized and professional manner to form a systematic protection system, steadily supporting children in distress.
To protect the healthy growth of children, it is necessary to focus on long-term governance and do a good job in back-end restoration. With the rapid development of the network economy, cultural and creative industries, and new consumer formats, the protection of minors faces new challenges and new problems. Judicial organs must not only solve individual case problems from judicial judgments involving minors, but also promote the prevention and governance of a class of problems in accordance with the law. In practice, in response to problems such as real-name authentication of minor accounts and content review involving minors, the people's courts have accurately issued judicial recommendations, urging platforms to strengthen minor protection measures, delineate industry boundaries with judicial constraints, and purify the network environment with institutional rules.
The protection of minors cannot be separated from the joint participation of the whole society. Judicial organs are an important force in protecting minors and a hub for promoting coordinated protection. Facing the new situation, new tasks and new requirements for the protection of minors, judicial organs need to continuously optimize the coordination mechanism, connect all aspects of family, school, society, network, and government, and jointly weave a tight protection network for minors to create a good environment for the healthy growth of minors.
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In Fengxian District, Shanghai (上海市奉贤区), Dong (董某) was driving a car along a certain road. At that time, Du (杜某), who was sitting in the passenger seat, needed to get out of the car. Dong (董某) pulled over and parked the car in the non-motor vehicle lane.
Unfortunately, just as Du (杜某) was getting out of the car and opening the door, Pan (潘某) was riding an electric bicycle past. Seeing the car door open, he couldn't avoid it and the electric bicycle crashed into the car door. Not only was the electric bicycle damaged, but Pan (潘某) was also thrown off and suffered multiple fractures.
After the accident, the public security traffic management department determined that Dong (董某) and Du (杜某) were equally responsible for the accident. It is understood that the car had been insured with compulsory traffic insurance and commercial third-party liability insurance from an insurance company, and the accident occurred within the insurance period.
During the compensation negotiation process, Dong (董某) and others believed that the relevant compensation liability should be borne by the insurance company first. However, the insurance company believed that, according to the determination of the public security traffic management department, the driver Dong (董某) and the passenger Du (杜某) were equally responsible for the accident, and the insurance company should not be liable for the losses caused by the passenger. Therefore, it was only willing to bear 50% of the compensation liability within the limits of compulsory traffic insurance and commercial insurance.
As the parties failed to reach an agreement, Pan (潘某) sued Du (杜某), Dong (董某), the insurance company, and others in court, demanding compensation of more than 400,000 yuan.
The court held that Du's (杜某) actions caused injury to Pan (潘某), and he should be held responsible for not being careful when opening the car door. As for Dong (董某), in this case, the driver has actual control over the vehicle's driving and parking location. He failed to fulfill his obligation to remind the passenger Du (杜某) before opening the car door, which, combined with Du's (杜某) actions, jointly led to the occurrence of the accident, constituting joint infringement.
Regarding the allocation of responsibility between the motor vehicle driver and the motor vehicle passenger, this is an internal relationship between the two and cannot be used to oppose the victim, nor does it affect the insurance company's compensation for the entire loss of the accident. As for the insurance company's argument that it should pay compensation at a 50% liability rate within the commercial third-party liability insurance limit, the court did not adopt it.
Ultimately, the court ruled that the insurance company should compensate Pan (潘某) more than 320,000 yuan, and the losses exceeding the insurance coverage should be jointly and severally compensated by Du (杜某) and Dong (董某), with a total compensation of more than 400,000 yuan.
In daily life, "dooring" accidents occur from time to time. How passengers and drivers should allocate responsibility, and whether the insurance company that insured the motor vehicle should bear the compensation liability, the judgment standard will be clearer in the future. The Supreme People's Court's (最高人民法院) "Interpretation (II) on Several Issues Concerning the Application of Law in the Trial of Road Traffic Accident Damage Compensation Cases" will be implemented on June 30, 2026. It proposes that when the infringed party claims that the passenger's responsibility belongs to the motor vehicle's responsibility and requests the insurance company to compensate within the compulsory traffic insurance liability limit and in accordance with the agreement of the commercial third-party liability insurance contract, the court shall support it. If the insurance compensation is still insufficient, the passenger and driver shall bear the compensation liability.
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Drone aerial patrols, police drone patrol vehicles on ground duty, robot dogs conducting flexible inspections... Recently, in Horqin District (科尔沁区), Tongliao City (通辽市), Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (内蒙古自治区), a batch of new equipment used by public security police during patrols has attracted public attention.
Since 2025, the Horqin Branch (科尔沁分局) of the Tongliao Public Security Bureau (通辽市公安局) has been driven by technological empowerment, innovating police service models, and building an "aerial full coverage, ground seamless patrol and defense, small-scene precise control, and collaborative integrated combat" air-ground integrated intelligent patrol and defense system, building a solid security barrier for the masses.
Technological empowerment of police affairs not only appears in the streets and alleys, enhancing the public's sense of security, but also enters industrial parks, serving enterprises, and becoming a solid support for safeguarding the development of the real economy.
During the Spring Festival this year, in Mulitu Town (木里图镇), Tongliao City (通辽市), Yang Xuguang (杨旭光), director of the Mulitu Police Station (木里图派出所), and Zhang Hao (张浩), a police officer stationed in the enterprise, went deep into the enterprise park early in the morning to visit and inspect. "Thanks to you for discovering the safety problems in the factory." Manager Liu (刘经理), a manager of a new energy company, excitedly stepped forward to shake hands and thank Yang Xuguang (杨旭光) after seeing him.
Just the day before, when a police drone was carrying out a routine patrol mission, the system automatically identified and warned of a potential safety production hazard, accurately eliminating it.
Mulitu Town (木里图镇) is a core industrial town in Horqin District (科尔沁区), Tongliao City (通辽市), and an important industrial base in eastern Inner Mongolia (蒙东地区). Nowadays, police drones in the air perceive risks in real time, and police officers on the ground use police robot dogs to investigate hidden dangers... The police's intelligent assistants have become a particularly eye-catching landscape of peace inside and outside the park.
In the front line of combating illegal and criminal activities and safeguarding the vital interests of the masses, smart policing also plays a key role.
One day in March this year, a resident in Horqin District (科尔沁区) reported that an electric bicycle had been stolen. Relying on the smart policing integrated combat platform, Horqin Public Security (科尔沁公安) quickly locked down the criminal suspect and successfully captured him in less than 6 hours.
Behind the quick detection and resolution of the case is a vivid practice of technological empowerment of police work.
"In the past, handling cases relied on squatting, visiting and investigating, which was time-consuming and laborious, and there might not be any clues. Now, with the Smart Investigation Center, the suspect's whereabouts can be quickly locked down," said Chen Bing (陈兵), a police officer who has been rooted in the criminal investigation front line for more than 20 years.
The Horqin Branch (科尔沁分局) adheres to strengthening the police through technology and being combat-oriented, and established a Smart Investigation Center with high standards in April 2025. It integrates all-domain police resources to create a new integrated combat platform integrating "judgment hub, investigation hub, and command hub," breaking down barriers to various data resources and realizing all-domain data aggregation, one-click retrieval, and real-time sharing.
Daily cases achieve seamless connection of "case acceptance-judgment-capture," completely breaking down police barriers, allowing grassroots case handling to achieve "one-stop" data support, and greatly improving investigation efficiency.
In the major test of security for large-scale events, technological empowerment of police affairs has also improved governance effectiveness.
Since last year, the "Meng Super" football league (蒙超) has become popular. In Tongliao (通辽), the number of spectators for a single game exceeded 40,000, and the proportion of tourists from other places exceeded 40%, which suddenly increased the security pressure.
"In the face of large crowds, we have adopted a refined security strategy," said Mu Dejun (牟德军), director of the Horqin Branch (科尔沁分局). Walking into the Horqin Public Security Command Center (科尔沁公安指挥中心), the large screen of the "Meng Super" Smart Security Platform (蒙超智慧安保平台) displays real-time data on the flow of people and vehicles in and around the stadium.
"We have integrated various types of data, which can automatically identify risk areas and send instructions to nearby police forces," said Zhao Jingwei (赵经纬), a police officer at the Command Center.
Mu Dejun (牟德军) said that from the air to the ground, from streets to parks, from serving the masses to combating crime, from daily patrols to security for large events, the Horqin Branch (科尔沁分局) has always adhered to seeking police force from technology and efficiency from informationization, and continuously promoted the deep integration of smart policing with grassroots governance, serving the people's livelihood, and safeguarding development, using perseverance and innovation to protect the peace of northern Xinjiang and write a safe answer sheet.
(Gao Yu (高宇) participated in writing)
Return to TopInterlocutors: Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益) (Art Director and Lead Actor of the TV series "Protagonist")
Li Shaofei (李少飞) (Director of the TV series "Protagonist")
Ren Shanshan (任姗姗) (Reporter from this newspaper)
"Protagonist," the "protagonist" on the screen recently.
The TV series "Protagonist," currently airing, is adapted from the novel of the same name by Shaanxi (陕西) writer Chen Yan (陈彦). The original work reflects the broad social reality through the nearly half-century life ups and downs of Qinqiang (秦腔) artists, and won the 10th Mao Dun Literature Award. Zhang Yimou (张艺谋), the producer of the TV series "Protagonist," Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益), the art director and lead actor, Ren Shuangyou (任双有), the chief producer, Li Shaofei (李少飞), the director, and other key members of the creative team all grew up in the Sanqin (三秦) land. The road from literature to film and television for "Protagonist" took a full 8 years.
Now, the story of the TV series "Protagonist" has reached its second half. The shepherd boy has become a kitchen maid and then a "Qinqiang Queen." Amidst twists and turns, great sorrow and joy, she never loses her weed-like vitality. The audience, with their continuous waiting and following, reluctance and tears, have lifted "Protagonist" to become the "protagonist" of ratings and word-of-mouth.
From a 700,000-word novel to a 48-episode TV series, what kind of trials did the creators of "Protagonist" experience, and what kind of gains did they accumulate?
"Grinding" the Script
The script was worked on for five or six years, repeatedly polished just to avoid being perfunctory.
Reporter: After "Installation," we see "Protagonist" again. This is your second adaptation of Chen Yan's (陈彦) work. You are not unfamiliar with Chen Yan's (陈彦) style, and you have almost used the original cast and crew of the TV series "Installation." Why did it still take 8 years to meet the audience?
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): Teacher Chen Yan (陈彦) uses solid, sincere, and powerful words to present us with the vicissitudes of life. He understands life, understands art, and understands the hearts of the people on this land. I read the novel "Protagonist" as soon as it was published. The first time, I unconsciously read it in Shaanxi (陕西) dialect. The things written in the book about my hometown are very亲切, and every character is very familiar.
In cooperation with Tencent Video (腾讯视频), we initially made a request: don't rush, let us do it slowly. Teacher Chen Yan (陈彦) also trusted us very much. When discussing the adaptation plan with him, he always said: feel free to change it boldly. Bearing this trust, we became more cautious. The script is the foundation of a drama. The script of a long TV series must be polished for at least one or two years. If the script is not up to standard, it is impossible to adjust it well on the spot relying solely on the experience of the director and actors.
During these 8 years, the script was worked on for five or six years. One standard is that it cannot be perfunctory, and if it doesn't work, it will be overturned and redone. Even so, when filming started, everyone was still not completely at ease. The entire drama was filmed for 166 days, and the screenwriter was always on the set. If the actors and director felt that there was a problem with a certain segment, everyone would discuss it together and then revise the script. Until the last moment before filming wrapped, everyone did not stop improving.
Reporter: Adaptation is restoration, but also new creation. This means that the adapter needs to incorporate new views and recreate a new work.
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): Indeed. The charm of words lies in constructing an imaginary space, while the visual is in "close combat" with the audience. There are countless choices in the adaptation, and we took many detours, writing more than a dozen episodes and then discarding them. Why? The direction was wrong. Maybe stupid people can only use stupid methods. Only by constantly negating the wrong ones can we find the right ones. In my opinion, the novel "Protagonist" does not deliberately write about a genre, a play, or the ups and downs of opera, but focuses on writing about people, writing about people's fate. Life is like a play, and play is like life. The "soul" of the original work lies here.
We have defined the theme of this drama as: everyone is the protagonist of their own life. In one's life, there will be smooth roads, and there will also be bumps and obstacles. Hu Sanyuan (胡三元) is an ordinary person who strives to struggle and always strives for the better. Even in the most difficult days, he did not give up his love for Qinqiang (秦腔), and he did not lose the energy to work hard to live. We Shaanxi (陕西) people are probably like this, with stubbornness and optimism in our bones, and optimism is the weapon to overcome difficulties.
Li Shaofei (李少飞): When I joined, the script had already been worked on for more than 5 years. From literature to image, the carrier is different, and adjustments must be made. The script added three new characters: Little White Shoes, Heiwa, and Bayi. When Xiao Laidi (小来弟) first arrived at the county theater troupe, he didn't communicate much with people. Novels can elaborate on the child's psychological activities, but TV series cannot express everything through the character's inner monologue. The three new characters gave Laidi (来弟) someone to confide in, and there was "light" in his life. The audience can empathize, and the ecology of the county theater troupe is also richer. The script also has adjustments to the ending, and I look forward to the audience's feedback.
"Grinding" the Play
Even if it only appears for one minute, it is also the protagonist of this drama.
Reporter: Sun Hao (孙浩)'s performance of Gou Shiyuan (苟师) perfectly blowing out 81 "continuous fireballs," risking his life to complete a "teaching," also shocked the audience watching the drama. This drama, from Yi Qin'e (忆秦娥), Hu Sanyuan (胡三元), Hua Caixiang (花彩香), Milan (米兰), Huang Zhengjing (黄正经), the four masters of "Loyalty, Filial Piety, Benevolence, and Righteousness," Liu Hongbing (刘红兵), to Little White Shoes, Heiwa, Bayi, etc., the characters have different personalities and roles, but each is distinct and impressive.
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): What makes me particularly happy now that it has been broadcast is that everyone will have discussions about the appearance and departure of each character in the drama. Watching a play is watching a whole play, and the presentation of each character is very important. Since this person appears in the work, there must be a source, a reason for existence, and a task. The reason why the script has been "grinded" for so long is also one of the reasons for not wasting every character.
My works "grab" the characters very hard, maybe because I am an actor, and my understanding is a bit biased. The drama "Protagonist," to some extent, is a reflection of the changes of the years and the fate of people. I demand attention to every small person. We don't have supporting roles here. Even if it only appears for one minute, it is also the protagonist.
Reporter: Many of the camera movements in the drama have "gone viral" on social platforms. Like the fourteenth episode, in just a few tens of seconds, it presents the growth and transformation of Xiao Qing'e (小青娥) in the changing seasons of day and night, and is praised by the audience as a "divine transition." In terms of audio-visual language, how did the director consider it?
Li Shaofei (李少飞): The use of a large number of empty shots draws on the freehand style of opera. The color is warm, which is close to the public's perception of memories. Under the warm color, use a faint cool color to embellish and strengthen the character's mood. Use fixed shots for shooting life scenes, but use more moving shots for shooting the stage to form a sense of rhythm and tension. Under the stage, there are panoramic and medium shots of the audience; on the stage, there are close-ups of the actors, using close-ups to show the actors' hand, eye, body, and footwork, plus the perspective of the side curtain strips, creating a "play within a play" effect. The opera segments in the drama have been repeatedly considered, and director Zheng Hua (郑桦), who is responsible for the opera part of the photography, has put a lot of thought into it. The so-called "divine transition" is not difficult from a technical point of view. The reason why the audience feels it may be because it is more in line with the content. Form must serve the content. No matter how the audio-visual language is designed or how the shots are used, the most important thing is to serve the characters and the relationships between the characters.
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): We put a lot of effort into the opera part. Li Mei (李梅), the president of the Shaanxi (陕西) Provincial Academy of Opera, and other Qinqiang (秦腔) masters also joined, and they played some roles. Like Liu Haocun (刘浩存), Zhai Zilu (翟子路), Han Peiying (韩沛颖), etc., they entered the group in advance to practice before filming started, and the opera training persisted from entering the group until filming wrapped. Even in the gap between two scenes, Liu Haocun (刘浩存) would go to the practice room to find a teacher to practice. Qin Hailu (秦海璐) and Wang Xiaochen (王晓晨) are from opera backgrounds. Even if they have a foundation, they seize all the time to find opera teachers to work together, re-adapt to the stage, and work together on the singing.
The opera world says that "the play is bigger than the sky," which is also the professional bottom line of all literary and art workers. As actors, we face the general public and convey emotions, aesthetics, and spiritual power. In front of the camera, we must not fool around at any time.
"Grinding" Life
It's not acting life, but really having life.
Reporter: 10 years ago, when filming "White Deer Plain," the actors lived directly in the homes of villagers in Lantian (蓝田), Shaanxi (陕西). The daily routine of the male actors was carrying water, cutting wheat, driving carts, and chopping wood, and the daily routine of the female actors was spinning thread, kneading dough, pulling noodles, and cooking. 5 years ago, when filming "Installation," the actors returned to Diao Village (刁家村) in Xi'an (西安) a month in advance and worked with the installation workers every day. This time, when filming "Protagonist," how did the actors repair this lesson of life?
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): Actors, well, they can only present it if they understand it. These efforts will not be in vain. When filming "Protagonist," the Shaanxi (陕西) actors are closer in language, familiar with the living environment, and their understanding of the characters and the shaping of their personalities will be more accurate. Some living habits or dialect quirks of the locals have a sense of life and are very precious. I am very ashamed. I played the "Northwest Drum King" and also learned to play the drum from a teacher in advance, but without ten or eight years of effort, I can't play this drum well at all. The children's scenes in the first 14 episodes of "Protagonist" were more difficult to shoot. They have not experienced that era and do not understand acting. If they learn false things, the consequences will be terrible. In this drama, the children did not "act."
Li Shaofei (李少飞): We selected these children from tens of thousands of people. They lived in the countryside for nearly two months, watching movies from that era, playing with iron rings, playing sandbags, jumping rope... letting the experiences of peers in that era "roll" over themselves, the squeamishness faded away, and the vitality and wildness also appeared.
Going deep into life is originally a law of creation. We are filming people in life, and there must be imprints of life. As soon as the actors get off the plane, they go directly to the scene to play the installation workers. No matter how strong your shaping ability is, do you know their habits and mentality? If you act hard, it must be fake and a routine.
Reporter: Some viewers commented that "Protagonist" is "an ancient method of making dramas, winning slowly." Some people also said, "It has been broadcast for several days, and the female lead has not yet appeared, which is simply incredible in the era of traffic." What do you think?
Zhang Jiayi (张嘉益): Creators and audiences are one. Since we are creating, we must show the attitude of creation. I am the first quality inspector of this drama, and I don't want to take it out easily to fool people. Generally speaking, the filming progress of a TV series is to complete 4 to 5 pages per day. The first month or so of filming "Protagonist" was a period of adjustment, and less than one page of paper was filmed every day. From the text to the character image, where the measure is, the actors and directors must work together to be precise, and the chemical reaction between the characters also takes time to cultivate. The creative atmosphere of this drama is very good, and everyone is most concerned about the drama, how to act better.
Slow is not procrastination, but respect. Taking out real things and good things is respect for the audience and also respect for the profession. There is no need to speculate on what the audience likes. What the audience needs is probably the creator's attitude: authenticity, sincerity, seriousness, and meticulousness.
Li Shaofei (李少fei): Don't follow the trend, play your own play well, walk your own path well, and guard your own heart well. You are the protagonist of your own life.
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My connection with the TV series "Family Business" was quite accidental. At that time, a novel was circulating in the industry, and what attracted me was not only the drama of the story, but also the Huizhou culture, ink-making techniques, clan society, and family destiny rooted in the soil. I saw huge creative potential in it.
As film and television creators, we often think: In the contemporary context, how can we tell Chinese stories well, and how can we make excellent traditional Chinese culture resonate with the audience? The TV series "Family Business" is an exploration of this.
Huizhou ink, as one of the "Four Treasures of the Study," has the reputation of "falling on paper like lacquer, and lasting for ten thousand years," and is a well-deserved intangible cultural heritage treasure. It is not only a writing tool, but also a concrete carrier of cultural heritage. We take Huizhou ink as the narrative entry point, and through the process of a single ink ingot being tempered and refined, we touch the cultural roots and write a national story of "shared destiny."
Ink-making is the thread that runs through the entire play. The play spares no effort to present the ink-making techniques, from refining smoke to gilding, and each process is closely related to the growth of the characters, the dramatic conflicts, and the fate of the family. As the audience follows the drama, they learn about the Huizhou ink-making process imperceptibly and feel the complete Huizhou cultural system. Huizhou-style architecture, Huizhou carvings, Huizhou cuisine, Huizhou opera, and the Xin'an School of Painting are all integrated into the plot. The lifestyles and aesthetic tastes of the characters in the play are also connected to the local cultural bloodline. We hope to present the social ecology, daily life, and human relationships of Huizhou in the mid-Ming Dynasty as meticulously as possible through the creative method of "using drama to carry culture and using culture to construct drama," so that the audience will first be attracted by the atmosphere of that world, and then naturally perceive the history and culture.
Carrying the traditional cultural connotation with the profound foundation of a serious drama, and adopting an expression that is close to contemporary aesthetics to lower the threshold for audience acceptance, so that more people are willing to come in, stay, be infected, and be touched, is our starting point for creation, but it is not to simply use cultural elements as background embellishments. We deeply know that establishing a tangible and perceptible Huizhou social ecology in the mid-Ming Dynasty is the foundation of creation. For this reason, we have conducted many field trips and exchanges with Huizhou cultural scholars and intangible cultural heritage inheritors.
We have also constructed complete growth arcs for the main characters. The heroine, Li Zhen (李祯), grows up in love and磨砺. Her grandfather taught her skills and the way to conduct herself, her seventh grandmother was her life mentor, and her mother gave her warm support. She is resilient in her heart and is an "外圆内方" (wài yuán nèi fāng - "outwardly flexible but inwardly principled," a person who is adaptable but maintains their integrity) Eastern female beauty, showing true female power.
This play also revolves around the discussion of "family style": The Li family establishes itself with "风清气正" (fēng qīng qì zhèng - "upright and honest," describes a person's character or a social atmosphere), adheres to the principle of making ink as being a person, and returns to its peak after tempering; the Luo family relies on the government and declines in party struggles; the Tian family engages in speculation and ends up with family ruin. Family style, in the Chinese society of "家国同构" (jiā guó tóng gòu - "family and nation are homologous," the idea that the structure and values of the family are reflected in the nation), is related to a larger pattern. Family style not only affects the rise and fall of the family, but also relates to the social structure and values. Therefore, "Family Business" uses a lot of space to present the specific forms of family style culture: the rules of deliberation in the clan ancestral hall, the intergenerational inheritance of family precepts and family style, the elders' teaching and support of the younger generation, and the support and competition between peers. These daily routines flowing in the millennial family style are precisely the foundation for Chinese people to live and establish themselves.
Inheritance is the Chinese people's response to the meaning of life. "人心齐方可兴盛" (rén xīn qí fāng kě xīng shèng - "when people are of one mind, prosperity can be achieved," unity is essential for success), is not only the theme of "Family Business," but also the values to be conveyed. I look forward to using such works as a carrier to allow more people to touch the temperature and strength of excellent traditional Chinese culture.
(The author is the chief screenwriter of the TV series "Family Business")
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"On a moonlit night, a solitary figure lights the stove, as the days quietly add another year..." The film "A Letter to Grandma" is playing to packed houses, and its theme song, "Brewing Tea Under the Moon," is reaching a wider audience. I've noticed that not only Chaozhou locals but also friends from all over the country, even those who don't understand the Chaozhou dialect at all, are starting to learn to sing this song. Some are covering it, while others are playing it on instruments. Music is slowly breaking down the barriers between dialects, gently seeping into the hearts of more people.
This event has greatly encouraged me and made composer Li Yihan (李奕瀚) and me even more confident that local culture is not just for locals. As long as the emotions are full and the expression is sincere, there is a chance to cross regions, languages, and ages, and to reap the resonance of the public.
I am from Shantou (汕头), Guangdong (广东). Since going to Beijing (北京) to study more than 30 years ago, Beijing has become my "second hometown." After working and living away from home for many years, I have a subtle sense of distance from my homeland, which has allowed me to rediscover many interesting everyday things. For example, elders "urging marriage" on young girls, the struggle of young people returning home between traditional family values and personal choices, and the ubiquitous tea-drinking scenes in daily life... These everyday things have slowly become sources of creative inspiration, and have been written into songs such as "Morning Light Shines into Waima Road," "Return," "Brewing Tea Under the Moon," and "Saying Goodbye." Fresh fragments full of the atmosphere of daily life and human touch have become writing images and sources of emotion.
In 2020, life suddenly slowed down, and I read many books about Chaozhou culture, humanities, diet, and tea culture. As I read, I wrote several songs about Chaozhou, including "Brewing Tea Under the Moon." In 2024, Li Yihan (李奕瀚) and I were invited to create music for the film "A Letter to Grandma." We put our hearts into writing several new songs, but the director actually chose "Brewing Tea Under the Moon." This song has a very light touch, and it doesn't talk about dramatic emotions, but rather a very quiet taste of life, like someone telling you something softly by your side. In terms of production, we strive to maintain a clean temperament, choosing the piano as the main accompaniment, hoping that it will fall gently into the movie like moonlight, leaving enough breathing space for the audience. In fact, many songs are like this, not starting from a very grand theme, but "growing" little by little from very small, life-like details, so the audience can not only "hear" it, but also "feel" it.
For the past 20 years, I have been engaged in music exchange work, striving to re-present Chinese national music with a global musical language. These experiences have made me increasingly aware that a large number of moving "treasures" are hidden in Chinese traditional culture, whether it is folk music, opera, dialects, or the life aesthetics and human ethics contained in them, they are not "past tense," but cultural expressions with vigorous vitality.
Culture is never static. It is something that one generation passes on to the next, and it is also something that one generation sings to this era again. The contemporary expression of traditional culture is not just a simple matter of "moving" ancient elements into popular music, but more importantly, through melodies and lyrics, allowing people today to touch the atmosphere, human touch, and temperature of that land, and feel their own emotions and lives from it. As long as it continues to enter the emotions, aesthetics, and lives of contemporary people, tradition will come alive again.
As music workers, what we revere and love is not only literary and artistic creation itself, but also this land, and the profound and warm human touch and culture behind it.
(The author is the lyricist of the song "Brewing Tea Under the Moon")
Return to TopBy: 侯晓楠
China's online literature boasts tens of millions of original works, bringing together the nation's most creative writing community, and has become an important source of content for downstream industries such as film, animation, and games. An undeniable fact is that, constrained by the long production cycles and high investment thresholds of the traditional film and television industry, a large number of excellent original stories still exist in a single textual form.
The deep involvement of AI (Artificial Intelligence) technology means that production capacity is no longer the main constraint, and the value of creativity has the potential to be released as never before. A number of AI video works have emerged on social platforms, a significant portion of which are produced by individuals or small studios, yet they demonstrate potential comparable to traditional production models in terms of dissemination effectiveness. This means that the content industry is entering an era of "super individuals." This change will stimulate new industrial vitality.
Looking back at the development of online literature, its vigorous vitality stems precisely from the continuous lowering of the creative threshold—when the right to publish is returned to the author, when massive amounts of creativity are released, it ultimately converges into today's largest original story ecosystem in the world. Today, AI is opening a similar scene in the field of visual creation.
A healthy content ecosystem requires not only high-quality masterpieces at the top of the pyramid, but also the continuous exploration of thousands of creators at the base—their attempts in segmented tracks, their exploration of niche themes, and their experiments with new modes of expression, together constitute the soil for innovation. What determines the future is not only the works that are already in the spotlight today, but also the ideas that are growing and have not yet been seen.
While actively embracing technological change, we need to answer a fundamental question: In the era of human-machine collaboration, where are the respective boundaries of creators and AI?
AI is an assistant for textual creation, and writers are always the protagonists. AI is to creation as upgrading from "manual driving" to "assisted driving." As tools advance, the steering wheel must be firmly held in the hands of creators. The more powerful the technology, the more irreplaceable the brilliance of human originality.
AI is an engine for visual development. It is widening the channels for IP transformation, allowing more themes and types of original stories to have the opportunity to obtain diverse forms of expression.
AI is a bridge for "going global." For a long time, insufficient translation capabilities have been the main bottleneck restricting the large-scale overseas expansion of Chinese online literature. Today, technology is becoming an accelerator for promoting Chinese culture to the world.
The faster the technology develops, the more important human aesthetic preferences, values, and humanistic judgments become. The deeper the technological changes, the more the industry needs constructive thinking. The relationship between tools and creation also needs to be clarified. Works that can transcend time and touch people's hearts are always rooted in the creator's honest observation and deep empathy for life. We should always be people-oriented, and safeguard the authenticity of creation in technological empowerment.
Generative AI also poses new challenges to the existing copyright system. The legality of training data, the attribution of generated content, and the guarantee mechanism for creators' rights all need to be explored synchronously in technological iteration. Only when the legitimate rights and interests of creators are effectively protected can the industry achieve sustainable prosperity.
More than 20 years ago, the rise of online literature realized creative equality for the first time, making "everyone can write stories" a reality. Today, AI makes "everyone can shoot stories" possible, giving individual creators industrial-grade expressive capabilities. Technology is opening the door of creativity to more people, let us embrace technology, safeguard creativity, and jointly welcome the arrival of good stories.
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How can we express a historical figure, whose name will be passed down through the ages, through a dance drama? How can we make the image of the ancients visible, their emotions touchable, and their thoughts present at the level of artistic expression? The dance drama "Wang Yangming (王阳明)" is our exploration.
Wang Yangming (王阳明) experienced many historical events in his life. The length of a dance drama is relatively limited, making it impossible to bring all of them to the stage. Therefore, based on extensive field research, historical research, and expert argumentation, we adopted a micro-perspective to construct the narrative of the play, taking "Enlightenment at Longchang (龙场悟道)" as the theme, focusing on the first half of Wang Yangming's (王阳明) life – his life experience from remonstrating in the court to achieving enlightenment at Longchang (龙场悟道). Dance drama uses physical language as an important presentation medium. The narrative logic, emotional expression, character shaping, and thematic expression of a dance drama all need to be combined with sound, light, electricity, costumes, props, and makeup in the story construction. This play weaves Wang Yangming's (王阳明) life experiences into a structure of "Prologue," "Seeking the Way," "Enlightenment," "Proving the Way," and "Epilogue" in order to express it more concisely and meticulously.
Regarding character design, we went through repeated deliberation and intense discussion, and finally determined to use events as the vertical coordinate, and to mutually reflect the images of adult Yangming (阳明) and young Yangming (阳明), two different life stages, on the stage. The two Yangmings (阳明) meet, confide in, and assist each other in different spaces and life stages of their life journey. Through the contrast between reality and illusion in the dance choreography, they complete the mutual transformation at the spiritual level. In this way, the audience can clearly see the "cause and effect" and empathize with Mr. Yangming's (阳明) "aspiration to become a sage." We integrate the dialectical thinking in traditional Chinese culture into the dance drama expression, forming the artistic technique of the creation of the dance drama "Wang Yangming (王阳明)."
In the "Remonstrating in the Court" section, Liu Jin (刘瑾) sits upright on a high chair, arrogant and domineering, with overwhelming power. In the oppressive visual image, adult Yangming (阳明) witnesses the arrest and imprisonment of loyal ministers such as Dai Xi (戴铣) and Bo Yanhui (薄彦徽). Adult Yangming (阳明) is indignant and grieved, and the pen in young Yangming's (阳明) hand is handed to adult Yangming (阳明) to write to the court. That is a writing brush, but also like a sword, a sharp sword piercing the darkness. This demonstrates the integrity of traditional Chinese literati. This kind of character design and expression technique runs through the narrative of the dance drama, with young Yangming (阳明) and adult Yangming (阳明) echoing each other and looking back repeatedly in their life journey.
We tried to observe and touch Wang Yangming's (王阳明) experiences and thoughts in the enlightenment scene a hundred years ago. A beam of light shines into the "Wanyi Nest (玩易窝)" from a tiny hole. That damp and dark cave is stirred by Wang Yangming's (王阳明) intensely transforming thoughts. He bears the pain of his body, the pain of homesickness, and the pain of banishment, but is also nourished by the sincere and pure warmth of the people and the land of cultivation, gaining new physical sensations and intellectual enlightenment in the beautiful and vast nature. The playwright integrated it into the script, and the director presented it three-dimensionally on the stage, using group portraits to outline the image of the people and highlight their simplicity and enthusiasm, and using intangible cultural heritage Nuo masks to reflect the life insights at the brink of death. In the diverse dance choreography, in the use of metaphorical dance and beauty devices, and in the creation of light and shadow that connects the inner and outer worlds, the important moment of Wang Yangming's (王阳明) "Enlightenment at Longchang (龙场悟道)" arrives.
The dance drama "Wang Yangming (王阳明)" is a rare creative opportunity and a chance to spread Yangming's (阳明) philosophy of mind. This work will tour along the places that Mr. Yangming (阳明) experienced in those years, and we will also listen to the audience's feedback and continue to refine and improve it.
(The authors are the playwright, director, and choreographer of the dance drama "Wang Yangming (王阳明)" respectively)
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